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Mike Simonsen is the Founder and CEO of Altos Research, a real estate analytics firm. He founded the company in 2006 and they provide real-time data and insight on the US housing market. He has 15 years of experience in software development, marketing of enterprise applications, and security products. In developing the Altos product offerings, he applied his expertise in analytical systems development to a personal interest in the real estate market. Mike is on the Board of Directors and is the outgoing President of Entrepreneurs' Organization San Francisco. Prior to founding Altos Research, Mike was Vice President of Marketing and Product Management at network systems vendor, Nevis Networks, where he led the team from initial product concept through the company's launch into the market. Before joining Nevis, he led product management at Inkra Networks, and helped build the company's innovative product line and contributed to the company's successful sales into the largest data centers in the world. Mike previously founded Potrero Networks and was director of product management at Lucent Technologies/INS VitalSuite division. He has a BS from the University of Nevada and an MBA from Chicago's DePaul University. In this episode, John Corcoran will be talking to Mike Simonsen about his company, Altos Research, his work with the Entrepreneurs' Organization, and his upcoming book about how to hack your happiness.

Tonya Twitchell is a speaker, coach, and consultant. She is the Chair for Vistage Worldwide and works with high performing CEOs, business owners, and senior executives who are working on engaging with and leveraging their best selves and their teams. Tonya is a former senior executive for two rapidly-growing companies and has helped many other companies increase revenue and profitability. She has led, trained, and coached a variety of different leaders in different industries and sectors including health care, finance, government, the public sector, and even the United States Air Force. Tonya graduated magna cum laude from Carleton College with a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science. She also studied Chinese Language at Nankai University in Tianjin, China. In this week's episode of The Smart Business Revolution Podcast, John Corcoran interviews Tonya Twitchell, a Vistage Chair, about coaching business leaders, dealing with family tragedy, and her transition to and from the corporate world.

Nick Araco, Jr. is the co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of AchieveNEXT, a provider of specialized Human Capital Performance Solutions and developer of the Alliance Peer Advisory Networks, which includes The CFO Alliance and The CHRO Alliance. Nick has a demonstrated track record of being a multi-talented, growth strategy, sales, marketing, finance, HR, operations, and enterprise leader. He has been able to bring his unique ability of "Making Connections that Count" to Finance, HR, Sales, and other C-Suite executives and business leaders across North America over the last 20 years. He has a Bachelor of Business Administration degree with a concentration in Finance from Loyola University in Maryland. He earned his law degree from Widener University Delaware Law School and lives outside of Philadelphia with his wife and three children. Nick Araco, Jr., the co-founder and CEO of AchieveNEXT joins John Corcoran, on this episode of Smart Business Revolution Podcast to talk about building peer-to-peer networks from scratch and connecting people in a virtual world. Nick also discusses his new CHRO Alliance Network and how he creates diversity and maintains quality within the CFO Alliance Network.

Rob Michon is a coach, consultant, and advisor. He has built a number of different businesses from scratch and helped them scale up from startup to the hundred million dollar mark. At his peak, his clients were doing in excess of $1.2 billion annually. Rob has been behind the scenes helping many well known experts and thought leaders like Ryan Levesque, author of Ask, The Counterintuitive Online Method to Discover Exactly What Your Customers Want to Buy... Create a Mass of Raving Fans... and Take Any Business to the Next Level, Perry Marshall, author of 80/20 Sales and Marketing, and Ralph Burns of the Perpetual Traffic Podcast. In this episode, Rob Michon talks to John Corcoran, host of the Smart Business Revolution Podcast, about his strategies for controlling the mental state of entrepreneurs and business people.

Joey Gilkey is the Founder and CEO of Tribe Outbound, a strategic sales firm specializing in helping companies land high-value clients through outbound sales. He built his career on selling high-value products and services in a non-salesy and ethical way to some of the largest companies in the world and in very competitive industries. Over the years, he noticed that the majority of companies that he dealt with were struggling to tap into their dream market. He founded Tribe Outbound in 2017 as a solution for company sales problems and they have since gone on to become a market leader and has been influential in growing some of the worlds fastest-growing companies. Joey Gilkey, the Founder and CEO of Tribe Outbound, talks with John Corcoran on this episode of The Smart Business Revolution Podcast where they talk about connecting with your dream 500 clients. Joey explains what account-based selling means, how his business model works, how to build credibility, and his best strategies for increasing retention.