The Syntax Show with Jon Tota

Phil Johnson is the founder and CEO of the Master of Business Leadership Coaching Program, and a renowned advisor on leadership and emotional intelligence .

Phil has proven over the past two decades that there's an underlying energy physics that can make emotional intelligence and inspirational leadership as predictable and quantifiable as any physical science.

Listen to learn the importance and impacts of emotional intelligence and tips from an industry insider.

Connect with Phil at https://www.linkedin.com/in/philipjpjohnson/

Sonciary Perez is the Co-Founder of Quala.io, the only customer success platform powered by frontline intelligence.

Quala's mission is to innovate the traditional customer success model by combining intelligence from customer facing teams with client data to create workflows for better service.

Listen to learn about Sonciary's journey as a tech founder from her first company, Promoboxx, to Quala today, and the challenges and changes in the industry, as well as her advice to new startups..

Visit https://www.quala.io/ to learn more.

Shireen Jaffer is the co-founder and CEO of Edvo and a serial entrepreneur, investor, and startup mentor who founded her first company when she was just 18 years old. Edvo's mission is to help us all make more sense of the world online and around us. It's a personal learning platform that's designed to help people learn and think better.

Listen to learn about Shireen's mission to help the world learn and her entrepreneurial journey.

Visit https://www.edvo.com/ to learn more.

This week Jon sits down with Holly Anne Mitchell, the founder and chief empathy officer of The LeadWell Network where she's helping dental practices transform their practices and profits through the principles of compassionate culture and operational leadership.

Listen to learn about Holly's journey self-hypnosis and her new book on the topic: 'Try Self-Hypnosis.'

Visit https://www.hollyannemitchell.com/ to learn more.

This week Jon sits down with Alicia Butler Pierre, the founder and CEO of Equilibria, a global operations management firm, specializing in optimizing business infrastructure and processes for fast-growing business.

Alicia began with a background in chemical engineering as a process engineer. Looking beyond the oil refinery, she decided to get her MBA and move to Atlanta to start her business. Now Alicia's company acts as a process engineer for growing and scaling small businesses using techniques like Lean and Six Sigma and a new methodology called Kasennu.

Visit https://aliciabutlerpierre.com/ to learn more.

This week Jon sits down with Josh Little, a serial entrepreneur who has scaled up and sold three businesses in the learning and communication space. Volley combines the flexibility of texting with the richness of in-person communication. The app is an asynchronous video messaging platform, so users can have face-to-face conversations without having to speak in real time.

In addition to pushing the boundaries with communication apps, Josh is also a fifth-generation artisan pickler and brine master. 

Listen in to learn about video chat with a twist, and a whole lot about pickles.

Visit https://www.volleyapp.com/ to learn more.

This week Jon sits down with Jeff Wald, an entrepreneur who has started three technology companies including WorkMarket, which was sold to ADP in 2018. A graduate of Harvard Business School and Cornell, Jeff has been on the boards of multiple tech companies and seen multiple acquisitions of his businesses.

In this episode, Jeff talks about remote work, worker engagement, and retraining.

Visit jeffwald.com to learn more.

This week Jon has a conversation with Bryan Clayton, CEO of Greenpal - the Uber for Lawncare.

Greenpal links local landscaping and mowing businesses with customers through an easy to use app and website. With over 200,000 active users and $20 million a year in revenue, Clayton's journey started with mowing lawns as a teen in 1995. Listen to how Bryan built and sold Peachtree Inc, one of the largest landscaping companies in Tennessee, went into the tech business, and decided to bring his expertise full circle. 

Learn more about Greenpal by visiting https://www.yourgreenpal.com/

This week, Jon sits down with author, speaker, and fellow podcast host Dave Menz, the Laundromat Millionaire. 

Listen to Dave talk about scaling up and maximizing your profit. Learn as an entrepreneur about chasing your dreams and finding opportunities in business.

Visit laundromatmillionaire.com to learn more.

Happy Wednesday! Today, Jon has a conversation with speaker, presentation coach, and business storytelling expert Dave Bricker. Dave is also the founder of Remarkable Stories, a business transformation consulting firm teaching writers, speakers, professionals, and visionaries how to craft and share remarkable stories that connect, engage, and succeed.

Starting as a screenwriter, Dave decided to teach the narrative process to help people succeed in their personal and business goals. Hear how using the power of story, one can an audience's "hijack consciousness" and set the narrative.

Find out more at https://storysailing.com/

Happy Wednesday! Today, Jon and fellow podcast host Nathalie Botros join up to talk about spreading happiness on a daily basis. Nathalie is a happiness coach, the host of the Say Yes Be Happy podcast, author of "If you are what you eat, should I eat a skinny girl?", and founder of lifestyle brand The Bon-Vivant Girl.

Nathalie was born in LA. Raised in Turkey, studied in Switzerland, then went on to enjoy life and her career in Italy, before landing in New York city, her uniquely diverse lifestyle makes it easy for her to connect with different cultures.

Listen as Jon and Nathalie discuss staying happy and positive every day, the effects of social media on the human psyche, and the launch of her online course Hungry for Happy.

Find out more at https://www.thebon-vivantgirl.com/

Rahul Aggarwal is a serial entrepreneur, marketer, investor and advisor to startups. His latest project is helping found Mission Oxygen, to help solve the COVID-19 crisis in India. He founded Design Hill in 2013, which has grown into one of the world's top creative marketplaces. 

Using his skills in logistics and branding, he teamed up with other entrepreneurs from the Delhi region of India to tackle the oxygen shortage in hospitals. Now the focus of the organization is providing medical equipment and funds, raising money for the training of medical professionals, and enabling more vaccinations across the country.

A thanks to Rahul for taking the time to talk with us, and for taking on such a great initiative, and best of luck!

Find out more at https://www.missionoxygen.org/

This week we have AMZ Advisers co-founder Michael Begg. AMZ Advisers has decades of combined experience created a straightforward system designed to generate huge increases in traffic, conversions and, most importantly, revenue by pulling the biggest Amazon marketing levers.

Learn more at http://calendly.com/amzadvisers/amazon-strategy-call/ and https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMmB2MhZiVmjMhd4KN2YrKw.

On today's episode, Jon sits down with Dan Mangena. Dan is a best-selling author, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and public speaker. He is completely self-made and has spent decades perfecting his world-class coaching methodology. His books, podcasts, events & retreats continue to help captains-of-industry and private individuals alike live an abundant, joyful, purpose-driven life. He offers many unique and effective free tools via his website.