Danny Ceballos, is a leadership consultant, trainer and executive coach helping the nonprofit and healthcare leader to be "the kind of best boss everyone wants to work for." He is the founder and principal for Unleashed Consulting, and he firmly believes that people will bring their best, authentic, and most productive selves to their work when they nurture their own personal "performance operating system" - that unleashes their unique leadership superpowers.

Heather Vickery is a Success Coach & Fellow Podcaster with over 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur. Heather helps her clients build better business strategies that elevate their lives and businesses to new levels of success. She runs a series of workshops and is a public speaker where she trains other entrepreneur’s on getting to the empowering side of fear, creating balance, time management, as well as countless systems, strategies, and boundaries. Working with Heather inspires people to say, “So what, do it scared” and take real action towards their dreams.

After 24 years of corporate life (including 6 years with a start-up), Francine pursued a lifelong dream of opening her own law firm. In 2015, she began her entrepreneurial journey starting Love Law Firm, which serves entrepreneurs and businesses of all sizes. When she’s not busy running her law firm, Francine also serves as the founder & ED of the Long Island Business Forum, an organization helping businesses thrive while benefiting the greater communities of NYC.

Jenn T. Grace is a nationally recognized business strategist, speaker and author specializing in the LGBTQ market. Passionate about helping people share their stories of adversity, Jenn is the Founder of Publish Your Purpose Press. Guided by the mantra, “change happens in business,” Jenn believes social change happens first in the workplace before spilling over into mainstream society. She is an Amazon Best Selling author and has been featured in Forbes, The Huffington Post, The Hartford Courant, and on CNBC.

Lillian identifies as a Laywoman’s Investing Expert for the Median Wage Earner and she is passionate about helping people create new financial stories. She runs boot camps called, “Get Your Money Together,” helping artists, small business owners, nonprofit worker bees, college students, and millennials SMASH DEBT, save up for their goals, and budget like the bad asses they are. She is also the podcast host of the popular podcast, Oh My Dollar!, which with the Out Entrepreneur was recently featured as a notable LGBTQ+ business & money podcast on Forbes.

Wes Enos is the founder and Executive Director of The Generations Project, a nonprofit based in NYC that preserves the history of the LGBTQ Movement and promotes intergenerational support through storytelling. While the organization is a charity, there is a bit of overlap between starting a social enterprise, regardless of the tax structure, and given that most of the listeners run purpose driven businesses, I thought it made good sense to sit down and chat with Wes about his organization.

David Wells is the Founder and President of Wells Consulting, a global firm that customizes database system design and development services for clients across a wide range of industries. David started his business as a solopreneur in 1989, and added employees as his client list grew, building a company over the course of the 90’s which he sold in 2000. He then started a smaller, boutique consulting firm because he missed the more direct interaction with clients when his role became management focused. Restarting in the early aughts and still continuing, David now focuses on working with a small but highly effective team for a client list that he believes he is best positioned to serve.

First interviewed on episode 85 of the podcast, friend of the show Jax Wheatley returns to help you navigate the challenges of filing your 2018 taxes. Jax is the Chief Financial Officer Every Small Business Owner Needs. With over 18 years running their own business, Rainbow Tax & Accounting, Jax loves providing quality, affordable accounting services to individuals, small business, and non-profit organization. When not busy running their own business, Jax dedicates their free time expanding economic opportunities serving as the board treasurer for PABA, Portland’s LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce.

For more than 30 years, Marcia Alvey has been fighting powerful insurance companies and government bureaucracies. She has helped thousands of people throughout Oregon with workers’ compensation, social security, and personal injury claims. Marcia has been a small business owner since starting her own law practice back in 1996. She is an active volunteer with the Oregon Trial Lawyers Association, and with Basic Rights Oregon, seeking to protect the rights of LGBTQ Oregonians. Outside of her busy law practice, Marcia is a book collector and a dedicated amateur astronomer.

Retired U.S. Air Force Captain Mark David Gibson currently works in Communications with the U.S. Small Business Administration, helping entrepreneurs like us build and scale our businesses. Mark has also recently made his debut as an author with his best-selling book, Served in Silence, the Struggle to Live Authentically. His book has launched his speaking business which is centered around the, “Authenticity Alignment 360.” On this week’s episode, we discuss Mark’s book, why he wrote it, and how it has led him to build a successful speaking enterprise.

Nadia McCullough is the co-founder of HiR Transcender, a $1M Accelerator program that connects transgender and nonbinary entrepreneurs with investors. The business gives entrepreneurs the mentorship, training, and tools they need to make a great pitch to the investors to get their businesses the funding they deserve to thrive. Nadia and her team see the business as a "Shark Tank" that meets "Ru-Paul's Drag Race." As a trans woman Nadia believes this business is greatly needed to help expand economic opportunities to TNB communities at this crucial time in our movements history.

Strother is a business and personal coach for creative entrepreneurs and those who want to become one. He works with lawyers who just wanna dance, programmers who wish they were potters and undercover Yogi CFO's to integrate their professional life with their authentic creative self. His private practice is called "But I'm a Unicorn, Dammit!” and he is passionately working to help as many people as possible own up to the fact that they're a unique fu*%!@#g snowflake. He is the producing artistic director for DC’s only immersive theatre company - TBD Immersive. He served as the event director for the DC Chapter of Network Under 40 and he recently spoke at the TEDx MidAtlantic Festival on the topic of storytelling.

Sheilah Sable is the owner and founder of Call Sheilah! Your Personal Concierge, where she oversees the delivery of concierge services, senior move management operations and support for legislative advocacy and education organizations in Albany, NY. Sheilah means business. She started her business after years of advocacy, organizing, and hustling for various non-profits in the Capital District. Her business serves busy professionals and people who need extra support and staffing in their lives and businesses.

Sharon Love, M.Ed. (Psychology) is CEO of SpeakInspire.com. Known as the "kid who can't even talk" because of painful shyness in high school, Sharon Love, M.Ed. researched psychological secrets of the world's greatest speakers and leaders. By using the secrets she discovered, she went on to raise $6,000,000 with a single presentation. She also inspired millions of people with inspirational speaking and online programs in English, French and Spanish, and helped her clients attract over $14,000,000.

Sandy Eichel is a financial advisor, writer and professional speaker about Authenticity, Diversity and Inclusion. As an openly gay woman in a very white straight conservative male industry, she has forged a way to be her authentic self and to help create more inclusion in her industry and others across the country. She started a nonprofit initiative in 2016 to help underprivileged kids in Madison called Joyful Futures Through Music.

Rebecca is the Founder & CEO of PropsperCity, a business born from her imagination in response to growing evidence that pay discrimination and disparity still exit in most workplaces. Having endured adversity, trauma and significant stress during her childhood and young adult years, Rebecca funneled these early learning opportunities into her work as an advocate, activist, teacher, manager, director and eventual social entrepreneur. She believes that resilience is the secret ingredient that increases the surface area of one’s heart.

As the Founder, Big Thinker, and Creative Strategist at Big Bold Brand Inc. and having built three successful businesses, Karley Cunningham knows what it takes to start, build and lead a company that delivers results. She takes businesses from crowded, commoditized, and competitive spaces out into blue ocean territory where they can confidently stand-out and thrive. Companies that want to differentiate themselves retain Karley to sharpen their value proposition so it cuts through the noise. Clients then experience greater ability to attract ideal clients and top talent, raise funds, win strategic partnerships and boost profits.