Latest Stephaniesims Podcast Episodes
Episode 66: Stephanie on HerCsuite Radio; How to Leverage Your Value
What's Your Ask? with Stephanie Sims - July 28, 2021 08:00 -*This episode is a shared episode directly from the host, Natalie Benamou. In This Episode: Are you looking for investors in your business and unsure where to start? Let’s take a walk with Stephanie Sims, founder of Finance-Ability®, former investment banker and finance expert. Stephanie giv...
Episode 65: Stephanie on Matt Wolach, Sales as Principle Source of Capital
What's Your Ask? with Stephanie Sims - July 21, 2021 08:00 - 26 minutesIn this episode… This is a shared episode by Matt Wolach. Matt starts the episode introducing Stephanie, asking where she is today and how she got there. They kick off the show agreeing that raising capital is truly all about sales. People looking for funding need to look at what is righ...
Episode #64: Stephanie on Lead Like a Woman
What's Your Ask? with Stephanie Sims - July 14, 2021 08:00 - 35 minutesIn this episode… Andrea begins the episode introducing Stephanie, and asks her exactly what it was that drove her into owning her own business. More specifically, what drove her to Financeability. What gave Stephanie the heart for business? It stemmed from watching her parents who owned thei...
Episode 63: Leadership Journey
What's Your Ask? with Stephanie Sims - July 07, 2021 08:00 - 51 minutesIn this Episode . . . Robbie gets this episode started by asking Stephanie about her leadership journey and when she realized she had a knack for leading. To Stephanie, being a leader is equal parts inspiration and risk/action taking. One must have a bold vision to share with people that wil...
Episode 62: Stephanie on Money Talks with Hugh Meyer
What's Your Ask? with Stephanie Sims - June 30, 2021 08:00 - 31 minutesIn this Episode . . . Stephanie shares that her parents owned a business while she was in high school, but when time came to sell their business and retire, they struggled to find buyers. She realized then that the business was sellable, but they didn’t know how to talk about their business a...
Episode 61: Women Don't Always Have to Compete
What's Your Ask? with Stephanie Sims - June 23, 2021 08:00 - 36 minutesToday, I’m excited to talk to Natalie Benamou, the Founder & CEO of Herpower2 Lead. Natalie is a strategic thought leader with 30 years of experience creating ‘Blue Ocean’ strategies that help differentiate businesses from the competition and leading organizations. She has served as Preside...
Episode 60: Investor Relationships with Tara Spalding
What's Your Ask? with Stephanie Sims - June 16, 2021 08:00 - 41 minutesToday, I’m excited to talk to Tara Spalding, the Managing Director of BoomStartup Accelerator. BoomStartup is an accelerator and mentorship-driven angel-stage investment program for startups, which operates as an online technology-driven accelerator, providing entrepreneurs a custom business ...
Episode 59: Confidence Boosting Advice from Ari Palmer Salafia
What's Your Ask? with Stephanie Sims - June 09, 2021 08:00 - 35 minutesToday, I’m excited to talk to Ari Palmer Salafia, who’s the Co-Founder & CEO of TaxTaker, a female-founded tax and technology savings company focused on helping put money back into growing companies pockets. Over the course of her career, Ari has helped hundreds of companies save tens of mill...
Episode 58: Introduction to Psychological Security
What's Your Ask? with Stephanie Sims - June 02, 2021 08:00 - 35 minutesToday, I’m excited to talk to Zachary Eikenberry, a CoFounder, Director and CEO of Hook Security, which uses Psychological Security, or PsySec™, to teach employees how to spot and avoid phishing attacks and create a healthy security-aware culture company wide. Before Hook, Zach was a Founder a...
Episode 57: Working with Your Spouse
What's Your Ask? with Stephanie Sims - May 26, 2021 08:00 - 34 minutesToday, I’m excited to talk to Amy & Adam Fazackerley, Co-Founders of Lay-n-Go, a company that designs and manufactures innovative organizational solutions for life, play, and travel. I’ve interviewed them both individually, so if you haven’t listened to those episodes, add them to your playli...
Episode 56: Knowing and Getting What You're Worth
What's Your Ask? with Stephanie Sims - May 12, 2021 08:00 - 36 minutesToday, I’m excited to talk to Jamie Easton, the founder of The Uptick - a weekly dose of financial market smarts! Jamie has nearly 20 years of professional experience in the financial services industry, including Managing Director at Evercore, a premier, independent, global investment banking ...
Episode 55: Find Your Pain, Fix It and Create Your Business with Amy Fazackerley
What's Your Ask? with Stephanie Sims - April 28, 2021 08:00 - 35 minutesIn this episode, you will hear how Amy felt her scariest ask was how to get started in business, how to get started in manufacturing, where do you go? It’s hard to go overseas, share your ideas and not know anyone not to mention hand over a prototype and negotiate dollars and all the major deta...
Episode 54: Thoughts of Crypto-Currency and Crypto-Investing
What's Your Ask? with Stephanie Sims - April 21, 2021 08:00 - 33 minutesToday, I’m excited to talk to Spencer Montgomery, the Founder of Uinta Crypto Consulting, a cryptocurrency training and mentoring program. He has been providing Bitcoin and cryptocurrency consulting and training for over 4 years. Spencer has spoken to over 3000 people and has influenced over ...
Episode 53: Finding the Right Investor and Making it "Click"
What's Your Ask? with Stephanie Sims - April 07, 2021 08:00 - 49 minutesAdam Fazackerley is the COO and Co-Founder of Lay-n-Go, LLC. Fazackerley started his career at UUNET Technologies. He went on to found concept2creations, LLC, a corporate design company focused on building brands and producing every aspect of their digital / print marketing strategies. He wor...
Episode 52: Getting better with money to live intentionally with George Grombacher, Founder and Chief Community Officer of Money Alignment Academy
What's Your Ask? with Stephanie Sims - March 31, 2021 08:00 - 40 minutesA 20-year finance industry veteran, podcaster, writer, and speaker, George is working to help people get better at money and life so they can live how they want. He spent 10 years with a Fortune 100 company as an advisor as well as in leadership positions where he impacted thousands of peopl...
Episode 51: Authenticity, Asymmetry and Making a Connection with Investors
What's Your Ask? with Stephanie Sims - March 17, 2021 08:00 - 34 minutesSean O’Brien, is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Overline, an Atlanta-based seed-stage venture capital fund that he runs with his partner, Michael Cohn. Sean has been in the investment business for nearly 30 years, with roles in investment banking, hedge fund management, corporate develop...
Episode 50: Get Clear to Gain a Yes to Your Ask with Robert White
What's Your Ask? with Stephanie Sims - March 03, 2021 09:00 - 44 minutesRobert is a Speaker, Author, Leadership Trainer, and Executive Coach who integrates a heart-centered, result-oriented and transformational leadership approach to being effective. He’s a serial entrepreneur including having founded and led two training industry success stories with over one mil...
Episode 49: What is ESG and Why Does It Matter to Your Business with Kim Raath of Topl
What's Your Ask? with Stephanie Sims - February 24, 2021 09:00 - 43 minutesToday, I’m excited to talk to Kim Raath, the co-founder and CEO of Topl, an ESG technology company with a purpose-built blockchain that empowers businesses to prove and monetize ethical and sustainable practices. Before university, Kim worked in 18 developing countries to rebuild and strength...
Episode 48 - Discover How to Ask for "Smart" Money with Katy Campbell of Porsche Digital
What's Your Ask? with Stephanie Sims - February 10, 2021 09:00 - 49 minutesToday, I’m excited to talk to two-time founder Katy Campbell. Katy is currently working with Porsche Digital to develop new startups across various ecosystems. Katy is also running "formation", a startup school for founders who identify as womxn, or as part of a minority group. She was a...
Episode 47: How Do You Ask in a Saturated Market with Greg Head
What's Your Ask? with Stephanie Sims - February 03, 2021 09:00 - 42 minutesToday, I’m excited to talk to Greg Head, the CEO of Scaling Point and the founder of Gregslist. Greg Head is a 30-year software industry veteran who was part of the startup-to-scale journeys of three different software companies in the CRM industry, including one IPO. He is now an active me...
Episode 46: A Solid Sales Process Requires Discovery with Matt Wolach
What's Your Ask? with Stephanie Sims - January 20, 2021 11:00 - 28 minutesMatt Wolach, host of SaaS-Story in the Making, is an entrepreneur, investor, coach, and leader who knows the sales world from the inside out. He has nearly two decades of SaaS sales management experience. His expertise, in particular, lies in crafting a streamlined buyer journey that maximizes...
Episode 45: What Is Your Exit Strategy? with Stephanie Sims
What's Your Ask? with Stephanie Sims - January 13, 2021 09:00 - 31 minutesToday, Stephanie Sims tackles the question “How do I talk about my exit strategy with investors?” Get clear on what kind of business you want before you start trying to grow...otherwise, someone else will choose for you. Today, we’ll cover: What different kinds of businesses you could choos...
Episode 44 - Ask the Tough Questions with Tiffany Bisconer
What's Your Ask? with Stephanie Sims - January 06, 2021 09:00 - 36 minutesToday, I’m excited to talk to Tiffany Bisconer, a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) with over 20 years of experience in the fields of accounting and tax. Tiffany has worked with one of the top 10 Certified Public Accounting and Consulting Firms in the nation and is currently the Director ...
Episode 43 - Final Part of the Series Ghost of Numbers Future
What's Your Ask? with Stephanie Sims - December 30, 2020 09:00 - 41 minutesWelcome to the final part of our four-part series to tackle the ghosts of your numbers past, present and future. Last week, we talked about the numbers present - your KPIs that will help you make decisions day-to-day. Today, we’ll cover the numbers of your future - your financial forecast/pr...
Episode 42: Ghost of Numbers Present
What's Your Ask? with Stephanie Sims - December 23, 2020 09:00 - 39 minutesToday, we continue doing something a little different! Welcome to Part 3 of a four-part series to tackle the ghosts of your numbers past, present, and future. Today we talk about the numbers of your present - the KPIs of your business. KPIs, or Key Performance Indicators, are: The short t...
Episode 41: Part 2 of 4 Series Ghost of Numbers Past
What's Your Ask? with Stephanie Sims - December 16, 2020 09:00 - 47 minutesToday, we’re doing something a little different! Welcome to Part 2 of a four-part series where we talk about the Ghost of Numbers past. We take a look at: Why you need to review the past numbers in your business. They provide you the story of how to adjust your current business structure....
Episode 40: Part 1 of 4 Series - Ghost of Numbers
What's Your Ask? with Stephanie Sims - December 09, 2020 09:00 - 41 minutesToday, we’re doing something a little different! Welcome to Part 1 of a four-part series to tackle the ghosts of your numbers past, present, and future. We take a look at: Some of the biggest reasons entrepreneurs are afraid of their numbers, and how to get past those roadblocks Set the ...
Episode 39: Giving Thanks and Shifting to Serve
What's Your Ask? with Stephanie Sims - November 25, 2020 09:00 - 14 minutesIt's Thanksgiving here in the US, and there’s a lot to be grateful for, despite the challenges that everyone is facing this year. I’m grateful for my family and friends, and for the team of experts who help me run my business. I’m also grateful for all of the fascinating investors and entrep...
Episode 38: Your End Result is the Investment Opportunity with Ryan Tansom of Arkona
What's Your Ask? with Stephanie Sims - November 18, 2020 09:00 - 39 minutesToday, I’m excited to talk to Ryan Tansom, entrepreneur, speaker, podcast host, author and the co-founder of Arkona! In 2014, Ryan helped turn around their family business and then sell it for 8 figures to a local competitor. The growth and exit process was an unexpectedly difficult undertakin...
Episode 37: Be Bold in Your Ask with Melissa Lamson and Kimberly Mylls of RecreateNow.org
What's Your Ask? with Stephanie Sims - October 28, 2020 08:00 - 38 minutesMelissa Lamson is an executive coach, author of six books, and speaker who has worked on projects in over 40 countries. She has built and run companies both in Europe and the US. For over 20 years she has developed leadership strategy, designed and taught leadership programs for companies like 3...
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