Influencer Blueprint Show
The Influencer Blueprint Show interviews influencers and thought leaders about their journeys to becoming industry leaders. Each episode reveals the blueprint guests used to go from obscurity to building a massive social following. The show focuses on how these individuals educate and entertain their audiences. It is hosted by Ty Crandall.
Episodes
Matthew Pollard: How to Position Your Business for Funding and Growth
Matthew Pollard is an internationally recognized business strategist, speaker, and bestselling author known as "The Rapid Growth® Guy." As the Founder and CEO of Rapid Growth, LLC, he has helped over 3,500 businesses achieve rapid, sustainable growth by focusing on niche marketing, differentiation, and scalable sales systems. An introvert himself, Matthew developed powerful sales methodologies des
Cole Harmonson: How to Build, Fund and Scale a Financial Business for Sustainable Growth
Cole brings significant experience in commercial finance and factoring, with DARE having funded over $6 billion in receivables and built long-term relationships with thousands of businesses. Their focus on working capital, construction factoring, and lines of credit gives Cole a strong perspective on helping businesses manage cash flow and take on larger growth opportunities. He also has experienc
Mark Davidov: Choose the Right Business Funding to Access Capital, Manage Cash Flow and Grow
Mark founded Logic Advance in 2015 with the mission of helping small and mid-sized businesses access fast, flexible working capital. Under his leadership, the company has grown into a direct business funding provider offering financing from $5,000 to $1 million, with streamlined underwriting, rapid approvals, and same-day funding for qualified businesses. He represents a technology-enabled direct
Luke Hessler: How to Turn Your Reputation into Revenue and Your Brand into a Business Asset
Luke Hessler is a branding strategist, entrepreneur, and the founder of Ace Branding, where he helps businesses and personal brands stand out, scale their visibility, and create lasting impact in competitive markets. With a strong focus on digital presence and brand positioning, Luke specializes in helping entrepreneurs clarify their message, attract the right audience, and turn their brand into a
Eddie DeAngelis: How to Build a Business That's Ready to Grow
Eddie DeAngelis is a seasoned entrepreneur and business funding expert with more than 30 years of business experience. From his early days as a street vendor in Philadelphia to becoming the Founder and CEO of QualiFi, Eddie has built a career centered on helping entrepreneurs achieve growth and success. Through QualiFi, Eddie works closely with business owners to provide customized financing solut
Jason Blumer: How to Build a Business That Works Without You and Becomes Truly Valuable
Jason Blumer is the Founder and CEO of Thriveal, a community and consulting organization dedicated to helping entrepreneurial CPA firm owners grow through coaching, education, and leadership development. Since launching Thriveal in 2010, he has supported thousands of firm owners in building more intentional, scalable, and purpose-driven businesses. In addition to Thriveal, Jason is the CEO of Blum
Nellie Akalp: How to Build A Business That's Fundable, Compliant, and Built to Last
Nellie Akalp is a serial entrepreneur, small business advocate, and the Founder and CEO of CorpNet, a leading business formation and compliance service that has helped hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs start and maintain their businesses across all 50 states. With over two decades of experience in the incorporation industry, Nellie has built multiple successful companies focused on simplifyin
Sebastian Sanders: Empower the Next Generation with Financial Literacy and Entrepreneurship
Sebastian Sanders, widely known as "The Youth Principal," is an author, educator, speaker, and entrepreneur dedicated to advancing economic mobility through youth development and community innovation. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, he is the founder of Sanders Hand, a nonprofit that has impacted over 5,000 youth and college students across the U.S. and Ghana through financial literacy, leaders
Bridger Pennington: How to Launch, Fund, and Scale Your Own Investment Fund
Bridger Pennington is a fund manager, entrepreneur, and co-founder of multiple investment funds dedicated to making private investing more accessible. In 2019, he co-founded Fund Launch, an incubator helping emerging managers launch and grow investment funds. Today, the platform has more than 141,000 users and has helped launch 390 funds representing over $7.1 billion in reported AUM. In 2026, Bri
Raphael Lavin: Use Equipment Financing to Reserve Cash Flow and Scale Smarter
Raphael Lavin is a seasoned financial executive and entrepreneur with deep expertise in financial and credit analysis, leasing, and enterprise risk management. His experience spans operating a private equipment leasing company where he oversaw credit structuring, pricing, collections, and litigation—giving him a comprehensive understanding of multiple industries. He began his career in a fourth-ge
Frank Tumminello: How to Stay Compliant and Protect Your Business fromm Costly Mistakes
Frank Tumminello is the founder of FileForms, a company focused on simplifying business compliance and filing requirements for entrepreneurs and companies across the U.S. With a strong background in business operations and regulatory processes, Frank has helped streamline how businesses stay compliant with state and federal requirements. Through FileForms, he provides practical solutions that save
Tina Capobianco: How To Build A Financially Stronger Business Through Better Cash Flow
Based at J D Factors' Canadian head office in Mississauga, Ontario, Tina also oversees branch operations in Montreal, Calgary, and Halifax. Throughout her career, she has developed extensive expertise in commercial finance, factoring, portfolio management, and operational leadership. In addition to her executive responsibilities, Tina has served on the Advisory Board of the International Factorin
Chris Johnsen: How to Protect, Scale, and Exit Your Business with Smart Legal Strategy
Chris Johnsen combines a dual JD/MBA with real-world entrepreneurial experience to deliver a powerful, business-first approach to legal strategy. With a background spanning advertising, retail, and real estate, he brings practical insight that goes beyond traditional legal counsel. Chris is known for translating complex legal concepts into clear, actionable guidance while maintaining the negotiat
Dan Negroni: How to Lead Gen Z and Build a Stronger Workforce
Dan Negroni has coached 30,000+ Gen Z employees directly, and teaches 200+ of them live every semester — so what he bring isn't theory, it's pattern recognition from the ground and the classroom. The research base behind the work spans 400,000+ participants. Business owners are hiring Gen Z every day and losing them just as fast — not because of pay or perks, but because of a coaching gap most lea
Mark Dusseau: How to Use AI to Make Smarter Lending Decisions
Mark Dusseau is the technical co-founder of StarterStack.ai, a profitable, bootstrapped enterprise AI company based in Atlanta. StarterStack builds the operating system for private capital, deploying on-premise AI agents that automate underwriting and monitor portfolio risk in real time for non-bank lenders scaling from $50M to $500M. Before StarterStack, Mark was a data scientist and product lead
Duane Youngblood: Make Your Business Fundable and Get Approved for the Capital You Need
Duane Youngblood, known as The Success King, is the founder of Bizstart Group Inc. and creator of the CBL Wealth Blueprint. He spent 18 months studying consumer credit law to fix his own credit from scratch, then built a system that has helped over 7,000 entrepreneurs improve their credit, build fundable businesses, and access capital. With 37 years in credit and business funding, Duane teaches en
Rob Misheloff: How to Evaluate Equipment Financing Offers and Avoid Costly Funding Traps
Rob is the Vice President and Founder of Smarter Finance USA, an equipment financing firm dedicated to helping small and mid-sized businesses secure the capital they need to purchase equipment and grow. With more than 20 years of experience in financial analysis, business valuation, and financial services, Rob founded the company to bring greater transparency and straightforward guidance to the eq
Tom Nagar: Is Your Business Structure Helping You Grow or Holding You Back?
What if the way you've structured your business to save taxes or protect your assets today is actually making it harder to get funded, grow, or build wealth tomorrow? As business owners we may find ourselves thinking about about entity structure, taxes, business credit, funding, and asset protection as separate decisions. The reality is that these pieces are deeply connected—and the decisions we
Eric Olsen: Alternative Financing Strategies for Business Owners
Eric is a business finance professional with Solutions Financial Services, where he helps business owners secure customized funding solutions to support growth, acquisitions, equipment purchases, and working capital needs. Through his work, Eric partners with entrepreneurs across a wide range of industries, helping them navigate the lending landscape and access the capital necessary to achieve the
Donald Brown: How to Solve Cash Flow Problems and Find the Right Business Financing
Donald Brown, Founder of Beacon Business Capital, is a strong fit for your guest lineup because his expertise spans nearly the full range of lender categories. Through Beacon Business Capital, he works across SBA loans, working capital, MCA, revenue-based lending, invoice factoring, equipment leasing, commercial real estate financing, bridge loans, startup funding, and franchise financing. This ma
Laura Ries: How to Make Your Business Stand Out in a Crowded Market
Laura Ries is a globally recognized brand strategist, bestselling author, and leading authority on positioning. As the Chairwoman of RIES, the consulting firm she co-founded with her father, marketing pioneer Al Ries, she has spent over three decades helping companies define their brands, dominate their categories, and achieve long-term growth through strategic positioning. Laura is the co-author
Candice Frazer: How to Fix Operational Inefficiencies that are Blocking Growth
Candice Frazer is the revenue efficiency strategist and founder of AlphaRev, a firm that helps established businesses systematically increase revenue across retention, expansion, referrals, win-backs, and lost deals. Frazer works with CEOs, CFOs, and operators in professional services and industrial organizations to help them capture more value from their existing customers, partners, and pipeline
Peter Ribeiro: How to Get Fast Business Funding Without Waiting on Traditional Banks
Peter Ribeiro is a seasoned entrepreneur, business finance expert, and Founder & CEO of Capital Gurus, a fintech platform dedicated to simplifying and accelerating access to business capital. Under his leadership, Capital Gurus has developed innovative lending technology that enables businesses across the United States to receive fast funding decisions and access capital efficiently. Prior to Capi
Henry Magun: How to Turn Business Credit Reporting into a Growth Engine for SMB Lenders
Henry Magun is the CEO and co-founder of Hansa, a company he launched in 2023 to help businesses grow through innovative technology solutions. Prior to founding Hansa, Henry was a venture capital investor at New Enterprise Associates (NEA), where he focused on early-stage enterprise technology companies and supported founders through investment and board involvement. He also served as the New York
John Dicanio: How Alternative Lending Evolved & What Business Owners Must Know to Get Funded
John is a highly respected leader in the alternative finance industry, bringing more than 17 years of experience building, scaling, and optimizing high-performing sales and funding organizations. Throughout his career, he has successfully launched over seven sales organizations and co-founded two funding companies, including one that achieved a successful exit at five times EBITDA and another tha
Eric Rabinovich: How to Finance Government Contracts and Scale Without Running Out of Cash
Why do so many companies struggle with cash flow at the exact moment they have their biggest opportunity in front of them? Today we're talking about the hidden financial challenges of growth, how businesses can prepare for larger opportunities, and why access to the right capital strategy can determine whether a company scales or stalls. Our guest today is Eric Rabinovich, Managing Director of X-C
Anthony Byrd: How to Structure the Right Funding Strategy to Buy and Scale a Franchise
Anthony serves as Vice President of Banking Business Development at Benetrends Financial and has more than a decade of experience in franchise financing and SBA lending. As a Certified Franchise Executive (CFE) and active member of the International Franchise Association (IFA), he has built a strong reputation for helping franchisees and franchisors secure the capital they need to start, grow, and
Nimi Natan: How Lenders, Investors and Founders See Your Business Differently
Today we're talking about what business owners can learn by seeing their company through three different perspectives—the operator, the investor, and the lender. We'll explore why growth can create as many challenges as opportunities, and how understanding the lender's mindset can ultimately make us stronger business owners. Our guest today has had the rare opportunity to sit in all three seats. A
Shane Pierson: How to Become a Fundable Business and Get Approved for Bank Financing
Shane Pierson is a seasoned banking professional at Leader Bank, where he specializes in helping businesses and individuals access tailored financial solutions to support growth and long-term success. With a strong background in commercial banking and lending, Shane works closely with clients to structure financing strategies that align with their goals, whether it's expanding operations, investin
David Gens: Get Fast, Flexible Small Business Financing Without Traditional Bank Delays
David Gens is an award-winning entrepreneur, fintech leader, and Founder & CEO of Merchant Growth, one of Canada's leading online small business finance companies. From humble beginnings in his apartment, David built the company into a national organization with offices in Toronto and Vancouver, helping thousands of Canadian small businesses access the capital they need to grow and succeed. With d
Jeffrey Shaw: How High-Value Customers Drive More Profitable and Stable Business Growth
Jeffrey Shaw is a globally recognized expert on selling to the affluent and a sought-after speaker who transforms how luxury businesses attract and retain a high-end clientele. With over four decades of experience working with the world's wealthiest individuals, he has mastered the art of understanding the luxury buyer mindset and elevating business strategies to extraordinary success. As a preemi
Damiano Raveenthiran: Why Scaling Too Fast Can Destroy Your Business
Damiano didn't start with connections or capital. At 24, he had $400 left, printed his LinkedIn profile 100 times, and spent 10 hours walking door-to-door to land his first client—a small power tool store that he helped grow into a nine-figure business within two years. That early momentum led to building and scaling an agency to over $8 million a year with a 75-person team. But behind the growth
Cheryl Tibbs: How to Use AI and Automation to Scale Your Business Faster and Smarter
Cheryl Tibbs is a business growth strategist who bridges capital, technology, and automation to help entrepreneurs and small business owners scale. She combines business funding solutions with AI implementation, workflow automation, and strategic financial guidance to build efficient, resilient operations. With deep experience in financing, Cheryl helps companies secure working capital, loans, and
Teri Ijeoma: How Entrepreneurs Can Build Financial Freedom & Create Income Thru Stock Trading
Teri Ijeoma is a globally recognized financial educator, stock trading expert, and entrepreneur dedicated to helping individuals achieve financial freedom through strategic investing. A former educator and assistant principal, Teri transitioned from the classroom to full-time trading after discovering the power of the stock market as a tool for income generation and lifestyle design. She is the fo
Adam Stettner: Unlock Flexible Capital & Scale Cannabis Business in Highly Regulated Market
Adam Stettner is a seasoned financial services entrepreneur and founder of FundCanna, a leading capital provider to the cannabis industry. After building Reliant Funding into one of the largest small business financing companies in the U.S., he identified a major gap in cannabis lending and launched FundCanna in 2021. Under his leadership, the company has underwritten over 6,000 clients and appro
Stephen Woesner: How to Stop Chasing Leads and Start Attracting Right-Fit Clients
For over 30 years, Stephen Woessner has worked in the trenches of agency new business strategy, working alongside and consulting with hundreds of agencies — teaching them how to plant their flag of authority within the markets they serve, grow their audience, and fill their sales pipeline with a steady stream of right-fit clients so they can win new business. Stephen founded Predictive ROI in 2009
Sharon Lechter: How to Build Wealth Through Financial Literacy and Smart Money Habits
Sharon Lechter is a globally recognized keynote speaker, bestselling author, and elite business strategist committed to advancing financial literacy and entrepreneurial success. A licensed CPA for over 35 years, she co-authored the international bestseller Rich Dad Poor Dad and more than a dozen titles in the Rich Dad series. As CEO, she helped grow the Rich Dad Company into a worldwide brand. Sha
Ciaran Burke: How to Secure Loans, Grants, and Equity Financing for Your Business Faster
Ciaran Burke is a fintech entrepreneur and business leader, serving as Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Swoop, a platform that helps small and medium-sized businesses access funding through loans, grants, and equity solutions. Under his leadership, Swoop has become a trusted resource for SMEs seeking faster, more efficient access to capital. Prior to Swoop, Ciaran founded Hiive, a professio
Mark Wedeh: How to Secure the Right Bank Financing to Grow Your Business
Mark Wedeh is a banking executive and Market Leader & Vice President at BankUnited with over 14 years of experience in financial services. He leads multiple banking centers across the Orlando market, driving growth in deposits, lending, and client acquisition while developing high-performing teams. He specializes in business banking, commercial and consumer lending, and retail banking operations,
Chris Gurski: How to Build Business Credit and Get Funded Without Using Personal Credit
Chris Gurski is a business credit strategist and founder of The Credit Genius, where he helps entrepreneurs build real financial infrastructure beyond simple entity formation and access scalable funding solutions. He has worked with over 150 clients, guiding them in establishing credit systems, funding strategies, and banking structures designed for long-term growth. He brings a cross-border persp
Andrew Hunzicker: How to Build a Highly Profitable Business Without Chasing Revenue
Andrew Hunzicker is a CPA, entrepreneur, and founder of DOPE CFO, a leading training and advisory platform that helps accountants and entrepreneurs specialize in high-growth industries like cannabis, CBD, and hemp. With over 30 years of experience in accounting, tax, and executive leadership, Andrew has built and advised multiple multi-million-dollar businesses. A former Big Four professional and
Alec Delpuech: How to Get Business Funding and Still Build a Life That Actually Matters
For most entrepreneurs, access to capital is one of the biggest challenges standing between where they are and where they want to go. But as many business owners eventually learn, building wealth and building a successful life are not always the same thing. Today's guest Alec Delpuesch has spent years helping entrepreneurs access funding and build business credit, but through his own journey of bu
Tyler McBroom: How to Turn Tax Strategy Into a Competitive Advantage for Your Business
Tyler McBroom is a CPA, entrepreneur, and CEO of TRM CPA, a premier tax advisory firm helping business owners legally save millions while scaling profitable companies. Known for simplifying complex tax strategies into clear, actionable steps, Tyler empowers entrepreneurs to keep more of what they earn and build long-term wealth. He has successfully scaled two businesses past $5 million in under fi
Natasha Dillon: Drive Enterprise Value Thru People Strategy, Leadership, and Transformation
Natasha Dillon is the Co-Founder and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of FundFi Merchant Funding, a leading alternative financing company that helps small and medium-sized businesses across the United States and Canada access fast, flexible working capital solutions. With a finance career spanning nearly two decades, Natasha oversees underwriting, accounting, compliance, and financial operations whil
Sol Lax: How to Use Revenue-Based Financing to Grow Your Business Faster
Sol Lax is the CEO of Revenued, a financial technology company focused on providing flexible funding solutions to small and medium-sized businesses. With over 15 years of experience in venture capital, investment banking, and alternative lending, Sol has built a reputation for helping underserved businesses access capital through innovative, data-driven approaches. Under his leadership, Revenued h
Rishad Tobaccowala: Leaders Must Adapt to Stay Relevant
Whether you're a business owner, lender, entrepreneur, or industry leader, it probably feels like the rules of business are changing faster than ever before. Artificial intelligence is reshaping how we work, customer expectations continue to evolve, talent is harder to attract and retain, and leaders are being asked to navigate more change than at any point in recent history. The question isn't wh
Nate Woodbury: How to Turn YouTube into a Lead Generation Machine
Today's guest is going to help us break down how entrepreneurs can use YouTube as a long-term search and positioning engine, what it really takes to become a thought leader in your niche, and how to create content that attracts the right audience instead of just chasing views. Joining us is Nate Woodbury, a leading expert in YouTube strategy and positioning who is helping experts become the go-to
Matthew Coleman: The 4 C's Every Investor Must Know
Today we're discussing what it really takes to build wealth through real estate, how investors can think strategically about financing in today's ever changing market, the importance of budgeting and disciplined decision-making, and what our guest calls the 4 C's. Here to talk to us is Matthew Coleman, CEO of VI Capital Lending, who brings more than three decades of deep industry knowledge in re
Keith Smith: Turn Messy Financial Data into Real-Time Investment Intelligence Using AI
Keith is the CEO & Co-Founder of GoodStream, a company focused on transforming how private capital firms manage and analyze portfolio data through AI-powered automation and real-time intelligence.. Today, GoodStream uses AI to turn fragmented portfolio information into audit-ready intelligence for private capital firms. In its first year, GoodStream demonstrated that AI can reliably extract and or
Marianne McKinney: How To Get Approved (Even If You Think You Won't)
Marianne McKinney is the owner of Alliance Star Franchise Financing and has been helping franchisees secure commercial financing. She specializes in guiding franchise owners through the entire loan process, from pre-qualification to final funding including helping those who don't qualify with a plan to improve future qualification opportunities. With an impressive 97% approval rate and over $25 mi
Ari Walker: How Smart Investors Use Lending to Build Real Estate Wealth
Ari is the Co-Owner of Pacific Direct Mortgage & Real Estate, Inc., where she specializes in helping individuals, investors, and business owners secure strategic financing for residential and investment properties. With a strong focus on aligning lending solutions with long-term wealth-building goals, Ari works closely with clients to navigate today's evolving real estate and lending landscape. Wi
Martin Chera: How to Fund Real Estate Deals Faster Without Relying on Banks
Martin Cheara is the President of Express Capital Financing, where he helps business owners secure strategic financing solutions tailored to their operational and growth needs. His experience spans working capital solutions, equipment financing, and alternative lending programs designed to help companies access capital quickly and efficiently. With a strong understanding of the small business fund
Anthony Rose: How to Choose the Right Business Financing for Your Growth Strategy
Anthony Rose is the Chief Financial Officer at Kapitus, where he has led financial strategy, operations, and growth initiatives since 2018. With more than 25 years of experience across investment banking, fintech, and corporate finance, he brings deep expertise in capital markets, balance sheet management, and strategic planning. Prior to joining Kapitus, Anthony served as Chief Administrative Off
Tim Mages: How to Secure the Right Financing to Grow and Scale Your Business
Tim Mages is the CEO of ECG, expansion capital group, where he helps businesses secure customized financing solutions to support growth, operations, and long-term success. With extensive experience in commercial finance and equipment leasing, Tim works closely with companies across a variety of industries to structure funding solutions tailored to their specific needs. Under his leadership, ECG h
Katrina Fitten: Why Business Success Doesn't Automatically Create Wealth
Many business owners spend years chasing revenue (building six, seven, even eight figure businesses) only to discover that building a successful business doesn't automatically create wealth. In today's conversation, we'll explore the difference between becoming funding-ready and becoming truly wealth-ready, the financial habits that keep business owner's stuck, and how we can use proper structure,
Michael Wallace: How to Scale Your Tech Company with Non-Dilutive Capital and Smarter Financing Strategies
Have you ever thought about raising capital for your business? Many entrepreneurs assume that raising capital means giving up equity, taking on restrictive debt, or waiting until they're much larger to access meaningful funding. But today's financing landscape offers more options than ever for growth-focused companies looking to scale without sacrificing ownership. Today we're going to talk about
Brock Blake: How to Secure the Right Funding for Your Business and Scale with Confidence
Brock Blake is the CEO and co-founder of Lendio, the nation's leading small business finance solutions provider, dedicated to making access to capital faster, simpler, and more transparent for entrepreneurs. Under his leadership, Lendio has helped small business owners secure more than $16 billion in funding, empowering growth and opportunity across industries. An Inc. 500 CEO, national keynote sp
Sharon Vornholt: How to Build a Predictable Lead Pipeline with Probate Investing and Smart Marketing
Sharon Vornholt is a seasoned real estate investor, marketing strategist, and nationally recognized probate investing expert with nearly three decades of experience in the industry. Since 1998, she has built a reputation for helping investors and agents generate consistent, high-quality leads—particularly through probate and direct mail marketing strategies. As a real estate and business coach, Sh
Nicole Scott: How to Leverage Credit to Build Wealth, Secure Funding, and Scale a Successful Business
Nicole Scott is a credit and business coach, entrepreneur, and founder of Credit Coach Pros, recognized for helping individuals and entrepreneurs leverage personal and business credit to build wealth and access funding. After overcoming her own financial challenges—starting with a credit score in the 400s—she rebuilt her profile and turned that experience into a thriving coaching business. With ov
Joseph Bodek: How Real Estate Investors Build Wealth in any Market
Joseph is a seasoned real estate investor and mentor. Through Real Estate Mentoring USA, he helps aspiring and experienced investors learn creative real estate strategies, lead generation systems, and transaction structuring techniques designed to build long-term wealth. Over the course of his career, Joseph and his family have been involved in the development, construction, ownership, and managem
Jentri Smith: How to Secure Funding and Position Your Business for Long-Term Growth
Jentri Smith is the Senior Vice President and SBA Lending Manager at Amegy Bank of Texas, where she leads the strategy and execution of the bank's Small Business Administration (SBA) lending initiatives. In this role, she partners with lending teams across the organization to expand access to capital for small businesses while strengthening the bank's presence as a top SBA lender in Texas. With mo
Reza Rahman: How to Build Credit, Lower Risk, & Unlock Funding in a Changing Financial System
Reza Rahman is the co-founder and President of Ava, a fintech company focused on transforming how people build and manage credit. After years in Silicon Valley scaling technology companies, Reza shifted his focus to consumer finance, driven by his belief that the current credit system is not designed to serve everyday people. As a first-generation immigrant, Reza built his credit from scratch whil
Alan Peterson: How to Buy a Business, Get SBA Funding, & Structure Deals That Actually Work
Alan Peterson is a nationally recognized, top-producing SBA lender specializing in business acquisitions, partner buyouts, and commercial real estate financing. He brings over a decade of experience with a strategic, relationship-first approach to every deal. He's a Certified Exit Planning Advisor, offering insight on both the buy-side and sell-side and is guiding his clients from pre-qualificatio
Wassia Kamon: What Founders Get Wrong About Finance, Fundability, and Scaling a Business
Wassia Kamon is a CPA, CMA, and MBA who brings over 15 years of experience in finance, accounting, and business leadership across multiple industries. She currently serves as CFO of a mission-driven CDFI, where she helps guide financial strategy, growth, and impact for underserved communities. As an award-winning CFO, published thought leader, and podcast host of "The Diary of a CFO," Wassia is kn
Johnathan Frank: How to Build, Scale, and Future-Proof a High-Performing Mortgage Brokerage
Jonathan Frank is a Certified Lease & Finance Professional (CLFP) and commercial finance executive with over eight years of experience helping mid-market companies deploy capital for growth while protecting liquidity. As Vice President of Sales at Alliance Funding Group, he built and scaled a commercial finance team from a single contributor into a multi-rep unit responsible for driving more than
Darrell Hornbacher: How to Choose the Right Business Funding Strategy to Scale and Grow Faster
Darrell Hornbacher is the Founder and President of Midas Financial Company, one of the nation's longest-standing unsecured business loan brokerage firms. With over 22 years of experience in alternative financing, he is widely recognized as an industry pioneer, having created the original 0% business credit card stacking platform and launching it online in 2004. Under his leadership, Midas Financia
Chris Sain: How to Build Your Audience and Trust within Your Community
Chris Sain is a former Division I athlete turned entrepreneur, author, and financial independence advocate. Starting as a walk-on athlete, he faced significant credit card and student loan debt without the financial support many of his peers had. Raised in the inner city, Chris developed a relentless work ethic and determination to break the cycle of limited opportunity. Through discipline and per
Troy Johnston: How to Use AI to Improve Your Financial Decisions
Troy Johnston brings deep operator experience to Stackeasy, shaped by building and exiting eCommerce and SaaS businesses. As co-founder of Seller Tools and an advisor with Carbon6, he understands where businesses lose time and how automation unlocks scale. At Stackeasy, Troy focuses on simplifying operations through practical AI solutions that improve efficiency, decision-making, and growth. His e
Steven Edisis: How to Fuel Business Growth Without Relying on Traditional Banks
Steven Edisis is the Founder & CEO of Dynamic Capital, a revenue-based financing firm that provides fast, flexible working capital, business lines of credit, and financing solutions for small and mid-sized businesses. Driven by a mission to empower entrepreneurs overlooked by traditional banks, Steven launched Dynamic Capital in 2013 to deliver founder-friendly, non-dilutive capital that aligns wi
Mike Swigunski: How to Turn Online Businesses into Profitable, Remote Ventures
Mike Swigunski is a digital acquisitions expert, bestselling author, and remote work leader with over a decade of experience building and scaling online businesses. As Employee #4 at Empire Flippers, the world's largest curated marketplace for buying and selling online businesses, he helped grow the company into an eight-figure global operation while brokering more than $120 million in digital ass
Irvin Pena: How to Use Business Credit to Scale Your Business Faster
Irvin Pena, known as Irv, is the founder of The Insight Inner Circle, an education and business consulting company focused on helping entrepreneurs grow through financial literacy, business credit, and strategic guidance. He has been featured in outlets such as the South Florida Business Journal, Complex, and Orlando Voyager for his expertise and impact in the business and finance space. Irv is a
Mark Kane: How to Navigate Business Financing with Confidence
Mark J. Kane, Founder and CEO of Sunwise Capital, is a distinguished entrepreneur with over 18 years of experience in business financing. A graduate with honors in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mark honed his analytical and problem-solving skills before leading a psychiatric facility as Hospital Administrator at just 24. Transitioning into finance, he spent 15 years in
Juan Pablo: How to Achieve Financial Freedom Through Creative Real Estate Financing
Juan Pablo is a real estate investor, entrepreneur, and founder dedicated to helping professionals achieve financial freedom through strategic property investing. After leaving a stable government career at 30, he transformed a side hustle into a multimillion-dollar real estate portfolio built on cash-flowing assets and scalable systems. As the founder of the Multifamily Done-For-You Program and 1
Nathan Gwilliam: How to Choose the Right Platform to Launch and Grow Your Show
Nathan Gwilliam is an incurable creator and growth strategist passionate about helping businesses harness tectonic shifts like credibility marketing, platform ownership, online shows, and recurring revenue. He has founded and sold three ventures, scaled digital platforms to massive global audiences, and driven breakthrough growth—including helping a Facebook app reach 90 million installs and build
Dustin Bond: How to Secure Fast, Flexible Business Funding Without Surprises
Dustin Bond is a commercial finance executive and founder of Orange Funding, a capital platform built to deliver short-duration funding with speed, precision, and structural discipline. With over two decades of experience, he specializes in deploying working and bridge capital with clearly defined terms, transparent underwriting, and rapid execution—typically issuing approvals within 24 hours and
Nick Loper: How to Build a Profitable Side Hustle Without Burning Out
Nick Loper is an entrepreneur and the founder of Side Hustle Nation, a platform dedicated to helping people build income streams outside their day jobs. He believes in sustainable hustle—focused effort without burnout—and shares practical strategies drawn from his own journey and hundreds of real-world case studies. From selling candy as a kid to launching businesses while working full-time, Nick
Bob McIntosh: How to Build a High-ROI Digital Marketing Engine
Bob McIntosh is a digital marketing strategist, speaker, and educator who helps businesses grow by building audiences online. Since 2020, digital marketing has become the fastest and most powerful way for companies to capture attention, communicate value, and create lasting community—and Bob has been leading in this space for over 12 years. With more than 4,000 hours on stage and experience helpin
Michael Hession: How to Build a High-ROI Digital Marketing Engine
Michael Hession is an authorized practitioner of the Infinite Banking Concept (IBC) who has been implementing this powerful wealth strategy for his own family for over eleven years and guiding clients toward financial independence for more than seven. As a Wealth Strategist at Factum Financial, Michael brings extensive real-world experience to his work. He previously spent 16 years as the owner an
Shane Engelken: How to Access the Right Business Financing for Growth
Shane Engelken helps owners, operators, and investors structure financing solutions tailored to their unique needs. From straightforward acquisitions to complex, multi-layered projects, Shane's goal is to make the lending process seamless, transparent, and built on long-term trust. Working with a bank that blends strength and flexibility with a hands-on, solution-focused approach, Shane primarily
Adam Benowitz & Louis Calderone: How to Get Fast, Flexible Business Funding Without a Bank
Adam Benowitz and Louis Calderone are the Co-Founders of VOX Funding, a leading fintech company providing innovative alternative financing solutions to small businesses nationwide. Together, they bring more than 60 years of combined experience across financial services, investment banking, trading, and entrepreneurship. Adam, CEO of VOX Funding, is a seasoned investor and entrepreneur with a diver
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