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Spencer Smith played football at the University of Hawaii. He was a 4 year letterman, who won “Special Teams Player of the Year” as a sophomore and “Defensive Player of the Year” as a Junior. Spencer coaches varsity football for 4 years and founded Triple H Tackling Academy. Their mission is to help change the game of football in a positive way and make the game safer, but also helping create better football players.
Josh McAfee is co-founder and VP of Recruiting at Headway. Josh was the founder of Velossent and has over 20 years of recruiting and human capital experience in the Information Technology, Sales, Marketing, Executive, Finance and Accounting, and Legal fields.
Kevin Adamson, founding partner of Adamson & Cleveland, Atlanta Personal Injury Law Firm, is also the President of KASE Management – a Sports Management firm – and is also a certified sports agent. A former athlete and an avid sports fan, Kevin brings that passion for sport to his practice of law and the service of his clients.
Annie Eaton is the CEO of Atlanta-based future technologies company Futurus, where she creates immersive, engaging and interactive experiences in virtual reality, augmented reality and micro location enabled experiences.Annie earned her degree from The Georgia Institute of Technology in 2010.
Scott is, first and foremost, a husband and a father of four young men. In his spare time, he is the CEO & Co-Founder of Envoy FM which makes maintenance management software for multi-location businesses, writes daily for his blog, scottreyes.com, coaches a travel baseball team, and teaches 2-year-old Sunday school.
Based in Atlanta, GA; DJ Scream is a music, media and cultural influencer. Scream is an industry celebrated DJ who has been sought out for collaborations by the likes of Gucci Mane, Rick Ross, Future and the Migos. He has also been recognized as a top DJ by MTV BET XXL, and many of the top chart makers in entertainment.
Nick McCormick is the Owner and Chief Popper at CaJa Popcorn, a “Foodpreneur”, perennial gourmand, and an advocate of the Good Food Movement. Nick is on a mission to engage and serve the culinary community, while fostering change and building a better food system for our future.
PR maven, Lynn Aronberg, is a former Miami Dolphins Cheerleader who now acts as a spokesperson for the Palm Beach art, culture and business communities, representing many talented entrepreneurs. Lynn’s highly publicized divorce from a Florida State Attorney gained her worldwide recognition as the first “Trump Divorcee.”
Casey Cochran and Stephen Kaiser, founders of Fit Food Fresh, couldn’t have predicted they’d be running the highest rated meal plan in Florida when they started just 5 years ago. With no experience in the health, fitness, or nutrition industries, they dove head first into solving the problems they saw in the meal plan industry; creating a service that was truly “by members, for members”.
This statuesque and charming entrepreneur, is a dedicated working mother and a fiercely keen leader focused in continually seeking to perfect the art of hospitality for her guests. Rosse was just 22 and recently widowed when she first opened Oceans 234 in 2001.
Heather Monahan is a best-selling author, keynote speaker with the Harry Walker Agency, entrepreneur and founder of Boss In Heels. Having successfully climbed the corporate ladder for nearly 20 years, Heather Monahan is one of the few women to break the glass ceiling and claim her spot in the C-suite.
Kevin was born in Cleveland, Ohio with his twin brother. He participated and excelled in basketball, wrestling, and cross country running in high school, and attended the Ohio State University majoring in Business Administration and Marketing.
After graduation, he made the decision to pick up his talents and bring them to South Florida to join his brother and escape the cold.
Cardenas is CEO of AQUACO, a privately funded startup that is currently building a commercial aquaculture facility to grow out Florida Pompano and bring land-based recirculating technology to the forefront of the industry.
Born in a Kibuts in Israel, Limor started writing poetry in 1989 and a few years later fell in love with advertising while watching TV commercials. In 1998, she was recruited to the IDF, Israeli Ministry of Defense – communications department. When Limor finished her military service, she began working for BBDO advertising in Tel Aviv.
Geoff Haynes is a serial entrepreneur and President of Ra Power Pro, an award-winning U.S. portable solar company specializing in non-traditional commercial uses for solar. Geoff began his career in the marketing department of BMW of North America, working on the famous “Ultimate Driving Machine Campaign”. He loved the challenge, but was driven to become his own boss.
ZenLedger is a Seattle based startup that was founded in 2017. They help cryptocurrency investors and accountants with their taxes. ZenLedger helps to quickly bring all of their clients exchange and wallet transactions together to automatically create tax forms for them. ZenLedger has thousands of customers and hundreds of millions in assets processed.
Alanna is the CEO and Cofounder of Vibe Coworks which is Kitsap’s largest and cutting-edge shared workspace and coworking environment. Alanna is a returning guest to our podcast. Her original podcast with us was back on August 9th, 2017! She is here today to give us an update on Vibe Coworks and additional insight on her continued success with the business.
Jackie Wood is the founder and Chief Experience Officer of SparkWood Events. She brings over 25 years of corporate marketing, strategy and event planning experience. With positions at both large corporations such Starbucks and Washington Mutualin additional to start-ups such as Qpass and Kozmo.com, she provides the leadership and overall big picture thinking for the team in addition to event execution.
Stacey Ogle is the President of Cole Graphic Solutions, Inc., a commercial screen print and digital print manufacturer of durable decals, signage, overlays, banners, point-of-purchase displays, fleet graphics, retail graphics, and more. Stacey and her husband/partner, Ed Ogle, worked their way up from ‘deeper than the bottom’.
Arti is a self-driven and results oriented, strategic entrepreneur with 30 plus years of documented successes in business development, brand development and leading to increased sales. She is a savvy negotiator leading to win/win results while effectively managing all facets of highly successful strategic initiatives.
Hugh Blane is the president of Claris Consulting and is an advisor to executives and entrepreneurs for creating dramatic, positive and measurable change in the leadership of individuals and teams: guaranteed! His work centers on helping executives and entrepreneurs challenge assumptions.
Started in 2014, Gunnels and Son is a family owned and operated portable restroom company. We are capable of working throughout most of Texas. We started with the sole purpose of providing portable restrooms to oil and gas well sites. Now we’ve expanded to equipment rentals for construction and special events.
Boris Cura is the Owner and President of “The Krest” Car Detail Garage. Before conceptualizing and building “The Krest”, Boris spent 23 Years in the Service Sector of the Oil & Gas (O&G) Industry where he held senior positions in Operations and key supporting functions in the USA as well as Overseas.
Dr. Matthews received his J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center, and his Master of Accounting and B.A. (Math/Economics) degrees from Rice University, Houston, Texas. He is licensed in the state of Texas as an Attorney at Law and a Certified Public Accountant.
The Revive Room specializes in intravenous (IV) nutrition. IV nutrition is a method of feeding vitamins, minerals, and other natural substances directly into a patient’s bloodstream.
Matt Umholtz is the Founder and CEO of PaySphere, a payroll and human resource outsourcing firm headquartered in Houston, Texas. After graduating from college with a BA in Marketing, Matt cut his teeth in Sales and Marketing with a Fortune 1000 payroll provider. Matt’s early success led to nearly a decade of overachievement in sales and sales management
Founded by industry pioneers who champion the world’s leading hemp genetics, cannabidiol (CBD) formulations, and groundbreaking legislation, Doobies World™ focuses on scaling premium agricultural hemp production for food products to promote easy availability locally, nationally, and globally.
Lori Davis has a diverse business background and has held positions of increasing responsibility throughout her career. Understanding her life’s purpose is to be in service to others, Lori decided to invest in her education and become a Certified Hypnotherapist. Hypnosis is a very effective modality to help people access their powerful subconscious minds .
William Schallmo (Bill) Realtor – Bill was born in Inglewood, CA and raised in Orange County, CA where he excelled in academics and sports. Bill chose to move to Los Angeles and go to college in the late 70’s. After college, his landlord – who was a highly successful Realtor, encouraged Bill to get his real estate license as a supplement to his technology career.
Under the leadership of Josh Mundell, NeighborING has progressed from ideation to operational in 6-month time. Mundell has built his vision into a reality with the help of Rich Machesney and close advisors. With his need for high energy and his incomparable work ethic, the company has continued to grow
Daniel Clark Hales, estate planning attorney and the president of Citadel Law Corporation, is a leading member of the estate planning community, and sits on the board of numerous foundations and charitable organizations. Mr. Hales is a licensed member of the California State Bar, and is a member of the State Bar’s special sections on Probate, Taxation and Estate Planning.
1971 Orange Coast College
1972 Lead Singer, Baxter’s Street restaurant
1974 Los Angeles Civic light Opera Music Theatre workshop
1975 Kismet, LACLO
1976 “Kismet” San Francisco Civic Light Opera
1977 Sacramento Civic Light Opera
In 1995, Paul took on a large complex project for one of Scott Rice’s Oil and Gas clients. They were renovating their spaces in multiple locations in Tulsa (1,000+), as well as multiple locations all over the country
Justin Carpenter – Owner of Foolish Things Bar & Biscuit and Foolish Things Coffee Company
Mike started a Pizzeria with his brother at the age of 22, 6 months after graduating from Saint Mary’s College of California. He was raised around the Classic Pizzerias in New York and New Jersey while going to High School and College in California working in and around the Bay Area Restaurant Scene.
Tyler was raised at Grand Lake in Grove, Oklahoma where he grew up playing golf at Shangri-La. He earned his under graduate degree from the University of Tulsa. Alongside his business partner Dave Miley, Tyler has been Managing Partner at Integrated Payment Services since January of 2018.
Allan Trimble was born and raised in Cleveland, Oklahoma. He credits his home town for instilling in him the tough lessons of patience, persistence and determination. Though his first love was baseball, Trimble grew into an excellent football player, and would eventually become the greatest large school, high school football coach in Oklahoma’s history.
Lou Hofmeister is the owner and instructor of Kumon Math and Reading Tulsa – South located at 91st and Yale. Kumon is a supplemental education program celebrating 60 years in 2018.
With more than 38 years of experience in sales, marketing, and commercial banking, David H. Shindler has spent his career growing the local economy as a commercial banker in central Arkansas. Devoting his energies to the development and support of small to medium-sized, privately-held businesses,
In June 1996, Robbi decided that she would be able to serve her customers best if she was an independent agent and opened The Robbi Davis Agency, Inc in June 1996.
Ryan began his career as an insurance broker in 2003 when he started a firm focusing on estate and succession planning. During that time he learned how proper planning can improve the life of a business and its ownership. He earned his reputation by working toward each client’s objectives
Dr. Jeff Standridge is directly involved in the creation of a sustainable venture ecosystem across the state of Arkansas and beyond. He recently retired from Acxiom Corporation after nearly two decades of executive leadership with the company. During his tenure, Jeff was directly involved in over two-dozen M&A transactions across North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and South America.
Dr. Jeff Standridge is directly involved in the creation of a sustainable venture ecosystem across the state of Arkansas and beyond. He recently retired from Acxiom Corporation after nearly two decades of executive leadership with the company. During his tenure, Jeff was directly involved in over two-dozen M&A transactions across North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and South America.
Mr. Stinson founded and leads Health InnovatAR, a healthcare accelerator and early stage investment fund that immerses world class, early stage healthcare companies from around the country into Arkansas’ leading hospital systems and physician practices.
The son of two public school educators, and growing up on a large family farm, Todd focused his early years on education, basketball, and working on the farm. Earning a scholarship to play basketball at Ouachita Baptist University, he received a degree in Business Administration and Finance in 1993.
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