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Brent Gleeson is the Co-founder and CMO at Internet Marketing Inc. based in San Diego, CA. He oversees digital marketing, branding, communications, strategic planning, thought-leadership, recruitment and business development. IMI was recently ranked #185 on the Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing private companies in the country.  Furthermore, Brent is a Navy SEAL combat veteran, serving in more than 150 missions in Iraq and Africa as part of SEAL Team 5. He is passionate about leadership, entrepreneurship and fitness. He writes about all of these topics weekly as a contributor to Forbes, Inc. and CMO.com. He also is a popular keynote speaker on these subjects.

Lewis is a former pro athlete, two sport All-American, world record holder in football and the current USA Men's National Team athlete for team handball.  He is a lifestyle Entrepreneur, Author, and advisor to tech companies such as Mobile Roadie, SkimLinks, and OverNear, and Details Magazine’s calls him one of 5 Internet Gurus Who Can Make You Rich, along side the likes of Gary Vaynerchuk and Seth Godin.  Learn more and connect with Lewis at www.lewishowes.com 

Melanie is known for starting online businesses that allow her to live wherever she wants, work as much or as little as she pleases, and actually make money!

For more than a decade, Laura Waage served as a Sales Manager, Consultant, Trainer, Facilitator and Presenter in the technology field. During that time she worked with thousands of businesses of varying sizes, helping them to design better business practices, increase their revenues, and create heightened customer experiences.

Will is the Managing Director of Marketing-Results.com.au.  This role involves helping clients make more out of the Internet by leveraging the sales and lead generation results of their business websites.

Originally from Costa Rica and Kansas, Desiree graduated from Yale.  Prior to launching GiveForward, she worked as a specialist in collegiate entrepreneurship at the Kauffman Foundation and as an independent consultant for Arabella Philanthropic Investment Advisors.  Desiree is passionate about philanthropy and the role that young and small-scale donors can have on our communities.

Bea is an established psychotherapist and Entrepreneur devoted to transforming traditional therapy into a more affordable and approachable experience. Which is why she created Pretty Padded Room. Pretty Padded Room is a platform that provides online therapy to women on their own time, and their own terms.

Mitch is from upstate New York and lived in Taipei, Taiwan for four years before moving to San Francisco, where he currently resides. Mitch is a true Entrepreneur, and has started a number of companies in the field of travel & education. His most recent company, Go Overseas, has quickly become the most trusted resource on the internet for researching programs abroad.

James Altucher has started and sold several companies over the past 20 years. He ran a venture capital firm, traded for hedge funds, ran a fund of hedge funds, and has written 10 books.

Jonathan is an Author, serial-Entrepreneur, and Founder of online media and education venture GoodLifeProject.com. He's on a mission to help individuals and organizations become more agile, creative, and innovative, and create better outcomes with a greater sense of ease.

Aaron is a 25-year-old Entrepreneur from Salt Lake City, Utah. He founded Ngst Media Group from his bedroom as a senior at the University of Utah. Ngst Media Group is a full-service marketing and IT firm that serves as a foundation for the development of branded SaaS products. Currently, Ngst Media Group represents both national and international brands and has worked on websites in all 50 states. On January 1st, Ngst Media Group launched Simplify Supper, which provides a service for families to build an online meal planner and send a weekly grocery list to their cell phone.

Trevor Page was on a great path in life: he did well in school, got a degree, and landed a comfortable high-paying 9-5 job. Trevor followed the formula, and followed the herd. He was employed as a Senior Software Engineer in Toronto, Canada and had a very promising future in his corporate career. But then something unexpected happened in June of 2012: Trevor discovered the podcast. Listening on his long commute to work, he learned that there's a whole world of people out there who have built their own successful companies on the Internet, and had done it single handedly. Once Trevor learned about the solopreneur, he quit his job, and in October of 2012 he began his journey.

Becky McKinnell is President of iBec Creative, the hottest up and coming web design and online marketing company in Portland, Maine. Since starting the company right out of college in 2006, Becky and her team have developed over 250 websites for small to medium sized businesses around the country. Becky has been featured in Business Week's Top 25 Entrepreneurs 25 and Under, awarded Small Business Administration's Young Entrepreneur of the Year, and she's a recipient of the 2011 Stevie Women in Business Award.

Brendon is the author of The Web Design Business Kit, writes a newsletter that goes out to 140,000 subscribers, and maintains a blog. Brendon also speaks extensively on Internet issues with business students and business groups, and lectures at Griffith University.

Eric has been an editor and writer in the business and financial fields for 20 years. He is currently the Editor in Chief for Inc. magazine, and he has also worked on Wall Street for Goldman Sachs.

Sheila is the co-founder of the premium fitness and yoga bag brand, Live Well 360, which is taking the fitness world by storm. Live Well 360 has been featured in various top fitness publications including Oxygen Magazine, Men's Health, Shape, and on Livestrong.com, to name a few. In addition, Sheila has created a program for women called Rock Your Dream Body based off of her own weight loss journey, which helps women end emotional eating and self-sabotage so they can get their dream body and feel amazing in their own skin.

Charlie helps people and businesses focus on what matters, and then executes it. His company's website, ProductiveFlourishing.com, is one of the top websites on the Web for planning, productivity, and team development.

Shane is a New York City-based technology journalist and web Entrepreneur. Originally from Idaho, he studied business at BYU-Idaho and Journalism at Columbia University, lived in Hawaii, and built several web companies, including Contently.com.

Tim Ferriss has been listed as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Business People of 2007, Forbes Magazine’s Names You Need to Know in 2011, and is the 7th most powerful personality on Newsweek’s Digital 100 Power Index for 2012. He’s an angel investor/advisor and author of the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and BusinessWeek Bestseller, The 4-Hour Workweek, which has been sold in 35 languages. His latest release, The 4-Hour Chef, is an instant classic.

MJ DeMarco is the Founder of The Fastlane Forum, a business and Entrepreneur discussion forum, and the former Founder and CEO of Limos.com, a global ground transportation company. He didn't stop there: MJ is also the author of the bestselling book, The Millionaire Fastlane.