Rising Tide Startups

In another great Rising Tide Episode, we chat with Dayne Shuda, founder of GhostBlogWriters.com -  In his own words, "Ghost Blog Writers is my job, but I can’t call it work because I enjoy every aspect of what I do. In the past I’ve worked as a brand manager for a catalog and ecommerce firm.  Today, I enjoy doing all I can to provide businesses with the blog content they need to achieve their goals."  Learn more at GhostBlogWriters.com

Today we are speaking with a very timely guest for a time such as this.  Our special guest is Bill Bice, Founder and CEO of Boomtime, Word of Mouth Marketing.  Bill is a serial entrepreneur, and is passionate about helping small business grow. He started his first company at age 18, growing ProLaw Software into the largest law firm automation system for small and mid-size law firms. Joining the acquirer at Thomson Reuters, Bill joined the management team of the $2B West division, where he used the marketing sophistication of an industry leader to take a brand new offering to market, West km. His goal at Boomtime is to enable smaller businesses to more effectively compete with their larger competitors.  Learn more at Boomtime.com

In another exciting Rising Tide Startups podcast episode, we chat with international business expert Peter Selby. Since 2008, Peter has been the CEO and Founder of Business Drivers, Ltd.  He is also an Author, Speaker and Trusted Advisor to companies across the Asia Pacific Region and Europe. Their business services are delivered with international experience in best practice business optimisation, which in turn delivers a sustainable competitive advantage to organisations of all sizes.   Peter is also the designer of unique IP, that works within an organisation's key business drivers, to unlock deeply hidden opportunity in all phases of the business cycle.  Learn more at bizdrivers.biz

Our guest expert on Rising Tide Startups is none other than, Davis Nguyen, founder of myconsultingoffer.org.  Davis is a Harvard grad, TEDX Speaker and a former consultant at Bain.  In 2017, he founded "My Consulting Offer" and has since helped 400+ people start a career in consulting at McKinsey, Bain, BCG and other major firms.  Learn more at myconsultingoffer.org

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups this week is Heidi Dening. Heidi is an empowering keynote speaker whose elegant, yet powerful presence on stage leaves audiences wanting to do more, give more, have more and be more. She is the author of a best-selling self-leadership book called ‘Her Middle Name Is Courage’, and an experienced educator who believes that resilient, healthy self-leaders create profitable, impactful organisations.  Learn more at heididening.com

Resilience Bucket Quiz: https://heididening.com/bucketquiz/

Book Link: https://heididening.com/product/her-middle-name-is-courage/

Our special guest on Rising Tide is the Chief Whaler himself, George Weiner, founder of Wholewhale.com.  Whole Whale is a digital agency that leverages data and tech to increase the impact of nonprofits and for-benefit companies, and the co-founder of Power Poetry, the largest teen poetry platform in the U.S.  George’s breaching moment in ideating Whole Whale came from his 7 years with DoSomething where, under his leadership as CTO, the organization became an innovator in social media, mobile technology, and social causes.

Learn more at wholewhale.com/university

Our special guest is Rosanna Iacono, co-Founder of Growth Hacker. Rosanna is a business leader with 25 years experience working with some of the world’s leading brands, including 16 years internationally with Nike and Levi’s, and C-suite roles in Australia delivering exits for Private Equity-owned businesses like Sheridan and Jurlique.  Learn more at growthactivists.com

On the other side of the mic today on Rising Tide Startups, we have Stephen Hakami, founder of Wiza.co.  Stephen, the Wizard behind Wiza, used to run a cold email agency, running cold email campaigns for his clients. He ands team first built out the technology for Wiza internally, but then realized this is software that everyone should be using. Now, Wiza is fully functional and able to create email lists from LinkedIn Sales Navigator.  Learn more at wiza.co

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Mita Bedi, CEO of Resonate Solutions. Mita worked her way up to the role of CEO, through her extensive experience, creativity, discipline and vision.  Having played an instrumental role in driving business growth and creating new opportunities for Resonate, she also displays a wide set of skills and experience, including strategic planning, consulting and product development.  These qualities provide her with a solid skillset to deliver on the ambitious growth plans of Resonate, for the future. Mita brings a wealth of knowledge having worked with a number of large brands including ING Direct, Royal Bank of Scotland and IBM.  Learn more at ResonateSolutions.com.au

Our very special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Aaron Walker, founder of "View From The Top." Businessman and Life Coach, Aaron T. Walker has inspired many through his leadership, mentorship, and consistent pursuit of excellence. He enjoys helping others and believes experience is a great teacher. 35 years of entrepreneurship and marriage have given Aaron a wealth of experience. Aaron sold his first business to a Fortune 500 company at 27 years old and continues to reach new heights and broaden his perspective of the terrain by examining his experiences and growing from them.  Learn more at viewfromthetop.com