Episode Highlights:

• Amy shares her journey of 23 years in business.
• Starting a business during the pandemic.
• Creating genuine relationships.
• The role of networking in branding yourself.
• How Amy helps minority women entrepreneurs.
• Overcoming the challenges of funding.
• Navigating hiring the right employees.
• Spending money as a business.
• Measurable goals.
• Business growth.
• Awards that Amy has received this year.

About Amy:
Amy Yan owns and operates C3 Business Consultants, a local company with a national presence. With over 25 years’ experience in the technology sector, Amy absorbed and applied her knowledge to her own business.
She created her business two years ago to instill in her kids that you can do and be whatever you want with hard work and determination.
Amy is an anthology author in the Amazon International bestseller “Resilience,” she volunteers her time at Women Empowering Women National and Saint Louis Council of Consumers, Construction Women's Leadership, as well as advocates for local nonprofits such as Wings of Hope, Feed My People, and Faith Through Fire. Her passion is bringing awareness to local nonprofits, connecting the community and networking with business professionals.

Connect with Amy at:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-y-04914110/
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://c3bc.com/

Episode Highlights:

• A common problem that she is seeing among business owners and entrepreneurs.
• Self sabotaging by losing focus on projects.
• How to get focussed: Time management, overwhelm, distraction.
• Symptoms of a faulty mindset.
• Limiting beliefs and prioritizing values.
• Breakthrough is possible!

About Kelli
Kelli Risse is an executive coach who helps directors, managers and owners who are overwhelmed, overstressed & pulled in many directions to reduce stress, prioritize themselves and enjoy life without sacrificing success.

Connect with Kelli @
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kellirisse/
Website: https://riseupandlivewellness.com/services/improve-your-life/address-your-stress-individual-coaching/

Episode Highlights:

• Brian shares his back-story and how he came to be a trial lawyer and a coach.
• The stress lawyers live with and how Brian manages it.
• The importance of choosing who you want to work with.
• Understanding the season of your business.
• The book that has most influenced Brian that helped him craft his own vision.
• You have the power to make your work and life what you want.
• Don’t let your present circumstance hinder you from casting a vision.
• The importance of prioritizing, and letting things go.
• The effectiveness of masterminds and coaching.
• Brian shares a few things he’s proud of and some goals.

About Brian:

Brian Glass is a personal injury lawyer in Fairfax, Virginia. 

Brian is the rare trial lawyer who is as comfortable building a business as he is in the courtroom. Over the past four years, he has quadrupled the revenue of the auto accident section at Ben Glass Law.

In 2023, he joined Great Legal Marketing as the organization’s president.  Great Legal Marketing is the premier program for lawyers in solo and small firm practices to learn to grow their businesses.

Brian is interested in teaching lawyers and other high income professionals how to win back some of their time by running more efficient businesses, investing in real estate, and crafting the vision of their own perfect life.

Brian’s perfect life includes coaching his three boys; traveling the world with his wife of 13 years; and competing in endurance events.  Brian is a finisher of the Umstead 100 Mile Endurance Race, the Laurel Highlands 71 Miler, and about two dozen other ultramarathons.

Connect with Brian at:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/fairfaxpersonalinjury/
https://www.instagram.com/brianglassesq/
https://greatlegalmarketing.com/

Episode Highlights:

• Zeynep shares how she became a successful inventor.
• The process that went into Silver Defender, the antimicrobial film she invented.
• Z gives advice about habits and discipline that will help business owners be successful.
• The importance of self-care and quality friends.
• A few “ah-ha” moments and goals for Z.
• Being recognized as “Best in Technology” was an honor.
• Getting “out there” as a brand.

About Zeynep:
Zeynep “Z” Ekemen is a serial entrepreneur with a passion for innovation. She is the inventor of Silver Defender, an antimicrobial film company that specializes in providing protection for high touch points. With a strong vision and mission, a solid business strategy, and the right resources and tools, Ekemen has built a successful company that is making a positive impact in the world.


Connect with Zeynep at:
https://www.silverdefender.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/zeynep-ekemen-5b85901b/
[email protected]

Episode Highlights:

• Kelli shares the results of her survey about what business owners want more of.
• The top three are Focus, Time Freedom, and Stronger Relationships.
• She unpacks them and offers tips for each.
• The mindset for success.

About Kelli
Kelli Risse is an executive coach who helps directors, managers and owners who are overwhelmed, overstressed & pulled in many directions to reduce stress, prioritize themselves and enjoy life without sacrificing success.

Connect with Kelli @
LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/kellirisse/
Website: https://riseupandlivewellness.com

Episode Highlights:

• Shelly tells how she came to be an author.
• The attitude, “Why not me?”
• Only you can tell your story.
• The importance of working within your space.
• We can choose what to focus on and what to fail at.
• Have a plan to get published and be seen
• Why should every business owner write a book.
• Learn how and where your story belongs.
• Shelly shares what she is working on now.

About Shelly:
Shelly Snow Pordea is a novelist, screenwriter, and publishing coach. Her first novel series Tracing Time is regularly in the top 100. Her Time Travel romance books on Amazon Kindle and her children’s book The Hugs Who Had no Arms debuted as a number-one Amazon best-seller.

As a survivor of a religious cult, Shelley was among the early #I Got Out social media collaborators for survivors of religious and cultic abuse and is now an I Got Out nonprofit board member.

Shelly is an author and story coach with TheCreativU. She coaches book writing from ideation to completion of the manuscript as well as offering ghostwriting and storytelling consultations to executives. Shelly speaks to groups about the art of story-sharing through her personal experience living overseas, working in education, and growing up in a religious cult.

As a Publishing coach Shelley's online You Can courses help entrepreneurs and professionals write and publish stories that make an impact. As a screenwriter, a fictional adaptation for a series drama of Shelley's personal story is currently in production with her brother and actor Jon Snow.

Shelly, novelist, screenwriter, bestselling children's author, speaker, and self-publishing coach, helps people get their books into the world because she believes each person's story matters.

Connect with Shelly Snow at:
https://www.thecreativu.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/shelly-snow-pordea-427b22158/
Here's the link to her courses. https://www.thecreativu.com/writingcourses
The coupon code for your listeners is YOUCAN

Episode Highlights:

• Heather shares her back story about how she came to where she is today.
• Leaving corporate and becoming a business owner, reminded her that it’s always been all her.
• Taking control of her life and business was empowering.
• The importance of listening to your intuition.
• The realization that you can’t win everything and may need to re-evaluate relationships.
• What Heather has learned about self-care.
• How she creates successful relationships with those she works with.
• Who you surround yourself with makes a difference.
• The value of sitting at the table together.
• Heather’s events in the fiber arts this year.

About Heather:

Heather Swan has 25 years of experience in leadership and management in various corporate settings including planning national sales meetings, hosting international clients, and managing human resources. 

She discovered her passion for volunteerism, community building, and event planning, through her work in parks and recreation. 

Currently, she is the yarn-queen for yardcom, head fiber-freak for Midwest Fiber Festival, and as the CEO for the Swan Factor, she is an expert brain-stormer, who helps individuals through transitions. Heather is dedicated to bringing people together to help the community.

In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her family, traveling, and spoiling pets. 

Connect with Heather Swan at:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/heatherrswan/

https://yarncomstl.com/

https://www.midwestfiberfest.com/

Episode Highlights:

• Sally shares how she got involved in triathlons, training, coaching, and eventually starting businesses.
• Offering a quality service with a quality team.
• The importance of having coaches, support, and accountability.
• How feedback moves her business to higher quality.
• How the ultra-endurance athlete mindset translates to business.
• A morning routine sets the day in the right direction.
• She offers retreats and other services for business owners.
• Her 501-c3 helps those who normally wouldn’t be able to participate in races.
• The importance of knowing your why.

About Sally

Sally is the owner and Race Director of MSE Racing and puts on quality endurance events including triathlons and running races in the Greater St. Louis area and Illinois. She also enjoys coaching triathletes of all levels from newbie to elite, with a passion for helping them achieve or exceed their goals. She specializes in ultra-endurance, much through her experience in completing 13 full Ironman triathlons.

An enthusiastic entrepreneur, Sally is active in her local Chamber of Commerce and a member of Inner Circle, an invitation-only women’s business mastermind group. She participates in and runs sessions in Fuel to Fire, a business owner’s accountability group. Sally is also a new member of the PWA, Professional Women’s Alliance.

Sally’s latest projects include a Women’s Adventure Retreat series (the first one is open for registration) and a 501c3 to provide resources and bicycles for those who cannot participate in
endurance sports due to the costs involved.

Connect with Sally at:
https://www.msecoaching.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sally-drake-6a94209/
[email protected]

Episode Highlights:

• How Beate went from a difficult childhood, abandonment, & tragedy, to immigration and success.
• How she defines a system to her clients to help them build sustainable, scalable businesses with an exit possibility.
• How she sold her business to Bill Gates for the amount she envisioned months earlier.
• Hardship and overcoming will become your message, and keep you relatable.
• The right mindset for life-long business success - it’s the journey, not the arrival.
• The importance of celebrating along the way.
• Living life from where you want to be at the end and what needs to happen to get to that place.
• The mess is in the middle.
• Don’t take failure personally.
• How Beate managed business after the pandemic.
• If you are not aligned on the inside, you can’t be aligned on the outside.
• How disempowering thoughts from our past can pop up at any age.
• Be clear on the truth - there is no excuse/hardship that keeps one from success.
• The bigger the reward, the tougher the journey.
• The necessary components - mindset, strategy, action.

About Beate:
Beate Chelette is the Growth Architect and founder of The Women’s Code. She creates strategies, designs process maps and blueprints for visionaries and leaders who want to maximize their profits and scale their impact.

 A first-generation immigrant who found herself $135,000 in debt as a single parent, Beate bootstrapped her passion for photography into a highly-successful global business and eventually sold it to Bill Gates in a multimillion-dollar deal.

Beate is “One of 100 Top Global Thought Leaders in 2021” by PeopleHum and “One of 50 Must-Follow Women Entrepreneurs by HuffPost. She is the author of the #1 International Award Winning Amazon Bestseller “Happy Woman Happy World – How to Go from Overwhelmed to Awesome”–a book that corporate trainer and best-selling author Brian Tracy calls “a handbook for every woman who wants health, success and a fulfilling career.”

Recent clients include Amazon, Chevron, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Johnson & Jonson, Merck, the Women’s Legislative Caucus of California Cal State University Dominguez Hills, the Greater Los Angeles Realtor Association, Advertising Agency TracyLocke and thousands of small businesses.

Connect with Beate:
Take her “Growth-Blocker Quiz” at GrowthBlockerQuiz.com
https://beatechelette.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeatechelette.com

Episode Highlights:

• Karen’s back story.
• Marketing is a puzzle with many parts.
• A surprising reason why businesses are not retaining employees.
• The two sides of what Karen is passionate about.
• Learning and communication styles can change the level of success.
• Keys to resilience.
• The importance of asking for help.
• Coaching and accountability is necessary for continued growth.
• The temptation of “chasing squirrels” for entrepreneurs.
• An honor that she is very proud of.
• Karen shares an offer.

About Karen:

Using my Extraordinary Success System ™, I work with the leader and their teams to create the perfect core team that believes in moving together. There is no I in TEAM. The Extraordinary Success System ™ Builds better teams through Communication, Creativity, and Connections. A powerful team like this replaces turnover and time wasted in a workplace known for being the best place to work while accomplishing unimaginable results.

As the Marketing Domination Coach, I help take the fear and frustration out of setting up your ONLINE presence and then educating you and/or your staff on the best ways to market your business in the social media arenas. As a Social Media Coach & Strategist and Direct Sales Specialist let me help you with implementing Facebook, FanPages,Twitter, LinkedIN, Pinterest, YouTube, Blogs, email campaigns to create a complete social media marketing funnel.. Maybe you just need my expertise as a social media business coach in expanding your marketing with the social media platforms you already have set up. Training groups, chamber and organization on the aspects of choosing the perfect Social Media platforms specific to your business and industry. Especially have a passion for working with those in the direct sales industry. Love connecting Social Media and Direct Sales.

I have been speaking and training on sales, marketing, and leadership for the last 30+ years, John Maxwell trainer and speaker since 2016, and NLP Master trainer since 2019. I have owned a marketing company for the last 13 years. I taught social media marketing before most even knew what social media was. You will find me in high heels (red is my favorite); consider shopping a hobby, and I will follow you most anywhere for a Reese's.

Connect with Karen:
https://karentheconnector.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/karenlfox/
https://www.facebook.com/KarenTheConnector?ref=ts