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Real People, Real BusinessAli Nichols - Partnering to Expand Property OwnershipAli Nichols is the co-founder of Getaway, an innovative real estate financing platform that empowers real estate entrepreneurs with creative financing solutions to build portfolios without taking on restrictive capital. In this episode, you’ll hear how Ali merged her passions into founding a business, the insights she gained along the way that led her to shift business models, why she prefers working with a business partner, and what her plans are for the future to scale Getaway.Ali tells us how she combined two of her passions into entrepreneurship, the...2023-08-0335 min
Real People, Real BusinessWil Reynolds - Playing to Win in BusinessWil Reynolds is passionate about helping people and businesses grow. He’s the founder and CEO of Seer Interactive, one of the most reputable digital marketing agencies in the US, where he helps Fortune 500 companies develop SEO and digital marketing strategies.In this episode, you’ll hear how Wil launched his business after discovering his philanthropic side, how he’s grown Seer into a multimillion-dollar business, and the insights he has gained along the way.Wil discusses the client-centered approach that has helped him stand out and grow his business, why he looks at business like a...2023-07-2842 min
Real People, Real BusinessJame Healy - Thriving Together in Business PartnershipIt’s our 100th episode at the Real People, Real Business Show, and we’re celebrating this milestone with a very special guest. Join my conversation with my longtime business partner, colleague, and dear friend, Jame Healy. Jame is a leading economist and entrepreneur who has spent the last 28 years helping executive leaders from Fortune 1000 firms credibly articulate, align, assure, and accelerate the realization of value from modern capabilities and emerging technology such as cloud services, artificial intelligence, robotics process automation, quantum computing, and others.In this 100th episode, you will hear how Jame went from economics to e...2023-07-1955 min
Real People, Real BusinessCleoniki Kesidis - Forging Connection as a CreativeCleoniki Kesidis is a copywriter and brand storyteller who uses her love of figuring things out and communicating them simply and clearly to help businesses connect with their audiences in a meaningful way.In this episode, you’ll hear how Cleoniki launched her copywriting business by combining her passions, how she uses relationships to grow her business, the importance of knowing your audience as a business owner…and much more.Cleoniki recounts her journey into her copywriting business by combining 2 of her passions, the key action she took to go full-time as a freelance writer, how...2023-07-1243 min
Real People, Real BusinessCrystalynn Shelton - Finding Joy Beyond the NumbersAfter discovering her love of numbers in a high school bookkeeping course, licensed CPA and QuickBooks Top 100 ProAdvisor Crystalynn Shelton launched her corporate career in accounting. With years of experience under her belt, she left the corporate world to start her own consulting business, where she helps businesses large and small take control of their finances.In this episode, you’ll hear how Crystalynn discovered her unexpected affinity for accounting, how she transitioned from the corporate world into her own consulting business, and how she uncovered her true superpower that has helped her scale her business....2023-07-0738 min
Real People, Real BusinessMoira Ni Ghallachoir - Destiny-Driven Business Through SpeakingMoira Ni Ghallachoir is an international business mentor and speaker who helps female entrepreneurs create the impact, business income, lifestyle, and freedom they truly desire by speaking from the stage.In this episode, you will learn how to use speaking to grow your business, how to get started speaking on stage, developing a signature talk, and how to find and book stages to speak on.After moving back home to her native Ireland and launching a travel business, Moira stumbled upon a rare local speaking opportunity where she experienced the power of speaking on stage...2023-06-3035 min
Real People, Real BusinessSebastian Schaffer - Business as a Catalyst for Personal GrowthSebastian Schaffer is the co-founder of dofollow.io, a premium link-building agency he started as a side gig and grew to 7 figures in just four years. In this episode, you’ll hear how Sebastian founded a successful business after initial failures, the business lessons he’s learned and incorporated into his business today, and the personal growth he’s achieved as a result of being an entrepreneur.Sebastian describes the way his early experience running two failed startups has influenced how he runs his business today, what he learned from using investor funding, how he was abl...2023-06-2139 min
Real People, Real BusinessTim Kachuriak - Marketing for a CauseTim Kachuriak is the Founder and Chief Innovation & Optimization Officer at NextAfter, a cutting-edge fundraising research lab consultancy that helps charities, nonprofits, and NGOs grow their digital fundraising.In this episode, you’ll hear how Tim built a for-profit business serving nonprofit clients, how he knew he had found his calling in the nonprofit space, the similarities and differences between serving for-profit vs. nonprofit organizations, and how he’s grown his business to over $25 million in revenue.After starting his own marketing agency, Tim discovered the work he was meant to do - working with nonp...2023-06-1440 min
Real People, Real BusinessDr. Laura Purdy, MD - Disrupting the Status Quo in HealthcareAre you passionate about driving positive change and disrupting the status quo? If so, this is the episode for you.Known as “America’s doctor,” Dr. Laura Purdy is a board-certified family physician and thought leader in digital healthcare who is on a mission to create the change she wants to see by disrupting the healthcare industry.In this episode, you’ll hear Dr. Purdy’s journey from military medicine to entrepreneur and the unique path she has carved out by combining her medical background and business savvy to become a serial disruptor creating positive change in...2023-06-0739 min
Real People, Real BusinessDonna Loughlin - Embracing Your Sliding Door MomentIf you are a believer in the old adage when one door closes, another one opens, this is the conversation for you! Donna Loughlin is the founder of LMG PR, a strategic public relations firm that helps futurists and innovators move their businesses forward by bringing their unique stories to life. In this episode, you’ll hear how getting laid off from a successful corporate career during a recession opened a door of opportunity for Donna that ultimately put her on the entrepreneurial path that launched her public relations agency.Donna recounts starting her...2023-05-2443 min
Real People, Real BusinessAnn Carden - Reaching Serial Success Seizing OpportunityAnn Carden is a strategic business consultant, coach, author, and serial entrepreneur who launched and sold five successful businesses. Today she uses her marketing, sales, and business strategy expertise to help others reach higher levels of success. In this episode, you will hear about Ann’s natural ability to recognize opportunities that took her from stay-at-home mom to serial entrepreneur well before the days of social media and online marketing and how she’s gone on to create her own method for successful business building that she uses to coach others who want to scale their businesses....2023-05-1748 min
Real People, Real BusinessEthan Song - Finding Fulfillment Creating CommunityEthan Song is the CEO of RareCircles, a business he launched to help creators and brands build community in the Web3 economy. He was previously the founder and CEO of Frank + Oak, the apparel brand whose mission was to make fashion more personal and sustainable for a new generation of creatives and entrepreneurs.In this episode, you’ll hear how Ethan left the security of a job to pursue entrepreneurship, launching his first company Frank + Oak, and starting a new business, RareCircles, helping creators and brands build communities in the web-3 economy.Ethan describes launching hi...2023-05-1042 min
Real People, Real BusinessLindy Nowak - Finding Freedom By Keeping It SimpleLindy Nowak is the Founder of Up in a Day™ – a new-to-market website service that is devoted to helping small business owners, entrepreneurs, and independent operators get their website up quickly, within budget, and with minimal effort from them.In this episode, you’ll learn about Lindy’s journey from her corporate career as a creative director in New York, working with big-name brands like L’oreal to starting a traditional marketing agency and transitioning to the productized website design agency she runs today at Up In A Day.Lindy describes the aha moment that sparked th...2023-05-0342 min
Real People, Real BusinessIndus Khaitan - Mastering the Business Side of TechnologyIndus Khaitan is the founder and CEO of Quolum, an On Deck Scale company, that helps companies effectively consume software at scale. In this episode, you’ll hear how Indus went from writing code to launching his own SaaS business, how he educated himself on the business side of technology, and his successes and failures along his journey to developing and launching his SaaS solution.Indus talks about the need he saw with corporate software spend tracking that led to starting his business, the corporate and market factors that created a window of opportunity for his...2023-04-2647 min
Real People, Real BusinessAlyse Maslonik - Paying It Forward as a Mission-Driven BusinessInspired by her own childhood, Alyse Maslonik founded RedefinED Advisors, a development company that raises financial aid for non-public and private schools to give underprivileged children access to quality education and help them break the cycle of generational poverty.In this episode, you’ll learn about breaking generational patterns of poverty, being clear on the energy you need to foster in your business, and how to build a successful mission-driven business. Alyse describes her inspiring personal journey, the unexpected hand-up that changed her life, and how it all led to her starting a mis...2023-04-1941 min
Real People, Real BusinessProjjal Ghatak - Creating a New Category in a Legacy MarketProjjal Ghatak is the CEO and co-founder of SaaS company, OnLoop, creating a new category, Collaborative Team Development (CTD), in a legacy market with a software product that is redefining the way organizations conduct performance management for hybrid teams.In this episode, you’ll hear how Projjal made the leap into entrepreneurship by tackling what he observed to be one of the most disliked processes in human resources, how he invented a new business category, developing and launching a software product, and some of the hardships that come with being a founder.Projjal describes how On...2023-04-1238 min
Real People, Real BusinessNicole Liloia - Forging a New Path in Client SupportNicole Liloia is a small business coach and strategist who helps service providers build multiple income streams and grow their businesses by working smarter, not harder, through her signature Bigger Business Bootcamp and Grow Your Income Mastermind. In this episode, my conversation with Nicole delves into her journey going from a 9-5 to freelance therapist to business coach, the shifts she had to make shifting from helping clients as a therapist to helping clients as a business coach, and how she uses that experience to help service providers grow their business into multiple income streams.Ni...2023-04-0538 min
Real People, Real BusinessRoslyn Ranse - Charting Your Own Course in the Travel BusinessRoslyn Ranse is a travel advisor, business strategist, educator, and mentor who runs a thriving travel business specializing in large international groups and corporate clients. She passionately shares her knowledge with other travel consultants, teaching them how to run and grow a successful travel business.In this episode, you’ll hear how Roslyn took her sales and marketing background, her international travel experience, and her passion for travel, and launched her own travel advisory business. After a rewarding career with a hospitality company that took her all over the world to incredible destinations, Roslyn decided she wa...2023-03-3042 min
Real People, Real BusinessMegan Dowd - Stepping Onto Your Spicy SoapboxMegan Dowd is a brand therapist, business strategist, storyteller, and certified equity-centered coach who helps business owners create a better human connection with themselves and their clients by drawing from who they are and what they stand for.In this episode, Megan shares how she translated her acting chops into business-building skills, the value in finding your internal language to make your external impact, and her approach to creating more human connection in business.Megan reveals that her theater skills were directly applicable to business, how she helped people for free before realizing she should...2023-03-2344 min
Real People, Real BusinessLuis Baez- Moonlighting for Good: Building a Business to Give BackLuis Báez is a sales enablement strategist and coach dedicated to empowering online business owners, B2B professionals, and underrepresented entrepreneurs by teaching them how to scale their revenues and impact by creating and selling high-end offers - all in addition to his full-time career. In this episode, you’ll hear Luis’ unexpected path to becoming an expert in sales, how a simple request for help led him to entrepreneurship, his refreshing and authentic approach to selling, and how he’s building his business on his terms. Luis takes us through his circuitou...2023-03-1533 min
Real People, Real BusinessDr. Amy Beckley - Finding Fertile Ground For Your IdeasProov company founder, Amy Beckley, PhD, invented the first and only FDA-cleared at-home test to confirm ovulation after discovering her own infertility issues were caused by a progesterone deficiency.In this episode you will hear how Amy’s business was born when she invented the original PdG test in her basement so she could help other women, like herself, who were dealing with infertility issues.Amy walks us through the steps she took to start her business beginning with her initial research, creating a minimum viable product, raising capital using crowdfunding, and selling on Amazon.2023-03-0837 min
Real People, Real BusinessAsher Laub - The Business of Being an Independent ArtistAsher Laub is an in-demand violin soloist whose expertise in trans-genre improvisation has led him to performances at high profile venues like Madison Square Garden, Hammerstein Hall, Lincoln Center, the Jacob Javitz Center and across four continents. In this episode, you’ll hear about Asher’s journey into music, how he chose the path of independent artist, the parallels between being an independent artist and entrepreneur, and how he is growing his brand. Asher has been playing the violin since the age of 2 and by age 13 had already performed with the Buffalo philharmonic. He shares how hi...2023-03-0344 min
Real People, Real BusinessVanessa Gabriel - Persevering with an Entrepreneurial MindsetAs an entrepreneur, you go through the highs and lows of business ownership. If you’ve ever struggled with finding the motivation to keep pushing through the challenges, my conversation with Vanessa Gabriel will give you the mindset reframe that will help you persevere. Vanessa is a serial entrepreneur and the CEO and co-founder of Drop Delivery, the technology company that provides the only all-in-one delivery technology solution for delivery companies and retailers in the cannabis industry.In this episode, you’ll hear how Vanessa’s entrepreneurial journey started while she was still in college, how she...2023-02-2241 min
Real People, Real BusinessMelissa Widner - The Changing Face of Founder FinancingIf you’ve ever thought about getting outside capital to fund your business but weren’t sure what your options were or what the process entails, my conversation with Lighter Capital CEO & Heads Over Heels co-founder & chairperson, Melissa Widner, will help answer a lot of those questions. In this episode, you’ll learn about the different financing options for founders and how Melissa is contributing to the expansion of opportunities available, especially for female founders. You’ll gain new insights from Melissa’s years of experience, not only as an entrepreneur, but also from her work in angel invest...2023-02-1542 min
Real People, Real BusinessJeremy Gardner - Serial Success on the Bleeding EdgeJeremy Gardner is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and venture capitalist who has found a great deal of success by diving into the ideas he’s passionate about and staying at the forefront of business and industry from blockchain technology, cosmetics, and psychedelics. In this episode, Jeremy details how he’s always had a natural inclination to try things out which has served him well being an entrepreneur. Yet what you’ll find especially interesting about Jeremy’s story is that his ventures are often on the bleeding edge, with many of his ideas being ahead of their tim...2023-02-0839 min
Real People, Real BusinessJosh Fuller - Overcoming Obstacles By Going All InJosh Fuller is the founder and CEO of Matic Digital, a digital strategy and talent growth agency that he grew to over $1.5M in new business in its first year. Josh shares how he did that while also battling serious health and business challenges that would have made most entrepreneurs give up - but he pushed through and kept going. Building a business is hard work on the best of days, but when you get thrown both personal and business curve balls at the same time, it can be difficult to find the motivation to keep going...2023-02-0150 min
Real People, Real BusinessKen Babcock - Leaving Harvard to Bet On YourselfKen Babcock, along with his 2 co-founders, dropped out of Harvard Business School during the pandemic to launch their business, Tango, a SaaS company that helps users create beautiful step-by-step tutorials of any digital process without the performance art of video recordings. As a graduate student at Harvard Business School with a keen interest in what makes high performing teams tick, Ken and his friends honed in on documentation as a key challenge affecting team performance. Because documentation is something people don’t like to do, given the amount of time it takes and how quickly it can bec...2023-01-2740 min
Real People, Real BusinessTommy Yionoulis - Staying the Course as a Bootstrapped StartupTommy Yionoulis is the founder of OpsAnalitica, a SaaS platform that helps multi-unit businesses manage and measure their daily team activities for more consistent operations. In this episode, you’ll hear how Tommy went from being a “non-techie” guy working in the restaurant business and moonlighting as a standup comedian, to founding his SaaS company, OpsAnalitica. As a business owner, Tommy shares the ups and downs of bootstrapping a software startup and how he finds the motivation to keep going and not give up. You’ll learn from his experience how to leverage automation to free up yo...2023-01-2040 min
Real People, Real BusinessLindsay McMahon - Staying One Step Ahead in a Crowded MarketLindsay McMahon is the CEO of All Ears English and co-host of the All Ears English podcast serving professionals around the world where speaking English is key for their career success.The popularity of podcasting has exploded over the last several years, but back in 2013, ESL teacher Lindsay McMahon, recognized podcasting as an opportunity to teach English as a second language to adults in a new way. After approaching a fellow teacher and friend to start a podcast together, the All Ears English podcast was born and receives 8 million downloads per month.In this episode...2023-01-1838 min
Real People, Real BusinessJen Pelka - Disrupting the Wine Industry with Values-Based BrandingJen Pelka is a co-Founder and CEO with a passion for empowering women. Featuring world-class wines made by women, Jen has used values-based branding to build her business, Une Femme Wines, into the fastest growing sparkling wine brand in the US.After finishing college, Jen began her career working for a hedge fund in New York and thought that was the start of a long-term career. However, she found herself completely taken with restaurants, chefs, and cooking, leading her to accept an internship at a Michelin-rated restaurant. This opened her up to the world of hospitality and r...2023-01-1346 min
Real People, Real BusinessCathy Nesbitt - Worming Your Way Into Business By Solving A Rotten ProblemCathy Nesbitt is a worm advocate and the founder of Cathy’s Crawly Composters, an environmental business specializing in vermicomposting. Cathy helps educate people on how worms can help with waste management by turning garbage into nutrient rich “black gold” soil.Cathy likes to say she wormed her way into business the way that many would-be entrepreneurs do - she saw a problem and came up with a solution. When her home city of Toronto, Canada had a garbage strike that resulted in people lining up for hours to drop their garbage at transfer stations for export to the...2023-01-1146 min
Real People, Real BusinessAndrew Wolgemuth - Diamonds in the Rough - Finding Opportunity in the Most Unlikely PlacesAndrew Wolgemuth is the co-founder and CEO of Wove, a jewelry company that is reinventing the jewelry industry by changing the way couples design and purchase engagement rings.As a US Army Ranger deployed in Afghanistan, starting a business was the last thing on Andrew's mind. But when he discovered a unique need among his fellow soldiers, his willingness to help them led him on an unexpected path to business ownership.When many of his friends serving in Afghanistan needed a way to design an engagement ring while deployed so they could make their dream...2023-01-0537 min
Real People, Real BusinessTahnee Sanders - Marketing for the Real WorldTahnee Sanders is a marketing strategist and copywriter who helps female founders of small to medium businesses communicate their value through their marketing and copywriting so they can charge what their expertise is truly worth and run enjoyable, profitable businesses.Tahnee landed a dream job in journalism right out of college climbing her way up the corporate ladder becoming the editor of a daily newspaper in Australia at just 26.. But after a series of events left her feeling burned out, she and her husband decided to take a break and go on an adventure traveling...2022-12-2937 min
Real People, Real BusinessBecca Rich - Healing Your Relationship With TimeBecca Rich is a holistic time coach & educator who works with female entrepreneurs to overcome struggles with time management that goes far beyond just using the latest productivity tool or time hack. Becca delves deeper to heal many of the limiting beliefs and habits that keep us from spending our time well and living a life that is aligned with what we most want. Becca comes from a family of entrepreneurs who emphasized the importance of hustling and experiencing other cultures through travel. Following her family’s example of hard work, Becca became an engineer an...2022-12-2140 min