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Chris Townsend MacDonald is an environmental scientist and a recovering environmental lawyer. He went from working at the US EPA to becoming a successful entrepreneur founding several successful startups including the IndieFeed Music Podcast Network for independent music which had over 170 million listens, HugeFan, and Libsyn’s Enterprise podcast division where he got to work with companies such as National Geographic, NPR, Fidelity, Pearson, the Joe Rogan Show.

Chris is currently developing a computer vision enhanced soil microbe identification platform that involves making soil smarter, making it draw carbon out of the air and into the ground which will have a huge impact on global warming. He has joint degrees in Law and Environmental Policy from Vermont law school.

J. Skyler Fernandes is the Co-founder and General Partner at VU Venture Partners, a firm known as the most scalable venture capital fund in the world who’s focused on a wide variety of different fields. He is ranked as a Powerlist 100 venture capitalist.

Skyler is also the Co-founder and CEO of Venture University, the world’s leading investor accelerator for venture capital, private equity, and angel investing.

Dave Newmark is a seasoned radio executive who founded PodSearch, the largest and most popular online directory for podcasts. He began his career in advertising after graduating from Stanford University where he worked for his father’s full-service ad agency learning the ropes. In the ‘90s, he began to shift towards audio advertising and in particular radio endorsements.

In 1998, Dave and his wife Patty, who is also a Stanford graduate, brought radio endorsement advertising national. With the expansion of audio formats in the mid-2000s, they extended further into other areas of audio. In 2016, Dave developed an online directory exclusively for podcasts called PodSearch.com, launching it in 2017. And in just over a year, PodSearch reached over 3 million page views, resulting in nearly a million listeners and advertisers of all types discovering great podcasts. He also recently launched a third division, a learning management system called StartAPod.

In this episode, John Corcoran is joined by Dave Newmark to learn more about Dave’s journey from working for his Dad to launching PodSearch and eventually, StartAPod.

Darrah Brustein is a four-time founder, author, coach, and co-host of a podcast with Deepak Chopra. She’s also a contributor for Forbes and Entrepreneur, and she has interviewed remarkable people like Shaquille O’Neal, Seth Godin, Bobby Brown, Jillian Michaels, Adam Grant, and Deepak Chopra himself.

Darrah founded a credit card processing company that grew to 38 states, and she has also created a networking events company that currently has over 30,000 people.

In this episode, John gets to ask Darrah about allowing things to fall into place by following your intuition, doing a podcast with Deepak Chopra, why she’s so passionate about connecting people, and the importance of giving value to the people that you connect with through the course of your career.

Grant Baldwin is a nationally known speaker, podcaster, and author of the new book The Successful Speaker: Five Steps for Booking Gigs, Getting Paid and Building Your Platform.

Grant helps people, particularly businesses, to learn how to speak and how to use this medium to help move businesses forward. Over the last 13 years, he's helped more than half a million people in 47 different states.

In this episode, Grant Baldwin joins John Corcoran to talk about how Grant started his career in public speaking, how he came to write his book. He also shares how to overcome fear, what to do before you walk out front to speak in front of a crowd, and his 5 simple steps to make a profit from speaking.

Frank Bria is the Founder of High Ticket Program. He began his entrepreneurial career in the financial services sector. He has worked for a number of different corporations and several startups, some of which sold for hundreds of millions of dollars.

Frank is also the author of the international best selling book Scale: How to Grow Your Business by Working Less. He is a father of three beautiful daughters and he is also the host of the 6 to 7 Figures Show Podcast, which he relaunched after a bit of a hiatus.

In this episode, Frank Bria joins John Corcoran to talk about how Frank helps coaches build and scale up their group coaching programs, the best ways to get the right audience for coaching, and how Frank dealt with a divorce, a hip replacement, and coming out to his family & kids all at the same time.