The Art of Making Things Happen (Bluefishing) Steve Sims

Phillip Stutts comes from the cutthroat world of political marketing. He has over 2 decades of experience working on campaigns with billions of dollars in political ad spend, and contributed to over 1,535 election victories, including 3 U.S. Presidential victories. Phillip plays the game of political and corporate marketing on the highest level, battling it out with fierce competition, multi-billion-dollar budgets, and a win-or-die mentality.

Nick Sonnenberg is an entrepreneur, Inc. columnist, guest lecturer at Columbia University, and the author of Come Up for Air: How Teams Can Leverage Systems and Tools to Stop Drowning in Work. He is the Founder and CEO of Leverage, a leading operational efficiency consultancy that helps companies implement his CPR® Business Efficiency Framework. This is the culmination of Nick’s unique perspective on the value of time, efficiency, and automation which stems in part from the eight years he spent working as a high-frequency trader on Wall Street. The CPR Framework consistently results in greater output, less stress, happier employees, and the potential to gain an extra full day per week in productivity per person—just by using the right tools in the right way, at the right time. Nick and his team have worked with organizations of all sizes and across all industries, from high-growth startups to the Fortune 10.

Josh Goodman, Founder and CEO of PourMyBeer, was tired of waiting for a drink at the bar and knew there had to be a better solution. Since starting the self-pour revolution in 2015, PourMyBeer's self-serve technology is in 500+ locations worldwide, with over 12,000 taps in service! To learn more, visit us at https://pourmybeer.com/why-pourmybeer/ 

Chad Robichaux is a former Force Recon Marine and DoD contractor with eight deployments to Afghanistan as part of a Special Operations Task Force. After overcoming his own personal battles with PTSd, Chad founded the Mighty Oaks Foundation, a leading non-profit that has served over 400,000 Warriors through their faith-based combat resiliency programs. Chad also Co-Founded Save Our Allies, a non-profit established out of his own personal desire to save Aziz from Afghanistan. To date, Save Our Allies has safely evacuated over 17,000 people from Afghanistan and conducted 10 trips to Ukraine since February to provide life-saving equipment and spiritual resiliency programs to the Ukrainian frontlines as the Russian invasion continues.

Manuj is a recognized global thought leader in the fields of data science, AI, and startups. With a wealth of experience working with clients like Microsoft, IBM, ING Bank, and Pearson Education.

He has a passion for exponential growth. His work has impacted over 10 million lives and has generated over $500M in value. Not only that, but his work has also been mentioned by the likes of President Obama and Bill Gates.

Manuj has spoken at the UN alongside the Secretary-General of the UN and Noble Peace prize winner.

With 4 patents in AI - he knows a thing or two about this technology which is taking over the world. 

Lisa Forbes spent 14 years in prison for murder – she believes, and, considers herself, a “restored citizen.”  She has an important message to share with prisoners (currently incarcerated), released prisoners (restored), military people with PTS, as well as so many more people affected by PTS. She is currently one of Colorado’s state co-coordinators of Braver Angels, a national citizens’ movement to bring liberals and conservatives together at the grassroots level.

Adam Lyons has boosted the revenue for experts in over 1,900+ small businesses since launching The S.M.A.R.T Blueprint in 2020. How? Well, his magic ingredient isn’t actually magic at all, The S.M.A.R.T Blueprint is a 5-step surefire process for helping experts uncover new revenue through customer insight reports, customer avatar analytics, revenue prediction, product testing and market research, ultimately allowing their businesses to generate additional revenue without new leads. Many of Lyons’ customers came to him during the rough times of 2020, (like the Dungeons and Dragons Shop in Bastrop, Texas, which he grew by 36,000% in the middle of the pandemic!) Beyond his own portfolio of growing companies, Lyons is an advisor for over 500 brands and experts across the U.S. and Canada. Lyons has been featured on CNN, MSNBC, Business Insider, The Today Show, Forbes, the Daily Mail and the NY Post. He has been awarded two different ‘Wicked Smaht’ awards due to his innovative business strategies and multiple two-comma club awards. Companies he has worked with include PepsiCo, Nike, Nescafé, Discovery Digital Networks and many smaller brands. Lyons created and developed his outside-the-box business system out of frustration that fake experts with good marketing were making more revenue and profit than REAL experts. He first used his knowledge to grow his own personal expertise into a 7-figure-a-year business, before the requests from other experts started coming in.

Dan Nicholson cut his teeth in Fortune 500 companies and some of the most prestigious financial institutions in the country, completed a prestigious fellowship with the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (where he helped write a national accounting standard), and was recognized 4 times as a top 40 accountant under 40 globally.

After gathering all this experience, Dan leaned into his entrepreneurial ambitions and founded multiple small businesses, including Nth Degree CPAs, a Seattle-based accounting firm named one of the 10 best-run mid-sized accounting firms in the US.

Since then, he has used his insights from over 3,000 conversations with entrepreneurs and business owners to develop a certification, The Certified Certainty Advisor, that, through his business CertaintyU teaches business owners methods for increasing certainty, minimizing risk, and engineering cash flow.

Bestselling author, entrepreneur and mindset expert Weldon Long built his business from the ground up, but his story doesn’t reflect the typical path of the average business owner you would expect to hear.

In 2003, Weldon walked out of a homeless shelter after serving 13 years in prison. A 9th grade dropout and three-time convicted felon, he found himself broke and unable to gain employment. Despite his bleak history, in five short years he had built a company that was selected by Inc Magazine as one of the fastest growing privately held companies in America.

Weldon is the epitome of how mindset can lift one out of seemingly insurmountable circumstances and make it possible to not just thrive but prosper in the face of adversity. Weldon has enjoyed massive success because of the philosophies that he has developed over time and today, he is one of the nation’s most powerful and sought-after speakers and motivators. He enjoys sharing and teaching his Prosperity Mindset and Consistency Selling principles, the very same that catapulted him out of desperation and into phenomenal success.