Community & Guest List
Joey Price is an award-winning Human Resources executive, business coach, thought leader, and professor. He is the founder of Jumpstart:HR, LLC, an HR Consulting Practice specifically for small businesses and startups, and host of Business, Life, and Coffee, a weekly personal and professional development podcast. As the CEO of Jumpstart:HR, LLC, Joey innovates by creating HR solutions for small business owners and start-up founders who want to build better, more competitive businesses. As a podcaster on the Business, Life, and Coffee show, Joey shares carefully curated conversations on personal finance, psychology, workplace culture, professional development, and business for emerging professionals and business owners alike. BLC is a podcast focused on enhancing the quality of your business and life through relevant content that endures over time. Joey is a recent HR Executive Magazine Top 100 HR Tech Influencer, SHRM Top 30 Under 30 award winner, one of Forbes Magazine's Kevin Kruse's Top 100 Employee Engagement Experts in the World, and frequently cited HR and Startup Thought Leader in publications such as Forbes, HR Magazine, Inc., Businessweek, AMEX Open Forum, Money Magazine, and more. Joey serves on the Board of Directors of Black Christian Influencers and the Board of Governors at The Center Club - A Top 100 Private City Club in the World.
to embrace the fear holding him back."
Jaclyn Strauss, CPA is the founder of her own company called My Macro Memoir and has become a leading efficiency expert by putting her skills and knowledge to work by creating a secure place for families to digitally organize themselves with the thinking done for them. She has also recently launched a physical binder that allows for space for every original document that must be retained based on her professional guidance as a CPA all secured in a fireproof/waterproof envelope. Jaclyn leads with her heart in all that she does and has a passion to serve the greater good of her local community and beyond.
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John is a resident of Boca Raton Florida. He is a seasoned financial planner, innovative and advocate for emergency preparedness planning. He is the founder of Emergency Info Plan, a company that helps you and your loved ones be prepared for emergencies using your smartphone to alert 911 and emergency contacts plus provide vital medical information to first responders at the scene. A tragic incident in his life inspired him to help others. His mission is to save lives and help families in Florida and throughout the United States be better prepared for emergency and life’s expected and unexpected transitions.
Josh Rovner is the author of the Amazon #1 best-selling business book Unbreak the System: Diagnosing and Curing the Ten Critical Flaws in Your Company. Josh has more than twenty years of experience as a leader and consultant, working with all levels of small to large corporations to grow their revenues and improve their performance. He leads change and transforms businesses by communicating clearly about complex subjects, designing effective processes, and developing and coaching people. Josh received his Bachelor of Science in Communications, summa cum laude, from Boston University, and his Masters of Management in Hospitality from Cornell University. He lives in Dallas, Texas.
June is a mom of two, a Neonatal Nurse Practitioner, and a Disblerd - aka a Black Disney nerd. She created Afros and Pixie Dust, which is a community for Disney fans of color, because of the lack of representation and connection in the Disney social media space. June also hosts a weekly podcast show bearing the same name where she highlights people of color in the Disney community. She loves to encourage everyone pursue their happiness in their own way.
Josh Fowler is the founder and CEO of Armaloo, a boutique ad agency based in Hampton VA. With a strong focus in content creation, Armaloo exists for 2 reasons: to maximize the positive exposure of their clients and create an amazing place to work. Starting out as a professional in the music industry, Josh started getting into film in 2007 but after some on again / off again breaks, got really serious about it in 2012. In 2015 he was able to leave his full time job to pursue building his wife's company, Fowler Studios. In 2018, the concept of Armaloo was born and in April of 2019, Armaloo became its own brand and company. Josh and his team are energized when they can be creative, bend the rules, and know that they're fulfilling their mission as a company.
Jeff Urban is a leading Sports Marketing executive. He is CEO of Sports Field Partners, a new entry in the synthetic turf space which focuses on eco-friendly, performance based turf fields for all sports properties. Recently serving across multiple consulting engagements, Urban was President and Co-Founder at Whistle Sports, a company that creates, curates and distributes breakthrough entertainment content for young, active males. Urban also served as Senior Vice President, Sports & Event Marketing at Gatorade and held that position for two years.
John Allen is a 27 years old graduate of Temple University. John launched his first major company Ivory Ella, an online apparel brand committed to selling good clothes for a good cause, in 2015 which has donated over $2mill dollars to various charities most notably Save The Elephants out of Samburu Kenya. John now runs an apparel manufacture company which is the only certified living wage apparel company in the world that supplies licensed goods to over 600 college and university bookstores across the country.
