Online Success Journey
448 episodes - English - Latest episode: 12 days ago - ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsThe Online Success Journey shares the real stories of entrepreneurs who encounter speed bumps and detours, but journey through to find success. This is not your typical podcast, but one that takes a hard look in the rear-view mirror to let you see how successful people overcame obstacles to reach the top.
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#345: Rich LeBrun
May 12, 2022 22:58 - 26 minutes - 12.1 MBHaving had the opportunity to own and operate several businesses throughout his thirty-year career, Rich LeBrun is passionate about helping his clients reach their financial freedom and secure their future through business ownership. Whether you are an executive out of work, a woman re-entering the workforce, a veteran returning home from service or someone just not ready to retire, Rich wants to help those in life’s transition navigate through the exciting journey of selecting their fran...
#344: Pete Piranio
May 05, 2022 22:00 - 33 minutes - 15.4 MBPete has been involved with successfully growing and scaling businesses for over 20 years. In the fitness industry, a business model where most who attempted to truly scale - failed, he built a multi-state, multi-location, and multi-million dollar personal training business with 5 locations and 12 franchise partners. He’s helped a franchise grow from 10 locations to 400 and worked behind the scenes with professional athletes launching brands and franchises. He has identified the commonalitie...
#343: Simon Severino
April 21, 2022 22:00 - 31 minutes - 14.4 MBSimon Severino helps business owners in SaaS and services discover how torun their company more efficiently, which results in sales that soar. Simon created the Strategy Sprints, which is a global team of certified Strategy Sprints Coaches that offers a customized strategy to help clients gain market share and work in weekly sprints, resulting in fast execution. He is also a Forbes Business Council Member, a contributor to Entrepreneur Magazine, and a member of Duke Corporate Education.
#342: Matthew Stibbe
April 14, 2022 20:54 - 34 minutes - 15.8 MBMatthew Stibbe is a serial entrepreneur, marketing maven, writer, pilot, and wine enthusiast. But not necessarily in that order. He created marketing strategies, content and campaigns for clients including Microsoft, Google, LinkedIn and HP and contributed to Wired, Forbes and Popular Science. Currently, he is CEO at Articulate Marketing, a UK marketing agency specializing in the technology sector. Also, his geek credentials are strong. Previously, he was founder and CEO at Intelligent G...
#341: Katie Brinkley
April 07, 2022 17:31 - 35 minutes - 16.2 MBKatie Brinkley is a Social Media Strategist and Social Audio Expert with over 18 years of experience in the social media space. She has been featured on Fox, Ticker News, Medium, Voyage Denver, and more sharing her strategies on how to gain a consistent strategy to gain new leads using social media. Katie specializes in finding the right social platforms for entrepreneurs to focus on so they can grow their online presence without the overwhelm.
#340: Brandy Mabra
March 25, 2022 01:18 - 30 minutes - 13.9 MBBrandy Mabra is the CEO of Savvy Clover Coaching & Consulting. With over 15 years of business management and leadership experience, she helps private practice business owners increase their time and profitability. Brandy runs a successful online coaching business empowering her clients to own their role as a bold, confident, and Unapologetically Savvy CEO. She teaches her clients to look at their businesses holistically using 6 Pillars of Business Excellence™ and her 9-step signature metho...
#339: Ivory Coats
March 17, 2022 23:54 - 37 minutes - 17.4 MBIvory Coats is a serial entrepreneur, business investor, transformative speaker, and 3-time author. Her most recent book, A Tenacious Spirit, is an aspiring entrepreneur’s guide to mindset, process, and the execution of your ideas. She is passionate about building the life you want leveraging business ownership. Over the course of her career she been featured in many publications including the Chicago Sun Times & Atlanta Journal Constitution to name a few. Ivory currently runs a social m...
#338: Lisa Haggis
March 10, 2022 13:58 - 19 minutes - 8.93 MBLisa Haggis helps service-based entrepreneurs position their businesses as one-of-a-kind in their field for higher visibility, impact, and earning potential. Leveraging 18 years of experience in marketing and business strategy, she is committed to cracking the code on what makes a business innately interesting and worth mentioning. (Hint: It begins with having something original to say!) She is the founder of Realize Your Brand, a high-touch business consultancy, and the creator of the Subst...
#337: Mike Smerklo
February 24, 2022 23:33 - 34 minutes - 15.7 MBMike Smerklo is an experienced entrepreneur, investor and business leader driven by the desire to turn ideas into reality. Having bought and scaled a small business into a publicly traded company worth nearly a billion dollars in value, he has a deep understanding of the hard work, dedication and grit that truly powers successful entrepreneurship. Today, as the cofounder and managing director of Next Coast Ventures, Smerklo is a champion for a new generation of entrepreneurs building disrupt...
#336: Jessica Blasingame
February 18, 2022 00:08 - 31 minutes - 14.5 MBJessica Blasingame is a CPA and creative entrepreneur who now specializes in financial services for creative entrepreneurs. She leads an all-woman team at Beam Financial Group, which takes a holistic approach in supporting small business owners, helping them to become more competent, connected, and aligned with their business finances.
#335: Emily McGuire
February 10, 2022 23:00 - 33 minutes - 15.3 MBEmily McGuire is the Owner and Principal at Flourish & Grit, an email marketing and automation studio. She helps businesses uncover hidden revenue in their email lists by pairing customer journeys with high-converting email campaigns. With lessons learned over a decade in tech and e-commerce, sending thousands of email campaigns, and earning clients over $80 million in email campaign revenue, Emily loves sharing the time-tested strategies of email marketing done well.
#334: Dr. Aaron LeBauer
February 03, 2022 23:55 - 31 minutes - 14.6 MBDr. Aaron LeBauer is the host of The CashPT® Lunch Hour Podcast, author of The CashPT® Blueprint, International Speaker, and has helped thousands of passionate physical therapists scale their time, income and impact without relying on insurance. He is a Doctor of Physical Therapy, Certified Massage Therapist, and Baptiste Inspired Yoga Teacher. He owns LeBauer Physical Therapy, a 100% cash-based physical therapy practice in Greensboro, NC with his wife Andra. He started his practice so he ...
#333: Dustin DeVries
January 28, 2022 05:00 - 52 minutes - 24.2 MBDustin has been living and breathing software development for over 20 years, and received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from Texas A&M University. He is the Co-Founder of Caffeine Interactive Technologies, an agency that focuses on planning strategies and architecture based on clear ways to measure success. He enjoys working with clients to build the right technology, whether it's a multi-tiered mobile app or a simple website. Dustin is a solopreneur and has built a thriv...
#332: Robbie Samuels
January 20, 2022 21:23 - 43 minutes - 20 MBRobbie Samuels is an author, speaker, and business growth strategy coach recognized as a networking expert by Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Lifehacker, and Inc. He is also a virtual event design consultant and executive Zoom producer recognized as an industry expert in the field of digital event design by JDC Events. Robbie is the author of "Croissants vs. Bagels: Strategic, Effective, and Inclusive Networking at Conferences" and "Small List, Big Results: Launch a Successful Offer No Ma...
#331: Martyn Cook
January 14, 2022 05:00 - 43 minutes - 19.7 MBMartyn Cook is a serial entrepreneur who has co-founded a software company, built multiple 7-figure eCommerce brands, and co-founded a high-level digital entrepreneur mastermind that hosts luxury meet-ups around the world. He has spoken from stages around the world and still somehow found the time to self-publish two books. Martyn’s latest project, Noobru.com, a cognition drink, is on a mission to fortify 1 Billion meals by 2025, helping to tackle the 2 Billion person, worldwide malnutriti...
#330: Felly Day
January 06, 2022 23:00 - 22 minutes - 10.5 MBFelly Day is a Content Strategist and Marketing Mentor. She balances her agency, Felly Day VA, and her mentorship clients from her laptop while living as a Digital Nomad. She's passionate about feel-good marketing in business, that her clients feel good creating it and their clients feel good consuming it. In 2022, she'll be focused on husband-hunting and empire building.
#329: Kelley Cunningham
December 17, 2021 02:00 - 32 minutes - 14.9 MBAuthor and Transformational Life Coach Kelley Cunningham offers her personal story of how she faced a 27 month season of multilayers of abrupt adversity, numerous emotional losses and tremendous life struggles, in her family including a split-second in time that quite literally swiped her and her family’s lives sideways. All combined to try to tear down the blissful life they had built together, but they rose within the wreckage, and Kelley dug her heals in and learned to lean on the powerfu...
#328: Dr. Nadia Brown
December 10, 2021 05:00 - 35 minutes - 16.2 MBDr. Nadia holds a doctoral degree in Organizational Leadership and is passionate about helping women become more authentic, confident leaders who take charge of their careers. She is a sales strategist, consultant, trainer, and founder of The Doyenne Agency. a sales agency that works with business owners, companies, and corporations to multiply revenue and awaken the consistent closer within your sales team using the Consistent Sales Method™. Nadia helps women learn to play the career game...
#327: Dre Baldwin
December 02, 2021 23:56 - 42 minutes - 19.4 MBIn just 5 years, Dre Baldwin went from his high school team's bench to a 9-year professional basketball career. At the same time, Dre built a content publishing empire. Blogging since 2005 and publishing videos to YouTube starting in 2006, Dre has published over 8,000 videos with his content being viewed over 73 million times. Dre's daily Work On Your Game Podcast has over 3 million listeners. Dre has given 4 TEDxTalks and authored 29 books.
#326: Diane Tarshis
November 18, 2021 23:00 - 30 minutes - 14 MBDiane Tarshis is a seasoned business advisor and founder of Startup Distillery. At the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Diane discovered a research center on campus and, as a student consultant, she worked with a range of local Philadelphia entrepreneurs, writing business plans and providing strategic counsel. The experience changed her life (as well as her long-term career goals). She spent years working on Wall Street in investment banking, then moved to Chicago to wor...
#325: Michael Marra
November 11, 2021 19:24 - 34 minutes - 15.9 MBMichael Marra is a former civil engineer and now serial entrepreneur and investor. He is currently the CEO of Entre, a social network and e-learning platform for entrepreneurs. The community consists of over 15,000+ entrepreneurs from all over the world. Entre is designed to help every new, young and growing entrepreneur, with divisions that provide individuals with cutting-edge education, shopping, financial and self-development. It is an all-in-one platform to connect with other like-min...
#324: Vincent Cheng
November 05, 2021 03:00 - 38 minutes - 17.6 MBVincent Cheng was born, raised and presently resides in Canada, but his explorations across 32 countries have anchored his connection to diverse cultures, formulating a deep understanding of humanity at large. He began his career as an electrical engineer in 2004, and a year later, alongside this, Vincent began his quest of conducting orchestras, choirs and operas. He coached and conducted hundreds of amateurs and professionals across Canada, USA, Europe and the Middle East in voice and mu...
#323: Sabine Gedeon
October 28, 2021 22:42 - 40 minutes - 18.5 MBSabine Gedeon is the Founder & CEO of Gedeon Enterprises, a coaching and consulting company dedicated to elevating, enriching, and empowering leaders to become the best version of themselves. She has been an author, a Business Partner and Leadership Strategist for over 15 years, and the President and Founder of SHE Leads Network, a network for impact-driven women in leadership, focused on transforming the way women work, lead, and do business together. Sabine’s expertise includes career, l...
#322: Vikrant Shaurya
October 21, 2021 21:46 - 33 minutes - 15.4 MBVikrant Shaurya is the CEO and Founder of BestsellingBook.com, and the author of two #1 bestsellers. A lifelong lover of books, Vikrant started his first company, The Books Factory, to help thought leaders become book authors and gave new authors the platform they needed to grow their business using a white-glove service that produced not just ordinary books, but #1 bestsellers. Rebranding The Books Factory as BestsellingBook.com, he and his team are producing books that consistently trans...
#321: Angela K Taylor
October 14, 2021 18:27 - 44 minutes - 20.5 MBIntegrative Productivity™ Expert, Angela Kristen Taylor, is mostly known for creating the Productive Flow Mastery™ methodology, her integrative whole body approach to productivity and business growth. She’s made it her personal mission to help ambitious, purpose-driven entrepreneurs and sales professionals overcome stress & chaos so they can create the life and business they want and ultimately, the freedom and security they created their business to achieve. Angela’s integrative product...
#320: Allan Ngo
October 07, 2021 22:31 - 43 minutes - 20.1 MBAllan Ngo is the founder of Digital Solopreneur. An email marketing trainer and consultant, Allan helps coaches and course creators boost sales, amplify engagement, and create lifelong customers using emails that people love to read and buy from. Allan is a master storyteller with over 8 years of experience writing and consulting in various industries including — the stock market, insurance, overseas recruitment, ABAP development, language learning, and even women's fashion.
#319: Chris Pistorius
September 30, 2021 22:00 - 30 minutes - 13.8 MBChris Pistorius is the founder of KickStart Dental Marketing which has consistently been listed as one of the top dental marketing companies in the country. Having over 15 years of experience in dental marketing, he has worked with countless dentists & orthodontists, and he shares his expertise by giving marketing seminars across the country and hosting a weekly dental marketing podcast. Before starting his dental marketing agency in 2009, Chris worked for online marketing giants AOL, Time...
#318: Ai Ching Goh
September 23, 2021 21:46 - 36 minutes - 16.9 MBAi Ching Goh started her professional career with a degree in Experimental Psychology and a media position at P&G. She quickly discovered her entrepreneurial spirit, and transitioned to a startup mindset. Ai Ching co-founded a web app, which turned into Piktochart, a visual communications tool that makes it easy to condense and consume information. Piktostory, the latest product to the suite, enables content creators to repurpose their videos easily. As a startup that operates from Penang,...
#317: Joy Clausen Soto
September 09, 2021 22:22 - 32 minutes - 14.7 MBJoy Clausen Soto is a keynote speaker who inspires audiences with her story of perseverance. She followed her dream to become a dolphin trainer at SeaWorld San Diego. After that Joy pursued another dream by going to film school to become a filmmaker. Then at twenty-five she found a lump on her throat and an aggressive form of cancer. She made a documentary on her journey with the hope of showing a story of survival. Joy has spoken at TEDx, appeared on The Ziglar Show and most recently publ...
#316: Ryan Beachum
September 03, 2021 04:00 - 41 minutes - 18.8 MBRecognizing the challenges faced by vacation owners, Ryan Beachum has sought to apply his knowledge of the hospitality industry to provide desperately needed solutions. Ryan saw an opportunity to serve timeshare owners beyond what was offered. Beachum envisioned a company that would help timeshare owners share their unused time by connecting the millions of prepaid nights found at select timeshare resorts to people searching the leading online travel agencies, and it's been lauded for it's...
#315: Pascal Bachmann
August 26, 2021 10:00 - 41 minutes - 18.8 MBPascal Bachmann is an international speaker, author, life, and business strategist who empowers and coaches businessmen to be healthy and successful leaders in business and life. After being a professional athlete on a world-class level, having a praxis for Asian therapies, creating 7 businesses in 3 different industries, generating more than $20 Million, and coached more than 20,000 people, he is in the position to share what he learned. The view and experiences from 3 different angles ma...
#314: Meredith Kallaher
August 24, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 13 MBMeredith Kallaher moved to Miami in 2012 and soon after purchased The Scout Guide Miami, a franchised publication featuring locally owned businesses. Guided by the principle that everything you need to live a well-curated life can be found within your own community, Meredith helped guide her clients' ideal customers straight to their doors. Meredith graduated from the University of Mississippi with a Bachelor of Accountancy, received her CPA and spent the first 6 years of her career with P...
#313: Salena Knight
August 19, 2021 16:25 - 39 minutes - 18 MBSalena is host of the popular podcast Bringing Business to Retail, as well as a global speaker & presenter on scaling retail businesses. She has developed a reputation for being allergic to ‘playing small’ - combining a no-nonsense approach with a deep understanding of exactly what is needed to be a successful independent retailer. Everything she does is focused on helping other business owners take the action they need to flourish, succeed and realize their big vision.
#312: Bill McCormick
August 12, 2021 22:03 - 29 minutes - 13.3 MBBill McCormick discovered the power of LinkedIn and social selling when he and his wife started their advertising specialty company over 5 years ago. With only a handful of clients, he quickly became a student of social selling, discovering how to find leads and generate sales. Now, Bill’s passion is to take what he’s learned and pass that on to those in sales, helping them leverage LinkedIn to build stronger relationships, taking connections from the digital space to the face-to-face. B...
#311: Rowan Wiechmann
August 10, 2021 22:18 - 24 minutes - 11.4 MBRowan Wiechmann is a High Performance Coach and founder of The Pure Man. As an Entrepreneur and former Military Sergeant, Rowan is a Leader of Ambitious Entrepreneurs, engaging them for 2-7 Times their growth in Business and all areas of their lives.
#310: Chelsea Cohen
August 05, 2021 22:33 - 35 minutes - 16.1 MBConnect with Chelsea Cohen, an Amazon inventory management expert and the co-founder of SoStocked.com, which is an Amazon inventory management software. Chelsea’s also a 7-figure Amazon seller, speaker & consultant. Her regular clients include 7 & 8-figure sellers. She has been featured on AM/PM Podcast, Seller Stories with Jungle Scout & the Amazing Summit stage, among others.
#309: Joe Bernstein
July 22, 2021 11:00 - 40 minutes - 18.7 MBJoe Bernstein Founded Drop the Armor Wellness because he is on a mission to help other men feel the love and freedom that he learned to cultivate when his life fell apart in 2013. After learning to thrive romantically in response to divorce, losing 160 lbs without diets, and leaving his 1st career to build a mission focused business, he became LIT UP to help other men do the same. His clients are often successful business owners, executives in tech, top individual performers, leaders, crea...
#308: Dr. Stephanie Krol
July 20, 2021 20:00 - 37 minutes - 52 MB VideoDr. Stephanie has a proven reputation of excellence and professionalism among clients and peers alike in Higher Education Management, as a Multi-Award winning Educator and sought after Allied Health-Higher Education Dean. Now, as a Certified Raw Dog Nutrition Specialist, Author, Functional Medicine Educator and more, she is well versed in helping clients attain their own success. Pursuing her greatest passion, she is a published author as well as a, Certified Raw Dog Food Nutrition Speci...
#307: Arif Harbott
July 15, 2021 20:41 - 34 minutes - 15.8 MBArif is a CTO, technology disruptor and angel investor. He specialises in combining strategy with cutting-edge technology to deliver impact at speed for the modern business world. He has experience managing budgets c.$1bn+, P&L $900m+, and led teams of 2,000+ people. He has also been a founder and angel investor to multiple successful start-ups. Arif uses a pragmatic, value driven style to find ways that the latest innovations and next-generation technology can fuel company success to tr...
#306: Jim Clouse
July 14, 2021 04:00 - 24 minutes - 11 MBJim Clouse is the Founder, CEO and inventor of ClikitySplit, the world’s first and only real time dynamic marketing engine as well as the world’s fastest vertical search engine. Jim is a pioneer in online mapping and GPS use, built his first website in February 1998, has been making his living online full-time for the past 23 years and in 2020 received a patent on his real time marketing technology. ClikitySplit is built for both business owners and end users, and through it's unique app...
#305: Shaahin Cheyene
July 08, 2021 22:00 - 34 minutes - 15.8 MBShaahin Cheyene is the Founder, CEO and Chairman of the start-up Accelerated Intelligence. Cheyene shares his passion to accelerate intelligence through his latest company and products and is positioning the company to be the leader in the brain nutrition space. Born in Iran, Cheyene is an award winning entrepreneur, writer and filmmaker currently based in Los Angeles, California. In the early 1990′s while still in his teens, Cheyene spearheaded the “Smart Drug Movement” by inventing and b...
#304: Aidan Sowa
July 06, 2021 22:00 - 26 minutes - 12.1 MBAidan Sowa is a entrepreneur who got into the digital marketing space in 2016 due to working with the MIT Enterprise Forum Cambridge. Aidan is now the founder and CEO of Sowa Marketing Agency. Sowa Marketing Agency is a Rhode Island company that specializes in helping entrepreneurs get featured in the media, guaranteed. Aidan believes all entrepreneurs should focus on building their brand as they either have the choice to differentiate themselves from their competition or die as a commod...
#303: Lisa Foley
July 02, 2021 01:00 - 37 minutes - 17 MBLisa is Chief Marketing Officer at Marketplace SuperHeroes, an 8-figure online education and services platform for people who want to create a 5-7 figure income stream selling simple, everyday items on Amazon. Lisa has played a key role in Marketplace SuperHeroes’ rapid growth from 0- $10MM. Marketplace SuperHeroes and their rapidly expanding team of 80 people aim to impact 1 million people worldwide. Her and her partners' new and exciting venture called Grow My Reach are now focusing on...
#302: Paul Chambers
June 29, 2021 20:39 - 32 minutes - 15.1 MBLet's Talk Subscriptions! For over 20-years, Paul has built, scaled, and sold multiple subscription-focused businesses and today runs the largest conference and trade group focused on the DTC subscription space. An around-the-clock volunteer firefighter, husband, and father of four, Paul's passion for helping others is a central part of his character. From launching a SaaS company at SXSW to building one of the biggest brands in the subscription box economy, Paul has a handle on every aspe...
#301: Jarod Spiewak
June 24, 2021 15:18 - 41 minutes - 18.8 MBJarod Spiewak is the founder and lead strategist of Comet Fuel, a boutique, strategy-first, marketing agency. Jarod got his start in the world of marketing at the age of 14 to make money online to pay for college, which he started attending at 15. Years past, and several next-to free gigs and “real jobs” later (including as a marketing strategist), Jarod didn't feel as though the agency that he wanted to work for existed, so he started it instead. Over the past few years, Comet Fuel (for...
#300: Raul Galera
June 22, 2021 14:36 - 35 minutes - 16.2 MBRaúl Galera is the Chief Advocate at ReferralCandy, an app that allows ecommerce brands to set up and run customer referral programs. ReferralCandy is the leading platform in terms of referral marketing for ecommerce brands. Founded over 10 years ago, ReferralCandy has helped over 30,000 brands leverage the power of word-of-mouth and turn their customer base into their marketing team. Referral marketing is a blend of organic content, community marketing and influencer marketing. Word-of-mo...
#299: Andrew Hunzicker
June 10, 2021 17:00 - 22 minutes - 10.2 MBWith broad experience providing executive leadership and business counsel to companies across industries including retail, manufacturing, energy, medical/bio and tech, Andrew founded DOPE CFO and has built a national cannabis accounting/bookkeeping and tax training program to help students in all 50 states unlock a new world of clients, empowering them to start their own practices and create a stream of wealth for themselves in the newly developed Cannabis and CBD/Hemp industry. Andrew was...
#298: Mark Butler
June 08, 2021 16:59 - 26 minutes - 12.2 MBMark Butler is the founder of the accounting startup Let’s Do the Books, as well as the bookkeeper, CFO and confidante to top online entrepreneurs like Brooke Castillo. Before working in finance, Mark co-founded three online businesses that brought in close to $2 million in total revenue. Today, Mark combines his business savvy with his certification in life coaching to help business owners take control of their finances and work through the shame and anxiety that almost always comes up wh...
#297: Lucas Walker
June 03, 2021 07:00 - 27 minutes - 12.6 MBLucas Walker is a serial entrepreneur having started three successful businesses in the software, ecommerce, and media spaces. Working on bootstrapped and venture funded companies, there are just a handful of people with the experience Lucas has. He hosts two industry shows, and his currect favorite topic relates to the 'Key Automation You Need to Set Up in Your Store'.
#296: Oz Konar
June 01, 2021 19:07 - 37 minutes - 17.1 MBOz (Oguz) Konar is a passionate entrepreneur and multiple seven figure business owner whose mission is to help people design and build their dream businesses. His mission is to revolutionize the Alternative Lending Industry, one Business Loan Broker at a time. Oz is the author of two books and speaks at national and international events several times a year. His training programs (including Business Lending Blueprint) are responsible for creating multiple 6 and 7 figure earners and has hel...