Unique Leaders Podcast

Megan DiMartino
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Megan Di Martino is a New York girl deep in the heart of Texas! A lifelong creator of beauty with a serving, mentoring spirit. She has started, scaled, sustained and sold 2 seven figure businesses in the Skin Care-Spa Industry. Her purpose is to build teams that in turn build businesses. In January 2020, her book went to number one on Amazon. In April 2020, her award-winning skin care line, Novita Spa Clinicals, was nominated in the Product Innovation Category, for the Austin Women's Way Awards. Megan is now continuing to speak, write, coach and consult with businesses and individuals to help them reach their dreams, goals and desires. "Novita...New Birth...New Life...Always Something New...That's My Promise."

  1. 12/14/2021

    Unique Leaders: Lisa Patrick

    Lisa was born to two wonderful parents. Lisa’s father was a police and her mother was a nurse. Her father was a farmer and she grew up on the farm, working really hard to help out around.After college she worked atthe police department in the sex crimes division. She didn’t like it and went to work for a private investigation firm. She thought she could do it better and started her own business. This was the start of her entrepreneur journey. She was pretty much the only woman in this field.As a startup advisor, and businesswoman, known as the pitbull and queen of persistence she is sought after for her unique abilities in operations and expertise in marketing. Lisa is an award-winning podcast host, co-founder of Belongify, managing partner at Assessments24x7.ca, investor, speaker and recently the co-author with Motivational Speaker and Legend Jim Cathcart of the book Intelligent Curiosity.Today, Lisa Patrick is driven to help others move forward in their greatness. Always on the lookout to help founders startup or scale brands through operations, strategic relationships and marketing. As a startup advisor, and businesswoman, known as the pitbull and queen of persistence she is sought after for her unique abilities in operations and expertise in marketing. Lisa is an award-winning podcast host, co-founder of Belongify, managing partner at Assessments24x7.ca, investor, speaker and recently the co-author with Motivational Speaker and Legend Jim Cathcart of the book Intelligent Curiosity.

    49 min

  2. 12/07/2021

    Unique Leaders: Michelle McClain

    In 2016 Michelle went through a horrible tragedythat no one should endure. She was months into launching her business. After experiencing that kind of loss, she began a downward spiral that she didn't know how to pull out of. She ultimately had to make the choice of victim or victor and after a year ofdrowning in her own misery, she took a leap of faith, bet on herself and decided that she would WIN, no matter what challenges she faced.Michelle is a successful brand strategist, CEO and influencer, better known as “The Queen of Clubhouse.”Peopleare her passion. Her goal is to impact lives and use her journey to help others navigate theirs. Your story is your greatest asset and it deserves to be told.Whatever your story, whatever your past, wherever you’re at right here and now, YOU have the power tochange the ending. You simply have to DECIDE.#WeRiseTogether

    53 min

  3. 11/30/2021

    Unique Leaders: Rebecca Contreras

    Rebecca was born in El Paso Texas. She grew up in a border town. There were a lot of challenges in the area. She was one of 4 children. Her siblings all had different fathers. Her mother struggled with addiction, with drugs and alcohol. She had her identity with men and drugs. One day her mother left her and her siblings. Her younger sister was 6 months at the time. They were all living in their apartment for 3 days alone before their grandmother came to get them.Her mother did come to knowJesus and became clean when Rebecca was 9. She took the kids back and moved to Austin, TX. Even though her mother was clean she still had mental trauma she was still working through. As Rebecca got older she began to get into drugs, alcohol and gangs. She became a product of her environment. She became pregnant at 17. By the age of 19 she started to change her life and worked to change the path she was following.She started to go to a small local church where she met her husband. Through this time she met a lot of encouraging people and she believes this helped her to get her life together. They got married and she started her state job which led to her to be working for the Governor, George W. Bush, who soon became the president. When. He was nominated her and her family moved to DC and worked with the president. After the presidential terms they moved back to Texas where they stared their non-profit.

    42 min

  4. 11/30/2021

    Unique Leaders: Brian Hess

    Brian was born in Union Town Pennsylvania. It is one of if not the poorest county in the state. He was around many different communities and backgrounds. His father was a blue-collar worker and he thanks his father for his work ethic he has today. He had apaper route at 11 years old. He learned early on about work ethic and what it takes to be a businessman and entrepreneur.He was a pretty good student in school but was not interested in school while there. He dropped out of college and went into retail.He ended up moving into business sales in a corporate setting. He moved to Miami Florida. He met an owner of a construction company and he asked Brian to come work for him. Brian was unsure but decided to work for him. He learned a lot during his time there about construction. He decided one day that he wanted to do this type of work on his own. In 2018 he created his own business.He had many great mentors while he was learning about construction. He was always looking for the next great Mentorship within his field. He was looking to find mentors that challenged him and pushed him to grow. He advisors people looking to start their own business and finding mentors would be to look into those mentors. Make sure they are the type of person you want to learn from.In March 2018 he started the Pavement Group. His companies work with large brand companies on their pavement work. They consult with these companies to help them with pavement asset management and the financials with the replacement and maintenance of the pavements/parking lots. They have a very unique approach to this and have technology to help these businesses that no on else has.

    47 min

  5. 11/03/2021

    Unique Leaders: Dr. Iman Taheri

    Dr. Iman was born and raised in Iran. He was born into aordinary middle eastern family. He started the medical studies when he was 17 years old in Iran. He graduated as a general surgeon and then he worked in a trauma zone. He took care of trauma patients and did many surgeries. He worked in the drug war zonesduring this time. It was an in going war. He was there for 2 years and felt discouraged and disappointed. He was there to help but he didn’t feel fulfilled. There was so many times he would do so much good and was not appreciated or wanted by families in the area.Later he moved to Dubai to practice plastic surgery. As a poet and an artist he has always been fascinated by the power of healing and how the human body heals itself. It wasn’t complicated to move to Dubai but it was difficult start in this different practice. He decided he wanted to go from giving his time and help in that way to work in a field to where he could heal/help others heal. But he quickly learned that it was too difficult to focus on the healing aspect so he decided to focus on the business side.In 2020 he went to visit his family in Toronto, Canada and with the worldly pandemic he had to stay there. From being there for that time he decided he wanted to stay. He got his papers done and he he now lives there with his family.He was not able to do his practice in Canada so he started to focus on his social media present. He put his thoughts out there, his poetry out there, and over the last few months he noticed his words have made an impact. He realized he was able to help people heal and help people with their health in a different way, a more holistic way.

    46 min

  6. 10/26/2021

    Unique Leaders: Barbara Majeski

    Barbara is a nationally recognized lifestyle expert and mom of three from New Jersey. She appearsfrequently on top network stations around the country. As a mom Barbara is dedicated to living life withpurpose and approaching all aspects of living with creativity and confidence!In 2015 while entering a divorce Barbara was handed a diagnosis of StageIII cancer. While in the midst of treatment she vowed that if she beat cancer and got another shot at life she would live, bigger, better,and bolder with greater purpose, meaning and intent. After treatment and recovery, she sold her wedding ring, hireda media trainer, and began pursuing her dream career in television. Now a single mother of three and cancer survivor, you can catch Barbara as an On Air Contributor on TODAY, Inside Edition and Good Day New York, as the, “Curator of the GoodLife”. Barbara, takes her sharp wit and keen sense of style to audiences across the world as she sourceseverything from lifestyle, to travel, and entertainment to decor. She finds, tests and shares the best of thebest in all that it means to live a purpose infused life.

    52 min

  7. 10/26/2021

    Unique Leaders: Tamra Andress

    Tamra was born in Virginia Beach, VA. She was a very active child. She had a very health and wellnessand physical background. She was also in student government. She enjoyed to not only be in the limelight, she liked that she was able to use her gifts to be a leader. There’s always a darker side to life. At such a young age suppressed quite often in the dark and didn’t realize she was doing that. She was always told her smile was contagious and she was so positive. She thought she needed to be this way to be accepted. It wasn’t until she was in her early 20s that her parents found out something was happening on the inside. She struggled with being truthful with herself since she wasn’t being truthful in public.There were many things that happened during her young years that included sexual addiction and she felt like she was always in the dark. She wasn’t sure how she could be a certain person in the dark and the light. She felt an internal battle. She wondered how her husband at the time and her 2-year-old child could love her. This is when she started having suicidal thoughts. One day she got to the point that she had hit rock bottom and needed to get help. She felt void as a mother and wife and this not what she wanted.Today, Tamra is a rising thought leader in spiritual entrepreneurship. She is an ordained minister and Purpose Activator on a mission to free and propel entrepreneurs globally to make their uniquely purposed Kingdom impact joyfully. Her Fit in Faith Podcast is globally ranked in the top 2.5% and regularly topping the Spiritual, Religious and Business charts. Her heart is to illuminate joy and activate people from the inside out using testimonials and tools to sharpen mission driven leaders in the marketplace with full personal branding representation and business build.  She has over a decade and a half of first-hand experience with start-ups and non-profit development and serves as an advisor for emerging companies. She speaks to thousands weekly through Clubhouse, summits, global stages, and live vod-casts show audiences. She is a published author of multiple anthologies and has her own book launching in fall 2021. Tamra has utilized her entrepreneurial and relational expertise to align 1000’s within their business for prosperity and profit and will further that mission annually as the co-host of the Grow Your Business For God’s Sake Conference. Her most treasured role in developing the kingdom is as a wife and mama of 2 traveling the world to spread the good news. And the most exciting thing about all of this is...she’s just getting started!

    40 min

  8. 10/19/2021

    Unique Leaders: Sebastian Rusk

    Sebastian was a very active kid growing up. He just wanted to be heard, which was hard during the 80s. There wasn’t much in way of kids having a voice. He was and is very close with his mother. They go divorced when he was 9. It was very hard for him. His father remarried and his step mother struggled to be a mother for him and his sister. They later ended up moving to Miami with their mother.After her graduated high school his mother gave him 2 options. She would pay for an apartment and his real estate license or go work with his sister with the military. He chose to have his own place. He had a few years living a college/party life. He ended up moving back to Miami and went into sales. At 19 he found out that he was going to be a dad. His response was excitement. He yearned for responsibility but the woman was not interested in taking on this responsibility. He ended up getting into the domain name game -selling domains to companies that need a website. He needed to pay for the coming baby. They ended up moving to Chicago to take this job. He ended up making good money but he was not wanting to be in the cold anymore.One morning he ended up seeing an infomercial on a “business in a box” idea and he decided he wanted do it. He went back and forth with this guy to go work for him in California. This didn’t work out at that time. Later Sebastian contacted him again and he ended up getting the gig. He did very well and they moved to Southern California in 2001. He made the top salesman of the year and within the year he quit. He became an entrepreneur in 2003. At the time he didn’t have character development-humility. He had a cocky attitude, he was young and dumb. During the 2008 market crash, he started to loose everything. He endedup moving back to Florida with his daughter. His wife was not interested in being a mom and after a short marriage they got a divorce and he became a single dad at a very young age.In 2011 he had an awakening moment, character revelations. He has been continuing to chip away at himself to allow the person who he is supposed to be to manifest. He believes that we all have a calling, the question is will we take on that calling. More people need to have more awareness about this calling and how to chip away the things that aren’t a part of them and find this person they are designed to be.Today he is well known online presence, an author, a speaker. He loves to create and he enjoys helping people find themselves through his podcast company and his content. He loves helping others in what they want to do.

    52 min
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About

Megan Di Martino is a New York girl deep in the heart of Texas! A lifelong creator of beauty with a serving, mentoring spirit. She has started, scaled, sustained and sold 2 seven figure businesses in the Skin Care-Spa Industry. Her purpose is to build teams that in turn build businesses. In January 2020, her book went to number one on Amazon. In April 2020, her award-winning skin care line, Novita Spa Clinicals, was nominated in the Product Innovation Category, for the Austin Women's Way Awards. Megan is now continuing to speak, write, coach and consult with businesses and individuals to help them reach their dreams, goals and desires. "Novita...New Birth...New Life...Always Something New...That's My Promise."

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  • Creator
    Megan DiMartino
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2021
  • Episodes
    67
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2021 Megan DiMartino
  • Show Website
    Unique Leaders Podcast