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Episode #118: Jennifer Denney - Elevated Marketing Solutions

I help business owners and marketers alike understand the funnel of building a business online. I am the Founder of Elevated Marketing Solutions and a Digital Marketing Strategist. I have been in digital marketing for 18 years. I founded Elevated 7 years ago. I have had 28 employees and 10.5 million in marketing dollars underneath me and prefer running a smaller agency. To learn more visit https://elevatedmarketing.solutions
 
 
 
 
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Episode #117: Alex Sylvester - Shepherd Financial

Alex Sylvester was born, raised and continues to live in the Greater Indianapolis area. This year will mark the 10-year wedding anniversary for he and his lovely wife, Mallory. They have two children and live in Carmel. Alex earned a bachelor's degree from Marian University's Byrum School of Business. Today, he is the Executive Partner and President of Development at Shepherd Financial. His firm specializes in managing corporate retirement plans (401ks & 403bs) for more than 250 employers around the country. Their goal is to help create an efficient retirement plan benefit that allows companies to put their best foot forward in recruiting and retaining top talent.
 
 
 
 
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Episode #116: Jacki Leahy - Activate the Magic

Jacki hails in Boston's Back Bay with her miniature dachshund, Freddy. Formerly a kindergarten teacher and Manhattan apartment broker, she took a bold leap into the dynamic world of tech startups in 2015.
Over the past 9 years, Jacki has adeptly navigated the chaos that often accompanies the pursuit of building a repeatable sales motion. As the tenth hire at LinkSquares, she led the construction of teams, processes, and systems that propelled the company's ARR from $350k to $9M in under 2 years. This transformative journey ignited her passion for Salesforce and RevOps—essentially, all technical infrastructure supporting marketing, sales, and customer success.
Now, as the founder of Activate the Magic, a boutique RevOps agency, Jacki empowers B2B founders and sales leaders with scalable tech solutions for chaos-free operations. Her expertise lies in Salesforce migrations, renovations, and integrations—addressing all the crucial components to liberate leaders from operational minutiae and provide a clear pulse on the business through reliable leading indicators, forecasts, and comprehensive pipeline overviews.
At Activate the Magic, all clients enjoy month-to-month agreements, a testament to Jacki's commitment to delivering recurring impact. If you'd like to connect with Jacki, book your complimentary coffee chat at https://activatethemagic.com
 
 
 
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Episode #115: Jill Trimmel - Elevate + Deskimate

Jill Trimmel is the Founder and CEO of Elevate Claims Solutions and Deskimate. Both provide professional claim services in the property and casualty insurance industry. After a range of leadership roles within the industry, Jill took the leap to entrepreneurship. She is married with two children, residing in Indiana.
 
 
 
 
 
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Episode #114: Greg Stanley - Accelerant Consultants

Greg has had a career of over 30 years in business and community leadership. Prior to launching Accelerant Consultants in 2017 with the mission of helping as many middle market business owners as possible optimize their revenue functions in a way that maximizes organizational valuation and gives them more, and more meaningful options to exit, Greg built practices, sales and marketing teams, and channel relationships for Support Net, Arrow Electronics, PwC, and SmartIT. While at PwC, Greg helped build a technology security practice before building a marketing and sales team from the ground up for the Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky region. Greg served on the seven partner leadership council for PwC and had strategy and revenue responsibility for over $325 million in revenue. It is this set of experiences that gives Greg a unique understanding of leadership, strategy, sales, and marketing in both small and large company environments that he leverages for the benefit of his clients. In addition to serving as the president of Accelerant Consultants, Greg is an adjunct professor of sales and sales leadership at Butler University.
 
 
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Episode #113: Aaron Prickel - Lushin

Following his own advice, Aaron strives to lead by example and often arrives at the office before anyone else to take advantage of focused, productive time. A Lushin management consultant since 2007, Aaron acts as the glue that binds and strengthens the team’s collective talents. As not only a sales trainer but a great resource, he encourages his clients to stay true to themselves and their missions, and he adapts his training style to best serve each individual. To learn more about them go to https://www.lushin.com
Aaron emphasizes understanding the underlying cause of business performance problems: belief, behavior, or technique. He aims to teach sales training clients the simplicity of effective solutions.
Winner of the 2015 Ball State Achievement Award from the Miller College of Business, Aaron spends his precious free time outdoors or cheering on his three kids in their respective sports competitions.
 
 
 
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Episode 112: Lori Winkler - BlueSky Commerce

Lori Winkler was born and raised in Northwest Indiana (Dyer) and moved to Columbus, Ohio, after getting married. She and her husband, Aaron, who met at St. Joseph's College, moved to Indianapolis in 1998 to be close to his family.
Lori started as a 4th Grade Teacher in Inner City Chicago before her marriage and move. She then became a Community Educator for a Healthcare Company, which fueled her passion for sales. Lori then grew her career as a sales consultant and trainer for Caskey Achievement Strategies, in Carmel, IN. Helping hundreds of Indianapolis executives and sales teams was a passion. Through this work, she realized the need for sales and marketing alignment. She then joined Sanders Group - a marketing agency in downtown Indianapolis where she was the VP of sales and strategy and moved into the CEO role.
Her entrepreneurial drive continued to pull at her. It led her to start her agency, WDM Creative, in 2010, where she grew and positioned the company for acquisition in 2019 by BlueSky Commerce. Today, Lori leads the Experience and Marketing Agency for BlueSky Commerce, an e-commerce and business consultancy serving global customers with their digital transformation.
 
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Episode #111: Carajane Moore - Hunt Big Sales

As President and Partner of Hunt Big Sales for over 13 years, Carajane Moore leads the company in strategic vision and implementation. Since joining the company, she has instituted vital operational and structural changes to the business resulting in growth of over 50 percent in less than three years.
As a serial entrepreneur, Carajane has proven her ability to develop new business and forge critical relationships. Using those skills in her current role, not only has she guided Hunt Big Sales, but she has educated key clients on how to double and triple their companies. Her firm has helped clients land over $18 billion in new business and has paved new ground using the “hunt” approach in industries such as medical devices, telecommunications, technology, real estate, aviation, and construction. You can learn more here https://www.huntbigsales.com
Her varied experiences as a fast-track person in the sales environment have included direct sales, sales training, sales management, team sales, outside and inside sales, and entrepreneurial sales at the $1 million plus level. Carajane has taught the Hunt Big Sales System to other professionals and consulted with major companies as a trusted adviser.
She is the co-author of The Secret to Big Sales: Use Executive Language to Close More Deals, How to Sell In Place: Closing Deals in the New Normal, and Life After the Death of Selling: How to Thrive in the New Era of Sales. She also served as a judge for the 2012 Stevie Awards and earned a degree in Business Administration, emphasis on Marketing, at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. Carajane was recognized as a leading woman in business and was featured in “O, The Oprah Magazine”, “Entrepreneur”, “Fortune”, and “Forbes” magazines
 
 
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Episode #110: Adam Hoeksema - ProjectionHub

Adam Hoeksema is the Co-Founder and CEO of ProjectionHub which helps startups and small businesses create financial projections for potential investors and lenders. Adam started the business with his brother in 2012 and today the company has a team of five who help a few hundred businesses each month with their projections. You can learn more here https://www.projectionhub.com
In addition to ProjectionHub, Adam also spent a decade as the Executive Director of Bankable, an SBA lender in Indiana. Adam was employee number one for Bankable, and helped build a team that ultimately made over 1,500 small business loans to Indiana small businesses. Adam, his wife Stacy, and their 4 boys live in Middletown, IN where they enjoy living in the country, watching a beautiful sunset from their porch, and growing an ever expanding garden.
 
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Episode #109: Terry Ramsey - Ptero Business Solutions

Terry Ramsey is the owner and founder of Ptero Business Solutions. She is an Ohio native who first started her career in education out in Newark, New Jersey and continued in Columbus, Ohio where she resides with her family now.
Terry's bookkeeping business began when she was still in education. She picked up the trade (along with obtaining an MBA and a handful of clients) gaining at-bats for when her and her husband opened their very own ramen restaurant during the pandemic. The opening of Red Rabbit Ramen has allowed Terry to uniquely see both sides of business financial planning and tracking and is her greatest strength in supporting others.
Ptero Business Solutions leans heavily into supporting business owners with cash flow methods. Financial statements tend to speak gibberish to many business owners who rely heavily on what is (or is not) in their bank account. Ptero allows for businesses to know their profits on a monthly basis, plan for taxes, strategize for growth, and have faith in their bank account come the next payroll.
Terry happily gives any business owner her time to meet with them and ease their financial worries for their business. Visit the website https://www.pterobusinesssolutions.com to book your call.
 
In honor of the fellow business owners in your life that had an impact on you becoming the person you are today, let’s celebrate them. Click this link to apply to be on our podcast to recognize those people: https://www.BeMADTogether.com