Focus Forward Podcast for Business Owners

Kate McCauley is an educator, speaker, coach, and course creator who specializes in mindset and the power of retraining your brain. With over twenty years of experience as an educator, Kate has honed her skills in helping individuals and organizations shift their limiting mindsets towards opportunities for success.

According to Luci Gabel, MA, MBA reaching your next level in leadership depends on the healthy habits you create—personally and with others. Research and experience working in leadership roles with hundreds of people has strengthened her conclusions that 

• contrary to popular belief, we aren’t born leaders, we learn leadership.

• your skills get better with practice

• the highest levels of leadership can only come once you have your self care in order

Luci is a national speaker and educator, teaches at the George Washington University School of Medicine, wrote the book, Eat to Lead, and hosts the podcast Leadership, Life, Health and Happiness.

Her leadership experience spans from private companies to the U.S. Department of Defense, to VC-funded start-up founder. Her education includes: MBA, Johns Hopkins; Master's, University of Maryland College Park; Undergraduate degrees from Binghamton University and University of Maryland College Park. 

She helps clients and students in leadership roles develop skillsets and habits that support optimal performance and become someone others truly want to follow. 

Ty Grady is a real estate investor, consultant, coach, speaker, author, and Founder of Freedom Financial Institute.  He is passionate about your wellness, taking control of your company, and managing the financial stresses of both you and your employees.

Connect with Ty at https://www.freedomfinancialinstitute.com

Ty@FreedomFinancialInstitute.com

Paul Newton is a cybersecurity expert, consultant, entrepreneur, Magician, hypnotist, and mind-reader who specializes in the security of the mind.

I challenge you to find a more entertaining and interesting security expert anywhere.

S. Paul Moehring is the "Growth Guy," a Business Growth Coach, Speaker, and Best-Selling Author of "Get Squared." With 27 years of experience, he provides support and accountability to business owners, entrepreneurs, and sales managers seeking balanced growth, hence the title "Get Squared". His systems, including the Get Squared Goal Getting Process and Power Focus System, deliver results in profits, team engagement, and free time. Moehring specializes in transforming frustration into wins, creating businesses that serve lives, and inspiring greatness through his authentic, compelling keynote speeches.

Evan Rudowski, with nearly 40 years of digital sector experience, has significantly contributed to the success of businesses worldwide. A key player at Silicon Valley pioneer Excite.com, he led its subsidiary City.net to become a premier travel website and expanded Excite Europe, generating over $30 million in annual revenue.

Co-founder of SubHub, a leading SaaS platform for profitable membership websites, Evan recently joined Digital DNA as a principal consultant, helping entrepreneurs build, scale, or fix their businesses. He has served as the Chief Commercial Officer of Rocketmakers and the Managing Partner of Atlantic Leap, advising major organizations on European digital strategy.

Evan holds a master's degree from the groundbreaking Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.

Jamey Schrier, P.T. is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Practice Freedom U, a business coaching and training company. He’s an

executive business coach and leadership trainer. Founder of Lighthouse Leader®, Jamey helps physical therapy owners create self-managing

practices that allows them the freedom they want and the income they deserve. He is the best-selling author of The Practice Freedom Method: The

Practice Owner’s Guide to Work Less, Earn More, and Live Your Passion A graduate of The University of Maryland Physical Therapy School, Jamey

specialized in orthopedics and manual therapy. He was the sole owner of a multi-clinic practice for more than 15 years.

Jamey’s passions are basketball, tennis, golfing, and reading. He and his wife, Colleen, and their 2 kids live in Rockville, Maryland.

Christopher Salem is a seasoned CEO, Business Growth Strategist, Keynote Speaker, Award-Winning Author, Trainer, and Radio Show Host. His focus is on empowering business leaders to elevate their brands and businesses from ordinary to extraordinary. Chris helps businesses enhance employee engagement and retention, acquire more clients, improve customer experiences, and accelerate revenue and profit growth.

Chris brings a deep understanding of the challenges facing small businesses in today's volatile economy, guiding them in applying the right strategies to maximize their growth potential.

He achieved international best-seller status with his book "Master Your Inner Critic / Resolve the Root Cause – Create Prosperity" in 2016 and co-authored "Mastering the Art of Success" with Jack Canfield. His weekly radio shows, "Sustainable Success" and "Business Influencers," air on the Voice America Influencers Channel and Tal Radio respectively.

Chris has collaborated with organizations like JP Morgan – Chase, Ralph Lauren, Oracle, Raytheon, United Healthcare, and the NYPD Forensics Department, and spoken at renowned universities including University of Hartford, Westchester Community College, and Harvard University's Faculty Club.

In this episode with Dr. Tiffany Shubert we really focus on the Physical Therapist space and some gaps in training and connecting with patients. Though we're discussing this specific niche, the lessons are good ones for anyone in professional services or really any business where you deal with people. :-) Dr. Tiffany Shubert is a physical therapist, researcher, educator and entrepreneur. Her passion is translating research findings into practical solutions, and developing engaging and accessible digital health and wellness products to bring solutions to scale.

Belle Walker takes organizations from Friction to Function, recapturing lost efficiency and engagement by aligning ways of working with strategic goals.  Her clients span tech, professional services, nonprofits, and more.
Prior to consulting, Belle built several successful teams for HERE Technology, including one responsible for the quality of maps for autonomous vehicles, and received two patents.  Belle began her career at Google, building a nation-wide aerial photography operation.  She has also built Product Management and Customer Service organizations.  

Belle has a Mechanical Engineering degree from Harvard and a Systems Engineering master’s from USC where her research studied organizations as systems.

It was a real pleasure talking with Belle.

John Spence is widely recognized as one of the top business and leadership development experts in the world.

He was the CEO of an international Rockefeller foundation at 26.

He's a voracious learner who consumes a minimum of 100 business books annually. He has lectured at more than 90 colleges and universities, including MIT, Stanford, Cornell, University of Auckland, University of Kraków, and the Wharton School of Business.

Susan Frew was a delight to speak with. She shares some incredible insights that you NEED in your business.

She has built her business around Competing on Awesome, Not on Price. And the ways she does this (and continually improves it) are simply genius. 

Susan is the Founder of Sunshine Home Services near Denver, CO, and loves helping and coaching business owners. 

Join us for a discussion where Dr. Allen Lycka and I talk about living a meaningful life and bringing those principles into your business. 

Dr. Allen Steven Lycka is the host of the Radio Show “How To Live a Fantastic Life”, now syndicated on the AMFM247 Network, and author of some 20 books.

Carrie Morey is a lifestyle entrepreneur and founder of Callie’s Hot Little Biscuit.

She created Callie’s Hot Little Biscuit as a way to work in the food industry while raising her young daughters and being able to keep her focus on them. She discusses her inspiration and partnering with her mother to launch the company.

Carrie shares some great, and unexpected, lessons from her journey. I won’t give them away here. You’re just gonna have to listen to it in her words.

I hope you enjoy!

Carrie Morey founded Callie’s Hot Little Biscuit with the goal of making her mother’s handmade biscuits accessible nationwide. Callie’s Hot Little Biscuit has national retail exposure, 4 eateries and a food truck. Carrie is the author of cookbooks: Callie’s Biscuits and Southern Traditions and Hot Little Suppers (October ‘21), and stars in the docu-series, How She Rolls.

Learn more about Carrie and her entrepreneurial endeavors at the links below.

Rashi Bahri Chitnis is an entrepreneur in Santa Barbara, CA who is striving to empower children through language and culture.

Rashi created Shoonya Digital whose mission is to create interactive edutainment content that is inspired by the stories and characters of the world. Think Disney meets 

Why Rashi began and how she went about making it happen inspires and informs. Her insights into the entrepreneurial journey will make you think and see in ways you maybe haven’t before.

Learn more about Rashi and her company at the links below.

Renée Rouleau is a trusted and sought-after skin care expert and esthetician loved by celebrities, editors, bloggers and skincare obsessives everywhere. She is based in Austin, TX.

Renée is also a motorcyclist, adventurer, and entrepreneur. She shares with us her need to reinvent her brand to stay fresh through all the changes of the last couple of decades.

I enjoyed talking with and learning more about Renée’s entrepreneurial journey and how she has grown her business in a most counter-intuitive way.

Learn more about Renée and her company at the links below.

Sara Roach-Lewis is a Feminist Business Strategist & Coach. Sara helps women business owners swap the hamster wheel for increased revenues without sacrificing their personal lives. She lives on Prince Edward Island, Canada. Sara also hosts the show “Break Through” on Voice America Business.

Sara comes from a non-profit background and talks about the transition to entrepreneurship as well as the similarities she has seen and experienced. She shares how she overcame her “crisis of confidence” in her first year and how she helps others overcome the same.

I found Sara’s take on self care and business to be refreshing and a great reminder to put your own mask on first. She also shares great insights into strategy to help you achieve more while opening up about her entrepreneurial journey.

I am sure you will enjoy hearing from Sara, her insights, and her expertise.

You can get in touch with Sara in the following ways.

Heather Deveaux is the founder of Heather Deveaux Instructional Design.

Heather took her experience and created a business where she helps content experts bring their ideas to life in 30 days or less. Think Big Move Fast is her mantra and she helps people create great content without getting caught up in the endless cycle of perfectionism.

Heather share her insights and stories of becoming and growing as an entrepreneur with some lessons you will not want to miss.

I hope you enjoy my conversation with Heather as much as I did.

You can get in touch with Heather in the following ways.

Saji Gunawardane is the founder of US Business Counsel (note counsel vs council). Saji has a unique business model at US Business Counsel where he is in essence a fractional general legal counsel to businesses and start-ups. This gives him behind the curtain insights into the challenges, opportunities, and day to day business owners face, as well as his own first-hand experience with starting, running, and growing a business.

Saji shares his insights from his own business as well as those garnered working with clients. He has some great stories and lessons that I hope help you with your business.

I am sure you will enjoy the episode. I had a great time talking with Saji.

Marko was originally a bootstrap entrepreneur who has now embraced investing and the world of fundraising to accelerate his business and learn more.

He sold his first company to Twitter (after turning them down twice) and discusses how he made that decision to become an employee after decades of entrepreneurship.

He also shares insights he learned from his brief “retirement” upon leaving Twitter and how and why he decided he needed a new project to pursue.

For the past five years he has been building Plus Plus, initially bootstrapping the company and then deciding after four years to raise a round of friends and family money. He shares the changes that came with that and how he went about testing and deciding to take this step. Plus Plus has just closed its first round of VC funding and Marko discusses the steps and decisions that led to his embracing of raising funds and joining forces with his current investors.

I am sure you will enjoy Marko’s lessons and insights. I had a great time talking with Marko.

Dr. Susan Clinton, PT, DScPT, OCS, WCS, COMT, FAAOMPT is a Board Certified Clinical Specialist in Manual Therapy, Orthopedics and Women’s Health. She began her business after over three decades as a PT, Embody Physiotherapy and Wellness in Sewickley, PA outside of Pittsburgh. She shares what that transition was like and what she would have done differently if she were to do it all over again.

Dr. Clinton teaches post professional education programs to clinicians all over North America and around the world. She is on faculty at Andrews University in the Doctor of Science in PT program, a Master Coach for the Integrative Women’s Health Institute, and a clinical faculty instructor for the North American Institute of Orthopedic Manual Therapy. When she is not busy there and in her private practice, she enjoys being an adjunct instructor for the University of Pittsburgh, Chatham University and Slippery Rock University.

Dr. Clinton shares her unique perspective and insights on business ownership and entrepreneurship. We had a great conversation that I hope you will enjoy.