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Chris Heerdegen

Chris Heerdegen

Bio

Chris has 22 years of small business experience, 19 of which involved coaching student internships and placing college graduates into jobs. He has a wife, Lauren, and 6 kids; one with special needs. He loves Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, his faith, and helping others see how uniquely designed they are and how to implement that design.

Topics

  • What students aged 15-22 need to do to prepare them for success in the real world.
  • Navigating starting your first small business.
  • The truth behind contracting and the painting industry, and why good service is such a struggle

Questions

  • I answer anything and everything – the only things I cannot answer are trivia questions I don’t know the answer to.

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Emily Crookston

Emily Crookston

Bio

Emily Crookston is the ghostwriter for rebels, renegades, and mavericks. She helps experts—who are long on ideas, but short on time—write business books.

As the Owner and Decider of All Things at the Pocket PhD, Emily and her team collaborate with professionals and

brands who are ready to take their LinkedIn networking to the next level.

Together they strategize and create content for LinkedIn based on their clients’ goals.

If you ask, Emily will tell you that her favorite thing about being a ghostwriter is discovering quirky, cool ways to translate complex ideas for non-expert audiences. Her work has appeared in Forbes, Entrepreneur, Ellevate, Psychology Today, Rolling Stone, Inman,

SmartBrief, and ThriveGlobal.

Emily is also a former philosophy professor, speaker, and podcast guest. When she’s not writing intensely, she’s most likely practicing yoga intensely. She lives for coffee shops that play great

music to write to and desserts topped with *real* whipped cream.

Topics

  • LinkedIn strategy
  • Content marketing
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Ghostwriting
  • Writing, publishing, and promoting your business book
  • Transitioning from academia to the business world

Questions

  • How should I optimize my LinkedIn profile to gain more clients and become a thought leader?
  • What are the benefits of using LinkedIn as a business owner, CEO, or aspiring thought leader?
  • How can I scale my business using LinkedIn?
  • What are the benefits of writing, publishing, and promoting your business book?
  • What are the questions to ask before writing a business book?
  • What is it like to work with a ghostwriter?
  • What should I know about working with a ghostwriter?
  • What are your favorite mindset tips for being a successful business owner?
  • What’s your origin story?

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Toney Thornhill

Toney Thornhill

Bio

Auctioneer with over 20 years in the industry. Left the family company to start Higher Calling Auctions.

Toney has helped local organizations

raise over 3 million dollars. He has learned to conduct virtual and hybrid as well as online auctions.

Topics

  • Fundraising auctions
  • Personal property auctions
  • Live auction
  • Online auctions
  • Real estate auctions

Questions

  • Benefits of auctions
  • Why online auction not Facebook or Ebay?

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Kevin Desrosiers

Kevin Desrosiers

Bio

Kevin has coached corporate executives and mid level managers on the art of public speaking. he is also a long time Toastmaster and has won his District’s speech evaluation contest three times (he only entered three times). He is the author of the book “Bridge Over Adversity: True Stories About Overcoming Personal challenges” and was voted as the Best Author in St. Louis by the readers of St. Louis magazine in July 2022. Kevin has also been a live speaker at conferences in Australia, South Africa, and several cities in the United States.

Topics

  • The art of public speaking
  • Grabbing your audience’s attention, keeping it, and getting your call to action

Questions

  • How do you engage your audience when giving a presentation?
  • What is the best way to open a presentation?
  • How should I close my presentation?
  • What is the best way to use the stage (movement)?
  • How can I use eye contact to connect with the audience?
  • When should I use PowerPoint and how?

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Dr. Lindsey Langendorf

Dr. Lindsey Langendorf

Bio

I am prenatal, pregnancy and pediatric chiropractor in Cottleville. My passion is helping women/couples grow their families and keep them healthy.

My journey to motherhood was not easy, but through my experience of miscarriage and my best friend’s experience of infant loss I found my true calling.

I like to think of myself as a hope dealer and hormone healer!

Topics

  • Fertility
  • Prenatal
  • Perinatal and postpartum chiropractic
  • Miscarriage/loss and pediatric chiropractic care!
  • Anything health and wellness!

Questions

  • Do you see clients that have tried IVF or IUI without any success?
  • Can you help with male fertility?
  • What does your fertility program or process look like?
  • What are some other things you suggest for couples trying to conceive?
  • What does chiropractic look like while pregnant?
  • What techniques do you use?
  • What other things do you offer in the office?
  • Why do kids need chiropractic?
  • How do you adjust babies?

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Michael Fritzius

Michael Fritzius

Bio

Life is wild. Getting married. Becoming a dad. Having a cancer scare. Starting a business. Hiring employees. Downsizing. Closing the business. Starting two new ones. Pivot, pivot, pivot.

You can’t get too comfortable these days. I haven’t been comfy for years, but I’m still on an amazing journey.

My name is Michael Fritzius, but everybody calls me Fritz. You can too. I’ve been deeply enjoying the life that comes from making our dreams a reality, through building small businesses that serve our family.

In 2015 I opened a tech company called Arch DevOps which was originally focused on software test automation. I’d create small frameworks that made it easier for non-developers to write software that actually tests a company’s product.

In 2020 the company had gotten so spread out service-wise that it was hard for people to know what to come to us about. And then the pandemic happened.

In early 2022 it was finally time to shut down that company, but in 2021 my wife and I started Exactly Zero as a result of my cancer scare nearly 10 years prior. We’ve been making out own clean living products for that decade–crafting soaps, sunscreen, bug spray,

lip balm, laundry soap and anything else we’d use in our household–and

enough people pestered us about starting a business that we finally did

😉

Then in late 2021, I started up podcastify.me, to help bring podcasting to coaches that are ready to take their business to the next level. Podcasting was a service that was stapled onto Arch DevOps not long before it shut down. Extracting that service and developing a business around it is really working out well.

Life is definitely not comfortable. And I wouldn’t have it any other way.

I share stories about our journey, what it’s like to run businesses and have more freedom, and dig into the philosophy and mindset about what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur.

Topics

  • Entrepreneurship
  • Family
  • Parenting
  • Mindset
  • Health and Wellness

Questions

  • How did you decide to start your first business?
  • What’s it like being an entrepreneur when so many people prefer stability?
  • What was it like being diagnosed with cancer and what did you go through?
  • How did you decide to start a podcast agency?
  • How did you and your wife decide to start a clean living products company?
  • What advice do you have for people who are thinking about starting a business but are hesitating?

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Theresa McRee

Theresa McRee

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After losing my job, my father, my marriage and my ability to walk (for 6 months), I was so broken I didn’t know how to move forward.

Let me share with you how I found purpose in my life. I am experienced in

helping people find clarity after a loss. The loss may be death, job, marriage – anything that has caused significant grief. I am confident that I will be able to help because I have successfully adopted strategies and habits that have literally changed and saved my (and

other) lives.

Topics

  • Grief is hard work ~ we must work through it
  • There is no easy way or any shortcuts out of grief ~ grief is painful
  • I am here to assist ~ I cannot change or fix your loss
  • I offer help finding an acceptance ~ your new normal
  • Never apologize for grieving ~ the worst kind of grief is yours
  • Grief should never be a private thing ~ there is more than comfort in sharing, sharing offers us strength to endure the burden of our grief

Questions

  • Why doesn’t grief comes in stages?
  • How do I continue in life with this tremendous loss?
  • Did God have anything to do with this?
  • How do we understand suffering?
  • Why am I so angry?
  • Why can’t I sleep or I sleep all of the time?
  • Why can’t I eat or I just eat all of the time?

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Yocheved Belsky

Yocheved Belsky

Bio

If you say, “Jump,” I’ll ask, “Why?” Let’s challenge the status quo.

Yocheved Belsky is the founder and CEO of ClearSquare Group, an organization focused on providing educational consulting for institutions, schools, and organizations. When clients requested helpfully utilizing pandemic-related EANS funding for school services, Yocheved launched M²Learning to help non-public schools and their students succeed despite the pandemic.

Yocheved has over 20 years of experience in the educational services industry as charter school superintendent, service provider, key consultant, and K-12 educator. As a nonpublic school educator and charter school superintendent, Yocheved spearheaded one of the earliest online school programs in the country. In her work as third-party service provider and educational consultant, she has created many government-funded educational programs and brought them to the market for different school models.

Yocheved is passionate about making sure all students receive the services they need to succeed in school. Through managing conflicting stakeholders, assessing educational needs, securing funding, and driving compliance measures, Yocheved and the and M²Learning team provide an all-encompassing approach to help students succeed.

Topics

  • Professional Development
  • Professional Learning Community (PLC)
  • Mentoring
  • Leadership
  • Special Education
  • Equitable Services in Nonpublic Schools
  • Title I, II, III, IV
  • IDEA
  • Compliance
  • Quality Education
  • Social and Emotional Learning
  • Student and Staff Health
  • Challenging the Status Quo
  • Quality
  • Empathy
  • Standardized Testing
  • Data Management and Analysis
  • Education Technology (EdTech)
  • e-learning
  • Board Members
  • Educational Stakeholders

Questions

  • What’s an awesome success story that you have?
  • What’s a common challenge that schools all seem to have?
  • How can a school know that they’re teaching students effectively?
  • What are the biggest challenges with securing funding?
  • What trends do you see coming in the nonpublic education space in the next 10 years?
  • What skills do educators need in order to be effective?
  • What all goes into making sure schools are compliant?
  • How can we find out more about you and your mission to improve education?

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Tim Hebel

Tim Hebel

Bio

Tim Hebel launched Beanstalk Web Solutions, a full-service digital marketing and web design agency, about nine years ago while still attending college full time. Since its launch, Beanstalk has grown from about $88,000 in annual revenue to close to $2.5 million in 2022.

In addition, Hebel has also completed an acquisition of a smaller firm and is currently working to expand Beanstalk with new divisions and additional acquisitions.

Tim is currently working on launching a new company, Beanstalk Games, that specializes in mobile game development. Their first title will be released in late 2022.

Read more about Tim at https://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/news/2021/11/17/40-under-40-2021-tim-hebel-beanstalk-solutions.html?b=163709228021992006

Topics

  • Sales
  • Marketing
  • Web Design
  • Web Development
  • Digital Marketing
  • Mobile Game Development
  • Cryptocurrencies
  • Self-made Success
  • Business Growth
  • Business Ownership Pitfalls
  • Software Automation
  • Business Finance

Questions

  • Anything relating to what I listed in the previous section

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Alex Brockman

Alex Brockman

Bio

Alex Brockman is the chief strategist for CSG, a boutique software & analytics consulting firm in St. Louis, MO.

He also has started several companies that assist small businesses and

non-profits with ideation sessions, management consulting and strategic

planning.

Alex’s career has focused on strategic growth, marketing, brand transformation and change management for: Bank of America, Wells Fargo Advisors, NewGround and CSG.

Alex is a true strategist; knowing the critical building blocks of success in today’s evolving economy.

Alex and his wife are committed to giving back to their community through the church they planted and focus their attention on families/neighborhoods impacted by addiction, incarceration and poverty.

Topics

  • Strategy
  • Ideation
  • Technology
  • Data
  • Leadership
  • Sales
  • Marketing

Questions

  • How to strategically align organizations towards the intersection of business strategy and analytics

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