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Kara Goldin is the Founder of Hint, Inc., best known for its award-winning Hint® water, the leading unsweetened flavored water. She has been named one of InStyle’s Badass 50, Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business, Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs, Fortune's Most Innovative Women in Food & Drink and EY Entrepreneur of the Year for Northern California. The Huffington Post listed her as one of six disruptors i...

Krista Anderson is the founder and CEO of ESSTAR, an international organic food brokerage and distribution company with offices in the US and France. ESSTAR makes healthy snack foods accessible through their “Healthy on the Go” food stations in retail stores across the country. Called to action by a long but victorious battle with stage 2 cancer in 2007, and stage 4 cancer in 2009 when she was given three months to live, Krista bec...

Susan founded PowerUp Leadership, a boutique executive coaching, leadership advisory and consulting firm based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, whose vision is to create more inspired leadership in our workplaces through executive coaching. Susan built her consulting skills in Toronto at the global management consulting firm, Accenture. In 2016 she sold her first HR consulting business, and then spent two years in an Executive HR D...

In 2013, Jeff Brown left behind a 26-year career in broadcasting and launched the Read to Lead Podcast, a show that would go on to become a Top 3 Career podcast in Apple Podcasts and receive, so far, four Best Business Podcast nominations. For nearly 9 years now, Jeff has published weekly interviews with some of the world’s most successful and inspiring authors totaling over four hundred episodes.

The show’s success would eventuall...

Brandon Pelissero is the CEO of Ecolink. His leadership journey with Ecolink began in the 90s and led to him buying the company in 2020. Ecolink supplies environmentally preferred industrial degreasers & solvents nationwide and internationally.

Vital Statistics

0 $ personal debt; able to semi-retire at age 52

1 near death occurrences x lightning strike, frostbite, drowning, falling out of tree

2 amazing daughters, ages 19 graph...

Chris Sizemore is the CEO and founder of Creative Mischief, a branding and marketing agency with a simple belief. If we dream it, we can build it.

An entrepreneurial leader, Chris has earned his reputation for leading brand marketing and strategic initiatives at local, regional, and national levels for start-up and established organizations. Chris’ innovative, strategic focus enables him to identify opportunities and develop relati...

Blake founded Solar Bear in 2015.  His passion is to create a cleaner environment while saving homeowners thousands of dollars in the process.

Solar Bear specializes in solar energy, solar panel installation, a clean means of lowering utility costs for homeowners in Florida, and also provides roofing services.

Get in touch with Blake Ambrester:

Website: https://solarbear.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ba...

Christopher is the CEO of DemandJump and a serial entrepreneur having founded 9 companies, all in different verticals, with exits to companies including Comcast, Time Warner, Motorola and National Water & Power.  Christopher also hosts the podcast 'Page One or Bust'.

Jon is the Co-Founder, President & CEO of Peak Demand Inc., a premier manufacturer of critical components for electrical utilities. He is a former U.S. Navy Nuclear Submarine Officer who made seven deployments during the end of the Cold War.

KEN COLWELL is the author of the Amazon bestseller The Quickstart Guide to Starting a Business. He has been working with startup ventures since 1999 as an entrepreneurship professor, consultant, coach, and entrepreneur. He holds a Ph.D. in Strategic Management from the University of Oregon and an MBA from San Francisco State University. He is currently Dean of the School of Business Administration at the University of Housto...

Geoff Watts is the Global VP of HR at Wilson Sporting Goods. He’s also a runner, cyclist, and coffee addict. Geoff’s favorite book is Legacy by James Kerr, an incredible book about the New Zealand All Blacks and their approach towards not only sport, but life in general.

Dr. Roshawnna Novellus is the founder and CEO of EnrichHER, a financial platform that connects female entrepreneurs with lenders who want to earn a return on their investment while fueling the growth of women-led businesses. Dr. Novellus is a gender equality advocate who believes in economic empowerment and inclusive economic growth. Dr. Novellus holds a PhD in systems engineering with a minor in finance, a Masters of Science in in...

Patrick Leddin, PhD is a Best-selling Wall Street Journal author, speaker, podcast host, entrepreneur, and professor. With a combination of academic, practical, military, and corporate experience, he is uniquely qualified to teach and inspire individuals at all organizational levels to be the leader they are meant to be.

Chaitenya “Chat” Razdan is the Founder and CEO of Care+Wear, a healthwear company changing the way the world looks at and feels about healthcare. Chat left his career as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs to launch Care+Wear, creating products that bridge fashion and function. Care+Wear is focused on helping those inside and outside of the hospital feel more like people.

Brandon Smith is the Founder and President of The Worksmiths, an executive coaching and advisory firm that specializes in leadership development and executive team effectiveness. In addition to working closely with individuals and organizations as an executive coach, consultant and facilitator, Brandon is a sought-after speaker and award-winning business school instructor. Brandon has personally coached more than 1,000 leaders and ...

About John La Valle: One of the World's most respected corporate consultants and trainers, and the co-author of ‘Persuasion Engineering®’ with Richard Bandler.”

Cayla Craft's career and calling in life is helping people. From speaking onstage to audiences of thirty-five thousand people, to producing and hosting the Mommy Millionaire podcast with millions of downloads, to working with clients one-on-one, it is her distinct honor, responsibility, and privilege to teach people how to create a life they love, complete with the relationships, resources, and purpose that make for a vibrant life.

Brandon Laws is Sr. Director of Marketing & Product at Xenium HR. He has a B.S. in Business Management & Entrepreneurship from Western Oregon University and regularly writes on various business, economic and leadership topics. He hosts Xenium’s “Transform Your Workplace” podcast, which has over 650k downloads. Brandon’s passion for self-development comes through on the podcast, as he is a voracious reader and listener of po...

Dominic is a proven architect of business growth. As managing director, he headed up teams that scaled two UK technology service firms from zero to £30M a year in less than 5 years–at Rackspace in Uxbridge and Peer 1 Hosting in Southampton–with Peer 1 achieving $200M globally. Sandwiched between these roles is a sensational turnaround at IT Lab, taking them from 90 days to oblivion and a monthly loss of £65000 to profitable (later ...