The Elite Entrepreneurs Podcast

David Ferree is the co-founder and CEO of Anson Belt & Buckle. Over 10 years ago, David and his father created the brand Anson Belt & Buckle, introducing micro-adjustable, hole-less belts to the U.S. market. Today Anson Belt has been named to the Inc. 5000 fastest growing private’s U.S. companies, going on 3 years in a row, cementing themselves as a leader in the surprisingly competitive hole-less belt industry. What the podcast will teach you: Resources: Additional Resources:

Brett Gilliland is Founder and CEO of Elite Entrepreneurs, a company that specializes in giving $1M+ business owners the knowledge, processes, and tools to grow to $10M and beyond. Brett is an expert in organization development, leadership, and strategy and spent 10 years helping Infusionsoft grow from $7M in revenue to over $100M. Brett was involved in the foundational work of Purpose, Values, and Mission at Infusionsoft and facilitated the strategic planning process for many years. One of Brett’s favorite professional accomplishments is co-creating Infusionsoft’s Elite Forum along with Clate Mask and building the Elite business inside of Infusionsoft. As the leader of the Elite business, Brett has helped hundreds of struggling seven-figure business owners overcome their biggest challenges and achieve new levels of success. He also played a central role in the development of Infusionsoft’s Leadership Model and was serving as the VP of Leadership Development when the decision was made to spin the Elite business out of Infusionsoft. As the new owner of Elite Entrepreneurs, Brett can’t think of anything else he’d rather be doing professionally. When Brett isn’t busy helping $1M+ businesses succeed, he is a family man who enjoys spending time with his beautiful wife, Sharon, and their 8 children. What the podcast will teach you: Resources:

Karen Briscoe is the creator of the transformative “5 Minute Success” concept. Her books Real Estate Success in 5 Minutes a Day: Secrets of a Top Agent Revealed and Commit to Get Leads: 66 Day Challenge® offer a combination of information and inspiration delivered through memorable stories. The daily format with takeaways propels one to achieve success at a higher level in business and life. Topics include: Commit to Get Leads; Consult to Sell; Connect to Build and Grow; Success Thinking, Activities and Vision; which all lead to the Sweet Spot of Success. Her most recent book, Flip Time / Love Life is a Heroine’s Journey tale about loving the life you have while you create and co-create the life of your dreams. Her first book was featured in INMAN as must read for your best year in real estate in 2017. The book ranks on Amazon in the top 1% in its category. It has been endorsed by industry leaders Hal Elrod, Pat Hiban and Michael J. Maher. She is a contributing author to INMAN and Real Trends real estate media outlets. Karen is the host of the 5 Minute Success podcast which has ranked #1 on Overcast most recommended in the business category. The show has an amazing array of guests who achieve success at a high level. Karen also is a frequent guest on other podcasts that focus on entrepreneurial, success and motivation, as well as real estate related topics. She speaks on a national and local level on the Best of 5 Minute Success. Further, she has completed the John Maxwell Team Certification Program for Coaching, Speaking, and Training. Karen is the principal owner of the Huckaby Briscoe Conroy Group (HBC) with Keller Williams. The HBC Group has been recognized by the Wall Street Journal as one of the 250 Top Realtor® teams in the United States. Since 1977, HBC Group has sold over 1,500 homes valued at over $1.5 billion. The team consistently sells over 100 residential properties annually ranging from multi-million dollar luxury estates to condominiums and townhomes. Primary markets areas include Northern Virginia, suburban Maryland, and Washington, DC. As a real estate professional, Karen is a member of the Institute of Luxury Home Marketing, Senior Real Estate Specialist, FIABCI International Real Estate Federation and Women’s Council of Realtors®. What the podcast will teach you: Resources: Additional Resources:

Neil Trickett, PT has been a practice owner and now serves other PT practices, helping them implement powerful online and print marketing tools. Neil co-founded Practice Promotions and PT Performance Websites with his wife, Amy. His passion for helping PT practice owners has led him to build a multi-million dollar PT marketing agency that now services practice owners all across the U.S. and Canada. Amy Trickett graduated from Northeastern University as a Physical Therapist working in a multitude of settings before opening up her practice with her husband Neil. Together they worked on building the practice and developing different marketing strategies and promotional tools to bring in more new patients. She now enjoys building Practice Promotions to serve a growing number of PT practices throughout the U.S. and Canada. What the podcast will teach you: Resources: Additional resources:

Capitalizing on nearly two decades in the health and fitness industry, Edward “EK” Navan is REGYMEN’s co-founder and the heart of the company’s progressive, engaging platform. His extensive experience as a club owner and operator, personal trainer, sales representative, and consultant have afforded him a deep bank of knowledge related to studio design, lease negotiations, and personal recruitment and training. In the series of ups and downs that come with growing an idea into a true concept, EK has become an advocate of fostering company culture, especially one that places great value on employees, members, and feedback. He is fortunate to have learned that attention to the smallest of details allows for delivering an unparalleled customer experience. In addition to broad real-world experience, he earned his degree in exercise physiology and is a certified strength and conditioning specialist. In his free time, he enjoys reading, traveling, and anything that involves food. What the podcast will teach you: Resources: Additional resources:

Brett Gilliland is Founder and CEO of Elite Entrepreneurs, a company that specializes in giving $1M+ business owners the knowledge, processes, and tools to grow to $10M and beyond. Brett is an expert in organization development, leadership, and strategy and spent 10 years helping Infusionsoft grow from $7M in revenue to over $100M. Brett was involved in the foundational work of Purpose, Values, and Mission at Infusionsoft and facilitated the strategic planning process for many years. One of Brett’s favorite professional accomplishments is co-creating Infusionsoft’s Elite Forum along with Clate Mask and building the Elite business inside of Infusionsoft. As the leader of the Elite business, Brett has helped hundreds of struggling seven-figure business owners overcome their biggest challenges and achieve new levels of success. He also played a central role in the development of Infusionsoft’s Leadership Model and was serving as the VP of Leadership Development when the decision was made to spin the Elite business out of Infusionsoft. As the new owner of Elite Entrepreneurs, Brett can’t think of anything else he’d rather be doing professionally. When Brett isn’t busy helping $1M+ businesses succeed, he is a family man who enjoys spending time with his beautiful wife, Sharon, and their 8 children. What the podcast will teach you: Resources:

Rob Pasquesi wanted to design an accounting firm around the unique needs of entrepreneurs. From his own experience launching ventures NextIntro and FounderPrep, he realized that many of the best tools were often out of reach for growth-stage businesses. By using emerging technology and combining that with years of accounting experience, Rob found that every-sized business could unlock significant growth insights without needing to hire an in-house analytics team. Rob started his career at Deloitte and later worked at Grant Thornton, where he spent 14 years working closely with business owners, CFOs, and controllers addressing their accounting, tax, and financial needs. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Boston College and a Masters of Business Administration from DePaul University’s Kellstadt School of Business. Rob is a licensed CPA in Illinois and he is also a member of the Illinois CPA Society and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Rob lives in Chicago with his wife, daughter, and dog and is an avid marathoner who loves training along Lake Michigan during the summer and playing tennis and golf. What the podcast will teach you: Resources: Additional resources:

For 27 years, Tammy Weiler has dedicated her life to encouraging singles over 50 to “hit the road” and make traveling the world an opportunity to have life-changing experiences, build self-esteem and enjoy the opportunity to make meaningful and life-long friendships. Traveling started at an early age for Tammy, taking her first cruise at age 15 and falling in love with the excitement of the unknown. After graduating from Northern Illinois University, she was accepted to the highly sought-after position of flight attendant with the international carrier, Pan American World Airways, then led a travel department for a sales promotion agency in New York, where she created incentive travel programs for Fortune 100 companies. By age 30, Tammy was faced with a problem…her friends were married, having children and no longer available to travel with her. After years of traveling with a passport in her back pocket, Tammy was not ready to let being single stand in her way: she began traveling solo, was inspired with the idea to “bring singles together for vacation” and founded Singles Travel International in 1993. Tammy has successfully navigated the travel industry for 27 years, and, under her leadership at Singles Travel International, has built the largest online community of single Baby Boomer travelers in the world, with more than 49,000 members. Her expertise in helping singles “get out there” and rewrite their personal stories and her strategic approach to using technology to reach thousands of singles has attracted media attention. She has been featured in The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Sun Sentinel, Kiplinger, USA Today, Forbes.com, American Airlines’ Nexos magazine, the Los Angeles Times, among others. She has also been invited for numerous live TV appearances for interview segments with Forbes, CNN, Fox News and ABC. While facing COVID-19, Tammy and her team faced extinction. But rather than die on the vine like many other travel companies, they launched a new site offering live events and a social network for singles over 50 to carry out their mission. Tammy graduated Cum Laude with a bachelor’s degree in Marketing and Language from Northern Illinois University, she is fluent in Spanish and French and has traveled to more than 55 countries. Tammy lives in Florida, where sailing and learning to play ukulele and trumpet fill her free time. What the podcast will teach you: Resources: Additional resources:

Zak Omar is a career entrepreneur and he can tell you about his journey as owner and CEO of Atomic Wings, a NYC-based Buffalo wing chain, and his plans for both international and domestic growth. But Zak’s story is so much more than Buffalo wings. He gets his business chops from his father, an Afghani refugee who started a Wall Street mobile food business before food trucks were popular. Inspired by his dad’s hustle and success, Zak became a multi-unit Dunkin franchisee alongside his brother, Ray. The pair then chose to invest in Atomic Wings in 2013. The company’s founder was so impressed by Zak that he turned the company over to him. That same year, Zak’s father passed away and Zak was diagnosed with leukemia. Rather than slow down, Zak used his diagnosis as inspiration to grow his business. Today, the brand has 11 locations open for business in New York and Maryland. There are an additional 16 locations set to open in the near future, including abroad in Abu Dhabi and Southeast Asia and in the U.S. in Nevada and Arizona. What the podcast will teach you: Resources: Additional resources:

Brett Lane is an SEO veteran with 15 years of experience and has managed over one thousand marketing campaigns. His company (SEO Outsourcing) currently provides white label SEO services to a variety of marketing agencies in the United States. They specialize in onsite SEO, link building, content creation, SEO sales, and reporting for their trusted agency customers. On average, they manage over one hundred and fifty SEO campaigns per month and have ranked thousands of keywords to a top ten position at Google across many industries. Agency clients trust his team members to provide SEO services directly to their customers as their branded team members. Engine-ius Marketing also works directly with it’s agency customers if they do not want to manage the SEO relationship in-house. Lastly, Brett and his team have helped agency clients generate over two million dollars worth of sales in the last year! What the podcast will teach you: Resources: Additional resources: