The Business Power Hour with Deb Krier

Michael Silva was the president and founder of FOUNDATIONperformance Sports Medicine for 20 years before selling his practice and exiting successfully. They were a leading outpatient physical therapy practice in New England with three offices in two states. He is also the creator of RUNstrong®: A comprehensive conditioning program for runners and coaches.

After exiting the clinical setting, Michael’s mission is to be a resource to small business owners and entrepreneurs. Helping them thrive optimally in business is his mission; he knows that a good business is built on relationships and self-awareness. And that business will succeed when the customer experience is optimized!

He is committed to helping his clients not only meet personal and business goals, but to surpass them.

Michael Hill is the CEO and Co-Founder of Well Groomed Pets, spearheading innovation in pet care. Michael’s passion for animal welfare grew after the loss of a beloved family pet that succumbed to cancer—a loss that may have been avoided with early intervention.

Combining his desire to provide preventative care for pets with his business acumen, he launched Well Groomed Pets, knowing that pet groomers touch and see family pets twenty times more often than a veterinarian does. Under his leadership, the franchise has revolutionized pet grooming services, prioritizing quality and convenience while providing a comprehensive nose-to-tail wellness check for every pet seen.

Wendy Watson, a Spiritual Relationship Mentor and CEO at TBR Spiritual Health, is dedicated to guiding individuals through transformative journeys towards healing, personal, and spiritual growth. With a focus on helping people overcome the trauma of divorce, cultivate healthy relationships, and address a range of mental and emotional challenges, Wendy is committed to empowering her clients to reclaim their inner peace and fulfillment.

As a 5th-generation entrepreneur, 2023 Finalist for the BBB Torch Awards for Ethics, author of Verbal Turbulence: The 70/20/10 Rule, and a seasoned speaker, Wendy brings a wealth of expertise and insight to her work. She specializes in nurturing inner relationships, establishing self-worth, finding peace in relationships, and strengthening intuition, offering practical tools and compassionate support to facilitate lasting change.

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Carrolee Drummonds is an award-winning speaker, writer, and content marketing consultant with over 15 years of experience. As Principal Consultant at CMCG, she helps experts and consultants become magnets to their ideal clients using the power of Other People’s Podcasts (OPP). Beyond her work as a marketer, she is an active volunteer in her community – serving on several nonprofit boards, and founding the Care Moore Initiative, an annual award given to a nonprofit that provides them with creative and fundraising services. The initiative has provided over $60,000 in services since 2022.

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Elle Ballard’s experience includes building a successful international career in leadership where she led the team on the oil and gas $3.2 billion crude oil system CPC project, as well as her marketing projects for software companies where she helped build brand equity and positioning to prepare for successful acquisition.

Today, she is an accomplished author, speaker, and founder of a community of global women entrepreneurs representing women from 23 countries. With her goal of impacting 50,000 women in the next 5 years, she guides busy women entrepreneurs in embracing all aspects of life. She’s also a podcaster, hosting Empowered Global Women in Business.

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Kris Ashley is a dynamic coach, author, speaker, podcast host, and television host with a passion for personal development, spirituality, and science. She has spent over two decades immersed in the research and teachings she shares. Following her passion for personal development, Kris trained with renowned life coach Mary Morrissey and began her coaching business, Change Your Mind with Kris Ashley. She also launched her podcast with the same name.

In 2022, she published her first book, Change Your Mind To Change Your Reality, which received endorsements from spiritual and self-help heavyweights Michael Beckwith, Marci Shimoff, Bob Doyle, John Gray, and Anita Moorjani. Today, Kris is a regular panelist, speaker, and trainer at personal development events. Whether it’s energizing a crowd at a conference or distilling wisdom into a podcast microphone, she’s a force that captivates and inspires, always ready to motivate and lead others to their best selves.

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Jan Southern is a Certified Exit Planning Advisor (CEPA) and Business Advisor for Ferguson Alliance in Houston, Texas. The Alliance is a boutique family advisory firm with clients throughout the U.S.

Jan has a remarkable talent for guiding businesses through managing process improvement and creating a culture of continuous improvement. One of her most memorable success stories involves a family-owned business that was struggling to stay afloat. Through her strategic approach, she not only helped them streamline their operations, but also instilled a mindset of continuous growth and innovation. This transformation led to a significant improvement, showcasing Jan’s ability to balance flexibility with structured processes. Jan can help family business owners turn challenges into opportunities for lasting success.

Martie McNabb sold her apartment in Brooklyn over six years ago and hit the road in her 21-foot campervan (named Brooklyn) to host story-sharing gatherings and interactive art/history exhibitions for individuals, families and organizations all over the country. She’s a legacy artist on a mission to build deeper connections, community and legacy through the stories of the Things that Matter. She’s been written about in the Wall Street Journal and featured in three books. She splits her time between her wife and mom-in-law in Albuquerque and her Mom in Vermont. And when she can she meets her wife, a marriage over 30 years in the making, on the dance floor where they met a lifetime ago. She’s launching a series of multi-author books all about the Things that Matter in 2024.

Audrey Joy Kwan coaches and consults with agency owners to free them from client delivery, empower them to lead more effectively, and grow seven-figure agencies. She’s been in the agency space for over 20 years, has a master’s degree in communication focused on organizational development, and has supported agency owners to sell and exit by helping them build a business that gives them more time back.

Audrey hosts the “Small But Mighty Agency Podcast” and a community called Agency Together. Agency Together is a referral network to help agency owners get consistent referrals and grow the business through more collaboration and less competition.

She is on a mission to end the “dog-eat-dog” agency world, in other words, eliminate the belief that one agency’s gain is another’s loss, by helping grow niche agencies and bringing them together to get more referrals and strategic collaborations.

Aidan Mehigan is the Founder and CEO of Natterjack, a popular Irish whiskey brand he grew from zero to an internationally recognized liquor brand in less than five years. Natterjack, currently sold in 16 U.S. states and 13 global markets, was recognized as the Best Irish Whiskey 2024 in The Whiskey Bible and has 7+ figure annual revenues. The journey getting there wasn’t easy!

To fund the growth of his company in 2018, Aidan obtained a $940K+ convertible loan note. Then COVID-19 struck, and by the end of 2021, Natterjack had low cash reserves, international market sales were almost non-existent, and the Irish market was simply too small to sustain the business.

To make matters worse, the convertible loan note holder also wanted their money, and Aidan couldn’t pay it back. This resulted in a legal battle that ended with the court ruling in Aidan’s favor, ending an attempted hostile acquisition and possible closure of Natterjack.