Launched in 2014, Smashing the Plateau shares weekly stories, strategies and ideas to help consultants, coaches and small business owners build success as entrepreneurs following long careers as high-achieving employees. We believe you should be able to take control over your career destiny, do what you love, what you’re competent at doing, and get paid what you’re worth, consistently. We are committed to the success of expertise-based businesses. Ready to go even deeper? The Smashing the Pl ...
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Money, Love, and Magic - How do you make money fall in love with you? Get expert discussions and insider tips every Friday with Morgana Radio. Each interview gives access to practical tools and inner shifts to build a financially successful life that puts Love, Lifestyle, and Legacy first. Guests on the show are global influencers, multi-million dollar mentors, romance mavens, and kick ass spiritual change agents. The podcast is hosted by Morgana Rae, a pioneer in personal development for ov ...
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How to Build a Personal Board for Financial Success Featuring Erika Wasserman
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Erika Wasserman, Your Financial Therapist, is one of 70 Certified Financial Therapists who work with clients to shift their mindset and develop new beliefs around money that lead to freedom, choices, and opportunities for clients all around the world. In today's episode of Smashing the Plateau, you will learn the transformative power of financial t…
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How to Master Client Attraction and Grow Your Freelance Brand Featuring Amy Posner
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Amy Posner is a seasoned online entrepreneur and business coach who helps digital creative freelancers build breakthrough businesses. Over her 30-year career, Amy launched six successful businesses and mentored thousands of freelancers to success. She empowers freelancers to grow the business they want by teaching them the skills they need to attra…
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How to Engineer a Successful Side Hustle Transition Featuring Damien Schreurs
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Damien Schreurs, a former engineer with 18 years of experience working for a Fortune 500 US company with an R&D facility in Luxembourg, initiated EasyTECH as a side hustle in 2013 to explore entrepreneurship while maintaining a steady income. In September 2016, Damien left his 9-to-5 job to provide Apple training and consultancy services in Luxembo…
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How to Leverage Layoffs into Launching Your Own Business Featuring Holly Jean
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Holly Jean Jackson is a Revenue and Performance Consultant, Speaker, Podcast Host, Author, and Founder of Business Builder Throwdown. Her career encompasses a range of fields including technology, communications, organizational change, public relations, and content strategy. With over 12 years of experience, she has been instrumental in helping bus…
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How to Foster a Coaching Career from Corporate Communications Roots Featuring Alan Heymann
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Alan Heymann excels at coaching fellow introverts, helping them discover their superpowers in an extroverted world. He has coached leaders from 32 countries across four continents. His diverse clientele includes individuals from Fortune 50 corporations, nonprofit organizations, public utilities, and various levels of government—federal, county, and…
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How to Integrate Proprietary Data Methods for DEI Excellence Featuring Diana File
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Diana File founded DF Analytics to instill rigor and accountability in DEI efforts worldwide. As a research and organizational psychologist, she has devoted 15 years to refining her proprietary data science methodologies, driving impactful results for Fortune 500 corporations, startups, government agencies, nonprofit institutions, and small busines…
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How to Craft Empathy-Driven Stories in Tech Marketing Featuring Jessica Mehring
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Jessica Mehring is a strategic consultant for technology companies, a published author, and holds an M.A. in Communication. Through her graduate academic work, she has closely examined the impact of generative AI on strategic communication and is exploring how storytelling fosters empathy and helps us connect in a modern context. When she's not wor…
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How to Transition from Executive to Entrepreneurial CEO Featuring Gina Cotner
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Gina Cotner is the CEO of Athena Executive Services, a firm that pairs virtual executive assistants across the United States with swamped and successful entrepreneurs and executives. Her team of high-caliber executive assistants works part-time from home, taking many tasks and projects off the plates of successful people, leaving them free to spend…
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How to Transform Your CPA Expertise into Entrepreneurial Success Featuring Tyler Martin
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Introducing Tyler Martin: a Business Coach and CPA with a talent for growing businesses. He escalated a staffing firm to $25 million a year and expanded a CPA firm to 200 clients in just five years. Tyler's unique strength lies in his hands-on business experience — he's not just a coach. He has personally built and sold successful companies. Specia…
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How to Leverage Writing into Business Success Beyond Law Featuring Erica Holthausen
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Erica Holthausen is the founder of Catchline Communications, where she provides consultants with essential tools to develop and share a body of work that enhances their authority, boosts their visibility, and creates new opportunities. Leveraging her background as a freelance writer and editor, Erica assists her clients in selecting topics, pitchin…
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How to Transform Selling into an Authentic Success Featuring Nikki Rausch
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As the CEO of Sales Maven, Nikki Rausch possesses a unique ability to transform the often misunderstood process of "selling." With over 25 years of experience in selling, Nikki is now hired by entrepreneurs and small business owners who seek her expertise to learn how to sell successfully and authentically. Nikki is the author of three books, all o…
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How to Launch a Successful Design Agency After a Corporate Career Featuring Andre De La Cruz
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Andre de la Cruz is a UX and Product Design professional with 15 years of experience. After losing his job last July, Andre co-founded an agency called Rally, which specializes in Brand, UX, and Product. He established the agency with two seasoned professionals in Brand and Product, along with a team of senior talent. Rally offers startups flexible…
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How to Build a Thriving Business with Ethical AI and Community Featuring Jessica Spencer
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After nearly two decades in the corporate world, Jessica founded the educational media company Penguin Connective, which seeks to create greater equality and opportunity in challenging areas such as future readiness, foster-to-adopt, and transitioning to adulthood. She is the creator of the AI Explorers Society and a ChatGPT for Teachers course tha…
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How to Embrace AI and Analytics for Entrepreneurial Success Featuring Genevieve Hayes
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Dr. Genevieve Hayes is the Director of Genevieve Hayes Consulting, which assists organizations in understanding emerging technologies, such as AI and analytics, and how to use these technologies to create business value. She also lectures on data science at the University of Melbourne and hosts the podcast "Value-Driven Data Science." In today's ep…
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Learn How To Use Your Experiences To Build A Successful Business And Become Influential Featuring Michael Levin
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New York Times bestselling author and ghostwriter Michael Levin is a prolific ghostwriter, having written, edited, published, or consulted on more than 1,000 books. Levin's own books have been published by Simon & Schuster, Random House, Penguin, and a variety of other top publishers. He has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, …
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How to Convert Software Development Skills into Successful Business Models Featuring Troy Larson
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Troy has over 40 years of software development and technical management experience, including five years at Amazon as a Solutions Architect. In 2022, Troy founded The Unique VA Experience, a Filipino-based coaching company that has trained nearly 300 VAs, providing opportunities for Filipinos who are looking to change careers and for stay-at-home p…
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How to Navigate From Corporate to Coaching Through Life’s Adversity Featuring Rebecca Babcock
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Rebecca Babcock, Founder of Rebecca Babcock Coaching and The Babcock Method™, has conquered a great deal! As a chronic illness warrior, a nine-year sobriety champion, a resilient divorcee, and a highly effective corporate leader, she has navigated both triumphs and setbacks throughout her over 20 years of corporate experience. Now, she has chosen t…
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How to Embrace Femininity and Triumph Over Burnout Featuring April Roberts
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April Roberts assists Gen X women in attaining greater abundance, love, spirituality, and alignment by embracing their femininity. As a high-achieving former attorney and financial advisor with degrees from Vanderbilt and Notre Dame, April comprehends the societal pressures that frequently result in burnout among women. She is the host of the Vixen…
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How To Transform Career Lows Into Entrepreneurial Success Featuring Suzy Rosenstein
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Suzy Rosenstein is a master certified life coach and host of the popular podcast for midlife women, Women in the Middle®. Utilizing her upbeat approach to the highs and lows of aging and navigating life over 50, Suzy helps you gain clarity on what you truly desire, reigniting your excitement for life. In this episode of Smashing the Plateau, you wi…
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How Conscious Choices, Inner Work, And Community Forge New Paths In Life’s Latter Half Featuring Paul Ward And Sandy Demarest
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Dr. Paul Ward is a leadership and life coach, often referred to as the Consciousness Whisperer. He is the President of 2Young2Retire, LLC, a company that specializes in coaching, consulting, and training. Paul is the author of "The Inner Journey to Conscious Leadership" and the coauthor of "Midlife, New Life," which is set to be published in Januar…
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How To Stand Out And Draw The Right Crowd With Digital Marketing Featuring Tina Cheesley
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Tina Cheesley runs a marketing agency that specializes in messaging for websites plus email marketing to help clients stand out from the crowd and attract the right people. In this episode, discover the key steps and strategies that Tina has used to carve out a niche for her business and to guide others on the path to marketing success. Tina and I …
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Learn To Manage Consulting Finances For Future Success Confidently Featuring Erica Goode
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Erica Goode has been a Certified Public Accountant for 15 years. She runs a virtual accounting firm that provides coaches and consultants with bookkeeping, accounting, and CFO services, and she also hosts the Coaches, Consultants, and Money podcast. She’s a former Director of Finance at a Fortune 50 company and began her career as an auditor at a B…
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Learn How To Review Quarterly Growth, Affirm Values, And Plan Ahead Featuring John Neral
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John Neral is a certified professional coach who assists mid-career professionals who feel stuck, undervalued, and underutilized to show up and find a job they love or to love the job they have. John is the host of "The Mid-Career GPS Podcast" and the author of "SHOW UP – Six Strategies to Lead a More Energetic and Impactful Career" and "Your Mid-C…
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How To Generate Revenue With Online Marketing Featuring Ahsan Karim
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Ahsan Karim is a business strategist and founder of Light Vision Group. His company helps businesses generate more revenue with online marketing. In today’s episode of Smashing the Plateau, Ahsan shares his insightful journey from the corporate world to entrepreneurship. With a focus on helping businesses amplify their online presence, Ahsan highli…
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How To Build Your Own Strategy For Launching And Scaling Exponential Business Growth Featuring Geoffrey Kent
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Geoffrey Kent is an esteemed educator, coach, entrepreneur, and the brain behind Think Big with Geoffrey Kent. With an impressive entrepreneurial trajectory spanning over half a century, Geoffrey has crafted a robust methodology that empowers entrepreneurs to devise their personalized strategies to initiate, responsibly escalate, and successfully e…
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How To Integrate Ai With Human Connection For Effective Communication Featuring Jürgen Strauss
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Dr. Jürgen Strauss, the founder of Innovabiz, is globally celebrated as a human-centered podcasting coach. He guides high achievers in leveraging podcasting for business growth. Having produced over 590 InnovaBuzz Podcast episodes, his expertise resides at the intersection of technology, human behavior, and marketing. He utilizes his years of exper…
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How To Make Work More Productive, Valuable, Meaningful, And Impactful Featuring Thomas Bertels
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Thomas Bertels is a management consultant and business transformation expert. He has more than 25 years’ experience helping companies across a range of industries, from start-ups to Fortune 5, transform how work gets done. Thinkers360 has recognized Thomas as a Top 50 Thought Leader on the Future of Work and Design Thinking. He has written several …
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How To Make Critical Decisions and Understand The Importance Of Inner Resourcefulness Featuring Namita Purohit
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Namita Purohit left a promising career at Microsoft and embarked on her journey as an entrepreneur, fueled by her deep-rooted belief in Eastern Wisdom. She champions the idea of cultivating inner resourcefulness and emphasizes the importance of community in both personal and professional development. In today's episode of Smashing the Plateau, you …
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The Importance of Structure and Accountability in Establishing And Growing Your Own Business Featuring Sara Murray
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Sara Murray is an advisor, consultant, and speaker working with leaders and sales teams to unlock the untapped potential in their prospecting and business development efforts. With a focus on construction, real estate, hospitality, design, and technology industries, Sara empowers professionals to enhance their communication skills, approach prospec…
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How To Balance Life And Work While Increasing Productivity And Achieving Business Success Featuring Marcey Rader
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Marcey Rader believes health powers productivity. As the founder of RaderCo, she helps corporate refugees banish burnout through practical tools and sustainable habits. Marcey is a multi-certified health and productivity expert, a digital wellness practitioner, three-time author, has spoken on five continents, and is part of the 1% of speakers worl…
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Learn About Marketing And Sales Techniques For Deliverable Results Featuring Lois Creamer
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Lois Creamer works with speakers, consultants, and experts who want to book more business, make more money and fully monetize their message. In today's episode of Smashing the Plateau, you will learn about marketing and sales techniques for deliverable results, the significance of leveraging relationships and databases for revenue, the advantages o…
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How To Build A Successful Online Business, Find The Right Niche, And Grow Your Digital Entrepreneurship Journey With Smart Actionable Steps Featuring Scott Brenner
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Scott Brenner is a seasoned digital entrepreneur and the strategic brain behind Online Business From Scratch, a business that guides aspiring entrepreneurs to launch successful online businesses. Brenner, who has decades of online business and technical experience, firmly believes in imparting actionable strategies for the fruition of those ideas. …
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How to Be Viewed on Linkedin as a Resource Providing High-Quality, Consistent Ideas to Your Audience Featuring Annie Franceschi
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Annie Franceschi is a leading branding expert, professional speaker, and founder of Greatest Story Creative. After working for Disney and becoming a "branding super sleuth", she is now devoted to helping savvy entrepreneurs tell their story. In today's episode of Smashing the Plateau, you will learn how leaving your corporate career and focusing on…
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How To Harness The Power Of Community To Take Your Business To The Next Level Featuring Mindy Iannelli
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Mindy Iannelli is the Chief Focus Architect of Complete Online Presence, an organization that helps people build their online businesses. Mindy is an expert in creating courses and communities designed to help entrepreneurs become more productive and reach their goals. In today's episode of Smashing the Plateau, you will learn how to harness the po…
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How to avoid the loneliness of going solo featuring Robin Wycherley
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Robin Wycherly is the CEO of Optimize Your Design Business, a company that caters to corporate clients and high-level customers. Robin is also an accomplished interior designer and a business coach, leveraging years of experience in building a small but effective company. In today's episode, you will learn how to avoid the loneliness of going solo.…
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The Business of Community Featuring Tatiana Figueiredo
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Tatiana is a community business strategist, teacher, and founder of The Business of Community, a learning organization helping community founders scale values-driven community businesses. Before focusing exclusively on supporting community founders, Tatiana worked in international sales, marketing, product management, and growing her own community …
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When You Give Yourself Permission Featuring Michal Stawicki
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Michal Stawicki, nicknamed Mr. Consistency, is a bestselling author in the personal development field(19 books, over 85,000 copies sold), business coach, and founder of the book advertising agency Resurrecting Books. He is obsessed with changing the world through daily habits, starting with his own habits and his world. Michal preaches and practice…
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How to Make Career Fulfillment a Career Reality Featuring Alicia Ramsdell
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Alicia Ramsdell is the Founder & CEO of Mindful Career Path. She started this organization with the intention of making career fulfillment a career reality for her clients. Since then she inspires Corporate Partners and individuals through career development conversations. Most recently, she inspired her audience sharing her message on the TEDx sta…
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Learn Techniques You Can Use to Ask Friends, Colleagues and Mentors for Help Even When it Feels Difficult to Do So Featuring Ethan Chazin
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Ethan is a performance improvement coach and change management consultant. His unique value proposition is, he specialize in working with clients to improve their people's performance, productivity, and profitability through training, coaching, and culture consulting. In todays’ episode of Smashing the Plateau, you will learn techniques you can use…
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Learn How to Sell Your Expertise Featuring Caitlin Doemner
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Caitlin Cogan Doemner is the founder & CEO of VirtualCoachingSales.com and ecstaticsales.com. After studying at Oxford University and getting her MBA from Biola University, Caitlin Doemner launched a sales management company which generated over $11M in new revenue for its clients in 8 years. She has published multiple books, including “The Unseen …
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How to Ditch Hourly Billing Featuring Jonathan Stark
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Jonathan Stark is a former software developer who is on a mission to rid the world of hourly billing. He is the author of Hourly Billing Is Nuts, the host of Ditching Hourly, and writes a daily newsletter on pricing for independent professionals. In today’s episode of Smashing the Plateau, you will learn how you can make more money without working …
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How to Productize Your Services Featuring Wayne Pelletier
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After 25 years as a creative professional, Wayne Pelletier founded Resonant Pixel Company just three years ago. The business experienced some early rapid growth, but it wasn't the business Wayne wanted. He has since transitioned the company into productized services, helping small businesses leverage the Squarespace platform to go from having an in…
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Morgana Rae on Dick Sutphen's Metaphysical World
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"Where Life Coaching and Magic meet." This time the tables are turned and Morgana's the guest on world famous Dick Sutphen's Metaphysical World Radio Show about Psychic Exploration, Spiritual Healing, Hypnotherapy and Human Potential.By Morgana Rae
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How to Scale an Expertise-Based Business Featuring Jason Van Orden
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Jason Van Orden helps consultants and coaches turn their expertise into online courses and group programs so they can help more people and generate more income. Jason’s mission is to help visionaries with impactful ideas to connect with the people they serve best and the problems they can most uniquely solve. In today’s episode of Smashing the Plat…
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How to Make the Last Quarter of Your Career Your Best Quarter Featuring Scott Couchenour
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Scott A. Couchenour’s professional life of 30 years as a corporate COO and then CEO ended abruptly. He had to close the family business forever. Scott found his way out. Today, he works primarily with Executive Leaders and Business Owners in their 40's-50's to tame the chaos, design their next adventure, and then implement that journey through an i…
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How to Get More Clients When You Hate Selling Featuring Reuben Swartz
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Reuben Swartz is the founder of Mimiran, where his experience as a sales and marketing consultant for the Fortune 500, who struggled with his own sales and marketing efforts, led him to create the fun “anti-CRM” for independent consultants who love serving clients but hate "selling." He's also the host and chief nerd on the Sales for Nerds podcast.…
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From F100 C-Suite to Owner and CEO Featuring Janice Burg-Levi
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Janice Burg-Levi is a former Business & Marketing Executive with a diverse background in financial services, global telecommunications, media, and technology. She has spent her career leading business strategy and marketing at companies such as AT&T, Avaya, Unisys, Accenture, and KPMG, and now is the owner and CEO of Intracoastal Marketing and Stra…
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How to Live Your Values in a Career Transition Featuring Emmy Petersson
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Emmy Petersson is a certified coach who has worked with people in transitions that involve career changes and/or changes in their country of residence since 2013. In today’s episode of Smashing the Plateau, you will learn how to unlock what’s next in your career to find flow, fulfillment and connect with your values in your work. Emmy and I discuss…
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How to Build a Successful Coaching Business Featuring Porschia Parker-Griffin
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Porschia Parker-Griffin is CEO of Fly High Coaching. She and her team of coaches and resume writers have helped thousands of clients with their career, leadership, and business goals. She is a Professional Certified Coach, a Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Master Practitioner, and holds a Hogan Assessments Certification. In today’s episode of Smashing …
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How to Harness the Incredible Power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Featuring Tim
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Tim Miner, an AI Strategist and Consultant, is President of By The People Technologies, as System Integrator for AI and Salesforce. Tim is an experienced executive who has held leadership roles at Salesforce, IBM, and Tact.ai. He currently directs By The People Technologies LLC, helping clients achieve digital transformation through innovative AI-b…
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