Online Success Journey

Ivory Coats is a serial entrepreneur, business investor, transformative speaker, and 3-time author. Her most recent book, A Tenacious Spirit, is an aspiring entrepreneur’s guide to mindset, process, and the execution of your ideas. She is passionate about building the life you want leveraging business ownership. Over the course of her career she been featured in many publications including the Chicago Sun Times & Atlanta Journal Constitution to name a few. Ivory currently runs a social media marketing firm, content websites, and ecommerce store. She is happily married with two kids, residing in Atlanta Georgia.

Lisa Haggis helps service-based entrepreneurs position their businesses as one-of-a-kind in their field for higher visibility, impact, and earning potential. Leveraging 18 years of experience in marketing and business strategy, she is committed to cracking the code on what makes a business innately interesting and worth mentioning. (Hint: It begins with having something original to say!) She is the founder of Realize Your Brand, a high-touch business consultancy, and the creator of the Substantial Branding Method -- an approach that transforms your growing business into the legacy-level brand that you uniquely are meant to create.

Mike Smerklo is an experienced entrepreneur, investor and business leader driven by the desire to turn ideas into reality. Having bought and scaled a small business into a publicly traded company worth nearly a billion dollars in value, he has a deep understanding of the hard work, dedication and grit that truly powers successful entrepreneurship. Today, as the cofounder and managing director of Next Coast Ventures, Smerklo is a champion for a new generation of entrepreneurs building disruptive companies in big markets. His new book, Mr. Monkey and Me (Scribe Media, Nov. 17, 2020), is a “real talk” guide for entrepreneurs who want to cut through the noise to cultivate a mindset that supports greatness. In Mr. Monkey and Me, Smerklo draws on his broad range of experiences and mistakes as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist. Using lessons he learned from renowned entrepreneurs, he features practical tools and the “other stuff” you don’t normally learn in classrooms or business books, such as the mental hurdl

Jessica Blasingame is a CPA and creative entrepreneur who now specializes in financial services for creative entrepreneurs. She leads an all-woman team at Beam Financial Group, which takes a holistic approach in supporting small business owners, helping them to become more competent, connected, and aligned with their business finances.

Emily McGuire is the Owner and Principal at Flourish & Grit, an email marketing and automation studio. She helps businesses uncover hidden revenue in their email lists by pairing customer journeys with high-converting email campaigns. 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.

Dr. Aaron LeBauer is the host of The CashPT® Lunch Hour Podcast, author of The CashPT® Blueprint, International Speaker, and has helped thousands of passionate physical therapists scale their time, income and impact without relying on insurance. He is a Doctor of Physical Therapy, Certified Massage Therapist, and Baptiste Inspired Yoga Teacher. He owns LeBauer Physical Therapy, a 100% cash-based physical therapy practice in Greensboro, NC with his wife Andra. He started his practice so he could treat patients as unique individuals without the influence of insurance reimbursement. He has inspired thousands of others to do the same, even when physicians, professors, and other physical therapists have thought that it’s a crazy idea, unethical or will simply not work. Dr. LeBauer is on a mission to save 100 million people from unnecessary surgery by helping other passionate therapists succeed in business and learn how to market directly to patients.

Dustin has been living and breathing software development for over 20 years, and received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from Texas A&M University. He is the Co-Founder of Caffeine Interactive Technologies, an agency that focuses on planning strategies and architecture based on clear ways to measure success. He enjoys working with clients to build the right technology, whether it's a multi-tiered mobile app or a simple website. Dustin is a solopreneur and has built a thriving remote teamfor the last eight years. In his spare time, Dustin enjoys playing tennis, fishing, reading, gardening, cooking, music, hiking, and hanging out with his family. He believes that a work-life balance is essential and loves discussing personal freedom, entrepreneurship, working with remote teams, and managing family crises.

Robbie Samuels is an author, speaker, and business growth strategy coach recognized as a networking expert by Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Lifehacker, and Inc. He is also a virtual event design consultant and executive Zoom producer recognized as an industry expert in the field of digital event design by JDC Events. Robbie is the author of "Croissants vs. Bagels: Strategic, Effective, and Inclusive Networking at Conferences" and "Small List, Big Results: Launch a Successful Offer No Matter the Size of Your Email List." He is a Harvard Business Review contributor. His clients include thought leaders, entrepreneurial women, associations, national, and statewide advocacy organizations, women’s leadership summits, including Feeding America, California WIC Association, and AmeriCorps. Robbie is the host of the On the Schmooze podcast and #NoMoreBadZoom Virtual Happy Hours.

Martyn Cook is a serial entrepreneur who has co-founded a software company, built multiple 7-figure eCommerce brands, and co-founded a high-level digital entrepreneur mastermind that hosts luxury meet-ups around the world. He has spoken from stages around the world and still somehow found the time to self-publish two books. Martyn’s latest project, Noobru.com, a cognition drink, is on a mission to fortify 1 Billion meals by 2025, helping to tackle the 2 Billion person, worldwide malnutrition problem. Martyn absolutely loves connecting with interesting entrepreneurs and he regularly does that via his Smarter Destiny Podcast.

Felly Day is a Content Strategist and Marketing Mentor. She balances her agency, Felly Day VA, and her mentorship clients from her laptop while living as a Digital Nomad. She's passionate about feel-good marketing in business, that her clients feel good creating it and their clients feel good consuming it. In 2022, she'll be focused on husband-hunting and empire building.

Author and Transformational Life Coach Kelley Cunningham offers her personal story of how she faced a 27 month season of multilayers of abrupt adversity, numerous emotional losses and tremendous life struggles, in her family including a split-second in time that quite literally swiped her and her family’s lives sideways. All combined to try to tear down the blissful life they had built together, but they rose within the wreckage, and Kelley dug her heals in and learned to lean on the powerful energy of joy - lifting her through to thrive. In Kelley’s book “The Power Of Joy: The Ultimate Guide to Living your Best Life Ever” she shows us simple ways to thrive when faced with unsurmountable and overwhelming circumstances. It was during an extremely turbulent season where Kelley discovered how to support others, becoming certified as a professional life coach and started her own business, becoming the C.J.O. (Chief Joy Officer) of JoyINC. She’s a proud mom of three amazing kids and has been married over 22 years

Dr. Nadia holds a doctoral degree in Organizational Leadership and is passionate about helping women become more authentic, confident leaders who take charge of their careers. She is a sales strategist, consultant, trainer, and founder of The Doyenne Agency. a sales agency that works with business owners, companies, and corporations to multiply revenue and awaken the consistent closer within your sales team using the Consistent Sales Method™. Nadia helps women learn to play the career game in business to advance their careers and professions. When it comes to sales, women come to her timid and shaky about going after the money – they leave her strategic, strong, emboldened, and most importantly, paid. Nadia brings over fifteen years of leadership experience, powerful conversations, achieving goals, and respect for people to develop a comprehensive sales process to increase closing rates and satisfied client retention. As a result, Nadia’s clients have seen tremendous results, such as raising their rates, dec

In just 5 years, Dre Baldwin went from his high school team's bench to a 9-year professional basketball career. At the same time, Dre built a content publishing empire. Blogging since 2005 and publishing videos to YouTube starting in 2006, Dre has published over 8,000 videos with his content being viewed over 73 million times. Dre's daily Work On Your Game Podcast has over 3 million listeners. Dre has given 4 TEDxTalks and authored 29 books.

Diane Tarshis is a seasoned business advisor and founder of Startup Distillery. At the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Diane discovered a research center on campus and, as a student consultant, she worked with a range of local Philadelphia entrepreneurs, writing business plans and providing strategic counsel. The experience changed her life (as well as her long-term career goals). She spent years working on Wall Street in investment banking, then moved to Chicago to work in operations and treasury for various Chicago-based companies, some with operations overseas. But Diane always knew that she would go back to working with entrepreneurs, and so started her own business. For the last 20 years, she has helped over 200 entrepreneurs start their business by pulling from the same skills she developed during her days at Wharton and her run through corporate America. Diane uses her unique mix of finance, retail, manufacturing and operations experience to help entrepreneurs distill their ideas into

Michael Marra is a former civil engineer and now serial entrepreneur and investor. He is currently the CEO of Entre, a social network and e-learning platform for entrepreneurs. The community consists of over 15,000+ entrepreneurs from all over the world. Entre is designed to help every new, young and growing entrepreneur, with divisions that provide individuals with cutting-edge education, shopping, financial and self-development. It is an all-in-one platform to connect with other like-minded individuals, start companies, work in startups, learn about investing, and develop your own skills to be the best and most true authentic self you can be.

Vincent Cheng was born, raised and presently resides in Canada, but his explorations across 32 countries have anchored his connection to diverse cultures, formulating a deep understanding of humanity at large. He began his career as an electrical engineer in 2004, and a year later, alongside this, Vincent began his quest of conducting orchestras, choirs and operas. He coached and conducted hundreds of amateurs and professionals across Canada, USA, Europe and the Middle East in voice and musicianship. Vincent retired from engineering to fully devote his pursuit of the music profession and in 2012 sold all his possessions, traveled and conducted operas across the globe. In 2014, he returned to Canada and began his studies in psychotherapy, as he continued his conducting career. These diverse worlds of work and life experiences led him to develop ‘Heal The Source’, a method that helps people fast-track their own healing based on their need for change and development. His visionary way of thinking and his intrigu

Sabine Gedeon is the Founder & CEO of Gedeon Enterprises, a coaching and consulting company dedicated to elevating, enriching, and empowering leaders to become the best version of themselves. She has been an author, a Business Partner and Leadership Strategist for over 15 years, and the President and Founder of SHE Leads Network, a network for impact-driven women in leadership, focused on transforming the way women work, lead, and do business together. Sabine’s expertise includes career, leadership and life coaching, talent management and organizational and leadership development. She helps clients show up as themselves, fully and confidently, so they become active participants in their lives and workspaces. Whether a team of one or a team of 99, Sabine works with founders, executives, and other emerging leaders, teaching them how to take courageous action towards achieving their goals, while humanizing and advancing their leadership ability.

Vikrant Shaurya is the CEO and Founder of BestsellingBook.com, and the author of two #1 bestsellers. A lifelong lover of books, Vikrant started his first company, The Books Factory, to help thought leaders become book authors and gave new authors the platform they needed to grow their business using a white-glove service that produced not just ordinary books, but #1 bestsellers. Rebranding The Books Factory as BestsellingBook.com, he and his team are producing books that consistently transform their authors’ lives. They help them win massively more clients; get invited to numerous TV shows, podcasts, and speaking gigs; and ultimately skyrocket their business like never before. Vikrant has already helped more than 500 aspiring authors become bestselling authors, win massively more clients; get invited to numerous TV shows, podcasts, and speaking gigs; and ultimately skyrocket their business like never before.

Integrative Productivity™ Expert, Angela Kristen Taylor, is mostly known for creating the Productive Flow Mastery™ methodology, her integrative whole body approach to productivity and business growth. She’s made it her personal mission to help ambitious, purpose-driven entrepreneurs and sales professionals overcome stress & chaos so they can create the life and business they want and ultimately, the freedom and security they created their business to achieve. Angela’s integrative productivity strategies helped her go from chaotic hot mess with big dreams and failed achievements to the woman who raised and homeschooled 5 children while running and growing a successful coaching company, and always creating the perfect balance for herself, her family, and her business, no matter what obstacle presented itself along the way.

Allan Ngo is the founder of Digital Solopreneur. An email marketing trainer and consultant, Allan helps coaches and course creators boost sales, amplify engagement, and create lifelong customers using emails that people love to read and buy from. Allan is a master storyteller with over 8 years of experience writing and consulting in various industries including — the stock market, insurance, overseas recruitment, ABAP development, language learning, and even women's fashion.