Business Leaders Podcast

“When I say turn them into customers, that’s more than just making a sale today.” As CEO of StrategiCopy, Mike Connolly creates and manages direct response marketing systems for fast-growing businesses so they can attract their ideal customers, put an iron fence around them and develop an abundant “herd” of customers for life. He has co-created and manages marketing systems using blogs, social networking sites, newsletters, e-letters, video networks, articles, multi-media follow-up systems, direct mail, teleseminars, webinars and affiliate marketing. He’s an experienced teacher, trainer, and coach and loves sharing his passion for magnetic attraction strategies with high achieving business owners and entrepreneurs. StrategiCopy primarily serves small to medium-sized businesses. We help them attract the type of customer they’re really most interested in finding out in the world and get found. We help them actually turn the virtual strangers into customers. Watch the episode: Listen to the podcast: Mike Co

Lighter Charms are an opportunity for you to turn your best-selling lighters in the world into a billboard that you control. Lighter Charms are perfect for lighter identification and self-expression. CEO Rob Healy instructs the user to simply slide the silicone band on your lighter, pop a charm into the charm band and use your lighter as you normally would (For lighting candles. NOT if you’re an arsonist.) You can also use the charm as a ball marker, a fridge magnet – whatever you like. Just don’t eat them or let kids play with them. Just one piece of advice from CEO Rob Healy: If you’re really serious about it, find people who can point out the problems with your product. Watch the episode: Listen to the podcast: Lighter Charms with CEO Rob Healy Decorative Charms For Disposable Lighters That Help You Snuff Your Stuff We’re incredibly fortunate to have Rob Healy from https://lightercharms.myshopify.com/ (Lighter Charms) as a guest on the show. Rob, welcome to the show. Thank you very much for hav

For legacy architectures, infrastructures, and technology, the business logic needs to get extracted, cleaned up, and organized in a more relevant and future-looking architecture. Mike Gearhardt, CEO of 5280 Software, helps small businesses, startups and medium-sized companies in the Denver area in maturing their technology. Mike is also the CTO of Fathym which focuses in the IoT space by helping industrial companies learn from their data and predict things they need in order to attain maximum efficiency. Watch the epidosde: Listen to the podcast: Mike Gearhardt On IoT Data Extraction And Learning Solutions Applied We’re fortunate to be with Mike Gearhardt. He’s the CEO of http://www.5280software.com/ (5280 Software) and he’s currently the CTO of https://fathym.com/ (Fathym). We’re going to dig into the IoT space and a couple of other topics, so this is going to be quite fun. Mike, I appreciate you taking the time. Thank you for having me. For the folks out there going like, “What

How can we leverage the things that we instinctively suck at? Holly G. Green, CEO and Managing Director of The Human Factor, Inc. focuses on the complexities of why and how humans think and behave the way they do at work. That means aligning everything in the organization so that they’re all in the same race, everyone knows what the targets are, and everybody is moving towards them. One of our deep human tendencies, the thing we’re better at than anything else in the whole world, is to prove ourselves right. And this is not about motivating people with recognition or awards – although that’s certainly all threaded through. This is about real specificity. What is our game? What is the target? Where are we according to that target and how we are going to get there effectively together? The world is changing at such a fast pace that just because it worked five years ago doesn’t guarantee it will work today. Watch the episode: Listen to the podcast: Holly G. Green Teaches How To Master The Skills Requir

Joseph Cheung and Morgan Nolan / http://www.toggleind.com/ (Toggle Industries LLC) Cyber security experts Joseph Cheung and Morgan Nolan, from Toggle Industries LLC return to the show for an episode to discuss the current issues and the challenges within cyber-security, in broad terms, steps you can take and a wide-ranging discussion with respect to cyber security. What can you do? “All you have to do is continue to be educational within your staff, educate your clients,as well as have a good fundamental mindset, and just honestly, be vigilant.” Bob Roark / http://businessleaderspodcast.com/ (Business Leaders Podcast) (Host) Joseph Cheung/ http://www.toggleind.com/ (Toggle Industries LLC) (Guest) Morgan Nolan/ http://www.toggleind.com/ (Toggle Industries LLC) (Guest) 719 301 9988 (Phone) cyber@toggleind.com (email) https://www.toggleind.com/ (toggleind.com) (Website) Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! http://businessleaderspodcast.com/how-to-subscribe-rate-our-podca

A cancer diagnosis causes a trauma so powerful, it splits your life around that single point in time: the Before-Why, and the After-Why. Breast cancer survivor Diane Simard was the classic type A, small business owner, charging at 100 miles an hour when she received the diagnosis. She shaved her head before the hair fell out because she needed to be in control. Imagine spending $200 every six weeks to have your hair colored and cut for years – and now it’s on the floor. But Diane held her chin up and said to herself: “I’m going to save probably about $1,000 this year.” Diane Simard seed-funded the Center for Oncology Psychology (COPE), an organization that continues to change lives for the better. She hopes that with her efforts, more women would not have to go through the humiliation of feeling raw and naked in front of random passersby. Watch the episode:   Listen to the podcast: The Evolution Of “Why” With Breast Cancer Survivor Diane Simard We’re incredibly fortunate. We&#

There is a move towards probiotics that has resulted in a so-called yogurt craze: people are stocking their fridges with pints of yogurt and with bottles of Yakult, a Japanese probiotic drink. But isn’t probiotic food just traveling through your system without sticking to the wall of your gut? How do we know that probiotics is even doing anything? These are logical questions that microbio research is trying to answer. Martha Carlin, CEO of The Biocollective and Biocollective Research, says that we’re actually more microbial than we are human. The ratio now is about two to one cell count of microbes versus human cells. They focus on gut health and the human microbiome composed of trillions of bacteria, fungi, viruses and archaea living in and on our body. The Biocollective connects their membership and the collected sample with the research world in order to accelerate discovery in the microbiome space and create solutions for gut health overall. Watch the episode: Listen to the podcast: The Human Microbiome

  Greyledge Technology is a biotech company that works with the patient’s own tissue samples. They take a tissue from you, typically blood or bone marrow tissue, and they manipulate that into a sample in a therapeutic that’s placed back either via injection, or as part of the surgical technique where our surgeon implants it. There are therapeutic cells within these preparations that can be used to promote and support natural healing.   Watch the episode: Listen to the podcast:   Greyledge CEO Dave Karli MD, biotech startup & optimizing the process of regenerative medicine. We’re incredibly fortunate to have Dr. Dave Karli on the show. He is the CEO of https://greyledgebiotech.com/ (Greyledge). Greyledge is located out of Vail, Colorado in Denver. Dave is responsible for all aspects of the company development, including the integration of a strong team of professionals to support Greyledge’s innovative approach to regenerative medicine. A bit of background about Dave; afte

When you’re running an organization, you’re obviously going to face challenges that you’d rather delegate to an expert solutions third party. One such company is Online Advisor, which specializes in providing immediate solutions to your problems. For example, advanced bookkeeping or accounting is not a forte for many small business owners. John Harris, CEO of Online Advisor, runs the site like a streamlined online resource where folks can quickly retrieve what they need and focus on higher-level concerns. Online Advisor is an excellent website that serves entrepreneurs, business owners, business leaders, and organizational leaders, helping them boost their professional lives. Watch the episode:   Listen to the podcast: http://origin1.podcastwebsites.com/1128/416/1717/Podcast-029John-Harris-1.mp3″ title=”Business Growth Strategies With John Harris Of Online Advisor” artist=”Business Leaders Podcast” image=”http://businessleaderspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/B

People know about MRI, CT, SPECT and PET: all acronyms of machines that kick out imaging that makes it possible to examine what’s wrong inside the brain. And when patients do receive the bad news, they deserve no less than CereScan’s advanced brain imaging software for predictive diagnoses – arguably the best in the US. John Kelley, CEO of CereScan, leads his company in taking patient information regarding certain brain disorders and combining that with other factors in their life. With this data, CereScan can quickly come up with a good, predictive diagnosis for whatever their problem could be. Patients then have the ability to start correlating diagnostic data to life events, pharmaceutical and genetic predisposition for certain conditions. CereScan sheds a new light into how we might be able to treat brain diseases: conditions once considered taboo and incurable. Watch the episode: Listen to the podcast: Advanced Brain Imaging Software With CereScan’s John Kelley We’re incredibly fortunate

Nowadays, getting your idea to IRS-approved 501(c)(3) is a pain in the a**. The unyielding bureaucratic obstacles can test the limits of those looking to process their IRS compliant non-profit. In the midst of red tape, we’re lucky to have companies like Yippiekiyay, whose mission is to ease the inconvenience as much as possible. Christian Lefer, CEO of Yippiekiyay, describes it as an attitude of empowering non-profits by fighting the bad guys. The way that translates is whether you’re starting a nonprofit or getting fundraising compliant, which is a difficult process as well, Yippikiyay will get you from idea to IRS-approved 501(c)(3) in less than an hour for under a thousand dollars – and you’ll never talk to a government agent or lawyer! Watch the episode: Listen to the podcast: Start Your IRS Compliant Non-Profit With Christian Lefer, CEO Yippiekiyay We’re incredibly fortunate to have https://www.linkedin.com/in/christianlefer/ (Christian LeFer). He’s from https://heroes.

Contractor’s Guide to Success Start It, Build It, Grow It with Randy Brothers, the CEO of CJ and Elite Roofing as well as head coach of The Roofing Academy. He’s a third-generation contractor and business owner with over 15 years of contracting experience. His company has grown 10 times in 6 years, or 10X, A 30% growth rate over the past 5 years, even when the local roofing market softened during that time frame. Elite Roofing now provides for the families of over 40 people that are employed in his firm A natural born entrepreneur. Even as a little kid, I did various entrepreneurial endeavors from, you know, buying popsicles and Blow Pops in bulk, selling them to my friends on the school bus, to landscaping, doing lawn mowing, to a window cleaning company I started in college. I mowed lawns to buy my first PlayStation. And then all the friends came over and played my PlayStation for two years. And then I ended up hiring them and having them help me mow lawns I worked three jobs in college

Rope manufacturing and lesson learned from working safely at height with Loui McCurley, CEO Pigeon Mountain Industries Coolest company on Earth PMI is a manufacturer of life safety ropes and soft goods, other equipment for work at height We  distribute other gear from people whose products complement our own. So we’re a manufacturer and distributor, as well as an http://www.verticalrescuesolutions.com/ (educator). How Pigeon Mountain Industries started We started down in Georgia, in the heart of what we call “TAG,” Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia. TAG caving area. The founders of our company were all cavers and they wanted a better caving rope to go caving with. What we do Rope manufacturing; we manufacture a kernmantle rope. Kernmantle is a German term and it means core and sheath. So the “kern” is the core, the “mantle” is the sheath. Depending on how much twist or what you do to the design on the inside of the rope, you can really control, you can really

Recycling tires and what is Bolder Black? A sustainable alternative to traditional carbon black produced recycling tires that would otherwise be placed in landfills or incinerated. Early influences My first taste of entrepreneurship with my first job out of college and I worked for a guy who had invented voicemail. And he was an Indiana guy who came back home to invest in a series of companies, and I was working directly for him in one of those companies. Following your passion One of those customers turned out to be in the medical device industry and offered me a job in a startup company.  I learned a lot about products, services, and feeding a market, but more importantly, I learned about following some passions. It was in the women’s healthcare space, and waking up in the morning and knowing that when you wake up and every patient you see has a better outcome and a better day because of it, you want to work a little harder, put a few more hours on the road, just get that extra patient because every

Recruiting executives: what does Carol do? Recruiting-Carol offers a boutique talent solution at http://verticalelevation.com/ (Vertical Elevation) that has a unique and customized talent recruiting strategy process. As an adviser, she is in demand by executives looking to build better organizations, improve their leadership and communication skills, and advance their careers. Using her expertise as a recruitment process optimization strategist, she is able to improve the number of performers in organizations, substantially increasing company revenue. Who does she serve? She serves primarily high-tech clients, both startups and mid-sized companies, sometimes large companies. When do you use a retained recruiter? Any time they have an important hire to fill. I’ve been hired by startups who need software engineers. I’ve had people ask, “Why would somebody hire you to do that?” Well, because it’s an important hire. I mean, with high-tech startups, it’s very critical. On up

If it’s important, encrypt it! with BlackSquare Technologies   How did BlackSquare Technologies come about, and tell us about the Enigma product. I have been in the data security field for close to 14 years now, and have observed an increase in data theft over that time.  Moreover, we’ve seen data theft come into its own over the past 5 years; hackers and bad actors have stolen not only money but valuable and confidential data, surpassing trillions of dollars.  Thieves access, monitor and then monetize data.  Once ‘in’ a network, it’s very difficult to remove their presence. The genesis of BlackSquare came about by thinking we could build a simple yet secure ‘tool’ that any user could manage to encrypt and decrypt data.  That was the idea; it has to be simple to manage and simple to use.  Why?  We wanted to build this product so that consumers and SMBs could now manage data independent of the operating systems.  As you know, both WIN and MAC operating systems are continually under pressure to fix prob

Food  distribution clarified by Jerry Wilhite, CEO FSIC Background He worked with U.S. Foodservice for 22 years in all aspects of the food distribution business including: Corporate National Accounts, Division President, VP of Sales, Accounts Payable and Receivables, Purchasing and Operations. Jerry also was a Division President for Food Services of America. How did you feel about taking a risk to open your own company? Even today I don’t think of it that way. I think of it as,”I’ve got a job to do, and it started out by looking at the opportunity of how we could help our customers. What does FSIC do? Track products from manufacturer through the operator. Bring visibility to the customer so they can make great business decisions. Unfortunately, with invoices, they’re looking at invoice data, they maybe looking at a can, but they don’t really truly understand, “Am I getting the right product from the right vendor at the right price?” and we have the ability to make

Mike Walker, CEO Opterre The early influences Why did I decide to train consultants? It is a rags-to-riches-type story where I grew up in a fairly poor background. My mom was divorced. She was a single mom with three kids. We basically have to live on food stamps to augment our living. And my mom was not the type of person that really was all that keen about that, so what she wanted to do is give me the food stamps and I’d go into the grocery store, buy the groceries, come back out and go back home. Well, there was one event that occurred where I was buying the groceries and I’m walking out the door. And as I’m walking out, as I was paying for ’em at the food stamps, the clerk was talking to somebody else, because [SP] I know he probably stole ’em. And, you know, like, some people have these catalyzing events, well, for me, that was one of them. Why Opterre Another catalyzing event occurred, which is I was quite responsible for outsourcing a lot of jobs from the U.S. to other co

Jarvis Labs why founded and when Jarvis Labs was founded six years ago and was more or less kind of just an accumulation of lifelong work and, specifically, in the IT industry, around cloud services.  We formed it with the intentions of really kind of getting to the next level in cloud and the cyber spectrum of opportunity. You know, we’ve developed some cloud technologies and built our own infrastructure. What do you do We bring an enterprise level of support and services to small and medium businesses, to startups. We’ve helped companies go from zero to all the way.  What do you do for Startups Startups have trouble getting to the next level or leveraging that next piece of technology that they need in order to thrive or in order to make a manufacturing process work or whatever it is. https://jarvislabs.com/company (Jarvis Labs) is with our repertoire and experience implementing technology in a wide variety of places, we’re usually able to find that missing piece or we’re able to d

There is no such thing as a safe place. Given all the recent occurrences of hacking and penetration in Yahoo, Experian and other tech giants, it’s high time we look at business cyber security as an increasingly urgent issue. Joseph Cheung talks about the issue and the broad-term challenges with cyber security. What information are you putting out there? Are you okay if a convict or some “prince” in Nigeria gets access to that information? Essentially you’re leaving little pieces of your personal puzzle out into cyberspace, whether it’s your personal puzzle or your company’s puzzle. Together with Morgan Nolan, Joseph runs Toggle Industries, a company that educates companies to stay vigilant of threats, and to develop strong fundamental mindsets for data protection. Watch the episode:   Listen to the podcast: Business Cyber Security With Joseph Cheung We’re doing something a little different. We’re going to have a special episode, given all the recent occurrenc