Guest: Gerald Leonard: Culture is the Bass

Having a passion for local small businesses, Ken Cook began the development of Prepared Marketing. With dedication and experience, he has successfully grown his company from a one-man operation to a small agency employing a variety of talented workers that continually contribute to its success. In 2018, The Prepared Group was created, shifting the focus from tactical agency services to a comprehensive marketing strategy consulting process.

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Jesson Bradshaw is the CEO of Energy Ogre, an electricity management company that uses proprietary systems to ensure its customers are always getting the best prices on their energy electricity. Energy Ogre has helped over 100,000 Texans save up to 40% on their electricity bills, over $150M since its founding.

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Katie Burkhart is the mastermind behind MatterLogic™, the simple system for running a purpose-driven business and has quickly become one of the go-to experts in the space. She's a serial entrepreneur, keynote speaker, minimalist designer, jargon slayer, and sharp communicator. She synthesizes connections that enable humans to make the most of the time they invest in their work.

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Susanne Mariga is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Tax Coach (CTC), Profit First Professional, and Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA) with over two decades of experience helping clients achieve their financial goals through business and personal tax planning. Susanne is the author of best-selling and Publisher's Weekly Editor's pick, Profit First For Minority Business Enterprises, written in collaboration with Mike Michalowicz, the author of Profit First. Before founding her own firm, Susanne worked at Arthur Andersen LLP, as well as one of the Big 4 firms, KPMG. Combining her industry knowledge with her own experience of growing a small business, Susanne to helps her clients design unique, profit-first based business plans that ensure success and long-term financial stability. Susanne is passionate about helping small business owners and entrepreneurs maximize their revenue and grow their business. She is the host of the Profit Talk Podcast, where she discusses business tips and strategies. She is also the author of Profit First for Minority Business Enterprises. Click here to purchase.

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Gregg Greenberg is currently GM of Media at the C-Suite Network and host of C-Suite TV Insights. Prior to joining C-Suite, he was the lead anchor at TheStreet for more than 13 years. In that position he interviewed CEOs, fund managers, professional athletes, entrepreneurs, and bestselling authors both live and on tape. At TheStreet he hosted ‘The Real Story’ podcast and wrote the widely read column ‘The Five Dumbest Things on Wall Street This Week’. Before becoming the lead anchor at TheStreet, Gregg worked in finance at Lehman Brothers and Fleet Bank. (May they both rest in peace.) He received his MBA at Cornell’s Johnson School and his undergraduate degree in history from Amherst College. Outside of journalism, Gregg wrote and produced the independent film Friends and Romans, starring Michael Rispoli, Annabella Sciorra and Tony Sirico which won the Napa Valley and Boston Film Festivals in 2015 and received three stars in Newsday. He also wrote and produced a trio of off-Broadway plays titled Clemenza & Tessio Are Dead, The Stella and Saps. All three premiered at the New York Fringe Festival and sold out their respective runs. He is also the author of F*cking Argentina & 10 More Tales of Exasperation. Click here to purchase F*cking Argentina.

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Michael Arnold has been a work-from-home entrepreneur for OVER 15 YEARS (talk about experience!) and worked with major corporations including Cox Automotive, Verizon Super Pages, and major commercial finance companies. His journey wasn’t a smooth sailing one as he’s also human like all of us, and he made many mistakes along the way. But he lived to share some wisdom from his own experience to help people on their work-from-home journey and create their own successful actions. He is the author of Slacking Off: A Successful Way to Work From Home, a great resource for anyone working from home. Click here to purchase Slacking Off.

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Gene Moorhead has owned and managed seven businesses throughout his career - six of which have been successful. He primarily focuses on helping independent businesses grow. A majority of his work experience originated from his time spent at a family business buying losing radio stations and subsequently turning them into profitable businesses. Each new acquisition meant a new market with all the challenges of a new business. Gene and his colleagues hired, trained, fired, begged and borrowed ideas to help the stations prosper. Simultaneously, Gene spent time developing advertising for his client companies. After Gene sold his last two radio stations, he ventured out and started an advertising agency of his own. He successfully created a one store marketing test into a national franchise with 105 stores which was eventually sold to a public corporation for a profit. Gene’s agency functioned as an outsourced marketing department for the majority of his clients. While working for different leadership teams, Gene learned first-hand how different companies confront and struggle with all the components of business growth. This interest resulted in Gene reading Gino Wickman’s book Traction®. Within a chapter, he was hooked and instinctively knew that he would be able to help businesses grow more effectively and profitably with EOS. Gene is now one of over 197 extensively and continually trained implementers worldwide.

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Daniel Hodges, JD, is an activist dedicated to assisting others with disabilities and chronic illnesses reach their full potential. While in law school, Daniel founded Peaces of Me Foundation; a nonprofit organization that promotes universal access and inclusion. Daniel’s perspective has been shaped by his experience as a blind man with chronic pain and other conditions. He has spent a lifetime surpassing the low expectations placed before him, and his personal calling is to help others do the same. Click here to learn more about the Peaces of Me Foundation. Click here to learn about Daniel's newest venture, Map Your Path.

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