Passage to Profit Show - Road to Entrepreneurship

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Oct 10, 2022 • 54min

Post-Covid Marketing Strategies with Guy Powell, 10-09-2022

This episode of The Passage to Profit Show features Guy Powell from ProRelevant, Christian Seale from Vitruvia and Niki Brown, founder of IGNITE Summit.   Guy Powell founded ProRelevant in 2002, a marketing firm that works with major brands to provide bespoke analytics, consulting services, and training to help them maximize their return on marketing investment. ProRelevant combines advanced analytics with consumer purchase behavior to deliver answers to grow sales, profits and the brand, helping clients identify and connect each marketing dollar spent to its impact on generating incremental sales and ROI. The firm follows a rigorous proprietary data framework to ensure their data is accurate, complete, and timely and holds in-depth stakeholder interviews to capture their needs and concerns, and maintain ongoing contact with key stakeholders. With globally recognized analytics credentials, ProRelevant is trusted by industry leaders and Fortune 500 clients. Guy Powell has trained thousands of marketers in a wide variety of industries, including Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG), high-tech, financial services, telecom, and airlines. His work helps marketers make better decisions to deliver more revenue, profit, and market share. Guy Powell is also an author with his latest book being “The Post-Covid Marketing Machine: Prepare Your Team to Win”. Discover how the Covid-19 pandemic has changed the marketing landscape and learn how a deep understanding of post-Covid dynamics of consumer purchase behavior will affect your go-to-market strategies. A must-read for marketers in 2022! Read more at: https://prorelevant.com/ and at: https://marketingmachine.prorelevant.com/   Christian Seale is the co-founder of Vitruvia, a revolutionary recovery platform that focuses on a non-surgical approach to healing and pain management. Vitruvia focuses on the root cause of a patient’s pain, and heal them from the inside out. Allowing the flow of nutrients to return to the damaged tissue to completely heal. Vitruvia uses a holistic approach to assess a patient’s overall tissue health under the guidance of their proprietary ultrasound imaging software, ScarMap, to heal damaged tissue so the patient can return to their daily activities pain free and with an increased range of motion. ScarMap allows physicians to see the damaged tissue, then repair and rehydrate the tissue with a proprietary solution called RELIEF, that facilitates long term tissue regeneration, prevents future scarring and restores anatomy to a pre-injury state. RESTORE is a more extensive, lengthier version of RELIEF and  RENEW is for the person who is looking for a whole body connective tissue restoration, and interested in the anti-aging benefits. Read more at: https://vitruvia.co/   Niki Brown is the founder and host of IGNITE Women’s Empowerment Summit, happening next on Nov 10 – 12, 2022 – a soul stirring 3 day movement for women in all walks and stages of life who have a desire to break limitations, push past boundaries and empower every aspect of their lives for more! Having a passion to create a conference which delivers high energy spiritual impact and practical life application, IGNITE provides a dynamic environment for women to be empowered in their business, profession, personal and spiritual life. As part of this event, IGNITE features dynamic speakers who are experts in the areas of business, finance, personal, professional and spiritual development. Each year a portion of IGNITE proceeds are dedicated to supporting single mothers who have a passion to further their education and dreams. Niki is a Master’s level counselor, certified life coach, ordained minister and the author of “There is More! 8 Steps to Embracing the Greater You” and “Audacity to Leap”. Read more at: https://www.ignitesummit.org/   Visit https://passagetoprofitshow.com/ for the latest updates and episodes.
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Oct 3, 2022 • 54min

How to Say Less and Be Heard More with Lewis Chaney, 10-02-2022

This episode of The Passage to Profit Show features Lewis Chaney from Get to the Damn Point course, Kareem Cook & Claude Tellis from Naturade and Lisa Pietracatella from Sunhead Pillow.   Lewis Chaney is a TEDX Alumni, Award winning Speaker, Photojournalist and Director with over 25 years in TV broadcasting, advertising, and filmmaking. Lewis has worked with everyone from the homeless to the rich and famous while working in Television to help teams GET TO THE DAMN POINT. He offers a professional communication and presentation course for employees to be able to say more in less time. Communicating efficiently and effectively is challenging but when not done well it causes sales to be lost and meetings to drag on. With Lewis’ support, sales professionals can gain confidence in their communications by learning advanced presentation, media and speaking skills to succinctly and emotionally connect to clients, virtually or in person, every single time. Lewis explains how meetings can be better and shorter; how to improve internal and external communications; how this can improve your teams and offers practical tips to  implement immediately. Lewis is also a professional Mentalist / Magician and Co-Owner of video production company, Keychain-Productions. Read more at: https://www.gettothedamnpoint.com/   Kareem Cook & Claude Tellis are the owners of Naturade, a nutritional company that was founded in 1926, currently offering plant-based nutritional shakes, herbal expectorants and Symbiotics supplements. Naturade brings Whole Foods quality products to a Walmart consumer. The Naturade story starts when with Kareem and Claude were college friends and realized they had so many people in their families with diet related illnesses like diabetes. 10 years later they both decided to make their mutual concern their business and launched a business called Healthy Body Products and later on, a healthy vending machine company. They eventually bought Naturade to affect change on a global level! Read more at: https://www.naturade.com/   Lisa Pietracatella is the inventor of Sunhead Pillow, a unique innovative recreational pillow with storage that will make you comfortable anywhere while holding your valuables discreetly. No more worrying about your phone or keys getting wet at the beach or pool – Sunhead has got you covered. Sunhead Pillows are made with memory foam to provide support and comfort, comes in a variety of colors so you can choose the perfect one for you. Whether it’s sunbathing at the beach, sitting poolside on a chair, or simply lying on your couch at home remember… Sunhead will make your head and neck happy anywhere! Read more at: https://sunheadpillow.com/   Visit https://passagetoprofitshow.com/ for the latest updates and episodes.
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Sep 26, 2022 • 54min

Psychology of Selling Yourself & Your Brand with Dr. Gilda Carle, 09-25-2022

This episode of The Passage to Profit Show features Power Strategist & Media Coach, Dr. Gilda Carle, Sue Marshall from NETZRO and Jean-Que Dar from tap.    Dr. Gilda Carle, Ph.D. is a Power Strategist & Media Coach, serving clients worldwide. As a media personality, she was the host of Fox’s “Dr. Gilda” TV show pilot, MTV’s “Love Doc,” and TV shows on Trinity Broadcasting Network.  She wrote the “30-Second Therapist” column for the Today Show, the “Ask Dr. Gilda” column for Match.com, and she was the therapist in HBO’s Emmy Award winner, “Telling Nicholas,” featured on Oprah.  Her non-profit, Country Cures® (www.CountryCures.org), empowers Homeless Female Veterans.  She is a product spokesperson (Hallmark, Harlequin, Sprint, Cottonelle, Galderma Pharmaceuticals, Match.com), keynote speaker, Professor Emerita of Business, and author of 18 books. She is on the MBA faculty of the Forbes School of Business & Technology. Read more at: https://www.drgilda.com/   Sue Marshall is the founder of NETZRO, a modern Food Upcycling, platform, that helps power the safe capture and conversion of industrial food and beverage byproducts into new sustainable food ingredients at scale. The food supply chain in the US is broken. NETZRO’s integrated solutions eliminate food and water waste from farm to fork AND from fork to farm. Projects include upcycling egg shells for calcium carbonate (shell) and collagen protein (shell membrane), upcycling grains for fiber and protein, cold-pressing fruits and veggies into superfood ingredients and upcycling mixed food waste for agricultural soil fertilizer. Since 2015, NETZRO has built an ecosystem of farmers, producers, distributors, retailers, restaurants, consumers and regulators, all working together to pioneer a circular upcycled food economy. Read more at: https://www.netzro.us/   Jean-Que Dar is the founder of tap., a mobile app where entertainment professionals connect, network, and manage their entire entertainment career in the global media and entertainment industry. Connect with **verified** entertainment professionals and send contracts, sign deals, and pay (including royalties) to Hollywood producers, directors, Creatives, Execs, Managers, Agents, Casting Directors, Set Designers, Distributors, Marketers, Investors, Actors, Models, Photographers, Stylists and other entertainment professionals all over the world. Protect your funds until you've had the chance to review and approve the work with tap.'s escrow payment. "Create an event" allows you to create and highlight any upcoming event and invite anyone from entertainment industry. No need of going back and forth with calls and messages, manage your invitations and guest lists all at one platform - tap. Read more at: https://tap.ec/   Visit https://passagetoprofitshow.com/ for the latest updates and episodes.
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Sep 19, 2022 • 53min

Incentive-Based Marketing to Boost Sales with Marco Torres, 09-18-2022

This episode of The Passage to Profit Show features Marco Torres from MarketingBoost.com, Sasha Armstrong from Canine State of Mind and Brian Elliott from Wove.   Marco Torres is the Founder of MarketingBoost.com, he has helped thousands of business owners worldwide boost sales and scale their businesses by as much as 5-fold through the use of incentive-based marketing. He teaches entrepreneurs how to soar sales & marketing through the use of “Value-Add-Incentives” instead of discounts. His Facebook Group is home to more than 27,000 active business owners who are raking in sales with his advice and amazingly affordable subscription program. He and his partners have revolutionized the incentive industry by making a complimentary hotel stay certificates from 3 to 7 nights in over 125 worldwide destinations, plus hotel savings cards, and restaurant vouchers incredibly affordable, allowing the small business to stand out from the crowd and compete with the big boys. Prior to MarketingBoost.com, Marco developed the internet marketing strategies in the late 1990s and early 2000s that brought in nearly a Billion dollars over 8 years for this company before branching out with some new partnerships to launch Bookvip.com in late 2008. He and his partners grew the fastest growing travel company in North America from 2010 to 2020 with Bookvip.com. Read more at: https://www.marketingboost.com/   Sasha Armstrong, known as the “Dog Shaman” is the founder of Canine State of Mind, the #1 destination for modern dog educational programs. Her holistic methodology has transformed the lives of more than 1,000 dogs and dog families. As a world-renowned dog behaviorist, Sasha takes an unparalleled approach to modern dog training and boarding. After working with thousands of canines, Sasha developed a unique methodology largely influenced by canine wolf ancestry and how dogs operate within a modern pack dynamic. This approach is rooted in canine psychology and human energetics. The process is guaranteed to produce results as long as the human commits to participating as much as their dog. Read more at: https://www.caninestateofmind.com/   Brian Elliott is the founder of Wove, a revolutionary engagement ring company that empowers modern couples to collaborate and create one-of-a-kind engagement rings and provides an exact replica ring for at-home try-on. Wove was built to make the engagement ring process a fun, creative and meaningful collaboration that brings couples closer together. The best jewelry designers and expert goldsmiths work directly with you to bring your ideas to life, and create a ring you truly love. Create your one-of-a-kind ring that can’t be bought anywhere and receive an exact replica of your ring so you can try it out at home and make sure you’re happy. Being based in the US allows Wove to make your ring from scratch in as little as one week, with expert craftsmanship and a rigorous quality control process. Read more at: https://wovemade.com/   Visit https://passagetoprofitshow.com/ for the latest updates and episodes.
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Sep 12, 2022 • 54min

Tips for Building a Multi-Brand National Company with Michael Rose, 09-11-2022

This episode of The Passage to Profit Show features Michael Rose from Academy Service Group, Rachel Kellner and Mark Libertini from Aigner Chocolates and Carolyn Babrite from Javamelts.   Michael Rose is the founder of Academy Service Group and it’s CEO since 1979. Academy Service Group provides nationwide chain store maintenance and retail services including floor-to-ceiling support, pest control, cleaning and janitorial services, landscaping and facility maintenance. Providing custom service program that’s tailored to meet each company’s needs. Michael is an experienced CEO with a demonstrated history of working in the construction industry. Skilled in Negotiation, Operations Management, Analytical Skills, Coaching, and Retail. Strong business development professional graduated from the school of Hard Knocks. Loves to take on challenges and create a team environment as well as develop people beyond what they ever thought they could be. “Nothing is impossible”, “watch me do it” and “let me help” are a few of his favorite cliches. Remember to finish you first must start. To start you have to get up and go. Read more at: http://www.academyservicegroup.com/   Rachel Kellner and Mark Libertini are the owners of Aigner Chocolates, bringing old world chocolate making into the 21st century! “Founded in 1930, Aigner Chocolates is one of the oldest chocolate and confectionery shops in NYC. Owned by the same family for three generations, the Aigners have recently passed the recipes and traditions of chocolate making to the new owners, Mark Libertini and Rachel Kellner. Rachel and Mark bought the Aigner Chocolates shop in 2015 and within four weeks they redecorated, produced and packaged in time to open 10 days before Halloween of 2015. Mark and Rachel plan on continuing the rich tradition of making Austrian style chocolate using the same antique equipment and techniques that has made Aigner a New York City institution. Mark and Rachel are honored to be a part of generations of tradition and hope to help create new traditions in the years to come.” Aigner Chocolates was voted best chocolate shop in New York and sells (and ships) chocolate barks, cordials, and marshmallows that are made using the kitchen’s original kettles and spoons. Read more at: https://aignerchocolates.com/   Carolyn Babrite is the founder of Javamelts and returns to Passage to Profit to give an update and how she has reinvented the company since the pandemic. Javamelts offers flavored sugar in both pouch bags and single use sugar packets to create delicious Coffee, Baked Goods, Foods & Cocktails. As seen on QVC and Amercia’s Big Deal – try all 4 of her Amazing Gourmet Flavors: Hazelnut, Mocha, French Vanilla & Caramel. Javamelts is a certified woman owned company and Carolyn’s goals are to inspire, motivate and encourage her 3 daughters and others to follow their dreams. Sustainability is a priority: create jobs, mentor and educate those coming up behind her, attend charity events, make contributions for those in need, to use only natural and clean ingredients, and use recyclable packaging. Carolyn is grateful for the opportunity to accomplish all of this and more through creating and growing the Javamelts brand! Read more at: https://javamelts.com/   Visit https://passagetoprofitshow.com/ for the latest updates and episodes.
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Sep 5, 2022 • 54min

Develop a Career in the Spotlight with Amy Scruggs, Media Coach, TV Host & Vocalist, 09-04-2022

This episode of The Passage to Profit Show features Media Coach, TV Host and Vocalist, Amy Scruggs, Tesa Harster from The Angel Campaign and Alisa Pospekhova from kindroot.   Amy Scruggs is a TV Host, Media Coach, Recording Artist, Bestselling Author. As a Media Coach, she uses her twenty years as a Media Executive, TV host, Recording Artist, Public Speaker, Corporate Spokesperson, and Business Professional, to help others present and communicate a concise and professional message, whether you’re on-camera with network TV, interviewed by a major news or entertainment outlet, filming a corporate video, ZOOM call, podcast, social media marketing or in person public speaking appearance. Amy’s career also includes more than 20 years in sales team coaching and received a “Bestseller” with her book “Lights Camera Action” in the fall of 2021.  She is also the host for the national TV show, “Financing The American Dream”, on CNBC.  Her other hosting credits include the TV shows, The American Dream, Lifestyles San Diego, Veterans One and the Retiring Right Show.   As a Media Executive, Amy is known as the “Voice and Face” of Mutual of Omaha Mortgage, where she writes, directs and hosts a national digital marketing campaign for a Fortune 500 company.  She is also a Nashville Recording Artist and has been known in the country music industry for more than 15 years, opening for many Artists including Clint Black, Trace Adkins, Charlie Daniels, Phil Vassar, Little Texas, and many more. Her newly recorded EP ‘Love Another Day” is now on the charts on radio worldwide. Read more at: https://www.amyscruggsmedia.com/ and at: https://www.amyscruggsmusic.com/   Tesa Harster is a Certified Medium serving celebrity clients and is the founder of The Angel Campaign. She is a gifted Medium since birth; she loves connecting to Spirit and sharing specific guidance to help others in their journey. She is committed to developing self-empowerment through communication with Spirit Guides, Angels and passed loved ones to bring forward guidance that serves one’s highest good. As a skilled interpreter between earth and heaven, she is able to communicate information with knowledge of your specific uncertainties, shedding light on new perspectives for each individual. Tesa’s skills are highly sought after; with a wide range of abilities she has helped her clients feel confident in their decisions, gain empowerment, reach personal goals and obtain closure after the death of a loved one. The Angel Campaign is a mission to bring the light and the energy of Angels across the globe and into the lives of every living being. Read more at: http://www.theangelcampaign.com/   Alisa Pospekhova is the founder of kindroot, offering plant powered lozenges to put your body + mind at ease. The ingredients include adaptogenic plants + aromatic flavors, blended into silky-smooth little lozenges to support sleep, immunity, mood and focus. For Alisa, childhood immunity issues and workplace stress were side by side since she can remember. And boring supplements or lozenges loaded with irritants? They hadn’t changed. So after a few travel mishaps with messy supplement powders, capsules that felt like a chore … and after one too many crackly cough drops, it clicked! She saw a world where she could create a supplement that people would actually look forward to taking. So she became an herbalist apprentice and developed the Kindroot brand! Read more at: https://www.kindroot.com/   Visit https://passagetoprofitshow.com/ for the latest updates and episodes.
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Aug 29, 2022 • 54min

Stand Out and Make Your Business Different with Roy Osing, 08-28-2022

This episode of The Passage to Profit Show features Roy Osing from Brilliance for Business, Beverly Price from Nastava Jewelry and Daniel Gartenberg from SleepSpace.   Roy Osing is the ONLY author, entrepreneur and executive leader who delivers practical and proven ‘Audacious Unheard-of Ways’ to produce high performing businesses and successful careers. His company, Brilliance for Business is dedicated to helping any organization create a Distinctive, Remarkable, Unique and ‘Gaspworthy’ position in the marketplace that will separate them from the competitive herd. Roy is a former president, CMO and entrepreneur with over 40 years of successful and unmatched executive leadership experience in every aspect of business. As President of a major data and internet company, his leadership and audacious ‘unheard-of ways’ took the company from its early stage to $1 Billion in annual sales. He is a blogger, content marketer and mentor to young professionals. As an accomplished business advisor, he is the author of the no-nonsense book series ‘BE DiFFERENT or be dead’, with ‘The Audacious Unheard-of Ways I took a Startup to A BILLION IN SALES’ as his seventh. Read more at: https://www.bedifferentorbedead.com/   Beverly Price is the founder of Nastava Jewelry, offering unique hand-crafted artisan jewelry and she is also a transformational coach for women with her company and podcast, Her Self Expression. Beverly is on a mission to help 100,000 women to live the powerful and fabulous lives they are made for. 1 inspire women to learn how to use self-expression on the inside and outside to develop self-empowerment, so they can ultimately become the women they long to be. Nastava Jewelry features dramatic colors, energizing gems. Beverly creates one-of-a-kind and custom statement jewelry using semi-precious stones, freshwater pearls, and Swarovski© crystals. Styles include Bohemian, Bridal, Casual, Classic, Coastal and Elegant. Her bespoke creations have been shown at Columbia Fashion Week, Greenville Fashion Week, and Charlotte Fashion Week and worn by celebrities like Vivica Fox, Lisa Ling, and Cokie Roberts. Read more at: https://herselfexpression.com/ and https://nastavajewelry.com/   Daniel Gartenberg is the founder of SleepSpace and returns to Passage to Profit to give updates of the SleepSpace app and the Smart Bed Platform. Get accurate sleep tracking, sleep health improvement, fall asleep faster and have deeper sleep overall. Works with any iPhone or alongside most wearables. The new Circadian optimizer gives your energy peaks. SleepSpace’s Smart Bed Platform allows you to turn your Smart Phone into a Smart Bed. Place your phone in the wireless phone charging cradle and the smart bed measures micro-motions, without touching you. Accurately measure your sleep using our proprietary nearable sleep sensing technology. Then enhance your sleep using the science of sound, light, and vibrations. Seamlessly connect with your smart lights and get them to turn off by simply charging your phone at night. This triggers your Sleep Journey – a series of sounds & light designed to make your sleep deeper. Trained sleep specialists can offer you tailored solutions that will improve your sleep. Read more at: https://sleepspace.com/   Visit https://passagetoprofitshow.com/ for the latest updates and episodes.
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Aug 22, 2022 • 53min

Manifest a Prosperous Mindset with Joel Salomon, 08-21-2022

This episode of The Passage to Profit Show features Joel Salomon from SaLaurMor Capital, Shawn Watts from Corfix and Florenica Cirigliano from RedCoach.   Joel Salomon is a financial expert, prosperity coach and the founder of hedge fund, SaLaurMor Capital and the Money Miracles Membership. Joel is an award-winning speaker and has led over 20 workshops teaching the concepts of how to overcome limiting beliefs and obstacles standing in the way of financial freedom. His coaching programs and workshops cover the topics of Investing, Manifesting and Saving/Budgeting. After spending decades in the financial industry running his own hedge fund, being a portfolio manager for one of the largest banks in the world, and analyzing, rating, and reporting on global insurers, he is on his latest adventure as a prosperity coach. In 2021, Joel published Personal Money Management bestseller, Infinite Love and Money with Mollie Singh. In 2019, Joel published The 9 Money Rules Millionaires Use: Only The Unconventional Ones, which was a bestseller in both self-help and personal finance. In 2018, he published Mindful Money Management: Memoirs of a Hedge Fund Manager, which also was a bestseller. Read more at: https://www.salaurmor.com/    Shawn Watts if the founder of Corfix, a jobsite software for construction companies. Corfix brings the desk and the field closer than ever. It lets your workforce complete critical tasks and documents from any browser or smartphone. The software makes it easy to assign tasks and documents, create custom forms and has built-in tracking and reporting. Expose blindspots and ignite productivity from one place. Click, sign, scroll, swipe, drag and drop your way to a simple digital workflow for hardworking builders. Fast adoption of Corfix means fast ROI for you. Streamline work between the desk and field using just one system that lets you focus on work at hand – increasing project quality and delivery time. Corfix is trusted by construction companies such as Bellai Alliance, Korban Drywall Contractors, Mansteel Rebar, REI MAR Forming Construction and Verdi Alliance. Read more at: https://corfix.com   Florenica Cirigliano is the VP of Marketing and PR for RedCoach, a luxury motor coach transportation service that provides first-class comforts affordably and conveniently, serving Florida and Texas. As the grand-daughter of the founder of Nicola Cirgliano who founded Argentina’s Grupo Plaza, the most successful and experienced luxury motor coach business in the country, Florencia brought the concept to the US as RedCoach. More than half a million passengers have traveled with the company as it has continued to grow and increase its stops, services and passenger benefits. RedCoach offers ultimate comfort with extra legroom and the ability to recline up to 140º — in first and business class. RedCoach hires only the most qualified drivers and monitors every mile of your ride with GPS and live cameras. Read more at: https://www.redcoachusa.com/   Visit https://passagetoprofitshow.com/ for the latest updates and episodes.
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Aug 15, 2022 • 54min

Using Your Intuition to Strategize Business with Kim Woods, 08-14-2022

This episode of The Passage to Profit Show features Intuitive Business Strategist, Kim Woods and Mike Indursky from Hear Me Raw.   Kim Woods is an Intuitive Business Strategist a healer, oracle, author and founder of the Intuitive Leadership Program. She’s wildly intuitive and not afraid to admit it and if it involves cards, crystals or flower essences, she’s certified in it! Add an MBA and more than two decades of corporate grit, and that’s Kim. Kim weaves strategy with magic to help her clients restore their intuition, earn WAY more money and claim their brilliance. Kim grew up in a family that kept astrology books on the coffee table. But she didn’t come fully out of the intuitive closet until her son was born with significant issues and she walked away from a highly successful corporate career to focus on healing. Now she weaves strategy with intuition to help clients restore their own intuitive knowing, earn more money, and claim their……wait for it……. brilliance. She loves to sew and weave threads and tapestries together. Yes, there’s a metaphor there. She’s got the credentials –  an MBA and countless master-level intuitive certifications paired with 25+ years of C- suite business experience. Kim has built multiple 7-figure brick & mortar businesses and am a former business consultant at Oracle. Her credentials all contribute to who she is. Kim has been featured in Forbes, INC and Yahoo and was declared one of the top female entrepreneurs disrupting the business world in 2022 by Entrepreneur Magazine. Read more at: https://www.kimwoods.com/   Mike Indursky is the founder of Hear Me Raw, a skincare line that is best for your skin, health, budget and the world. Mike has been in the skincare industry for well over 30 years and developed Hear Me Raw as an alternative to mainstream skincare products. Hear Me Raw is truly natural, vegan, gluten-free, cruelty-free and worry-free, using a panoply of carefully selected plant and earth-borne ingredients working together for maximum benefit. The products never have parabens, toxins, petro-chemicals, phthalates, silicones or hormone disruptors and are eco-friendly with reusable jars and lids, no plastics and the cartons made from recycled paper. The system saves almost 90% of the packaging materials used for similar skincare containers* and you save $10 each time you use their refill pod. Mike has been in the skincare industry for well over 30 years and developed HEAR ME RAW as an alternative to mainstream skincare products that have many problems such as: ingredients you shouldn’t be putting on your skin, packaging that’s bad for the environment, prices that are too high for products you don’t need. Read more at: https://hearmeraw.com/   Visit https://passagetoprofitshow.com/ for the latest updates and episodes.
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Aug 8, 2022 • 54min

Manufacturing Your Products in the USA with Jason Azevedo from MRCA, 08-07-2022

This episode of The Passage to Profit Show features Jason Azevedo from MRCA, Brittany Driscoll from Squeeze Massage and Becca Gardner from NKD LDY.   Jason Azevedo is a manufacturing expert and is the General Partner at MRCA (Manufacturing Revitalization Corporation of America), and is the co-founder of Advoque and Mosaic. MCRA works to revitalize America’s manufacturing sector to provide great products, made by fulfilled and well respected employees in the United States. It’s mission is to achieve increased employee wellness, enhancement in process, machinery, energy and communication. MCRA’s differentiator is the revitalization of the American worker through the addition of technology and training to create the most effective manufacturing workforce in the world. Jason’s companies Advoque and Mosaic (both currently under MCRA) develop platforms, campaigns and systems that help brands connect with their audience – including interactive retail displays, custom packaging, kitting, corrugate displays, injection molding and product manufacturing. Jason has had his heart in business development since an early age, starting a very successful apparel company that grew from humble garage beginnings to annual gross billings of over a million dollars. Jason has worked on many key projects for companies such as Arista Networks, Best Buy, Costco, Disney, EA Games, Intel, Roku, Starbucks, Target, WalMart, and Warner Bros. Read more at: https://mrca.net/   Brittany Driscoll is Co-Founder of Squeeze Massage, a franchise that is providing not only a “way better massage experience” for customers through its first-of-its-kind industry-leading technology in the retail service space, but also a “way better franchising experience” for potential franchisees. Squeeze’s revolutionary app-based booking and payment platform simplifies the process, allowing guests to book, pay, set personalized preference, tip, rate and review all at their fingertips, so they can walk in and float out. Prior to Squeeze, Brittany spent four years running marketing for Drybar, the original blow dry bar and the world’s largest blow dry bar franchise, where she helped take the company from $30M to more than $100M. Read more at: https://www.squeezemassage.com/   Becca Gardner is the founder of NKD LDY, a beverage company offering spirits without the alcohol. Unlike other no/low-alcohol spirits, NKD LDY doesn’t start with water, but with actual distilled spirits. Through innovation and technology, they gently remove the alcohol fraction from the spirits in a way that preserves as much of the spirits’ essence as possible. They then complete the beverages using flavor and aroma artistry acquired over decades of beverage development experience. Their product origins include tequila sourced from Mexico, whiskey made in Bardstown, KY, and a custom gin made with their partners in Milwaukee. Read more at: https://www.drinknkdldy.com/   Visit https://passagetoprofitshow.com/ for the latest updates and episodes.

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