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Vicky Midwood is a health and life-coach specializing in behavioral strategy. She helps business owners, leaders, and professionals to create lasting behavior change by identifying the hidden patterns driving stress, emotional eating, alcohol, perfectionism, people pleasing, overthinking, and high performance without fulfilment. She is also the host of the podcast: Raw Chatter, Unfiltered Stories of Addiction, Recovery & Reinvention.

Cliff Nonnenmacher is a lifelong entrepreneur whose journey began at age 8, selling golf balls outside country clubs. By 19, he launched what’s believed to be the first food delivery subcontractor for McDonald’s in the U.S.—decades before Uber Eats. He later ran watersport concessions, owned a video store, and distributed the Fun Noodle nationally. At 21, Cliff took his self-built trading portfolio to Wall Street, landing a role at Morgan Stanley. In 2003, he transitioned into franchising and never looked back. Cliff has owned, operated, and scaled multiple franchise brands and helped develop others internationally. With over 25 years of experience in franchising, finance, and business, he now mentors aspiring entrepreneurs and franchise owners. Cliff is the founder and CEO of Franocity, is the host of Pursuit of Profit, the #1 podcast in franchising, and author of Beyond The Brand – The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Fearless Franchising. He lives in Delray Beach, Florida, with his wife Nicole and their son Chase.

An award-winning creative director who has been at it long enough to see trends repeating themselves, Kate Holgate has shaped stand-out brands from a broad range of industries—from education to insurance, healthcare to pet care, transit to yes, even toilet paper. With infectious enthusiasm and insatiable curiosity, she inspires teams to push boundaries, resulting in bold ideas that defy the expected. Kate enjoys connecting with people—both through campaigns and in real life. She is the executive creative director and partner with Noble West. She’s also the co-founder of the recently launched Secondborn. When she is not pitching ideas or creative problem-solving, Kate is an active community leader and educator, serving as an adjunct professor at Boise State University and as an Advisory Board Member for the University of Idaho. She is a volunteer coach for the National Interscholastic Cycling Association, and an executive board member of the Children’s Home Society of Idaho. She’s an avid outdoors woman and the proud mother of two teenagers who help keep her relevant. She embarrasses them as much as possible.

Kate Rosenberg is the founder and CEO of Shattered Glass Coaching and the author of Authentic Success: A Guide for Ambitious Women to Build Aligned Careers and Lives. Kate is an award-winning career coach who helps professional women break through career barriers and land jobs where they're valued, respected, well-compensated, and fulfilled. Through her signature Glass Ceiling Breakthrough Method, Kate has helped over 500 women land new roles in half the industry-standard time. She has spoken at events in five countries and 16 states and has been recognized as a top career coach in San Diego for four consecutive years.

CEO of Sales Maven, Nikki Rausch has the unique ability to transform the misunderstood process of “selling”. With 25+ years of selling experience, entrepreneurs and small business owners now hire Nikki to show them how to sell successfully and authentically. Nikki has written three books, all available on Amazon. She also has a podcast called “Sales Maven” which you can find on your favorite podcast platform. Click here for a great resource Nikki has for our listeners: The Sales Follow-Up Made Easy Guide.

Tan Gera is co-founder of Decentralized Masters, a global investment education and research company serving more than 4,500 members across dozens of countries. A CFA Charterholder who passed all three levels by age 23, Tan spent three years in investment banking and M&A roles across Paris, Amsterdam, and New York before leaving traditional finance in 2022 to give ordinary investors the same frameworks institutions had been using for decades. Today, Decentralized Masters is one of the most reviewed investor education companies in its sector, with a 4.8 out of 5 rating across over 900 independent reviews. Tan is a contributor at Nasdaq and has been featured in Forbes, Yahoo Finance, USA Today, and Business Insider. Tan is the co-author of The Exponential Investor: How Any Investor Can Profit From the Five Technologies Reshaping the World Right Now. He is based in Dubai.

As a Leadership Empowerment Advocate, coach, and author of the My Journey To Wholeness book series, Teresa Page is passionate about renewing Transformational Leaders’ leadership mindset with fresh fire and purpose to affect true impactful change in our communities, domains of industry, and global economy! Through her company, T. K. Page Enterprises, published works, and Love The Success Factor Leadership Incubator, she employs the effective power of Love as the ultimate success factor to inspire, motivate, and equip leaders to realize their own greatness, reprioritize their unfulfilled goals, and re-energize the leader they always were! With an open-globe approach, her vision is to deliver leadership empowerment solutions to support the success and upward mobility of women-owned, non-profit, faith-based, and professional organizations.

Amber Andrews (they/them) is the founder and creative director of Andrews Artistry, a queer-owned, woman-led creative studio based in the Denver area specializing in brand design, photography, and web design for creatives, performers, authors, and small businesses. Amber helps business owners stop wasting time figuring out how to show up and start making more money — building brands that feel as good as they look, grounded, honest, and rooted in real connection between brand and audience. Amber has several resources for our listeners that includes their Brand Clarity Kit, Homepage Magic Guide, and how-to-build-a-mood-board video to help you get started (or take your brand further if you’re ready).

Dominic Forth is CEO of Thought Leaders America and a former journalist with BBC, NBC, ABC, FOX, and CBS. After a near-fatal rafting accident on the Zambezi River, he developed the “Calm, Clarity, Courage” framework and now helps leaders turn their stories into trust, visibility, and real-world impact.

Mike Wapner is an independent financial advisor, with BlueLake Wealth Advisors, who helps individuals and families achieve their life goals while aligning their finances with their values. Specializing in sustainable personal finance, Mike enables people to balance their needs and wants for today with their concerns for the future, for both family and the broader community. Mike has a special interest in sustainable investing strategies, which enable people to align their money with their environmental, social, and other personal values, without necessarily sacrificing financial return. Also, unlike most financial advisors, Mike offers financial planning services independent of investment management if that’s what’s right for the client’s situation. Mike holds a BS in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Cornell University, an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School, and a Certificate in Financial Planning from DePaul University. He also holds the FINRA Series 7 and 66 licenses and the Illinois Life Insurance license.