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S1 Episode 28: Building an Authentic Brand with Paige Arnof-Fenn Jun 22, 2021

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Paige Arnof-Fenn is the founder & CEO of global marketing and digital branding firm Mavens & Moguls based in Cambridge, MA. Her clients include Microsoft, Virgin, The New York Times Company, Colgate, venture-backed startups as well as nonprofit organizations.

Paige graduated from Stanford University and Harvard Business School. She also worked for big brands before such as Procter & Gamble and Coca Cola and had three startups that are successfully acquired and sold. Paige is also a popular speaker and columnist who has written for Entrepreneur and Forbes.

In this episode, we discuss:

· The meaningful story behind Mavens & Moguls

· The importance of networking in building a better business

· How to build teams and delegate tasks to the people who know better so you can focus on the things that you’re good at.

· Paige shares the experiences that she had in the corporate world and why she rebranded herself in marketing and choose the path of being an entrepreneur.

· How to create the best brand that is resonating with people.

I hope you will find this episode as exciting and informative as I have. Paige has worked with big and small companies and has vast experience and insights to share about building your authentic brand.

Please let me know your thoughts!

Connect with Paige Arnof-Fenn

Website: http://mavensandmoguls.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paigearnoffenn/

Connect with Steve Eschbach

Website: https://www.tworld.com/locations/naperville/ or https://eschbachassoc.com/

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWqgICqaSI8xE2GRYY1HWJA

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/speschbach/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steveeschbach/

Twitter: @ SteveEschbach

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S1 Episode 27: How to Do Good Work with Raul Hernandez Ochoa Jun 15, 2021

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Raul Hernandez Ochoa is a business strategist. He's trained hundreds of entrepreneurs through live seminars, online programs, and private masterminds. His work positively impacts the lives of his clients and their teams.

Raul was born in Mexico and was raised in San Diego. He went to San Diego State University and was part of the Lavin Program. There, he got the chance to know more about marketing and became exposed to high-level and successful entrepreneurs. He also grew his career in banking with JP Morgan Chase before creating the marketing firm that they built.

Raul then decided to join a larger digital marketing firm in order to help them grow. In less than 3 months, he was in a leadership role and in less than a year got to be the CEO of the agency. He developed his own methodology and created a simple protocol that anyone could follow and taught it to a group of 64 successful business owners and leaders. That is how Do Good Work took off.

Raul impacts his clients and other people more through his blog called Daily Spark and a podcast named #DoGoodWork. He is also the author of the book Productive Profits to which you can all see on his website.

In this episode, we discuss:

· What Raul does to help entrepreneurs create certainty in their business.

· How COVID-19 affected Raul’s coaching and impacted his business.

· The pivotal moment when he decided to create something that makes a difference in the world.

· His business is not zero to something overnight, Raul shared how they started and shifted to a marketing firm and his learning experiences along the way.

· How important psychology and emotion is in the business.

I hope you will find this episode as exciting and informative as I have. Raul helps businesses achieve greater clarity on what they need to do, and helping entrepreneurs on their areas of control so they can ultimately focus with what’s more important for them – their families, communities or doing a greater impact with the business.

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Connect with Raul Hernandez Ochoa

Website: https://dogoodwork.io/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dogoodwork/

Connect with Steve Eschbach

Website: https://www.tworld.com/locations/naperville/ or https://eschbachassoc.com/

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWqgICqaSI8xE2GRYY1HWJA

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/speschbach/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steveeschbach/

Twitter: @ SteveEschbach

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S1 Episode 26: Enhancing Your Value Through Social Impact with Alisa Kolodizner Jun 08, 2021

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Alisa Kolodizner is the founder for Cordelia Capital LLC. She founded the firm to focus on continuing the legacy of one remarkable business.

She brings over a decade of sales, operations and entrepreneurial experience. Before founding Cordelia Capital, Alisa worked in the financial and technology industry with companies ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. Most recently, she was the top VP institutional sales consultant for financial businesses at TD Ameritrade.

Alisa’s committed partnership with the emerging technology department, as well as internal and external vendors, drove the success of her $1B+ firms to lead their peers in the financial services industry. Prior to institutional sales, Alisa coached hundreds of financial advisors in the areas of sales and product. Her experience as a nationally ranked, top-performing relationship and financial management advisor helped lead her divisional territories into groundbreaking success. Her experiences in corporate, building companies, as well as mentoring and consulting developing businesses make her ecstatic for the opportunity to find one remarkable business to invest in and grow.

In this episode, we discuss:

· Alisa’s shift from environmental science to an executive role in corporate America and then to her new business

· The importance of community involvement, and how it helped her specific skillset

· How being an immigrant and a woman helps her value the importance of employing someone based on their skills and not their background

· How Alisa defines a leader and what attributes to their success

· What’s the meaningful story behind the name and the logo of Cordelia Capital

I hope you will find this episode as exciting and informative as I have. Alisa brought in a lot of good advice for business owners in terms of enhancing their value and social impact, until the time that she can come in and take it to the next level.

Please let me know your thoughts!

Connect with Alisa Kolodizner

https://www.cordelia.capital/

Connect with Steve Eschbach

Website: https://www.tworld.com/locations/naperville/ or https://eschbachassoc.com/

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWqgICqaSI8xE2GRYY1HWJA

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/speschbach/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steveeschbach/

Twitter: @ SteveEschbach

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S1 Episode 25: Using Experience to Inspire Others Like You with Janet Steiner Jun 01, 2021

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Janet Steiner is the CEO of Make Dust. She is a Professional Speaker, Mentor and Connector of Entrepreneurial Women. She has over 30 years of CEO and Board of Director experience, and is the right woman to have on your side to help with the trials and tribulations of running your own business or succeeding in a professional position.

Jan is a heartfelt leader who made her mark in a male-dominated world. As the CEO of Thoro Packaging, Jan scaled the company from $1 million to just under $40 million dollars in revenue, proving you can turn your power as a woman into purposeful profit. Today, Jan speaks and leads other driven women by sharing her core principles of success and passion for business.

In this episode, we discuss:

· How Janet describes her current self, and what she does at Make Dust

· What she thinks of being a woman in a male-dominated profession and industry

· Jan’s top things that she would like to share to business owners on growing their businesses

· How to grow a business from a million dollars to 40 million dollars in a short period of time

· What Janet likes most about what she does today and some great advices that she received

· How to stay relevant and in-the-know of the current changes

I hope you will find this episode as exciting and informative as I have. Janet is on a new journey into helping and inspiring people in business, especially women, and those in the manufacturing world. She hopes that one day, all business owners get to a point of building a better business and achieve the success they are aiming!

Please let me know your thoughts!

Connect with Janet Steiner/Make Dust:

Website: https://www.makedust.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/makedustwithjan/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Makedustwithjansteiner

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jansteiner/

Connect with Steve Eschbach

Website: https://www.tworld.com/locations/naperville/ or https://eschbachassoc.com/

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWqgICqaSI8xE2GRYY1HWJA

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/speschbach/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steveeschbach/

Twitter: @SteveEschbach

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S1 Episode 24: The Best Ways to Prepare for Your Business's Future with Sean Ferrel May 25, 2021

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Sean is the founder and chairman of Managed Solution. He built the business in 2002, after receiving his degree from the University of San Diego. He believed that there was a better way to provide IT talent to help businesses with their exponential growth of data, technology needs and business challenges as it relates to IT. Within 3 years, their company has been recognized as one of San Diego’s 40 fastest growing companies and as the 27th fastest growing IT company in Southern California.

Sean is equally passionate about both people and technology, and truly believes it’s about finding the right people to empower the right technology solutions that can take your business to where it needs to go.

When Sean isn’t discussing business objectives or learning about the latest and greatest technology, he enjoys traveling, spending time with his family, and fishing.

In this episode, we discuss:

· What Managed Solution is about and what they do.

· How did his upbringings and his parents influence the way he is today?

· Best practices about remote services and work from home setup that business owners need to know, especially with the COVID-19 situation.

· What accountability means for him in business.

I hope you will find this episode as exciting and informative as I have. Sean is looking ahead and paints a big picture of the future of business, and how new technology plays into that. Learn more about these on this episode of Building Better Businesses.

Please let me know your thoughts!

Connect with Sean Ferrel

Website: https://www.managedsolution.com/

Managed Solution LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/managedsolution

Sean’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sean-ferrel-6427a45/

Connect with Steve Eschbach

Website: https://www.tworld.com/locations/naperville/ or https://eschbachassoc.com/

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWqgICqaSI8xE2GRYY1HWJA

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/speschbach/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steveeschbach/

Twitter: @ SteveEschbach

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S1 Episode 23: Maximizing Investments Through Commercial Real Estate with Paul Moore May 18, 2021

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Paul Moore is the Founder and the Managing Partner of Wellings Capital. Paul offers a fresh perspective on creative real estate investing and philanthropy in 2020. He is also the author of The Perfect Investment, and the co-host of a podcast called, How to Lose Money.

Paul graduated with a degree in engineering and had an MBA from Ohio State. He worked at Ford Motor Company for 5 years before Paul started a staffing company with a partner. Paul and his partner sold it to a publicly traded firm five years later for $2.9 million.

Along the way, Paul was Finalist for Ernst & Young’s Michigan Entrepreneur of the Year two years straight (1996 & 1997). Paul later entered the real estate sector, where he flipped over 50 homes and 25 high-end waterfront lots, appeared on HGTV’s House Hunters, rehabbed and managed rental properties, built a number of new homes, developed a subdivision, and started two successful online real estate marketing firms.

In this episode, we discuss:

· A little bit about his background and if he had any influences with his family that brought him to who he is now.

· How he started at Ford Motor Company from being a Petroleum Engineering graduate.

· His story of how he started his company and the learning experiences that he had along the way

· What's another way that you can build wealth?

· How finding an expert can help to expose the business to the widest number of potential buyers.

· What attracted him to do self-storage, mobile home parks and multifamily units?

I hope you will find this episode as exciting and informative as I have. Paul will give you a lot of insights on how to grow and maximize the investment through passive commercial real estate.

Please let me know your thoughts!

Connect with Paul Moore

Paul’s website, Wellings Capital: https://www.wellingscapital.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wellingscapital

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wellings-capital-llc/

Connect with Steve Eschbach

Website: https://www.tworld.com/locations/naperville/ or https://eschbachassoc.com/

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWqgICqaSI8xE2GRYY1HWJA

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/speschbach/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steveeschbach/

Twitter: @ SteveEschbach

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S1 Episode 22: Making Empathy Into Success with Sheila Farragher-Gemma May 11, 2021

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Sheila is originally from Tuam, County Galway in Ireland and moved to the States, thinking that it will just be for a while. Fast forward to today, through her company Connected Sponsor, Sheila helps event promoters monetize their events by building long standing relationships and partnerships with Sponsoring companies. Some events she promotes are Thrive, Archangel, ProfitCon, Perfect Life Retreat, MFA Live, Disruptive Innovation and Nor-Cal Fitness Summit.

Sheila always had an entrepreneurial spirit from she was young. Some of her successful business ventures include Scalliwags, a children’s indoor playground and sought-after birthday party venue, Foreclosuresmass.com and Government Deal Funding – both Real Estate Investing education companies and Affiliate Mastermind Group - an association bringing structure, innovation and collaboration to businesses in need and Connected Sponsors where she secures amazing sponsors for her clients and teaches others how to do the same. She was in Bill Glazers mastermind for several years and attributes a lot of her success to all that she learned through GKIC.

In this episode, we discuss:

· The businesses that she previously had and why she decided to exit those

· What her current business is about, her motivation behind it, and what makes it a win+win+win situation

· What has changed in doing events during the pandemic? Has it helped the industry?

I hope you will find this episode as exciting and informative as I have. One of Sheila ‘s key to success is empathy, she believes that money is just database and it’s more important to deal with people, knowing that if you don’t have them, you don’t have anything. She also has tenacity, once she gets her teeth into something she doesn’t let go. Her dream is to own a business that is so powerful it can run on auto pilot.

Please let me know your thoughts!

Connect with Sheila Farragher-Gemma:

Website: www.connectedsponsors.com

Facebook: facebook.com/ConnectedSponsors/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheilafarraghergemma/

Email: info@connectedsponsors

Connect with Steve Eschbach

Website: https://www.tworld.com/locations/naperville/ or https://eschbachassoc.com/

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWqgICqaSI8xE2GRYY1HWJA

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/speschbach/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steveeschbach/

Twitter: @SteveEschbach

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S1 Episode 21: Time and Financial Freedom While Doing Business with Lars Hedenborg May 04, 2021

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Lars Hedenborg is the Founder of Real Estate B-School, which provides training and coaching for top producing agents and team leaders looking to build sustainable, systems-driven businesses. He is also host of “The Business Freedom Podcast” and the author of the number one international best-selling book “Scale or Die! Achieve True Freedom in Your Real Estate Business & Live Your Life Without Regrets.”

Lars began his career in real estate in 2007 working 70+ hours a week, starting with $18 per hour. Fast forward to today, his team sells hundreds of homes each year and he works just one day a week with a million-dollar revenue in business. Now, he's on a mission to help other top agents and team leaders achieve time and money freedom.

In this episode, we discuss:

· What kind of experiences did Lars have back then that got him to who he is today?

· The learning points along the way confirmed he is going to the right path.

· The influences and the coaches in his personal development.

· How important relationship building is to contribute to his success.

· What you can expect with Real Estate B-School and his book Scale or Die!

I hope you will find this episode as exciting and informative as I have. In everything that Lars has experienced, he chose the path of achievement. His story is a great way to remind you that you can be successful despite of any happening in your life.

Please let me know your thoughts!

Connect with Lars Hedenborg:

Website: https://www.realestatebschool.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lhedenborg

https://www.facebook.com/RealEstateBSchool/

YouTube: @realestatebschool (https://www.youtube.com/realestatebschool)

Instagram: @larshedenborg

@realestate.b.school

Connect with Steve Eschbach

Website: https://www.tworld.com/locations/naperville/ or https://eschbachassoc.com/

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWqgICqaSI8xE2GRYY1HWJA

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/speschbach/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steveeschbach/

Twitter: @SteveEschbach

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S1 Episode 20: Achieving Growth and Success with Robert Patin Apr 27, 2021

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Robert Patin is an international best-selling author, financial consultant, and agency expert. He is also the founder and managing partner of Patin & Associates, a Los Angeles-based business management and consultancy firm.

Robert Patin offers results-oriented executive financial professional services with extensive expertise in financial review, budget development, cash flow management, debt restructuring, asset liquidation/purchase, and corporate audit for both large and small businesses. With Patin’s consulting services his clients have optimized their sales processes, generating more than $30M in additional revenue. Truly, his two decades of proven success in finance make him an invaluable asset to any business, and his clients.

In this episode, we discuss:

· Robert Patin’s background and how that influenced him to where he is today.

· How he started his business and grew it overtime.

· Some of the processes that Robert and his team does to help the business achieve their success.

· Behind the scenes of the phenomenal numbers that his business has reached.

· What his book, The Blueprint Agency is about and why he wrote it.

I hope you will find this episode as exciting and informative as I have. Robert shared to us such great insights when it comes to growing your business, whether big or small. This comes from his passion of solving problems to impact change to people – not just to owners but the employees within the agency as well.

Please let me know your thoughts!

Connect with Robert Patin:

Website: https://www.cfofinancialstrategies.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CreativeAgencySuccess

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creativeagencysuccess/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/creative-agency-success/

Forbes Contributor: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesfinancecouncil/people/robertpatin/

Connect with Steve Eschbach

Website: https://www.tworld.com/locations/naperville/ or https://eschbachassoc.com/

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWqgICqaSI8xE2GRYY1HWJA

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/speschbach/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steveeschbach/

Twitter: @SteveEschbach

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S1 Episode 19: Managing a Growing Business with Susan Fennema Apr 20, 2021

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Susan Fennema is the Chaos Eradicating Officer (CEO) of Beyond the Chaos, a consultancy helping small-business owners to simplify their operations and manage their projects so they can grow their businesses and get their lives back.

With more than 30 years of operations and project management experience in professional service industries, Susan is on a mission to improve American society exponentially. When not making multi-course dinners, she enjoys Texas A&M football games and Blackhawks hockey. She lives and works from her home in McKinney, Texas, with her husband, dog and cat.

In this episode, we discuss:

● Why overwhelmed business owners must learn to delegate tasks so they can focus on growing the business.

● How to stop being the bottleneck that impedes the flow of your business.

● Why it’s important to put processes and systems in place that can be utilized by others when needed.

I hope you will find this episode as exciting and informative as I have. Susan is leading the way on eliminating the chaos that plagues so many small-business owners.

Please let me know your thoughts!

Connect with Susan

Website: https://beyondthechaos.biz

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susanfennema/

Connect with Steve Eschbach

Website: https://www.tworld.com/locations/naperville/ or https://eschbachassoc.com/

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWqgICqaSI8xE2GRYY1HWJA

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/speschbach/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steveeschbach/

Twitter: @ SteveEschbach

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