Cliff is a franchise expert, serial entrepreneur, and co-founder of FRANOCITY, a franchise consulting firm. Cliff is a former investment banker and left his Wall Street job in 2003 to pursue a Master Franchise opportunity in New York and Connecticut, marking the beginning of his career in franchising. Throughout his career, he has owned and operated a variety of franchise brands, including Cartridge World, Personal Training Institute, PuroClean, Maid Right, and several independent businesses. Additionally, Cliff has played a key role in developing several successful brands both domestically and internationally, including Four Seasons Sunrooms and Contours Express. What sets Cliff apart is his deep passion for mentoring aspiring entrepreneurs and guiding them toward successful business ownership. Whether you're considering franchising or simply curious about what it takes to build a thriving business, Cliff’s insights are invaluable.

Sam is co-founder and chief executive officer of Deskpass, an industry-leading online marketplace offering access to teams and individuals thousands of unique coworking spaces and conference rooms nationwide.   A habitual problem solver, Sam first directed his creative energies toward a solution for managing coworking spaces after seeing the challenges firsthand as co-owner/operator of The Coop, Chicago’s first coworking space.

Sam has an established reputation as a successful entrepreneur and a well-respected voice in the design community. Before launching Deskpass, he co-founded the art collaborative The Post Family, as well as One Design Company. This digital branding agency creates powerful experiences at the intersection of research, communication, design, and technology for some of the biggest brands in the world. He lives in Oak Park, Illinois, with his wife and two fantastic children.

With over 7 years of expertise, Raitis Purins specializes in scaling marketing teams and driving substantial growth. At Printful, Latvia's first unicorn (valued at over $1 billion), Raitis led the marketing team's expansion from 5 to 120 members and contributed to a 15X revenue growth, scaling from $20 million in 2016. His experience spans end-to-end marketing channels, and he excels at aligning team dynamics to optimize results.

Raitis is known for his hands-on approach, consistently driving projects forward, even with large, cross-functional teams of 50 to 100+ people. He prioritizes company growth above departmental interests and believes that a marketing team’s primary goal is revenue. Raitis values experimentation, efficiency, and collaboration, and he’s passionate about clear communication—often quoting his belief that "there’s no such thing as overcommunication, especially internally."

As the CMO of Selar, he has driven the company's growth, reaching over 1,000,000 users across 15 African countries, grossing over $142K in subscription revenue, and facilitating over $3M in payments to creators. 

Milton has worked with various organizations and has been a keynote speaker at national and international platforms. He is a successful author and brand ambassador for Youthspark Pan African. 

With his expertise as a certified NLP Practitioner and Results & Peak Performance Consultant, Milton excels in leading teams to achieve exceptional results in the corporate world.

Rytis Lauris is the co-founder and CEO of Omnisend, a leading marketing automation platform tailored for ecommerce. With over a decade of experience in startups and ecommerce, Rytis focuses on delivering specialized automation solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. 

Recognized for his insights on the future of ecommerce, he has been a featured speaker at various industry events and podcasts.

Adam is a specialist in branding, influencer marketing, content creation, digital content strategy, and paid media.

Founder and Podcast Host at Mogul Insider, a media platform dedicated to disseminating meaningful and impactful content globally. Their podcast explores various topics, including entrepreneurship, lifestyle, fitness, finance, and more, sharing insights and experiences as a successful business leader and innovator.

Through Mogul Insider, the aim is to inspire, educate, and entertain the audience, offering a personal glimpse into their passion and creativity in the day-to-day facets of their endeavors

He started 5 companies, sold three, and still running two of them. He a team of 45 people, and we're growing. He lives in Switzerland, works from home, and ski 100 days a year while running all of his businesses.

She’s destroying the myth that writers don’t make any money. She is the creator of the Comprehensive Copywriting Academy “Filthy Rich Writer”, where copywriters can learn the skills and secure the tools they’ll need in the industry, while building a successful career, working from any location around the world, and earning money they deserve.

He helps people build wealth and keep it generation after generation.

In her book Beyond Success with Steph Shinabery, she writes about the importance of mindset to succeed in her chapter, “Rule Your Mind, Rock Your Best Life.” She believes all success starts with a mindset, clarity, and focus, backed by a vision with purpose and persistence.

She helps Coaches, Consultants, and Experts design their cornerstone frameworks and create offers that help them enroll their dream clients. She is passionate about helping purpose-driven entrepreneurs flourish online.

Since HypeLife Brands’ inception in 2001, Curt’s carefully-curated senior team has consistently employed a highly progressive approach to creating powerful, engaging brands and fundable startups in the ever-changing “universe of brand and marketing,” while employing a heavy focus on precision marketing, keenly focused on building customer traction and long-term ROI.

With a background in engineering, product management, and visual design, Héctor built his own digital product studio back in 2015 in Seville (Spain), working remotely from day one (when the words “remote work” weren't commonplace at all) to help early-stage founders from Silicon Valley first, NY then, and globally now, transform their ideas into beautiful, scalable and laser-focused digital experiences.

She does that by helping her clients develop online courses, good SEO strategies, Facebook advertising, content creation, funnels, and more. Her online courses have reached over 27,000 students across 145 countries and have all been listed on the first page of Udemy, one of the world’s largest online course platforms. 

He is the Best Selling Author of the recent book "Cracking the Rich Code", and also the author of books like “Fear to Freedom”, “The Power to Get Wealth: No Money Required” and “Artificial Intelligence”.

A seasoned luminary, Frank Cottle's narrative is one of relentless innovation, steered by a compass of profound insights. His resolute commitment to pushing boundaries has resulted in an indelible mark on the realm of virtual office spaces, charting a course to monumental success that reverberates throughout the business world.

The chronicles of Frank's exceptional growth trajectory unfold in an illuminating podcast interview inspired by the visionary ethos of Steve Jobs. Tune in to discover the roots of his achievements and the future he envisions, as Frank Cottle continues to shape and elevate the very essence of modern workspace dynamics.

Emilia D’Anzica is the founder and managing director of Growth Molecules™, a management consulting firm focused on helping B2B and B2B2C SaaS Companies protect and grow revenue. Emilia is also on several advisory boards globally and an active contributor to the Forbes Council.

As an early employee at several successful companies, Emilia amassed more than 20 years of customer experience in roles as Cheif Customer Officer of Copper, Vice President of Customer Engagement at WalkMe, Director of Client Service Operations at BrightEdge, and Director of Customer Success at Jobvite.

Emilia holds a BA from the University of British Columbia and an MBA with Honors from Saint Mary’s College of California. She is PMP and Scrum-certified. Emilia resides in the San Francisco Bay Area, California with her three children and partner. Pressing ON as a Tech Mom is her first book.

Ameyaw Kissi Debrah is a Ghanaian entertainment and lifestyle blogger, freelance journalist, and social media influencer.  He is the owner of Ameyaw Debrah Media, a business that owns and operated  AmeyawDebrah.com and Ameyaw TV. 

As a content creator, Ameyaw Debrah has travelled around the world experiencing cultures, meeting people and capturing moments for his huge audience online which generates over 30 million impressions per month . 

He graduated from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology with a bachelor's degree in publishing. While at KNUST, he won the Best Publishing Student award in 2005. He has made significant contributions to several pan-African websites, including Jamati.com, Orijin-ent.com, and ModernGhana.com.

For most of his career, he has worked in the video gaming and advertising industries where he learned and applied (and at times rejected) the techniques used to motivate and manipulate users. He writes to help companies create behaviors that benefit their users while educating people on how to build healthful habits in their own lives.

Founded in 2017, the company has experienced exponential growth fueled exclusively by word-of-mouth referrals. As a result, Eyeful Media has ranked in the top 11% on the Inc. 5000 list for the past two years as one of the fastest-growing privately held companies in America, scaled at an 1178% growth rate. They ranked #17 in Dallas, #37 in Texas, and #38 in all Advertising & Marketing companies. Eyeful Media was also named to the 2022 Adweek list of fastest-growing agencies ranking number 13 on the list overall and number 5 in the West/Southwest. Eyeful Media has also been announced as a member of the Dallas 100 for 2022. 

Antonella places a special emphasis on giving back to the community, giving back 5% of Eyeful Media’s profits to organizations such as Community Partners of Dallas, Dwell with Dignity, the Birthday Party Project, Michael J Fox Foundation, the Trevor Project, and The North Texas Food Bank. She serves as a member of The North Texas Food Bank Advisory Council and the Dwell with Dignity Board of Directors. 

Also important to Antonella is Eyeful Media’s intellectually stimulating environment that allows for team members a balanced life and social responsibility. Eyeful Media brings expertise to their clients from a fully-remote, 40% minority team with employees spanning 16 states and 23 cities. The company brings a fresh approach by hiring only experienced holistic marketers and eliminating layers often found in digital marketing agencies. This has helped the company scale quickly, as has quality work and technical expertise. 

Antonella has more than 25 years of marketing and digital experience. Prior to starting Eyeful, she held VP and SVP roles at companies including Proflowers, Guitar Center, JCPenney, and Fossil where she managed annual marketing budgets of up to $100 Million. 

Antonella is a first-generation American raised in San Diego, Calif. She holds a bachelor’s degree in communication studies from St. Edward’s University in Austin, Tex., where she began her career in digital through a work-study job as a web designer and developer in 1996, and later received a Master's in Business Administration from the University of San Diego. She is an avid traveler and photographer, with a particular focus on visiting places off the beaten path including Antarctica, Easter Island, Bhutan, and the Arctic. She is fluent in Spanish, and Portuguese, and speaks French and Italian well enough to get by when traveling. Her rescue pup, Riley, serves as the company’s “Chief Security Officer.” For more information, please visit https://www.eyefulmedia.com/.

He is the co-founder, Vice President, and General Manager of Gap Wireless Inc., a leading product and service distributor for the mobile broadband and wireless markets. With over three decades of experience in sales, he has spent thousands of hours in the field or on the phone with customers and working with salespeople to help create several very successful companies.

After entering the sales field in 1985 as a Technical Sales Rep, Glenn founded his first company, mmWave Technologies Inc. in 1991 and simultaneously served as President of Anritsu Electronics Ltd. for 9 years. Using his extensive knowledge and experience in the industry, he lectures groups on sales strategy, consumerism, and what motivates people at a raw emotional level.

With the powerful combination of his B.S. in Computer Engineering & MBA, Alan is a Professional Speaker & Business Coach / Consultant specializing in helping businesses maximize their growth, impact & profitability online.

He believes in a heart-driven but NO BS approach to inspiring, motivating & educating others on what it REALLY takes to get to the next level.

At age 2, his father passed away in a car accident... At age 26, getting into a nearly fatal car accident himself, he questioned everything.

It made him question who he is & the choices he was making.

Filled with regret, he searched for answers and found two of the brightest lights he had ever seen.

The first was a book by Bronnie Ware called “The Top 5 Regrets of the Dying”, and the second was a Ted Talk by Tony Robbins.

Both helped him find his way & decide to go ALL IN on self-improvement to design a life of meaning & purpose.

Now it's Alan's mission to help others maximize their potential & design lives & businesses they love on their own terms.

Rex has an extensive legal background holding roles as General Manager and Legal Counsel for a large manufacturing distribution company, Senior Solicitor acting for members of the BRW 1000 Entrepreneurs List as well as legal counsel for government bodies and charitable organisations.

He is known for his business acumen and ability to guide clients not only through complex commercial litigation and business negotiation but in their strategic growth and planning needs. He has played a pivotal role not only in start-ups but in existing large enterprises with his clients comprising real estate moguls and business leaders.

Tanvir is the CEO of TB Momentum, a leadership training and consulting firm that works with multinational businesses and Fortune 500’s to help them transform and adapt to an ever-changing world.

By reverse-engineering the lessons he learned as a former championship footballer to accelerate his corporate career, in his newly-released The P.R.O. Business Mindset: How to Lead Amid Disruption and Chaos Tanvir shares the leadership blueprint for achieving success and making big plays in the business world. He takes readers through the three stages of his game-changing framework starting with the end in mind: P: The Playoffs (optimize and gain momentum), R: The Regular Season (execute and implement) and O: The Off-Season (assess and build).

Since HypeLife Brands’ inception in 2001, Curt’s carefully-curated senior team has consistently employed a highly progressive approach to creating powerful, engaging brands and fundable startups in the ever-changing “universe of brand and marketing,” while employing a heavy focus on precision marketing, keenly focused on building customer traction and long-term ROI.

Jim is the founder of Food Forest Abundance that is literally changing the world by turning people's backyards and lawns into food-producing paradises to end hunger and fight climate change.

After college, he moved to Hawaii, backpacked through 37 countries, lived with the Maasai, explored cultures, and scaled a mortgage company to $1.3B in sales in 3 years, leading him to early retirement. He bought a boat, lived on the ocean for a year, and then moved to Costa Rica to build eco-villages where he discovered permaculture. It changed his life and he realized he needed to bring it to every household in the world. The idea whose time has come became Food Forest Abundance.

During that time, Christopher noticed that he could help his colleagues with self-development by incorporating new rituals and habits in their lives that help them not only in their business but in their personal lives as well.

Rex has an extensive legal background holding roles as General Manager and Legal Counsel for a large manufacturing distribution company, Senior Solicitor acting for members of the BRW 1000 Entrepreneurs List as well as legal counsel for government bodies and charitable organisations.

He is known for his business acumen and ability to guide clients not only through complex commercial litigation and business negotiation but in their strategic growth and planning needs. He has played a pivotal role not only in start-ups but in existing large enterprises with his clients comprising real estate moguls and business leaders.

Through unconventional marketing techniques, efficient logistical systems, and a team of global contractors, he propelled Froothie to $1m in year one and over $10m in year two, all bootstrapped.   Since then Mario launched multiple ventures into the millions, all bootstrapped, including an events business, a FinTech consulting firm, a marketing agency and multiple ecom businesses all while surviving a massive scam, various black swan events, and all the ups and downs of entrepreneurship. He continues to launch new companies, is a partner at a law firm and the founder of a VC fund.   In 2020, Mario decided to begin documenting his journey and helping other entrepreneurs at no cost, all while traveling the world pursuing his hobby dancing Bachata.

Instead of making new items, she uses junk to make things like totes, jackets and home decor. The idea caught the attention of entrepreneur and best-selling author David Meltzer, who is hosting a new business competition show on Bloomberg TV, 2 Minute Drill. During the show, five entrepreneurs get 120 seconds to pitch their business. Hewitt is a finalist for the third episode, which airs at 11:30 p.m. Friday. It will be rebroadcast on Amazon Video. The winner gets $50,000 in cash and prizes.

Since HypeLife Brands’ inception in 2001, Curt’s carefully-curated senior team has consistently employed a highly progressive approach to creating powerful, engaging brands and fundable startups in the ever-changing “universe of brand and marketing,” while employing a heavy focus on precision marketing, keenly focused on building customer traction and long-term ROI.

Steph is a nurse anesthesiologist, author, business consultant, artist, and avid cyclist.

In her book Beyond Success with Steph Shinabery, she writes about the importance of mindset to succeed in her chapter, “Rule Your Mind, Rock Your Best Life.” She believes all success starts with mindset, clarity, and focus, backed by a vision with purpose and persistence.

She helps Coaches, Consultants, and Experts design their cornerstone frameworks and create offers that help them enroll their dream clients. She is passionate about helping purpose-driven entrepreneurs flourish online.

Steph is also the host of the Authority Marketing Edge Podcast.

In this video, I am going to teach you a 4-step process that will help you sell better and close more deals.