Passage to Profit Show - Road to Entrepreneurship

This episode of the Passage to Profit Show features David Taylor-Klaus from DTK Coaching, Kerry Barrett from Kerry Barrett Consulting and Veronica Alston from Golden Dew Drop.   David Taylor-Klaus is a coach for entrepreneurs, executives and teams, founder of DTK Coaching and has been a serial entrepreneur for three decades. In 1995 he launched an internet strategy & web development company (used to have to teach people what the internet was so that he could sell them a site!). He is a mentor coach for the oldest/largest coaching school (Co-active Coaches Institute) and for the International Coach Federation (ICF). David helps entrepreneurs & senior executives who are achieving success professionally but seeing that growth come at the expense of personal fulfillment. He has spent thousands of hours his clients succeed professionally AND personally. David is the author of the best-selling new book “Mindset Mondays with DTK: 52 Ways to REWIRE Your Thinking and Transform Your Life”, available on Amazon worldwide. The book helps readers recognize that they always have a choice: you’re not stuck, you're not bound by a fixed set of capacity and capability, and you don’t have to be at the whim of unconscious beliefs. You ARE limitless! David is also a Gold Medal Rower (very retired!). Read more at: https://dtkcoaching.com/ On the Executive Spotlight is Kerry Barrett, Emmy Award winning TV news anchor, formerly at Fox and NBC. Now she helps business, business owners and brands create and fully leverage video for growing authority and revenue. That means full-scale video production or virtual content creation for media and PR opportunities, websites, brand stories, social, video funnels, digital video ads, digital courses and online training videos. It also means digital body language and on-camera delivery coaching and training for the individuals in the C-suite, or employees and associations. Kerry also helps with business development through video content…hosting virtual summits, emceeing and moderating events, hosting video podcasts and being the face for digital and mini-courses designed to generate leads. Read more at: https://kerrybarrett.com/ Our Entrepreneur Presenter is Veronica Alston,, founder of Golden Dew Drop, a unique company of natural and organic products where all ingredients were revealed to her during prayer and worship. Products include Pain Oil to combat body pain, Black Elderberry Liquid for health, Tea of Life for health and Penetrator Hair Growth Oil. Every product has gone through client trials and holds a 95% efficacy rate. Here is a short list (attributes from various Golden Dew Drop ingredients): increasing memory, getting rid of damaged cells that cause cancer, increasing kidney and liver function, healing on a cellular level (meaning skin, muscle, tissue), increasing circulation quite like a natural stent, decreasing and eliminating cysts, significantly reducing or eliminating pain in seconds, significantly reducing or eliminating bad inflammation in 2- 4 minutes. Read more at: https://goldendewdrop.com/   Visit https://passagetoprofitshow.com/ for the latest updates and episodes.

This episode of the Passage to Profit show features Pete Mohr from the Simplifying Entrepreneurship podcast and Business Made Simple, Taryn Abrams from Empower Behavioral Services and Liz Giorgi from soona.   Pete Mohr is the host of the Simplifying Entrepreneurship podcast and a Business Made Simple Certified coach. Pete has owned and operated businesses in service, trades and retail and has operated franchise and independent businesses. Currently, he owns footwear stores called Shoetopia in Ontario. As a former business broker, Pete helped people buy and sell businesses and now uses that background in helping business owners create turn-key businesses so that they can enjoy the freedoms that entrepreneurship can deliver. He strongly believes that business owners deserve to live the life that they want and spend the majority of their time working "on" their businesses, not "in" them. Pete's specialty is creating and explaining frameworks that simplify leadership, strategy and communication across the business. Read more at: https://simplifyingentrepreneurship.com/ On the Executive Spotlight is Taryn Abrahams, a corporate behavioral and human interaction expert and the founder of Empower Behavioral Services, a full-service consulting and training company focused on helping businesses strengthen interpersonal relations. Through the company’s innovative consulting and training workshops, corporate teams, managers, and human resource executives are educated and empowered to manage and lead with confidence, determination, understanding, and finesse. Workshops cover a variety of areas, including diversity training, communications training, and unconscious bias training, with a focus on authentic employee interactions. Leveraging her experience as a psychotherapist, Taryn’s innovative suite of workshops are designed to enhance employee morale, foster collaborative and productive workplace environments, and nurture employee loyalty and ambassadorship. Read more at: https://www.empowerbehavioralservices.com/ Our Entrepreneur Presenter is Liz Giorgi, the co-founder of soona, a virtual photoshoot platform that offers pro photo and video in 24 hours. Services in include photo and video for ecommerce, lifestyle, social media images, headshots and more. soona allows users to create content virtually without leaving their home and with free shipping. Upon starting the company, Liz was immediately faced with the pandemic. Instead of recoiling, she leaned into the chaos and soona exploded. Not only has the company gone from about a dozen to over 100 people, but she's been featured on the likes of NPR regarding the company's Candor Clause. It's an open-source legal disclosure for inclusion in fundraising documents to foster conversations between founders and investors about gender equality. Read more at: https://soona.co/   Visit https://passagetoprofitshow.com/ for the latest updates and episodes.

This episode of the Passage to Profit Show features Gene Sower from Samson Media, Paul Volen from Website Closers, Adonica Shaw from Wingwomen and Brent Johnson from Clarus R+D.   Gene Sower & Paul Volen are sharing the featured guest speaker spot in this episode to discuss selling a business. Gene Sower is the President of Samson Media, a web design and Internet marketing company, serving small and medium-sized businesses since 2006. Services include website design, search engine marketing, SEO, social media, content marketing, email marketing and more. Paul Volen is a Business Broker and Advisor with Website Closers, a full-service brokerage service. Website Closers represents sellers of online businesses (eCommerce, Amazon, etc.) and acts as the negotiator, allowing businesses to get the best price and terms when buying or selling a business. Paul worked with Gene to sell Samson Media, and created a consulting arrangement with buyer so that Gene can still work for Samson Media as a consultant and while maintaining his title of being the President of the company. Read more at: https://samsonmedia.net/ and at https://www.websiteclosers.com Adonica Shaw is an author, speaker, trainer, women's health and wellness advocate and founder of Wingwomen, a health-focused social media network for women. The platform is currently in Beta, but provide access to peer support, advocates, health coaches, and concierge medical professionals through our private social media platform and easy-to-use directory. The Wingwomen platform provides access to individuals and professionals who are interested in providing potentially life-saving information to its users in an effort to improve women’s wellness outcomes. Read more at: https://www.mywingwomen.com Brent Johnson is the Co-Founder of Clarus R+D, a technology-driven solution for claiming the R&D tax credit through a combination of software and experts. The R&D Tax Credit stands for the Research and Experimentation (R&E) tax credit - a federal benefit that provides companies dollar-for-dollar cash savings for performing activities related to the development, design, or improvement of products, processes, formulas, or software. Businesses often understate their credit or overpay for their study but Clarus makes it easy for companies to maximize their benefit and reduce overall cost. Read more at: https://clarusrd.com   Visit https://passagetoprofitshow.com/ for the latest updates and episodes.

This episode of the Passage to Profit Show features Emmy Wu from Emmy Wu Media, Bryan Fried from Rapid Grow LED and Jason Elliott from Perfectly Snug.   Emmy Wu is a founder of Emmy Wu Media, developing creative video marketing strategies to help visionary entrepreneurs tap into ice-cold audiences, so they can have a tidal wave of sales and generate recurring income for years to come. With 2 decades of experience in the Hollywood film industry working with brands like MGM, Paramount, Disney, and Real Housewives, Emmy brings big-screen storytelling elevate your online presence and take your empire global. She believes in disruptive storytelling anchored in truth over predatory persuasion tactics, and leverage what makes your brand remarkable into marketing campaigns that educate and inspire. Read more at: https://www.emmywu.com/ Bryan Fried is the Founder and CEO of Rapid Grow LED, producing high intensity, high efficiency LED horticulture grow lights made in North America. With 350,000 square feet of research and development, testing and manufacturing in North America, RapidGrow is a vertically integrated operation that produces all of its products in house. More than 600 employees produce products for the greater lighting industry. RapidGrow’s lighting capabilities extend to a wide variety of lighting products. RapidGrow was designed specifically for the horticultural industry with these high standards as a blueprint. RapidGrow’s manufacturing operation is designed for high volume production and can accommodate any client need from a small home grow operation to an advanced commercial facility. Read more at: https://rapidgrowled.com/ Jason Elliott is the inventor of Perfectly Snug, The world's first smart topper that adjusts cooling & heating while you sleep. Your body temperature changes while you sleep. Why shouldn't your bed? The Smart Topper is a specialized 2 inch layer that sits on top of your mattress. It has built-in sensors that automatically adjusts its temperature to keep you sleeping comfortably all night long. Features: The controlled cooling airflow will keep you at the right temperature. The dual zone feature lets each sleeper control their side of the bed. Sensors measure and adjust the cooling and heating. Flexible controls let you customize your sleep temperature. Read more at: https://perfectlysnug.com/   Visit https://passagetoprofitshow.com/ for the latest updates and episodes.

This episode of the Passage to Profit Show features Sandy Wollman from Westchester Angels, Chaim Letwin from Suffolk University, Noah Trofimow from Paper Bag Mask Foundation and Greta Thurston from Study Buddies Tutors.   Sandy Wollman co-created both Westchester Angels and The NY Area Angel Alliance, an initiative that brings together the largest angel groups in the greater NYC area. He also spearheaded Westchester Angels’ partnership with the Jumpstart NJ Angel Network. Sandy’s insight and intellect has been featured in Forbes and on Zee TV’s “Break Through the Crowd.” Prior to angel investing, Sandy was a product development engineer at 3M Corporation, where he was awarded a U.S. Patent for a hook and loop fastener (Velcro) with superior tensile strength. He was also a longtime partner in Carna Mills, a textile converting company, and an independent financial planner. Sandy served as the Pro Bono Director of the Financial Planning Association’s Westchester Chapter. Outside of work, Sandy created and self-funded The Small Business Advisory Alliance, a non-profit organization which mentored small business owners in Westchester, NY. Read more at: https://westchesterangels.com/ Chaim Letwin is the Director of Entrepreneurship, Associate Professor, Management and Entrepreneurship at Suffolk University. His primary research interests focus on the processes through which entrepreneurs obtain capital through various funding mechanisms and how these processes differ based on personal attributes of the entrepreneur and biases that funders hold. His recent work includes an analysis of implicit funder bias and how such bias can benefit female entrepreneurs in crowdfunding. Chaim has also applied his interest in crowdfunding to the classroom and co-created one of the first live crowdfunding classes in the nation. Read more at: https://www.suffolk.edu/academics/faculty/l/e/chaim-letwin   Noah Trofimow is the founder of Paper Bag Mask Foundation, which strives to combat the ongoing mental health crisis in America by helping teens and young adults manage stress and anxiety while building confidence in their ability to cope. The Foundation’s mission is to de-stigmatize mental health and provide the public with supplemental and preventative treatments for stress and anxiety by offering free, holistic classes as a supplement or alternative to traditional treatments. The three-pillar approach includes movement, creativity and meditation. Read more at: https://www.paperbagmaskfoundation.org/ Greta Thurston is the founder of Study Buddies Tutors, a tutoring and academic mentoring service that pairs middle and high school students up with college students to foster a fun positive learning environment! Three different services offered include Personalized Mentoring, Advanced Subject Tutors and Group Study Sessions. Tutors are all current college students, background checked, qualified, go beyond academic help by teaching students how to be good studiers and how to manage all of their classes as well as provide a positive life role model. Read more at: https://studybuddiestutors.com/   Visit https://passagetoprofitshow.com/ for the latest updates and episodes.

This episode of the Passage to Profit Show features Kristina Mand-Lakhiani from Mindvelly, Greg Fisher from TripShock! and Jessica Jackely from Alltuists.   Kristina Mand-Lakhiani is a serial entrepreneur, speaker, mother, philanthropist, everyday-life philosopher, and a woman on her own journey of spiritual growth. She is also the co-founder of Mindvalley, a global school that delivers transformational education for all ages. Kristina has been engaging in the personal transformation industry for over 15 years, collaborating and playing with leading thinkers and teachers in consciousness, relationships, human performance, and life optimization. She started her career working for the government of Estonia, where she was born and raised, before she joined the non-profit sector and worked for organizations such as the United Nations, Oxfam, and AIESEC. In 2003, she co-founded Mindvalley — a global school that delivers transformational education for all ages. In 2009, she launched Mindvalley Russian, taking Mindvalley’s best authors and teachings to the Russian-speaking market. Read more at: https://kristinamand.com/ Greg Fisher is the founder of TripShock!, an online travel market place dedicated to low priced tours, activities, and attractions in family-friendly vacation destinations. The company has hundreds of tour providers in popular destinations in the United States including Destin, New Orleans, Panama City Beach, and Gulf Shores. TripShock! continues to have success by offering a wide range of great travel products that consistently satisfy and meet the demands of modern travelers. TripShock! offers experiences in 50 US destinations at 1000+ attractions offered, with 570k average online visitors per month, 15k average bookings per month and 1.6 million monthly page views. Read more at: https://www.tripshock.com/ Jessica Jackely is the founder of Alltruists, at-home, kid-friendly volunteer and giving projects delivered every month created in partnership with amazing nonprofits. Build compassion. Build empathy. Build meaning. Customers can 1.) Choose one box or subscribe to monthly boxes that will educate and inspire. 2.) Enjoy age-appropriate content, answers to tough questions, hands-on activities, and more. 3.) Take action through unique service projects co-designed with leading nonprofits. Read more at: https://alltruists.com/   Visit https://passagetoprofitshow.com/ for the latest updates and episodes.

This episode of the Passage to Profit Show features relationship strategist Dr. Gilda Carle, "The Inventress" Lisa Ascolese from Inventing A to Z and Brian Van Hecke from Curated Wellness.    Dr. Gilda Carle, PhD is the media’s Go-To Relationship Strategist & Performance Coach, serving clients worldwide. As a celebrity media personality, she was the therapist on TV’s Sally Jessy Raphael show, as well as other TV & news shows, from Howard Stern to Dateline. She also conducts Relationship Wellness for the Bottom Line keynotes for corporations & medical facilities, including Columbia University Medical Center. As President of non-profit Country Cures® (www.CountryCures.org), she uniquely applies Country Music to empower 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, including “Don’t Bet on the Prince!” (test question on “Jeopardy”), “How to WIN When Your Mate Cheats” (literary award winner from London Book Festival), and “Don’t Lie on Your Back for a Guy Who Doesn’t Have Yours” (featured on National Enquirer’s Health Page). Her latest book is entitled “Amplify Your Media Presence, Amplify Your Brand.” Read more at: https://www.drgilda.com/ Lisa Ascolese The founder of Inventing A-Z, is our guest host in this episode filling in for Richard Gearhart. Lisa has been taking ideas, hers and many others, from concept to fruition for over 35 years and counting. This New Jersey-based entrepreneur, consultant, and agent has successfully created, patented, marketed, and launched dozens of products in QVC, HSN, national retail stores and more. She also runs the networking group AOWIE and has conferences and events throughout the year. Lisa’s clients products have been featured on QVC, HSN, Bed Bath & Beyond and may other established retailers. Not only do her clients have access to my hands on approach and extensive knowledge but they can also take advantage of her Inventing A To Z Virtual bootcamp teaching industry information and Motivational Monday Zoom calls every week to help keep them motivated. Read more at: https://www.inventingatoz.com/ Brian Van Hecke is our entrepreneur presenter – he is the founder of Curated Wellness, offering professional-quality supplements and custom curations with zero guesswork plus personalized nutrition coaching. Curated Wellness inspires people to live their best and healthiest life by providing sustainable and practical solutions to eliminate the guesswork around nutrition and supplements. Customers choose a membership plan, take an assessment and receive supplement recommendations, customized solutions, consultations, health evaluations, dietary and lifestyle recommendations and more. Read more at: https://curatedwellness.com   Visit https://passagetoprofitshow.com/ for the latest updates and episodes.

This episode of the Passage to Profit Show features Joni Rogers-Kante from SeneGence International, Tadas Žiemys from Dogo App and Juliana Martins from Eleven11 Media Relations.   Joni Rogers-Kante returns to Passage to Profit! She is the founder of SeneGence International, a Multi-Level Marketing cosmetics company which has become a globally recognized leader in the industry. In 1999, Joni partnered with an award-winning scientist to develop a never-before-seen liquid lip color: LipSense®. LipSense quickly skyrocketed in popularity for its long-lasting ability. With a simple three coat application, LipSense delivers gorgeous color that stays on for up to 18 hours. Today, the SeneGence line of anti-aging skincare and long-lasting cosmetics includes over 300 products, sold by tens of thousands of Independent Distributors across the globe. SeneGence has core operations in the USA, Canada, Australia, Mexico, New Zealand, and Hong Kong, with products available in many other places across the globe. Joni is also the author of the book, “Million Dollar Lips”, a testimonial to Joni’s journey as a businesswoman who built a company of her dreams with others and with a strong sense of destiny. Read more at: https://web.senegence.com/ Tadas Žiemys is the founder of Dogo App, the first dog training app offering personal feedback through video exams. Nobody who has a dog at home, could deny that he/she is an inseparable part of the family or one of your best friends. However, in order to become good friends, you have to spend a lot of time together and be able to communicate with one another. With Doggo users can teach their dog different tasks and tricks, improve communication skills and spend more quality time together. This app can also be used for cats and other pets! Read more at: https://dogo.app/ Juliana Martins is the founder of Eleven11 Media Relations, a one-stop shop for securing top-tier media coverage and results for brands and individual clients. Eleven11 Media Relations provides strategic consulting and solution-based services to amplify client messaging through strong media and influencer relationships as well as key industry knowledge. Her business has grown 8x since she started just 9 months ago and has recently worked with celebrities like Meghan Trainor, Rachel Zoe, and numerous reality stars). Read more at: https://www.eleven11mediarelations.com/   Visit https://passagetoprofitshow.com/ for the latest updates and episodes.

This episode of Passage to Profit - The Inventors' Show features Eric Edmeades from WildFit and Business Freedom Academy, Renée Adams from Hoppy & Poppie PinkCheeks™ and Bryan Rhode from ACUMEN.   Eric Edmeades is a serial entrepreneur, an internationally recognized business speaker and the founder of WildFit, Business Freedom Academy among other companies. Eric started his first business at 27--mobile computing and data capture--and sold it after 9 years to private buyers. Eric bought Kerner Optical, the original studios of Industrial Light and Magic and worked on Avatar and films in the Iron Man, Transformers, Terminator and Pirates of the Caribbean franchises. Eric was also the founder of Kernerworks, the creator of award-winning and life-saving medical simulation equipment for military and first responder applications. His current company WILDFIT® is a fast-growing health transformation phenomenon that helps people permanently change their relationship with food. WILDFIT has, for two years in a row, been the highest rated program on the Mindvalley platform. Through his Business Freedom Academy, Eric coaches and mentors business owners and entrepreneurs. Eric is also an adventurer and has completed 7 Kilimanjaro expeditions, travelled to 60 countries and has spent a great deal of time, over the last 10 years, with the Hadza people of East Africa (hunter-gather tribe). Read more at: https://www.chonacas.com/ Renée Adams is a children’s book author and the founder/owner of the Calm In Your Palm®, Hoppy & Poppie PinkCheeks™ and Learn.Love.EQ.™ brands. She and her team enthusiastically and diligently create and develop books for toddlers and babies along with entertaining and relatable characters/products to teach children about their emotions. The stories and products focus on well-being and teaching children (and their parents) emotional intelligence and make learning fun. Renée is a certified Goleman Emotional Intelligence coach, a Whole Modern Parent emotional intelligence “Collective Expert” and serves on the board of the non-profit, My Conscious Coaching Group. She has recently launched two baby and toddler board books, Hoppy and Poppie character plush, the "Patoo" character blanket and EI/EQ wristbands (Happy, Sad, Excited, Scared, Angry and Calm) for the Hoppy & Poppie PinkCheeks™ brand! Read more at: https://hoppypoppie.com/ Bryan Rhode is the founder of ACUMEN. Bryan liked to wear a sharp crisp dress shirt but the problem was keeping his shirt tucked and tight while he moved around all day. A Marine earlier in his career, Bryan knew shirt stays could help with the problem, but he also knew traditional shirt stays were time consuming for daily wear. So he found a solution and created the patent pending ACUMEN Set. A comfortable, well-cut shirt, stylish socks, and a handy strap - all functioning seamlessly together as one. ACUMEN’S handy shirt stays keep shirts tucked and pulled in all the right ways. Bryan’s intent from the beginning has been to build a brand that offers unparalleled innovation, quality, and style for every aspect of a man’s wardrobe. Read more at: https://www.shopacumen.com/   Visit https://passagetoprofitshow.com/ for the latest updates and episodes.

This Passage to Profit - The Inventors' Show episode features Katie Chonacas, actress and artist, James Jensen from Limitless Flight JUMP, Emily Grey from The Flourish Market and Lynne Eichenbaum from GardenSleeves by NOMPI.   KYRIAKI aka Katie Elizabeth Chonacas is a a multi-disciplinary Greek American artist working in the entertainment industry for two decades. From producing films starring A-list actors like Forrest Whitaker, to touring Spain and South Africa with megastar 50 Cent, and appearing in top television series such as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Katie Chonacas is multi-talented in nearly every facet of the industry – her omnipresence is undisputed; her talent is hexagonal. As a cartoon animation voice-over artist, she has been branded “Cartoon Katie”and brought to life characters such as Soup from Minecraft: Story Mode – Season 2, Georgia as Nancy Drew’s best friend, to name a few. Katie is also the FIRST NFT artist to release a poem on love on the blockchain. Katie is a published author of a new poetry book titled, A Lover’s Fairytale. She is also the host of the She’s All Over the Place podcast, focused on business in entertainment, the arts, culture, education. As a musician, under the name of “Saint Kyriaki”, Chonacas’ she released her debut album, “Dreamland 1111”. Read more at: https://www.chonacas.com/ James Jensen is an entrepreneur committed to working with leading-edge technology and eager to solve problems surrounding how we interact and engage with each other in physical and virtual worlds. He isthe previous creator and co-founder of the world-renowned virtual reality company The VOID. Within the last 25 years, James founded and managed several technology companies in video streaming, social networks, mobile games, and creative services. He has partnered with Disney, Sony Entertainment, FOX, MGM, Intel, Microsoft, SyFy, Dreamworks, and MTV through those ventures. He is now launching a new form of virtual reality, called hyper reality, in the form of the multi-sensory entertainment company JUMP. JUMP will allow people to come as close to jumping and flying as the real thing, but without all of the risk. Read more at: https://www.limitlessflight.com/ Emily Grey is the founder of The Flourish Market, a keynote speaker, small business coach, and impact entrepreneur with a special focus on helping makers and brand owners land + grow wholesale accounts. Five years ago, Emily founded her brick + mortar and online boutique, The Flourish Market, building it to a million dollar business in less than 3 years with zero paid advertising. She is also the Founder of The Locality, a co-working space + incubator program for 60 female entrepreneurs in Downtown Raleigh, NC. Pre COVID, you would find her speaking on national stages for Brendon Burchard, at Alt Summit, and leading maker retreats, but she now enjoys speaking and training via Zoom alongside her new pandemic puppy Henry. Read more at: https://emilygreyco.com/ Lynne Eichenbaum is the inventor of GardenSleeves by NOMPI, gardening and work gloves are patented and proudly handmade in New Jersey, USA with love! The GardenSleeves protect your arms while working outdoors. Cover up and Ditch the Itch! The idea for GardenSleeves gardening gloves came about when Lynne contracted poison ivy after tending to my vegetable garden. She wanted a sleeved gardening glove that was lightweight, breathable and machine washable. So she made herself a pair, LOVED the result, and couldn’t wait to share them with her fellow gardeners! Keeps arms free from scratches, sunburn, poison ivy, mosquito bites, wild parsnip burn, stinging nettles and so much more! Read more at: https://mygardensleeves.com/   Visit https://passagetoprofitshow.com/ for the latest updates and episodes.