Outlier On Air | Interviewing Founders, Disruptors, & Mavens

As the founder ofCrowd Siren, Lauralie Lee Ezra has a team and a full suite of branding clients. In this interview with Melinda Yeaman, she talks about how Crowd Siren came to be and what the early, less stable days were like. She shares lessons learned as well as great tips to remember when founding and growing a grass roots company.

  Dominique Piotet is the Owner and Chief Rebel at Rebellion Lab, a digital strategy consulting company. Dominique gives us a behind the scenes look at his team and the services his business offers.

JobHive is a tech startup based in downtown Las Vegas inside the Work in Progress co-working space. Co-founders Jared Fuller and Brian Beckman welcomed us in for an impromptu interview. They gathered the whole team and explained the innovative ways they are changing up the job search process to be much more effective and forward thinking. The fire and passion they had for this vision was bursting out of them. This is the energy that we love to experience from startups.    

Outlier traveled to Las Vegas to get to know Trikke Las Vegas. Entrepreneur, Fred Welch gives Melinda Yeaman the details of what Trikke is all about: fun, fitness and green transportation all in one foldable package. Personal mobility and transportation has never been better. Just step on, twist the throttle and go.

Kimberly Bordonaro of Brandspiration presented at Outlier Labs co-working space in Southern Utah. Named by The Huffington Post as one of the top 4 personal branding experts, Kimberly gives entrepreneurs a fresh perspective on branding by teaching exactly how the superstars do it. Don’t miss the video to this presentation as well as the bonus video with Kimberly on OutlierMagazine.co.

Author, consultant and speaker, Jeff Olsen, sits down with Melinda Yeaman and relates the experiences which motivated his two books “I Knew Their Hearts” and “Beyond Mile Marker 80”. He shares the tragic story of the automobile accident that took his wife, young son and his leg but left him with a near death experience that changed his perspective forever. His story of rebuilding is an inspiring one. Jeff’s resilience and hope is what all of us must face if we are to succeed.

Serial entrepreneur Scott Warner interviews with Melinda Yeaman. He discusses his 4 diverse companies, how they generate revenue and how he balances them successfully. As CEO of Gigg.com, Scott opens doors for true fans of music and aspiring artists through the company’s social media platform. Through Gigg’s talent discovery medium, Scott is able to find the best musicians on the planet. Gigg was recently named one of the Top Ten Start-ups of 2013 at SXSW by Complex Tech.

Michael Lee of Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy interviews with Melinda Yeaman. He teaches how the body is directly connected with our mind and how being in tune with it will increase clarity, focus and decision making in our business.

Outlier Magazine heads to Las Vegas to visit the home office of tech startup Fluencr. In this interview, Melinda Yeaman speaks with Gerome Sapp former NFL player, Harvard Business School graduate and co-founder of Fluencr. Gerome details the product and discusses interesting points about the first year in business. Be sure to visit outliermagazine.co for the bonus video tour of the Fluencr offices.

Daliah Saper of Saper Law Offices gives Melinda Yeaman the lowdown on legal issues we should be aware of when doing business online. As an entrepreneur herself, she understands the questions and issues involved in starting a business. She discusses trademarks and gives valuable insight to new businesses about how to protect themselves from future legal problems. She teaches about what is legal when it comes to content sharing, running contests and sweepstakes and how to deal with negative reviews. Don’t miss Daliah’s key take away which will help you move forward confidently in your business.  

Career expert Dr. CK Bray brings you the techniques he uses to coach executives in top level companies around the world in this interview with Melinda Yeaman. As a PhD in Organizational & Adult Development, Dr. Bray gives us insights on how to navigate to a fulfilling career in today’s unstable world. To do this, he is leading “The Career Revolution”, an initiative to help others to achieve their most fulfilling career. He gives specific advice on steps that we can take, including creating a career action plan for ourselves. Each entrepreneur, wantrepreneur, employee and business owner will benefit from being introduced to Dr. Bray’s actionable, fresh and energetic approach to career bliss.

Serial Entrepreneur Dan Novaes wants to convince you to take the risk, and dive into entrepreneurship. Listen in as Dan talks about his countless startups, and what he learned from the challenges of bootstrapping.  

  Entrepreneur Rik Logtenberg is a major advocate for social responsibility. He has a long history of using business to make a positive impact on the world. Rik’s latest venture is Timely, a seamless calendaring software focused on creating a community around you product. Listen in as Rik teaches how to create a gathering place for our communities.  

  Niki Warner’s passion for her business as a fourth generation greenhouse grower shines through in this interview with Melinda Yeaman. Niki’s passion is what brought her back to her roots as an adult and motivated her to become an entrepreneur and found Botanicals, Inc. She discusses a different take on ROI, the concept of human capital, and why we should spend our lives building a legacy around our passion. Plants play a large role in this conversation and become an analogy to communicate the life and energy we feel when we live and work true to our passion.

Jeff Poulton, seasoned entrepreneur and founder of Rocketmade, shares his passion and his mission to help create a visible STEM community in his area. As an app development company, Rocketmade is at the center of the tech scene and is deeply involved in stimulating its growth. Melinda Yeaman asks Jeff about his experience as a serial entrepreneur and asks Jeff to share his valuable insight for startups who are interested in developing an app.

Allan Staker, serial entrepreneur and Harvard grad, shares his past business experiences and what to expect the second time around. He is the founder of Brain Chase, an interactive summer learning program in the format of a global treasure hunt. Clues are given during a weekly animated series. The game ends with the winner flying to a location to dig up and keep the real treasure.   In this interview with Melinda Yeaman, Allan digs into the details of this TechEd product, related challenges and the passion he has for fun and education.

  Ray Paré is the founder of Dofahn Inc., a home décor company for dog owners whose e-commerce site sells quality products that are made in America. In this interview with Melinda Yeaman, Ray dives into e-commerce and the benefits of manufacturing products in the U.S.A. He gives valuable insights on starting and running an e-commerce business in a competitive environment as well as how to provide a quality experience for your clients and build amazing relationships with manufacturers to achieve success.

Luca is living at the intersection of design and development, of creativity and ingenuity, of digital innovation and the physical world. Today he designs mobile experiences for a curious generation with his company Curious Hat. For the past 30 years Luca has been creating digital images, writing code, exploring and designing new creative tools. For the 17 years prior, he worked at PDI/DreamWorks In helping bring digital characters like Shrek to life.

Steve is one of the founders of Identity Marketing, an Australian agency which works exclusively with real estate agencies in to help them accelerate their growth through marketing and business systems. He breaks down the nuts and bolts of email marketing in particular. In this interview with Melinda Yeaman, he discusses tools, strategies, and how to keep consistency in email marketing.    

  Vanessa DiMauro, founder of leader networks, introduces social business. Her company helps organizations build relationships with their key stakeholders through social business strategies. In this interview with Melinda Yeaman, she covers the differences between implementing social business strategies and general social media marketing.