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Evolvepreneur (After Hours)

As a time-poor, typically underfunded online entrepreneur who receives so much conflicting advice about the best ways to grow your business, how can you compete with the big end of town without any of the resources they have at their disposal?

Our mission is to start a revolution that will help entrepreneurs easily establish their own complete business system that can compete with the big end of town and mainstream social media platforms.

We want to help entrepreneurs make a real difference

Join us today where we dig deep with our guests and get you the best blueprints so you can fast-track your business...

Episodes

EPS06:07 [David Harris] ​​​​​​​How To Grow Your Business Fast

Welcome to the Evolvepreneur (After Hours) Show I am your Special Host Mechelle McDonald Join me today where we dig deep with our guests and get you the best concepts and strategies to fast-track your business. My very special guest today is David Harris ... David from Accelerate Your Business discusses five key areas for fast business growth: building trust, having a clear why, telling a strategic story, using social selling, and strategic marketing. Trust is crucial, as many buyers prefer not to meet in person. A clear why and strategic storytelling help businesses stand out and be memorable. Social selling and strategic marketing enable scalable growth. Balancing these areas accelerates business growth. David provides flexible, on-demand strategic advisory and practical skills for small and medium businesses at Accelerate Your Business Today. They unravel complexity and provide tailored solutions, leveraging David's scaling expertise and knowledge. Read more

EPS05:09 [Danielle D Pollard] ​​​​​​​Teamwork Makes the Dream Work

Welcome to the Evolvepreneur (After Hours) Show I am your Special Host Christine Campbell Rapin Join me today where we dig deep with our guests and get you the best concepts and strategies to fast-track your business. My very special guest today is Danielle D Pollard ... Danielle, with a background in Industrial and Systems Engineering and extensive leadership experience, believes in the power of collaboration for success. She helps companies build high-performing teams through effective communication, collaboration, and trust. Danielle emphasizes the importance of creating an environment where people feel safe to speak up and try new things. By valuing and hearing individuals, she has helped teams achieve unprecedented results. She highlights the significance of human factors in software development success and encourages bringing one's whole self to work. Leaders play a vital role in unleashing human potential for transformational outcomes. Read more

EPS07:002 [Justine Martin] ​​​​​​​Reinvention- How to Modify and Adapt

Welcome to the Evolvepreneur (After Hours) Show I am your Special Host Richard Wray Join me today where we dig deep with our guests and get you the best concepts and strategies to fast-track your business. My very special guest today is Justine Martin ... Justine's journey over the past decade is a testament to her remarkable resilience. Despite facing multiple health challenges, including a diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis and three concurrent cancers, she refused to let these obstacles define her. Instead, she delved into the world of business, successfully owning and managing seven enterprises under the Justine Martin Corporation. Her experiences have made her an inspiration to others, and she has been recognized with numerous national business awards. Justine is also a published author and is currently working on an anthology of stories from authors with MS. Her journey of reinvention and adaptation serves as an inspiration to all who encounter her. Read more

EPS06:06 [Gregory Shepard] ​​​​​​​Accomplishing Amidst Neurodivergent Conditions

Welcome to the Evolvepreneur (After Hours) Show I am your Special Host Mechelle McDonald Join me today where we dig deep with our guests and get you the best concepts and strategies to fast-track your business. My very special guest today is Gregory Shepard ... Gregory Shepard is a 20-year startup veteran, angel investor, author, and serial entrepreneur with 12 liquidity events under his belt in BioTech, TransTech, AdTech, and MarTech industries, two of which were sold as part of a $925M transaction that won 4 private equity awards for transactions between $250M and $1B. Greg has accomplished all of this while existing with 7 neurodivergent conditions including Autism and Dyslexia. Read more

EPS07:001 [Richard Wray] My Story

My name is Richard Wray, and this is the Evolvepreneur Secrets for Entrepreneurs Show and I am your host today. I believe that continual education and growth is key to everyone's success. This is why I am so excited to be partnering with a world class entrepreneur like John North to learn more myself and help guide others with his strategic approach to business growth. Coming from a small mining town in the North of England, the idea that I would have worked and lived in multiple countries and delivered success stories for major companies like Microsoft, the BBC and BSkyB would have felt like a dream when I was younger. Despite detractors, this is exactly what I have done! Read more

EPS05:08 [Sally Gimon] ​​​​​​​Selling Your Business with a Spendthrift Trust

Welcome to the Evolvepreneur (After Hours) Show I am your Special Host Christine Campbell Rapin Join me today where we dig deep with our guests and get you the best concepts and strategies to fast-track your business. My very special guest today is Sally Gimon ... Sally Marie Gimon Bio Sally was motivated to become a real estate investor when her mom became sick in October 2018. Sally was 53 and needed to make a change in her life quickly. She has been an insurance agent for 20 years and has used her experience to make positive changes. Now she shares her information weekly in her real estate group and Win, Win Women TV. In July 2020 she bought a Bank Owned Property for $20,000 that would go to auction for $50,000 when Covid restrictions lifted. She knew her Capital Gains would be $7,140 and researched how the rich paid so little in taxes. This led her to find the Business and Beneficial Spendthrift Trusts. Currently Capital Gains are 23.8% on any profit. There is passed legislation to raise this to 40% for some tax levels. The IRS is hiring 87,000 new agents. The Spendthrift Trust defers Capital Gains into infinity and beyond, keeps people judgment proof, and their information private. Read more

EPS06:05 [Karie Soehardi] ​​​​​​​Direct and Purpose

Welcome to the Evolvepreneur (After Hours) Show I am your Special Host Mechelle McDonald Join me today where we dig deep with our guests and get you the best concepts and strategies to fast-track your business. My very special guest today is Karie Soehardi ... Karie is the founder of Circular Design Thinking. She is a Sustainable Design Consultant with a passion for design, strategy, development and shifting the interiors' market from a linear model to that of the circular economy. Over the past twenty years, her experience has led her from being a 'fast fashion' buyer into the interior textiles space, having had her own boutique textile and wallpaper studio for ten years. Then working as a Product Designer for Armadillo rugs, textile merchant Charles Parsons and Milliken flooring . Some of her projects have been featured in the likes of Belle, Vogue Living and Australian House & Gardens. She is currently working with clients such as Space Furniture, Kvadrat Maharam, Cult Design, Green Building Council of Australia and the Australian Furnishings Association as they implement change around sustainable materials and operations. Driven by passion, she approaches each project with direction and purpose to provide expertise and implement viable solutions with long-term environmental gains. Read more

EPS05:07 [Michael Nuciforo] ​​​​​​​How to Quadruple Your Revenue in 12 Months

Welcome to the Evolvepreneur (After Hours) Show I am your Special Host Christine Campbell Rapin Join me today where we dig deep with our guests and get you the best concepts and strategies to fast-track your business. My very special guest today is Michael Nuciforo ... Michael is a startup, business and innovation thought leader with experience working in startups and big corporates across the globe. Based in Melbourne, Michael is currently Founder, CEO of Thriday, a digital neobank for SMEs. Michael recently returned to Australia after living in New York for the past three years. Michael was VP, Digital at CheapOair; the second largest online travel company in the US. Before moving to New York, Michael founded Parkhound – the Airbnb of parking – which was acquired by Spacer in 2017. Michael grew Parkhound into one of the largest sharing economy platforms in the world, with over 100,000 members and 20,000 parking spaces registered. Michael appeared on Shark Tank in 2016 and the company received offers from three sharks for $400,000. Michael caused much controversy by being the first participant to reject an offer from the sharks on the Australian series. Read more

EPS06:04 [Connie Inukai] ​​​​​​​Starting a Business in Retirement

Welcome to the Evolvepreneur (After Hours) Show I am your Special Host Mechelle McDonald Join me today where we dig deep with our guests and get you the best concepts and strategies to fast-track your business. My very special guest today is Connie Inukai ... As a serial “Grandmapreneur®”, Inukai speaks to retirees or soon-to-be retirees on the benefits of pursuing entrepreneurship in retirement. Retired from teaching Technical Writing at the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University for four decades, Connie Inukai became an award-winning inventor at the age of 68. Author of "How I got My Product on QVC, The Today Show, The View, and More...In Retirement", she helps others generate free publicity for their products. She is the creator of Write Your Selfie®, where she inspires people to write their life stories in a fun and easy-to-read format. Featured in Entrepreneur magazine, “6 Reasons to Pursue Entrepreneurship in Retirement,” Connie encourages Baby Boomers to have an active retirement through business or social entrepreneurship. Because… Passion has No Expiration Date! Read more

EPS05:06 [Annette Morris] ​​​​​​​Elevation of Women

Welcome to the Evolvepreneur (After Hours) Show I am your Special Host Christine Campbell Rapin Join me today where we dig deep with our guests and get you the best concepts and strategies to fast-track your business. My very special guest today is Annette Morris ... Annette J. Morris, M.A., is the CEO and owner of Goal Getter, LLC, and movement maker for The M.I.N.D Initiative. Annette has a knack for developing the goals and visions of other movement makers. She helps female entrepreneurs and therapist discover their divine gifts and skills while positioning them to create profitable businesses including the non-profit sector. Annette is committed to her own development as a leader, Mental Health Counselor, Master Certified Life, Mindset, and Business Coach and Speaker. As a first-generation college graduate and entrepreneur holding a Bachelors of Art Degree in Psychology from Southern University of New Orleans and a Master's of Art Degree from Xavier University of Louisiana -- seeing the elevation of women globally excel is at the forefront of Annette's mission. Annette, also an author, has published 11 books, 6 of which were co-author projects and three of the books made it to Amazon’s Best Seller’s List. Annette was also recently recognized as Brainz Magazine’s Top 500 Global Leaders. In addition to being a phenomenal speaker, author, and life-changing Coach, Annette’s also a wife, mother, daughter, sister, and friend. Read more