Lance Essihos is a former high-level hockey player that got knocked off his course and forced to make a change. He moved from Canada to Australia in pursuit of something more and instead it lead him to a life of drinking and partying that he hated. In the course of two years, he lost his brother and his father and he realized he needed to change. Although he managed a top bar in Australia, he spent 2017 not drinking himself.
Now, Lance is on a journey to inspire the best way he can, by sharing stories of his experiences, struggles and most importantly what he has learned along the way and others can learn from it. He is on a new journey in business that has led him to a surprising spiritual journey.
Thane Marcus Ringler is a former professional golfer turned writer, podcaster, and entrepreneur. He is the author of From Here to There: A Quarter-Life Perspective on the Path to Mastery. He also runs a side business called Collaboration Coffee.
After competing for over three years on different tours all over the U.S. and the world, he is now taking the professional athlete's mindset to everyday people in everyday life. Through the Collaboration Business he is building, Thane is coming alongside freelancers, business owners, and fellow entrepreneurs to help them be more efficient and effective in the work they are doing. He ultimately does everything for the purpose of bringing honor and glory to God- Romans 11:36.
Thane and his good friend Adam Setser host a podcast called The Up & Comers. Their mantra is having "intention in the tension" because life is inevitably filled with tensions that we have to live in the midst.
Don Yaeger is a nationally acclaimed inspirational speaker, longtime Associate Editor of Sports Illustrated, and author of over 30 books, eleven of which have become New York Times Best-sellers. He began his career at the San Antonio Light in Texas, and also worked at the Dallas Morning News and the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville before going to work for Sports Illustrated.
Kerissa Kuis, MBA is an international business consultant, inspirational speaker, spoken word artist, and spiritual teacher. She is the Founder of the University of Wellness, an education company dedicated to creating cutting-edge education, certifications, and services in nine elements of wellness. She is also a business consultant for spiritual entrepreneurs and has clients all over the world. She is the creator of the spiritual brand and podcast “Straight Up Fearless.”
Jeff Gargas is the COO and co-founder of the Teach Better Team (Creators of www.teachbetter.com, The Grid Method, and Teach Further). He works with educators to increase student engagement and improve student success. He also offers 1-on-1 coaching for teachers who have a product or idea they want to share with others to better education.
For two decades, financial advisor, entrepreneur, speaker, author and mother, Emily G. Stroud, has counseled clients on how to handle money, manage risk and plan for their financial future. Stroud is the owner and manager of the investment firm Stroud Financial Management, Inc. She holds an MBA, as well as the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) credential. Her newest book, “Faithful Finance: 10 Secrets to Move from Fearful Insecurity to Confident Control,” is available now. Emily is a regular contributor to TODAY Parents, the parenting website and online community for “The TODAY Show.” She lives in Fort Worth with her husband and two children. For more information, please visit EmilyGStroud.com.
Michelle Gomez, a self-proclaimed reformed Corporate Burnout, managed to find a slower pace of career that allowed her time and space to address the Impostor Syndrome in her own life. Michelle then turned her attention to helping other high achievers recognize and overcome their own Imposter Syndrome struggles, writing a book about her own journey, Own Your Brilliance.
An accomplished business executive with nearly 2 decades worth of experience in the male-dominated transportation and logistics industry, Michelle is also a strong advocate for women in the workforce; mentoring dozens of women to personal and professional success.
Kali Rogers is the Founder and Janitor of Blush Online Life Coaching. She and her team of master’s level coaches help females from around the globe get over their quarter-life crisis, grow their self-confidence, get over nasty breakups, and work on bettering their relationships all via video conference for only $79/mo.
Beernuts Productions is Australia’s most exciting and innovative production company. Founded by Gough in 2006, Beernuts Productions has set out to establish itself as a prolific producer of contemporary and cutting-edge cinema, television, audio downloads, and books.
Beernuts Productions unique style has proven to be very popular with a wide range of audiences due to the different genres and formats it produces. From audio sketch comedy to hard-hitting drama, from political satire to documentary, Beernuts Productions prides itself on its diversity and challenging range of topics and projects, clearly demonstrating Beernuts Productions skills, fortitude and determination to entertain no matter the genre.
Beernuts Productions has worked with some of Australia’s finest actors, artists, and production crew, helping make all content on the Beernuts Productions website world class.
With more than 30 years’ experience working at consumer-based companies in an entrepreneurial role, Rick Libby is the CEO of Traveling Vineyard, where his official title is Chief Grape Stomper. Libby launched today’s Traveling Vineyard (previously known as The Traveling Vineyard) in 2010. Traveling Vineyard is a direct selling organization that first introduced the concept of in-home wine tastings to market its exclusive Traveling Vineyard wines—which are sourced from high-quality vineyards worldwide and regularly earn Gold and Silver medals from Tastings World Wine Championships. Under Libby’s leadership, Traveling Vineyard has grown from hundreds of Wine Guides to now over 5,000 across the United States. Libby's guiding principle is "work hard, be kind," a philosophy passed down to him by his parents and embraced by the entire Traveling Vineyard family.
Caty Pasternak is a fun, fiery, and outspoken transformation coach that helps women embody new levels of leadership so they can create businesses and lives that turn their soul on. She blends spirituality, quantum physics, hypnotherapy, and intuitive development so women can actually experience transformation, instead of reading about it. Her podcast, Youtube channel, and Instagram have become an energetic vortex for inspiration and modern day personal growth.
https://www.catypasternak.com/
In 2006, Shawn Askinosie left a successful career as a criminal defense lawyer to start a bean to bar chocolate factory and never looked back. Askinosie Chocolate is a small batch, award-winning chocolate factory located in Springfield, Missouri, sourcing 100% of their beans directly from farmers that they profit share with on three continents.
Once entrenched in the corporate world, searching for happiness and fulfillment everywhere (except for where it really exists) Emily Pereira (per-era) had a breakdown that became an astonishing breakthrough after discovering a treasure trove of passion and magic living inside her she was previously blind to. Now she’s helping other women attract soul-affirming love into their lives by showing them how to access their magnetic, radiant selves and via one-on-one coaching and transformational Costa Rican retreats, where she lives!
Her ebook, Unstoppable Woman is available on Amazon and her 300-page memoir, The Beginner, is in the wings. A mompreneur living her dream life Costa Rica, Emily giving other women a map for how to manifest a life that is in alignment with their heart.
Brian Burke is the President of SellYourMac.com. At the age of 6, he started his first business selling jewelry on the street. At 13, he graduated to trading stocks.
For the past decade, Brian’s company has been helping people earn extra cash by making it fast, safe, and easy to buy, sell, and service their Apple products.
SellYourMac has paid out almost $18 million & gets over 1M unique visitors annually.
Lara was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007 at the age of 30, 7 months pregnant with her second son. A woman Lara had never met, but with whom she shared a mutual friend sent her a package. Inside were beautiful scarves she wore during cancer treatment and a note saying, “You can do this.” The scarves were both practical and inspiring. And, knowing someone else had worn the scarves and faced cancer helped Lara believe she could do it too. Not long after she finished treatment, Lara went to a Young Survival Coalition Conference. She packed several scarves in hopes that she could pass them along to another woman, as had so graciously been done for her. There, Lara met Roberta and they laughed together as she showed her different ways to wear a scarf. Upon the completion of her treatment, Roberta sent the scarves back to Lara. She had since moved and one of the first friends she met was starting treatment. Lara brought over a scarf to Brooke’s house and they laughed through their tears about what it is like to lose your hair. This whole time Lara couldn’t stop thinking about the amazing journey these scarves were on.
So, Lara created Hope Scarves in 2012 as a way to capture these beautiful stories and encourage others. The program started in her spare bedroom with her toddler volunteer by her side, sending out 2-3 Hope Scarves a week. Today Hope Scarves is a bustling office of volunteers and staff, sending nearly 50 scarves a week all around the world. Hope Scarves has sent over 7,000 scarves to every state and 16 countries, to people facing over 90 different types of cancer. The oldest recipient is 92 and the youngest, 4. The Hope Scarf Collection, which changes constantly, contains over 10,000 scarves and over 500 stories.
Jacob Baadsgaard founded Disruptive Advertising in 2012 and has grown the company to over 60 employees and 9 million dollars in annual revenue in only 3.5 years with ZERO debt of outside funding. Disruptive Advertising helps businesses advertise profitably on Google and Facebook by leveraging their software and team of marketers. They have worked with over 1,000 businesses to date and have found that on average 76% of AdWords and Facebook Ad budgets are wasted. While most business leaders focus on personal financial gain, Jacob reinvests a fair amount of his profits back into his employees and the community; donating 10% of his salary to his church every month, spending upwards of $1k a week on snacks for the office, donating monthly to a charity cause his employees choose, and developing employees with no experience into leadership roles within his company that earn six-figure salaries. Jacob is a regular contributor on sites like Forbes, Entrepreneur, SearchEngineLand, MarketingLand, SearchEngineJournal, Unbounce and KissMetrics.
http://www.disruptiveadvertising.com/
Margaret Vandergriff founded Harvest Moon Coaching to provide relocation planning tools, strategies, and support to help people find their happy place. She started her first consulting business at age 25. Over 25 years, she helped dozens of nonprofits find and access $20 million in grants. She launched Harvest Moon Coaching in 2016 after a disastrous relocation experience highlighted the need for a comprehensive, unbiased resource to help people move successfully. Using a signature method she developed as a grants consultant, she created this resource to help people take the guesswork out of their relocation search, save time and money looking and feel confident they’ll thrive in the place they choose.
Daniel Bruce Levin walked away from an opportunity to run a business, that was a household name in America to find happiness and inner peace. His life has been a combination of massive victories and incredible defeats.
Rhiannon Bosse believes in the power of celebration. As founder and creative leader of Rhiannon Bosse Celebrations, she has helped thousands around the world plan weddings and toast other milestones with a distinct blend of class and unbridled joy, all of which prompted VOGUE Magazine to name her one of the top wedding planners in the world.
Adam Anderson is a long-time small business owner who also happens to be one of the leading authorities on small business cybersecurity. He is a serial entrepreneur, author, and founder of Element Security Group, a cybersecurity and education firm focused on the problems unique to small businesses. With over 20 years experience in cyber security and more than a dozen years as a small business owner, Adam can talk to business owners without having to use “tech speak.”
Doug Holt is the owner of 6 companies all centered around helping business owners grow their businesses and live epic lives.
In short, he's a father, a husband, a trusted friend, an advisor, an entrepreneur, an investor, an adventurer, and a regular guy who enjoys learning new things over a great glass of wine, beer… or a good cup of coffee.
His clients know him mostly as their trusted advisor and friend. His passion is helping business owners get unstuck and gain clarity so they can live the lives they truly dream of and take control of their businesses in a way that supports their dreams.
Elise Auxier is an ICF certified, professional executive and life coach and the owner of Gulfcoast Coaching in Tampa, Florida. Elise helps her clients understand and harness the power of their energy for greater leadership effectiveness. Unlike personality assessments, the Energy Leadership Index (ELI) is a behavioral assessment which illuminates how current perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors either enhance ability to lead or detract from it. It measures how people really “show up” in life on a day when things are going pretty good and when they are under stress. The ELI uncovers 7 distinct levels of energy which we all cycle through on a daily basis. None of these energy levels are inherently good or bad unless we become stuck in one, unaware of our ability to choose something different. Understanding that we possess the power to choose our energy and find opportunity in every situation is a life-changing awareness. This is exactly the window that the ELI allows us to look through. For more than 30 years Elise has helped men and women expand their clarity, personal power and confidence. She partners with her clients to help them experience more of the life they really want. Together they illuminate what might be possible and turn it into the achievable. Elise coaches professional people who are hungry for higher performance, deeper engagement and more personal satisfaction and joy in their lives. People who feel both overwhelmed and underwhelmed by their lives and know that there has got to be more than this. The Energy Leadership Index illuminates the path for a new level of awareness and consciousness about what is truly possible in life.
Kelly Roach, CEO of Kelly Roach International and host of Unstoppable Success Radio.
Kelly Roach is a Former NFL Cheerleader and Fortune 500 Executive turned Business Growth Strategist. Kelly is best known for helping business owners and leaders around the World make 6 & 7 Figure leaps in their business with superior strategy, systems and most importantly building winning teams.
Kelly is a best selling author and the host of the top-rated podcast Unstoppable Success Radio where she works tirelessly to help entrepreneurs discover the fastest, most efficient path to cross the not so easy, not so obvious bridge to entrepreneurial freedom.
Robin Waite, business coach, author, and speaker works with clients to set goals and achieve success through his coaching program, born out of a deep passion for personal and business development. Robin puts his experience to work for his clients.
From 18 years old until 22, Robin worked as a systems analyst for a medical device company. Putting systems into play, Robin increased efficiency and decreased cost, helping to make the company 50% more profitable. For the next decade, Robin ran a successful design and advertising company, serving over 250 clients. He delivered workshops and masterclasses to over 1,000 business owners on subjects including marketing, product architecture, pricing, websites and more.
Now Robin coaches B2B business leaders and entrepreneurs, offering insights from systems to pricing structure to personal development. With fearless goal setting and accountability, Robin’s program is turning dreams into reality for clients around the world.