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Emillio RodriguezSpeaker & Strategic Communications Leader on Trust, Human Connection, Resilience, and the People Who Change What We Believe is PossibleEmillio Rodriguez is a speaker and strategic communications leader whose work is built around a powerful idea: the way we see people can change what they believe is possible.At 16, Emillio survived an 80-mph rollover crash. The vehicle rolled three times, and metal tore through the center of his seat, missing him by inches. In the years that followed, he worked through guilt, self-doubt, and questions about purpose. What changed his trajectory...

Gabe ArnoldHelping Visionary Founders Eliminate Operational Chaos to Scale, and Start Leading from the Passenger Seat.Gabe Arnold is the CEO of Simple Operations and the author of Passenger Seat Leadership and Atomic Words. After years of building and scaling businesses, he discovered a critical flaw that traps most entrepreneurs: building a company that completely relies on them to survive. Today, Gabe helps visionary founders eliminate operational chaos, build predictable systems, and scale their companies so they can safely step away from the day-to-day gears and start leading from the passenger seat. In today's...

Silvia RizzoHigh-Performance Leadership & Decision-Making.Silvia Rizzo works in high-performance environments across sport and business, focusing on leadership and decision-making under pressure.Her background is in elite sport, where she has spent years working with performance, error management, and mental resilience in real-world, high-stakes situations.On podcasts, she explores how leaders handle pressure, make decisions when things don’t go as planned, and maintain credibility over time.My work sits at the intersection of high-performance sport and business, where pressure, decision-making, and responsibility are part of everyday reality.I’ve s...

Amber PettyWeird Marketing Maven, Email Marketing, Ads, Non-Social Media Marketing, Anti-Perfectionism, Bringing Weird to Your Business is the Best Way to Make Money.After 13 years as a working actor in New York City, I got tired of waiting for auditions like "woman disappointed by scale" for a Weight Watchers commercial and went into freelance writing.From there, I got bylines, realized perfectionism was ruining my life, and went into a major depressive episode! All during a move to LA where I felt like a pale alien in a foreign land....

Neil SolomonAuthor of *The 1% Door* — the hidden systems costing you the life you could be living.Neil Solomon, author of *The 1% Door*. Built and scaled real businesses, lost almost all in a full collapse, and once nearly drowned in Class IV rapids in Costa Rica. While scaling his company, he left his homeland and became a Nomad CEO. Living out of a backpack for nearly 3 years and traveling to 70 countries while running 12 operating companies with nearly 300 employes. His main idea started with the question - Why do some people walk past opportunities constantly without se...

Dan MessingerAuthentic, Deep OG Conflict Resolution Expert and Executive Presence Trainer whose Passion is to Transform Leaders, Teams, and Organizations. Worked with Google, Facebook, CAT, Sargento and others.I’m a Conflict Resolution expert and Executive Presence trainer.I’ve worked with Google, Facebook, CAT, IMAX, hp, Sargento, and so many others. I’m authentic and I run deep. I’m able to help leaders, teams, and organizations transform because I’ve spent decades transforming myself.When facilitating Conflict Resolution, I teach leaders how to bring up concerns without bla...

Shakti SharmaFounder, The Feminine Wealth Movement.Feminine Wealth Movement is where emotional intelligence meets financial power to build wealth and break limits, one business leader at a time.Shakti supports leaders ready to build wealth on their own terms. She covers money mindset, entrepreneurship, sales strategy, high ticket offers, marketing, and lifestyle design through real lived stories that inspire, equip, and get you richly paid. Join the movement!After 12 years leading strategy in financial services, management consulting, and investment banking, I walked away from corporate to build something of my...

Marcia RubenThe Untangle Doctor.Dr. Marcia Ruben is an executive coach, organizational consultant, and graduate leadership professor emerita with more than three decades of experience helping leaders cut through complexity and lead with clarity. She's the author of The Neuroscience of Leadership: Rewire. Untangle. Lead., which translates brain science into practical tools leaders can actually use — so they can stop reacting and start leading with intention.For more than three decades, I've sat across from leaders who are smart, capable, and completely overwhelmed. They're not failing because they lack skill or drive — they...

Bryant ObergFounder of Human Co-Pilot, Helping Business Owners and Professionals Put the Human Back in AI.I'm Bryant Oberg, the founder of Human Co-Pilot, where I help business owners put the human back in AI. I work with entrepreneurs, executives and business professionals who feel overwhelmed by AI to help them actually utilize this technology. I live in Jerusalem with my wife and four, who range from six to four months. I gave up a position as a partner at a hedge fund to explore my dream of entrepreneurship and I found my footing...

Todd Sarner For more than 20 years, I’ve worked with parents who love their children deeply, have read the books, tried the advice, and still find themselves stuck in daily conflict, power struggles, and self-doubt. Again and again, I saw the same pattern: good parents were being taught to manage behavior at the surface, while the real drivers of family stress were going unaddressed.As a licensed psychotherapist, parent coach, and former faculty member of the Neufeld Institute, I built my work around a different approach, one rooted in attachment, emotional regulation, and calm, connected lea...

Aryeh Green A "radical moderate" author, activist, business exec, uplifting speaker - promoting peace, democracy, healing and success for over 4 decades. Latest book: 'Finding Peace in the Promised Land'Aryeh Green is the author of a new book, Finding Peace in the Promised Land, proposing a radical new approach to resolving the Arab-Israel conflict, and of My Israel Trail, about his hike on the 700-mile Israel National Trail and overcoming personal challenges. He serves as Chief Strategy Officer at Gigawatt Global, developing renewable energy projects in Africa (based in Jerusalem), and head of its US n...

Peter GeorgePublic speaking coach helping leaders be calm, confident & credible every time they speak. Author of the 6x award-winning Captivating Public Speaker. 120K+ trained, 50+ countries.Today's guest is Peter George — a public speaking coach, professional speaker, and award-winning author. Growing up with a lisp and a stutter, Peter spent years avoiding communication altogether, until personal coaching changed everything for him. That experience led him to create the AMP'D Framework™, the system he's since used to train more than 120,000 professionals across 50-plus countries, working with companies like CVS Health, Anheuser-Busch, and Mohegan Sun.<b...

Rich LewisI help people break through their limiting beliefs, overcome their fears, take daily inspired action and make a lasting impact in the world.Rich Lewis is an author, speaker and coach who focuses on centering prayer as a means of inner transformation. He teaches centering prayer in both his local and virtual community and offers one-on-one coaching. Rich’s newest book is titled, Sitting with God: A Journey To Your True Self Through Centering Prayer. He publishes a weekly meditation, book reviews, and interviews on his site, Silence Teaches. He has pub...

Ethan DeckerTeaching you the "secret" science of brand growth.Ethan is a brand strategist and marketing expert who has spent 20 years doing award-winning brand strategy, advertising, and market research for some of the world’s biggest brands. A scientist by training but a marketer by trade, he’s the missing link between science and creativity.His career includes roles as Insight Manager at Radar Research, Planning Director at 72andSunny, Group Strategy Director at Crispin Porter Bogusky, and Vice President of Insight & Strategy at the Integer Group.He's done ethno...

Nita SweeneyBestselling author, mindfulness coach, mental health advocate, ultramarathoner, and dog mom.Nita Sweeney is a serial memoirist who writes about thriving while managing often serious mental illness. She is the award-winning wellness author of the running and mental health memoir, Depression Hates a Moving Target: How Running with My Dog Brought Me Back from the Brink and co-creator of the writing journal, You Should Be Writing: A Journal of Inspiration & Instruction to Keep Your Pen Moving. Make Every Move a Meditation, Nita's third book, was featured in the Wall Street Journal. A Daily...

Sharon PolskyDecoding today's biggest health trends with science, not hype.Sharon Polsky is a nationally recognized nutritionist, women's wellness expert, and author of Weight Loss Decoded. Seen on television stations from coast to coast, Sharon is known for cutting through the hype surrounding nutrition, menopause, healthy aging, and GLP-1 medications with practical, science-based advice. For more than 20 years, she's helped thousands of women make smarter health decisions and create lasting lifestyle changes. Please welcome Sharon Polsky.

Drew McholmDoing work that changes hearts.Drew McHolm's Scottish brogue gives him away immediately. Yes, he is from Scotland, and yes, he is the pastor at The Little Brown Church in Nashua, Iowa. But there is so much more...Drew was born in Glasgow. His mom, an avid reader and creative, adopted him. His adoptive father was a hard-working man who lived out his deep faith every day.  He taught Drew the value of hard work, of finishing what you start, and how to push through the inevitable difficulties we all face i...

Peter George Public speaking coach helping leaders be calm, confident & credible every time they speak. Author of the 6x award-winning Captivating Public Speaker. 120K+ trained, 50+ countries.Are you looking for a guest who will share useful information in an engaging and compelling way? Great! I'd love to show your audience how they can be more effective speakers.I'm a public speaking coach, speaker, and award-winning author whose mantra is, "It's all about the audience!" I help executives, professionals, and speakers be calm, confident, and credible every time they speak in public — increasing their imp...

Natalie LukeBurnout isn't a wellness problem. It's a responsibility design problem — and I can prove it.The year my house burned down, my organization asked me to publish 15 peer-reviewed papers.Most professors produce one or two in a year. I had a destroyed home, a family to hold together, and a publication pipeline that couldn't stop moving. There was no playbook for what I was being asked to carry. And there was certainly no one in the room formally acknowledging how much of it had quietly become mine.That year di...

Pam LandryCaregivers and others who care for family members while managing a careerWHY BOOK MEWhile I'm a nice person, it's my peaceful presence that creates a safe space for an audience to allow their inner wisdom to begin to shine through as they listen.For some change-seekers, I represent an example of how post-intense life experiences, such as caregiving, can look.It's not about what I do for a living now, but how I successfully navigated the chaos with a resiliency that boosted, rather than weakened...