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After growing up in Crimea, Dilyara Daminova became a successful entrepreneur in Uzbekistan while still in her early 20s. She got a green card to the U.S., and moved to the DMV area at 26.
Dilyara was confident in herself but met big obstacles in the US. Her English was to be improved and she didn’t have a local degree yet, which she got later in 2010. Early on, she struggled to land the most basic of jobs.
However, Dilyara found her way into real estate and it was her calling. She was recognized as a NOVA Real Producers Rising Star in early 2020, and her business has continued to grow.
Dilyara closed 79 transactions for $33 million in 2020 and 102 transactions for over $47 million in 2021. She is a DMV star and also a girl next door to any immigrant and entrepreneur like myself. I admire her grit and personal qualities like humility, positivity, and readiness to help! We will talk about her team expansion in 2023 and hacks and tips to invest in real estate, doing an effective digital marketing and succeed in selling homes and services! 

Dan Roberge is a results-driven President and CEO of multi-million-dollar international corporation with a key focus on sales, marketing and product development.  His extensive experience in building a company from the ground-up including establishing budgets, marketing image and strategy, business culture, sales processes, support protocols and development of a product tailored to industry needs, makes him a great resource for startups. 

As a co-founder of Gnxcor Inc., Dan helped build a facility management software company from the ground-up.  Including conceptualizing the software offering and all its upgrades, creating a company brand, initializing sales and support procedures, hiring staff and creating roles & responsibilities for a productive growing enterprise.  Initially, Dan designed all the marketing efforts including web presence, maximizing SEO, communication automation, customer retention, social marketing and press releases.  He developed requirements for product upgrades and worked directly with development team to manage timelines and budgets.  He also helped build a finance department to create a reliable and accountable financial model for maintaining a profitable balance sheet, cash flow and effective A/R and A/P including the successful multi-year application for SR&ED credits.  Dan learned everything about the business world with hands-on experience including providing daily sales presentations to thousands of potential customers via web or in person with business owners and C-Level executives among others. 

We talked about: how to find your niche, how to outsmart your competition, scaling the company internationally, finding the stakeholders' pain points and addressing them in order to close sales, how to structure and finance the startup.

Dinara Zhumabek is a principal co-founder of a wellness startup, connecting world class personal trainers with people like you and I. She has come up with this idea after solving her own problem of finding a great personal trainer and not go broke, while doing it. She is a private equity professional with transaction and turnaround experiencing in MENA, Central Asia & Turkey and Sub-Sahara Africa. Her professional experience includes - management consulting in top global consulting firms like McKenzie. She studied in the US, Japan and France and has a well rounded view of the world. She shared her experience being a female professional in a heavily male dominated world of private equity and her advice on how to be successful. 

Kanat Bektemirov is a tech entrepreneur, who graduated from University of Arkansas with 4.0 GPA and started his career at Amazon and Google. He has done a couple of his own startups and now works as a CTO for a company, connecting suppliers with big retail, helping CPG brands increase revenue, improve margins, and overall be happier by seamlessly introducing teams to modern digital thinking.

In this episode, you will learn:

1. How to get into competitive tech internships

2. How to use "failure" to build a better product

3. How he manages his team to achieve better results at Supplypike

0:40 Could you please share a little story about how you started and what kind of business do you have in your protfolio?

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What kind of job was it , when you left the house what was the first thing you did, did you go in New York and pursued your music?

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How did you evolve to the second business and become eventually profitable, what was your story there ?

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What do you think has really chained together in your partnership for celebrity style catering , what else did you compliment in terms of skills to each other ?

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Tell us more about that how you decide to start cooking , what does it give you today that idea of that you cook for your own company ?

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As a black entrepreneur what kind of specific challenges you’ve met that was specific for the black community and that nobody else usually faces and how do you deal with them what is your advice for the black entrepreneurial community?

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As an entrepreneur are there any books you would recommend to our audience and that you personally love?

With 20 years corporate leadership and 10 years into lifestyle change and rural business. Howard is a highly adaptable executive leader and manager having held a wide range of management roles during my career, including Finance, Sales, Marketing, Coach, Project & Programme Management, Strategy and Business Transformation.  Director and Managing Partner of a highly successful diversified rural business (Bowhayes Farm) including a specialist tree nursery (Bowhayes Trees).  Bowhayes Trees - is a well regarded UK grower of native and ornamental trees and hedging. With online, telephone and retail sales of trees and accessories across the UK and EU.  Additionally, within the 'Bowhayes Farm' business Howard have initiated a set of programmes to further the growth and evolution of a diversified rural business including, accommodation, cider production, orchard husbandry, rural business consultancy and performance coaching.

In this episode, you will learn: 

1. Purchasing process of a new business 

2. Managing staff in a farming environment 

3. Working as a team with a spouse 

4. Serving diverse clients and using government programs to grow your business

This is our Christmas special! Interview full of depth with an authentic human being, activist, an artist, philanthropist and entrepreneur. Andy Shallal the CEO and founder of Busboys and Poets, restaurant that unites and educates communities.

Andy moved to the United States from Iraq with his family in 1966. He graduated from Catholic University of America and later enrolled in Howard University medical school. Shallal earned his MBA from the University of Maryland. Shallal worked as researcher in medical immunology at the National Institute of Health. 

In this episode, you will learn:

1. What early experiences shaped the way Andy approaches entrepreneurship and life in general

2. What Andy learned from his sherpa on the way to his climb of Everest

3. Impact he made by running for Washington DC mayor position in 2014 and lessons learned

4. What were the early day challenges of Busboys and Poets

5. How he invests and what criteria are used for his portfolio

6. Andy's decision about involving family members in his business 

7. Who Andy finds inspiring and what plans he has for the future

As a leadership coach and Director of Executive Education and Coaching at George Washington University's Center for Excellence in Public Leadership, Ina Gjikondi is a change agent. Her passion is creating experiences for people around the world to awaken and enhance their leadership abilities and creative capacities. The goal: Bring the whole self — mind, body, soul, and spirit — into one’s life and work.   Life often involves transitions, and hers includes civil society activist, political organizer and lawyer in her native Albania, executive coach for an array of leaders in U.S. government, teacher, wife, and mother. The sum of those experiences has enriched her abilities to help people step into their creative realm and become the whole, present, and practical leaders they desire to be. Dream the work — and manifest it.  

In this episode, you will learn: 

1. How to champion and develop a completely new venture within the walls of an established organization 

2. When are the best times to pursue a new degree or seek new knowledge 

3. How e-Co Leadership Coaching differs from other types of coaching  

e-Co Leadership Coaching is a new vision for leadership and coaching in the world, providing the next generation of leaders, practitioners and organizations with a whole person and whole systems framework to deepen and expand consciousness in the world towards a flourishing One Humanity.  The e-Co framework is about expanding and contracting, an iterative, emergent process of discovery that supports the development of the inner and outer coherence in complex adaptive systems.  In this ICF Accredited Coach Training Program, participants work to develop an integrated worldview of coaching in systems while practicing with real-world clients, in organizations that are deeply committed to the Sustainable Development Goals, and who care to make a positive difference in the world.

Christina is an analytical marketer with creativity on the brain. She works exclusively with small businesses in the creative and cultural sectors, including creative retail brands, nonprofits, restaurants, and more. She has a passion for taking time to deeply understand a brand’s voice, mission, and goals, and helping them to uncover new strategies and increase engagement. Christina specializes in growing brand presence and driving sales through executing customized social media, email, and blog development strategies.  As a digital expert with a BA in English from Columbia University, MBA in marketing from Emory University, and over a decade of experience working as a museum curator and in other roles at cultural and creative corporations, she is uniquely positioned to understand and address the digital marketing challenges and goals of creatives and creative businesses  

In this episode, you will learn: 

1. Our guest's journey from a museum curator to a corporate marketing strategist to a business owner 

2. Strategies used to figure out your target customer and ways to work in your niche 

3. Special tips to recent immigrants on how to integrate into business communities and create your own in your business field 

4. Local events and organizations that will be helpful, if you are a local business in Greater Washington DC area

Vladimir Chen is a dad, a husband, a life and leadership coach, an Ironman and a long-distance swimmer. After almost twenty years of working in the IT industry, Vladimir decided to dedicate his life to inspiring collective growth and elevating human consciousness in the world. Having once felt stuck and unclear of his direction in life, he is now devoted to supporting others in their journeys of transformation. Vladimir enjoys facilitating people’s insights and personal growth via coaching, speaking and conducting workshops. When he is not writing or working with his clients, he likes to read a good book, swim indoors or outdoors and spend time with his family. He is a young parent and sees his kids as his greatest teachers in life.

In this episode, you will learn:

• Self publishing and how to succeed
• Leadership lessons from Vladimir Chen
• Journey of an immigrant who has become a life coach and an author

Brandon Leibowitz runs and operates SEO Optimizers since 2007. It is a digital marketing company that focuses on helping small and medium-sized businesses get more online traffic, which in turn converts into clients, sales, leads, etc.

In this episode, you will learn:

1. How to upload content, blogs, photos and videos on different platforms like Facebook, Youtube, podcasting, Spotify, Instagram, Pinterest, TikTok in a way that will give you most advantage with each platform's algorithms

2. Why you should be developing original content and what to do if you are not very good at writing or making videos

3. What are the first essential steps in constructing your website, as means to increase number of sales you can generate for free

You have already met Brian Landau from our previous episode https://anchor.fm/open-school-of-business/episodes/What-app-will-help-you-stay-sane-during-COVID-19-pandemic-and-other-situations-in-life-edojnt/a-a24ov2a , where he shared his app, Vennly, like in many start-ups within a year, they implemented a major pivot and used their core competencies to create a complete new product for a new target customer. Tune in to find out more details of their exciting journey In this episode, you will learn: 1. How to meet corporate clients and get them interested in your product 2. What are the internal corporate podcasts and how to use them 3. Agility, as a factor for a resilient start-up

Michelle Thompson went from being an MBA graduate to having a second-grade IQ level overnight after suffering from a life-altering stroke at only 36 years of age. Literally starting her life over again, she’s had to learn how to automate and outsource as much as humanly possible. Now she’s on a mission to help others find freedom from all the unnecessary tasks they do, using the strategies and systems she’s successfully created for herself.

After receiving her bachelor’s in counseling from Valley Forge University, she went on to earn her MBA in finance and entrepreneurship from Ashford University. After suffering a life-altering stroke, she left her corporate career and built systems to help her navigate day to day life and business. Combining her strategies with her talents of untangling peoples problems to create actionable and easy to follow plans for them to hand things off, her business Awesome Outsourcing, LLC was born.

Michelle teaches people how to delegate and outsource tasks correctly so they can gain back their time and their lives. Awesome Outsourcing, LLC specializes in organic Facebook and LinkedIn lead generation, creating omnipresent content for entrepreneurs, and virtual administrative services.

Her courses include how to delegate tasks to others without a dip in quality or the need to micromanage, helping clients hire, train, and manage a team, and how to hand tasks off to be magically delivered back, completed.

In this episode, you'll discover:

• How to hire a virtual assistant and figure out what to delegate
• Systems can assist someone with stroke recovery and can assist with business goals
• Secrets to hiring and matching virtual assistants

Founded 4 startups, managed e-commerce company with 150 000 000 USD of annual gross-billings and 300 employees. Business mentor.

In this episode, you will learn:

1. How Chocolife.me discount coupon service of Kazakhstan has achieved success despite of scepticism of many

2. What were the mistakes made in the beginning of their journey 

3. Why Gennadiy Kim left the company at its highest peak and looked for new startup ideas  

4. Kuhnyas, platform for cooking classes from chefs, and how it was built

Dan Norenberg is an executive and strategic leadership team advisor, coach and author of “Executive Ownershift, Creating Highly Effective Leadership Teams”.

Has over 30 years of managerial experience and shared his views on how to develop the right leadership skills and leadership teams for companies.

In this episode, you will learn:

1. Why team coaching is more effective than the individual

2. Which team you should be loyal to, the one you manage or the one you belong, as an executive

3. When is the right time to take a leap of faith and start your own business

4. What are the steps to take if you think of writing a book

Amy Zander is a CEO and Founder of Zeedia Media, marketing services company. She is a serial-entrepreneur who has owned five businesses. Some worked out, some didn’t, one she sold, and for the last several years Amy has built a full-time gig doing the one she loves the most – marketing.
More specifically – supporting business owners and creative people in their marketing efforts so they have the time to focus on doing what they love – and to actually have a life outside of work.

In this episode, you will learn:

1. Brand archetypes and how this concept can help you create consistent content that communicates your brand

2. Emotions and words, corresponding to you brand archetype

3. How to combine certain archetypes and create your own unique one

4. Inspirational advice from our guest, Amy Zander, about dealing with imposter syndrome

5. Tips for working with family and what Amy thinks about family business

6. Management philosophy that has made Amy successful 

Sales Expert, Ryann Dowdy, helps 7 and 8 figure CEO’s generate daily sales on demand WITHOUT more of their time, by building + training high-performing sales teams. Ryann is passionate about helping successful business owners take back control of the revenue in their business, their time, and their freedom by building a profitable sales team. With her business partner, Kelly Roach, they are on a mission to free CEO’s from the role of sales person in their business.

In this episode, you will learn:

• Selling hacks from a sales expert
• How to screen talent when hiring sales teams
• Developing relationships prior sales

 Dr. David Vago is Research Associate Professor and Director of the Contemplative Neuroscience and Mind-Body (CNMB) Research Laboratory in the Department of Psychology at Vanderbilt University. He is core training faculty for the Vanderbilt Brain Institute and Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology, and Inflammation. Dr. Vago maintains a research associate position in the Functional Neuroimaging Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Vago is also Research Lead for the mental health and well-being platform, Roundglass. Dr. Vago has previously held the position of Research Director at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Vanderbilt and Senior Research Coordinator for the Mind & Life Institute. Dr. Vago is currently a Mind and Life Fellow, supporting the Mind and Life mission by advising on strategy and programs. He is also a consultant for the mindfulness, well-being, and psychedelic research and industry community. He received his Bachelors Degree in Brain and Cognitive Sciences in 1997 from the University of Rochester. In 2005, David received his Ph.D. in Cognitive and Neural Sciences with a specialization in learning and memory from the department of Psychology, University of Utah. Dr. Vago has completed post-doctoral fellowships in Biological and Social Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatric Neuroimaging, and Mind and Body Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Weill Cornell Medical School, and University of Utah School of Medicine. David’s research interests broadly focus on utilizing translational models to identify and characterize neurobiological and psychosocial mechanisms underlying adaptive mind-brain-body interactions and their therapeutic relevance in the context of mental health and chronic pain. Through mixed methods of neuroimaging, predictive computational modeling, neuroendocrine biomarker identification, cognitive-behavioral and first-person phenomenological analyses, Dr. Vago helps facilitate a multi-pronged research program in basic science, clinical trials, intervention development, education, and innovation. He has been a recipient of several research grants from the NIH and small foundations, has published over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles, chapters, and science abstracts. His research has been covered by mainstream news outlets such as the Huffington Post, Boston Globe, Newsweek, Scientific American, and NPR, among others. As a thought leader in the field of integrative health and mindfulness research, Dr. Vago has given over 150 keynote and invited lectures, oral presentations, and grand rounds. A number of research initiatives that are ongoing, include Mapping the Meditative Mind, in which the Dr. Vago has partnered with contemporary meditation teachers and scholars to investigate psychosocial and neurobiological mechanisms supporting states of meditation across the spectrum of formal meditative expertise. Another initiative aims to identify mechanisms of engagement, identify predictors for clinical outcomes, and optimize mindfulness-based treatment interventions. Dr. Vago and his research team at Roundglass are building analytical tools for tracking health and well-being outcomes. Partner with Dr. Vago and Roundglass today In this episode, you will learn:

1. David is going to guide us as to why you should be meditating and be mindful and how you will see the evolution of your own personality in this process.

2. How do we let it go and how do we not get angry

3. Dalai Lama's style of communication and some wisdom shared during their work together

Odile Faludi is a Keynote Speaker, Corporate Trainer, and Cold Calling Expert, she call herself Starting Customer Conversations Specialist, who Turns Walls into Open Doors! 

In this episode, you will learn:

• How to get your prospects interested in your service or product
• How to get their attention and book a call with you
• What to do if your potential clients give you a pushback
• How her full time job paved the way to her own business
• Why Odile Faludi is hiring now

a Digital Marketer & SEO Specialist by profession and an entrepreneur from heart. Every brand has stories to tell—stories that will not only engage, inform, surprise, and impact their audience, but that will also deliver on measurable business goals. Shiv is the conduit between brand and consumer. His tech-enabled SEO & Marketing Services help businesses grow by getting more online leads, calls, and revenue. He helps clients find the subject and medium that best fits their unique identity, and then I produce results that meet their objectives.

In this episode, you will learn:

• How to implement SEO strategy that works for small businesses and make them stand out
• Unique client retention techniques that will help you work around premium subscriptions
• Organic transition from a field expert to a digital marketing agency owner

How a former Federal Reserves Economist breaks into the mobile game making

Toby and Chris Madden are a father and a son duo, bringing educational video games and social media accounts to market through their Good Future LLC venture

In this episode, you will learn:

1. How to use customers' feedback to test out your product before launch

2. How supply, demand, profit, margins and other economy concepts can be taught through a game

3. Selling to your existing network and also reaching out to new networks like Chris is doing with his entrepreneurial game and linking to "All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg"

4. How knowing and talking to your target customer can guarantee your results

5. Leveraging social media niches like intellectual content on TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@anar.kay? 

Terry McDougall, PCC, MBA is an executive and career success coach with a marketing background. Author of "Winning the game of work: career happiness and success on your terms. She led marketing functions at financial organizations like Wachovia, BMO Financial Group, etc. Now she is the owner of "Terry D. McDougall" coaching and consulting company.

In this episode, you will learn:

1. How dissatisfaction with your current work can lead you to a new business or new career opportunity

2. Why high performing managers who hit their ceiling in their careers consult with Terry

3. How career coaches can become your mirror into your behaviour, thus creating awareness as an impulse for change

4. How to create multiple streams of income as a solopreneur

Stay for the hidden gems throughout the episode to win Terry's book "Winning the game of work: career happiness and success on your terms." 

Follow us on LinkedIn to share this episode and will be randomly selected to receive this book for Christmas and start 2022 with a new energy and plan!

Ashwath Narayanan is the Founder & CEO of Social Currant, a DC based creative studio that works with nonprofits and social impact organizations to help them tackle emerging media platforms like TikTok, Reels & Influencer Marketing. Social Currant has worked with numerous clients, from the first Chief HR Officer at LinkedIn to large national nonprofits. Ashwath is also a Senior Advisor to DC Arch Angels, an angel investing group in DC.

Ashwath was also named on the 25 Under 25 DC Class of 2021 Inno list, was a Forbes 30 Under 30 Fellow in 2019, & is a Senior majoring in Journalism at The George Washington University's School of Media & Public Affairs.

In this episode, you will learn:

1. How to bootstrap a startup while in college

2. What inspired Ashwath to develop this idea into a venture 

3. Using power of micro influencers for your business or charity project

Brooke Yoakam is founder of GiftPocket, the award-winning digital wallet app that allows users to manage all of their gift cards from their phone, pay with their gift cards in stores or online, exchange unwanted gift cards for gift cards they want, and send gift cards to people. Brooke Yoakam founded GiftPocket when she was 12 years old, after receiving a bunch of unwanted gift cards from elder relatives and knew there was a gap in the digital wallet space. GiftPocket and its namesake currency  GP Points™, is focused on young adults, who predominantly use gift cards as their main form of currency, but is available to all ages. The app, as a digital wallet, seamlessly helps manage the cards for use in person and online. She is currently a student at Boston College, and originally from Columbus, Ohio. The GiftPocket app is available on both iOS and Android platforms, with more information available at www.GiftPocket.com.

In this episode:

1. How to start your own business at 12

2. How to prepare for the pitch competitions

3. What qualities you need to nurture to become a successful entrepreneur 

Amazing story of finding true authentic calling and executing it with accountant's pragmatism. Kareemah Woodard, an auditor with over 15 years of experience shares her story of starting a fitness business. Her "The Well Fit Pro" company now focuses on delivering fitness, nutrition and wellness to their clients. Kareemah is a passionate and enthusiastic wellness professional with 10 years of experience in group exercise and dance fitness instruction and five years of experience in nutrition coaching for community and corporate wellness programs. Described by her students as “The HIITmaker,” she lives to make high-intensity interval training classes both fun and effective.

Also, she has a background in teaching children, senior citizens, and the general adult population. She holds Zumba certifications in STRONG by Zumba, Zumba® Fitness, Zumba® Sentao, Zumba® Kids, and Kids Jr. Kareemah is a certified barre instructor and a certified Pound Rockout. Workout Fitness Professional. Kareemah is also a certified nutrition coach through Plate by Zumba, a program developed by leading wellness professionals Dr. Mark Hyman and Dr. Neal Barnard. As a part of her fitness and wellness programs, Kareemah promotes a holistic mindset about exercise and nutrition, includes exercise, nutrition consultation, and wellness workshops. Kareemah is currently pursuing her certification in nutrition from the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM).

"You have to take discipline as your key to freedom!"

In this episode, you will learn:

1. Ways to find your calling by balancing skills, values, interests

2. Discipline as a driving force of keeping your business alive

3. How to take advantage of new market niches and opportunities 

In this episode, you will learn:

1. Different types of buyers and how they evaluate your business

2. What you should do in order to have a sellable business and be able to retire when you want

3. Ways to attract buyers and figure out the "fair" price for your enterprise 

Marvin L. Storm has founded, acquired, scaled, and exited businesses during his career. After exiting his last business, he planned to enjoy life, but after a brief stint in the slow lane he realized that sitting on the sidelines wasn’t his style.

After considering his options, he felt that leveraging his decades of startup, operational, and C-suite experience could help entrepreneurs launch, scale their business, create enterprise value, and then execute a successful and profitable business exit.

He has developed strategies entrepreneurs can use to substantially increase their business enterprise value and profitably exit their business. Also, he will be publishing a publishing a book next year titled: Pack Your Parachute – How to Double the Amount of Money You Put in Your Pocket When You Sell Your Business

In this episode, you will learn: 1. Ways to apply your skillset from a full-time job in building multiple businesses 2. Starting a business in a foreign country can be a challenge and also a success factor due to energy and lifestyle change 3. Pivoting and transition during the pandemic that saved the business and let Dr. Andrea Pennington thrive and be there for her clients during tough times

Dr Andrea Pennington trained in the USA as a physician, acupuncturist and medical journalist. She pioneered the integration of traditional medical care with acupuncture, positive psychology, cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness training and meditation.  Andrea spoken about vitality and resilience on the Oprah Winfrey Show, the Dr Oz Show, ITV’s This Morning, CNN, The Today Show, and Thrive Global and multiple TEDx events.  Her holistic process for stress and burnout recovery has been taught to thousands of people around the world in clinical settings, group programs and at the International University of Monaco. The Cornerstone Process also helps those who grew up with family dysfunction, had adverse childhood experiences or alcoholic parents to heal from trauma and reconnect to their Authentic Self.  In8Vitality combines all successful holistic treatment methods into one place, changing the way we approach mental health and giving the power back to the patient to take ownership of their own recovery. This lowers the risk of absenteeism, high healthcare expenditures, increased morbidity and mortality for individuals, companies and national economies.

Welcome back to Fall 2021 with Open School of Business! Stay tuned for more interviews on hands on tips and advise to people who want to transition from a full time day job into starting your own business!  Today we discussed pivoting from public accountant services firm to a tech company, which developed software simplifying processes and helping small business owners.  Giundiuz Osmanov, CEO of NumberSquad has shared the following in this episode:    1. How to use your skills and expertise to build your own empire 2. Challenges and benefits of working with co-founders 3. Pivot, how to do it right

Welcome back to Fall 2021 with Open School of Business! Stay tuned for more interviews on hands on tips and advise to people who want to transition from a full time day job into starting your own business!  Today we discussed the matters of tax and finance with Ainel Forni, a rare ACCA qualified International Tax Expert with 15 years of international tax experience across industries and regions. Currently, she works for the University of the Arts, London and resides in London, UK. She started her tax advisory career at the PriceWaterhouseCoopers in 1997 and has continued on focusing on a niche that is highly in demand and requires continues learning and improvement. Since then she has worked for strong brands and complex worldwide operations like British Gas, Shell, Halliburton, Acer, GSK, etc. Today we shared the strategies in dealing with taxation in the following scenarios: 1. If you offer digital content, consumed and paid for by citizens of different countries 2. If you ship goods to different countries 3. If you offer webinars and live events, to which people from any country can sign-up

Dr. Jeffrey A. Barnes is a #1 bestselling author & captivating keynote speaker that engages audiences with lessons learned from Walt Disney. Jeff uses the magical story of Walt Disney, Disneyland, and Walt Disney World to challenge audiences to think bigger, expand their expectations, and to never stop dreaming!

One of his major keynote topics is on the power of resiliency and overcoming obstacles and adversity. Jeff shows audiences around the world how they can do the next right thing and start building their great, big, beautiful tomorrow. Jeff speaks to all types of groups, from CEOs to educators, challenging and teaching them and their teams to live their dreams, take action, and to create their own magic so that every day can be as magical as a day at Disneyland.

Jeff is the best-selling author of two books: 'The Wisdom of Walt: Leadership Lessons from the Happiest Place on Earth' and 'Beyond the Wisdom of Walt: Life Lessons from the Most Magical Place on Earth'. Both books are based on the life of Walt Disney and the creation of the Disney theme parks. Known as Dr. Disneyland, Jeff attributes his passion for Disney to his love of history and Walt’s story of success. Jeff believes the parks teach us some of life’s greatest lessons.

Jeff also works as a higher education administrator, university professor, and leadership and success coach. He has taught more than twenty different college courses, as well as writing and developing his dream course, the History of Disneyland, leading numerous teams in both campus growth and retention.

Tune in for an inspiring story of a young boy who turned up at the doors of college with nothing, but 20$ in his pockets, went through Undergraduate, Masters, PhD degrees and became a Professor at several universities in California.

In this episode, you will learn:

1. What makes 70% of Walt Disney clients keep coming back to the parks?

2. Every good story requires conflict, how to live the best story you could ever imagined

3. What was the biggest dragon Jeffrey had to slay on his journey as an author?

4. How far confidence and "nothing to lose" attitude can take you 

Anvitha Parasad is a founder of social venture "Circle of Giving" strives to promote economic independence for the underserved artisans in Channapatna, India by buying their craft, selling it in the US at a marked up price, and giving the profits back to the community. Additionally, she was a Consultant at MZZ Venture GWU, an organization on campus that provides pro bono consulting work for startups in emerging markets. Along with this, I am the finance chair for GW Chamak, a multi cultural dance group that has South Asian roots.

In this episode, you will learn:

1. How to develop your children's entrepreneurial passion by exposing them to different cultures and environments

2. How career and entrepreneurship can be complementary to each other

3. How to find passion and turn it into a venture

4. Power of pivot, as a strategy to keep going

Sherrin Ingram is the Chief Strategy Officer of the International Center for Strategic Planning, a management firm specializing in sustainable scaling for aggressive growth companies and comprehensive restructuring for distressed companies. In her role as CSO, she oversees the development and support of all strategic initiatives for client companies. Ms. Ingram currently serves as Chairman of the Board of DHA Management, Inc. and Chairman of the Board of the DuPage Housing Authority. Previously, she served as Of Counsel to a national law firm, Chair of a CEO Advisory Board with Vistage International, Chairman of the Board for the Foundation for Real Nutrition and Sustainable Living, and an Advisory Board member at Whittier College. She has a history of award-winning performance as a visionary leader for strategic planning, risk management and spearheading profitable growth as high as 43% annually. Ms. Ingram is an NACD Governance Fellow, a Baldridge Examiner, and has been recognized as a "Top 100 Women of Influence" in 2020 and a "Top 100 under 50 Executive Leaders" in 2015 by Diversity MBA Magazine.  

In this episode, you will learn: 

1. Secrets to effective hiring decisions  

2. How to engage your remote teams, esp. during the pandemic 

3. Ways to step up your career as a speaker and an author  

4. Gratitude attitude is the key to a meaningful life and a successful business

Interview with Cecilia Flores. Winner of M12’s Female Founders Competition Best US SaaS Enterprise M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund Tech entrepreneur, Co-Founder at Webee, a technology company that increases the visibility, sustainability, and efficiency of industrial operations. 15 years of experience in global marketing and communications helping large enterprises as a cultural connection within countries and various regions. Specialized in comprehensive corporate communications and lead programs specifically related to revenue generation through digital strategies.

In this episode, you will discover:

• How to win tech competitions and be able to show your value even when your background is not tech
• About founding a start up and running a business with your spouse
• Thoughts on raising funds and creating value

As the founder and leader of the growing Hestia Realtors, Principal Broker and Commercial Director Maria Fernanda Delgado is bringing 18 years of hands-on skills in the real estate arena. She is currently serving as President of the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals (NAHREP) Washington DC Chapter. In this interview, Maria tells us about graduating with her Masters in Computer Science from American University on her last month of pregnancy with her first child, her career as an IT project manager and pivotal career change that made her a successful business owner today. Moreover, her decision to move into real estate business was concurrent to her divorce and responsibility to raise three kids as a single mom. In this episode, you will learn: 1. How to juggle family, professional growth and career advancement as a single parent 2. What mindset can help you go through tough times and come out stronger 3. How to raise successful children while being a bread-winner

Mladen Maksic is a SEO consultant and CEO at Play Media. He has worked with numerous clients from startups to Fortune 500 companies, from Procter & Gamble to Royal Dutch Shell, creating marketing strategies and helping them take their businesses to the top of Google for most competitive keywords.

In this episode, you will learn:

• How to create a culture where every employee with a good idea can become a founder of a new start-up
• Why big companies hire digital marketing agencies for employee engagement projects
• How to respond to inadequate reviews on your social media or google business pages

Recommendation reading:

• Lost and founder by Rand Fishkin
• Lean Start-Up by Eric Ries
• Books by Simon Sinek
• The snowball Warren Buffet and the Business Life by Alice Shroeder
• Tipping point by Malcolm Gladwell

Dr. Nadya Zhexembayeva helps people & organizations turn change & disruptions into an opportunity - and a source of real competitive advantage - again and again. As a consultant, Nadya has helped such organizations as The Coca-Cola Company, ERG, Kohler, L'Oreal, IBM, CISCO, Erste Bank, Henkel, Knauf Insulation & many others to reinvent their products, processes, & leadership practices.
As an educator, Nadya personally contributed to the development of more than 10,000 executives from over 60 countries & 20 industries. For nearly 10 years, Nadya taught courses in leadership, strategy & sustainability at IEDC- Bled School of Management, an executive education center based in the Slovene Alps, where she also served as the Coca-Cola Chaired Professor of Sustainable Development. In addition to IEDC, Nadya has been teaching in business schools around the world, including Case's Weatherhead School of Management (USA), IPADE Business School (Mexico), and CEDEP (France), where she also contributes to the Academic Committee of the school. 

In this episode, you will learn:

1. How Reinvention methodology can turn change into opportunity for people and organizations 

2. What is Nadya's philosophy on balancing life and work as a working mother and a joint business owner with her husband

3. How you can join the network of Chief Reinvention Officers and start helping your company and your clients

To start your reinvention journey, please, follow this link: 

https://www.learn2reinvent.com/handbook

1.  Andy Kaufman (People and Projects)

2.  Elise Stevens (Fix My Project Chaos and Age Defying Careers)

3.  Joe Pusz (Project Management Office Hours)

4.  Kate Anderson (Project Management Happy Hour) maybe you could alternate in representing the podcast?

5.  Kim Essendrup (Project Management Happy Hour)

6.  Kendall Lott (The PM Point of View)

In this episode, you will learn:

1. Individual podcast information,  target audience, number of listens or downloads so far, unique value proposition, how many years you have been doing it, business model, monetization strategies
2. What were the early day challenges and how have you overcome them?
3. What are the current challenges and new developments in your podcast?
4. What do you see as an ideal future for your podcast?