The Authority Company

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, a time for us to educate people and ourselves about the importance of mental health and the resources available. And this week Joe welcomes Alison Seponara to the podcast. Alison is a licensed psychotherapist and is known as @TheAnxietyHealer on Instagram.  She is also the author of the new book, The Anxiety Healer's Guide: Coping Strategies and Mindfulness Techniques to Calm the Mind and Body. Alison shares her mental health journey and how she built a global support community of over half a million people.

Entrepreneurs post regularly on LinkedIn and write blogs for the specific purpose of elevating their brand and their authority. But what about regular people who turn a blog into a business? This week, Joe talks to Christian Senger, the founder of Holy City Sinner. Christian shares how he built a blog and accompanying social media handles that became must-follows for everything there is to know about what’s going on in Charleston, South Carolina.

What does it take to become fearless in business? An even bigger question, what does it take to become a fearless leader? This week, Joe welcomes Brendan Keegan, the Founder of bFearless & CEO of Merchants Fleet. Brendan is a 6-time award-winning CEO, who has built a system to overpower his own fear, uncertainty, and doubt and achieved astronomical success across multiple industries.

COVID-19 gave small businesses the chance to reevaluate their challenges and reimagine their business. And now over 70% of small business owners believe their business is better off now than it was one year ago. So how did small and medium-sized businesses not only survive but thrive? Joining Joe this week is Wendy Taccetta, Verizon Business’ senior vice president for nationwide small business and channel chief. Wendy talks about Verizon's recent Small Business Recovery Survey and the effect of Verizon’s products and services on small businesses.

Much has been written about supply chain issues and the lack of toilet paper, but there’s something else that’s been in short supply recently, and that is kindness. Joe's guest this week is Andra Liemandt and she is the founder of Austin-based The Kindness Campaign (TKC), a national nonprofit devoted to research-based emotional intelligence and anti-bullying. Andra shares the inspiration for The Kindness Campaign and how her team is creating and providing accessible emotional health curriculum and programs to both children and adults in homes and classrooms.

For years, the world of business has been described as cut-throat, dog-eat-dog, and ruthless. But now more and more businesses are centered around building a kinder, more sustainable world. On the latest episode of the podcast, Joe is joined by Giovanna Mingarelli, who sits at the forefront of this kindness revolution. Giovanna is a Canadian entrepreneur, public speaker, writer, and founder of several companies, including M&C Consulting, a digital communications and crowdsourcing company and MC3, a Seattle-based tech startup offering AI-powered bots to power the ESG workplace revolution.

For seven seasons, Kerry Washington starred as Olivia Pope on the hit TV series Scandal, but what’s it like to handle crisis management for real? In 2022. This week, Joe welcomes Stephanie Craig, one of the country’s top crisis and reputation strategists. She's currently the Vice President of Consulting at Kith, where she helps clients expertly prepare for crises, mitigate risk and rebuild reputations.

There’s the old line that “doctors are lousy business people,” and it could be because they spend over a decade studying and training to get the doctor part right. They’re not spending a lot of time taking MBA Classes or reading Good to Great. But now it’s more difficult than ever to make it in medicine, and that’s even before that who pandemic thing. The most successful doctors today were either born with entrepreneurial DNA or developed it over time. On the podcast, Joe is joined by Dr. Ryan Neinstein, a board-certified plastic surgeon who is THRIVING in the ultra-competitive world of plastic surgery in New York City.

NFT’s blew up in 2021, but behind the scenes, Non-Fungible Token entrepreneurs have been developing products and services for years. And now all that hard work is finally seeing the light of day. In New York City, the first-ever NFT-vending machine popped up in the financial district, with prices ranging from $5 to over 400 dollars. The once old-fashioned and old-school folks who run baseball are now offering packs of NFT trading cards starting at $50. Joe's guest this week is among the earliest visionaries pioneering NFT product design: Jesse Johnson is the founder of Pixelcraft Studios, and his creation called Aavegotchi is bringing NFTs to the world of gaming.

Joe welcomes Jeff Spring to the podcast. Jeff is the CEO of the Disc Golf Pro Tour, and there's a chance that the “greatest shot in disc golf history” might have popped up on your timeline last summer. James Conrad’s 247-foot birdie forced a playoff at the world championships and the Disc Golf Pro Tour went viral. The sport has grown rapidly and saw a big pandemic push as aspiring Disc Golfers began flocking to courses across the country. But the world of professional disc golf has exploded since its tour launched 6 years ago. On the podcast, Jeff talks about how he's spearheading the growth of disc golf, the importance of developing star athletes, and what the future of the sport looks like.