
Real People, Real Business
Tired of hearing amazing stories that are inspirational but feel out of reach? Craving some real talk with people who are just like you? In Real People, Real Business, Business Strategist Stephanie Hayes interviews business owners that are building their businesses and making progress through grit, determination and action. They are working through the everyday challenges and celebrating incremental wins on their journey to their dream. Every one has a story, and each of these entrepreneurs are telling theirs in funny, vulnerable and heartwarming ways that will make you say "Yes! That's me!" and leave you with creative ideas for breaking through that next roadblock that might just have you stuck. Celebrating all businesses and all business owners, and creating a community of real people.
Episodes
104 episodes
International Women's Day: A Personal Essay on My Journey to Femininity
Today, we're breaking the mold on our usual format, and taking a minute to reflect on what being a woman means, on International Women's Day. While this day is often a bit of a Hallmark holiday, I wanted to dig in to something a bit more real, ...
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Episode 104
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15:14

Chris Troka - Elevating Business Through AI and Collaborative Innovation
Chris Troka is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of Focused-Biz, an innovative marketing company that leverages AI to help businesses create better customer experiences, increase conversion rates, and reduce time spent on administrative tas...
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Episode 103
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40:37

Ali Nichols - Partnering to Expand Property Ownership
Ali Nichols is the co-founder of Getaway, an innovative real estate financing platform that empowers real estate entrepreneurs with creative financing solutions to build portfolios without taking on restrictive capital. In...
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Episode 102
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35:23

Wil Reynolds - Playing to Win in Business
Wil Reynolds is passionate about helping people and businesses grow. He’s the founder and CEO of Seer Interactive, one of the most reputable digital marketing agencies in the US, where he helps Fortune 500 companies develop SEO and digital mark...
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Episode 101
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42:26

Jame Healy - Thriving Together in Business Partnership
It’s our 100th episode at the Real People, Real Business Show, and we’re celebrating this milestone with a very special guest. Join my conversation with my longtime business partner, colleague, and dear friend, Jame Healy. Jame is a leading eco...
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Episode 100
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55:08

Cleoniki Kesidis - Forging Connection as a Creative
Cleoniki Kesidis is a copywriter and brand storyteller who uses her love of figuring things out and communicating them simply and clearly to help businesses connect with their audiences in a meaningful way.In this episode, you’ll hear ho...
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Episode 99
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43:16

Crystalynn Shelton - Finding Joy Beyond the Numbers
After discovering her love of numbers in a high school bookkeeping course, licensed CPA and QuickBooks Top 100 ProAdvisor Crystalynn Shelton launched her corporate career in accounting. With years of experience under her belt, she left the corp...
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Episode 98
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38:53

Moira Ni Ghallachoir - Destiny-Driven Business Through Speaking
Moira Ni Ghallachoir is an international business mentor and speaker who helps female entrepreneurs create the impact, business income, lifestyle, and freedom they truly desire by speaking from the stage.In this episode, you will learn h...
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Episode 97
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35:27

Sebastian Schaffer - Business as a Catalyst for Personal Growth
Sebastian Schaffer is the co-founder of dofollow.io, a premium link-building agency he started as a side gig and grew to 7 figures in just four years. In this episode, you’ll hear how Sebastian founded a successful business after in...
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Episode 96
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39:34

Tim Kachuriak - Marketing for a Cause
Tim Kachuriak is the Founder and Chief Innovation & Optimization Officer at NextAfter, a cutting-edge fundraising research lab consultancy that helps charities, nonprofits, and NGOs grow their digital fundraising.In this episode, you...
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Episode 95
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40:11

Dr. Laura Purdy, MD - Disrupting the Status Quo in Healthcare
Are you passionate about driving positive change and disrupting the status quo? If so, this is the episode for you.Known as “America’s doctor,” Dr. Laura Purdy is a board-certified family physician and thought leader in digital healthcar...
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Episode 94
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39:23

Donna Loughlin - Embracing Your Sliding Door Moment
If you are a believer in the old adage when one door closes, another one opens, this is the conversation for you! Donna Loughlin is the founder of LMG PR, a strategic public relations firm that helps futurists and innovator...
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Episode 93
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43:17

Ann Carden - Reaching Serial Success Seizing Opportunity
Ann Carden is a strategic business consultant, coach, author, and serial entrepreneur who launched and sold five successful businesses. Today she uses her marketing, sales, and business strategy expertise to help others reach higher levels of s...
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Episode 92
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48:53

Ethan Song - Finding Fulfillment Creating Community
Ethan Song is the CEO of RareCircles, a business he launched to help creators and brands build community in the Web3 economy. He was previously the founder and CEO of Frank + Oak, the apparel brand whose mission was to make fashion more persona...
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Episode 91
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42:07

Lindy Nowak - Finding Freedom By Keeping It Simple
Lindy Nowak is the Founder of Up in a Day™ – a new-to-market website service that is devoted to helping small business owners, entrepreneurs, and independent operators get their website up quickly, within budget, and with minimal effort from th...
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Episode 90
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42:48

Indus Khaitan - Mastering the Business Side of Technology
Indus Khaitan is the founder and CEO of Quolum, an On Deck Scale company, that helps companies effectively consume software at scale. In this episode, you’ll hear how Indus went from writing code to launching his own SaaS business, ...
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Episode 89
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47:43

Alyse Maslonik - Paying It Forward as a Mission-Driven Business
Inspired by her own childhood, Alyse Maslonik founded RedefinED Advisors, a development company that raises financial aid for non-public and private schools to give underprivileged children access to quality education and help them break the cy...
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Episode 88
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41:57

Projjal Ghatak - Creating a New Category in a Legacy Market
Projjal Ghatak is the CEO and co-founder of SaaS company, OnLoop, creating a new category, Collaborative Team Development (CTD), in a legacy market with a software product that is redefining the way organizations conduct performance management ...
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Episode 87
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38:42

Nicole Liloia - Forging a New Path in Client Support
Nicole Liloia is a small business coach and strategist who helps service providers build multiple income streams and grow their businesses by working smarter, not harder, through her signature Bigger Business Bootcamp and Grow Your Income...
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Season 4
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Episode 86
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38:28

Roslyn Ranse - Charting Your Own Course in the Travel Business
Roslyn Ranse is a travel advisor, business strategist, educator, and mentor who runs a thriving travel business specializing in large international groups and corporate clients. She passionately shares her knowledge with other travel consulta...
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Episode 85
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42:30

Megan Dowd - Stepping Onto Your Spicy Soapbox
Megan Dowd is a brand therapist, business strategist, storyteller, and certified equity-centered coach who helps business owners create a better human connection with themselves and their clients by drawing from who they are and what they stand...
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Season 4
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Episode 84
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44:11

Luis Baez- Moonlighting for Good: Building a Business to Give Back
Luis Báez is a sales enablement strategist and coach dedicated to empowering online business owners, B2B professionals, and underrepresented entrepreneurs by teaching them how to scale their revenues and impact by creating and selling high-end ...
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Episode 83
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33:50

Dr. Amy Beckley - Finding Fertile Ground For Your Ideas
Proov company founder, Amy Beckley, PhD, invented the first and only FDA-cleared at-home test to confirm ovulation after discovering her own infertility issues were caused by a progesterone deficiency.In this episode you will hear how Am...
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Episode 82
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37:12

Asher Laub - The Business of Being an Independent Artist
Asher Laub is an in-demand violin soloist whose expertise in trans-genre improvisation has led him to performances at high profile venues like Madison Square Garden, Hammerstein Hall, Lincoln Center, the Jacob Javitz Center and across four cont...
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Season 4
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Episode 81
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44:18

Vanessa Gabriel - Persevering with an Entrepreneurial Mindset
As an entrepreneur, you go through the highs and lows of business ownership. If you’ve ever struggled with finding the motivation to keep pushing through the challenges, my conversation with Vanessa Gabriel will give you the mindset reframe tha...
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Season 4
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Episode 80
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41:04
