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How we met: Christie teaches classes online on design and branding. I took her class Polish Your Online Brand and was so impressed with her genuineness and amazing natural teaching abilities that I had to find out how she created her online community. Her business: Jewels Branch Where she lives: Sullivan, Missouri Christie teaches courses on online design and branding. I loved one of her courses (Polish Your Online Brand). I wanted to know how she makes it all happen, because I’m interested in doing something similar. Polish Your Online Brand takes some of the elements of her other courses and puts it out there for free. She provides …

Location: Portland, Oregon Her Business: heartspark How we met: The Pioneer Nation Facebook group Susan teaches the science of happiness and thriving. Her clients learn their success patterns and use them to make more of their lives, whether that’s making a life change, or thriving in their current jobs. Susan says that finding success patterns is like being told what your super powers are. It’s a little bit humbling, it’s a little bit hard. And she finds that it’s really beneficial to have a mix of people from different companies in her classes. The program is based on asking questions, and different companies and types of people ask different …

Location: Milwaulkee, Wisconsin Her Business: She helps people make money online so that they can live a free lifestyle. She does one on one and personal coaching, blogging, and webinars to teach people to use social media to either provide a service, offer a product, or do affiliate marketing. How we met: Tamira and I are in a Facebook group together. After I commented on a post, she reached out to me and asked about my business. Then she asked if she could help me in any way.  I was already impressed with her networking skills at that point, so I asked if she would be up for talking …

Location: Minneapolis, MN His Business: Cavitt Associates How we met: Through the One Hundred Dollar Club Facebook group Michael always wanted to write a book about how to start a business, but he didn’t know exactly what he would write until he read The Luck Factor: Why Some People Are Luckier Than Others and How You Can Become One of Them by Max Gunther. In the book Gunther outlines 5 attitudes toward life that lead to “luckier” lives.  The first of these is the “spiderweb structure,” which essentially means that people who build large networks of people are more likely to unexpectedly “get lucky” because of their connections with …

  Location: Denver, Colorado David’s business: David is currently the COO at Dental Solutions, LLC, however, his specialty is coming into businesses and helping them implement change and growth. How we met: I taught David’s son in Hebrew school when he was in 5th grade. When I asked David how he builds his network, the first thing he said was, “A lot of people think they have networks because they know a lot of people, but knowing a lot of people isn’t the same as having a network.” As a strategist for businesses, it makes sense that David views networking in a strategic sense as well.  When building a …

    Location: Denver, CO Her business: Annette Slade Photography Annette is a very talented food photographer, but she says it has taken time for her to feel worthy of her success. Now that she has a more abundant mindset, she finds that more people approach her to work for them. For a long time, Annette thought that she had to have a lavish studio or drive a certain type of car to be  successful.  Over the years, she has learned to value herself and her work more and more and now she realizes it’s not the lavish studio or the car you drive, but a comfortable, positive environment  …

  Location: Denver, Colorado His business: Jeff is a business lawyer living in Denver, Colorado.  In his long entrepreneurial career, Jeff has opened two private practices and ran a newspaper business with over 100 employees. How I met him: He also volunteers at the Denver SBDC, which is where I met him.  Although Danielle and I went in for legal advice, Jeff had a lot of other great nuggets of wisdom for us. His insights on a common problem among many of the businesses he has worked with over the years: You have to know when to walk away. He has seen many businesses who struggled on for years after …