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Jeff Orr with InDemand Leadership and Ryan Parker with Xpleo Media

April 16, 2019 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

Jeff Orr with InDemand Leadership and Ryan Parker with Xpleo Media

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Jeff Orr with InDemand Leadership and Ryan Parker with Xpleo Media

InDemand Leadership helps leaders become the kind of leader they would want to follow. Utilizing cutting edge assessment and tools, IDL works one-on-one with leaders from the C-suite to mid- level managers to give insights and perspective to best practices in leading teams and developing the next generation of leaders.

InDemand Leadership works with Fortune 500 companies such as Google, Benchmark, GE Financial, and Verizon Wireless as well as the individual entrepreneur.

Jeff Orr is an expert in leadership holding two masters degrees in Business and Leadership (MBA, MSL) from Grand Canyon University. He speaks to thousands in the private sector as well as on University campuses about leadership, discovering and leveraging purpose, and the critical importance for developing the next generation of leaders. Jeff’s passion for helping leaders grow comes through in his engaging and energizing keynotes using humor and story as a catalyst for professional and personal growth. His most recent TEDx keynote, Millennial Leadership: The Key to Your Organization’s Success, has challenged thousands of leaders nationwide to rethink how to engage and develop the Millennial leaders in their organizations.

Jeff engages his audiences with practical take- aways that help them implement what they learn into their work. This has increased retention of the material as well as success with increased performance, productivity, and organizational effectiveness. His client list includes Google, GE, NBC, Chase, Verizon Wireless, Paypal, Merrill Lynch, Edward Jones, Grand Canyon University, Ottawa University, Huntington University, and many others.

Jeff is also an accomplished musician and recording artist with three CDs released and has performed on stages across the country. His passion for the arts is a unique part of his speaking delivery as Jeff uses many different art forms – from video to music to lighting and staging – to communicate his message and help audiences internalize what they are learning.

Jeff is the author of Succeed In The New Normal: Winning Strategies in an Unfamiliar World and is currently working on his latest book, Inside the Mind of a Millennial Leader. He resides in the Phoenix, Arizona area with his wife of 29 years and has one daughter. In his free time, Jeff enjoys writing fiction, creating music, mountain biking, and kayaking.

Connect with Jeff on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

Xpleo is extremely passionate about helping entrepreneurs and businesses grow their ventures. Xpleo creates interpersonal relationships with their clients which reveal the stories, character and authenticity that makes businesses successful. The marketing strategies and consultation that Xpleo offers is geared towards unveiling their clients authentic story in a creative and imaginative fashion.

Ryan Parker is extremely passionate about helping entrepreneurs and businesses prosper. His goal is to live with character by doing the right thing whether someone is watching or not.

Ryan surrounds himself with like minded entrepreneurs who believe in strong interpersonal relationships that can help create amazing legacies. He believes that through hard work, dedication and the commitment of entrepreneurs, it’s possible to affect individuals and communities in a profound manner.

Ryan thrives when working with character driven, creative, innovative, meaningful, authentic, empathetic and thoughtful individuals.

Connect with Ryan on LinkedIn and follow Xpleo on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

The Unapologetic Voice Founder Carrie Severson Business Coach Nathalie Ekobo and Mompreneur Alison Rand

March 22, 2019 by Karen

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Phoenix Business Radio

The Unapologetic Voice Founder Carrie Severson Business Coach Nathalie Ekobo and Mompreneur Alison Rand

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The Unapologetic Voice Founder Carrie Severson Business Coach Nathalie Ekobo and Mompreneur Alison Rand

The Unapologetic Voice is a storytelling brand that supports leaders who are on the road of uncovering their unapologetic message, story and voice. Come learn how to craft books, essays, speeches or even launch business with your voice at the foundation.

Carrie Severson is a storytelling coach and the visionary behind The Unapologetic Voice. She works with women locally as well as around the world who want to express themselves in new ways and make an imprint in the world with their zone of genius.

Connect with Carrie on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

Nathalie Ekobo International is a ‘leading-edge’ boutique consultancy for high achievers — entrepreneurs and leaders– that are ready to have extraordinary impact.
Services such as Keynotes, Break Out sessions, Workshops, Conscious Leadership Training, Deep- coaching, are offered and customized to the clients’ needs.

For the past 20 years, award-winning intuitive, business and executive coach, thought leader, and speaker, Nathalie Ekobo, has helped more than 10,000 leaders and entrepreneurs across the globe increase their visibility, impact, and income, by removing their blocks, using vibrational marketing, and being aligned with their Expanded Self.

As a visionary CEO of a ‘leading-edge’ consulting and coaching company, Nathalie, takes (mostly) female leaders (and open-minded conscious men) to the highest levels of their success by helping them tap into their inner guidance to achieve their dreams with more ease.

She guides her high-achieving clients on their path of making a difference in the world through their conscious leadership and inspirational impact. Nathalie has shared the stage with Dr. Judith Orloff, Marianne Williamson, and Dr. Rev. Michael B. Beckwith, teaching time-tested tools and practical solutions to accelerate success and greatness.

Connect with Nathalie on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

Parenting takes a team and Alison Rand loves connecting with parents. If you are looking for additional tools to add to your parent tool belt she is available on an hourly consulting basis. Alison offers support to parents in the area of adoption, parenting, homeschooling and nutrition to achieve a happy, healthy and heart centered family.

As a mompreneur running a business and household, as well as homeschooling two children, Alison Rand is passionate about sharing insights about her journey maneuvering two adoptions of children with special needs. She hopes her story supports other parents in their heart centered journey.

Connect with Alison on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.

Deb Caron with Anahata Marketing and Adrian McIntyre with StoryProfit

June 16, 2018 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

Deb Caron with Anahata Marketing and Adrian McIntyre with StoryProfit

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Deb Caron with Anahata Marketing and Adrian McIntyre with StoryProfit

Storytelling has become a buzzword in a lot of business circles lately. What’s it all about? In this episode of Phoenix Business Radio, we hear from Deb Caron with Anahata Marketing and Adrian McIntyre with StoryProfit about how important it is to craft the right messages (aka stories) as a leader and business owner. Listen in to learn about the art and science behind this fantastic and natural form of influential communication and weigh in on the conversation. We’d love to hear from you.

Anahata Marketing is a Phoenix-based marketing and strategic communications consultancy, providing brand awareness, public relations and content marketing strategies for clients offering products and services that help people live, work, and feel better. The team has been promoting clients in the Valley for more than 15 years landing features locally and nationally in many top-tier publications including Entrepreneur, Inc., Fast Company, Shape, Men’s Health, Refinery29, The Today Show, CNN, Redbook, The LA Times, KTLA, AZ Family, ABC 15, 12 News, CBS 5, Fox 10, and much, much more. In addition, they work with clients to establish industry expertise with contributed content, blog and website content and thought leadership pieces.

Anahata is a Sanskrit word for the heart chakra and its meanings include: infinite, unstruck, unbeaten, and boundless. Anahata Marketing works with clients on a heartfelt mission to find what’s meaningful to their audiences and craft messages and strategies that enable them to resonate with and engage with customers so they become brand evangelists. The team is made up of people people — they love to uncover what motivates others and moves them to action, and do so with an approach of seeking first to understand, and then to spark curiosity and conversation.

Deb Caron is the owner and principal consultant at Anahata Marketing. She has worked with wide array of clients spanning nearly every industry, both in B2B communications and B2C. She’s also a registered yoga teacher and holds a special passion for working health, fitness, wellness and beauty brands. She has a unique ability to harness her empathic nature to help companies see themselves from their customers’ perspective and create connections with their marketing. Deb is also fascinated by company culture and how fostering a people-first workplace helps companies prosper. She’s taking this passion to the Phoenix Business RadioX airwaves later this month as the host of the new show Culture Crush Rx. She’ll be chatting with local thought leaders, CEOs and motivational experts to highlight the companies we’re crushing on for great culture right now and uncover the secrets to crush it in your own business.

Connect with Deb on LinkedIn and follow Anahata Marketing on Facebook.

Dr. Adrian McIntyre is a cultural anthropologist, media personality, and internationally recognized authority on human communication. He has worked in over 30 countries and spent nearly a decade in the Middle East and Africa as a researcher, journalist, educator, and media spokesperson for two of the largest humanitarian relief agencies in the world.

Adrian grew up in his dad’s radio station and has been storytelling on stages and in the media since he was five years old. He reported for Newsweek during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, then traveled to Baghdad as a member of the crisis response teams for Mercy Corps and Oxfam.

When extreme violence forced aid agencies to withdraw from Iraq, Adrian moved to Sudan to work as a media officer and communication strategist. For 14 months he was Oxfam’s field-based spokesperson on the crisis in Darfur, helping to make that conflict the biggest news story of 2004. His hundreds of media appearances reached millions of people via major news outlets such as the BBC, CNN, National Public Radio, FOX News Online, and the New York Times, as well as regional newspapers and radio stations throughout North America and Europe.

Dr. McIntyre earned a PhD in cultural anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a Fulbright scholar and National Science Foundation research fellow. He remained there an adjunct professor until 2012, when he left the university to teach and train in the private sector and online.

Today, Dr. McIntyre delivers speeches and workshops on high-performance communication and culture. He also trains entrepreneurs, executives, and corporate teams to harness the power of personal storytelling, digital marketing, and media to build their personal leadership brand, boost their visibility, and accelerate the growth of their business.

Connect with Dr. McIntyre on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Spectrum Science

July 5, 2016 by angishields

Midtown Business Radio

Spectrum Science

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Amanda Sellers

Spectrum Science

This week I sat down with Executive Vice President of Spectrum Science’s recently-opened Atlanta office, Amanda Sellers. Amanda has been with the Washington DC-based communications firm for over 11 years and has been focused on communications strategy throughout her professional career.

Amanda came by to talk about how award-winning Spectrum Science focuses their work primarily on health and science aspects of their clients’ businesses, typically consumer products companies, pharma, medical technology, and research organizations. With a team comprised of experts from a variety of backgrounds such as health and science, of course, and communications/journalism, they are uniquely qualified to help these organizations highlight the value of their products or research findings to distinguish them in the marketplace and achieve greater customer loyalty and appreciation for their quality.

We talked about the fact that the firm is able to handle new product launches and introductions of innovations to existing product lines, as well as effectively managing public relations communications during crisis or negative events around a client’s products. And they have filled these roles for numerous well-known enterprises.

Amanda explained that Spectrum Science is accustomed to collaborating with an enterprise’s marketing team, R&D, and any external creative/ad agencies to be able to effectively craft and tell the company’s story. A full-service firm, the company is able to produce the full gamut of media formats needed, along with expertise necessary to distribute/amplify the message across the intended target audiences.

The team at Spectrum Science has been the recipient of numerous awards for their work, including Sabre Awards, and The Holmes Report 2016 Healthcare Agency of the Year. As their announcement of The Holmes Report award states, “Our independent agency has grown tremendously in the last two years – we’ve opened offices in New York and Atlanta, won significant new business, and welcomed some of the PR industry’s most respected senior communications counselors to make their home at Spectrum. The “One Spectrum” ideology drives the agency’s culture, bringing together the best talent and expertise regardless of geography to deliver the best thinking for clients. We operate as one firm across all offices, sharing teams and resources, with a single P&L.”

Special Guest:

Amanda Sellers, EVP, Spectrum Science

Chris Cummings of Pass It Down and Tia Capps and Ashlee Owens of The Company Lab

May 25, 2016 by angishields

Chattanooga Business Radio

Chris Cummings of Pass It Down and Tia Capps and Ashlee Owens of The Company Lab

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Chris Cummings // Pass It Down

Chris is the founder of Pass It Down™, a social storytelling platform launching in 2016, that makes it easy to capture and preserve family stories in video, audio, text and photos.

Prior to founding Pass It Down™, Chris helped co-found Woople™, a learning management system that has delivered over 20 million minutes of educational content to fortune 500 companies around the world. He is also an attorney who practices federal criminal law on both the trial and appellate levels and is a CJA Panelist for the Federal Public Defenders office.

Christopher has spent the last 15 years actively involved in competing and teaching public speaking, debate, and appellate advocacy. In law school, he was the top speaker and winner of the Chancellors Cup Moot Court competition and the winner of the Robert Lee Tullis Moot Court Competition at the Paul M. Hebert LSU Law Center. During his undergraduate studies, he was a six-time collegiate state champion in public speaking and debate and a national champion speaker. Christopher now helps coach collegiate debate, public speaking and appellate advocacy.

Tia Capps and Ashlee Owens // The Company Lab

The Company Lab (CO.LAB) is a nonprofit startup accelerator that supports entrepreneurial growth in southeast Tennessee. We work with companies ranging from street-corner mom and pop shops to tech startups scaling into major markets. We also wake up every morning thinking about how to create a more robust and dynamic entrepreneurial ecosystem in our region.

Ashlee Owens is the Programs Manager of the Company Lab, over GIGTANK 365 and the CO.LAB Accelerator. Tia Capps is the Communications Director of the Company Lab, managing press relations, establishing community outreach programs, implement communications and brand strategy, and promoting the various programs and events offered at the CO.LAB, like CO.STARTERS, GIGTANK and the Gig City to local and national audiences. implement communications and brand strategy.

Mountain View Group and My Professional CFO

January 12, 2016 by angishields

Midtown Business Radio

Mountain View Group and My Professional CFO

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Mountain View Group and My Professional CFO

This week we continued our bi-weekly series with Life University’s Dr. Gilles LaMarche, focusing on business leaders who exemplify integrity, in a lead-up to Life University’s LIFEtalks World Congress, May 12-13, discussing integrity for life with a number of well-known speakers on the subject. We were joined in the studio by Thom Gonyeau and Alan Conner, of Mountain View Group and My Professional CFO, respectively.

I met Alan a few weeks ago in the hall of our office building. After learning about how he helps physicians, I knew we needed to have him stop by to talk about it. In addition to providing basic accounting/payroll functions, Alan also helps physicians develop effective, legal tax strategies, including self funded insurance plans to reduce their tax burden and risk at the same time.

Alan shared the story of a family member, an ER physician in Florida. He explained the fact that his family member, as do many physicians, work as 1099 contractors for the respective practice they serve. In this relationship, the doctor receives a gross paycheck with no tax withheld.

In this situation it is vital for the provider to plan for their tax obligation and pay it in a timely fashion (at least quarterly) or they face between 5-10% penalties, which can quickly add up to significant amounts, based on the numbers they’re working with.

Alan explained several options available to physicians that work as 1099 contractors, including self funded insurance plans, pension plans, SEP IRA’s, and others, that will help them preserve their hard-earned revenue for later while protecting them from risk such as loss of medical license should that occur.

It’s clear after speaking with him that it is advisable for our colleagues in the community to partner with experts such as Alan to develop a solid plan for managing their tax obligations as well as helping to secure their financial future.

I met Thom Gonyeau ~five years ago. Equal parts right-brain and left-brain, he’s an operational guru. He works with clients to solve their business needs. Thom is an avid photographer, tennis player, runner, and writer. H had his first brush with fame at age 8, when his poem “Things That Are Beautiful” was published in Highlights magazine.

We talked about the media production work he and his team execute to help their clients, which includes the likes of GE, Coca Cola, and numerous other well-known enterprises, tell the story of their brand both internally and externally. Thom draws on his love of writing and his curiosity to get to know his clients very well and then be able to craft engaging, award-winning media productions across a variety of platforms to share it with the target audience.

Special Guests:

Dr. Gilles LaMarche, DC, VP of Professional Relations at Life University

Doctor of Chiropractic, Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College
Author, The ART of Responsibility, Insight Publishing 2012
Certified Six Advisors Coach, Six Advisors Coaching Academy
Previous Vice President, Parker College of Chiropractic

Alan Conner, CEO, My Professional CFO

MBA, Finance, Nova Southeastern University
Previous Investment Banker, Orosey & Pepe Capital Markets
Former Investment Manager, Arduus Asset Management

Thom Gonyeau, CEO, Mountain View Group

MA, Communications, The College of Saint Rose
Chair, Board of Trustees, Creative Education Foundation

Three Fantastic Female Entrepreneurs

December 16, 2014 by angishields

Midtown Business Radio

Three Fantastic Female Entrepreneurs

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Three Fantastic Female Entrepreneurs

This week I got to sit down with Three Fantastic Entrepreneurs from the Atlanta area. Diana Keough, CEO and founder of ShareWIK Media Group (Share What I Know), LeeAnn Maxwell, Co-Founder of Vixen Vodka, and Lara Hodgson, multiple-time successful entrepreneur and CEO/Founder of NOWaccount. We talked about some of the challenges they faced as women launching their own businesses, hear what they believe helped them succeed as entrepreneurs, and advice they offer for women contemplating starting a business of their own. For the longest time most of us would envision a man when thinking “CEO” or “Doctor”, or even “Entrepreneur”. And, as our guests shared, many times they’re the only female CEO/Entrepreneur in a room full of men. Times are slowly but surely changing. And today many women are launching successful brands and businesses, some of which are now global brands.

ShareWIK Media Group is a licensed content-generating group, producing high quality, interesting content across all media types for use in population health management efforts, inbound marketing/branding, testimonial content, and pertinent health optimization content. Diana talked about her transition from a journalist for the Plains Dealer newspaper to a Chief Executive Officer in a leadership role. She says, “If you are not surrounding yourself with people who are better than you and open to the fact that you might be wrong; or they might have a better idea on how to do things, then you’re not going to grow.” Over the weeks since I met Diana I’ve had the opportunity to meet several of the folks who make up the team at ShareWIK and seen some of their work. I can tell you: if your organization or agency needs to move an initiative or your business forward and you rely heavily on engaging your target audience to drive awareness you MUST include ShareWIK Media Group on your shortlist of content providers. At their core, the people at ShareWIK Media Group are journalists with expertise across all media types. On top of journalistic skills they bring knowledge and expertise within the healthcare journalism space as well.

Vixen Vodka is an EXCELLENT vodka that was born out of a trip to St. Simons Island, GA where two friends, drinking cocktails by the pool, decided they should launch their own vodka, branded and tailored for women. As LeeAnn says, “We came home, sobered up, and remembered it was a great idea.” “A dream without action is merely a fantasy.” It took them 2 years from beach to shelf. She shared how she and her good friend (also a woman) broke into the spirits business, starting with ZERO knowledge of how to make vodka much less how to bring one to market. After being told her idea was fantastic by a business consultant he turned around and told them, “I’ll never work. The spirits industry is a Good Ol’ Boys network. Those men will chew you up and spit you out!” That was several years ago and now the brand is adding more states to the seven states where they’re currently sold.

NOWaccount got started as a solution to a problem Lara Hodgson encountered as an entrepreneur with an earlier business, the impact of not having access to cash that is tied up holding unpaid invoices, particularly when they aged for several weeks (or more). She firmly believes that a successful business needs to have people behind them who are providing the product/service to solve a particular problem for their customer more so than “to sell lots of ‘X’ and make lots of money because it’s a great product”. She said, “So many people come up with a great idea and they fall in love with the ‘What’. They fall in love with the widget or the product. And if your ego and your passion is in the product then they are going to woefully un-deliver. But if your ego and your passion are in the “So What?” and the impact and the problem you’re solving then the sky’s the limit.” NOWaccount is a merchant services company that provides the B2B company with access to capital by selling slower-paying invoice accounts within 2-5 days for basically the same cost as accepting a credit card. Their solution is invisible to their client’s customers, has no minimum time commitment, and includes only those accounts selected by the B2B they’re helping. The NOWaccount option gives businesses the capital they need to accept larger orders, add staff, often enabling them grow larger and faster than was possible before.

Special Guests:

Lara O’Connor-Hodgson, CEO of Nowaccount Network Corporation

MBA Harvard Business School
Former Adjunct Professor of Finance, Georgia Institute of Technology
Board of Directors, Georgia Regional Transportation Authority
Owner, Insomnia Group
Chairman of the Board, Atlanta Heights Charter School
Second Language–Japanese

Diana Keough, CEO/Founder of ShareWIK.com

Journalism Instructor/Guest Lecturer, Emory University
Member, Koles College of Business Advisory Board, Kennsaw State University
Former Front Page Series Writer, The Plain Dealer
Former Reporter/Commentator, WKSU
Co-author, “Building a Business, Building a Life: The Incredible Life of a Woman Business Owner”

LeeAnn Maxwell, CEO/Co-Founder of Vixen Vodka

28 years experience in finance sector
former Director, Client Services of AccousTech Music Productions
Crossfit fan
50% Firecracker
50% Do-It-Yourself Woman

Doug Carter with EQUIP Leadership, Andrew Steinke with BCM One, and Sarah Chandler with Roswell Cultural Arts Center

August 20, 2014 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

Doug Carter with EQUIP Leadership, Andrew Steinke with BCM One, and Sarah Chandler with Roswell Cultural Arts Center

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Nikole Toptas, Doug Carter, Andrew Steinke, Sarah Chandler, Dominick Rainey

Doug Carter/EQUIP Leadership

EQUIP Leadership is the largest leadership non-profit in the world. Founded by leadership author and internationally-recognized leadership expert John C. Maxwell and his brother Larry Maxwell, EQUIP exists to mobilize Christian leaders to make a transformational impact in their world. EQUIP is training leaders in 182 nations around the world, impacting more than 5 million pastors, business people and community leaders.

Andrew Steinke/BCM One

At BCM One, they put your business at the center of a process that ensures they’re listening to, and addressing, your needs at every stage of your partnership.

From their initial questions to truly understand your business and goals, to the planning, deployment and support of your custom solution, they work tirelessly to bring you secure, best-in-class solutions from the universe of available options. They leverage their expertise, experience and decades-long industry relationships on your behalf. And because they’re “product-agnostic” and not beholden to a limited set of vendors, the only thing they ever sell is the absolutely best fit for your organization.

One source for truly integrated technology solutions. One call for unmatched service and support. One trusted partner. It’s why business of all shapes and sizes that turn to BCM One tend to stay, and grow, with them for years.

Sarah Chandler/Roswell Cultural Arts Center

The Roswell Cultural Arts Center (RCAC) is operated by the City of Roswell and hosts a plethora of events each year. Built in 1991 as a municipal auditorium, RCAC has gained momentum as a prominent performing arts center in the North Fulton area, housing its resident theater company – the Georgia Ensemble Theatre – as well as renting to community businesses and groups for performances throughout the year. In recent years, RCAC has begun its own programming, with its annual Summer Puppet Series and LIVE! in Roswell concert series (hosting Grammy-nominated artists) and its new monthly storytelling event, Story SLAM.