Passage to Profit Show - Road to Entrepreneurship

This Passage to Profit - The Inventors' Show episode features Marci Hopkins, host of "Wake Up with Marci",  Nikol Rogers with The ZenRed Method, Anna Skaya from Basepaws and Dr. Ramses Alcaide from Neurable.   Marci Hopkins is an award-winning TV Personality; host, show creator and executive producer of “Wake Up with Marci” – which airs on CBS owned WLNY-TV, channel 10/55 at 10am on Saturdays. Wake Up is a talk show all about empowerment. Marci shares stories of triumph and transformation to spread hope. She touches on wellness, health, female issues, divorce, family, self help, mental health, beauty, along with performances from musical guests and cooking demos. She has specialists on to educate the audience, provide tools and resources. Wake Up is about living our happiest lives! Marci has been voted Media Mompreneur of the Year, by New Jersey Family Magazine, and featured on CBS New York; PEOPLE en Espanol; Latina Magazine; 201 Magazine; News 12 NJ; 201 Magazine, New Jersey Family Magazine, The Bergen Record, BOLD Global and other leading outlets. Read more at: https://wakeupwithmarci.com/ Nikol Rogers PCC, WPCC, is an empowerment coach, writer, and speaker who founded The ZenRed Method in 2015 to teach professional artists, speakers, entrepreneurs, and presenters how to be Fearless and embody a Powerful Presence, connect deeply with their audience, and stand out from the crowd. Using her signature ZenRed Method, her clients learn to re-frame how they think, feel, and act from a place of power, rather than from fear or limiting beliefs. Prior to becoming a coach, Nikol had a successful career as a musical theater performer and choreographer, performing in National Tours, commercials, and kicking eye high as a New York City Rockette. Read more at: https://nikolrogers.com/ Anna Skaya is the founder of Basepaws, offering the most advanced cat DNA test, as seen on Shark Tank! Tests reveal breeds, traits, health, dental disease and Whole Genome Sequencing using quick, saliva-based tests from the comforts of home. All lab results come from an accredited, LA-based Basepaws laboratory, and are handled by their scientists. Avoid emergency vet visits by identifying disease early, before it becomes visible and harmful. All reports sent straight to your inbox in 4-6 weeks. Read more at: https://basepaws.com/ Dr. Ramses Alcaide is a Neuroscientist and is the CEO and Co-Founder of Neurable, a company that makes technology that both can understand neural activity as a translational layer (Stress, Fatigue, and others) as well as be used for direct control of devices. Their revolutionary brain-computer interface allows people to control software and devices using only their brain activity. The technology has enabled people to play games, control toys and drive a full-sized car using only their thoughts. Neurable is currently taking pre-orders of their smart headphones. Read more at: https://www.neurable.com/   Visit https://passagetoprofitshow.com/ for the latest updates and episodes.

This Passage to Profit - The Inventors' Show episode features Warren Eckstein, host of "The Pet Show, Colleen Ferrary from Small Business USA, Robert Harbauer from Bondic and Jen Du from BiBi Beverages.   Warren Eckstein is a radio show host of “The Pet Show” and an internationally renowned pet and animal expert with a unique ability to understand and communicate with animals. He is also the author of 11 animal behavior books, and he has personally trained over 40,000 pets. Four decades ago, Warren single-handedly created an industry that didn’t yet exist, and within a short time, he was training supermodel Cheryl Tiegs’ dogs, which was soon followed by training David Letterman’s dogs, Bob and Stan. For 15 years he was the Pet and Animal Expert on Live! With Regis & Kathie Lee, followed by his regular appearances on NBC’s The Today Show as Contributing Pet & Animal Editor. Private celebrity clients throughout the years have included Al Pacino, Lily Tomlin, Liberace, Kathie Lee Gifford, Cheryl Tiegs, David Letterman, Rodney Dangerfield, and he became known as the official trainer to the NY Mob, among many other interesting clients. In his 40 years hosting The Pet Show on radio, Warren has helped over 100,000 pet owners with their pet's psychological, training, and behavioral questions.Read more at: http://thepetshow.com/ Colleen Ferrary is the founder of Small Business USA - committed to improving the lives of business owners and their teams by creating a community that affordably supports the full scope of their business growth. It is the answer to the needs of business owners with less than 150 employees. Small Business USA is proud to support private equity firms, fast-changing businesses, and clients with regular HR or hiring needs not satisfied by typical coaching relationships and private leadership and team training is available upon request. Advisory boards are hand-crafted with businesses in mind: Non-competing and fiercely intelligent CEOs, virtual meetings, hand-picked consultants who don't ride the bench, NDA protected. Small Business USA supports businesses’ leadership team and staff, allowing them to be inspired by other members of our community. The team is equipped to help unclog pipelines, create safe zones, and help strategize implementation. Read more at https://smallbusinessus.com/ Robert Harbauer is the inventor of Bondic®, the only product that works where glue fails. Bondic is the World’s First Liquid Plastic Welder, making glue look like the antiquated, third-rate, old-fashioned, laughable stepchild of paste that it’s always been. Bondic is liquid plastic that only hardens when you need it to. YES it stays liquid and won’t dry out like those crazy glues on the market today. Bondic® is a very simple 4-step process (clean, fill, cure and shape) to fix almost anything, saving countless precious items from ending up in the trash before their time, at https://notaglue.com/ Jen Du is the inventor of BiBi Beverages, natural alcohol detox drinks, composed of vitamins, natural extracts, and amino acids that helps you metabolize alcohol so you don't turn red or have other negative side effects when you drink. “Lighten Up” is the world’s first and only flush prevention drink. This grew into the current line of Bibi Alcohol Detox Shots which includes Morning After, the first next-day recovery drink and Nightcap, classic night time prevention. The detox shots are now available in 9 states with plans to expand to 26 states by the end of this year, at https://bibibeverages.com/   Visit https://passagetoprofitshow.com/ for the latest updates and episodes.    

This Passage to Profit - The Inventors' Show episode features Jeremy Miner from 7th Level Communications, Kevin & Laurie Lane from Create A Castle, Roy Carrillo and Darren Lancaster from Go Sleeves and Jessica Walker from J. Walker Salon Group.   Jeremy Miner is the Founder and Chairman of 7th Level Communications, (headquartered in Sydney, Australia), a sales training mastery company that helps businesses and entrepreneurs and sales professionals learn and master the “New Model” of Selling to achieve record-breaking performance. Jeremy’s particular brand of sales training pioneers the unique use of behavioral science and human psychology within the sales process. This scientific method of selling, created by Jeremy, has helped over 141,000 and counting salespeople in 37 countries over the last three years to 3x, 5x and even 10x their sales results. The New Model of Training - Neuro Emotional Persuasion Questions (N.E.P.Q) is a scientific sales methodology that works with human behavior (not against it) – eliminating all traces of sales pressure from your sales conversations. Read more at: https://7thlevelhq.com/ Kevin & Laurie Lane are the inventors of Create A Castle. They return to Passage to Profit to give updates about their growing company. Create A Castle creates molds that give families a fun, successful and frustration-free way of building elaborate castles, towers and whatever else you can dream up, in the sand or snow. All without struggling to use the traditional 1 dimensional sand molds and builds can be done quickly. No-longer will you be limited to 1 dimensional sculptures that all other beachgoers have. No longer will you tip your bucket and the sand sticks inside! Create A Castle allows you to be the envy of the beach or snow wherever you are and create impressive sand and snow sculptures in a matter of minutes, not hours! Read more at: https://createacastle.com/ Roy Carrillo and Darren Lancaster are the inventors of GO Sleeves, compression sleeves, with embedded kinesiology strips to achieve peak performance, pain management, injury prevention and accelerated recovery for athletes and active people. GO Sleeves increase recuperating blood and lymphatic flow to specifically targeted muscles, ligaments and tendons and provides targeted support for key muscles, ligaments and tendons that feels like being taped up by your physical therapist. GO Sleeves are more flexible and lighter than a brace, but far more supportive and corrective than a standard compression sleeve. You’ll be able to naturally and effectively recuperate from injuries using the same kinesiology technology prescribed by doctors, chiropractors and PT’s. Read more at https://gosleeves.com/ Jessica Walker is a beauty and wellness expert and owner of J. Walker Salon Group in New Jersey with 4 locations offering upscale beauty and wellness services, along with a bridal and event business. Jessica opened her business at age 19, and has built a multi-million dollar business over nearly 25 years employing doctors, aestheticians, cosmetologists, business and support staff. Most recently, Jessica launched her own skincare brand which is available in-store and online. Jessica has been a featured speaker and ambassador for national beauty brands and for women’s business leadership organizations and has won industry awards. Read more at https://jwalkersalon.com/    Visit https://passagetoprofitshow.com/ for the latest updates and episodes.  

This Passage to Profit - The Inventors' Show episode features Tom Pullen from Innovico, Johnny LeHane from Hudson Valley Startup Fund, Sahil Patel from BettorFantasy and Antonia Tamao from Antonia's Promise.   Tom Pullen Tom Pullen is the founder of Innovinco, a start-up that helps large companies to accelerate innovation. Innovinco designs & delivers people-centric solutions based on the biggest pain points large established companies can have regarding innovation. Clients include McCain, Toyota, Unilever, Estee Lauder & Quiksilver among others. Trained in Design Thinking by Stanford University, Tom started his Executive MBA at HEC Paris in 2017, majoring on Innovation & Entrepreneurship. Before founding Innovinco, he worked for 18 years in large corporations, including 5 years as Global Innovation Director at Danone. Read more at: https://www.innovinco.com/ Johnny LeHane is the Managing Partner at Hudson Valley Startup Fund (HVSF), a member-managed seed capital fund that invests in companies with proprietary technology, market-defining products, and rapid growth potential that have a presence in or around New York State’s Hudson Valley. HVSF serves as a catalyst, collaborating with academic institutions, regional economic development groups, and other organizations to provide access to additional capital and resources for growing companies. Read more at: https://www.street-smartentrepreneurs.com/ Sahil Patel is the founder of the app, BettorFantasy, a gamified experience enabling users to sync their fantasy sports league, predict and bet the outcome of their fantasy sports matchups and cash in for prizes as well as raise money for charity. Read more at https://www.bettorfantasy.com/ Antonia Tomao returns to Passage to Profit to give an update about her latest Indiegogo campaign for her company, Antonia's Promise, LLC. “God has granted me miracles, and I vowed to thank Him by creating these crosses to help others keep the faith during tough times. The figure featured on these crosses, broken and bent in prayer, represents all of us and the challenges we face.” Read more at https://www.antoniaspromise.com/ and https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/antonia-s-promise#/   Visit https://passagetoprofitshow.com/ for the latest updates and episodes.

Jennifer Thornton is the founder of 304 Coaching and has been developing her expertise in Talent Strategy & Leadership Development for over 20+ years as an HR Professional. She’s led international teams across Greater China, Mexico, the U.K., and the U.S. to expand into new markets, managing brands and franchise businesses. Running a high-performance team always boils down to two things: Adopting a “Perfect-Fit” hiring process and developing each hire according to his or her own individual and job-specific talent gaps. The rapid growth of 304 Coaching is largely due to Jennifer’s unconventional approach to building innovative workforce development solutions for companies who are facing breakthrough growth and accelerated hiring patterns. Jennifer is credentialed through the International Coaching Federation and holds certifications in several different coaching methodologies including Conversation Intelligence and Gallup Strengths. Read more at: https://304coaching.com/ On the Executive Spotlight is Ashish Toshniwal, CEO and co-founder of Y Media Labs, an award-winning digital product and design agency that builds best-in-class digital products for Fortune 500 companies and leading startups. In 2009, Ashish and his co-founder Sumit Mehra saw an opportunity to create a future-forward company that created mobile-first products and experiences to help brands win in a digital world. Under Ashish’s leadership, YML has grown to nearly 400 strong, with six locations around the world, and over 30 Fortune 500 clients, including Apple, The Home Depot, Facebook and State Farm. Ashish was one of Time Magazine’s Top 25 Inventions of the Year, and State Farm has the top score for JD Power. He’s also a TED speaker, and hosts “Y in the Valley” — a podcast for those who follow the change, not the plan. Read more at: https://yml.co/ Our Entrepreneur Presenter is Renaldo Webb, founder of PetPlate, providing healthy, fresh cooked food for dogs. PetPlate makes it easy for pet parents to nourish their pets with love by delivering freshly-cooked meals made from human-grade ingredients in their UDSA kitchen that do not contain any by-products, rendered meats or preservatives. The meals are designed by a veterinary clinical nutritionist for nutritional balance and are pre-portioned, customized, ready to serve and delivered direct to the customer, at https://www.petplate.com/   Visit https://passagetoprofitshow.com/ for the latest updates and episodes.

Victoria Wieck is a world-renowned jewelry designer, author, the host of "Million Dollar Passion” podcast and a TV shopping Celeb. Victoria built a $500 million business - the ultimate rags to riches story! Victoria is an immigrant from South Korea, and a mother, and attained the American Dream while prioritizing her family time. In 1989 she formed her own company on a shoestring budget. Over the next three decades, her jewelry career allowed her to travel to many places she’d only read about ever since she was a young girl. She has dealt with a wide variety of distribution partners, vendors, and millions of customers from 35 + countries around the world. From 1998 until 2017, Victoria was on HSN sharing her unique jewelry designs with millions of viewers with her monthly shows. Today she has her own show on ShopHQ, connecting with millions of viewers regularly. Victoria is also the author of “Shattered Sky”, a 94,000-word, Science Fiction/Young Adult Thriller. Additionally, Victoria began writing a “how-to” book, Living the American Dream Your Way: How to Turn Your American Dream into Reality (working title). Read more at: https://victoriawieck.com/ On the Executive Spotlight is Jenny DePaul, the founder of the non-profit organization, Project Kind, providing acts of kindness outreach. The organization provides needed items, mentors, information, referrals, fellowship and prayer to individuals in need. From its inception, Project Kind has set out to help those that are less fortunate. Bringing peanut butter jelly sandwiches to Newark, NJ, was just the start. Creating Kindness Notes and packing that into each sandwich bag let her new friends know that they are worthy of love and reminded them of it long after the sandwich was eaten. With the help of sponsors and affiliates around the world, Project Kind reaches more people in need than ever—and will not stop. By building a support system network, Project Kind seeks to create opportunities, inspire and engage the community to share in the journey of those in need who are working to overcome life’s challenges. Read more at: https://www.projectkind123.org/ Our Entrepreneur Presenter is Belal El banna, founder of the Single Origin Food Co. is the world's first single-origin food company, providing ethically sourced, organic, non-GMO produce, direct from our farms to your table. The company supports small farmers with sustainable practices that meet our standards for high-quality products, and the ethical treatment of their employees. Their organic, pesticide-free, and non-GMO products are brought direct from the farm to their packaging facility in Louisville, Kentucky, eliminating the need for middlemen from our process. Customers’ food arrives from farm to table, allowing for maximum transparency as well as the highest levels of quality control. Read more at https://thesofco.com/  

Lewis Chaney is a TEDX Alumni, Award winning Speaker, Photojournalist and Director with an extensive background in Television News, Entertainment News, Commercial Advertising and Independent Film. 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. 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. Read more at: https://www.gettothedamnpoint.com/ Akeelah Kuraishi is the co-founder of Little Global Citizens, a monthly subscription box helping parents to raise a generation of open minded children, by bringing the excitement of the world to their doorstep. Raising our Children to be Open-Minded Global Citizens has never been More Important. Little Global Citizens is a subscription box bringing the sights, sounds and sensations of different countries to your child's doorstep, nurturing an understanding of the world and a love for the people in it. Read more at: https://www.little-global-citizens.com/ Julia Rivard is the CEO and Co-Founder of Eyeread and a Canadian Olympic athlete who developed a learning platform via app and website to teach kids to read and boost their literary skills called Dreamscape. Dreamscape is for children ages 7-18 and is being used by more than 10,000 schools across the US and Canada and includes fun and free games. Dreamscape was developed by a team that included some of the top experts in literacy, classroom teaching, gaming, development, psychology and machine learning to create a literacy learning engine that would adapt the level of content to each learner based on their unique skills and interests and then present kids this content in a medium they would want to consume. Read more at: https://www.playdreamscape.com/   Visit https://passagetoprofitshow.com/​​​​​​​​ for the latest updates and episodes.

Lisa Ascolese is founder of Inventing A-Z, Lisa Ascolese, 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/Alexa Fischer is the founder of Wishbeads, an inspirational jewelry line offering empowering bracelet-making and goal-setting kits that enable their clients to identify and manifest the purpose and light within them. Write your deepest wishes, wear them daily, and witness the power of intention. Alexa Fischer is an actress, coach and motivational speaker on a quest to give wishes the power they need to become reality. She has appeared in many prime-time television shows including NCIS, CSI, Numb3rs and Bones. As a coach, she employs techniques she learned on the set and at the Yale School of Drama and teaches private clients, Fortune 500 companies and philanthropic organizations how to connect effectively to achieve personal and professional goals. Rea more at: https://www.wishbeads.com/ Jeff Gordon is the founder of Daisy Rain Sprinkler Pots, the only flower pots with an integrated sprinkler. Daisy Rain Sprinkler Saucers allow you to turn your favorite pots into Sprinkler Pots. Use them to add flowers or vegetables to any deck, patio, driveway, or business. There's no reservoir, and assembly is a piece of cake. Read more at: https://daisyraingarden.com/ Valerie Trapunsky is the founder of Chatterboss, a virtual Executive Assistant company that stands out from the rest. Chatterboss offers dedicated and on-demand remote executive assistants for entrepreneurs….thought partners and outsourcing coaches, invested in your success. Their highly-trained executive assistants are organizational gurus, strategy partners, and client management experts. They are your remote resource helping you attain long-term business success and personal peace of mind. Chatterboss Executive Assistants understand the inner workings of your business, have a clear sense of your goals, and are your point-person for all of your outsourcing needs. Read more at: http://chatterboss.com/   Visit https://passagetoprofitshow.com/​​​​​​​​ for the latest updates and episodes.

Alex Sanfilippo is the host of the top-rated entrepreneurship podcast, Creating a Brand, and the founder of PodMatch.com, a free service that matches podcast guests and hosts together for interviews. Alex started his first business at the age of twelve; selling used golf balls. From there, he went on to real estate investing and a technology start up which he sold years later. For the past decade, Alex has been an executive in the aerospace industry. During his time in corporate America, he stayed active with his side hustles; which mainly consisted of conference speaking and business coaching. Read more at: https://creatingabrand.com/ Kristi and John Coppa are the inventors of Wondergrade, an app that helps parents teach their kids how to regulate big emotions, build resilience, practice empathy, and find their calm. Wondergrade offers mindful movement activities, self-regulation tools, and comprehensive meditation exercises which are all research-backed, kid-friendly and parent-appreciated. Parents have access to application tips and articles explaining the research behind each activity. The Wondergrade app provides the tools and education necessary for the entire family, fitting seamlessly into daily life. It is the perfect companion on the journey to support our children's mental well being. Read more at: https://www.wondergrade.com/ Nicolas Mendiharat is the founder of Palate Club, a wine club offering an ultra-personalized access to the world’s most interesting wines, matched to your taste with computer learning. He offers a “blind tasting” experience with a Blind Tasting Kit shipped to clients, which includes four premium, international wines with the labels hidden. Customers rate the wines and their ratings are used to create a personalized wine profile with wine suggestions! Palate Club sources sustainable, finished wines of the highest quality from around the world and use clients’ wine profiles to match them to their taste. Clients can set up hassle-free shipping and flexible delivery options directly from the app. Read more at: https://wine.palateclub.com/   Visit https://passagetoprofitshow.com/​​​​​​​​ for the latest updates and episodes.

Mike Duffy is the founder and CEO of Happiness Wealth Management and formerly an SVP of Wealth Management at Merril Lynch. He is a sought after speaker and top authority on both happiness and money. Yes, there are experts on happiness and experts on money, but not both. Everybody wants to be happy. Everybody wants to be financially secure. Why not learn the skills to both in one talk or workshop? They don't teach this in school! Your company's employees will laugh, think and be empowered to make positive changes in their life. Mike loves to encourage people that you can overcome any obstacle on your way to your greatest self. No matter what has happened in your past, you can rise above and gain victory. Employees will be better equipped to interact more compassionately with each other, which helps boosts morale and reduce turnover. Read more at: https://mikeduffyspeaks.com/ Edward G. Reitler is a partner at Reitler Law, a New York-based full service boutique law firm that delivers responsive, high quality legal services to sophisticated business clients. Ed handles a wide variety of corporate matters including private equity, venture capital, mergers & acquisitions, fund formation, capital markets and joint- venture transactions. Ed is one of the leading venture attorneys in the northeast and has represented dozens of venture funds and their portfolio companies. Notable venture funds include Las Olas, Armory Square, Tishman Speyer Proptech, Spark Capital, FTV Capital, Safeguard Scientific, Edison Partners, Starvest, First Round Capital, Milestone Ventures, Tribeca Venture Partners, New Spring Capital, New and many others. Read more at: https://www.reitlerlaw.com/ Evaguel Rhysing is the Founder and CEO of UAT (United Aircraft Technologies), a Sikorsky Innovations Award-Winning company that believes in the power of innovation and how it can keep humanity moving forward to further frontiers. The company continuously develops new technology that facilitates aircraft maintenance, improves aerospace safety, monitors wiring integrity, and increases fuel economy, collaborating with industry experts and leaders in order to develop a new class of aircraft parts designed to increase fuel savings, decrease payload, and improve operations and maintenance costs. Read more at: https://uairtek.com/   Visit https://passagetoprofitshow.com/​​​​​​​​ for the latest updates and episodes.