CNN, Horatio Alger Award "Chicken Soup for The Soul" Founder Mark is one of 'America's Ambassador of Possibility' is author of the Cash In A Flash" & " Best of Your Life for The Rest of Your Life". The Chicken Soup idea was just one of many that has propelled Mark into a worldwide spotlight as a sought-after keynote speaker, best-selling author and marketing maven. His credentials include a lifetime of entrepreneurial success, in addition to an extensive academic background. He is also a prolific writer with many popular books such as The Power of Focus, The Aladdin Factor, Dare to Win and others.

Along with business partner Jack Canfield, Hansen is best known for creating what Time magazine called "the publishing phenomenon of the decade". Chicken Soup for the Soul books are one of the most successful publishing franchises in the world today, with more than 500 million books sold internationally and more than 100 licensed products.

In the year 2000, The Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans honored Mark with the prestigious Horatio Alger Award. Each year, this association honors American leaders who personify the virtues and principles inherent in the success stories written by 19th century American author Horatio Alger, Jr. As an award winner, Mark’s extraordinary life achievements stand as a powerful example that the free enterprise system still offers opportunity to all. In 2000, Northwood University honored him as the Outstanding Business Leader of the Year. In 2002, The University of Toledo presented Mark with an Honorary PhD in Business Administration and established the Mark Victor Hansen Entrepreneurial Excellence Fund, that will help shape the minds of future business leaders and assist in the development of the faculty who will teach them. The Mark Victor Hansen Foundation was Mark’s lifelong dream and is dedicated to helping young people become financially literate, and to turn their entrepreneurial dreams into business achievements.

He created Richest Kids Academy to teach entrepreneurial leadership and financial literacy to kids around the world.

He has appeared on Oprah, CNN and The Today Show and was featured in Time, U.S. News & World Report, USA Today, The New York Times and Entrepreneur Magazine.


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CNN, CBS, NBC, FoxBusiness.com and Black Enterprise

My Guest Rob Wilson has been dubbed “Hip Hop’s Financial Advisor” because he is a trusted advisor to professional athletes & entertainers; Rob believes that we can all learn from their success. However, Rob states: "I realized that as a financial advisor, I have also come into contact with, and have as clients, a plethora of doctors, lawyers, accountants, architects, business people and entrepreneurs that are living fabulous lives. In fact, many of these individuals live lives that are far more enriching than a number of these celebrities, because of the fact that, due to their inability to manage their money, the average celebrity’s “high life” is short lived. However, the stories of these wildly successful “non-celebrities” has largely gone untold…"

Rob is originally from Pittsburgh. He received his bachelors degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and his Masters in Business Administration from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University.~ securethebag.me


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André Stewart is nominee for Los Angeles Times CFO & CEO Leadership Award in 2021.

His latest Book: Epitome of the Mind: Unlock Your Full Potential for Better Health, Prosperity and Happiness, April 15.2023

André Stewart is the founder and CEO of InvestFar Capital, Residual Roads Business Institute, and InvestFar, the first mobile app that lets you purchase, renovate, sell, or manage an investment property remotely globally.

Have you ever felt overwhelmed or depressed? Been homeless, unemployed, or on government assistance? That was André’s life path before entering the world of finance.

Previously a commercial banker at Wells Fargo, Silicon Valley Bank and a private bank named OneWest Bank as an advisor to CEOs of startups, major tech companies, and high net worth individuals, everything changed when at the age of thirty-three, his doctor ordered him to quit. The stress was literally killing him, leaving André on the brink of cardiac arrest. André then discovered the knowledge of real estate investing and was able to achieve financial independence in less than seven months in that industry.

Residing in Los Angeles, California, André is now on a mission to help others from all walks of life discover mental awareness and financial independence.

His book, The Real Estate Investing Diet: Harnessing Health Strategies to Build Wealth in Ninety Days(August 2, 2022; Amplify Publishing) André shares practical tools and techniques for gaining financial independence and generating long-term wealth through real estate investing―without using your own personal credit or up front capital.

Whether you have a bank account in the negative or a million dollars to invest, this book will not be like any other real estate guide you’ve read before. André not only gives you every single tool to make money in any real estate economic climate, but he also does so while navigating an unprecedented modern economy. If you want to be financially free in an unparalleled time in the history of any country, this is the book for you.


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It is not everyday that I get to speak to a renowned neurosurgeon for the NFL. Yes! The National Football League. In addition, long time team neurosurgeon for the Pittsburgh Steelers

March 4, 2022 The NFL Physicians Society (NFLPS) awarded the Arthur C. Rettig Award for Academic Excellence to Joseph C. Maroon, MD. Dr. Maroon is a neurosurgeon for the Pittsburgh Steelers for 38 years and recently presented at the NFLPS scientific meeting during the 2022 NFL Scouting Combine. Dr. Maroon is the first Neurosurgeon to receive this award.

Joseph C. Maroon, M.D., FACS, is Professor and Vice chairman of the Department of Neurological Surgery and Heindl Scholar in Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He is a world-renowned neurosurgeon, health and nutrition expert and Ironman triathlete. He obtained his medical and neurosurgical training at Indiana University, Georgetown University, Oxford University in England and the University of Vermont.

He is regarded as a premiere specialist in the surgical treatment of injuries and diseases of the brain and spine, particularly with microscopic and minimally invasive procedures. He had done extensive research into brain tumors, concussions and diseases of the spine that have led to many innovative techniques for diagnosing and treating these disorders. Consistently listed in America’s Best Doctors, he has an international referral base

Team neurosurgeon for the Pittsburgh Steelers since 1981, Dr. Maroon has successfully performed surgery on numerous professional football players and other elite athletes with potentially career-ending neck and spine injuries, safely returning them all to their high level of athletic performance. He serves on the National Football League’s Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Committee. Along with Mark Lovell, Ph.D., in the early 1990’s, Dr. Maroon co-developed ImPACT™ (Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing), the first, most-widely used and most scientifically validated computerized concussion evaluation system. ImPACT is a 20-minute test that has become a world-wide standard tool used in comprehensive clinical management of sports-related concussions for athletes of all ages. Over 3 million athletes have been base-lined with ImPACT™.

Dr. Maroon is frequently quoted as an expert source by national media, recently including the New York Times, USA Today, Associated Press, ESPN, Sports Illustrated.

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GRAMMY® Winning Trumpeter

In This Episode, To Get Us in a Celebration of Music I Played 'Black Girl Magic" (feat. Badia Farha, Mumu Fresh & Nikki Grier) & Harlem Shake On "En Motion". Just a Couple Songs from the Amazing Nabate Isles'.

Nabaté Isles is a Grammy-winning trumpeter as well as a composer and producer, born and raised in New York City. Nabaté is releasing his second album called, En Motion, to be released on Ropeadope Records in the Fall of 2022. The album features the core lineup of Sam Barsh (also the album’s producer), Eric Harland, Kaveh Rastegar, David Gilmore and Rachel Eckroth & guests include James Francies, Ben Wendel, Victor Provost, Sasha Berliner, Badia Farha. Added featured performers on the album are Mumu Fresh, Kardinal Offishall and Chuck D.

Nabaté has performed, toured and/or recorded with unique artists Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def), Christian McBride, Chuck D, Kenny Lattimore, Philip Bailey, Fantasia, Jeffrey Osborne, Jill Scott, Leslie Odom, Jr., Robert Glasper, Dianne Reeves, José James, Savion Glover, Gregory Porter, Freda Payne, Shareefa, Oliver Lake, Steve Coleman, Ravi Coltrane, Steve Wilson, Joey DeFrancesco, Muhal Richard Abrams, Matthew Shipp, Charli Persip, Mike Longo, Uri Caine, Buster Williams, Grady Tate, Jay Hoggard, Holt McCallany, the Mingus Big Band, and the José Limon Dance Company. He composed a solo double bass composition called 'Lessons', which was premiered by world-renowned double bassist James VanDemark at Louisiana State University. Nabaté also received two commissions from the Festival of New Trumpet Music to compose and premiere new compositions entitled, ‘We Need Unity in the Community’ and 'Same Strife, Different Life'.

Nabaté provided private trumpet instruction to the actor Rob Brown for his role as trumpeter Delmond Lambreaux on the HBO series, ‘Treme’. Nabaté was part of three Christian McBride Big Band’s Grammy-winning albums, ‘The Good Feeling’, ‘Bringin’ It’ and 'For Jimmy, Wes & Oliver' as well as the band’s performance at the White House for the last concert under President Barack Obama’s administration. He has composed five music scores for short films as well as contributing original music to Amos Poe’s innovative film, ‘Empire II’. He recently completed a score for his first feature called, 'The Rhythm in Blue'. He recently co-released a record dedicated to the late, great thespian and humanitarian, Chadwick Boseman called, 'Super Hero: Ode to Chadwick Boseman' with Niles, featuring Beth Griffith-Manley.

As a sports trivia expert, he is the only person to Stump The Schwab on ESPN (Season 2) and be crowned a Sports Jeopardy champion (Season 1, Episode #8), on Crackle.com. Now, he created and hosts his own podcast, 'Whe're They At', which profiles prominent retired athletes (https://linktr.ee/Whe_reTheyAt). The show has featured numerous Hall of Famers and luminaries like Chuck D, Dr. John Carlos, Chris Evert, Darrelle Revis, Warren Moon, David Robinson, Marshall Faulk, Tom Glavine, Larry Brown, Branford Marsalis, Taylor Hackford, to name a few.

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Clifton-Taulbert

He is best known for his books Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored and Eight Habits of the Heart: Embracing the Values that Build Strong Communities.

According to Clifton L. Taulbert, noted author and entrepreneur businessman, he could have failed had he not encountered community builders and entrepreneurial thinkers early on in his life. Taulbert was born on the Mississippi Delta during the era of legal segregation where he completed his secondary education. Though opportunities were few and barriers were plentiful, Taulbert managed to dream of being successful, not knowing the shape that success would take. Today Taulbert is the President and CEO of the Freemount Corporation (a human capital development company) serving clients nationally and internationally-Fortune 500 Companies, small businesses, federal agencies, professional organizations, community colleges and K-12 leadership. Additionally, entrepreneur Taulbert is the President and CEO of Roots Java Coffee-an African-American owned national coffee brand, importing coffee from Africa. To pass his life lessons along, Taulbert shares his entrepreneurial journey with others as a Thrive15.com mentor.

He is a Generational Bridge of Segregated Times to Integrated Times Today.

In "The Invitation," Clifton Taulbert returns to the themes of "Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored," his award-winning book and the source of a major motion picture. This new memoir chronicles Taulbert's transformative experience of a supper invitation to a former plantation house in Allendale, South Carolina, where the successful adult confronts his childhood memories and wrestles with the legacies of slavery and segregation that demand to be acknowledged in his present circumstances.

Taulbert has authored thirteen books, several of which are foundational to his consulting philosophy: Eight Habits of the Heart and Who Owns the Ice House-Eight Life Lessons from an Unlikely Entrepreneur [Who Owns the Ice House is part of a Kauffman Foundation sponsored education initiative to expose the impact of the entrepreneurial mindset at all levels] and more recently, Shift Your Thinking: Win Where You Stand and The Invitation-living beyond the lingering lessons of race and place. Taulbert's Eight Habits has become foundational to his work on leveraging community as an asset in the workplace, and garnered him an invitation to address members of the United States Supreme Court as a personal guest of former Supreme Court Justice, Sandra Day O’Connor.

Clifton L. Taulbert is a trustee of the University of Tulsa has been recognized international by the Sales and Marketing Academy of Achievement, the Library of Congress, the NAACP, Rotary International as a Paul Harris Fellow and has been a recipient of the Jewish Humanitarian of the Year Award and the Richard Wright Literary Award. The Freemount Corporation is located in Tulsa, Oklahoma.


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MSNBC, CNN, DCP Entertainment Host of 'Make It Plain' with Mark Thompson

,Mark is a Grassroots Activist. This week, We explore the Civil/ Voter's Right Activists & Lawss thru the Centuries, Leadership & Legacy of Voter's Civil Rights & Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Mark hompson's give his insight on what he believes is the key to social, economic & educational success today. The show is a political, human rights, and breaking news program. Mark (Matsimela Mapfumo) passionately and provocatively moderates discussion with well-informed listeners and nationally known leaders and celebrities on pressing political, social, economic, cultural and spiritual issues.

The Rev. Mark A. Thompson was honored at the 104th Annual NAACP Convention “for 25 years of crusading journalism and outstanding leadership in furthering the work of civil and human rights.” Mark began his broadcast career in 1988 with Radio One, Inc. under the guidance of Cathy Hughes. His show, Make It Plain, was the first talk show to sign on XM Satellite Radio in 2001, He was the first and only African American talk host on SiriusXM Progress, and the only African American in the U.S. hosting a daily, national show on a progressive/liberal talk format.

I Hear Rev. Mark Thompson every weekday, LIVE on Facebook.com/MakeitPlain, DCP Entertainment, or Subscribe on Pandora, Google or Apple and call him live at 888-MIP-WOKE.

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Forbes, Oprah ABC-TV's "Secret Millionaire" From Homeless To Millions!

Everyone has a unique life story to share – but initially, Dani Johnson’s looked to be made up of hardships and challenge. Growing up on welfare, she was pregnant at just 17 and homeless at 21. Life seemed like a closed book. But that was hardly the end of Dani’s story. Instead of accepting what life had scripted for her, Dani rewrote her own playbook, chapter by chapter – and by 23 she was a millionaire. In the years since, the tale has just gotten better: Today, Dani Johnson owns five companies, is a best-selling author and internationally desired speaker – and is passionately committed to her husband Hans and five children, and her journey with God.

Dani has appeared as a guest star on Oprah, ABC’s TV show "Secret Millionaire" NBC, Forbes & CNN. But Dani isn’t secretive about how others can transform their lives. Her unique success strategies have empowered and equipped thousands with the knowledge and skills she has learned to achieve what appears to be simply impossible.

She is a beacon assisting thousands from all walks of life, as well as a steadfast supporter of King’s Ransom Foundation, a non-profit charity providing for people in need worldwide, Dani has dedicated her life to a mission of service. In conjunction with King’s Ransom, she is currently rallying support to build 1000 homes, ensure safe drinking water and offer entrepreneurial training, for the extreme poor, as well as construct orphanages and safe havens for children rescued from the sex trade. Just as she is committed to offering a legacy for the future to these families and children, Dani can help you learn to write the next chapter of your own life story!

Do your goals include: personal achievement? business growth? leadership development? marketing and profit strategies? relationship guidance? time management improvement? wealth attainment? spiritual issues

Her Book is "First Steps to Wealth", is FREE get it on her website! Dani Johnson’s life experiences, wisdom and teachings help people break through barriers that stop them from feeling free to make their dreams happen in all of those areas – and she can help you, too. As president and founder of Call to Freedom International, a personal achievement and corporate training company, and as co-founder of King’s Ransom Foundation, a non-profit charity dedicated to serving people in need worldwide, Dani will help you learn to write the next chapters in your life story.~ DaniJohnson.com

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