The Back-StoryIn this episode of the Work at Home Rockstar Podcast, host Tim Melanson chats with Brad Smith, founder of Stellar Insights, Inc. Brad dives into his journey of helping clients achieve business success by focusing on self-awareness, strategic...
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Supercharging Business Success with Legal Expertise and AI Integration: An Interview with Matthew Fornaro
The Back-StoryIn this episode of the Work at Home Rockstar Podcast, Tim Melanson sits down with Matthew Fornaro, a legal expert who assists small and medium-sized businesses with their litigation and transactional needs. They discuss Matthew's journey in building his...
Transforming Lives Through Second Chances and Purpose
The Back-StoryIn this engaging episode of the Work at Home Rockstar Podcast, host Tim Melanson interviews Noah Asher, the owner of Chaos Movement. Noah shares his inspiring journey from incarceration to entrepreneurship, highlighting the importance of giving second...
Bridging Traditional and Holistic Medicine with Dr. Kimberly Faucher
The Back-StoryIn this episode, we talk with Dr. Kimberly Faucher, the founder of Tend and Tonic, who assists women in bridging the gap between traditional medicine and holistic practices. Dr. Kim shares her journey from starting her medical career in the Air Force to...
Empowering Women through Interior Design and Personal Growth with Jeanne Collins
The Back-StoryIn this episode of the Work at Home Rockstar Podcast, Tim Melanson interviews Jeanne Collins, the founder of Jermar Designs and Jermar Publishing. Jeanne shares her journey as an interior designer and entrepreneur, emphasizing the importance of standing...
Empowering Your Business and Team for Ultimate Success with Mike Abramowitz
The Back-StoryProtected time is a set amount of time dedicated to a task without interruptions. In this episode, Mike Abramowitz, co-founder of Better Than Rich, joins Tim and shares his experience of how his business successfully operates and produces good results...
Digital Age Parenting and Business Mentorship with Hillary D. Simpson
The Back-StoryIn the latest podcast episode, Tim dives deep into parenting with Hillary Simpson, a renowned parent success coach from HGS Enterprises. They talk about the dual role of technology as a tool for advancement and a potential pitfall. They discuss parents'...
Harnessing The Power Of Books For Lifelong Success And Development With Nick Hutchison
The Back-StoryNick Hutchison of BookThinkers joins Tim in this episode to talk about the undeniable connection between success and our learning habits. He talks about why he believes flipping through the pages of a physical book might just be your secret weapon in...
Certified Business Coaching: Turning Business Ideas Into Real Success With Russ Thomas
The Back-StoryHave you ever met someone whose entrepreneurial spirit is so infectious you can't help but be inspired? That's exactly the energy Russ Thomas, President of RST Coaching Academy, brings to the conversation with Tim in today's episode. Russ also talked...
The Grit Behind Tech Success: Professional Mastery and Integrity with Brian Childress
The Back-StoryJoin our host, Tim, as he dives into the complexities of a tech entrepreneur's journey with Brian Childress, the fractional CTO who mastered the tightrope walk between traditional employment and the wild frontier of freelancing. They discuss client...
From Setback to Success: Revolutionizing Work-Life Balance with Katie Santoro
The Back-StoryHave you ever wondered how a crushing setback could unexpectedly pave the way to success? Katie Santoro, the CEO and founder of River City Virtual Assistance, joins Tim with a tale that's as enlightening as it is empowering. She opens up about her...
Charting Success in the World of Remote Work and Well-being with Ken Paskins
The Back-StoryToday, Tim talks to Ken Paskins, the CEO of ShiftSpot, who offers an illuminating perspective on managing a business and catalyzing substantial growth within it. Drawing parallels between the strategic shuffling of top operators in SEAL teams and...
Ecommerce Blueprint: A Strategic Approach to the Digital Market with Neil Twa
The Back-StoryIn this episode, Tim is joined by Neil Twa, Voltage's visionary CEO, who shares the raw trials and triumphs of leaving the security of corporate life for the entrepreneur lifestyle. Neil reveals a trove of strategic wisdom for making an indelible mark in...
Amplifying Success Through Strategic Home Business Finance with Uroš Lovišček
The Back-StoryWhen you blend the harmonious world of symphony with the dynamic pace of entrepreneurship, you get a masterclass in managing cash flow and achieving success from the comfort of your home. In this episode, Tim talks with Uroš Lovišček, an experienced and...
From Stage Fright to Standing Ovation: Mastering Public Speaking with Sean Tyler Foley
The Back-StoryWhen Sean Tyler Foley, managing director of Total Buy-In, found himself on the precipice of a speaking engagement alongside Tony Robbins, he did the unthinkable — he turned his expertise into a book under a nail-biting deadline. Today, Sean Tyler joins...
Embracing Rejection, Overcoming Debt and Selling to Bill Gates with Beate Chelette
The Back-StoryRejection is a bitter pill to swallow. But isn't it just a part of life? In this episode, Tim is joined by Beate Chelette, the growth architect who transformed her life from being buried under a $135,000 debt to selling her venture to Bill Gates for...
Creating Balance: Entrepreneurship, Self-care, And Coaching with Suman Cherry
The Back-StoryIn this episode, Tim is joined by Suman Cherry, founder of Cherry Talent Group, who shared her entrepreneurial journey. Suman unraveled the secret of her success by highlighting the significance of a human-centric approach to business and the importance...
Behind the Scenes of a Successful Remote Career with Joe D’Eramo
The Back-StoryHave you ever wondered what it's like to work from home, the challenges that come with it, and how to balance it all? Get ready to unravel these mysteries as Tim interviews our accidental entrepreneur guest, Joe D'Eramo. With over two decades of...
Empowering Success through Soul Alignment with Naranjan Nota
The Back-StoryAre you ready to tap into your intuition and embrace the power of your inner guidance? In this episode, Tim interviews Naranjan Nota, a spiritual teacher, mentor, and guide from Bright Shining Light. She helps people align with their souls, enhance their...
Juggling Productivity, Partnership, and AI in Entrepreneurship with Alexander Pauls
The Back-StoryHave you ever wondered what it takes to run a thriving business with your spouse? Alex Pauls, the owner of KP Designs, and I explore the nuances of an entrepreneurial journey fueled with partnership, productivity, and a positive mindset. From doubling...
Rising Over Challenges and Undervaluing in Business with Aunia Kahn
The Back-StoryDiscover the compelling journey of our guest, Aunia Kahn, the dynamic CEO of Rise Visible, who overcame debilitating and undiagnosed illnesses. Aunia's story is far from ordinary, as she turned her personal trials into a powerful force that propelled her...
Crowns over Crumbs: Premium Freelancing Strategies with Daniel Alfon
The Back-StoryGet ready for a thrilling journey as we sit down with Daniel Alfon, author of Build a LinkedIn Profile for Business Success. Daniel shares his wisdom on transitioning from a traditional corporate job to a successful freelance business powered by the...
Building A Successful Business in the Midst Of Economic Crisis with Seth Goldstein
The Back-StoryHave you ever wondered what it takes to start and run a successful business, even in the face of a great economic crisis? Our guest today, Seth Goldstein, Principal Creative Director of Goldstein Media, began his journey as an entrepreneur during the...
Leading, Loving, and Living Better with Matthew Brackett
The Back-StoryMatthew Brackett, a Senior Leadership Coach, Educator, Mentor, and Founder of Brackett Alliance, has 30 years of experience in the field of education and the development of individuals in successful personal and professional leadership. Trilingual, he...
Strategies For Leveraging Social Media In Business with Manicia Reneus
The Back-StoryManicia Reneus is the co-owner of Your RX Social, a social media marketing agency specializing in helping realtors and small businesses. As a content writer/strategist, she has helped hundreds of companies in various industries, including home...
Expanding Your Business With A High-Performing Sales Team with Walter Crosby
The Back-StoryWalter also delves into the art of assembling an effective sales team and equipping them with the right tools for success. Learn how to craft a compelling company story that resonates with your sales team and sets your brand apart in the competitive...
How To Gain Your Money, Freedom, and Purpose with Jean-Luc Boissonneault
The Back-StoryJean-Luc started with no money and became a millionaire by the age of 30. He wrote 8 books. Has created 12 businesses in different fields, including a fitness studio chain, a start-up incubator, and the first meditation franchise in the world. 8 years...
How Health Impacts Your Hands, Health, And Happiness with Dr. Wren McCallister
The Back-StoryDr. Wren is a board-certified orthopedic hand surgeon who has spent the past two decades practicing in Edmonds, Washington, where he lives with his wife and three children. After helping thousands of people overcome hand pain and numbness, he noticed a...
Unlocking Success Through Law Of Attraction with Victoria Gallagher
The Back-StoryVictoria M. Gallagher is a worldwide leader in Hypnotherapy, a best-selling author, an international speaker, a life success coach, and a renowned authority on the Law of Attraction. She has dedicated her life to empowering people all over the world to...
Building Culture and Connection in Remote and Hybrid Teams with James Simmons
The Back-StoryHe shares the importance of investing in the right people, and using the right approach in hiring and delegation. He shares his secrets to finding the right leader for a team, as well as the decision-making process when it comes to paying senior hires....
Mastering Your Mind To Get The Results You Want with Blaine Oelkers
The Back-StoryBlaine is America’s only Chief Results Officer. He’s always loved to help people get results, and he knows which habits bring success and results, how to create them instantly and stick with them for a lifetime. A leading authority in Personal...
Practicing “Self First” Is Not Selfish With Suzanne Culberg
The Back-StorySuzanne is an international mindset coach, speaker, and author, who helps over-givers and people pleasers learn to say ‘No’ without feeling mean and reclaim the unapologetic badass they long to be. Through her signature online program, Why W8? She helps...
Why Is It Important To Surround Yourself With The Right People with Jason Skeesick
The Back-StoryJason Skeesick is a US Army veteran, coach, and entrepreneurial evangelist. His company, Spear and Clover, helps businesses with good leaders, talented teams, and strong playbooks go from perennial contenders to championship dynasties. He is a father,...
How To Keep Up With Your Taxes with Michelle Karbonik
The Back-StoryMichelle began her career working with youth. She became a social worker in ’99 in the field of Youth, Community Development, and Crisis after graduating from MacEwan University on the Dean’s list. It wasn’t until 2001 that she realized she could fully...
The Power Of A Good Personal Branding with Jason Byer
The Back-StoryJason Byer is the marketing and partnerships manager for Crowdspring, a Chicago-based branding company that helps businesses, agencies, and non-profits of any size start, run and grow their business through great design and naming. Crowdspring...
How To Turn Your Side Hustle Into A Thriving Business with Sarah Guilliot
The Back-StorySarah Guilliot (also goes by “Sarah G”) is a Sales Page Designer with 20 years of experience in UX Design and Art Direction. She’s designed sales pages, site architecture, purchase experiences, and advertising on multi-million dollar campaigns and...
Nigel Thomas – What It Takes To Grow A Business With CEO Nigel Thomas
The Back-StoryNigel Thomas is the CEO of Alpha Inbound. Having previously built a 7 figure agency and consulted many 7 and 8-figure DTC brands on their marketing strategy, Nigel knows what it takes to implement complex paid social campaigns at scale.Show NotesI love...
Genie Love – Can You Have a Manageable Neurodiverse Life? with Coach Genie Love
The Back-StoryGenie Love has been trying to figure out how to stay focused and attentive, decrease procrastination, manage “to-do” lists, and get things done her entire adult life. She knows firsthand what it’s like to be a disorganized mess and is excited about the...
Luke Charlton – Should you learn sales & marketing or can you hire someone?
The Back-StoryIn 2013, Luke Charlton (AKA: The Aussie Hermit) decided to quit his comfortable 6-figure/yr government job, move halfway around the world, and start an online business as a Coach. Thinking he knew enough about marketing to survive in one of the most...
Katie McManus
The Back-StoryKatie's motto is "stop being a weenie", which speaks perfectly to her belief that anything can be accomplished with a little bravery. Katie had a lucrative - but unsatisfying career - in Sales and Marketing for years. Until one day she walked out to...
Richard White – Your Team Must Understand your Why
The Back-StoryRichard White has been a founder and deeply entrenched in the Silicon Valley startup scene for the last two decades. He was Product Design lead at Kiko.com, the startup that Justin Kan and Emmett sold on eBay for $258K. He went on to found UserVoice,...
Matthew Stibbe – Marketing is like Dating
The Back-StoryMatthew studied history at Pembroke College, Oxford, before starting Intelligent Games, a computer games company, and sold it ten years later, in 2000. He started writing for magazines including Wired, Popular Science, and Director. The writing bug led...
Noemi Beres – Podcast Connections
The Back-StoryNoémi Beres is the Co-Owner of Podcast Connections. With her husband, they help entrepreneurs and business owners share their knowledge and connect them to quality podcast shows. In addition, Noemi is dedicated to helping experts grow their business with...
Barbara Fletcher – Barb Fletcher & Associates
The Back-StoryBarbara Fletcher believes that to be at your best, you must be resilient. She is inspired to train & coach using effective, simple strategies that will help people create the life they choose. When people are resilient, their lives change. People relate...
Barbara Ramirez – My Virtual Partnr
The Back-StoryBarbara, co-founded My Virtual Partnr in 2015 to put together their corporate and strategic planning background and expertise and create a simple strategic planning program for Small Businesses, like yours, that are seeking to scale in business. They...
Kimberly Spencer – Crowning Yourself
The Back-StoryMeet Kimberly Spencer, award-winning high-performance coach, and trainer, Amazon best-selling co-author, international motivational speaker, and the founder of CrownYourself.com, helping high achieving visionary leaders build their empire and sparkle...
Kevin Rizer – Always wear pants
The Back-StoryKevin Rizer is the founder and CEO of Emmy’s Best Pet Products, an e-commerce company. https://emmysbestpets.com/ . Kevin founded and hosted the popular Private Label Movement - a podcast on Amazon and e-commerce where he interviewed some of the biggest...
Shari Hammond – Inventors & Creators
The Back-StoryShari Hammond is the inventor of a number of consumer products including Cabinet Caddy and Go Hang It and the new Cabinet Caddy SNAP! A single mother, she is a woman of faith, an entrepreneur, a product developer, graphic designer, lacrosse/basketball...
Scott Hirsch – Helping you do what you love
The Back-StoryScott is CTO at TalentMarketplace. He completed his degree in computer science and business administration before working as first a web developer and then as a Salesforce consultant before building the systems at TalentMarketplace. In his spare time, he...
Trav Bell – The Bucket List Guy
The Back-StoryTrav Bell is The Bucket List Guy...The Worldʼs #1 Bucket List Expert. As a self-appointed ʻBucket Listologistʼ, Trav helps people live their Bucket List before it’s too late! His unique life-engagement message really wakes you up, stops ground-hog days...
Dr Nadia Brown – Taking the Ick out of Sales
The Back-StoryShe is a sales strategist, consultant, trainer, and founder of The Doyenne Agency. A sales agency that works with business owners, companies, and corporations to multiply revenue and awaken the consistent closer within your sales team using the...
Nancy Mueller – Breaking the Cycles
The StoryAs the founder of Mastering Your Beliefs, Nancy’s clients usually refer to her as their “Sensei” a title from her days as a student, competitor and teacher in the Martial Arts. Martial Arts taught Nancy that her strongest weapon is not her physical strength,...
Kinga Mnich – Keep it Simple
The StoryDr. Kinga Mnich is an international social-psychologist, educator and speaker specialist in emotions, positive psychology and gender. Her work solves myths of emotions by breaking down the complexity of the social & cultural concepts. Through her...
Dr. Vaneeta Aggarwal – Higher Learning Online
The StoryDr. Vaneeta Aggarwal, founder of L'strategyq Advisors is award winning Woman Entrepreneur, author & speaker, former Educationist from Delhi University, India with PhD in Semiconductors. With experience of 26 years, she developed 3 core business areas for...
Shelby Fowler – Selling is Serving
The StoryShelby is a Facebook and Instagram ads expert, creator of Fempire Ads Academy, lover of reality tv, and the founder and CEO of Fempire Media. She started as a freelancer. Later she started her own agency, hired team members while being a mom of two girls. She...
Coach Dean Brown – Using your strength
The StoryTransformational Law of Attraction & Mindset Coach. Dean helps people break through their limiting beliefs and getfree from the old stories that their EGO has been ruling their liveswith, so they can learn WHY they do WHAT they do, and HOW tochange it for...
Benjamin Donhardt – The right fit
The StoryI'm a passionate entrepreneur who realized his ability to help people and their businesses achieve phenomenal results through staying true to myself and my customers. I come from humble beginnings, from a low socio-economic area of western Sydney. I struggled...
Michael Atma – With vision comes passion
The StoryMichael is one of the most influential speakers on Personal Growth and Achievement. He has the rare ability to be able to communicate a message that electrifies, entertains and educates people on how to be the best leader, coach, consultant or entrepreneur...
Arianna Zabriskie – Support yourself, so you can support your Clients
The StoryArianna is on a mission to use her expertise in Clinical Psychology to bring mental health training, counseling skills, and risk assessment to coaches in an effort to finally bridge the gap between therapy and coaching. Arianna is a practicing Marriage and...
Melissa Linke – Recovering from success
The StoryI take a multifaceted approach to health coaching that includes personal training, behaviour change, habit cultivation & mindset that empowers individuals to take control of their health for long term results. I offer a clear message that is 'all or...
Rachel Luther – Checking off your list
The StoryRachel Luther is an entrepreneur who was a virtual assistant before people knew what virtual assistants were. After growing her VA business from a one-woman show to a team of talented professionals who provide all areas of back office virtual support over the...
Matilda Morgan – Make an Impact with Style
The StoryAppearance matters. Especially in the world of business. We all know this intuitively; it's why applicants dress formally to job interviews, and why CEOs don’t come to work in sweats. But what’s equally important to understand is that dressing for success...
Jordan West – know your strengths
The StoryWhen I was 23 I decided to buy a Taco Del Mar restaurant... I knew I had made a huge mistake at 2pm the first day when only 3 customers had walked in... (and two of them were my parents haha) For 5 years I worked hard to grow sales every way I could think of...
An Pei – Getting a high paying remote job with no degree
The StoryAn Pei is a digital marketing expert whodropped out of college when he was 19. An is self-taught and only has him mentorsto guide him to start his career where hewent from entry level job, got a 6 figure jobwithin 6 months of dropping out of college +multiple...
Episode 8 : George Papadeas
George Papadeas is the COO of The HOTH, aka Hittem Over The Head, an SEO and content creation platform devoted to bludgeoning its clients with awesomeness. When The HOTH was founded in 2010, the SEO space was filled with sketchy service providers who offered poor...
Episode 6 : Kirby Ingles
Kirby Ingles works with D-level executives and emerging leaders. These professionals have high potential and thrust into leadership positions with no previous leader development or training. Some of these professionals are Managers, Directors, and Vice Presidents who...
Episode 5 : Jenny Fenig
Jenny Fenig helps you remember who you truly are: a magic maker. Her work focuses on empowering creative women entrepreneurs to increase their confidence, impact, money and time-freedom by mixing modern with ancient practices. Jenny lives in the woods with her family...
Episode 3 : Jarod Spiewak
Jarod Spiewak is an entrepreneur and international speaker who has helped service-based businesses generate millions of dollars in revenue through Search Engine Marketing. He runs his agency, investment companies, and consultancy all from the comfort of his...
Episode 1 : Marc Mawhinney
Marc Mawhinney is a lifelong entrepreneur who helps coaches get more clients (without paid advertising!). He achieves this with his coaching programs, his podcast (Natural Born Coaches), his Facebook group (The Coaching Jungle) and his exclusive hard copy newsletter...