The AGC Experience

The AGC Experience podcast features our AGC Talks speakers sharing their message in an audio podcast that you can listen to from anywhere. Listen in to our recent AGC Talks featured guest. Listen as Bradley Lum shares Million Dollar Restaurant Business a motivational talk with AGC California July 2021. 

I've spent 30+ years turning my hobbies into businesses. Some I started and some I bought and eventually flipped. I share my journey and inspire people to do what they truly enjoy. I believe life is about finding joy and happiness. Finding that thing that you would do every day even if you didn't get paid to do it. For me it was cooking and creating a dish that people enjoyed. The restaurant business can be hard...if you don't know what you are doing. 

My talk will be focused on restaurants but can be applied to any business. 

Learning Objectives: 

• Buying vs. starting a business 
• Where to find businesses for sale 
• A formula that works 
• Finding the right team 
• How to grow the business to $1M 

Speaker Bio: 

For over 30 years I have been flipping businesses and learning how to make them grow. I started with a car stereo store, then opened multiple restaurants and created a specialty food company. With eight companies currently thriving, I've found a way to sustain them, have a quality of life and help other entrepreneurs. 

AGC Accelerated Global Connections is a business networking organization that helps connect business professionals globally through in person networking, motivational talks, and online social profiles. To learn more about AGC and membership in this growing organization.  Visit https://www.joinagc.com/ 

The AGC Experience podcast features our AGC Talks speakers sharing their message in an audio podcast that you can listen to from anywhere. Listen in to our recent AGC Talks featured guest.        

Listen as Stacia Christenson shares a motivational talk Must be Present to Win with AGC Minneapolis July 2021. 

The world has changed, but it doesn't change who you were meant to be! Join us for an evening of encouragement and gentle challenge to recalibrate in a post-covid world. Tap into the power of your presence with permission to care for yourself and be present with others; you- and those around you - are worth it! 

Learning Objectives: 

• Eliminate the hurry in your life 
• Gain strategies for conscientious self-care 
• Encounter a fresh perspective on your self-worth 

Speaker Bio: 

Stacia is a work-from-home mom, celebrating over 24 years in her business as a senior sales director with Mary Kay Cosmetics, and also serves as women's ministry director at Wooddale Church in Eden Prairie. 

In this last decade as an entrepreneurial, she discovered a new calling: presenting encouraging, faith-filled talks for groups and retreats. Topics include "Beauty from Ashes", gratitude, hope, the power of your presence, the Five Love Languages, and this evening's topic: Must be Present to Win. 

She is married to Kevin and lives in Minnetonka. Her greatest and most important title to date is in the role she plays as a mom to her sweet P's, Peyton and Paisley. 

AGC Accelerated Global Connections is a business networking organization that helps connect business professionals globally through in person networking, motivational talks, and online social profiles. To learn more about AGC and membership in this growing organization.  Visit https://www.joinagc.com/ 

 The AGC Experience podcast features our AGC Talks speakers sharing their message in an audio podcast that you can listen to from anywhere. Listen in to our recent AGC Talks featured guest.  

Listen as Dawn Bennett shares Re-Establishing Touch: Creating Connection in Professional & Personal Relationships a motivational talk with AGC Minneapolis June 2021. 

As our state and communities open back up to in-person gatherings and events, many people are navigating the tricky terrain of touch boundaries. For many of us, the decision whether to handshake or not at a business function wasn't even on our radar. 

Did you know that including healthy touch can help to establish and deepen trust with potential clients and partners? Did you also know that it might be the missing ingredient in your personal life to help you stay physically and emotionally vital and prevent the burnout and depression that is so common among hard-working entrepreneurs? 

Dawn will share simple approaches to opening the conversation about touch into your life and business to reestablish relationships, create felt-trust with those you love and lead, and connect authentically with your clients, friends, family, and community. 

Learning Objectives: 

• Enhance personal resiliency through intentional touch 
• Prevent business burnout through intentional touch 
• Explore touch communication skills 
• Increase trust and collaboration in personal and professional relationships 
• Empower yourself and others to have what they want and need 

Speaker Bio: 

Dawn Bennett, Amazon #1 bestselling author, relationship & intimacy coach, speaker, healer, and business owner has a multitude of complementary health care practice certifications, and helps people all over the world through her online practice, after founding and selling an award-winning wellness center. She loves empowering individuals and groups to embrace powerful new ways to transform themselves and their communities. 

AGC Accelerated Global Connections is a business networking organization that helps connect business professionals globally through in person networking, motivational talks, and online social profiles. To learn more about AGC and membership in this growing organization.  Visit https://www.joinagc.com/  

The AGC Experience podcast features our AGC Talks speakers sharing their message in an audio podcast that you can listen to from anywhere. Listen in to our recent AGC Talks featured guest.  

Listen as Whitney Nicely shares How to become a real estate investor so you can be a stay-at-home mom a motivational talk with AGC Indiana June 2021. 

Lots of ladies are forced to choose between family and career. Mom guilt is a real thing and in today's world, it's wrecking the family dynamic. What if there was a way for stay-at-home moms to make $10,000 or more while never missing a doctor's appointment, recital or ball practice? What if you could contribute to the family's financial commitments AND be present with the kids at dinner? What would your life look like if you knew how to buy investment properties without borrowing money or using a real estate agent? Imagine being able to take over people's mortgage payments on empty houses that don't need to be flipped... YES! You can! You can be a successful real estate investor and Mom Uber right now. Join this chat to find out how you can buy vacant land for $1,500 and rent it for $750 a month... AND how you can find people with houses they don't want to deal with anymore. I don't care if your dream job is stay at home dog mom or if you want to be the PTA President. YOU can make it all happen with passive income! 

Learning Objectives: 

• Find vacant land to rent to businesses 
• Talk to Sellers with empty houses 
• Make verbal offers over the phone 
• Set appointments to view houses in less than 10 minutes 
• Feel confident signing contracts to buy houses like most women buy shoes 

Speaker Bio: 

Whitney Nicely went from no investments (or strategies) to 15 houses, 19 apartment units, and 7 chunks of land in less than three years- all bringing monthly money to her bank account on autopilot. 

Whitney Buys Houses is the name of her real estate firm in Tennessee and its true! Whitney Buys Houses just like she teaches other ladies in First Deal Done FAST. 

Whitney recently became the President of the Knoxville REIA and is ready to make an even bigger bang within the local real estate community. 

In case she ever gets bored She also owns and operates Whitney Hauling and Trucking in Knoxville, TN. 

When it comes to Whitney, the question is never if she can do something, but when and how she is going to make it happen. 

AGC Accelerated Global Connections is a business networking organization that helps connect business professionals globally through in person networking, motivational talks, and online social profiles. To learn more about AGC and membership in this growing organization.  Visit https://www.joinagc.com/  

The AGC Experience podcast features our AGC Talks speakers sharing their message in an audio podcast that you can listen to from anywhere. Listen in to our recent AGC Talks featured guest.  

Listen as Jeremy Todd shares 7 Rules of Life a motivational talk with AGC Arizona June 2021. 

Life is very complicated and difficult sometimes. Between work, family, and friends, we can be pulled in a million different directions. It is easy to become overwhelmed. In this important talk, we discuss 7 important rules of life to help gain perspective, become motivated, and regain our focus to ensure a magnificent life! 

Speaker Bio: 

Jeremy Todd delivers million-dollar motivation, inspiration, and success strategies for the entrepreneur, manager, business owner and sales person. Learn to overcome fear, failure, and adversity by developing a new mindset. His new book, The Positive Side. How I overcame bullying, bankruptcy and a bad attitude and found my true identity, is changing lives all around the world. 

AGC Accelerated Global Connections is a business networking organization that helps connect business professionals globally through in person networking, motivational talks, and online social profiles. To learn more about AGC and membership in this growing organization.  Visit https://www.joinagc.com/  

The AGC Experience podcast features our AGC Talks speakers sharing their message in an audio podcast that you can listen to from anywhere. Listen in to our recent AGC Talks featured guest.  

Listen as Greg Coleman shares The Power of Words a motivational talk with AGC Minneapolis June 2021. 

A look at how words can shape your childhood, teenage years, college, personal and professional life for the good or bad. 

1. Words Matter 

2.God Spoke the world into existence 

3. You are responsible for what comes out of your mouth. 

4. Sticks and stones can break my bones but words will never hurt me. 

5. words can tear you down and words can build you up. 

6. Life and death is in the power of the tongue 

Speaker Bio: 

Gregory Jerome Coleman (born September 9, 1954, in Jacksonville, Florida) is a retired American football punter who had a 12-year career in the National Football League playing for the Cleveland Browns, the Minnesota Vikings, and the Washington Redskins. He attended Florida A&M University.[1] Coleman is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity 

Coleman currently is the Minnesota Vikings sideline reporter for KFAN. He is the cousin of former Major League Baseball outfielder Vince Coleman. Early in his career, he earned the nickname "Coffin Corner" because of his ability to aim his kicks near the corner of the playing field where the end zone and out-of-bounds lines meet. Due to his uncharacteristic speed (for a punter) defenses often lined up to guard against a fake punt because he was a threat to run for a first down. 

He is known as being one of the first African American Punters in the NFL. He was selected by the fans to be a member of the Viking 40th Anniversary team. he is a member of the Florida A&M Football Hall of Fame and is also a member of the State of Florida Track and Field Hall of Fame. 

AGC Accelerated Global Connections is a business networking organization that helps connect business professionals globally through in person networking, motivational talks, and online social profiles. To learn more about AGC and membership in this growing organization.  Visit https://www.joinagc.com/ 

The AGC Experience podcast features our AGC Talks speakers sharing their message in an audio podcast that you can listen to from anywhere. Listen in to our recent AGC Talks featured guest.  

Listen as Savannah Taylor & Amanda Maurice shares Two Unexpected Keys to Lasting Positive Change a motivational talk with AGC. 

The two unexpected keys to lasting positive change are self-acceptance and radical self-responsibility. Self-acceptance leads to worthiness and worthiness leads to aligned action towards your goals and desires. Radical Self-Responsibility is about stepping into your discernment so you are able to own what's yours and draw boundaries around what isn't. This is the courageous and necessary step out of victimhood. When you're playing the victim, you give your power away. You give external circumstances or people the authority while you sit as a passenger in your own life, which keeps you stuck in the same cycles. When you are able to master both of these, ease, growth, and true fulfillment become constant companions. 

The next level of stepping into your potential is embracing your wild. This is to own and celebrate all parts of you, which allow you to own what you bring to the table and makes you a magnet for your dreams and desires. 

Learning Objectives: 

• Self Acceptance leads to worthiness, worthiness leads to aligned action towards your goals and desires 
• Radical Self-Responsibility is stepping into discernment so you are able to own what's yours and draw boundaries around what isn't. 
• Lasting positive change requires you to evolve into the future version of you that owns your worthiness and potential. 

Speaker Bio: 

Savannah Taylor and Amanda Maurice are the co-founders of Embrace Your Wild. They are on a mission to create the most impactful women's empowerment movement of their generation through The Sisterhood Community, delivering deep transformational coaching and tender support. They empower female visionary leaders to step into radical self acceptance so they can claim sovereignty, cultivate more impact, more wealth and live a life of aligned purpose through a unique methodology that integrates embodiment, sensuality, & spirituality. 

AGC Accelerated Global Connections is a business networking organization that helps connect business professionals globally through in person networking, motivational talks, and online social profiles. To learn more about AGC and membership in this growing organization.  Visit https://www.joinagc.com/  

The AGC Experience podcast features our AGC Talks speakers sharing their message in an audio podcast that you can listen to from anywhere. Listen in to our recent AGC Talks featured guest.  

Listen as as Michael Gregory shares How do You Make Uncomfortable Situations Comfortable a motivational talk with AGC. 

Mike will define collaboration engaging the audience in a high energy, dynamic session on this topic. Mike will be using elements from three of his books in todays presentation, his just released book The Collaboration Effect, Peaceful Resolutions and The Servant Manager. Brain science will be applied to enlighten participants on the steps necessary in order to explore and enhance opportunities to provide for better client outcomes. Mike will give participants one of the tools they need so that they can apply this technique immediately at work and in life. 

Learning Objectives: 

• Define collaboration and The Collaboration Effect® 
• Describe connecting relationships, listening actively, and educating judiciously 
• Reference The Collaboration Effect® Pocket Guide 
• Have greater focus, control, and peace in their professional and personal relationships 

Speaker Bio: 

Mike Gregory is the founder and leads Michael Gregory Consulting, LLC. He works with leaders that want to overcome conflict by collaborating to be more productive, profitable, and have more pleasure. Mike also works with meeting planners looking for a dynamic, interactive, educational, and entertaining speaker. 

As background, Mike has run an organization with 1,200 employees in his career and completed over 2,500 mediations, negotiations, and facilitations. It has been his pleasure to give over 600 presentations in the U.S. and Canada based on the 12 books and over 35 articles he has written over the last 10 years. 

As a result of his collaborative approach clients have saved hundreds of millions of dollars. As a speaker, participants leave with actionable items they can apply immediately on the job. 

Mike has a BS from Valparaiso University, a MS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and an MBA from DePaul University. 

On a personal note, he has the pleasure to see two little granddaughters at least twice a week. 

AGC Accelerated Global Connections is a business networking organization that helps connect business professionals globally through in person networking, motivational talks, and online social profiles. To learn more about AGC and membership in this growing organization.  Visit https://www.joinagc.com/  

The AGC Experience podcast features our AGC Talks speakers sharing their message in an audio podcast that you can listen to from anywhere. Listen in to our recent AGC Talks featured guest.  

Listen as Zak Abukar shares Getting Fired: Fired Me Up! a motivational talk with AGC. 

Getting fired from my job that I loved was an absolute tragedy on February 2018.My life was falling apart I thought, but in reality, my life was falling together how I always wanted. 

It fired me up to live the life I've always wanted to live! 

Take a journey with me these next 10mins-15mins through how I was able to take my broken life in 2018 and how I shaped the broken pieces in my dream life! 

Learning Objectives: 

• Overcoming personal tragedies 
• Finding purpose 
• Living a more purposeful life 
• Connecting with the right peoplr 
• Creating alignment and inspiring others 

Speaker Bio: 

Hi! My name is Zak! 

I am a Social Entrepreneur, Public Relations Strategist, Podcast Host and Human Rights Activist based in the Greater Minneapolis/St. Paul area. 

I value educating others on how all human beings can serve themselves and others through: 

1. Social Entrepreneurship 

2. Building strong brand awareness 

3. Leveraging media and marketing outlets. 

4. Sharing impactful stories and making a difference 

I have a powerful passion to help young men and women find meaning in life through 

1. Entrepreneurship 

2. Leadership Training 

3. Creative Expression 

4. Community Service 

AGC Accelerated Global Connections is a business networking organization that helps connect business professionals globally through in person networking, motivational talks, and online social profiles. To learn more about AGC and membership in this growing organization.  Visit https://www.joinagc.com/    

The AGC Experience podcast features our AGC Talks speakers sharing their message in an audio podcast that you can listen to from anywhere. Listen in to our recent AGC Talks featured guest.  

Listen as Techie shares Story Time with your Techie Super Hero a motivational talk with AGC. 

Gotcha! You clicked on that title, didn't you? After 12 years in a retail environment, I started my tech business just a few months before Covid hit. It hasn't been easy but between having a little imagination and a sense of humor while being patient with the needs and circumstances of my client base, both for someone who can do the job right and for someone who can meet them at their level, I've built up a business that is more profitable and rewarding than I would have thought possible, especially for these times. In this presentation, I will share with you my story along with the unconventional tips, tricks, marketing strategies, and happenings that have gotten me to where I am today. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride! 

Learning Objectives: 

• How sharing your story, quirky as it may be, can be an integral part of your marketing, and why story matters 
• The importance of having a sense of humor 
• Tips for finding your niche, and identifying and reaching your audience 
• Why being relatable means so much to your audience 
• What to think about when you're building your brand from the ground up 

Speaker Bio: 

After over 12 years at Apple I started my own business teaching technology, in which I focus on accessibility and making complicated tech concepts relatable to both kids and adults. You'll find me on Clubhouse with over five thousand followers. I'm passionate about teaching others how technology works. 

AGC Accelerated Global Connections is a business networking organization that helps connect business professionals globally through in person networking, motivational talks, and online social profiles. To learn more about AGC and membership in this growing organization.  Visit https://www.joinagc.com/