Success Hackers | Empowering Entrepreneurs to Play Bigger in Business and Life

Matt launched his first company, Commercial Fleet Financing, Inc. (CFF), in 1995 with a phone, a folding table and the unyielding confidence of a single client, a trucker. Fast forward 25 years and CFF has funded over $1 billion in transportation equipment with annual business of over $150 million. CFF has served more than 10,000 clients and has become one of the largest independently owned equipment finance companies in America.  His companies have been recognized in by CNBC, Forbes, Inc. Magazine, Dallas Business Journal, Overdrive Magazine and many more. Matt is a sought after speaker within the entrepreneurial and association communities, and has a highly popular podcast aptly named, YOU NEED MORE MONEY. Matt’s first book, THE GRIT, was published in 2015.  His latest book, YOU NEED MORE MONEY, launched in 2018 and was published by Penguin/Random House Success Hack: - Go be the rich Uncle Bob.     Fail Forward: - After he lied to his wife about payroll, Matt's business made an incredible transformation. It's always best to tell the truth.   Business Book:   Who's In Your Room by Rick Sapio   Business workshop: http://www.burntheships.com   Book: "You Need More Money" on Amazon  https://www.amazon.com/You-Need-More-Money-Financial-ebook/dp/B074LWHNB3/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1598372138&sr=8-1  

In 2018 , Shane Foss launched Hooray Health, an unconventional health insurance company dedicated to providing affordable basic and urgent health care alternatives to high-deductible health plans. Through Hooray Health, Foss and his team focus on offering peace of mind to lower-income individuals and families who face medical challenges, while also providing business owners with an affordable way to reward and retain employees. Partnering with companies like Sedera, Ameritas, and Aflac, they have be able to add critical services and supplemental plans giving immense value to employers and individuals. Throughout his professional experience, Foss has negotiated complex, multi-million-dollar contracts, worked in device sales management, created business strategies, and optimized P&L

Weldon Long is one of the nation's most powerful speakers and a driven motivator who teaches the Sales and Prosperity Mindset philosophies that catapulted him from desperation and poverty to a life of wealth and prosperity. Mr. Long developed and used his success system to overcome 25 years of prison and poverty and built a life of wealth, prosperity and happiness. In 2003, at the age of 39, Long was living in a homeless shelter. Using The Power of Consistency he quickly transformed his life and within just 60 months he grew an Inc 5000 company with over $20,000,000 in revenue. Weldon is honored to have served some of America’s finest companies, including Comcast, The Franklin Covey Organization, The Home Depot, Fed Ex, Tom Hopkins International, Wells Fargo Bank, Owens Corning and Farmers Insurance. 

Jack Gibson is the President and Co-founder of High Return Realestate. He founded his first company at the ripe old age of 21.  He built this into a multi-million dollar company before he could even rent a car.  Soon after, he bought his first home, then that turned into 5, and then the real estate bug hit. He became obsesses with learning everything about real estate investing,   and soon had over 50 investment properties, earning passive income. Today Jack spends most of his time educating and teaching Entrepreneurs how to invest in real estate.

Jennifer Kenning co-founded Align Impact in 2014 on the conviction that we need to align the wealth management process with our values to optimize our financial system, and to do this we needed to get all of the actors across the financial spectrum working together to improve outcomes. Align works alongside financial advisors, institutions, foundations and directly advises individual clients and their family offices, all in the service of integrating impact investments into the broader wealth management strategy. In 2017, Jennifer was selected as one of the 16 Innovators as part of InvestmentNews “Icons and Innovators” feature for 2017. Jennifer was named “40 under 40” for Investment News in 2014, a finalist for “Rising Star for Family Wealth” report, and selected for Private Asset Management’s “50 Most Influential Women in Private Wealth” in 2016

Tim Schumm is the Founder/President of Lucas James Talent Partners, an on-demand recruitment services firm based out of Chicago, IL.  Lucas James offers contract full-life-cycle recruitment and candidate sourcing services on an innovative hourly/weekly model, giving their clients a cost-effective, flexible, and high performing solution to find great people - as an alternative to traditional fee-based recruiting firms.   Prior to launching Lucas James, Tim spent the first 10 years of his career at one of the largest global staffing & recruiting firms- starting his career in recruiting and sales, eventually becoming the firm's top sales producer nationally for several years before moving into leadership to run the firm's Chicago market.  

Fady is a proven entrepreneur starting his first company at the age of 12 and running the family business through college, before starting his professional career at a Fortune 30 company working on the world's largest and most significant airplane programs.   Fady has started and grown his own outsourced CFO / COO consulting firm to service over 50 companies over the span of 3 years. Fady’s experience across various industries has set him up with the optimal skill set to identify and address the most recurring financial pain points with small business. Now, as a culmination of his life's experience, he runs one of the quickest growing financial technology company in Chicago, called Clockwork...

Sasha Berson is a serial entrepreneur with an eighteen-year track record, best-selling co-author with Steve Forbes, and a keynote speaker; among early successes, Sasha co-founded the nation’s fifteenth largest wholesale lending company which he sold in 2009. Now, Sasha co-manages a digital marketing company that helps small business owners get more clients, grow their businesses, and enjoy better lives.

Adam Sand is the owner of Sargents Roofing and Roofing Business Partner. Everything was born as the next logical step from the one before it. Adam had countless struggles growing his company until he turned to Facebook and ended up growing Sargents Roofing by $420K in just 60days! After learning Facebook Ads successfully, Adam learned to turn lead generation on autopilot. Adam wanted to help other roofers use the same strategy and that's is when he started a podcast and began his own agency, Business Roofing Partner.

Mary Scalli is the President & CEO of Simple Elegance which specializes in window treatments, shutters, blinds, interior decorating services and home staging.  She is an Accredited Staging Professional Master, a Luxury Staging Specialist & Certified Luxury Home Staging Specialist, as well as Southern Regional Director of IAHSP (International Association of Home Staging Professionals), Certified ASP® Class Trainer, and a Board Member of the International Association of Home Stagers.   In 2018 Simple Elegance was recognized for Excellence in Staging, Excellence in Customer Service and Excellence in Leadership.  Shes also written a book, and been a guest on several podcasts

Matt Linklater is the owner of Link Business Solutions.  He lives a passion for helping business owners create Financial Freedom by giving them a roadmap for success. He has over 18 years of experience meeting and interviewing over 13,000 financial advisors to bring to you a unique approach that you will not get from your current advisors, accountants, CPAs. He prides himself on teaching businesses all over the world about money, how money works, and how to get money to work better for them. He puts your money back into your business and securing your family’s financial future. He’s written 5 books, and his work has been seen in Inc, NBC, CBS, Fox…

Ashley Micciche is the CEO of True North Retirement Advisors, an independent financial advisory firm managing $230 million in client assets. Ashley specializes in helping small business owners exit their business & retire with financial well being

Mike helps companies stand out in the market by implementing his unique business philosophy that is based on his experience and beliefs about the profit-first entrepreneurial initiative.

In this episode, Anna Maria Vitty will share the success story behind Guy Viti Insurance Agency and Viti Financial Services, which are among the leading financial insurance agencies in USA...

Phil Singleton is a web designer, an SEO expert and an award-winning author.  In 2016, Phil and John Jantsch, of Duct Tape Marketing, co-wrote, SEO for Growth: The Ultimate Guide for Marketers, Web Designers & Entrepreneurs.  SEO for Growth is an Amazon bestseller and has been listed as a top marketing book by Mashable, Oracle and The Huffington Post. It’s also been featured on MSNBC, Entrepreneur and Search Engine Journal, and was named by Forbes as the #1 SEO book on its list of “Essential SEO Books for Every Startup to Read”  Phil’s latest startup venture, Podcast Bookers, is a service that helps marketers and executives get booked on established podcasts as way to develop authority and personal branding, improve SEO, and most importantly, generate new leads and sales  

Derek Champagne is the Founder & CEO of The Artist Evolution, a full service agency building memorable brands, marketing tools and campaigns for startups to household brands. Derek is also the author of the best-selling marketing book Don’t Buy a Duck and the host of the popular Business Leadership Series podcast, that also airs as a weekly business show on ESPN radio regionally. Now Derek aims to educate entrepreneurs, business owners and marketers on creating effective marketing that drives engagement right to the bottom line through his online marketing course at www.ChampagneMarketingCourses. com. Derek is also a published musician with contributions on soundtracks that have been featured on ABC, MTV, Bravo, E!, and Oxygen  

Hossein Kasmai is known as the franchise creator. He has extensive experience in the field of franchising, founding many franchise concepts of his own including Guard-A-Kid, founded in 2005.By 2010, only five years after its initial launch, Guard-A-Kid expanded to over 175 franchises in 11 countries worldwide (before Hossein sold it). This franchise creator now helps other entrepreneurs decide when to franchise and teaches them how to franchise successfully. Hossein’s franchise concept has been ranked among the top 500 franchises for 6 years in a row and ranked in the top 10 new franchises...  

Chris Salem is an accomplished business strategist, world-class speaker, award-winning author®, certified mindset expert, radio show host, and wellness advocate partnering with entrepreneurs, corporate business leaders, and sales professionals to have sustainable success at the next level by resolving the root cause to mindset barriers.  His book Master Your Inner Critic / Resolve the Root Cause – Create Prosperity addresses this and went international best seller in November 2016.   He also co-authored the recent edition to "Mastering the Art of Success" with Jack Canfield.  His weekly radio show Sustainable Success is part of the Voice America Influencers Channel. 

Bill Troy is an Inc. 500 CEO and a natural-born contrarian who, for 25 years, has helped global brands like Sony, Disney and Nestle see the world from a different perspective. Bill’s forthcoming book, ClickSand: How The Pitchmen of Online Marketing Suck You In and Ruin Your Business, is an explosive wake-up call and warning for business owners about the dangers and hypocrisy in online marketing. In ClickSand, Bill compares giant firms like HubSpot, Google and LinkedIn as well as local agencies and consultants in towns big and small to snake-oil pitchmen of the 1800s.

Thousands of coaches, healers, and consultants have built multi-six and seven figure businesses under the direction and guidance of Christian Mickelsen’s world-class trainings.  Christian believes everyone was put on this Earth for a reason and to fulfill his mission of getting the whole world healed, he’s put his fastest and most powerful tools for accumulating wealth, love, health, and happiness inside his brand new book, Abundance Unleashed.  

Mark J. Podolsky (AKA The Land Geek) is widely considered the Country’s most trusted and foremost authority on buying and selling raw, undeveloped land within the United States. Mark’s company, Frontier Equity Properties, LLC, is an A+ rated BBB real estate company. Mark has achieved this level of success largely due to his core business philosophy – “Happy Customers Guaranteed.” Mark is the host of one of the top rated podcasts in the Investing Category on iTunes aptly titled The Best Passive Income Model and The Art of Passive Income. He is also the host of the Land Geek Podcast- Work Smart. Earn More. Learn How.

Aaron Agius (pronounced A-gius) is one of the world’s leading digital marketers according to Forbes. He is CEO of Louder Online, one of the world’s leading digital agencies with a global reach. Louder Online is an inbound marketing agency, working globally with clients such as Salesforce, IBM, Coca-Cola, and Intel. Aaron is a highly sought speaker at Search, Content Marketing and Growth Hacking and many other conferences around the globe. He is also a regular contributor to some of the world’s largest editorial publications, including Entrepreneur.com and Hubspot.com

Eric Roberge is a Certied Financial PlannerTM and the founder of Beyond Your Hammock, a virtual financial planning company that helps professionals in their 30s and 40s do more with their money. Eric has shared his innovative financial planning and money management techniques in the WallStreet Journal, USA Today, CNBC, and Entrepreneur Magazine. He also writes articles for Forbes, The Hungton Post, and MONEY Magazine.

Jason Forrest, CEO & Chief Culture Office at FPG, a company who was named Best Place to Work in Fort Worth, TX by FWinc in 2016 and ranked by Inc. 5000 as one the nation's Fastest-Growing Private Companies, 2016; is a thought leader and behavioral change expert on a mission to convince everyone he knows that they are enough! He is a sales trainer, a management coach, and the author of five books, including his latest, Service Certainty. He is Chairman of the National Speakers Association’s Million Dollar Speakers Group and has been awarded Training Magazine’s Top Young Trainer in addition to winning a Gold Stevie Award for Sales Training Leader of the Year.

Nathan Hirsch is the CEO of FreeeUp.com.  Nate started FreeeUp in 2015 after spending 7+ years interviewing, hiring, and training remote workers. He decided that there must be a better way for eCommerce companies to hire remote workers without having to spend hours interviewing and finding the most reliable people. FreeeUp is a rapidly growing company interviewing hundreds of worker applicants each week and providing remote workers for hundreds of clients.

Matt Miller spent the first 9 years of his career as an Air Force pilot, before entering the private sector to work in both the medical device and advertising industries. While a top performer in the corporate world, his long-term desire was to be his own boss. A good friend one day mentioned the gum ball machines he and his young daughters owned, and that conversation began a 10-year business quest that has brought Matt’s company, School Spirit Vending, to the cutting edge of both the vending and school fundraising industries. Today, School Spirit Vending’s franchising program provides a proven and profitable business system for busy professionals and their families looking to develop secondary income streams with a limited time commitment.

Craig Cody is a Certified Tax Coach, Certified Public Accountant, Business Owner and Former New York City Police Officer with 17 years experience on the Force. In addition to being a Certified Public Accountant for the past 15 years, he is also a Certified Tax Coach. As a Certified Tax Coach, Craig belongs to a select group of tax practitioners throughout the country who undergo extensive training and continued education on various tax planning techniques and strategies to become, as well as remain, certified. With this organization, Craig has co-authored an Amazon best seller book, Secrets of a Tax-Free Life.

Jill Schiefelbein is an award-winning entrepreneur, author, and recovering academic. She taught business communication at Arizona State University for 11 years before venturing into entrepreneurship. Jill’s business, The Dynamic Communicator®, helps organizations increase sales and create consumer advocates. Jill runs the Dynamic Accelerator program, helping solo- and micro-entrepreneurs accelerate business growth. Her next book, Dynamic Communication: 27 Strategies to Grow, Lead, and Manage Your Business is in stores March 2017.

As the founder of Complete Marketing Systems and the LGBT Success Academy, Diane Conklin has been involved in numerous campaigns grossing over $1,000,000.00 several times in her career and routinely helps people grow businesses to 6 figures, and beyond, in short periods of time, several times in as little as 90 days. Diane was voted Glazer-Kennedy Marketer of the Year for her innovative marketing strategies and campaigns and was nominated for Atlanta Business Woman of the Year.

Brad Szollose is a globally recognized Leadership and Management Consultant who helps businesses and organizations dominate their industry by tapping into the treasure of a multi-generational workforce. He shares his management He shares his management strategies within the pages of his award-winning, international bestseller Liquid Leadership.  Brad’s has been featured in Forbes, Inc. Magazine, The Huffington Post, New Brad’s has been featured in Forbes, Inc. Magazine, The Huffington Post, New York Magazine, Advertising Age, The International Business Times, to name a few, along with television, radio and podcast appearances on CBS and other media outlets.

Susan Peirce Thompson is an entrepreneur, brain and cognitive scientist, and food psychologist. She's a Ph.D, and author of the new book Bright Line Eating: The Science of Living Happy, Thin, & Free. She built her business to over $6MM in revenue (with a 300k+ list) in under a year. She's an expert on the neuroscience of weight loss, willpower, and food addiction and helped more than 4,000 people in 63 countries lose a collective 133,000 pounds.  

John Ruhlin is the founder of the Ruhlin Group. John's company is trusted by the leaders of fast-growing companies to develop relationship building strategies and VIP gifting programs to increase referrals and strengthen retention with their most important clients, employees, and prospects. Their clients include the Chicago Cubs, San Antonio Spurs, DR Horton, Morgan Stanley, St Louis Blues, and hundreds of other industry leaders and high-end service firms.

Carolin Soldo is a well respected business coach, specializing in helping passion driven women bring their skills to the world and launch thriving online coaching businesses with international reach, make an impact, and create free and abundant lives.  She’s helped hundreds of new and aspiring coaches build thriving coaching practices by creating powerful brands, sharing their message with the world, designing signature programs, automating their marketing systems and more.  She's built a seven figure business while maintaining a healthy work-life balance b/c she's so dedicated to being fully present with her two young boys.

Ron is co-founder and managing partner at Navalent, working with CEOs and executives pursuing transformational change for their organizations, leaders, and industries. He has a thirty year track record helping some of the world’s most influential executives tackle challenges of strategy, organization and leadership.  From start-ups to Fortune 10’s, non-profits to heads-of-state, From start-ups to Fortune 10’s, non-profits to heads-of-state, turn-arounds to new markets and strategies, overhauling leadership and culture to re-designing for growth, He has worked in more than 25 countries on 4 continents.  He is the best-selling author of 8 books, including the recent Amazon #1 Rising to Power.His work’s been featured in Fortune, CEO Magazine, Inc., BusinessInsider, MSNBC, Business Week, Smart Business, and thought- His work’s been featured in Fortune, CEO Magazine, Inc., BusinessInsider, MSNBC, Business Week, Smart Business, and thought-leaders... 

As Founder and CEO of the marketing firm Triple R Marketing, Matt Ruedlinger helps small-local businesses and brand-name Fortune 500 companies alike become leaders in their industry.  With his customer-centric business philosophy, business acumen and commitment to rapid, reliable results he and his staff have created a seminar call Launch, where they go into communities to teach businesses the importance of customer experiences and how they can create business for a lifetime.

Bill Himmelstein started Tenant Advisory Group, July 2008 after gaining experience at several of the major commercial real estate firms in Chicago. Tenant Advisory focuses their efforts on working with professional service firms, technology companies, and private practice physicians. He has completed well in excess of 200 transactions in his career with a value of almost $1 billion,  has spoken in front of crowds as large as 5,000 people, and has even hosted a digital real estate show through Advisor TV.

Over several years, David Barnett sold dozens of businesses for others while also managing his own portfolio of income properties and starting his career as a local private investor. Barnett regularly consults with professionals and banks on business and asset values. Presently he also works with entrepreneurs and would-be entrepreneurs around the world who are buying, selling or trying to improve their businesses.

Jason Forrest is a sales trainer, a management coach, and the author of three books, including his latest, Leadership Sales Coaching. He is Chairman of the National Speakers Association’s Million Dollar Speakers Group.  He has been awarded Training magazine’s Top Young Trainer and a Gold Stevie Award for Sales Training Leader of the Year.  He has also been awarded the top sales management program in the world.  Jason is an expert at creating high-performance cultures through complete training programs. He incorporates experiential learning to increase profit, implement cultural accountability, and transform companies into high-performance organizations by unleashing their human performance.

Chintan is a managing partner for RPCK Rastegar Panchal, which advises investors, management, owners and growth companies on corporate merger and acquisition-related matters, including cross-border transaction structuring and negotiation, spin-offs, divestitures, private equity buyouts and joint ventures.  He also advises investors and growth companies on corporate finance and capital raising strategies.  Chintan was selected as a 2014 and 2015 New York Metro Rising Star by Super Lawyers.

Arjun is a Partner at 500 Startups, the most active early stage technology investor in the world... Arjun was a Co-Founder of Immediately. Immediately was a mobile platform for modern sales professionals. Prior to Immediately, Arjun was the founding CEO of ReTargeter and bootstrapped the company to be in the top 100 of Inc's Fastest Growing Companies list in 2013. He is a recognized expert in display advertising and startup ecosystems and has been interviewed on Bloomberg TV, been quoted in the WSJ, and been mentioned in Forbes; not to mention, he has been recognized at the White House, at the UN and at the Global Summit for Entrepreneurship…

Carol Little is the CEO of The Little Training Company.  She is a Public Speaker and Certified Master Trainer. She draws on her 15 years of experience working with corporate clients as well as top executives and individuals to deliver practical and accessible tools for improving her audience’s public speaking skills. She excels at helping her clients move beyond the roadblocks that prevent them from achieving their full potential. Her passionate, fun and engaging style keep her clients coming back for more.    

Seth Greene is a Nationally Recognized Direct Response Marketing Expert. He is the author of five best-selling marketing books, and his latest book is Podcast Marketing Magic.   Seth has been featured on real media like CBS MoneyWatch, CBS news, The LA Times, The Boston Globe, The Miami Herald, and the #1 morning radio show in New York City. He represents everyone from local bricks and mortar businesses to 4 Fortune 500 companies.  Seth is the founder of one of the fastest growing direct response marketing firms in the country, www.MarketDominationLLC.com 

Anmol started trading during his early college years without much luck. After a year or so he discovered a pattern that allowed him to go from $10,000 per week in trading profits. To date, Anmol has generated over 7 figures of profits for him and his investors in trading wins and continues to remain a stock and forex trader. He is also an avid real estate investor with a large portfolio and has funded two other tech-based companies. Today, Anmol spends most of his day managing funds and working with students of Live Traders which he co-founded in 2014. 

A compelling Keynote Speaker,  and high-performance coach, Dr. Jason Richardson regularly addresses audiences looking to get on top, stay on top, or break new barriers in Business, sport, and life. As a World Champion and Pan Am Games Gold Medalist Athlete, Dr. As a World Champion and Pan Am Games Gold Medalist Athlete, Dr.Jason Richardson  unique blend of education and professional experience sets the stage for a business that plays an important role in the lives of clients in the corporate world, the entrepreneurial ecosystem, and the athletic field of play.

Rob ‘Waldo’ Waldman - The Wingman – is a professional leadership speaker and author of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller Never Fly Solo.  He teaches organizations how to build trusting, revenue producing relationships with their employees, partners, and customers while sharing his experiences as a combat decorated F-16 fighter pilot and businessman.  Voted one of the Top 40 under 40 Business Leaders, and he’s been featured on Fox & Friends, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, The Harvard Business Review, Investor’s Business Daily, INC. Magazine, and Business Week. 

Pejman Ghadimi is a self-made entrepreneur and best-selling author. His businesses have brought in over $40 mil in revenue. His the founder and CEO of Secret Entourage and Secret Academy.  In addition, His newest book, Third Circle Theory,  is a powerful book which explains how some of today's top visionaries are made.

Andrea Goulet is the CEO of Corgibytes, a software development shop dedicated to maintaining and modernizing software applications. Named by LinkedIn as one of the top ten professionals in software under 35, Andrea is also the founder of LegacyCode.Rocks,  and hosts a podcast dedicated to changing the way we think about legacy code. She keynotes frequently about building a business based on balance, empathy, and trust; the perils of the technical/non-technical divide; and the technical philosophies around working with legacy code. 

Paul Groshko is the owner of a health and wellness Day spa, called SpaVia. Prior to owning SpaVia, Paul had over 25 years leadership in a high growth specialty coffee organization and prominent national food retail business.  He's also co-chairman for Public Allies Chicago a nonprofit since 1993 that’s changing the face of leadership with social change makers.    

Arthur Tubman is currently the CEO and Founder of D4Y Brand Builder, a digital marketing agency working with clients to create comprehensive and scalable marketing and branding campaigns.  He’s been featured in the Huffington, been on the cover of the OC Register newspaper, and is also a featured speaker at the Time Collapsing mega conference.  

Meredith Bell is co-founder and President of Performance Support Systems, a global software company that has published award-winning assessment and development programs. She’s an expert in helping companies develop the people side of their business. Meredith also has been a featured speaker at prestigious conferences such as GKIC, where she spoke to 900 entrepreneurs and small business owners. 

Bernard is the President and Founder of Lavender Home Care Solutions, which improves the quality of life of our senior population through his well-trained family of caregivers, he started his first business after college procuring natural stone from Pakistan and Egypt.  Living there for 4 years he found his drive to build community based on culture and vision.  A true entrepreneur, he started Lavender on 45K and grew it to a million dollar company in a mere 4 years.