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Sarah Panus is a brand storytelling strategist, podcast host of Marketing With Empathy®, and owner of Kindred Speak® consulting. She’s on a mission to make people’s days better by creating useful (and more meaningful) connections between brands and consumers. How? By using the power of empathy+data infused storytelling to improve the lives of content marketing professionals and the people their brands serve. Pulling from 20 years’ experience helping billion-dollar brands drive leading ROI through brand storytelling, she helps content marketers attract top-funnel leads that drive bottom-funnel results. Sarah works with clients by either doing the work for them through her agency services; OR, she trains content marketers how to think like Editorial Directors themselves in one of her online courses.

31 Okt 20221h 2min

Gary Geiman is a serial entrepreneur and business owner. His 30-year career has spanned owning multiple businesses and developing sales and marketing plans to assist other business owners in growing their businesses. Gary looks to help business owners focus on growing revenue with multiple lead sources. Today, Gary owns and operates DMN8 Partners, a digital marketing and consulting company that helps business owners dominate their competition and market. Gary wrote Dominate your market in 90 days: A step by step guide to growing your revenue. Click here to purchase.

27 Okt 20221h 2min

Donald Thompson is CEO and co-founder of The Diversity Movement. He is the author of Underestimated: A CEO's Unlikely Path to Success. Donald is an entrepreneur, public speaker, author, podcaster, Certified Diversity Executive (CDE), and executive coach. He serves as a board member for Easterseals UCP, Vidant Medical Center, Raleigh Chamber, TowneBank Raleigh, and several other organizations in the fields of technology, marketing, sports, and entertainment. Click here to purchase Underestimated.

24 Okt 20221h 1min

Mark Havenner is a marketing and communications strategist with a specialized focus on brand and executive thought leadership, strategic content development, and corporate communications strategies. He has more than 20 years of experience aligning messages with business goals and developing myriad communications vehicles and message strategies for a lengthy roster of clients. He started a consultancy in 2021, focusing on industry leadership communications and marketing.

20 Okt 202259min

Bryan Gillette is a former executive, an ultradistance athlete, and the president and founder of Summiting Group—a consulting firm that helps leaders and teams reach their peak performance. For more than 25 years, he has held senior roles in companies of all sizes, leading teams of hundreds of people and managing multimillion-dollar budgets. Through Summiting Group, he has taught or consulted with leaders all over the world and facilitated executive strategic planning retreats for startups and Fortune 100 organizations. As a lifelong endurance athlete, Bryan has cycled across the US, completed a 300-mile ride in one day, and finished many 50- and 100-mile ultradistance runs. At age 47, he ran 205 miles around Lake Tahoe— that's 8 back-to-back marathons. Now, he is the author of the new book, EPIC Performance: Lessons from 100 Executives and Endurance Athletes on Reaching Your Peak. Click here to purchase EPIC Performance Lessons.

17 Okt 202259min

Former BBC journalist CJ Grace is the author of My Wild Ride: How to Thrive After Breast Cancer and Infidelity, just released in October 2022, a candid comic memoir and cancer survival guide. CJ dealt with the double whammy of discovering her husband’s infidelity and shortly after being diagnosed with breast cancer by refusing to be a victim and keeping her wicked sense of humor. A lifelong Monty Python fan, an eye for absurdity pervades her writing and public speaking work. CJ's humorous self-help book, Adulterer’s Wife: How to Thrive Whether You Stay or Not, was an international bestseller. When Arianna Huffington received a copy, she invited CJ to be a HuffPost contributor. After leaving the BBC, CJ worked as a broadcasting advisor for China Radio International in Beijing, China. She's currently based in the United States. Her mission is to help women transform adversity into opportunity. Click here to purchase My Wild Ride.

13 Okt 20221h

As CEO of Sales Maven, Nikki Rausch has the unique ability to transform the misunderstood process of “selling”. With 25+ years of selling experience, entrepreneurs and small business owners now hire Nikki to show them how to sell successfully and authentically. Nikki has written 3 books, all available on Amazon. And she has a podcast called Sales Maven which you can find on your favorite podcast platform. Click here for a special gift Nikki has for our listeners!

10 Okt 20221h

Michael Haynes is a SMB Business Growth Specialist. He is the founder of his consulting firm, Listen Innovate Grow. His focus and passion are empowering CEOs of Small and Medium sized service-based companies to acquire larger business (B2B) clients and achieve the growth they seek through a combination of strategic marketing, BUSINESS innovation and sales. Michael is also author of the book, Listen Innovate Grow: A Guidebook for Start-Ups and SMEs to Acquire and Grow Business (B2B) Customers. Michael is originally from Toronto, Canada. He is based in Sydney Australia and works with companies globally. Click here to purchase Listen Innovate Grow.

6 Okt 20221h 1min