12 Minute Convos W/ Engel Jones

A serial entrepreneur with a passion for creating companies that disrupt the way people live. Nick is the co-founder of Leverage, founder and CEO of Efficient Frontier Solutions, Inc. contributor and the co-author of the book Idea to Execution. Before making the jump to the startup technology space, Nick spent more than eight years on Wall Street as a high-frequency algorithmic trader. His personal mission is to help busy entrepreneurs and executives optimize their lives in a meaningful way and help them go from idea to execution in as few steps as possible. In addition to his professional interests, Nick is an avid chess player, traveler, and athlete. https://getleverage.com

Sean Perrin is the founder of Clarineat.com and the host of the internationally-acclaimed Clarineat Podcast and OK Podcast internet radio shows. He is also an active performer, recording artist, and music educator who lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.Sean has performed as a substitute clarinetist with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, The Red Deer Symphony, The Bow Valley Chorus, and many other local ensembles. In 2015 he recorded his first solo album called "Dreamsongs" with support from the Alberta Foundation of the Arts, Jazz YYC, and Kickstarter campaign that reached 137% of its funding goal. The project reached #5 on the Canadian Jazz charts on Apple iTunes.Also an accomplished teacher, Sean is on faculty at The Mount Royal University Conservatory, and has worked as a clinician for The Banff Centre, The University of Calgary, the Department of National Defence, and numerous other organizations.In addition to his creative, performing, and teaching work, Sean is the online Online Sales and Marketing Coo

Elnaz Sarraf Elnaz is a serial entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in technology, business, sales, and marketing. Currently, Elnaz is the CEO and Founder of ROYBI; an investor-backed EdTech company focusing on early childhood education, that recently raised $4.2 million in its seed round. Elnaz is also a Board Member at the Consumer Technology Association, Small Business Council.   About ROYBI ROYBI is the creator of Roybi Robot, an interactive language learning tutor for children ages 3+. With over 500 lessons, including primary STEM, stories, games, and songs, Roybi Robot creates a fun, interactive, and personalized learning experience for children.   ROYBI earned many prestigious awards and recognition, including Fast Company's World Changing Ideas (2019), the EdTech Award in Robotics (2019), the Katerva Awards in Behavioral Change (2019), and the Silicon Valley Top 30 Innovation Award (2018). ROYBI has also been featured on CNN, EdSurge, NASDAQ, VentureBeat, ABC News, and CNBC.   Before starting

Paul started his first business in 2011. He was soon working 60-80 hours a week with a business that couldn’t survive without him. So Paul started systematizing everything while empowering a team to run the business better than he could. Before he knew it his revenue doubled to almost $500k while the number of hours he worked dropped below 40. Paul then sold his business for 3x net profit. He’s now back into business ownership with 2 local businesses while also helping ambitious business owners automate their business so they can leverage their business to build a life that they love. www.paulmaskill.com/mastermind

Melanie Parish is a public speaker, consultant, workshop leader, author, and Master Certified Coach through the International Coach Federation, from whom she received the Prism Award.   An expert in problem-solving, constraints management, operations, strategic hiring, and brand development, Melanie has consulted and coached organizations ranging from a Fortune 50 company to IT start-ups. Her individual clients include those in FAANG and other top global IT companies.   Melanie is a Certified Professional Coactive Coach and Organization and Relationship Systems Certified Coach, and a Theory of Constraints Certified Jonah. As an author, educator, and creator of the Experimental Leader program, Melanie shows people new ways of thinking about their leadership, informed by her understanding of the fast-paced ride of technology innovation.   She is based in Dundas, Ontario and Las Cruces, New Mexico.   Website: www.melanieparish.com LinkedIn: MelanieParish Twitter: @melanieparish

Glen Dunzweiler is a Filmmaker/Producer and Entrepreneur living in Los Angeles. His mission is to grow people into wealth. The stories he tells are ones of social responsibility and success out of poverty. He is the creator of the documentary "Homeless?" on Amazon Prime; the author of the books Things I've Learned From The Homeless and A Degree In Homelessness? Entrepreneurial Skills for Students; and the speaker of "Small Business Homeless" - a TEDx talk. His next film is a biopic called "Deuce". It's an urban travel film about what a hustler from Chicago can do when you take him out of his dead-end environment. glendunzweiler.com

Jamila Bannister is branding and digital professional and the Managing Director of JBannister Branding Ltd. With just over 13 years’ experience, she has worked in Marketing Communications and Branding since 2007. Her stints included communications for government agencies like the Trinidad & Tobago Police Service and private sector companies like the Beacon Insurance Company Limited.  Jamila began growing her online brand in 2016 as a way to stand out to recruiters. This eventually turned into creating content, hosting workshops and giving talks on personal branding. Now, she has combined her history of branding with digital marketing to help expert-led and other professional businesses, grow their brands, build their reputations and attract high quality leads through her  recently launched digital branding and lead generation agency. Her agency support transitioning entrepreneurs who want to raise the prominence of their public profile by providing digital content strategy, social media management, commun

Kimberly King is an experienced Sales Manager/ Business Development Manager with a demonstrated history of working in sales, business development, marketing, and the events services industry. Kimberly is a strong education professional with a Master of Science (MSc) focused in Marketing/Marketing Management, General from Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business.Above all, she's an exceptional team leader, results-oriented and passionate professional with a strong entrepreneurial spirit.Connect with Kimberly on LinkedIn

My name is Zoe McKey, and I’m a former dishwasher, shop assistant, car factory worker, translator, international relations manager at a language school, and communication coach of a smaller Japanese organization. Add my hours spent as a high school and university student and you can see that I needed 25 hours every day. I’ve been living on my own and supporting myself since I was 14. For years I was unable to pursue my passion. And today I’m grateful for all the things I went through. Because of my situation, I had to learn to connect and get along with every type of person. From a young age, I had to develop my ability to understand emotional needs. With my strong self-awareness, I help people (re)gain their confidence and self-esteem so they can live a lasting balanced life. I’m an Amazon bestselling self-help author. I consider my work to be like a pickle jar filled with different sized pickles. Each pickle represents a different solution to a problem related to confidence: personal lifestyle development,

Chris Hines: Podcasting is growing every single day. After five years in the industry, I've learned how to generate leads from the content I create so that I'm growing my business.I believe podcasting will continue to change business and the world. Every company has become its own media platform in 2020. I'm the guy that helps brands generate leads AND extra revenue from that content. My specialty is creating Podcast Marketing Plans so the value you display to your market actually converts to impact your business.I've worked with hundreds of businesses to get their shows launched, marketed, and monetized. If you'd like a podcast audit, send me a message. We'll see where your podcast can be improved!Contact Coach Chris

Janel Dyan, also known as JD, is a sought after executive brand strategist, speaker and author of Story. Style. Brand.™  Why Corporate Results Are a Matter of Personal Style available now on Amazon.  She is an expert on how to build a story to achieve brand alignment for both company and leadership success - exploring the missing link between the rise of women in leadership and an era when marketing is the art of storytelling.   Janel developed the JD METHODOLOGY ™, a proven method that provides corporations and individuals the ability to establish a brand that begins with trust and gives us the ability to control the conversation by asking not “what to wear” but “what story do I want to tell?” She has worked with various notable women leaders in Fortune 500 companies.  In 2017, Janel established BEYOND US™ providing opportunities to build confidence in women through a platform for sharing clothes with other women who are ready to take the next step in their professional lives.Born and raised in the Bay Area,

Catherine Saykaly-Stevens is an author, speaker, consultant, trainer, and host. She has worked in IT for over 20 years.Catherine is currently the owner of The Networking Web where she specializes in Audience Growth and Fan-Engagement Social Media Consulting and Training for group courses or for one-on-one consulting.She trains authors, entrepreneurs, writers, and speakers how to how quickly and easily making a shift in your work can bring audience growth, increased fan-engagement, and expedite reach & influence, resulting in more sales. She does this with the ‘Social Media Quick Start Program’, a 10-week, step-by-step system. She is also the co-creator of Emergency Hashtags, an Evolutionary Business Council initiative to save lives and get people to safety during an urban crisis. Catherine is also the author of "Social Media Strategies for Writers".In her downtime, Catherine's projects include fiction (novel and screenplay) and transmedia development. Catherine has spent over twenty years working with the

Tamara Green, LCSW is a speaker, an international best selling author of her book Live Calm With Cancer (and Beyond…). Along with her husband David, she elevates the lives of people touched by cancer by providing dynamic mind-body wellness tools. This couple envisions a world where people access their natural wisdom and resiliency to architect a joyful life through self-care and loving-kindness, unleashing a worldwide epidemic of wellness. Tamara is a speaker and trainer, dubbed by Elle Magazine as “The Soul ­centered Psychotherapist and Meditation Facilitator.” As an acclaimed clinician, she is often featured as a behavioral health expert on Today, Bravo and Elle. Tamara combines her many years of professional training and life experience, such as caregiving David, while he was undergoing treatment for stage-4 cancer, to create powerfully effective guided meditations that have helped thousands to achieve peace, love, and well­being. Since their cancer journey, Tamara and David have created the Loving Meditat

Deborah Ager turns experts into authors. She helps business leaders turn their expertise into a book that grows thought leadership and builds business. Visit her website at http://www.radiantmedialabs.com Support us on Patreon: www.Patreon.com/12minconvos Listen to another #12minconvo

Erin Ardleigh is the founder and president of Dynama Insurance, where she helps to make the insurance planning process more transparent and more accessible for her clients, meeting the needs of individuals facing complex life events, from marriage to divorce to blended families or workplace needs (e.g. disability insurance). Erin founded the company in 2014, and as independent brokers, her team represents the country’s strongest and most reliable insurance companies and provides unbiased access to the most competitive products. Dynama Insurance provides life, disability, health and long term care insurance, as well as reviews of existing insurance policies. Areas of expertise include private client products and cross-border planning for international clients. Erin is also a mentor for Women Unlimited, Inc. and a Board Member of the Estate Planning Council of NYC, and an Advisory Board Member of the World Music Institute. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication and Culture from the City University o

Dustin Mathews is the Chief Education Officer at WealthFit - a company disrupting the financial education space and leading ordinary people to lives of wealth. Along with many best selling books, Dustin is the host of the popular "Get WealthFit!" Show.He has interviewed and shared the stage with athletes, business celebrities, movie producers and titans of business such as Danica Patrick, Cal Ripken Jr., Kevin Harrington, Robert Kiyosaki, Jesse Itzler, Shannon Miller, Dave Meltzer and many others.Dustin’s ventures have been featured by Forbes, Entrepreneur, USA Today and INC Magazine. He also received recognition by the United States Patent and Trademark Office for codifying a process for creating and selling products and service, Irresistible Offer Architecture   Websites: DustinMathews.com NoBSpresentations.com Support us on Patreon: www.Patreon.com/12minconvos Listen to another #12minconvo

I love reading great business books, but I love helping authors create them even more.When I was in high school, a Brazilian missionary lent me his tattered copy of Quest for the Best of Neiman-Marcus fame. Love at first read.As my friends gamed or read Stephen King, I devoured books on economics, entrepreneurs, titans of business, and more. Those influenced me to pursue a degree in economics, then a master’s in economic development where I wrote a thesis on microfinance from my fieldwork with Dominican loan sharks.After grad school, I landed a job in a consultancy managing nonprofits on behalf of their respective boards, first training micro-entrepreneurs through an economic development organization and then serving as the administrator for a program that sheltered and cared for teen mothers and their children.Upon returning to Louisiana, I worked as the in-house consultant for a $30 million family company group, spearheading new projects and even assuming responsibility of a $2 million company for months du

Jeremy Epstein, CEO of Never Stop Marketing, has 20 years of international marketing experience in helping to bring innovative technologies into the mainstream.  Most recently, Jeremy was VP, Marketing at Sprinklr which grew from a $20 million valuation and 30 people to $1.3 billion valuation and 900 people in 3 years. Previous work experience includes Microsoft and consulting to start-ups, mid-market firms, and enterprises, including JNJ, Yes To Carrots, and two NY Times best-selling authors (Dan Pink and Gretchen Rubin. Jeremy also spent 3 years living and working in Frankfurt, Germany and Tokyo, Japan. Jeremy is the author of numerous whitepapers and a book, appropriately titled, “It’s ALL on the Blog, DON’T Buy the Book,” and has presented to hundreds of audiences in 15 countries.  Jeremy has been the top-ranked speaker at multiple conferences including Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conferences and Microsoft CIO summit among others. Jeremy currently works with some of the leading and most innovative comp

Shari Hammond is the inventor of both Cabinet Caddy and Go Hang It. Shari is a single Mom from Austin, Texas. Cabinet Caddy provides an opportunity to reclaim cluttered spaces. Perfect for spices, medicine cabinet, bathroom vanity, workbench hardware and more, Cabinet Caddy fits stand cabinets and looks great on countertops as well. Each Cabinet Caddy holds 30% larger bottles than competitors. Just pull and rotate the device for easy access to organized items. Cabinet Caddy was engineered to fit and function neatly side-by-side to create a “library” of organized materials. Complete with stick-on labels and foam stability inserts to keep smaller bottles from tipping. No assembly required. Visit www.CabinetCaddy.com. To combat the ongoing problem and frustration of hanging pictures perfectly, Go Hang It is the perfect solution. With no tape measurers or rulers necessary, Go Hang It is an all-in-one tool that works with sawtooth and wire hanging hardware, features a unique nail-marking system and also includes a

Kimberly Culbertson helps clients to lead authentically, maximize their teams, and create an empowering culture in order to reach beyond the good to the extraordinary. Decades of leadership experience in publishing, education, non-profit, and corporate training have taught her a thing or two about how teams function, and these days she’s leveraging that knowledge on behalf of leaders who are looking to release the full power of their teams. She uses tools like Strengthsfinder, Myers-Briggs, and Enneagram to map a team and help them to curate an environment that expresses value, appreciates diversity, and harnesses collective intelligence. She speaks and podcasts with her husband Coach Culbertson over at KimberlyAndCoach.com.  Website: https://kimberlyandcoach.com/ Support us on Patreon: http://www.Patreon.com/12minconvos Listen to another #12minconvo