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2009 Angel Capital Summit with Chuck Blakeman

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

In This Podcast Episode

Rob McNealy interviews Chuck Blakeman of TeamNimbusWest about the Angel Capital Summit, which is taking place in Denver on November 17th at the Colorado Convention Center.

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Chuck Blakeman’s Bio

Charles BlakemanChuck Blakeman has experience with companies as small as $100,000 and as large at $120 million. He re-positioned, started and sold businesses, and obtained multi-million dollar contracts with Fortune 100s. He has extensive experience leading companies, and in business development, operations, marketing, and major account management.

Mr. Blakeman is a lifetime business practitioner who now uses his experience to help other companies create success. His company, TeamNimbusWest, provides outcome-based mentoring, peer advisory, and consulting for Business Owners, CEOs, and their growing businesses. He is a regular convention speaker, trade journal contributor, and non-profit board member.

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The Federal Reserve with Stick it to the Man Author Ronald Lewis

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

In This Podcast Episode

Rob McNealy interviews Ronald Lewis about his new book, Stick it to the Man, and the problems with the Federal Reserve system.

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Ronald Lewis’ Bio

Ronald LewisRonald Lewis, author of Stick it to the Man,  is a Denver-based activist, speaker, entrepreneur, and technologist.  An early adopter of emerging technologies, Lewis became the first Denver-based lifecaster to broadcast his life 24/7 in May 2006, to a global audience of more than 600,000 to date. Lewis’ engaging personality has secured not only a devoted following, but also an increasing number of opportunities to produce engaging content including conversations with prominent executives and corporations.

Lewis’ vast background spans the spectrum from entrepreneurship to software development. He has worked with most of the world’s largest corporations including Microsoft, IBM and Unisys. He has been featured or quoted by an impressive array of media outlets including ABC News, the Associated Press, CNN, Businessweek, FastCompany, TechCrunch, NewTeeVee, Cisco and others.

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Surviving Debt with Mitchell Allen

Saturday, September 19th, 2009

In This Podcast Episode

Rob McNealy offers a timely interview with Mitchell Allen, author of A Survival Guide to Debt: How to Overcome Tough Times & Restore Your Financial Health.

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Mitchell Allen’s Bio

Mitchell AllenMitchell L. Allen is the founder, president, and chairman of Debt Education and Certification Foundation, a leading provider of personal debt management courses. Courses he helped develop have been used in over 200,000 counseling sessions, and he has personally conducted more than 1,000 interviews with individuals in financial crisis.

Mitchell previously worked for Citigroup and The Associates Financial Corporation as senior director of modeling, where he led a team of economists and statisticians in developing statistical models to predict response, risk, and fraud within various private label credit card portfolios.

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Cirque du Soleil Kooza Adds Shows in Denver

Monday, September 14th, 2009

Cirque du Soleil KOOZA has just announced that due to popular demand, they’ve added an additional block of shows in Denver, from September 30th through October 4th!  The show is truly fantastic, and I’d highly recommend it to all of you if you have the opportunity to see it.

In This Podcast

Rob McNealy interviews Vitali Charsunou, a flyer in the Teeterboard Act in Cirque du Soleil KOOZA.

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Vitali Charsunou’s Bio

Vitali CharsunousBorn in 1971, Vitali started doing acrobatics at the age of 7. This led him to compete in the sport in worldwide competitions as well as performing different acrobatic numbers in circuses around the world.

Vitali participated in the general formation* of Cirque du Soleil in 2006 and was called back later that year to join the cast of KOOZA as a flyer in the Teeterboard Act.

Vitali enjoys everything that can connect him to technology and engineering.

* Formation is a six-month process of training athletes how to act, dance, and interact with each other so they can become artists.

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Networking and Mentoring with Carol Quinn of 3Lunches

Monday, September 7th, 2009

In This Podcast Episode

Rob McNealy interviews Carol Quinn co-founder of 3Lunches about the importance of networking and one-on-one mentoring in business.

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Carol Quinn’s Bio

Carol Quinn

Entrepreneur, writer and advertising creative, Carol Quinn is the co-creator and author of the upcoming nonfiction book: “3Lunches: How to Change Your Life with Friend-to-Friend Coaching and a Sandwich,” and the blog: 3Lunches.com.

With a degree in Drama from Arts Educational Schools London, and a B.FA. in Film and Television from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Carol began her career as the co-founder of Angel Entertainment, an independent media development group—producers of educational interactive computer software, computer animation, children’s books, and television projects. Carol held the position of Executive Vice President and led the in-house creative team. She conceived, wrote and produced book manuscripts, teleplays, interactive computer game scripts, and screenplays as well as managing the editorial, design and production staffs. While at Angel Entertainment, she created and sold a series pilot to NBC, and Lifetime Television, followed by several Movies of the Week for CBS and ABC. She represented the company to underwriters and investment groups; together with her partner, took the company public in 1987.

Turning to advertising and marketing, Carol became a Senior Vice President/Creative Director with entertainment advertising company, Air Creative Group (formerly Jacobs and Gerber). She wrote and produced television, radio, print and online campaigns for clients including CBS Television, Paramount Television, Warner Bros. Online, Radio Disney, Disney Channel and DIRECTV before founding her own advertising agency, Benedict Partners, Inc. Carol has also written for film and television, and is the co-creator/author of the first American mass-market graphic novel for girls, Pink Flamingos (Simon & Schuster), and created the Young Adult book series “Palm Beach Prep” (Lynx Books).

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