The Millionaire Choice Podcast

This week on the Millionaire Choice Podcast, Tony talks with Chris Prefontaine about how to leverage real estate to build wealth. Real estate has been a cornerstone of wealth building for thousands of years and it’s still true to day. Virtually ever millionaire, multi-millionaire, and billionaire has a real estate portfolio as part of their wealth building strategy and assets.

About Chris Prefontaine

Chris Prefontaine is the four-time best-selling author of Real Estate on Your Terms, The New Rules of Real Estate Investing, and Sell With Authority for Real Estate Investors. He’s also founder of the Wicked Smart companies and host of the Smart Real Estate Coach Podcast.

Chris has been in real estate for over 31 years. His experience ranges from constructing new homes in the 1990s and owning a Realty Executive Franchise to running his own investments (commercial & residential) and coaching clients throughout North America.

After the crash of 2008, Chris reengineered his entire business to weather all storms and economic cycles. Understanding these challenges, he helps students navigate the constantly changing real estate waters.

Today Chris and his family and team run their own creative financing business and are still in the trenches every day. Their main focus is helping students across North America plan their escape from their W-2 jobs by getting in the trenches and doing deals with them. They’ve completed over $100 million in transactions.

Discover more about Chris Prefontaine and Smart Real Estate Coach at https://smartrealestatecoach.com

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This week on the Millionaire Choice Podcast, Tony talks with Chans Weber, internet marketer and founder of Agile & Company. Raised in a 700 square foot cinderblock home, Chans knows what financial hardship looks like, and he made the choice to break free from it. Chans is a fantastic example of how investing in yourself can reshape your life and future.

About Chans Weber

Chans Weber is a serial entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in the marketing industry. He founded Agile & Co located in St. Louis, Missouri in 2012. With his expertise in digital marketing, Chans was able to turn his 483 credit score and a $15,000 loan from his parents into a digital marketing agency that has surpassed 8 figures in annual revenue.

Agile & Co operates on an agile marketing methodology, a tactical approach that produces results for clients by tailoring solutions to a company’s budget, timeline, and goals. Chans’ background in finance, marketing, and online technology has allowed for the success of Agile & Co’s data-driven marketing approach which sets them apart from their competitors.

Chans has a natural talent for transforming a company’s visions and goals into tangible revenue. However, there’s nothing that fulfills him more than growing his team both personally and professionally. He understands the importance of positive company culture, and he works to emphasize the value of each and every member of his team. From his unique hiring process and the flexibility schedules he encourages from his team, Chans focuses on keeping his employees as happy as his clients.

Chans currently lives in St. Louis with his wife and two children, where he keeps busy balancing his duties as a CEO with speaking engagements, appearances on podcasts, TV shows, and more.

Discover more about Chans Weber, Agile & Co. at https://cbweber.com

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This week on the Millionaire Choice, Tony talks with Steven Pemberton, eCommerce entrepreneur and founder of Hollow Company.

About Steven
Steven is has generated over 3 million in revenue on E-commerce platforms with a focus on bringing brick and mortar businesses into the online world. He’s a “kingdom focused” entrepreneur with a mission and purpose behind his money and business.

Steve’s mess has been become his message. His life journey took him from losing everything in 2015 to 7-figure business owner continues to inspire others daily. After rebuilding his financial life, Steven now helps small businesses get in front of their ideal clients through a marketing strategy called Challenges.

Discover more about Steven Pemberton and  Hollow Co. at http://www.stevenpemberton.com

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This week on The Millionaire Choice Podcast Tony talks with Dion Pouncil of Pouncil Capital. Dion has a lot of irons in the fire. While he’s not investing and building wealth, he’s educating people on their finances through Money Skool, his financial education streaming app.

Dion had every reason to be just another statistic. Growing up in a single parent home on the South Side of Chicago, Dion beat the statistics and broke his family cycle of lower income America to become the first millionaire in his family.

About Dion
I am a student of life, husband, father, teacher and licensed financial service professional.

My broad experiences in life have helped me narrow my focus on the priorities of my mission: to help over 75 million people improve their lives through trading and financial education.

I will exceed these goals through my role as Principal & Chief Investment Officer of Pouncil Capital (a systematic hedge fund) and lead instructor at MoneySkool.com. (a financial education streaming app)

For Pouncil Capital I partner with institutional investors and high-net-worth individuals to produce absolute risk adjusted performance returns.

At MoneySkool I teach everyday people about mindset and creating generational wealth with simple to use, beautifully designed, and easy to understand content on investing, trading, Stocks, Options, Futures, Bonds, Forex, and Crypto.

FINRA Series 3 licensed.

Commodity Pool Operator.

Commodity Trader Advisor.

To connect or learn more about Dion and his work, visit https://pouncilcapital.com and https://moneyskool.com

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This week on The Millionaire Choice Podcast, Tony talks with Sean V. Bradley, professional speaker, entrepreneur, and author. Tony and Sean discuss life after prison, entrepreneurship, and how Sean turned his life around.

After spending three years in juvenile prison from age 12 to 15, and then three more years from 19 to 22, Sean decided to turn his life around with nothing but a backpack and $1,000 dollars he had saved from working at a deli shop in New Jersey.

About Sean V. Bradley

Sean V. Bradley CSP is a worldwide, expertly trained Consultant, Speaker, and Trainer. He is a 9-time NADA/ATD convention speaker, FranklinCovey Certified Facilitator, National Speakers Association member, where he received his CSP designation, and a State Association Speaker and Trainer. He is also a member of Toastmasters International. Sean started Dealer Synergy over 15 years ago but has been in the automotive industry for over 19 years. He has spoken at over 100 NCM and NADA 20 Groups.

Sean learned the business from the ground up. Beginning as a sales consultant, he has since held positions at dealerships as Sales Manager, Internet Sales Manager, Special Finance Manager, and Business Development Director. At his first dealership, he averaged over 30 units per month, taking the sale from start to finish. On the heels of his success, Sean was recruited to a Dealer Group, Pine Belt Automotive, where he moved their Nissan/Kia/Cadillac store from 20 units per month online to over 110! He repeated those results two years later when he took over the Internet Department of a major Nissan store in the Philadelphia market and grew their volume from 27 to over 100 units per month.

Learn more about Sean V. Bradley, https://dealersynergy.com/

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This week on The Millionaire Choice Show Tony talks with Craig Cecelio, Founder and CEO of Diversyfund. Craig and Diversyfund are changing the way the everyday investor builds wealth. Craig’s vision is to make real estate investing available to average, everyday people. Their goal is to empower the 99% to reach financial freedom through real estate investing.

Craig Cecelio envisions a world where everyone has an equal opportunity to build wealth.

About Craig Cecelio

He is the founder and CEO of DiversyFund, a fintech platform that serves the everyday investor. His strategic approach centers on innovation and accessibility, harnessing capital aggregation to build alternative investment portfolios. Cecelio and associates manage over half a million accounts with more than 30,000 active stakeholders. 

Before launching DiversyFund in 2014, Cecelio earned his BA from the University of Colorado and received his California BRE Broker License. He sat on the Board of Directors at ‘A Reason to Survive’ non-profit for nearly half a decade. Craig has earned a trailblazing track record with a laser focus on wealth development. When he’s not working, Craig enjoys spending time with his wife and children, doing CrossFit, and strategizing his next moves.

Learn more about Craig Cecelio, https://diversyfund.com/

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This week on The Millionaire Choice Podcast, Tony talks with artistic entrepreneur, Dan York. Tony and Daniel talk about the Purpose of Wealth, structured habits, and why you make your money.

Born in 1978 in Libertyville, Illinois, to parents Daniel Lee York and June Dianne York. Dan was raised in the far north-west suburb of Chicago, Round Lake Beach where his only formal art education took place under his art teacher, Betsy Edwards from Grade School up into his attendance at Round Lake Senior High School. He was never formally trained beyond this.

About Dan York

Influenced by hundreds of years of art by his personal favorite artists from Italian greats such as Titian to more contemporary painters, he paints his current works that he calls Delusionism which he explains, “I just want to snap you out of your day for a minute, maybe I’ll give you a laugh, and maybe you’ll write me a check.” On his subject matter he states, “I spent many years trying to force my style, what I am as an artist, but no matter what I painted it came out that way.  At some point I just stopped fighting it and accepted what I do. Now, I just try to make myself laugh.”

Learn more about Dan York, https://danielmatthewyork.com/

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This week on The Millionaire Choice Podcast, Tony talks with Derrick Kinney, successful financial advisor and founder of Good Money Framework. Tony and Derrick discuss doing good, the mindset of millionaires, and making your money work for you.

Derrick grew up in a lower middle-class family. With a hard working 9-to-5 father, he remembers how hard his parents worked just to get by. For example, when all he had to wear to his baseball games were “goofy looking blue tennis shoes” while his entire team sported fresh cleats.

About Derrick Kinney

After boldly selling his successful financial planning business, Derrick launched Good Money Framework and the popular Good Money Podcast, where he interviews the world’s top business professionals, influencers, authors, and leaders to inspire listeners to build their net worth for good.

Derrick believes money is not bad, and good people — just like you — should have more of it to do more good in the world. His mission is to teach others how negative beliefs about money are holding them back, and how to change their money mindset for the better. Helping make complex financial topics easy-to-understand.

Learn more about Derrick Kinney, https://www.goodmoneyframework.com/

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This week on The Millionaire Choice Podcast, Tony talks with Peter Richon, founder of Richon Planning. Tony and Peter discuss debt, millionaire mindsets, and how to make your money work for you.

Losing his father at age 8, Peter and his younger brother grew up under the care of their single mother. Learning how to budget from her guidance, Peter took his mother’s teachings forward into his adult life.

About Peter Richon

Peter started out hosting financial radio show in 2002 while running “North Carolina’s Morning News” on 680AM-WPTF. He was the Program Director/Operations Manager of four North Carolina News/Talk radio stations and the Program Director of an online station, stategovernmentradio.com. During the next several years, Peter hosted daily informational financial programs with many financial firms located throughout the Research Triangle Park in North Carolina, then throughout the country. He simultaneously continued his own education, became a licensed advisor and rose to his position as vice-president while facilitating the growth of his former firm. In 2019 he authored the book “Understanding Your Investment Options” to help savers better understand the financial tools they had available.

Over the last decade, Peter Richon personally managed retirement planning for hundreds of families across North Carolina. He has been a regular, featured commentator on shows broadcast on more than 100 stations, to millions of listeners across the country. He managed a full-time staff of junior planners and sub-advisors that have helped him spread financial literacy and his message on the importance of education in gaining true financial success and freedom. Peter Richon personally serves listeners and clients spanning North Carolina. Each week, he meets individually with those clients and listeners to help them evaluate their financial goals, planning strategies, and direction. Peter also helps personally assist individuals, couples and business owners in formulating, implementing and achieving their own visions of retirement including preservation, growth, income, tax reduction and legacy planning.

Learn more about Peter Richon, https://richonplanning.com

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This week on The Millionaire Choice Podcast, Tony talks with Ivan Anz, founder of PhianthroInvestors and Equity & Help. Tony and Ivan discuss entrepreneurship and living in financial freedom.

At age 7, Ivan was told by his mother that his parents would not buy gas for his new go-kart. Having always been an entrepreneur at heart, Ivan quickly conceived a plan to make money and get gas for his go-kart. Following this, at age 14, he hired a 34-year-old CEO for his company.

About Ivan Anz

Continuing his quest to gain experience in many different industries which all enhanced his business training and capabilities, Ivan had 4 different companies in Argentina by 25. At the time, he was growing the cash of the business just to invest it outside of the business. So, he set the profits of the business into a percentage to invest. Soon, he was not impressed with the investing community because they were sitting behind computers. After losing roughly 80% of his finances in the speculative market, Ivan decided things needed to change.

Now, Ivan Anz is an Inc. 500 Magazine, international serial entrepreneur. His companies operated in 14 countries. He is the founder of CAPITANZ Family office; and creator of the PhilanthroInvestors Phenomena. Today, his businesses and projects create many high-impact aid opportunities to society.

Learn more about Ivan Anz, https://philanthroinvestors.com/

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This week on The Millionaire Choice Podcast, Tony talks with David Garofalo, CEO of Gold Royalty Corp. Tony and David discuss limited resources, fiat currencies, and protecting your assets from inflation.

David was born in Toronto, Canada. At age 16, his father had immigrated to Canada to flee post World War II Italy. With only just enough education to read and write in Italian, he taught himself English via movies and television.

About David Garofalo

Today, Mr. Garofalo has served as Chief Executive Officer, President, and Chairman of the board of directors of the Company since August 2020. David has worked in various leadership capacities in the natural resources sector over the last 30 years. Prior to joining the Company, he served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of Goldcorp Inc., a gold production company headquartered in Vancouver, until its sale to Newmont Corporation in April 2019. Prior to that, he served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of Hudbay Minerals Inc. from 2010 to 2015, where he presided over that company’s emergence as a leading metals producer.

Previously, he held various senior executive positions with mining companies, including Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer and a director of Agnico-Eagle Limited from 1998 to 2010 and as treasurer and other various finance roles with Inmet Mining Corporation from 1990 to 1998. He was named Mining Person of the Year by The Northern Miner in 2012 and Canada’s Chief Financial Officer of the Year by Financial Executives International Canada in 2009. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Toronto and is a Fellow of the Chartered Professional Accountants in Canada and a Certified Director of the Institute of Corporate Directors. He also serves on the board of directors of the Vancouver Board of Trade and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.

Learn more about David Garofalo, https://goldroyalty.com/

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This week on The Millionaire Choice Podcast, Tony talks with Jim Pakulis, CEO of Boosh Foods. Tony and Jim discuss healthy food, money’s effect on mindset, entrepreneurship in a world of corporate giants.

Jim grew up in a humble family with meager financial means. From walking daily two miles to and from school, to delivering newspapers in 3-feet of snow at age 8; Jim has always been a hard worker. Now a successful entrepreneur, he is the CEO and Chairman of Boosh Plant-Based Brands Inc.  

About Jim Pakulis

Jim has over three decades of experience working with public and private entrepreneurial companies in a variety of emerging sectors and has developed a unique eye for identifying small emerging publicly traded companies and quickly scaling them. He has taken ventures from zero to $16 million in two years and now he is leading the forefront of the trillion-dollar shift from animal-based protein to plant-based protein.

He is passionate about being in the plant-based sector because simultaneously it helps individuals eat healthier foods, decreases the butchering of animals, helps the planet by re-structuring farming resources for sustainable purposes and helps to preserve the depleting water sources.

In Jim’s spare time he co-founded an animal rescue non-profit where he has helped save over 1,000 animals from being euthanized and found them loving homes.

Learn more about Jim Pakulis, https://booshfood.com

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This week on The Millionaire Choice Podcast, Tony talks with Max Porterfield, CEO and President of Callinex Mines Inc. Tony and Max discuss the precious metal industry, sharing wealth, and the power of positive thinking.

Max Porterfield is an experienced CEO with a demonstrated history of working in the mining & metals industry. Mr. Porterfield has over ten years of experience in natural resources and financial markets, previously with Brazil Resources Inc., Uranium Energy Corp. and US Global Investors.

About Max Porterfield

Growing up in San Antonio, Texas, son of a middle-class family, Max learned much of his strong work ethic from his father. After losing his mother at age 21, Max graduated from Texas Tech University with a bachelor's degree in business administration.

Fresh out of college, Max got his first job at a natural resource focused investing firm. A habit of surrounding himself with “successful people” helped grow his experience in business. Having said, “if you control your mind, you control your outcome,” Max believes his success is due in no small part to how he perceived his opportunities. Self-driven towards prosperity, he is now the CEO and president of Callinex Mines Inc. in Canada.

Learn more about Max Porterfield, https://callinex.ca/

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This week on The Millionaire Choice Podcast, Tony talks with Myles Gage, co-founder of Rapunzl Investments. Tony and Myles discuss financial literacy, investing, and community outreach.

Myles has been an advocate for encouraging young people to invest in the stock market given his exposure to learning about it in elementary school where he won stock trading competitions and even got to hold Warren Buffet's wallet once! 

About Myles Gage

Co-founder of Rapunzl and advocate for financial education; especially for individuals in underserved communities. Attending Ariel Community Academy on Chicago's south side exposed Myles to the stock market at a very young age, as financial literacy was the crux of its curriculum.

That's why, after graduating from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, he developed Rapunzl with highschool friend, Brian Curcio. Together they designed and developed an app that addresses the three roadblocks that prohibit many from understanding the stock market: fear, exposure, and accessibility.

Learn more about Myles Gage, https://rapunzlinvestments.com/

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This week on The Millionaire Choice Podcast, Tony talks with Johnathan More, CEO of Starr Peak Mining Ltd. Tony and Johnathan discuss dressing for success, the value of precious metals, and how to ready yourself for taking advantage of opportunities when they arise.

Johnathan started working at age 13. He spent his summers in the back of an office shredding papers, running errands, and meeting people in the industry. Learning golf and playing during college eventually landed him his first job out of school.

About Johnathan More

Johnathan More is the CEO of Starr Peak Mining Ltd., which is focused on mining discoveries and finding new places to drill. The company currently has a $100M valuation and has raised over $9 million in just over a year, which will help avoid any down time in exploration and drilling work.

Johnathan More has over 25 years of experience in North American and European capital markets focused on natural resource industries. He had a history of achievement from his years with Canaccord Capital. In August 2008, Mr. More retired from Canaccord Capital as an investment advisor to apply his experience and contacts to the public company sector. Mr. More also serves as a Director of Power Metals Corp. and Superior Mining International Corp.

Learn more about Johnathan More, https://starrpeakminingltd.com/

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This week on The Millionaire Choice Podcast, Tony talks with Stephen Flood, CEO of GoldCore. Tony and Stephen discuss his life growing up with a single mother in Dublin, Ireland, the nature of Gold and Silver, and why you should invest in precious metals.

Stephen’s father died when he was only 11. Alone with two children, his mother used what money they had to purchase a guest house in Dublin’s city center where she worked all the way into her eighties.

About Stephen Flood

Stephen Flood is the CEO of Goldcore and one of the oldest gold and silver dealers in the market today. Stephen has turned over $1 billion in transactions and manages $300 million in assets for their clients. He believes in a “client first” approach and trusts that owning gold and silver helps people gain personal sovereignty in a way that few other assets can.

After Stephen received his degree at Portobello Business College in Dublin, Ireland, he began his career in finance. He held financial and trading positions in New York City, before joining Goldman Sachs as a Sales Trader in Equity Derivatives. When he returned to Ireland to put his experience in trading, risk, and financial markets at Goldman to good use, his entrepreneurial drive led him to establish his own financial services firm at GoldCore where they advise clients on gold and silver purchasing and storage.

Stephen is married with three young, lively boys, and when he’s not at work, he loves the outdoor life. He resides in the rural Dublin mountains and enjoys mountain walking, swimming and biking with the family.

Learn more about Stephen Flood, https://www.goldcore.com/

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This week on The Millionaire Choice Podcast, Tony talks with Riggs Eckelberry, CEO and co-founder of OriginClear Water. Tony and Riggs discuss his time working at a non-profit and how to use wealth to help benefit the world.

Growing up in a well-off family, Riggs decided to forgo the opportunities provided by his father and delved headfirst into the realm of non-profits. At age 40, after 20 years of living paycheck to paycheck, Riggs decided that he needed to make more money to better help the people in the world around him.

About Riggs Eckelberry

Riggs Eckelberry is the founder and CEO of the innovative water technology company, OriginClear, which is delivering water solutions for industrial customers worldwide.

Riggs came to the water industry from a quarter century in high technology, specializing in commercializing breakthrough technologies. During the dotcom, he worked on a series of tech successes, such as Quarterdeck’s CleanSweep, security software vendor Panda Software, and the sale of companies to EarthWeb, BeFree, and BellSouth. Just prior to founding what is now OriginClear, he helped drive security software company, CyberDefender, to an IPO on the NASDAQ as its President and Chief Operating Officer.

The son of an international businessman, Eckelberry learned management in the nonprofit space and as a commercial ship captain and officer. He enjoys skiing and sailing and transforming the water industry to deal with the growing water challenges of our time.

Learn more about Riggs Eckelberry, https://www.originclear.com/

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This week on The Millionaire Choice Podcast, Tony talks with Taylor Welch, founder of Wealth Cap Holdings and Welch Commercial Capital. Tony and Taylor discuss financial education, generational wealth, and why Taylor claims anyone could be a millionaire within the span of ten years.

About Taylor Welch
In 2001, Taylor attended his first “business seminar.” He was 12 years old and was, in his own words, “forced to attend” by his father. Taylor didn’t want to be an entrepreneur or start a business early on — his dream? To work at a church; he wanted to be a pastor. “That dream came true,” he says, “and for the first time I experienced what so many people experience later on in life: the thing you always wanted, after you get it, you don’t want it.”

Today, Taylor is a real estate investor & business consultant. His companies have serviced over 50,000 individual small businesses in the last 5 years. He is a dynamic & energetic speaker who not only enjoys playing the game of business but teaching it also.

Learn more about Taylor Welch, https://taylorawelch.com/home/

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This week on The Millionaire Choice Show, Tony talks with Jerry Fetta, CEO and Founder of Wealth DynamX, about his journey from homelessness to wealth expert and multi-millionaire at age 30. They discuss Jerry’s life as a financial advisor and how a parents’ financial good or bad habits can affect their childrens’ financial outlook and future.

About Jerry Fetta
Jerry Fetta grew up in a three-times divorced household finding himself homeless by age eight. At age 19 and just out of high school, Jerry was homeless yet again, but this time with a newlywed wife. Working their way up from the bottom; he and his wife are now 10 years still married and multi-millionaires.

CEO and Founder of Wealth DynamX, Jerry is a published author, successful entrepreneur, investor, and a nationally recognized financial expert featured in Forbes, Yahoo Finance, Fox, Chicago Weekly News, New York Finance, earning endorsements and affiliations throughout his career with names like Grant Cardone, Dave Ramsey, and Pamela Yellen. Jerry’s mission in life is to help create millions of financially educated and solvent families achieving greater financial freedom and sharing the truth about money with those around them.

Learn more about Jerry Fetta, https://jerryfetta.com/freechapter

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This week on The Millionaire Choice Show, Tony talks with Bryan Clayton, CEO of GreenPal about how he went from cutting yards as a teenager to multi-millionaire businessman. They discuss life principles of success, business, and leadership.

About Bryan Clayton

Bryan Clayton is CEO and co-founder of GreenPal an online marketplace that connects homeowners with local lawn care professionals. GreenPal has been called the “Uber for lawn care” by Entrepreneur magazine and has over 200,000 active users completing thousands of transactions per day.

Before starting GreenPal Bryan Clayton founded Peachtree Inc. one of the largest landscaping companies in the state of Tennessee growing it to over $10 million a year in annual revenue before it was acquired by Lusa holdings in 2013.

Bryan‘s interest and expertise are related to entrepreneurialism, small business growth, marketing and bootstrapping businesses from zero revenue to profitability and exit.

Learn more about Bryan Clayton and Your Green Pal, https://www.yourgreenpal.com/

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