The Out Entrepreneur | Bringing Our Whole Selves to Work | Conversations with Leading LGBTQ Bosses

Dr. Aimee Harris-Newon is a double board certified integrative and interventional psychologist, entrepreneur, author, speaker, and master success coach. She's considered an expert in integrative health and believes in a holistic approach-treating the body and the mind. As the founder and director of The Center for Integrative and Functional Health and Wellness, Dr. Aimee Harris-Newon and her team of experts don't just treat symptom...

Anna DeShawn is a seasoned media professional and the founder of E3 Radio, a 24/7, 365 day media production company that amplifies the stories and music of Black, Brown, and Queer folks. When Anna isn’t busy building her business, she dedicates her time to serving her communities. Currently she serves as Board President for Affinity Community Services, a social justice organization serving the nee...

Andy McNeill is a travel and hospitality entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience. He is the CEO and founder of American Meetings, Inc., an industry leading meetings and events agency that produces thousands of live and virtual meetings annually for Fortune 500 clients. He is also the co-host of the Destination Everywhere Podcast, a top travel and hospitality podcast that highlights bucket-list destinations, luxury hotels, loc...

Ed Hellman is an award­-winning filmmaker and music video director. They are Co-Founder of the video production company PUNCH CARD Films, a 100% queer-owned, Certified LGBTBE®, that turns consumer data into short-form entertainment. Their recent project for Thinc Design and ESRT is on permanent exhibition in the Empire State Building. Ed's music videos have premiered on Vevo, The Fader, Blackbook ...

Gena ("Jenna") Jaffe is the Founder of connecting rainbows - a national LGBTQ+ database connecting individuals and families to lawyers who specialize in family formation and estate planning as well as provides fertility resources.  The overarching theme is to start, grow + protect your family.  As a lawyer, mom and member of the LGBTQ+ community, she saw a huge need for this service after learning that so many people struggled to f...

Lizzy Goddard is a UK-based online business strategist and educator for entrepreneurs. Over her five years in business, she’s helped over 9,000 students learn how to do business the easy, fun, and profitable way. She has grown her business to multiple six-figures - all while breaking almost all of the marketing “rules.” She has been featured on multiple podcasts, including The Shift Show and Spinoff Success. She has also served as ...

James, with his utterly impressive 25+ years career, is a beauty maven who is obsessed by achieving absolute perfection. James oversaw several major launches as head of creative services producing the photo shoots and casting for many iconic brands including Clairol, Natural Instincts and REVLON to name just a few. James decided to use his knowledge, experience and talent to help models frustrated...

Luis Báez is a business strategist serving entrepreneurs, service providers and course creators, with a particular dedication to empowering underrepresented entrepreneurs through his training and coaching. He teaches online business owners how to scale their revenues and impact by creating and selling high-end offers — including coaching, masterminds and memberships.  With over 14 years of experie...

Brandi Lai is Founder and Owner of Best Laid Pens, a content strategy, ghostwriting, developmental editing, and consultancy company. Best Laid Pens amplifies the stories of underrepresented and marginalized people who may not have the opportunity to share their thoughts, ideas, and lived experiences. As an out transgender woman, Brandi knows the value of having your story told the way you would tell it to a friend. She founded this...

Mike Iamele is a life purpose expert and brand strategist. He’s helped hundreds of people connect the dots between their lived experiences, passions and skills to find the common threads – threads that explain their subconscious motivations, unique genius, and life purpose. Mike’s also the author of Enough Already: Create Success on Your Own Terms. He’s shared his provocative and vulnerable take on life in dozens of magazines, podc...

Jordyn Pollack is co-owner of Ziggy Naturals based in Austin, TX. His business offers an amazing line of CBD products grown and cultivated in Colorado. The world we live in these days is chaotic, and understandably, as a transgender man, Jordyn experiences a lot of anxiety in certain public situations. He has found CBD products have truly helped him find joy and calm in life. Jordyn shares some of CBD’s benefits, along with some of...

Ashley T Brundage is the Founder and President of Empowering Differences. While overcoming homelessness she began employment at a major financial institution as a part time teller who ascended the ranks to become a National Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion in less than 5 years. Through her book and training company she highlights the 10 key empowering actions that she used to leverage change for her career and community. ...

EB Sanders is a certified career coach and creator of the Career Change with Confidence System. She helps folks just like you think bigger about what they want to show up in the world moving from wondering “what now?” to declaring with confidence “let’s do this!” EB’s specialty is working with creative types in helping them “find their thing.” EB wants you to be happy in your life & career. In her words, “happy…like belting out Bey...

Kirsten Beverley-Waters is a yoga medicine instructor and the founder of Aiiro Wellness. She is also a fitness coach, an LGBTQIA+ motivational speaker, and author. Her new book, Struggle Guru, dives deep into an exploration of personal experience in order to show that our individual struggles are the key to unlocking our life’s purpose. Kirsten’s life work is devoted to helping others cultivate their inner warrior and strengthen th...

Dr. Ali Mushtaq is the founder of Getting Wolfie, a consulting firm that empowers market researchers to inclusively collect data while overcoming personal biases. He deliver his consulting services to also help communities within media, journalism, and even for online content creators like podcasters and youtube channel curators. Ali earned his PhD in sociology from UC – SF and his Masters in demography at UC – Irvine. He is curren...

Dr. Tim Seelig is an author, conductor, singer, teacher and motivational speaker. He is the Artistic Director and Conductor of the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus and the National LGBTQ+ Center for the Arts. Dr. Seelig is a renaissance man, holding four degrees, authoring numerous best-selling books, and singing opera at places like Carnegie Hall and conducting music at the Lincoln Center over the past 25 years. In this episode we d...

Tyler Hall is the founder of Radically Transformed Coaching. As a Certified Health and Life Coach, he is on a mission to help chronic dieters ditch the diets so they can truly live a happy healthy life. Tyler specializes in transformational coaching methods and utilizes those skills to help people overcome their limiting beliefs that may be holding them back from achieving true success. When he's not working on building his busines...

Heather Cox is a business executive, seminar director, public speaker and tireless advocate for diversity. She co-founded Certify My Company after her own frustrating experiences with certifying her own business. This experience opened her eyes to the challenges facing small, diverse businesses. Today she serves as the President of her company helping diverse business owners increase their visibil...

Charlie Vazquez is a storyteller and consultant with over thirty years’ experience as a creative entrepreneur. He has built his business around creation as an author, musician, photographer, cultural producer, and creative writing program director. He studied story craft for over twenty years and has created storytelling programs for the New York Public Library, the New York City Department of Hea...