Erin Ward is one of the top female Benefit Auction Specialist (BAS) in the country and the founder of Star Benefit Auctions and co-founder of Inspire Hearts Fundraising. She is a third generation auctioneer from New York.
Erin is a graduate of the Certified Auctioneers Institute (CAI), the most highly respected education designation in the auction industry, and less than 5% of auctioneers nationwide have achieved this status.
Erin regularly shares the stage with celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg, Bon Jovi, Hozier, Florence Henderson, Melissa Joan Hart and Terri Hatcher. Annually, Erin raises millions of dollars for nonprofits.
Honorée Corder is the author of dozens of best selling books.
She is also Hal Elrod’s business partner in The Miracle Morning book series, and together they’ve published fourteen titles to date.
Honorée coaches business professionals, writers, and aspiring non-fiction authors who want to publish their books to bestseller status, create a platform, and develop multiple streams of income. She also does all sorts of other magical things, and her bad-assery is legendary.
Nick Santonastasso is constantly defying the odds. Despite being born with no legs and one arm, Nick is a bodybuilder, internationally known public speaker and internet sensation.
Now, Nick is sharing his experience with people all over the world. He is using his challenges to inspire others to push beyond their suffering and live a life that has NO LIMITS. Nick already helped to inspire GIANTS in today's world, such as "The Rock", Tony Robbins, Gary Vaynerchuk.
Gian Marco Palazio is the president of Central America Safety Company, Central America’s leading distributor of specialized industrial safety and rescue equipment.
In addition, He is the President of Café Las Flores, Nicaragua’s finest coffee company.
As well as a large presence in real estate development
Gian Marco is an active member of Entrepreneur’s Organization (EO) and founding member of the Young President’s Organization (YPO) Nicaragua Chapter.
His book… LEGACY: How Leaders Transcend the Past, Balance the Present and Serve for Generations … is releasing this September
Don Yaeger is a nationally acclaimed inspirational speaker, longtime former Associate Editor of Sports Illustrated, and author of over 30 books, eleven of which have become New York Times Best-sellers.
Don spends his time speaking internationally on how to stay productive at work, be a better work teammate, or how to reach those long-awaited career and life goals.
Fabio Marrama is considered one of the top up-and-coming business and marketing professionals in Southern Ontario, Canada. He's a speaker, Top 40 Under 40 Business Achievement Award Winner, Brand Strategist and LinkedIn Video Content Creator with over 5 million post views.
Fabio and has been mentioned in top publications like Forbes and TheSpec and has interviewed top influencers like Jay Shetty, Manu Goswami, and more.
CEO of Assistagram.us + Professional Dancer, Zach Benson is an entrepreneur, hustler and world traveler. Zach also was a round 4 finalist on the hit TV show "So You Think You Can Dance.
He specializes in creating Instagram campaigns reaching millions. His philosophy in life is to encourage others to reach their potential through the arts and social media.
Zach is all about becoming the best version of himself and making people & companies better.
Lena Elkins is the CEO of Lena Elkins Coaching, a white-glove consultancy for top-performing coaches, consultants and service providers internationally. She is also a member of the Forbes Coaches Council, and Host of the Facebook group, Millennial Go-Getters.
Lena takes a no-BS approach to breaking through major barriers and reaching accelerated success for her clients.
Lena has been featured in over 100 media outlets worldwide including Forbes, Entrepreneur, Success Magazine, MindBodyGreen, and Foundr.
An Emmy Award-Winning Director and Producer, Nick Nanton, produces media and branded content for top thought leaders and media personalities around the world.
Recognized as a leading expert on branding and storytelling, Nick has authored more than two dozen Best-Selling books and produced and directed more than 40 documentaries, earning 5 Emmy wins and 14 nominations.
Nick speaks to audiences internationally on the topics of branding, entertainment, media, business and storytelling at major universities and events.
Andy Frisella is CEO of one of the world’s leading nutritional supplement companies, 1st Phorm International, he founded and runs five other businesses that collectively generate 200M+ in annual revenue: Supplement Superstores, Alpine Sports Products, Carbon Fire Nutrition, Paradise Distribution, and 44Seven Media.
He's also the host of a business/success oriented podcast, The MFCEO Project, which is a top 50 podcast (in the world...not just business) that gets millions of listeners every month.
He was identified as Entrepreneur of the Year in 2016 and has been featured in Forbes, INC, and Entrepreneur Magazine as well as many other honorable publications.
Dr. Chris Zaino is a world-renowned speaker, author, entrepreneur, Former Mr America, Mr. Universe and IFBB Pro bodybuilder.
After defying a deadly terminal disease in his late 20's, Dr. Zaino leveraged his experience to get his doctorate and becoming one of the largest wellness clinics in the world, seeing thousands weekly.
Dr. Zaino created the “IAmHeroProject”,to resurrect Heroes from the complacency of their secret identity, so they may live heroic lives once again , by expressing and experiencing true love, now, in every area of their lives, through his 4 Step methodology “HeroRises”.
After achieving 6 presidents clubs in sales (one selling Kirby vacuums door to door generating 90,000 in sales and $10,000 in commissions, and 5 presidents clubs in gym sales selling a total 568 new accounts in 5 months.) Robb decided to take the next step his career.
After 6 months he hadn't sold anything and they told him they were going to have to let him go unless he sold at least $60,000 in Digital Marketing services that month. He closed $108,000
He struck out on his own, but his previous employer wasn't happy; he dropped those clients on December 23rd and started over in January.
By February he was able to re-scale back to $10,000 a month with a new client base.
After the highs and the lows, he's been able to fight through the adversity to Create a multi 6 figure a year business in 6 short months.
Chukky Okobi is an 8 year NFL Veteran, Super Bowl Champion, member of the Screen Actors’ Guild.
With NLP as well as his own life experience and learned lessons, Chukky helps you get out of your own way, overcome bad habits and thought patterns that do not serve your life agenda, and create your own custom-designed, fulfilling life.
Originally from California, he spent 22 years as an educator, principal, and university instructor. Azul’s love for travel and discovery led him to purge most of his possessions and create a location independent lifestyle and business with his husband. He is the Author of The Art of Apprenticeship: How to Hack Your Way Into Any Industry, Land a Kick-ass Mentor and Make a Killing Doing What You Love.
His TEDx has been viewed more than half a million times. He was the book coach for Pat Flynn of Smart Passive Income. Pat’s book, Will It Fly? became a Wall Street Journal Bestseller.
Azul is the host of the Born to Write Podcast and the Co-Founder of the Authors Writing Academy.
Shay Rowbottom is the COO of Margle Media, a fast growing Social Media Marketing & Advertisement start-up that specializes in Viral Video creation.
She’s a former singer turned digital entrepreneur and one of the top people to follow on Linkedin right now.
Margle has grow to 30+ employees, servicing large brands across the globe such as Petco and the Milwaukee Bucks, assisting in their digital marketing needs.
Devin Galaudet, as Editor-in-Chief of In The Know Traveler has visited 85 countries around the world. He is in the process of marrying his wife 100 times in 100 countries -- 20 times in 15 countries so far. He has appeared on FOX, NBC, Reinvention Radio, among others. His writing can be seen the Huffington Post, TravelAge West, Two Hawks Quarterly, the Citron Review, Turkish Airlines: Skylife Magazine and others.
Devin’s memoir, 10,000 Miles with my Dead Father’s Ashes, will be available in bookstores everywhere September 18, 2018, which answer the question, what do you do when you lose your father's ashes.
Dr. Kaplan is Board Certified with The American Board of Plastic Surgery. He completed his training in Microsurgery, Reconstructive Surgery, and Replant Surgery at NYU Medical Center in NYC.
He finished his plastic surgery training at UMDNJ in Newark, New Jersey. Prior to his training in Plastic & Reconstructive surgery, Dr. Kaplan practiced 5 years of General Surgery and was chief resident at the well-known, and accomplished Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan, NY.
Sydney Wong is the Founder and CEO of Ventur-X, a startup benchmarking platform that prepares and connects startups with investor funding. Inspired by a courageous and life altering experience in Silicon Valley, she bootstrapped her vision to help the startups of tomorrow.
Today, VenturX has over $200 million of investor funding to help give out to the most promising and prepared startups in the world.
Anthony Delgado is an American software developer and internet entrepreneur widely known as a professional hacker in the developer community.
Anthony Delgado has won numerous hackathons sponsored by Fortune 500 tech companies like Google, IBM, Intel, Facebook and Microsoft and hosted by organizations including Rutgers University, the New Jersey Institute of Technology, the AT&T Developer Summit in New York City.
Musician, speaker, entertainer, coach, all in the life of my next guest Cauveé [kaw-vay] the Inspiration Engineer®. Cauveé is featured in Huffington Post as the strategist to watch, recently gave a Tedx Talk called the Rise of the Inspiration Engineers® and serves to help you reach your full potential...
Cauveé is currently working on a College Tour to help spread his message that you can create your own lane.
In 2009, Miha had 4 companies go bankrupt overnight: landing him $5 million in debt.
Contemplating suicide to escape the pain as he looked over the balcony, he had a life saving AH-HA moment. He realized that failure was a normal part of life: admitting to himself that he failed and to recognize he needed to stop blaming others and circumstances. This was the turning point when he made a choice to learn from his failures so he could do things differently in the future and to help others.
Since then, he has climbed back to create a business and scaling it to 8 figures in less then a year. His life mission is to help people develop healthy relationship with failure. Especially entrepreneurs.
Ever Gonzalez is the Founder of OutlierHQ, a media and events company that provides resources to help entrepreneurs start, grow, and scale their businesses.
He is also the host of Outlier on Air, a daily podcast that interviews Founders, Disruptors, and Mavens.
Taylor Conroy is a meditating surfer obsessed with building businesses that make change. His first social enterprise, ‘Change Heroes’, mobilized people in 80 countries to fund and build 400 schools, water projects, libraries, girls scholarships, anti-sex trafficking work, and more for 200,000 people in developing nations.
He has lectured at Harvard, Princeton, NYU, Cornell, and the United Nations...
Now, he’s building a company focussed on helping people share their message with the world through landing TEDx talks.