In her 20 years as an executive career and executive coach, facilitator and speaker, Tammy Gooler Loeb has inspired people to engage in work that is fulfilling, meaningful and satisfying. We discuss: Why are transitions so difficult? [1:45] The biggest mistake people make when trying to change career direction [3:05] How to find the interim…

In today’s special episode of Smashing The Plateau, we’re talking to one of the speakers from NAWBO NYC’s upcoming Small Business Bootcamp. Laura Allen is the founder of ThePitchGirl.com and 15-SecondPitch.com. She has 20+ years of experience in advertising, online marketing, and sales. We discuss: Why it’s so hard to explain who you are and…

P. Brendon Lundberg, a previous chronic pain suffer, co-founded Radiant Pain Relief Centers, along with David Farley, MD, a Harvard-MIT trained physician, with a vision to build the safest, most consistently effective and appealing solution to the epidemic of chronic pain. We discuss: What combination of factors would support a pain sufferer to become a…

Michael Levitt is the CEO of Breakfast Leadership Inc. He is a public speaker and his book 369 Days: How To Survive A Year of Worst-Case Scenarios brings people back to life.  We discuss: 369 days of worst-case scenarios [1:25] Biggest mistakes people make when they face a downturn and techniques on how to avoid…

Sarah is an internationally recognized LinkedIn Specialist & Online Presence Mentor who has personally coached over 1,900 entrepreneurs. She helps them position themselves as experts on LinkedIn so they get clients with ease. We discuss: The biggest mistake that solopreneurs make when using LinkedIn [1:30] Three questions entrepreneurs should be answering in their LinkedIn headline…

Michele Williams is a certified Profit First professional who’s helping creative business owners focus on the financial health and profitability of their companies. We discuss: How a money management system can help you take profit first [1:23] How Michele stumbled and bumbled her way to financial sustainability in the long-term [4:20] A walk through the…

Tom Ross is the CEO at DesignCuts.com, a community of 400,000 designers, regularly accessing the world’s greatest design tools and assets at an accessible price point. We discuss: A very good marriage of design and marketing [1:30] How to outperform competitors using the David Bowie method [2:19] The different ways in which DesignCuts helps creatives…

Chris Badgett is the CEO of LifterLMS and is known as “the online course guy.”  We discuss: How to become a WordPress agency owner without having a background in technology [1:30] What problem LifterLMS solves and how they grow their freemium business model [4:02] Why it is crucial to not cripple the free version of…

Paul Jarvis is the author of Company of One.  He is a writer, designer, podcaster, online course teacher and software creator on the internet. We discuss: A revolutionary philosophy on setting revenue targets [1:00] How to know when it’s time to optimize for enough [4:52] The value of staying small in business [9:10] A three-step…

Abdo Riani is the founder of StartupCircle.co where aspiring and rising entrepreneurs can connect with and learn from successful founders over daily live Q&A sessions. He also mentors and guides entrepreneurs to first paying customers and beyond. We discuss: Why it is important for entrepreneurs to connect with peers and how to do it effectively…

Can a hypnotist really help you grow your business? Jason Linett has hypnotized more than 250,000 people. He used the principles of rapport and modeling to track what top business performers and professional athletes do differently to build his own million-dollar brand. We discuss: What you need to make a drastic career shift and go…

Ronnie Tsunami is a learning solution architect who speaks around the world helping organizations and entrepreneurs to build, launch and market new products and services. We discuss: What the connection between learning and success is [2:00] Which industries would benefit from the Six Pillars of Support [3:50] The advantages of having a training program [8:58]…

Matt Ward is the founder of Breakthrough Champion. In 2002 Matt started a website agency, inConcert Web Solutions, which he, in turn, sold in 2018, so that he could focus on helping businesses get more word of mouth referrals! We discuss: Why small businesses struggle to grow their referral network and receive word of mouth…

Tom Krieglstein is the founder of Swift Kick. For the past 15 years, he has trained over 500,000 leaders on how to build a Culture of Connection within their team and organization. We discuss: Why a culture of connection is what really makes or breaks one’s experience and performance [3:04] The questions an employee should…

Alan Stein, Jr. is a coach, speaker and author with an expertise in improving organizational performance, cohesion and accountability.  We discuss: Why to shift from someone who does the talking to someone who is an active listener [1:34] The blessing of realizing that not every single human on the planet is a fit for Home…

Marina Barayeva is an international portrait photographer based in Beijing, China. She is also a host of the popular podcast Marketing for Creatives where she brings the experts and other creatives to share their experience in business and marketing.  We discuss: Why being great at what you do is not enough to become an influencer…

Nadia Finer is an international speaker, business coach and author of Little Me Big Business. We discuss: Going from big to small to help small become big [1:36] How to push through the fear and hit the courage button to create a thriving business [3:27] What happens when you own who you are and stop…

Jill Lublin is an international speaker on the topics of Radical Influence, Publicity, Networking, Kindness and Referrals.  She is the author of 4 Best Selling books including Get Noticed…Get Referrals (McGraw Hill) and co-author of Guerrilla Publicity and Networking Magic.  Her latest book, Profit of Kindness went #1 in four categories. We discuss: The power…

Daniel Greenwald is the Founder and Chief Strategist of Thirty Ten Zero. He has been a teacher, administrator, entrepreneur, and connector for over 18 years. Pipeline Alliance is the culmination of his many experiences across industries. We discuss: How being really angry could take you on a lifetime mission [1:45] An everyday methodology that takes…

Sherry Goldman is the president of Goldman Communications Group, an award-winning public relations/marketing communications agency, which she started 22 years ago, after working in at several international PR agencies and in the print and broadcast media. We discuss: Most common mistakes businesses make when it comes to creating their message for the customers [1:52] What…

Joe Sanok is a private practice consultant with the #1 podcast for practice owners, the Practice of the Practice Podcast. With over a million downloads, the podcast covers innovative ideas to start, grow, and scale a practice. We discuss: What’s an experiment that you can do to see if it works? [1:53] What the reasonable…

Tara Bradford is a Publicity Strategist, Reputation Designer, and Communications Expert. She incorporates her background in cognitive neuroscience, biochemistry, psychology principles, emotional intelligence, and neurolinguistics to help individuals develop a strong personal brand that is in integrity with who they are so they can build a global audience of the exact people who need to…

Jim Jubelirer is a business coach, speaker, and futurist. Jim’s Keynote and Workshop Exponential Mindset: How to Thrive as the Pace of Change Increases, is for anyone who wants to have more hope and excitement about the future – for people who are turning that knowledge into action that gets results. We discuss: Do you…

Richard Nongard is the author of “Viral Leadership: Seize the Power of Now to Create Lasting Transformation in Business” and the host of the “Leadership That Makes You Money” Podcast.  We discuss: If you cannot be a magician, you may as well become a coach [2:30] What is wrong with businesses and individuals focusing on…

Jared Nichols is a futurist, advisor, and faculty member at the University of Tennessee’s Haslam College of Business in Graduate and Executive Education. He is the founder of The Foresight Academy where he teaches leaders, teams, and individuals how to think like futurists so they can create the best future possible, for themselves and the…