Soul of Business with Blaine Bartlett

There is untapped MAGIC in telling a story…What’s the power of your voice?  Join me and my guest Antoniette Roze, a visionary Speaker Agent who is driven by an unwavering passion to empower health, wellbeing, and optimum-performance experts to make a lasting global impact. As the CEO of the Wellness Productions Co (wellnessproductionsco.com). Antoniette has developed a groundbreaking system that helps speakers increase their bookings by an average of 30% and beyond while, at the same time, building significant brand awareness and demand for them. If you are a Speaker, Author, or Thought Leader (or aspire to be) you’ll want to be sure to listen to this inspiring, entertaining and informative episode.

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Back By Popular Demand!!!  Join me and my returning guest Dr. Jennifer Nash. Jennifer is a leadership expert and consultant to Fortune 50 organizations such as Google, Ford, Exxon Mobil, IBM, JP Morgan, Boeing, and Verizon. Jennifer helps successful leaders connect people and performance to deliver exceptional results. Her 25-year resume includes serving in executive and leadership roles at Deloitte Consulting and Ford Motor Company and as an adjunct professor at the University of Michigan. Jennifer contributes to Harvard Business Review, has presented her research at Columbia University, and is a Harvard Institute of Coaching Fellow. In this episode we pick up where we last left off and you won’t want to miss this!

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Driving for Good!  Join me and my guest Trent Griffin-Braaf, CEO & Founder Tech Valley Shuttle (techvalleyshuttle.com).

Trent has been honored as one of the “40 under 40” and featured in prestigious publications such as the New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, and Bloomberg Radio. Forbes recognized him in 2021 as one of the next 1000 entrepreneurs worldwide. Following a regrettable decision involving narcotics sales after high school, he found himself serving a 12-year prison sentence at the age of 19. Trent founded Tech Valley Shuttle in 2016 and today it boasts a workforce comprised of 100% underserved employees, with 80% having a history of justice involvement and 20% identified as having disabilities. It is the first black-owned business to be recognized as one of the best places to work by the Albany Business Review. 

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“Work Is Where Your Demons Go To Hide.” Join me and my guest Rachel Rider, Founder of MettaWorks (www.mettaworks.io). Rachel founded MettaWorks in 2015 after a distinguished career in HR, receiving executive coaching certification from Columbia University, and extensive training in meditation, Somatic Experiencing, and Polarity Therapy. She was formerly responsible for developing and coaching leaders and teams at Bloomberg and went on to specialize in leadership coaching at AppNexus (since acquired by AT&T) and Digital Ocean, the third-largest hosting company in the world. Ours is a fascinating conversation about honoring your authentic self while taking into account the impact your behavior has on others. She says “as long as a leader wants to do the work of looking at themselves with curiosity, there will be profound changes.”

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Looking To Grow? Don’t Know Where To Start? Feeling Overwhelmed? Join me and my guest Nicole Zeno, CEO and Founder of Clever Cow Media (www.clevercowmedia.com). Nicole is a fierce female entrepreneur who has been through the good, bad, and ugly, and is helping others overcome obstacles and reach success. Nicole’s expertise lies in creating growth strategies for both start ups and small to medium businesses (SMBs). She has built, grown, and run multi 6-7 figure businesses, including exits from three as a founder. Her extensive background and experience has led her to help small and mid-size businesses and startups build the processes and strategies to thrive. She is an Ultra Marathoner, one of Phoenix Business Journal ’s 40 Under 40 and and was named as a Top 100 Marketing Leader by MARSum in 2021 & 2022.

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Great leaders are Learn-It-Alls vs Know-It-Alls!! Join me and my guest Damon Lembi, CEO of Learnit (www.learnit.com). After dedicating the initial 22 years of his life to the pursuit of becoming a Major League Baseball player, Damon pivoted in 1995 to help his father (Walt Lembi, Founder of Learnit) by investing his heart and soul in Learnit to help individuals gain the knowledge and confidence they need in attaining their professional goals through the value of education. Damon has a deep commitment to the Learnit team past and present and attributes Learnit’s longevity and success to the ability to remain connected to the company’s “soul” and surrounding himself with “A” players and taking advantage of learning / evolving through past mistakes.

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Engineering Empathy – Spark the Heart! Join me and my guest Dr. Nicole Price, a leadership development expert who believes two things: 1) everyone wants to do a good job, and 2) empathetic leadership is critical to leveraging that desire. In our conversation she dispels common empathy myths such as “empathy is a trait that you’re born with or not” & “empathy requires you to take on the other person’s beliefs and values.” As a trained chemical engineer, Dr. Nicole would have, a few years ago, been the last person to tell a leader to practice empathy. Today, her work brings empathy to boardrooms across the country and creates stronger, more sustainable companies.

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I’m Dying To Tell You…Join me and my guest Dr. Mark Goulston (https://markgoulston.com), a board-certified psychiatrist, former UCLA professor of psychiatry, and author or co-author of ten books translated into 43 languages, with 600,000+ copies in print. He is a death and dying specialist facing his own mortality and the universe is telling him to share what he’s learned from 50 years of listening. He says that if he knew these things decades earlier, it would have changed his life for the better. Now you can learn them to change your life for the better…and you don’t need to be dying to learn them.

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One Conversation Away! Join me and my guest Tom Schwab, CEO (Chief Evangelist Officer) at Interview Valet (interviewvalet.com). Tom has run a nuclear reactor in the Navy and a small business. One was easy because it came with an instruction manual. Want to know how to reach your ideal client? Interview Valet is a concierge-level podcast guesting marketing service providing the fastest way for non-fiction authors, speakers, coaches, consultants, and brands to maximize the benefits of podcasting. Have you ever thought your digital marketing might actually be hurting your business? Tom has a refreshingly new view. He asks you to consider that you are just One Conversation Away from the success you desire. His experience and the data from working with over 700 leading brands as the Chief Evangelist Officer at Interview Valet proves it.

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Did You Come Here to Be Mediocre?  Join me and my guest Beate Chelette (beatechelette.com), Growth Architect and Founder of The Women’s Code. A first-generation immigrant who found herself $135,000 in debt as a single parent, Beate bootstrapped her passion for photography into a global business that licensed content into 79 countries. She exited in a multimillion-dollar deal when she sold the company to Bill Gates. She is listed amongst the “Top 100 Global Thought Leaders” by PeopleHum and “One of 50 Must Follow Women Entrepreneurs” by HuffPost.

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