Entrepreneurship 101

Michelle Rogers Radical resilience and finding community with Michelle Rogers Michelle Rogers is the founder/owner of Magnetic Property Management and MLR Products. She is the author of The Resiliency Blueprint that empowers woman to be seen, to be heard, to be loved. Her coaching program helps woman move through the stages of surviving to thriving while finding their own strength. Michelle owns several real estate companies, has a background in healthcare, and serves on several non-profit boards. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for ...

Christiane Schroeter The Small Steps Doctor. Confidence and leadership, built one rep at a time. Dr. Christiane Schroeter helps leaders do the hardest part of change... actually start. Her work closes the gap between knowing what to do and doing it, so professionals lead with clarity and confidence when the stakes are high. She came to the US from Germany as a Fulbright Scholar, earned her Ph.D. in Health Economics, and built her entire career in her second language. Today she is a Professor of Marketing, Innovation & Entrepreneurship at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where she has...

Bobby Sawyer is an attorney, entrepreneur, Army veteran, and Bronze Star recipient dedicated to helping people protect what they have worked hard to build. As the founder of Sawyer & Associates, LLC, he advises individuals, families, and business owners on estate planning, probate, Medicaid crisis planning, asset protection, and preserving a meaningful legacy. An entrepreneur since 2005, Bobby brings legal knowledge and real-world business experience to conversations about leadership, succession planning, and long-term stability. His practical approach helps business owners prepare for the unexpected, protect their families, and create organizations capable of thriving beyond their founders. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company...

Dean Taylor Unlocking Potential for a Purpose Driven Life Dean Taylor is a speaker, coach, and mentor who helps high-achieving people reconnect with purpose, regain clarity, and make meaningful pivots when success no longer feels aligned and confidently make meaningful pivots in life and work. Through his DIAMOND Pivot framework, he helps people move from feeling stuck and misaligned to living with greater clarity and confidence. Drawing from his own journey of setbacks, growth, gratitude, and renewed vision, Dean brings a grounded and hopeful message to people who know they are meant for more but feel stuck between what has...

Steve Snedegar Founder & Managing Partner Steve Snedegar has spent his career in the arena—as a four-time CEO leading businesses through growth, transformation, integration, and turnaround. Today, as founder of Stage 5 Partners, he advises founders, CEOs, and leadership teams facing the difficult transition from working harder to leading and operating better. Steve brings a distinctive coach–mentor–operator perspective. He understands both the pressure leaders carry and the organizational problems they often struggle to see: unclear accountability, competing priorities, weak execution, leadership misalignment, stalled growth, and businesses that remain too dependent on the founder. His conversations are candid, practical, and ground...

Karen Robinson Trauma Recovery Expert Karen Robinson, LCSW, is a service driven social worker, therapist, and coach with 24 years of clinical experience. Karen received both her BSW and MSW from the University of Maine, where she is originally from. Karen is a genuine, authentic, compassionate provider. Her specialties are trauma recovery, anxiety, and depression. In her free time, Karen enjoys reading, writing, and spending time with her family. Heal Thrive Dream is a mother-daughter company that includes a wide range of service and products for women recovering from trauma. We offer holistic therapy, coaching, virtual group coaching memberships, community service...

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Omer Gabay Founders of the OS for human Curiosity Omer Sharon Gabay is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of MindStash, a personal curiosity companion and AI second brain built as a counter movement to the attention economy. He quit his job and left university to go all in on it with his best friend. Since launching in late April, MindStash has reached hundreds of users, raised €150,000 from angels, and won three startup pitch competitions. He is a story driven guest who connects neuroscience, technology, and human behavior. Topics he speaks on: Why the attention economy is rewiring how we think, and wh...

Dr. Jessie And Omar Ferreira Lead Your Life. Shape Your Culture. Begin Within. Omar and Dr. Jessie Ferreira are the co-founders of ASQ Empowerment and the architects of the Fractal Coherence Methodology, a framework built on a single governing premise: leadership that begins within is the only kind that lasts. Together, they bring a rare combination to any podcast conversation. Drawing from their combined experience in operational nonprofit and higher education, they name the structural patterns underneath the problems leaders are already living, the feedback loops, the systems archetypes, the organizational dynamics that produce predictable outcomes and resist every individually-targeted...

Stacie Shifflett Founder & Architect of Modern Consciousness® Stacie Shifflett is the Founder and Architect of Modern Consciousness®, a philosophy and framework for strengthening our capacity to think with greater clarity, discernment, and intention. Her perspective wasn't developed from theory alone. It was shaped through decades of building businesses, leading teams, navigating major life transitions, and trying to understand why people think, choose, respond, and experience life as they do. Her path has been anything but conventional. She has worked in government technology, built and led businesses across very different industries, navigated the acquisition of a $50 million company, rebuilt her life fo...

John Cavendish Three-time exited founder and NLP Master Practitioner, now advising operators in their second decade of building. I spent around fifteen years building and selling businesses. Three exits, most recently Seller Candy, where I sold the majority stake in December 2024 and kept a quarter. My track record sits in ecommerce and the Amazon space. Now I advise founders who are well past the startup stage. Not first-timers. People ten to twenty years in, often on their second or third company, often after an exit. The advice aimed at new founders runs out fast at that level. The real problems...

Rohini Kasturi Global C-Suite Executive | Board Member | Stanford & Harvard Alum Rohini Kasturi is the CEO and Board Member of HG Insights, a seasoned SaaS executive, founder, and board advisor with more than 25 years of experience leading companies through transformation, growth, and innovation. He has held senior leadership roles at SolarWinds, Pulse Secure, Veritas Technologies, and Avni.io, a hybrid cloud company he founded and later led through acquisition. Rohini is a strong guest for conversations around leadership, business transformation, AI-driven decision-making, SaaS growth, and the future of go-to-market strategy. He can help audiences understand how leaders can move faster without...

David Depaola 40+ Years of Real Estate Experience Helping Clients Build Long-Term Wealth Hi, I’m David DePaola — a real estate broker, entrepreneur, and Broker Owner of David DePaola and Company Real Estate in Central New Jersey. I’ve spent more than four decades helping buyers, sellers, investors, and business owners navigate residential, commercial, land, and investment real estate. Since beginning my career in the early 1980s, I’ve completed thousands of transactions and experienced multiple real estate market cycles firsthand. Over the years, I’ve built my business around consistency, strong client relationships, honest communication, and a deep understanding of what truly...

Teri Pruitt Theatrical solutions for business problems Most people think Broadway is about the stars. Teri Pruitt knows it's really about the hundreds of people working together behind the curtain to create the magic audiences experience every night. Theatre is one of history's oldest living laboratories for teamwork, leadership, communication, and trust. After more than 30 years as a professional theatre artist—including over 25 years on Broadway—she founded Open the Aperture, where she brings the collaborative lessons of the theatrical process to organizations through keynotes, workshops, consulting, and conversations like this one. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm...

Kyle Bender Broker, Investor & Real Estate Entrepreneur Helping Clients Build Long-Term Wealth Hi, I’m Kyle Bender — a real estate entrepreneur, broker, investor, and the CEO of Scarlett Property Group at eXp Realty based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Over the last two decades, I’ve built multiple businesses across brokerage, real estate investing, and property management, helping clients and investors create long-term wealth through real estate. My passion for real estate started early through an interest in development and investing. I moved to Charlotte to pursue the business full-time, building custom homes while earning my real estate license at night. Since...

Trena Briscoe Matthews Post-Divorce Strategist: Transforming High-Achieving Women from Survival to Purposeful Reinvention Trena is a transformative leader, author, and post-divorce strategic coach dedicated to helping high-achieving women over 40 regain clarity and confidence after divorce, so they can intentionally design their next chapter in alignment with who they are now. As the founder of Silverline Publishing and Silverline Coaching, Trena has built a career rooted in strategic vision, authentic connection, and personal transformation. Through her signature framework, The Phoenix Protocol, she guides women through the deeply personal work of regaining emotional grounding after divorce, reclaiming their voices, and intentionally designing...

Anna Rikka Aborro Everything in Your Business Runs Through You. We Change That. nna Rikka Aborro is the founder of TAP Virtual Solutions and TAP OBM. She has 18 years of experience in operations and project management, helping business owners organize the messy backend of their business. She works with founders, coaches, consultants, and service-based businesses that already have clients, revenue, ideas, and a team, but still feel like everything runs through the owner. They are growing, but their systems, workflows, SOPs, accountability, and team structure have not caught up yet. That is where Anna Rikka comes in. She helps turn...

Ammarah Ahmed Founder, CRO Expert, Ex-Operator in Tech Ammarah Ahmed spent 10 years inside some of the largest growth platforms in the region. Delivery Hero, Foodpanda, Talabat, and Daraz, across MENA and 15 countries. The kind of roles where you own the outcome, not just the recommendation. In 2022, she started Precision Consulting on the side while still in those jobs. Earlier in 2025, she went full-time. It is a boutique CRO and UX consultancy, and the thing that drives it is something she kept seeing across every platform she worked in: businesses leaving revenue on the table not because their product was broken...

Brian Beck Joining us today is Brian Beck from Proxurve Solutions. Brian works with mid-sized organizations to turn AI and cybersecurity from concepts into real business outcomes. While most conversations in this space focus on what AI can do, Brian focuses on why companies struggle to implement it—and how to fix that. His work is all about helping leaders cut through the noise, align technology with real workflows, and drive measurable impact without increasing risk. Brian, welcome to the show. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of pe...

Matt Estrin Alcohol entrepreneur, foodpreneur, published author, and an incredibly nice guy Matthew Estrin is an entrepreneur, speaker, and founder of 477 Distilling. After spending 15 years as a pastor, he made the leap into business ownership and has since launched seven businesses. He's the author of I Know the Owner: From Holy Water to Happy Hour, where he shares honest lessons on entrepreneurship, leadership, and building businesses that matter. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Karen Robinson Trauma Recovery Expert Karen Robinson, LCSW, is a service driven social worker, therapist, and coach with 24 years of clinical experience. Karen received both her BSW and MSW from the University of Maine, where she is originally from. Karen is a genuine, authentic, compassionate provider. Her specialties are trauma recovery, anxiety, and depression. In her free time, Karen enjoys reading, writing, and spending time with her family. Heal Thrive Dream is a mother-daughter company that includes a wide range of service and products for women recovering from trauma. We offer holistic therapy, coaching, virtual group coaching memberships, community service...

Michael Elliott For over a decade, I was deep in the trenches of Google Ads, mastering the algorithms, optimizing campaigns, and consistently driving measurable ROI for businesses of all sizes. This wasn't just about keywords and bids; it was about understanding human psychology, market dynamics, and the relentless pursuit of scalable growth. My superpower became translating complex digital advertising into tangible business results. Then, the AI revolution began to accelerate, and I saw a seismic shift approaching. What was once the domain of science fiction was rapidly becoming a game-changer for every entrepreneur. My unique perspective, honed by years of...

Stephen Wright Stephen E. Wright - Speaker | Strategist | Author of Four Proven Strategies to Focus and Accelerate Your Business: PICK ONE Stephen Wright is the author of PICK ONE: 4 Strategies to Focus and Accelerate Your Business. He helps small to midsize business owners cut through noise, identify the real issue, and choose the one strategic move that creates traction. Drawing from years of experience working inside struggling and growth-stage companies, Stephen delivers practical, high-impact answers, stories and illustrations that move leaders from overload and reaction to clarity, focus, and profitable momentum. He brings the unusual combination of real CEO/VP...

Beth Flippo

Founder & CEO of Dexa: Turning Chaos into Strategy, Not Excuses

Beth Flippo is the CEO and Founder of DEXA and the first female CEO of an unmanned aviation company in the U.S. With a background spanning Goldman Sachs and the Department of Defense, she now leads one of the nation’s few FAA-certified drone carriers, helping redefine the future of delivery through fast, autonomous logistics. Passionate about innovation and entrepreneurship, Beth is focused on building technology that empowers local businesses to compete in today’s on-demand world.

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Beth Flippo

Founder & CEO of Dexa: Turning Chaos into Strategy, Not Excuses

Beth Flippo is the CEO and Founder of DEXA and the first female CEO of an unmanned aviation company in the U.S. With a background spanning Goldman Sachs and the Department of Defense, she now leads one of the nation’s few FAA-certified drone carriers, helping redefine the future of delivery through fast, autonomous logistics. Passionate about innovation and entrepreneurship, Beth is focused on building technology that empowers local businesses to compete in today’s on-demand world.

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Andrew Parr is a UK therapist, trainer and author, practising since 1992, with over 20,000 one-to-one client sessions.

His book The Real You is published by Penguin Life, and he has trained more than 500 practitioners in his own root-cause approach to lasting change.

He's come to see that real transformation is less about anything we typically call therapy, and more about de-hypnotising ourselves from the invisible conditioning we live by.

He's especially good on a question most people have felt but never had answered:

Why we stay stuck even after years of therapy and...

Andrew Parr is a UK therapist, trainer and author, practising since 1992, with over 20,000 one-to-one client sessions. His book The Real You is published by Penguin Life, and he has trained more than 500 practitioners in his own root-cause approach to lasting change. He's come to see that real transformation is less about anything we typically call therapy, and more about de-hypnotising ourselves from the invisible conditioning we live by. He's especially good on a question most people have felt but never had answered: Why we stay stuck even after years of therapy and self-help, caught struggling with something that feels...

Lintao (LT) Lu is a global business executive, engineer, entrepreneur, and author. He is the founder, President, and CEO of NAVAC Inc., a New Jersey-based company specializing in HVAC tools, instruments, and industrial vacuum technology. Under his leadership, NAVAC has grown into an international brand known for innovation in the HVAC industry.

He was born in a rural fishing village in China during the Cultural Revolution. According to his published biography, he overcame poverty to become the first person from his village to attend university. He later earned a doctorate in France, became fluent in multiple languages...

Lintao (LT) Lu is a global business executive, engineer, entrepreneur, and author. He is the founder, President, and CEO of NAVAC Inc., a New Jersey-based company specializing in HVAC tools, instruments, and industrial vacuum technology. Under his leadership, NAVAC has grown into an international brand known for innovation in the HVAC industry.

He was born in a rural fishing village in China during the Cultural Revolution. According to his published biography, he overcame poverty to become the first person from his village to attend university. He later earned a doctorate in France, became fluent in multiple languages, an...

Philip Ganz

President at Next Wave Mortgage

Phil Ganz is the founder of Next Wave Mortgage, based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. With over 25 years of experience and more than $1 billion in personally closed loans, he’s a seasoned mortgage professional serving residential clients across multiple states. Phil also specializes in nationwide lending solutions for real estate investors, offering DSCR loans in all 50 states to help investors scale their portfolios without relying on personal income verification.

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Philip Ganz

President at Next Wave Mortgage

Phil Ganz is the founder of Next Wave Mortgage, based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. With over 25 years of experience and more than $1 billion in personally closed loans, he’s a seasoned mortgage professional serving residential clients across multiple states. Phil also specializes in nationwide lending solutions for real estate investors, offering DSCR loans in all 50 states to help investors scale their portfolios without relying on personal income verification.

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Pamela Downes

Pamela Downes, multidimensional soul-body healer, trance channeler, and spiritual guide.

Pamela Downes is a multidimensional soul-body healer, trance channeler, and spiritual guide who works directly with the Great Council of Light to support humanity’s awakening. She helps people clear soul-level imprints, reconnect with their inner guidance and remember who they truly are beyond conditioning, trauma and past life patterns.

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Pamela Downes

Pamela Downes, multidimensional soul-body healer, trance channeler, and spiritual guide.

Pamela Downes is a multidimensional soul-body healer, trance channeler, and spiritual guide who works directly with the Great Council of Light to support humanity’s awakening. She helps people clear soul-level imprints, reconnect with their inner guidance and remember who they truly are  beyond conditioning, trauma and past life patterns.

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Jake Shannon

Stop Owning a Job: How Founders Build a Company That Runs — and Sells — Without Them

Our guest built his career on a brutal question every founder eventually has to face: if you stepped away for 30 days, would your business grow — or would it stall?

He's a two-time 10X Performance Coach of the Year and the founder of No1 Coaching, where he installs operating systems that turn founder-led chaos into companies that run, scale, and sell without the owner glued to the controls. As Chief Data & AI Officer for the 10X Performance Coaching Progra...

Jake Shannon

Stop Owning a Job: How Founders Build a Company That Runs — and Sells — Without Them

Our guest built his career on a brutal question every founder eventually has to face: if you stepped away for 30 days, would your business grow — or would it stall? He's a two-time 10X Performance Coach of the Year and the founder of No1 Coaching, where he installs operating systems that turn founder-led chaos into companies that run, scale, and sell without the owner glued to the controls. As Chief Data & AI Officer for the 10X Performance Coaching Program, he's a...

Alan Cordano

Alan Cordano has a story that immediately captures attention: he walked away from the opportunity to play Division I football at the University of Hawaiʻi Athletics to pursue entrepreneurship and trading full-time. Instead of following the traditional path, he bet on himself, built his own business, and recently generated over $100,000 in a single month through trading and entrepreneurship. His journey is a powerful example of conviction, risk-taking, and choosing an unconventional route to success. Alan speaks candidly about the mindset required to leave a dream that most people spend their entire lives chasing, how h...

Alan Cordano

Alan Cordano has a story that immediately captures attention: he walked away from the opportunity to play Division I football at the University of Hawaiʻi Athletics to pursue entrepreneurship and trading full-time. Instead of following the traditional path, he bet on himself, built his own business, and recently generated over $100,000 in a single month through trading and entrepreneurship. His journey is a powerful example of conviction, risk-taking, and choosing an unconventional route to success. Alan speaks candidly about the mindset required to leave a dream that most people spend their entire lives chasing, how h...

Joshua Davidson is the co-founder and CEO of Night Zookeeper, an award-winning education program that's reimagining how children aged 6–12 learn to read and write. What started as a creative storytelling project has grown into a beloved online program used by hundreds of thousands of kids and educators around the world — blending imaginative gameplay with real literacy skill-building.

Joshua is passionate about the intersection of creativity, technology, and education, and has spent over a decade building tools that make learning genuinely fun. Whether he's talking about the future of edtech, raising kids in a screen-heavy world, or what it real...

Joshua Davidson is the co-founder and CEO of Night Zookeeper, an award-winning education program that's reimagining how children aged 6–12 learn to read and write. What started as a creative storytelling project has grown into a beloved online program used by hundreds of thousands of kids and educators around the world — blending imaginative gameplay with real literacy skill-building. Joshua is passionate about the intersection of creativity, technology, and education, and has spent over a decade building tools that make learning genuinely fun. Whether he's talking about the future of edtech, raising kids in a screen-heavy world, or what it really take...

Bailey Kochis

Empyre Tax Pros LLC CEO

Bailey Kochis is the Founder and CEO of Empyre Tax Pros LLC, a trusted tax service firm dedicated to helping individuals and business owners navigate their finances with clarity and confidence. With a strong commitment to simplifying the tax process, Bailey built the company on the principles of accuracy, transparency, and client-first service.

Driven by a passion for financial empowerment, Bailey specializes in delivering reliable, stress-free tax solutions that help clients maximize their refunds while staying fully compliant. Under Bailey’s leadership, Empyre Tax Pros has become kn...