The Business Power Hour with Deb Krier

Draye Redfern is a recognized authority in direct-response marketing, trusted by New York Times bestselling authors, Shark Tank investors, and fast-growing companies across the globe. With two successful exits—one to a Berkshire Hathaway company—Draye brings both strategic insight and real-world execution experience to every client he serves. He’s the founder of FractionalCMO.com, a premier service for $1M+ businesses seeking elite marketing strategy without the cost or complexity of hiring a full-time CMO. Using a proprietary front-end audit and the ANCHOR Marketing Framework, Draye and his team create clear, customized 12-month roadmaps that help companies convert more leads, increase retention, and dominate their niche. Draye also leads Redfern Media, a full-service agency that has helped over 1,500+ businesses—from publicly traded companies to the mom-and-pop shop on Main Street—replace outdated tactics with scalable systems that drive measurable results. Additionally, he’s the author of The Recession Survival Guide: Strategies for Entrepreneurial Resilience in Turbulent Times.

Stephen Ridley is a former Wall Street banker turned internationally acclaimed pianist and founder of Ridley Academy, where he’s helped over 35,000 students worldwide unlock their musical potential. Known for his high-energy performances and unconventional life journey, Stephen teaches people how learning piano can rewire the brain, improve focus, reduce stress, and build lifelong discipline. He has performed for royalty, celebrities, and entrepreneurs across 40+ countries, proving it’s never too late to start something new and transform your life through the power of music.

Bill Ellis is a master at unlocking the fearless potential in others. A veteran of corporate brand management for more than 25 years at global beverage giant Anheuser-Busch, Bill has come to learn and deliver his true value in the past decade as a public speaker, certified coach and brand architect for individuals and businesses. He's an executive coach who works with successful leaders who are asking themselves a question they can't ask anyone else: 'What's the point of all this?' You know - the CEO who built a $50 million company but feels empty, or the executive who climbed every rung of the corporate ladder only to realize they're not sure why they're climbing it. He’s also the author of several books, including Women Who Won. A devoted father and grandfather, and husband to Tara Rogers-Ellis, Bill divides his time between St. Louis, Missouri and Dubai, United Arab Emirates – traveling the world and broadening his knowledge and following along the way.

Sharon L. Tasman is the Founder and Partner of HTBiz Law, with over 30 years of legal experience and an over $6 Billion deal portfolio. After nearly two decades at one of the world's largest law firms and at a global pharmaceutical company, Sharon founded HTBiz Law to provide clients of all sizes with “big law” experience coupled with the personal attention of a boutique law firm. Sharon represents clients, from startups to multinational companies, in the areas of technology and IP; consulting, contracts and other business issues; and life sciences. As a 40+ female entrepreneur herself, Sharon has a special interest in helping women and members of the Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) community start and grow businesses. Combining her years of legal experience, with “real world” technical experience and first-hand business background, Sharon is uniquely suited to understand all of the different demands and obstacles that solo and small businesses face - and how to overcome them.

Skye Waterson is an ADHD strategist, coach, and founder of Unconventional Organisation, a multi-six-figure business dedicated to helping entrepreneurs and executives stay focused, build consistent revenue, scale sustainably, and get their time back. After being diagnosed with ADHD during her PhD, she realized that traditional productivity advice didn’t work for her brain. She immersed herself in research, testing and refining strategies that actually helped her stay on track. Now, she helps entrepreneurs and executives: Escape distraction loops and focus on what actually moves the needle. Build ADHD-friendly systems that make consistency easier, without feeling boxed in. Scale their businesses in a way that feels sustainable, not exhausting. Step into leadership with confidence and feel in control of their time and energy.

Andrew Newland is the Founder and CEO of Functional Medicine Marketing and the author of Digital Marketing & SEO For Functional Medicine Practices: The Best Online Marketing Methods for Getting More Calls, Better Leads & Bigger Profits. Since 2020, he has helped integrative and functional medicine clinics grow through SEO-driven marketing strategies tailored specifically to the unique needs of private practice. Andrew has been a featured guest on The Functional Nurse and The Junto Podcast with Scott Rattigan, JD, and regularly speaks to clinicians about building sustainable, patient-generating marketing systems.

CEO, board member, best-selling author, and acclaimed international speaker, Adam Coffey is a visionary leader who drives transformative growth and fosters high-performance cultures. With 21+ years of experience as CEO, Adam built three national service companies for nine private equity sponsors. Completing 58 acquisitions, his track record includes notable outcomes measured in billions. Adam is a respected mentor to MBA candidates and a sought-after speaker at top business schools. He brings diverse expertise from commercial and industrial service businesses, alongside being a licensed general contractor, pilot, former GE executive, and US Army veteran. As an author, Adam's books The Private Equity Playbook, The Exit Strategy Playbook and Empire Builder all became #1 Amazon Best Sellers. He founded the The Chairman Group in 2021, providing consulting services to private equity firms, their portfolio companies, and to founders seeking to scale, do M&A, and exit.

Known for helping attorneys and professionals become bestselling authors and get positioned as experts in their practice area, Melanie Herschorn wants to help you step into your spotlight as an authority. As a publisher and book marketing strategist and founder of Big Impact Books, she’s on a mission to empower new authors to make an impact and grow their income with their signature book. With her comprehensive background of over 20 years as a celebrity publicist, award-winning journalist in radio, print and TV, as well as a clothing designer and entrepreneur, Melanie is uniquely positioned to support authors to step into thought leadership and make a big impact with their book. She earned a master's degree in journalism from the University of Southern California where she graduated first in her class. Melanie grew up in Canada has lived on both US coasts and now resides in Arizona with her husband, daughter and son, her dog Marty and her cat Phoebe. Her award-winning book, Make a Big Impact with Your Book, is now available. Click here to purchase.

Starting out at age 25, Tanya Alvarez self-funded her first New York ad agency, using credit cards, and achieved zero to 1 million in revenue in the first year. Along the way, she traveled to 42 countries, completing the Boston and NYC Marathons and a Half Ironman, all while battling a rare brittle bone condition. Tanya is a classic underdog story, and she’s on a mission to help you own your life, not just your business. Through OwnersUP, Tanya aims to empower you to win at work without losing at home, utilizing facilitated accountability sprints to scale your business sanely and enable you to live your ideal life now.

Dr. Ravi Iyer, MD, TEDx speaker, author, coach, and President of Reston Towncenter Toastmasters Club, is a renowned expert in personal and professional transformation. As CEO of IR FocalPoint, Iyer Clinic, and ActivPower Inc., he helps high-achieving individuals, including C-Suite executives, entrepreneurs, celebrities, and athletes, unlock their full potential through mastery of inner silence. His acclaimed programs, such as “Art of Living Leadership” and “Cognitive Alignment Workshop,” empower clients to break free from limiting patterns, achieve clarity, and cultivate purpose-driven lives. Specializing in rapid mindset shifts, Dr. Iyer guides individuals from a consumer mindset to a creator’s perspective, enabling decisive action and freedom from mental clutter. As a podcast guest, Dr. Iyer delivers actionable insights on mental clarity, work-life balance, and aligning life with core values, inspiring listeners to embrace change and achieve deeper fulfillment and success.

METAL.MEN partner/CEO Will Henshall is a veteran start up entrepreneur, inventor, and an artist. He’s an experienced personal growth leader, specializing in men’s work and is an equal left/right brain thinker which means he can imagine, create, and then build big picture visions. He founded the UK band Londonbeat in the early 90s and wrote the global #1 hit song ‘I’ve Been Thinking About You’. In 1995, he founded San Francisco based Rocket Network (pro audio cloud collaboration), and sold it to Avid in 2003. In 2010, he started up Focus@Will, music streaming for work, with 2 million users today.

The entrepreneurial journey for Dennis Balonze began when he was 12, sweeping floors in his uncle’s barbershop in Paterson, New Jersey. He was inspired by the sense of community and business hustle, eventually earning his hairdresser license while still in high school. After graduation, Dennis worked in salons to master his craft and, in 2001, he purchased an 80-year-old barbershop in Montclair, New Jersey. That shop grew into multiple locations and sparked his interest in real estate investing. At 22, Dennis bought his first two-family investment property in Belleville, New Jersey. Managing and renovating it taught him the power of passive income and appreciation. In 2005, he used a 1031 exchange to expand, which led him to Huntsville, Alabama, and the founding investment career. He later invested in Fort Benning, Georgia, and partnered with firms like Borland Capital to underwrite deals and scale his knowledge. After two decades in the barbering business, Dennis sold off his shops to focus fully on real estate—specifically real estate investing. Check out Dennis’ YouTube channel, BarberUPP!

Margie Oleson, Ed.D. helps leaders crush their goals with better clarity and alignment among teams. As the founder and CEO of Oleson Consulting, she is a dynamic speaker and leadership expert who shares knowledge from her education and decades of experience in corporate America – from a variety of industries, including American Family Insurance, Ameriprise, Cargill, Catholic Charities, Ecolab, Securian Financial, St. Jude Medical, Target HQ, UCare, Lockheed Martin, and more. Leaders aren’t set up to develop or adopt the right leadership skills and behaviors. Left to ‘make it up as they go’, most learned from past leaders… who were also making it up! Dr. Oleson helps leaders develop the right leadership capabilities to grow and maintain high-performing teams, which is the single greatest strategic advantage for any organization.

Cheri Quinn is a brand and marketing strategist who specializes in asking open and honest questions and listening with an open heart and mind. As the Director of Brand Strategy at Mercury Creative Group, Cheri is a master at discovering and communicating an organization’s essential value. With a wealth of experience in brand strategy, strategic planning, marketing, and communications, she has helped numerous organizations discover their unique value and voice.

Vance Morris helps business owners get, serve, and keep clients for life through creating experiences and response required marketing. He is a former birth control factory security guard turned Disney leader, turned bankrupt out-of-work executive, turned carpet cleaner, turned successful entrepreneur. Now, he’s the founder of DSN Institute, helping businesses create customer experiences that drive extraordinary customer referrals and profits. Vance has a gift for our listeners. Click here to receive 52 Low Cost Ways to Wow Your Customers.

Kara Kenan is the founder & CEO of the Cancer Wellness Institute, where she trains and certifies cancer coaches globally. A passionate advocate for cancer survivorship, Kara has developed evidence-based programs that empower patients, survivors, and health professionals. She also serves as the Executive Director for Going Beyond the Pink, a North Carolina-based breast cancer support nonprofit, and Marketing & Communications Manager at the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS). Kara is actively involved in cancer policy and advocacy with NCCS and the Society for Integrative Oncology, and has been a treatment guideline reviewer with American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO). Leveraging AI, she has scaled her online courses, enhancing accessibility and support for cancer coaches worldwide. With over a decade of experience in coaching, advocacy, and curriculum development, Kara is dedicated to bridging gaps in survivorship care through education, innovation, and policy work.

Bianca Best is a woman of impact. She is an award-winning global business leader, best-selling author, founder and CEO of The Burnout Business and Energy-SCAPE™ method, certified coach, keynote speaker, and solo parenting mother of four who is passionately eradicating the world’s burnout epidemic at scale. She is the author of Big Impact Without Burnout: 8 Energizing Strategies to Stop Struggling and Start Soaring. Click here to purchase.

Rich Horwath is the founder and CEO of the Strategic Thinking Institute where he facilitates strategy workshops to help executive leadership teams think, plan, and act strategically to set direction, create advantage, and maximize their leadership performance. He is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of eight books on strategic thinking, including his new book: STRATEGIC: The Skill to Set Direction, Create Advantage, and Achieve Executive Excellence. Click here to purchase STRATEGIC.

Bofta Yimam is an Emmy Award-Winning Journalist, International Speaker and the Founder of StoryLede®, a fractional marketing and communications agency that uses storytelling to position companies and their CEOs as industry leaders so they can skyrocket their visibility, impact, and growth. Before launching StoryLede, Bofta worked as a local and national TV correspondent for more than a decade, including reporting from the White House for CBS News. She is the first Ethiopian-American newscaster to receive an Emmy award and is a sought-after speaker who’s spoken in London, Africa, as well as across the U.S. Bofta is the recipient of multiple awards, including the 2023 Women Enterprising Women award. In 2025, Bofta was selected to be on the national forum for WBENC - the largest certifier of women-owned businesses.

Marcey Rader is a multi-award-winning speaker, consultant, coach, and author who helps individuals and teams reclaim their workdays with health-powered productivity™. As the founder of RaderCo, she works with companies to reduce burnout through sustainable habits. She is a TEDx speaker and one of only 900 Certified Speaking Professionals® globally. Marcey’s books include Work Well. Play More! and her latest, Reclaim Your Workday, Sustainable Productivity Strategies for the New World of Work. Marcey’s energy doesn’t slow down offstage—when she’s not watching her husband perform as a professional drummer, she’s doing walking meetings, sipping iced coffee, or jumping rope in Raleigh, NC. Click here to purchase Reclaim Your Workday.