12 Minute Convos W/ Engel Jones

Mark Ainley-  Mark Ainley is a specialist in multiple disciplinary fields. Since his teens he has been active in the curating of and research of historical piano recordings and has gained an international reputation as an expert in this arena. His website The Piano Files and corresponding Facebook page is a hub for thousands of fans of historical performances by the greatest artists. Mark’s professional life in the last 19 years has been focused on helping individuals bring integration to their lives, primarily through a contemporary approach to Feng Shui principles. His expansive view of the practice led him to coin the phrase Contemporary Feng Shui to better reflect the universal and timeless nature of the practice. Starting in 2003 he began making teaching and consulting trips to Japan, where he had spent half of his ‘90s as a teacher and DJ, and he still travels there annually to present workshops, consult on home and commercial properties, and train new consultants.  As a teacher, consultant, writer, and

Mandelynn Moses-  Mandelynn Moses is the Global Curator at Alter Ego Global. Alter Ego World is a global women's leadership conference that helps women celebrate their uniqueness so they can be seen and heard on a global platform. Unfortunately society and our families throughout time diminish that flame that flame, so we begin the habit early on in life attempting to fit in. If you are anything like me, the more you try to fit in the more you realize you don't quite belong. That is why I have created Alter Ego World. During this 3 day event, we celebrate your uniqueness and encourage you to be the outlier you were born to be. Effective and highly influential leaders embrace all of who they are and are not afraid to be bold and stand out above the crowd. At the Alter Ego Global Women's Leadership Conference we want to help you find your unique expression and provide you all the tools to launch you and your message out in the world in a big way! If you are interested in attending, becoming a speaker, or sp

Bethel Nathan-  Bethel Nathan is a successful business owner, award-winning officiant, and WeddingPro Educator, and she knows how to build and run a successful wedding industry business, having now married nearly 1000 couples since launching in 2009 and building up over 350 5-star reviews.  In the first ten years, Bethel focused not only on being great at what she did for her couples, but also on knowing her ideal client, developing relationships locally to support her and her business, and finding the right marketing tools and methods to attract her ideal client, as well as the right systems and processes to best service them. Combining her background in large Wall Street investment banks (living in Tokyo, New York, and London) and in small business, Bethel also enjoys helping other wedding industry businesses grow and prosper as a business coach, industry speaker, and educator, in addition to via her soon-to-launch online learning platform. Bethel's content can be seen on The Knot and WeddingWire’s WeddingP

Angel RIBO-  Angel RIBO, known as The CEO Confidant, is an International TV Host, Public Speaker, CEO Consultant and Philanthropist Both Established Entrepreneurs and Corporate CEOs hire Angel to bridge the Gap Globally for Expansion and Exposure because they have limited themselves to their immediate market, their own backyard, so Angel helps them understand, discover and design a plan to go into International markets. There is a Science and a Secret to taking things Global, and That is his Mastery.  In a nutshell, this is what Angel helps CEOs do:  Identify the Top Cultural differences to Conduct business in that Area,  Find the right Local partners to go in this journey together with, Learn the Most important local Business Development strategies tactics that they have to use to generate Revenue in that Country. In the last 19 years Angel has helped more than 1,500 CEOs in 33 different countries. He was born near Barcelona, and he has lived in 8 countries and speaks 5 languages.  Angel is now based

Mark Struczewski-  I am a speaker, coach, podcaster and the author of How to REALLY Be Productive. But you can call me Ski (skee). That's a nickname and what I prefer. Fun fact: I am the one and only Mark Struczewski in the entire world. How cool is that? Now, before I go on, let me address my last name. I know it's not an easy name but it is pronounced Stru Chess Skee. See? That's not so bad. I have been married to Michelle (@MrsSki2003), for sixteen years. I have two daughters from a previous marriage. We live in Houston, Texas. I am unashamedly a believer in Jesus Christ and attend my church weekly. In my life, it is Jesus first, my beautiful bride Michelle second, followed by my family and everyone else. I enjoy running, reading, interviewing folks for my podcast and hanging out with my wife. I am learning to speak español. For some, like my wife, learning a new language is like how a duck takes to water: naturally. For me...it's more of a work in progress. But I am enjoying the process. Website: https:/

Carmine Denisco-  Carmine Denisco is a successful Entrepreneur, Inventor, Author, Podcaster, Investor, Patent and Trademark Holder. He has designed, developed and manufactured many products sold in retail stores, TV shopping channels, online and infomercials some have gone on to be licensed by major chain. Carmine co-founded Inventors Launchpad™ a company dedicated to helping inventors correctly navigate the invention and manufacturing process, giving each inventor their best shot at success. Inventors Launchpad is a privately held product development and manufacturing company with one of the largest and fastest growing inventor networks in the world. As leaders in the industry, it is our goal to disrupt the invention industry by reimagining the development process into the fastest and most cost effective way to monetize an invention.Inventors Launchpad has consulted with, designed, developed, marketed or manufactured a large number of consumer products in every major category to be sold in retailers around t

Don Armstead-  Founder of DWA Foreign Missions, Don is the Overseeing Pastor of Greater St. Mark Baptist Church in Lubbock, Texas.   Focusing primarily on the people of the Philippines, he has built relationships with other believers in various other nations (via direct contact, mutual relationships, Skype video fellowships and social media). DWAFM subsequently receives invitations from those other nations (Pakistan, India, Uganda, Spain and France) to minister, strengthen and reinforce new and established ministries.   Don has also published his first ebook, “Processed For Progress”, an encouraging read for navigating through the storms of life.   It’s a simple but powerful read because Don wanted it to be a good read for people whose first language is not English.  As a vital part of his local church family, Don continues to provide leadership as Overseer and Pastor of  Administration and Education as well as serving as Minister of Music.  He is greatly missed when he goes into his missionary travels.  He i

Richard Haasnoot-  Founder and Head Coach of Innovate2Grow Experts/i2Ge.com i2Ge is a highly innovative company helping clients invent major new products and services and with the early commercialization steps. We promise clients twice the results in half the half the cost and   Founder & CEO of Blue Sage Creative/bluesagecreative.com Blue Sage Creative delivers Fresh Thinking, Inspired Designs, and consistently Exceeds Expectations Our team of 15+ world class designers, project managers, account managers, and creative director deliver graphic designs that become your competitive advantages, helping you to WIN. In addition, we are the only graphic design company with the 100% Promise: 100% of Projects Delivered on Time and On Budget. We have years of design successes across many types of B2B and B2C businesses. Founder of Wisdom Inspired Life/wisdominspiredlife.com wisdominspiredlife.com is the home of the Wisdom Inspired Life podcast--sharing wisdom teaching   Professor at Arizona State Univ

Erno Hannink-  I am Erno Hannink from the Netherlands. An optimist and enthusiast. Using stoicism for a better life. My podcast has been running for 5 years and 230 episodes now, including great episodes in English. You can find me at the Erno Hannink Show on iTunes.   Next to the podcast I also create a weekly 1-minute video at ernohannink.tv.   For entrepreneurs with 5-25 employees, I am the business coach, helping them to work more on their business and make better decisions.   Author of 11 books. The initiator of the Social Media Club and WordCamp in the Netherlands. Dad of 2 children and husband to my lovely Monique. During the weekend I am a referee at Dutch soccer matches and I run.   Links: ernohannink.tv   Listen to another #12minconvo

David Blay-  David Blay is working during the last 20 years with sport and company people to help them to appear on media. Also, he's teaching international students on mastering for sports business on UCAM, UPV and Florida University in Spain. He's collaborating now as a journalist for Radio Marca, being an international speaker talking about remote work and presenting his third book 'The travel of the equilibrist'.   Website: davidblay.com Listen to another #12minconvo  

David Henzel-  David Henzel is a veteran entrepreneur who has been building in the saas and e-com space for over 20 years. He had multiple exits including MaxCDN.   His passion is to help entrepreneurs and their organizations succeed.   He runs a small portfolio of startups including TaskDrive (Sales Development), LTVplus (multilingual live chat and support teams), Shortlist.io (Inbound Agency / Backlinks), 50saas (SaaS dev shop) and his passion project managinghappiness.com (a group coaching and mastermind platform)   Website: www.davidhenzel.com Listen to another #12minconvo  

Marc Morrell-  Marc Morrell has a passion for animation, and has been the Creator and Host of Let's Voltron: The Official Voltron Podcast for over 6 years. He's also been a Head Writer for ToonBarn.com for over 8 years. Through both of these, he has conducted well over 1000 interviews with animation directors, producers, writers, actors, including KISS, William Shatner, Cary Elwes, Rosario Dawson, Adam West and many more! For his bread and butter, he has a passion for business agility as a servant leader for companies that want to follow a customer and employee-centric model for success. Marc truly believes, like Voltron, that the whole is better than the sum of the parts, and we are always stronger together.   Links: www.letsvoltron.com www.toonbarn.com Listen to another #12minconvo

Robert Rice-  Robert Rice is an LA-based actor and singer who spent several years performing in musical theater in New York City before moving to Los Angeles. He is a frequent guest artist on the Instagram series Wait What (@waitwhatcomedy) and makes frequent appearances in sketches by Youtube comedian David Spates. He and his barbershop quartet, The Accidentals, were recently featured in the national GEICO commercial A Barbershop Quartet Plays Basketball. He has appeared on Pink Collar Crimes on CBS and Riggle’s Picks on Fox, as well as @Midnight and Mini-mocks on Comedy Central. He also recently performed alongside Vanessa Bayer and Jeff Goldblum in the Jenny Lewis On the Line telethon. Robert plays Harold in the upcoming series Demonhuntr. Robert is a producer on the board of Freaky Fighty Funny Films, and is dedicated to fostering new inclusive works in genre film. Listen to another #12minconvo

Penny Zenker-  Penny Zenker is an international speaker, business strategy coach and best-selling author.  Before her 31st Birthday, Penny founded, developed and sold her first multi-million dollar business while living in Zurich, Switzerland. Later at the world's 4th largest Market Research company, she managed business unit turnarounds and was a Tony Robbins business coach helping entrepreneurs around the world to double their businesses. Penny is one of America’s leading experts in the psychology of productivity to eliminate distraction, perfectionism, and self-sabotage to maximize results in every area of your life. Penny’s book The Productivity Zone was an instant Amazon Best Seller and her TEDx, "The Energy of Thought", has gained attention around the world. Her engaging, inspiring interactive talks teach people to think and act more strategically. Penny has been featured on NBC News, Forbes, Inc, ESPN, and Wharton Business Radio among others. Penny is warm, playful, fun. She will challenge you to thi

  Renée Suzanne is a coach for smart, successful women who want to find love. She helps women go from heartbroken to happily-married. She believes that true love is possible for anyone who’s willing to create the conditions in her life for it to flourish. She’s been featured in The Huffington Post, Glamour, and Tiny Buddha. When she’s not saving women’s love lives you may find her curled up on the couch with her dog Fang and a good book or out on a hike with her husband. Her two books, “Beloved – How to go from relationship challenged to relationship ready” and “Ten things you can do to upgrade your love life” are available on Amazon. She also has over 150 inspiring videos on her YouTube channel.  Want more love in your life? Check out her free audio course at reneesuzannecoaching.com. You can also follow her on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/reneesuzannecoaching/. Links: https://www.facebook.com/reneesuzannecoaching reneesuzannecoaching.com YouTube channel Listen to another #12minconvo

Andrew McCauley-  Andrew McCauley is a best selling author, having authored 4 books, hosted numerous podcasts,  online magazine publisher and spoken on hundreds of stages around the world. His passion is educating business owners and marketing teams on how to effectively use digital marketing for profit and growth. His clients range from Fortune 500 to small business entrepreneurs, he was Once named in the top 100 most influential twitter users by Forbes and Buzz Sumo. Listen to another #12minconvo

Altovise Pelzer-   Altovise Pelzer is an award-winning small business trainer and founder of the World Voice League. She hosts the #SpeakEasy Podcast, your #1 Podcast for unscripted perspectives on becoming and staying a successfully paid Speaker. Altovise educates and empowers small business owners to create your own business model using live stream, social media and your personal story. Altovise is the Visionary Author for the #1 Best Selling book “A Stage of Their Own: More than a movement.” This anthology brought together 13 authors to share how their pivotal moment in life created the momentum for the movement they created. She is also a contributing author to the #1 Best Selling book “Speak Up! The Ultimate Guide to Dominate in the Speaking Industry.” World-renowned speaking legends Dr. George Fraser and Les Brown wrote the Foreword and Afterword for the book.  Homelessness and molestation greatly affected Altovise. She hit a turning point in her personal life after decades of being silent about her mol

James Higgins-  James Higgins is a Web Developer and, as of August 2019, a food service equipment repair technician and manager of Commtech Services on the Sunshine Coast in British Columbia, Canada. James moved here with his wife and dog to take over his father's company as his father had become the fire department chief in the nearby town of Roberts Creek.   James founded the non-profit organization Selfling Teen Support Foundation to help discover new ways to use technology to help at risk youth. Selfling even had a mobile application for 2 years after which James decided that the mobile chat app format was not the right direction for the kind of change James wanted to see in the lives of young people. Selfling is now undergoing a direction shift.   In 2019, James underwent addictions therapy to combat his alcoholism and, as of February 4, 2020, will be 1 year sober. This struggle has help James take charge of his mental and physical health, topics he is very open about.   James, Shauna, and Odin the Dog

Doug Lawrence-  Doug Lawrence is the founder of TalentC® and the co-founder of the International Mentoring Community (IMC).  Doug Lawrence leads organizations to experience how mentoring will encourage workforce culture to flow in harmony (mentors), improve productivity from employees (mentees), reducing costly employee onboarding improving the bottom line (organizations).  Doug is an International Certified Mentor Practitioner (ICMP), an International Certified Mentor Facilitator (ICMF), and has obtained his Certificate of Achievement – Mentoring and his Certificate of Competence – Mentor from the International Mentoring Community (IMC).  Doug’s Practice of Mentoring has resulted in his accumulation of 1,875 hours of mentoring (in person and virtual), 197 hours of speaking opportunities and 672 hours teaching others how to effectively mentor.  Doug is a volunteer mentor with the Sir Richard Branson Entrepreneur Program in the Caribbean and with the American Corporate Partners in the United States working wit

Chi Odogwu-  Chi Odogwu is the founder of Odogwu Media Group., a podcast marketing agency that helps corporations, thought leaders, executives, and entrepreneurs position themselves as the leading authorities in their industries.  He is the author of the upcoming book "Podcasting For Corporations: The ultimate guide to building an engaging branded podcast that helps your company authentically connect with your ideal customers" and the host of the Bulletproof Entrepreneur podcast. In addition to his work as a speaker, trainer, consultant and Chi is a contributor to many business publications around the world. Some of his articles can be found on Addicted2Success, Mogul, The Huffington Post, Business.com, and Arianna Huffington's Thrive Global, to name a few. Websites: odogwu.com gtabusinesstitans.com Listen to another #12minconvo