In this week's podcast, we sit down with Thomas Lindsay Jr. & Steve Rigby, two of the three co-founders of Accelerated LLC. Thomas is the ex-President and COO of Vensure Employment Services where he lead a team of over 200 supporting outsourced business HR and people processes. Steve worked in sales and marketing as a Director for both IBM and Dell before transitioning into his current role as a co-founder and partner at Accelerated.

Thomas and Steve, along with their third partner John (not featured) have built Accelerated LLC from the ground up, delivering innovative, disruptive healthcare and benefits solutions to thousands of small business and self employed individuals across the USA.

Show Links

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomlindsaycpcu/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/steverigbyaccelerated/

In this week's podcast, we sit down with Shawn Cruise, a tenured sales leader with over 30 years of experience. Shawn's worked for incredible companies as they've scaled and grown such as Corel, Adobe, QNX and most recently RSA Security. Shawn gives us a blueprint for not only how to hire, train and ensure sales rep success, but also how to hold organizations to higher standards in realizing that sales success is the result of a truly collaborative partnership between a strong supportive organization and an ambitious, smart and driven sales rep.

Show Links

https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawn-cruise-5199803/

In this week's podcast, we sit down with John Riley III, VP Business Services at Orion Innovations, a software development firm with over 150 developers working on projects, internationally. John built an impressive career at Oracle and SAP before transitioning into the bold new world of Blockchain. John joined Orion Innovations, a tenured software firm to help them modernize their offering and properly innovate and tackle innovative new markets.

Show Links

https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnprileyiii

In this week's podcast, we sit down with Grant Botma, founder of Stewardship - an Inc 5000 Fastest Growing Company, author of The Problem Isn't Their Paycheck and an international coach and public speaker at national business conferences on the topic of company culture and overall employee management. On top of that, he's an investment and finance expert, licensed investment advisor, insurance agent, and loan originator.

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/grantbotma

Welcome to the Success Story Podcast, hosted by entrepreneur, business executive, author, educator & speaker, Scott D. Clary.

On this podcast, you’ll find interviews, Q&A, keynote presentations & conversations on sales, marketing, business, startups and entrepreneurship.

Scott will discuss some of the lessons he’s learned over his own career, as well as has candid interviews with execs, celebrities, notable figures and politicians. All who have achieved success through both wins and losses, to learn more about their life, their ideas and insights.

He sits down with leaders and mentors and unpacks their story to help pass those lessons onto others through both experiences and tactical strategy for business professionals, entrepreneurs and everyone in between.

The format of the podcast, is long form, casual and unscripted, in order to highlight the wins, losses, success and struggles of our guests. The goal is for us to unpack the playback incredible individuals have written over the course of their life in hopes that the listeners can learn life lessons, and insights from some of the most prolific, influential people of our time.

Past notable guests include; Guy Kawasaki, Anthony Scaramucci, Jack Canfield, Patrick Bet-David, Grant Cardone, Leven Rambin, Vernon Davis and hundreds of other incredible individuals.

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In this week's podcast, we sit down with Kyle Turk, Vice President of Marketing at Keynote Search Group. Keynote Group is an industry leading executive search and recruitment firm that helps mid-market businesses and organizations find, fit, and achieve peak performance of new hires. 

Kyle is an award-winning entrepreneurial marketing leader with over a decade of experience building brand engagement, driving revenues and client acquisition through strategic and creative marketing solutions. He is a 40 Under 40 recipient, awarded “Marketing Leader of the Year” from Randstad Canada in 2017, and a “Best Performance in Marketing” award in the Best Ottawa Business Awards in 2016. 

Show Links

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-turk/

In this week's podcast, we sit down with Brett Campbell, the Co-Founder and Chief Evangelist at Claxon Digital Marketing Agency.

Brett is a go-to business expert when it comes to fast and effective business growth, having invested over $2M personally in paid advertising & his company now managing millions of dollars a year in advertising spend for his clients in over 30+ industries.

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/brettocampbell/

In this week's podcast, we sit down with Sarah McIntyre, Founder of BRIGHT Inbound. After spending 15 years in B2B IT marketing Sarah founded Bright Inbound to help companies create marketing that works for their business, and create a flexible work environment for raising a family + continuing to work. She has a unique blend of content marketing strategy and tactical campaign execution skills, plus 20 years experience with both big corporate marketing teams and start-ups.  

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahjmcintyre/

In this week's podcast, we sit down with Mark de Grasse, who scaled and sold his first start-up and then decided to do it again!⁣ Mark talks to us about his lessons learned, the marketing strategy he implements with his companies' clients, his nonstop drive for success, his personal, family and work-life and the best way to maintain high -performance habits in an always-on work environment.⁣

Show Links

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-de-grasse-19a50127/

In this week's podcast, we sit down with Kyle James, VP Sales at Zentap. Kyle was the first sales hire and founding team member of Zentap. Zentap is a SaaS product / white glove service. Their service automatically creates massive amounts of meaningful and impactful content marketing material, while simultaneously running effective campaigns for individuals in the real estate industry.

Zentap, with the help of Kyle and the founding team is an insane success story. Kyle scaled the business to 5m in revenue through no tech and pure cold calling in year 1. The company has grown to 50 employees (30 of them being sales, under the leadership of Kyle) in under 2 years.

Show Links

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-james-a28591172/