Conversations with the Not-So-Famous Achievers

Beth Fisher is an author, speaker, and transformational coach with a passion for helping others overcome adversity. With what she calls a “checkered resume,” Beth helps bridge the gap between making decisions based on what others expect and instead, living life remorselessly, based on who God created you to be. She is a passionate inspirer of people, especially those seeking to understand their true meaning and calling within thei...

STU HEINECKE is a bestselling author, twice-nominated hall of fame marketer and Wall Street Journal cartoonist. How to Get a Meeting with Anyone, which introduced the concept of Contact Marketing, spawned an industry, launched businesses and careers worldwide, and was named one of the top-sixty-four sales books of all time. The American Marketing Association named him the “father of Contact Marketing.”

His latest book, How to Grow...

Marketing and Business Growth Expert for SMB’s, Corporations & Associations

PROFIT PRODUCER: As founder and CEO of Axcelerate Worldwide, Robert's marketing, profit-generating solutions help businesses reach pinnacle success. For over 30 years, Robert has been actively involved in the successful growth and operation of multiple business ventures. He specializes in assisting businesses to realize dramatic increases in sales and profi...

Carlos Hidalgo is a B2B consultant, Life Design Coach, podcaster, author, and a TEDx and international keynote speaker. Over the span of twenty-six years, Hidalgo has held corporate roles, started his own entrepreneurial ventures, served in non-profits and sat on numerous corporate boards.

 

After leading his first agency to three consecutive Inc 5000 awards, Hidalgo made the decision to leave that agency and pursue various entrep...

Josh Elledge is U.S. Navy veteran who became a serial entrepreneur who builds the companies he needs most in the world. In 2014, He launched UpMyInfluence to help entrepreneurs like himself attract the perfect audiences and grow their authority and influence. However, while growing their better-than-PR agency, UpMyInfluence discovered that building 7-figure B2B Sales Systems for consultants and agencies (with zero paid advertising...

Brian Sallee is a known as the Disruptive Techpreneur.  He is CEO for Avorit (www.Avorit.com), an agency that specializes in helping (predominantly technology) companies scale. Brian’s had several successful exits including going from startup to $25bb company in under 10 years via two acquisitions, and knows which levers in the business to pull, in order to gain exponential growth.

 

  Brian also runs www.ModernCasual.com, a luxur...

Mischelle Saunders-Gottsch is the CEO/Founder of Altered Stories Ministry and  Podcast Host of the Altered Stories Show.  She is a wife to Mark, mother to her adult daughter, Tawny, Gigi to Bentley Rose, aunt, friend, speaker, ministry and business leader and is passionate about helping w...

Ty Smith is a highly decorated retired United States Navy SEAL with multiple deployments to the Middle East.  After 20 years of faithful and honorable service in the U.S. Navy, Ty founded CommSafe AI, a technology company that disrupts toxic communication and behavior for large enterprises and the Department of Defense .  Ty completed his Bachelor of Arts degree in Organizational Management from Ashford University and a Master of ...

Robert Lyle Albin was born on January 14, 1941 in El Centro, California.  He grew up in rural Missouri where he attended high school in the small town of Clinton, then worked to pay his own way through college over a seven year period that encompassed studies at the University of Missouri, Central Missouri State University and Missouri Valley College, where he received a B.A. degree in History and Political Science in 1965.

 

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Peggy O’Flaherty is an accomplished entrepreneur, author and community-centric business leader with over 30 years of experience managing and growing female-founded and mission-driven businesses and organizations. Her work has been featured in Forbes, Start-up Hustle, Chicago Inno, Business Insider, Women’s Wear Daily, Modern Retail, and more.

 

In her current venture as the Co-Founder and Chief Community Officer of Mavely, Peggy h...

Troy Helming is a 25+ year clean energy industrialist, executive, inventor & real estate developer. 4 of the companies he founded created solar & wind projects totaling more than $13 Billion of asset value, and added over $30 Billion of economic impact to the U.S. economy. He has had multiple successful “exits” from his companies, is an author, public speaker, a world-class athlete as a professional American Ninja Warrior (invited...

David Fein is an adventurer and entrepreneur. At 16 he became the 2nd youngest person to set foot on the South Pole, built and ran a sailboat charter company, and co-founded a private school. In 1986 he co-founded ValuSource, the leading producer of business valuation software. ValuSource’s was acquired by John Wiley & Sons in 1994 and in 2004 David bought the company back. David is co-founder and head elf for www.thechristmastree...

About Peter J. Burns III

Peter J. Burns III is a serial entrepreneur, who has demonstrated time and time again that he has a keen eye for creating innovative businesses and partnerships.

Based today in Del Mar, California, Burns grew up in a well-established New England family in New Canaan, Connecticut. He was briefly educated at the United States...

Steve’s Nebraska farming roots are deep. He still gets giddy when it rains. And when it hails, he doesn’t worry about his car, he worries about the wheat.  Over the 50 years of his career, he’s held many positions, Divisional Sales Manager for Rockmount Research and Alloys. VP of Marketing and Sales for Nemdaco.  He’s also founded many companies including Vannoy Talent, Verus Global, and The 10 Greatest Gifts Project. These compan...

Kathy is the Integrator at Radial Inc and, quite frankly, one of the main reasons our software brand Traction® Tools took flight. After joining forces with Todd Smart as his executive assistant in 2013, she helped catapult Smart Partners, Inc. into a thriving entrepreneurial company. By that time, Kathy’s love affair with EOS® was a done deal. A few years later when the saucy little startup Traction Tools appeared on the EOS scene...

Coach Michael Taylor is an entrepreneur, author (9 books), motivational speaker and radio and TV  show host who has dedicated his life to empowering men and women to reach their full potential by transforming their lives from the inside out. He knows first hand how to overcome adversity and build a rewarding and fulfilling life and he is sharing his knowledge and wisdom with others to support them in creating the life of their dre...

Arjun Sen is a former Fortune 500 executive, an acclaimed Brand Zen™ and one of the top growth drivers in the Brand and Customer Experience space who has impacted brands to Win Big. At Papa John's, he led the 3,000-restaurant chain to 4-years of record growth. As CEO of ZenMango, he has made big impacts on major Restaurant, Service, Retail, Non-Profit and Sports brands, worldwide. Arjun is an acclaimed author of the book Customer ...

Darryll Stinson is a former Division 1 athlete who battled multiple personal and professional challenges in his youth (including violence, drug addiction, and attempted suicide) and transformed himself into the successful business and leadership coach, two-time TEDx speaker, and best-selling author he is today.  Darryll holds a Bachelor's degree in Integrative Public Relations and has continued his studies under indus...