Far from giving up, she rebuilt her life and is now on a mission to help others find freedom from all the unnecessary tasks, using the strategies and systems she’s successfully created for herself.

Michelle lives in Pendleton, Oregon, with her cat and dog and loves going hiking and biking

http://awesomeoutsourcing.com

https://www.facebook.com/diakonos23

https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelleethompson/

book: running on autopilot (amazon)

Brandon, got his start in digital marketing after graduating from college with a degree in Business Marketing and his first job was to handle the marketing aspects of an e-commerce website, including search engine optimization.
Later on, Brandon started his own company called “SEO Optimizers” and he had a friend of his, build a website for his company in exchange for doing SEO for his friend’s insurance website. His friend’s website got ranked above government websites for all of his major keywords and that’s how he started to freelance until he was able to recently quit his day job to concentrate on his company full time.
Today, Brandon helps small and medium-sized companies get ranked at the top of Google searches by using search engine optimization tactics and bringing in traffic via social media and paid ads.

Brandon lives in Los Angeles, CA, and when he is not doing Search Engine Optimization, he enjoys skating and snowboarding.

Free Webinar on SEO: https://seooptimizers.com/gift

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandonleibowitz/

https://www.instagram.com/leibowitzbrandon/

https://www.facebook.com/BrandonLeibs

https://www.youtube.com/c/BrandonLeibowitz/videos

https://twitter.com/brandonleibs

https://losangeles.score.org/author/brandon-leibowitz

https://seooptimizers.com/seo/podcast/

My guest today is, Johnathan McFarlane.
Johnathan started in the fitness world, working with big brands and superstar athletes like NFL star Rob Gronkowski and UFC legend George St. Pierre.

He is now, director of Strategy at Hybrid Marketing Co, the world’s largest cannabis-focused marketing agency where he builds creative marketing and advertising solutions that circumvent the tight restrictions placed on the rapidly growing cannabis industry.

Johnathan lives in Denver Co, with his wife and a 4-year-old. In his free time, he is Hiking and fundraising for Ukraine.

Links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnathanmcfarlane/
https://hybridmarketingco.com/
johnathan@hybridmarketingco.com

Intro:

Unlike most states, which have legalized Cannabis via ballot referendum, New York doesn’t have much of a tradition or infrastructure around statewide voter initiatives. Therefore, it is up to the State Legislature to propose and vote on new legislation, that will be signed or vetoed by the Governor. The debate generally gains steam every spring during budget negotiations, when the Governor introduces a budget proposal for the following fiscal year.

In New York, cannabis for medical use started to be legal in 2014.

In 2018, New York state started a comprehensive study to gauge the likely impacts of legalizing recreational sales which concluded that “The positive effects of a regulated cannabis market in NYS outweigh the potential negative impacts.”
There were many debates on whether or not municipalities would be able to ‘opt-out’ and on the push to ensure a large portion of new tax revenues would be invested in communities of color which have been most affected by what most now see as historically racist and damaging enforcement of cannabis laws.

As of today, New Yorkers are now allowed to possess small amounts of cannabis and smoke, ingest, or consume cannabis products. However, the timeline for dispensaries to open and sales to kick off remains distant. The law doesn’t provide a specific timeline, but the first sales aren’t expected until the end of this year or later and it will take another 18 months for New Yorkers to be allowed to cultivate a small number of plants at home for recreational purposes.

While many small businesses are awaiting the state to issue licenses for farming, dispensing, and delivering cannabis products, there are many unanswered questions, and these businesses wonder how they will pivot their business to cannabis and position their product in the market.

My guest today is Wendy Barlin,
Wendy is an immigrant from South Africa who came to this country with nothing but a bag of dirty clothes and a CPA license. Today she is the owner of About Profit (her website is: Wendybarlin.com). She is the author of 2 books: “That’s Deductible!” and “Never Budget Again”. She has been an educator for small businesses for over 25 years and has made multiple TV appearances.
Wendy lives in Jacksonville, FL with her husband, 2 kids, and a big fluffy dog.

Book:

That’s Deductible!

Wendybarlin.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/johncameroniv/

https://www.tiktok.com/@itsjohnnyc

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC89u9GoBt2podhvK0X2zz_A

https://www.instagram.com/johnnycameron_/

Mitch is a Leadership and Personal Development Guide and Speaker. He is the author of the book called How to hire and keep great people” and he is the host of the Mitch Gray Podcast

Mitch has 3 awesome kids and lives in Clovis, New Mexico

Book: How to Hire and Keep Great People

Topics:

Designing a Great Culture

Finding “great” People

Building a great Team

Being a small business owner brings you a lot of satisfaction including the feeling of independence and creative freedom/ but there is nothing like the satisfaction of hiring someone. This feeling of being part of the economy by creating jobs and supporting families while growing the people that chose to invest their time and efforts helping you grow your business. But for small businesses, that sense of satisfaction is often numbed by the sheer complexity of the hiring process and payroll regulations. Today we’ll talk about payroll with my guest, Charles Read.

Charles is an accomplished senior executive and entrepreneur with more than fifty years of financial leadership experience / in a broad range of industries. He is a CPA, U.S Tax Court Practitioner, member of the Internal Revenue Service Advisory Council (IRSAC), and the Founder of GetPayroll. He is also the author of four books.
His latest book is titled: The Payroll Book: A Guide for Small Businesses and Startups

https://www.getpayroll.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/charles-j-read-cpa/

https://www.thepayrollbook.com (enter your info and discount code PODCAST)

Our episode this week is about the 4th industrial revolution also called Industry 4.0.
Part of the shift of Industry 4.0 will be through the joining of technologies like artificial intelligence, gene editing, and advanced robotics that will blur the lines between the physical, digital, and biological worlds.
This week, I offer you an essay that will focus on how our social, political, and financial lives will be impacted by this advance in technology. Today we will focus on the company and particularly on the customer and employees. Later this week, we’ll take about the evolution of Trust in our society and the impact it will have on our political systems.
The goal of this essay is to pique your interest so you want to find out more about Industry 4.0 and how, as a business owner, you can adapt to this revolution in the making and adapt all your daily processes and strategies.

References:

2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals

https://everytownresearch.org/maps/gunfire-on-school-grounds/

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/21/us/school-shooting-us-versus-world-trnd/index.html

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-arrested-alleged-conspiracy-launder-45-billion-stolen-cryptocurrency

https://www.cgi.com/us/en-us/blog/business-agility/american-constitution-lean-and-agile-framework-government

https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/04/01/the-little-known-data-broker-industry-is-spending-big-bucks-lobbying-congress