Category: Entrepreneur

How We Can Support and Thank Teachers Every Year?

Available for Interviews:  Nadine Levitt

Founder & CEO Nadine Levitt is an education advocate, speaker, and the CEO & Founder of WURRLYedu, an educational technology platform. Nadine specializes in the social-emotional curriculum (SEL) and is also the author of the children’s book series, My Mama Says. Levitt founded Inspired Educa8ion, a non-profit to support and celebrate teachers everywhere.

What Nadine Levitt can say in an interview about
Teacher Appreciation Week and Beyond:

Inspired Education’s Heartwarming “Surprise” School Visit
Leaves Teacher Feeling Appreciated
Teachers play a crucial role in shaping future generations. They are the most important indicator of student outcomes and clearly influence their social-emotional development. A teacher’s role and impact on a child’s life can reach far beyond a school timeline, with influences felt for a lifetime.

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7 Steps to Starting Your Own Business

Available for Interviews: Geeta Nadkarni

Geeta Nadkarni is the founder of BabyGotBooked and ImpactWithInfluence and author of the new book, How to Live Your Vision: Manifest Your Dream Reality in Less Than 15 Minutes a Day. Here, readers can discover practices and nuggets of truth that have the power to transform the way they desire, dream, and receive.

What Geeta Nadkarni can say in an interview about
How to Start Your Own Business:

Among many things, the pandemic has taught us how to take more control over our health, our relationships, and our livelihood. If we’re not happy in our current job, we have the power to change that. If you have a dream of starting your own business, there has never been a better time to do so! Here are 7 steps that will help you make this a reality:

1) Do what you know. Pick something that you have a deep connection and knowledge of—not just the flavor of the moment.

2) Develop a sales mindset. Price should be based on value . . . you can get a bigger price tag. Your pricing is a reflection of your confidence in knowing that you can deliver the outcome. For most people, that pushes the number down. You need to figure out how to push it up.

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Rescue Dogs & Covid: What Happened and What to Expect

Available for Interviews: Wendy Diamond

Wendy Diamond is a social entrepreneur, impact investor, humanitarian, endangered animal and rescue advocate, world’s premier pet lifestyle expert, bestselling author, and TV personality.

What Wendy Diamond can say in an interview on
Rescue Dogs & Covid:

      • Why were adoptions at an unprecedented rate during the pandemic? People were locked inside and wanted companionship. That’s great.  The problem is, we had an unusually high number of people returning pets as things opened up.

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Beyond the Bottom Line: Purposeful Leadership Drives Greater Impact

Available for Interviews: Nell Derick Debevoise

Nell Derick Debevoise is the Founder & CEO of Inspiring Capital and the author of the new book, Going First: Find the Courage to Lead Purposefully and Inspire Action is available on Amazon.

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The Positive Effects of Purposeful Leadership in Business:

          1. Purpose costs profit.
            • Companies that authentically connect their work to its impact in the world perform better in terms of company value, employee tenure, productivity, and survival.
            • According to research by Bain published in Harvard Business Review, employees who are ‘inspired’ by profit are 225% more productive than those who are merely satisfied with their jobs.

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Why You (and Your Company) Need a Unified Leadership Philosophy

Available for Interviews:  Dr. Kelly Waltman

Kelly Waltman, PhD, is the Founder and CEO of SLR Leadership Consultion, LLC. She is also the author of Elevate Connection: Cutivate and Engaged, Inspired, Productive and Profitable Team Culture.

What Dr. Kelly Waltman can say in an interview about
A Unified Leadership Philosophy in Business:

    • Do you have a customer service philosophy for your business? Most likely. How about a unified leadership philosophy? If you’re like most leaders and businesses, probably not. While this may be typical, it’s not healthy or ideal. 
    • What does it mean to have a unified leadership philosophy for your company? 

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Are Purpose and Profit at Odds? How to Have Both

Available for Interviews: Nell Derick Debevoise

Nell Derick Debevoise is the Founder & CEO of Inspiring Capital and the author of the new book, Going First: Find the Courage to Lead Purposefully and Inspire Action is available on Amazon.

What Nell Derick Debevoise can say in an interview on
Profit & Purpose:

        • The idea that building purpose into your business, or improving your social or environmental impact, is a cost, is wrong. Connecting your work to a larger purpose is increasingly expected by customers, employees, community members, and investors. But when done right, this is a win-win-win all around, because it will help your business’s profitability and sustainability too. 

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There’s Never Been an Easier Time to Become an Author

Available for Interviews:  Trevor Crane,
Publisher, Epic Author Publishing

Here’s what Trevor Crane can say on this topic:

      • Gone are the days when you needed “permission” from a group of people you’ve never met (aka a traditional publisher) to tell you that your book is worthy.
      • While there are more authors than ever before, there are more publishers than ever before, too.
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Festival Pass (Like “Moviepass”) Ramps Up During Covid

Available for Interviews: Ed Vincent, CEO, FestivalPass.com.

FESTIVAL PASS is the world’s first live events subscription service across music, film, food & wine, theater, tech & innovation and more. Enjoy thousands of events locally and globally for one monthly fee.
      • South by Southwest (SXSW), Comedy, Country music concerts are not going away during this time. In fact, they are building up speed.
      • Festival pass (similar to Moviepass but for festivals and live events) is helping people plan and attend those events we miss so much.
      • Some events like South By Southwest are virtual. This is an opportunity to easily get your ticket and attend.  Some are in person with restrictions.
      • While this might seem counterintuitive, Festival Pass is betting that you’ll be doubling down on live events as more become vaccinated, and they plan to be ready. Continue reading “Festival Pass (Like “Moviepass”) Ramps Up During Covid”

How Can You Launch a 6-Figure Business WFH During the Pandemic?

Available for Interviews: Dr. Travis Parry

Travis Parry, PhD, is a speaker, coach, and educator and has a passion for helping others in achieve a healthy work/life balance. Parry is also the author of the #1 bestseller, Achieving Balance: Make Time to Reach Your Business and Personal Goals in an Overworked World. 

What Dr. Parry Can Say in an Interview :

Dr. Parry is a father to six homeschooled kids and was able to launch a 6-figure business during the pandemic, and working part-time! Achieving Work/Life Balance is difficult these days with working from home, kids homeschooling, parents working, etc. However, some business owners are having their best years ever and they evolved to a changing market. Dr. Parry has been helping financial advisors with work-life balance for years and because most are now working remotely, his business has taken off during the pandemic. This is how yours can too.

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Entrepreneurs: Keeping a Myth From Disrupting One’s Dreams

Interview Phil Crowley.

Philip P. Crowley, is a dedicated attorney who has been handling legal matters for pharmaceutical, biomedical, medical devices, information technology and other technology companies for over 30 years. He has also spent nearly 25 years on the board of trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology, with substantial involvement in the oversight of academic innovation and entrepreneurship.

 

Talking Points from Phil Crowley
on what makes an Entrepreneur successful:

Sometimes misconceptions can get in the way of progress. One such “myth” is that entrepreneurs are “born” not “made.” Studies have shown that successful entrepreneurs can and do learn the factors that make for success. Here are five key factors that put entrepreneurs ahead of those who don’t appreciate them:

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