Profits With Purpose

Derek Volk is the owner of Volk Packaging Corporation, a third-generation family-owned and operated corrugated box manufacturer in Biddeford, Maine. He has been working at Volk Packaging since high school and has been running the company for nearly 30 years. Derek and his wife Amy also founded a contract packaging company, Volk Paxit, in 2021. 

Derek is a Maine businessman, best-selling author, former radio personality, and national...

– Profits with Purpose with Marc Freedman and Yanik Silver Episode 034 with Harrison Tang

Harrison Tang is the co-founder and CEO president of Spokeo, which he created in 2006 with a group of four friends from Stanford University. They envisioned a new way to approach social networks by providing an easy user interface to keep track of friends’ activities online. Since then, Spokeo has grown into a leading people search engine, reco...

Jonathan has been in business financing for 14 years and has helped thousands of entrepreneurs get over $500 million in funds. He founded Integrated Business Financing, a small business lending marketplace that specializes in getting businesses into the best financing programs they qualify for.

From solopreneurs to medium size companies, growing startups to disaster relief funding, Integrated Business Financing helps simplify financ...

Jeff Mains is an expert at turning ideas into enterprises. He has built five companies totaling over $200 million in combined revenue, and four have been acquired by strategic buyers. He is the founder and CEO of healthcare SaaS Intelligent Contacts headquartered in Plano, Texas.

Fanatical about helping entrepreneurs build stellar companies, Jeff is the founder and CEO of SaaS growth accelerator Champion Leadership Group where he me...

Jeremy Ryan Slate is an entrepreneur, media expert, author, CEO, and founder of Command Your Brand. He studied literature at Oxford University and is a former champion powerlifter that helps visionary founders to impact the world and better mankind through podcasting and new media to create trust and opinion leader status. Podcast Magazine just included Jeremy on their 2022 40 under 40 in Podcasting list.

Bessi Graham is an award-winning entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience working with business owners, governments large funding bodies to bring doing good and making money back together. From the grassroots of sitting in the dirt working with business owners and Pacific Islands to the UN headquarters in Geneva. Working with those who have “made it” but haven't found fulfillment, Bessi helps people put their time, talent, and...

– Profits with Purpose with Marc Freedman and Yanik Silver Episode 29 with Marc Freedman

Listen to this latest episode of Profits with Purpose where we do things a little differently this week as Marc discusses the latest amendments to the Employee Retention Credit, Paycheck Protection Program, and Consolidation Appropriations acts and what you need to know as a business owner.

In this episode, Marc discusses:

• Employer Retention...

Jeff Risley is the Chief Growth Officer at Saxum, an issues-obsessed agency delivering strategic campaigns and digital solutions for a changing world. The team at Saxum is unapologetically committed to a better world, and Jeff loves nothing more than helping business audiences make meaningful change within their own organizations through smart and efficient investments in smart marketing strategies and new technologies

Listen to th...

Steve Levine is the CEO of Atmos Air with a mission to bring and restore to every indoor environment possible the same clean and pure quality of air that is typically only found at higher mountain elevations. After a successful career in the commercial alarm business he decided he wanted to do follow his passions and improve health and wellness, so in 2004 he founded the Clean Air Group with a commitment to bring products and techn...

Richard Palarea is the CEO of Kermit, a Baltimore-based healthcare cost reduction and spend management company bringing automation and insight to the high-spend category of implantable medical devices within hospitals and health systems. Since its founding in 2011, Kermit has saved hospitals more than $200 million and manages 40% of the implantable device spend transacting in Maryland. Kermit has been recognized in multiple years a...

Sammy Lyon is a real estate agent and project manager for residential sales and commercial development projects in Los Angeles. Sammy brings over a decade of experience in project management to the field of real estate and loves collaborating with others to think outside the box. Sammy is also the founder of GoodRents, a social impact project investing in buy-and-hold real estate investments and commits 5% of all gross profits from...

As the founder and CEO of The Designers Group, Blima Ehrentreu is an accomplished interior designer that has led more than 100 projects in the last three years. Originally founded in Toronto, Canada and now head-quartered in New York, The Design Group has now expanded with an office in Miami. The Designers Group’s diverse project portfolio spans the residential and commercial sectors, and Inc. Magazine ranked The Designers Group no...

– Profits with Purpose with Marc Freedman and Yanik Silver Episode 23 Beth Shaw

Beth Shaw is the CEO and Founder of YogaFit Training Systems Worldwide Inc. She is the author of four best-selling books on health and wellness. A pioneer in the Wellness, Yoga & Fitness space in North America, and started the global mind-body education school, YogaFit.

Beth is a go-to yoga/mindfulness expert in the media and has been featured in nume...

Give Me A Break: Finding Tax Advantages That Grow Your Business And Giving Back To Your Community

– Profits with Purpose with Marc Freedman and Yanik Silver Episode 22 Julio Gonzalez

Julio Gonzalez, is the founder and CEO of Engineered Tax Services, Inc. and a national tax reform expert. Julio’s focus was to bring specialized engineering tax studies to mainstream America, which historically had only been available to Fortune 500 and ...

Defining Your Core Values To Make Business Decisions Easy

– Profits with Purpose with Marc Freedman and Yanik Silver Episode 21 Todd Miller

Todd Miller has spent his entire career in the metal building products manufacturing industry. He is president of Isaiah Industries, an organization recognized as one of the world’s leading metal roofing manufacturers. Todd is currently Vice President of the MRA (Metal Roofing Association) and a ...

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Using Success to Plant Seeds For A Brighter Future 

– Profits with Purpose with Marc Freedman and Yanik Silver Episode 20 Rotem Eylor

Rotem Eylor is an entrepreneur, forward thinker and the hands-on CEO of Republic Floor, a top-10 manufacturer and distributor of hard surfaces. Rotem has achieved success through hard work, dedication, and the right mindset. From his humble beginnings in a small desert city in Israel, to his years in a...

– Profits with Purpose with Marc Freedman and Yanik Silver Episode 019 David Siegel

David Siegel is the CEO of Meetup, the largest platform for finding and building local community. He has over 20 years of experience as a technology and digital media executive leading organizations through innovative product development, rapid revenue growth, and digital traffic acceleration. Prior to joining Meetup, David was CEO of Investopedia an...

Making Crime Pay: Franchising Crime Scene Clean-Up and Giving Back

– Profits With Purpose with Marc Freedman and Yanik Silver Episode 18 Laura Spaulding

Laura Spaulding is the founder of, Spaulding Decon, the first nationally franchised decontamination service to offer crime scene, hoarding, and meth-lab cleanup throughout the United States. The business was born from a desire to help families in need. While serving as a police offic...