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James Cammilleri, Owner, JSC Management Group, A DotCom Magazine Interview

About James Cammilleri and JSC Management Group:James and Sarah Cammilleri own JSC Management Group. The company owns and operates over 60 Burger King restaurants in Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.From an early age, James had an interest in business. He has a strong family background in the hospitality industry, as well. James spent his early years working with his uncle in a family restaurant and later worked with his father at their Burger King franchise. Today, James has reached a high level of success in the franchise industry.The Cammilleris business empire has grown from two restaurants to over 60 in the past seven years. This can be attributed to their strong moral principles and instinct for planning strategic business moves.We own and operate 69 Burger King restaurants in NY, CT, MA, and RI. Our executive team has over 85 years of combined Burger King experience. We achieved 2020 Burger King Franchisee of the Year and are consistently ranked #1 in the Northeast region amongst active franchisees. Our food and labor profitability are second to none. We maintain the highest level of customer satisfaction in quality, service, cleanliness, and image.Using a calculated expansion model and growing only when a good fit for the organization, we expanded from two to 66 Burger King restaurants in less than eight years. Throughout continued growth, we retain the highest level of operational excellence and deliver the best product to our customer base. Our formula for success lies in our ability to put people first, which ultimately translates into superior operations and profitability. When our leadership teams’ personal lives are in order, they can focus with intensity on their professional responsibilities. We endeavor to support, develop, and inspire forward-thinking, service-minded leaders.

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Julie Cielo, Founder and CEO, Ferm Fatale LLC, A DotCom Magazine Interview

About Julie Cielo and Ferm Fatale LLC:Julie Cielo is more than just the fearless founder and CEO of Ferm Fatale. She is a driving force behind the fermented foods and Non-Alcoholic beverage movements.From growing up fermenting with her Italian immigrant grandfather in rural Pennsylvania, to having recovered from a debilitating autoimmune disease, Julie discovered two simple truths – That the gut is the source of our health, and that the good bacteria in our gut has the power to cure. With these truths at heart, Julie has not only created the world’s first wildly-fermented zero-proof cocktail, but has also helped countless others discover the benefits of Living Clean and Drinking Dirty.Julie is a frequent speaker at beverage and fermented foods events nationwide and is a founding member of the Adult Non-Alcoholic Beverage Association. She is also a professional yoga therapist, transformational life coach, psychic medium, and host of the We Are the Soil podcast. Julie currently lives in Venice Beach, CA.Ferm Fatale is the world's ONLY wildly fermented zero-proof cocktail in classic cocktail flavors--Sugar free and non-alcoholic gut-healthy alternatives. Ferm Fatale was birthed in 2015 on stage at BevNet Live Start-Up Beverage of the Year Showdown as the only pre-market competitor when the term 'social beverage' was introduced to the industry by Julie, helping forge a global movement around 'alcohol alternative' options. Julie was inspired after feeling 'left out' of the party in her 20's when she couldn't have alcohol which spurred the idea 15 yrs later. She pitched the idea to seed investors back in 2014 but it wasn't until 2019 Ferm Fatale made it to the shelf at Erewhon Markets in LA, later launching DTC with www.fermfatale.com January 2020. As we all know a global pandemic happened shortly after, but Julie was invited back to the BevNet side stage again Winter 2021 in Santa Monica showcasing a secondary line of fermented tonic waters, talking about how starting a new category has come with it's challenges, especially as a woman. Julie has now raised over a million dollars and took the company through a total rebrand recently, focusing on the core line, reformulating, and repackaging from glass to 8oz sleek cans. The brand relaunched Oct 1, 2022. Julie has been a big part of what is currently a $739M industry and the fastest growing segment of food & beverage in the world right now. As we all know, startups aren't for wussies.We’re for following our gut. Not the crowd.And definitely not the little voice in our head that says we’re not enough.We’re for defying destiny, flirting with adventure, and daring to do it all. We’re for late night belly laughs and early morning sun salutations.We’re for living wildly-healthy lives fueled by wildy-healthy and diverse digestive systems. And we are passionate about strengthening them with the microbiome-cleansing bacteria and enzymes they need to help us seize the day, night, and every second in between.We are ferm believers in drinking life to the fullest, raising a glass to celebrate feel-good moments, and hanging without the hangovers.And if we happen to get a little wild and dirty in the process, all the better!Ready to leave the belly-aching behind? Then come take a walk on the wildly-fermented side.

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Julie Jakopic, Founder & CEO, iLead Strategies, A DotCom Magazine Interview

About Julie Jakopic and iLead Strategies:Julie Jakopic, President/CEO of iLead Strategies has been helping leaders succeed since she tutored her friends in math in third grade. She started her career in retail and was one of the youngest managers for Bloomingdales and Estee Lauder, while still in college. She moved to the non-profit sector, taking her private sector customer service skills to serving families at-risk and her entrepreneurial skills to building organizations. In 2003, she moved back to the private sector, as a Vice President of the Development Services Group and then as a technical director for ICF International, where she leads work with the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services.In 2007, she founded iLead Strategies, an organizational development firm that strengthens leadership effectiveness. By helping business, non-profit and government leaders and organizations clarify their vision and then create effective strategies and cultivate the relationships to bring that vision to life, iLead Strategies makes the seemingly impossible possible.Julie is a nationally recognized and respected coach, speaker and strategist. She has shared the stage with President Obama and has been featured as a business coach by WUSA television and appears on or in the Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Al Jazeera WUSA9 and NBC4.Julie is fiercely committed to helping clients get the outcomes they want for their customers, their organization and themselves.Welcome to iLead Strategies' LinkedIn page. Follow us for insights on leadership development, strategic planning, organizational development and change management.What is iLead Strategies? iLead Strategies is an organizational development firm helping leaders of organizations that serve others achieve extraordinary results for themselves, their organizations and those they serve.Leadership requires both vision and realism. It’s not just talking about hopes, but securing dreams. It’s not just identifying challenges, but achieving extraordinary results.That means being clear about vision, communicating goals, creating effective strategies, committing to action and sustaining the effort.What can iLead Strategies offer me or my business? - Leadership coaching - Results-oriented strategic and sustainability planning - Consulting - Meeting design and facilitation - Training and technical assistance - Change management and program development

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Ray Pasquale, CEO & Founder, Unified Office, Inc, A DotCom Magazine Interview

About Ray Pasquale and Unified Office:Ray has spent the last 20+ years as an entrepreneurial technology professional, he has extensive sales and customer engineering experience along with proven management team leadership in dynamic, emerging technology companies. Recently Ray playeda key leadership role in professional and customer services, business development, pre-sales and technical marketing while at Sonus Networks, a market leader in Voice over IP technologies. Ray was a founding member of Sonus’s services organization, recruiting many of its most senior members. From 1996 until 1999 Ray was a key technical leader and sales consultant for Cascade Communications’ worldwide sales organization. During his tenure Cascade was purchased by Ascend Communications. Ascend, a leader in remote access technologies for the Internet market, was subsequently absorbed by Lucent in a merger. Prior to 1996, Ray’s tenure with Digital Equipment Company included positions as Senior Consultant for Worldwide Network Operations, and Technical Leader and Senior Consultant for the Network Products Group. Ray’s commitments to excellence and ideas were recognized by Digital. Mr. Pasquale received a Customer Satisfaction Award, Storage Systems Excellence Award, and Delta Ideas Recognition Award. He attended the University of Maine.Ray brings passion and commitment to every project he works on. He applies an open mind to projects in a way that fosters creativity and innovation. I've known him to be skillful in building a technical team. He is able to identify and mentor bright young engineering talent. In addition to his technical side, Ray has broad experience and a grasp of core business planning and marketing fundamentals. His style is direct and concise.Unified Office, Inc. is a leading provider of SDN-based hybrid cloud managed Voice-over-IP (VoIP) and Unified Communications services to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Unified Office’s Total Connect Now℠ service architecture was purpose-built from the ground up to deliver the highest quality of experience and availability, leveraging the latest in extensible business VoIP communications technology and cloud-based infrastructure to enhance SMB workforce productivity. Their cloud-based intelligent network incorporates Unified Office’s unique adaptive Highest Quality Routing™ (HQR) for end-to-end service quality, and Business Continuity “shadowing” to ensure high availability operation over one or more redundant broadband links.Over the last 7 or 8 years, Internet of Things (IoT) solutions have generally been marketed to and purchased by large enterprises. There are hundreds of IoT solutions for countless use cases including remote asset tracking, factory automation, fleet services, energy/utilities management, parking management, facilities management, smart vehicle enablement and many others. But what about sales of IoT to the world’s 200 million small and medium businesses (SMBs)?

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Nathan Milner, Founder & CEO, Unspeakable, A DotCom Magazine Interview

About Nathan Milner and Unspeakable:When I was only 9 years old I built a car from a hovercraft…Pretty impressive? Remote controlled!When I was only 8 years old I built a Lego city with 23,453 Legos...Is that impressive? No?Well, how about when I was 2 years old I built the Eiffel Tower! With magnets, of course...Since I was young, I've loved creating things and venturing into things I’ve never done. I also made videos about things I enjoyed. One day I decided that I was going to become an astronaut. Then, after a year of brainstorming, I got realistic and decided I wanted to be a YouTuber.I started by making Minecraft videos, but unique ones that would draw a new audience and players to the game. After nearly two years of uploading unique, creative, and funny videos to my YouTube channel almost every day, I hit 100,000 subscribers. I felt like I accomplished the world, and I was on top of everyone! However, my journey hadn’t even started yet. I had to teach myself how to adapt, edit content in different ways, entertain an audience, and grow a brand up to the millions! I never gave up because I couldn’t go a day without thinking about what video I was going to create next!You have to work really, really, really hard if you want to be truly great at something. For the last 3 years I barely took a day off, pushing myself to working 115 hours a week. I worked every waking hour for months. But I didn’t dread a single minute of it because my passion was dripping out of me. Every ounce of muscle and brain power wanted to create a successful YouTube channel that people from every country in the world would tune into. Take every day as a learning opportunity to improve. Take every failure as a learning opportunity to be better next time. You may move 5 steps forward today, but 3 steps backward tomorrow. Growth never comes from your comfort zones.

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Vern Johnson, Owner, Axiom Care, A DotCom Magazine Interview

About Vern Johnson and Axiom Care:Our Agency started with a focus on the specific needs of individuals involved in the justice system, making Axiom Care one of the most trusted resources for this population. We offer substantial programming to individuals specifically designed to build personal accountability, manage emotions, find pro-social alternatives and increase a sense of community. Axiom Care has developed treatment services and partnerships to become one of the leaders in helping clients find freedom from the life of probation, parole, and community supervision.We strive to serve anyone needing assistance to overcome addiction. Axiom Care recognizes it is so much more than abstinence from drugs and alcohol; it’s defining a whole new way of living.To overcome addiction, we aim to treat the causes.We provide individuals with the tools and support needed to manage the stresses of everyday life, to live independently; and have connections to valuable resources and services.Axiom Care believes the relationship between clients and therapists is the most important element for success on the road to recovery from drug and alcohol dependency. We strive to treat all clients with respect and dignity, while providing a safe place to explore and develop personal accountability.Our clinical team utilizes the Stages of Change and understands that people can be at different levels of commitment to sobriety and still get the help they need.

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Shannon Duffy, Founder & CRO, Tender Belly, A DotCom Magazine Interview

About Shannon Duffy and Tender Belly:Shannon and Erik Duffy. Two crazy brothers who grew up in Iowa with a fanatical love for tasty pork. Once they began wearing big boy pants, they started asking themselves: Why is it so freakin’ hard to find really good bacon? Not good bacon, but really good bacon. And so they started meeting with local heritage breed pork farmers, trying out tons of unique dry rub recipes, and experimenting with different hardwood smoke techniques. Eventually, Tender Belly was born in 2010 with a singular mission: Bring happiness to hearts and bellies by crafting the most crazy tasty pork on planet earth. The team has grown some since those days, but our unwavering commitment to bringing you crazy tasty pork has only become stronger.Shannon and Erik Duffy grew up in Iowa. So their standards for pork are pretty high. They know the good stuff, and they knew how hard it was to find. And that’s how Tender Belly got started—a company devoted to making bacon that proves you can actually love bacon more than you already did.Their passion for doing things better now extends to all cuts of pork, and beyond. Certified Awesome. That’s what we call it. A pursuit of excellence in everything we sell. We set our standards high. And when something doesn’t rise up to meet them, it’s not good enough.

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Joe Kaufman, CEO, Media Staffing & Co-Founder at Ops Shop, A DotCom Magazine Interview

About Joe Kaufman, Media Staffing, and Ops Shop:Media Staffing is a boutique firm with a business consulting approach to recruiting. We specialize in building out teams for start-ups in advertising, data, marketing, programmatic, mobile, video, and social. When looking for top talent, we have a thorough and creative approach to ensure optimal results.Our recruitment team is exclusively made up of recruiters that have both agency and in-house experience. The level of expertise and trust provided to candidates immediately sets the tone for a strategic partnership. Trust is key when working with recruiters and it’s a game changer when our recruiters have walked in the same footsteps as the candidates they represent.Ops Shop is an on demand service that allows agencies and brands to bring on immediate resources for their advertising needs as opposed to hiring full time. The combination of working with industry vets, expertise across all aspects of digital advertising/analytics, and complete flexibility, makes Ops Shop a truly unique partner.www.ops-shop.com

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Pascal Bachmann, Founder and CEO, Strategy Achievers LLC, A DotCom Magazine Interview

About Pascal Bachmann and Strategy Achievers LLC:I help business owners and professionals who struggle to maintain their health & productivity due to their busy schedules take control of their health and mental state while still keeping up with their demanding lifestyles.As a leader or business owner, you likely have to deal with a lot of anxiety, uncertainty, increased financial pressure, and maybe even fear during these challenging times. That's why my team and I created a unique framework that will empower you to customize your own master plan that allows you to navigate the current storm and emerge more victorious, healthy, and fulfilled personally & professionally.Most People know me as this guy: "Over the past 25 years, he coached more than 20,000 people, built 7 businesses in 3 different industries, and generated more than $20 Million. Pascal Bachmann is an international speaker, author, life- and business strategist who empowers and coaches doers to be healthy and successful leaders in business and life."They often don't see the other side of the coin, which is that I was going through a personal- and business bankruptcy. I failed business, analyzed, learned to then - rise again. I learned simple strategies and disciplines that I show my clients from all walks of life today, enabling them to transform all 4 areas of life. HEALTH, MIND, HARMONY, and WEALTH.My coaching and speaking engagements have enabled me to help thousands of people & I am incredibly passionate about helping you learn the truth about your power, how to lead a healthy life and how to increase your performance levels at work.I've been doing this for almost 30 years, and my mission is to empower 15 million doers to become healthy and successful leaders in business and life. The question is, will you be next to transform?If you'd like to connect, request a complimentary consultation, or hire me to speak online or offline at your event, feel free to send a message here on LinkedIn or visit my website for free resources & the opportunity to book an appointment @ www.pascalbachmann.comStrategy Achievers is a full-service digital marketing agency serving clients nationwide and across continents. We are entrepreneurial in spirit and focused on providing exceptional consulting and implementation services to our clients.You are assigned a dedicated team of business experts and marketing specialists to collaborate on everything when you partner with us to grow your business online. We develop integrated strategies and campaigns that command attention, impact behavior, and inspire engagement for your business.Over the last 25 years, our CEO has worked with entrepreneurs and business executives, enabling them to build a strong business foundation and help them achieve their goals healthy.We believe in being very clear in the WHY before defining your business's HOW, WHAT, WHERE, and WHEN. This approach allows us to create an actionable business map, a marketing strategy, and sales processes that align with what you offer and what your audience wants while expressing your brand's true identity.

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Rick Langille, CEO, Harvest Today, A DotCom Magazine Interview

About Rick Langille and Harvest Today:At Harvest Today, we want to impact the world positively by providing them with the power to grow their food. Starting from a tile to a grow wall, Harvest Wall can enable a farmer to produce a massive quantity of fresh food that can feed a huge number of people.Harvest Wall plays a huge part in letting the world know that they can grow carbon-neutral crops and plants in an indoor growing system with actual soil, pesticide-free, and 97% less water. With the Harvest Wall, food insecurity and hunger can be lessened.The continuously exploding population puts more pressure on the growing ecosystem to keep up with increased demand. 1 out of 3 people around the world experience food insecurity which means we need a simple solution to produce more food for these people globally.Sustainable crop growth can be hindered by seasonal and climate change, water, and nutrients, which also affects food production that results in growing only during certain times of the year. A simple indoor growing system can solve this problem to increase crop growth and food production.Harvest Today is an agri-tech company that empowers global and local communities to be able to grow fresh produce closer to home and promote the harvest revolution. Its goal is to harvest and produce all-year-round crops and vegetables through our scalable indoor growing system solution.

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Will Black, Chief Giving Officer, Sharing The Credit, A DotCom Magazine Interview

About Will Black and Sharing The Credit:★ Helping Your Business to Fund or Increase Your Funding to Your Favorite IRS-Recognized Charity (501c's) With NO Expense to You...While Additionally Saving Your Business Money ★ Helping Your Nonprofit to Increase Unrestricted Donations with NO Fundraising, Grant Writing, or Business Donors Writing a Check to You ★√ US-Based Businesses who Accept Credit/Debit Cards. Would you like to support your favorite charity, with zero out-of-pocket or bottom-line expense, and save money in operating costs at the same time?√ US-Based IRS Approved Nonprofits who are in Good Standing. Would you like to receive automatic, passive, residual & sustainable unrestricted funding, with zero fundraising or grant writing, and no business donors ever writing you a check?With a focus to help your business reduce your operating costs by removing up to 95% of your monthly processing fees, and legally donating one of these mandatory fees directly to your chosen charity, using pre-tax dollars.We pair Nonprofits with Businesses so that your worthy cause receives unrestricted Forever Money on autopilot, into perpetuity.★ NEXT STEP ★If you'd like to chat, please contact me at [phone], [email protected], or schedule directly at https://saving.sharingthecredit.com/willblackVisit https://www.sharingthecredit.com★ Redirect a Portion of the Fees You Presently Pay to a Bank ★√ Easy to use and easy to decipher reporting tools and statements.√ Free monitoring & keeping rate creep down.√ Free Automatic auditing & managing of accounts for correct fees.√ Free Training.★ Benefits Include ★√ Businesses can save a substantial amount of money each year in fees & can support their favorite charity with pre-tax donations.√ Nonprofits can receive a substantial amount of unrestricted funding each year on autopilot.★ What Makes Us Different ★We are the ONLY Merchant Services Provider in the U.S. redirecting the Bank's Fee to Nonprofits AND saving Businesses money, at the same time... into perpetuity!★ Specialties Include ★501c3, Business, Charity, Contribution, Donation, Funding, Merchant Services, Nonprofit, Payment Processing, Payment Solution, Philanthropy, Small Business, Start-UpAs a businessSharing The Credit helps your business fund or increase your funding and support to your favorite IRS recognized charity (501c3’s), with no expense to you. We take the portion of your credit and debit card merchant fees you were paying to the bank and give it to your charity of choice instead.This is possible because Meridian Merchant Services, who, acting as your credit and debit card services provider, doesn't keep your merchant fees since they are a registered non-profit themselves through Meridian Foundation (IRS #45-3321239). This means what used to go to the bank, now goes to your favorite registered charity.This means you receive the credit, satisfaction and goodwill for providing extra support to a cause you believe in, from which everyone benefits with no additional bottom line or out of pocket expense…As a charitySharing The Credit means you get increased sustainable regular funding from businesses that support you, without the charity incurring any money raising or other costs…In other words, we show both businesses and non-profit groups how to support and raise funds for great causes that help make our world a better place.Talk with us about helping you to help everyone share the credit.

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Tom Hayman, Founder & CEO, Real Estate Negotiation Institute, A DotCom Magazine Interview

About Tom Hayman and Real Estate Negotiation Institute:I created RENI so you can better represent your clients and yourself through greater confidence and capability in negotiating. “Making YOU the Expert!” Teaching others about negotiation and persuasion is truly my passion! I have many years of professional negotiation experience as both a practitioner and an instructor. After spending 5 years in the Marine Corps (negotiating the sunny skies in Hawaii in jet fighters!), I spent 25 years negotiating with hundreds of companies for a top Fortune 50 company (including 4 years in Japan and the Far East). I entered real estate in 2003 and have over 15 years as an active agent and a negotiation trainer. I love to study the latest research on persuasion, figure out how it applies to real estate (and life!), and pass them on to our students. My wife and I are fortunate to have most of our children and grandchildren living near us in Arizona (4 children, 10 grandchildren, and 2 great-grandchildren). We spend time volunteering at our church, reading, traveling, and being thankful for all of our blessings. I would love the opportunity to help you be the best negotiator you can be!The Real Estate Negotiation Institute (RENI) focuses only on negotiation training and is operated by true subject matter experts.RENI is the first and leading negotiation training company in real estate in North America. RENI owns the Master Certified Negotiation Expert (MCNE®) designation program and the Certified Negotiation Expert (CNE®) course. The MCNE program is the premier negotiation training program in real estate and the CNE course is the most popular negotiation training course in real estate.The owners of RENI have professional negotiation training from Harvard, Wharton, Karrass, and Oxford University in England.RENI has over 70,000 graduates and 500,000+ classroom hours.By combining the negotiation expertise with relevant real estate experience, RENI is able to provide unmatched negotiation training to real estate professionals.Real estate clients rate “negotiation skills in their agent” as the most important service provided by an agent (see “Game Changer” publication). Getting the best negotiation training available is in your and your clients’ best interests!And NAR’s Code of Ethics does not limit your advertising to only NAR designations (see NAR’s Code of Ethics, Standard of Practice 12-13). You can use any designation/certification you have earned in your marketing, including the CNE and MCNE.Student feedback and thousands of testimonials confirm that RENI’s training is not only among the best in the industry, but it can truly improve your business and your life.

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Colin Yurcisin, CEO, Leveraged Mining, A DotCom Magazine Interview

About Colin Yurcisin and Leveraged Mining:Colin Yurcisin is the CEO of Leveraged Mining. Mr. Yurcisin has been studying bitcoin extensively since March 2020, and provides bitcoin education to the masses through IG, Tiktok and Youtube (1M+ followers). Mr. Yurcisin is a successful serial entrepreneur and business owner (Leveraged Lifestyle (7 figure), Leveraged Investments (8 figure) and Leveraged Mining (7 figure).Leveraged Mining optimizes Bitcoin Mining for clients interested in investing in their cutting edge process. Bitcoin is powered by individual computers all around the world Working together to maintain and secure the public ledger. Leveraged Mining offers Immersion Cooling and Performance Optimization, and offers 2 incredible services to its clients: Hash rate packages and Ownership packagesBitcoin runs on a decentralized computer network or distributed ledger that tracks transactions in the cryptocurrency. When computers on the network verify and process transactions, new bitcoins are created, or mined. These networked computers, or miners, process the transaction in exchange for a payment in Bitcoin. Bitcoin mining is the process by which new bitcoins are entered into circulation. It is also the way the network confirms new transactions and is a critical component of the blockchain ledger's maintenance and development. "Mining" is performed using sophisticated hardware that solves an extremely complex computational math problem. The first computer to find the solution to the problem receives the next block of bitcoins and the process begins again.Colin Yurcisin and the team at Leveraged Mining have put together a compelling offering for those people interested in participating in mining of Bitcoin. An intriguing interview with one of the leaders in the space.

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Dr. Nicole R. Caillier, Founder, The Launch, Grow, Thrive Movement, A DotCom Magazine Interview

About Dr. Nicole R. Caillier and The Launch, Grow, Thrive Movement: Enterpriser. Upriser. When it comes to helping nurses and other highly motivated professionals launch their own staffing firms, no one does it better than Nicole R. Caillier, Ph.D. Known as The Queen of Staffing, Nicole has made it her mission to provide aspiring, emerging and established entrepreneurs with the exact blueprint and strategies she used to build her own staffing empire and achieve massive success. Founder of Quality Staffing Network LLC, she has helped countless clients find unbelievable success, financial freedom and career satisfaction by entering the healthcare staffing industry. In the past 4 years alone, she has established over 400 healthcare staffing firms. Nicole’s entrepreneurial journey sprung from a desire to make a difference in the healthcare community on a greater scale in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. After losing her job as a nurse, she started her healthcare staffing firm in 2005 and tripled the business within 2 years in the middle of a recession. Named as one of the top female business leaders in North America, Nicole has been recognized for her work by Women in Business, Entrepreneur magazine, Charisma and the Impact Network. In a career full of huge wins, she’s most proud of obtaining an honorary doctorate and building 2 multimillion-dollar businesses without additional loans or grants. An in-demand speaker, Nicole is well-versed in several topics including staffing, purpose and building a seven-figure business. Nicole can teach your audience to reclaim their time, earn unlimited income and create the freedom they’ve always wanted and tap into their purpose and unrealized potential. With Purpose and a Plan Nicole is an energetic visionary with a gift of business acumen — as a child, she wrote business plans instead of playing with dolls. She continues her life-long passion for purpose and business by mentoring high-level entrepreneurs and beginners to prosper holistically. Enterpriser. Upriser. When it comes to helping nurses and other highly motivated professionals launch their own staffing firms, no one does it better than Nicole R. Caillier, Ph.D. Known as The Queen of Staffing, Nicole has made it her mission to provide aspiring, emerging and established entrepreneurs with the exact blueprint and strategies she used to build her own staffing empire and achieve massive success. Founder of Quality Staffing Network LLC, she has helped countless clients find unbelievable success, financial freedom and career satisfaction by entering the healthcare staffing industry. In the past 4 years alone, she has established over 400 healthcare staffing firms. Nicole’s entrepreneurial journey sprung from a desire to make a difference in the healthcare community on a greater scale in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. After losing her job as a nurse, she started her healthcare staffing firm in 2005 and tripled the business within 2 years in the middle of a recession. Named as one of the top female business leaders in North America, Nicole has been recognized for her work by Women in Business, Entrepreneur magazine, Charisma and the Impact Network. In a career full of huge wins, she’s most proud of obtaining an honorary doctorate and building 2 multimillion-dollar businesses without additional loans or grants. An in-demand speaker, Nicole is well-versed in several topics including staffing, purpose and building a seven-figure business. Nicole can teach your audience to reclaim their time, earn unlimited income and create the freedom they’ve always wanted and tap into their purpose and unrealized potential. With Purpose and a Plan Nicole is an energetic visionary with a gift of business acumen — as a child, she wrote business plans instead of playing with dolls. She continues her life-long passion for purpose and business by mentoring high-level entrepreneurs and beginners to prosper holistically. A Mover and Motivator Armed with deep industry knowledge as a former nurse and nearly two decades of front-line entrepreneurial experience, Nicole continues to take ground. Nicole’s focus has shifted to creating an impact by sharing her expertise through speaking, consulting, and private business mentorship. Read the full article

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Shark Tank's Mr. Wonderful, Kevin O'Leary, On The DotCom Magazine Interview Series

Shark Tank's Mr. Wonderful, Kevin O'Leary talks about the Robbie Cabral Interview on DotCom Magazine. Robbie Cabral, the CEO and CEO of BenjiLock, was recently interview as part of The DotCom Magazine Entrepreneur Spotlight Series. Robbie closed one of the most famous deals in Shark Tank history with Mr. Wondaful for his finger print technology padlock, BenjiLock. KEVIN O’LEARY’S SUCCESS STORY STARTS WHERE MOST ENTREPRENEURS BEGIN: WITH A BIG IDEA AND ZERO CASH Kevin O’Leary was born to a middle class family in 1954. The combination of Kevin’s mother’s family heritage as merchants and his father’s Irish charisma truly meant that O’Leary was born for business. Kevin learned most of his business intuition from his mother. She taught him key business and financial insights from an early age. These became Kevin’s core philosophies, and the pillars upon which he would one day build his empire. Kevin’s approach to business went through major changes as a teenager. During his second day on the job at a local ice cream shop, his boss came into the front of the store where Kevin was scooping ice cream. She looked at Kevin and asked him to perform a task that he wasn’t expecting. What happened next had a profound effect on Kevin – one that stayed with him for the rest of his life. As a university student, Kevin’s innate business sense led him along several different paths – including some very unusual, very entrepreneurial ways of making a profit. Not long after he finished his MBA, Kevin had a meeting that changed his life forever. He met a man who had a strange idea for a software product – an idea with huge, high-profit potential that Kevin immediately recognized. After years of ups, downs, sacrifices, challenges, and lessons learned — not to mention a critical phone call that nearly cost him everything — the opportunity that Kevin saw eventually turned into a computer software giant that was acquired for more than $4 billion dollars. After his extraordinary success at the software company he founded – and a difficult period of obstacles and legal disputes – Kevin eventually found himself on television, quickly becoming a sought-after host and personality on a range of shows – including Discovery’s Project Earth, CBC’s Dragons’ Den, and ABC’s Shark Tank. Kevin has since launched O’Leary Funds, an investment fund company; O’Leary Fine Wines; and a best-selling book series on financial literacy. In 2014, Kevin founded O’Leary Financial Group – a group of brands and services that share Kevin’s guiding principles of honesty, directness, convenience, and above all, great value.     Read the full article