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Kristin Kruk is the host of the "i tried it podcast". As someone who has always dabbled in health, wellness, beauty, lifestyle, and spirituality, she wanted a platform to inspire others to try something new so we can all live our most optimal lives. Listeners can expect honest stories and first-time experiences from Kristin and her podcast guests. Kristin is based in Chicago but interviews folks across the US (and some international guests as well!).
Kristina runs two companies, SoCu - a digital marketing agency, and LOHM, a natural skincare line. She is also a professor at both NYU and the University of Florida.
Katherine McGraw Patterson, known as KP, is a brand and business strategist who works with small businesses and entrepreneurs to close the gap between where they are and where they want to be. A fourth-generation entrepreneur, KP started her first business in Hong Kong in 1999. Since then, she's helped businesses here in the US, Canada, and across the world build actionable strategies that results in revenue growth, increased clarity and focus, and greater satisfaction in their operations. KP is the founder of WEBO Network, a professional development and networking group for women entrepreneurs and business owners and is the author of a new book on networking, "Lunching with Lions: Strategist for the Networking-Averse" that helps professionals in all industries identify the right groups and connections to achieve their professional and business goals.
KADE is a musical artist-entrepreneur, electronic music producer, session drummer and educator, and is one half of the rising Asian-Canadian EDM duo "Alex Kade". To describe Alex Kade in a nutshell - they're two Asians making you rave, and you can still enjoy their EDM show even if you forget to bring your drugs. Since debuting this project in July of 2020, KADE has been rapidly building a name for himself and Alex Kade during the COVID pandemic with a quickly growing list of artists he's worked with, including Emily Vu, Tray Little, Cayley Spivey, and Double A-Ron.
Keshia took her business full-time in 2018. Keshia’s design work has been recognized by Adobe."
Krystal McMillan is the CEO/Owner of No bacon , You Are My Business and part owner of 2 Royal Chicks. Shes a full time business owner born and raised in the DMV area. Shes a advocate for financial freedom and beginning that journey at all ages. As well as a advocate of Entrepreneurs helping Entrepreneurs.
Kat's love of stories made her a lifelong book nerd and led to her studying journalism and building a career in media. After gaining a boatload of marketing experience around the world, she learned how to not just tell stories for stories sake, but how they can drive businesses forward. After soaking up all that knowledge, she went out on my own, launching the Leading Rebels podcast, co-founding the community club & coworking space for women CoWomen, and collaborating with kickass (wo)men like you to launch your podcast to get your voice heard.
As an accomplished strategic business development, marketing, and operations professional, Kim Bryden has focused her expertise on the food & beverage industry, and supporting small business growth at-large, for more than a decade. Her management experience ranges from working in and alongside governmental agencies, to increasing sales as Top Fortune 200 retail management, to deploying agile, innovative marketing and partnership strategies at food tech start-ups. Since founding Cureate LLC in 2014, Kim continues to build out this multi-sector, public-private partnership approach. Whether its working with Anchor Institutions in Baltimore City on localizing procurement, to reimagining retail experiences for corner store owners to grocery chains, to developing educational entrepreneurship curricula for economic development agencies, Cureate takes a 360-degree approach — and that growth mindset comes from Kim and her passion for learning.
Kevin is a founding partner of Category Design Advisors and co-author of the book the category design practice is based on, Play Bigger. He's been a journalist, author and consultant in the tech space for more than three decades -- author of nine books, contributor to publications ranging from Fortune to Wired to The Atlantic, and commentator on CNN, NPR, ABC and other broadcast outlets.
When it comes to choosing a coach or speaker, there are loads of contenders that talk a good game, but Keren Eldad - a former C-level executive at a billion dollar company herself - actually knows what you need. As a business coach & speaker, Keren Eldad (“Coach Keren”) is a trusted advisor to industry-leading executives and superstar entrepreneurs, working with premier business organizations including: Luxxotica, J.P. Morgan, LVMH, YPO– and more. Having served in the Israeli army and emerging into coaching from suicide counseling, Keren believes in service as a way of life, and comes in focused on adding value and making things better and easier in yours.
