Podcast
Untold Stories about the Journey to Success.
New episodes every Tuesday.
Since 2016, I've hosted On the Schmooze, a weekly podcast that features interviews with entrepreneurs who have overcome challenges to achieve success. I ask probing questions to get them to share untold stories about their entrepreneurial journey and dig into how their professional network supported them.
Guest suggestion? I’m looking for guests who have a great story to share about the challenges they overcame on the way to becoming successful entrepreneurs. Please note that two-thirds of my guests are entrepreneurial women. Email me your ideas.
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OTS 360: Moving Forward – Aidan Key
Today's guest has dedicated his life to fostering understanding and acceptance for a misunderstood community. With a deep-rooted belief in the importance of education and advocacy, he has been at the forefront of providing resources, training, and support for...
OTS 359: “You’re Worth the Time” – Mercury Stardust
Today’s guest has spent equal time in her life as a performer and a maintenance technician. She is an author, educator, speaker, LGBTQIA+ advocate, and compassionate DIY expert known widely as the Trans Handy Ma'am. Her unique brand of compassionate education in...
OTS 358: Unleashing Creativity – Amy Climer
Today’s guest lives in a world where creativity knows no bounds. She is on a mission to unleash untapped creativity, helping teams reach new heights of collaboration and problem-solving. With over two decades of experience, her expertise spans various sectors, from...
OTS 357: Strategically Speaking – Phil M. Jones
Today’s guest is a communication maestro. He is an influencer, author, and speaker who has carved a niche in helping individuals and organizations succeed through effective communication. He started his entrepreneurial journey at 14, turning a weekend car wash gig...
OTS 356: Taking Action – Regina Carey
Today’s guest is a passion instigator. She teaches her clients to replace inaction and fear with explorative, confident, forward movement in their lives. For over 30 years, she has been a strengths-based coach who helps business owners struggling with ADHD, social...
OTS 355: The Leadership Gene – Debra Eckerling
Today’s guest is a goal strategist with a mission to transform goal culture both in and out of the workplace. Her workshops, consultations, and speaking engagements provide practical strategies that lead to tangible results. She’s a TEDx speaker and the...
OTS 354: Leading Through Uncertainty – Chris Fenning
Today’s guest knows clear communication profoundly impacts the success of teams, projects, and careers and that professionals don't always find communication easy. He was a senior director and held project roles for some of the world’s largest companies, where he...
OTS 353: Finding My People – Sophie Lechner
Today’s guest is on a mission to guide mission-driven entrepreneurs toward their audience, fostering genuine engagement that spreads their message far and wide. After a 25-year corporate career, she found her true calling as an entrepreneur. Her LinkedIn activities...
OTS 352: Courage to Amplify – CB Bowman-Ottomanelli
Today’s guest is a trailblazer in implementing courage to amplify creativity and innovation. She is a beacon for risk-takers, C-Suite influencers, and decision-makers with a vision for expansion and growth. This superpower led her to be a named one of the Top 50...
OTS 351: Above and Beyond – Greg Bennick
Today’s guest knows that if you want to build a better future, you’ve got to build a better now. He shares new angles on how any one of seven unique directives builds self-esteem in moments, increases focus, and improves how we show up today as leaders, team...
OTS 350: Seize the Opportunity – Selena Soo
Today’s guest knows that if you want to help people, they need to know you exist. She’s a publicity and marketing strategist for visionary entrepreneurs, experts, and authors who want to impact millions with their message. Referred to as a powerhouse of publicity...
OTS 349: Quiet Troublemaker – Lisa MacDonald
Today’s guest is known as the Step It Up Queen. She is on a mission to empower entrepreneurs who in turn, will better the world. She helps her clients have more clarity, more profits, and more fun. With over twenty years of experience as a business coach and...
OTS 348: The Power of Abundance – Jeff Nally
Today’s guest wants to inspire exceptional leaders and change the world for good. He’s an executive coach, coaching supervisor, professional speaker, and author who inspires leaders through the neuroscience of human interaction in the workplace. With 30 years of...
OTS 347: Joy Inventory – Clare S. Kumar
Today’s guest defines success as using your authentic skills to serve others without depleting yourself. She’s a catalyst for positive change, a certified executive coach, a professional speaker, and a productivity consultant who has dedicated her life to the...
OTS 346: Stand Up for Yourself – Selena Rezvani
Forbes named today’s guest the premier expert on standing up for yourself at work. She trains some of the brightest minds on leadership development at places like The World Bank, Microsoft, Under Armour, Pfizer, and Nestlé – helping emerging leaders enhance their...
OTS 345: The Dot Connector – Chris Nelson
Today’s guest has a natural talent for connecting with people and absorbing the processes and nuances of residential real estate. He is on a mission to build mutually beneficial relationships. He is a seasoned real estate agent with over 20 years of experience...
OTS 344: Entrepreneurial Spirit – Theresa Rose
Today’s guest shines bright like a diamond and helps her clients do the same. Her approach is rooted in her Crystallization Process, a powerful method that enables thought leaders to draw out their unique brilliance and create one-of-a-kind visual brands. With her...
OTS 343: Seriously Funny – Heather Tolley-Bauer
Today’s guest has been there and done that. She is a seasoned stand-up comic and speaker, wife, stay-at-home mom, reluctant runner, and cancer survivor. She knows how it feels to be stressed out, where finding the time to recharge seems as impossible as figuring...
OTS 342: Embrace Your Identity – Raj Bandyopadhyay
Today’s guest went from a successful data scientist at a bustling San Francisco startup in 2016 to a captivating personal branding photographer in New York City, he's lived a life of transformation and authenticity. His life-altering moment? His then-wife of eight...
OTS 341: Cheering You On! – Jasmine Reynolds
Today’s guest is a compassionate and analytical problem solver. Some say it’s her superpower. She’s an influential figure in the SaaS startup landscape and a pivotal player in transforming the customer experience. Having accrued seven years of experience in the...
OTS 340: Inspired Action – Gayle Lantz
Today’s guest is a gentle disruptor. She knows work is changing, but the beliefs still hold true. People want to do work that matters. For over 20 years, she has worked with organizations and executives who want to make a positive difference in the lives of those...
OTS 339: Playing in the Sandbox – Gary Ware
Today’s guest helps adults transform their lives, be more creative, and regain joy with purposeful play. He is the Founder of Breakthrough Play, a corporate facilitator, keynote speaker, certified coach, and author of the book “Playful Rebellion: Maximize Workplace...
OTS 338: Being Bold Enough – Kelly Swanson
Today’s guest believes you can master the art of connection and engagement through the power of strategic storytelling. She is an award-winning storyteller, comedian, and motivational speaker. Her wacky wit and powerful stories have charmed hearts and tickled funny...
OTS 337: Celebrate! – Annie P. Ruggles
Today’s guest has guided hundreds of people toward making deeper connections, lasting impressions, and developing friendlier, more lucrative products and services. For over a decade, she has harnessed her Hulk-like disdain for hard sales, tacky self-promotion, and...
OTS 336: 10,000 Friends – Rob Lawless
Today’s guest is on a mission to make 10,000 friends. He believes that every human interaction holds the potential to change your life, whether it's an open door or a change in perspective. That’s why he’s spending 1 hour, 1:1, with 10,000 different people to learn...
OTS 335: Ahead of My Time – Sarah Santacroce
Today’s guest is a hippie turned business coach that has spent the last decade running a successful LinkedIn consulting business. This inspired her to create a global movement encouraging people to bring more empathy and kindness to business and marketing. She has...
OTS 334: Build Bridges – Candy Campbell
Today’s guest is solving employee disengagement and retention issues in the workplace. As an international keynote speaker, corporate trainer, and executive speech/acting coach, she works with leaders who need to learn how to create teams that find solutions by...
OTS 333: Curtains Up! – Joe Mull
Today’s guest works with organizations that need their leaders to become better bosses and cultivate commitment in the workplace. He has spent thousands of hours shaping managers into strong leaders with his decades of experience, compelling content, and dynamic...
OTS 332: Painting a Picture – Gina Carr
Today’s guest is a marketing maven leveraging technology to create stable, recurring revenue streams. She’s an accomplished serial entrepreneur with six- and seven-figure businesses. She co-founded Video Rock Starz and the Stark Raving Entrepreneurs, helping...
OTS 331: No Strings Attached – Becky Robinson
Today’s guest is on a mission to create opportunities and connections for others. She is the Founder and CEO of Weaving Influence, a full-service marketing agency specializing in digital and integrated marketing services and public relations for authors, business...
OTS 330: Good Mischief – Jeff Harry
Today’s guest is healing workplaces through play and positive psychology. He believes fully embracing your nerdy genius gives you the power to make a difference and change lives. We already have many of the answers we seek, and by simply unleashing our inner child,...
OTS 329: Creating Through Chaos – Peya Robbins
Today’s guest supports visionary entrepreneurs looking to make the world better than they found it. She’s a first-generation American and first-born daughter who has been solving problems her entire life. She’s a fixer and can fill many different roles in your...
OTS 328: Influence through Energy – Jann Freed
Today’s guest helps organizations and individuals get from where they are to where they want to go. She engages employees, develops leaders, and helps people find meaning on a daily basis—a concept she calls “breadcrumb legacy.” She is a speaker, teacher, and...
OTS 327: Channeling Energy – Joseph Luckett
Today’s guest is all about REAL-ationship building. He has created a unique twist to networking that transforms how and why professionals meet one another. After years of successfully growing his business through networking, he and his wife, Carol, founded Zero to...
OTS 326: Highs and Lows – Jocelynn Harward
Today’s guest wants to journey to success without compromise. She is an ambitious woman with big goals and the unrelenting grit that has turned them into reality. She is a two-time Inc 500 winner, 18 times 2 Comma Club winner, and a retired $100M entrepreneur. She...
OTS 325: Peace Queen – Melannie Denise Cunningham
Today’s guest is a dynamic leader and social justice advocate. She is a highly sought-after social justice thought partner recognized for her passion, activism, and unapologetic talk around anti-racist community building and healing. With a diverse background...
OTS 324: Strategic Success – John Ruhlin
Today’s guest is an expert in developing relationships for strategic success. He is the world's leading authority in maximizing customer loyalty through radical generosity. While becoming the #1 performer out of 1.5 million sales reps for one of the world's most...
OTS 323: Growth Through Music – Milana Leshinsky
Today’s guest is passionate about helping coaches, authors, and speakers leverage their expertise. She uses simplicity as a growth strategy. She is the creator of Coaching Genie, a coaching platform that allows coaches to deliver programs and scale their businesses...
OTS 322: Undoing Harm – Tarzan Kay
Today’s guest dreams of a world where email marketing is fun, and everybody wins. She teaches email marketing skills to online businesses, digital course creators, and freelance service providers. She came up in her career writing copy for popular programs in the...
OTS 321: The Big Ask – LeRon L. Barton
Today’s guest is a writer and speaker committed to fighting for social justice. He has written over one hundred essays and articles about racism, mass incarceration, politics, gender, tech, and business. His latest book, “Straight Dope: A 360 degree look into...
OTS 320: People Sculptor – Ebony Smith
Today’s guest is a people sculptor. Bringing an innovative, straightforward approach, she pushes individuals to leave their “Subject Matter Expert” mindset behind and become relationship-oriented leaders that drive their organizations into the future. With a keen...
OTS 319: True Social Selling – Brynne Tillman
Today’s guest is known as the LinkedIn Whisperer. An experienced sales trainer, she has extensive knowledge of traditional sales techniques and has adapted them for LinkedIn. As CEO of Social Sales Link, she guides professionals to establish themselves as a thought...
OTS 318: The Secret to Living – Joe Apfelbaum
Today’s guest believes you can achieve anything you want in life with the right strategy. He went from being a person who was afraid of public speaking to becoming a certified Google Trainer and training 10,000 business owners. He is the CEO of Ajax Union, a...
OTS 317: Unlearning – Lelia Gowland
Today’s guest is a sought-after speaker and writer. She works with people and organizations that want to lead with authenticity to create happier, more effective teams. Described as the confidence fairy godmother we all need, she has worked with Fortune 500...
OTS 316: Over the Top – Julie Brown
Today’s guest can help you network your way to more friends, more adventures, and way more success. She knows two key things–the people you meet will change your life and networking is how you meet those people. She is a motivating, high-energy speaker, teaching...
OTS 315: One Step Ahead – Matt McWilliams
Today’s guest is living proof that one can pursue one’s passion in life, and do so while making a profit. He’s worked with some of the top companies and entrepreneurs on the planet such as Shark Tank’s Kevin Harrington, Tony Robbins, Dean Graziosi, Kim Walsh...
OTS 314: Moving Things Forward – Laura Sauter
Today’s guest helps launch new companies, create new brands, and refresh existing identities by bringing strategic expertise to design and marketing. Her studio, Agency Bel, helps companies launch and grow by creating their identities, from strategy to logos,...
OTS 313: Authentic Change – Farzana Nayani
Today’s guest believes that healing, awareness, empathy, and engagement are critical in today’s increasingly connected, yet polarized world. Her work aims to support deeper connections and mutual understanding among different groups, toward a more equitable...
OTS 312: Use Your Imagination – Terry Brock
Today’s guest works with organizations to design relationship marketing strategies that are measurable and implementable. He is a technology trends expert who uses his passion for technology, sense of history, and business strategies to help organizations use...
OTS 311: Chasing Possibility – Sarah Walton
Today’s guest knows that no one ever wishes they'd spent more time at the office or pines for work that didn’t inspire them. Her specialty is making sales fun as she helps women heal their relationship with money. She has spoken at women's conferences all over the...
OTS 310: Reading the Room – Melissa Majors
Today’s guest believes inclusion is more than a moral obligation; it's a competitive advantage. Her presentations on “blameless” inclusion spark not just inspiration but action as well. Her firm has extensive experience and a proven reputation for driving better...
OTS 309: What’s Possible? – Bryan Kramer
Today’s guest believes being human is your competitive advantage. He is a renowned business strategist, global keynote speaker, executive trainer and coach, investor, and Forbes contributor. As President and co-owner of PureMatter, a Silicon Valley global marketing...
OTS 308: 7-Figure Sales – Lori Richardson
Today’s guest is a champion for women in sales. She has spent her career helping Fortune 500, midsize, and SaaS-based companies grow repeatable revenue, hire better, and improve sales culture to one that is inclusive and healthy. She helps fix sales team issues as...
OTS 307: The Art of Sales – Nikki Rausch
Today’s guest can show you what to say, and when to say it, in a way that feels comfortable and confident to you and to your potential client. With over 25 years of selling experience, entrepreneurs and small business owners now hire her to show them how to sell...
OTS 306: Reflection of You – Arel Moodie
Today’s guest is known as a “human development investigator.” He is a strategist who shares how to use Adult Development Theory to dramatically change how you can effectively build connections with others, understand yourself more deeply, and positively influence...
OTS 305: Chalk & Cheese – Kerrie Phipps
Today’s guest has a mission; to inspire a more connected, compassionate and collaborative world. She shows people how to have better conversations with themselves and others – so they can make an even bigger difference in our world. Through the power of authentic...
OTS 304: Cycles of Work – Virginia Muzquiz
Today’s guest is The Referral Diva and has more than two decades of experience generating business by referral. She is the founder of Master Connectors, Inc and the creator of Referrals On-Demand®, a program that teaches solo entrepreneurs how to turn their network...
OTS 303: Finding the Overlap – Jim Woodell
Today’s guest can be found at the intersection of impact and collaboration. He is a consultant that works with institutions of higher education and their partners in communities, government, and business to achieve economic and social impact goals. He's worked with...
OTS 302: Inspiring the Aspiring – Sarah Feingold
Today’s guest empowers the dreamers, partners with the doers, educates the thinkers, and inspires the aspiring. She has the very unique bragging right of being Etsy’s first attorney and their 17th employee overall. For over nine years she helped Etsy scale from an...
OTS 301: The Power of Imagination – Fei Wu
Today’s guest is on a mission to help small businesses and creative entrepreneurs tell better stories, find more customers, and create new revenue streams. She helps small business owners craft video content to showcase their products and services and to grow their...
OTS 300: Time Capsule – Blake Fly & Robbie Samuels
Back in the summer of 2015, when I first started to seriously work on this podcast, I had a goal of reaching 100 episodes. Since I didn’t really know what I was getting myself into, that felt like a big hairy audacious goal. By the time I reached episode 100 I...
OTS 299: Finding Your People – Tisha Marie Pelletier
Today’s guest has been dubbed authentic with a touch of badass. She brings her infectious energy through storytelling and powerful, inspirational tips on and offline. She has served as an emcee and speaker on numerous stages and is the host of #tishatalks LIVE. She...
OTS 298: Creative Energy – Cathy D. Fyock
Today’s guest believes that authors change the world. She works with professionals and thought leaders who want to write a book as a business growth strategy. She is the author of 11 books, including “On Your Mark: From First Word to First Draft in Six Weeks,”...
OTS 297: Plate Spinning – Sarah Fejfar
Today’s guest understands the struggles of leveling up a business while simultaneously keeping lots of other plates spinning. She is a CEO, podcast host of “Greenroom Central”, and founder of Live Event Academy™—a learning experience for starting or scaling events....
OTS 296: Unstuck – Robert A. Butwin
Today’s guest helps his clients be heard, recognized, and respected. As a professional networker and strategist, he helps entrepreneurs supersize their business and income by breaking through all the noise in the marketplace. He connects them to the right resources...
OTS 295: Words Are My Jam – Erica Holthausen
Today’s guest believes quiet brilliance doesn’t earn you a reputation as a leader. She helps leaders get their ideas out into the world by giving them the tools they need to succeed along with techniques for breaking free of fear and owning their brilliance. She is...
OTS 294: Integrity at the Center – Connie Whitman
Today’s guest believes sales is about helping people, not being pushy or icky. For over 20 years, as the CEO of Changing the Sales Game, she has helped business owners, leaders, and sales teams build powerhouse organizations using her high-energy and heart-centered...
OTS 293: Time Invested – Hilmon Sorey
Today’s guest saw a need and filled it. He found no automation tool, CRM, or analytics software that was built with management and sales leadership in mind. He understood people needed the type of tool that provides an exponential return for the time invested and...
OTS 292: What Really Matters – Gena Cox
Today’s guest urges leaders to stop using 2019 behavior to address 2022 workplace challenges. She is an organizational psychologist, executive coach, speaker, and author of “Leading Inclusion: Drive Change Your Employees Can See and Feel.” It is a groundbreaking...
OTS 291: Caring Enough to Step Up – Rebecca Zucker
Today’s guest believes growth requires both vision and action. Her goal is to change the trajectory of people's lives and careers for the better. She works with C-level executives and other senior leaders who want to expand their professional and personal capacity;...
OTS 290: Inspired Purpose – Tony Martignetti
Today’s guest believes you can find inspiration through honest conversation. Before becoming the founder and Chief Inspiration Officer of Inspired Purpose Coaching, he was a finance and strategy executive working with some of the worlds leading life sciences...
OTS 289: Surfing in the Moment – Monica Laurence
Today’s guest is a serial entrepreneur and conscious explorer. During the pandemic, she launched Quantum Surfing, a powerful mix of neuroscience, quantum mechanics, and applied enlightenment—spiritual principles grounded in science so they're repeatable. She helps...
OTS 288: Beyond the Chameleon – Ashley T Brundage
Today’s guest was forced to figure out how she fits in the world. She started her second career as a means of survival. Fighting discrimination, harassment, and homelessness she found employment as a part-time associate and then rose to national VP of Diversity and...
OTS 287: 10 million times – A.J. Jacobs
Today’s guest loves solving the hardest puzzles, from crosswords to jigsaws to the meaning of life. He is a four-time New York Times bestselling author, including "The Know-It-All: One Man’s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World" and "The Year of...
OTS 286: Leading from the Bench – Ash Beckham
Today’s guest considers herself an accidental advocate, motivating others to embrace the kind of social behaviors that trigger societal shifts. Experienced in fostering open dialogue in professional settings, she helps build awareness and visibility of equity,...
OTS 285: Always in the Know – Jess M. Samuels
Today’s guest is a maven, passionate about learning and sharing what she’s learned. She is an accumulator of knowledge with an emphasis on technology, communication, and organization. She wants her team and her community to have access to the tools, resources, and...
OTS 284: Stay Curious – Christopher Johnson
Today’s guest is a Certified Virtual Event Professional who clears the tech headache from virtual events so his clients can deliver an engaging message. As the founder of Calm Clear Communications, he produces virtual events for professional organizations. He has...
OTS 283: Success Path – Stefanie Robel
Today’s guest is on a big mission to change the academic culture from negativity and chronic stress to one where people express their unique brilliance and live a joyful, happy life. She grew up in Berlin, Germany, and completed a Ph.D. in Neuroscience in Munich...
OTS 282: “Overnight Success” – Elaine Pofeldt
Today’s guest specializes in small business and entrepreneurship. She’s an independent journalist and author who has contributed to publications such as Fortune (where she has written the David vs. Goliath column), Money, CNBC, Inc., Forbes, AARP Life Reimagined,...
OTS 281: Leading from Love – Peter Docker
Today’s guest is inspired by seeing others harness what makes them extraordinary as human beings. He teaches people how to navigate the challenge of leadership. He draws on his 25-year career in the Royal Air Force and over 14 years of partnering with businesses...
OTS 280: Because… People – Anne Bono
Today’s guest helps people be better humans. She is an accidental marketer, ex-corporate executive, and multi-potentialite with a smart mouth and a willingness to shout what most will only quietly think. She spent much of the last two decades working in marketing...
OTS 279: The Illusion of Safety – Morag Barrett
Today’s guest believes relationships are at the heart of everything she does. She knows that you can't be successful in business, or in life unless you are successful in cultivating winning relationships. She is a sought-out executive coach and leadership expert...
OTS 278: Insatiable Curiosity – John Spence
Today’s guest has made a career of making the very complex awesomely simple. He has spent the last three decades helping companies and people be more successful. He serves his clients as an executive coach, training facilitator, keynote speaker, and strategy...
OTS 277: Imperfect Action – Liz Brunner
Today’s guest has reinvented herself many times. She is a best-selling author, executive communications coach, motivational speaker, podcast host, and Emmy award-winning journalist. Her television career spanned 28 years and featured many memorable highlights...
OTS 276: Turtle Business – Samantha Varner
Today’s guest teaches women how to be badass entrepreneurs! She believes women have the power to change their financial picture by building profit in their business. She specializes in supporting successful six-figure service-based business owners to make profit a...
OTS 275: 300% Attention – Oleg Konovalov
Today’s guest has been called "The da Vinci of visionary leadership". Named among the top eight global experts in leadership and shortlisted for the Distinguished Award in Leadership by Thinkers50, he is a global thought leader, author, business educator,...
OTS 274: Yes is a Doorway – Dina Denham Smith
Today’s guest helps leaders and teams become the best of who they are and what they do. She is the founder and owner of Cognitas, an executive and team coaching firm. Her clients include premier brands such as Adobe, Netflix, PwC, Gap, Dropbox, Stripe, and numerous...
OTS 273: Design and Elevate – Marion Abrams
Today’s guest is passionate about helping thought leaders, business leaders, and podcast hosts design and elevate their podcast presence. She is a podcasting coach & consultant with deep experience in podcasting and content creation. She built Spartan's podcast...
OTS 272: Master Connector – Steve Spiro
Today’s guest knows the power of mentorship and self-development. He started his first company right out of college in advertising. He eventually pivoted from advertising into technology and now is a business automation consultant. He is big on self-development...
OTS 271: Attractive Energy – Heather Hansen O'Neill
Today’s guest’s mission is to open event leaders' minds and hearts to the possibility within them. She is a 2x TEDx speaker and host of the popular podcast From Fear to Fire. She stimulates vibrant energy, focus, and action for those who want to collaborate...
OTS 270: High-Level Networking – Terilee Harrison
Today’s guest believes in the importance of building strategic partnerships. She is a virtual and in-person networking trainer and an international speaker. As an expert in business networking and relationship marketing for 15+ years, she has worked with thousands...
OTS 269: Hello and a Handshake – Greg Peters
Today’s guest wants you to know that he can relate if you feel queasy about networking and hate to sell yourself. Through study, practice, and lots of trial and error, he has transformed himself into a genuine networking professional — a transformation he would...
OTS 268: Micro-Influencer Magic – Kandas Rodarte
Today’s guest’s life’s purpose is to be a catalyst for inspired action. She is a relationship marketing coach helping micropreneurs find their microinfluencer magic so they attract the right clients for the products and services. Her entrepreneurial journey began...
OTS 267: Be Persistent – Meredith Kallaher
Today’s guest creates big value for business owners by connecting them with their ideal customers and clients using creative, strategic, and authentic digital advertisements. In 2021 she managed over $50,000 worth of ad spend on Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest...
OTS 266: Nail It & Scale It – Bill Soroka
Today’s guest is a serial entrepreneur that has started over 30 business ventures. While most didn’t work out he did find his passion as a mobile notary and loan signing agent. He finds the work fulfilling because as a notary he is with people on their best days or...
OTS 265: Leadership Powerhouse – Beth Granger
Today’s guest loves to help people who are not comfortable with technology to embrace its power. She is a social sales, social media, and LinkedIn trainer, consultant, and speaker. She works with organizations, and individuals who know they should be using LinkedIn...
OTS 264: On My Own Path – Janice Porter
Today’s guest is all about building rock-solid relationships and exceeding people’s expectations. Having an innate curiosity, she has leveraged that into building business relationships and teaches others how to do the same. Her passion is working with people who...
OTS 263: Entrepreneurial Spark – Alex Brueckmann
Today’s guest’s passion lies in helping clients build profitable businesses rooted in purpose and impact. He is a strategy entrepreneur, author, and speaker. He has built and scaled companies in Europe and Canada, and led client projects across the world. He...
OTS 262: Perfect Timing – Peter Winick
Today’s guest believes thoughtful planning can lead to great success in business. For the past two decades, he has helped individuals and organizations build and grow revenue streams through designing and growing their thought leadership platforms as well as acting...
OTS 261: Learning Grit – Leah Neaderthal
Today’s guest believes marketing and selling are two different things. She knows the problem is that selling to new clients feels uncomfortable and salesy, especially when you've never had to do it before. She is a three-time business owner who started her career...
OTS 260: Solving the Wrong Problems – Peya Robbins
Today’s interview is a bit of an experiment as we met for a live interview that was streamed to LinkedIn and Facebook. This was the first of a series of conversations I’m having with entrepreneurs who read my latest book, “Small List, Big Results: Launch a...
OTS 259: Creative Entrepreneurship – Marie Incontrera
Today’s guest is a multi-passionate Renaissance woman with an incredible knack for shining the spotlight on the people and projects she cares about. She runs a thought leadership consulting agency to help her clients leverage their online presence through engaging...
OTS 258: Linking Relationships – Blake Fly
Today’s guest believes human beings just want to be appreciated. He believes that appreciation is rocket fuel to create lifelong business relationships and has built his career around this single idea. To that end, he is an 8-Time TEDx speaker and the producer of a...
OTS 257: Accidental Entrepreneur – Susan McPherson
Today’s guest is one of the best-connected people in the social good world. She is a serial connector, angel investor, and corporate responsibility expert. She is the founder and CEO of McPherson Strategies, a communications consultancy focused on the intersection...
OTS 256: It’s Time to Wake Up Your Network – Robbie Samuels & Mary Williams
Today’s guest is more like a cohost and we’re going to dish about why I felt the need to write my newest book, “Small List, Big Results: Launch a Successful Offer No Matter the Size of Your Email List.” She’s my book launch success manager and has been supporting...
OTS 255: Master Your Passion – Lisa Caprelli
Today’s guest has launched a children’s brand that inspires young minds. She has over twenty-five years in marketing and branding, including FM/AM radio broadcasting, and as the host of The Business Experience Show. She is a speaker, songwriter, and award-winning...
OTS 254: Nurture Your Network – Chris Gittings
Today’s guest believes relationships are the assets that always yield the greatest returns - maximizing lifelong happiness and fulfillment. With his background in cognitive science & psychology, he understands knowing how to initiate quality relationships is a...
OTS 253: You Are Everything – Leslie Ehm
Today’s guest has discovered the secret to tapping into your authentic self and turning it into a superpower at work and in life.She has spent the last 14 years traveling the globe, training senior execs and teams from Fortune 100 companies like Google, Pepsico,...
OTS 252: Slay the Room – Bernadette Smith
Today’s guest believes in celebrating and embracing diversity. With a unique and practical approach to diversity and inclusion, she helps leaders and teams promote a more inclusive work environment. She brings a fresh and uniquely positive approach to diversity...
OTS Encore 165: Grow a Bigger Pie – Melony Swasey
For today’s guest, the joy in real estate sales is forging genuine relationships with her clients. Since 2010, she’s worked closely with home buyers and sellers of all stages of life, guiding them to intelligent, winning decisions. She’s closed over $100 million in...
OTS Encore 094: Habitual Networking – Jordan Harbinger
Today’s guest is a Wall Street lawyer turned talk show host, social dynamics expert, and entrepreneur, whose affinity for social influence, interpersonal dynamics, and social engineering has led him to, and through, many unique situations. He spent several years...
OTS Encore 031: Moral Authority – Dorie Clark
Today’s guest has held a wide array of leadership positions including, presidential campaign spokeswoman, nonprofit executive director, award-winning journalist, documentary filmmaker, and she received a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School....
OTS Encore 158: The Essence of Influence – Bob Burg
Today’s guest is a sought-after speaker who has shared the platform with everyone from today’s business leaders and broadcast personalities to even a former U.S. President. A prolific author of books on sales, marketing, and influence, for years he was best known...
OTS Encore 150: Investing in Relationships – Melissa Smith
Today’s guest understands you can’t do it all yourself. Her clients are at a tipping point, launching the next phase of their life and business while creating multiple business income streams - which is why she’s their expert resource for finding the best virtual...
OTS Encore 120: Spreading Ideas – Seth Godin
Two decades ago, Business Week said today’s guest "may be the ultimate entrepreneur for the Information Age," because he’s as focused on spreading ideas as the ideas themselves. He is a world-renowned speaker and author of 18 books that have been bestsellers around...
OTS Encore 107: Leadership is a Mindset – Michelle Tillis Lederman
Today’s guest believes that communication and connection are the foundation of everything. She is known for her energetic, engaging, and authentic presentations and is an expert on workplace communications and relationships. She is an accomplished speaker, trainer,...
OTS Encore 108: Reciprocal Leadership – Mike Michalowicz
Today’s guest is the entrepreneur behind 3 multi-million dollar companies, having founded and sold two of them before reaching his 35th birthday. He is a former small business journalist for The Wall Street Journal, and he is the author of “Profit First,” “The...
OTS Encore 051: The Riches are in the Niches – Jamie Lieberman
Today’s guest has found a way to marry her knowledge of the law with her experience working with influencers to create Hashtag Legal, a law firm dedicated to helping businesses succeed in a digital world. As technology created new opportunities for business owners,...
OTS Encore 091: Weakness has its Benefits – David Burkus
Today’s guest is a best-selling author, sought-after speaker, and associate professor of leadership and innovation at Oral Roberts University. He has written several books, his first was “The Myths of Creativity: The Truth About How Innovative Companies and People...
OTS Encore 039: Change Master – Stephanie Chung
Today’s guest is an award-winning executive coach with more than 25 years of team management, business development, and sales leadership experience. Early in her career, she was recognized for her ability to negotiate multimillion-dollar contracts with senior...
OTS Encore 073: RISE-UP – Michael Roderick
In this encore episode, our guest went from high school English teacher to Broadway producer in under two years. How? Relationships. He is a social catalyst who believes in the power of making meaningful connections for others. His success led him to develop a...
OTS Encore 162: Against All Odds – Magie Cook
In this encore episode, our guest is an immigrant who went from incredible poverty to founding a multi-million dollar business. She was born in an orphanage in Mexico and her first shot out of poverty was an opportunity to play basketball for the Mexican National...
OTS 251: Alignment of Strengths – Jayson Gaignard
Today’s guest is not self-made… he’s Community Made. He has a strong desire to "rise the tide" for everyone and is passionate about supporting community builders who focus their energy on under-resourced communities. Named one of Forbes “Top Networkers to Watch,”...
OTS 250: Surpassing Milestones – Robbie Samuels & Peya Robbins
This week's On the Schmooze episode is the 250th episode – wow. That means I’ve produced 50 episodes a year for five years. I almost gave this all up three years ago and I’m so grateful I stuck with it. The show has only gotten better since then and I learned it’s...
OTS 249: Be in the Arena – Marli Williams
Today’s guest wants women to live their most epic life every day. She is a master facilitator, leadership trainer, joy instigator, and community strategist who first fell in love with transformational leadership as a camp counselor. Two degrees and 15 years of...
OTS 248: Attracting Value – Jared Kleinert
I have a special treat for you this week. This is only the second time I’ve had a guest back on the show. Today’s guest is a super-connector who brings brilliant minds together. You can read a long list of his accolades in the intro for episode 67, I’ll put a link...
OTS 247: Holding Space – Mary Williams
Today’s guest believes that the sensible and practical side of life meshes perfectly with the woo-woo side of life. As the Chief Technology Therapist at Sensible Woo, she teaches highly sensitive & neuro-divergent online business owners how to replace...
OTS 246: Embrace the New – Charlene Li
Today’s guest helps leaders and organizations thrive with disruption as an expert on digital transformation and leadership. For the past two decades, she has been helping people see the future. She is the Founder and Senior Fellow at Altimeter, a disruptive analyst...
OTS 245: Conscious Competent – Vern Schellenger
Today’s guest can help anyone make networking an art, not an accident. He is a principal consultant at Contacts Count, a global training and development firm that has developed 8 specific competencies, a mix of skills, behaviors, tools, and strategies, to teach...
OTS 244: The Great Unveiling – Lisa Fabrega
Today’s guest helps ambitious people expand their capacity to handle more growth, wealth, and success. For more than ten years, she has helped entrepreneurs, corporate executives, Academy Award nominees, and Nobel Prize organization candidates break through...
OTS 243: Run an Experiment – Stephanie Sims
Today’s guest helps entrepreneurs tell economic stories that make dollars...and sense. After nearly a decade in investment banking and having worked with Goldman, Lehman, and CSFB on over $5 billion of transactions, she rode the high tech startup rollercoaster in...
OTS 242: A Place to Belong – Mark J. Carter
Today’s guest believes collaboration happens when conversations turn into action. He is the creator of Idea Climbing™, the result of his 21-year case study interviewing and researching successful people and companies about collaboration and mentoring. He works with...
OTS 241: The Multiply Effect – Patience Marime-Ball
Today’s guest is on a mission to provide institutional financial support to the world’s most gender impactful strategies and entities, thereby enabling them to deliver value for the world’s women and girls. She is the Founder and CEO of Women of the World...
OTS 240: Invest in Your Visibility – Jessica Rhodes
Today’s guest is the leading expert on how to leverage podcast guesting for increased brand awareness, more leads, and higher profits. She created the podcast booking industry in 2013 when she founded Interview Connections, recently named the Best Speciality...
OTS 239: Vulnerable Conversations – Jan Keck
Today’s guest empowers people who feel disconnected with the tools to start meaningful conversations and find their people. He creates tools and transformational experiences, so leaders and teams can feel heard, seen, and valued, and create a culture of...
OTS 238: Head, Hands, and Heart – Bridgett McGowen-Hawkins
Today’s guest believes everyone can use their voice to impact the world. She’s found that to be true for her own career as an award-winning international professional speaker and as a publisher who helps experts become authors. She has written several books and...
OTS 237: Act on Emerging Trends – Liz Sara
Today’s guest brings a wealth of first-hand knowledge to growing tech firms using more than 30 years of experience as an entrepreneur, business leader, and angel investor. She played principal roles in pioneering several B2B technology firms. As co-founder of...
OTS 236: Relationship Capital – Brian Kurtz
Today’s guest is passionate about direct marketing. He believes that marketing isn’t everything--it’s the only thing. For 34 years, he has followed a specific set of direct marketing principles that helped him build Boardroom Inc. into an iconic publishing...
OTS 235: Finding Your Joy – Rachel Sheerin
Today’s guest believes everyone deserves to do what sets their souls ablaze and it’s her mission to help them do just that while not burning out. She is a keynote speaker and virtual emcee aimed at helping people love their work, succeed on their own terms, and...
OTS 234: Collaboration not Competition – Allison Graham
Today’s guest believes that most stress is avoidable and that there is always a reason to be optimistic and have hope during tough times. She is the author of “Married My Mom Birthed A Dog: How to be Resilient When Life Sucks” a book that teaches us how to...
OTS 233: Roam the Hallways – Brian Fanzo
Today’s guest is a digital futurist keynote speaker who translates the trends of tomorrow to inspire change today. He has a gift for bringing people together online and offline. Prior to speaking, he worked for the Department of Defense where he managed a global...
OTS 232: Show, Not Tell – Jenny Ro
Today’s guest believes that helping people develop meaningful professional relationships is the fastest way to turn promising biomedical research into life-saving cures. She’s a PhD biologist who trained at Harvard Medical School and had the opportunity to be...
OTS 231: Access to Success – Angelique Rewers
Today’s guest has been called “the undisputed champion at helping small businesses land big clients” by Inc. Magazine. She developed a proprietary framework, based on her two decades of experience navigating all sides of the corporate buying table. This framework...
OTS 230: Stepping into the Gaps – Ron Tester
Today’s guest is a Growth Strategist who helps small business owners grow their companies without sacrificing the other parts of their lives. When business owners feel overwhelmed by the amount of work they have to do, he helps them create the right strategies,...
OTS 229: Get Out of Your Way – Julie Kratz
Today’s guest is passionate about promoting gender equality within the workplace, empowering women to express confidence, and helping them build a winning career game plan. After experiencing many career pivot points of her own, she now is focused on promoting...
OTS 228: From the Outside Looking In – Michele Molitor
Today’s guest is an expert at enhancing the capacity of leaders, to build high performing teams, and exponentially increase bottom-line results. She helps catalyze shifts in thinking and eliminate mental/emotional blocks to rapidly rewire their brain for greater...
OTS 227: A Compelling Offer – Brandon Fong
Today’s guest didn’t start life with many advantages, but his parents taught him that resourcefulness is a FAR greater asset than resources. Before he turned 25, he became a published author, launched a product that made $44,738 in one week, took over the business...
OTS 226: Impact Conversations – Cynthia Del'Aria
Today’s guest helps business owners and stakeholders make wise decisions. As a savvy entrepreneur, she started her first company at the young age of 15 and sold it to a major competitor just four years later. She started her programming journey very early and...
OTS 225: One Step in Front of the Other – Chala Dincoy
Today’s guest believes that with the right messaging even the smallest company can feel like a national brand. She is the CEO and Founder of The Repositioning Expert, a division of Coachtactics, and a Marketing Strategist who helps professional service companies...
OTS 224: Believe the Hype – Michael F. Schein
Today’s guest turns consultants into celebrities by making them thought leaders. He is a speaker for international audiences spanning from the northeastern United States to the southeastern coast of China. As the creator of MicroFame Media, a marketing agency that...
OTS 223: Friendship is the Key – Shasta Nelson
Today’s guest is a leading expert on friendship and how we can create healthier and more fulfilling relationships in our lives. She speaks across the country and facilitates events for connection. She’s been quoted in the New York Times, The Washington Post, and...
OTS 222: Get Out of Your Own Way – Julie Ann Sullivan
Today's guest has a passion for creating and sustaining successful business cultures. She believes that by having a committed and passionate workforce, your organization will create a better world. She began her education with a BA in Psychology and a pledge to...
OTS 221: The Force Multiplier – Tony Chatman
Today’s guest is a corporate relationship expert that turns problems into progress. He has devoted his adult life to understanding what makes people tick and how to bring out the best in people (including ourselves). Whether addressing our hidden biases, helping...
OTS 220: Raising Leaders – Tammy Dowley-Blackman
Today’s guest has spent almost two decades building companies focused on delivering innovative approaches to leadership and organizational development. She has served as a CEO and key decision-maker, a board member for national organizations, a sought after...
OTS 219: Purpose-Driven Community – Gerry Poirier
Today’s guest is a champion of female empowerment and gender equality. With her 20 years of experience in the finance industry, she has been a FINTECH industry leader at companies such as Credit Suisse First Boston, Lazard Freres, and Equity Growth Partners. She...
OTS 218: Relationships First – Gautam Ganglani
Today’s guest has built his career on the power of building high-quality relationships with world-renowned authors and global thought leaders like Marshall Goldsmith, Ron Kaufman, and Brian Tracy. He is the Chief Energizing Officer of Right Selection Speakers, a...
OTS 217: Gently Hugging – Emily Merrell
Today’s guest is a super connector. Nothing makes her happier than connecting people who could mutually make each other's lives more enjoyable. She is the founder and chief networking officer of Six Degrees Society, a female-focused networking organization that...
OTS 216: Follow the Zig Zags – Glain Roberts-McCabe
Today’s guest’s personal mission is to inspire ambitious leaders to connect to their bigger purpose so that they can lead with intention and leave a legacy that feels good. She is the founder and President of The Roundtable, a company that helps leaders navigate...
OTS 215: Welding the Team – Terry Jones
Today’s guest believes that not all innovation will be obvious and your business must be ready before it becomes your disruption. He is the Founder and CEO of Travelocity.com which he led from a team of six to a three-billion-dollar public company. He retired from...
OTS 214: Leaders Build Leaders – Parul Agrawal
Today’s guest is an engineer by education and an entrepreneur by passion. She left corporate America to pursue her own business as a health coach, delivering the message of health through public speaking in various community centers and corporations. Her business...
OTS 213: Structure Brings Freedom – Melinda Cohan
Today’s guest is a systems expert helping coaches get over the tedious task of running their business and focus on what they love - the actual coaching of amazing clients! She has worked with thousands of startup coaches over the last sixteen years, sharing the...
OTS 212: Pull vs. Push – Robert Glazer
Today’s guest is a serial entrepreneur and inspirational speaker with a passion for helping others build their capacity. He is CEO of a global partner marketing agency, Acceleration Partners, and the co-founder and Chairman of BrandCycle. He has been recognized as...
OTS 211: GO BOLD! – Ellyn McKay
Today’s guest believes that the most successful women leaders operate in the world knowing that there is no one stopping them from developing a vision of who they want to be, how they want to be perceived, and how they want to perform their role. In 1997, she...
OTS 210: Start at the Top – Dorothy Wilhelm
Today’s guest embodies the term “young at heart.” Anyone who encounters her would describe her as joyful, funny, and spontaneous. She calls herself a porcupine trainer - her term for the sticky situations and prickly people we all have to face on a daily basis. She...
OTS 209: We Are Heart & Soul – Carl Gould
Today’s guest is an entrepreneur who built three multi-million dollar businesses by age 40. His coaching and consulting methodologies are in practice in over 35 countries. He has written multiple books on the subject of business strategy, leadership and sustainable...
OTS 208: Wait vs. Create – Erin King
Today’s guest helps her clients communicate more powerfully in today’s digital age. Her PUB method is an award-winning system that has helped thousands of sales, marketing and leadership professionals type, text and post more persuasively. It helps them communicate...
OTS 207: Create. Pivot. Shift. – Heidi Berenson
Today’s guest is a two-time Emmy® and Peabody Award-winner. Her credits read like a Who's Who of network television: ABC News, Good Morning America, CBS News and CNN. She is founder and CEO of Berenson Communications where she Powers Up the Performance of top...
OTS 206: The Responsibility of Impact – Jeffrey Shaw
Today’s guest helps companies stop wasting time chasing leads and instead attract only their ideal customers. For most of his career, he was one of the most sought-after portrait photographers in the United States. Today, he coaches his clients on how to make...
OTS 205: Vision, Passion & Grit – Adrian Miller
Today’s guest is a whirling dervish of action, energy and results. For 20+ years she has been developing sales strategies and delivering customized sales training to companies nationwide, across virtually every industry and in firms ranging in size from...
OTS 204: Clarity of Vision – Jennifer Diepstraten
Today’s guest excels at teaching entrepreneurs how to turn interested prospects into excited clients who say, “Yes! I can't wait to work with you!” She has 20 years of experience in sales, relationship coaching, and communication studies so she understands what it...
OTS 203: Journey Through a Soundwave – Phil Gerbyshak
Today’s guest works with sales professionals and business owners to integrate social selling and social media into their business. He knows SALES. He's a sales speaker, a sales expert, a sales trainer, a sales leader mentor, a sales podcaster, and a sales coach....
OTS 202: Worthy of Connection – Stephanie Thoma
Today’s guest has made a career out of helping others build connections. In particular, she teaches introverts how to have a sense of self-worth, find their tribe, and make strides toward the career of their dreams. Growing up she was painfully shy and felt like an...
OTS 201: Building the Bridge – Amber Browning-Coyle
Today’s guest is an experienced on-air host and communication strategist whose credits include numerous national television networks, such as HBO, PBS, and most recently QVC, where she single-handedly launched the fastest growing brand in the entire network for...
OTS 200: Who Hijacked My Podcast!? – Robbie Samuels
This week's On the Schmooze episode is the 200th episode - wow. That means I’ve produced 50 episodes a year for four years. I almost gave this all up two years ago and I’m so grateful I stuck with it. For this special episode, my friend Laurie Guest (whom I...
OTS 199: Vulnerability to Success – Hope Timberlake
Today’s guest focuses on the communication side of leadership. Through her warmth and humor, she helps people to become better communicators, influencers and leaders. They recognize gaps, build on strengths, and become more effective professionals. Over the last 10...
OTS 198: Mindset Matching – Megan Hudson
Today’s guest is a passionate connector who helps people find their natural communication and networking style. She is driven by connecting people and helping them grow their own networks organically by being present in conversations, finding ways to connect to...
OTS 197: Guide on the Side – Jamie Mason Cohen
Today’s guest believes that the best leaders develop strengths instead of highlighting weaknesses. He is a corporate trainer, keynote speaker, and leadership strategist for Fortune 500 companies. He is the only Canadian recipient of a TED Education - Huffington...
OTS 196: Paint On Your Own Canvas – Crystal Washington
Today’s guest is a technology strategist and certified futurist. She is known for her ability to take complex technology topics and make them accessible to everyday professionals, across multiple generations. She works with organizations that want to leverage...
OTS 195: Ability to Rally – CrisMarie Campbell
As an Olympic and World Championship rower, today’s guest learned firsthand what makes a championship team versus simply a team of champions. She's spent 20 years helping individuals, leaders, and teams resolve difficult conflicts and create strong, thriving...
OTS 194: Failure is the Plot Twist – Danny Iny
Today’s guest is an educator, author, and entrepreneur who is on a mission to reimagine business and transform education. As the founder and CEO of Mirasee, a business education company, he has developed innovative training programs that have raised the bar for...
OTS 193: Radical Empathy – Jennifer Iannolo
Today’s guest is on a mission to disrupt the way we approach empowerment. A lifelong entrepreneur, she is the founder and CEO of IMPERIA™, an incubator for women creating social impact projects across seven continents. Her methodology of Self-Directed Empowerment...
OTS 192: Prisoners of Our Own Mind – Ariel Garten
Today’s guest’s driving purpose is to empower and help others overcome mental obstacles in order to live healthy, happy lives and reach their maximum potential. She is the visionary behind Muse, the award-winning headband that makes meditation easier. Before...
OTS 191: Leadership is Connecting – Lou Diamond
Today’s guest is a dynamic speaker who inspires audiences to feel they can conquer the world and make tons of great new connections while doing it. For over 25 years, he has been a top sales performer, keynote speaker, and performance mentor. He is the CEO of...
OTS 190: Curation is Key – Laura Fitton
Today’s guest is credited with convincing Guy Kawasaki and thousands of tech execs that Twitter would have real business value. In 2009, she founded the Twitter App Store oneforty.com, bringing order to the chaos of Twitter’s nascent app ecosystem. Just two years...
OTS 189: Illuminate the Path – Marilyn Sherman
Today’s guest is dedicated to training people to let go of obstacles and live and work with courage, commitment, and confidence. Over the last 25 years, she has built her business one relationship and one speech at a time - motivating and inspiring audiences to get...
OTS 188: Quiet Determination – Tim Brownson
Today’s guest isn’t your typical Life Coach. After working in sales for two decades, he became a certified Life Coach in 2005. In a world filled with "woo-woo" life coaches, his opinionated and direct approach is refreshing and gets results. Eight years later, he...
OTS 187: For the Greater Good – Jessica Kupferman
Today’s guest believes every voice deserves to be heard. As an internet and digital marketing pioneer, she helps content creators grow and monetize a loyal, rabid fan base through understanding connection and the power of influence. She has worked on the branding...
OTS 186: Holding the Space – Meridith Elliott Powell
Today’s guest teaches strategies to succeed no matter what the economy does - turning uncertainty into a competitive advantage. Voted one of the Top 15 Business Growth Experts to watch by Currency Fair, she is an author, business strategist, keynote speaker, and...
OTS 185: Who You Are – Grant Baldwin
Today’s guest’s philosophy is to work with what you’ve got and build as you go along. That philosophy has helped thousands of people graduate from his Booked and Paid to Speak Training Course ready to start and build their own speaking businesses - transforming...
OTS 184: The Magic Supersauce – Petra Kolber
Today’s guest is a wellness leader who is known as a beacon of authentic happiness. A two-time cancer survivor, she is passionate about waking people up to the precious gift of time. Her mission is to inspire people to move more and fear less, helping them stretch...
OTS 183: Out from the Shadows – Simone E. Morris
Today’s guest embraces inclusion as a true beacon for her career. An award-winning diversity and inclusion leader, consultant, and speaker, she is committed to diversifying the workplace and training women and emerging leaders to take true leadership positions in...
OTS 182: Invest in Yourself – Suresh Sambandam
Today’s guest is a renowned entrepreneur on a mission to democratize automation and create an immersive work experience for enterprises of all sizes. Founder and CEO of OrangeScape, makers of Kissflow, a disruptive SaaS-based enterprise-level work automation and...
OTS 181: Quiet Authority – Liz Kislik
Today’s guest helps companies solve their thorniest problems while also strengthening their top and bottom lines. She is a management consultant, executive coach, and facilitator who helps leaders move their companies and careers forward. With over 30 years of...
OTS 180: Safe On Deck – Mary Kelly
Today’s guest is a practicing economist who finds efficiencies, solves challenging problems, and motivates people to implement change. She transforms corporate cultures and increases productivity, through engaging, humorous, and action-packed keynote presentations,...
OTS 179: Treasured Wisdom – Dave Sanderson
Today’s guest not only survived “The Miracle on the Hudson” plane crash but was the last person off the back of the plane that day because he was making sure others made it out safely. After surviving the US Airways Flight 1549 crash in 2009, he began to realize...
OTS 178: The Sense of Belonging – Jeanette Bronee
Today’s guest believes our most important resource is our humanity. As a performance and culture strategist, global keynote, and two-time TEDx speaker, she focuses on how we can survive work better by understanding how to fuel performance, leadership, and culture...
OTS 177: Creativity + Humor = Connection – Laurie Guest
Today’s guest began her training as a customer service expert when she was only nine years old. Growing up as a Midwest farmer’s daughter, she learned how to master the art of customer engagement to help sell more sweet corn than the competition. Since then, she...
OTS 176: True Human Connection – David Meerman Scott
Today’s guest says the pendulum has swung too far in the direction of superficial online communications. He spotted the real-time marketing revolution in its infancy and wrote five books about it including “The New Rules of Marketing and PR,” with over 400,000...
OTS 175: Empower the People – Ginni Saraswati
Today’s guest is an award-winning journalist who has interviewed them all, from k.d. lang, Jennifer Beals, Ruby Rose, to Martina Navratilova. With a career spanning over a decade in broadcast radio, she has been featured on two breakfast shows in Australia and is...
OTS 174: Face to Face – Bobbie Carlton
Today’s guest has a soft spot for the under-served and under-represented in the high-tech community. Founder of Carlton PR and Marketing, Innovation Nights, and Innovation Women, she has been called Boston’s Innovation Den Mother and the Startup Fairy Godmother....
OTS 173: It’s a Two-Way Street – Dave Delaney
Today’s guest is known as a communication connoisseur because he’s obsessed with all aspects of communication. Whether it was CB radios and computer bulletin board systems when he was a kid, majoring in radio and television broadcasting in college, or majoring in...
OTS 172: On the Margin to the Center – Desiree Adaway
Today’s guest is seasoned in leading difficult conversations on race, class, and gender, by doing so she helps build resilient, equitable, and inclusive organizations. She has over 20 years of experience creating, leading and managing international, multicultural...
OTS 171: From Shy to Center Stage – Jyoti Singhvi
Today’s guest has over thirty years of experience in public speaking, yet used to be the shyest kid in her class. She is the CEO of ACE Public Speaking, which is an online & experiential platform for training in communication, presentation and public speaking...
OTS 170: Failure is a Great Lesson – David Frangioni
Today’s guest has dedicated his life to the idea that escapism is one of the single most important elements of what makes us human. As an award-winning veteran of the music industry, his expertise ranges from being a drummer and producer to an artist development...
OTS 169: The Greatest Gift – Sylvie di Giusto
Today’s guest teaches people how to make first impressions count. As a keynote speaker and corporate trainer, she helps individuals and organizations discover how people make up their minds very quickly and empowers them to influence the success of their own...
OTS 168: BE on Purpose – Cami Baker
Today’s guest doesn’t waste time, doesn’t mess around, and doesn’t quit until her clients get results. TV show host and author of “Mingle to Millions” and “Lead or be Led,” she is an all-around business building guerilla marketer and business strategist. Her...
OTS 167: A Single Vision – John Livesay
Today’s guest is known as The Pitch Whisperer because he helps sales teams become revenue rock stars. After hearing him speak, they know how to form an emotional connection and a compelling sales story with their clients. In his keynote speeches, he shares lessons...
OTS 166: Help Others Rise – Chien-Chi Huang
Today’s guest is a skilled and passionate community advocate. She is a breast cancer survivor turned advocate who launched the Asian Breast Cancer Project in 2010. The ABC Project gives Asian women access to resources, education, and support during and after...
OTS 165: Grow a Bigger Pie – Melony Swasey
For today’s guest, the joy in real estate sales is forging genuine relationships with her clients. Since 2010, she’s worked closely with home buyers and sellers of all stages of life, guiding them to intelligent, winning decisions. She’s closed over $100 million in...
OTS 164: Entrepreneurial Mindset – Jeff Gibbard
Today’s guest has been talking about Social Business before it even had a name and views social media as an excellent way to tear down silos, build strong communities, and connect people face-to-face. He is the founder of a digital strategy agency, called From the...
OTS 163: Strategic Serendipity – Denise Jacobs
Today’s guest helps people unleash their creativity by banishing their inner critic and hacking their creative brains. She is a keynote speaker, author, and creativity evangelist who consults with companies worldwide. As the founder and CEO of The Creative Dose,...
OTS 162: Against All Odds – Magie Cook
Today’s guest is an immigrant who went from incredible poverty to founding a multi-million dollar business. She was born in an orphanage in Mexico and her first shot out of poverty was an opportunity to play basketball for the Mexican National Team - a shot she...
OTS 161: Puns and Milkshakes – Drew Tarvin
Today’s guest is the world’s first Humor Engineer, teaching people how to get better results while using humor and having more fun. While working in the corporate world, he observed how using humor at work helped him be more effective with the hardest thing he had...
OTS 160: Humanity in Tech – Kate O’Neill
Today’s guest is helping humanity prepare for an increasingly tech-driven future by helping businesses make better human experiences. With over twenty years of experience helping some of the world’s leading companies innovate, launch, grow, and matter to the people...
OTS 159: Taking Big Leaps – Karen Wickre
Today’s guest has been called the best-connected Silicon Valley figure you’ve never heard of. She is a veteran editor, curator, content strategist, and connector of people and ideas. Her passion for all forms of communication has carried her for over thirty years...
OTS 158: The Essence of Influence – Bob Burg
Today’s guest is a sought-after speaker who has shared the platform with everyone from today’s business leaders and broadcast personalities to even a former U.S. President. A prolific author of books on sales, marketing, and influence, for years he was best known...
OTS 157: Radical Resilience – Stacey Copas
Today’s guest helps people shift the way they perceive and respond to change and adversity, helping them to see opportunities instead of obstacles. After a devastating accident that left her a quadriplegic and dependent on a wheelchair at 12 years old, she learned...
OTS 156: Serendipitous Encounters – Kathy Klotz-Guest
Today’s guest has comedy, storytelling, and strategy in her DNA. When she was eight years old, her first oral presentation was about Harold Lloyd, Hollywood’s premier comic stuntman and director of the silent film era. Even better, she admits that she mimed and her...
OTS 155: Referral Culture – Bill Cates
Today’s guest understands the importance of referrals and networking. His company, Referral Coach International, helps people and businesses who want to acquire more clients and customers through word of mouth, referrals, and personal introduction. His goal is to...
OTS 154: Train Your Assassins – J. Kelly Hoey
Today’s guest says if you had asked her former lawyer self if she imagined herself in the career she has today, the likely response would have been: “ARE YOU KIDDING ME?” Speaker and author of the “Build Your Dream Network: Forging Powerful Relationships in a...
OTS 153: The Footprint to Follow – Desheen L. Evans
Today’s guest is an Emergency Crisis & International Trauma Recovery Coach. She has over three decades of experience in trauma-informed care working with families, institutions, and organizations in the aftermath of crisis situations and traumatic life events....
OTS 152: The Feedback Habit – Joe Hirsch
Today’s guest is on a mission to fix the way we work at work. He specializes in helping organizations apply behavioral science to strengthen the way leaders train, support, and empower their teams for success. An award-winning educational leader and researcher, he...
OTS 151: Extrovert Bias – Pamela Slim
Today’s guest builds the leadership capacity of small business owners. She started her career working as a consultant with large corporations such as Hewlett-Packard, Charles Schwab, and Cisco Systems. In 2009, she published “Escape from Cubicle Nation,” which...
OTS 150: Investing in Relationships – Melissa Smith
Today’s guest understands you can’t do it all yourself. Her clients are at a tipping point, launching the next phase of their life and business while creating multiple business income streams - which is why she’s their expert resource for finding the best virtual...
OTS 149: Bridge the Gap – Thom Singer, CSP
Today’s guest helps people get back to the basics of relationships that lead to better opportunities and sales. Having worked as a keynote speaker and professional master of ceremonies for the last ten years, he is an advocate for creating strong experiences for...
OTS 148: A Treasure Hunt – Pat Hedley
Today’s guest believes everyone has the seeds of a great network within reach and that to establish genuine relationships we must proactively meet people in person. She is an investor, advisor, speaker, author, and the founder of an advisory firm working with...
OTS 147: Spirit of Service – Lenora Billings-Harris
Today’s guest believes we are all connected and can achieve more significant results when we learn how to build relationships with all people, regardless of their packaging. She is a diversity and inclusion strategist who specializes in helping organizations make...
OTS 146: Break Down the Walls – Ryan Paugh
Today’s guest was called “a cult legend in the online community-building world” by Mashable. He has been at the forefront of building highly curated, technology-enabled communities for ambitious professionals. He is focused on creating a strong membership...
OTS 145: Live the Life You Want – Samantha Riley
Today’s guest helps her clients grow profitable businesses to create lives that they love. She is a speaker, international business growth strategist, author of “The Heart of Entrepreneurship: It’s Your Time to Shine”, and the host of the Thought Leaders Business...
OTS 144: The Connector’s Advantage – Michelle Tillis Lederman
I have a special treat for you this week. This will be the first time I’ve had someone back on the show and it’s for a very good reason. My guest is a people expert who inspires organizations and individuals to build real relationships and get real results. Named...
OTS 143: It Comes Down To You – David Shriner-Cahn
Today’s guest has a mission for helping solopreneur experts do what they love and get paid what they’re worth. He is a recognized authority on entrepreneurship and leadership development, having served as a CEO, COO, and CFO in the not-for-profit sector as well as...
OTS 142: Visualize to Actualize – Holly Duckworth
Today’s guest unleashes human potential through mindfulness techniques. Known as the C-Suite Network Advisor on Mindfulness in the Workplace, she helps stressed-out leaders find and sustain greater focus, clarity, and inner peace, resulting in a more grounded and...
OTS 141: Imaginess – Randah Taher
Today’s guest is made up of one part creativity, one part context, one part connections, and a sprinkle of playfulness. She is the founder and idea culturist behind sajory, an innovation consultancy that nurtures organization behavior and helps businesses...
OTS 140: Care to Catch-Up – Matt Ward
Today’s guest is passionate about helping employees, managers, and business owners move their business and personal life to the next level through word of mouth referrals. He has experienced the same challenges that most employees and business owners face. He used...
OTS 139: Three Golden Questions – Judy Robinett
Today’s guest is a business thought leader who is known as “the woman with the titanium digital Rolodex.” In her more than 30 years of experience as an entrepreneur and corporate leader, she has served as the CEO of both public and private companies and in...
OTS 138: Seeing Their Greatness – Laura Gassner Otting
Today’s guest helps innovators, idealists, and iconoclasts get “unstuck.” She helps them push past the doubt and indecision that consign great ideas to limbo. She is a serial entrepreneur who has started and sold a successful international executive search firm,...
OTS 137: Last Bad Day – Michael OBrien
Today’s guest’s last bad day was July 11th, 2001, a day that changed his life in a significant way. Experiencing a harrowing cycling accident was the catalyst to the seminal shift that changed his perspective, mindset, and actions. Since then, he has been helping...
OTS 136: Stand In Your Power – Nicole Roberts Jones
Today’s guest is uniquely gifted at drawing out what’s best in others and helping them take their brilliance to the bank. She is a nationally recognized transformational speaker, best-selling author, Purpose to Paycheck Expert, and the Founder & CEO of Fierce...
OTS 135: Unlock Potential – Diana Wu David
Today’s guest helps global leaders enhance their ability to adapt, contribute, collaborate, and grow. A former Financial Times executive, she started out her career working on strategy as a management consultant and as an assistant to Dr. Henry Kissinger at...
OTS 134: Step Into Your Worth – Suzy Carroll
Today’s guest, like many ambitious women today, pushed herself to the limit and happily wore the busy badge of honor for decades. Her suicide attempt as a young adult ignited a passion for personal development which led to her owning a nutrition business. Yet,...
OTS 133: Small Changes Big Difference – Ruchika Tulshyan
Today’s guest helps workplaces build inclusive cultures by addressing barriers to equity and access. She is a diversity and inclusion strategist, author of an award-winning book, “The Diversity Advantage: Fixing Gender Inequality In The Workplace,” and Seattle...
OTS 131: Cultivate Your Network – Erica Dhawan
Today’s guest breaks silos, works smarter, and gets things done. She is the Founder and CEO of Cotential, a global consultancy that helps organizations transform by delivering collaboration across teams, business units, customers, and other stakeholders. She is one...
OTS 130: Be Who You Are – Kimra Luna
Today’s guest is a freedom hacker. She helps freedom-seeking entrepreneurs to stand out, captivate their audience’s attention, and monetize their authentic brands online. She is a personal branding and online business strategist. From a standing start in May 2014,...
OTS 129: Flip the Script – Lucy Whittington
Today’s guest believes fun at work is finding an easier, simpler, or smarter way to spend more time doing what you are brilliant at and less time making business happen. She has over twenty years of B2B marketing experience in software and for small businesses. She...
OTS 128: Living in Abundance – Christy Whitman
Today’s guest believes you have within you the ability to attract your ideal partner, create your ideal body, become a more empowered parent to your children, and magnetize success and abundance in every aspect of your life. She is a Transformational Leader,...
OTS 127: Small Town Connections – Natalie Siston
Today’s guest believes everything she needed to know to succeed in her multi-sector career she learned by growing up in a town of 600 people. She’s taken the lessons she learned and applied them to a career that has included Silicon Valley, a Fortune 100,...
OTS 126: Work Through Fear – Chip Massey
Today’s guest helps executives break through the fears that hold them back from being the best leaders, strategists, business developers, and team members they can be. He knows a thing or two about how to overcome fear based on his first two careers: For twenty-two...
OTS 125: Ask, Act, and Appreciate – Sam Horn
Today’s guest is a communications strategist and international consultant on a mission to help people create quality communications. As a presentation/pitch coach and media training expert, she has helped hundreds of clients prepare for high-stakes communications...
OTS 124: The Magic Unfolds – Denise Brosseau
Today’s guest is a pioneer in the world of high growth women entrepreneurs. As the CEO of the Thought Leadership Lab, she works with purpose-driven entrepreneurs, executives, and non-profit leaders to scale their influence and impact. Previously, she was the...
OTS 123: Shifting Mindsets – Luis Congdon
Today’s guest specializes in helping companies optimize their online presence. His journey to becoming a digital marketing expert was circuitous and includes being a couple’s therapist and senior director of a nonprofit that house and sheltered homeless women. His...
OTS 122: Find Your Happiness – Tammy Gooler Loeb
Today’s guest deeply believes people owe it to themselves to be happy at work and that everyone can be a leader regardless of their role within an organization. As a career and executive coach, she has helped people and businesses in areas such as workplace...
OTS 121: To Become More – Toni Crowe
Today’s guest is an award-winning executive with over 30 years of experience. She has climbed the corporate ladder across multiple sectors, including high tech, consumer and nuclear sensors, aerospace, film production, and glass manufacturing. To say that she had a...
OTS 120: Spreading Ideas – Seth Godin
Two decades ago, Business Week said today’s guest "may be the ultimate entrepreneur for the Information Age," because he’s as focused on spreading ideas as the ideas themselves. He is a world-renowned speaker and author of 18 books that have been bestsellers around...
OTS 119: Recognizing Greatness – Sarah McVanel
Today’s guest helps people re-discover their own greatness by asking tough questions and sharing powerful truths. She works with busy leaders to leverage the exponential power of recognition to retain top talent. She is the author of “Forever Recognize Others’...
OTS 118: Engines vs. Anchors – Michelle Villalobos
Today’s guest figured out how to take her struggling low 6-figure speaking & training business to a 7-figure speaking and mentoring business in just 14 months. Now, as an author, personal brand strategist, and speaker, she teaches individuals how to build...
OTS 117: Drive for Success – Michael Zipursky
Today’s guest is one of the world’s top authorities on growing a consulting business. He has authored five books on consulting and business growth and his most recent book, “The Elite Consulting Mind,” is an Amazon bestseller. He has helped over 300 consultants all...
OTS 116: Grit, Perseverance, & Ambition [GPA] – Melissa James
Today’s guest is passionate about helping people reach their highest potential. She is an award-winning diversity expert, a proven thought leader, an author, and a trending businesswoman who is dedicated to increasing diversity in the technology industry. By...
OTS 115: Empower Advocates – Jennifer Brown
Today’s guest is a social entrepreneur committed to guiding leaders and organizations to create healthier workplace cultures that resonate with current and incoming leaders. She is an award-winning entrepreneur, dynamic speaker, and diversity and inclusion expert....
OTS 114: The Wonder of Sonder – Chad Littlefield
Today’s guest’s mission is to gently eradicate small talk from the planet. He is the co-founder and Chief Experience Officer of We!, an organization whose mission is to create conversations that matter. Leaders call him when they want to amplify connection,...
OTS 113: Planned Serendipity – Sarah Granger
Today’s guest is an award-winning writer and digital media innovator. A first-generation digital native, she has spent more than 25 years launching, building, and advising Internet and social media ventures, starting with a bulletin board system she published...
OTS 112: Leading with Courage – Amy C. Waninger
Today’s guest is passionate about helping others realize their full potential at work. As the founder and CEO of Lead at Any Level, she helps busy professionals develop skills in leadership, diversity, inclusion and career management. She is the author of “Network...
OTS 111: The Power of Connection – Michael Lee Stallard
Today’s guest learned through a family health crisis how crucial human connection is and became an expert on how effective leaders can boost human connection in cultures to improve the health and performance of individuals and organizations. For more than a decade,...
OTS 110: The Measure of Success – Kristen Hadeed
Today’s guest imagines a world in which all organizations have cultures that empower people to keep climbing, every day, toward the best version of themselves. Being the young leader of Student Maid, a successful cleaning company that hires students, has helped her...
OTS 109: Referent Power – Dr. Shawn Andrews
Today’s guest believes that everyone should have access to equal opportunities and wants to see talented professionals succeed in their career. To achieve this, she helps organizations be more diverse and inclusive so that everyone’s talents are utilized and...
OTS 108: Reciprocal Leadership – Mike Michalowicz
Today’s guest is the entrepreneur behind 3 multi-million dollar companies, having founded and sold two of them before reaching his 35th birthday. He is a former small business journalist for The Wall Street Journal, and he is the author of “Profit First,” “The...
OTS 107: Leadership is a Mindset – Michelle Tillis Lederman
Today’s guest believes that communication and connection are the foundation of everything. She is known for her energetic, engaging, and authentic presentations and is an expert on workplace communications and relationships. She is an accomplished speaker, trainer,...
OTS 106: Strategic Relationship Building – Andy Lopata
Today’s guest has been recognized as one of Europe’s Leading Business Networking Strategists by The Financial Times and as a master of networking by The Independent. He believes networking is a vital tool in business, from sales generation to career development,...
OTS 105: Building Influence – Dr. Karen Wilson-Starks
Today’s guest helps her clients make wise decisions, prioritize leadership actions, and prepare for higher level responsibilities through customized executive education and coaching. She shows senior corporate, military, government, and nonprofit leaders how to...
OTS 104: Curiosity Fuels Growth – Suzanne Bates
Today’s guest is a globally recognized expert on executive presence and communicative leadership. During her first career as an award-winning broadcast journalist, she interviewed top influencers and developed a keen interest in discovering the qualities of...
OTS 103: Focus and Drive – Zvi Band
Today’s guest has many different titles and roles, which include: speaker, podcast host, software developer, engineer, developer, strategist, startup advisor, and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of Contactually, the top CRM that empowers professionals in...
OTS 102: Create Momentum – Jamie Broderick
Today’s guest is a visibility strategist who has been a catalyst for the start and growth of thousands of small businesses. She founded The Success Connection, a long-running virtual membership network for women entrepreneurs, through which she helps her members...
OTS 101: Mindful Connections – Alisa Cohn
Today’s guest was named one of the Top 100 Speakers for 2018 by Inc. Magazine and was selected by Marshall Goldsmith to be in his 100 Coaches project. She is an executive coach who helps senior executives and high potential leaders create permanent positive shifts...
OTS 100: Emotionally Charged Connection – Dr. Ivan Misner
Today’s guest is one of the world’s leading experts on business networking. He was called the Father of Modern Networking by CNN and one of the Top Networking Experts by Forbes. He is a keynote speaker for major corporations and associations around the world and...
OTS 099: Leading with Integrity – Tamsen Webster
Today’s guest says she is part “idea whisperer,” part message strategist, and part presentation coach. What she does is help people and organizations like Verizon, State Street Bank, Ericsson, Johnson & Johnson, and Disney find their ideas and communicate the...
OTS 098: Lead by Example – Kathryn Kemp Guylay
Today’s guest is a bestselling author, CEO, coach, consultant, speaker, podcaster, and nonprofit leader with over 25 years of experience in the business and nonprofit management world. She used her experiences from world-class international organizations to help...
OTS 097: Hidden Assets – Noah Fleming
Today’s guest helps corporations stop wasting enormous amounts of time and money. Too many companies are not focusing sufficiently on marketing to their existing customers and instead constantly hunt for new ones. My guest helps these large companies create...
OTS 096: Ripple Effect – Tara Newman
Today’s guest is a lifelong entrepreneur and corporate crusader. As a business strategist and expert in Organizational Psychology, she knows that the path to success involves a lot of ups and downs, a lot of hard work, and a LOT of strategy. She is a go-to coach...
OTS 095: Words Can Heal – Mary Shores
Today’s guest spends her career generating positive and pragmatic solutions for people who are freaking out. The perfect hybrid of science and spirituality, Mary guides businesses and individuals to defeat the freak out. Her methods for maintaining a positive and...
OTS 094: Habitual Networking – Jordan Harbinger
Today’s guest is a Wall Street lawyer turned talk show host, social dynamics expert, and entrepreneur, whose affinity for social influence, interpersonal dynamics, and social engineering has led him to, and through, many unique situations. He spent several years...
OTS 093: Empowering Introverts – Morra Aarons-Mele
Today’s guest is a leading forecaster of business, politics, and culture in our fast-moving digital age. She is an entrepreneur, author and consultant to Fortune 1000 companies. Her accomplishments include founding the award-winning social impact agency Women...
OTS 092: A Gift for the World – Terra Winston
Today’s guest has dedicated her life to helping her clients unleash the potential of each employee. She is a leadership consultant and executive coach with 20 years of internal and external business consulting experience. Her flexible style has driven results in...
OTS 091: Weakness has its Benefits – David Burkus
Today’s guest is a best-selling author, sought-after speaker, and associate professor of leadership and innovation at Oral Roberts University. He has written several books, his first was “The Myths of Creativity: The Truth About How Innovative Companies and People...
OTS 090: A Learning Mindset – Helen Hua
Today’s guest leads executive networking and executive talent initiatives at Insight Venture Partners. Insight is a leading global venture capital and private equity firm investing in high-growth technology and software companies that are driving transformative...
OTS 089: Zest for Change – Colette Phillips
Today’s guest is widely respected and recognized for her amazing ability to build bridges and create cross-cultural and inter-racial social networks and connections. President and CEO of one of Boston’s premier public relations and marketing communication firms,...
OTS 088: Don’t Be “That Guy” – Scott Gerber
Today’s guest is an industry leader in building and managing personalized, invitation-only communities for world-class executives, entrepreneurs, and professionals. He is CEO of The Community Company, an organization that builds community-driven programs for global...
OTS 087: Our Imperfect Self – Lolly Daskal
Today’s guest is considered one of the most sought-after executive leadership coaches in the world, having worked with hundreds of companies in 14 countries and six different languages. Her leadership program is designed to be a catalyst for leaders who want to...
OTS 086: Influence the World – Dave Stachowiak
Today’s guest believes that it is a myth that leadership skills cannot be learned. He knows that most leaders have learned through the school of hard knocks, good training, years of hard work, effective coaching, and from great mentors. He hosts the Coaching for...
OTS 085: Make Leaders Think – Jessica Pettitt
Today’s guest has figured out how to BE the change she wants to be and now she works with organizations to do the same. She is the founder of Good Enough Now, where she combines her experience as a stand up comic and her fifteen plus years of experience leading...
OTS 084: Someone You Can Trust – Ed Evarts
Today’s guest is known for his business acumen and ability to resolve complex human relations issues. He understands the importance of dynamic leadership and devotes his time to teaching those skills to others. Author of “Raise Your Visibility & Value: Uncover...
OTS 083: Not a One-Way Street – Pamela Wasley
Today’s guest has been an entrepreneur for most of her life and loves helping entrepreneurs and business owners avoid making the same mistakes she’s made. She is the Co-Founder and CEO of Cerius Executives and Cerius Advisors, where she puts her serial entrepreneur...
OTS 082: Compelling Leadership – Andy Molinsky
Today’s guest helps people develop the insights and courage necessary to act outside their personal and cultural comfort zones when doing important, but challenging, tasks in work and life. He is a professor of international management and organizational behavior...
OTS 081: Grow or Fall Behind – Karen Walker
Today’s guest is both analytical and creative in nature and enjoys blending the art and science of marketing to tell stories to the right people, at the right time, and in the right places. She’s excited by work where human interactions meet digital experiences —...
OTS 080: Compassionate Leadership – Tommy Breedlove
Today's guest's mission in life is to empower individuals, leaders and entrepreneurs to Rediscover their Brilliance, Achieve Meaning, Balance and true Happiness in Life without compromising their Financial Success His work and legacy are to provide humans with the...
OTS 079: Collaboration Over Competition – Dana Malstaff
Today’s guest is a mother, author, business & content strategist, coach, podcaster, and blind spot reducer. She is the author of “Boss Mom: The Ultimate Guide to Raising a Business & Nurturing Your Family Like a Pro,” and the founder of Boss Mom. She serves...
OTS 078: Proactive and Persistent – Jill Schiefelbein
Today’s guest is an award-winning business owner, author, and recovering academic. She taught business communication at a university for over a decade, analyzed terrorist documents to help provide counter-terrorism messaging strategies to the military, and was a...
OTS 077: Culture Trumps Strategy – Paul Teshima
Today’s guest believes that company culture trumps strategy every time and that storytelling is an essential part of creating a business. He has a successful track record as a leader with a strong focus on sales and customer engagement. As part of Eloquas executive...
OTS 076: Deep Connections – Rayna Jhaveri
My guest today cooks on TV, plays music in the streets, and often finds her foot in her mouth. She also happens to be an Ivy League neurobiologist; speaks six languages; and has had her writing published by Forbes, CNN, Vogue, Rolling Stone, and Edible Boston....
OTS 075: Leadership Calling – Chris Schembra
Today’s guest is known as The Empathy Strategist. He is a sought-after social influencer, executive coach, and entrepreneurial advisor whose passion lies in facilitating profound human connection in a deeply disconnected world. He is the Founder + Chief Question...
OTS 074: Super Connector – Darrah Brustein
Today’s guest is a fellow super-connector, serial entrepreneur, and author. Her first business, founded in 2009, is a credit card processing company which spans 38 states. She next launched Network Under 40 in 2011 to help people make valuable social and...
OTS 073: RISE-UP – Michael Roderick
Today’s guest went from high school English teacher to Broadway producer in under two years. How? Relationships. He is a social catalyst who believes in the power of making meaningful connections for others. His success led him to develop a methodology that he...
OTS 072: Organized Chaos – Liz Scully
Today’s guest is a business strategy coach who wants to live in a world where entrepreneurs work sensible hours, customer service is amazing, and everyone eats cake at yoga class. She spent 20 years doing visual effects in film and TV - winning an Emmy and two...
OTS 071: Small Steps BIG Impact – Jon Dwoskin
Today’s guest is an executive advisor, business coach and motivational speaker who has been called the “business whisperer” for his skilled and compassionate insights into what can keep a corporate culture from thriving. At age 23, he created one of the first...
OTS 070: Endlessly Curious – Carole Spiers
Today’s guest is a world authority on executive stress. She is currently CEO of a leading UK Stress and Wellbeing consultancy and Chair of the International Stress Management Association UK. In 1988, she founded Stress Awareness Day which is celebrated around the...
OTS 069: Grace-Full Leadership – Marc A. Pitman
Today’s guest has been called “the Johnny Appleseed of fundraising” since the only thing he loves more than asking for money is teaching people to ask for money! Over the past 16 years, his organizational and leadership coaching and trainings have helped tens of...
OTS 068: Lead Like a Duck – Nancy Halpern
Today’s guest is a leader in the fields of executive communications, leadership development, and talent management. She began her career in retail and import industries, which included working extensively in Asia, Latin America, and Africa to negotiate with...
OTS 067: Reach for the Top – Jared Kleinert
Today’s guest is an entrepreneur, TED speaker, and award-winning author who has been named USA Today’s “Most Connected Millennial” after spending years identifying and connecting hundreds of the world's smartest and most talented Millennials. His first book “2...
OTS 066: Shifting Paths of Success – Lisa Nirell
Today’s guest is a marketing leadership advisor, keynote speaker, and award-winning author who helps courageous CEOs and CMOs accelerate growth and innovation. She is the Chief Energy Officer of EnergizeGrowth® and the founder of several private peer groups,...
OTS 065: The Introverted Influencer – Jason Van Orden
Today’s guest is a top internet influencer, a true podcasting pioneer. In 2005, he launched the first podcast devoted to internet business and online marketing. To this day "Internet Business Mastery" is one of the most profitable business podcasts on iTunes -...
OTS 064: On the Edge of Greatness – Geeta Nadkarni
Today’s guest is a storyteller whose career began at age 12 when she scored her first paid writing gig. Her writing career has only gained momentum since, with regular contributions to Inc., Entrepreneur, and Huffington Post. She is also no stranger to radio and...
OTS 063: Leadership through Living – Josh Spodek
Today’s guest is an “astrophysicist turned new media whiz” who has earned five Ivy League degrees and holds six patents. He helped build an X-ray observational satellite for NASA, and has co-founded and led several ventures. A serious athlete, he has completed six...
OTS 062: Humanity in Business – Jennifer J. Fondrevay
Today’s guest is a speaker and advisor who helps companies tap into the human side of business. Over the course of her expansive career, she has experienced her fair share of disruption and corporate upheaval. Surviving all manner of corporate restructuring,...
OTS 061: Become an Author(ity) – Chandler Bolt
Today’s guest is a 5-time bestselling author and the CEO of an online publishing business that grew to $1.3 million in the first year and is now on pace to do over $3.2 million in 2017. He’s helped thousands of people on their journey to writing and publishing...
OTS 060: What’s standing between you and success? – Kamila Gornia
Today’s guest created her first website at age 12 when she was living in Poland - a site that had 40,000 views in just a few months. Eight years later, she was a successful photographer in Chicago when she began to experience the power of social media and the...
OTS 059: No Plan B – Adam Urbanski
Today’s guest arrived in the United States in 1989 with 194 dollars in his pocket and a very limited ability to speak English. He is now known worldwide as the Millionaire Marketing Mentor. He is the go-to guy for coaches, consultants, and other successful service...
OTS 058: Authentic Leadership – Nicole Holland
Today’s guest is a successful podcast host and influencer, not so long ago she was a correctional officer. Many days she would wake up unhappy and realized if that was going to change she needed to make it happen. She cast aside her self-doubt and fear to create a...
OTS 057: The Power of Being Present – Mo Gawdat
Today’s guest believes that no matter what obstacles we face, what burdens we bear, what trials we’ve experienced, we can all be content with our present situation and optimistic about the future. He is Chief Business Officer at Google’s [X], an elite team of...
OTS 056: Busy is NOT Productive – Neen James
Today’s guest has been called an ‘energizer powerhouse’ by event planners and meeting organizers worldwide. Her high-energy keynote speeches are filled with rich content that empowers her audience to take action. It’s safe to say that she is not a run of the mill...
OTS 055: Introducing… “Croissants vs Bagels” by Robbie Samuels
Welcome back to On the Schmooze! This week, I'm reading the Introduction to my new book "Croissants vs. Bagels: Strategic, Effective, and Inclusive Networking at Conferences." Download the Kindle book today - it's free for a few more hours and then 99 cents the...
OTS 054: What is Your Legacy? – Dr. Randall Bell
Today’s guest is a leading expert on real estate damage and has consulted on major catastrophes around the globe. He consulted on the World Trade Center, the Flight 93 Crash Sites, the BP Oil Spill, Hurricane Katrina, and several tragedies including Jon Benet...
OTS 053: Humor is the Key – Elizabeth George
Today’s guest is an executive leader with international experience who has worked at the most senior levels of two Fortune 100 companies and is known as a strategic collaborator who brings people together to do great things. What caught my attention was her...
OTS 052: Are you investing in yourself? – Tony Grebmeier
Today’s guest is a builder. He is best known for building a multi-million dollar business with his childhood friends, ShipOffers, which has been an INC 5000 Company for the past three years in a row. In 2015, he launched a podcast to build a community where...
OTS 051: The Riches are in the Niches – Jamie Lieberman
Today’s guest has found a way to marry her knowledge of the law with her experience working with influencers to create Hashtag Legal, a law firm dedicated to helping businesses succeed in a digital world. As technology created new opportunities for business owners,...
OTS 050: Best of 50 Episodes – Robbie Samuels
Welcome back to On the Schmooze. Thank you so much for joining me. Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing David Crowley, this week you’ll be hearing from me, your host. Every other week I’ll be offering my take on some aspect of networking and...
OTS 049: Do you know your neighbors? – David Crowley
Today’s guest hopes your community ties are strong as they are a great indicator of your health and success. He deeply believes in the power of building social capital. For the last 15 years, he has been strengthening communities by connecting diverse individuals...
OTS 048: How to Follow Up and Stay Connected – Robbie Samuels
Welcome back to On the Schmooze. Thank you so much for joining me. Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing Belinda Rosenblum, this week you’ll be hearing from me, your host. Every other week I’ll be offering my take on some aspect of networking and...
OTS 047: Intuition and Intention – Belinda Rosenblum
Today's guest is a CPA and Wealth Expert who helps take the worry and fear out of money. She believes life is supposed to be fun, and money is supposed to fund it for you! She left her thriving corporate finance role to found OwnYourMoney.com in 2007 and lead a...
OTS 046: How to Shift Your Body Language to be Better at Networking – Robbie Samuels
Welcome back to On the Schmooze. Thank you so much for joining me. Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing Scott Stratten, this week you’ll be hearing from me, your host. Every other week I’ll be offering my take on some aspect of networking and...
OTS 045: Speak with Conviction – Scott Stratten
Today’s guest has been named one of the Top 5 Social Media Influencers in the world by Forbes.com. He earned that title by telling the truth about social media marketing, with his signature sardonic humor. Namely that companies are largely using it incorrectly and...
OTS 044: Communicating Across Disability – Robbie Samuels
Welcome back to On the Schmooze. Thank you so much for joining me. Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing Mary Pilon, this week you’ll be hearing from me, your host. Every other week I’ll be offering my take on some aspect of networking and...
OTS 043: Subversive Leadership – Mary Pilon
Today’s guest has covered a wide range of topics as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. She chiefly covers sports, business, and politics, including both the Rio & London Olympics, doping coverage, features on legal and financial...
OTS 042: The Dirty Business of Networking – Robbie Samuels
Welcome back to On the Schmooze. Thank you so much for joining me. Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing Stephanie Chung, this week you’ll be hearing from me, your host. Every other week I’ll be offering my take on some aspect of networking and...
OTS 041: Dads Don't Babysit – Matt Schneider
Today’s guest is first and foremost a dad. What began as a small playgroup in 2008 became the NYC Dads Group and in 2013 expanded into the City Dads Group network with 26 groups across the country. This diverse community supports dads of all stripes, providing...
OTS 040: FAQ: Are conferences worth it? – Robbie Samuels
Welcome back to On the Schmooze. Thank you so much for joining me. Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing Stephanie Chung, this week you’ll be hearing from me, your host. Every other week I’ll be offering my take on some aspect of networking and...
OTS 039: Change Master – Stephanie Chung
Today’s guest is an award-winning executive coach with more than 25 years of team management, business development, and sales leadership experience. Early in her career, she was recognized for her ability to negotiate multimillion dollar contracts with senior...
OTS 038 PSA: Stop Spraying & Praying – Robbie Samuels
Welcome back to On the Schmooze. Thank you so much for joining me. Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing Jeffrey Hayzlett, this week you’ll be hearing from me, your host. Every other week I’ll be offering my take on some aspect of networking and...
OTS 037: Conditions of Satisfaction – Jeffrey Hayzlett
Today’s guest is a global business celebrity, best-selling business author, and award-winning public speaker. He has faced many challenges and achieved many successes in his career - most notably he is credited with the economic turnaround of Kodak after the Great...
OTS 036: The ABCs of Business Cards – Robbie Samuels
Welcome back to On the Schmooze. Thank you so much for joining me. Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing Susan RoAne, this week you’ll be hearing from me, your host. Every other week I’ll be offering my take on some aspect of networking and...
OTS 035: Thought(ful) Leaders – Susan RoAne
Today's guest is a best-selling author and a sought-after keynote speaker. Known as "The Mingling Maven®," she gives her multi-generational audiences the required tools, techniques and strategies they need to connect and communicate in today's global business...
OTS 034: New Definition of Networking – Robbie Samuels
Welcome back to On the Schmooze. Thank you so much for joining me. Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing John Corcoran, this week you’ll be hearing from me, your host. Every other week I’ll be offering my take on some aspect of networking and...
OTS 033: Believe in the Power of Your Network – John Corcoran
Today’s guest shows entrepreneurs and small business owners how to bring in more income and clients by building real human relationships with influencers, VIPs, and people who matter. He’s had a very varied work history that includes working in the heart of three...
OTS 032: Extrovert Privilege – Robbie Samuels
Welcome back to On the Schmooze. Thank you so much for joining me. Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing Dorie Clark, this week you’ll be hearing from me, your host. Every other week I’ll be offering my take on some aspect of networking and...
OTS 031: Moral Authority – Dorie Clark
Today’s guest has held a wide array of leadership positions including, presidential campaign spokeswoman, nonprofit executive director, award-winning journalist, documentary filmmaker, and she received a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity...
OTS 030: Email Intro Etiquette – Robbie Samuels
Welcome back to On the Schmooze. Thank you so much for joining me. Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing Howard Putnam, CSP this week you’ll be hearing from me, your host. Every other week I’ll be offering my take on some aspect of networking and...
OTS 029: Propel Your Career – Howard Putnam, CSP
Today’s guest has lived through many challenging leadership moments. His career in aviation began as a baggage handler and he rose through the ranks until he became CEO of an airline, and later was recruited to be CEO of another one. He has also been an...
OTS 028: Leave them thinking you're fascinating – Robbie Samuels
Welcome back to On the Schmooze. Thank you so much for joining me. Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing Iris Polit this week you’ll be hearing from me, your host. Every other week I’ll be offering my take on some aspect of networking and...
OTS 027: The Perks of Being Positive – Iris Polit
Today’s guest is a personal branding and success coach and the co-author of “Mastering the Art of Success” (available summer 2017). She is also an award winning marketing professional who has spent the last two decades working with nonprofits and IT companies. In...
OTS 026: Strategic volunteering launched my career
Welcome back to On the Schmooze. Thank you so much for joining me. Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Andy Neillie, CSP this week you’ll be hearing from me, your host. Every other week I’ll be offering my take on some aspect of networking and...
OTS 025: Leadership is Powerless – Dr. Andy Neillie, CSP
Today’s guest believes that having an executive presence is not a talent one is born with, it is a skill one can learn. He is the CEO of a multi-million dollar franchise business, an adjunct professor teaching leadership skills to MBA students, an executive coach...
OTS 024: I'm a solopreneur. I'm not “out on my own.” – Robbie Samuels
Welcome back to On the Schmooze. Thank you so much for joining me. Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing Chris Clarke-Epstein, CSP this week you’ll be hearing from me, your host. Every other week I’ll be offering my take on some aspect of networking and...
OTS 023: Change that sticks – Chris Clarke-Epstein, CSP
For over 30 years, today’s guest has been challenging her clients to change old mindsets in order to meet the new challenges they are facing. She asks leaders thought-provoking questions - pushing them to find new ways to do old things - because she believes that...
OTS 022: Small Networking Moments at Conferences – Robbie Samuels
Welcome back to On the Schmooze. Thank you so much for joining me. Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Josh Packard, this week you’ll be hearing from me, your host. Every other week I’ll be offering my take on some aspect of networking and...
OTS 021: Act with Integrity – Dr. Josh Packard
Today’s guest grapples with big life questions and tries to make the answers he finds, through his careful research, accessible for all people. He is currently the Executive Director of Social Research Lab at University of Northern Colorado, Director of The...
OTS 020: “I've arrived. Now what?” First 15 minutes at a networking event – Robbie Samuels
Welcome back to On the Schmooze. Thank you so much for joining me. Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing Jenny Blake, this week you’ll be hearing from me, your host. Every other week I’ll be offering my take on some aspect of networking and...
OTS 019: The Only Constant is Change – Jenny Blake
Today’s guest is fiercely committed to helping people come alive through the pursuit of big ideas. She does this through her business as a career and business coach and international speaker, helping people move beyond burnout to build sustainable, dynamic careers...
OTS 018: BOO! Networking doesn't have to be scary – Robbie Samuels
Welcome back to On the Schmooze. Thank you so much for joining me. Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing Keiko Zoll, this week you’ll be hearing from me, your host. Every other week I’ll be offering my take on some aspect of networking and...
OTS 017: Why Networking Matters – Keiko Zoll
Today’s guest has spent the last 6 years raising awareness of and creating community for couples dealing with infertility. What started as an anonymous blog chronicling her own journey to parenthood through the wonders of science, has grown into an...
OTS 016: Networking for Introverts – Robbie Samuels
Welcome back to On the Schmooze. Thank you so much for joining me. Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing JoAnn Cox, this week you’ll be hearing from me, your host. Every other week I’ll be offering my take on some aspect of networking and...