YES, BRAND with Hersh Rephun

As a mentor and coach to entrepreneurs, serial-entrepreneur Jeremy B. Shapiro helps founders find Entrepreneurial Freedom as a true business owner – an important distinction that many entrepreneurs can easily miss when working “in” their business instead of “on” their business. For over two decades, through structured masterminding, one-on-one coaching, and consulting work, Jeremy has been helping entrepreneurs discover the core strengths in themselves and their business and attain the freedom they deserve.

Connect with Jeremy

• What is Entrepreneurial Freedom and Freedom Interview Stories: https://bayareamastermind.com/freedom/

• Effective Mastermind Hot Seats: https://bayareamastermind.com/hot-seats/

• Defined: What is a Mastermind: https://bayareamastermind.com/about/what-is-a-mastermind/

• The Power of the Master Mind: https://bayareamastermind.com/power-master-mind-napoleon-hills-think-grow-rich/ 

• The Three Kinds of Mastermind Groups: https://bayareamastermind.com/mastermind-group-near-me/ 

• Your Freedom Number: Escaping the Rat Race https://bayareamastermind.com/freedom-number/  

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“Jon Bassford really piqued my curiosity about operations,” Hersh admits when commenting on this episode. And that makes sense, because Jon is an ops professional and entrepreneur driven by his Curiosity! It is his super power and it has driven his personal and professional advancement.

After law school, Jon put this inquisitiveness to work launching, managing, and improving operations for venture backed startups to global nonprofits with impact!

Today, Jon is known for his curiosity-driven leadership, helping organizations and individuals innovate, change, and grow through by adopting Curiosity as their superpower.

Hersh sits down with Kimberly Wifeling, who has been described as a “force of nature” – an apt description, Hersh points out. She is determined to use that force to make a significant positive impact on our world.

Kimberly Wiefling helps people achieve what seems impossible, but is “merely difficult.” She’s the author of the globally popular book Scrappy Project Management – The 12 Predictable & Avoidable Pitfalls Every Project Faces; the founder of Wiefling Consulting, and cofounder of Silicon Valley Alliances. Her latest book, “Turning Ideas Into Impact”, is an anthology with 15 other Silicon Valley consultants.

A physicist by education, she worked at HP for 10 years in 7 different engineering and project management roles, including leading an R&D team launching a new mass spectrometer, then 3 years in Silicon Valley startups leading product development teams in hardware, software, and complex systems involving both. She’s worked with 50+ globalizing Japanese companies, and with people from over 50 different countries, helping organizations solve global problems profitably. Kimberly lives and works in Silicon Valley, and has helped to start, run and grow many small businesses, including several that are still alive and profitable, and one of which grew to millions in revenue with only seed funding from her and the other founders. 

Kimberly’s superpower is turning managers into leaders and groups into true teams who can achieve “impossible” together.

Lady Jen lives by the motto, “Create a work life that makes life work!” and as someone who’s accompanied her on the Marketers Cruise and the Podcasters Cruise (newly minted as The New Media Cruise), I can attest that she is among my most industrious colleagues.

Known as “The Team-Building & Scaling Architect,” Lady Jen Du Plessis specializes in helping business owners and executives build world-class teams, allowing them to scale their businesses while living their dream lifestyle. A few of her notable awards include the 2024 Impact Mentor of the Year and the 2024 SheLeads Women of Excellence Award. 

Dame Lady Jen, a member of the Royal House of Cappadocia and Royal Order of Constantine the Great and Saint Helen, has emerged as a powerful and charismatic Award-winning International speaker, sharing stories of resilience, sorrow, and triumph in business. She is a 4X #1 best-selling author, podcast and TV show hostess of Business on the Vine.

A devoted philanthropist, she supports causes for homeless women and children, human trafficking prevention, U.S. Military Veterans, and animal shelters.

Lee Povey is a high-performance leadership coach specializing in working with founders and start-ups. As a former elite cycling athlete and Olympic Development Program Coach for USA Cycling, Lee has a deep understanding of what it takes to lead at the highest levels.

Through coaching hundreds of World, National, and Olympic champions, Lee has gained invaluable experience in developing World-Class leadership and people.

He helps leaders and high-achievers understand how best to motivate, lead, give feedback, and empower their teams to incredible growth and performance. He breaks down the human experience in a relatable way, giving tips, skill sets, and valuable mindset insights, allowing us all to perform like Olympians while retaining a strong focus on happiness and longer-term fulfillment.

He also runs men’s groups as a way to give back and help develop better fathers, husbands, friends, and leaders.

Connect with Lee

https://www.leepovey.com/

Linda King is an author, travel writer and travel blogger. As a former travel agent and banker, she have a wealth of experience in travel and money management. The Smart Travelista brand is about travelling and saving money.

Linda have written ten books – 7 in the Smart Travelista series and 3 in the Antics from Abroad series.

Linda is currently working on a book about sustainable travel and climate change, and she will appear on Hersh’s TRUTH TASTES FUNNY podcast to discuss that when the time is right.

Marc-John is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of Native Wisdom Hub. This ethical for-profit organization seeks to help steward the world’s fast-emerging psychedelic renaissance and industry in ways rooted in ethics, responsibility, and integrity. This wasn’t always Marc-John’s position, however. Whilst a student of indigenous wisdom traditions since his late teens, he qualified as a language interpreter and translator aged 22, and from age 24 onwards, he opened six companies, launching two of them fully before crashing and burning in 2018-2019.

This burnout led him back to his deepest calling: indigenous wisdom traditions. Today, as co-founder and co-director of Native Wisdom Hub, Marc-John gets to exercise all of his greatest passions, combining said traditions with his love for high performance, community-building, and deep healing in a business environment that offers coaching, teaching, mentoring, ceremonial healing, and retreats, striving to help people reach the very best version of themselves at every juncture.

Jet van Wijk (pronounced Yet Von WIKE) is a Dutch author and founder of several companies, including Laptop Lifestyle Master Program and JVW Agency. She is an internet personality and author of the tell-all book “What Influence” on the dark side of the influencer industry. Jet is an award-winning business coach and leader within the digital marketing industry, promoting a philosophy of ethical marketing. 

Jet isn’t just a seven-figure entrepreneur. She’s a guide, mentor, and strategist empowering the next generation of digital leaders to escape the confinements of the 9-5 lifestyle. 

Becoming a digital entrepreneur isn’t something you can learn at school. The textbooks are outdated, and most teachers don’t have real-life experience or industry insights. That’s where Jet and the Laptop Lifestyle Master Program comes in. 

Jet works with freelancers to give them the tools to make $3,000 to $5,000 monthly, working from anywhere, with proven frameworks, strategies, and DFY templates. You can make this your reality in just 90 days with LLMP. The program has been featured in LA Weekly, OK! Magazine, Grazia, Forbes, and ELLE Canada. 

Book a Quick Consult with Jet:

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Website: https://www.jetvanwijk.com/

Marcel Becker is a LinkedIn consultant, copywriter, and investment professional helping businesses leverage LinkedIn for long-term brand growth and network expansion. With a self-developed strategy, he enables clients to automate and organically grow their networks while generating leads, business partnerships, and recruitment opportunities. Now active in the investment sector with Mount Capital Management Ltd., Marcel brings extensive experience in finance and real estate. Having built a Europe-wide network of top service providers, he also helps businesses connect with key partners and projects efficiently.

Mike Lane-Evans is an International Coaching Federation (ICF) accredited coach and the Founder of Forefront Coaching. With over seven years of experience in helping entrepreneurs and senior leaders enhance their communication, Mike has supported more than 1,000 individuals in achieving impactful pitches, presentations, public speaking, and internal company communications.

Mike’s journey into coaching began after a career-changing realization during his time as a communications consultant. After struggling to make the desired impact in his own career, he developed unique personal presentation tools and models that transformed both his approach and the results he achieved. Now, he shares these insights through coaching and podcasts, offering practical frameworks designed to help individuals make an authentic impact without relying on scripted gestures or templated communication techniques.

Mike’s work emphasizes the development of authentic confidence, charisma, and presence, ensuring that clients communicate in a way that feels true to themselves while maximizing their influence. His expertise is sought by entrepreneurs, senior leaders, and corporations alike, and his methods have consistently bridged the gap between where his clients are and where they aspire to be in their communication skills.

Connect with Mike

https://www.forefront-coaching.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-lane-evans-18ab678b/