The Authority Business Show

Former luxury yacht chef turned six-figure business strategist Sara Vezenšek reveals why thinking bigger — not working harder — is the real key to breakthrough success. She shares how she walked away from a stable career and closed six figures within 30 days by shifting her mindset and energy. You'll learn how your goals literally filter what opportunities you see, the science behind manifestation and belief, and simple exercises to amplify your inner power. If you're a coach, entrepreneur, or go-getter stuck in a burnout cycle, this episode will challenge everything you think about what's "realistic" — and what's possible. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------CONNECT WITH SARA VEZENŠEK! 🌐 Website: https://www.saravezcoach.com/ 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saravezcoach/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael Notte traded the heavy metal stage for the boardroom, and the lessons he learned at a merch table became his blueprint for business success. As president of MJN Insurance Services, Michael has helped hundreds of small and medium-sized businesses design employee benefits that attract top talent, reduce costs, and build lasting loyalty. In this conversation, he breaks down why genuine connection is the true currency of reputation, how treating employees like rock stars transforms culture, and why authenticity always wins. If you're chasing your passion or ready to reinvent yourself, Michael's story will fuel your next move. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Connect with Michael Notte! 🌐 Website: www.mjninsuranceservices.com 📱 Social Media:  ⁨@smallbizbenefitspro⁩  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Invisible beliefs shape every decision you make, and most leaders never notice the ones keeping them stuck. You changed the strategy, the team, the plan, yet the same ceiling returns. The block is not your effort. It is a mental prison built from old stories and language you never questioned. Ted Santos, CEO of Turnaround Investment Partners and creator of the Disruptive Leadership Model, uncovers the hidden rules running your confidence, risk-taking, and success, and shows how to replace them with empowering declarations. Walk away seeing the one problem you have been solving wrong for years, and how to break free. ───────────────────────────────── CONNECT WITH TED SANTOS! 🌐 Website: https://www.turnaroundip.com 💼 LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ted-santos-ab0107 🐦 X / Twitter: https://x.com/TedSantos140 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Most family offices believe their structure protects them, but it often does not. Susan Lindeque, Founder and CEO of Avestix Technology Holdings, has managed over a billion dollars in private assets and knows exactly where the quiet failures hide.In this episode, she exposes the compliance gaps families overlook — from offshore entities and digital assets to fragmented ownership structures — and shares the integrated, real-time framework that keeps complex wealth protected across generations. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Connect with Susan Lindeque🌐 Website: www.avestix.com🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susanlindeque Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

PR in the AI era has rewritten how attention works, and most founders are still running a playbook that stopped delivering. You're credible, consistent, and putting in the work, but the press isn't landing. The gap isn't your story; it's the missing system. Megan Brown Bennett, founder of national PR agency Light Years Ahead, brings 24 years of breaking brands through crowded markets to share exactly what earns coverage now and what to stop doing today. ────────────────────────────────────────── CONNECT WITH MEGAN BROWN BENNETT 🌐 Website: https://www.lightyearsahead.com/ 📸 Instagram: @lyapr | @mbbennettpr ────────────────────────────────────────── Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Public safety technology is moving faster than most communities realize, and the gap between what agencies are equipped with today and what is already available is costing lives. Non-lethal restraint is only the beginning. Drones, counter-drone systems, virtual reality training, and federal defense contracts are now part of the same ecosystem. Scot Cohen, Founder and CEO of Wrap Technologies (NASDAQ: WRAP), breaks down a major new drone acquisition and explains what the next five years of policing actually looks like. ────────────────────────────────────────── CONNECT WITH SCOT COHEN & WRAP TECHNOLOGIES: 🌐 Website: https://www.wrap.com 📸 Instagram: @wraptechinc 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scot-cohen-643181375/ 🐦 X / Twitter: @wraptechinc 📘 Facebook: @wraptechinc ────────────────────────────────────────── Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Women in business are hitting revenue goals, filling calendars, and landing the clients they worked for. And most of them still don't feel like they've arrived. That's not a personal failure. It's the vanishing finish line, the pattern where every win immediately converts into the next responsibility before the founder gets to feel what she built. Beverly Cornell, founder of Wickedly Branded, breaks down why the business spends the relief before she does, and how ARRIVE goals and the enough line change the way women build from here. ────────────────────────────────────────── CONNECT WITH BEVERLY CORNELL 🌐 Website: https://www.wickedlybranded.com 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beverlycornell 📲 Instagram: @wickedlybranded | @beverlycornell ✨ Clarity Quiz (Free): Find out where you are on your branding journey and what to focus on next: https://form.jotform.com/250656007927864 💜 Clarity Chat (Free — 15 Minutes): Need personal guidance? Book a no-fee, no-obligation Clarity Chat to talk through your goals, hurdles, and whether a Brand Spark is right for you: https://calendly.com/wickedlybranded/15-minute_clarity_chat ────────────────────────────────────────── Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Authentic leadership is the asset most credentialed experts never fully use, and it is the reason talented people lose trust, clients, and teams they should already have. Expertise earns attention. Authenticity earns loyalty. Rich Lyons, entrepreneur, former CEO, and author of Life Is Sales, built his entire philosophy on the idea that real influence is created through self-awareness, relationships, and service — not titles or performance. After this episode, the way you show up in every room changes. CONNECT WITH RICH LYONS 🌐 Website: https://www.lifeissales.com / https://www.richlyons.com 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardblyons/ 🐦 X / Twitter: @richardblyons 📚 Book/Resource: Life Is Sales: A Holistic Approach to Sales, Self-Discovery, and Living a Life of Purpose Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Most family offices investing millions in private deals are flying blind — and it's costing them years of regret. Private equity expert Susan Lindeque — with over $1 billion invested — reveals the due diligence steps most family offices skip and how to pressure-test projections and verify competitive moats before you're locked in. She shares her proven framework for building a focused investment thesis, vetting deal flow, and protecting your portfolio from the biggest pitfalls in private markets: weak management teams, regulatory blind spots, and liquidity risk.  If you manage or advise family wealth, this episode gives you the process to invest smarter and sleep better at night. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Connect with Susan Lindeque!🌐 Website: www.avestix.com🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susanlindeque Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adversity is the thing most people are trying to escape — but for Darius Ross, it became the foundation for everything. Growing up in hardship and facing homelessness in Chicago didn't stop him. It launched him. Today he advises wealthy clients, invests in real estate, writes for Forbes, and mentors those rebuilding their lives from nothing. Darius shares the mindset and the method that turn your hardest chapter into your greatest asset. ────────────────────────────────────────── CONNECT WITH DARIUS ROSS 🌐 Website: https://dariuswrites.com/ ────────────────────────────────────────── Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Discover how rewarding high performers can damage organizational culture. Leadership expert David Cohen reveals why confidence and results can be misleading, masking toxic behaviors that erode trust. Learn strategies to align actions with core values for sustainable success. Tune in to protect your organization's future. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔗 CONNECT WITH DAVID COHEN 🌐 Website: https://sagltd.com/ 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-s-cohen-0b0191/ 📚 Leadership Courage Series: Part 1 – Having the Courage to Live Your Values: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-one-having-courage-live-your-values-worth-david-s-cohen-ncdqc/ Part 2 – Building the Courage to Live Your Values: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-two-building-courage-live-your-values-david-s-cohen-lm7nc/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mission-driven founders don't usually come from hedge funds — but the ones who do tend to build differently. Most entrepreneurs chase a market. Scot Cohen walked away from co-founding a $300M New York hedge fund because he saw a broken system and had the capital markets expertise to fix it. He founded Wrap Technologies (NASDAQ: WRAP), led $90M in financing, and built a non-lethal public safety device deployed across 1,000+ agencies in 60 countries. After this, you'll rethink what it means to build a business with staying power. ────────────────────────────────────────── CONNECT WITH SCOT COHEN & WRAP TECHNOLOGIES: 🌐 Website: https://www.wrap.com 📸 Instagram: @wraptechinc 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scot-cohen-643181375/ 🐦 X / Twitter: @wraptechinc 📘 Facebook: @wraptechinc ────────────────────────────────────────── Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People problems are costing hardworking leaders more than any bad strategy ever could — and most never realize it until the damage is done. When the same walls keep appearing despite better systems and smarter plans, the root cause is almost always human. It is not your fault. It is the missing framework. April Elias brings 25 years of talent acquisition and workforce transformation experience to explain what to look for, what to face, and what finally changes when you fix the people problem first. CONNECT WITH APRIL ELIAS 🌐 Website: www.aprilelias.com 📸 Instagram: @aprilelias Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Most women were never given the playbook on how to make money work while they sleep. The wealth gap between men and women is not a talent gap or a discipline gap. It is an access and education gap. Susan Lindique, founder and CEO of Avestics Group, chartered accountant, and private equity expert with over $1 billion in transactions, breaks down her five-bucket portfolio framework for women starting at any level — from clearing debt to diversifying across stocks, real estate, digital assets, venture capital, and your own business. ────────────────────────────────────────── CONNECT WITH SUSAN LINDIQUE 🌐 Website: https://www.avestix.com 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susanlindeque 📧 Email: [email protected] ────────────────────────────────────────── Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Disruptive thinking is the difference between founders who keep scaling and the ones who quietly stall while doing everything right. You changed the strategy, the team, the offer, yet the same ceiling returns. The block is not your effort. It is an invisible thinking pattern shaping every decision you make. Ted Santos, CEO of Turnaround Investment Partners and creator of the Disruptive Leadership Model, explains why success becomes the trap and how breakthroughs really happen. Walk away, seeing the one problem you have been solving wrong for years. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CONNECT WITH TED SANTOS!Website: https://www.turnaroundip.comLinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ted-santos-ab0107X: https://x.com/TedSantos140 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

High performers learn to split themselves in two: the sharp professional who delivers and the real person underneath who wonders if any of it still feeds them. Most leaders wall those two off and call it discipline, but the divide is what drains them and fuels burnout. Rich Strilowich spent over forty years in global corporations and thirty on the spiritual path, and as a bestselling author of The Corporate Sage, he shows they were never meant to be separate. Walk away, leading from who you really are, with sharper clarity and less burnout. ───────────────────────────────── CONNECT WITH RICH STRILOWICH! 🌐 Website: https://stillpointcoach.com/ 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rstrilo/ 📚 Book/Resource: The Corporate Sage: Gracefully Integrating Spirituality for Authentic Leadership - https://www.amazon.com/CORPORATE-SAGE-Gracefully-Integrating-Spirituality/dp/1068308117 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Being right in a leadership role feels like strength until your team stops challenging you and starts waiting for orders. The gap is not your intelligence. It is a quiet reflex that reads every disagreement as a threat to your standing.Paul Crick, creator of the GRACE Framework, spent decades studying leadership, human behavior, and Aikido, and he explains why the need to be right erodes trust faster than any mistake. Listen, and you walk away knowing how to hold authority without shutting people down. ───────────────────────────────── CONNECT WITH PAUL CRICK! Newsletter (Substack): https://graceworkscollective.substack.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulcrick/FREE DOWNLOAD: Grounding Exercisehttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1tHtpOv9TA3m73m1rMKG2dPxCVnpw4fO7/view?usp=sharing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Retirement income is the piece almost no plan accounts for. You saved for decades, invested with care, and still wonder if the money lasts as long as you do. It signals a missing system, because building wealth and turning it into income that never runs dry are two different skills. Mark Kollar, a retirement income specialist with thirty-five years of guiding retirees, explains the guaranteed income floor that holds through any market crash, plus the fees and taxes draining it. Listen and protect the income your future depends on. ─────────────────────────────────CONNECT WITH MARK KOLLAR! 🌐 Website: https://www.kollarinsuranceservices.com/ ▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MarkKollarRetirementExpert 📚 Book: The Retirement Navigator, https://www.kollarinsuranceservices.com/retirement_navigator.html 📥 Free Report: 7 Mistakes Retirees Make, https://sevenmistakes.subscribepage.io/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Women and retirement savings reveal one of the most overlooked gaps in personal finance. You have worked hard, lived carefully, and still the numbers do not add up. The wealth gap is not a discipline problem. It is an access problem. Susan Lindeque, Founder of Avestix Technology Holdings and a former Global CFO who has structured over a billion dollars across real estate, venture capital, and private equity, hands you the blueprint most women were never given. You will never look at money the same way. CONNECT WITH SUSAN LINDEQUE 🌐 Website: https://www.avestix.com 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susanlindeque Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your family office named AI a priority this year, and months later, nothing has actually changed. It still runs on spreadsheets and the same public tech stocks everyone else owns. The gap is not ambition; it is that no one can tell real AI tools from vendor hype. Susan Lindeque, Chartered Accountant and CIO of her own family office, breaks down the two AI gaps quietly making families vulnerable. Listen, and you will know exactly where to start and what waiting is costing you. Connect with Susan Lindeque!🌐 Website: www.avestix.com🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susanlindeque Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You are staring at a shop you built that still has not become the income you pictured, wondering if the people who made it big online simply got lucky. They did not. They ran a playbook you were never handed. Dylan Jahraus built her own shop past a million dollars in profit and taught thousands of sellers the steps that turn a stalled shop into a real business. Listen before you quit on yours. ────────────────────────────────────────── CONNECT WITH DYLAN JAHRAUS 🌐 Website: https://dylanjahraus.com 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dylanjahraus ▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dylanjahraus 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dylanjahrausofficial 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dylanjahraus 🎙️ Podcast: Etsy Seller Success at http://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/secrets-of-a-million-dollar-etsy-seller/id1647518076 📧 Contact: [email protected] ────────────────────────────────────────── Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You walk through your own company and realize the standards you set early on have quietly eroded, and no single decision caused it. The cultures that actually hold are built by leaders who hire for values, reward how people get results, and refuse to trade long-term identity for short-term numbers. David Cohen, founder of DS Cohen and Associates and bestselling author of Selecting the Best, has guided companies like Michelin and Boehringer in building cultures that last. His own story through ADHD, dyslexia, and cancer gives every lesson real weight. Listen and stop treating culture as something you announce. CONNECT WITH DAVID COHEN 🌐 Website: https://sagltd.com/ 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-s-cohen-0b0191/ 📚 Leadership Courage Series, Part 1 (Having the Courage to Live Your Values): https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-one-having-courage-live-your-values-worth-david-s-cohen-ncdqc/ 📚 Part 2 (Building the Courage to Live Your Values): https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-two-building-courage-live-your-values-david-s-cohen-lm7nc/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You did everything right, so why does burnout still find the people who look like they have it all together? If you are successful on the outside and exhausted on the inside, this episode names exactly what's happening and how to fix it. Host Stacey Chillemi sits down with Kenyokee Crowell, founder of Prodigy Advisors and a leadership coach who spent 20-plus years in corporate healthcare before stepping away to rebuild her life on her own terms. You'll learn: 📣 Why more success can deepen burnout 🧱 The boundaries that protect high achievers 🧭 How to design a personal strategy 🌙 A simple habit to quiet overwhelm 👑 Why women leaders burn out faster 🔁 The first small step back CONNECT WITH KENYOKEE CROWELL!🌐 Website: https://thinkprodigy.biz/📸 Instagram: @gracegritandnoregrets💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenyokee-crowell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It is not an accident. The stories that get covered. The ones that don't. The framing feels just a little too convenient. Media consolidation has quietly put the majority of what you read, watch, and hear into the hands of a shrinking number of owners — and those owners have advertisers, agendas, and bottom lines that have nothing to do with telling you the truth. Steven Abramowicz left Wall Street, inherited a local newspaper, and built it into an independent platform specifically to cover what that system ignores. What he knows about who controls the narrative — and how to think clearly inside it — is the conversation most media outlets will never have about themselves. This episode will change what you do the next time you read a headline. ────────────────────────────────────────── CONNECT WITH STEVEN ABRAMOWICZ: 🌐 Website: ⁠https://heartlandjournal.com⁠ 📰 Substack: ⁠https://heartlandjournal.substack.com⁠ ▶️ YouTube: ⁠https://youtube.com/@HeartlandJournal⁠ 📘 Facebook: ⁠https://www.facebook.com/heartlandjourno/⁠ 🐦 X / Twitter: ⁠https://x.com/HeartlandJournl⁠ 📚 More from Steve: ⁠https://songsabouttheheartland.com⁠ ────────────────────────────────────────── Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Three million dollars a year. That is what a family office can quietly cost, and most families cannot tell you what it actually buys. The worst losses never appear on a single statement. They are buried inside the structure, draining a fortune one invisible cost at a time, while everyone assumes the money is safe. Host Stacey Chillemi sits down with Susan Lindeque, Founder and CEO of Avestix Group, to reveal where the money really goes and how wealthy families keep it for generations. You'll learn: 💸 How fortunes quietly bleed out each year ⚠️ The single person who can sink it all 🔁 Where wealthy families pay twice over 🏛️ What turns a fortune into a dynasty 📈 The model that scales without the overhead 🧭 The one question that protects a legacy Press play before another year of hidden costs drains what you built. CONNECT WITH SUSAN LINDEQUE! 🌐 Website: www.avestix.com 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susanlindeque Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From the outside, you look like you have it all figured out. So why do you quietly wonder where the real you went? That feeling isn't burnout. You've evolved, but your brand and the way you show up still speak for a version of you that no longer exists. Co-Host Lisa Urbanski sits down with Beverly Cornell, founder and growth visionary of Wickedly Branded, a branding agency that helps purpose-driven founders build brands that reflect who they've become. You'll learn: 🎯 Why your brand stopped attracting ideal clients 💰 The hidden reason you keep underpricing yourself 🧭 How to evolve from freelancer to authority 🔥 What belongs on your calendar first 🚪 Which tasks to cut, delegate, or automate 📈 How clarity turns into premium positioning By the end, you'll know how to realign your brand with who you are now and turn that clarity into premium positioning. Want to build a brand that’s bold, clear, and unforgettable? ✨ Clarity Quiz (Free): https://form.jotform.com/250656007927864 💜 Clarity Chat (Free – 15 Minutes): https://calendly.com/wickedlybranded/15-minute_clarity_chat?month=2025-11 Connect with Beverly! 🌐 Website: https://www.wickedlybranded.com 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beverlycornell 📲 Follow: @wickedlybranded | @beverlycornell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Every leader has a decision they replay. The hire that blew up the team. The pivot that cost six months of runway. The moment they said yes when every instinct said wait. Most leaders chalk it up to bad judgment and carry it as evidence they're not as sharp as they should be. They're wrong. Jason Turner scaled PowerShades from two people to over 50 employees and a successful 2025 acquisition — and what he learned about decision-making under pressure will completely reframe how you think about every call you've made under fire. The problem was never your judgment. It was the environment your judgment was operating in. Connect with Jason Turner & Learn More about PowerShades!🌐 Website: https://powershades.com👤 Personal LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonbturner💼 Company LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/powershades Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One percent. It sounds like nothing — a rounding error, a cost of doing business. But that single percentage point, compounded over 20 years, can quietly consume more than your entire starting investment while your wealth manager sends you quarterly reports that make everything look fine. Most investors never do this math. Most wealth managers are counting on that. Andrew Parrillo spent years inside the wealth management industry before writing the book on exactly what's happening to your money — and what intentional investors do differently to keep it. If you have a financial advisor and you've never actually run the numbers on what their fees are costing you, this episode will be the most valuable 45 minutes you spend with your money this year. Stop leaking returns you earned and start building a portfolio that creates value on purpose. ────────────────────────────────────────── CONNECT WITH ANDREW PARRILLO: 🌐 Website: www.parrilloinvestors.com 📘 Book: Beat the Wealth Management Hustle (Amazon) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CSMR1VWW 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewparrillo/ 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andrewparrillo1/ ────────────────────────────────────────── Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your calendar is full. Your resume looks impressive. By every external measure you are succeeding — and you wake up most mornings wondering why none of it feels like enough. That gap isn't a motivation problem. It isn't burnout. It's what happens when you've spent years executing someone else's definition of a good life without ever stopping to design your own. Ted Kopecko is an architect and entrepreneur who realized that the same principles behind designing a building — intention, structure, purpose — are exactly what most people never apply to their own lives. What he built out of that realization became a bestselling roadmap for high achievers who are done living a life that looks right on the outside and feels completely wrong on the inside. This conversation will make you want to tear up the blueprint and start over — on your own terms. You'll learn: 🧠 Why high achievers end up burned out and directionless ⏱️ How to stop selling your time cheap — and raise its value 🔵 The 4 pillars of the JOY framework: mindset, identity, time, direction 🔄 The mindset shift that has to happen before anything else changes 👥 How your inner circle is either building or blocking your future 🎯 One decision this week that your future self will thank you for The life you want is a design problem. This episode gives you the blueprint. CONNECT WITH TED KOPECKO!🌐 Website: https://www.findingjoy.us💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ted-kopecko-author-finding-joy-journey-of-you-36592441📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TDKopecko/📚 Book: Finding JOY: Journey Of You — https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FJQLX6QM Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2026 a criminal doesn't need to break into your home or hack your accounts. They need 30 seconds of your voice from a podcast and your face from LinkedIn — and they can call your family office, impersonate you perfectly, and wire your wealth out before anyone realizes what happened. This isn't a hypothetical. It's happening to high-net-worth families right now and most of them never see it coming because they're still thinking about cybersecurity the way they did ten years ago. Susan Lindeque has spent her career protecting family wealth at the highest levels — as a Chartered Accountant, former Global CFO, and founder of Avestix Multi Family Office — and what she's seeing in 2026 should change how every wealthy family thinks about who has access, what they verify, and how fast they can be taken for everything they've built. You'll learn: 🎯 Why wealth makes you a bigger target 🔓 The four places your money leaks out 🤖 How deepfake fraud actually works 📞 Why phone verification no longer protects you 🏦 The vendor risk hiding in plain sight ✅ The security audit to run this week The threat is real. The fix starts today. Connect with Susan Lindeque!🌐 Website: www.avestix.com🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susanlindeque📩 Email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You've done it. Every leader has. You see a 24-year-old on your team and you adjust your approach based on everything you've heard about Gen Z. You see a 52-year-old and you make a different set of assumptions. It feels like smart management — reading the room, meeting people where they are. But those assumptions are quietly costing you your highest performers and you won't see it happening until they're already gone. David Cohen has spent his career studying what actually predicts performance — and birth year isn't even in the top ten. What he's found instead will make you rethink every hire you've made, every promotion you've given, and every person you've written off without realizing it. You'll learn: 📣 Why generational labels backfire on leaders 🧠 Traits vs behaviors — what predicts performance 🔄 Why life stage beats birth year 🚪 How stereotypes push out top talent 🤝 Why trust and respect aren't the same  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bob Schober was living in a van. Not as a lifestyle choice — as a reality. From that starting point he built a roofing company that private equity acquired for over $50 million. But here's what most people miss when they hear that story — the exit didn't happen by accident, and it didn't happen because he worked harder than everyone else. It happened because at some point he stopped building a job and started building an asset. Most founders never make that shift. They stay indispensable, stay in the weeds, stay impossible to replace — and they create something that has enormous value to them and almost none to a buyer. Bob knows exactly where that line is, how to cross it, and what it costs you every day you stay on the wrong side of it. And what he did with the money after the exit will make you rethink what building wealth is actually for. You'll learn: 🚀 Why most businesses never scale past $1M 🎯 The replication system behind a $50M exit 💰 What private equity actually pays for 📈 How to make a business buyer-ready 🧭 The post-exit trap nobody warns you about 🤝 Turning a windfall into real impact Learn how to build a business that pays you twice — running it, then selling it. CONNECT WITH BOB SCHOBER: 🌐 Website: https://redemptionblueprint.com/success-stories/bobs-story/ 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/9figureroofer/ 🗣️ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bob-schober-40a42733b 💬 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brownsfan1972/ 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/discover/bob-schober Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You maxed the 401k. Stayed the course through every market dip. Lived below your means for decades. By every measure you did exactly what you were supposed to do — and there is still a very real chance it won't be enough. Not because you saved too little. Because nobody told you that a plan to grow your money is a completely different plan than one designed to make it last. Mark Kollar has spent 35 years watching disciplined, responsible savers run out of runway in retirement — not from bad decisions but from a gap nobody warned them about. The Retirement Navigator exists because that gap is costing retirees everything they spent a lifetime building — and this conversation will show you exactly where it is before it's too late to fix it. You'll learn: 💸 Why disciplined savers still run out🧠 How ego wrecks retirement portfolios📉 Why recoveries can take 24 years🧾 The 4 tax baskets explained simply🛡️ How much to protect vs. risk📋 Estate slip-ups that drain familiesKnow the exact questions to ask before you trust anyone with your money. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're disciplined. You're driven. You outwork almost everyone around you — and lately that engine is running on fumes and delivering less than it used to. Most high achievers respond to that signal by pushing harder. That's not a solution. According to neuroscience, it's the cause. Paul Crick spent decades at the top of global consulting — PwC, Capgemini, IBM — before discovering that the leadership model he'd been trained in was physiologically incompatible with sustained high performance. What he built instead — drawing from leadership psychology, neuroscience, and the principles of Aikido — dismantles the single most dangerous myth in business: that force creates greatness. If you're achieving everything on paper and running on empty in reality, this episode will change how you think about performance forever. You'll learn: 🔥 Why hustle drains clarity and creativity 🎯 When pressure becomes your identity 🧭 The 5-point GRACE compass for leaders 🥋 How Aikido turns force into power 🔋 The renewal state most leaders skip CONNECT WITH PAUL CRICK: 🌐 Newsletter: https://graceworkscollective.substack.com/ 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulcrick/ 📧 Contact: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Every time you ask AI what to think instead of using it to think better, you make a withdrawal from a cognitive account that doesn't automatically refill. The more decisions you outsource, the harder original thinking becomes. The harder original thinking becomes, the more you reach for AI. Most business leaders are already in this loop and have no idea it's happening because the results still look fine — for now. Dr. Andre Walton has spent his career studying what sustained cognitive and emotional pressure does to high performers — as a psychologist, TEDx speaker, and creator of the Burnout Foundation — and what he's seeing in the age of AI is a new kind of burnout that no productivity tool can fix. The leaders who will dominate the next decade aren't the ones who use AI the most. They're the ones who never let it think for them. You'll learn: 🧠 Why "cognitive surrender" is already happening to high performers ⚠️ How AI use accelerates burnout by killing creative thinking 🛡️ The exact habit that keeps your decision-making sharp 💡 What separates people who thrive in the AI era from those who don't 🔗 Why emotional intelligence is now the most valuable business skill 🎯 Simple daily actions that rebuild creative neural pathways  Connect with Dr. Andre!Speaking & keynotes:https://plan4change.org/Coaching & programs:https://www.hiredrandre.com/Follow & connect:X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/DRplan4changeLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/plan4change/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drandrewaltonYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PLAN4CHANGEInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/drandrewalton/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Most business owners are thinking about AI in terms of tools — what to automate, what to streamline, what to hand off. That's the wrong frame. AI isn't just changing how businesses operate. It's rebuilding the economic infrastructure that every business operates inside of — and the leaders who understand that shift are positioning themselves years ahead of everyone still experimenting with chatbots. Christopher Carter sits at the center of that transformation as Chairman and CEO of a global trade and governance platform building AI-enabled economic infrastructure across emerging markets — and as Co-Chair of an AI and workforce working group inside the U.S. Department of Commerce. What he sees coming will change how you think about where your business sits in the economy of the next decade. In this episode, you’ll learn: • The latest AI advancements and their impact • How AI is reshaping industries and daily life • Ethical considerations and future trends in AI Stay ahead of the curve with AI insights! LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, and hit the 🔔 for more cutting-edge discussions! 🤖👇 Share your thoughts: How do you see AI impacting your life? 🔗 Visit Christopher's LinkedIn profile for more insights on AI and technology:  ⁠linkedin.com/in/christopher-carter-885159/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Every founder has a version of reality they're refusing to accept. The team that isn't performing the way they need to. The strategy that isn't working the way they planned. The business that keeps hitting the same ceiling no matter how hard they push. Most leaders respond to that friction with more force — longer hours, tighter control, harder pressure. And they call the exhaustion that follows burnout. Paul Crick calls it something else entirely: resistance. And the distinction matters enormously — because if the cause isn't overwork, the solution isn't rest. It's a fundamental shift in how you lead when reality isn't cooperating. This episode will change the conversation you're having with yourself about why you're running on empty. You'll learn: 🧠 Why acceptance is a core leadership skill — not a weakness 🔥 How unresolved resistance quietly destroys team performance 💰 The $250K hidden cost of avoided conversations in a 50-person team 🎯 How to know if you're reacting emotionally or responding consciously ⚡ Grounding tools you can use mid-meeting, right now 🔑 What the GRACE Framework does — and why EQ training alone falls short Stop fighting reality. Start leading through it. ──────────────────────────────────────────── CONNECT WITH PAUL CRICK: 🌐 Website / Newsletter: https://graceworkscollective.substack.com/ 🎙️ GRACEWorks Podcast: https://podcasts.helloaudio.fm/subscribe/73fb21ad-a0ec-4b34-8852-0561eda895d1/MMsWTKDejB 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulcrick/ 📧 Email: [email protected] 🎧 Free Masterclass — GRACE Under Pressure (Audio): https://podcasts.helloaudio.fm/playlistPlayer?feedId=f1d68400-2fc0-4429-9576-49b0f15bce43&code=YZTNl1kGHN&fullFeed=true ⬇️ Free Download — Grounding Exercise (Audio): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tHtpOv9TA3m73m1rMKG2dPxCVnpw4fO7/view?usp=sharing 📱 GRACEWorks App — Coming May 2026 (iOS + Google Play) ──────────────────────────────────────────── Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You set the goal. You hit it. You set another one. And somewhere in that cycle a quiet voice started asking whether any of it actually means what you thought it would. That voice isn't weakness — it's wisdom. And it's the question that transformational leaders have been asking for decades without a real framework to answer it. Kristine Genovese is a cast member of Pillars of Power — the long-awaited 20-year follow-up to The Secret, premiering this week — and what she brings to that conversation goes beyond manifestation and mindset. It's a deeper reckoning with why achievement alone was never designed to make you feel whole, and what the leaders who actually feel fulfilled are doing differently. If you've built everything you said you wanted and still feel like something essential is missing — this is the episode that finally names it. You'll learn: ⚡ The real reason high achievers feel empty inside 🧠 How the Soul Intelligence Method transforms leadership 🌀 The manifestation ingredient most people completely miss 🛡️ Simple daily tools to protect and elevate your energy 💡 What true power looks like when you're fully aligned This one will shift something in you. Hit play. Kristine Genovese — Soul Intelligence Method® ✨ Website & Freebies https://soulintelligencemethod.com📘 Book — Healing Through Soul Intelligence® (BN / Amazon / Audible):  https://soulintelligencemethod.com🔗 All Socials & Contact:https://dot.cards/kristine_sq✉️ Email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The resignation didn't come out of nowhere. Neither did the one before it. Or the pattern of good people staying just long enough to find something better. Most business owners blame the job market, the economy, or the generation — anything except the culture they built by default instead of by design. Rich Ashton has spent 55 years inside small businesses watching this exact pattern play out — and what he's identified is that culture doesn't break dramatically. It erodes quietly, through a hundred small moments of neglect that nobody flagged because everyone was too busy keeping the wheels on. The framework he built out of five decades of real-world experience doesn't just stop the bleeding. It builds something your best people actually want to stay for — and gives you the freedom to finally step back from the business that's been running you. You'll learn: 🔥 The real definition of workplace culture — and why most businesses get it wrong 🏗️ How a single physical redesign boosted Rich's hiring success from 20% to 80% 🧠 A 3-step interview process that instills culture before someone's first day ⚠️ How AI is threatening people-first workplaces — and how to protect yours 🚀 The shortcut to developing your next layer of leaders so your business runs without you This is the episode for every small business owner who knows something's off — but doesn't know where to start. _____________________________________________________________________ 🔗 CONNECT WITH RICH ASHTON 🌐 Website: https://www.growingyourown.net/ 📘 Book — Growing Your Own: → Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/growing-your-own-rich-ashton/1147387991?ean=9798822982703 → Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Growing-Your-Own-developing-business/dp/B0F7MVN4F9/ 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rich-ashton-397a2b10/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're not stuck because you're not working hard enough. You're stuck because no one ever showed you the system. Stacey Chillemi sits down with Jeff Mason — CEO of STX Software and former salon owner — to give you the honest, practical roadmap that finally moves the needle. You'll learn: 🔥 Why effort alone will never scale your business ⚙️ The exact systems holding most small businesses back 📲 What changes the moment the right tech is in place 🤖 How to approach AI without the overwhelm 💡 The lesson Jeff learned behind the salon chair that changed everything 💰 The one thing to do this week if you feel stuck If you run a salon, spa, gym, studio, or any service business — this episode was made for you. You'll walk away with something you can use today. _________________________________________________________________________ Connect with Jeff Mason & STX Software: 📲 Book a FREE demo of Inspire by STX — the all-in-one software built for salon, spa & fitness owners: 👉 stxsoftware.com/demo🖥️ Website: stxsoftware.com📘 Facebook: facebook.com/stxsoftware📸 Instagram: @stxsoftware▶️ YouTube: youtube.com/stxsoftware💼 LinkedIn (Company): linkedin.com/company/stx-software🙋 LinkedIn (Jeff): linkedin.com/in/jeff-mason-684b0522📧 Email: [email protected] 📞 Phone: (800) 766-4778 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If your team is burnt out, quietly quitting, or emotionally checked out — your engagement score won't tell you why. That's the blind spot this episode is here to fix. Host Lisa Urbanski sits down with organizational consultant and author David Cohen to unpack the difference between employee experience and employee engagement — and why confusing the two is silently damaging your culture, your retention, and your bottom line. You'll learn: 🔍 Why high engagement scores can mask a deeply broken experience 📋 How surveys are gamed — and what the data is really telling you 🧠 The experience pyramid that drives real loyalty and performance 🤝 Why leadership owns this problem — not HR 🤖 How AI is quietly isolating your workforce ✅ 5 pillars of employee experience you can start using today 📍 Catch David live at SHRM 2026 — Pre-Conference Workshop, Orlando Tuesday, June 16 · 8:00 AM–12:00 PM EDT Register: https://registration.events.shrm.org/flow/shrm/shrm26/public-catalog/page/catalog/session/1768332959523001Vxhq ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔗 CONNECT WITH DAVID COHEN 🌐 Website: https://sagltd.com/ 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-s-cohen-0b0191/ 📚 Leadership Courage Series: Part 1 – Having the Courage to Live Your Values: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-one-having-courage-live-your-values-worth-david-s-cohen-ncdqc/ Part 2 – Building the Courage to Live Your Values: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-two-building-courage-live-your-values-david-s-cohen-lm7nc/ 📩 Email: [email protected]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There's a stage every growing business hits where what got you here stops working. The hustle that built the foundation becomes the ceiling that caps the growth. The team that was scrappy and loyal starts showing cracks under the weight of a bigger operation. And the founder who used to have answers starts realizing the old playbook doesn't apply anymore. Herb has spent his career at exactly that inflection point — as CEO and founder of Aspiring Growth Advisors, he works with coaches, entrepreneurs, and scaling organizations at the precise moment everything has to change. What he's identified about the shift from founder-led growth to scalable growth — the people, the delegation, the structure — is the difference between a business that plateaus and one that breaks through. If your growth has gone quiet and you're not sure why, this episode will tell you exactly where to look. You’ll learn: ✨ The 3 barriers that block scaling (leaders, execution, market change) ✨ Why every CEO needs a coach (feedback you won’t get from staff) ✨ A simple delegation framework (priority + KPIs + meeting rhythm) ✨ How to build an A-player team (and why low A-player rates = scaling drama) ✨ “Topgrading” basics: hiring, onboarding, values, and performance reviews ✨ The Scaling Up Performance Platform: People, Strategy, Execution, Cash ✨ How to find your “why” for scaling—and use it to push through hard seasons ✨ Why BHAGs and goal resets prevent stagnation 🔗 Take the Business Scaling Readiness Assessment: AspireGrowthAdvisors.com 00:00 Intro 00:07 Meet Herb Kagano + what scaling really means 01:25 Herb’s story + entrepreneurial roots 02:49 Getting stuck in “flat mode” (competition + retention) 04:02 Discovering Scaling Up + the 3 barriers to growth 06:52 Why CEOs need a coach (objective feedback) 09:35 Delegation that works: priority + KPIs + meeting rhythm 12:47 “Work on the business, not in it” (earning the right) 16:53 Building an A-player team + Topgrading basics 19:42 The A-player rating question (rehire test) + “scaling drama” 23:03 The Scaling Up Performance Platform (People/Strategy/Execution/Cash) 28:00 Why scaling is rare (and why it’s hard) 28:39 The “why” behind scaling (purpose that pulls you through) 33:05 BHAGs + scaling purpose with profit 35:37 Final message: business of your dreams + next steps 37:05 Herb’s services (coaching + planning) 39:57 Finding your “why” through the right questions #BusinessGrowth #ScalingUp #Entrepreneurship #Leadership #Delegation #Hiring #ExecutiveCoaching #SmallBusiness #BusinessStrategy #CEO YouTube Chapters (paste exactly)Hashtags (YouTube) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's not laziness. It's not lack of talent. It's not even the wrong strategy. The most stuck professionals are often the most capable ones in the room — and the reason they're not moving has nothing to do with their skills and everything to do with patterns running underneath them that they've never been shown how to see. Dr. Joe DeAngelis isn't just a business psychologist studying this from the outside. He's a co-founder who has built companies from the ground up while doing the inner work simultaneously — and what he's identified about the invisible psychological architecture that quietly stalls even the most talented professionals will make you look at your own career with completely different eyes. The shift isn't about working harder. It's about understanding what's been working against you this whole time. You'll learn: 🧠 Why smart, capable people hit a ceiling they can't explain 🎯 How to build the credibility and influence that opens doors 💼 What elite performers understand about trust, behavior, and closing 💪 How top performers bounce back from rejection without losing their edge 🚀 The exact mindset shift to start moving forward — this week This isn't theory. This is 20+ years of watching people win — and finally understanding why. Connect with Dr. Joe DeAngelis: 📖 Get the Book: Heart of the Deal🏅 Get Certified: GetMedReadyCertified.com🌐 Website: GetHeartOfTheDeal.com📸 Instagram: @getheartofthedeal👍 Facebook: facebook.com/GetHeartoftheDeal💼 LinkedIn (Brand): Heart of the Deal👤 Dr. Joe on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/dr-joe-deangelis📩 Email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Every leadership course, every productivity system, every morning routine is built around one goal — eliminating uncertainty as fast as possible. Decide quickly. Get clarity. Reduce the variables. But what if that instinct — the one every high performer has been trained to follow — is actually the thing keeping them from their highest level of thinking and leadership? Ted Santos has spent his career studying the neuroscience and psychology of how leaders perform under pressure — and what he's found flips the conventional wisdom completely. Uncertainty isn't the enemy of great leadership. It's the condition that produces it. The leaders who learn to stay in that discomfort longer than everyone else aren't just more resilient — they're making better decisions, seeing further, and building organizations that don't fall apart the moment the plan changes. You'll learn:🧠 Why your brain craves uncertainty — and how to use that🌿 The ancient Greek mindset that replaces anxiety with purpose💡 Why the best leaders intentionally create disruption🏃 The difference between surviving chaos and navigating it🔧 Simple tools to build mental toughness starting todayThe chaos is showing you what you're made of. Learn more about Ted Santos and the Disruptive Leadership Model:Website: https://www.turnaroundip.comLinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ted-santos-ab0107X: https://x.com/TedSantos140Email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It rarely happens in one dramatic moment. No single bad investment, no market crash, no obvious mistake. Generational wealth disappears quietly — through unprepared heirs, family conflict, absent structures, and the assumption that money manages itself once it exists. Susan Lindeque has overseen more than a billion dollars in structured transactions as a former Global CFO and founder of Avestix Multi Family Office — and what she sees consistently across wealthy families isn't a lack of assets. It's a lack of architecture. The money exists. The plan for what happens to it — and to the people responsible for carrying it forward — almost never does. If you've spent your life building something worth protecting, this episode is the conversation your family needs to have before it's too late to have it. Learn: 💥 Why the "Succession Gap" is quietly threatening family wealth everywhere 🤖 How AI, digital assets & cybersecurity risks are rewriting the rules — and what your family must do about it 🔐 Why money alone will never be enough to protect the next generation 💬 What healthy succession really looks like — the human side nobody talks about 🚀 Practical steps you can take today to start the right conversations and build a real plan This is the episode that gives your family the clarity, tools, and confidence to face the future — together. 🌐 Connect with Susan Lindeque & Avestix: 🔗 Website: https://avestix.com/ 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Avestix/ 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/avestixgroup/ 🐦 X (Twitter): https://x.com/AvestixG 💼 LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/avestix/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You've told yourself you're not ready. Not qualified enough. Not experienced enough. That someone else with better credentials should be the one to build the thing you keep thinking about. Derek Flanzraich had every reason to believe that story — no degree, no media background, no roadmap, no permission from anyone. He built Greatist anyway. Twenty million people read it. And what it cost him to get there — the decisions, the mistakes, the moments he almost didn't make it — is a more honest account of what building something real actually looks like than anything you'll find in a business school case study. If you're sitting on an idea and waiting until you feel ready, this episode will be the thing that finally moves you. You'll learn: 🧠 How to build audience trust when you're not an "expert" 📈 What actually drove Greatist to 20 million monthly readers 💰 The emotional reality of selling a company you built from scratch 💥 How to process a public failure and decide what's next 📬 What it takes to grow a newsletter to 100,000 real subscribers 🧪 Why building your product in public can be your biggest advantage Connect with Derek Flanzraich: 🌐 https://www.5ht.com 💊 Fixie Dust: www.FixieDust.com 💼 LinkedIn: Derek Flanzraich Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Every day hospitals across the country write off millions in denied insurance claims without ever challenging them — not because the denials are legitimate, but because nobody has the time, the system, or the expertise to fight back. The total cost of that surrender? $43 billion annually. And the people absorbing the pressure of that broken process aren't executives in boardrooms — they're nurses drowning in prior authorizations and paperwork instead of caring for patients. Gretchen Heinen has lived both sides of this crisis — as a frontline RN who watched it happen from the inside and as CEO of Authsnap, which she built specifically to give healthcare organizations a way to stop accepting denials as a cost of doing business. If your organization is losing revenue to insurance denials right now, this episode will show you exactly how to start winning it back. Learn: 🔥 Why 74% of nurses are emotionally exhausted — the real reason 💸 How hospitals silently lose billions in wrongful denials every year 🤖 How AI recovers up to 75% of lost medical revenue automatically 🏥 What happens to your community when a hospital closes 📋 The #1 mistake practices make fighting denials — and how to fix it 🚀 What changes the moment you start pushing back 🔗 https://authsnap.ai | 📲 @authsnap Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whether you've authorized it or not, your team is already using AI to do their work. The question isn't whether AI is in your organization — it's whether you're leading it or just finding out about it after the fact. Most managers are in reactive mode, trying to catch up to tools their direct reports adopted months ago, with no framework for what's appropriate, what's effective, and what's quietly creating risk. Eric Ebron works with managers and directors who are done being behind on this conversation — and the four moves he's built into a repeatable leadership framework aren't about replacing anyone. They're about making sure that when AI is in the room, the human leading the team is still the one calling the shots. This episode will give you something you can implement with your team this week. Work with Eric E. Ebron and get updates on the Highway to Skyway Leadership: Workbook Edition → ⁠ericebronconsulting.com⁠*Booking & inquiries available on his website* Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're alone. Something goes wrong. And you can't speak — can't tell the paramedics your medications, your allergies, your emergency contacts, your doctor's name. Every second they spend guessing is a second they're not treating you. Most people assume someone will figure it out. Most people are wrong. Michele Bolton built MY911 because she watched that exact scenario play out in real life — and realized that the gap between a crisis and the right response is almost always information that nobody thought to prepare in advance. This episode will take you through exactly what to do before an emergency happens so that when it does, the people trying to help you actually can. You'll learn: 🚨 What first responders desperately need — and rarely have access to 💊 The critical health information every person should have ready today 👨‍👩‍👧 How to protect your children, aging parents, and caregivers right now 📱 How healthcare technology is transforming emergency medical communication ✅ 3 simple, powerful steps you can take today to feel truly prepared You don't have to be afraid of emergencies. You just have to be ready for them — and this episode shows you exactly how. 🔗 Connect with Michele Bolton & MY911: 🇨🇦 Canada: www.my911.ca 🇺🇸 USA: www.my911life.com💼 LinkedIn: Michele M. Bolton, FEA®🐦 X: @MY911_Inc👥 Facebook: MY911 Inc. 📸 Instagram: @MY911Inc 📖 Coming Soon — "The MY911 Story" by Michele Bolton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

AI is reshaping the workforce faster than many companies realize — and the roles businesses are hiring for today may look completely different within the next 18 months. In this episode, host Lisa Urbanski talks with April Elias, talent acquisition and AI implementation strategist, about how AI is changing hiring, job descriptions, team structure, and the skills employees need to stay relevant. You’ll learn: 🧠 Why many job descriptions are already becoming outdated 🤖 How AI is changing hiring, recruiting, and daily work 💼 What companies should look for beyond technical skills 🔥 How employees can identify transferable skills and stay relevant 🚀 Why resourcefulness may become one of the most valuable workplace skills ⚠️ How companies can avoid wasting money on AI tools that don’t create real results 🌱 Why the future of work is not about replacing humans — it’s about redesigning how humans and AI work together Connect with April Elias!Website: https://aprilelias.com/Linktree: https://linktr.ee/aprilelias Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aprilelias/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprilelias/ X (Twitter): https://x.com/aprilelias YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfp094IAL9X  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices