Episodes

Suzanne Evans is a NY Times Best Selling Author that went from secretary to multi seven-figure CEO in just three years. She is known as the "tell-it-like-is", no fluff boss of business building. Her work blends business, strategy, lifestyle, and storytelling in a way that allows people to build businesses that shape the world to be a better place. Along her journey, she has hit the Inc 500/5000 for five straight years, been featured in Forbes, won countless business awards, and wrangled a toddle...

Mandi is the creator of the Scale to Freedom Scalable Service Growth™ model. She leads consulting agency owners to have lives with greater freedom and success. Mandi has consulted with over a hundred consulting agency CEOs. She's helped them immediately free up to 20-50% of their workweek to focus on accelerating profits. Mandi Ellefson talks about how she and her company scale and grow businesses without having to work 24 hours a day, giving us important traits to look out for when trying to s...

Keynote Speaker and Author of "Starting at the Finish Line" is a brain cancer survivor, best-selling author, 3x-TEDx Speaker, and top sales performer in the financial services industry. Matt tells us about his personal and professional journey through becoming a professional speaker, watching loved ones battle cancer, and his own battle with brain cancer. Matt also talks about how his changed perspective on life through his personal experiences also shifted his professional direction as a keyno...

Lee B. Salz is a leading sales management strategist and CEO of Sales Architects®. A recognized expert in sales differentiation, he works with senior executives and business owners across all industries helping their salespeople win more deals at the prices they want. Lee talks about his new book "Sales Differentiation: 19 Powerful Strategies to Win More Deals at the Prices You Want". He also talks about what sales differentiation really is and how to find what truly differentiates you to give ...

Christopher Carr started Farotech in January 2001. Farotech started out as a small web company and it soon grew from just web development to SEO and from there to an award-winning marketing strategy agency that has worked with some of the most prominent names in the Philadelphia area and throughout the nation. Chris discusses the effects of the business landscape in pandemic and shares with us some awesome tips, tools, and tech resources to help optimize your SEO and keep your business producti...

James Taylor - who started his career managing high profile rock stars - is now an in-demand keynote speaker and internationally recognized leader in business creativity, innovation, and artificial intelligence. For over 20 years, he has been advising CEOs, entrepreneurs, educators, governments, and leaders from Silicon Valley to Singapore on how to build innovative organizations, unlock creative potential, and increase productivity. His speaking clients include IBM, Apple, McDonald's, Honeywell...

For 30 years, Steve has brought clarity and innovative analytical solutions to several large corporations (Allianz, Medtronic, Thrivent, 3M). He holds a degree in mathematics and an MBA with an emphasis in nonprofit management; He is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and certified in Strategic Workforce Planning. His most prolific roles included actuarial, capital markets hedging, and workforce analytics. Steve talks about his professional journey in the corporate world and the transition fr...

Danny Iny talks about his new book, "Teach Your Gift", and shares with us how he finds the time to create so much content and some best practices to create effective online courses!

Thom Singer believes that all opportunities come from people. As a keynote speaker and EmCee, he combines a robust mix of actionable content with a high-energy delivery style. He is the author of twelve books on the power of business relationships, networking, presentation skills, legal marketing, and entrepreneurship – and is the host of the popular "Cool Things Entrepreneurs Do" podcast. Thom tells David about how his speaking business started, continuously evolved, and the catalysts of his b...

Voted One of The Top 15 Business Growth Experts To Watch & Top 41 Motivational Sales Speakers, Meridith Elliott Powell is a business strategist, award-winning author, and keynote speaker. She is committed to helping leaders and sales professionals learn the strategies they need to turn uncertainty into competitive advantage. Meridith talks about her journey into the speaking world, diversifying while maintaining specialization, her new book, and keeping your speaking business over water through...

Mark Hunter, The Sales Hunter, returns to The Speaking Show to talk about his new book "A Mind for Sales" and discusses how to keep selling through the pandemic, how it has affected him and offers some fast cash strategies to help get by!

Our guest today helps professionals stay energized, engaged and effective especially during disruptive events. Her keynotes and half-day sessions on Rubber Band Resilience provide methods, tools, and tactics to help professionals stretch without snapping. Kathy holds degrees in Business and Food Management from Miami University (the one in OHIO) a Certification in Plant-Based Nutrition and a coaching certification from WellCoaches. She holds the designation of a professional speaker from the Na...

Jen Croneberger is a widely sought-after 4-time TEDx speaker and compassionate leadership/culture change consultant for corporations, schools, organizations, and teams all over the country and is the Founder and Chief Inspiration Officer of JLynne Consulting Group, LLC. Jen talks about how she navigates her clients through adversities, slowing down, and how she discovered her five words business model!

An entrepreneur since the age of 21, Gino has had an obsession for learning what makes businesses and entrepreneurs thrive. Gino helps entrepreneurs and leaders get what they want from their businesses. Based on his years of real-world experience, he created the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS), a practical method for helping companies achieve greatness. He has personally delivered more than 1,900 full-day sessions for more than 135 companies, helping them implement EOS. He is also the aut...

Mike mi-KAL-o-wits is the author of Profit First, Clockwork, Surge, The Pumpkin Plan, and his newest release Fix This Next. By his 35th birthday, Mike had founded and sold two companies - one to private equity and another to a Fortune 500. Today he is running his third multi-million-dollar venture, Profit First Professionals. Mike is a former small business columnist for The Wall Street Journal and the former business makeover specialist on MSNBC. Over the years, Mike has traveled the globe spe...

Steve Gordon, The Unstoppable CEO, breaks down the networking model he teaches his clients, how he utilizes his podcast as a conversion tool, how to be more referable, and much more!

Steve Martile is becoming known as the most sought-after client attraction copywriter in the digital community. He is known for helping his clients triple their net profits and double their time off by retaining higher paying clients without being manipulative, and without working so hard. Steve shares some tips with us on prospecting and building a following on LinkedIn through content creation and direct messaging. He also talks about why LinkedIn is a great platform for visibility today!

Cathy Paper has emerged as one of the Twin Cities most connected people. "Six degrees of Cathy" is often used when two people make a connection. Her incredible skills at helping executives find their voice – either for a book or a speech – make her an invaluable resource. Cathy creates authentic relationships through 1:1 coaching and group facilitations. Many of us have been thinking about networking all wrong! Cathy is here to help with that by walking us through how we should approach our net...

For the past two decades, Charlene Li has been helping people see the future. She's an expert on digital transformation, leadership, customer experience and the future of work. She's the author of six books, including the New York Times bestseller, Open Leadership and co-author of the critically acclaimed book, Groundswell. Her latest book is the bestseller The Disruption Mindset. She is the Founder and Senior Fellow at Altimeter, a disruptive analyst firm acquired in 2015 by Prophet. Named one ...

The 60-Second Marketer joins us and talks about staying ahead of your topics and trends, some great examples of SEO hacks, how the 60-second model actually backfired with Google and shares some ways to grab and maintain your prospects' attention!

Meny Hoffman is the CEO of Ptex Group, an award-winning branding, and marketing agency headquartered in Brooklyn, NY. A lifelong entrepreneur, passionate about creating winning strategies that help growing businesses flourish, Meny has been successfully helping brands grow and thrive since 2001. Meny talks about building an agency that offers multiple services, how they offer each service effectively, what a brand truly is, and his focus on core values!

Peter Sandeen is best known for creating marketing messages that make people immediately feel, "that's perfect for me." He's often called "the marketers' marketer" because over half of his clients are other marketing experts who want to see their own blind spots and make sure they're focused on what matters most. Peter Sandeen shares some tips on copywriting and sales pitches that resonate with a tailored feel to each of your clients! Peter also talks about how important it is to establish tran...

Wayne Mendezona is a renowned motivational speaker, mental toughness mindset coach and the author of his new book "Maximizing Your Results". He is also the proud business owner of Quick Handle Basketball for the past 26 years. His basketball training program features camps, clinics, individual and group training along with mental toughness work sessions and classes. His diversity and success both in speaking and training accomplishments has delivered proven results in numerous states and countri...

Melanie Benson, Profit Amplifier, guides expert-preneurs on how to STAND OUT in a crowd and exponentially increase revenues by leveraging their Unique Profit Amplifier. The Profit Amplifier joins us to share with us her process of amplifying profits for entrepreneurs and experts through overcoming mental roadblocks, creating strategies for scaling business, and simplifying offerings! She also talks about her transformation journey from being another run-of-the-mill coach to the Profit Amplifier...