The Biz Bros Podcast

Dr Elena Pawęta is an executive communication coach, speaker, TEDx organizer and university professor. Elena conducts courses, training and workshops on effective communication and business presentations on an international scale with an extensive list of high profile clients. Elena, the host of the “IDEAS+LEADERS” Podcast, has coached over 3,000 people from 30+ countries and is a certified trainer and coach by Dale Carnegie training. A passionate mom of 2, she is also an ardent leader in the Non-profit space as a TEDx organizer for 8 years, organizing live and online events reaching over 40 000 people in total; and previously as a District Director in Toastmasters International for 5 different European countries and responsible for 2000 organisation members. Get ready for a conversation with a driven, highly educated, and well traveled expert with a passion for helping leaders and public speakers reach their full potential.

On this podcast, we discuss the power of leading with authenticity. Bobby G breaks down his career and path as an entrepreneur while sharing some nuggets of wisdom for anyone listening. You will NOT want to miss this episode!

Jackson Millan, also known as The Wealth Mentor, has spent the last 14 years shaking up the wealth industry and proving what a real wealth coach and strategic adviser should do. Having crafted his own ‘Values Based Advice’ model, Jackson has worked to shift control back into the hands of the people when it comes to working towards achieving financial freedom. Helping 6 and 7 figure service businesses... Jackson co-founded Aureus Financial, a wealth coaching and strategic advice business serving service businesses around the world, which now does over $5m with 30 staff and over 800 clients globally. Jackson is an International best selling author in 8 countries and has personally coached over 1,000 clients to build over $1.5 billion in combined wealth and aims to change the lives of thousands more over the years ahead.

Bill Coletti is a reputation management, crisis communications, and professional development expert. When relationships are critical to your business, your reputation is one of the most important assets you manage. In today’s podcast, we’re joined by Bill Coletti - a highly experienced and sought-after reputation management strategist and speaker. Get ready for a deep dive session into the world of corporate crisis management.

Paul Mackiewicz is an Army Veteran and experienced marketing professional. He opened his digital marketing agency to provide professional service businesses with a trustworthy and knowledgeable team in their corner who live up to the values he learned in the military. Paul truly enjoys offering up actionable tips that can be put into place right away to help small businesses grow. He specializes in helping medical professionals, lawyers/ attorneys, accountants and others within the professional services space get their digital marketing efforts off the ground. Before starting his company, Paul served in an executive role at two different INC 5000 fastest growing companies in the digital marketing industry. He was once a Golf Professional and small business owner, fueling his passion for fellow entrepreneurs and the struggles they face marketing their businesses today.

Joining us today is Dr. Stephen Timme, Founder & President at FinListics. FinListics provides Insight-Led Selling with an executive buyer’s Perspective. Stephen co-authored the best-selling book, Insight-Led Selling: Adopt an Executive Mindset, Build Credibility, Communicate with Impact. With his extensive experience in finance and sales, and experience working with major players like IBM and CISCO, Stephen has learned a thing or two about sales that has also improved their marketing tactics and he is here to share some of these insights with you.

Gil Bar-Lev founded HomeRoots combining his passion for furniture, eCommerce, and technology to disrupt the way selling and buying furniture is done with a novel wholesale platform. HomeRoots leverages “community buying power” by uniting sellers of furniture, lighting and home décor and retailers and licensed trade in one place, making the B2B shopping experience in this vertical as easy as the B2C shopping experience. They help sellers and buyers increase profit margin and reduce overhead. Gil began his career as a software developer and moved quickly into senior leadership for the startup he worked for in the early 2000s. Recognized as a technology innovator, he was invited by multiple software development groups and corporations around Europe to train CTO’s and IT managers for best practices on web development. He moved to New Jersey in late 2002 and led a major financial project for Toys-R-Us, networking their physical stores around the globe with their headquarters. Witnessing the development of online commerce in real time, Gil was tasked by Toys-R-Us to strategize and lead their technical integration with Amazon.com. Since his departure from Toys-R-Us, Gil launched other online businesses and consulted with various companies in the wholesale, retail, eCommerce, and logistics verticals. Gil has BSc in Computer Science from HIT Israel, and MBA in Marketing & Finance from Rutgers University News Jersey. He lives with his wife Dafna, 3 children and their dog in New Jersey.

Colin is a podcaster, international speaker, PhD and founder of The Podcast Host and Alitu, a podcast maker app. Colin started out in Astrophysics, before realising, to his dismay, how much maths were involved. A zig-zag route through education, marketing and the web brought him to Podcasting, which has less maths, but just as many puzzles and fun ones at that. He started ThePodcastHost.com in 2011 as a resource to help people create successful podcasts. It’s now one of the biggest and oldest Podcasting learning resources on the web. Colin went on to found Alitu.com in 2018, a web app that helps podcasters effortlessly create their shows. Alitu takes care of the tech, and makes podcasting accessible to anyone. It offers a custom set of tools for recording, building and editing epic podcasts easily. If you fancy starting a podcast, check out Colin’s big guide over at thePodcastHost.com/start.

Andy Hooper, CEO of Global E-Commerce Experts, has been successfully expanding e-commerce brands into new markets for over 15 years. An accomplished specialist in e-commerce, Andy now works with companies around the world providing comprehensive gateways and solutions to new markets, especially US-based organisations transitioning into Europe. Starting from the ground up, Andy has carved out a niche inspired by his own experience and success of growing an organisation’s profits through e-commerce. With an infectious energy for success, Andy leads a team of professionals in all aspects of e-commerce. With fulfilment centres in the UK & EU, the Global E-Commerce team provide hassle-free end to end solutions that have helped 1000’s of sellers capitalise on the multi-billion dollar UK & EU markets. When not working, Andy can often be found enjoying sailing, cycling, and kayaking with his friends and family on England’s south coast.

Clint White is that quiet English major from a small town who figured out how to decode the marketing world globally. He has 30 years of experience with business building, often in extremely challenging circumstances. He has guided some of the world’s largest, most impactful and ambitious mission- driven and equally profit-driven marketing teams. In addition to his role as a marketing consultant, he’s a teacher, advisor, investor, writer, and business- builder who drives innovative, dynamic businesses, nonprofit organizations and social impact enterprises to be the best version of themselves. Recognized as a Crain’s New York Business Top Entrepreneur, he was also presented with a Communication Arts Award of Excellence, a Leadership Award for driving social change through media at the Social Impact Summit at the United Nations, and an International Davey Award. In addition, he also served as an advisor to the Obama White House Office of Public Engagement on Social Impact Media. Clint is a consultant to companies and organizations that pique his interest. He created and co-hosts the podcast Tattoos, Not Brands. His first book by the same name is set to release in July 2022.

Chris is a SaaS and eCommerce conversion copywriter. He was former UX lead at the usability testing startup Conversion Crimes and previously at the conversion design agency Zeda Labs. Chris has been working as a copywriter and CRO specialist for online brands since 2016.

Tomer Hen is a serial entrepreneur with over a decade of experience in the Digital Marketing industry. During this time, he founded the first mobile marketing school in Israel, created the first Israeli Mobile Marketing Summit, and has spearheaded notable campaigns with leading fortune 500 brands, including Amazon, Audible, and Mastercard. Backed by his expertise and a growing portfolio, Tomer was recognized as one of Forbes’s 30 promising entrepreneurs under 30. In 2011, Tomer founded MobCo Media, a user-acquisition and performance- driven intelligence company. With over 500 campaigns in more than 160 countries, MobCo has cemented its position as a front-runner in the ad tech space. Presently, Tomer helps brand visionaries, community leaders, and content creators actualize their vision. Tomer’s design of a plug-and-play solution enables creators to focus on the big picture, while the team caters to the brand’s management aspects including Product Development, Marketing, Content Creation, and Community Building.

Will Perry is the CEO and CMO of Orlando-based Reason Agency, a direct response ad agency that helps 7-figure & 8-figure DTC brands reduce CPA with their AI-Driven Split Testing process, specializing in apparel, health and wellness, and healthy food spaces within e-commerce. Companies often come to REASON in order to take their current advertising efforts to an elite level in order to discover new growth. Will is an expert in Acquisition Strategy, Data Analysis & Optimization processes and an eCommerce marketing consultant who knows what it takes to scale your business. He has consulted and managed over $60M in ads and sales, and that number continues to grow. Will knows what works best now as well as what is going to work moving forward, utilizing seemingly unlikely platforms such as TikTok to get his clients ahead of the competition.

McKenna’s global marketing career has spanned the spectrum of start-ups to corporates, exposing her to successful remote, in-person, and mixed teams. Her own management experience, leading teams around the world, has provided the foundation for her speaking and coaching, but she’s built a structured approach to this new world of remote-first work with deep dives into research and theory from psychologists, great business minds, and the social sciences. She combines well respected and applicable theories of management and leadership with practical solutions for a new normal of workers out of the office, either some of the time or all of the time. McKenna’s approach starts with strategic planning and a commitment to frameworks, but cumulates with concrete ideas for more effective virtual leadership, allowing leaders to use their own intuition and judgement more wisely.

Michael is a high performing sales person who manages over $500 million in professional development.He offers solutions to Managers and team players who struggles to navigate modern-day marketing strategies, utilizing previously gained experience and acquired skill set, to develop a brand and drive exposure.He is a Mastery of SAAS sales who has trained over 25 Grant Gordone sales representatives.He gives Business owners and sales persons strategies on how to successfully negotiate and and close business deals and sales when presented with unforeseen or undesirable scenarios. https://thefullcircle.io/

Bill is a career tech CEO with multiple exits, including an IPO. He worked at Greylock as a venture capitalist and, after selling his marketing tech company Silverpop to IBM, he shifted roles to help lead IBM’s global strategy for their CEO and SVPs. He spent the last few years creating media ventures in climatetech. He started with a TED talk which grew into the #1 ranked podcast on renewable energy. His new book, Freeing Energy, is a practical guide for disrupting and democratizing energy

Stephanie is the CEO of SizzleForce Marketing. They offer Fractional CMO services that services scaling companies. Since 1995 she’s been developing brand-building marketing campaigns that have been used by companies including Starbucks, Quiksilver, The National Football League, and Cox Communications along with thousands of privately-owned companies. She has written for Forbes and Entrepreneur magazines and is the author of the international #1 best-seller of Absolutely Unforgettable: The Entrepreneur’s Guide To Creating A Heart Centered Brand And Standing Out In A Noisy World.

Yaro is an investor, digital nomad, 6 times author, and co-founder of InboxDone.com, a revolutionary email management company with a team of 25 serving a multitude of clients in almost every business sector. Generating $2 million dollars in digital sales, Yaro is a true pioneer of blogging and has 25+ angel investments in tech startups. He has property investments in Canada and Ukraine, and in partnership built a 3.6MW solar farm in Lviv. Author of the blog profits blueprint and host of the successful podcast Vested Capital. Get ready to have a conversation with a podcast veteran who is smart, calm yet enthusiastic, and an out-of-the-box thinker who is busy changing the business world with revolutionary methods of freeing up your time.

On this episode of the Biz Bros Podcast we chatted with Meredith Kallaher about How To Write a Compelling Brand Story and Use it To Explode Sales. She says most businesses are born from the skill, creativity and experience of a passionate person who develops a high value offer for many and often die because they only whisper the availability of the offer to a few. Meredith Kalalher helps new and seasoned business owners find the RIGHT people to effectively communicate the value of their offers and move prospects along their customer journey quickly. She helps entrepreneurs develop and implement marketing strategies that optimize for profit and meet their customers where they are with social media advertising, conversion copywriting or the buildout of products on Kajabi. https://www.meredithkallaher.com/

Brian McComak is a diversity & inclusion consultant, speaker, author and facilitator with over 20 years of experience in D&I, HR, company culture, change management, internal communications, and employee experience. He is the founder and CEO of Hummingbird Humanity, a consulting firm that cultivates and champions inclusive workplace cultures and human-centered leadership. https://hummingbirdhumanity.com/