Our guest today is Roy Barker. He is an Employee Retention Strategist and has spent his career working with businesses of all types to improve their employee retention. Roy has many great stories to tell. 

Small Biz Advocate

Roy Barker

Today’s guest is Susan Schultz. Susan has been coaching, mentoring, and guiding people through the world of Talent Management for over 30 years. she worked her way up from the bottom, cold calling for a recruiting firm. The firm did not think she was ready for recruiting, so She offered to work for the straight commission to prove them wrong. She went on to become the 2nd highest earning recruiter for that agency. She has always had that drive. Now she works with women between the ages of 40‐60 who are longing for that next step in their career where they can live their best life. Women who are challenged with landing a new job, who want a promotion and keep getting passed up, or who aren't satisfied with what they are doing and want a change. She help them make the change and transform their lives from frustration into one of passion and purpose via non-profits.

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Andy Zambito Chief Sales Officer, Americas, Creatio Andy held various leadership roles at Pinpointand Vera, where he was the Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Chief Revenue Officer, built aGTM strategy and Revenue teams. In the role of a Chief Sales Officer Americas, Andy is drivingCreatio’s continued growth on two continents.

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David Fullmer is a leading immigration attorney based on Los Angeles, California. He has practiced immigration law for 25 years and is a partner at the national law firm WR Immigration, rated among the 10 largest immigration practices in the United States. David is the former Chair of the immigration section of the Los Angeles Country Bar Association and was named by "Best Lawyers" as the 2021 Los Angeles "Lawyer of the Year" for immigration law. Most of David's work is dedicated to helping US tech companies hire non-US tech talent. David is expert at guiding US companies and non-US tech talent through the maze of immigration laws so that employer and employee can both accomplish their respective goals.

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Mike is joined in this episode by James Pyle. James discusses how he hit rock bottom and what he did to get himself out of trouble.James is a dynamic and energetic serial entrepreneur. He specializes in lean startups, transformational turnarounds, andrapidly scaled exits. James has a tenacious work ethic and a track record of being a self‐motivated top 1% producer and leader in any environment. He's considered uncommon among the uncommon because he’s been able to break through barriers that others cannot surpass ‐ no matter what it takes! James is an accomplished speaker, coach, executive leadership & management professional, startup specialist, business development & sales guru (digital marketing), strategic planner & executor extraordinaire (relationship management). Now James can be found incubating startups, speaking, coaching high-performance entrepreneurs, investing in real estate, and volunteering his time performing service work with community outreach organizations. James holds a BBA in Entrepreneurship, Marketing, and HR Management and is an Eric Thomas & Associates Certified Speaker

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Libby Robinson, is the Managing Partner of Integral, an award-winning leadership, executive coaching and advisory company working with Fortune 1000 companies globally. A former Wall Street Banker, aerospace engineer and National Champion Equestrian, Libby has worked for 26 years with senior leaders globally, helping to bring more mindfulness, resilience and greater capacity to brilliant and ambitious leaders.  Integral uses a multi-disciplinary approach to foster deep personal change in leaders and to evoke “conscious leadership” cultures for their clients. Libby’s latest venture has been to launch BackFeed+, a new app that helps individuals and organizations get better, faster feedback using a method backed by the latest neuroscience data about how individuals receive feedback with less stress.

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Brenden is the founder of MasterTalk, a YouTube channel he started to help the world master the art of public speaking and communication. He coaches purpose driven entrepreneurs on how to master their message and share their ideas with the world.

MasterTalk with Brenden Ksmarasamy

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Ben Wolff of Blink Data and Stay Blink discusses how he has managed to thrive during the pandemic. He discusses his strategies for saving money that helped him survive. Everyone can get some great tips from Ben.

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Netsuite is a great tool for managing almost any business. Mike Mahony describes how his company, Your Virtual CTO, deploys and customizes Netsuite so that you are up and running as quickly as possible.

Mike Mahony-How Netsuite Could Save Your Business

Jeff Pugel is an expert in filling up a sales pipeline. Today he joins Mike to discuss how this can be done by any business. He shares some amazing tips that will have you wondering why you hadn't already thought of them.

Jeff Pugel - Ignition - Fill That Sales Pipeline

Having worked as a management coach for 7+ years, Mads Singers has coached people in large organizations such as Shell and Coca-Cola and has worked with entrepreneurs in small companies.His one main focus remain the same, effective people management – Organization no matter what size is build with awesome people. If you don’t know how to get the most out of your staff, you are missing out big time… and this is why Mads is here!Management isn’t terribly complicated – with Mads' Effective Management Mastery course, you can learn the most important management processes and start becoming a more effective manager and with that start growing and scaling your company.Walking the walk!Working in large organization like Xerox & IBM Mads had a lot of coaches himself over the last 15 years and one of the things he looks for in a coach is someone who is walking the walk, hence he only spends a max of 20% of his time coaching, while the rest of his time goes to manage some of his other businesses:AristoSourcing – An outsourcing company specializing in helping clients execute repeatable processes.Client Powerhouse – A Local SEO company, providing SEO services to smaller local companies in the UK.During the episode, Mads discusses the pitfalls that can be avoided when using proper management techniques. He explains that management is not rocket science.Mads has an approach that is practical and effective. Anyone wanting to be a more effective leader would benefit from his teaching.

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Today's guest is Paul Lima from Lima Consulting Group. Paul discusses how his company aides other companies in completing a digital transformation strategy. He discusses his approach and how he got to where he is today. His story is one of discipline, honor, and integrity. This is a great episode for anyone wanting to learn how to turn in a different direction with their business.

Paul Lima - Lima Consulting Group

Mike Mahony is on the hot seat today. Mike has been working as a technology expert for more than 30 years, and has held every position possible from programmer to Chief Technology Officer. He currently heads up The Web Scientists, a digital agency, and is the CEO of Your Virtual CTO. In 2006,, Mike built a new, innovative technology platform for the restaurant delivery industry - and GrubHub purchased his client for $85 million in large part to obtain that platform. Known to his clients as the most user-friendly technologist on the planet (thanks to his ability to translate technical issues into plain English), Mike is married and has 4 children.Mike discusses why his company, Your Virtual CTO, is the only technology company that can increase both revenue and profit for every business it works with. He explains the proprietary nature of their services and why they get results. Mike tells you how he can solve any of the technical pains you are experiencing in your business and even suggests that getting involved early means you avoid those technical issues completely.

Mike Mahony - Your Virtual CTO

In this episode of What's Up Orange County we have Butterfly Kisses by AJ and Pro Image Detailing on the show. They talk about how regulations affected their businesses.

How regulations affect small business - Butterfly Kisses by AJ and Pro Image Detailing

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