Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business

Jaimz Hodge is the CEO of Stratus Forge and leads a team of passionate individuals that want to make things that inspire and create an impact. Stratus Forge works with amazing people and businesses to turn their websites on the digital frontier into an asset by delivering value that's important to their business.

Rather than watching business websites idly sit by like socks in a drawer, Stratus Forge helps businesses build world class websites and turn those websites into an asset for their business that brings in more leads, turns those leads in customers, and brings those customers back again and again. Just like physical property, Jaimz believes that websites are digital property that needs to be maintained and and grown to become a true asset.

Visit Jaimz's website at https://www.stratusforge.tech/

Kristen Dickey is a marketing and advertising sales professional turned corporate refugee turned solopreneur. She spent 15 years working for major media corporations, including: NBCUniversal, WarnerMedia, Viacom, Weather Channel, Shazam, Vevo, and The Trade Desk. Now she's leveraging that wealth of experience to help her clients improve their marketing strategy, website experience, and branding - but under her own MEDIA HUMANITY masthead.

MEDIA HUMANITY helps SMBs with marketing strategy, web design, and brand identity. ​Beyond a business's "what", Kristen helps businesses effectively communicate their "how", "why", and "who" in a way that resonates on an emotional level, converts with real results, and conveys both their industry authority and personal passion for their product.

Visit Kristen's business website at https://www.mediahumanity.com/

Brandon Gardner is a person that loves connection and strives everyday to do good for his family, friends, and community. Professionally, for the past 13 years he has led and built products for tech start-ups and large tech enterprises. The products he has built have been used by millions of people around the world to improve commerce and lives. Brandon now uses his experience and expertise to build products for hundreds of more companies who need strong product leaders that drive product sales and operational efficiency through his company Sembrar.

Sembrar provides SaaS companies increased revenue and operational efficiency through Fractional Product Managers. They do this by 1) building out your new product ideas and bring them to market with Fractional Product Managers, before you hire a full time employee and 2) growing a mature and existing product through part-time product management, freeing up your full time resources to work on your most pressing needs.

Visit Brandon's website at https://www.sembrar.io/ and find him on LinkedIn here.

Emily Hartstone is an entrepreneur, motivational speaker, catalyst of meetings & events, and start-ups, and business consultant. In addition to running her ecosystem of businesses, Emily is a kickass entrepreneur who is thriving as she manages and overcomes leukemia and Graves Disease, and in today's episode you'll hear her story on persisting through those challenges. Her clients are non-profit organizations, corporations, and of course, start-ups. Emily also owns a retail company and more recently has made the move to start selling wholesale as well. Visit Emily's business website at https://fromthehartllc.com/ and find her on Instagram at @empromo_hart

Today you're going to get a super clear and direct action that you can take to build credibility when people search for you online, and it's something that EVERY entrepreneur needs! You'll hear it directly from entrepreneur and actor Johnny La, the founder of MRLA Media. Hear Johnny's full episode on the Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur Podcast in Episode 528, and visit his website at www.MRLA-media.com

Stacy Sufka has over twenty-five years of experience in behavioral healthcare serving in various clinical and administrative roles. Throughout her career, Stacy has worked with diverse teams to affect change and advance the mission through people. These experiences have shaped her love for capacity-building and systems work. Before launching her firm, she served as the Chief Strategy and People Officer at a large nonprofit organization in Northeast, Ohio. In this role, she oversaw strategic planning and execution, human resources, continuous quality and performance improvement, business intelligence, organizational learning, and development.

Stacy launched Gladegy Consulting to help individuals, teams, and organizations meet their mission's promise. Committed to building capacity, she has worked with various healthcare, community development, and government organizations to help them achieve results.

She holds a Specialization in Strategy from Harvard University Online and Master's degrees in Public Affairs and Administration, Counseling, and Business Analytics. She is an experienced strategist and tactician with professional credentials in various disciplines, making her a diverse and well-rounded leader.

Visit Stacy's website at https://www.gladegy.com/

Alex Engar is one of the co-founders of CEO Finance Academy, which provides financial coaching for small business owners wanting to improve their profitability. Alex grew up in the mountainous terrains of Utah where he developed a knack for entrepreneurship at an early age. After graduating from the University of Utah with his Doctorate of Physical Therapy, he quickly realized he wanted something beyond the 9-5 clinical life. This led to co-founding Healthy Funnel (with business partner Will Boyd), a marketing agency and consultancy. It was running an agency where he got to see inside of hundreds of small businesses and found a gap in most owners' understanding of their business finances. After consulting with a few dozen of these businesses and referrals coming in fast, Healthy Funnel gave way to CEO Finance Academy. Alex is a dad to 3 beautiful girls and a husband to his wife, Sarah.

Visit Alex's website at https://www.ceofinanceacademy.com/

In today's episode we'll talk about one of the most important pieces of advice I've ever received when it comes to starting ANYTHING. This is the opposite of what most people think about during times when they're busy, but adopting this mindset can change your business and your LIFE!

Our first ever Action Saturday is hosted by the hilariously serious Stephen Custer, founder of Dry Humor Marketing. Check out Stephen's full episode in Episode 525, and get even more awesome content from him on his YouTube channel @DryHumorMarketing. Visit his website at https://www.dryhumormarketing.com/

Jaimz Hodge is the CEO of Stratus Forge and leads a team of passionate individuals that want to make things that inspire and create an impact. Stratus Forge works with amazing people and businesses to turn their websites on the digital frontier into an asset by delivering value that's important to their business.

Rather than watching business websites idly sit by like socks in a drawer, Stratus Forge helps businesses build world class websites and turn those websites into an asset for their business that brings in more leads, turns those leads in customers, and brings those customers back again and again. Just like physical property, Jaimz believes that websites are digital property that needs to be maintained and and grown to become a true asset.

Visit Jaimz's website at https://www.stratusforge.tech/