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Jason Holmers is the founder and president of Oxsome Web Services. Jason is a leader in the digital marketing space. He creates and manages websites for business owners throughout the country. Oxsome Web Services has been recognized as a top web design agency. In this episode Jason spends time explaining to our listeners how they...
Steve Erickson – Vistage Private Advisory Board Chairman A few months ago I had a great conversation with Steve Erickson about succeeding in business, life, and personal fulfillment. Steve shares the experience and knowledge he gained as the president of Erickson Companies and how it helped him become a Chairman of Select Private CEO Advisory...
Spark-Y I had an incredible conversation Zach Robinson, an energizing and magnetic entrepreneur who is also the Executive Director of Spark-Y. Spark-Y is a non organization that empowers youth through hands-on education that is rooted in entrepreneurship and sustainability. I am so grateful to have been introduced to Zach and the incredible organization that he...
The Horkey Handbook Gina Horkey is a professional writer, online marketing consultant and the founder of Horkey HandBook, LLC. In 2014, she began a freelancing writing side hustle and within 6 months turned it into a full-time career. After finding great success working for herself, Gina decided she wanted to help others obtain similar results, adding step-by-step...
I’ve known Joel Eshelman since high school but hadn’t seen him in person for years. I knew he started a personal training company, but it didn’t catch my attention until he started putting out great content on social media. When I saw this post on social media it jumped out at me and I knew...
Jason Holmers has been building, designing and optimizing websites since he was a high school kid almost 20 years ago. In my recent interview with Jason, I learned how he started and quickly grew his website services business, Oxsome Website Services. Jason shares his journey and what he has learned about internet marketing, website building, design, conversion,...
In a sit down I had with Erik Radtke I discovered that he is every bit as grounded, humble, spiritual, smart and wise as I had been told he would be. I am so grateful that our mutual friend and past guest Jake Huotari put us in touch. It is incredible how often similar themes come...
Matt Lovgren Matt Lovgren is passionate about life, personal growth, cars, technology, music, and sales. He shares his experiences as a student, mentor, musician, medical sales executive, business development and client services director, a partner at MN BMW Car Club and owner-founder of DailyCarDrive. The advice that Matt gives about personal development, business development, and...
Jake Huotari Jake Huotari shares his journey to finding satisfaction and fulfillment in his life. A key take-away for me was how Jake explains to his 13-year-old what a gentleman/gentlewoman is. He says, “a gentleman will take responsibility for another person’s good experience while he’s with them a jerk takes responsibility for another person’s bad experience while...