Starting to know - Business

What if everything you know about Canadian immigration is only half the truth? In this explosive episode, I sit down with Sumit Jain, one of Canada's most trusted immigration professionals, to uncover the real game behind PR, study visas, work permits, and why most people fail—not because of paperwork, but because of bad advice. Whether you're planning to move, already in Canada, or stuck in limbo, this conversation will change how you think about immigration forever.

Catherine Bell is a successful entrepreneur, business leader, and best-selling business author. Catherine founded BluEra, a Profit 500 executive search and team transformation company. As a top 200 growing company in Canada, top 10 in Alberta, and best workplace, BluEra was a shining example of the Awakened Company System in action. With the sale of BluEra to DHR, Catherine now focuses on awakening the fire within organizations through Strategy with Soul consulting as founder and CEO of The Awakened Company. In 2022, Catherine was identified as one of the top 10 innovative CEOs revamping the future by Inc. Magazine. Author of The Awakened Company, Catherine's revolutionary business book was awarded the Nautilus Book Awards in Business & Leadership, was a best seller one week after its release, a best-seller on Amazon, and was chosen as “8 of The Best Leadership Books of 2015”, and recognized as a top book combining business and mindfulness. Catherine has been published in Fortune, HBR, Profit, Conscious Company Magazine, and Women of Influence and has written for the UN. Ishu Singh- https://ishusingh.com/

Cory O'Daniel is the CEO and Co-Founder at Massdriver, a company that helps to improve the developer experience of cloud operations, offering self-service capabilities along with governance and guardrails to developers. A seasoned expert in DevTools, SRE, and platform engineering, Cory has built startups and managed cloud operations for over 20 years. Cory is also the creator of Bonny, an Elixir-based Kubernetes operator framework. Everyone, from Systems Engineers to SaaS founders, from CTOs and CEOs to VCs, needs to hear what Cory has to share about the future of the cloud and how to deploy secure, best-practice cloud infrastructure!  Mass Driver- https://www.massdriver.cloud/ Ishu Singh- https://ishusingh.com/    

Chris "Mercer" Mercer is an esteemed measurement marketing expert and the co-founder of MeasurementMarketing.io. With an unwavering dedication to helping marketers, marketing teams, and agencies understand and leverage data, Mercer has become a trusted name in the industry. Mercer's approach to measurement marketing is comprehensive and actionable. He guides his audience through the crucial steps of identifying key metrics, implementing measurement tools like Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics, and creating insightful dashboards. With his extensive knowledge and ability to simplify complex concepts, Mercer has become a sought-after speaker at prestigious conferences and events, including Traffic & Conversion, Social Media Marketing World, Content Jam, and more. Learn more here: https://ishusingh.com/

Nick Jordan is the Founder of Narrative, a company dedicated to transforming data commerce and guiding businesses in systematically creating and selling data. Helping them use transformative technology to remove roadblocks has been Nick's focus ever since. Before founding Narrative, Nick also served as the Senior Vice President of Product and Strategy of Tapad, an advertising and marketing company. He contributed to the development of Tapad from being a media company to becoming a data and technology licensing business. Narrative- https://www.narrative.io/ Ishu Singh- https://ishusingh.com/  

Jill Dow is the CEO at York and Chapel, a digital house which grew into a full-service marketing and branding agency in the past twenty years. In 2018, Jill became Executive Vice President at York & Chapel. She is in charge of developing brand strategies, running business operations, and growing the agency before becoming the CEO in 2019. York and Chapel- https://yorkandchapel.com/ Ishu Singh- https://ishusingh.com/ 

Dan Cumberland is on a mission to help bootstrapped entrepreneurs avoid burnout.  Having hit the bottom before, he's passionate about helping entrepreneurs get the insights they need to recalibrate their work/life balance so they have the energy and motivation to keep going.  He is a 3x SaaS founder, serial entrepreneur, host of The Meaning Movement Podcast (theMeaningMovement.com), and a Product Strategist with the Venture Studio NineTwoThree.co.   His work has been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine, Fast Company, and more.  His most recent project is software for repurposing speech-based audio and video into viral-ready shorts: videosnap.io Ishu Singh- https://www.ishusingh.com/

Parker Nash is a brand messaging and marketing expert and an 11-year veteran of Nike where he grew lines of business to more than half a billion in annual revenue.  While at Nike, he realized the process they used to build their brand was something all businesses could do which inspired him to build his own copywriting and marketing agency that helps mission-driven businesses, startups, and entrepreneurs attract devoted customers. LinkedIn profile - https://www.linkedin.com/in/-parkernash/ Website - https://www.parkertnash.com/ Free Resource - 3-Part Business Boost - https://www.parkertnash.com/boost/ Ishu Singh- https://ishusingh.com/ Starting to Know- https://startingtoknow.com/

Nelson Ho is the CMO at York & Chapel, a digital house that evolved into a full-service marketing and branding agency in the past twenty years. Y&C aims to provide strategically-oriented innovative solutions and ideas in the realms of branding and design, marketing communications, internet technology and strategy, integrated marketing communications, and graphic design to assist people in expanding their businesses.   Nelson has managed his business for the past two decades, employing over 50 people, expanding globally, and working with wonderful people. He is also an expert in UI/UX design, branding, web development, SEO/SEM, environmental design, motion graphics, CD development, eComm development, advertising, interaction design, installation, identity programs, and visual strategy.   Just like coming to work daily, Nelson is passionate about sharing his insights and knowledge in digital marketing, creative team leadership, and starting a digital agency with the world.   York and Chapel- https://yorkandchapel.com/   Ishu Singh- https://ishusingh.com/   Starting to Know- https://startingtoknow.com/  

Cheryl Tan believes everyone has a story to tell. Her mission is to help entrepreneurs, nonprofit organizations and corporations tell those stories better on video and become known as experts in their space. She is a speaker, a media trainer, and the host of the STANDOUT podcast. Prior to starting her company in 2014, Cheryl was a longtime broadcast journalist, working for TV stations in Georgia and Virginia. In her 20-year career in television news, she had the honor of telling thousands of stories for a TV audience. Now she shares the skills she learned in the newsroom to help businesses and organizations around the country become media authorities. Cheryl is the creator of the Media Authority Plan, a program designed to help experts increase their visibility through video. Cheryl Tan- https://cheryltanmedia.com/ Ishu Singh- https://ishusingh.com/ Starting to know- https://startingtoknow.com/  

Chris Weiher is a video producer with over 20 years of experience in the industry.  Chris's company, CLEAVER Creative has created B2B animations, videos for events and sales presentations, and commercials seen by millions and now works with business owners to help them create their own videos and only cares about results.   CLEAVER Creative: http://cleavercreates.com/ Ishu Singh: https://ishusingh.com/ Starting to Know: https://startingtoknow.com/

Jim is the Founder and CEO of Untapped Global, an investment company that finances high-growth businesses in emerging markets. Their technology-driven approach reduces risk and increases profitability. Smart Asset Financing has already financed 9,000 productive assets in 13 African countries with less than a 1% default rate. Jim also founded a social enterprise in Haiti providing clean water to over 200,000 people. He sits on the boards of non-profits Watering Minds and MCE Social Capital. Starting to Know- https://startingtoknow.com/ Ishu Singh- https://ishusingh.com/    

Maria Popova is an Agora-trained copywriter turned brand equity builder. Seasoned in digital marketing and entrepreneurship, Maria is currently the Head Of Growth at WLG Agency, a global digital advertising agency. Maria and her team help overachievers create generational wealth with profitable branding strategies. Ishu Singh- https://ishusingh.com/ Starting to know- https://startingtoknow.com/

Lesley oversees Riverbend's client services team. She has personally helped hundreds of third-party sellers get their suspended Amazon accounts and ASINs back up and running. Lesley leverages two decades as a small business consultant to solve the underlying business issues in online retail businesses, resulting in improved operations and profitability. She has been an Amazon seller for a decade, thanks to her boys (20 and 14) who do most of the heavy lifting. A lifelong Longhorns fan, Lesley earned an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin. In her free time, she enjoys hiking and volunteering for A Wish With Wings, a wish-granting organization for little Texans with life-threatening conditions. Riverbend consulting- https://riverbendconsulting.com/ Starting to know- https://startingtoknow.com/ Ishu Singh- https://ishusingh.com/

Carly J. Cais started in Marketing before she even knew it was Marketing: building websites for businesses back in 2001 (her first website was a My Little Pony flipping shop). She later founded a niche blog and grew it over 12 years to a monthly readership of over 120K visits, partnering with advertising networks and brands such as L'OREAL, Martha Stewart Crafts, and PLAID. She worked in B2C Marketing first, and then switched to B2B in 2014, landing in SaaS soon after. After working with a number of early-stage startups she found a knack for growing SaaS organizations via a combination of Marketing, Revenue Operations, and Sales Enablement, helping companies grow pipelines, expand their customer base, and lay the foundation for scale. She co-founded a consulting company in mid-2021 and launched solo as RevvSpark at the beginning of 2022. RevvSpark provides conversion content & copywriting to Marketing and Growth teams at B2B SaaS companies, focusing on Content Marketing, Demand Gen, and Sales Enablement. If it is visual and needs to convince and convert, RevvSpark provides it. Learn more about Revvspark Learn more about Startingtoknow- https://startingtoknow.com/ Learn more about Ishu Singh- https://ishusingh.com/

Jennifer Spivak is the CEO of The AdGirls Agency, an all-female Facebook Ads agency. She has helped hundreds of businesses generate millions of dollars on Facebook & Instagram, with many seeing a 1000%+ return on their ad campaigns. Her all-female team enjoys crunching data, helping women-owned businesses make tons of money, and breaking the rules when it comes to Facebook ads. Jennifer has been featured in Forbes & The New York Times, listed as a Top Facebook Ads Manager to Watch in 2019, and is an adjunct professor of digital marketing at The City College of New York. Get Acast: https://tinyurl.com/zxc84ns7 The Ad Girls' list of 100 Creative Ad Ideas That Make Competition Irrelevant: https://theadgirls.com/startingtoknow Learn about Ishu Singh: https://ishusingh.com/ Learn more about Starting to Know: https://startingtoknow.com/   Disclosure: Our objective is to highlight products and services that we believe you will enjoy and find useful. If you buy them, Starting to Know may receive a tiny percentage of the sales proceeds from our commerce partners at no additional cost to you. 

Craig Swanson is an entrepreneur, business coach, and co-founder of the online learning platform CreativeLive. Craig thrives being the secret weapon partnering with online businesses such as KaisaFit, Sue Bryce Education, and The Wedding School by helping them into the multi-million-dollar mark and even acquisition! Find more about Craig here: https://craigswanson.org/ Get Freshdesk here: https://affiliatepartner.freshdesk.com/rej5uw4aft7s More about starting to know: https://startingtoknow.com/ More about Ishu Singh: https://ishusingh.com/ Disclosure: Our objective is to highlight products and services that we believe you will enjoy and find useful. If you buy them, Starting to Know may receive a tiny percentage of the sales proceeds from our commerce partners at no additional cost to you.

Robert Kerbeck is the founder of the Malibu Writers Circle and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. His true crime memoir about his career as a corporate spy, RUSE: Lying the American Dream from Hollywood to Wall Street, has received praise from Frank Abagnale (Catch Me If You Can), ex-CIA Agent Valerie Plame (Fair Game), and Bradley Hope (Billion Dollar Whale). Foreword Reviews said “Kerbeck's juicy memoir tells riveting tales [with] the thrill of a spy novel,” while the NY Journal of Books wrote, “Kerbeck's astounding story is fraught with tension.” RUSE is currently in development for a TV series with Silver Lining Entertainment (Showtime's Your Honor). Kerbeck's previous book MALIBU BURNING: The Real Story Behind LA's Most Devastating Wildfire, won a 2021 SoCal Journalism Award, the 2020 IPPY Award, and 2020 Best of LA Award. His writing has appeared in numerous publications including the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Magazine, Shondaland, and Lithub's Crime Reads. Find more about Robert here: https://www.robertkerbeck.com/ Get Monday.com here: https://mondaycom.grsm.io/ltusupj0ift4 More about starting to know: https://startingtoknow.com/ More about Ishu Singh: https://ishusingh.com/  

Tony is the Founder and Owner of Elevated Worldwide, which focuses on improving how executives, founders, and business owners see and think about life to create success on purpose. They have been enhancing their clients' knowledge base, providing them with processes that will build up their professional and personal structures, and develop an environment where passion, purpose, and profit combine. Get 20% off from Unbounce- https://unbounce.grsm.io/6sbfqzq8r3oi Tony's Website: http://keepelevated.com/ Ishu Singh: https://ishusingh.com/ Disclosure: Our objective is to highlight products and services that we believe you will enjoy and find useful. If you buy them, Starting to Know may receive a tiny percentage of the sales proceeds from our commerce partners at no additional cost to you.

Jonathan Shroyer is the Chief Customer Experience Innovation Officer of Arise Virtual Solutions, a customer service outsourcing, and offshoring consulting firm. Arise acquired Officium Labs, a company he co-founded, last November 2021 and is now known as Arise Gaming. Jonathan has been involved with customer service as a professional and a leader for more than two decades, leading large teams at established companies such as Microsoft, Monster, Autodesk, and startups like Postmates, Kabam, and Forte Labs. Recognized as a renowned thought leader in the industry through multiple mentions. Jonathan- https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerryleisure/ Arise- https://www.arise.com/ Ishu Singh- https://ishusingh.com/ Starting to know- https://startingtoknow.com/ Get 20% off on Unbounce- Learn more DISCLAIMER: Some of the links above are affiliate links, where I earn a small commission if you click on the link and purchase an item. You are not obligated to do so, but it does help fund these episodes in hopes of bringing value to you! For sponsorship, product reviews, and collaboration, you can email me here: ishu@startingtoknow.com

Colt Briner, as chief communications officer for Ensemble Health Partners, witnessed first-hand the power of purpose in business – helping that company to grow from a $60m valuation to $2B, in 2 years.  Colt has deconstructed and streamlined the model he used at Ensemble and developed a clear and practical approach – the Purposify Framework - for engaging every level of an organization as a purpose-driven powerhouse. Colt Briner- https://scrappyafsolutions.com/ Ishu Singh- https://ishusingh.com/ Startingtoknow- https://startingtoknow.com/

Ostojic comes to Infobip following a decade with leading global consulting company McKinsey & Co., where as a partner he co-founded and co-led McKinsey's global Technology Council and its innovation and new business building (Leap) practices. He holds a doctorate in natural sciences from the University of Basel and a master's degree in management, technology, and economics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Visit infobip- https://www.infobip.com/ Learn more about- https://startingtoknow.com/

Oren Schauble is a serial entrepreneur and product builder. He most recently served as President of public cannabis CPG company Unrivaled.  He is currently a partner at high-tech product development and contract engineering firm Guinn Partners, and runs the popular Product People newsletter about sourcing and bringing physical products to market. Startingtoknow- Startingtoknow.com Ishu Singh- 

"Boon Chew is the Founder of Tappollo Media, a leading mobile app studio, that creates apps that stand out from all the noise. The company has built apps for Discovery Channel, iHeartRadio, WeWork, Timehop, and Walmart.  Tappollo Media also created the open-source framework Booster, which startup founders can use to accelerate mobile app development for their businesses. Before starting Tappollo Media, Boon worked as a software engineer and game developer at several leading tech companies, including Microsoft and Amazon. In 2019, Boon helped a founder launch Hiki, the world's first friendship and dating app for the Autism community." Learn more about Ishu Singh here Want to learn more about starting to know? Visit here

Beate Chelette is The Growth Architect and founder of The Women's Code and designs processes, best practices, and systems for leaders who want to grow, build and scale their business, and achieve measurable results and profits they can count on. Recent clients include Chevron, Merck, the Women's Legislative Caucus of California Cal State University Dominguez Hills, the Greater Los Angeles Realtor Association, Advertising Agency TracyLocke, and thousands of small businesses. Beate's website: https://beatechelette.com/ Starting to Know: https://startingtoknow.com/ Ishu Singh's website:https://ishusingh.com/

Kevin Browett is the Chief Executive Officer of The Michigan Institute for Neurological  Disorders.    Browett has extensive operations and business development experience with a wide  range of industry knowledge. He has led startups, and Fortune 500s, and has been a  change agent when it comes to the healthcare model.   Mind's website: https://mindonline.com/   Ishu Singh's website: https://ishusingh.com/     

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Swire immigrated to Los Angeles in 1996. He is a proud Chinese American who speaks Cantonese, Mandarin, and English. He trained as a sound engineer, working at recording studios and entertainment agencies before starting his own firm, Hellman Production, Inc, in 2003 in Los Angeles. Swire and his team successfully produced attractive, personalized DVD and CD cases and custom merchandise like T-shirts, earning a Score award in 2009, for small business success. His business eventually grew so popular, he decided to sell Hellman Production in 2013 to focus exclusively on the promotional product industry. Garuda- Garuda Promo Starting to Know- https://startingtoknow.com/ Ishu Singh- https://ishusingh.com/

Tarush Aggarwal is the Founder and CEO of 5x, which offers data reporting as a service, so users can make data-driven decisions faster, which are necessary to succeed.  Tarush is also one of the leading experts in leveraging data for exponential growth in the world! Previously, as the Head of Data at WeWork, Tarush scaled the system to support 12k employees, as well as 100 data team members. Tarush was also the first data engineer at Salesforce in 2011. Ishu Singh's Website: Ishu Singh Starting to Know: Starting to Know

Kison Patel is the Founder and CEO of M&A Science, with a passion to drive the M&A industry forward. He was an M&A advisor for ten years in which he sold larger companies such as commercial banks and hotel chains. In 2012, he noticed teams lacked efficient technology to manage deals and created DealRoom, an M&A lifecycle management platform. In 2016, he started the M&A Science podcast devoting his time to creating a platform where all the best practitioners could share their best practices and lessons learned from real-life deals. Kison then created The M&A Science Academy in 2020 to offer step-by-step training to those looking to master M&A featuring courses created by top-level practitioners. Through developing technology, educational content, and industry training, Kison aims to bring better practices to an industry with growing market pressures, transaction values, and competition.   Kison's website: https://www.mascience.com/ Starting to know: https://startingtoknow.com/ Ishu's website: https://ishusingh.com/

Chris is the founder of KickStart Dental Marketing. While Chris specializes in dental marketing, other medical professionals, marketers, entrepreneurs, and businesses can learn from his digital marketing experience of over 15 years.  Chris has worked with countless local business owners in all industries across multiple facets of marketing, consulting, and coaching. Chris has been able to build his local digital marketing agency into one of the top marketing agencies in the country, as listed on UpCity, SEO For Growth, DesignRush, Expertise & AgencyVista. Chris's website: https://kickstartdental.com/ Starting to know: https://startingtoknow.com/ Ishu's Website: https://ishusingh.com/

Derren is a serial entrepreneur with over 14+ years of experience working with hundreds of startups and businesses to help them thrive. He's worn every hat in the closet with the exception of being a developer and has achieved mastery in the art of delegation. Under his leadership as CEO, he took Social Sensei to $1,000,000+ ARR in less than 10 months from launch.   The backbone of his skillset revolves around project management, product development, creative direction, and marketing. Now he is leveraging the wealth of experience he has garnered over the years into helping his client's businesses cultivate a thriving social media presence and creating educational programs that help uplift the mind, body, and spirit of the individuals that he coaches.   His goal is to blend entrepreneurship with philanthropic work to help co-create and manifest a more beautiful existence for all through teaching tools and techniques that not only make others successful in business but in life as well.   Derren's company: https://socialsensei.co/   Starting to know: https://startingtoknow.com/   Ishu Singh: https://www.ishusingh.com/

Neel runs a fully remote local business and teaches others how to do the same. Five years ago Neel had an idea: local businesses don't need to be managed locally! He turned this idea into reality with MaidThis® & MaidThis® Franchise, which helps homeowners and short-term rental hosts (Airbnb, VRBO, etc) with their cleanings. They've generated millions in revenue while having a fully remote team, and Neel is now on a mission to help others achieve the same. Neel's business: https://www.maidthis.com/ Starting to know: https://startingtoknow.com/ Ishu Singh: https://ishusingh.com/

Joseph is the CEO of Uvaro, a tech sales career accelerator, and of Kiite, a sales enablement platform purpose-built to provide sales teams with the information they need when they need it. Graduate of the University of Waterloo's Computer Engineering program, Joseph's a repeat Founder & CEO, and with multiple successful exits, and speaks frequently on the topics of sales leadership, diversity, and corporate social responsibility. He is an active early-stage investor who ensures that the majority of his investments are into women-led companies. Joseph also sits on the boards of Communitech, the Golden Triangle Angel Network, and the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. Visit Uvaro here: https://uvaro.com/ Visit Starting to know here: https://startingtoknow.com/ Learn more about Ishu here: https://ishusingh.com/

Henry started his first biz in 1991 selling, installing, servicing, and financing computers to large corporations. Since then he has founded a succession of firms in the e-commerce, finance, real estate, and consumer products spaces. For much of the past decade, he has taken his experience as an entrepreneur and used it as a platform to coach other business owners and founders.  In addition, in 2019, he self-published a 432-page book on everything you need to know about how to grow and manage your money. He offers a 20-week course where he teaches it to you, one-on-one. He also, run curated masterminds on business and finance.  In his infinite leisure, he writes screenplays (for fun), plays golf, travels (when not on lockdown), plays Settlers of Catan with his three boys, and does other fun stuff… If you'd like to chat with Henry about entrepreneurship, money, or anything else, use this link -  https://daasknowledge.com/contact/ Ishu's website: https://ishusingh.com/ Starting to know: https://startingtoknow.com/

Edward J. Shehab is co-founder and managing partner of Birmingham, Michigan-based Memory Health.   A serial entrepreneur, in 2019, Shehab invested in a new, groundbreaking product scientifically proven to treat neurodegenerative diseases, particularly in patients suffering from the onset of Alzheimer's and Dementia, now known as Memory Health. His mother was living with advanced Alzheimer's at the time. After experiencing her painful struggle, he committed to not only investing in the product and growth of the company but also became Managing Partner, passionately dedicated to improving people's lives. Visit memory health here: https://www.memoryhealth.com/ Starting to know: https://startingtoknow.com/ Ishu Singh: https://ishusingh.com/

John Warrillow is the founder of The Value Builder System™, simple software for building the value of a company used by thousands of businesses worldwide. His best-selling book Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You was recognized by both Fortune and Inc. as one of the best business books of 2011 and has been translated into 12 languages.  John wrote another best-selling book, The Automatic Customer: Creating a Subscription Business in Any Industry. John completes the trilogy with his latest book, The Art of Selling Your Business: Winning Strategies & Secret Hacks for Exiting on Top. John's website: https://valuebuilder.com/ Ishu's website: https://ishusingh.com/ Starting to know: https://startingtoknow.com/

Alex is a 3X entrepreneur. He is the co-founder & CEO of NorthShore.ai, a knowledge network that enables companies to manage curated information. He was the co-founder of x.ai, an AI-powered personal assistant, and Visual Revenue, a real-time predictive analytics platform for editorial teams. Both companies were acquired. Earlier in his career, as an engineer at Lockheed Martin, he built software for unmanned aerial vehicles. Alex received his MBA from Columbia Business School. He also holds an MS and BS degree in Electrical Engineering. Northshore.ai can be found here Read a lot more Starting to know: https://startingtoknow.com/

Emily McGuire is the Owner and Chief Email Marketer at Flourish & Grit: an email marketing and automation studio. She helps businesses uncover hidden revenue in their email lists by pairing a business' unique customer journey and high-converting copywriting. With lessons learned over a decade in tech and e-commerce, sending thousands of email campaigns, and earning clients over $80 million in email campaign revenue, Emily loves sharing the time-tested strategies of email marketing done well. Reach flourish & grit here: https://www.flourishgrit.com/ Read more about starting to know, here: https://startingtoknow.com/ Reach Ishu here: https://ishusingh.com/  

Wayne Mullins is the founder and CEO of Ugly Mug Marketing. Over the past 20 years, he has scaled multiple companies and helped hundreds of entrepreneurs do the same with their companies. Ugly Mug Marketing has won the praises of some of the leading influencers in the business world, such as Chris Voss (New York Times Best Selling Author of Never Split the Difference), Neil Patel (Founder of QuickSprout & Kissmetrics), and Ari Weinzweig (Co-Founder of Zingerman's). Ugly mug marketing Starting to know Ishu Singh

Handy believes you should never let your fears keep you from fulfilling your purpose and living your dreams. That's why he co-founded Bramework to help digital marketing agencies take back their time, make more money and grow their business. He is a husband, father, coder, blogger, and musician. He also loves solving problems and creating the coolest things imaginable! Bramework website: www.bramework.com  Starting to know: https://startingtoknow.com/ Ishu Singh's website: https://www.ishusingh.com/

Dennis Morrison is an entrepreneurial creative who originated as a filmmaker. He's a business storyteller, marketing story strategist, and founder of Audience Magnet, which helps businesses and professionals to communicate authentically and effectively. He's helping business owners and digital creators find their unique voices. As Dennis says, “Everyone's talking about storytelling, but no one's guiding you on how you can do it yourself.” Dennis's Website: https://audiencemagnet.com/ Free Guide by Dennis: Free Guide Ishu's Website: https://www.ishusingh.com/ Starting to know: https://startingtoknow.com/

Over a decade ago he beat a billion-dollar company by outranking their website on Google. Since then, he knew he was onto something and has gone on to build an international search engine marketing company that's worked with NBA teams, and Inc 5000 & Shark Tank featured businesses. Having started his business right before the 2008 recession, Damon is familiar with navigating and growing a business through times like today.  Never before has there been so many people needing something to focus their attention on… AND the time to do it. Since founding his company SEO National in 2007, he writes for Forbes, has been featured in publications including Entrepreneur Magazine, BuzzFeed, and USA Weekly, and has helped high-profile clients make more in a month than they used to in a year. Damon's website: https://www.damonburton.com/ SEO National: https://www.seonational.com/ Ishu's website: https://www.ishusingh.com/ Starting to know: https://startingtoknow.com/  

Matteo Cassese is a digital marketer, coach, and entrepreneur who provides training and coaching to individuals, established companies, and startups. His experience spans managing digital marketing for multinational companies (Warner Bros.), teaching at university (Link Campus), and consulting for digital unicorns (Netflix). He's collected the most insightful stories from these experiences as case studies. DIGITAL PIONEER He's published a website since 1993 and a blog since 2001. In 2011 he founded La Fabbrica della Realtà, an innovation laboratory focusing on digital marketing, coaching & training, diversity & inclusion. STORYTELLER As a storytelling student, Matteo dove deep into the process of story creation, writing, and script-writing. His passion for effective communication led him to create seminars and workshops on digital marketing, productivity, diversity, and presentation skills. INNOVATOR Over the years he has nurtured innovative startup projects focusing on entertainment (Filmizer, Trailerflow), education (Educazione Globale), training (Presentation Hero, Open Training), and diversity & inclusion (OUT as YOU). Relevant links: Website http://fabbrica.la Starting to know: https://startingtoknow.com/ Ishu's website: https://www.ishusingh.com/

McCoy spent 10 years running environmental education nonprofits in The Bahamas, islands that are full of single-use plastic. After her return to the United States, she and her sister co-founded Plaine Products in February 2017 in order to help minimize single-use plastic and reduce waste in bathrooms across the country. Plaine Products offers premium personal care products in uniquely sustainable packaging. Plaine Products: Plaineproducts Ishu's website: Ishusingh Starting to know: startingtoknow.com

Jon is a serial entrepreneur and noted speaker about social, sales, and marketing. He has re-imagined CRM by building Nimble - The Simple CRM for Office 365 & G Suite. Ferrara is best known as the co-founder of GoldMine Software Corp, one of the early pioneers in Customer Relationship Management (CRM) for Small to Medium-sized Businesses (SMBs). He has been recognized by Forbes as one of the Top 10 Social CEOs, Top 10 Social Salespeople In The World and Top 100 Marketing Influencers. Nimble CRM: Nimble Ishu's website: https://www.ishusingh.com/ Starting to know: https://startingtoknow.com/

Dr. Erika Gray is a UCSF trained pharmacist, educator, national speaker, and co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of ToolBox Genomics and MyToolBox Genomics, a digital platform that takes an individual's genetic test results and offers a virtual toolbox of informative, user-friendly, lifestyle choices and action plans to live the healthiest possible life. With almost 2 decades of experience in the world of functional medicine and a decade of experience in genomics and pharmacy, Dr. Gray is dedicated to helping practitioners and individuals understand the intersection of their unique genetics with the environment, and how they can positively change their health trajectory. Ishu`s website: https://www.ishusingh.com/ Starting to know: https://startingtoknow.com/

Noa Ronen is your out of the box coach. She is also an author, vlogger, disruptor, and coffee lover. She brings more than 20 years of experience in Change Management, Human Resources, Project Management, and coaching. She encourages progressive and social business leaders and their teams to challenge the norms so they can create the change they desire. Noa's personal relocation experience resulted in a refreshing view of the world that invites you rather than looking for others' differences to open your mind and heart to see people and situations differently. This is what Noa calls BEyond Leadership where your new way of being inspires and influences others. If you would like to go to BEyond: Leadership check her book: BEyond: Leadership from AwareLess to AwareNess on Amazon.   Noa's website: https://www.noaronencoaching.com/ Starting to know: https://startingtoknow.com/ Ishu's Website: https://www.ishusingh.com/

Startuprad.io is an English only startup podcast and YouTube blog – internally only called IO. IO was founded in 2014 by Jörn Menninger, as a spin-off of a – now-defunct – German only audio podcast.  Startuprad.io is a premier English source for exclusive coverage of early and later-stage startups and fintech from Germany, with many world premieres and all exclusive content. Joern is a seasoned management consultant with almost a decade of experience in the financial services industry, currently working as a startup scout.  Our recent conversation regarding Canadian Startups can be found here: https://www.startuprad.io/blog/podcast-where-to-set-up-shop-in-canada-audio-only/ My Website: https://www.ishusingh.com/  

With over 20 years of experience in the international event industry, Sandy Hammer is the co-founder and CMO of Allseated, an award-winning event technology platform with the goal to revolutionize and digitize the event planning process. She began her career as a corporate planner for a high-tech company, running events globally. During that time, she amassed a portfolio of corporate conferences, seminars, forums, and brokerage events for customers such as Orange Global, Telefonica, and O2UK. Allseated website: https://www.allseated.com/ My Website: https://www.ishusingh.com/

Dinesh Agarwal is a research scientist turned entrepreneur. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science and as soon as he walked the stage to get his degree, he also started his journey to become an entrepreneur. He is the founder of RecurPost, a social media scheduler with repeating schedules. He has years of experience in the social media industry and has already sold a company in the social media niche. He has grown RecurPost to serve close to 60,000 businesses with the help of an excellent team of about 20 people working with him.    Recur Post: https://recurpost.com/   My website: https://www.ishusingh.com/