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WINNING BUSINESS: Karie Cowden with Connect the Dots Promotions

November 16, 2017 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

WINNING BUSINESS: Karie Cowden with Connect the Dots Promotions

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WINNING BUSINESS: KARIE COWDEN WITH CONNECT THE DOTS PROMOTIONS

We are pleased to introduce you to Karie Cowden, President and Founder of Connect the Dots Promotions. Karie has a totally fun business where she provides businesses with awesome products that create a memorable experience around their brand. Listen in and hear what has made Karie successful and winning at business!

Karie Cowden is the Founder and President of Connect the Dots Promotions and has extensive experience working with local and national clientele across all industries. She has sold every promotional product known to mankind in her over 22 years in the industry. Karie has worked in all aspects of the promo business including a 6 year stint with the Phoenix Suns and AZ Diamondbacks. In those many years she has developed extensive experience, industry knowledge, wonderful partnerships and strategic relationships. In 2008 she was the youngest person to be voted on to the Board of Directors for the Promotional Products Association International, by her peers. In 2009 she figured she knew enough to run her own company and hasn’t looked back. Karie is married with two beautiful daughters and one black lab named Betty.

602-944-5592
CTDPromotions.com
Connect the Dots Promotions on Facebook
Karie on Twitter
Karie on Linkedin

ABOUT WINNING BUSINESS RADIO

What sets a successful business apart from those that fail? 80% of new businesses will fail in the first 18 months, and that statistic is not okay. Winning Business Radio connects you with business owners who are winning at business, and gives you insight into their successes, their challenges, and their strategies for winning. Tune in for some amazing discussions!

ABOUT YOUR HOST

Lisa Rehurek, the #1 leading authority on winning RFP responses, is CEO and founder of Win The Business™, a Consultancy and RFP Support Services Firm that helps businesses increase their success rate in responding to government and corporate Requests for Proposal (RFP’s). Our multi-touch point system provides RFP support services, strategy, consulting, training and team development to companies who wish to improve their response process and outcomes. The thoroughness our team provides coupled with our direct and fun approach is what separates us from our competitors. We are also home of RFP University™, an online virtual training and resource platform designed to support a business’s RFP efforts for maximum success.

After 20 years in the corporate arena responding to hundreds of public sector RFPs, Lisa started her own business and now transfers that knowledge to her clients to help improve their win rates. Lisa keeps herself very busy with life as a business owner, speaker, trainer, author, and radio show host. As a seasoned speaker, Lisa loves to inspire audiences large and small with her engaging and practical speaking topics. She is the author of 7 books including her ebook, 101 Ways to Win More Proposals Now! and her upcoming book, Win the {Damn} Business!. She is also the creator of the STARR Proposal System™ which brings simplicity and efficiency to the overall response process.

Lisa is a member APMP (Association of Proposal Management Professionals) and is Membership and Program Chair for the Valley of the Sun chapter. She is also a WBENC-certified Women Business Enterprise (WBE). She holds certifications in numerous talent assessment tools including Certified Professional Behavior Analyst (CPBA), Certified Professional Driving Forces Analyst (CPDFA), Certified Professional Emotional Quotient Analyst (CPEQA), and Certified Professional TTI TriMetrix HD Analyst (CPHDA).

LisaRehurek.com

Ines Piquet, Photographer Specializing in Women Magazine-Inspired Portraits

November 9, 2017 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

Ines Piquet, Photographer Specializing in Women Magazine-Inspired Portraits

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INES PIQUET, PHOTOGRAPHER SPECIALIZING IN WOMEN MAGAZINE-INSPIRED PORTRAITS

Ines Piquet fell in love with photography while taking a photojournalism class, and this happened twice, back in Rio, where she is from, during college in the 80’s; and in LA, when Ines was taking broadcasting classes at UCLA, a decade later. This second time got her hooked for good. She has been taking pictures since the late 90’s and started doing it professionally early 2000’s; but back then, only on a part-time basis.

Ines had a very nice job and doing photography on the side allowed her to choose the jobs she wanted to take. Ines is a black and white film photographer, who used to love getting lost in a darkroom with all those chemicals and tools. Naturally, when things turned digital she had a hard time adjusting. Photography has always been a huge passion of hers and this year Ines not only unleashed the courage to do it full-time, she also started a new genre: women magazine-inspired portraits.

This is something, fun and Ines is still in the process of building a folio. She love everything about it, from planning the shot, to shooting, to delivering the images during the viewing session. Making women feel beautiful is the greatest job ever!

www.inespiquet.com

Ines Piquet with Phoenix Business Radio Host, Karen

Mike Allen with Midas Financial and Jacqueline Moore with Opendoor

November 9, 2017 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

Mike Allen with Midas Financial and Jacqueline Moore with Opendoor

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MIKE ALLEN WITH MIDAS FINANCIAL AND JACQUELINE MOORE WITH OPENDOOR

Army Veteran (2001-2005) and 12 years in pharmaceutical sales, Mike Allen brings a unique perspective to Midas Financial. Desiring to start his own business and leave the W2 employment, Mike sought to finance a franchise that he and his wife, Ashlee, wanted to purchase with the assistance of the SBA. They soon become frustrated with the SBA Lending/funding process due to its long time frame and restrictions. Becoming discouraged during his search for business funding, Mike was connected with Midas Financial. Midas Financial attained for Mike $275K in 0%, revolving, lines of credit for the business purchase in about 3 weeks.

In business, there is always one constant…the need for capital. As a business owner or Entrepreneur, you know that the life of your business hinges on cash flow. Either to grow or remain solvent. Most business owners don’t fit perfectly within the guidelines mandated by a bank. The Midas Financial team knew there had to be a better way, and that’s why they decided to establish their unique company.

The Midas Financial Company was founded in 2004 by Darrell Hornbacher, the company’s current President. Since then Midas has obtained over $1,000,000,000 for business owners. They’ve also built the business credit of over 2000 companies, created over 2500 corporate entities and fixed the personal credit of over 35,000 individuals. Midas Financial is an A+ rated Better Business Bureau company with over 40,000 successful client interactions. Midas Financial makes the process of obtaining capital simple and hassle free.

Mike Allen
Managing Partner
Direct: 309-212-6579
1-833-MIDAS33 ext. 2
Mike@midas-financial.com
MIDAS-FINANCIAL.COM
https://www.facebook.com/MidasFinancial/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelatmidas/

Jacqueline Moore has been in the real estate industry for over a decade. For the past two years, Jacqueline has served as Vice President of Real Estate and Community Development in Opendoor‘s Scottsdale office. During that time, the company tripled employee headcount and nearly tripled home transactions. Prior to Opendoor, Jacqueline was Vice President of Operations at HomeSmart Real Estate where she managed real estate sales volume of $5.2B. Jacqueline attended Grand Canyon University.

Moving is one of life’s most overwhelming events, often causing months of stress and uncertainty. We started Opendoor in March of 2014 with a mission to simplify home buying and selling. Since then, thousands of homeowners have bought and sold homes with Opendoor. Opendoor empowers you with the freedom to move whenever you want, on your terms. If you’re selling, we can buy your home at a competitive price in days, eliminating the hassle of showings and months of uncertainty. If you’re buying, we make it incredibly easy for you to find and purchase the perfect home. Wherever you are in your home journey, a dedicated Opendoor expert will guide you every step of the way.

Jacqueline Moore
Vice President of Real Estate and Community Development
480-351-6622
www.opendoor.com
https://www.facebook.com/OpendoorHQ/
https://twitter.com/Opendoor

WINNING BUSINESS Aandra Bohlen Soulful Selling Techniques That Work

November 9, 2017 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

WINNING BUSINESS Aandra Bohlen Soulful Selling Techniques That Work

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WINNING BUSINESS AANDRA BOHLEN SOULFUL SELLING TECHNIQUES THAT WORK

Aandra Bohlen, 6-figure entrepreneur, business consultant and certified empowerment coach, helps seasoned, new, and aspiring business owners cultivate grit, clarify their ideas, and bust limiting beliefs so they can create and maintain the business and life of their dreams.

With 27 years of award-winning experience at Fortune 500 companies, Aandra is the creator of multiple online sales programs to teach online business owners how to become more profitable using soulful selling techniques. I can personally attest to her badassery because she has personally coached me in my selling skills. If you are a small business owner, you do NOT want to miss this one.

www.aandrabohlen.com
https://www.facebook.com/aandra.bohlen/
Twitter @AandraBohlen
Instagram.com/aandrabohlen/

ABOUT WINNING BUSINESS RADIO

ABOUT YOUR HOST

LisaRehurek.com

Zoltan Kemeny with Global Air Cylinder Wheels and David Mersky with IMBUTEK

November 8, 2017 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

Zoltan Kemeny with Global Air Cylinder Wheels and David Mersky with IMBUTEK

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ZOLTAN KEMENY WITH GLOBAL AIR CYLINDER WHEELS AND DAVID MERSKY WITH IMBUTEK

36 years ago, Zoltan Kemeny escaped from the then communist Hungary, where he was teaching engineering for 10 years in the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He built apartments in Catalan land in Spain for 2 years. Ever since he lives in the Phoenix metropolitan area, where he built hotels, bridges, freeways and explosion resistant structures. He is a serial inventor with over 200 patents. He owns and manages several small businesses and consults and advises several others. His seismic isolators for data centers are standard virtually all seismic countries of the world. He currently develops and markets air suspension wheels for mining trucks, wheel loaders and other equipment.

http://globalaircylinderwheels.com/

Zoltan A. Kemeny, PhD
Structural Dynamics Cons. Eng. Co.
Toll free/Voice: 888-588-0999 Ext 1

David A. Mersky , earned his Bachelor of Science in Marketing from the prestigious Stern School of Business at New York University.

Upon graduation he was accepted to Brooklyn Law School, where he received his Juris Doctor degree. David practiced commercial litigation as a trial lawyer in the greater New York City area prior to relocating to Arizona where he had an opportunity to explore the payment processing industry. David expanded into other financial services products and forged cross-marketing partnerships. Mr. Mersky is now taking his experience into the public marketplace as the CEO of Sibannac, Inc. (OTC:SNNC), a fully reporting, publicly traded company based out of Phoenix, Arizona.

The company, soon to be renamed IMBUTEK (www.imbutek.com) is pursuing private companies with developed concepts or products that are proprietary and are at or near revenue production. IMBUTEK seeks to arrange financing to bring these business models and brands to the public marketplace, where entrepreneurs will have greater access to capital by providing investors with increased valuation and flexibility to exit through the market. In addition, the company will provide a shared services platform, offering legal, accounting, HR and compliance services so that founders can focus on day to day operation to grow their businesses.

http://imbutek.com/
CEO@imbutek.com

TONI&GUY with the Watkins Brothers

November 8, 2017 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

TONI&GUY with the Watkins Brothers

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TONI&GUY WITH THE WATKINS BROTHERS

Gerry Watkins started doing hair at age 13 as a bootleg barber in Dayton Ohio. His sons have followed and as a right of passage, they all began cutting hair in their teens. Now in their 20’s, the Watkins brothers are known throughout the metro Phoenix area as styling pros. With incredible wisdom and a laid back vibe, these men are a true joy to be around. Meet Caleb (28), Adam (27) and Dominque (23) an impressive and inspiring group of professionals who clearly love their clients and the industry they serve. The Watkins family owns and operates two TONI&GUY Salons, one in Old Town Scottsdale and the other at Arrowhead Towne Center.

TONI&GUY originated in London and has been in business over 50 years. TONI&GUY were the creators of Bedhead products. They are known for two things (1) world class educated hairdressers (2) spotlight customer service. The Watkins family still travels to London, California and New York for training. Many of their cuts & color are classic in style; but, they are also known for giving clients the most fashion forward looks from London to New York. Customer Service is all about a great consultation – creating personalized hairstyles that fit client’s lifestyle and facial features. The team at Toni&Guy has perfected these consultations, making sure that no matter how many times you’ve been with your stylist, each time you are back to the salon, the conversation is fresh and new resulting in the look you desire. They book cuts for one hour and detail our cuts after they are dry. Their colorists offer a wide range of services. Anything from covering gray to creating gray hair. From a tint retouch to a beautiful balayage. From natural color to pinks, purple, green to many shades of blues.

TONI&GUY Old Town
7029 E 1st Ave
Scottsdale, AZ 85251
(480) 787-5501

TONI&GUY Arrowhead Towne Center
7700 W Arrowhead Towne Center
Glendale, AZ 85308
(623) 800-7965

https://www.toniguy.com
https://www.facebook.com/TONIGUYOldTown/
Instagram @toniguy_oldtown

Don’t Be A Chump! Check for a Lump!

November 4, 2017 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

Don't Be A Chump! Check for a Lump!

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Don’t Be A Chump! Check For a Lump! with Founder and CEO, Holly Rose and Business Development Manager, Desire’e Hardge

Don’t be a Chump! Check for a Lump! is celebrating 8 years as a proud Arizona Local 501c3 Non-profit. Their mission is to make a difference in the fight against breast cancer through education, prevention, direct assistance with free wigs, mammograms and treatment in Arizona.

CEO Holly Rose founded the organization after her long and intensive battle with breast cancer at the age of 38. She witnessed and experienced the lack of support and information on breast cancer and breast health in general, which brought about depression coupled with hopelessness and isolation, at the most vulnerable time in her life. With two small kiddos and a husband, Holly vowed to herself that she was not going to allow this cancer to consumer her life, nor take her from her babies. From her trials and tribulations birthed Don’t be a Chump! Check for a Lump! in 2010. For Holly it’s about empowering women and young girls to take charge of their lives through education, prevention and awareness. Also, to help support those who are battling breast cancer, and to let them know that they are not alone and they do not have to go through it alone. That is why Don’t be a Chump! Check for a Lump! goes out into communities and offers free mammograms, education and prevention, custom wigs and direct assistance. Because they believe that one’s health is priceless, and women should never have to choose between health or mortgage/rent etc., and awareness is power.

Over the past 7 years this organization has provided over a 1,000 custom wigs to women that are currently undergoing chemotherapy, at a cost of $250 (free of charge) and averaging one client per day. They have provided over 85 mammograms, since 2015 and over 30 women in follow-up care (diagnostic testing recommended including ultrasounds and biopsy). And have outreached to tens of thousands through their annual magazine, presentations and comprehensive workshops.

Together we can make a difference in the fight against breast cancer!

Don’t be a Chump! Check for a Lump!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igCGMDWqPLc

Client Testimonies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPLnN4A6KN4

Don’t be a Chump! Check for a Lump!

13809 N. 19th Ave
Phoenix, AZ 85023
IRS: 27-4626148

Website – www.checkforalump.org

Twitter – Hollyrose@checkforalump

Facebook- Don’t Be a Chump! Check for a Lump!

LinkedIn – Holly Rose or Desiree Hardge

BEST OF HEALTH with Barb Regis and ASK THE PA

November 3, 2017 by Karen

Best Of Health

BEST OF HEALTH with Barb Regis and ASK THE PA

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BEST OF HEALTH with Barb Regis and ASK THE PA

A Physician Assistant (PA) with passion for great care and advocacy, Barb Regis aims to empower you with tools and information to obtain optimal heath and wellness – Just Ask the PA!

Barb is a caring provider who strives to help every patient feel comfortable, understood, and fully prepared to accomplish their ideal health. She believes in the power of compassionate care with a team approach, and is always open to questions and communicating without judgment.

Because of these values she started Ask the PA in 2013 with the goals of empowering patients and families to realize a better health care experience. Whether it is a medical question, second opinion, provider recommendation, services to obtain better care and save money she strives to empower you as your advocate.

Barb has been a primary care provider for nearly 20 years with extensive management experience as a business owner of two family practices for 14 years. Barb also is an adjunct professor for the Northern Arizona University PA program. She attended the Arizona School of Health Sciences, is certified by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants, and is a fellow member of the American Academy of Physician Assistants.

Barbara continues to maintain an active lifestyle that includes running, biking, swimming and participating in endurance activities with the goal of achieving better health and mental clarity. She loves spending time outdoors, whether walking or running along the beach, or hiking with friends and family in the desert.

For more information about Ask the PA and to connect with Barb:

AskThePA
MedicalSector.Org
Instagram: barbaskthepa
Linkedin: Barbara Regis PA-C
Twitter Ask the PA @barbaskthepa

High Stakes Mastermind

November 2, 2017 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

High Stakes Mastermind

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High Stakes Masterminds ™ is for business owners and entrepreneurs who understand the power of having a team of highly-productive and accountable people around them to help them achieve their goals.

These groups act as peer advisors/board of directors for each of its members. High Stakes Masterminds ™ creates a high-functioning and fun, team environment. They eliminate the isolation that so many solopreneurs experience by generating support and creating the opportunity to inspire, achieve and master goals through shared expertise.

Stephanie Angelo is the Chief Focus Officer of High Stakes Mastermind ™ Groups serving a wide range of industries, from marketers, designers, financial planners, and physicians. Like an architect for business, Stephanie helps entrepreneurs and business owners grow and build their enterprises.

Stephanie has a unique knack for connecting people and creating collaborative relationships that result in quantifiable growth. As a collaborative match-maker, she’s sought out for mastermind group membership so people, and their business, can benefit from her skills. Besides, there is always something exciting “up her sleeve”!

For fun she likes to do just about anything that allows her to be outdoors. She used to fly single engine aircraft. But hiking and bike riding is much more affordable!

Joining Stephanie for this interview are a few of her Scottsdale High Stakes Mastermind Members: