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#239 - Chris Kenney, Sought After Wealth Mentor with Chris Kenney Coaching Jan 12, 2021

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In a fun, insightful dialogue Chris joins to share his background through corporate sales to how he eventually launched his company. We discuss building and selling coaching/training platforms, why you're compensated for your "being" and not your knowledge, the stages before reaching passive income, the critical importance of mindset when navigating unchartered pandemic waters, and much more!
ABOUT CHRIS:
Chris Kenney is a master sales coach, million-dollar business owner, and sought-after wealth mentor. He teaches undercover superstars how to break their money-rules, rapidly accelerate their income, and live with uncommon freedom & choice. When he's not coaching his private clients, you can find him speaking on stages around the world, sharing his 7-Figure Sales Secrets with brilliant, talented entrepreneurs, so they can step into their legacy work by shedding the chains of money-shame and under-earning.
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Best place to connect with me is my Facebook Group "Sales Mastery Inner Circle": https://www.facebook.com/groups/SalesMasteryInnerCircle
You can also find me on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thechriskenney/
And on my website: https://www.chriskenneycoaching.com/
Connect with me at www.champronbrooks.com! Schedule a one on one with me to discuss your real estate strategy or get your questions answered by emailing me ron@champronbrooks.com!

#238 - From the Real Estate Investing in 2021 Virtual Training! Jan 09, 2021

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In this episode I share the audio from the virtual Zoom training I did on real estate investing in 2021. My colleague and investor from the Toronto area Cedric Daley joins by phone to share his background in investing and ways to get involved! Whether using private and hard money lending to buy and earn rental income, flip or wholesale for transactional income, or leverage seller financing, you've come to the right place to learn from me......your host Champ'Ron!
Order "Investing In Real Estate With Little Or No Money Down" in paperback for $10.99 at www.champronbrooks.com! Text me at 312-847-4071 to request a FREE eBook copy!
Tony "The Closer" Robinson, former NFL player for the Seattle Seahawks and how real estate mogul, hosts the "Rona Proof" Masterclass! Be sure to follow him on IG @tonythecloser_ and go to my site www.champronbrooks.com to get a discount on his online virtual course with live trainings and PDF documents to help you launch your business quickly!

#237 - Kimberly Rolfe, Director of the SC Virtual Business Center Jan 06, 2021

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Providing great insight around connecting small business owners to government contracts, Kimberly shares her background and how she and her team launched the virtual business center at the genesis of the pandemic to provide education, mentorship, and coaching that has proven to be impactful in this environment. Her upcoming book, "Capacity" is available now for pre-sale and will be released in April 2021!
ABOUT KIMBERLY:
Kimberly Kelly-Rolfe has extensive experience as a business owner and trainer.
She has nearly 20 years of experience in the financial services industry, with most of her career as an accountant, business consultant and owner of Kelly Rolfe Financial Services, a Los Angeles based accounting firm, she owned and operated for 14 years before selling in 2018.
She has over 12 years of experience training entrepreneurs, is an Entrepreneurship professor in the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California (USC), and has conducted training on business and finance since 2007.
In 2015, she visited the White House and met with the Obama administration to advocate on behalf of Small businesses. In 2017, she launched Accelerate business training to help entrepreneurs launch, run and grow in business and in 2018, she created the Certified Business Enterprise Supplier Training (CBEST) to train diverse businesses for the capacity to manage corporate and government contracts.
More recently, she founded Kelly Rolfe and Associates, LLC to continue her work training and supporting diverse businesses and providing management education and training for Ascend Los Angeles. She has a bachelor’s degree in business and a Master of Science degree in Entrepreneurship & Innovation from USC Marshall School of Business.
She has also been recognized by the SBA and City of Los Angeles as an Emerging Leader in business.
www.scvirtualbusinesscenter.com
Upcoming book available for presale!
Capacity: The Roadmap to Secure Corporate and Government Contracts. by Kimber... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08QMMTT17/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_W0H9FbWSADE3S
Visit www.champronbrooks.com to listen to any and all podcast episodes, get BIG discounts on access to Propstream and the Rona Proof Virtual Masterclass by Tony "The Closer" Robinson. Also pick up a paperback copy of my new book!
Get my eBook "Investing in Real Estate with Little to No Money Down" for FREE by texting me at 312-847-4071!

#236 - Darbi, CEO and Founder of BCA Culture Dec 31, 2020

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While traveling thru Florida, Darbi joins this episode to drop gems on her background, the basics of business credit, how to establish business credit, how it compares with personal credit, Clubhouse, and much more!!!
ABOUT DARBI:
Darbi is a trailblazing entrepreneur plsu CEO and Founder of BCA Culture, formerly The Business Credit Agency, a cutting edge technology company that helps small minority business owners build business credit and high limit funding. Darbi comes with years of financial industry experience with a speciality in building business credit. She has brought her corporate expertise and her detailed results in building business credit to BCA Culture. Darbi, born in Tennessee and raised in Georgia, is a dynamic millennial thinker, wise beyond her years and centered in her gift of entrepreneurship.
Darbi graduated with honors from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville obtaining her undergraduate degree in finance and international business. However, her real life education and experiences were learned through her uber successful mentors. Over the years, Darbi has been wildly influential in network marketing, tax, technology, and the music industry, earning multiple six figures. Her latest venture with BCA Culture is the perfect combination of her formal education and mentorship. Darbi’s faith is a compass in her life and her consistency and willingness to empower others with knowledge has organically worked in her favor all her life.
www.bcaculture.com
www.instagram.com/bcaculture
www.instagram.com/dominatewithdarbi
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#235 - Abdi Hassan, Co-Founder of Top Figure Dec 29, 2020

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Based in Minneapolis, Abdi and I met initially from hearing him share value recently in a Clubhouse app room. He was gracious to accept my invitation to be a guest on this episode, and yes he delivers that same value here! Sharing his background story and journey, we discuss how he and his business partner launched Top Figure to help underrepresented owners find their voice with their customer base and scale to a desired level from those relationships. We also discuss the state of Clubhouse in its early iteration, the video that went viral from him and his friends being racially profiled in a gym facility, and much more!
ABOUT ABDI:
I built a marketing agency called Top Figure while I was still a student at the University of St. Thomas that generated over six figures. The businesses had over 200 clients and I was able to build brands for those clients. Top Figure enabled businesses to better understand and reach their target audience and helped them convert their followers into loyal customers. A community of black and minority entrepreneurs, Top Figure provides education and support to entrepreneurs to grow their own online ecommerce brands.
www.topfigure.co
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#234 - Howard Gottlieb, Founder and CEO of Read-A-Thon Dec 24, 2020

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We all can likely agree that reading is fundamental and the basis of developing the appreciation and confidence in the ability to learn. What if reading could be a revenue generator for your school? Howard and his team have solved that problem! In this episode, Howard shares his background in launching 8 companies before Read-A-Thon, how Read-A-Thon operates, the comparison and contrast with other traditional formats of fundraising, and his best practices for success in business and beyond!
ABOUT HOWARD:
Howard is the founder and CEO of Read-a-thon. Although around the office we just call him the Big Cheese. He spends most of his waking hours obsessing about how to make Read-a-thon the absolute best school fundraising idea anywhere on the planet Earth.
As an adult, Howard’s favorite book is Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. His favorite children’s book is the Lorax by Dr. Seuss.
www.read-a-thon.com
Minding Your Business Community! Two quick things......to get access to FREE banking and real estate tools, hacks, and tips as well as early notification of workshops and resources from me and various podcast guests be sure to text CHAMP to 312-847-4071.
Also I have launched a NEW Facebook group called A Tribe Called Champs! Join by visiting www.facebook.com/groups/atribecalledchamps/! We will discuss daily topics from our own verzuz battles, Real Estate Wednesdays, Parent Corner, Foodie Fridays, and much more!!!
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#233 - Gull Khan, Money Mindset Expert & Host of the Money Mindset Podcast Dec 19, 2020

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Gull joins me from the UK and shares her distinguished background as a banking and finance attorney to her own business, how she overcame two failed marriages in discovering her pathway to a new mindset and relationship with money, how you can rebound from setbacks to achieve success, and how being friends with your money versus adversaries will help you transform your thinking and experience the positive attraction in your personal and business finances!
ABOUT GULL:
Gull Khan is a Money Mindset Expert, international speaker, podcaster, a Barrister, an Attorney with New York Bar Association, and a Solicitor. She is also known as an Intuitive Life Coach, an EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) expert, an Energy Healer, and a Mother. She hosts the Money Mindset Podcast available on all major podcast platforms.
www.gullkhan.com
Connect with Gull on her show the Money Mindset Podcast!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/money-mindset-with-gull-khan/id1519125027
https://open.spotify.com/show/6Rnmtg5dbtMJb8UrQFB5fw
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#232 - Lindsay LaNore, Group Executive VP- Chief Learning & Experience Officer, ICBA Dec 15, 2020

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Lindsay joined me in November 2020 on The CRA Files podcast, this is our dialogue which I believe you will enjoy! Lindsay shares her distinct background in community banking, the important nature of educating bankers who serve various communities nationwide, why community banking is critical to neighborhood edification, and what those interested in a career in training and development can do specifically to get involved now!
www.icba.org
ABOUT LINDSAY:
Lindsay LaNore is group executive vice president of the Independent Community Bankers of America’s® (ICBA) Community Banker University®. She oversees all of ICBA’s acclaimed educational offerings that serve more than 120,000 community bankers in the United States each year.
ICBA’s Community Bank University delivers hundreds of courses, live seminars and webinars, online training, publications, and certification programs in specialties from compliance to payments technology. LaNore also oversees Community Banker University’s conferences for bankers, including the ICBA LEAD FWD Summit. In addition to publications and events, LaNore also directs the ICBA Bank Director Program reaching thousands of directors each year.
Before joining ICBA, LaNore served as director of compliance and training services for Bequeaith Banking Solutions, a leading regulatory compliance and credit management consulting firm serving financial institutions and national trade associations, including ICBA. At Bequeaith, she worked with community banks across the country. She was a co-instructor of the ICBA’s Compliance Institute, BSA/AML Institute and Annual Certification Conference for over eight years.
LaNore has a BS in Finance from the University of Minnesota at Duluth and a JD from the William Mitchell College of Law.
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#231 - Erica Flint, AWARD-WINNING HYPNOTIST & BEST-SELLING AUTHOR Dec 12, 2020

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Erika brings her unique perspective to this episode! We discuss her background, the truth about hypnosis, how hypnosis serves as a benefit to business owners and working professionals learning about themselves, her inspiration behind each of her books, her upcoming book Q1 2021, and why in 2021 we should focus on "coming home"
ABOUT ERIKA:
Erika Flint is an award-winning hypnotist, three time best-selling author, speaker on hypnosis and the self-actualized mind, and a co-host of the popular podcast series Hypnosis, Etc. She is the founder of Cascade Hypnosis Center for Training & Services in Bellingham, Washington.
Before becoming a hypnotist, Erika designed software for the high-tech industry. She worked in that field for over a decade when she realized how interested she was in the most powerful computing device available – the human mind.
Now she combines her analytical expertise along with streamlined hypnosis techniques to train some of the best minds in the world with a powerful system of modern hypnosis specifically designed for entrepreneurs to use to grow their businesses.
Erika’s heartfelt approach is the trademark of her work. Her focus is on high-achievers wanting to become the full expression of who they are in every area of their life - starting with how they show up in their own business.
She lives in Bellingham, Washington with her family including an orange cat named Moose and two happy rescue dogs who love to play soccer.
Erika's Website: https://cascadehypnosiscenter.com/about-erika
Erika's Media Kit: https://kitcaster.com/erika-flint/
Cascade Hypnosis Center Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cascadehypnosiscenter
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#230 - Jeremy Parker, CEO & Co-Founder of Swag.com Dec 10, 2020

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Ever wondered about the mindset of those who disrupt industries? Jeremy joins this episode to share his unique background, how his skill set as a visionary has helped him progress his business in the early genesis of social media, the importance of business owners having a willingness to adapt and pivot in an uncertain environment, and much more!
ABOUT JEREMY:
Jeremy Parker is co-founder/CEO of Swag.com, top eCommerce platform for purchasing promo materials people actually want to keep.Swag.com did $365k in business year one, $1.1M year two, $7M in sales year three and $10M this year. While the rest of the industry was down over 50%, Swag.com had their biggest month. They're #218 on Inc.com's top 500 and have grown 2000% over three years. They work with thousands of companies including TikTok, Facebook, Google, Amazon, Netflix, and Spotify. Named one of Crain's NY 40 Under 40 Class of 2020, Jeremy is passionate about infusing consciousness into how we consume, and he's just getting started!
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