Today’s guest believes collaboration happens when conversations turn into action.

He is the creator of Idea Climbing™, the result of his 21-year case study interviewing and researching successful people and companies about collaboration and mentoring. He works with business owners and marketers to increase communication with their current clients while attracting new ones faster through interview content, virtual events, interactive media, and mentoring programs.

Along the way, he stumbled into the world of improv and discovered that improv ISN’T about being funny; it’s about collaboration. It’s an art, a science, and a lifestyle. Since then, he’s integrated improv rules into his business presentations and everyday life - it’s shifted his worldview.

Please join me in welcoming Mark J. Carter.

In this episode we discuss:

• his thoughts on leadership: “Leadership is creating a shared goal that aligns with a personal goal. It’s bringing people up.”
• the clubs he created in 4th and 5th grades for his friends, ID cards and all.
• when he discovered he could be a successful entrepreneur.
• how Tony Robbins influenced him as a young adult.
• his early years of cold calling high schools hoping to be hired to speak to their students.
• his pivot from speaking to thoughtfully mentoring.
• how he set up mentoring video meetings through agendas focused on advice, support, and connections.
• his plan to reach out to people who talked about networking and relationships to lead to referrals = a business was born!
• the importance of showing a genuine interest in people beyond just trying to get an ask fulfilled.
• his strategy for networking with the different levels of his network including the format for his excel sheet.

Today’s guest is on a mission to provide institutional financial support to the world’s most gender impactful strategies and entities, thereby enabling them to deliver value for the world’s women and girls.

She is the Founder and CEO of Women of the World Endowment, a global endowment focused on investing in and through women as drivers of solutions to today’s pressing challenges. She has made strategic large-scale contributions to the growth of the gender lens investing market, and is widely recognized for driving innovation and building sustainable global investment programs, with a focus on both profit and impact. She actively drives forward a capital system more inclusive of women and girls, and one that is racially diverse.

Please join me in welcoming Patience Marime-Ball.

In this episode we discuss:

• her thoughts on leadership: “Leadership embodies 3 things; living your full potential (self-work), influencing others (multiply effect), and building an ecosystem (sharing with others).”
• her internal conflict of being a gregarious child and not following her cultural path growing up in Zimbabwe.
• how her grandfather saw as much potential in his daughters as he did in his sons and how he nurtured their paths and encouraged them all to live to their full potential with purpose.
• her thoughts behind collaboration and how to essentially ‘find your people’ and share resources.
• how being a voracious reader opened her mind to bigger ideas in the world.
• the impact her mother’s experiences had on her.
• her experience at law school and how one summer changed her trajectory during her higher education.
• the creation of Women of the World Endowment.
• how being intentionally uncomfortable is necessary to build an ecosystem and how that has helped her have an impact in the spaces she is a part of.
• that leadership evolves from connecting your mind with your heart.
• how she nurtures and sustains her network of people by being intentional and trying to make deep connections.

Listen, subscribe and read show notes at www.OnTheSchmooze.com - episode 241.

Today’s guest is the leading expert on how to leverage podcast guesting for increased brand awareness, more leads, and higher profits.

She created the podcast booking industry in 2013 when she founded Interview Connections, recently named the Best Speciality Podcast Guest Booking Agency of 2021 by Corporate Vision Magazine. Along with her business partner, she has quickly scaled Interview Connections to multiple 7 figures in annual revenue by leveraging the power of podcast guesting. Their team of in-house booking agents is the powerhouse behind many successful entrepreneurs and businesses including Ali Brown, Perry Marshall, AWeber, USA Financial, and more.

She has done hundreds of podcast interviews both as a guest and co-host of Monetize the Mic. She is the co-author of the upcoming book, “Monetize the Mic: Transform Your Business with Visibility and Strategy” and has been a featured speaker at Podfest Multimedia Expo and FinCon.

Please join me in welcoming Jessica Rhodes.

In this episode we discuss:

• her thoughts on leadership: “Leadership is in me. To be a leader, you focus on your inner drive to achieve your highest potential and want to lead others to do the same. A leader is someone who leads by example.”
• how she did her own thing as a kid and being the “odd kid out” helped develop her leadership skills.
• how she draws inspiration from watching her parents be servant leaders.
• her vision of wanting to be a star on Broadway and her memories of finding a home in theatre groups in school.
• how her dad inspired her to launch her career with him being on a podcast and introducing her to the online space.
• her start in podcasting inspired by her dad and Jerod Morris.
• the importance of women investing in their visibility.
• the importance of talking about money, especially with your children.

Listen, subscribe and read show notes at www.OnTheSchmooze.com - episode 240.