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Mat Zalk is the President and Property Manager at Keyrenter Property Management which has offices in Tulsa, Oklahoma City, and Arkansas. He focuses on the acquisition and management of single and multi-family residential properties on behalf of himself and a small network of investors.  Before founding Keyrenter Tulsa, Mat was a Strategy Director at The Property Finder Group, where he worked closely with the CEO and senior management team on various international acquisitions, scaled local teams in the group’s Saudi Arabia and Egypt offices, and executed a number of strategic projects in the business’ core market of Dubai. Mat has been an active investor since 2014 and is a licensed real estate agent in Oklahoma.  In this episode… Property management can be a headache. There are a lot of minor issues that pop up on a repeat basis. So, where can you find a property management company that can help ease the stress and frustration of dealing with these issues on your own? Many people want to stay away from renta

Lisa Riley is a Pinot's Palette Franchise Owner in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Pinot's Palette is a painting studio and wine bar where they walk people step-by-step through a complete canvas painting for two hours while they listen to rock and pop music and drink libations.  Lisa owns all three Tulsa area Pinot's Palette franchises. The Oklahoma Small Business Association named her 2020's Small Business Person of the Year. In this episode… Imagine quitting your corporate-America job, never being an entrepreneur, and spending your life savings to buy a franchise. Then months later, someone else is about to buy the same franchise at a location 12 minutes from yours. If you let that happen, anything they do wrong will affect your business and erode your life savings.  You can't let your life savings be at the mercy of someone else's actions. And you don't have the money to afford a new location. While trying to figure a way out, you're diagnosed with cancer. How do you handle it all? Lisa Riley conquered cancer and went on

Jamie Douraghy is a Gallup Certified Strengths Finder Coach who coaches and facilitates executives and their teams to find clarity. He is the Founder of Life Work Integration, where he offers leadership development, executive coaching, team building, and strategic planning services. He holds an MA in international relations and has spent the last 30 years as a competitive fencer earning multiple national and international titles.  In this episode… Do you have a business partnership that’s experiencing a lot of friction? How can you make sure it doesn’t affect your business? Here's what today's guest, Jamie Douraghy of Life Work Integration, suggests you can do to fix it.  Start by understanding each other's strengths and how to utilize them versus pointing out each other's weaknesses. When you do so from a position of positivity and strength, it will open up your conversations. You also need to learn the importance of connection versus having to be correct. Want to find out more?  Listen to this episode of th

Don Williams is an author, keynote speaker, and the CEO of Don Williams Global, a performance-based sales consulting company that helps entrepreneurs and corporate executives increase sales and drive revenue.  Don is a serial entrepreneur who started his first business in 1986 with capital totaling $6,000. Today, Don has founded a dozen companies. His client list includes international and Fortune 500 clients from A to Z. In this episode… If you have a great product or fantastic service but for some reason aren’t selling as much as you’d like, what can you do? And, if you hate selling (like most people), how do you increase profits? According to performance-based sales consultant Don Williams, the first thing you need to do is stop selling. Also, your pricing is not the problem — contrary to what you might think. If your product or service works, consumers will pay your price for it. Want to find out more?  Listen to this episode of the Inspired Insider Podcast with Dr. Jeremy Weisz as he interviews the CEO o

Brian Lai is the Founder of The Only Bean. The Only Bean is a company based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, that is on a mission to unlock the potential of beans through innovative food products that are healthy, delicious, and sustainable. Brian has been in the consumer goods industry since 2015. Before starting The Only Bean, he founded a brand called BOCHA that created better-tasting coffee and tea using innovative and traditional brewing methods worldwide. In this episode… Ever had bean-based snacks? What about bean pasta? It’s an innovation from the lab of a food scientist to the mouths of vegans, people with gluten intolerances, and everyone who loves to enjoy healthy pasta made 100% from beans. A terrific product, right?  In this short episode of the Inspired Insider Podcast with Dr. Jeremy Weisz, you’ll hear from The Only Bean Founder, Brian Lai, about their keto-friendly, gluten-free, vegan, bean-based super snacks and products. Stay tuned! 

Josh Levine is Co-founder and Managing Partner of Color More Lines, a boutique e-commerce agency helping brands grow faster on Amazon and Walmart. Color More Lines is a performance-based agency that delivers true white glove service. In the last two years alone, during the pandemic, they helped eight brands go from zero to 100,000 dollars a month within 12 months of working together. In this episode… Own an e-commerce brand? One of the many problems you’ll likely deal with is other brands profiting off your Amazon marketing. Not to mention inventory management and the pain of losing your first-page Amazon spot because your forecasting was way off the mark and your product ran out of stock.  If you’re dealing with any of those problems, you want to pay attention to this episode, as Josh Levine talks about clearing all the roadblocks in your Amazon account. You’ll also learn about how your marketing and branding outside Amazon helps you sell more on Amazon and how Amazon is subsidizing your marketing spend on o

Yuri Elkaim is a New York Times best-selling author, former professional athlete, and business strategist. He’s also the Founder and CEO of Healthpreneur, a company that helps health practitioners fill and scale their practice.  Yuri's journey in health and business crossed paths, unfortunately, when he lost all his hair at 17 due to an autoimmune condition. He went on to start an online health empire, building a following of over 500,000 people before selling the business. Yuri now runs Healthpreneur, where he leads a world-class team of coaches that help health professionals create transformative results and get high six and seven figures from their virtual practices. In this episode… No one works harder than an entrepreneur, but that is a blessing and curse. So many entrepreneurs work hard to keep their businesses thriving but forget to take care of themselves. Yuri Elkaim, Founder and CEO of Healthpreneur, says that’s a big mistake.  But that’s not the only mistake entrepreneurs are making. For example, m

Joel Erway is the Founder of The Webinar Agency, a company that helps online course creators, coaches, and consultants leverage webinars to sell their products and services, book phone appointments, and generate qualified sales leads.  Joel helps build high-converting sales presentations and webinars for clients, working with people like Russell Brunson of Clickfunnels and many more. Between personal and client sales, he has helped generate over $100 million over the past few years alone.  Joel is also the Author of High Ticket Courses, where he shows experts how to create leveraged offers so that they can scale their business to programs valued at $2,000 or more. He's also the Host of two podcasts, Sold with Webinars and Experts Unleashed. In this episode… You've got 10% of your market ready to buy right now, and they will buy (or consider buying) if you can make a compelling offer. The problem is you've been overeducating your market, underestimating how large your ready-to-buy market is, and you're probabl

Samir Balwani is the Founder and CEO of QRY, a media agency for direct-to-consumer (DTC) and e-commerce brands. They have a media methodology and testing framework that's helped brands like Delsey and Peak Design scale their business online. Before starting QRY, Samir worked as a Senior Manager of OPEN Brand Strategy for American Express. In this episode… It's not uncommon to see agency owners brag about their flat management structure — meaning there are no layers and everybody's the same. However, Samir Balwani thinks that's a common agency owner mistake. To him, layers in organizational structure are important.  These layers allow people to lean on someone with more experience, enabling you to celebrate and empower people with more knowledge. This is one of Samir's many lessons from working in corporate America that’s helping him succeed as an agency owner today. Want to know more?  Listen to this episode of the Inspired Insider Podcast with Dr. Jeremy Weisz featuring the Founder and CEO of QRY, Samir Balw

Kevin Hourigan is the President and CEO of Spinutech, an agency that develops customized and data-driven digital marketing solutions. Before merging his business with his partner's, Kevin founded Bayshore Solutions in 1996 and ran it for over two decades, delivering websites and custom web applications to thousands of clients in over 54 countries.  Kevin led Bayshore Solutions through growth and change to become a leading end-to-end digital agency that is Spinutech. Outside the office, Kevin enjoys hitting the open water on his boat, playing a round of golf, skiing, and just about any outdoor activity. In this episode… One of the unintended blessings of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the astronomic demand for digital solutions. With this demand comes the need to scale quickly, so companies are turning to digital agencies to help do that. Digital agencies themselves are merging to scale their service and provide clients with the right solutions.  Unfortunately, navigating a merger is a pain in the neck for man

Dmitry Buterin is the Founder of three multimillion-dollar businesses, including top-ranked membership management software company Wild Apricot, which serves over 20,000 small nonprofits. He was also the Co-founder of Blockgeeks, an online hub where talented, inspiring, and hard-working entrepreneurs, investors, and leaders learn about the rapidly evolving world of blockchain.  Dmitry is also an angel investor and mentor for blockchain startups. He is a proud father of three, one of whom is the creator of Ethereum.  In this episode… You’ve probably heard about Ethereum and how it powers many products and services. You may not know that Ethereum exists partly because one man, Dmitry Buterin, got tired of Soviet Union propaganda. He moved his family to Toronto, where he raised his son, Vitalik Buterin, who would later drop out of college to co-found the Ethereum platform. And that’s only the short version of the story. Dmitry, who himself founded and built three multimillion-dollar businesses, played a signific

Bradley Will is the Founder and CEO of Riseable, a Milwaukee-based marketing agency with a mission to use marketing as a force for good. They develop lead and customer acquisition systems for brands that make a positive impact. Before starting Riseable, Bradley founded and ran Learn To Blog, an education and content-based company that designed programs to help small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs use blogging and content marketing to build an audience and generate new business. In this episode… First-party data — such as an email list — is a goldmine for any business owner. But as much as you’d like to extract the most value from your email list, the one thing you don’t want to do is burn the list. You only want to send as many emails as you have to. If you send too many sales emails, people will begin to drop from your lists. How do you sell through email campaigns without burning your list? Today’s guest, Bradley Will, proposes a three-step sales email sequence to close a deal. But these steps a

Richard Blank is the CEO of Costa Rica's Call Center, a division of Cheyenne Consultants, a company incorporated in Costa Rica. When Richard was 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica, where he started training employees for one of the large call centers in San Jose. He's trained over 10,000 bilingual telemarketers, shaping them to be the finest in the country. Richard is often sought after for private training sessions and consultations. In this episode… When business owners think about telemarketing, they often envision those aggressive-type callers who inundate people with calls, so they pass on implementing it into their business. As a result, they miss out on the opportunity for inbound support, outbound lead generation, and appointment setting.  Additionally, many businesses that do set up call support often make the mistake of focusing on the number of calls made or received rather than the quality. They’re not adept at handling inbound calls, tackling upsell opportunities, and rendering poor custome

David (Dave) Klein is the Founder, CEO, and President of North American Media, a direct marketing company located in Danbury, Connecticut, specializing in list brokerage and management, data solutions, space advertising, and interactive online services. Dave is a direct mail and direct marketing strategist and media buyer for mail space advertising and direct mail email. He has over 30 years of experience working with every type of business imaginable in every industry, partnering with some of the top people in direct response. Dave has a passion for helping people accomplish their customer acquisition goals. In this episode… Most major corporations with substantial online presence — including Google and Facebook — are doing direct mail marketing. Why? Because it works. Unfortunately, many business owners haven’t seen great results from their direct mail campaigns, which leads them to believe that direct mail doesn’t work.  According to direct marketing expert Dave Klein, direct mail works if you do it right.

Alex Strathdee is the Founder of Advanced Amazon Ads, an agency that partners with best-selling authors to sell more copies and promote ideas that will change the world. He helps nonfiction authors who use their books to build their brand and generate leads.  At 21, Alex convinced 11 colleges to send his book to 40,000 students across the US — so it’s no surprise that he helps many authors get more visibility. Alex works from various countries around the world. A minimalist at heart, everything he owns fits into a backpack and duffel bag. In this episode… Have you ever wondered why some nonfiction books start to explode in sales over time compared to many others? We’ll let you in on a secret: it's because they are recommendable books. The first step to creating a recommendable book is writing a good book.  Unfortunately, that's easier said than done. Writing a good book is a more calculated process than people think. Additionally, to see great results, you have to clean up your Amazon listing page, avoid Amaz

Ben Glass is the Founder and CEO of BenGlassLaw, a personal injury, medical malpractice, and disability law firm. He has been a personal injury lawyer for over three decades. Ben is also the Founder of Great Legal Marketing, LLC, a marketing and consulting firm teaching "effective, ethical, and outside the box marketing" to attorneys.  He’s the author of several books including The Truth About Lawyer Advertising, Five Deadly Sins That Can Wreck Your Injury Claim, and more. When Ben isn’t working, he’s a full-time father of nine children, four adopted from China.  He's also a small business advocate, nonprofit charity supporter, and soccer referee. Before becoming a referee, he was so good at playing soccer that he won a scholarship for all his troubles on the soccer pitch. In this episode… If you’ve built a business for any number of years, you know exactly how hard it is to keep the wheels spinning. Imagine building a law firm for over three decades while spending half your time teaching other lawyers how to

Guillaume Le Tual Is a multimedia technologist with a career spanning 15 years. Earlier in his career, he worked as a professional visual artist for clients such as Volkswagen, Discovery Channel, The National Bank of Canada, and Warner Bros.  He gained experience working in web design and digital marketing, and his expertise in the Magento e-commerce platform led him to start his own company, MageMontreal, an agency that works exclusively on the Magento platform to build e-commerce websites. Guillaume is also the Host of the Ecommerce Wizards Podcast.  In this episode… If you’re an e-commerce entrepreneur, you know how important it is to have your website, irrespective of the number of marketplaces you’re on. But the problem is that many e-commerce business owners struggle to sell websites.  Do you have enough traffic? Does that traffic convert? Does your product have proper product-market fit, and how efficient is your operation? When you answer these questions, you realize that you can turn your website int

Lyn Wineman is a marketing veteran with over 30 years of experience, and her award-winning work has helped many national, regional, and local organizations achieve their goals.  Lyn is the President and Chief Strategist at KidGlov, a boutique advertising agency. She leads a diverse team of passionate and talented professionals to drive growth through strategic branding and marketing communications. KidGlov has been recognized multiple times as one of Lincoln, Nebraska's best places to work. It recently completed its B Corp certification. Before KidGlov, Lyn held many key leadership roles, including the President of Pickering Creative Group, Senior Vice President of Swanson Russell Associates, and Marketing Director of Tabitha.  In this episode… Since the reopening of businesses after the pandemic’s lockdown, brands are seeing that consumers and employees are more interested in aligning with companies that are making a positive impact in the world. But a positive impact doesn’t mean your business has to give a

Shannon Hansen is the Owner of Lightfoot Media, a business he founded in 1995. Lightfoot Media is a full-service internet marketing agency focused on providing innovative ways to keep clients ahead of the competition. Shannon started his entrepreneurial journey at 21 while in college, where he created his first business that helped see him through college. Although Lightfoot Media is successful now, it has been a topsy turvy journey and was bankrupt for six years. After multiple iterations, Shannon’s figured it out, and his business has expanded rapidly, taking advantage of bigger and better opportunities. In this episode… The death or growth of any business depends on partnerships, employee recruitment, and retention. Without a system to continuously hire and retain A+ people in your company, you lose business and partnerships that could take you to the next level. The good news is that there’s a system that works to help you develop powerful partnerships and hire great people. It’s the CRMPPS (coachable, re

Matt Fraser is America's top psychic medium. He's also the star of the reality TV series Meet the Frasers on E! Entertainment. His sold-out live events, television appearances, and spiritual teachings have allowed him to bring healing, hope, and laughter to people all around the world. He's the Author of When Heaven Calls and We Never Die: Secrets of the Afterlife. Currently, he's on a nationwide live event tour throughout major cities. In this episode… The most challenging part of being a business owner is having so much self-doubt. We have so many limiting thoughts and limiting self-beliefs, and we're afraid to take that next risk or that next chance. When we’re scared of listening to ourselves, we miss out on trusting our intuition and psychic voice. When everybody around might be saying that your dream is not a good idea, that's when your intuition kicks in. It is that one voice inside that tells you it will. And when you listen to it, you can suddenly have these breakthroughs that nobody else has. Sadly,