Online Success Journey

Damian Prosalendis became a self made millionaire at 20 years old. Just 1.5 years earlier he was sleeping on a mattress he picked up from the trash. He used to live in a roach infested dorm room and distribute flyers on the street for 1 euros per hour. By the age of 21, he had founded and ran 3 companies. Damian created the world’s largest consulting firm for Amazon Sellers, known as SPXMAC, which serviced over 10,000 clients from 116 countries, ranging from new start-ups to multi million dollar e-commerce brands. Thus, he was interviewed and featured on the world-class, prestigious Forbes Magazine. Now, at the age of 24, Damian Prosalendis has expanded his business empire by starting several new ventures. These include Badass Talent, a model and talent management agency in Miami, Studio Badass which is a video production studio that focuses on luxury living and lifestyle productions, and Anax Publishing which is a digital media and publishing company that specializes in personal development publications.

Alexandria is an Empowerment Coach & Business Mentor for aspiring entrepreneurs. Her mission is to help women make their dream life a reality. She aims to help women move from feeling overwhelmed, stressed, and lost to feeling aligned, motivated, and driven by a clear vision. Having always followed the “rules of life”, Alexandria was thriving on the outside but on the inside, she was fighting a battle with anxiety which ultimately resulted in a breakdown. Her breakdown became her breakthrough, as she realized that her depression was not an illness but a symptom - a sign of how unhappy she was with the life she had created. he ripped up the rule book, left her corporate job and decided to create her own path - one that would inspire and empower other women to do the same.

Elizabeth Pampalone is an International Speaker, Successful Entrepreneur, and Expert Marketer with over 20 years of experience. Her innovative approach helps overwhelmed business owners and burnt out nonprofit directors to achieve success and freedom through the power of Absolute Marketing™.

Devin Miller is a long-time entrepreneur who is also a patent and trademark attorney, with several degrees including a Law degree (JD), an MBA, Electrical Engineering and Mandarin Chinese degrees. While working for a large law firm helping Fortune 100 clients like Amazon.com, Intel, Redhat, and Ford with their intellectual property, Devin quickly realized that there weren’t many good intellectual property legal resources out there for start-ups and small businesses. As an entrepreneur himself, he wanted to help other small business owners learn about patents, trademarks, and copyrights so they can build value into their businesses and protect their assets. In addition to founding and running his own patent and trademark law firm, Miller IP Law, he is the co-founder of several startups and runs a product development company that helps startups and small businesses with developing their ideas and products.

Tony has helped thousands of businesses survive crises, navigate uncertainties and emerge stronger on the other side. As a child, Tony experienced firsthand the devastating crisis of business failure when his parents’ small business failed and they lost everything, including their home. Its impact on his life was powerful, and shaped his entire 20-year career. As an entrepreneur, business owner, and enterprise marketer, Tony worked with, literally, the best businesses in every industry, learning how they grow consistently and predictably, using adversity to pivot towards opportunity in order to survive and thrive in all manner of economic conditions. His mission now is to share with small business owners and entrepreneurs exactly what to do and how to make it happen. He believes that by growing small businesses, together we can impact not just our local communities but also our world.

Nora A. Gay is a senior financial strategist at Rise North Capital who believes in utilizing both data and insight to create extreme wealth for families and businesses. Following the launch of a market research firm, Gay built an MFS platform on the blockchain technology to facilitate access to money for individuals in the Caribbean. After years of hosting financial literacy workshops and implementing financial strategies for her clients, Gay has written the book Get Minted! to bring the financial advisor’s way of growing wealth directly to families.

Both an entrepreneur and coach, Cara’s journey began at 5 years old, growing up in her family business where her education started around the kitchen table… Starting her first business at 15 and spent over 15 years as a Director in the family business an award-winning healthcare & hospitality group which grew from 3 businesses with 250 employees to 7 businesses and 600 employees. In 2018 Cara totally disrupted the elderly healthcare industry in Ireland creating the first ‘Lifestyle Care Home’ cited by IoD chairman as a ‘world class concept.’ After 15 years in her family business, Cara's burning desire to help dynamic entrepreneurs think innovatively, act courageously, develop a powerful mindset and create meaningful change gave birth to Caram - a unique method of business acumen and mindset coaching Cara with growing entrepreneurs to create even greater success.

Jordan Carroll has worked over 5 years remotely in the US and while traveling internationally for a Fortune 50 company, start-ups, and his own businesses. He's lived in over 15 countries on 5 continents in the past two years and is a member of the Forbes Coaches Council. He creates content, courses, and coaching programs to help high performers learn a process to land legitimate remote jobs and gain freedom and flexibility in their lives.

Krishna Mohan is an Entrepreneur, Business Coach, Speaker, #1 Best-selling Author, as seen on FOX TV and multiple media outlets, President of Genius Visionary. Krishna has deep grasp on the understanding of business through his extensive experience working in Manufacturing, Consumer Durables, Telecom, Information Technology, Energy and Data Center Industries. Over the last 20 years he has helped 3 Fortune 500 companies and several start-up organizations focusing on Sales, Business Development and Finance. He has achieved definitive and long-term outcomes and generated millions of dollars in annual profits. Krishna has a Master’s Degree in Marketing Management MMM, an MBA-International Business and an MS in Finance. He is an acclaimed speaker and regularly speaks in various corporate events, boot camps and management trainings.

Case Lane is a global writer, traveler, observer to the future, and the founder of Ready Entrepreneur. Ready Entrepreneur prepares aspiring entrepreneurs to understand how to take advantage of technology and global resources to achieve lifestyle freedom by starting their own online business. A former diplomat, consultant and corporate executive, Case is educated in communications, political science, business, law and economics, has lived, studied or worked in eleven different countries and has visited over 100 others. The Ready Entrepreneur approach to lifestyle freedom is based on her education, experience, observations and interactions with entrepreneurs all over the world.

Kenya Brooks-Jones is the President & CIO of Jones Software Corp. Launched in 2015, Kenya leverages her expertise, Executive Leadership experience and business acumen to effectively position Jones Software Corporation as a Sustainable leader in the Ed-Tech Community! Jones Software Corp., develops an Adapative Personalized Educational Learning Platform. Kenya provides mentoring, tutoring and coaching to Primary, Secondary, Adult Learners, S.T.E.M., Career and Development, focused on lifelong learning skills, critical thinking, and leadership, utilizing resources and human capital from Volunteers, Universities and Technology Corporations. Additionally, Kenya serves with several organizations as a mentor and Leader.

Chris Meade is the co-founder of CROSSNET, the world's first four-way volleyball game. CROSSNET combines elements of the childhood game four square and volleyball in a competitive game to 11, win by 2. CROSSNET is now available at major retailers.

Dawn Apuan is a copywriter and funnel strategist. Former pastor and non-profit Executive Director, her mission now is to help female entrepreneurs communicate a compelling message and automate leads and sales that generate consistent income using a funnel that fits their business needs. She masterfully designs funnels and writes killer copy that converts for her clients.

Award-winning actor, singer, and certified wellness coach Debra Wanger has performed in theaters, cabarets, and screens from New York to Los Angeles. She’s a sought-after public speaker leading workshops at university theater programs and corporate groups across the country. While working at CAA and as a talent manager, she helped guide the careers of many top Hollywood names. Debra draws wisdom from decades of working as an actor, talent manager, and lifestyle coach to give actors and creatives a holistic approach to their profession that marries mind, body, spirit, and craft.

Victoria Lioznyansky teaches introverted entrepreneurs and business professionals how to overcome their fear of public speaking and become confident, compelling, captivating speakers. After moving to the US two decades ago with limited English, Victoria overcame her crippling fear of public speaking to build several businesses, teach in a variety of industries, and speak in front of small and large audiences. She has appeared on Fox News and has been featured in numerous publications, including CBS Houston and BizWest Media. Taking her own experiences of going from scared to sought-after speaker, Victoria founded Brilliant Speakers Academy™, an online public speaking coaching program for introverts. She also owns Nutty Scientists of Houston, a passion project about inspiring kids to fall in love with science. Victoria holds a Master of Science in Computer Science and is currently completing a Master of Arts Degree in Communications and Media Technologies. She lives in Houston with her husband and two sons.

Grant founded OnlineDegree.com with a purpose-driven mission: make college more accessible and affordable for everyone. After graduating college with an overwhelming amount of debt, he was determined to change how students embark on their college education. Grant has spent his entire career working in startups with nearly 15 years of experience and 2 prior exits from a publicly traded company. He has been a board member and donor to a number of non-profits, an advisor to many publicly traded companies and a guest speaker at seminars and graduate school courses. He graduated with honors from University of California Irvine in Economics.

Michael Ainslie is the former president and CEO of Sotheby’s, the former president and CEO of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and a former director of Lehman Brothers. He was also the founding chairman of The Posse Foundation, serving in that role for 13 years and continuing today as an active board member and mentor to scores of Posse scholars and alums. As a man who has always embraced the adventures and misadventures of business and life, Michael describes in his book his personal experience with several high-profile events, including the events that led to the largest bankruptcy filing in US history and the price-fixing scandal between Sotheby’s and Christie’s, a scandal that rocked the art world and sent the ex-chair of Sotheby’s to prison. Ainslie’s memoir shows that sometimes, the greatest lessons in life are a direct result of the challenges we face.

Miha Matlievski has forged his approach to helping entrepreneurs and business executives by using a monumental personal failure and eventual redemption to help get others where they need to go to find their personal success and fulfillment. A successful entrepreneur with four successful businesses and a personal net worth of $15M by age 30, an unexpected call from his bank brought his world crashing down in an avalanche of ruin for him and his businesses, resulting in his once-successful companies going bankrupt. Deeply in debt and depressed, he eventually embraced that previous failure and created a new startup, generating eight figures in less than a year. Since Miha’s “resurrection,” he has been known as The Fail Coach, and helps entrepreneurs around the world embrace and have a healthy relationship with failure with the goal of reaching a higher level of success.

Gabrielle Chipeur is a marketing automation specialist who’s spent the last 16 years at the crossroads of design, technology and online education. Besides helping coaches put their business on autopilot, she’s worked with Fortune 50 companies, international best-selling authors and world- renowned motivational speakers to grow their business and expand their reach. Gabrielle started her freelance business 10 years ago when she decided to stay at home with her children instead of going back to corporate. After struggling with 6 years of stagnation that came from focusing on the wrong things while she juggled small children, client projects and a pesky need for sleep, she transformed her business and documented all the lessons she learned along the way in her book, Secret Weapon. She lives just outside of the mountains in Canada with her family and a small menagerie of animals and when she’s not up to her elbows in tech she’s usually covered in paint or cooking up something in the kitchen.

In 2012, Reed quit his job in Australia and moved half way across the globe to the US to change his life, and to chase a dream. With limited funds, no investing experience, and no credit, Reed went from purchasing a small duplex to growing his own real estate investing firm, Wildhorn Capital. Reed now syndicates large multi-million dollar deals across the US. A best-selling author and podcast host, he has also achieved financial freedom, and has taken control of life.