ROAD TO GROWTH : Success as an Entrepreneur

Cathy Derksen - Wealth and Success Coach

In this episode of the Road to Growth podcast, we are pleased to introduce you to Cathy Derksen . Cathy is a wealth and success coach as well as a 4x best-selling author and international speaker. Her career is dedicated to helping women tap into their own greatness. She believes that we owe it to ourselves and each other to create lives that fill us with genuine joy. Cathy’s mission is to create a cycle of wealth and success among women around the world.
Over the past ten years, Cathy have been on a journey of personal growth and evolution. She has completely reinvented my life in order to remove myself and my family from a very toxic situation, including an abusive marriage, and taken herself through two complete career transformations. Making these huge changes in her life took courage and years of determination.
Ten years ago, Cathy transformed her career from working as a lab technologist in Medical Genetics into financial planning so that she could focus her energy on helping others in a more direct manner. After digging deeper into her innate drive to be of service, she has added another level to her connection within her community. She left the safety of her corporate job to focus on her business. Inspired Tenacity was born from Cathy’s desire to make life-changing tools and strategies accessible to women everywhere. Whether you’re facing major personal milestones, levelling up your finances or exploring a new career, these programs are designed to teach you how to navigate big shifts with confidence.
 
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Website: https://inspiredtenacity.com/
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Nancy Lockhart - Founder of Coaching with Kindness

In this episode of the Road to Growth podcast, we are pleased to introduce you to Nancy Lockhart. Nancy is the founder of Coaching with Kindness and the Marketing Makeover Masterclass.
Nancy leverages her 20 years of experience creating iconic healthcare brands such as Blue Cross Blue Shield, Kaiser Permanente, Medtronic and Herbalife with Law of Attraction life coaching to help woman business owners to brand and market themselves in order to attract clients, increase profits and experience renewed life purpose.
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nalockhart/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lockhart.nancy
Twitter: https://twitter.com/NancyALockhart
Clubhouse: nalock
Website: https://kindnessconnection.now.site/home
 
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Mike Smerklo - Co-Founder and Managing Director of Next Coast Ventures

    In this episode of the Road to Growth podcast, we are pleased to introduce you to Mike Smerklo. Mike is an experienced entrepreneur, investor and business leader driven by the desire to turn ideas into reality. Having bought and scaled a small business into a publicly traded company worth nearly a billion dollars in value, he has a deep understanding of the hard work, dedication and grit that truly powers successful entrepreneurship. Today, as the co-founder and managing director of Next Coast Ventures, Smerklo is a champion for a new generation of entrepreneurs building disruptive companies in big markets. His new book, Mr. Monkey and Me (Scribe Media, Nov. 17, 2020), is a “real talk” guide for entrepreneurs who want to cut through the noise to cultivate a mindset that supports greatness.
     Mike grew up in a blue-collar family outside of Toledo, Ohio, with dreams of achieving something more with his life. After working his way through college to earn an accounting degree and moving to Chicago to launch his CPA career, he eventually talked his way into a junior analyst gig with the Wall Street investment bank Lehman Brothers. While he hated the job, surviving two years of hellish 100-hour workweeks and countless spreadsheets (so many spreadsheets) gave Mike a solid understanding of finance and company building. He went on to earn an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and experienced the Silicon Valley dot-com boom as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley.
   Mike was recruited by legendary entrepreneurs Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz as one of the first employees of their new startup, Loudcloud. Here, he learned from the very best about what it takes to grow a company from an idea through an initial public offering. Mike began his own entrepreneurship journey in 2003, purchasing ServiceSource, a 30-person technology services startup in San Francisco. As CEO over the next 12 years, he grew the business into a successful 3,000-person publicly traded company with close to $300M in revenue.
     In Mr. Monkey and Me, Mike draws on his broad range of experiences and mistakes as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist. Using lessons he learned from renowned entrepreneurs, he developed the SHAPE formula -- Self, Help, Authenticity, Persistence and Expectations -- which gives readers an actionable approach to mental toughness that will help any entrepreneur start, grow and run a successful business. An anti-memoir, Mr. Monkey and Me features practical tools and the “other stuff” you don’t normally learn in classrooms or business books, such as the mental hurdles you have to overcome, the risks you have to take and the sacrifices and mistakes you’ll make to become a successful entrepreneur.
    He has developed a new perspective on entrepreneurship at the helm of the Austin-based firm Next Coast Ventures, which has backed more than 40 companies across two funds to help startup founders achieve their goals. Mike and his wife spend the bulk of their free time chasing their four children. 
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Terry Boyle McDougall - Best-selling Author

In this episode of the Road to Growth podcast, we are pleased to introduce you to Terry Boyle McDougall. Terry is an executive coach, speaker and best-selling author of Winning the Game of Work: Career Happiness and Success on Your Own Terms. She works with managers, executives and professionals who want to draw upon their greatest, most authentic abilities to positively impact their organizations. She supports clients who are creating change, driving innovation, and navigating transitions.
 
Terry relies on both her formal training as a coach and firsthand experience as a corporate leader to support her clients as they work towards their goals. In coaching engagements, Terry serves her clients as a partner and encourager as they break new ground; as a sounding board, supporting them as an objective listener; as a scout, who sees the larger context, their possibilities and potential; and, as a catalyst, helping to spark their commitment and action. After 30 years of corporate business experience, 15 of which were in senior managerial roles, Terry chose to become a coach to concentrate on helping leaders step fully into their potential to lead satisfying careers. Though the majority of Terry’s professional experience is in financial services and marketing, her work exposed her to a wide variety of industries, business climates and corporate transitions such as mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and restructures.
 
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Website: https://www.terrybmcdougall.com
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/terrybmcdougall
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/terrybmcdougall
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/i_am_coach_terry
Book: https://www.tinyurl.com/gameofworkbook
Podcast: https://www.marketingmambo.net
 
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Clinton Young - Globally Renowned Speaker

In this episode of the Road to Growth podcast, we are pleased to introduce you to Clinton Young. Clinton is a Globally Renowned Speaker and Mentor specializing in helping growth-seekers overcome failure, fear, and doubt. His work enables the courage and confidence to unlock your God given potential.
As an Award Winning International Keynote Speaker, Clinton has been recognized by Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global as a “Top 12 Speaker to Inspire You”. He has recently spoken to over 50,000 people across North America and Europe. An experience of failure in 2008 shattered his confidence but awakened his soul. It set him on a spiritual path that led him to his purpose of “Re-Igniting the Human Spirit”. With a vision of causing a global tipping point in possibility consciousness by 2030, Clinton is on a mission to empower and equip an Army of 1,000 Purpose Driven Entrepreneurs and Influencers to grow their Impact, Influence, and Income by becoming World Class Speakers!
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ClintonSpeaks/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/clintonspeaks/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/clintonayoung
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MrClintonYoung
 
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Lorna Watkinson - Founder & CEO of Vibrant Thinking #virtual

In this episode of the Road to Growth podcast, we are pleased to introduce you to Lorna Watkinson. Prior to setting up her business, Lorna Watkinson worked at Procter and Gamble for nearly 20 years. She was based in Newcastle but worked with teams in London and Geneva so understands the challenges (and benefits) of a hybrid team working. In this new virtual and hybrid world of working this skill has never been more important as zoom fatigue becomes a reality and people's days are filled with back-to-back virtual meetings leaving no time to get the actual work done. Lorna also works with individuals, teams, and organizations that want to become more effective in this new world.
Lorna experienced how easily miscommunication can cause disruption but she has also experienced how it is possible to build very strong working relationships with people she never meets. She’s also passionate about using creativity to overcome challenges and she uses pottery painting as a tool in her workshops. You don’t need to see pottery painting as art or requiring artistic ability: it’s a vehicle for facilitating creative thinking to overcome challenges, with the added benefit of being a rewarding and absorbing activity for everyone.
 
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on Website: https://www.facebook.com/VibrantThinkingUK
on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lornawatkinsonvibrantthinking/
on Twitter: https://twitter.com/VibrantThinkUk
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Elizabeth Dodson - Co-Founder HomeZada

In this episode of the Road to Growth podcast, we are pleased to introduce you to Elizabeth Dodson. Elizabeth started her career in technology after securing an MBA from Loyola University of Maryland back in the early nineties. She climbed the career ladder at an early-stage Start-Up in the commercial construction technology industry to Director of Business Development and demonstrated success driving multi-million dollar sales growth while providing award-winning sales leadership. After a personal challenge managing her home, Elizabeth decided to build the very solution she needed to save money, save time, and reduce her stress. Now she is the Co-Founder of HomeZada, an online and mobile home management portal that helps homeowners manage their homes to save time and money and reduce stress. Specifically, HomeZada educates homeowners in the areas of home management, inventory, maintenance, remodeling projects, and finances. Elizabeth also offers her experience as an active mentor in programs offered by Stevenson and Loyola Universities and American Corporate Partners.
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on Website: https://www.homezada.com/
on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edodson/
 
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Simona Spilak - Executive Coach #Mindset #Growth

In this episode of the Road to Growth podcast, we are pleased to introduce you to Simona Spilak. Simona is an executive coach to world-class leaders who need a coach and confidant to help them successfully navigate their world of responsibilities, opportunities and high stakes decision making.
She has more than 20 years’ experience working in the corporate world at a senior level and began her own entrepreneurial journey in 2016. Now she spends her time running an executive search firm in the CEE region and providing executive coaching services to C-suite leaders and executives, a business which she built from scratch.
Her insights on how top leaders can navigate their careers and the far-reaching consequences of their decisions - at work and at home - have been featured in various business magazines and podcasts for leaders and entrepreneurs. Simona helps powerful business leaders and executives make a big impact in both their organization and community, without compromising their personal values or their confidentiality.
In addition to two decades of corporate and entrepreneurial business experience, Simona holds a Masters of Science in Economics and is an Erickson Coaching International certified coach, a Saville Assessment® certified coach using Saville performance profiling tools and a Process Communication Model certified coach for PCM personality profiling. For the last 15 years, Simona has been a guest lecturer on the International Business course at the School of Economics and Business, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. She is also a steering committee member for the International Business MBA at the University of Ljubljana, School of Economics and Business.
When she's not helping her clients and guarding their secrets, you'll find her living in Ljubljana, Slovenia, with her long-term partner. She is a passionate traveler and loves the color black. She enjoys watching old classic movies, and her favorite director is Alfred Hitchcock. She is also a big fan and supporter of local jewelry makers and buys the majority of her clothes from boutique shops. She coaches and mentors clients in five different languages – English, Slovene, Serbian, Croatian and German.
 
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on Website: https://www.simonaspilak.com/
on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonaspilak/
on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/simonaspilak/
on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvztWFSrBItltFNAkqPzWJA
on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vibrant_thinking/
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Jessica Jones - Host of Pivot to Growth #entrepreneur

In this episode of the Road to Growth podcast, we are pleased to introduce you to Jessica Jones. Jessica is a born entrepreneur, having started her first venture at age nine selling bouquets of picked dandelions to willing customers. Since then, she’s graduated to selling millions of dollars in ad sales, and she’s played an integral role in helping several businesses grow from start-up to in excess of $15 million in sales each.
Her drive and excitement for entrepreneurship has never wavered. Having assisted her clients in reaching millionaire status using her unique ability to create a lead generation strategy while consulting on the organizational structure and function of the company, Jessica knows what it takes to achieve financial and growth goals for her clients all while enjoying the ever-important work/life balance.
Her award-winning work as a serial entrepreneur, having started, scaled, and sold several businesses of her own, an advertising agency owner, and as the primary breadwinner for her family have prepared Jessica to be the greatest guide and accountability “partner” you could have in your business. Jessica has more than 25 years of experience as both an entrepreneur (leading teams of hundreds) and in the corporate world and a master’s degree in communications with a focus on conflict management.
She lives in the Philadelphia area with her husband, a skateboarding legend, and their two sons, who also excel in extreme sports and are budding entrepreneurs. When she’s not working, you can find her participating in various outdoor activities with her family and friends (preferably in Vermont). At Pivot To Growth, she is committed to helping her clients create the life they want so they can stop feeling left behind.
 
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on Website: https://www.pivottogrowth.com/
on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com//PivotToGrowth
on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pivot-to-growth/
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Spencer Snakard - Executive Transformation Coach, Trainer, and Speaker

In this episode of the Road to Growth podcast, we are pleased to introduce you to Spencer Snakard. Spencer is an Executive Transformation Coach, Trainer, and Speaker. She works with Visionary Entrepreneurs & Transformational Leaders who are on a mission to make major impact, helping them to break through barriers to their next level of success while loving life every step of the way ... and without giving up what matters most to them.
 
She has trained & coached in personal & professional development for nearly 25 years. Her transformative programs cause profound & lasting shifts in participants' lives by getting to the heart of what drives us, what holds us back, and what it takes to be truly fulfilled as spiritual beings having a human experience. Spencer has a degree in Psychology and extensive training & leadership in Ontology. She is a Professional Certified Coach, a Success Principles trainer, and a Yoga instructor, and brings a sense of play and humor into all of her work.
 
Spencer has been married to the love of her life for 6 years. They are a combined family with 5 children, ages 13-25, and love spending summers together on the rocky coast of Maine.
 
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on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpencerSnakard
on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM4_wtQgP5TKcaN3WQ62nrA
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