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Patrick Sherwin is passionate about having fun, yet remains focused on solutions for our time. Since 2000, Patrick’s work with green building and solar energy has given him a broad base of experience on what’s needed to fuel our lives. While volunteering with non-profits, Patrick has facilitated energy and social innovations in the developing world. Patrick’s entrepreneurial spirit and determination drives GoSun and its capabilities in all business facets. Listen to The Tony DUrso Show on VoiceAmerica Influencers Platform every Friday at 2pm Pacific. You can also find us on Apple at tonydurso.com/apple or tonydurso.com.

Nick Jankel is the author of Now Lead The Change and creator of the neuroscience-driven leadership methodology Bio-Transformation Theory. He holds an MA in Medicine and Philosophy Of Science from Cambridge University. With his partner & wife, Alison McAulay, they share a vision of a society and world regenerated by the power of individual and collective transformation. Listen to The Tony DUrso Show on VoiceAmerica Influencers Platform every Friday at 2pm Pacific. You can also find us on Apple at tonydurso.com/apple or tonydurso.com.

Jason Boyce, a seasoned entrepreneur and nationally recognized expert on Amazon, is considered one of the world’s leading advocates for Amazon.com Third-Party Sellers. He is the Founder and CEO of Avenue 7 Media, LLC, a seller management group that harnesses the power of Amazon for direct to consumer product brands. His new book, co-authored with Rick Cesari, is titled The Amazon Jungle, and it offers strategies for sellers to succeed on the America's largest marketplace. Listen to The Tony DUrso Show on VoiceAmerica Influencers Platform every Friday at 2pm Pacific. You can also find us on Apple at tonydurso.com/apple or tonydurso.com.

Resilience expert Anne Grady is an internationally recognized speaker and author. She shares humor, humility, refreshing honesty, and practical strategies anyone can use to triumph over adversity and master change. Anne is the author of “Strong Enough: Choosing Courage, Resilience, and Triumph,” and “52 Strategies for Life, Love & Work.” She is a #TruthBomb Dropper! Anne shares practical strategies that can be applied both personally and professionally to improve relationships, navigate change, and triumph over adversity. And she’ll make you laugh while she does it. Anne is a two time TEDx speaker, and her work has been featured in numerous media outlets, including Harvard Business Review, Entrepreneur, Forbes, Fast Company and Inc. magazines, CNN, ESPN, and FOX Business. Listen to The Tony DUrso Show on VoiceAmerica Influencers Platform every Friday at 2pm Pacific. You can also find us on Apple at tonydurso.com/apple or tonydurso.com.

Alexandra Watkins is a leading and outspoken authority on brand names with buzz. Her breakthrough book, “Hello, My Name Is Awesome: How To Create Brand Names That Stick,” was named a Top 10 Marketing Book by Inc. Magazine and a Top 10 Branding Book by Branding Journal. For more than 15 years, Alexandra and her naming firm, Eat My Words, have created love-at-first sight brand names for clients including Amazon, Coca-Cola, Disney, Google, Twitter, and countless startups. Listen to The Tony DUrso Show on VoiceAmerica Influencers Platform every Friday at 2pm Pacific. You can also find us on Apple at tonydurso.com/apple or tonydurso.com.

From law school escapee to decorated corporate manager and home schooling mom, Maura Sweeney took a childhood vision and turned it into reality. Author, Podcaster, Frequent Media Guest and the trademarked Ambassador of Happiness. First given the title by the UNESCO Center for Peace when speaking at the inaugural Nelson Mandela Day celebrations, Maura has since become an international speaker on leadership and a conveyor of unity and uplift in an often depressed and divided world. Listen to The Tony DUrso Show on VoiceAmerica Influencers Platform every Friday at 2pm Pacific. You can also find us on Apple at tonydurso.com/apple or tonydurso.com.

Founder of GoingBeyondSustainability, Shel Horowitz works with companies to find the sweet spot where profitability meets environmental and social good: helping to create, identify, and market products and services that turn hunger and poverty into abundance, war into peace, catastrophic climate change into planetary balance, and pandemic disease into global health. He’s also the best-selling multiple award-winning author of 10 books, most recently “Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World” and internationally acclaimed for his writing, speaking, and consulting on social entrepreneurship and green business profitability. Listen to The Tony DUrso Show on VoiceAmerica Influencers Platform every Friday at 2pm Pacific. You can also find us on Apple at tonydurso.com/apple or tonydurso.com.

Nicolas Vandenberghe began his career selling newspapers in the streets of Paris in high school, studied Maths at Ecole Polytechnique and then received his MBA from Stanford GSB. He started and sold 3 tech companies with up to 65 employees and $11M in revenues, and also ran sales for a $2B telecom firm negotiating billion-dollar deals with companies like Google. Most recently in 2016, he co-founded his 4th startup and presently is the CEO of the SaaS firm Chili Piper – a pioneer in Buyer Enablement. The company is fully distributed – leveraging global talent with employees in 28 cities in 14 countries. Its scheduling platform is used by Intuit, Square, Twilio and more than 300+ companies worldwide for multiple use cases. Listen to The Tony DUrso Show on VoiceAmerica Influencers Platform every Friday at 2pm Pacific. You can also find us on Apple at tonydurso.com/apple or tonydurso.com.

Entrepreneur of the Year, Dr. Greg Reid is an award winning author, keynote speaker and film producer. He's an entrepreneur known for his giving spirit and a knack for translating complicated situations into simple, digestible concepts. As an action taking phenomenon, strategy turns into results fast and furious, and relationships are deep and rich in the space he orbits. A firm believer in the role of win-win partnerships and making a difference in others to succeed. Listen to The Tony DUrso Show on VoiceAmerica Influencers Platform every Friday at 2pm Pacific. You can also find us on Apple at tonydurso.com/apple or tonydurso.com.

Ankesh Kumar was born in India, grew up in London & created numerous companies in Silicon Valley. ATSystems went to $22m in 4 years, and sold to the parent company of Monster. - Personic went to $25m in 4 years and merged with Kronos. - And he sold patents to Google for sharing as a page ranking mechanism, a year before Facebook’s Like button. Ankesh is currently focused on creating a Chat/Chatbot service to improve the communication between Salespeople and their Prospects, which is discussed in depth in this interview. Listen to The Tony DUrso Show on VoiceAmerica Influencers Platform every Friday at 2pm Pacific. You can also find us on Apple at tonydurso.com/apple or tonydurso.com.

Ambassador of JOY, Barry Shore, is a change maker and life transformer whose profound message of JOY is being embraced around the globe. A successful entrepreneur, Barry was afflicted suddenly with a crippling disease that left him a quadriplegic overnight. Barry’s decision to use this experience to better his life and the lives of others has opened a unique opportunity to find JOY in living regardless of circumstance. Barry’s Keep Smiling Movement has distributed over a million Keep Smiling Cards free to all. His radio show/podcast, The JOY of Living is heard worldwide with 100 thousand downloads per month. Listen to The Tony DUrso Show on VoiceAmerica Influencers Platform every Friday at 2pm Pacific. You can also find us on Apple at tonydurso.com/apple or tonydurso.com.

David Meerman Scott is a marketing strategist, entrepreneur, investor and advisor to emerging companies, and bestselling author of 11 books, including Fanocracy and The New Rules of Marketing & PR. Now in a 7th edition, New Rules has sold more than 400,000 copies in English and is available in 29 languages from Albanian to Vietnamese. His other bestsellers include Fanocracy, Real-Time Marketing & PR and Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead. Listen to The Tony DUrso Show on VoiceAmerica Influencers Platform every Friday at 2pm Pacific. You can also find us on Apple at tonydurso.com/apple or tonydurso.com.

Learn from a former US Air Force F-16 combat fighter pilot about next-generation communications. - Dax Cornelius, who served as an officer (major) and highly decorated US Air Force F-16 combat fighter pilot, provides the foundational leadership and vision as the CEO/USA of Bastion Collective to replicate what Bastion has achieved abroad. Bastion Collective provides an ecosystem for the next-generation communications platform. Dax brings a wealth of M&A, sales and branding expertise, leveraging prior experience with Air Force branding initiatives and having generated more than $1 billion in sales and product launches with Fortune 500 Textron’s Cessna Aircraft and Piper Aircraft Company. - Listen to The Tony DUrso Show on VoiceAmerica Influencers Platform every Friday at 2pm Pacific. You can also find us on Apple at tonydurso.com/apple or tonydurso.com.

Mark Villareal has a passion for developing people in a manner that helps them achieve their goals. Early in his 35-year career he realized that the more he focused on others' success, the more his career blossomed as well. It is with a servant's heart that Mark has helped employees and managers reach their next level of success. He has assisted in developing consultative sales executives, managers, and business leaders. Villareal has a passion for leadership development and has a hunger for continued growth and development. He believes strong leaders pay it forward. Listen to The Tony DUrso Show on VoiceAmerica Influencers Platform every Friday at 2pm Pacific. You can also find us on Apple at tonydurso.com/apple or tonydurso.com.

Vlad Edelman has been in the restaurant industry for over ten years and has helped the likes of Ansible, Soapbox Mobile and ESPN's mobile business increase their CX. In 2014, he founded the game-changing product, HEROFI, that focused exclusively on creating better customer engagement tools for restaurants. Over the last five years, Vlad has built a company that focuses on equaling out the advertisement playing field. Through using modern rules-engines, real-time data visualization and automated content targeting, Vlad's company, Targetable, delivers an incredibly powerful, affordable, and platform-agnostic advertising engine that allows all retail companies to play like consumer giants. Listen to The Tony DUrso Show on VoiceAmerica Influencers Platform every Friday at 2pm Pacific. You can also find us on Apple at tonydurso.com/apple or tonydurso.com.

Ellie Dailey is founder & CEO of an innovative online recruiting platform, which allows job seekers to record an online video introduction as part of a shareable profile, including a resume. She's been a recruiter all over the world, from the UK to the Middle East, to Asia and now Silicon Valley for nearly 20 years, allowing her to gain expertise in a variety of recruiting environments, including banking, sovereign wealth funds, tech and finance. Listen to The Tony DUrso Show on VoiceAmerica Influencers Platform every Friday at 2pm Pacific. You can also find us on Apple at tonydurso.com/apple or tonydurso.com.

Matt Poischbeg, born and raised in Hamburg Germany, moved to Everett WA after finishing his BA in Business in 1995 to work for Sea-Dog Corporation. In 1999, Matt took over the reins at Sea-Lect Plastics Corporation a manufacturer of plastic injection molded products with an in-house tool & die shop. A genuine passion of Matt is the support of apprenticeship programs. Matt's TED talk and support for apprenticeship programs is a direct result of his own experiences. He finished school at the age of sixteen and completed two, 2- year apprenticeships in Germany. Listen to The Tony DUrso Show on VoiceAmerica Influencers Platform every Friday at 2pm Pacific. You can also find us on Apple at tonydurso.com/apple or tonydurso.com.

For nearly 20 years, Therese R. Nicklas, a Certified Financial Planner™ & Certified Money Coach® helps people build wealth. Her distinctive coaching system blends the spirituality of money coaching with traditional financial planning. Her process empowers clients to shift their money mindset by identifying their sub-conscious money beliefs, and then inspiring them with new habits to transform their outcome. Therese has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Herself 360 Magazine, Money Coaching Magazine, Forbes Magazine, Financial Planning and more. She is a sought-out speaker, serving as a subject matter expert for many podcasts, spiritual centers, and divorce mediators. Listen to The Tony DUrso Show on VoiceAmerica Influencers Platform every Friday at 2pm Pacific. You can also find us on Apple at tonydurso.com/apple or tonydurso.com.

Super entrepreneur and CEO of 123Employee Daven Michaels made a career of living the American Dream. Starting his entrepreneurial career at age 15, he never looked back. He has been a bestselling music and television producer, author, speaker and successful entrepreneur. Daven has helped thousands of small business owners transform their businesses by showing them how to play ball with the big corporations and beat them at their own game. Daven operates several active newsletters with hundreds of thousands of subscribers and is a regular guest on televisions shows globally. He reaches over 1,000,000 fans every month. Daven has shared this stage with such notables as Bill Clinton, Mark Victor Hansen, Les Brown, Brian Tracy, Dean Graziosi, and many others. Listen to The Tony DUrso Show on VoiceAmerica Influencers Platform every Friday at 2pm Pacific. You can also find us on Apple at tonydurso.com/apple or tonydurso.com.

Michelle Danner is an international film director & acting coach. Her student list include James Franco, Seth MacFarlane, Salma Hayek, Henry Cavill, Zooey Deschanel, Gerard Butler, Chris Rock, Chris Martin, Penelope Cruz, Michael Pena, Michelle Rodriguez, Kate Del Castillo and many others. The craft of acting is as alluring as it is mysterious, and it takes a being of great passion, insight, and determination in order to succeed. But to teach acting – to inspire creative souls to successfully harvest those tools – requires an even greater commitment, to bring out the best in each and every actor one encounters. Listen to The Tony DUrso Show on VoiceAmerica Influencers Platform every Friday at 2pm Pacific. You can also find us on Apple Podcasts or tonydurso.com.