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

Bio

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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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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Vinnie Fisher

Vinnie Fisher

Bio

Vinnie Fisher is an entrepreneur and a best-selling author who has over 20 years of experience growing a scaling multiple 8-figure companies.

Vinnie Fisher has been married to Debbi for 27 years and has 4 beautiful children. Vinnie has built multiple businesses with the privilege of growing 4 of them to 8-figures.

Today Vinnie is the CEO and founder of Fully Accountable which opened in early 2015. With his team, they built an Outsourced Accounting and fractional CFO company that provides a fully managed back office solution for eCommerce, CPG, tech enabled, SaaS and digital agencies.

They recently made the 2022 INC. 5000 list for the fourth year in a row with 151% growth! As a successful CEO Vinnie has really developed a talent for building and growing world class teams. He has learned that a valuable company must grow beyond the shadow of the owner.

Topics

  • Is your business bigger than you
  • Importance of company culture
  • Growing a business to 7 and 8 figures

Questions

  • What’s the secret to growing your business?
  • Why is company culture so important?
  • Why did you start a finance company?

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Kim Kristensen

Kim Kristensen

Bio

  • I help people get unstuck.
  • Spent 24 years as a circus performer doing acrobatics, trick riding, training horses and leopards, and as an aerialist with no nets or safety devices.
  • Traveled extensively through 49 states (missed Alaska), most of Canada, Mexico, and Denmark.
  • Did somersaults on the back of a galloping horse almost daily between ages 14 – 18.
  • Spent 4 days alone in the wilderness on a mountain top (Mount Rogers) with no food and minimal shelter.
  • Spent 4 days being initiated and challenged by a group of powerful women at the Noble Man workshop.
  • Sat with shamans in the Upper Amazon in Peru and participated in Ayahuasca healing rituals.
  • Went through a men’s initiation weekend in 2004.
  • Bitten through the right arm by a young leopard, charged by an enraged female elephant, and met Mae West in San Francisco. But not all on the same day.

Topics

  • Conflict: How to WIN Every Time! Tired of losing at conflict? Do you want to walk away with a feeling of victory? Through interactive discussion, movement, conflict “games”, and role play we will explore and experience various Conflict Resolution techniques for a guaranteed WIN!
  • Practical Conflict Resolution: 8 hr. prerequisite for Basic Mediation.
  • Basic Mediation: 16 hr./2-day workshop towards becoming a Virginia Certified Mediator.
  • Assertive Communication Skills – How to Speak your Truth Respectfully & Professionally: How to speak up, ask for what you want, and change your life. Do you let others get their way because you are reluctant to speak up? Do you speak up too quickly and end up being accused of being aggressive? This workshop will help you develop sure-fire techniques to ask for what you want in a respectful and clear manner.
  • Deep Listening Skills – Becoming a Better Listener: Being an effective employee, manager, parent, spouse, friend, or even human requires being able to really hear what the other person is saying. Deep listening skills can help you connect with and influence others in a positive and productive way
  • Your Brain on Conflict – Brain Based Conflict Resolution Techniques: Have you ever been unsuccessful at communicating with or calming an upset person? Have you ever been at loss for words or effective strategies during a conflict? This workshop uses some basic principles of neuropsychology to present a model for understanding the behaviors of people and for calming and connecting with them so communication can be more effective.
  • Managing Conflict, Teams, and Agreements: Find the skill and courage to handle interpersonal conflict in teams through managing agreements. This workshop will explore ways to limit or prevent unintended negative outcomes by handling conflict and agreements in a more productive and courageous way.
  • An Introduction to Conflict Coaching – “Mediation for One”: Through actual coaching and interactive presentation, this training helps prepare participants for coaching conflict situations. Conflict Coaching is a one-on-one, forward-looking, and empowering process intended to help a person be more effective in handling conflict in their lives. The focus is on helping the person make behavioral changes that result in less destructive conflict and more constructive outcomes.
  • Dealing with Difficult People – A Different Approach: How to remain calm, diffuse anger, and deal with strong personalities. This workshop gives you personal insights plus communication and coping skills to deal with those difficult people in your life in a respectful and appropriate manner.
  • Mediating Difficult Conversations: How to communicate with others in difficult and conflict situations. What to say and how to say it, when you don’t want to say it. Participants will leave with a “cheat sheet” of proven techniques to help make those difficult conversations less difficult.
  • Somatic Conflict Resolution – Using the Body’s Wisdom for Personal Breakthroughs: The Body never lies! The participant will experience various evidence-based somatic (body-based) strategies for increasing awareness and connection. These techniques can be used effectively with clients, employees, and even friends and family for better understanding, connection, and cooperation.
  • Basic Conflict Resolution & Mediation: This workshop introduces you to a variety of Conflict Resolution theories and techniques. You gain new tools in Conflict Resolution and Mediation through various activities, exercises, and role plays.
  • Living Within Your Window of Tolerance – Regulating Your Emotions, Calming Your Body, & Reducing Anxiety: You will experience using the “Window of Tolerance” and related techniques to help you not only regulate your own nervous system but also the nervous systems of others.
  • Customer Service – The most important thing you will do all day: We often think of customer service being applied to the retail environment. However, we all have customers and we all are customers to someone. Through interactive presentation and discussion, this training will describe and elicit various ways to offer better internal and external customer service and also be the best customer to others.
  • Yes, There IS an “I” in Team: Failing to recognize the individuality of members in a team can cause conflict. Make those “I’s” become “We’s”. Learn why there’s no such thing as team conflict, how to recognize and build on individual strengths, and how to make your team’s collaborative efforts more successful.
  • Delegating Effectively and with Purpose: Participants will explore why you should delegate, what you should delegate, when you should delegate, when you shouldn’t delegate, and to whom you should (or shouldn’t) delegate.
  • Conflict Resolution Games – How Games & Play can teach us how to get along: You will experience various games & activities that illustrate fundamental conflict resolution principles and techniques.For adults and teens.
  • Stress Can’t Kill You! This interactive presentation will offer several powerful ways to reframe stress and better deal with, maybe even capitalize on, everyday stress. By the end of the presentation, the audience will have new insights plus several powerful tools to help reduce and control the stress in their lives.
  • De-Escalation Techniques: How to use various verbal and somatic (body-oriented) techniques to help de-escalate typical conflict situations.
  • Trauma-Informed Conflict Resolution: Using Trauma-Informed knowledge and processes to help decrease, mediate, and even prevent conflict.

Questions

  • How can you avoid conflicts?
  • How do you de-escalate someone who is upset?
  • How can you win a conflict every time?
  • How do you say “no”?
  • How can you be assertive without becoming an asshole?
  • How can you have that “difficult conversation” with someone?
  • How do you calm yourself, reduce anxiety, and de-stress?
  • Why does your team have disagreements?
  • What is Conflict Coaching?
  • How do you deal with difficult people?

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