Never let a teacher’s opinion about your ability or your performance in school determine your future. This is what JR Rivera's story taught us.
JR’s teachers said he would never amount to anything. But in the years since, this straight "D" student who barely graduated high school has become a businessman living an extraordinary life of limitless possibilities.
Listen in and learn more about the way to success.
Read MoreWe all want to become high performers, people who achieve at levels well above the average. In this episode, Jeremy Slate tells us how to do just that!
Jeremy Slate is the founder of the Create Your Own Life Podcast, which studies the highest performers in the world. He was ranked #1 in iTunes New and #78 in the iTunes top 100. Jeremy’s podcast was named the #1 to listen to by INC Magazine in 2019, as well as being named a Top Influencer by Forbes.
After his success in podcasting, Jeremy and his wife Brielle founded Command Your Brand to help entrepreneurs get their message out by appearing as guests on podcasts.
Read MoreYou can dream about changing your country to the better, influence it and volunteer in it. OR you can make the decision to do it. That’s what Lead to Succeed guest Batsheva Moshe decided to do.
Batsheva is the GM of Wix in Israel, the leading cloud-based website creation and development platform with 220 million users worldwide. She also serves as Chairman of Yozmot Atid - a leading NGO that empowers women from underserved communities to establish small businesses and to become economically independent. Prior, Batsheva managed Poalim HiTech – the banking arm of Bank Hapoalim for startups and high-tech companies.
Batsheva was also CEO of Unistream, one of Israel's most influential and impactful NGOs that narrows the socio-economic gaps by empowering youth and young adults from underprivileged communities to establish startups and integrate into the Hitech industry.
Listen in and learn more about the mindset that entrepreneurs must have.
Read MoreYour age should never be an obstacle to your success. Nor should you ever be inauthentic in how you appear online. That’s what Lead to Succeed guest Cat Philp teaches. In this episode, Cat shares her young entrepreneurship journey accompanied with the power of authenticity in life – especially in work.
Cat, Young Entrepreneur of 2022, is the founder of Pivot Marketing, a social media and personal branding agency. She has been building her personal brand around authenticity and humanized marketing, with over 2M monthly views on LinkedIn and a digital presence of 45k across platforms, she is now travelling the world helping others build their online brands and working to make an impact on the education sector for the better.
Listen in and learn more about the success of young entrepreneurship.
Read MoreYour biggest asset it not your money, or even your business. It’s your time! You can always get more money but your time here on earth is limited. How can you make the most of it? And how can your family business serve as an asset to achieving your financial and fulfillment goals, assuming you even know what they are?
Good news! Lead to Succeed 95 guest Bruce Werner has the answers! Bruce is the Managing director of Kona Advisors LLC. Bruce provides strategic, governance, and owner advisory services to middle market businesses. His range of assignments has included governance, strategy, finance, M&A, workout, succession planning and all facets of family business consulting.
Bruce has the capacity to lead businesses from where they are to where they want to go by helping the owners define what they really, really want.
Listen in and learn more about governance and owner advisory services to middle market businesses.
Read MoreMore women need to have a seat on the table of wealth management and investments. So says Lead to Succeed guest Holly Mazzocca. Holly shares how women offer unique perspective and special gifts to the field of wealth management and investment planning.
Holly is the President, Wealth Advisor and Principal at Bartlett Wealth Management in Cincinnati, OH. As President, Holly builds upon Bartlett’s rich legacy to develop an innovative future. Recent initiatives include a program of services and events for women, called WEinvest™ (Women Empowered to Invest), as well as the launch of a podcast, ESG integration, and family office services.
Listen in and learn more about women and service in wealth management.
Read MoreA mastermind group creates a safe environment for members. Peers will encourage you to see your superpowers and help you by pointing at your blind spots, all so you can evolve.
This episode features Aaron Walker, businessman and life coach, founder of more than dozens of companies over the past 41 years. Aaron attributes much of his success to having surrounded himself with his mastermind counterparts.
When he first went to a mastermind group, Aaron didn’t want to share his story, he didn’t want the others to know his life’s issues, but it turned out that others were more screwed up than he was!
Read MoreVeterans generally struggle aligning their skillsets with the required credentials when transitioning back into the “civilian” world. Therefore, providing opportunities and trainings to help them navigate their credentials is important.
In this episode, Paul Huszar shares his experience working with veterans and the importance of creating an avenue for them. Paul is the CEO of VetCor, a restoration company focused on creating employment opportunities for veterans. He is also the CEO of Team VetCor which focuses on creating business ownership opportunities for veterans and their families through franchising VetCor.
As a retired officer himself, Paul graduated from West Point then served 23 years on active duty including four tours in Iraq. He commanded a 1,000+ Soldier and Airmen and last served as the Dean of the Army’s Engineer School. His passion is creating sustainable and meaningful employment opportunities, now business ownership opportunities for our nation’s heroes.
Listen in and learn the importance of creating opportunities for veterans.
Read MorePassion-driven dreams often don’t come easily. Most of the times, one must set it aside in order to pursue a more stable living and just comeback to it later on.
Sometimes, however, passion and purpose can go together. Lead To Succeed 87 with Leah DeVon explores how these two important concepts overlap.
Leah, who believes that navigating wisely between what you love and what you do for a living, is the Executive Producer and Host of Indie Style, a TV show that reaches and international audience.
As an independent recording artist and entrepreneur, Leah is dedicated to creating a positive show that gives successful entrepreneurs an opportunity to shine. She has successfully carved out a unique niche for herself as an independent recording artist opening for musical acts like Earth, Wind and Fire, Chaka Khan, Destiny's Child, and the Backstreet Boys just to name a few. Leah's impact reaches even further than the world of entertainment. As an educator for over 15 years, Leah has enhanced the lives of thousands of children through her teaching both in the classroom and online. She also writes and designs curricula for online English Language Arts Program.
Listen in and learn how to navigate your purpose and passion.
Read MoreFinding success in a field that is mostly dominated by men does not come easy.
What difference does it make when one surrounds herself with motivating people and focuses more on encouraging words?
Lead to Succeed 85 featuring Colonel Nicole Malachowski shows how words are infinitely powerful in making or breaking someone’s dream. Having transitioned from being a fighter pilot to being an entrepreneur, she also shares her journey as well as the challenges she faced.
Read MoreInvesting in startups can both be risky and rewarding.
To ensure a strong investment, it’s critical for venture capitalists to be able to distinguish a good investment from a bad one.
How can one tell when something is of high growth potential?
In this episode, Leib Bolel addresses this question as well as why it is important to invest in great leaders first.
Leib is a Partner at Grayhawk Capital, Arizona’s largest Venture Capital firm with a focus on investment in early growth stage software companies. Leib also serves as President of the Arizona Israel Technology Alliance overseeing the facilitation of growth in bilateral trade between the technology communities of Arizona and Israel.
With over a decade of experience in the area of new business development, startups, marketing, funding acquisition and general operations management, Leib has been instrumental in building organizations from the ground up.
Listen in and learn why investing in great leaders is more important than investing in great products.
Read MoreArtificial intelligence (AI) continues to revolutionize many industries. By integrating AI, businesses are presented with different opportunities to improve their day-to-day operations.
But what potentials does AI bring into the mental health area? Can it help cultivate meaningful conversations that will lead to solutions?
In this episode, Scott Sandland explains how AI can improve meaningful conversations. Scott is the CEO of Cyrano.ai, a company focusing on artificial empathy and strategic linguistics.
As a former head of a mental health clinic and longtime technologist, Scott has experience leading purpose driven organizations. He has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, Psychology Today, Forbes, and Entrepreneur Magazine.
Scott has presented his AI work at the United Nations AI for Global Good Conference and is a frequent guest lecturer at various universities.
Listen in and learn how talking solution is better than talking problems.
Read MoreThere are two kinds of reinventions that one can have; voluntary and involuntary. What type of reinvention have you had? In this episode, Dorie Clark joins me on the show to talk about reinventing yourself.
Dorie is a top communication coach and keynote speaker and teaches for the Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and Columbia Business School. She's an author of Entrepreneurial You, which was named one of the Forbes top five business books of the year and Reinventing You and Stand Out, which was named the number one leadership Book of the Year by Inc. Magazine. Dorie has been described by the New York Times as an expert at self-reinvention and helping others make changes in their lives.
In this episode, Dorie will share about the upcoming book in September, her career transition and reinvention process, how she handles failure, and her productivity keys.
Are you in the process of reinventing yourself? This episode is for you!
Read MoreWe all want to achieve success and to fulfill our unique purpose. But how exactly do we do that? Listen in as Mark Victor Hansen, entrepreneur, speaker, and acclaimed author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, answers this question and so much more!
Read MoreLeaders often use “top line” metrics, such as company size, number of employees and income, to measure their success. But what if there was something else – actual take-home profits – that should be the number one consideration? Best-selling author and serial entrepreneur Mike Michalowicz joined Lead to Succeed to share his take on this discussion, his quest to eradicate entrepreneurial poverty, and so much more!
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