Rising Tide Startups

Our special guest today on Rising Tide Startups is Caroline LePron. Caroline, originally from Southern France, moved to Australia 12 years ago for a 6-month internship and never left (except for a short stint in the San Francisco bay area)! She is a serial Entrepreneur, Mom of a little girl and married to another startup founder named Jacques. After a soft launch, she just launched Skoutli.com in the midst of the COVID19 pandemic! Skoutli helps content creators (photographers /producers /influencers) find locations for their next photo shoot. The way Skoutli is different from its competitors is that it offers location rentals by the room, by the hour, and not normally the entire house or office. An adventurous and passionate person, Caroline is a highly motivated and driven individual. Learn more at Skoutli.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is John "J D" Dean. John is the founder of Sales Director Central and helps frustrated MDs, VPs and business owners INCREASE revenue by 100’s of Thousands by IDENTIFYING and RECTIFYING poor focus in sales pipelines, sales processes and sales team behaviours. His “Outsourced Sales Director” program will give YOU access to top performing Sales Directors who can work with you “on-the-ground”, to mentor, lead and drive your sales team toward smashing YOUR sales targets and eliminating costly distractions in your pipeline. Learn more at salesdirectorcentral.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups podcast is Jacques Lepron. Jacques is passionate about technologies in the mobility/IoT and supply chain such as those related to telematics, connected devices and the autonomous vehicles. He builds customer-facing partnership and technical / product integrations channels for tech companies. Jacques is also the founder of Driverli, a startup that is designed to make driving safer by making driving lessons easier to access. Learn more at driverli.com.au

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Marek Zmysłowski. Marek is a Polish-born entrepreneur and executive, focused on Online Business and Renewable Energy, and passionate about Frontier and Emerging Markets. He co-founded Sunroof.se – a 2-in-1 Solar Roofs producer, HotelOnline.co – a Travel Technology Company, and Jumia Travel – Africa’s Biggest Hotel Booking Portal listed on NYSE as part of Jumia Group. In 2014, he was chosen as one of the Ten Most Important People in Tech by IT News Africa Magazine. He is a Lead Mentor at Google’s Launchpad and World Bank’s XL Africa Program. Marek is a bestselling author of “Chasing Black Unicorns”, a former snowboard instructor, and a bartender, but his real life goal is simply to leave this World in slightly better shape than what it was when he arrived.

Our special guest today on Rising Tide Startups is Roger Lawrence. Roger is passionate about disruptive technology and empowering people to achieve mastery. He has worked with some of the biggest technology companies across the world. All of his roles have involved combining technology and high calibre individuals to resolve complex challenges - from learning to program in high school, to delivering IT strategies as CTO for Innovation at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (now DXC). 3 years ago he left corporate life to co-found ACHIEVR, a company dedicated to solving the toughest training problems using virtual reality (incl AR, MR & XR). Achievr works in high risk industries, usually on training solutions that impact work health and safety. Learn more at achieve.io

Our special guest today is Kirk Penn. Kirk is one of the nicest and humblest guests we have ever had on the podcast. In these days of bitter confrontation and polarization, we need more people like Kirk Penn around the globe. Kirk is the Founder and Principal Advisory Consultant at Service Management Specialists . He and his team are typically asked to - review capabilities, frame pragmatic ways forward, break down process complexities, understand gaps, define and deliver improvement plans. Learn more at - servicemanagementspecialists.com

Our guest today on the podcast is Adala Bolto, founder of Zadi Fitness. Adala has a strong passion and dedication to fitness lifestyle and fashion with more than 14 years in the fitness industry. She has excelled in her career as a personal trainer and popular group fitness instructor , specialising in Les Mills programs such as Body attack , Body pump, as well as studio cycle boxing classes and more. Adala also developed tailored programs for 1:1 and group training sessions for female clients. Leveraging her industry experience as well as her very strong business acumen and entrepreneurial skills, Adala joined Australia’s leading female fitness brand, Fernwood, as a club manager. In 2014, she then went on to become the franchisee of Fernwood Ryde in Sydney. Adala saw a gap in the Australian market for a bespoke fitness offering program targeting women who want a more specialised approach and a unique experience whilst training with likeminded strong women. In July 2017, equipped with a clear vision for a scalable franchise model and a strong business plan, Adala pitched her idea to investors to launch ZADI. Shortly after launching her first two ZADI studios in Sydney, ZADI has received undoubtable reviews, press attention and a strong reputation for a unique member experience and a strong company ethos. Adala’s vision for the ZADI is rapid growth with many franchised studios locally and internationally whilst continuing to build authentic and innovative systems, company culture and community of extraordinary women. Learn more at zadi.com.au

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Ben Kennedy. Ben is a 20 year old university student, with a background as an accountant, and has just launched his new startup Gecko. Gecko helps everyday Aussies cash in on their clutter and helps people rent what they want, when they want it. They work towards changing users from consumers to sharers by reducing waste and reusing materials. Learn more at - geckoonline.com.au

Today's special guest on Rising Tide Startups podcast is Hayley Saddington. Hayley is a multi-faceted entrepreneur, including Winner, Telstra Business Womens Awards for Business Innovation. Working in the fast-evolving world of medical devices has thrown up many challenges for Hayley who started her company, HALO Medical Devices, while still a physiotherapy student. She developed a new goniometer, a tool used by therapists, doctors and veterinarians to measure joint movement and help recovery from injury. Hayley gained national attention when she won the People’s Choice Award with her device on the New Inventors program on ABC-TV and SharkTank Australia. She’s since been named WA Innovator of the Year in the Start-Up category and attracted private capital and a Federal Government grant to take her products globally. HALO is in use by many professionals, including the AFL, Ballet and the Boston Red Sox and Hayley sees an initial global market of two million customers for this initial product. Moving into their 3rd product, incorporating Artifical Intelligence with their devices, Hayley's company is set to positively impact the 46Billion dollar Orthopaedic Industry, reaching to help over 3 million joint replacement patients by 2030. Learn more at halomedicaldevices.com Hayley's Instagram: hayleysaddington1 or halomeddevices

Our special guest today is Linh Podetti. Linh believes in doing what you love and living a life that’s purposeful and meaningful. Her mission in life is to create job opportunities for talented people across the globe, helping them to do what they love, regardless of where they live in the world. Linh is passionate about entrepreneurship and runs multiple businesses. She currently spends most of her time at Outsourcing Angel, a business that helps to connect business owners with talented virtual assistants from developing countries like the Philippines. She also believes that giving work, is a solution to reducing poverty. Learn more at https://outsourcingangel.com .

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Katie Bryan. Katie is the multi award-nominated Founder of Propeller Advisory, one of the fastest growing advisory, accounting, and Virtual CFO firms in Australia. Katie also proudly serves as Treasurer for the Virtual CFO Association Executive Committee. Propeller Advisory and Katie Bryan were recently named finalists for New Firm of the Year, New Partner of the Year, and Fastest Growing Firm of the Year at the 2018 Australian Accounting Awards. She also gained recognition when she was named as one of the Top 50 Women in Accounting and with various nominations in the Young Leaders in Finance Awards and Women in Finance Awards in 2017 and 2018. Katie is a Chartered Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Bond University. She has over ten years experience working in multiple roles including Mergers and Acquisitions, Virtual CFO Services, Business Services and Restructures & Work-outs. Katie’s innovative approach in providing solutions for clients has helped create seamless processes and ultimately "propel" the firm to being an industry leader in Australia's highly disrupted cloud accounting and Virtual CFO sectors. Learn more at - propelleradvisory.com.au

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups podcast is Scott Beebe. Scott is the founder of My Business On Purpose, a business coaching, training, and strategy group that helps small business owners and organizational leaders transition from working IN their businesses to working ON their businesses. Scott is also the host of the Business On Purpose podcast; a weekly podcast where Scott interviews small business owners who share insights into how they are living their business on purpose. Check out the Free Vision Story Course - mybusinessonpurpose.com/vision

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups Podcast is Matt Johns, founder of Deliberat.com.au . Matt is incredibly passionate about deliberately designed experiences - for both customers and employees, placing significant value in understanding how people are feeling and thinking before designing targeted solutions. He believes the experience a brand creates for its customers should be viewed as a strategic decision to develop competitive advantage and win in the market - not to play catch up or simply participate. To achieve this, Matt has developed a unique methodology incorporating ethnography as a way to understand people and their unique behaviours. This approach draws on his wider experience, including as an intelligence operative in the UK police to understand how emotions and motivations impact individual behaviour. With this insight, targeted learning solutions are able to be developed to build the skills and capabilities required to transform experiences. Matt has extensive experience working with leadership groups throughout the Asia Pacific Region and beyond, guiding and advising Executives and Boards to bring clarity to their strategy; defining winning aspirations, and making clear choices on where to play and how to win. Learn more at - Deliberat.com.au

Laura Bell Greeno is a marketing strategist, startup coach and creative planner at WEBSCOUT. She helps startups grow and scale. She also mentors marketers into the next level of their careers and trains digital agencies through growing pains and efficient operational scaling: people, process, sales, integration and martech. Laura recently sold Ecomdash, her ecommerce SaaS startup, for $9.6 million in an early exit. Featured in American City Business Journals, Inc. Magazine, eRetailing, Web Marketing, NC Business, etc. as an expert in tech startups, digital marketing for small business, ecommerce tools and trends, social selling, organic search marketing and attraction marketing. Laura’s next big thing is the development of software automation tools capable of replacing her creative and intellectual value in the field. Imagine a completely analytical mind that also has true original creativity and the ability to predict human buying behavior. This super-human marketing mind is a big data and artificial intelligence endeavor. Learn more at - webscoutcoaching.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Liam Austin. Liam is a virtual event strategist, having launched over 15 virtual summits and online business networking events, hosting over 400 speakers whilst educating 100,000+ business owners through his programs. As the co-founder of Entrepreneurs HQ, Liam is a specialist at making it easy for people to create their own virtual summits and online conferences to grow their email list, authority, impact, and revenue. Learn more at - entrepreneurshq.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Author, Speaker and Emcee, Steve Hughes. Steve is the President of Hit Your Stride, LLC, a consultancy that helps people look and sound smart when they talk. He’s also a sought-after speaker, the author of the book Captivate: Presentations That Engage and Inspire and has been featured on CBS, NPR, and BBC Radio. Learn more at hityourstride.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide is Petra Zink. Petra is a Certified Personal Branding & Digital Strategist, Career Coach, Speaker & Consultant - specialising in the Future of Work. Petra Zink is also the Founder of impaCCCt and The360Talent.Co. Both companies are designed to future-proof Careers and organisations through re-invention. She is known for her expertise in all things "Future of Work" through her unconventional approach of Talent & Leadership development. Petra specialises in future-proofing Companies and Talent through building strong and impactful Brands that can pivot, rather than just building Businesses or Careers that aren't agile to change. Learn more at impaccct.com

In our episode today, we talked with Marketing and Branding expert, Mike Allton. Mike is an award-winning blogger, speaker, and author at The Social Media Hat, and Brand Evangelist at Agorapulse, where he strengthens relationships with social media educators, influencers and agencies. Learn more at bloggingbrute.com

"The Whole World is in Startup Mode due to COVID19." Glenn Tranter Our special guest today is Productivity Expert, Glenn Tranter. As the Founder of Glenn Tranter Consulting Pty Ltd, Glenn’s passion is to help people and the organisations they work for be more effective at what they do. By helping people become more intentional with their time, they're able to realise their potential and achieve targeted outcomes. With 30 years’ experience in consulting, business development and senior management roles, Glenn has worked with most industries in Australia across the Corporate and Government sectors. His approach is to address problems with pragmatic ideas that are easy to understand and implement, while being scalable from small to large environments. Glenn also believes in technique and effort having a direct correlation to outcomes and sustained excellence. Learn more at glenntranter.com

In today's episode, we chat with the dynamic husband and wife duo, Bryan and and Shannon Miles, of Belay Solutions. Bryan is a successful entrepreneur, husband, father, backpacker, mountain climber, mentor, and writer. In addition, he’s the Co-Chair and Co-Founder of BELAY, a premium staffing company serving businesses all over the U.S. He and his wife, Shannon, are proud Co-Owners. They have enjoyed starting and running BELAY together as a team since the beginning in late 2010. Shannon is an adventurous, fun-loving, driven and passionate leader who loves to see personal growth and development in those she leads. Through her successful career as an entrepreneur as Co-Chair and Co-Founder of BELAY, she has been able to design a life she always dreamed of. Bootstrapping their business with no outside funding, the company has generated over $100M in revenues since its beginning and has exploded to over one thousand team members – all of whom work from home. Without an office, BELAY has graced the Inc. 5000 list five times and was awarded the number one spot in Entrepreneur Magazine’s Best Company Culture and been featured in several top-tier media outlets over the years. Additionally, outside of BELAY, Bryan & Shannon own a craft brewing company (NoFo Brew Co) and they own an advisory company that helps successful business owners own their companies, not run them (Own Not Run). Learn more at - belaysolutions.com

In a special episode of Rising Tide Startups, we chat with Richard Voice, the Co-Founder of FinTech startup CryptoSpend. CryptoSpend is a company that will be facilitating crypto to AUD payments through the CryptoSpend App as well as being able to utilise then NPP with your crypto too! Exciting time for this bold new blockchain startup. Learn more at cryptospend.com.au.

In another great Rising Tide Episode, we chat with Dayne Shuda, founder of GhostBlogWriters.com - In his own words, "Ghost Blog Writers is my job, but I can’t call it work because I enjoy every aspect of what I do. In the past I’ve worked as a brand manager for a catalog and ecommerce firm. Today, I enjoy doing all I can to provide businesses with the blog content they need to achieve their goals." Learn more at GhostBlogWriters.com

Today we are speaking with a very timely guest for a time such as this. Our special guest is Bill Bice, Founder and CEO of Boomtime, Word of Mouth Marketing. Bill is a serial entrepreneur, and is passionate about helping small business grow. He started his first company at age 18, growing ProLaw Software into the largest law firm automation system for small and mid-size law firms. Joining the acquirer at Thomson Reuters, Bill joined the management team of the $2B West division, where he used the marketing sophistication of an industry leader to take a brand new offering to market, West km. His goal at Boomtime is to enable smaller businesses to more effectively compete with their larger competitors. Learn more at Boomtime.com

In another exciting Rising Tide Startups podcast episode, we chat with international business expert Peter Selby. Since 2008, Peter has been the CEO and Founder of Business Drivers, Ltd. He is also an Author, Speaker and Trusted Advisor to companies across the Asia Pacific Region and Europe. Their business services are delivered with international experience in best practice business optimisation, which in turn delivers a sustainable competitive advantage to organisations of all sizes. Peter is also the designer of unique IP, that works within an organisation's key business drivers, to unlock deeply hidden opportunity in all phases of the business cycle. Learn more at bizdrivers.biz

Our guest expert on Rising Tide Startups is none other than, Davis Nguyen, founder of myconsultingoffer.org. Davis is a Harvard grad, TEDX Speaker and a former consultant at Bain. In 2017, he founded "My Consulting Offer" and has since helped 400+ people start a career in consulting at McKinsey, Bain, BCG and other major firms. Learn more at myconsultingoffer.org

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups this week is Heidi Dening. Heidi is an empowering keynote speaker whose elegant, yet powerful presence on stage leaves audiences wanting to do more, give more, have more and be more. She is the author of a best-selling self-leadership book called ‘Her Middle Name Is Courage’, and an experienced educator who believes that resilient, healthy self-leaders create profitable, impactful organisations. Learn more at heididening.com Resilience Bucket Quiz: https://heididening.com/bucketquiz/ Book Link: https://heididening.com/product/her-middle-name-is-courage/

Our special guest on Rising Tide is the Chief Whaler himself, George Weiner, founder of Wholewhale.com. Whole Whale is a digital agency that leverages data and tech to increase the impact of nonprofits and for-benefit companies, and the co-founder of Power Poetry, the largest teen poetry platform in the U.S. George’s breaching moment in ideating Whole Whale came from his 7 years with DoSomething where, under his leadership as CTO, the organization became an innovator in social media, mobile technology, and social causes. Learn more at wholewhale.com/university

Our special guest is Rosanna Iacono, co-Founder of Growth Hacker. Rosanna is a business leader with 25 years experience working with some of the world’s leading brands, including 16 years internationally with Nike and Levi’s, and C-suite roles in Australia delivering exits for Private Equity-owned businesses like Sheridan and Jurlique. Learn more at growthactivists.com

On the other side of the mic today on Rising Tide Startups, we have Stephen Hakami, founder of Wiza.co. Stephen, the Wizard behind Wiza, used to run a cold email agency, running cold email campaigns for his clients. He ands team first built out the technology for Wiza internally, but then realized this is software that everyone should be using. Now, Wiza is fully functional and able to create email lists from LinkedIn Sales Navigator. Learn more at wiza.co

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Mita Bedi, CEO of Resonate Solutions. Mita worked her way up to the role of CEO, through her extensive experience, creativity, discipline and vision. Having played an instrumental role in driving business growth and creating new opportunities for Resonate, she also displays a wide set of skills and experience, including strategic planning, consulting and product development. These qualities provide her with a solid skillset to deliver on the ambitious growth plans of Resonate, for the future. Mita brings a wealth of knowledge having worked with a number of large brands including ING Direct, Royal Bank of Scotland and IBM. Learn more at ResonateSolutions.com.au

Our very special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Aaron Walker, founder of "View From The Top." Businessman and Life Coach, Aaron T. Walker has inspired many through his leadership, mentorship, and consistent pursuit of excellence. He enjoys helping others and believes experience is a great teacher. 35 years of entrepreneurship and marriage have given Aaron a wealth of experience. Aaron sold his first business to a Fortune 500 company at 27 years old and continues to reach new heights and broaden his perspective of the terrain by examining his experiences and growing from them. Learn more at viewfromthetop.com

Our special guest today on Rising Tide Startups is Andrew Butow, founder of Earth2Mars - a Human-Centered, Client-Based Creative Agency. Andrew founded earth2mars because at the most basic level, he wants to help people and make a difference in the world. With over 15 years of personal, technological and organizational change experience, Andrew is able to bring together the best of business, consulting, design-thinking and behavioral science to any challenge, big, small or anywhere in between. Learn more earth2mars.com.au

Our special guest on the podcast is Clarene Mitchell, LinkedIn Expert and founder of TCM Communications LLC. She is an accomplished communications professional with a solid reputation in the Greater Milwaukee area and nationally as a print journalist and public relations professional. My communications expertise is the foundation for my work as a LinkedIn Trainer. Learn more at tcmcommunicationsllc.com

In another great episode with our friends in Australia, we are chatting with Clayton Moulynox, founder of MXGrowth. Hi is a startup foundations builder who is also practical, pragmatic and logical. Clayton has held leadership roles in tech companies from managed services businesses to US$1B SaaS startup across Australia and US. He is an Ex-Microsoft small & mid-market partner channel leader who excels in ambiguity, living for the "messy middle" in growing companies. He is also proficient in sales, marketing and is an operations all-rounder. Clayton possess an eye for out-of-the-box thinking and has a driving passion for leadership, organizational culture, stoicism and mental well-being at work. Learn more at mxgrowth.com iTunes link Youtube link

In another exciting episode of Rising Tide Startups, we get to chat with a startup founder that is truly hard to nail down. Meet Jarryd Salem, co-founder of NOMADasaurus. Explorer and anthropologist. Writer and teacher. Musician and artist. Philosopher and travel guide. These are all professions that Jarryd has very little skills and attributes in, but that doesn’t stop him from trying. His co-founder is his wife Alesha, who runs the creative side of their travel endeavour. Born in Sydney, Australia, Jarryd was bitten hard by the travel bug early on in his life and at the age of 20 left his home to be a ski bum in Canada. 12 plus years later, he still wants to be a ski bum, but has instead substituted that life for one of discovering new, exciting places all over the world. With an all-encompassing passion for snow, mountain and water sports, and a love of travel and adventure, he endeavours to bring his enthusiasm for life to the far corners of the globe and inspire others to do the same. Jarryd runs the business side of things at NOMADasaurus and is the CEO of the digital marketing agency, Peak Evolution Media. He is also the chief editor for the site, and the author behind many of the stories you’ll find here. Learn more at nomadasaurus.com iTunes link Youtube link

Our special guest today on Rising Tide Startups is Brit Boone. Founder of Meanderbug.com, Brit is developing a sustainable social enterprise that presents a new model for small business that opens up unique adventures for travelers while helping locals find their way in a rapidly changing environment. Learn more at Meanderbug.com iTunes link Youtube link - Full Episode Youtube link - Rising Tide Startup School

Our special guest today is Louise Watts. Louise is a leading High Performance Coaching to international success as a founder and director for over 15 years, Louise is well known for her guidance on executive presence and personal impact, having built a global client base with brands such as Citi, BAML, SAP, PWC and BNP Paribas. Advising organisations on ambitious personal development initiatives, Louise has seen the power of presence, confidence and connection, as a way of positively impacting employee engagement and enhancing the client experience. A progressive thinker, highly attuned to the future of work from a human perspective, Louise launched Transition Hub in 2018 to provide a path to the future for the vast majority of people who will find themselves in transition from old ways of working to new. Transition Hub offers the chance to re-energise, reimagine and enhance the decision making skills needed to thrive in the future of work. Bringing together the best coaches and facilitators to work collectively, Transition Hub builds on the successful model of High Performance Coaching. There has never been a more important time to make learning accessible, personable and enjoyable, which happens naturally, when you bring cohorts of people together to experience a guided week of development. Transition Hub creates the opportunity to spark new ideas, build new networks and develop the confidence to go forward. Nothing less is going to satisfy the need for a transformational experience, to transition today’s workers into tomorrow’s jobs. Prior to founding HPC and Transition Hub, Louise had a professional ballet career, and brings her deep understanding of presence and impact through her coaching and entrepreneurial leadership. Learn more at - www.transitionhub.com iTunes link YouTube link

Our special guest on the podcast is Thom King, founder of IconFoods.com and "Guy Gone Keto." Part CEO, part personal development wonk, and part biohacker info geek, Thom King is a self-confessed serial entrepreneur. While his favorite book list contains many success-oriented and personal-development classics, the traditional definition of achieving success (e.g. make a lot of money) is not what inspires or motivates King. He follows more of a “you aren’t doing well unless you’re also doing some good” line of thinking. King’s company has been built around the simple principle of “do the right thing.” In 1999, Thom’s personal passion for food and his concern over the explosion of metabolic disease led him to found Steviva Brands, now known as Icon Foods, with a mission to help food manufacturers replace unhealthy sugars in their products with natural options. With 20 years of R&D work, Thom has helped hundreds of manufacturers improve the quality of their products. In recent years, his passion for food and optimal health have intersected with his embrace of a ketogenic (low carb, high fat) diet. Learn more at iconfoods.com and guygoneketo.com iTunes link Youtube link - full episode YouTube link - Rising Tide Startup School

Our guest today on Rising Tide Startups is Victor Zhang, Cofounder and CEO of AlphaWallet. Victor has 7 years experience managing multinational teams and businesses in Australia, Singapore, China, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan and India. He also started up 5 businesses in Australia, China, HK and Singapore including import/export/wholesale/sports/travel/ticketing/internet business. iTunes link Youtube link

Today on Rising Tide Startups, we chat with BarBend’s Co-Founder and Editorial Director, David Tao. David is a veteran of the health & fitness industry, with nearly a decade of experience building and running editorial teams in the space. He also serves as a color commentator for both National and International weightlifting competitions, many through USA Weightlifting. In addition to his work in the health & fitness industry, David has been a writer for Fortune and Fortune.com, as well as a contributor to Forbes.com, Slate, and numerous other outlets across the web and in print. He’s is also a great podcast host and is especially passionate about the intersection of strength sports and quality, professional media coverage — overlapping interests shared by the BarBend editorial team and which drive their content strategy each and every day. Learn more at Barbend.com iTunes link YouTube link - full episode Youtube link - Rising Tide Startup School

In our latest Rising Tide Startups episode, we catch up with Food-preneur and Founder of True Made Foods, Abraham (Abe) Kamarck. Abe was born in Washington DC and grew up in Virginia, Brooklyn and Maryland before attending Vanderbilt on an NROTC scholarship. After graduation, he served eight years as a Navy Helicopter pilot, later earned his MBA from the London Business School and was introduced to impact entrepreneurship. This experience prompted Abe to leave the Navy and start a seven year adventure in emerging markets as an impact entrepreneur. Along the way, he launched various ventures from fun websites like Doha-Delivery.com to more difficult ones like building greenhouse farms in the desert. In his latest entrepreneurial pursuit, Abe has jumped into the food business and married his two biggest passions - food and entrepreneurship. A father of four, he is passionate about real food, healthy lifestyles, playing rugby and coaching his kids' football and basketball. Learn more at truemadefoods.com iTunes link Youtube link - full episode Youtube link - Rising Tide Startups School

Our guest today is Mark Podolsky, better known at "The Land Geek." Mark has been buying and selling raw land full time since 2001. He's completed over 5,000 land deals and my company, Frontier Equity Properties, has an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau. He is also the author of Dirt Rich, the ultimate guide to helping you build a passive income model in raw land investing. His passion for investing in land, for creating wealth efficiently, and for helping other people develop their inner "geeky entrepreneur" has lead him to create a free course for those who want to learn more about investing in "raw land." Learn more at www.thelandgeek/launchkit/ iTunes link Youtube link - full episode Youtube link - Rising Tide Startup School

In another exciting Rising Tide Startups, we chat with Bean Ninja founder and XERO accounting expert Meryl Johnston. Meryl launched Bean Ninjas in 2015 with $1000 and a dream of changing the global bookkeeping game. It has since grown from Meryl’s kitchen table into the multi-national, award-winning business it is today. Learn more at beanninjas.com Click here for the "How to Do Your Bookkeeping Using XERO" course. iTunes link Youtube link - full episode Youtube link - Rising Tide Startup School

In another Rising Tide Startups episode, we chat with Tellinga founder, Alex Kurkowski. The idea for Tellinga surfaced when Alex noticed that, while working full time in his day job, all his free time started to slip away, along with relationships with friends and family. To keep in touch, he started snail mailing them epistolary (literary/artisanal work in the form of letters) style illustrations. He would draw pictures in story form and snail-mail them out to loved ones piece by piece over time. It was always a way to stay connected and create fun, personalized stories so that they could look forward to checking their mailboxes every day. Thus, Tellinga was born. Learn more at Tellinga.com iTunes link Youtube link - full episode Youtube link - Rising Tide Startup School

Out special guest on the Rising Tide Startups podcast is lay Clark. Clay is the founder of Thrive15.com, a company offering online education for entrepreneurs in 15-minute videos taught by world-class mentors. Stop what you are doing and listen to this hilariously pragmatic and highly instructive video. Learn more at thrive15.com . Grab your free SEO book at - thebestseobook.com iTunes link Youtube link - full episode Youtube link - Rising Tide Startups School

Our special guest today is Jim Palmer, The Dream Business Coach. Jim is a marketing and business building expert and in-demand coach. He is also the founder of the Dream Business Academy and Dream Business Coaching and Mastermind Program. Learn more at getjimpalmer.com iTunes link Youtube link - full episode Youtube link - Rising Tide Startup School

Our special guest today on Rising Tide Startups is David Hoffman. David is a serial entrepreneur building multi-million dollar companies globally. He has led the international trade powerhouse Global Regency as CEO for over 15 years, and is considered an expert in China sourcing, supply chain, private label, and brand licensing. In 2016 David launched GlobalTQM.com under the Global Regency umbrella. GlobalTQM was created after he saw an incredible opportunity with quality management issues and sourcing from China, by providing actual "done-for-you services" by utilizing his experience, resources and and his growing staff in China. David is also experienced in business strategy, operations, automation, digital marketing, and has a unique ability to master productivity and share his experience. Learn more at globalregency.com and globaltqm.com iTunes link Youtube link - full episode Youtube link - Rising Tide Startup School

Our special guest on the Rising Tide Startups Podcast is Tonya Thomas, founder of a specialized Virtual Assistant agency called Team Delegate. Tonya's agency was founded on the premise of helping her clients create the freedom that they need to take their business to the next level. Founded in 2001, Team Delegate works with entrepreneurs, small business owners, and professionals who are struggling to stay organized and are swimming in administrative overwhelm. Learn more at teamdelegate.com iTunes link Youtube link- full episode Youtube link - "Rising Tide Startup School" video

On today's show, we chat with Heather Parady, creator of the podcast and mastermind, "Unconventional Leaders." Heather is also a self-professed "southern optimist." She is a therapist turned online entrepreneur and the focus of her work is to "raise up the next generation leaders who go against the grain." Learn more at Heatherparady.com iTunes link Youtube link - full episode Youtube link - Rising Tide "Startup School" video

With more than 15 years experience in strategic planning, digital marketing and consumer insights, our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is James Loomstein. James is all about staying a step ahead of the digital marketing status quo. An industry veteran with leading-agency experience, he set out to build an agency that would create compelling digital experiences, deliver actionable takeaways and customize digital efforts to unique consumer bases. FOR FUN: You can find James keepin’ it "Rogue" delivering his opinions on the latest happenings in the Dallas sports world, as an adjunct professor at Southern Methodist University Cox School of Business and as a sought-after digital marketing speaker. Learn more at gorogue.net iTunes link Youtube link - Full episode Youtube link - "Rising Tide Startup School" video