Think Business With Jon Dwoskin

Jon and J.J. discuss how to keep your team engaged during a changing market.  J.J. Reifler is the Principal-Chief Operating Officer at KIG Insurance. Created to serve the community by offering commercial, personal, and life & health insurance products, William Korotkin founded the Korotkin Agency in 1913. The Korotkin Agency continued to grow throughout the years at the direction of William’s sons, Milton and Donald, who built a strong customer base and a respected reputation for the agency. Today, the agency is under the leadership of Milton’s son, Kenneth Korotkin, who has taken insurance and customer service to a new level. New types of insurance have been added in response to social and technological changes. Standard policies have been updated to fit the needs of clients as well. As they have in the past, Korotkin Insurance Group will continue to meet the insurance needs of the community with commitment, dedication and responsibility to those they serve.   Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Twitter: @jdwoskin

Jon and Randall talk with Jim Niedzinski, cofounder of Motive Wealth Advisors, about how to understand today’s market and what it means to our business and decision making.  Jim Niedzinski, CFP®, AIF®, is cofounder of Motive Wealth Advisors. He and his team provide fiduciary wealth management to a purposefully limited number of high net worth families in the context of deep relationships. For more than 20 years, Jim has been advising clients with complex financial situations such as those involving privately held businesses, the knottiest of executive compensation packages, and the challenges of large tax liabilities. In addition to Jim’s breadth of technical knowledge, he also draws upon his two decades of experience to serve clients as their strategic advisor, helping them clarify their vision and make decisions that align with their deepest values. Jim earned a BA degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, while lettering on the varsity track team. He is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional

Jon talks with Scott Shay, chairman and co-founder of Signature Bank of New York and is the author of "In Good Faith: Questioning Religion and Atheism", about Fundamental Business Execution Tactics and Why It Makes Sense to Believe in God in the modern age. Scott Shay is not only the Chairman and Co-Founder of Signature Bank of New York which started with no deposits and has become a $50 billion bank but he has also had a successful career on Wall Street. With all that, he loves to write —- In Good Faith: Questioning Religion and Atheism is his second book. The book has won accolades and has become a go to book for people questioning their own faith.   Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejondwoskinexperience/ Website: https://jondwoskin.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jondwoskin/ Email: jon@jondwoskin.com Get Jon’s Book: The Think Big Movement: Grow your business big. Very Big!   Connect with Scot

Jon talks with Danielle Kovachevich, Founder and Lead Coach at Detroit Academy of Etiquette about everything etiquette and what proper means today! Certified Etiquette Instructor, Danielle Kovachevich, specializes in helping professionals navigate the modern business world with social graces that bring dignity to daily work. Her expertise includes: international business protocol, digital decorum, corporate consulting, and fine dining etiquette. As Chief Etiquette Instructor for Bluestone Executive Communications, Danielle’s client list includes some of Detroit’s top executives from Magna, Delphi, Lear Corporation, Grupo Antolin, Special D Events, The Townsend Hotel, Aptiv, Martinrea International, Hitachi, Autoliv, and Youth Entrepreneurs to name a few. She has also delivered educational programs to Loyola High School in Detroit and Holy Name School in Birmingham.  She earned her Master’s Degree in Curriculum and Education from Michigan State University and is certified in Etiquette Instruction by the Etique

Jon talks with Mike Koenigs, Serial Entrepreneur, 13-Time #1 Bestselling Author, Speaker, Interactive Online Personality & Influencer, about how to build a business and getting into alignment with your soul. Mike Koenigs helps business owners and entrepreneurs get paid for BEING, instead of DOING by becoming Transformational Business Influencers, authorities, and thought-leaders to create impact, income, and a great lifestyle. His companies have helped over 57,000 customers in 121 countries get noticed, amplify their message, create awareness, productize their knowledge, become bestselling authors, in-demand speakers, and media masters who get attention and engagement while increasing their income with integrity and authenticity. He’s helped over 1,800 business owners become bestselling authors with his “Publish and Profit” system. His M.A.P. (Mentor Advisor Partner) Program helps business owners reinvent themselves and their businesses, and increase their income and status. Connect with Jon Dwoskin

Jon talks with Dan Golden, President and Co-Founder of BeFoundOnline, about SEO and how people can find you online. Dan Golden is a veteran digital marketing executive, entrepreneur and business innovator.   Dan is a search geek at heart and still spends time auditing accounts, testing new tactics, diving into analytics, and making strategic recommendations for his clients. Dan has spent time on the client-side, with large agencies and had a brief stint at Google before launching BFO. As President and co-founder of the Chicago based digital agency, BFO has been awarded as Ad Age’s #1 Best Place to Work and a 6-time Inc. 5,000 honoree as well as recognition for client work from the US Search Awards, Landy Awards and the US Drum Search Awards. Forbes, Huffington Post, Inc. Magazine and Mashable have featured Dan’s thought leadership. He speaks regularly at conferences like ANA Marketing Futures, Conscious Capitalism, Pubcon, HeroConf and Inbound and is an Adjunct Lecturer on Digital Marketing at DePaul Universi

Jon talks with Bill Benoist, CEO of Bill Benoist, Career Coach, about how to re-invent yourself over 50! Bill primarily works with professionals in a mid-to-late career helping them find jobs that fuel their passion.  His clients include highly successful C-Suite Executives, Senior Directors, Project and Program Managers, Health Care Professionals, Software and QA Engineers, IT Professionals, Educators, Corporate Attorneys, Entrepreneurs, and Small Business Owners. Besides credentialed under the International Coach Federation as a Professional Certified Coach, Bill holds a BS in Management, an MA in Leadership, and is a Master Certified NLP practitioner.  Bill resides in the heart of Silicon Valley. Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejondwoskinexperience/ Website: https://jondwoskin.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jondwoskin/ Email: jon@jondwoskin.com Get Jon’s Book: The Think Big Movement:

Jon, Kari, and Julie talk about how to care for our seniors and their care transitions. Kari DeCarlo, BSW, Vice-President of Creative Eldercare Consultants, has her Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work with over 20 years in health care. Kari possesses excellent assessment skills and can identify one’s needs for appropriate placement. At Creative Eldercare Consultants, Kari aims to provide professional and compassionate guidance during the challenging process of finding the best care and housing match. Her unbiased viewpoint for families will help reduce any unforeseen placement concerns during this often delicate time. Julie Haskins-White, CSA, CDP: President/Owner of Creative Eldercare Consultants, has her Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, with over 30 years of professional senior health care experience in Southeastern Michigan. In addition to her strong background in geriatric health care management and marketing, she has worked with thousands of families to help review their loved one’s needs and to find the b

Jon, Randall, and John discuss how to scale your business. For his entire career, John K. Murphy (“Murph”) has helped owners of private businesses set the optimal strategic direction, prepare for and facilitate M&A transactions and achieve accelerated growth acting in an advisory board-type role. Murph was an investment banker for over twenty years and started a strategic M&A consulting practice in mid-2004. He helps private business owners prepare and position for major strategic events like the sale of the company, capital raise, accelerating growth to the next level, and shareholder transitions. His investment banking experience and “think like a buyer, not an owner” perspective help him identify the positives and/or weak spots of his clients. He helps fix the negatives and accentuate the positives to create a more valuable business. For those clients who choose to sell or raise capital, Murph helps them interview and pick the best transaction team, and choose the best transaction structure and b

Jon talks with Bill Bice, CEO of boomtime, about how he tackled marketing as a technology problem by building the first marketing-as a-service platform and how following the data can help you scale your business faster. Bill Bice has always been an entrepreneur, starting his first company at age 14, putting on road races with corporate sponsors. At 18, he started ProLaw Software, the first integrated ERP for law frms. After selling the company to Thomson Reuters, Bill became a VC as a founding partner in the Verge Fund, investing in high tech, high growth companies in the Southwest. One of the core things that Bill has learned in building and investing in companies is that the go-to- market is always the hardest part of growing a business. He got so frustrated in trying to get great marketing for his companies that he decided to tackle the problem. A programmer at heart, Bill founded boomtime, tackling marketing as a technology problem. It turns out that when you follow the data, really good things happen. T

Jon and Bryan discuss how to build your brand in today’s market. For the better half of his life, Bryan didn’t belong to the common narrative of the world. Sports teams he didn’t make, friend groups he didn’t fit into, a fraternity he dropped after one week in rush, and jobs where his potential was tied to a direct report’s approval. Simply, Bryan wasn’t on the right path and didn’t know how to articulate it until he hit a quarter-life crisis (rock bottom) his junior year of college. Through self-discovery, Bryan became clear on his individuality, leading him to find a new community propelling him to stand out fully on his own and find the path that was meant for him all along – entrepreneurship. Traversing this pathway hasn’t been easy. However, what it has provided Bryan is a chance to show up every day personally and professionally 100% authentically as himself. On this journey, Bryan has been able to help build multiple startups at the center of helping others find their pathways by building tribes of t

Jon talks with Rich Keller, Founder of Catalyst Branding Foundations: SCORE, about how to find your unique approach to personal and venture branding. Rich Keller, Motivational Speaker & Personal Branding Guru Rich brings a unique approach to personal branding. He understands the challenges associated with trying to discover what makes you Stand-out. He has learned that you can Conquer life’s Obstacles and Reach Excellence when you uncover your core value, which he defines as who you are…NOT what you do. Using examples from iconic brands, Rich leverages his marketing expertise to lead an interactive discussion about how discovering your core value and labeling it with ‘One Word’ will challenge you to think differently. Rich captivates audiences when he shares his career and personal struggles, including his battles with cancer. His journey will inspire you to view your identity through a new lens by answering, with ‘One Word’, the question that changed his life: How do you add value? His empowering story

Kathryn and Michael K. Redman are sweethearts, best friends, and the husband-and-wife team behind Half a Bubble Out (HaBO), a marketing and business consulting firm. They’re also founders of HaBO Village, a membership website which helps leaders build Passion & Provision companies, full of profit, purpose, and legacy. For more than 17 years, they have helped business leaders across the world grow their companies through marketing, business coaching, and leadership development. Kathryn and Michael have both taught at the university level and are frequent guest speakers. They currently reside in their hometown of Chico, California, where they love going to work every day.  Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejondwoskinexperience/ Website: https://jondwoskin.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jondwoskin/ Email: jon@jondwoskin.com Get Jon’s Book: The Think Big Movement: Grow your business big. Very Bi

In the Season 10 Finale, the fellas wax poetic on the importance of stepping away from time to time. Everybody deserves a break sometimes. Make the most of it! Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejondwoskinexperience/ Website: https://jondwoskin.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jondwoskin/ Email: jon@jondwoskin.com Get Jon’s Book: The Think Big Movement: Grow your business big. Very Big!

Jon and Randall talk with Mohnish Soundararajan, author of “How to Take Notes at the Speed of Light”, and the founder of SIGNATURE, a one-man production studio for authors and entrepreneurs who need help positioning their platform and crafting their best work—from copywriting to design. Mohnish Soundararajan is the author of “How to Take Notes at the Speed of Light,” and the founder of SIGNATURE, a one-man production studio for authors and entrepreneurs who need help positioning their platform and crafting their best work—from copywriting to design. He’s worked on projects for New York Times and Wall Street bestselling authors like Ryan Holiday (author of The Obstacle is The Way, The Daily Stoic, and Stillness is the Key) and Robert Greene (author of The 48 Laws of Power, Mastery, The Laws of Human Nature) and he’s helped authors design their books, position their platforms, and get their books into the world over at SIGNATURE. He was the host of the show Moonwalk—a high-production, narrative podcast—with o

Jon and J.J. discuss how to keep your team engaged during a changing market. J.J. Reifler is the Principal-Chief Operating Officer at KIG Insurance. Created to serve the community by offering commercial, personal, and life & health insurance products, William Korotkin founded the Korotkin Agency in 1913. The Korotkin Agency continued to grow throughout the years at the direction of William’s sons, Milton and Donald, who built a strong customer base and a respected reputation for the agency. Today, the agency is under the leadership of Milton’s son, Kenneth Korotkin, who has taken insurance and customer service to a new level. New types of insurance have been added in response to social and technological changes. Standard policies have been updated to fit the needs of clients as well. As they have in the past, Korotkin Insurance Group will continue to meet the insurance needs of the community with commitment, dedication, and responsibility to those they serve. Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Twitter: @jdwo

Peter bootstrapped his successful software company from an idea in 2008 to a multi-million dollar exit in 2018... without capital, investors, or partners. Peter knows how to inspire people by tapping into their unique purposes. Peter is a truly fascinating and multifaceted guy, with decades of experience in speaking to audiences about his business knowledge, inspirational journey, and human behavioral insight. Though Peter struggled through school with undiagnosed ADHD, he was admitted to and graduated from the University of California Irvine in Political Science. Post-college he became a traveling speaker and salesman, chalking up over 3000 presentations and living in over 22 major cities. Peter went on to found a successful advertising agency and software platform, dedicated to financial service professionals. He quickly became the industry guru, writing numerous books, including one of his best-selling works “The Brand Called You”, “The Personal Branding Phenomenon” and his newest book “Leadership Power”.

Jon talks with CEO, Siddharth Rajsekar, AKA Sidz. For the last seven years, Sidz has been running a digital agency that has represented clients like Robert Kiyosaki, Jack Canfield, Tony Robbins, and many more. They discuss how to get clients in the door with the right digital strategy! Siddharth Rajsekar, AKA Sidz, is a musician turned digital geek. For the last seven years, Sidz has been running a digital agency that has represented clients like Robert Kiyosaki, Jack Canfield, Tony Robbins, and many more. He’s the creator of the Freedom Business Model and is on a mission to create a million digital leaders. He currently nurtures one of India’s largest tribe of coaches and experts who are building their own digital ecosystems. Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejondwoskinexperience/ Website: https://jondwoskin.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jondwoskin/ Email: jon@jondwoskin.com Get Jon’s B

Jon talks with Max Friedman, the CEO of Givebutter, an online fundraising platform that powers donations, campaigns, and events for thousands of nonprofit organizations, about the power of giving and being in alignment with your passion! Max Friedman is the CEO and Co-Founder of Givebutter, a modern fundraising platform powering online donations, campaigns, and events for more than 10,000 good causes. Max also sits on the board of Humans for Education, nonprofit helping schools worldwide become financially independent and is an occasional contributor to Fast Company’s Leadership section.   Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejondwoskinexperience/ Website: https://jondwoskin.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jondwoskin/ Email: jon@jondwoskin.com Get Jon’s Book: The Think Big Movement: Grow your business big. Very Big!   Connect with Max Friedman: Website: givebutter.com Facebook: https://www.fa

Jon and Al talk about the difference between managing business and managing people. Al Comeaux, a former executive at Travelocity, GE, and American Airlines, is a decorated corporate pioneer and global authority on change from inside organizations. His career championing change as a senior leader at uber-disruptive dot-coms as well as established, world-renowned companies—and his 20-year journey researching why so many change efforts fail and what’s needed for success—make him one of the world’s most forward thinkers on what leaders must do—and how they must think—to succeed at change.  In 2019, Al founded Primed for Change, a disruptive new project created to prepare leaders to take organizations successfully through change.  Al and his family live in Ft. Worth, TX, where he is deeply involved in his family, faith, and community.  Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejondwoskinexperience/ Website: https://jond