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Lisa L. Levy is the Founder and CEO of Lcubed Consulting, a business that helps organizations elevate through strategic goal achievement. She and her team teach the Adaptive Transformation™ framework to savvy business leaders who want to build agility into their operating model to continuously Adapt and Thrive! She is the #1 bestselling author of Future Proofing Cubed. Lisa is frequent guest expert on multiple media outlets, and speaker at business executive conferences. On her rare days off, she enjoys spending time her family and hound dogs.

18 Maalis 202159min

As owner and managing partner of Sun Acquisitions, Domenic RInaldi helps clients buy and sell businesses across a variety of industries. Since 2005 he’s been personally involved in over 300 transactions for businesses with enterprise values of $2 million to $50 million. Recognizing many business owners didn’t understand the full requirements of successful exit, acquisition and scaling processes, he founded K2Adviser. The mission – educate business owners and buyers so they can maximize transaction benefits and minimize transaction risks. Domenic’s an industry-recognized expert who frequently shares his hard-earned knowledge from the stage, in print and over the airwaves – including as host of the popular M&A Unplugged podcast.

15 Maalis 20211h 2min

Chrisa brings over a decade of management and executive level leadership to the Handel Group®. Throughout her career, she has worked on building brands and creating business driving initiatives that have positively impacted sales, profit, and employee retention for large and small companies. As Chief Strategy Officer for Handel Group, Chrisa works closely with leaders from all divisions to ensure that HG is optimally growing and scaling as a company. Her responsibilities span business development to financial operations and marketing. In her role as an executive coach Chrisa leads Diversity and Inclusion Workshops, Culture Transformations, and High Potential Training Programs across the globe. She supports both growing companies and industry conglomerates in designing cultures and structures that lead to increased employee eetention, engagement, and profitability. Her roster of individual clients include an international group of serial entrepreneurs, perennial corporate executives, and established individual contributors that hail from a broad range of sectors including Finance, Entertainment, Fashion, Technology, Non Profit + Government In her one on one coaching, Chrisa leans into her innate creativity, intuition, and sense of humor to offer a personalized approach to help her clients meet their goals. Through an in-depth process, she helps her clients mitigate bad habits and re-balance their priorities. She believes that authenticity breeds confidence and as such she supports her clients in staying true to their values and apologetically honing their voice

11 Maalis 202145min

Jonathan Tuttle is the Founding Director of the digital marketing agency, Revenue Ascend, which was selected as one of Chicago’s most inspiring stories by Chicago Voyage Magazine. They are trusted by small businesses to celebrity brands using their powerful lead generation and conversion systems, omnipresence and intent-based branding, marketing automation and follow up, dynamic call tracking, detailed analytics, along with an unmatched client support.   Jonathan is also the Fund Manager at Midwest Park Capital, a private real estate investment firm providing accredited investors with exclusive access to high yield investment in the mobile home park vertical. Their fundamental strategy is to assemble a diversified portfolio of low risk, high cash flow mobile home park assets with the goal of delivering capital preservation consistent quarterly cash on cash income paired with equity growth. Jonathan previously served as the President of the Midwest for Yale Realty and Capital Advisors. Recently, he was selected as a contributor to Forbes Magazine in the Forbes real estate council and has been featured on over 35 national podcasts. Jonathan was selected by Habitat for Humanity Youth Board as one of the top social media influencers in Chicago. Also, he was selected by the prestigious Crain's Chicago Business and Fox News Chicago as the best dressed Chicagoan. Wanting to create more value, he attended the program on negotiation for senior executives at Harvard Law School. In his spare time, Jonathan gives back to local charities and has sat on numerous Board of Directors to 100% nonprofits.

8 Maalis 20211h 4min

David Somerfleck is a newly-retired digital marketing executive with over 20 years' experience working for marketing and advertising agencies where he served as project manager, helping guide multi-million dollar brands toward increased profitability. David also was a Certified Small Business Mentor off and on for 10 years through the U.S. Small Business Administration where he advised hundreds of small business owners, nonprofit administrations and senior staff, and startups in how to grow their business quicker and easier. Additionally, David was trained in political campaign marketing (called "messaging") by a consortium of The White House Project, the Colorado Department of Education, and the Center for Progressive Leadership - and later went on to advise several political campaigns. David has written for AOL/Time-Warner, spoken to a standing-room only audience at Microsoft, taught social media marketing at Johnson & Wales University, taught workshops for the WordPress Foundation and is the author of The Road to Digital Marketing Profits.

4 Maalis 20211h 2min

The truth is most businesses fail. They don't fail because the entrepreneur isn't working hard enough and they don't fail because they've got bad products or services. Most businesses fail simply because they can't get enough customers. Our guest, Kris Reid, coming to us all the way from Saigon, Vietnam, developed a simple system to get your message in front of your ideal customer to predictably grow your business. And that’s exactly what he is going to share that system with us. Kris has designed and implemented this simple system for people like world-renowned business author Mike Michalowicz, the biggest business podcast on the planet Entrepreneurs on Fire with John Lee Dumas, and Avery Carl, one of the top 100 realtors in the US with over sales of $158 Million in 2020! This proven system is repeatable for any business, in any industry. In fact, Kris is so confident in his system that he guarantees the results! Click here for a link for special info Kris has for our listeners.

1 Maalis 20211h

Kara Goldin is the Founder and CEO of Hint, Inc., best known for its award-winning Hint water, the leading unsweetened flavored water. She has received numerous accolades, including being named EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2017 Northern California and one of InStyle's 2019 Badass 50. Previously, Kara was VP of Shopping Partnerships at America Online. She hosts the podcast The Kara Goldin Show. Her first book, Undaunted: Overcoming Doubts and Doubters, was released October 2020 and is now a WSJ and Amazon Best Seller. Kara lives in the Bay Area with her family. Click here to purchase Undaunted.

25 Helmi 20211h 1min

David Wood quit his career as a Consulting Actuary to Fortune 100 companies, to create the world's largest coaching business. He now coaches rock star entrepreneurs to double their revenue faster, overcome Shiny Object Syndrome, and be a more extraordinary entrepreneur and human. David built the world's largest coaching business, becoming #1 on Google for life coaching and coaching thousands of hours in 12 countries around the globe. As well as helping others, David is no stranger to overcoming challenges himself, having survived a full collapse of his paraglider and a fractured spine, witnessing the death of his sister at age seven, anxiety and depression, and a national Gong Show! He coaches high performing business owners to double revenue, and their time off, by focusing on less. Click here for resources David has for our listeners.

22 Helmi 202150min