Soul of Business with Blaine Bartlett

Forging Great Companies With Venture Capital! Join me and my guest Nitin Rai, Founder and Managing Partner of Elevate Capital (elevate.vc). Launched in 2016, it is one of the first institutional inclusive venture funds in the US that invests in diverse and underserved entrepreneurs nationwide. More than 62% of Elevate Capital’s investments are in women, 52% in African Americans (the majority are women), 67% in founders of color, 10% LGBTQ+, 10% veterans, and 5% Latinx founder/CEO-led startups. Since 2016, Elevate Capital has invested over $45 Million in 58 startups, of which 95% are led by diverse founders.

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Your Future Is Calling! Join me and my guest Rich Habets, an international business consultant and coach, who’s magnificent obsession is to help organizations apply unconventional strategies to achieve extraordinary results. His work ensures that his global clients, such as Medtronic, KMPG, Abbott and Continental, maximize their potential to get everything they can out of all they’ve got. His expertise is high performance: the ability to consistently, constantly and consciously achieve big goals in the laziest way possible. His approach is firmly grounded in a profound understanding of behavioral psychology, neuroscience, and, perhaps most importantly, embracing and living life to the fullest.

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Top 5 Underrated CEO Skills.  Join me and my guest Dr. Jonathan Baktari, CEO of eNational Testing, e7 Health, & US Drug Test Centers. e7 Health (e7health.com) is a preventative health and wellness company that has been called the “the Uber of preventive medicine” and was named the Best Technology Company in the Healthcare Space in 2019. Dr. Baktari is a preeminent, national business thought leader and has been interviewed in The Washington Post, USA Today, Forbes, Barron’s, and many other national publications. He is also an opinion writer for The Hill and the Toronto Star.

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GLOBAL LEGACY BUILDING! Join me and my guest Marc Cohen, Founder, and CEO of Buy Direct Development Companies (BuyDirectDev.com). Marc has over 4 decades of experience as a global multibillion dollar international leader with top-level billion-dollar business organizations, executives, and business owners. Marc’s connections have always been key to his and his client’s success in sectors as diverse as Healthcare, AI, International Network Marketing, Real Estate, E-Mobile Platforms, Global Merchant Processing, Global Supplement Manufacturing, Cyber Technology, and Food and Apparel. Marc’s spiritual passion involves Global Legacy Building around Family, Business, and Humanity. 

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Innovate Or Die Is NOT Simply A Cliché! Join me and my guest Dr. Stephen Tang, author of A Test for Our Time: Crisis Leadership for the Next Normal (listed as a “Top New Release” on Amazon in 2023). His op-ed pieces have been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Hill, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Morning Call. He has held the titles of Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, and Founder/Owner for 33 combined years. Dr. Tang was re-appointed to the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (NACIE) in 2016 and served as NACIE co-chair through 2018 and he was recently featured in William & Mary Alumni Magazine as a “Renaissance Man.”

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Where Do I Find That Part…I Need It NOW?  Join me and my guest Stan Mirzayev, a serial entrepreneur and a 17-year automotive expert and enthusiast. He is the founder and CEO of Parts Pass, an auto parts app revolutionizing the way people fix their cars. Stan emigrated to the U.S. from the former Soviet Union with his family at the age of 4 and grew passionate about cars while working with his dad in the family automotive shop. Parts Pass offers an easier way for the general public to search for and order replacement car parts through self-diagnosis software, an easy-to-use interface, and AI integration that provides quality parts, at a wholesale price, and 48-hour delivery.

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Creating a “Blue Bond.” Join me and my guest Robert Saad, compassionate capitalist and CEO of Hillsdale Assets, a leading apparel manufacturer specializing in premium women’s swimwear. With over 30 years of experience, Hillsdale has established themselves as the largest swimwear producer in the Caribbean, servicing clients in North America, South America, and Europe. Combining cutting-edge technology for development with a capacity for high volume production and a corporate commitment to sustainability and carbon neutrality, they are poised to become the first green energy swimwear factory in the Western Hemisphere.

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Feel you speak? Hear you listen? Join me and my guest Marshall Davis Jones, founder of MindBodySpeak and author of Tonal Influence™ (A Guide to Listen Better, Speak Clearer and Set the Tone). Marshall’s techniques will set you up to win negotiations, deescalate conflicts and acquire business relationships across multiple industries. Marshall works with renowned speakers, industry leaders and various organizations from youth development to law enforcement. Besides writing and speaking globally, he has played a narrative consultant role for two documentaries and you can find him playing himself in Ray Ramano’s Somewhere In Queens. He’s also had poems flown by NASA into space. 

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Imposter Syndrome, Fear Of Public Speaking…Hah! Join me and my guest Shelly Lefkoe, co-founder of the Lefkoe Institute. In a published study people who had a fear of public speaking were treated with TLM and in less than four hours their fear was eliminated. Shelly has helped thousands of clients, worldwide recreate their lives by ridding themselves of a wide variety of problems rooted in limiting beliefs including fear of public speaking, imposter syndrome, phobias, relationships that never seem to work, procrastination, health and wellness issues, and sexual dysfunction. You won’t regret spending time with Shelly!

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You Can’t Put That There! Join me and my guest Paul Baron, founder and chief executive officer of The Wall Printer USA as he describes exactly how you can put that there. Paul is a mentor to business owners and student interns at the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) and at UNCW’s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE.) Paul serves on advisory boards at UNCW’s Business School’s Entrepreneurship track, at non-profit organizations, and privately held businesses in Wilmington, Atlanta, and New York. Wall printing is a relatively new concept, allowing for printing any digital image on virtually any surface such as walls or buildings. Truly a fascinating conversation about entrepreneurship and innovation!!

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