Ray is an international painting artist that provides paintings for families, weddings and anniversaries worldwide. He has done artwork for a few celebrities like Kim Zolciak, singer Keri Hilson, Chris Brown and Floyd Mayweather. He has been featured on news outlets in Oklahoma City and Bravo Reality TV. One of Ray’s greatest accomplishments was having his NBA team paintings sold in a live auction at NBA player Thabo Sefolosha's charity event for $140,000 helping raise majority of the charities set goal.

Kelli is an attorney, an NFL sports agent and Founder and President of KMM Sports, a full-service sports management company with offices in New York, Los Angeles and her hometown of Oklahoma City. Kelli has represented more professional athletes than any woman in the industry, representing athletes from the NFL , MLB and the Olympics. In 2010, she made history as the first woman to represent a first round pick in the NFL Draft.

Loving what you do is considered the ultimate secret weapon in business. Love for what you do may get you through the hard times in your business but it may also blind you to the real value offered by your product or service.

Wes is known to most for his long career on MTV’s Real-World franchise series. Outside of his TV career, Wes is in the empire building business as the founding investor of a startup incubator/accelerator called Beta Blox. In this episode, Wes shares his childhood love for entrepreneurship and what he looks for in early stage companies poised for growth.

This week we discuss the mental hurdle of insecurity as well as a progress update on the startup of 9Tribe.

Jason is the President of Omega Capital a private equity firm headquartered in Tulsa, OK. During his career, Mr. Martin has led investments totaling more than $1.7 billion across more than 50 portfolio companies. Join us as Jason explains what investors are looking for in startup companies and how to be prepared when raising investment capital.

In this episode, we discuss the importance of telling our story through social media. We also decide to get rid of our new year resolutions and share our intentions for the New Year instead.

In this episode, we take you behind the scenes of a 9Tribe new client meeting. A professional colleague reaches out to Melissa and refers a potential client. We book travel within 48hrs and flyout to New York for an initial meeting.

Leon used a pending company layoff as an opportunity to bet on himself and take the leap of faith to start his own company. Join us as Leon shares startup lessons learned regarding failure and his new venture Emfluencer.

In this episode, Melissa and Ntuna find calm in the middle of an argument, stalled acquisition, flu, and difficult team members.