Community & Guest List
Deborah Sweeney is a lawyer turned entrepreneur who runs a legal filing business, MyCorporation.com, which she acquired out of Intuit. She has successfully grown MyCorporation.com by focusing on top-notch customer service, and a long time customer value.
Dan Smolen is an author, podcaster, and advocate for people who want to do meaningful work. He is founder and executive producer of The Dan Smolen Experience, LLC, and, host of The Tightrope with Dan Smolen, a podcast that speaks to the hopes and dreams—but also the fears and anxieties—of workforce professionals. The Tightrope Podcast just finished its Fall 2019 season.
Dr. Chris Whaley overcame a lot of obstacles to become a professional wrestler. He wrestled such greats as The Undertaker and The Ultimate Warrior. His book, The Masked Saint documents his transition from pro wrestler to pastor. His book was made into an award winning movie by the same title.
David is the host of the HowWeSolve podcast and show, which is also the umbrella company for his portfolio of businesses - LTVplus, TaskDrive, Shortlist. The latest passion project David is working hard on is upcoach CDM (content delivery management) and CRM platform for coaches and organizations.
David Karandish is Founder & CEO of Capacity – an enterprise artificial intelligence SaaS company headquartered in St. Louis, MO. Capacity’s secure, AI-native support automation platform helps teams do their best work. Prior to starting Capacity, David was the CEO of Answers Corp. He and his business partner Chris Sims started the parent company of Answers in 2006 and sold it to a private equity firm in 2014 for north of $900m. David sits on the boards of Varsity Tutors (an on-demand, real-time learning platform in the ed tech space), Create a Loop (a computer science education non-profit tackling the digital divide by teaching kids to code), and Prepare.ai (a non-profit providing educational resources and strategic guidance about Artificial Intelligence to individuals, communities, and companies). David lives in St. Louis with his wife, Erin and four kids. When not working, he enjoys spending time with his family and playing ukulele.
Darius Mirshahzadeh is a dad, husband, twin, brother, and son who was born and raised in California and now lives in Austin Texas. He is a serial entrepreneur, author, conscious capitalist, speaker and entertainer. Darius’s passion is to make the world a better place using his talents and engagement. He is all about the P’s: Passion, Pizza, Puzzles and Pink Unicorns. Darius is a mad scientist CEO who has grown companies from start-up to just under 1,000 employees in three years. He is an expert on core values and author of the new book The Core Value Equation.
Daniel Blue is a Forbes contributor and owner of Quest Education. His company helps people access their retirement accounts penalty and tax free to help them accomplish their financials goals such as growing their business or paying off debt. After having a daughter at 19 years old and overcoming Oxycontin addiction, Daniel was able to make the transition from being an employee to an employer.
Deborah Myers, CEO of VirtuArte, is a specialist in assisting businesses and individuals cultivate a culture of genuine gratitude through meaningful and thoughtful gestures of appreciation. Among the suggested gestures of appreciation are the unique handcrafted items, Deborah finds during her travels in the developing world, that can be given as gifts. In doing so VirtuArte is assisting artisans generate a sustainable income, continue their traditional craftsmanship, and pass their skills on to the next generation.
Dorothy at Dorothy AB Johnson specializes in coaching single women between 25-30 who just went through a breakup from a financially stable relationship and now want to find financial stability on their own. She has her Master's in Industrial-Organizational Psychology and is certified Life Coach with The Life Coach School.
Danielle Kristine Toussaint, founder and CEO of She Thinks Purple, is a storyteller, strategist and social enterprise brand architect on a journey to help mission-driven start-ups make money and a make a difference. She has been the writing pen behind op-eds and speeches for Huffington Post, Forbes.com, and TEDx. Danielle holds a B.A. in Political Science and African American Studies from Yale University and a M.S.Ed from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education.
