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Cedrick Leggett – Founder of Cedrick Leggett Trucking Consulting    Trucking as an industry has had tough times in the last two or three years. The bubble burst. During COVID the rates were high And people panicked and we added too many truckers that did not know what they were doing. Cedrick Leggett is a 7 figure business owner, known as The “Trucking King” – and has been building trucking businesses for over a decade. He owns Cedrick Legget Trucking Consulting which has an “Automated Trucking Business” offer that’s been taking off like a rocket ship. He’s got all kinds of other investments, and has even had to start over from square one about a decade ago. Cedrick’s journey in the trucking industry began with nothing more than a dream and an unwavering work ethic. Recognizing the power of partnership, he united with his brother, and together they purchased their first truck, laying the foundation of what would soon become an industry-leading business. Like many, Cedrick started from the bottom, proving th

Rich Horwath – Founder of Strategy Skills and Author of Strategic: The Skill to Set Direction, Create Advantage, and Achieve Executive Excellence As a good entrepreneur when it comes to setting strategy, don’t lock yourself in an office, don’t put yourself on an island, bring in and collaborate with your counterparts on what they are seeing and what everyone thinks is going to be the best decision. As the entrepreneur, you make the final decision but you really want to get the input and buy in from the people that work with you. Rich Horwath is the founder and CEO of the Strategic Thinking Institute where he serves leadership teams as a strategy workshop facilitator, strategic executive coach, and keynote speaker. His mission is to help executive teams think, plan, and act strategically to set direction, create advantage, and achieve their goals. Rich is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today national bestselling author of eight books, and his work has been featured in publications including Fa

50 Reasons You Should Be Thankful You Are an Entrepreneur!   Today, instead of a normal show, we are rerunning our popular show listing the top 50 Reasons to Be Thankful to Be an Entrepreneur! Happy Thanksgiving!  Give thanks!

Nathaniel Harding – Managing Partner at Cortado Ventures This quote will be added soon, sorry! Nathaniel Harding Nathaniel Harding is the CEO and Managing Partner at Cortado Ventures. Nathaniel is an expert in tech, innovation, and venture capital. A distinguished Kauffman Fellow, World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leader, and Most Admired CEO, his $120M asset-managing venture capital firm showcases strategic brilliance. He can share how to discover the untapped potential and growth opportunities in overlooked sectors. His extensive experience as an entrepreneur, technologist, and visionary makes him a captivating guest for any podcast seeking insightful discussions. Nathaniel has been recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and celebrated as a Most Admired CEO in Oklahoma. Under his guidance, Cortado Ventures has grown to manage a substantial $120M in assets, a testament to his strategic acumen and ability to foster success. Nathaniel’s entrepreneurial prowess is accentuated by hi

Brenden Dougherty – CEO/COO of MDbio This quote will be added soon, sorry! Brenden Dougherty is the CEO/COO of MDbio – The Doctors Brand. The company was founded by four doctors to bring pharma-level testing to the nutraceutical market. The company was created to treat the most common conditions seen in patient care – sleeplessness, stress/anxiety, and chronic aches and pain. Recently, MDbio’s hero product, MDsleep, was clinically proven in the largest onshore, randomized, placebo-controlled sleep study in history and demonstrated to improve sleep quality, decrease feelings of stress, decrease feelings of anxiety, and improve overall well-being. Brenden Dougherty, a visionary leader in the nutraceutical industry, has spent the past 10 years refining and developing business concepts in traditional and emerging markets. His early professional background in finance for UBS and PPM America instilled a strong analytical background and understanding of business modeling and growth strategies. In 2014, he combined

Scott Kartvedt – Author of Full Throttle: From the Blue Angels to Hollywood Stunt Pilot If you accept responsibility for some shortcoming that you have had, I am actually going to believe in you more and you will gain credibility with me. Scott Kartvedt was the Navy’s first Commanding Officer of the only F-35C Stealth Strike Fighter Squadron in the US inventory, Strike Fighter Squadron ONE ZERO ONE, based in Eglin AFB, Florida. He also commanded a F/A-18 Hornet squadron during two combat deployments to Afghanistan in Support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. While leading the 250 Sailors of VFA-83, the unit was awarded the 2009 Commander Naval Air Forces Aviation Battle Efficiency Award, the CAPT Michael J. Estocin Award as the Navy’s Strike Fighter Squadron of the year, and the 2010 CNO Safety Award. In 1999 Scott was selected as a member of the Navy’s Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, stationed in Pensacola, FL, where he was the #7 VIP pilot and Narrator for the 2000 show season. Scott has serv

Anna Gudmundson – CEO at Sensate – ‘Best Innovations of 2022’ by Time Magazine We cannot and should not avoid a stressful situation. Sometimes we need to have very challenging conversations. We should also stretch ourselves professionally. The question is how are we dealing with it. How are we able to both have the stressful moment and then reconnect and reset the systems. The recovery is extremely important. Over time we hope to increase stress resiliency.  Anna Gudmundson is CEO of getSensate.com. Anna has been a senior tech business leader in the international high-growth scene for 15+ years. Her present-day focus is on transformational technologies which impact the world in a significant, positive way while also having strong commercial viability. As CEO of Sensate, a consumer stress-management technology company, she is tackling one of the biggest challenges of our time: stress and mental health. Apart from a passion for technology business, Anna has a huge curiosity for personal growth and the human p

Malcolm Peace – President of Tsetserra Growth Partners      Life is a two out of three match. You can lose the first set and you can still win. Be prepared to endure and sometimes you might have to pivot, but even though you’ve lost the first set, doesn’t mean you were doing it incorrectly. It may not have been the right time for you to win. Malcolm Peace is president of Tsetserra Growth Partners (pronounced sit-Sarah), an investment firm in Texas that works with well-established businesses that have owners just about to retire who still want to see their businesses thrive. They identify profitable small businesses with revenues from $3.5 million to $12 million in stable industries, such as food & beverage, hospitality, manufacturing, logistics & distribution, and more. Malcolm and his team help rewrite the operating playbook of a company while maintaining the owner’s culture with a strong succession plan. Malcolm has a B.S. in Psychology from James Madison University and an M.B.A. from the Universi

Shanif Dhanani – Founder of Locusive  Wherever your data lives, we will be able to plug it into AI. From websites, web files, google drives, outlook are some of the earliest integrations we have done. Shanif Dhanani is a ChatGPT consultant with a background in software development and data science. He helps businesses understand and build systems that connect their internal and proprietary systems to ChatGPT, enabling internal employees, customers, and other stakeholders to reap the benefits of using large language models on their own data. Shanif has built machine learning, analytics, and software systems at large companies like Twitter and Booz Allen, smaller startups like Apteo, where he was the founder, and TapCommerce, which was one of the world’s first mobile advertising platforms. Shanif’s journey from software to data science and now the forefront of AI showcases a unique perspective that simplifies AI to its core – math uncovering patterns. His wisdom on entrepreneurship, his vision, risk tolerance

David Ewing – Founder of Motiv  You are always going to have good moments with your customers. And you’re going to have bad moments. These are the moments that matter. The high highs and the low lows. The key is how do you respond and how do you change the customers’ attitude at those moments that matter. David Ewing is the Founder of Motiv, a cutting-edge firm specializing in Oracle CX solutions. After graduating from Harvard, David founded Motiv in 2001 as a consulting group out of San Francisco.  Since becoming an Oracle partner in 2005, Motiv has become the largest Oracle CX exclusive partner in the world. As CEO, David has a passion for leading with heart and sharing his experiences, fostering deep relationships with others through his humor and captivating storytelling. David is also the Austin EO President, leading over 200 entrepreneurs in numerous industries. He has revolutionized the realm of customer service since 1998. With a keen understanding that altering customer attitudes drives ideal behav

Mike Shapiro – CEO of EQTY | Forbes Global Properties and the Author of the Book Read the Tape: Using Situational Awareness to Predict Business and Personal Probabilities I do think real estate residential will decline in valuations because of the high interest rates. Do i think it will be a repeat of 08? No. I think we’re down 10% already. Acclaimed entrepreneur Mike S. Shapiro’s risk-inclined and results-oriented methods help individuals and organizations leverage insights for stellar results, including building his multi-billion-dollar business, HOM Sotheby’s International Realty. He is also the CEO and Co-Founder of EQTY | Forbes Global Properties and a co-founder of Plunk, a Seattle-based proptech start up. Mike’s system is based on skills he developed as a market maker and trader with the Chicago Board of Options Exchange. There, he learned the value of paying attention to what’s in front of us – “reading the tape” – and how to use information to predict behaviors, leverage opportunities and achieve g

Martin Warner – CEO & Founder at Flix Premiere, Chairman & Founder at Autonomous Flight Ltd, Founder at Entrepreneur Seminar and Author of Startup Story: An Entrepreneur’s Journey from Idea to Exit My goal is putting 2 million passengers flying across New York City in a year, using vertical take-off technology.   Martin Warner is one of Britain’s leading entrepreneurs, operating between the US and UK, and a global thought leader on the subject of Entrepreneurship. He is also an educator, inventor, film producer and investor. Martin is currently the CEO of Flix Premiere, the leading independent film streaming service. In addition, he was the first British pioneer to enter the eVTOL (electric Vertical Take-Off & Landing) race for Urban Air Mobility. Martin is the Chairman & Founder of Autonomous Flight, an electric aviation focused design & manufacturing firm pioneering eVTOL urban air mobility. Martin is the founder, author & mentor of Entrepreneur Seminar, the No. 1 online learning &

Greg Bullington – CEO & co-founder of Magnolia Medical Technologies From the time you have very legitimate proof and scientific evidence about the ability to dramatically improve standard of care in medicine to implementation at scale is 17 years. In health care, nobody wants to be first. Fortunately, no one wants to be last. Greg Bullington is CEO & co-founder of . Magnolia’s mission is to eliminate the misdiagnosis of sepsis. Sepsis is the #1 leading cause of death, costs and readmissions in hospitals nationwide. Diagnosis of sepsis is plagued by an average of 20% to over 50% of positive sepsis blood tests inaccurately providing false-positive results. Greg has raised over $125 million to date to finance the successful growth and development of the company. Magnolia’s flagship product, Steripath®, is the only FDA-cleared product family indicated to reduce blood culture contamination that causes false-positive diagnostic test results for bloodstream infections including sepsis, that can lead to har

Joe Hart – CEO of Dale Carnegie and Co-Author of Take Command: Find Your Inner Strength, Build Enduring Relationships, and Live the Life You Want  Two people can have the exact same circumstances, the house, the mortgage, the broken shoulder, whatever. One person is miserable, down, and negative, and the other person is thriving. The difference is what they think. Joe Hart began his career as a practicing attorney. After taking a Dale Carnegie Course, Joe reassessed his career path and future, ultimately leaving the practice of law, going to work for a top real estate company, and then founding an innovative e-learning company called InfoAlly. After selling that business five years later, Joe became the president of Asset Health, a US-based health and wellness company—all before becoming the President and CEO of Dale Carnegie in 2015. In 2019, the CEO Forum Group named Joe as one of twelve transformative leaders, giving him the Transformative CEO Leadership Award in the category of the People. He is the hos

Beloved culture writers Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzales, and Gavin Edwards are proud to release MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios. The authors draw on more than a hundred interviews with actors, producers, directors, and writers to present the definitive chronicle of Marvel Studios and its stunning rise to become the dominant player in Hollywood and global pop culture. Dissecting every phase of Marvel’s inception, from its humble beginnings as a moribund toymaker in the 1990s to its current status as the king of superhero movies, the book reveals the secrets behind Marvel’s success. Gavin Edwards – Co-Author of the Book MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios One of the fundamental insights into Marvel is the sense that anyone can pop up at anytime. You are reading a Spiderman comic and then the Fantastic Four drop by. They said what if we do that in movies? That’s how you get 20 movies out of Iron Man. Gavin Edwards is the New York Times-bestselling author of thirteen books, including The Tao of Bill Murray, Kindne

Renan Devillieres – Founder of OSS Ventures – Building a French Manufacturing Eco-System There are not enough startups in manufacturing. Manufacturing is roughly 25% of GDP and 0.7% of startups. A graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Renan began his career as a consultant at McKinsey, before becoming an economist at the OECD and then strategic project manager for the Richemont Group. After his various experiences, Renan launched into entrepreneurship by founding a start-up, which he sold to Google Ventures in 2018. Having always been attracted to tech and industry, Renan co-founded OSS Ventures in 2019 with the mission of supporting French industry in its technological, environmental, social and societal transition from industry 2.0 to industry 4.0 Nancy Giere – Course Creation Expert and Author of Bundle Your Brilliance: Turn your expertise into profitable online courses     To have online classes work you need to be really clear who your audience is

Bill Simmons – Founder of Thrive Business Operations – Building a Fractional COO Business As much as the client is hiring us, we are making a decision on who we want to work with. I often say you can’t help someone who knows it all. We have to get ahead of that and not be so desperate for business that we take on bad clients. Bill Simmons founded his company with a goal to help business owners and entrepreneurs clarify and execute their visions! Bill is the founder of Thrive Business Operations. The firm provides Fractional COO Services helping growing businesses that struggle with operational challenges succeed by integrating a Fractional Team and optimizing business through The Thrive OpsCycle. Their primary mission is to help businesses unlock growth through smooth operations, improved communications, and increased accountability. Bill is passionate about helping business owners reduce frustrations and increase their profits through executing and advancing their strategy, systems, and people Bill has ove

Deepak Ohri – Founder and Former CEO of lebua Hotels & Resorts      The difference between me and other people is that when they dream, they are sleeping. My dreams don’t allow me to sleep. Deepak Ohri, founder and Former CEO of lebua Hotels & Resorts, is well-known worldwide as an award-winning entrepreneur who has transformed the luxury hospitality landscape in Asia. In November 2022, Deepak Ohri was named the World’s Leading Happiness Ambassador by the World Travel Awards. He has been recognized globally as an award-winning entrepreneur and celebrated speaker, being featured speaker at the Forbes Global CEO conference and Financial Times Business of Luxury Summit, amongst many others. Ohri is also a guest lecturer at many prestigious business schools including Harvard Business School, Columbia University, NYU Stern School of Business, and MIT Sloan.  Deepak has been appointed Executive in Residence in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the College of Business at Florida International University (

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Patrick Esposito – Chief Executive Officer & Founder of Initiative Labs  and Author of The Structure of Success: A Framework to Help Build Your Business Better  It all starts with assessing the problems. What are the problems and what are the opportunities facing the business. We look further at how each of these problems and opportunities potentially impact success, or how could it lead us to failure. Patrick Esposito is an entrepreneur, attorney, advisor, and board member who has helped to found, lead, and advise small and medium-sized businesses in technology, consulting, retail, banking, real estate, and other sectors, as well as U.S. government organizations. Currently, Patrick serves as president of ACME General Corp., a leading public sector advisory business and also serves as counsel with Spilman Thomas & Battle law firm. He recently launched Initiative Labs LLC to help leaders apply the approaches and tools in this book. Sharon Darmody  – Clinical Director of Strive Occupational Rehabili