Maturepreneurial Podcast: Interviews With Older Entrepreneurs | Online Business Tips | Learn From Those Who Have Succeeded

Known worldwide as The Millionaire Marketing Mentor®, Adam Urbanski is a marketing strategist to coaches, consultants and other service professionals. He is a small business change agent, marketing wiz, trainer, facilitator, speaker, and above all else, a passionate entrepreneur. In 1989, Adam emigrated to the US from Poland with only $194 in his pocket and a very limited ability to speak English. Since then Adam has owned and co-owned several successful ventures. Some of his businesses generated millions of dollars in sales. His first “claim to fame” was in a fast food/restaurant/coffee business. He also co-owned, owned and eventually sold a small chain of bagel/coffee shops in southern California. Today, Adam runs a multi-million dollar business that includes consulting, coaching, training, and information publishing. He is a devoted student of money making strategies, he reads two to four new marketing books a month, and he attends several high-end marketing training programs every year. Today, through his

Tom Schwab is a Navy veteran and a digital marketing engineer with a refreshingly different approach to helping solopreneurs, entrepreneurs and small business owners harness the power of the internet. Back in 2009, the Michigan economy was in a deep recession. Initially, Tom’s business survived and thrived but it was clearly not in a healthy, long term way. Pay Per Click was providing over 90% of traffic and sales. To double his growth, Tom had only to double his adwords spend. Yet it wasn’t that simple. Margins always fell while the Cost of Customer Acquisition always increased. Tom realized it was an unhealthy addiction, but feared that if he stopped, so would the business. Then Tom found a way to stop chasing transactions and start building trusting relationships. His was one of the first eCommerce companies to embrace the strategy of inbound marketing. He focused on attracting visitors with great content shared on social media; engaging leads to build trust and add value; and delighting customers with per

What do you get when you transform a Buddhist monk into a heavy metal guitarist? You get someone who might have the presence of today's guest, Donna Barker. Not that she’s been either, but that’s exactly how she feels these days. Donna is a 25-year career ghost-writer who, on turning 50, decided to step out of her ethereal form and give a voice to her own voice — which is much louder than she ever could have imagined! She’s the founder of Write, Woman, Write, a web-based community that supports women “of a certain age” to rev up their confidence, courage and commitment and write the book that they’ve had in their hearts for too long. Donna is also the co-creator of the online event, the Creative Women Summit: Passion to Profit. In 2016, Donna published her first book, Mother Teresa’s Advice for Jilted Lovers, an award-winning, mash-up genre novel. She asserts that the timing of publishing her book was inevitable, predetermined by the fact that she was born in 1966. She couldn’t allow herself to say goodbye to

Mary Lunnen lives near the dramatic coast of North Cornwall, in the far south west of the United Kingdom. Her passion is helping people to find their way home to themselves; to rediscover their inner wisdom. She does this through the Dare to Blossom Rediscovery Process using a simple pack of cards with a single word and a colour. This powerful tool brings people back into conversation with their own truth. As well as one-to-one coaching, Mary runs workshops and online courses. She draws inspiration from her love of the sea and the natural landscape around her home, which she explores in photography and art. Mary began her own journey of coming home after a diagnosis of cancer in 1994. She has been daring herself to blossom ever since. The diagnosis sparked a practice of journalling that grew into four published books and many articles and blog posts. Since 2003 Dare to Blossom Life Coaching has supported individuals and business people around the world. Mary runs inspirational workshops and on-line programmes

Joseph Aquino has more than 30 years of New York City real estate experience. No one knows the city better than Joe, who has assisted all of the top property owners and retailers during his long, illustrious career. Capitalizing on his many years of experience, Joe recently launched his own company and brand: Joseph Aquino Commercial Real Estate Services. Joe's specialties include; hotel, retail, office, showroom and industrial development projects. He has placed top retailers along Madison Avenue, in Soho, in the Meat Packing and Flatiron districts and in Nolita. Some of the tenants he has represented are Buccellati, Paul Shark, John Fluevog and Ports 1961. Career Highlights In 1992, Joe consulted for The 42nd Street Development Project, when Times was changing from the red light district into the family center it is known as today. He helped the state of New York create a retail use plan which described in detail all the wonderful things that could be done on the one block of 42nd street between 7th and 8th

Maggie Huffman is a career life coach, speaker and the author of three bestselling books. Maggie spent 20 (mumble) years in the corporate world. Granted, it was in wine, but it wasn’t all sipping and spitting! She led large projects and cross-functional teams – many of them global. She had a unique career path, which was to fix a lot of broken systems, structures and processes. This gave her access to a wealth of tools and metaphors. In her coaching practice today, Maggie will use anything at all that helps her clients to take inspired action and fulfill their true and full potential. These things can come from the world of science (neuroscience, quantum physics, nutrition), from the land of corporate (project and change management, executive coaching, process improvement), the world of woo (visualizations, thought work, metaphysics), the world of pop culture or from simply random, fun things (humor, jargon, sticky notes and Tombow markers.) Maggie lives in a quirky, almost imaginary world that looks suspicio

Margaret Blood is Mil Milagros’ founder and serves as the organization’s Executive Director, responsible for working with the Board to shape the organization’s strategic goals and direction, for fund raising, building and managing partnerships with other organizations to help MM achieve its goals, and supporting the In-Country staff team in Guatemala. Margaret is the founder, past President, and current Board member of Strategies for Children, an award-winning children’s policy and advocacy organization based in Boston. Margaret holds a Master in Public Administration degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a Bachelor’s degree in Spanish and business from Skidmore College.

For more than 25 years Lise has been photographing people from all walks of life, all ages, all flavors. She’s produced photographs for national ad campaigns, magazines, and corporations, and she offers personal branding imagery for women entrepreneurs. Both her clients and her subjects appreciate the warm rapport she establishes and the relaxed and supportive shoot environment. In recent years Lise’s work has incorporated her growing involvement in the sustainable food movement. Her ongoing personal project is Grounded Women: Stories of Women Who Farm (link below). In addition to her photography work, Lise hosts a year-round CSA delivery site, bringing farm-fresh organic food to her community. She also teaches workshops on healthy eating, canning and fermentation. When Lise is not shooting for clients, she can be found out on a farm or in the kitchen. Lise’s clients include Hanes, Dupont, Target, Motrin, State Farm, Northern Trust, Disney, Taryn Rose (the most comfortable shoes I’ve ever owned), Kiplinger’s

Paul D. Johnson is podcast host, writer, speaker, ministry leader, life coach and trainer. In his 7th decade this past year, Paul launched The God Zone Show podcast - an interview-based show with guests who have useful resources to support family, business and community leadership, personal development, difficult people and predicaments, healing, miracles, science and faith. Paul's past careers have included being a software engineer, a business consultant, a stock market day trader, real estate financier, property flipper and developer, radio and TV host, and college instructor. Paul now uses the wisdom learned though the decades to develop resources and services that train others to receive amazing wisdom, live with inspired purpose, prosper through trouble, and help others do the same. Paul speaks on: Becoming a Rejection Specialist for Great Success, Marketplace God, Claim God Promises for a More Power, Authority, and Love Filled Life, How to Journey in the God Zone to Receive Amazing Wisdom, Live with In

Calvin Correli is an artist, entrepreneur, and the CEO of a holistically focused, multi-million dollar software company called Simplero. Calvin is passionate about helping online business owners do exactly what makes them feel most alive and is currently branching out to bring all of his gifts, including his musical, spiritual and intuitive talents, into an exciting new service for entrepreneurs. Calvin has been blogging since the late 1990s. A programmer by training and education, he founded his company Simplero after an epiphany he experience in February of 2008; namely, that we’re here to seek self-realization through entrepreneurship. What started as software for his own online courses, quickly became a vehicle to empower other entrepreneurs who needed its support. Calvin believes that "entrepreneurship is about allowing the creative force of the universe to work through us and make manifest in the world whatever it is that we feel compelled to create, with that unique essence and vibration that only we c

Dr. Joe Tatta is a doctor of physical therapy, board certified nutrition specialist and functional medicine practitioner who specializes in treating persistent pain and lifestyle-related musculoskeletal, metabolic and autoimmune health issues. His mission is to create a new paradigm around treating persistent pain and reverse our global pain epidemic. Dr. Tatta's maturepreneurial endeavors include creating the Healing Pain Online Summit and hosting The Healing Pain Podcast, a podcast designed to broaden the conversation around discovering and using natural strategies for solving persistent pain. He is the author of the best selling book Heal Your Pain Now; A Revolutionary Program to Reset Your Brain and Body for a Pain-Free Life by Da Capo Press. Prior to starting his own businesses, Dr. Tatta was a physical therapist. In 2000, he cofounded Premier Physical Therapy & Wellness, which he helped to grow from one to fourteen successful practices throughout New York City, Westchester County, and Connecticut. D

Lyn Slater founded her website and blog Accidental Icon in September 2014 because she was could not find a fashion blog or magazine that offered an urban, modern, intellectual aesthetic but also spoke to people who live “interesting but ordinary lives” in cities; people like herself, who are not famous or celebrities but who are smart, creative, fit, thoughtful, engaged, socially responsible and most importantly, clear and comfortable with who they are and reflect this in how they dress. Lyn believes that fashion has the power to communicate at the individual, group and societal level; that it has the capacity to hold both oppressive and productive practices. Dressing can be purposeful and powerful. That is why Accidental Icon wants readers to think intentionally about fashion and to occupy their cultural space with self-awareness and purpose. A huge fan of “accidental occurrences” and making the most of them, Lyn also believes in serendipity, the kind that might lead to a professor becoming a fashion icon, f

Bill Belew has been an educator for most of his adult life. He founded a language school in Japan that grew to establish locations on two of Japan's main islands and eventually in Far East Russia (then part of the Soviet Union). He also taught university in Japan and he was invited to be a visiting scholar in Khabarovsk, Russia, which opened the door for his school in that country. Bill has taught community college, college, graduate school. and marketing in an MBA program from Buffalo, NY to Silicon Valley here in the states. With his two degrees – a PhD in Education and an MFA in Creative Writing - if Bill knows anything, it’s that he can teach you! Bill has written several books: Living English, Let’s Communicate, The Key, and Gee, I Wish I Had Been Drinking At The Time. Bill’s latest title, Marketing With Social Media, is currently being promoted by Kendall Hunt Publishing to ALL of the MBA marketing programs in the United States and was recently adopted by a school with over 17,000 students. Bill began b

Douglas Burdett is the principal of Artillery, a business-to-business marketing agency he founded in 2001. He is also the author of two blogs: Fire Support and Forward Observer and the host of The Marketing Book Podcast. Launched in January 2015, The Marketing Book Podcast was listed on iTunes as the #2 Business Podcast two months later. The podcast is a weekly show that interviews bestselling authors about their books to help listeners keep up with the smartest thinking in the quickly changing field of modern marketing. Douglas began his career in the world of New York City advertising, where he spent ten years working for industry giants J. Walter Thompson and Grey Advertising. Douglas worked another four years at a Virginia Beach advertising agency before deciding to launch his own business. Before his business career, Douglas graduated from the Virginia Military Institute. He served as a U.S. Army artillery officer in Germany for three years. When he got out of the army he went back to school to earn his

Dave Mancuso launched his business, Mancuso Communication Strategies, in 2012 to leverage 25+ years of experience in government advocacy, public affairs, public relations and media relations for Fortune 50 companies, start-ups and non-profit organizations. Dave develops and implements communication plans that influence public and political relationships in order to advance his clients’ mission-critical objectives. He personally delivers or oversees a variety of cross-discipline communications, advocacy and lobbying services tailored to the specific needs of his clients. Although he enjoyed a successful career as a senior executive with broad responsibilities across many different geographies, Dave reached the point where he need to go out on his own to fulfill his dreams. He founded his entrepreneurial venture upon the experience and acumen he cultivated in senior leadership positions with AT&T, VOX Global Mandate, Watercove Networks - a venture capital-backed wireless telecommunications infrastructure co

At the young age of 18, Mickie Zada married a golf pro and during the years that followed, she and her husband became entrepreneurs. Together they owned golf courses and a marketing analysis and feasibility company that worked with municipalities and developers. She had a lot of fun then, in those early years, as she learned how to be an entrepreneur. After 34 years of marriage, Mickie and her husband divorced. That's when her solopreneurial adventures began. She became a network marketer selling jewelry. She became a certified Life Coach. And finally (her favorite so far...!), she became a podcaster! The mission of Mickie's podcast, The Second 53 Years, is to inspire women over 50 to move from where they are to who they are. The podcast shares both Mickie's own stories and the stories of other women who are on the Path of Discovery. Mickie is a go-getter who wouldn't be deterred by the fact that she had never even heard of podcasting until a few months before she launched her own. She is not afraid of taking

Lisa Vogt is a wife, mom, and career woman who has deep experience in business and in life. A successful telecommunications executive with a son and a stay-at-home husband, Lisa eventually found her corporate work unfulfilling and the environment toxic. At that point, Lisa and her husband took their time and some care to identify a next step for them and for Lisa’s career. They ultimately launched what quickly became a very successful business, although as Lisa puts it so eloquently on her website: “And then the economy tanked.” After further soul-searching and taking the time and care to look around - again - Lisa attained another successful, some might say, “glamorous”, and rewarding position with a non-profit organization that provides long-term, stable homes for orphaned, abandoned and abused children. When she was diagnosed with early stage breast cancer, Lisa’s prior life and business experience had well prepared her for identifying the necessary actions she needed to take in order to move forward to we

In the final two years of her service as a Writing and Business Communication instructor at the University of Maryland’s Professional Writing Department and at the university’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, Connie Inukai faced a problem most us do when we get older and our eyes stop cooperating: "Reading the small print in dimly lit restaurants". While that might not seem like much of a problem to many, those who have faced it know very well how inconvenient it can be. Well, luckily for us, Connie didn’t just let the problem go. Instead, she set out to create a solution. After a great deal of time, effort, and a challenging search for the right manufacturer, Connie launched her invention, the ‘Tip ‘n Split®, an inexpensive, multi-functional device that not only illuminates and magnifies restaurant checks and receipts, but calculates the tip and divides the bill among table partners! Today, Connie has retired from her lifetime career as a university professor and pursues full time her entrepreneurial pas

Nicole Holland started her entrepreneurial journey at the tender age of eight, when she and her brother worked with their father selling his home-grown fruits and vegetables locally. She continued on this path as she grew older, maintaining her independence and autonomy pursuing different ventures, including as a mother’s helper and later as a corporate trainer. For a time, Nicole left the challenges of the entrepreneurial world in search of greater security. But after a series of unfulfilling jobs she could not enjoy, she eventually quit the 9-5 and returned to her entrepreneurial roots. For the past 12 years, Nicole has been a master business coach and marketing strategist, known for stretching her clients slightly beyond their comfort zones to achieve business progress they hadn’t realized was even possible. Most recently, Nicole founded the Building Business Rockstars Show: a podcast of frank and unscripted interviews with successful entrepreneurs across a wide range of niches that provide new entrepreneu

Joel Boggess is the go-to guy for clarity, confidence and direction. He’s the guy people call when they’re feeling stuck, under-challenged or overwhelmed. He teaches people how to find productivity, meaning, and success using multiple platforms, including public speaking, podcasting, and publishing. His latest book, Finding your Voice, hit the #1 spot on Amazon in the success and the self esteem categories. Among his recent accomplishments, Joe’s podcast, ReLaunch, was named by Podcasters’ Paradise as “Best Overall” podcast of 2014 and “Most Inspirational” podcast for 2014 and 2015. The Relaunch podcast has surpassed over one million listens. Joel is a contributor to Networking Times, Huffington Post, and Success.com. Originally from San Antonio, Texas, Joel earned his undergraduate degree at Texas Tech University, an MBA from Amberton University, and a Master’s in Counseling. Today, Joel and his wife Pei live in the Dallas-Fort Worth area with their two dogs: Bubba, a Golden Retriever retired therapy dog, an