A podcast featuring entrepreneurs that have failed or are failing.
Shelley Willingham a successful business strategist and entrepreneur.
She founded Vision and Passion International, LLC (VPI) in 2017 to focus on projects that simply set her soul on fire. Within the VPI portfolio are Douglas Alexandra, a digital marketing and brand activation firm and Pretty & Powerful, a movement for women set to launch 2021.
Recently, she joined The Diversity Movement to lead their business strategy efforts.
Shelley is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and earned her master’s degree at Northeastern University. She started her corporate sales and marketing career at Pitney Bowes before starting her own marketing and sales consulting firm, Creative Strategies Unlimited, Inc., based in Raleigh, NC in 2000.
In addition to her entrepreneurial pursuits, she served as the first Managing Director in Charlotte, NC for eWomenNetwork, a resource for connecting women-owned businesses worldwide.
She also developed a seminar for Duke University’s Nonprofit Management Certificate Program entitled, Purpose-Driven Marketing for the Nonprofit.
In 2003, Shelley founded the National Organization for Diversity in Sales and Marketing (NODSM), a company focused on helping corporate America recognize the increasing purchasing power of diverse segments.
Additionally, NODSM helped organizations effectively market to these groups without using stereotypes or being offensive.
Some of her clients included Merrill Lynch, Young & Rubicam, Allstate Insurance, American Family Insurance and Turner Broadcasting.
Because of her success in the multicultural space, Shelley was asked to partner with FORTUNE Magazine on a special diversity section in 2006.
In 2007, when the market turned, her business started to struggle. One of her major clients was acquired by another company and the contract was not renewed. In 2011, she made the difficult decision to close the doors of the very company that got her featured in FORTUNE. She lost it all, but through this loss found her true calling and a new beginning.
Today, Shelley shares her expertise by coaching entrepreneurs and small business owners, speaking at various non-profit and business events and facilitating sales trainings, marketing workshops and leadership conferences. She’s also a frequent on-air contributor to CNBC.
She’s been a featured presenter at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University as well as the Kenan-Flagler School of Business at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
She’s delivered presentations to several flagship organizations including, Allstate Insurance, Merrill Lynch, GE Healthcare, Met Life, Radio One and various women’s business groups and leadership summits.
Shelley is very active in the community as a board member and major gifts colonel for the Alexander YMCA, a member and chair of the fundraising committee for the Raleigh-Wake Chapter of Jack and Jill of America and she is a proud member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
Shelley is passionate about supporting entrepreneurs in their business pursuits. Through private coaching, group coaching programs, masterminds, and luxury retreats, she helps entrepreneurs build high-growth businesses.
FB: https://www.facebook.com/shelleywillinghamh
IG @shelley_willingham
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shelleywillinghambusinessstrategist
Clubhouse: @shelleywillingh
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GlobalTQM – Your Team, Your Office & Your Expertise On The Ground In China.
Links:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/globaltqm/
https://www.facebook.com/GLOBALTQM/
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Todd Palmer, From Suck to Success: a Guide to Extraordinary Entrepreneurship
If you missed that episode, Todd was $600K in debt, and from that, he ended up climbing out to making the inc 5000 list 6 times!
So that book title does have a huge meaning. (From Suck to Success)
Tod is the CEO of Extraordinary Advisors
The book is a collection of concepts & stories, including many 2020 covid pivots, that helped leaders deal with chaos & crisis.
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https://extraordinaryadvisors.com/
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Todd Palmer went from being a struggling entrepreneur with $600,000 in debt to making the INC 5000 (a record total of 6 times!) as one of America’s fastest-growing companies.
Today, as a collaborative business advisor and CEO of Extraordinary Advisors, Todd helps his clients ditch their comfort zone, dive into their “failures,” and re-frame their mindset to be more authentic, transparent, and vulnerable to affect real change along the path to success.
His company, Diversified Industrial staffing, has been featured in:
o INC Magazine
o Detroit News
o CORP! Magazine
o Crains Detroit
https://extraordiranyadvdors.com
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Amit Rosenthal CEO of an 84 year international logistics company
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Dee Deng is the co-founder and CEO of Right Hook Digital – an eCommerce growth & performance marketing agency; managing millions in ad spend for their growth clients across Australia and the USA.
Obsessed over ‘delivering wow’ – Dee leads his agency team of 50+ while sharing his team’s learnings & insights; educating brand owners on how to scale profitably and sustainably.
Most recently, Right Hook has been listed as one of Australia’s Fastest Growing Companies of 2019/2020 by the Australian Financial Review.
https://instagram.com/realdoseofdee
https://linkedin.com/in/deedeng
https://righthokkdigital.com
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Alice Vaughn is the famous creator of Offensive Crayons, an adults-only box of crayons.
With names like Boner Bill Blue, Miscarriage Maroon, and Privilege (White), the inappropriately- named crayons have been banned from Amazon for “insulting children and Caucasians”.
Vaughn is also the co-host and producer of the popular comedy sex positive podcast, Two Girls One Mic: The Porncast, where they review the holes and plot holes of your favorite porn.
www.instagram.com/offensivecrayons
www.twogirlsonemic.com
www.offensivecrayons.com/
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Guillem Macia, Founder, and CEO of W2C, a Real Estate Investments management firm based in Barcelona, Spain.
Guillem helps international investors to invest in the Spanish real estate market through any kind of Real estate investments (residential, hotels, etc).
Guillem is 30 years old, he has a law degree and two master’s degrees.
Entrepreneur, positive mindset.
Company Will To Capital
www.linkedin.com/in/guillemmacia
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Sarah Noll Wilson
Today’s guest has a master’s degree in leadership development, has been working for over 15 years in Leadership development.
She is certified in Co-Active Coaching, Conversational Intelligence, and is a frequent guest lecturer at universities.
So,When leaders need change, they go to Sarah Noll Wilson to get the tools to steer their own ship.
You dont know what you dont know
http://sararhnollwilson.com
https://www.instagram.com/sarahnollwilson
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahnollwilson/
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Alasdair McLean-Foreman founder and CEO of Teikametrics AI company optimizing ~4% of Amazon’s total sales for 6K+ brands).
Harvard graduate, who built its first million-dollar business from the dorm room the eCommerce sports brand HDO Sport, that became HDO Group.
Alasdair was in Harvard at the same time as Mark
Zuckerberg and even asked him to work on a project, but Mark was busy building “something”
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alasdairmcleanforeman/
https://www.teikametrics.com/
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Tim James is 47 years old but has more enegy than 18 year old kids. He suffered from multiple health issues in the past, like rectal bleeding, two separate skin issues, chronic acid indigestion, and had surgery to remove one of his organs due to serious digestive issues, Tim knew something had to change.But it…
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