The Answer is Yes

Andre Swanston is a proven leader and entrepreneur with a wide range of experience in marketing, finance, and starting and growing companies. As CEO and co-founder of Tru Optik, he has led the company’s business development, product innovation, go-to-market strategy and its October 2020 acquisition by TransUnion. Under Andre’s leadership, Tru Optik has become the most relied upon DaaS (data as a service) partner across OTT, streaming audio and gaming. Tru Optik clients and partners include many of the largest publishers, ad tech platforms and advance media. Swanston is a frequent guest on Bloomberg and CNBC and often quoted in AdWeek and AdExchanger as an expert in streaming media and advanced advertising. Before founding Tru Optik, he served as a Vice President of Investments at JPMorgan Chase and also led the Media and Entertainment division at a boutique investment bank in New York City.


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Managing Partner at Your Best Life Now, an organization helping people to elevate finance, family, fitness and faith to maximize their Best Life through coaching, community and exclusive once in a lifetime experiences.
His unique background of business experience, law enforcement, martial arts training and economic analysis gives him a rare perspective that enables him to successfully guide entrepreneurs, CEOS, and other top executives to new heights.
Dean optimizes business performance and the economic and financial expertise to anticipate and prepare for the future. He also served as a board director of the Texas Mortgage Bankers Association.


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Energetic, opinionated and very entertaining, David is the author of Why Customers Leave and How to Win Them Back as well as a keynote speaker and business consultant. He is happy to talk about dramatically changing customer expectations and the biggest mistakes companies make in designing and delivering their customer interactions.

Best of all, David Avrin offers a unique perspective, the customer’s perspective and tangible takeaways. He is a “pro’s pro” with hundreds of media appearances, multiple business books and a very comfortable and confident approach to conversation.

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Matthew Dicks is the author of Someday Is Today and nine other books. A bestselling novelist, nationally recognized storyteller, and award-winning elementary schoolteacher, he teaches storytelling and communications at universities, corporate workplaces, and community organizations. Dicks has won multiple Moth GrandSLAM story competitions and, together with his wife, created the organization Speak Up to help others share their stories. They also cohost the Speak Up Storytelling podcast. He lives in Connecticut with his family. Visit him online at

http://www.MatthewDicks.com
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Will Basta was born in New York and graduated from Arizona State University. After
an initial career in health tech, Will went on to work for tech startups; building out
sales strategy and marketing teams. He found his passion as an entrepreneur in the passive income world.

While invested in the e-commerce industry he found that most of the companies
out there at that time were not set up for a long term success and saw a
gap in the industry of a model that was there which could've been executed better, along with his partner knew they could improve this model, leading them to create Ascend Ecom, an e-commerce automation agency and investment management company, the only company in the industry capable of mixing up logistics, wholesale distribution, and e-commerce growth all into one.

Just with 2 years in the business, he's made Ascend Ecom a company comprised
of 300+ clients, two warehouses in Dallas, 100's of employees, and millions of monthly revenue.

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Simon Leslie is founder and chief executive of Ink, a global travel media company. At the onset of the pandemic, Simon’s business plummeted from projections of earning $150 million to nothing, almost overnight. How he has been able to work his company back to the top is an incredible story of grit, creativity, and resilience.

As a mentor and serial investor to multiple young entrepreneurs he also coaches worn out business leaders how to live the life of their dreams. Over the last 30 years he has dedicated his skill to creating amazing media in the travel space. He is a world record holder for the amount of inflight magazines he has launched and published. With over 250 million copies of magazines published in the last 30 years he knows a thing or two about crafting travel media. His clients include major airlines, airports and travel groups. In 2018 he helped build ReachTV into the biggest airport TV network in the world.


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Message from Kate:

I am an “accidental brand strategist” who originally intended to pursue a PhD in Anthropology, yet discovered the power of branding during my first sales job. In the pursuit of making quota, I realized I needed to cut through the noise with a message that would compel prospects to want to have a conversation. It was that, or I was out of a job.

I overcame, honed my craft, and went on to successfully manage millions in pipeline by throwing out the long monologue sales scripts and unsubscribing leads from complex story-based marketing campaigns. Instead, I delivered a simple pitch that invited prospects to engage in a compelling conversation by sharing what I did, how I could solve their problem, and how I differed from the competition.

That pitch, which I call, “The Brand Trifecta,” is rooted in my firm belief that brand is the path of least resistance to revenue. The ability to clearly articulate these three points offers the prospect all the information they need to opt in and say, “Now that’s interesting. I want to have a conversation.” Throughout my career in both agency and corporate settings, I pursued my branding side hustle until 2019, when I turned it into my full-time business.

I am honored to have worked with more than 200 brands across 20 sectors, and I am passionate about partnering with founder-led organizations that desire to craft an authentic, purpose-driven message to effectively get more prospects to the table, more users who click, and more customers who buy.

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Joe has built and scaled a talented team who utilize qualitative research, data analytics, and on-chain data for optimal portfolio management.
Over 20 years of experience in alternative asset management, including start ups, seed round funding, real estate, and cryptocurrency.
He believes we are in the beginning stages of the transition to a digital economy and the next 10 years will challenge everything we think we know about investing, finance and wealth management.

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Naz Beheshti began her career as the executive assistant to Steve Jobs at Apple. Jobs, her mentor, is the inspiration behind her new book, Pause. Breathe. Choose.: Become the CEO of Your Well-Being. He had an early and profound influence on her belief that the ultimate wealth is well-being.

In 2012, Naz founded Prananaz, a corporate wellness company that provides custom, high-touch, high-tech programs improving leadership effectiveness, employee well-being, employee engagement, company culture, and business results. Some of her clients include Google, Facebook, Nike, JPMorgan Chase, Gilead Sciences, Skadden, Fico, Coinbase, UCSF Health, and Columbia University. Prananaz delivers programs, workshops, coaching, consulting, keynotes, and training to teams and organizations of all sizes.

Naz’s diverse experience includes a decade in the high-stress environments of tech startups, Fortune 500s, and pharmaceutical companies (Apple, Yahoo!, AstraZeneca). She also co-founded Rise 2 Shine, a non-profit organization committed to helping alleviate the suffering of young children in Haiti.

Naz’s work has been widely featured in the media, including CNBC, BBC, Yahoo, Inc., Fast Company, O: The Oprah Magazine, and many more. She is also a regular Forbes contributor with over 150 published articles on mindful leadership and corporate wellness and writes for Entrepreneur and Thrive Global. She holds a BA in Psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is a certified Holistic Health Coach, certified Transformational Coach, certified Advanced NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) Practitioner, certified yoga instructor, and lifelong practitioner, and trained TM (transcendental meditation) practitioner.

Naz divides her time between New York City and Miami Beach.


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Jeremy Slate is the founder of the Create Your Own Life Podcast, which studies the highest performers in the world. He studied literature at Oxford University, and is a former champion powerlifter turned new media entrepreneur. He specializes in using podcasting and new media to create trust and opening leader status. In iTunes, he was ranked #1 in the business category and ranked #78 in the Top 100.
Jeremy was named one of the top 26 podcasts for entrepreneurs to listen to in 2017 + 18 by CIO Magazine, top podcast to listen to by INC Magazine in 2019 and Millennial Influencer to follow in 2018 by Buzzfeed. The Create Your Own Life Podcast has been downloaded over 2.5 million times. He’s also a contributing editor of New Theory Magazine and Grit Daily.
After his success in podcasting, Jeremy and his wife, Brielle, founded Command Your Brand to help leaders use the power of podcasts to change the world.

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