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

Matt launched his first company, Commercial Fleet Financing, Inc. (CFF), in 1995 with a phone, a folding table and the unyielding confidence of a single client, a trucker. Fast forward 25 years and CFF has funded over $1 billion in transportation equipment with annual business of over $150 million. CFF has served more than 10,000 clients and has become one of the largest independently owned equipment finance companies in America.  His companies have been recognized in by CNBC, Forbes, Inc. Magazine, Dallas Business Journal, Overdrive Magazine and many more. Matt is a sought after speaker within the entrepreneurial and association communities, and has a highly popular podcast aptly named, YOU NEED MORE MONEY. Matt’s first book, THE GRIT, was published in 2015.  His latest book, YOU NEED MORE MONEY, launched in 2018 and was published by Penguin/Random House Success Hack: - Go be the rich Uncle Bob.     Fail Forward: - After he lied to his wife about payroll, Matt's business made

In 2018 , Shane Foss launched Hooray Health, an unconventional health insurance company dedicated to providing affordable basic and urgent health care alternatives to high-deductible health plans. Through Hooray Health, Foss and his team focus on offering peace of mind to lower-income individuals and families who face medical challenges, while also providing business owners with an affordable way to reward and retain employees. Partnering with companies like Sedera, Ameritas, and Aflac, they have be able to add critical services and supplemental plans giving immense value to employers and individuals. Throughout his professional experience, Foss has negotiated complex, multi-million-dollar contracts, worked in device sales management, created business strategies, and optimized P&L

Weldon Long is one of the nation's most powerful speakers and a driven motivator who teaches the Sales and Prosperity Mindset philosophies that catapulted him from desperation and poverty to a life of wealth and prosperity. Mr. Long developed and used his success system to overcome 25 years of prison and poverty and built a life of wealth, prosperity and happiness. In 2003, at the age of 39, Long was living in a homeless shelter. Using The Power of Consistency he quickly transformed his life and within just 60 months he grew an Inc 5000 company with over $20,000,000 in revenue. Weldon is honored to have served some of America’s finest companies, including Comcast, The Franklin Covey Organization, The Home Depot, Fed Ex, Tom Hopkins International, Wells Fargo Bank, Owens Corning and Farmers Insurance. 

Jack Gibson is the President and Co-founder of High Return Realestate. He founded his first company at the ripe old age of 21.  He built this into a multi-million dollar company before he could even rent a car.  Soon after, he bought his first home, then that turned into 5, and then the real estate bug hit. He became obsesses with learning everything about real estate investing,   and soon had over 50 investment properties, earning passive income. Today Jack spends most of his time educating and teaching Entrepreneurs how to invest in real estate.

Jennifer Kenning co-founded Align Impact in 2014 on the conviction that we need to align the wealth management process with our values to optimize our financial system, and to do this we needed to get all of the actors across the financial spectrum working together to improve outcomes. Align works alongside financial advisors, institutions, foundations and directly advises individual clients and their family offices, all in the service of integrating impact investments into the broader wealth management strategy. In 2017, Jennifer was selected as one of the 16 Innovators as part of InvestmentNews “Icons and Innovators” feature for 2017. Jennifer was named “40 under 40” for Investment News in 2014, a finalist for “Rising Star for Family Wealth” report, and selected for Private Asset Management’s “50 Most Influential Women in Private Wealth” in 2016

Tim Schumm is the Founder/President of Lucas James Talent Partners, an on-demand recruitment services firm based out of Chicago, IL.  Lucas James offers contract full-life-cycle recruitment and candidate sourcing services on an innovative hourly/weekly model, giving their clients a cost-effective, flexible, and high performing solution to find great people - as an alternative to traditional fee-based recruiting firms.   Prior to launching Lucas James, Tim spent the first 10 years of his career at one of the largest global staffing & recruiting firms- starting his career in recruiting and sales, eventually becoming the firm's top sales producer nationally for several years before moving into leadership to run the firm's Chicago market.  

Fady is a proven entrepreneur starting his first company at the age of 12 and running the family business through college, before starting his professional career at a Fortune 30 company working on the world's largest and most significant airplane programs.   Fady has started and grown his own outsourced CFO / COO consulting firm to service over 50 companies over the span of 3 years. Fady’s experience across various industries has set him up with the optimal skill set to identify and address the most recurring financial pain points with small business. Now, as a culmination of his life's experience, he runs one of the quickest growing financial technology company in Chicago, called Clockwork...

Sasha Berson is a serial entrepreneur with an eighteen-year track record, best-selling co-author with Steve Forbes, and a keynote speaker; among early successes, Sasha co-founded the nation’s fifteenth largest wholesale lending company which he sold in 2009. Now, Sasha co-manages a digital marketing company that helps small business owners get more clients, grow their businesses, and enjoy better lives.

Adam Sand is the owner of Sargents Roofing and Roofing Business Partner. Everything was born as the next logical step from the one before it. Adam had countless struggles growing his company until he turned to Facebook and ended up growing Sargents Roofing by $420K in just 60days! After learning Facebook Ads successfully, Adam learned to turn lead generation on autopilot. Adam wanted to help other roofers use the same strategy and that's is when he started a podcast and began his own agency, Business Roofing Partner.

Mary Scalli is the President & CEO of Simple Elegance which specializes in window treatments, shutters, blinds, interior decorating services and home staging.  She is an Accredited Staging Professional Master, a Luxury Staging Specialist & Certified Luxury Home Staging Specialist, as well as Southern Regional Director of IAHSP (International Association of Home Staging Professionals), Certified ASP® Class Trainer, and a Board Member of the International Association of Home Stagers.   In 2018 Simple Elegance was recognized for Excellence in Staging, Excellence in Customer Service and Excellence in Leadership.  Shes also written a book, and been a guest on several podcasts

Matt Linklater is the owner of Link Business Solutions.  He lives a passion for helping business owners create Financial Freedom by giving them a roadmap for success. He has over 18 years of experience meeting and interviewing over 13,000 financial advisors to bring to you a unique approach that you will not get from your current advisors, accountants, CPAs. He prides himself on teaching businesses all over the world about money, how money works, and how to get money to work better for them. He puts your money back into your business and securing your family’s financial future. He’s written 5 books, and his work has been seen in Inc, NBC, CBS, Fox…

Ashley Micciche is the CEO of True North Retirement Advisors, an independent financial advisory firm managing $230 million in client assets. Ashley specializes in helping small business owners exit their business & retire with financial well being

Mike helps companies stand out in the market by implementing his unique business philosophy that is based on his experience and beliefs about the profit-first entrepreneurial initiative.

In this episode, Anna Maria Vitty will share the success story behind Guy Viti Insurance Agency and Viti Financial Services, which are among the leading financial insurance agencies in USA...

Phil Singleton is a web designer, an SEO expert and an award-winning author.  In 2016, Phil and John Jantsch, of Duct Tape Marketing, co-wrote, SEO for Growth: The Ultimate Guide for Marketers, Web Designers & Entrepreneurs.  SEO for Growth is an Amazon bestseller and has been listed as a top marketing book by Mashable, Oracle and The Huffington Post. It’s also been featured on MSNBC, Entrepreneur and Search Engine Journal, and was named by Forbes as the #1 SEO book on its list of “Essential SEO Books for Every Startup to Read”  Phil’s latest startup venture, Podcast Bookers, is a service that helps marketers and executives get booked on established podcasts as way to develop authority and personal branding, improve SEO, and most importantly, generate new leads and sales  

Derek Champagne is the Founder & CEO of The Artist Evolution, a full service agency building memorable brands, marketing tools and campaigns for startups to household brands. Derek is also the author of the best-selling marketing book Don’t Buy a Duck and the host of the popular Business Leadership Series podcast, that also airs as a weekly business show on ESPN radio regionally. Now Derek aims to educate entrepreneurs, business owners and marketers on creating effective marketing that drives engagement right to the bottom line through his online marketing course at www.ChampagneMarketingCourses. com. Derek is also a published musician with contributions on soundtracks that have been featured on ABC, MTV, Bravo, E!, and Oxygen  

Hossein Kasmai is known as the franchise creator. He has extensive experience in the field of franchising, founding many franchise concepts of his own including Guard-A-Kid, founded in 2005.By 2010, only five years after its initial launch, Guard-A-Kid expanded to over 175 franchises in 11 countries worldwide (before Hossein sold it). This franchise creator now helps other entrepreneurs decide when to franchise and teaches them how to franchise successfully. Hossein’s franchise concept has been ranked among the top 500 franchises for 6 years in a row and ranked in the top 10 new franchises...  

Chris Salem is an accomplished business strategist, world-class speaker, award-winning author®, certified mindset expert, radio show host, and wellness advocate partnering with entrepreneurs, corporate business leaders, and sales professionals to have sustainable success at the next level by resolving the root cause to mindset barriers.  His book Master Your Inner Critic / Resolve the Root Cause – Create Prosperity addresses this and went international best seller in November 2016.   He also co-authored the recent edition to "Mastering the Art of Success" with Jack Canfield.  His weekly radio show Sustainable Success is part of the Voice America Influencers Channel. 

Bill Troy is an Inc. 500 CEO and a natural-born contrarian who, for 25 years, has helped global brands like Sony, Disney and Nestle see the world from a different perspective. Bill’s forthcoming book, ClickSand: How The Pitchmen of Online Marketing Suck You In and Ruin Your Business, is an explosive wake-up call and warning for business owners about the dangers and hypocrisy in online marketing. In ClickSand, Bill compares giant firms like HubSpot, Google and LinkedIn as well as local agencies and consultants in towns big and small to snake-oil pitchmen of the 1800s.

Thousands of coaches, healers, and consultants have built multi-six and seven figure businesses under the direction and guidance of Christian Mickelsen’s world-class trainings.  Christian believes everyone was put on this Earth for a reason and to fulfill his mission of getting the whole world healed, he’s put his fastest and most powerful tools for accumulating wealth, love, health, and happiness inside his brand new book, Abundance Unleashed.