Coffee with Jon - Think Big. Get Unstuck. Grow Your Business

Jon and Simon Thomas talk with Magie Cook, CEO, Keynote Speaker & Author, MC Enterprises, LLC. They discuss the mindset to adapt for a successful business. Magie bases her success on three concepts: resilience, resourcefulness and relentlessness. She starts with resourcefulness because she realized early on that all of the resources she needed were within her. Magie, whose birth name is Magdalena De La Cruz Cook Garcia, is a Latino businesswoman who was born in an orphanage in Mexico. She grew up in poverty along with 68 brothers and sisters. She missed her opportunity to play basketball for the Mexican National team because she broke her collarbone. Shortly after she immigrated to the US on a basketball scholarship at the University of Charleston. After obtaining her college degree, and not being able to find a job, Magie became homeless and lived on the streets. When someone recognized her, she was given a place to stay. A few weeks later, she entered a Fresh Salsa competition for the State of West Virginia and won unanimously. At this event, she was given $800 to start her business. Not knowing anything about business and with perseverance, she created Maggie's All-Natural Fresh Salsa's & Dips, a company that grew into a multi-million-dollar business within 4 years and distributed products across 38 states to major supermarkets such as Wal-Mart, Sam's Club, Whole Foods and many more. At the height of her success in 2015, Maggie's Salsa sold to Campbell's Soup. Shortly after, she went back to Mexico and rescued 31 orphaned children from a drug cartel. As a CEO, Magie shares her unconventional and unique techniques that made her super successful in life and in business. She was given a Nobel Entrepreneurial Prize in Mexico, the Small Business Administration gave her the Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, the University of Charleston Awarded her into the Hall of Fame, and West Virginia inducted her into their Generation Next, 40 under 40. Magie is a board member of AFIRE Pinellas, an organization that provides educational scholarships to kids with disabilities. Magie's company has been mentioned and featured on the following news and Television Networks: CNN, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, NBC, USA Today, The Washington Post, Fox News, Daystar, the American Dream Television, The Shelby Report, Kiplinger, Executive Magazine, ABC, CBS, the show Ask Dr. Nandi, and has been featured in many more tv, radio shows, magazines and newspapers. Magie is the author of the book Mindful Success™ - How to use your mind to transform your life (Amazon). She's also the founder of success workshops and a success masterminds for personal and professional development for individuals and companies. She founded a movement with an idea to solve the generational issue of human (sex) trafficking. In 2019, she began working with the AOF Hollywood Dreams International Film Festival to make a feature film about her story. Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejondwoskinexperience/ Website: https://jondwoskin.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jondwoskin/ Email: jon@jondwoskin.com Get Jon's Book: The Think Big Movement: Grow your business big. Very Big! Connect with Magie Cook: Website: www.magiecook.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/magiecook/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MagieCook Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/magiecook1/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/magiecook LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/magiecook/

Are you new to the business scene and wants to hear tips from someone who already owns a business? How about tips from someone who also does business coaching? In today's Q&A episode, Jon answers the question "What is one thing you wish you knew when you were 18 that you know now?" Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejondwoskinexperience/ Website: https://jondwoskin.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jondwoskin/ Email: jon@jondwoskin.com Get Jon's Book: The Think Big Movement: Grow your business big. Very Big!

Do you often get objections when making your sales pitch? Do you fear asking questions that could raise objections? In today's episode, Jon and Scott talk about how you can overcome objections. Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejondwoskinexperience/ Website: https://jondwoskin.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jondwoskin/ Email: jon@jondwoskin.com Get Jon's Book: The Think Big Movement: Grow your business big. Very Big!

Jon talks with CFO, Avec O'Brien about how the right CFO in your company can accelerate your decision making and growth! Avec G. O'Brien, is the U.S. & Mexico Controller for Mastronardi Produce/SUNSET. In this role she is responsible for the financial affairs of the organization and focuses on a broad range of financial, operational, strategic and executive leadership issues impacting the organization. Avec is an Officer of the Board of Directors of the Detroit chapter of Financial Executives International (FEI) and a National Board Director at the Association of Latino Professionals for America (ALPFA). She is a graduate of Leadership Detroit (LD XXXIII). Previously, Avec was Chief Financial Officer of the Detroit Science Center. Before that, she was a manager in the assurance and enterprise risk services practice of Deloitte & Touche, LLP. Avec also worked as office manager at Heidrick & Struggles and as Senior Accountant at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Mexico City. Simultaneously, Avec was an associate professor at the MBA program of the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. Avec has served as board member and as a volunteer of several Detroit-area nonprofits. She is the founding president of the Michigan chapter of ALPFA. Avec earned her Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Public Accounting from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. Additionally, she earned her Master in Business Administration with Distinction from the University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross School of Business. Avec is a Certified Public Accountant and a Chartered Global Management Accountant. Avec resides in Novi, Michigan, with her husband Joe and sons James and Michael. Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejondwoskinexperience/ Website: https://jondwoskin.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jondwoskin/ Email: jon@jondwoskin.com Get Jon's Book: The Think Big Movement: Grow your business big. Very Big! Connect with Avec O'Brien: Website: https://www.financialexecutives.org/Network/Chapters/Detroit/Home.aspx

Jon shares more tips on branding - from the importance of brand audit to refining your message to connect with your customers and more! Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejondwoskinexperience/ Website: https://jondwoskin.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jondwoskin/ Email: jon@jondwoskin.com Get Jon's Book: The Think Big Movement: Grow your business big. Very Big!

Jon talks with CEO, Siddharth Rajsekar, AKA Sidz, about how to get clients in the door with the right digital strategy! Siddharth Rajsekar, AKA Sidz, is a musician turned digital geek. For the last seven years, Sidz has been running a digital agency that has represented clients like Robert Kiyosaki, Jack Canfield, Tony Robbins and many more. He's the creator of the Freedom Business Model and is on a mission to create a million digital leaders. He currently nurtures one of India's largest tribe of coaches and experts who are building their own digital ecosystems. Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejondwoskinexperience/ Website: https://jondwoskin.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jondwoskin/ Email: jon@jondwoskin.com Get Jon's Book: The Think Big Movement: Grow your business big. Very Big! Connect with Siddharth Rajsekar: Website: https://siddharthrajsekar.com/

Jon talks with Aditya Nagrath, founder and CEO of Elephant Learning, about how simplifying learning and business makes successful students and business owners - from math in colors to business in labels. Aditya Nagrath is the founder and CEO of the world's most effective math learning platform — Elephant Learning. Build math intuition and overcome math anxiety from preschool to middle school mathematics with a low monthly subscription fee. Elephant Learning is a story about the concerning math proficiency statistics that continue to trend down. Students begin that downward spiral as early as pre-school. Our platform equips parents and children with the tools necessary to fully understand math concepts and ultimately build confidence. I know that it is never too late to understand math. At a young age, many of us had the experience of being told that "we are just not a numbers person." Books have been written on this social phenomenon, and half of all Americans report having math anxiety. As it turns out, mathematics is really about learning jargon, a jargon that is so fundamental to humanity that we consider it vocabulary. Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejondwoskinexperience/ Website: https://jondwoskin.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jondwoskin/ Email: jon@jondwoskin.com Get Jon's Book: The Think Big Movement: Grow your business big. Very Big! Connect with Aditya Nagrath: Website: https://elephantlearning.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adityanagrath/

Are you wondering what's the most effective way to email your prospects? Do you want to know what to include in your email to get a higher response rate? In today's Q&A episode, Jon answers the question "When emailing prospects, is it necessary to reply from a previous read that you sent which may or may not have been responded to already?" Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejondwoskinexperience/ Website: https://jondwoskin.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jondwoskin/ Email: jon@jondwoskin.com Get Jon's Book: The Think Big Movement: Grow your business big. Very Big!

Jon talks with Rob Volpe, CEO of Ignite 360, about how you can bring compassion to your business by following the 5 Steps in Building Empathy. Rob Volpe is an astute observer of life and a master storyteller who brings empathy and compassion to the human experience. As CEO of insight strategy firm Ignite 360, Rob leads a team of insights, strategy and creative professionals serving the world's leading brands across a range of industries. Rob is driven by a boundless curiosity about human nature and a passion for exploring what motivates people. He loves figuring out why we behave as we do, like what we like, and often say one thing and do another. Rob started Ignite 360 with the intention to push beyond asking 'why' in order to deliver real-life business implications for his clients in creative ways that help the clients retain the learning. He regularly draws on his years of marketing management and promotions experience with the likes of Kraft Foods, Wild Planet Toys, Pepsi, Sprint, and Science Diet Pet Food. As Rob went into research he started developing insights for industry leaders such as General Mills, Target, Pinkberry, and Warner Bros. Rob frequently speaks at conferences, corporations and college classes and has been quoted in Advertising Week, Mashable, Huffington Post, TheStreet.com, Gourmet Retailer and the Chicago Tribune, among others. When he's not speaking at industry conferences, listening to consumers share their stories around the world, or adding to his million-plus miles flown, Rob can be found catching a wave in Waikiki or at home in San Francisco with his partner, Charles, and their three cats, reveling in the rare luxury of standing still. Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejondwoskinexperience/ Website: https://jondwoskin.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jondwoskin/ Email: jon@jondwoskin.com Get Jon's Book: The Think Big Movement: Grow your business big. Very Big! Connect with Rob Volpe: Website: https://www.ignite-360.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/1786109/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/i360sparks/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/i360sparks Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/i360sparks/

Join us in this BREWtiful day as Jon shares the power of branding. Jon will give us tips on how to plug back in to your brand and how you can evolve your brand in a post pandemic world. Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejondwoskinexperience/ Website: https://jondwoskin.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jondwoskin/ Email: jon@jondwoskin.com Get Jon's Book: The Think Big Movement: Grow your business big. Very Big!