The AGC Experience

The AGC Experience podcast features our AGC Talks speakers sharing their message in an audio podcast that you can listen to from anywhere. Listen in to our recent AGC Talks featured guest. Listen as Seth Tufte shares You're Unconscious, and What to do About it, a motivational talk with AGC Minneapolis January 2022.  In the first 7 years of life, humans are programmed by their parents and environment to become a carbon copy of those influences. This programming is not optional, rather automatic. If your parents ever told you dont talk to strangers, or money is the root of all evil, then chances are you have some self-limiting beliefs surrounding money and taking risks.  In this talk we will discuss why this programming takes place, how to see it for yourself, and what to do about it.   Learning Objectives: The 3 layers of the mind (conscious, subconscious, unconscious) and what each on is for How programs are stored within us Identifying the programs that are holding you back How to go about rewriting your programming for success in any field  Speaker Bio: Seth Tufte (28). I grew up in Minneapolis, MN. Currently, I live in Elko New Market. By profession I am a private educator. I specialize in helping people learn information, rather than just memorizing it. I have a magnificent obsession with education, and my personal mission statement is- to end child slavery, abuse, and poverty.  AGC Accelerated Global Connections is a business networking organization that helps connect business professionals globally through in person networking, motivational talks, and online social profiles. To learn more about AGC and membership in this growing organization.  Visit https://www.joinagc.com/ 

The AGC Experience podcast features our AGC Talks speakers sharing their message in an audio podcast that you can listen to from anywhere. Listen in to our recent AGC Talks featured guest. Listen as Maija Norwood shares Change your Lens, Change your Life a motivational talk with AGC Minneapolis December 2021.  We all have a specific lens (mindset) that we use to look at life. What if we could change the lens that we look at something to help us solve a problem, meet a goal, or change an attitude. Come hear how changing the lens or mindset in any given situation may be your ticket to changing your life.  Speaker Bio: I am known as the "patient photographer". Most people don't enjoy getting their pictures taken. I understand that and am patient and help them have as much fun as possible during our session together. I specialize in portraits. Portraits include corporate shoots, babies, kids, families, and high school seniors. I have a traveling studio that I bring to you or the location of your choosing. This makes it incredibly easy for business professionals because i go and set up at your office and all you need to do is take a quick beak, smile and your done. Kids and babies tend to be much more comfortable in their own homes which allows me to capture the "real" person. I have photographed products for websites and captured memories from parties as well. My customer service is my top priority followed by quality of work. I have lots of repeat clients for that reason.  AGC Accelerated Global Connections is a business networking organization that helps connect business professionals globally through in person networking, motivational talks, and online social profiles. To learn more about AGC and membership in this growing organization.  Visit https://www.joinagc.com/ 

The AGC Experience podcast features our AGC Talks speakers sharing their message in an audio podcast that you can listen to from anywhere. Listen in to our recent AGC Talks featured guest. Listen as Jackie Mart shares Un-Diet Your New Year-- 10 goal ideas that have nothing to do with weight loss or fitness a motivational talk with AGC Arizona January 2022.  Do you make the same New Years resolutions every year in regards to your weight, exercise, diet, or health? Does anyone ever really achieve those goals anyway? Why not try ditching the diets and focus more on doing a few things to positively impact your life and the lives of others in a different way this year? Jackie Mart will share her top 10 easily achievable goal ideas you can put into action over the next 12 months that will change your life!  Speaker Bio: Jackie's holistic health and wellness path began in 2006 when she was first introduced to organic food and alternative medicine in the small town of Carroll, Iowa. She is a holistic nutritionist, life coach, motivational speaker, certified fitness instructor and owner/operator of Optimum Wellness LLC.  She battled negative body image, weight issues and an eating disorder for more than 12 years and transformed her struggles into her career and passion! Jackie's health/wellness experience includes: consulting independently, working with gyms, partnering with chiropractic/wellness clinics, natural food co-ops, schools, colleges, universities, women's and girls' retreats/workshops, personal training and yoga studios, and providing nutrition and health education virtually and in many large-group settings and businesses throughout Minnesota and Iowa. She believes the road to health always begins with self-love!  AGC Accelerated Global Connections is a business networking organization that helps connect business professionals globally through in person networking, motivational talks, and online social profiles. To learn more about AGC and membership in this growing organization.  Visit https://www.joinagc.com/ 

The AGC Experience podcast features our AGC Talks speakers sharing their message in an audio podcast that you can listen to from anywhere. Listen in to our recent AGC Talks featured guest. Listen as Fran Bieganek shares Vulnerability: Tap Into Your Hidden Super Power! a motivational talk with AGC Minneapolis January 2022. In our culture vulnerability is seen as a liability. To be vulnerable is to be exposed, susceptible, sensitive - the implication is that these are undesired qualities. Yet, research has shown that vulnerability humanizes us and gives us the power to engage with ourselves and others from our true core. As well-known author and lecturer Brene Brown says, "Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change. Join me in exploring how we can utilize our "super power" of vulnerability to help us become more of who we truly are - real, genuine success stories! Learning Objectives:·        Define vulnerability.·        Learn about 3 major types of vulnerability: emotional, cognitive and relational.·        Learn what makes vulnerability a "Super Power".·        Identify strategies for utilizing your own vulnerability as a strength. Speaker Bio:Fran Bieganek is a Licensed Psychologist, Professor of Psychology and Board-Certified Neurofeedback Practitioner. Fran Has been a practicing psychotherapist for over 25 years, working with a variety of populations with expertise in working with trauma and with personal growth and development. In addition, she has been a tenured track professor of psychology for the Minnesota State Colleges and Univeristy System. Fran is also co-founder and co-owner of Bhakti Brain Health Clinic, a clinic that provides neurofeedback and neuromodulation training both for peak performance and to remediate symptoms resulting from emotional or physical injury. AGC Accelerated Global Connections is a business networking organization that helps connect business professionals globally through in person networking, motivational talks, and online social profiles. To learn more about AGC and membership in this growing organization.  Visit https://www.joinagc.com/

The AGC Experience podcast features our AGC Talks speakers sharing their message in an audio podcast that you can listen to from anywhere. Listen in to our recent AGC Talks featured guest. Listen as Karene Richards shares Dare To Be Great a motivational talk with AGC Indiana December 2021. Develop habits to lose body fat and gain lean muscle in less time. This will lead to an improved physique and a marked boost in confidence. The physical discipline will transcend to other areas of your life causing you to be highly effective in your field while improving longevity. Speaker Bio:Karene Richards, CFA is a health coach, board member and public speaker who was formerly an Investment Banker for 18 years and CEO of the Association for Women in Science. She has leveraged her mathematical skills to develop a robust scientific system to help people transform their physiques. Karene is known for her ability to dramatically transform physiques in a matter of weeks. She is a womens advocate and a masters overall bikini champion with the National Physique Committee. In 2019, Karene was named one of the top 100 Most Influential People of African Descent under 40 by the United Nations. She currently serves on the Board for both The Association For Women in Science and The National Speakers Association. AGC Accelerated Global Connections is a business networking organization that helps connect business professionals globally through in person networking, motivational talks, and online social profiles. To learn more about AGC and membership in this growing organization.  Visit https://www.joinagc.com/

The AGC Experience podcast features our AGC Talks speakers sharing their message in an audio podcast that you can listen to from anywhere. Listen in to our recent AGC Talks featured guest. Listen as Cheryl Anderson shares What I Learned from Cleaning the Lion Cage a motivational talk with AGC Minnepaolis December 2021.  Speaker Bio: CHERYL BEAL ANDERSON is recognized as a leader that is bold, perseveres through challenges and is action-oriented for excellence. Anderson is the Vice-President of Global Regulatory Affairs (GRA) and Drug Safety/ Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy at Upsher-Smith Laboratories, Inc., LLC in 2015. Anderson confidently led her team through merger & acquisitions by Sawai Pharmaceuticals, Inc, post-merger integration and remote work-from-home in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic. She set a course for GRA to add strategic capabilities, increase productivity, establish key performance indicators and leading our FDA meetings. Anderson also led the Quality organization from 2017 to 2020, through change, and reorganization. In 2021, Anderson was moved to the Upsher-Smith Executive Team, being the only woman and first African-American.  Prior to Upsher-Smith, Andersons regulatory affairs roles were at Lundbeck (US), Eli Lilly and Company, Pfizer Global Research and Development/ Parke-Davis and Alcon Laboratories where she grew in responsibilities, expertise and leadership in the Neurology, Oncology, Cardiovascular therapeutic areas. Anderson was a faculty member and clinical researcher at the University of Illinois at Chicago and University of Texas, College of Pharmacy.  Anderson was recipient of the Pfizer Global Leadership Award; Eli Lilly & Company first Healthcare Businesswomens Association Rising Star; Achievement in Business Award, Center for Leadership Development. Anderson is a mentor in her profession, track-record of commitment to youth development. She is committed to encouraging minorities and girls to consider careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Andersons education and career have afforded her experiences in Texas, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota and extended to Beijing, China, Dublin, Ireland, Copenhagen, Denmark, Osaka and Tokyo, Japan. She is a member of the Women Business Leaders for executives in health care. Anderson was selected as a 2021 Women in Business Honoree by the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal.  Anderson is an active member of The Links, Inc. Minneapolis St. Paul (MN) Chapter and serves as Co-Chair of the Services to Youth Committee. She is a member, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Delta Phi Omega Chapter, the Ways & Means Committee and the Coordinator for the 2021 Pearls of Prestige Debutante Cotillion and Scholarship, Program and Presentation. Anderson is member of Center for Healthcare Innovation, Inc., Board of Directors, and the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy, National Board of Advisors.  Anderson has an MBA, Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Marketing, St. Josephs University, Philadelphia, PA; Post-doctoral ASHP-accredited Residency in Psychiatric Pharmacy Practice; Doctor of Pharmacy, University of Texas and UTHSC at San Antonio; BS, Pharmacy, University of Texas; and BS, Biomedical Science, Texas A&M University.  Anderson and her husband Donnie have two adult children, Brittani, and Joshua. Donnie and Cheryl live in Maple Grove, Minnesota.  AGC Accelerated Global Connections is a business networking organization that helps connect business professionals globally through in person networking, motivational talks, and online social profiles. To learn more about AGC and membership in this growing organization.  Visit https://www.joinagc.com/ 

The AGC Experience podcast features our AGC Talks speakers sharing their message in an audio podcast that you can listen to from anywhere. Listen in to our recent AGC Talks featured guest. Listen as Denise Garzon shares We Are Who We Are, Be True Be You a motivational talk with AGC Minneapolis December 2021. In tonight's Talk, Denise will discuss the various ways to improve your mind, body & soul. Alongside ways how to overcome fear,  Key to bettering yourself and feeling confident within you. Learn My Story Sharing My Vision To Inspire Others  Speaker Bio: Denise Garzon is an Entrepreneur & International Travel Agent, whose passion is empowering people to have a larger vision for their lives. Building businesses while encouraging people to follow their dreams.  Denise was born in Minnesota and grew up knowing entrepreneurship was going to be her way to live and experience the world.  Denise graduated Burnsville High School in 2018 and set out to the world. To find her passion and discover ways she can give back to her family.  Fast forward to today, Denise has multiple businesses & spends her time traveling with her future Esposo. While finding the time to always visit family and catch up with loved ones.  Denise is the founder of the Lafresita Vibes Clothing line & Mr Peep Wear.  AGC Accelerated Global Connections is a business networking organization that helps connect business professionals globally through in person networking, motivational talks, and online social profiles. To learn more about AGC and membership in this growing organization.  Visit https://www.joinagc.com/  

The AGC Experience podcast features our AGC Talks speakers sharing their message in an audio podcast that you can listen to from anywhere. Listen in to our recent AGC Talks featured guest. Listen as Lois Koffi shares Your Best Health & Wealth With The 12 Week Year a motivational talk with AGC California Dec 2021.  Soar Into 2022 - Your Best Health & Wealth With The 12 Week Year  How has 2021 finished for you?  Did you hit your news year's resolutions or sales and marketing plans with excellence that you set late last year?  Did you hit your sales goals? Your income goals? Your health goals?  In New York Times Best Selling book, The 12 Week Year, we learn that annualized thinking and new year's resolutions DON'T WORK  Science shows that 12 week years (or 90 days, depending on how you look at it) is where the REAL results come from  Less is more - setting healthy boundaries and being laser beam focused is key  Coach Lois knows a bit about this as an Ironman Triathlete and Sales Coach - she has coached thousands in health and wealth in business over the last 22+ years and has studied the science.  It was the 12 Week Year that changed things for her in the pandemic  And she wants to help us have a plan for 2022 (all of the weeks!) so we can look back on that year and be glad we focused on that scientifically proven model  Oh, and you can throw away those new year's resolutions while you are at it!  Learning Objectives: Learn the science behind the 12 Week year Set your personal and professional goals for January-March 2022 Set healthy boundaries for yourself, your business and your family Set up your ideal work week schedule SOAR into 2022 with confidence and compassion - releasing 2021 (no matter what the results!)  Speaker Bio: Lois Koffi is a professional speaker, sales trainer, coach, Best Selling Author of Fearless Entrepreneurs, and Ironman Triathlete that has coached thousands of people in business and healthy lifestyles for the last 22 years.  She pivoted, like many in 2020, without having an email list or podcast or tribe online - having focused on face-to-face sales for over 20 years.  She went from 0 sales online to 5 figures a month in less than 6 months with permission-based lead generation online and now coaches, affiliate marketers, and speakers hire her to do the same - pivoting in 6 months guaranteed to live their best life. She now is at multiple five figures a month in 9 months of starting at ground zero online.   AGC Accelerated Global Connections is a business networking organization that helps connect business professionals globally through in person networking, motivational talks, and online social profiles. To learn more about AGC and membership in this growing organization.  Visit https://www.joinagc.com/ 

The AGC Experience podcast features our AGC Talks speakers sharing their message in an audio podcast that you can listen to from anywhere. Listen in to our recent AGC Talks featured guest. Listen as Brent Widman shares Habits of Top Producers a motivational talk with AGC Arizona December 2021.  Skills: everything we do on a given day that helps us make money or helps us add value  Motivation: How do we do it, the Why, what drives us  Systems: The number one thing we all need help with as sales people. Time Management, Self-Management, Goal Setting, Efficiencies in our business  3 Topics Find a Way Not an Excuse Take Action Now Student of the Game  Speaker Bio: Today we have a great guest speaker. Brent Widman helps run Southwestern Consulting which is the speaking, training & coaching division of the Southwestern Family of Companies!  Brent is a Partner that helps lead a group of 120 certified professional sales & leadership coaches around the world. He has been with the 160-year-old Southwestern Family of Companies for over 7 years, with 15+ years of sales experience himself. Brent is a consistently in the top 5% for sales and revenue for the company. He is a marathoner, mountain climber and loves any type of exercise  Brent is all about growth, serving others and having a great time while doing it! He is a dad of 3, Jack 15, Elle 6 and Hudson not yet 1, who could care less about any accolades of his and just love being with him  AGC Accelerated Global Connections is a business networking organization that helps connect business professionals globally through in person networking, motivational talks, and online social profiles. To learn more about AGC and membership in this growing organization.  Visit https://www.joinagc.com/ 

The AGC Experience podcast features our AGC Talks speakers sharing their message in an audio podcast that you can listen to from anywhere. Listen in to our recent AGC Talks featured guest. Listen as Michael Wulf shares Transforming Purpose in to Action a motivational talk with AGC Minneapolis November 2021.  Who would have expected the quiet chubby little grand mama's boy from the block would ever lead a transformative youth STEM organization for BIPOC students. Hear how you can work within your means to make change real for our community.  brief personal background heartbreak & physical pain triggers the great epiphany, purpose grit and perseverance in pursuit of purpose how to exit gracefully, the dream  Speaker Bio: Dr. Michael G. Wulf is a passionate leader and volunteer providing opportunities for K-12 youth by developing confidence and options in Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) education for underrepresented ethnicities in education and workforce. His passion is to create a sustainable urban-focused organization that develops prepared young adults in Minnesota. He serves as the founder of the Minnesota STEM Partnership (MNSTEM), National Black Data Processing Associates (BDPA) serving as Chief Operating Officer & Vice-President, local National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) Pre-Collegiate Initiative (PCI) Youth Chapter Advisor, and board member of the Conservation Corps of MN & IA. Originally from St. Pauls Rondo neighborhood he understands the need to reinvest in community and selflessly shares his knowledge by developing FREE high-tech education programs in advancing and emerging technology fields. As a 37 year technologist he leads MNSTEM with part-time staff and dozens of volunteers from STEAM-related fields.  AGC Accelerated Global Connections is a business networking organization that helps connect business professionals globally through in person networking, motivational talks, and online social profiles. To learn more about AGC and membership in this growing organization.  Visit https://www.joinagc.com/ 

The AGC Experience podcast features our AGC Talks speakers sharing their message in an audio podcast that you can listen to from anywhere. Listen in to our recent AGC Talks featured guest. Listen as Mike Morawski shares Life after the Fall a motivational talk with AGC Indiana November 2021.  I will tell my story of building a $100 mm company and losing it all. Going to Federal Prison on a 10 year sentence. The lessons I learned and the restoration after.  Learning Objectives: Not to grow too fast Not to be undercapitalized Not to be over leveraged Pay attention to the details  Speaker Bio: Michael Mike Morawski is a 30+ year real estate investment veteran. He has controlled over $285,000,000 in real estate transactions. Mike is an entrepreneur, author, real estate trainer, public speaker, and personal coach with a strong, personal resilience, and deep desire to help others live an extraordinary life. He has coached hundreds of real estate investors to fulfill their dreams.  AGC Accelerated Global Connections is a business networking organization that helps connect business professionals globally through in person networking, motivational talks, and online social profiles. To learn more about AGC and membership in this growing organization.  Visit https://www.joinagc.com/ 

The AGC Experience podcast features our AGC Talks speakers sharing their message in an audio podcast that you can listen to from anywhere. Listen in to our recent AGC Talks featured guest. Listen as Donna Willis shares The Self-Aware Lifestyle: Setting the Foundation thru Financial Awareness a motivational talk with AGC California November 2021.  What if you hired on a new employee this year? An employee that works solely on your bottom-line growth never misses a day and multiplies everything they touched creating effortless income for you. That would be one great employee, right!  Let me introduce your new employee. Their name is MONEY.  Imagine if through becoming financially aware you were able to raise your income, gain additional streams of revenue, and reduce your debt, or become totally debit-free, what value would you put on that imagination! Priceless, right!  Well, that is what becoming Financially Aware does - it moves your life from pennies and dimes to Priceless.  Speaker Bio: For 30 years, Donna Tiger Willis has utilized her intense empathic and intuitive abilities to start 3-small businesses generating over a half million a year within two years of leaving a domestic violence marriage, but she kept rising and even falling, failing into the lessons and life that built her resilience to rise again, and again. She has thrived, even when she thought she was just surviving and continues to rise no matter what has knocked her down, been in her way, or seem more than she was capable of achieving. What was the trick, the secret, the inside scoop of ever evolving to her greatest and highest-self living, Self-Awareness.  Donna discovered that throughout her years as CEO of The Christmas Connection, Event Connections and Northstar Production and Design, as well as through her time supporting and coaching C-Level executives for 15 years in the global corporate realm, that the most powerful yet confronting aspect of all our growth, whether it be personal or business development, that our hardest relationship we face is the one with ourselves. It is her lifes mission to work with others to the greatest relationship of all. The relationship that holds your success, your fulfillment, and unshakeable inner peace is the one with ourselves. The answers to all our struggles and our greatness realized are within us, when we can get out of our head, into our heart and hear our very soul.  As the founder of Your Evolution Coach, she works with the coaching model of The Prism Principle: A Self-Aware Lifestyle, where others can find within themselves the code, the key, and the answers to not only Why am I here? but Who AM I, really? without all the layers of titles roles and responsibilities life layers on. There you are able to live authentically, free to be and live in the passions and pleasures of who you were meant to be in your own life.  The starting foundation of a Self-Aware life begins with the base of what will create a solid ground for her clients growth providing the avenues for them to invest in themselves again through Financial Awareness.  AGC Accelerated Global Connections is a business networking organization that helps connect business professionals globally through in person networking, motivational talks, and online social profiles. To learn more about AGC and membership in this growing organization.  Visit https://www.joinagc.com/ 

The AGC Experience podcast features our AGC Talks speakers sharing their message in an audio podcast that you can listen to from anywhere. Listen in to our recent AGC Talks featured guest. Listen as Ben John shares Tackling change in your industry-becoming the market disrupter a motivational talk with AGC Minneapolis Nov 2021.  Learn why, even though an entrepreneur might have a superior product or service, they struggle to change people's minds about their current buying options. What leads people to stay with poor quality options above other services offered? How can we position ourselves to become a market disrupter and differentiate ourselves?  Learning Objectives: Learn about the psychology of change in the mind Learn about what drives people's choices Learn how to break into the circle of trust Learn about how to position yourself as expert Learn how to poke the bear  Speaker Bio: Ben is husband to his beautiful wife Johanna (Yo-hanna) for over 11 years. He is father to 3 beautiful children of 5, 3 and 1. They do have names if you want to ask him later. He lives out in the country in Hammond, WI and has a passion for the local church and the outdoors. Ben believes in market disruption in the healthcare sector where fairness and transparency is lacking. One true fact is that he once was arrested in college for (SOBERLY) floating down the river on an ice chunk TRUE STORY!  AGC Accelerated Global Connections is a business networking organization that helps connect business professionals globally through in person networking, motivational talks, and online social profiles. To learn more about AGC and membership in this growing organization.  Visit https://www.joinagc.com/ 

The AGC Experience podcast features our AGC Talks speakers sharing their message in an audio podcast that you can listen to from anywhere. Listen in to our recent AGC Talks featured guest. Listen as Tesfahun Hailu shares How to Tell Your Story a motivational talk with AGC Minneapolis Nov 2021. Whose job is it to know and tell our story? Our parents? Our close friends? How long has it been since you've documented your progress? Why is it difficult to tell our story? In this talk I will discuss some of these few things to help you all on how to tell your story. Learning Objectives: The power of your story Discovering what your story is Fail & Fail Forward Consistency  Speaker Bio: My name is Tesfahun Hailu but my friends call me Tez. I am a first-generation Ethiopian American creative Firestarter currently based in the Twin Cities, Minnesota. My craft ranges from music, digital design, film, and much more. I am Creative Director of Silent Echo Studios, a host on The Echo Effect Podcast, and also a Director at EIDS Cleaning and Consulting. I draw joy from continuously failing forward while attempting to solve problems that affect not only my life but also my community.  AGC Accelerated Global Connections is a business networking organization that helps connect business professionals globally through in person networking, motivational talks, and online social profiles. To learn more about AGC and membership in this growing organization.  Visit https://www.joinagc.com/  

The AGC Experience podcast features our AGC Talks speakers sharing their message in an audio podcast that you can listen to from anywhere. Listen in to our recent AGC Talks featured guest. Listen as Travis Sims shares NETWORK, NETWORKING, or COMMUNITY? a motivational talk with AGC Minneapolis November 2021  Two Time Amazon #1 Best Selling Author & Networking Coach Travis Sims shares his thoughts on Networking, Network, or Community.  Networking Networking is the path to meeting new people for business, making more connections, building deeper relationships. If you want to fill your sales pipeline with new opportunities networking is the answer!  Network Building a strong network is different than networking. The main difference is relationships, trust, and quality referrals. A strong network is how you insulate your business!  Community A sense of belonging to a community of something greater than ourselves. Like-minded people, with a common cause that we can engage with. A community is a safe place that feels like home and a place to share purpose.  Learning Objectives: Networking Fails Network vs Networking Building Your Community Diversity within your network Developing a Referral Pipeline   Speaker Bio: Travis Sims is a Business Coach, Networking Expert, Motivational Speaker, and Thought Leader committed to helping you become a better person, leader, and networker. Travis is a powerful Keynote Speaker engaging audience as large as 3,000 people from all over the world in 49 different countries.  For 14 years Travis was a high-level executive for a global business networking organization breaking records of achievement nationally and internationally. Travis is known worldwide as the Magician of Networking. He has been teaching & coaching the best business leadership minds across the country how to do networking, build networks, and create community.  Travis is the CEO of AGC Accelerated Global Connections the fastest growing business networking organization in the country. He is on a mission to help accelerate local business connections in social settings around the world that foster relationships resulting in global opportunities.  Travis is a two-time Amazon #1 Best Selling Author Featured on ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC with his books "Networking In the New normal" and "The Magic of Networking."  Eight years ago, Travis set a goal to lose 100 pounds in one year. He not only accomplished this goal, but he has kept the weight off. Travis has completed some of the toughest competitive Mud Obstacle Courses on the planet, running in the following races: Warrior Dash, Rugged Maniac, Spartan, Battle Frog and the Tough Mudder. Travis enjoys Kickboxing and Martial Arts. He recently earned his blue belt in Kempo Karate.  Travis believes his success can be attributed to setting goals reviewing them regularly and a strong desire to accomplish them.  AGC Accelerated Global Connections is a business networking organization that helps connect business professionals globally through in person networking, motivational talks, and online social profiles. To learn more about AGC and membership in this growing organization.  Visit https://www.joinagc.com/ 

The AGC Experience podcast features our AGC Talks speakers sharing their message in an audio podcast that you can listen to from anywhere. Listen in to our recent AGC Talks featured guest. Listen as Steffany Fleming shares How to give back to the community that helped you become successful a motivational talk with AGC Minneapolis October 2021.  Have you ever wanted to do good in your community or find a way to give back and just didn't know where to begin..  1. How do you begin? 2. Do you have personal experience within a cause? 3. What are you passionate about? 4. How much of a commitment can you make? 5. Are you able to get friends and family to stand with you to make a difference?  Speaker Bio: 25 years event planning, fundraising and volunteering within the non-profit community. As a cancer survivor I learned how important a community is to an individual and how one person can make a difference in the life of another. AGC Accelerated Global Connections is a business networking organization that helps connect business professionals globally through in person networking, motivational talks, and online social profiles. To learn more about AGC and membership in this growing organization.  Visit https://www.joinagc.com/ 

The AGC Experience podcast features our AGC Talks speakers sharing their message in an audio podcast that you can listen to from anywhere. Listen in to our recent AGC Talks featured guest. Listen as Garrett Lange shares Communication Pitfalls a motivational talk with AGC Indiana October 2021.  Communication is the foundation upon which solid relationship are built. I will discuss the various obstacles to communication within relationships and how to overcome them.  1. Can you really make a difference in your relationship? 2. Changing your relationship begins with yourself. 3. Just because you're communicating, doesn't mean you're helping. 4. Building awareness 5. What is the goal of communication?  Speaker Bio: I have a passion for personal growth and for helping others overcome their struggles. I am a Relationship Coach and Author. I am also a John Maxwell Certified Coach and Speaker. Helping others understand and master effective communication techniques is one of my greatest joys, because it is one of the greatest skills that a person can possess.  AGC Accelerated Global Connections is a business networking organization that helps connect business professionals globally through in person networking, motivational talks, and online social profiles. To learn more about AGC and membership in this growing organization.  Visit https://www.joinagc.com/ 

The AGC Experience podcast features our AGC Talks speakers sharing their message in an audio podcast that you can listen to from anywhere. Listen in to our recent AGC Talks featured guest. Listen as Michelle Perdue shares Rise Up to Find Your Voice and YOU! a motivational talk with AGC Minneapolis October 2021.  This motivational presentation will empower you to find your voice so that you can show up as the authentic YOU to live your best life. You will leave this presentation feeling more confident about who you are, but also with the tools needed to embrace your voice to become the person you want to be. When you operate based on your authentic voice you're more likely to live with purpose and passion and seize opportunities that are more aligned to your true nature.  Learning Objectives: The importance of finding your voice How to Find Your Voice What does it feel and look like when you find Your  Speaker Bio: Michelle Perdue, M.Ed., is a Resilience Keynote Speaker, Author and Coach. She empowers business professionals, educators and cancer survivors to find their voice and cultivate a life of resilience to live their best life. She is best known for delivering powerful and thought-provoking presentations with a theatrical flair to transform and engage her audience.  AGC Accelerated Global Connections is a business networking organization that helps connect business professionals globally through in person networking, motivational talks, and online social profiles. To learn more about AGC and membership in this growing organization.  Visit https://www.joinagc.com/ 

The AGC Experience podcast features our AGC Talks speakers sharing their message in an audio podcast that you can listen to from anywhere. Listen in to our recent AGC Talks featured guest. Listen as Moira Ní Ghallachóir shares 5 Ways to Use Speaking to Travel the World, Enroll Great Clients and Live a Globetrotting Lifestyle a motivational talk with AGC Minneapolis October 2021.  You can start to use speaking as a tool to enroll great clients even if you've never spoken before, or you're not enrolling the clients you want from your current gigs.  I started speaking in my hometown of Donegal Ireland when I first started my business over 4 years ago. Since then, I have spoken worldwide so I know what's possible for you too. If you know where to find opportunities because they are everywhere!  In this talk I will reveal the secrets to how I have booked gigs in less than 5 minutes! Plus, strategies I teach my high-end clients so you can find those amazing speaking gigs globally!  I will also share how to get out from behind your beloved computer and connect directly with the thousands who want to hear your story, your message and benefit from your brilliance.  Learning Objectives: How to book speaking gigs globally The keys to start enrolling clients from speaking even if you've never spoke! What creating a truly global impact looks like from speaking And how to have a great lifestyle from one simple strategy that anyone can use  Speaker Bio: Moira shows entrepreneurs a powerful pathway to enrolling more clients, making way more money and having a globetrotting lifestyle without the complicated strategies. So, they can finally enjoy the success and the freedom they started their business for in the first place. She went from being a youth worker living in London making 30k a year to a business mentor and speaking, building a multiple 6 figure revenue in less than 3 years. She has captivated audiences worldwide with her powerful presentations, her retreats in Paris and New York as well as her newest venture - stylish secret supper style gatherings for big thinking entrepreneurs to get their message out in a big way anywhere in the world.  AGC Accelerated Global Connections is a business networking organization that helps connect business professionals globally through in person networking, motivational talks, and online social profiles. To learn more about AGC and membership in this growing organization.  Visit https://www.joinagc.com/ 

The AGC Experience podcast features our AGC Talks speakers sharing their message in an audio podcast that you can listen to from anywhere. Listen in to our recent AGC Talks featured guest. Listen as Amy Theisen shares Who is in Control of your Life? a motivational talk with AGC Minneapolis October 2021  When we bump up against problems and difference of opinion, life can start to feel full of FRUSTRATION. This can cause us to connect with inner FEARs of not being good enough, or smart enough, or fear of failure. Then we begin to WORRY that our lives won't turn out like we hope. Life can get quite stressful when filled with Frustration, Fear, and Worry. I am Amy Theisen, a metaphysics coach and consultant. What if we could Flip Frustration Fear and Worry on their heads. Would that make a significant impact on your life?  Participants will learn: How our Brain sabotages us Turn Frustration into Fascination Flip Fear into Faith And Worry into Wonder  Speaker Bio: Amy Theisen (pronounced Tyson) comes to Chinese Metaphysics (meta-fi-ziks) from a background in microbiology, technology, and distance learning. Today successful entrepreneurs hire her to help them design their life destiny authentically and in harmony with the world.  Amy looks at her life in 2 parts  Part 1 --- Was all about the traditional go to school, get good grades, get a job, and work hard then retire and eventually. expire  Part 2 started in 2004 when she took her first class in Fung Schway (phonetic for feng shui). This part of her life is about helping people design their life destiny, that they may experience more joy, peace, and passion for their everyday lives. She is now looking to INSPIRE before she expires  She is here to present the motto she lives by: Turn your Frustration to Fascination Flip your Fear into Faith and your Worry into Wonder  AGC Accelerated Global Connections is a business networking organization that helps connect business professionals globally through in person networking, motivational talks, and online social profiles. To learn more about AGC and membership in this growing organization.  Visit https://www.joinagc.com/