Every business owner needs support, every business process has issues, each generation of entrepreneurs have different problems, ideas, beliefs, needs, and challenges. Lionheart is a support community that addresses the vast array of topics that face entrepreneurs today and provides an amazingly broad range of assistance to help each business succeed at a high level! As a community we work together to bring ideas, information, solutions and progress to every member. This podcast formally launches "Lionheart" and provides a glimpse at the vast amount of resources business owners will enjoy when they become members. Created by four business advisors, with 150 years of combined experience in a broad spectrum of industries, we're thrilled to launch this community which took nearly two years to fully construct … and is continuing to grow and add additional tools, trainings, technologies and relevance. If you want your business to thrive, so do we! And if you want a more in-depth look at the services offered, go to our website and listen to our initial "overview podcasts", programs 219 and 220.

Natalia is the founder of Zacharin Consulting, a firm helping business owners gain financial clarity and build profitable, resilient companies. With expertise in CFO services, bookkeeping, and financial coaching, she empowers entrepreneurs to scale strategically. Since 2019, Natalia has helped businesses navigate financial complexities with actionable insights. Today we'll discuss expert advice on profitability, scaling, financial intelligence — and share practical strategies to help you take control of your business finances. This is an amazing entrepreneurial story that you must listen to! PLUS, Natalia is offering our listeners a unique no-cost set of links and useful data by going to ZacharinConsulting.com/Guild.

Clementina is a developmental editor and writing coach. Her interests include becoming authentic, freeing your voice, healing trauma, and writing through transitions. She is the founder of The Clementina Collective, a global education company for service-based entrepreneurs and visionary leaders. With her guidance, her writers learn to embody their truth with radical acceptance. This is her 3rd appearance on the Guild podcast. This time we focused our discussion on a series of blogs she wrote, including one entitled "The Writer's Shield", an interesting and vital exposé about digital safety for women and writers at large. The subject blog is available here.

Chris has been in the IT industry for nearly 30 years, over 22 as the owner and President of ONE2ONE. When you're an expert at adapting to a constantly changing tech environment, and you bring energy, excitement, and clarity to your clients, you become a leading resource in the comprehensive form of white-glove service that Chris provides to his clientele. This affords him the opportunity to enjoy the hiking trails in the North NJ mountains, where he lives with his wife and 2 step-kids, and long weekends and summers exploring and living in Cape May.

Michelle is the Founder and CEO of Griffin Resources, a Tampa-based, fully virtual business solutions firm serving clients nationwide. She leads the organization in providing fractional, hourly-based HR outsourcing, payroll, compliance, talent acquisition, and sales and operational support with no monthly retainer requirements. Under her leadership, Griffin Resources has expanded to include executive-level SVP of Sales and Operations services and supports organizations across healthcare, technology, construction, finance, and real estate. Michelle holds a PhD in Industrial-Organizational Psychology and brings extensive experience in HR leadership, compliance, and organizational strategy.

Converting or expanding a hobby into a business requires a smart business approach. Any lack of planning, market research or budgeting and financial considerations will result in failure! Too many times, we have met people who thought their hobby would make a great business but failed to approach the development of the business in the proper way. This program tells stories of both sides, successes, and failures, and how to assess whether your conversion is on the right track.

Have you considered the idea of asking AI to help you learn about AI, or what questions you should be asking AI to learn how best to use its capabilities? Do you realize that AI is not actually "intelligence" at all, rather it is a very cool engineering and mathematical trick that helps you learn and utilize information in far more productive ways? These are some of the thoughts discussed as we brought Dave Saunders back to our podcast. Dave, as you may recall, is an early internet pioneer and product developer who has brought 40+ products to market across software, robotics, AI, and green tech over 30+ years.

Nathan began his career as a multi-unit franchise owner with Curves International, where he learned the fundamentals of cash flow, systems, and scalable business operations. While still operating his franchises, he started to transition into real estate and eventually found his niche in mortgage note investing. Today, Nathan is the founder of Earnest Investing, where he helps investors "be the bank" through passive, asset-backed mortgage note investments. He's also the co-host of The Real Estate Notes Show podcast and the organizer of the annual Diversified Mortgage Expo. Nathan still remembers his humble beginnings painting fences for a summer and getting a taste of what it's like to be an entrepreneur.

Chris is a Boston-based entrepreneur, author, and operations expert who helps business owners scale without chaos by building backend infrastructure that actually works. He's the founder of EO Staff, a premium remote staffing company known for placing elite Virtual Assistants (VAs) into fast-growing businesses. Chris built and sold four companies, including a business he scaled more than 10x in five years using just one domestic employee and four VAs. EO Staff was born from a personal turning point: after a cardiac event caused by burnout, he realized he needed help and discovered the power of remote staffing. What started as a survival decision turned into a mission to help others scale with freedom, not stress. Since 2023, Chris has become a respected voice in the entrepreneurial space, published more than 100 times in Forbes, Entrepreneur.com, and other major media outlets.

Dan is Co-Founder and President of Detroit Labs, a digital innovation studio in downtown Detroit. Through the years, Detroit Labs has partnered with clients like GM, Ford, Volkswagen, Jimmy John's, Domino's Pizza, Driveway.com, and many others … to drive growth through design and technology. Dan has mentored students at Central Michigan University in the New Venture Competition since 2018, was the recipient of the CMU College of Business "Entrepreneur of the Year Award" in 2019 and was a Crain's 40 under 40 honoree in 2019.