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LOOKING FOR A PROVEN LEADER TO INSPIRE YOUR PEOPLE IN AN ENVIRONMENT OF CHANGE? Michael David Cameron is a Canadian author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and advocate against Gender Based Violence. Cameron is known for his compelling speaking engagements, seminars, and various writing projects. Mike is also the founder and managing partner of Axiom Mortgage, One of Canada’s largest independent brokerage firms. He is an active philanthropist, partnering with organizations such as Stop Abuse in Families (SAIF) society, and the White Ribbon Campaign. He is the Founder/Race Director of the Ignore No More Run for Respect, an awareness building, fundraising event focusing on engaging men and boys to open the discussion on healthy relationships. www.mikecameron.ca  

Shelly L. Francis has been the marketing and communications director at the Center for Courage & Renewal since mid-2012. Before coming to the Center, Shelly directed trade marketing and publicity for multi-media publisher Sounds True, Inc. Her career has spanned international program management, web design, corporate communications, trade journals, and software manuals. The common thread throughout her career has been bringing to light best-kept secrets—technology, services, resources, ideas—while bringing people together to facilitate collective impact and good work. Shelly wrote The Courage Way: Leading and Living with Integrity (February 2018) on behalf of the Center for Courage & Renewal.   http://www.couragerenewal.org/

RM Harrison is a business strategist and the author of The Pivot Map. She guides entrepreneurs to tap into their "genius" to cultivate success that matters and lasts.   www.rm-harrison.com

Entrepreneur and Podcaster, Shawn Welchef joins Margarita and David for an action-packed, heartfelt conversation about family, business and life. Check out is BIO points...WOW! * Owner/Operator/HeadCoach @CaliComfortBBQ   * Host #BehindTheSmoke Podcast - Business & Digital Marketing Weekly BBQ Podcast   * Kansas City Barbecue Society BBQ Contest Organizer #BETonBBQ @DelMarRacing 8/19/18   * Cali's Largest Amatuer Tailgate & BBQ Contest Organizer #SVBBQFest * University of San Diego Alum 2005   * Bishop's School Graduate - Y2K Class of 2000   * Pro Football's Ultimate Fan Association Member - Class of 2017 - #BoltPride   * Digital Media Business Integration Guest Speaker & Podcast Promoter * Proud New Father & Lucky Husband To My Bulgarian Bride www.calicomfortbbq.com

Featured in Forbes, The Huffington Post, Inc, and Business Insider, Amanda Abella has created an online community where millennials can learn how to make money online and actually enjoy their financial journeys. Her ever growing community is currently made up of over 30,000 individuals across social media and email subscriber channels. The world’s fascination with money – and her own need to learn about healthy financial habits – led her to start her career as a freelance writer who focused on financial topics in 2010. Since then her company has expanded to creating content marketing and financial education courses for companies like Credit Karma, Santander and Discover. In 2014, Amanda launched her Amazon bestselling book, Make Money Your Honey: A Spirited Entrepreneur’s Guide to Having a Love Affair with Work & Money which has been featured in Yahoo! Finance and Seventeen Magazine. The book has also appeared on top business and finance podcasts like John Lee Dumas’ Entrepreneur on Fire and Farnoosh Torabi’s So Money. She launched the Make Money Your Honey podcast on iTunes in 2016. In 2015, Amanda Abella’s blog was a finalist for a Plutus Award for Best Personal Finance Blog for Millennials. In 2016, AmandaAbella.com won the Plutus Award for Best Designed Personal Finance Blog. Amanda has won the South Florida Bloggers Award for Best Finance Blogger in 2016 and 2017. In addition to helping millennial business owners, as of 2017 Amanda has also done consulting work for financial companies targeting the LatinX community such as Dvdendo and MoneyMio. Her own experience as a Cuban-American having been raised in Miami has led to a new passion of helping her community achieve financial goals while speaking to their specific needs as a community. She is fully fluent in written and verbal English and Spanish.

Julia Harper, PhD, MS, OTR/L is a psychologist, life coach & mentor, occupational therapist, business owner, speaker and writer. She is also a mother and wife. She brings all of these roles together to serve her mission of helping peopleall people to live their lives beyond limitations. How people relate to themselves and to each other, is at the core of her work. Julia is the founder and owner of the Therapeeds Family Center, a globally recognized company with more than 55 employees. In her practice, she offers the WAY (What About You) method to her clients, which retrains the brain to move beyond emotional and thought limitations. This provides the structure for people to see how they relate to themselves, so they are better able to relate to others in all of the important areas of their lives, which are their Professional, Partnering and Parenting.   www.juliaharperinc.com

About Dr. Gayle Carson The back story of Dr. Gayle’s Spunky Old Broad® Philosophy  Born in Albany, NY, Dr. Gayle Carson, like many of us, has experienced endless moves and had many career adventures and hiccups along the way. One thing Gayle knew at a young age- she was born to coach entrepreneurs. Possessing that “silver lining mentality” has allowed her to build a company from 0 to 7 offices, travel globally as an international speaker, coach and consultant and produce over two dozen books, CD and DVD programs and work with over 1000 clients in 50 different industries. Coaching and speaking across the world, Dr. Gayle always heard: “How do you stay so positive?”   “Where does that inner-spunk come from?”  Did they say SPUNK? Well, she knew she wasn’t a spring chicken and having an opinion can make people reach for the BROAD word.  So why not put this whole thing together and represent in a POSITIVE way, three words that are typically NEGATIVE? The Spunky Old Broad® (SOB) philosophy was born.  Dr. Gayle wanted to possess a distinct way to describe that fire in her belly that just seems to keep her going! The past 79 years weren’t child’s play however. Surviving three bouts of breast cancer and over 16 surgeries, experiencing the death of her husband and her oldest son was not easy to say the least. Throughout all the cancer, she kept working even during radiation, chemo as Dr. Gayle believes we are all survivors in one form or another. This attitude transfers over to the mastermind groups and individual coaching and mentoring with her clients so that they not only survive but flourish and reinvent themselves personally and professionally. As an expert adviser to CEO’s and entrepreneurial managers around the world, she has been called on by major media to comment on business, communication, the conversation on boomer statistics and even customer service issues.  A specialist in boomer women and beyond, she helps them deal with elder-care issues, feeling invisible, self-esteem and most important, knowing they can become whatever it is they want to be. When you consider our aging general population; boomer statistics show over 10,000 individuals in the US alone retire each and everyday.  Other boomer statistics may seem staggering in looking at the sheer numbers of: 77 million people were born between 1946 and 1964, which is defined as the baby boomer era (U.S. Census) By Boomers make up 35% of the American adult population (Scarborough) The 55+ age group controls more than three-fourths of America’s wealth (ICSC) Dr. Carson says, “Many of my mentees are already successful, however they are dealing with so many other issues because they are responsible women who become overwhelmed.” www.spunkyaoldbroad.com gayle13@gmail.com

Chuck Gallagher joins Margarita and David to share his story and how he transformed a really bad decision into a speaking and training career... MORE ABOUT CHUCK: Ethics in the workplace is a serious matter, but talking about it doesn’t have to be “business as usual.”  Chuck Gallagher learned a lesson about ethics, choices and consequences the hard way—but now he shares his experience so that others don’t have to.  You may have seen Chuck on television, or heard him on CNN, CBS or NPR radio programs.  His business insights are sought after for his strong position on ethics and ethical leadership. Chuck’s focus is business—but his passion is empowering others.  His unique presentations on Business Ethics clearly demonstrate he brings something to the platform that isn’t often found in typical business speakers.  Chuck’s personal experience in building businesses and sales teams while leading companies provides a practical and powerful framework for ethical success. Currently COO of a national company and former Sr. VP of Sales and Marketing for a public company, Chuck may have found a sales niche early on in life selling potholders door to door, or convincing folks to fund a record album of his musical performance at age 16 (and yes those were the days when an album was made of vinyl), but it was the school of hard knocks that provided a fertile training ground for Chuck’s lessons in success.  Described as creative, insightful, captivating, and a person that “connects the dots” between behavior, choices and success,Chuck gives his clients what they need to turn concepts into actions and actions into results. In the middle of a rising career, Chuck lost everything because he made some bad choices. He has since rebuilt his career and his life back to immense success. With more vulnerability than the average keynoter, Chuck shares with his audiences his life journey, the consequences of his unethical choices, and how life gives you second chances when you make the right choices.  In fact, Chuck’s new book, SECOND CHANCES: Transforming Adversity into Opportunity, has received numerous endorsements and has been described as one of those rare books that effectively bridges the gap between personal accountability and business success. With Chuck you have an industry professional sharing practical tested and time proven methods that can enhance personal and professional performance.  What Chuck shares in his presentations, whether training, keynotes or consulting, are understandings of not only “how to”, but also “what motivates behavior”—behavior of individuals that can create personal and professional success. On a nationwide basis, Chuck has helped countless individuals on their journey to success!  So here’s the question: Do you want your personal performance or your company’s performance to improve?  If so, Chuck offers a “real world” practical approach to improving your understanding of how to achieve ethical choices!   Now is the time to book Chuck and take the steps needed to improve yourself and grow your business, thereby achieving your success! And yes, Chuck’s programs are GREAT FUN!  He’ll have your audience asking for more and knowing that what is discussed today will yield results tomorrow! Visit: www.chuckgallagher.com/

Author and creative marketing guy Dave Bricker joins Margarita and David to share his unique "Story Sailing" approach to helping entrepreneurs and professionals grow their businesses. www.davebricker.com

Kalen Arreola was a Captain in the Army Reserve and was a Public Affairs Officer from 2003 to 2013, serving in units across the United States to include Nashville, Tenn., Denver, Colo. and Southern Calif. She served in Operation Iraqi Freedom V in 20072008. After leaving the Army in 2013, she went full time on her marketing agency. Since 2009, she has helped more than 200 business with their marketing and PR challenges, often focusing on how businesses can reach military veterans and families. www.kalenmarieconsulting.com

Charmaine Hammond is an expert in building respectful workplace cultures, and teams that work better together. Part 2 - In this segment, we chat about how to structure and conduct Sponsor relationships for events and in your business. ABOUT CHARMAINE: As a former Correctional Officer, and dispute resolution expert she dealt with and mediated some of the most difficult conversations and confrontations, she learned that in many ways the challenges behind bars weren't much different than those around the board room table. She teaches us how to communicate for success, manage the courageous dialogues and bounce forward. www.raiseadream.com www.charmainehammond.com 

Charmaine Hammond is an expert in building respectful workplace cultures, and teams that work better together. As a former Correctional Officer, and dispute resolution expert she dealt with and mediated some of the most difficult conversations and confrontations, she learned that in many ways the challenges behind bars weren't much different than those around the board room table. She teaches us how to communicate for success, manage the courageous dialogues and bounce forward. www.raiseadream.com www.charmainehammond.com