Heartbeat For Hire with Lyndsay Dowd

Why is it easier to sell our products or services than it is to sell ourselves into a new sales role — or even get a promotion? After going through 5 Layoffs in medical sales and reviewing more than 16,000 resumes as a recruiter, Claire Davis built an award-winning company to help people get the jobs they want in healthcare by leaning into what they’re great at — selling.

Her company Traction Resume, helps people land meaningful, 6-figure roles and launch their healthcare consulting companies by becoming a category-of-one, not a commodity.

Claire has been featured in Forbes, Wall Street Journal, and been named a 2X Top Voice in Job Search and at home, she and her husband live in the Pacific Northwest with their two boys.

To learn more about Claire, you can go to her website: ⁠⁠https://tractionresume.com/

or

on Linkedin: @clairemdavis

Erin Aldrich-Shean is recognized as one of the top dual-sport professional athletes and Olympians of all time.

A 2000 US Olympian in track & field and a 2001-2004 and 2007 US National Volleyball Team member, Aldrich-Shean was a graduate of The University of Texas at Austin.

She was named Big XII Athlete of the Year in 2000 and finished her storied career at UT with 4 High Jump National Championships, a collegiate record of 6’5.5”, and 8 First Team All-American honors in both Volleyball and Track & Field.

She also competed in 4 World Championships for USA Track & Field. Erin was inducted into the UT Austin Hall of Honor for her athletic and academic accomplishments as a Longhorn.

Today Erin is a Certified Professional Coach, the Founder of Ascension Coaching and Vice President of the Aldrich Group.

To learn more about Erin, you can go to her website:

⁠⁠https://ascensioncoaching.co/

or on Linkedin: @aldrich1227

Over the past 18 years Joshua Lifrak, M.S. has worked with elite athletes and corporate leaders to help them perform at their highest levels.

He has also been instrumental in helping transform organizational cultures and individual mindsets to create an environment for optimal development and growth.

He is currently the Director of Performance and Coaching for Limitless Minds a Health and Wellness Technology Company founded by Denver Broncos Quarterback Russell Wilson and World Renowned Mental Performance Training and author of It Takes What it Takes – the late Trevor Moawad.

He is also the President of Lift Up Consulting. From 2014-2019, he has worked in Major League Baseball including 5 years as Director of the Mental Skills Program for the Chicago Cubs from 2014-2019 where he helped them win their first World Series in 108 years.

From 2019-2021 he was the New York Mets Major League Mental Performance Coach.

To learn more about Joshua, you can go to his website:

⁠⁠https://limitlessminds.com/

or on Linkedin: @joshua-lifrak-59ab5442

Joe Jacobi is an Olympic Gold Medalist, Performance Coach, Sports Commentator, Former CEO, marathoner and author who guides high performance leaders to ignite their second wind to confront challenging midlife transitions with meaning and adventure.

He practices and refines the core principles and strategies of Midlife Peak Performance in his own life and pursuits at his Pyrenees mountains home beside the 1992 Olympic Canoeing venue in the Spanish state of Catalunya – the same canoeing venue where he and his canoeing partner, Scott Strausbaugh, won America’s first-ever Olympic Gold Medal in the sport of Whitewater Canoe Slalom at the 1992 Olympic Games.

In 2022, and eight years into writing his popular weekly essays, Sunday Morning Joe, Joe published his first book, Slalom: 6 River Classes About How To Confront Obstacles, Advance Amid Uncertainty, & Bring Focus To What Matters Most – Joe’s reflections, experiences, relationships, and strategies from more than 40 years on the river transferred to navigating your river of the life.

To learn more about Joe, you can go his profile on Linkedin:⁠⁠

@jacobijoe

Subscribe to his Sunday newsletter:

https://joejacobi.ck.page/c5b7be8e26

Check out his book:

Karl Swanepoel is an award winning tech entrepreneur based in the UK and the Founder and CEO of Revolancer and an influential figure in the freelancing industry.

He also founded Rocketblast Digital, The WatchFace and Buy Sell Jobs. Karl Co-founded – Leapinto and was CMO and interim CTO at Lifewill Limited.

At 15, he was the youngest-ever brand ambassador for Britain’s largest business conference, The Business Show. He has also been directly involved in the European Parliament’s roundtable on Modernising Europe’s Workforce Well-Being Strategy. 

To learn more about Karl, you can go to his Linkedin profile

@karlswa

or visit him at his website:

https://revolancer.com

Billy Martin is a Senior Director for Strategic Programs and Leadership Development at Medidata Solutions as well as the creator of FLIP’D Coaching for Performance.

The FLIP’D framework has been experienced by over 4000 corporate leaders around the world since it’s inception. Billy spent 10 years at Salesforce.com before coming to Medidata. 

He has a Masters Degree in Sports Medicine and an MBA degree in Technology Management. Billy co-founded several technology companies on his journey toward leadership development.

Billy has six Amazon.com Top Sellers on Sports Officiating and Business he loves teaching other aspiring referees / umpires — and does so for high school soccer and basketball, as well as collegiate softball. 

Tony Severino is a business leader, leadership skill developer, master facilitator and coach. He draws on the experience as a business leader and coach who led organizations at companies like Xerox, Salesforce and his own company.

He spent his time at Salesforce as director of sales leader enablement and program manager where Tony’s team created and delivered the highest ranked, and award winning global leadership programs in the company’s history. Tony has personally facilitated leader training for thousands of leaders at Salesforce.

Now at FLIP’D, Tony and Billy work with companies to develop their leaders at all levels within the organization using proven, engaging workshop content and coaching tools.

To learn more about Billy, you can go to his Linkedin profile:

@crmbilly

To learn more about Tony, you can go to his Linkedin profile:

@arsevr

or

You can go to their website:

flipdcoaching.com

Growing up in a single parent home with a father that inspired perseverance and fairness, Marques Ogden learned how to define his values and set goals. Ogden attended Howard University from 1998-2002 where he played Division I football.

He then followed his dream and his brother Jonathan’s footsteps, eventually getting drafted into the NFL in 2003. Overall, he played for 5 years as an offensive lineman with the Titans, Bills, Ravens and Jaguars. Even during the off season, Ogden helped train football players in Europe, both physically and mentally.

To learn more about Marques, you can go to his Linkedin profile:

@marquesogden

or

You can go to his website:

marquesogden.com

Ray Leonard Jr., founder and CEO of Ovationz.com is a globally recognized public speaker, actor, award-winning business executive, and host for the podcast show: Know Better Do Better.

Instilled in him by his Grandfather, Ray’s core value is ‘know better, do better’. Ray brings this belief into everything he does, from coaching, to public speaking, to running businesses.
Ray is an expert Public Speaker and helped found Ovationz.com, the premier platform where professional and emerging speakers can connect with audiences across the globe, virtually.

He wanted to create a space for accessible learning, where audiences can book top experts, entertainers, and leaders and where speakers can develop and monetize their talent.

To learn more about Ray, you can go to his Linkedin profile:

@rayleonardjr

or

You can go to his websites:

rayleonardjr.com

ovationz.com

Stephanie Soetendal is a passionate educator and entrepreneur focusing on evolving society through innovating education with a world-class curriculum & emerging technology while leveraging AI for Good.

The ultimate mission is to democratize education of the top 1% to US Public Schools and low-income countries via AI powered Holograms.

Awarded “Top 100 Leaders in Education” by Global Forum for Education and Learning & awarded for “Outstanding Leadership” with Education 2.0 in Dubai.

Fourteen years of experience in education, curriculum development, management, and administration in the tutoring and education profession.

Stephanie is the founder of Matrix Holograms, a Boston based EdTech start-up democratizing tutoring with AI powered holograms with curriculum developed by Ivy League tutoring experts with an adaptable, versatile, and scalable educational platform for individualized learning.

To learn more about Stephanie, you can go to her Linkedin profile:

@stephanie-hologram

or

You can go to her website:

matrixholograms.com

“You will be a javelin thrower,” the coach for the Lithuanian national team told her. She had no idea what that meant.

But within two years, Inga Stasiulionyte was competing with the best. After reaching the finals in the European Championship, she was offered a scholarship to attend USC.

Years of experience in being a competitive Olympic athlete, working as a business analyst, building startups, and heading the first MIT Sports Entrepreneurship Bootcamp provided Inga with a great understanding of the challenges and needs of striving for self-realization on and off the field.

Today, Inga’s clients include Oracle, Salesforce, Facebook, HubSpot, finance and medical professionals, and Olympians. She prepared athletes to become European Champions, Olympians, National Record Holders, and founders at the top of their game.

Inga leads a startup Ofounders.com, specializing in performance coaching that helps leaders achieve superior results using Olympic-standard mindset development techniques.

She is also part of the Master Performance Coaches team at valorperform.com and the Lithuanian Athletics Federation.

To learn more about Inga, you can go to her Linkedin profile:

@javelingaworld

or

You can go to her website:

ofounders.com