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Humorous and fiery Kathleen Steffey is the Founder and CEO of Naviga Recruiting and Executive Search and a Chief Talent Officer. Kathleen helps business leaders achieve revenue growth by recruiting sales and marketing professionals who boast a proven track record of success. She shares her experiences in recruiting and discusses the many names for the profession, as well as her thoughts on jobs and work during the pandemic. Kathleen explains the importance of authenticity and tells the story of how life guided her down a path that led to her business. Listen to find out why Randy and Kent would love to have Kathleen as their guest at a dinner party. Our conversation is just the beginning.

Fascinating, Dene Menzel, is a musicpreneur and founder of Branthem, a branding agency that creates unique musical identities for brands. She shares her journey with music and how her business uses the power of music as a touchpoint amplifier and emotive connector across multiple brand channels. Dene credits the popularity and memorability of jingles to the serious and strategic process behind musical branding that connects companies to their customers. She says that the use of music in branding has greatly evolved over the years, but one thing remains certain; that music connects people more than any other medium. Our conversation is just the beginning.

Gill Tiney, the Founder of Collaboration Global, is a collaboration catalyst. Through her international network, she teaches people how to successfully collaborate. Gill shares that she strongly believes that people evolve and thrive, businesses grow and connections are deepened through collaboration. She emphasizes that there are negative impacts when people do not collaborate effectively, one of which is that people find themselves going around in circles. Gill’s core values are people first, love for all, and collaboration. She says that while love may be very soft and fluffy it is actually our superpower. Our conversation is just the beginning.

Founder of Starfish Synergies Inc., Theresa Bailey, is a master facilitator of team-building workshops and believes in using evidence-based strategies to bring teams together while improving productivity and profits. She discusses her unique partnership with Hasbro through the creation of Play-Doh Power Solutions. Theresa emphasizes that play is vital to social evolution, creativity, cooperation, and understanding. She shares how her proven methods stimulate all five senses and activate different parts of the brain that encourage innovation, confidence, risk-taking, and adaptability. Her ideas on how to empower teams to be more resilient and adaptable are next level. Our conversation is just the beginning.

The interesting and creative, Jayesh Surisetti is a techpreneur, HR professional, and speaker from India. His goal is to make the world a better place by improving digital wellbeing. He speaks to the smartphone “addiction” or dependency that many people experience in today’s world, and the effects of smartphone distraction on your productivity, patience, and desire for instant gratification. He explains the app he and his co-founders created, Apprison, that uses gamification in the regulation and monitoring of smartphone usage, leading to an increase in productivity, digital wellbeing, and happiness. He also discusses the Happea app he created that enables people to understand the science of happiness, and so much more. Our conversation is just the beginning.

The founder and CEO of Premier Rapport, Shelley Smith, is a culture curator with an entrepreneurial spirit. Shelley explains why culture matters, what makes a work environment toxic, and the importance of alignment within a companies’ culture. Her knowledge is evident as she shares the various approaches to job seeking and what drives people to quit their jobs so easily in this day and time. Shelley emphasizes that people remain in toxic relationships and work environments because “We tolerate what we find acceptable.” Our conversation is just the beginning.

Asger Lindholdt, Founder of Talerne, is a consultant and public speaking coach from Denmark. He provides solopreneurs, entrepreneurs and coaches with strategies and methods to help them unleash their confidence and engage with and create real value for their audience. Asger explains how public speaking is a tool to grow, how all great speeches are structured like a story, and how he finds the balance between passion and hard work. Our conversation is just the beginning.

Dr. Karthik Nagendra is a marketing leader and consultant, professor, and author who founded the first thought leadership marketing company in Asia, ThoughtStarters. Living in Bangalore—the Silicon Valley of India—he always wanted to be different; so instead of engineering, he chose banking, marketing, and entrepreneurship as his career path. Dr. Karthik explains that thought leadership doesn’t get built overnight, discusses understanding your strengths and weaknesses, and shares why it is important to work with companies that invest in building thought leadership and long-term reputation capital. Our conversation is just the beginning.

Guillermo Söhnlein is an independent board member and social entrepreneur focused on technology innovation, international business, and the exploration and sustainable settlement of extreme environments on land, sea, and space. As the Founder of Humans2Venus, his 11th startup, his long-term vision is to establish a human presence in the Venusian atmosphere. He shares how his experience as an immigrant and his time in the Marine Corps have helped him on his entrepreneurial journey. Guillermo also explains why Venus is a good option for long-term survivability and shares the two startups he is most proud of. He left us with these inspiring words, “The more we continue exploring and going beyond our comfort zone, the better we become as individual humans and as a human species.” Our conversation is just the beginning.

Dan King, Co-Founder of Fireside Strategic, is a recovering lawyer turned sales strategist and executive coach. He helps Creator CEOs and their companies grow using business strategy and psychology. Dan explains the difference between Engineer CEOs and Creator CEOs, discusses the power of branding, and shares why he believes life requires some stupidity. He also encourages people who have not found their “thing” yet to keep the faith. Our conversation is just the beginning.

Ketan Patel is a high performance real estate coach who helps motivated individuals cultivate a success and fulfillment mindset. Raised in India, he originally became a pharmacist in order to help people, but soon realized his gifts could be used better elsewhere and made the switch to real estate investment and coaching. Ketan discusses the importance of learning how to tap into your intuition, two key pieces of advice for raising capital, the difference between insight and information, and why your first investment doesn’t need to be perfect. Our conversation is just the beginning.

The vibrant Lee Chambers has the incredible ability to turn anything into a good story. He is a British psychologist, coach, and entrepreneur who helps individuals and organizations increase clarity and performance. Lee’s incessant curiosity as a child led him to always dig deeper for information, and he shares how this led to his path into functional coaching. He explains how understanding oneself helps you to better understand the world, stresses the importance of collaboration, and discusses the benefits of people becoming more aware of the impact they can make. Our conversation is just the beginning.