Minivan Mogul Podcast Alex Perry

Anne Beiler began twisting pretzel in 1987 and grew a single farmer’s market stand into Auntie Anne’s Inc., the world’s largest hand-rolled soft pretzel franchise. However, her professional success was forged after years of darkness, depression, and despair brought on by the death of her nineteen-month-old daughter. Anne’s personal story and entrepreneurial insights have been featured on many television shows, including Secret Millionaire, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and Good Morning America. She has been highlighted in numerous publications such as Fortune Magazine and Inc Magazine.  In 2005, Anne sold Auntie Anne’s and authored the business memoir Twist of Faith and her personal memoir The Secret Lies Within.  Today, Anne speaks to audiences worldwide, inspiring people with her authentic stories and life experiences. Her mission is to help women overcome the pain, blame, and shame of their past by sharing their stories. 
 
Website: www.auntieannebeiler.com
Social Links:
Instagram: @auntieanneb
Twitter: @auntieanneb
Facebook.com/auntieannebeiler

Fear is an emotion that many people go to extremes to avoid. But what if you could make fear your friend? What if fear is what you need to propel yourself forward to health, wealth, and happiness. 
Akshay Nanavati has overcome drug addiction, PTSD from fighting the war in Iraq with the Marines, depression, and alcoholism that pushed him to the brink of suicide. It was through these experiences that Akshay learned to use fear to his advantage. Akshay has used fear to build a global business, run ultramarathons, conduct humanitarian work worldwide, spend seven days in darkness, and explore the most hostile environments on the planet.
Combining his life experience with years of research in science and spirituality, he wrote the book "Fearvana: The Revolutionary Science of How to Turn Fear Into Health, Wealth and Happiness." About the book, the Dalai Lama said, "Fearvana inspires us to look beyond our own agonizing experiences and find the positive side of our lives." All the profits from the book are going toward charity.
 Akshay is now on a mission to help our entire human family build a positive relationship to suffering to create a life of greater meaning, purpose, and fulfillment and he’s hopped in the virtual minivan to share with us why fear is what we need to achieve our goals and how to start making fear our friend.
 https://fearvana.com/
 https://www.instagram.com/fearvana
 https://www.youtube.com/c/fearvana
 

Tommy Choi co-founded the Weinberg Choi Residential team in 2007 with his business partner Josh Weinberg. They celebrated the opening of their own Keller Williams brokerage in January of 2017. The Weinberg Choi Residential team has sold over 1,000 properties and over $500 million dollars in sales volume. They are consistently ranked in the top 10 real estate teams in Chicago, which puts them in the Top 1% of Chicago Association of Realtors' top producers. Tommy also served as the 135th president of the Chicago Association of Realtors and the first Korean-American president in its 135-year history. He also serves as an active member of the Illinois Realtors and was the Chair of the National Association of Realtors’ YPN Advisory Board. In 2021, he will serve as the Vice President of Association Affairs for the National Association of Realtors.
@tommyjoochoi  

Erica Lynette Edwards is an accomplished consultant and public speaker who champions change to advance the art of dance. With diversity, equity, and inclusion as the core foundation of her work, she transforms visions into reality. After a rewarding 15-year career as a ballerina at The Joffrey Ballet and five years as the Director of Community Engagement, she founded Cultivating Better Tomorrows. Through this consulting company, Erica reshapes dance communities' dynamics to produce environments where all artists can thrive. Highly skilled in delivering consistent success and effective change, she is passionate about facilitating results-driven conversations and workshops focused on reflection and knowledge building. Her visionary leadership has earned her many honors and opportunities, including speaking on national panels, giving a TEDx talk, and being selected as a member of Crain’s Chicago Business “40 Under 40.” 

Brian Bogert is a passionate human behavior and performance coach, speaker, business strategist, top sales professional and philanthropic leader who believes in helping growth-minded individuals achieve the best version of themselves: their most authentic selves.
Brian teaches how to leverage radical authenticity and awareness to create the intentional life you’ve been dreaming of, but have struggled to create. His revolutionary strategy—embrace pain to avoid suffering—has helped individuals and companies break beyond their normal to achieve the success in life and business that they’ve always wanted. If you want to create a life of no limits and gain freedom, Brian and his team will get you there.
Social Media Links
Website: brianbogert.com
Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/bogertbrian
Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/bogertbrian/
LinkedIn, https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianbogert/
Twitter, https://twitter.com/BogertBrian
YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmhaMgY8q-tMMCj0rpGg7iw
Giveaway: www.nolimitsprelude.com
 

Lotta Dann started drinking at age fifteen, trained as a journalist aged eighteen, and has spent twenty-plus years perfecting both skills. She built a successful career as a TV reporter, producer, and director while simultaneously developing a remarkable aptitude for drinking a lot of alcohol—Lotta drank to excess every day for years and years before finally reaching her rock bottom moment.  Mrs. D is the name Lotta gave herself when she began anonymously blogging about her journey to quit drinking in 2011. Her best-selling memoir,  Mrs. D Is Going Without, tells the story of her recovery and how she established an incredible online community of support for those looking to free themselves from alcohol forever.
Lotta has published two additional books, Mrs. D Goes Within and the Wine O’Clock Myth, which was just released in the US in Oct. 
In this episode of the minivan mogul podcast, Lotta shares her story and tells us exactly what those in the alcohol industry have been trying to hide from us from years.
If you’re struggling with alcohol use, please don’t try to do this alone—there are so many resources out there for you, including Lotta’s community and many, many others. 
You can learn more about Lotta by visiting her blog, http://livingwithoutalcohol.blogspot.com, and her online community Living Sober https://livingsober.org.nz.  All three of her books can be found on amazon.com.
Alcoholics Anonymous 
Anonymous Alcohol Helpline 
NIH National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism