Rising Tide Startups

Another great Rising Tide Startups podcast convo with another great guest - Ravi Patel, Co-Founder of SINA Hospitality. Ravi is responsible for hotel management, hotel project management, asset management, hotel development, contract negotiations and construction at SINA Hospitality. In this role, he is responsible for all of SINA Hospitality’s properties, which include the Intercontinental, Hilton, Choice, and Marriott brands. Ravi also serves on the prestigious Fairfield Inn Franchise Advisory Council for Marriott. Ravi is based out of our Richmond, VA Headquarters. Learn more at sinahospitality.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Joe Valley, of Quiet Light Brokerage. Joe is a serial entrepreneur, EXITpreneur, author, advisor, and partner at Quiet Light Brokerage, one of the leading online-focused M&A firms in the world. He has built, bought, and sold over a half dozen companies of his own, and has helped thousands of online entrepreneurs achieve their goals. His most recent book, The EXITpreneur's Playbook is the first mergers and acquisitions book focused solely on online businesses. The book helps online entrepreneurs understand the real value of their business and reverse engineer a path to an eventual maximum value exit. Gino Wickman, author of Traction and Founder of EOS call it "A must-read for online entrepreneurs" Learn more at exitpreneur.io and centurica.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Ryan Obernesser. Ryan is the CEO of O.B. Training Inc., Gym Profits LLC, and creator of the Take Back Your Life 6 Week Challenge program. Over the last decade, Ryan and his wife Christina, have built O.B. Training into a specialty training facility that transforms the minds, body’s and lives of every adult that walks through their doors. In that time, O.B. Training has grown into a profit machine. Churning out multiple 6-figures in profits each year despite being located in Utica, NY - a city Forbes named the third-worst place for small business and careers in the U.S. in 2015. Learn more at: ryanob.com gymprofittakeoff.com obtraining.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups podcast is Chris Godsall. Chris is the President of iVirtual and former CEO and Founder of Triton Logging. Learn more at iVirtual.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Bill Woolsey, founder of FiveTwo. With decades of experience in starting and leading ministries, churches and networks, Bill now invests his life in men and women who want to reach people for Jesus in new, creative ways. After serving congregations in the Midwest, he and his family planted CrossPoint Community Church in Houston, a congregation that led his denomination (LCMS) in baptisms for much of the 2000s. In 2009 he led the launch of FiveTwo, a network that helps men and women grow their God-given dreams into ministries and businesses that last. Bill authored “Seven Steps to Start” a practical how-to start book written from a front-row seat of over 30 years of outreach experience. He and his wife of 34 years, Julie, have 3 children: Timothy, and his wife, Caitlyn; Abigail, her husband Nick and son, Ezra; and Samuel. Website - fivetwo.com Course - startnewcourse.com

We are excited to have a BOGO deal on the podcast today, with husband and wife team, Carrie Bohlig and Craig Clickner, founders of Tandem Consulting. They are a Midwestern husband & wife duo, running their companies, teaching mindset from their book ‘So You Want to Start A Side Hustle’, having meaningful conversations on their podcast Tandem Talks, traveling the world doing keynotes & growing their non-profit Tandem Giving, focusing on advocacy adoption for older children without families. They are a team. Their genesis began when a world-traveling, preschool teaching feminist met an admittedly analytical commercial banker. It was a beautiful collision of empath meets analyst. They realized that if they wanted to create an exceptional life, with choices and autonomy, they had to go out of bounds on the mainstream “go to school and get a good job” adage. Since they were not hardcore enough to quit their jobs and attempt to gut out a startup, they instead jumped into the world of moderate entrepreneurship, meaning they started their first wave of side hustles. Based on their vision they merged strengths/ personalities & entered the entrepreneurial jungle—together. Learn more at - tandemconsulting.co https://linktr.ee/tandemconsulting http://tandemconsulting.co/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/carriebohlig/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-clickner/ https://www.instagram.com/tandem.consulting/

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is David Wachs. David is a serial entrepreneur, David's latest venture, Handwrytten, is bringing back the lost art of letter writing through scalable, robot-based solutions that write your notes in pen. Developed as a platform, Handwrytten lets you send notes from your CRM system, such as Salesforce, the web site, apps, or through custom integration. Used by major meal boxes, eCommerce giants, nonprofits and professionals, Handwrytten is changing the way brands and people connect. Learn more at Handwrytten.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups podcast is Bryan Clayton. Bryan is CEO and cofounder of GreenPal an online marketplace that connects homeowners with Local lawn care professionals. GreenPal has been called the “Uber for lawn care” by Entrepreneur magazine and has over 200,000 active users completing thousands of transactions per day. Before starting GreenPal Bryan Clayton founded Peachtree Inc. one of the largest landscaping companies in the state of Tennessee growing it to over $10 million a year in annual revenue before it was acquired by Lusa holdings in 2013. Bryan‘s interest and expertise are related to entrepreneurialism, small business growth, marketing and bootstrapping businesses from zero revenue to profitability and exit. Business Website - https://www.yourgreenpal.com/ Links: http://linkedin.com/in/bryan-clayton https://twitter.com/bryanmclayton https://instagram.com/bryanmclayton https://app.box.com/s/78xhkbustiwpd7cqnkyza0jknmpocq7k

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups Podcast is Karthy Chandra. Karthy is the founder of Goalden Hour, a tech startup building a goal-driven productivity tool that empowers people to prioritize and plan for the truly important things. She has worked in product management & tech, and specializes in customer validation testing. She's passionate about education reform and sits on the board of Rooted School, a nonprofit laying the groundwork to close the wealth and skills gap for students in underserved communities. In her free time, she likes to bike, hike, dance, and travel. Learn more at goaldenhour.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Paul Chambers, subscription box expert and founder of Subta.com. For over 20-years, Paul has built, scaled, and sold multiple subscription-focused businesses and today runs the largest conference and trade group focused on the DTC subscription space. An around-the-clock volunteer firefighter, husband, and father of four, Paul's passion for helping others is a central part of his character. From launching a SaaS company at SXSW to building one of the biggest brands in the subscription box economy, Paul has a handle on every aspect of a subscription-focused business and exactly how they succeed… and fail. Learn more at subta.com

Our special guest this week on Rising Tide Startups is Jonathan Baktari, M.D. When Dr. Baktari was arguably at the peak of his medical career, he saw an opportunity to try something new. Taking everything he’d learned as a doctor, medical director and educator, he launched two businesses—a vaccine clinic and drug-testing enterprise—that are driven by technology and designed for fast, customer-centric service. Now, as those businesses grow, he’s continuing to write his second career chapter as a health care CEO. Learn more at baktarimd.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Mads Friis. Mads is the founder of the Growth Island is a podcast on health, performance, business and life's bigger mysteries, covering more than 70 episodes with global experts. One of his biggest passions is building health-related impact ventures and during the past years, he has co-built 3 successful startups with KRING. With his background in management consulting experience from Deloitte and his own experience from startups, Mads started actively training startups and worked with +150 global teams. Playing sports at a high level and discovering many studies on personal growth and performance led Mads into a continuous research journey. He found that many resources focus 80% on the problems and only 20% on the solutions. Now he is on the mission to flip this statistic around to help more people. Learn more at growthisland.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups podcast is Abby Sims, founder of Idestini.com . Abby Sims lives in Arkansas. Her business, Idestini, builds affordable, custom software platforms for small to medium businesses. She's been a full-stack software developer since 2000, and launched her business in 2014. Learn more at idestini.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Emily Chang, CEO McCann Worldgroup, China. Emily previously served as the Chief Marketing Officer for Starbucks, China, and the Chief Commercial Officer for InterContinental Hotels group, Greater China. Earlier in her career, she led Retail Marketing for Apple in Asia-Pacific and began her career with eleven years at Procter & Gamble. She is an action-oriented visionary known for cross-cultural team engagement, innovative brand building, and authentic people leadership. Emily has spoken at select conferences and events, including Fortune Most Powerful Women’s Summit, C2 in Montréal, and has delivered three TEDx talks. With her husband of twenty years, twelve-year-old daughter, rescue mutt named Holly Berry, and pygmy hedgehog named Scarlett Jellybean, she has shared her spare room with sixteen young people, five dogs, one turtle, one guinea pig, and 129 snails. To learn more about Emily, please visit www.social-legacy.com. Get Emily's Book - "The Spare Room" - Amazon

Our special guest today is Victoria Bennion. Victoria is the founder of the Victoria Bennion Podcast Booking Agency where she works with top entrepreneurs, coaches and authors to build their brands and grow their businesses through leveraging podcast interviews. Learn more at victoriabennion.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups podcast is Angie Brown. Angie is a proud Portlander with an MBA who co-founded Bavard AI with her brother a year ago. Learn more at bavard.ai

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Gordian Braun, founder of OneTool.co. Gordi is a bilingual, analytical, and highly creative leader experienced in entrepreneurship & innovation. He possesses a strong passion for product marketing, performance marketing, product management & development, and business development. Learn more at onetool.co

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups podcast is Steven Cardinale. Business has always fascinated Steven. Having to make decisions under uncertainty with limited data has peaked his curiosity. Being involved in entrepreneurial ventures, startups, large Fortune 500 product development teams and C-Suite strategy sessions has given Steven the perspective to combine different thought processes to move ideas forward. Studying Economics at UCLA to earning an MBA from the Wharton School of Business, to working with some of the largest organizations around, such as Eli Lily, Janus Funds, IBM, PwC, and the J. Paul Getty Museum, to founding, operating, and successfully navigating the M&A exit process for his own SaaS company has given Steven insights from every angle of the success & innovation spectrum. Learn more at synapticalchemy.com Steven's book link - Amazon

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups Podcast is Benny Nachman, founder of jassby.com. Benny is a serial entrepreneur with a proven track record in building a global bank with over 30 licenses all over the world.Managing hundreds of employees, thousands of merchants with over $6bn in volume and $120m in revenues. Learn more at jassby.com

Our special guest this week on Rising Tide Startups is Matt Gillis. Matt is the CEO of Clean.io, a service designed to fight back against malvertising and loss of ecommerce revenue. Matt has 20+ years of mobile, media, and technology expertise with a history of building and operating companies from startup to scaled global market leader delivering $1B+ in annual revenues. He possesses a strong ability to create relationships, lead people and construct high performing teams regardless of geographic location through tremendous change with a track record of exceptional results. Having walked a few miles over the last 20 years as a publisher and a tools/solutions provider in the media and content ecosystem, he has often been a regular speaker at industry events around the world including Mobile World Congress, Advertising Week, MobileBeat, Digital East, and more. Learn more at clean.io

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is David Friedman. David is an award-winning CEO, entrepreneur, author, and renowned public speaker. In 2011, he published his first book, Fundamentally Different, which is based on the insights he learned and taught throughout his leadership career, and in 2018 he published his second book, Culture by Design, the definitive “how to” manual for building a high-performance culture. His current company, High Performing Culture, has helped hundreds of companies throughout North America to implement his culture operating system, CultureWise™. Learn more at Culturewise.com David's Book - Culturewise.com/culture-by-design-book

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups podcast is Michael Marra. Michael is the founder of Entre. "Entre is a social network for entrepreneurs and the future of work. We have created the hub for a new economy to connect, learn, and build. With our app, we combine the industries of social networking, e-learning, and business software to give entrepreneurs, startups, and freelancers of all types one place to start and grow their businesses and personal lives. We are open-sourcing Entrepreneurship with a holistic approach that gives everyone the support and community they need to strive for greatness with self-care and wellness at the core of what we do for a new economy to connect, learn, and build. With our app, we combine the industries of social networking, e-learning, and business software to give entrepreneurs, startups, and freelancers of all types one place to start and grow their businesses and personal lives. Our platform is designed to promote economic opportunity for our users by enabling you and millions of other entrepreneurs, freelancers, and investors to meet, exchange ideas, learn, and find opportunities, work, and make decisions in a network of trusted relationships. Our mission is simple, build the largest network of entrepreneurs." Learn more at joinentre.com

Our special guest on the podcast today is Elliott Holland. Elliott, founder of Guardian Due Diligence is a business buying expert. He has a Harvard MBA, spent 10 years buying companies for himself and others, and now prevents his clients from losing millions buying bad businesses. He’s the guy to hire to guard your money. Learn more at guardianduediligence.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Molly Trotter Gomez. Molly began her professional career telling stories live on television as a news anchor and reporter. It wasn’t long before she was giving her all, day-in and day-out and realized that her heart wasn’t in it. She began looking for stories that would have a much bigger impact. She packed up her car from Spokane, Washington and moved to Orange County, California. With $2,000 in her bank account and supporting loved ones in the area, she was able to get by and pursue her dream of entrepreneurship. Now she is living life abundantly helping entrepreneurs pursue their dreams. She is creating a bigger impact than she could have ever imagined through digital marketing and speaking on stages every month about building a credible and profitable brand WHILE sharing her authentic self! Molly believes you too can have it all - success, financial freedom, family, time, health, happiness, and MORE. Learn more at mollytrotter.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is JP, Clement, the newly-appointed CEO of Boomtime Marketing. JP, with 30-years of experience under his belt, can help your audience in areas of marketing, digital strategy, and product management. JP, CEO of boomtime, has founded three digital marketing agencies and has worked with numerous companies ranging from startups to global brands such as Johnson & Johnson and National Geographic. Learn more at boomtime.com

Our very special guest today on Rising Tide Startups is Olivai Molesworth, founder of Bromleigh Capital. After working in operational and strategy roles for several years in the eCommerce start-up space, at 22, Olivia founded Bromleigh Capital - Australia's first ethical debt financing company for small Australian businesses. Olivia is currently studying her Master of Business Administration at the University of Oxford. Learn more at - Bromleigh.com.au

Our special guest today is very well known to so many of our listeners, the founder of Invest Diva herself, Kiana Danial. Kiana Danial, CEO of Invest Diva is an award-winning, internationally recognized personal investing and wealth management expert. Having been featured in The Wall Street Journal, TIME Magazine, Fox Business, CNNi, Forbes, TheStreet, Nasdaq, Cheddar, 77 WABC Radio and 710 WOR Radio, Kiana is a highly sought-after commentator, professional speaker and executive coach who delivers inspirational workshops and seminars to corporations, universities and entrepreneurial groups. Kiana has reported on the financial markets directly from the floor of NYSE and NASDAQ, and was named the Personal Investment Expert of the Year in 2018 and the Investment Coach of the Year in 2019 by the Investment Fund Awards. An accomplished author, Kiana's books include 'Invest Diva's Guide to Making Money in Forex', published by McGraw-Hill in 2003, and 'Cryptocurrency Investing For Dummies', published by Wiley in 2019. Invest Diva's mission is to empower and educate women to take control of their financial future by investing in the online financial markets. Kiana's CryptocurrencyBook - Amazon

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups this week is Stephanie Roulic. Stephanie is the founder of Startup Boston, an organization on a mission to connect, celebrate, and educate the startup ecosystem. Their flagship event is Startup Boston Week, where they bring together 3500 attendees in September for a 5-day conference. The organization also organizes events and other initiatives throughout the year to support the startup community. Prior to creating Startup Boston, Stephanie co-founded nDash, a content community platform, where she ran customer success and community. Learn more at - startupbos.org

Our very special guest today is Jordan Levy, founder of Capsource.io. Jordan is a serial education technology entrepreneur. He has started two EdTech companies that help higher-ed programs bridge the skills gap for their students through experiential learning. His method is to integrate real companies into the education process through hands-on collaborations that expose learners to new circumstances with real stakeholders, challenges, and outcomes. His company CapSource makes building and scaling industry-integrated project-based experiential learning programs easy. Through a combination of software and services, CapSource helps educators match with companies and design projects based on narrow academic requirements. Jordan started his first company, Real Time Cases, while an undergraduate at Lehigh University studying Accounting, Finance, and Entrepreneurship. Outside of work, Jordan is passionate about cooking, hiking, traveling, sailing, tennis, public speaking, photography, mixology, and coaching/connecting fellow entrepreneurs. Learn more at capsource.io

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Tricia Dunlap, founder of Dunlap Law PLC. In 2007, she was a high school teacher and single-mom raising two kids. She decided to finally pursue my dream and get my law degree at the University of Richmond. After three difficult years and countless late nights, Tricia finished her Juris Doctorate and passed the Bar in Washington DC and Virginia. After a few years working with other firms, she decided to start my own law firm focused on helping small business owners. During the pandemic, she created dozens of videos, blog posts, and guides for free to small business owners who were struggling to keep up with regulations. As she continues to focus on helping small business owners, she also focuses on building her business and encouraging women to accomplish their dreams and do the impossible. Learn more at dunlaplawplc.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Domenic Rinaldi, CEO of Sun Acquisitions and Founder of K2Adviser. A little story about Domenic: 17 years ago, he was in transition and deciding what to do next. He decided that business ownership was in his heart. So, he went out in the market to buy a business AND bought Sun Acquisitions a firm that specializes in helping entrepreneurs buy and sell businesses. After helping thousands of entrepreneurs over 17 years, he consistently sees how people fail to properly prepare for their business acquisition which results in missed Returns and increased Risks. To help entrepreneurs address these blindspots, he founded K2Adviser which is focused on helping entrepreneurs be fully prepared for their acquisitions. Now, he is considered an industry-recognized expert who frequently shares his knowledge from the stage, in print and over the airwaves –including as host of the popular M&A Unplugged podcast. Learn more at k2adviser.com and sunacquisitions.com Great resources - k2adviser.com/resources/

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Julia McCoy. Julia McCoy is a serial entrepreneur, content marketing strategist, and a passionate advocate of using content to build a business. She mentors and educates marketers at her brand The Content Hacker™, and leads operations at her agency Express Writers. Learn more at: contenthacker.com and expresswriters.com Julia's new book - Amazon

Our special guest today is also a fellow podcaster, Tim Fitzpatrick, founder of Rialto Marketing. Tim is an entrepreneur/business owner with expertise in marketing and business growth. He has 20+ years of entrepreneurial experience with a passion for developing and growing businesses. That passion served him well in operating and managing a wholesale distribution company he co-owned for nine years. The company grew an average of 60% a year before being acquired in 2005. Since then, he has experienced failures and successes that have been valuable learning experiences. He started Rialto Marketing in 2013 and has been helping service businesses simplify marketing so they can grow, with less stress. Most people overcomplicate marketing. It doesn't have to be that way. Tim can show you how. Click here - https://www.rialtomarketing.com/rising-tide-startups/ - Free resources provided to our listeners, from Tim and Rialto Marketing.

Our special guest today is Dylan Ogline. Dylan is a high school dropout from a small country town in Pennsylvania. He started his first business when he was 14 selling cell phones. In 2016 he scrapped 10+ business projects and started focusing on one single thing, digital marketing. Tired from struggling getting no progress and working from his freezing basement, not to mention nearly a Million dollars in debt - it was an uphill climb. Turns out, focus was the key. 4 short years later he has built Ogline Digital into a 7-figure agency generating over a million in sales three years running. Dylan is now a leading expert in direct response advertising and business growth. He has now turned his focus to helping other people start and grow their own hyper profitable digital agency. Dylan undoubtedly believes that anybody can start and build their own digital agency that will allow them to have more freedom and live a life with purpose and meaning. Dylan's training programs are designed to take the guesswork out of building an agency and remove all of the unknowns that stop so many people from starting their own business. Learn more at dylangoline.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is from our great neighbor to the North, Canada. Darren Gallop, CISSPCo-Founder and CEO of Securicy. Darren is a business leader and security professional with over twenty years of experience as a CEO and CISO of companies that handle sensitive data. Having founded a non-profit organization, three service companies, and two tech startups in his career, he understands how to assess and manage risk in alignment with organizational goals. Currently the CEO and co-founder of Securicy, Darren’s unique perspective enables him to lead organizations through the process of baking security into their business practices while improving productivity. LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/darrengallop/ Learn more at securicy.com

Our special guest on the pod this week is Nick Stagge, CEO of VidArmy. VidArmy is the first video production company making professional video affordable and easy. Before joining VidArmy, Nick has led teams at GoPro, Skullcandy, Zumiez, Wooly, and others. He's passionate about creating a culture of mental health advocacy within the workplace. Learn more at vidarmy.com

Our special guest this week on Rising Tide Startups is Nate Turner. Nate is the co-founder of Ten Speed and a marketing expert with over 12 years of experience. Throughout the years he has helped companies get more results from the content they already have on their site by solving hard problems and scale revenue growth. He is passionate about what he does and would love to share all his insights with you and your audience. Learn more at tenspeed.io

Our special guest on Rising Tide is also our very first guest from Norway... Gro Eirin Dyrnes. Gro is the Director of "Innovation Norway." She is also is an experienced leader with demonstrated results of working in the international trade and development industry and in the intersection between business and technology. Gro is skilled in leadership, strategy and change management, international business development, innovation management, and IT systems management and tech startups. Economics and Business Administration graduate with extended education in psychology and significant work experience in tech and innovation. Learn more at - innovasjonnorge.no

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is the Greg Salles. As a well-rounded awarded leader and techpreneur with 18+ years of experience, Greg has conducted scale-up activities across multiple business areas. He has dedicated his career to designing solutions that leverage innovative disruptive technologies and private markets to maximize impact. Moreover, he is a fierce advocate for social impact and blockchain-based solutions across inclusive economy and education pathways. Greg is described as a futurist, creative, execution-driven, quick thinker, passionate, communicator and loyal. He specializes in identifying and engaging solutions through, artificial intelligence, AR, and human-centered strategy to convert opportunities into a future-fit innovation. He is also the founder or Restartus - a new place on the internet that provides employment and learning opportunities for all. Learn more at Restartus.org

Our special, spunky and energetic guest on Rising Tide Startups today is Sarah Gallo... aka "The Five Foot Traveler!" Sarah has traveled to 114 countries across all 7 continents. She is also a highly sought after travel expert and destination marketer. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, Sarah has taken her knowledge and expertise to launch her own consulting business, and now consults individuals, small businesses, and large corporations on their digital brand, online presence, video conferencing technology and marketing strategy. Within her first month of launching, she was already featured on Forbes! Learn more at thefivefoottraveler.com and getsgc.com

We have a return guest on Rising Tide... one of our earliest guests. Evan Kubicek, aka Coach K, aka serial entrepreneur, international business coach and now founder of the app, Spike Shot. Listen to hear the real story and mission behind Spike Shot. Then go download the app!! Evan loves helping people, businesses, & communities become something greater. At Eastern Illinois University he passes along strategies, processes and ideas that drive transformation in his students, their companies and their communities. As a business & life coach he gets to help clients rediscover who they are, where they can best apply their talents & experiences, and develop a plan of action to reach the next level of their calling. As a social entrepreneur, he creates unique solutions to impossible problems. His passion for business and entrepreneurial development has taken him through several professions: retail, education, humanitarian aid, international technology startup and consulting in more countries than he can count. Learn more at: https://www.facebook.com/kingdomcomegames/ https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fappgrooves.com%2Fapp%2Fspike-shot-by-evan-kubicek%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2QR-F4CgGZPXnnRYGdi1LIP7xCA5n8HCorcpaCQm_sAgXUmyWivqx1Bi0&h=AT3CaSdx9E-k84akuNPcphpIfsX82Ls8akIY0BUDhcisYqjByxER4hsqYBlxB6lyALC9egYUp3eQkr3NwAMTl8PBqlIxTlZkNTwbQqlzble9YfBunzuxbnJtt84WMNFUsMqK6Pcx6k-sdTavVKp8OYGNA5c

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Grant Aldrich. Grant founded OnlineDegree.com with a purpose-driven mission: make higher education more accessible and affordable for everyone. After graduating college with an overwhelming amount of debt, he was determined to change how students embark on their college education. Grant has spent his entire career working in startups with nearly 15 years of experience. He has been a board member and donor to a number of non-profits, an advisor to many publicly traded companies including Wiley Education, and a guest speaker at seminars and graduate school courses. He graduated with honors from University of California Irvine in Economics. Learn more at onlinedegree.com

Our special guest today is Rachel Ellner Lebensohn, founder of seyopa.com . Rachel grew up as a professional actress from the age of five to eighteen in both Israel and the United States. She then served in the Film Production Unit of the IDF Air Force before going on to graduate from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Film and Television. Rachel also holds a J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and practiced Entertainment Law in NY for several years. After moving with her family to Florida, and taking a few years off to raise her children, Rachel initially re-engaged with her career as part of an in-house legal team in the real estate industry. That led to an opportunity to take part in a well known real estate tv show, which in turn reignited Rachel’s true passions and ultimately led her to create and found Seyopa.com, dedicated to inspiring and empowering people to go after their dreams, become their best self and seize their own passions! Converging and leveraging her life experiences, legal and entertainment backgrounds, and her own passions and purpose, Rachel’s mission and vision through Seyopa (#SeizeYourPassion!) is to help inspire, empower and promote self-actualization and personal growth in people yearning to realize their dreams, engage their passions, connect with who they were meant to be, become their best self, and attain meaning, purpose, and fulfillment in their lives. Rachel is passionate, tenacious, disciplined, and extremely driven. She is a dreamer and a doer, committed to excellence and growth, and will stop at nothing to make her vision of living a life full of passion, purpose, meaning, and fulfillment accessible and attainable by everyone! Rachel is a proud co-author of the newly released best-selling book, Crash and Learn: Lessons in Business Featuring 10 Inspiring Business Leaders. www.amazon.com/author/rachelellnerlebensohn Learn more at Seyopa.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Isabella Liu. Isabella is the Founder of Invincible Co., a positivity movement which focuses on building positivity and validation from within to create your own purpose-led business and live as an entity for yourself, rather than an entity for other people. Learn more at - invincible-co.com

In a special Rising Tide Startups episode from New Zealand, we catch up with Anthony Baxter, founder of Firefly Digital. Anthony is not only founder and CEO, he is also a salesman, digital marketer and life enthusiast. Learn more at fireflydigital.co.nz

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Albert Jing. Albert Jing is the Founder and CEO of OneFriends. He founded OneFriends in late 2018. Since then, Albert has led an eight member team of specialist contracted app developers, engineers, QA testers and app designer in the development of the OneFriends app. OneFriends is now live on the Apple App Store after a long beta period and rounds of intensive testing in 2019 and early 2020. Prior to committing himself fully to OneFriends, Albert was a corporate and litigation lawyer in Australia, representing ASX-listed companies, successful startups and investors. Embodying the polymath, Albert is also an elite swimmer now working towards qualifying for and performing at the Tokyo Olympic Games.He may even, in the more distant future, establish a new Australian political party. Learn more at - onefriendsapp.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Duco Van Breemen. Duco is the founding general manager of Australia’s first innovation hub, Haymarket HQ, supporting technology companies and exporters to grow into the Asia-Pacific. To date, they have supported over 550 companies from 30+ countries to grow and expand their operations via our mentoring, coworking and digital programming services. Learn more at - haymarkethq.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Amy Smith, founder of Aligned Tribe. Amy Smith started her first business at the young age of 12 and by age 22 was working across the globe helping organisations of all sizes from start-ups to large enterprises, such as HSBC and the YMCA to optimize their Human Resource strategies. Amy has worked within one of the largest executive networks of 16,000+ executives across 16 countries; supporting CEO’s and Non-Executive Directors of companies (circa $5 million to $100 million) ‘behind the scenes’ to build their personal brands and effectively launch and grow their own executive coaching businesses across Australia and New Zealand. Currently, Amy is one of the youngest members of the Directors Institute Next Generation Board of Directors. With her diverse corporate experience that spans across Human Resources, Executive Recruitment, Marketing and Business Development domains, Amy is the ‘go to’ consultant, board advisor, speaker and coach in Australia for organisations who wish to effectively attract, engage and retain the next generation leaders (Millennials and GenZ). Amy is passionate about helping enterprises to ‘bridge the generation gap,’ build exceptional employer brands, facilitate a high performance and harmonious workplace culture and adapt to the new ways of working in order to gain a competitive advantage for talent in the rapidly changing future of work. Amy is an avid user of LinkedIn; having recruited hundreds of professionals from graduate level to c-suite roles through the platform over the last several years. She has also grown her own LinkedIn profile to over 20,000 connections in less than 24 weeks when launching her own coaching and consulting business. Learn more at alignedtribe.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Jethro Marks. Jethro is co-founder of the arch-enemy of Amazon called TheNile.com.au. The Nile launched in 2003 and has since become one of the largest sellers on eBay Australia. The eBay store is home to millions of unique listings across 11 categories, including Books, DVDs, Baby Products, Toys and more. The Nile has been built on over a decade of experience in international online retail and ships thousands of deliveries to over 60 countries each month. Lear more at thenile.comau

Our special guest today is Suzanne Mercier, founder of Purpose to Profit." Suzanne has a strong background in marketing & advertising. She was also the first woman on Board of George Patterson Advertising. Her skills set includes: Serial entrepreneur Advertising Agency (Creative Campaigns) Small Business Educational Network (Bite Size Skills) Mindset Transformation business (Imposterhood) Business supporting other founders to align their mindset, find their Purpose and commercialize their ideas (Purpose to Profit). Make sure and check out Suzanne's 28 day Challenge - https://bit.ly/Success-by-Design-28-Day-Imposter-Syndrome-Challenge Learn more at : purposetoprofit.com.au Cover image - Lord Howe Island (Pixabay)