Episodes

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups Podcast is Luke Van Der Veer. Luke started a corporate career at General Electric and now he’s considered one of the leading experts of "Rank & Rent SEO", having one of his websites competing against Walmart and ranks #4 in the entire US. He has generated leads in 73 different niches and 48 states and is now enjoying a flexible lifestyle without alarm clocks, bosses or vacation requests. Learn more at - digitalrealestatecoaching

Once again we have a great guest joining us for another episode of Rising Tide Startups Podcast, Jon Dykstra. Jon is the founder of Fatstacksblog.com which profiles how he built up a large online publishing company comprised of several large niche websites. Learn more at fatstacksblog.com

Our special guest this week on the podcast is Niro Knox. Niro lives in London and is a musician, traveler, mystic and Marketer with an IT and Tech Edge and Experience. Learn more at blade-marketing.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Eleanor Haglund. Eleanor is the Founder and CEO of Aspire 360 – a network for entrepreneurs that provides peer-to-peer community groups to help accelerate their learning whilst they’re growing their own business. Aspire360 has also been featured in Forbes, Ambitious Entrepreneur, among other publications. Eleanor was an inaugural member of the Innovation Scholars Program in Project Olympus, and won awards in several start-up competitions like the Colu...

Once again, we have the privilege of hosting another great guest, Devin Miller, founder of Miller IP Law. He loves startups and runs his own patent and trademark law firm to help startups and small businesses. Devin also founded his first startup while earning his Law & MBA degrees. Since then, he has founded several 7 & 8 figure startups and enjoyed every minute of it. Learn more at - milleripl.com Book a free strategy session with Devin - strategysession.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Latha Karthigaa. Latha is the founder of Brandupwise Marketing and has been a 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 and a 𝗕𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘄𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗿 for the past 4 years. She helps Businesses to generate 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵-𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 on Digital Platforms. Learn more at brandupwise.com

Our very special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Arjun Rai, rounder of hellowoofy.com. Arjun is a New York City based entrepreneur originally from West Windsor, New Jersey (aka Princeton Junction). Since high school, he has been networking with some of the most well known entrepreneurs and even worked on a few projects and startups of his own. Upon graduation, Arjun pursued his career opportunities and came to New York City where he enrolled at the New York Institute of Technology in 2011 with ...

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Austin McCulloh. After managing just under half a million dollars a few years ago as a 21-year-old financial advisor & running an online hiring agency that taught English to over 700 Chinese children, Austin decided to start his own consulting firm, Austin McCulloh Advising. In late 2020, he pivoted the business model to include a 3-Step Financial Advisor Accelerator that now helps financial advisors grow their book of business & increase their income...

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Anthony Blatner. Anthony is the founder of Speedwork Social, a top LinkedIn Advertising agency. As a previous tech founder and ex-IBMer, he has seen a lot of companies have explosive growth with good technology and good marketing, while others (even though they had a great product or service) fail without effective marketing. In 2016, he started Speedwork to help those companies unlock their B2B marketing potential. By blending his experience in marke...

Our special guest this week on Rising Tide Startups is Seth Mendelsohn. Seth is the founder and CEO of Denterica; a dental marketing company focused on search engine optimization (SEO) to help dentists gain more new patients. After spending over 15 years in healthcare IT, he became director of operations for his wife’s dental practice. It was there that he found his passion for dental marketing, and in particular SEO. He was so successful at SEO that he started doing marketing for other dental p...

Another great Rising Tide Startups podcast convo with another great guest - Ravi Patel, Co-Founder of SINA Hospitality. Ravi is responsible for hotel management, hotel project management, asset management, hotel development, contract negotiations and construction at SINA Hospitality. In this role, he is responsible for all of SINA Hospitality’s properties, which include the Intercontinental, Hilton, Choice, and Marriott brands. Ravi also serves on the prestigious Fairfield Inn Franchise Advisory...

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Joe Valley, of Quiet Light Brokerage. Joe is a serial entrepreneur, EXITpreneur, author, advisor, and partner at Quiet Light Brokerage, one of the leading online-focused M&A firms in the world. He has built, bought, and sold over a half dozen companies of his own, and has helped thousands of online entrepreneurs achieve their goals. His most recent book, The EXITpreneur's Playbook is the first mergers and acquisitions book focused solely on online bus...

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Ryan Obernesser. Ryan is the CEO of O.B. Training Inc., Gym Profits LLC, and creator of the Take Back Your Life 6 Week Challenge program. Over the last decade, Ryan and his wife Christina, have built O.B. Training into a specialty training facility that transforms the minds, body’s and lives of every adult that walks through their doors. In that time, O.B. Training has grown into a profit machine. Churning out multiple 6-figures in profits each year d...

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups podcast is Chris Godsall. Chris is the President of iVirtual and former CEO and Founder of Triton Logging. Learn more at iVirtual.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Bill Woolsey, founder of FiveTwo. With decades of experience in starting and leading ministries, churches and networks, Bill now invests his life in men and women who want to reach people for Jesus in new, creative ways. After serving congregations in the Midwest, he and his family planted CrossPoint Community Church in Houston, a congregation that led his denomination (LCMS) in baptisms for much of the 2000s. In 2009 he led the launch of FiveTwo, a n...

We are excited to have a BOGO deal on the podcast today, with husband and wife team, Carrie Bohlig and Craig Clickner, founders of Tandem Consulting. They are a Midwestern husband & wife duo, running their companies, teaching mindset from their book ‘So You Want to Start A Side Hustle’, having meaningful conversations on their podcast Tandem Talks, traveling the world doing keynotes & growing their non-profit Tandem Giving, focusing on advocacy adoption for older children without families. They ...

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is David Wachs. David is a serial entrepreneur, David's latest venture, Handwrytten, is bringing back the lost art of letter writing through scalable, robot-based solutions that write your notes in pen. Developed as a platform, Handwrytten lets you send notes from your CRM system, such as Salesforce, the web site, apps, or through custom integration. Used by major meal boxes, eCommerce giants, nonprofits and professionals, Handwrytten is changing the way...

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups podcast is Bryan Clayton. Bryan is CEO and cofounder of GreenPal an online marketplace that connects homeowners with Local lawn care professionals. GreenPal has been called the “Uber for lawn care” by Entrepreneur magazine and has over 200,000 active users completing thousands of transactions per day. Before starting GreenPal Bryan Clayton founded Peachtree Inc. one of the largest landscaping companies in the state of Tennessee growing it to over $10 mil...

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups Podcast is Karthy Chandra. Karthy is the founder of Goalden Hour, a tech startup building a goal-driven productivity tool that empowers people to prioritize and plan for the truly important things. She has worked in product management & tech, and specializes in customer validation testing. She's passionate about education reform and sits on the board of Rooted School, a nonprofit laying the groundwork to close the wealth and skills gap for students in un...

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Paul Chambers, subscription box expert and founder of Subta.com. For over 20-years, Paul has built, scaled, and sold multiple subscription-focused businesses and today runs the largest conference and trade group focused on the DTC subscription space. An around-the-clock volunteer firefighter, husband, and father of four, Paul's passion for helping others is a central part of his character. From launching a SaaS company at SXSW to building one of the b...

Our special guest this week on Rising Tide Startups is Jonathan Baktari, M.D. When Dr. Baktari was arguably at the peak of his medical career, he saw an opportunity to try something new. Taking everything he’d learned as a doctor, medical director and educator, he launched two businesses—a vaccine clinic and drug-testing enterprise—that are driven by technology and designed for fast, customer-centric service. Now, as those businesses grow, he’s continuing to write his second career chapter as a ...

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Mads Friis. Mads is the founder of the Growth Island is a podcast on health, performance, business and life's bigger mysteries, covering more than 70 episodes with global experts. One of his biggest passions is building health-related impact ventures and during the past years, he has co-built 3 successful startups with KRING. With his background in management consulting experience from Deloitte and his own experience from startups, Mads started active...

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups podcast is Abby Sims, founder of Idestini.com . Abby Sims lives in Arkansas. Her business, Idestini, builds affordable, custom software platforms for small to medium businesses. She's been a full-stack software developer since 2000, and launched her business in 2014. Learn more at idestini.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Emily Chang, CEO McCann Worldgroup, China. Emily previously served as the Chief Marketing Officer for Starbucks, China, and the Chief Commercial Officer for InterContinental Hotels group, Greater China. Earlier in her career, she led Retail Marketing for Apple in Asia-Pacific and began her career with eleven years at Procter & Gamble. She is an action-oriented visionary known for cross-cultural team engagement, innovative brand building, and authentic...