Maven Minds: Trailblazers of Modern Business

Laura Crossley
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Maven Minds: Trailblazers of Modern Business

Taking on the challenges of business firsthand? Leading your team through uncharted waters? Facing growing pains at every turn? Meet the mavens. Inspired by the first explorers to journey to the summit of Mount Everest – the Maven Minds podcast connects innovators, entrepreneurs, and business leaders with game-changing experts that are blazing trails in modern business. Hear creative approaches to solving growth hurdles, business challenges, and project roadblocks as the mavens chart the paths through this new era. Join in at mavenminds.com

Episodes

  1. 12/13/2022

    S1 E11: Founder and CEO of AnnMann Designs Talks Brand Discovery and the Evolution of Entrepreneurship

    There are never ending hurdles to overcome as you build a business for yourself, but one of the biggest challenges is learning to truly believe in yourself.Christine Nelson, the founder and CEO of AnnMann Designs, is the definition of heart and soul in small business. AnnMann Designs is a jewelry brand that creates pieces inspired by natural and architectural elements. Her entrepreneurial journey has been nothing short of incredible and by taking a chance on herself, she was commissioned to c...

    39 min
  2. S1 E10: Rob Ellerman Talks Team Retention, Consumer Education and Client Relationships in Real Estate

    11/29/2022

    S1 E10: Rob Ellerman Talks Team Retention, Consumer Education and Client Relationships in Real Estate

    Rob Ellerman of The Rob Ellerman Team has the #1 real estate group in both Missouri and Kansas with over $3.5 billion in career sales, over 12,000 homes sold, and 26 years of consecutive growth. Behind the years of success has been a lot of hard work, dedication, and trust for his team. Caring for and providing the best possible support for the agents has been a main focus for the Ellerman Team since its inception. Although the upward momentum hasn’t come without its own set of challenge...

    38 min
  3. S1 E9: AllTrails CEO Ron Schneidermann Talks Hiring, Company Culture, and Proactive Communication

    11/01/2022

    S1 E9: AllTrails CEO Ron Schneidermann Talks Hiring, Company Culture, and Proactive Communication

    The rapid growth of AllTrails has required them to explore what it means to hire and build a team of individuals who all share a common purpose; connecting people with the outdoors. CEO, Ron Schneidermann, shares how they’re making hiking trails all around the world accessible for everyone while also handling the demand for improvements due to the app’s rise in popularity. He shares more about how their focus on the foundation within is what makes all the difference. “You start wi...

    34 min

  4. 09/27/2022

    S1 E8: Mid-Season Recap: Unpacking 4 Common Themes to Consider and Apply to Business

    With such a fantastic lineup for the first 7 episodes of Maven Minds, we wanted to take a moment to pause and reflect on all the amazing insights and strategic concepts that our guests have shared with us so far. Listen to the ideas, thought processes, and lessons learned behind these stories and see how they can be applied to your business. It could be the answer to your next big breakthrough! “Innovation can be analysis driven. You can be looking at the data and the information in...

    40 min
  5. S1 E7: Garmin Elevating Brand Affinity with Authentic Storytelling Through Their Women of Adventure Campaign

    09/13/2022

    S1 E7: Garmin Elevating Brand Affinity with Authentic Storytelling Through Their Women of Adventure Campaign

    To stand out among competitors you have to create a memorable brand which is exactly what Garmin International is doing through the Women of Adventure campaign. Associate Creative Director Rebecca Sommers shares some insight on the mission behind this incredible campaign and why they feel so passionately about the stories their sharing. Through this campaign, Garmin has focused on sharing and celebrating the amazing athletic adventures and unbelievable feats that women are experiencing, to mo...

    30 min
  6. S1 E6: CoSchedule’s Nathan Ellering Talks Making Content Marketing Easier and More Efficient with Data-Driven Tools

    08/30/2022

    S1 E6: CoSchedule’s Nathan Ellering Talks Making Content Marketing Easier and More Efficient with Data-Driven Tools

    As the head of marketing, Nathan Ellering and the rest of the team at CoSchedule have soared to new heights since their inception in 2013. Growing from a plug-in for WordPress to a full-fledged web-based management software for marketers, in just a few short years. CoSchedule is able to cater to businesses of all sizes, helping them to organize and schedule their content marketing in the most efficient way. Nathan and his team are continuously working to break down barriers in the marketplace...

    31 min
  7. S1 E5: Green Dirt Farm Talks Scaling to Achieve Economic Sustainability

    08/16/2022

    S1 E5: Green Dirt Farm Talks Scaling to Achieve Economic Sustainability

    Sarah Hoffman is blazing a new trail in agri-business with her grass-fed, sheep dairy farm. With a strong team of women to support her endeavors, she’s gone from a sheep farmer to cheese maker to restaurateur. Throughout the years, Green Dirt Farm has garnered accolades as one of Food and Wine’s best artisan cheese makers and has won several awards from the American Cheese Society.While staying true to the handcraft tradition of cheese making, Sarah talks about how they’ve evolved their proce...

    32 min
  8. S1 E4: Sweet Kiss Brigadeiro Talks Rapid Scale and Culture in Small Business

    08/02/2022

    S1 E4: Sweet Kiss Brigadeiro Talks Rapid Scale and Culture in Small Business

    As Kansas City’s first artisanal brigadeiro shop, owners Jessica Harris and mom Regina, are bringing the heart of Brazilian tradition to the midwest. Similar to chocolate truffles, brigadeiro is soft in texture, luxuriously creamy, and can be crafted with a unique mix of flavor combinations. Jessica and Regina started Sweet Kiss Brigadeiro on the side of their corporate jobs and have since been able to scale to a storefront with a certified kitchen and have landed features in major publi...

    33 min
  9. S1 E3: Alexis Kerr, VP of Hallmark Mahogany, Talks Brand Transformation, Cultivating Community and Elevating the Voices of Black Women

    07/19/2022

    S1 E3: Alexis Kerr, VP of Hallmark Mahogany, Talks Brand Transformation, Cultivating Community and Elevating the Voices of Black Women

    Hallmark Mahogany is rapidly evolving beyond signature Hallmark greeting cards and into a community that gathers, empowers and celebrates black women. At the helm of this grand evolution is Alexis Kerr, VP of Hallmark Mahogany. She tells us about shifts in the brand under her tenure as well as the latest techniques used to build an authentic, genuine and meaningful community around it. Hear how she’s creating customer connections, empowering internal team members, marketing creatively, a...

    28 min
  10. S1 E2: Wellness Within Her Launches Successful Partnership For Two Growing Small Businesses

    07/19/2022

    S1 E2: Wellness Within Her Launches Successful Partnership For Two Growing Small Businesses

    Creating buzz around something new is always a unique challenge and the results are often unpredictable. Foundational marketing strategies are great for just that – a solid foundation. But the secret sauce comes from thinking outside of the status quo.Anna Alessi, owner of Cycle of Heart, and Emily Ackart, owner of Emily Ackart Fitness accomplished an incredible feat of creating, marketing, and seamlessly executing a never been done before wellness retreat for women in Excelsior Springs, Miss...

    39 min
  11. S1 E1: Water.org’s Heather Arney Talks Innovation, Climate Change and Impact on the Global Water Crisis

    07/19/2022

    S1 E1: Water.org’s Heather Arney Talks Innovation, Climate Change and Impact on the Global Water Crisis

    In developed countries, access to safe water is an unnoticed luxury. But, by 2030, an estimated 700 million people worldwide will be displaced from their homes due to water scarcity.Heather Arney, Senior Manager of Insights and Innovation at Water.org, and her team have invested years of research and innovation into creating ground-breaking water and sanitation solutions for remote populations. “There's no silver bullet. There's no one size fits all. Especially with climate, this is felt...

    31 min

  12. 06/14/2022

    Meet the Mavens

    Taking on the challenges of business firsthand? Leading your team through uncharted waters? Facing growing pains at every turn? Meet the mavens.Inspired by the first explorers to journey to the summit of Mount Everest – the Maven Minds podcast connects innovators, entrepreneurs, and business leaders with game-changing experts that are blazing trails in modern business. Hear creative approaches to solving growth hurdles, business challenges, and project roadblocks as the mavens chart the paths...

    7 min

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Taking on the challenges of business firsthand? Leading your team through uncharted waters? Facing growing pains at every turn? Meet the mavens. Inspired by the first explorers to journey to the summit of Mount Everest – the Maven Minds podcast connects innovators, entrepreneurs, and business leaders with game-changing experts that are blazing trails in modern business. Hear creative approaches to solving growth hurdles, business challenges, and project roadblocks as the mavens chart the paths through this new era. Join in at mavenminds.com

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