Success Hackers | Empowering Entrepreneurs To Play Bigger In Business And Life

Mark J. Podolsky (AKA The Land Geek) is widely considered the Country’s most trusted and foremost authority on buying and selling raw, undeveloped land within the United States. Mark’s company, Frontier Equity Properties, LLC, is an A+ rated BBB real estate company. Mark has achieved this level of success largely due to his core business philosophy – “Happy Customers Guaranteed.” Mark is the host of one of the top rated podcasts in the Investing Category on iTunes aptly titled The Best Passive Income Model and The Art of Passive Income. He is also the host of the Land Geek Podcast- Work Smart. Earn More. Learn How.

Aaron Agius (pronounced A-gius) is one of the world’s leading digital marketers according to Forbes. He is CEO of Louder Online, one of the world’s leading digital agencies with a global reach. Louder Online is an inbound marketing agency, working globally with clients such as Salesforce, IBM, Coca-Cola, and Intel. Aaron is a highly sought speaker at Search, Content Marketing and Growth Hacking and many other conferences around the globe. He is also a regular contributor to some of the world’s largest editorial publications, including Entrepreneur.com and Hubspot.com

Eric Roberge is a Certied Financial PlannerTM and the founder of Beyond Your Hammock, a virtual financial planning company that helps professionals in their 30s and 40s do more with their money. Eric has shared his innovative financial planning and money management techniques in the WallStreet Journal, USA Today, CNBC, and Entrepreneur Magazine. He also writes articles for Forbes, The Hungton Post, and MONEY Magazine.

Jason Forrest, CEO & Chief Culture Office at FPG, a company who was named Best Place to Work in Fort Worth, TX by FWinc in 2016 and ranked by Inc. 5000 as one the nation's Fastest-Growing Private Companies, 2016; is a thought leader and behavioral change expert on a mission to convince everyone he knows that they are enough! He is a sales trainer, a management coach, and the author of five books, including his latest, Service Certainty. He is Chairman of the National Speakers Association’s Million Dollar Speakers Group and has been awarded Training Magazine’s Top Young Trainer in addition to winning a Gold Stevie Award for Sales Training Leader of the Year.

Nathan Hirsch is the CEO of FreeeUp.com.  Nate started FreeeUp in 2015 after spending 7+ years interviewing, hiring, and training remote workers. He decided that there must be a better way for eCommerce companies to hire remote workers without having to spend hours interviewing and finding the most reliable people. FreeeUp is a rapidly growing company interviewing hundreds of worker applicants each week and providing remote workers for hundreds of clients.

Matt Miller spent the first 9 years of his career as an Air Force pilot, before entering the private sector to work in both the medical device and advertising industries. While a top performer in the corporate world, his long-term desire was to be his own boss. A good friend one day mentioned the gum ball machines he and his young daughters owned, and that conversation began a 10-year business quest that has brought Matt’s company, School Spirit Vending, to the cutting edge of both the vending and school fundraising industries. Today, School Spirit Vending’s franchising program provides a proven and profitable business system for busy professionals and their families looking to develop secondary income streams with a limited time commitment.

Craig Cody is a Certified Tax Coach, Certified Public Accountant, Business Owner and Former New York City Police Officer with 17 years experience on the Force. In addition to being a Certified Public Accountant for the past 15 years, he is also a Certified Tax Coach. As a Certified Tax Coach, Craig belongs to a select group of tax practitioners throughout the country who undergo extensive training and continued education on various tax planning techniques and strategies to become, as well as remain, certified. With this organization, Craig has co-authored an Amazon best seller book, Secrets of a Tax-Free Life.

Jill Schiefelbein is an award-winning entrepreneur, author, and recovering academic. She taught business communication at Arizona State University for 11 years before venturing into entrepreneurship. Jill’s business, The Dynamic Communicator®, helps organizations increase sales and create consumer advocates. Jill runs the Dynamic Accelerator program, helping solo- and micro-entrepreneurs accelerate business growth. Her next book, Dynamic Communication: 27 Strategies to Grow, Lead, and Manage Your Business is in stores March 2017.

As the founder of Complete Marketing Systems and the LGBT Success Academy, Diane Conklin has been involved in numerous campaigns grossing over $1,000,000.00 several times in her career and routinely helps people grow businesses to 6 figures, and beyond, in short periods of time, several times in as little as 90 days. Diane was voted Glazer-Kennedy Marketer of the Year for her innovative marketing strategies and campaigns and was nominated for Atlanta Business Woman of the Year.

Brad Szollose is a globally recognized Leadership and Management Consultant who helps businesses and organizations dominate their industry by tapping into the treasure of a multi-generational workforce. He shares his management He shares his management strategies within the pages of his award-winning, international bestseller Liquid Leadership.  Brad’s has been featured in Forbes, Inc. Magazine, The Huffington Post, New Brad’s has been featured in Forbes, Inc. Magazine, The Huffington Post, New York Magazine, Advertising Age, The International Business Times, to name a few, along with television, radio and podcast appearances on CBS and other media outlets.

Susan Peirce Thompson is an entrepreneur, brain and cognitive scientist, and food psychologist. She's a Ph.D, and author of the new book Bright Line Eating: The Science of Living Happy, Thin, & Free. She built her business to over $6MM in revenue (with a 300k+ list) in under a year. She's an expert on the neuroscience of weight loss, willpower, and food addiction and helped more than 4,000 people in 63 countries lose a collective 133,000 pounds.  

John Ruhlin is the founder of the Ruhlin Group. John's company is trusted by the leaders of fast-growing companies to develop relationship building strategies and VIP gifting programs to increase referrals and strengthen retention with their most important clients, employees, and prospects. Their clients include the Chicago Cubs, San Antonio Spurs, DR Horton, Morgan Stanley, St Louis Blues, and hundreds of other industry leaders and high-end service firms.

Carolin Soldo is a well respected business coach, specializing in helping passion driven women bring their skills to the world and launch thriving online coaching businesses with international reach, make an impact, and create free and abundant lives.  She’s helped hundreds of new and aspiring coaches build thriving coaching practices by creating powerful brands, sharing their message with the world, designing signature programs, automating their marketing systems and more.  She's built a seven figure business while maintaining a healthy work-life balance b/c she's so dedicated to being fully present with her two young boys.

Ron is co-founder and managing partner at Navalent, working with CEOs and executives pursuing transformational change for their organizations, leaders, and industries. He has a thirty year track record helping some of the world’s most influential executives tackle challenges of strategy, organization and leadership.  From start-ups to Fortune 10’s, non-profits to heads-of-state, From start-ups to Fortune 10’s, non-profits to heads-of-state, turn-arounds to new markets and strategies, overhauling leadership and culture to re-designing for growth, He has worked in more than 25 countries on 4 continents.  He is the best-selling author of 8 books, including the recent Amazon #1 Rising to Power.His work’s been featured in Fortune, CEO Magazine, Inc., BusinessInsider, MSNBC, Business Week, Smart Business, and thought- His work’s been featured in Fortune, CEO Magazine, Inc., BusinessInsider, MSNBC, Business Week, Smart Business, and thought-leaders... 

As Founder and CEO of the marketing firm Triple R Marketing, Matt Ruedlinger helps small-local businesses and brand-name Fortune 500 companies alike become leaders in their industry.  With his customer-centric business philosophy, business acumen and commitment to rapid, reliable results he and his staff have created a seminar call Launch, where they go into communities to teach businesses the importance of customer experiences and how they can create business for a lifetime.

Bill Himmelstein started Tenant Advisory Group, July 2008 after gaining experience at several of the major commercial real estate firms in Chicago. Tenant Advisory focuses their efforts on working with professional service firms, technology companies, and private practice physicians. He has completed well in excess of 200 transactions in his career with a value of almost $1 billion,  has spoken in front of crowds as large as 5,000 people, and has even hosted a digital real estate show through Advisor TV.

Over several years, David Barnett sold dozens of businesses for others while also managing his own portfolio of income properties and starting his career as a local private investor. Barnett regularly consults with professionals and banks on business and asset values. Presently he also works with entrepreneurs and would-be entrepreneurs around the world who are buying, selling or trying to improve their businesses.

Jason Forrest is a sales trainer, a management coach, and the author of three books, including his latest, Leadership Sales Coaching. He is Chairman of the National Speakers Association’s Million Dollar Speakers Group.  He has been awarded Training magazine’s Top Young Trainer and a Gold Stevie Award for Sales Training Leader of the Year.  He has also been awarded the top sales management program in the world.  Jason is an expert at creating high-performance cultures through complete training programs. He incorporates experiential learning to increase profit, implement cultural accountability, and transform companies into high-performance organizations by unleashing their human performance.

Chintan is a managing partner for RPCK Rastegar Panchal, which advises investors, management, owners and growth companies on corporate merger and acquisition-related matters, including cross-border transaction structuring and negotiation, spin-offs, divestitures, private equity buyouts and joint ventures.  He also advises investors and growth companies on corporate finance and capital raising strategies.  Chintan was selected as a 2014 and 2015 New York Metro Rising Star by Super Lawyers.

Arjun is a Partner at 500 Startups, the most active early stage technology investor in the world... Arjun was a Co-Founder of Immediately. Immediately was a mobile platform for modern sales professionals. Prior to Immediately, Arjun was the founding CEO of ReTargeter and bootstrapped the company to be in the top 100 of Inc's Fastest Growing Companies list in 2013. He is a recognized expert in display advertising and startup ecosystems and has been interviewed on Bloomberg TV, been quoted in the WSJ, and been mentioned in Forbes; not to mention, he has been recognized at the White House, at the UN and at the Global Summit for Entrepreneurship…