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Giving away 100,000 is fun for Monica Martinez of Comerica Bank and Vittoria Katanski of Hatch Detroit – Hear all about the Small Business Alumni Relief Fund to help entrepreneurs who have been financially affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Monica Martinez: Martinez joined Comerica in 2006, and under her leadership, Comerica has been named to the Hispanic Business Magazine's Diversity Elite 60 list (in the top 10) in addition to being highlighted as the number one company for Supplier Diversity for two consecutive years, and Latina Style Magazine named Comerica as one of the top companies for Latinas to work. Additionally, during her tenure, Comerica launched a Spanish website and began accepting the Matricula Consular identification card at Comerica banking centers nationwide. Fluent in Spanish and English, Martinez holds a bachelor's degree from Eastern Michigan University, where she majored in International Business with a focus in Marketing. For her graduate work, she studied Interdisciplinary Technology with a concentration in Business Management at Eastern Michigan University. She earned certificates in Nonprofit Management from Duke University and Corporate Community Relations Management from Boston College. Martinez also is a graduate of the prestigious SMU Management program and is certified in Diversity Management from Cornell University. Martinez actively serves on the board of the Michigan Hispanic Chamber, SER Jobs for Progress National, New Detroit, the Metropolitan Affairs Coalition, and is the chairperson of the Girl Scouts of Southeast Michigan Hispanic Advisory committee. Vittoria Katanski: Vittoria is the Executive Director of Hatch Detroit. She has spent the majority of her career and personal life working on positive projects in the City of Detroit. Using a combination of her background in Marketing and Urban Planning she has been able to provide unique ways to move the city forward through the creation of targeted neighborhood marketing efforts, and the creation of area-specific events. She is a resident of the City of Detroit and believes the City to be one of the best places to live and raise a family. She resides in West Village with her husband, son, and three dogs. She is a runner, a rower with the Detroit Boat Club Crew, and cures her own meats. 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 Monica Martinez and Vittoria Katanski: Websites: https://www.comerica.com/ — https://hatchdetroit.com/

Jon and Vikram talk about the importance of blogging, videos, and consistency. Vikram is the co-founder of phoneBlogger.net & Videosocials.net. Vikram Rajan has presented on behalf of every major Bar Association in the Greater New York City area. His marketing column premiered in the AICPA's CPA Insider publication in Fall 2009 and became the most popular column in July 2010. Vikram Rajan has presented in front of many networking groups & organizations: American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) • National Network of Accountants • National Conference of CPA Practitioners • NYC Bar Association • New York County Law Association • New York Women's Bar Association • Nassau County Bar Association (Academy of Law) • New York State Council on Divorce Mediation • Association of Conflict Resolution (GNY) • National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (Queens) • Association of Divorce Financial Planners • U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) • and more. Vikram's 2008 book, 365 Marketing Thumb-rules: Daily Reminders for Rainmakers, has received praise from over 15 organization leaders within the legal, accounting, financial services, and real estate professions. His marketing columns have also appeared in the New York Real Estate Journal, Financial Advisor magazine, Long Island Business News, Dominican Times magazine, Personal Branding magazine, and more. Vik has taught classes for the Fashion Institute of Technology and has been invited by C.W. Post (Long Island University). Vik has also been quoted by the Wall Street Journal's Startup Journal, Entrepreneurship magazine, Channel Pro, & more. In January 2005, Vikram was named a "Top 40 Under 40 Rising Star" by Long Island Business News. Connect with Vikram: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vikramrajan/ https://videosocials.net/ https://phoneblogger.net/ 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!

Season 10 of The Seven Minute Sales Minute is upon us. We're just in time to sprint to year-end. 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 and Brett discuss deferred sales trusts. Brett Swarts is the Founder of Capital Gains Tax Solutions and host of the Capital Gains Tax Solutions Podcast. Each year, he equips hundreds of business professionals with the Deferred Sales Trust tool to help their high net worth clients solve capital gains tax deferral limitations. Brett is considered one of the most well-rounded Capital Gains Tax Deferral Experts and informative speakers on the west coast. His audiences are challenged to lean into multiple capital gains tax deferral strategies, create and develop a tax-deferred passive cash flow optimal timing wealth plan of their own, and execute on this plan so they can create and preserve more wealth. 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 Brett Swarts: Websites: http://capitalgainstaxsolutions.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/1031option Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/deferredsalestrust/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brett-swarts/

Jeff Katkowsky is a dynamic business leader who has found much gratitude and experience as a principle of two thriving local companies: Sachse Construction and Zolman Restoration. Sachse Construction is a 25-year-old, medium-sized commercial general contracting/construction management firm providing premium construction services throughout the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. Zolman Restoration is a 5-year-old full-service insurance restoration contractor based in Walled Lake, MI. When not working, Jeff enjoys spending time with his wife and 3 kids. 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 Jeff Katkowsky: Website: https://zolmanrestoration.com/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ZolmanRestoration/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/6610143/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtBQILruKESn5bkA7f2k1BA/videos

Jon and Dayne talk about the importance of blog writing. Dayne is the owner of Ghost Blog Writers, a blog writing services provider for businesses and agencies. He lives in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, with his wife and daughter. 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 Dayne: www.ghostblogwriters.com https://twitter.com/DayneShuda

Jon shares a quick tip on how knowing your metrics can help you grow your business. 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 and Randall talk with Thomas and Thomas about their book: Black and White Like You & Me. Thomas C. Marsh Nickname | Cookie Born in 1951 in Laurel, Mississippi, I moved to Detroit, Michigan with my family as an infant and I've been here ever since. We spent summers in Mississippi to visit family. I had a public school upbringing but was firmly grounded in the church. I have a graduate degree in social work from the University of Detroit. I'm married to Annette and we have seven children. My wife and I enjoy our yearly trips to Jamaica or some other Caribbean locale. My nickname of "Cookie." When I was little, I loved cookies and would charm my great aunt into making them for me. So I became known as her "cookie nephew." The name stuck all these years. If you're in the city of Detroit and you mention Cookie Marsh, most people will know who I am. My ancestors can be traced to slavery and African roots. I realize the fear, anger, and hardship these relatives went through only for one reason: the color of their skin which they had had no control over. My Mother and Father settled into Mississippi because that is where their parents and grandparents were born. Obviously, they had no control over how they looked or where they lived during their younger years. My dear, deceased father, in search of a better life for himself and his family, heard of work at the car companies in Detroit, Michigan in the early 1950s. Can you imagine the courage it took for him to uproot leaving everything familiar behind? Can you perceive the fear he must have faced in order to find a better opportunity for him and subsequently for me? I adore him for that decision. Coming to Detroit afforded him a job, a better way to make a living. But where would he live? The choices for blacks were limited to say the very least. My Father settled us in at the Jeffries Project which I tell you about in the book. He left the comfortable and familiar surroundings of relatives and environment and cast himself into a place of chaos and confusion. The Temptations song "Ball of Confusion" would have been perfect for him only it was created many years later. Thomas F. Daniels Nickname | Whitey Born in 1948 in Detroit, Michigan, I've lived in the metro Detroit area my whole life (except for a short two-year stint in Rapid City, South Dakota in 1980). I was a good Catholic boy and attended Catholic school then went on to the University of Detroit. I'm married to Joan and we have six children. My nickname is "Whitey" … now before you make a snap judgment about that name, it has nothing to do with race. Originally it had to do with the Bowery Boys. My brother Bob was nicknamed "Sach," also a Bowery boy. As the name continued to follow me, it evolved into the color of my skin. I am two shades darker than an albino! If we somehow had control over who our parents were – who we were born to – what choices would we have made? Would we want to be born in the same socio-economic condition? Would we want the same Mother, Father, and relatives? Would we want to live in the same state or even the same country? Would we have wanted to be Black or White? For those of us who believe, this birth was in God's plan. Heck, my mother always said that my propensity to have a protruding stomach was due to the Heath side of her family. No sit-ups could ever conquer that condition. I personally always thought it was due to the amount of beer I used to drink! But anyway, the point is why do we put so much emphasis on what people look like? They had no choice in the matter. It always troubled me that kids would be teased even to the point of bullying because of what they looked like. As a former Dean of Students at Brother Rice High School, I would emphatically explain to the perpetrators the error of their thinking and acting. I worked for over thirty years in an affluent high school where the students had everything they needed and wanted. One student drove a Maserati to school. Another was often late because his valet service was slow in bringing his car up to the house in the morning. As with Cookie, I grew up getting most of what I needed and very little of what I wanted. My point is this: so f-ing what!!??!! Those were the cards that we were dealt with. Life is learning how to make the best of the blessings we were given and to use the opportunities that presented themselves. 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 Thomas C. Marsh and Thomas Daniels: Website: http://www.blackandwhitelikeyouandme.com

Jon and Nick discuss how to match your passions with your skills to find your calling. NICK DAVIS is the prior VP of Enterprise Solutions and current Faculty Chair for Corporate Innovation at Singularity University. Nick is a recognized thought leader in the innovation space who specializes in identifying exponential trends that enable enterprise organizations to deliver customer value through new and existing technology platforms. Nick is also a Venture Partner at Bold Capital, which invests in high-growth startups that leverage exponential technologies. He's previously served as External Innovation Leader for PwC and the Director of Corporate Development for The Anderson School of Management at UCLA. Connect with Nick: https://www.futurereadythebook.com/ https://twitter.com/_Nick_Davis https://www.instagram.com/nickdavisinnovation/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickdavisinnovation/ 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 and Jamie provide strategies, tips, and best practices on how to run and grow a small to a large thriving business with a part or full-time virtual team. 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 Jamie Garavaglia: Website: www.virtualadminconsultant.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jamieg_virtualadminconsultant/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Jamie-Gavaglia-Virtual-Administrative-Consultant-102494711546751 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/jamie-garavaglia-virtual-administrative-consultant