Why Not

Our next guest, Ryan Groth, lives with a growth mindset and it has allowed him to reach high levels of success in athletics, entrepreneurship, and family.

Ryan became involved in the family contracting business as a teenager; however, he decided that he did not want to take over the family business and focused on athletics. Through hard work and dedication, he was able to become a professional baseball player and signed with the Los Angeles Angels.

His dream of building his career in the major leagues didn’t happen and it left Ryan wondering what was next. Through networking with high performing leaders, he found mentorship with one of the top businessmen in the region and nationally recognized roofing contractor.

Over the next 4.5 years, Ryan learned the mindset, vision, strategy, structure, systems, and processes of a $50 million per year local contracting sales organization. Today, Ryan uses that knowledge to grow his own company, Sales Transformation Group. He is on a mission to help contractors transform their companies with predictable sales models.

Our next guest, George Bilbrey, is driven by creating innovative solutions to critical business challenges. George has started and scaled new businesses twice, brought new product categories to market four times, and developed business processes multiple times to solve challenges where the current solution was lacking.

George graduated from Duke - Cum Laude in Economics. Then, he received his MBA from the University of North Carolina. From there, he was a partner in the telecommunications group at Mercer Management Consulting. George went on to become the founder of the industry’s first deliverability service provider, Assurance System, which merged with Return Path in 2003.

Return Path scaled to $100 million in revenue and was sold to Validity in 2019. Now, George is taking on a new challenge and becoming the CEO of Signpost, a CRM and marketing automation provider.

Mike Villalobos started his career in Silicon Valley and quickly realized his opportunity to have a career in SaaS (software as a service). Shortly after beginning his entrepreneurial journey, Mike was part of the founding team at FuelX. They scaled the SaaS-based advertising company by more than 250% for three consecutive years. As the VP of Sales and Business Development, Mike led FuelX to profitability in 6-months without outside funding and scaled the sales organization from one account executive to a team of twenty-six people.

FuelX eventually moved Mike to New York City, where he now has taken on the opportunity to help Teads, an innovative company specializing in digital advertising for the world’s largest brands, build out its performance advertising division.

Throughout his career, Mike has become a specialist in scaling startups and shares his insights that can only be gained through experience.

Dr. Ken Keis is an international speaker, author, podcast host, and the leader of Consulting Resource Group that helps organizations worldwide improve employee satisfaction and productivity. Ken’s passion is leading others to experience clarity and joy by creating a life of purpose, and empowering leaders to empower others.

In 2017, Danielle Shoots was named to the Denver Business Journal’s 40 under 40 business leaders. The Colorado Women’s Chamber of Commerce named Danielle one of the top 25 most powerful women in business. She owns the stage as a keynote speaker, including a Ted Talk on leadership. But the weird part is, Danielle is also a millennial...and leads accordingly.

It was not until Randy Brothers realized who he really was as a person, what his purpose was, and what his God given strengths and weaknesses were that he finally became self-aware enough to embrace himself as a leader and a visionary of a company.

Brie Reis was pregnant and became a mom at 18. Drugs and alcohol were the foundation of her life from 15-years-old on. She became shackled to drugs and her life as an addict.

Today, Brie is one of the youngest female, bi-racial CEOs in the construction space. Elite Roofing sold $20 million in revenue in 2018 and has been named as one of the Inc 5000 fastest growing companies in the nation two years in a row

At only 21-years-old, Kyler Williams was a successful salesman for Wells Fargo, but wanted to start living life on his terms. Kyler’s first attempt at entrepreneurship was his selling products on Amazon. From there, he started his own moving company, I Like To Move It, Move It. Kyler was running multiple moving crews and helped develop a team that was much older than him.

Just like any artist, Kyler has created multiple paintings in desire of creating that masterpiece. Today, Kyler owns Dream Painting where he paints the interior and exterior of residential properties. Kyler understands that he must paint his dreams into reality and live accordingly.

Madison Dorenkamp, truly captured the crown - the crown of Miss Colorado 2019 and earned a trip to the Miss USA 2019 Pageant in Reno, Nevada. When you see Madison - you see the pageant photos, her beauty, her ability to walk on stage in 6 in each heels, strut her stuff in a swimsuit and then sound so intelligent in an interview.

What you don’t see is her journey, resilience, and dedication to handle the pressure and win Miss Colorado. Madison competed in the pageant four times prior to finally capturing the crown.

Danny Needham is a former D1 football player who tackled Barry Sanders and Thurman Thomas in the same game. His mindset of having no self-limitations helped him become a successful serial entrepreneur. Danny teaches us all how we can become limitless.