James Barber/Training of Champions
Training of Champions offers training classes, motivational speaking and keynote speaking for companies of all sizes. They can train on various topics such as traits of champion networkers, effective communication, customer service and a plethora of business dynamics.
Ari is a keynote speaker, wilderness liaison, podcast host and more. Ari worked previously in branding, marketing, and web design for more than ten years. As an award-winning international speaker, Ari is now connecting with audiences all over to inspire happiness and spark creativity. Ari enjoys family time, anything outdoors, cycling, rock climbing, yoga and more.
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RHINO NATION Phoenix Speaking Academy with David Bryson and Ken Adams
On this episode, Rhino Nation host Michelle Faust has an engaging and spirited discussion with Ken Adams and David Bryson, Co-Founders of Phoenix Speaking Academy. Join in the fun of learning about breathing techniques, voice preparation, and where NOT to put your hands. Studies show that great presentation skills can increase your salary as much as 10%. You can’t afford to miss this one.
Phoenix Speaking Academy was founded to simply take the fear, anxiety and uncomfortableness out of speaking to people. We operate from one on one clientele to large group sessions of 1/2 day, full day and 2 day seminars. We have helped small businesses and individual speakers get over some of the hurdles holding them back. PSA works to take the “um’ out of your speech. This may be when you speak one on one to somebody or to large crowds of 100’s or 1000’s. At the end of the session our goal is to create a confidence in you by teaching you physical traits that can help you speak freely. Are you a person that hates to hear yourself talk? We can fix that.
The founders of PSA – Ken Adams and David Bryson met at a networking group and founded the Phoenix Speaking Academy after noticing how many people struggled 
when speaking in public. They have been in the entertainment business for over 30 years and now combine their skill, knowledge and expertise into workshops and seminars tailored to helping people become more confident in their public speaking abilities and grow as individuals and professionals. Their mission is to help you overcome stage fright and provide you with the tools and techniques you need to become a dynamic speaker, empowered with confidence and skills to prepare, present and deliver powerful speeches and presentations that educate, inform, and engage audiences of all sizes.
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ABOUT RHINO NATION
Rhino Nation is a growing community of influential entrepreneurs and small business owners that share a common trait, they don’t walk, they don’t run, they CHARGE to their destiny. We acknowledge and celebrate their business expertise, leadership and fearless attitude to be victorious in their goals. Rhino Nation is committed to making powerful connections and providing enhanced exposure to broaden the reach and promote the extraordinary talents of our community members.
ABOUT YOUR SPONSOR
Rhino Online Strategies & eCreativity helps you free up your precious and limited time, as a business owner, to do what you do best….running and growing your business. Michelle Faust and her team partner with you to identify your content and marketing needs and provide you with fresh, innovative, dynamic copy that will effectively reach your target market, leading to increased customer engagement, a higher conversion rate, and increased sales.
Great content becomes the seeds of a bountiful business harvest, so you can cultivate and grow your business. We take the time to personally understand you and your company’s purpose, so your marketing message reflects who you are and speaks directly to your target market. Let us join you as part of your team. We’ll partner with you to develop powerful messaging strategies.
We strive to create an expansive mindset through education, marketing content and access to a talented team of business consultants. Our mission is to deliver cutting edge entrepreneurial support by providing engaging targeted messaging along with online business education, ancillary business services, and enhanced exposure.
Michelle has an extensive background in sales, marketing and public speaking, primarily in the pharmaceutical industry. When she left her corporate career, she shifted into the entrepreneurial world, combining her experience, talents and passions to reinvent herself. As a marketer and copywriter, Michelle thrives on discovering what motivates people into action and what their key emotional triggers are. Michelle and her team create powerful and targeted messaging that improve conversion rates and increase sales. Michelle loves to connect people through the power and beauty of the written word. her passion is helping people create a road-map to success, so they can fulfill their dreams and live their destiny.
For more about Rhino Online Strategies & eCreativity find them at www.rhinostrategy.com, on Facebook and LinkedIn.
Robert Young/Artist
As a conscientious contemporary artist, Robert Young endeavors, not only to entertain, but also to inspire through the art of storytelling. Young’s creative mediums of choice are experiential activation design, contemporary photography, documentary filmmaking, and motivational speaking.
Being born in Canada to Jamaican/Chinese parents and living, mentoring, and working in the creative industry around the world (UnitedStates, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa and Asia] has shaped Young’s sense of identity. He draws on his global perspective and diverse experience in storytelling to create communicative works.
Young has exhibited in Canada and the United States and his work is in private and public collections across North America. His work has also been commissioned by government, philanthropic, and corporate organizations worldwide.
Some of his most renown work includes Young World Faces.
Jennifer Rusz/Sterling Rose Consulting Corp
Jennifer Rusz has a long career working for both corporations and as an entrepreneur. Rusz began her career, in the 90’s in market intelligence, business operations and management for companies such as Mid America Research/Fact in Focus, Lucent Technologies, Kyocera Wireless, ARS/ Current Analysis and Websense Software Solutions before starting her first company in 2004. She has since been a business consultant now Founder and CEO of Sterling Rose Consulting Corp. Sterling Rose Consulting Corp is an award winning full service business consulting firm, with three divisions, which include business consulting, marketing consulting and strategic technology consulting. For more information about Jennifer Rusz or Sterling Rose Consulting Corp please visit www.sterlingroseconsultingcorp.com or call (470)202-8659.
About “Strategic Insights Radio”:
“Strategic Insights Radio” is intended to be an interactive radio show hosted by Sterling Rose Consulting Corp. Listeners can Tweet their questions for a live response on the radio to @sterling_rose1 or via @strategicradio. Also, suggestions on business topics that listeners would like to learn more about are welcome. Please send suggestions to info@sterlingroseconsultingcorp.com.
Kenny Weiss and ChickTech Phoenix
Kenny Weiss is a Coach, Speaker and Author who is at the forefront of the personal development field. Through his own personal journey and nearly 30 years of studying about the role emotions play in our lives, he brings a one of a kind skill set to the individual or business that is looking for more happiness and success personally and professionally.
Whether you are looking to improve your personal or professional success, your outcome will ultimately depend on what you feel. Not your thoughts, not your plan or your process! Think about it. How many times have you laid in bed thinking and knowing known what to do? You know the plan and the process but you just don’t “feel” like doing it? Maybe it was something you know would make your spouse happier and bring you closer? Something you should be doing for your kids? Or maybe it is career oriented? You want to take a big risk, try something new? Whatever it is, the process isn’t what is holding you back, your thoughts aren’t what are holding you back, it’s the “feeling” that comes up! As you lay there contemplating making that choice, “you just don’t feel like it.” Well, I have just detailed where that feeling comes from, why we all have it and how to overcome it in my book, “Your Journey To Success.”
This book bridges the gap to all of the other success books. When you have this skill you can put into place the wonderful tips and processes all the other great success books offer.
Kenny’s clients have included, entrepreneurs, companies, professional athletes, individuals and families who are looking to dig deeper and reach their full potential! They are seeking to make more money, advance in their careers and have deeper more connected relationships with their partner and families.
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ActionCOACH is the world’s largest business coaching and executive coaching firm, with more than 1,000 offices in more than 64 countries. ActionCOACH Tom Dougherty has invested 20+ years becoming an expert in business growth, profitability, sales, marketing, cash flow, recruitment, finances and time management. He has a proven track record including owning a startup that was sold to one of the largest distributors in the sporting goods industry. Today, he works with the best and brightest business owners in Arizona.
ChickTech is a nonprofit dedicated to retaining women in the technology workforce and increasing the number of women and girls pursuing technology-based careers. We envision a safe, inclusive, and innovative technology future that includes equal pay, participation, and treatment of women. We are dedicated to retaining women in the technology workforce and increasing the number of women and girls pursuing technology-based careers. ChickTech works on both the pipeline (K-12) and retention side of the “women in tech” issue. This means that volunteers aren’t just giving their time and energy to our K-12 program but are also getting what they need to stay in the tech industry. All people, regardless of how technical they are, are viewed as valuable members of the tech community. (This means that if you’re in marketing, HR, legal, management, etc, we want you to be part of our community as both volunteers and attendees).
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Marielenna “Mary” Ramirez started her career in technology in 2011 when she enlisted in the United States Army. She had the opportunity to explore different areas of technology and visit many places. In 2015, Mary completed her service obligations and moved to Arizona with her husband and daughter. Shortly after she began to work for the technology department at the Laveen Elementary School District. In addition to working for the technology department, Mary strives to mentor and teach underrepresented students different topics of CSTEM. When she is not ChickTeching, Mary is working with other organizations like Girls Who Code, T.E.C. is for Girls by Intel, TECHNOLOchicas, CodeLikeAGirl.io, Moms Can Code and more. You can reach Mary at mary.ramirez@chicktech.org
Lia Wood is a native Arizonian and proud UofA Wildcat. With her educational background in political science, Lia always had the desire to enter the technology world but did not have the right education or information about how to do so. Starting with Isos Technology as a sales assistant, she learned everything she could about software and how technology changes the efficiency of businesses. She has worked her way up to Business Development Manager and is excited to continue a lifelong career in the tech world. She plans to use her knowledge to help educate and excite other women and girls on the opportunities within the STEM fields. Lia lives in North Phoenix with her husband, is the mother of two fur babies, loves elephants and is a sucker for a good read. Feel free to recommend your favorite books to her! You can reach Lia at lia.wood@chicktech.org
On this week’s episode we featured 2 Life University alumni from the world’s largest school for doctors of chiropractic. Dr. Matt Germain and Alyce Smith from Back to Balance Wellness Centers joined us in the studio to talk about integrity and chiropractic care.
Matt explained how the holistic nature of chiropractic care appealed to him and drew him into become a DC. In speaking with him it’s clear he takes what he does as a provider of health care very seriously. And he understands his role is a facet of what is often a multi-specialty approach to regain or maintain wellness.
We talked about how it is important to him to take time to really get to know the full health picture of a patient and what their individual goals are for evaluating progress. Matt expressed how he understands that in some instances, another type of care provider might be the best alternative for them or in others, be adjunctive to his treatment.
Alyse and Matt shared their views that regular chiropractic care, delivered by a clinically-driven DC, can help optimize one’s health through routine follow-up and occasional treatment to maintain maximal health and function of the body. One way this is achieved is by addressing proper alignment of the skeletal structure, particularly the spine and others that lie along neural pathways, as misalignment can cause impingement of nerves, affecting muscle or organ function.
Both my wife and I have been patients of Dr. Germain, having experienced both chiropractic care and their professional massage therapy services as well. I can say Matt certainly lives what he described in our interview, having taken much time to interview me about what I was experiencing and taking care to explain what his recommendations were for care.
Dr. Gilles LaMarche, DC, VP of Professional Relations at Life University 
Matt Germain, DC, of Back to Balance Wellness Centers 
Alyse Smith, DC, of Back to Balance Wellness Centers
This week marked the beginning of a bi-weekly series we’ll be hosting with Dr. Gilles LaMarche, VP of Professional Relations at Life University where we’ll be focusing on integrity in the business community and personal life. This series will be leading into the Life Talks World Congress event coming up May 12-13, 2016.
Life Talks is about empowering leaders to create social change, make a transformational impact on the world and remove the interference to maximize their perfection within. The event includes thought leadersin business and productivity, physical health, nutrition, compassion, forgiveness, vitalism, quantum healing, and more.
We will be featuring business leaders who are known to value integrity in their professional and personal lives, and we will introduce several high school students from the community who have also been recognized for exemplifying the trait in their personal and academic endeavors.
We were joined in studio by Sarah Smith and Stu Sheldon, of Solution Road and Mosaic, respectively. Sarah has spent numerous years helping non-profit and for-profit organizations raise funding and public awareness for their respective work. She draws on experience from healthcare as well as media and is very selective in the clients she and her team take on at Solution Road.
Stu is an expert in experiential marketing, in which brands look to engage a targeted subset of their customer base. Their goal is to create an immersive experience that has a measure of exclusivity and hands-on interaction with elements of the brand. In this way, the client company is able to leverage Earned Media to get people talking about their experience. I first met Stu on the Midtown Business show talking about Escalate, the experiential marketing company that was recently acquired by Mosaic.
Special Guests:
Dr. Gilles LaMarche, DC, VP of Professional Relations at Life University
Sarah K. Smith, CEO/Founder, of Solution Road
Stuart Sheldon, Chief Advocacy Officer at Mosaic 
CW Hall and Coach Mark Speaks (Mark Todd)
This week I sat down with entrepreneur, coach, and mentor, Mark Todd of Coach Mark Speaks. He shared his story of how he longed to be an entrepreneur as a young kid, tried as a college student and failed, then found a talent he possessed and leveraged it into a successful business.
We talked about how he and a friend decided to start a night club while they were college students, with hopes of building on their love of DJ’ing. Unfortunately, with no experience, no mentors, and limited capital, the partners could not support the business to keep it open during the early start-up phase. While trying to keep the business open, Mark lost his car, used his student loan funds, and was doing anything he could to make his rent.
While trying to save money promoting his business, Mark began creating the graphic design pieces he would distribute about his club. It was then he realized he had a knack for it and once the club shut down, he pivoted and started working to build his graphic design business. 15 years later he came by to talk about what it was that made him achieve success and have the life he always wanted.
He is now spending much of his time authoring (and reading) books on how to succeed and overcome challenges and giving away his time to coach and mentor entrepreneurs and individuals looking to improve their lives.
Coach Mark isn’t an athletic coach although he can help you win the biggest race of your life. He isn’t a life coach, but he can help you live the best life you could ever possibly imagine. Coach Mark is a believability coach. He helps others to increase what they believe is possible for them. That self-belief will help determine how far anyone can go in life.
As a successful entrepreneur over the last 15 years, Coach Mark has built 2 exceedingly successful million-dollar businesses. Driven by his desire to acquire and share knowledge, Coach Mark retired from the day to day operations of his businesses before the age of 40 and decided to spend the rest of his life serving others by sharing his philosophy of continual self improvement. It’s Coach Mark’s belief that life gets better when you get better, and his goal is for each and everyone he encounters to continually get better. You can stay in touch with Coach Mark by visiting www.powerinahalfhour.com or on FB – Mark Starr, or on IG & Twitter @coachmarkspeaks
Special Guest:
Coach Mark Todd of Coach Mark Speaks, Inc
Schwegman and Conn Jackson talk about Toast
Conn Jackson of ConnTV
This week Dave and I sat down with Conn Jackson of ConnTV and InspireOne. He’s an accomplished motivational speaker, known for his recent seminar “How to Sizzle”, and his talk radio and tv shows on ConnTV. Conn has interviewed a number of well-known celebrities along they way including, Maya Angelou, Rudy Giuliani, Joel Osteen, Master Shah, Andrew Young, and more.
He left a successful life in the corporate world of finance to put his energy into putting positive energy into the world around him, using his media outlet, ConnTV and shows like Pro v. Conn, and IHeartRadio. He is working to inspire people to grow beyond their internal boundaries to go from good to great (to coin the phrase). Prior to his success in business and now in the public media he was diagnosed with some learning challenges as a child and told he should not expect to succeed in high school; that he should perhaps consider vocational training of some kind. Instead he was blessed with getting his particular learning challenges identified such that he was able to thrive in spite of them, ultimately attending business school at Harvard.
Conn shared several key thoughts that would be useful to anyone listening to this show, be they business professionals or individuals seeking to live a richer, more fulfilling life. This has been one of our most enjoyable and enlightening shows on personal levels and we’re looking forward to having Conn back again soon. “It’s all about Toast!” Listen and SHARE!
Special Guest:
Conn Jackson
