The Startup Life

In this episode, Jay B. Myers (Award-Winning Author & Serial Entrepreneur) as we discuss what his new book, the lessons he has learned along the way of building his business, and so much more.

Jay's book is available on kindle now. Physical book available on June 15th.

**More On Jay**

Jay B. Myers is the founder and former CEO of Interactive Solutions Inc. (ISI), a Memphis-based firm that specializes in video conferencing, distance learning, telemedicine, and audio-visual sales and support.

Jay started ISI in 1996 and has built it into a $25-million company with 51 employees and offices in Memphis, Nashville, Chattanooga and Knoxville, as well as Birmingham, AL, Oxford, MS, and Little Rock, AR.

ISI has received numerous corporate awards and recognitions in the past several years. The company was named seven times in the past 11 years to INC. magazine's list of the fastest-growing private companies in the United States. ISI also was recently featured in the Small Business section of the Wall Street Journal. In addition, ISI was named the Memphis Business Journal Small Business of the Year in 2001 and in 2003 was the first recipient of the Kemmons Wilson (founder of Holiday Inn) Emerging Business Award.

Prior to starting ISI, Jay earned numerous sales awards while working for international corporations such as Eastman Kodak and Hewlett Packard.

In 2007, Jay published his first book, Keep Swinging: An Entrepreneur's Story of Overcoming Adversity and Achieving Small Business Success and subsequently received the 2010 Ethan Award for success as an entrepreneurial author.

An avid baseball fan, particularly of his beloved New York Yankees, Jay has participated in the Yankees' Fantasy Camp in Tampa, FL, receiving instruction from former Major League players and professional coaches. He frequently applies his affinity for the game to his writing on topics related to business growth and entrepreneurial development.

A natural storyteller, Jay is a sought-after speaker at CEO conferences and entrepreneurial development programs where he shares inspiring stories and practical tips based on growing ISI from $11- to $25-million during the Great Recession. Jay's message as detailed in his second book, Hitting the Curveballs: How Crisis Can Strengthen and Grow Your Business, reveals creative, practical strategies to achieve business success in difficult times.

Jay is active in numerous Memphis area community organizations and serves on the board of the Chickasaw Council (Boy Scouts of America) and Bancorp South (advisory board), and is chairman of the Mid South Better Business Bureau.

Jay lives in Collierville, TN, and Holmes Beach, FL, with his wife Maureen. The couple has two children.

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In this episode, we talk to Kary Oberbrunner (Author & Tranformational Leadership Coach) as we discuss his new book, how not to get hacked, and so much more.

Purchase his new book here

Check out his website KaryOberbrunner.com

**More On Kary**

KARY OBERBRUNNER is an author, coach, and speaker who helps individuals and organizations clarify who they are, why they're here, and where they're going so they can become souls on fire, experience unhackability, and share their message with the world. As a child and young adult Kary overcame a paralyzing speech disorder and an addiction to self-injury. In the past twenty years, he's ignited over one million people with his content. He lives in Ohio with his wife, Kelly, and three children.

Some Professional Accomplishments:

• CEO of Redeem the Day, Igniting Souls, Author Academy Elite

• Earned Doctorate Degree in Transformational Leadership

• Trained over 250,000 Authors, Coaches, Speakers, and Entrepreneurs

• Published Author of 7 Books (Business, Fiction, Personal Growth, Success)

• International speaker on leadership, personal growth, human performance, publishing, and business

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In this episode, we talk to Jordan Babineaux (NFL Veteran & Entrepreneur)as we discuss his journey, his new book, and so much more.

Purchase Pivot To Win: How To Win In Life, Sports, & Business

Check out The Pivotal Moments Podcast

**More On Jordan**

Jordan Babineaux transitioned from nearly a decade playing in the NFL to become a sports broadcaster, serial entrepreneur, and business executive. Jordan helps companies, teams, leaders, and youth navigate their pivots. Often partnering with his brother, Jonathan Babineaux, former defensive end for the Atlanta Falcons, Jordan has built several successful businesses, including a film production company and a Seattle-based transportation service. During football season, Jordan maintains his passion for the sport, serving as a TV and radio analyst for the Seattle Seahawks. Jordan holds a Bachelor's Degree in Mass Communication from Southern Arkansas University and earns his MBA from Seattle University in 2021. He and his brother founded the Babineaux Foundation, a nonprofit that gives back to their hometown of Port Arthur, Texas, and supports Lupus research. Jordan lives in Seattle with his wife and three children while squeezing in a round of golf with friends as often as possible.

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In this episode, we talk to Tim Calkins(College Professor & Consultant) as we discuss this year's Super Bowl Ads, his book, and so much more.

Be sure to check out TimCalkins.com

Purchase his book How To Wash A Chicken: Mastering The Business Presentation

**More On Tim**

Tim is a marketing professor, author, speaker and consultant.

His newest book is a guide to creating and delivering powerful business presentations. It is titled How to Wash a Chicken: Master the Business Presentation. You can read more about the new book here.

Tim is Clinical Professor of Marketing at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. He teaches courses including Marketing Strategy and Biomedical Marketing in the full-time, part-time and international executive MBA programs. He is also co-academic director of the Kellogg on Branding executive education program.

He has received numerous awards for teaching excellence. In 2018, he received the Top Professor Award from Germany's Kellogg-WHU Executive MBA Program. He won the Lawrence G. Lavengood Outstanding Professor of the Year Award, the top teaching award at Kellogg, in 2006 and 2013, making him one of just four people in the award's more than forty year history to have won it twice. He also received the Sidney J. Levy Teaching Award, two Kellogg Faculty Impact Awards, and the Kellogg Executive MBA Program's Top Professor Award four times. Poets & Quants included him on its list "Favorite MBA Professors of 2016."

In addition to How to Wash a Chicken, Tim is the author of Defending Your Brand: How Smart Companies Use Defensive Strategy to Deal with Competitive Attacks (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). Expert Marketer Magazine named Defending Your Brand the 2013 Marketing Book of the Year. He also wrote Breakthrough Marketing Plans (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 and 2012). He is co-editor of Kellogg on Branding (John Wiley & Sons, 2005) and Kellogg on Branding in a Hyper-Connected World (John Wiley & Sons, 2019).

Tim manages Building Strong Brands, a blog on brand strategy. Inc.com, the Web arm of Inc. Magazine, included the blog on its list of "Six Blogs That Can Teach You More Than an MBA."

He has published more than a dozen Kellogg case studies including Crestor, MedImmune: FluMist Introduction and Genzyme: the Synvisc-One Investment Decision. He has authored more than two dozen articles on marketing topics.

Tim is an expert on Super Bowl advertising. He created the Kellogg Super Bowl Advertising Review in 2005 and has led the event ever since. Over the past ten years, the program has generated more than five billion media impressions.

He has served as a judge for the Word of Mouth Marketing Association's WOMMY Awards, the Native Creatives Awards and the EthicMark Awards.

In addition to teaching at Kellogg, Tim works with major corporations around the world on strategy and branding issues. His recent clients include Eli Lilly, Hearst and AbbVie. He is managing director of Class 5 Consulting, a marketing strategy firm.

Tim is frequently cited by the media. He has been quoted in publications including Business Week, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. He has appeared on all of the major television networks.

He serves on the board of the Alliance Française de Chicago and completed two terms on the board of the Lycée Français, Chicago's French-International School.

Tim began his career at the consulting firm Booz Allen and Hamilton, where he worked on strategy projects. He joined the marketing team at Kraft Foods in 1991. During his almost 11 years at Kraft, he led brands including Miracle Whip, Taco Bell, Parkay and DiGiorno. He was responsible for the launch of more than two dozen new products.

He received his BA from Yale and his MBA from Harvard. Tim lives in Chicago with his wife and three children, and no chickens.

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In this episode we talk to Alice Min Soo Chun (Founder and CEO SEEUS95 Inc. & Founder President Solight Design), as we discuss her companies, building relationships and so much more.

Check out SEEUS95 Inc. & Solight Design)

See Alice's Ted Talk

See the video of her, President Clinton, and Mayor Yulin CRUZ

**More On Alice**

Alice Min Soo Chun, founder of Solight Design. Alice's story is of an inspiring inventor, entrepreneur and former Columbia University professor who created portable, origami-inspired, solar lights to help with refugee missions, and so much more. The story begins with Alice's biggest passion — being a mom to her son, Quinn. At a young age, Quinn was diagnosed with asthma. After the diagnosis, they spent countless amounts of time in doctors' offices. Through the time and effort that Alice put into understanding her son's diagnosis, she was shocked to discover that one of four kids in New York City has asthma. This sparked the question — what kind of toxic environment do we live in? Soon after, the 2010 Haiti earthquake rocked the country and sent 2.6B people scrambling without access to electricity. Alice was touched by the turmoil the Haitians were experiencing along with other staggering statistics such as: millions of children and their families affected by poor air quality; According to the World Health Organization, roughly 3.8 million people a year die from toxic kerosene fumes. 100K preventable dwelling fires in South Africa; a rise in women and children assaulted due to poorly lit areas and loss of light after a natural disaster. Reportedly, having a light in tent camps created a 20% decrease in assault cases. Alice was moved to make an impact, thus SolarPuff, an award-winning, easy-to-use solar light was created under Alice's new venture, Solight Design. As a former Columbia University professor focusing on material technology and sustainable design/architecture, Alice brought SolarPuff to fruition. SolarPuff is a self-inflating, waterproof, solar light made from non-toxic, recyclable, hi-tech materials inspired by origami design. The light keeps its shape even when punctured and recharges in the sun lasting up to 12 hours — which is why the light can also be great for refugee missions.

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Behind Closed Doors - Otis McDonald

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Cielo - Huma-Huma

In this episode, we talk to Colin Bryar (Co-founder of Working Backwards LLC) as we discuss his new book, his time at Amazon under Jeff Bezos, and the work he and his co-founder Bill Car do at Working Backwards, LLC.

Purchase his book Working Backwards here

**More On Colin**

Colin Bryar joined Amazon in 1998 — four years after its founding — and spent the next 12 years as part of Amazon's senior leadership team as Amazon grew from a domestic (US-only) seller of books to a global, multi-dimensional powerhouse and innovator. Colin served as a Vice President at Amazon, and for two of his years was "Chief of Staff" to Jeff Bezos, AKA "Jeff's shadow", during which he spent each day attending meetings, traveling with, and discussing business and life with Jeff. After Amazon, he and his family relocated to Singapore for two years where Colin served as Chief Operating Officer of e-commerce company RedMart, which was subsequently sold to Alibaba. Colin is co-founder of Working Backwards LLC where he coaches executives at both large and early-stage companies on how to implement the management practices developed at Amazon.

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Cielo - Huma-Huma

In this episode, we talk to Adrian Koehler (Executive Coach & Entrepreneur) as we discuss lessons from 2020, how he coaches his clients and his podcast.

Check out his website and his podcast

**More On Adrian**

Adrian is a leadership engagement expert. He trains and coaches executives and entrepreneurs in the art and science of personal engagement for themselves, their teams and clients in order to create new, unprecedented results and experience fulfillment in their work. In the process of developing his craft he has worked in multiple contexts: Fortune 500 organizations, Multinationals, Higher Education, Start-Ups, and Healthcare. Over the last decade his passion for human performance has taken him around the globe to partner and serve organizations that are committed to being their best in making a difference in the world. He has trained and developed leaders at NIKE, Virgin Hyperloop One, Herschel Supply Co., Oprah Winfrey Network, Gavin DeBecker & Associates, Siegel & Gale, UCLA and others.

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Cielo - Huma-Huma

In this episode, we talk to Greg Dybec (Chief Strategy Officer at Wing) as we discuss disrupting the cell phone market, company culture at Wing, his podcast Other People's Lives, and more.

Make the switch here at https://www.wingalpha.com/

Subscribe to Other People's Lives here

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In this episode, we talk to Kent Billingsley (Founder & President of the Revenue Growth® Company, LLC)about his new book, the process to become a millionaire, and what he learned working for Ross Perot.

Purchase his book ENTREPRENEUR TO MILLIONAIRE: How to Build a Highly Profitable, Fast-Growth Company and Become Embarrassingly Rich Doing It

Be sure to check Revenue Growth® Company, LLC

**More On Kent**

KENT BILLINGSLEY is the founder and president of the Revenue Growth® Company, LLC. He has become America's Revenue Growth® Architect by helping thousands of entrepreneurs and small businesses (representing hundreds of thousands of employees) generate billions in new sales and revenue. He has personally designed, built, transformed, or turbocharged over 1,000 organizations in 36 countries. Billingsley has served in executive and leadership positions in several billion-dollar firms. Over nearly three decades, he has developed thought-leading content and trademarked programs helping thousands of entrepreneurs and their employees become millionaires and multimillionaires from their businesses.

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In this episode, we talk to Jeff Schwartz (Principal with Deloitte Consulting LLP) as we discuss his work at Deloitte, his new book, and more.

Purchase his book here

**More On Jeff**

Jeff Schwartz is the founding partner of Deloitte Consulting's U.S. Future of Work practice and the global editor since 2011 of the Global Human Capital Trends Report. Jeff has led research on the evolution of work, workforces, and workplace practices and advised clients around the world on workforce transformation. A global consultant, Jeff has lived and worked in the United States, India, Russia, Belgium, Kenya and Israel. A graduate of the Yale School of Management and Princeton's School of Public and International Affairs, Jeff currently resides in New York City.

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Written by: Dominic Lawson

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**Show Theme**

Behind Closed Doors - Otis McDonald

**Break Theme**

Cielo - Huma-Huma