Tom Rubens- In the 40 years since he graduated from the University of Illinois, Tom Rubens has bought, sold, and managed businesses in a variety of different fields. He founded a commodity trading company, a real estate brokerage, and assembled investment groups to buy minor league baseball and basketball franchises. After selling his last business,
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Caroline McCullough Caroline McCullough is an award-winning copywriter, content strategist, founder of tech startup Writally and a digital marketer with more than 25 years experience in marketing and communications. She’s an Amazon bestselling author of Your Brilliant Un-Career: Women, Entrepreneurship and Making the Leap, Magnetic Marketing and her upcoming book Possible. Her work has been
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Suzanne Duncan- Suzanne is an accredited mindset and behavioural coach and an author. Suzanne has trained in Meta Dynamics™ and Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP). She uses various coaching, profiling and team building tools. She has an Honors Degree in Science, a Graduate Diploma of Education, and a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment. Her inspiration
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About Anthony MaggioAnthony Maggio is the Executive Creative Director at Cuneo Advertising, located in Bloomington, Minnesota. With a mission to help grow the very agency where his career began, Anthony brings years of expertise and creativity to the table… …Throughout his career, Anthony has contributed to several top-tier agencies, including Catapult Marketing, Epsilon Agency, and
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Jenny Fenig- Jenny Fenig, creator of the Get Gutsy movement, is a mentor to spiritually-driven coaches, healers and creatives saying YES to building powerhouse businesses online. The sacred mission of Jenny’s courses, best-selling book, podcast, and coach certification school is: how to touch more lives with your message and cash in on your calling.® After
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Stephanie O’Dea- Stephanie O’Dea made a New Year’s Resolution to use her slow cooker every single day and write about it online. This simple idea resulted in a highly-trafficked website, a published how-to guide for busy moms, and three cookbooks, one of which spent six weeks on the New York Times best-sellers list. Stephanie has
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About Jacia KornwiseJacia Kornwise is a leader in transformative healing through intuitive somatic coaching, movement therapy, and mind-body integration. With over 30 years of experience, she empowers individuals to release stress, trauma, and self-sabotage, guiding them toward resilience, joy, and deep self-connection… …Jacia holds dual Master’s degrees in Counseling & Psychology and Coaching, along with
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Kevin Young- Kevin Young spent 35 years in the computer and technology field, writing software for the microchips that go inside cars and trucks and then moving into IT, servers and networks. Although technology has always been my mainstay, I’ve also always had an interest in motivational and inspirational materials. My life dream has been
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About Courageous FireCourageous Fire, a Black woman, realized at 48 she had endured 13+ years of abuse. As she distanced herself and her daughters from the abuser, she uncovered a lifetime of abusive situations even tracing back through her family lineage… …Determined to find solutions, she started a social enterprise and a nonprofit to provide
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Bhomik Saini- From getting bullied, to professional tennis, to working to start a movement, Bhomik Saini shares his story from India to Iowa and beyond, and how mindset is so important to success in any stage of life or pursuit. Bhomik Saini is a student at Iowa State University I met in Brandon T. Adams’ first accelerator.
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About Lea StorryLea Storry is a writer who owns a writing, editing and publishing business in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. She can’t escape her last name and as a child, was often teased and asked to “tell a story” or simply called “Storrybook.” Lea is a published and indie published author of books for children,… …short
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About Anna McAfeeAnna McAfee is a Community Educator, LinkedIn™ Trainer and Author. She co-founded the #LinkedInLocal movement, an initiative to connect offline in real life that spread to 90+ countries in 22 months… …Anna helps people and brands looking to create and scale their own communities and build better and more authentic connections and spaces
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