Entrepreneurs United

Alex Sanfilippo (Founder, PodPros.com) is the host of the top-rated podcast called Podcasting Made Simple. He is also the founder of PodPros.com, a software company focused specifically on the podcasting industry. Alex and his team have created popular services like PodMatch, a service that matches podcast guests and hosts together for interviews, and PodcastSOP, a project management tool that helps podcasters keep up with their episode releases.

Cory Carlson (Author, Rise and Go) & Dustin Riechmann (Owner, Simple Success Coaching) join John and Rich for an enriching conversation about how two former Entrepreneurs United guests met and developed a lifelong connection through Cory's new book "Rise and Go." Cory Carlson appeared on EP 37: Why we need to WIN @ Home First! while Dustin Riechmann appeared on EP 86: Maximize Partnership Marketing to Fuel Growth - w/ Dustin Riechmann.

Billy Anderson (The Courage Crusade, Founder), believes that Courage drives Change. His popular keynote unfreezes teams and individuals so they're ready to embrace change.  As the opening speaker at corporate conferences, Billy gets your people thinking differently about change and understanding how fear can get in the way. And he makes it FUN!  Billy is also the author of the book "Your Comfort Zone Is Killing You".

Are you ready to set big personal and professional goals for 2023?  There is no better time than a new calendar year to have clarity and intentionality around what can help make this year your best ever. In this 3rd annual New Years' kick-off episode, John and Rich flashback to what they discussed as their goals in EP 70: Make 2022 the Best Year Possible! and hold themselves accountable to what they committed to doing in 2022. Let's set some big goals in 2023 and maximize all that life has to offer! Happy New Year!

Michelle Nedelec (Creative Director, Awareness Strategies Inc.) is an International bestselling author and an expert in Entrepreneurialism. Michelle has run her own series of companies for over 22 years and for over 15 years has been helping Sales reps, Entrepreneurs, and Executives to continually double their profits and revenues. Michelle not only has what it takes to help her clients build a million-dollar business, but she does it time and time again. Michelle particularly loves to talk about Marketing Automation, Systems Integration, and support both on and off the stage. She teaches the key components of scaling a business: Strategy, Systems, Support, and State of Mind so you know how to continually elevate all four components to build a healthy thriving business. For the past 6 years, she’s been focusing on helping entrepreneurs bring their businesses online from conceptualization to Done For You IT automation.

Carly J. Cais (Founder & CEO, RevvSpark) started in Marketing over 20 years ago, first in B2C and then in B2B. Author of the upcoming book "Startup to Scaleup" and CEO of the Content Marketing agency RevvSpark, she is on a mission to grow businesses with creative "Conversion Content" that levels up internal teams and drives demand. Startup to Scaleup: $100K Growth Secrets from SaaS Leaders (book of interviews with SaaS founders who have scaled their companies to $100K about lessons learned and what they did differently from competitors to achieve this milestone) - will be self-published in early 2023. Carly is offering all of our listeners "Become a Content Machine: The Conversion Content System" - which you can download here: https://www.revvspark.com/entrepreneurs

Merrylue Martin (Owner/CEO, The Job Joy Group LLC) is an employee engagement expert who works with all types of people leaders; from corporate CEOs and entrepreneurs to first-time team leads and supervisors, on how to attract and retain the best employees. As a Fortune 50 senior executive, management consultant, and business owner, Merrylue knows first-hand what it takes to equip leaders with real world, grab-and-go tools that get results. Dr. Martin is the CEO of the Job Joy Group, a leadership consulting firm whose primary message to leaders today is that "people will always be people first, and our employees a very distant second.” Dr. Martin is also a graduate of the Wharton School “Women in Leadership” program. Her doctoral research led to her discovery of the most critical leadership behaviors that impact an employee's decision to stay. She shares those insights and tools in her best-selling book, The Big Quit Survival Guide.

Nicky Billou (Founder, eCircle Academy), aka The Millionaire Maker, is an International Best Selling Author of 8 books.  He is an inspirational speaker to corporate audiences such as RBC, Lululemon, Royal LePage, and TorStar Media.  He is the co-founder of eCircle Academy (www.eCircleAcademy.com) where he runs a yearlong Mastermind & Educational program working with Coaches, Consultants, Corporate Trainers, Clinic Owners, Realtors, Mortgage Brokers and other service-based Entrepreneurs, positioning them as authorities in their niche. He is the creator of the Thought Leader/Heart LeaderTM Designation.  Nicky and his team have helped over 70 entrepreneurs add 6 to 8 figures to their annual income.

Jonathan Zacks (Founder, GoReminders) is on a mission to decimate no-show appointments. After running an appointment-based business for a decade, he co-founded GoReminders which increases business revenue and cuts wasted staff time with automated appointment reminders & online booking. Jonathan runs Growth & Marketing for GoReminders and loves helping small businesses with automation and communication.

Rick Girard (Stride Search Inc, Founder and CEO) is the Founder and CEO of Stride Search Inc, an Engaged Search Firm. Rick is extremely passionate about helping startup founders win-win the strongest hires to fuel unprecedented company growth! Rick's career has kept him laser-focused on building tech startups in the highly competitive Silicon Valley. Over his career, he has helped build more than 200 startup teams that have successfully exited. Value and Impact are the two main ingredients brought to every interaction, above and beyond just locating the strongest people. Contrarian in his approach, Rick has flipped the script on engagement and the hiring process to bring a massive competitive advantage to every interaction. Rick is the Author of "Healing Career Wounds". Invented and systematized the Hiring Operating System (HireOS™). The solution for leaders to win the strongest hires by blowing up "best practices" with a humanistic, evidence-driven, unbiased, time-efficient experience. When not running a school for Gifted Mutants as Professor X, Rick hosts the Hire Power Radio Show & Podcast, a weekly series on LinkedIn Live, which serves as a business leader’s resource to solve their most difficult hiring challenges.