ROAD TO GROWTH : Success as an Entrepreneur

Jeff Wilkinson - Founder of Keystone Bank

In this episode of the Road to Growth podcast, we are pleased to introduce you to Jeff Wilkinson. Jeff is a longtime Austin entrepreneur, currently serving as the chairman and CEO of Keystone Bank. With his personal and unique human-centric approach to banking, Jeff leads Keystone Bank to focus on integrity, honesty and resilience. Jeff has over 28 years of experience in the financial and business industries with a focus on finance and business development. He has led various organizations in their expansion of locations and increased their assets. 
Previously, he founded Pioneer Bank in Austin. Under his leadership as the CEO and president, he managed to grow the banks’ assets to $1.2 billion and expanded to 22 locations across Texas. During this time, Pioneer Bank was ranked as one of the largest local banks headquartered in Austin by the Austin Business Journal. 
In 2018, Jeff founded Keystone Bank with a successful capital raise of $20 million. He founded Keystone Bank with a maverick and entrepreneurial approach to local banking that ultimately allows for easily accessible financial resources to its community members. With its easy access to financial guidance, Jeff prides himself on being an active listener and problem solver to best tailor the bank’s services to every client. Jeff holds a Bachelor of Science in accounting from the University of Central Missouri.
He resides in Austin where he serves on multiple nonprofit organizations such as: the Austin Habitat for Humanity Finance Committee, the Board of Trails Property Owners’ Association and on the Advisory Board for Qualtik.
 
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Website: https://www.keystone.bank/
 
 
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Corey Robinson - Founder of Journey Real Estate

In this episode of the Road to Growth podcast, we are pleased to introduce you to Corey Robinson. Once you meet Corey , it’s easy to see why he’s a real estate agent par excellence. He may be a top producer, but it’s Corey’s compassion, authenticity, and down-to-earth demeanor that surpass any of his record-breaking transactions. Corey’s dedication to his clients has earned him several notable achievements, including Nextdoor’s Neighborhood Favorite Agent, solid five-star Zillow reviews, a Top Agent Network membership, and more than $24 million in transaction volume in 2020 alone.
Born and raised in Aspen, Colorado, much of Corey’s childhood centered around school sports, enjoying the outdoors, and helping out in the family restaurant, which formed the backbone of his unstoppable work ethic. After earning a degree in psychology and business from the University of Colorado, Corey managed a real estate trust in San Diego, which led him to found a restaurant and sports bar that still thrives today in the hands of his former business partner.
Corey has been a licensed California agent since 2006 and has been serving the Bay Area since 2013, when he moved with his wife, Annie, to her hometown in Marin. He started his North Bay Area real estate career as the director of marketing for Marin’s No. 1 agent, where he continually went above and beyond his role, including helping to facilitate more than $100M in transactions in his first year. Corey struck out on his own in 2014 and quickly grew his client base, winning Rising Star and Top Producer awards at Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty before establishing Journey Real Estate in 2021.
Even outside real estate, service runs in Corey’s blood, and he’s committed to helping others whenever he has the opportunity. For several years, he has donated a portion of every commission to Giveback Homes, which organizes housing projects both locally and abroad. (Corey has even hammered a few nails himself for the organization.) He also supports his children’s school, local businesses, and people in need. Sports are still a huge part of Corey’s life, and you’ll often find him hiking and biking throughout Marin, skiing in the mountains, playing in competitive sports leagues, and coaching his daughters’ soccer teams. But above all, Corey is devoted to his family — Annie and their two daughters, Bailey and Charley.
 
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/north.bay.all.day/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/journey.real.estate/
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Lucas Caneda - Professional Rugby Player and Entrepreneur

In this episode of the Road to Growth podcast, we are pleased to introduce you to Lucas Caneda. Lucas played in Aix en Provence at the Pro D2 level from 2015 – 2017, then in Angouleme (SAXV) from 2017-2019. After a short stint in Mazamet, he decided to joint Sarlat Rugby, a club with a long history (founded in 1903) where he plays as Team Captain and winger today.
It was in Sarlat where Lucas met Dom Einhorn, the Founder and CEO of the UNIQORN incubator-accelerator and president of the Sarlat Rugby Team. He immediately integrated the incubator's Rugby+ program where he now works as a team leader for both the incubator as well as for one of its startups, FORMATION.GG, an up-and-coming platform dedicated to eSports.
A student of engineering, management and economics, self-taught in nutrition and fitness, Lucas has always had a very keen interest in business and entrepreneurship.
Born in 1990 and hailing from Argentina, Lucas Martin Caneda grew up as a die-hard rugby starting at the tender age of 5. Lucas played center and #9 (scrum-half) till the age of 19 before he moved up to the senior team where he started to play wing. It all began at Club de Rugby Pueyrredón, Lucas' home club. In 2013, Lucas joins the Buenos Aires 7s and wins the Argentinian championship with his team. In 2014, he suffered what many though would be a career- ending knee injury.
Few players before him have returned to the pitch post-surgery. Yet, not only did he return to grandiose form, he was selected in the Buenos Aires XV squad in 2015 and won the Argentinian championship with his team. It was in same year of 2015 that Lucas moved to France, with the intent to pursue his lifelong dream of becoming a professional rugby player. This was a significant accomplishment for an athlete who was told - at an early age - that he had no shot at pro rugby due to his height (1m75; 5'7).
 
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Liz Kislik - Management Consultant and Executive Coach

In this episode of the Road to Growth podcast, we are pleased to introduce you to Liz Kislik. Liz is a management consultant and executive coach, and a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review and Forbes. Her TEDx “Why There’s So Much Conflict at Work and What You Can Do to Fix It” has received more than a quarter of a million views. She specializes in developing high performing leaders and workforces, and for 30 years has helped family-run businesses, national nonprofits, and Fortune 500 companies like American Express, Girl Scouts, Staples, Janssen Pharmaceuticals and Highlights for Children solve their thorniest problems.
Liz’s work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal’s Morning Download, the Washington Post’s Work Advice column, Business Insider, and Bloomberg Businessweek as well as in Entrepreneur, the European Financial Review, and the Forward. She is a member of Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches initiative, which brings together the world’s top coaches and thinkers, and has taught at Hofstra University and New York University.
 
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Website: https://lizkislik.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizkislik/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LizKislik
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Paul Ross - Master Hypnotist, and Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming

In this episode of the Road to Growth podcast, we are pleased to introduce you to Paul Ross. Paul is an author, speaker, trainer, Master Hypnotist, and Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. For the past 30 years, he’s taught tens of thousands of people the power of language to persuade, sell, heal, turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones, and pain into passion. Paul’s speeches and training have motivated audiences around the world to discover their power to design their own results.
 
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Website: www.SpeakerPaulRoss.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-ross-b43a963/
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Aidan Sowa - Founder and CEO of Sowa Marketing Agency

In this episode of the Road to Growth podcast, we are pleased to introduce you to Aidan Sowa. Aidan is a entrepreneur who got into the digital marketing space in 2016 due to working with the MIT Enterprise Forum Cambridge. Aidan is now the founder and CEO of Sowa Marketing Agency. Sowa Marketing Agency is a Rhode Island company that specializes in helping entrepreneurs get featured in the media, guaranteed. Aidan believes all entrepreneurs should focus on building their brand as they either have the choice to differentiate themselves from their competition or die as a commodity. 
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Nicole Jansen - Transformational Leadership Coach & Podcast Host

In this episode of the Road to Growth podcast, we are pleased to introduce you to Nicole Janse. Nicole grew up in an entrepreneurial household and by her mid-twenties had helped build an 8-figure family business that spanned nearly a dozen countries. Having also launched her own successful venture at sixteen years old, Nicole quickly attracted attention from business leaders eager to know her secret to maximizing productivity and human potential.
After experiencing more than her fair share of unethical and unjust business practices over her 30-year career, Nicole decided that while teaching others how to build effective business systems and play to their strengths is valuable and rewarding, the most important factor that determines success is leadership. Now Nicole mainly focuses on helping leaders at the highest levels shift their perspective and solve complex issues, with the aim of creating a more just and prosperous world for everyone.
 
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Douglass and Lisa-Marie Hatcher - Co-founders of Communicate4IMPACT

In this episode of the Road to Growth podcast, we are pleased to introduce you to Douglass and Lisa-Marie Hatcher. Douglass and Lisa-Marie are co-founders of communicate4IMPACT, a business storytelling training firm just north of New York City. Prior to co-founding their firm…
Douglass led thought leadership and executive communications at Mastercard in Purchase, New York. Prior to Mastercard, he spent two decades in Washington, DC, working on Capitol Hill in senior positions in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
Lisa-Marie worked in various roles in both the public and private sectors as well. Those roles ranged from working for the Comptroller of the Army at the Pentagon to managing global accounts for American Express to growing sales for two pharmaceutical companies.
 
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Shaahin Cheyene - The Amazon Accelerator

In this episode of the Road to Growth podcast, we are pleased to introduce you to Shaahin Cheyene. Shaahin is one of the world's top Amazon consultants, an award winning business mogul, author and filmmaker based in Los Angeles, California. Shaahin is currently the founder of a brain nutrition startup Accelerated Intelligence where he is positioning the enterprise to be the forerunner in the brain nutrition supplements market.
Shaahin is the quintessential American success story. Born in Tehran, Iran in 1975, his family immigrated to America in 1980, during the tumultuous Islamic Revolution. As a young boy, Shaahin knew he was destined for entrepreneurship. Cheyene’s passion progressed into several booming small businesses, including a bicycle repair service. He read financial magazines voraciously and gleaned inspiration from the works of Dale Carnegie and Napoleon Hill. As a teenager in the 1990’s he jump started his career by inciting and leading the “Smart Drug Movement” with his invention of Herbal Ecstacy, an energizing, herbal supplement designed to stimulate the body. With Herbal Ecstacy, Shaahin founded his first business venture, Global World Media (no longer in operation), a maker of legal intoxicants. He learned early in his career about guerilla branding and he still uses it to sell his products today.
Shaahin has invented over 200 award-­winning products, selling millions of units worldwide. After pioneering the breakthrough formulation for Herbal Ecstacy, he expanded his company’s offerings with Ecstacy Cigarettes, an herbal alternative to tobacco that many have used to quit smoking. It went on to become the most successful herbal cigarette in the world. Branded the “Willy Wonka of Generation X” Shaahin has been likened to such divergent entrepreneurs as Bill Gates and P.T. Barnum. In the early 2000’s, Shaahin's career naturally evolved and matured. He began to work with several major pharmaceutical companies to broadcast the technologies and benefits of herbal medicines to the mainstream. In this process Shaahin was responsible for proliferation of several plant medicines now used in popular naturopathic health regimens.
In 2000 Shaahin invented, patented and developed a revolutionary new medicine delivery technology dubbed the Vapir Vaporizer. His invention quickly spearheaded the then burgeoning vaporization industry. He also authored the definitive book on the science of Vaporization, Vapor: The Art and Science of Inhaling Pure Plant Essences. Shaahin prepared Vapir for the public markets but subsequently sold the invention to a private investment group in Silicon Valley in 2006. The Vapir Vaporizer sales are still in the millions worldwide. Shaahin credits the creation of his top selling health supplement Excelerol to his career long love of naturopathic herbal remedies. He remains true to his goals to nurture and help improve the health of the masses with herbal alternatives to harsh chemicals.
 
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Ash Cintas - Founder of City Shoppe #buyLocal #onlinePurchase #Website

In this episode of the Road to Growth podcast, we are pleased to introduce you to Ash Cintas. Ash, is the founder of City Shoppe, and an expert on small business trends. She is also a former small business owner with a passion for startups and growing small businesses. Growing up in a diverse entrepreneurial family (microprocessors, fishing, retail, Olympics, and Hot Dog on a Stick), Ashley learned about running a business and creating products early. Spending her weekends counting inventory and exploring trade show floors since the age of 7. While in college at UCLA, she decided to start her first business based on a need for the yoga industry. Soon after graduation, she pursued it full time, managing overseas manufacturing, local sewing, patents, and bringing a new invention to market. She experienced firsthand and grew frustrated with the impact tech giants control over our purchasing and the human, economic, and environmental cost of that control. She is now dedicated to helping small businesses and retail survive with her new venture, City Shoppe, solving two problems that all local SMBs face - for free.
 
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