Patrick Hardy

Susan K. Younger, Relationship Architect, has been working with B.A.N.K.® methodology since 2015, she has combined her wide backgrounds and various roles as leader, manager, author, coach, and trainer to solve problems helping others effectively develop interpersonal communication skills important in both business and in life. The CODEBREAKER AI is a valuable tool with the LinkedIn extension she has worked with since 2019. Susan started with a degree in architecture and worked with architects in Iowa before moving to Dallas to work with a retail design firm. For more than a decade she was the Store Planning Director for Broadway Southwest in Arizona. Returning to Dallas in 1995, she worked with design firms, leading teams building and renovating department stores including Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s. The management of several diverse teams while held to high expectations in various industries has given Susan a depth of experience few business leaders acquire. Her book, Simple Living, Simple Food: Life Lessons Learned Dining with Family & Friends was published in 2013, and she has been a contributing author to five other books on leadership and life. Click here to connect with Susan on LinkedIn.

18 Apr 20221h 3min

Iris Culp is the Principal at IC Growth, a marketing consulting and business growth firm. She has more than a decade of marketing experience and has helped clients double their top line revenue in less than 24 months. Prior to the current focus of marketing strategies for solopreneurs & micro-business owners, she worked professionally as a writer, as well as 20+ years in HR and organizational development. Iris worked in HR leadership roles at American Airlines, Sabre where she led several nationwide initiatives. She earned a master’s degree in adult education and holds multiple HR certifications. Additionally is an authorized partner for Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team ®, and a certified Everything DiSC ® facilitator for leadership and sales. Currently her firm, IC Growth, is focused on helping small business owners leverage the power of LinkedIn to organically grow for a consistent and full sales pipeline. She has developed a signature program in that space titled, “LinkedIn for Business: 6 Weeks from Questions to Confidence”. She describes herself as a “creative analytic” who loves research and data and blends that with a creative twist. She finds it particularly fun to support entrepreneurs who happen to be “fellow introverts” “find an authentic way to tell their own story” and find their ideal audience. In her spare time, she loves to dig in her flower garden, create landscapes, ride motorcycles, and read. Click here to connect with Iris on LinkedIn.

14 Apr 20221h

Shiri Gabriel is a master connector, a global business owner, a professor, a real estate investor, and a career and life coach. She is highly skilled in leading and inspiring individuals and teams to create a better lifestyle and build generational wealth. Shiri is dynamic speaker, trainer, and presenter and she’s great at employing clarity, innovation and humor to deliver effective presentations to diverse audiences. Her 15 years of experience in the corporate world, combined with her certifications in Adult Education, Holistic Narrative Career Training, and Life Coaching, provide a unique understanding of the challenges faced by professionals in creating meaningful connections and building relationships to scale their business and careers. Shiri holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Mass Communications from York University. Click here to connect with Shiri on LinkedIn.

11 Apr 20221h 1min

Jacqueline Grant is Founder and CEO of The Management Academy, LLC, serving entrepreneurs, small and large businesses, providing full-circle business management and marketing consulting and professional development programs to promote personal growth and professional advancement. As a professional trainer, speaker, author, and certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Jacqueline possesses more than 20 years of experience and providing training to the corporate headquarters of Home Depot, Chick-fil-A, Coca Cola, as well as A&TT, Verizon, and HP, to name a few. Jacqueline graduated from Syracuse University with a BA in Psychology and is a graduate of Capella University, with a dual MBA in Project Management and IT Management. Click here to connect with Jacqueline on LinkedIn.

7 Apr 20221h 3min

Special LinkedIn Series Brian Basilico is an award-winning author of the best-selling book It’s Not About You, It’s About Bacon! Relationship Marketing In A Social Media World! He was honored as one of the Top Marketers to Follow in 2018. Brian is an online marketing strategist who brings over 40 years of marketing experience to his award-winning internet marketing company, B2b Interactive Marketing, Inc. Brian is a syndicated blogger, podcaster, and a sought-after guest expert featured in Entrepreneur and Inc., magazines, His show, The Bacon Podcast, was also voted one of Inc. Magazines top 35 business podcasts. Click here to connect with Brian on LinkedIn.

4 Apr 20221h 2min

Anthony Donataccio is in the business of amplifying the well-being of others. After having personally experienced burnout, and the health-related issues that came with it, in 2015, he and his wife made the decision to try something different. Within a month, they had packed up their lives and took off overseas to Europe with only the first six months “somewhat” planned. Nearly six years later, and having visited over 40 countries, he has a very different outlook on life and shares this real-life experience with others to make an impact on people. Now, as a Clarity Facilitator and Mentor, he loves helping overwhelmed, stressed out, and anxious introverts to really slow down, so they can begin seeing more, and begin navigating their life in a way that feels much easier and effortless on a day-to-day basis.

31 Mar 20221h 2min

Erik Jensen is the Co-Owner of Predictive ROI, a 7-figure marketing agency helping businesses monetize their position of authority.  A business owner since age 14, Erik began his entrepreneurial journey via a national juggling business that took him and his brother around the country. Now the Chief Strategy Officer at Predictive ROI, Erik developed the podcasting strategy that made the agency over $2M, which was featured in the book Profitable Podcasting. Click here to receive a free copy of Erik's book, Sell With Authority.

28 Mar 202254min

AirSkirts founder Jim Phelan started his career as a software engineer and CTO. Jim co-founded Stream57, an online webcasting platform, which was sold to West Corp in 2009. Following that successful exit, Jim headed multiple tech startups and served as VP Architecture at West / Intrado corporation. After selling his home in Brooklyn, NY and most of his possessions in 2016, Jim began living and traveling full time in his Airstream travel trailer. AirSkirts was invented to solve a real-world problem Jim faced – how to avoid freezing pipes and wasted energy while camping in cold weather. After using his invention solely for personal use, Jim was asked by other campers and friends to make the product commercially available, and AirSkirts was born.

24 Mar 20221h 1min