Rising Tide Startups

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