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Claire Jones is a certified Leadership Coach and Business Consultant who helps badass entrepreneurs create systems that grow their businesses without burning out. Coming from a background in Art History, she opened up her first business back in 2014. Since then, she has gained a ton of experience helping small businesses with their development efforts and has become adept at seeing pain points and creating systematic solutions. Now she helps her clients create, implement, and learn systems focused on the three pillars of business success: Sustainable Schedules, Marketing Strategies, and overall Business Processes. In today’s The Money Hour segment, Claire talks about the three pillars of business success.  Listen to Claire’s segment.

Matt Wong is a media veteran with over 15 years of experience in digital advertising, connecting Fortune 500 companies and large brands with consumers. Wong is currently a Director of Media Sales & Strategy at T-Mobile Marketing Solutions and began his career at digital ad agency Avenue A.  His career spans working at major industry staples like Microsoft, AOL/Verizon and Time Inc. Wong joined T-Mobile following the acquisition of Seattle mobile data startup, PushSpring, where he spent 4 ½ years as their VP, Channel Sales.  Born and raised in Seattle, Wong loves spending time outdoors with his 15-year-old son hiking, snowboarding or skiing. In dryer months you’ll generally find him on his motorcycle heading somewhere with open roads and fresh air.  In today’s The Money Hour segment, Matt discusses how to manage your personal brand.  Listen to Matt’s segment.

Devi Adea is the Host of the Spiritual Entrepreneur, Podcast on Purpose podcast, and Devi TV – the podcast. Devi is recognized as an “Icon of Influence” in the New Media Space and her show, the Spiritual Entrepreneur, was nominated for a Podcast People’s Choice Award in 2019. In addition to hosting her own podcasts, Devi helps other leaders to launch their own purpose-driven podcasts, through her Podcast on Purpose Online Academy and VIP events.  Devi also works with Spiritual Entrepreneurs & Leaders to bring a consciousness upgrade to their business, life & mission in the world.  When she is not serving or interviewing leaders in their industry, Devi enjoys making music, doing yoga, and spending time with her husband and their adorable fur babies in their home in San Diego, CA.  In today’s The Money Hour segment, Devi talks about the power in podcasting. Listen to Devi’s segment.

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Dee is a part-time coach and full-time rental property business owner who has done extensive study on emotional growth. Her perspective is that you are where you are choosing to be in your life. Your financial status, the quality of life you live, and your relationships with friends, family, or your significant other, everything is either where you want it to be, or where your belief level is of where you can be. The stage of personal growth you are at in each area of your life determines where you are in that area. You cannot make more money than you believe you can make. You cannot have a better relationship than you believe yourself capable of having. Your belief in your own worthiness in each area of your life sets the tone for where you are. Dee helps you break those ceilings.  In today’s The Money Hour segment, Dee discusses letting go of unwanted feelings.  Listen to Dee’s segment.

Dan and his co-host Nicholas run a podcast highlighting the people intertwined in the very unique PNW car culture and around the world. His show highlights the 1 degree of separation everyone has in the car world and how small the world really is. His show features guests ranging from former Seahawk Cliff Avril to the world authority on all things wine, Madeline Puckette, and everyone in between. With over 10k listeners a week, and most of them not being car people, they share the great stories of the amazing people they have met, give tips on car ownership and road trips, and focus on keeping people real and authentic about who they really are. In today’s The Money Hour segment, Dan talks about cars, money and keeping it real.  Listen to Dan’s segment.

As an entrepreneur, Jake Hanes has been coaching business owners for more than 14 years in every facet of operating and growing their business. He has succeeded, as well as failed, in business.  Jake lived the first 40 years of his life with epilepsy, enduring thousands of seizures. Yet, amid all the inherent challenges, he reached great heights, including summitting the five highest peaks in Washington and building several successful businesses.  Now cured of epilepsy, he continues to succeed by goal setting and achieving every day. As a CPA, business coach and entrepreneur, he services the needs of hundreds of business owners at his firm, Action Tax Service, LLC in Auburn.  In today’s The Money Hour segment, Jake talks about how not to overpay on taxes. Listen to Jake’s segment.

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Lara Currie is a podcaster, speaker, and the author of “Difficult Happens”. Defensiveness, miscommunication and confusion costs you time and money and may lead to ill-will. Leaders & business owners hire Lara to help them create strong boundaries, recognize triggers and identify responses that lead to conflict, so they are able to navigate and minimize those difficult situations with Grace. With 25 plus years of experience in high conflict positions, she has a unique and intuitive understanding of why people act and react the way they do.  In The Money Hour segment today, Lara talks about the impact of bad behavior in the business world. Listen to Lara’s segment.

Real estate transactions can be challenging & stressful but Gina’s approach is simple: She helps you make informed decisions with clarity & confidence. She’lll orient you to the market, educate you on the process, help you find the right home, & craft an offer that honors both your financial capability & risk tolerance. Gina’s experience, work ethic, business acumen & professionalism set her apart. At Chase & Microsoft, she was consistently a top performer & participated in Microsoft’s exclusive High Potential program. Her people & program management skills enable her balance the human & process side of real estate to ensure your success. In her 2nd year she achieved nearly $50 million in sales, making her the top producer at her firm locally and #4 in the nation.  In today’s The Money Hour segment, Gina discusses how to be successful in the real estate space.  Listen to Gina’s segment.

Suzan Shayler of Edward Jones wants to understand, what’s important to you. She uses an established process to build customize strategies to help you achieve all your goals then partner together throughout your life to help keep you on track.  After earning degrees in Accounting and Finance from Seattle University, Suzan worked for 20 years as an accountant and tax professional before joining Edward Jones in 2013. Her background allows me to specialize in tax-free and tax-efficient planning, potentially saving you money in taxes!  In today’s The Money Hour segment, Suzan discusses how you can protect your money from long-term care costs and taxes. Listen to Suzan’s segment.

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Julie Porter is a small business specialist. She’s on a mission to make the business side of business a breeze for owners. Relentlessly helpful, she works with start-ups, expanding companies, and established businesses to develop and grow. With over 30 years of business experience, she grew a small restaurant into a success with multiple profit centers. She is experienced in start-ups, systems, finances, growth, and government and has helped over 350 clients realize their dreams of being their own boss. Her passion is mentoring women small business owners. She is on the board of The Little Black Dress Party, a non-profit that supports women & children’s charities, as well as a benevolent fund for women in need of legal services. She is the author of ‘7 Steps to a Kick-Ass Business’.  In today’s The Money Hour segment, Julie talks about how to gather your tax records for tax season.  Listen to Julie’s segment.

Tony is an advisor with New York Life. He is also the Founder of Ultimate Wealth Strategies based in Bellevue, WA. Focusing on life insurance, investment, retirement, and estate planning for you, your family or small business to identify your life goals and motivations. Tony has a vast team of specialist that will help you meet your goals. Not only does he enjoy helping people with their financial goals and dreams, he is passionate about the community through his involvement with various non-profits. One of the unique things about Tony is that he is a Mixed Martial Arts coach at AMC Pan-kray-tion in Kirkland and training alongside current UFC Champions, ONE-FC Champions, and other world class fighters.  In today’s The Money Hour segment, Tony talks about the blueprint for your financial plan in 2020.  Listen to Tony’s segment.

John Bedford is the Director of Business Development of SDN and has been with the company a little over 3 years. He was brought onto to help SDN enter the real estate community in the Puget Sound area. He loves working with Realtors and helping them save time and money staging their listings. In today’s The Money Hour segment, John discusses shared rental pools for home furnishings. Listen to John’s segment.

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A born entrepreneur, Jon Botten owned, operated, and sold two popular sub sandwich restaurants before the age of 23. During the decade that followed, he exercised his creative and social service muscles as the owner of a video production and multi-media consulting company. Jon’s company enabled dozens of nonprofits, schools, and churches to effectively communicate their impact and raise millions of dollars to expand their missions.

In 2016 Jon joined Childhaven as the interim CEO, and four months later was offered the position permanently.  Since joining Childhaven Jon has been a compassionate and innovated leader, driving Childhaven to strengthen, expand, and lead – in pursuit of better serving more children and families.

Megan Beers is passionate about building early childhood systems of care, as well as supporting the state’s early childhood workforce, and improving quality of care through reflective supervision and consultation.  Megan is a licensed clinical psychologist. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship in early childhood mental health at Brown Medical School, has a rich background leading program design and implementation, as well as training staff in both early learning and mental health contexts.

Megan came to Childhaven from Wellspring Family Services, where she was the Senior Director of Early Childhood Services and led the integration of infant/early childhood mental health and trauma-informed care across Wellspring programs. Megan is the Director of Programs at Childhaven, and in the 10 months she has been with the organization she has implemented new programs such as Flourish, which specializes in intensive wrap around care, as well as leading the efforts to bring relational health models to all of Childhaven’s programs.

To support Childhaven, visit: https://childhaven.org/donations/

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Leanne Kabat hosts The 5 Seasons Life Podcast and is an author, speaker, and Business Brilliance Catalyst. The transformative power of her 5 Seasons Strategy helps two groups: women who crave a vibrant life while being a fully connected mom, and entrepreneurs who want to move from struggling to successful in their businesses.  Leanne developed the 5 Seasons framework after receiving a harrowing medical diagnosis in 2006 that gave her five years to live. For the first three years, she was busy dying. Then she decided to live. Over the last 13 years, she’s built a mission-driven business, published three books, is raising three teens, and celebrates her huge life goal of visiting 50 countries. You can find her on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn, or sitting by the lake daydreaming.  In today’s The Money Hour segment, Leanne discusses how to uncover your business’ brilliance.  Listen to Leanne’s segment.

Dee is a part-time coach and full-time rental property business owner who has done extensive study on emotional growth. Her perspective is that you are where you are choosing to be in your life. Your financial status, the quality of life you live, and your relationships with friends, family, or your significant other, everything is either where you want it to be, or where your belief level is of where you can be. The stage of personal growth you are at in each area of your life determines where you are in that area. You cannot make more money than you believe you can make. You cannot have a better relationship than you believe yourself capable of having. Your belief in your own worthiness in each area of your life sets the tone for where you are. Dee helps you break those ceilings.  In today’s The Money Hour segment, Dee discusses how to overcome emotional pain.  Listen to Dee’s segment.

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Sam Turco is the Sales and Marketing Consultant for Virtuance in the Greater Seattle area. He recently started working there and is excited to start his career in sales for such a great company and service. Graduating in 2017 from Connecticut College with a degree in philosophy, he is continuing to learn, grow, and teach. Recently his commitment to learning about all aspects of real estate has brought him here today to talk more about Virtuance and the value they can bring to brokers.  In today’s The Money Hour segment, Sam discusses photography powered by science.  Listen to Sam’s segment.

Melissa Lavigne is CEO of LEADS Referral Network. LEADS started in the Los Angeles area 2 years ago. She brought the company to Seattle only 8 months ago and it has taken off. She specializes in Speed Networking. in her opinion, it’s the most time efficient way to meet new people to grow your business. Melissa Believes Speed Networking events make the most of people’s time in a world now where making good use of time is so important. Melissa lives with her son and 2 daughters, husband Leon. She loves being home with her family and watching movies and hanging out with her pets!  In today’s The Money Hour segment, Melissa talks about growing your business.  Listen to Melissa’s segment.

Andre is a 25+ year wireless communications leader. In his last corporate position he lead an $85 million business unit introducing wireless data applications into B2B clients for one of the top Cellular providers in the US. After a successful 14 years in that role he took that expertise and started his own Mobile Messaging company where for the past 5 years he has worked with small & med size businesses providing them with many of the same capabilities enterprise level businesses have to reach their clients via mobile messaging.  In today’s The Money Hour segment, Andre discusses the benefits of mobile messaging in business. Listen to Andre’s segment.

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Kim Fraser is a Realtor with the John L. Scott- Bellevue Main office. As a Top Producing Realtor since 2002, Kim has sold over 1,100 homes in primarily King and Pierce Counties. Kim has been recently recognized in the Top 1% of all Realtors within John L. Scott, Washington State, as well as the entire US. Kim and her team offer a comprehensive marketing plan and full service and representation. Feel free to reach out to Kim if you are looking to buy or sell in Western Washington. In today’s The Money Hour segment, Kim talks about listing strategies.  Listen to Kim’s segment.

Catherine M. White is the founder of Accelerated Results 365, author, speaker, and the creator of P.O.W.E.R.R.™. As an innovative Business Coach and Consultant with over twenty years of experience in finance and business management alongside dual coaching certifications, Catherine brings her clients unique tools for building effective business processes using her signature program, P.O.W.E.R.R.™ which is comprised of four key components which you need to master in order to build a thriving business: Money, Marketing, Mindset, and Movement. Catherine’s philosophy is, “Small compounded efforts lead to large exponential results”.  In today’s The Money Hour segment, Catherine discusses how you can accelerate your business growth.  Listen to Catherine’s segment.

Over the years Jeff has been involved in the development of apartments, office buildings, residential condominiums and self-storage facilities. His real estate practice includes extensive buyer and seller representation of residential properties throughout the Puget Sound region.  Jeff is also the founder and Director of Home Advantage Program, one of the most successful real estate teams.  The primary focus is corporate employee representation with over 90 corporate clients including Boeing, UW, King County, City of Seattle and Harborview Medical Center. You have to be the “best of the best” to get into corporation like this.  In today’s The Money Hour segment, Jeff talks about the new HomeSTAR Homeownership Grant Program. Listen to Jeff’s segment.

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Kari exudes a passion for real estate that carries through to every client whether you are a buyer, a seller or both! Kari’s business practices are steeped in a philosophy of commitment, honesty, integrity and excellence while loving her clients and developing a strong team to produce the best results. Prior to becoming a Managing Broker, Kari owned her own graphic design & marketing firm. Six years ago, Kari brought her leadership and business expertise, her keen attention to detail and eye for beauty to the real estate industry, often exceeding client expectations and rising to top agent in her office. Kari specializes in selling for more and buying for less while managing the process and providing support, guidance, knowledge and education so you feel confidant from beginning to end.  In today’s The Money Hour segment, Kari discusses real estate goals for the upcoming year.  Listen to Kari segment.

Jim Rosemary is president of New Tech Web — a website design firm he founded in 1997, which specializes in online marketing and business development for small businesses. New Tech Web has helped hundreds of client companies across the continent create or re-invent their internet presence toward improving their bottom-line results.  Jim’s experience in sales, marketing, training and technology spans over 40 years and affords his clients with perceptive insights on business, both online and offline. He has worked for companies like Sony and AT&T, and has called on clients from Boeing and Microsoft, to one-person startups working from home-based businesses. Jim is also a published author and international speaker.  In today’s The Money Hour segment, Jim talks about growing your business by boosting your website.  Listen to Jim’s segment.

Prior to establishing his own law firm, Legacy Estate Planning in 2000, Steve Waltar spent four years at an exclusive estate planning law firm in Seattle. Steve limits his law practice to areas associated with estate planning, including trusts, estate tax law, wills, probate, asset protection, business incorporation & succession planning, charitable giving, and disability planning.   Steve is a popular and entertaining speaker at estate planning seminars and has taught both professionals and lay people estate planning and charitable giving. Steve has given over 100 seminars and talks and has taught courses at many local universities and community colleges.  He is a co-author of the book Legacy Wealth Planning: Looking Beyond the Financial to Provide Your Family with True Generational Wealth.  In today’s The Money Hour segment, Steve discusses Estate Planning. Listen to Steve’s segment.

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John has been in the construction industry for over 25 years. He first started building apartments and homes. In 1997 John entered the Carpenters Union apprenticeship program at Renton Technical College. He has worked on many large projects around the Puget Sound. Including the downtown Federal Courthouse, the new west side approach to the new 520 bridge and his favorite project two 50-million-gallon underground water tanks for the city of Seattle and the Cal Anderson park on top of them. John also was elected three terms as Vice President to Carpenters Local 30 and Financial Secretary of the Local as a rank and file carpenter. John became a home inspector after herniating 2 disks in his neck working on the new 520 floating bridge.  In today’s The Money Hour segment, John talks about home inspections.   Listen to John’s segment.

In 2004, Lei Wang, who grew up as a Beijing city girl and had no athletic training, set out to climb Mount Everest to prove that an ordinary person could climb Everest. That excitement empowered her to not only climb Everest, but to become the first Asian woman to complete a journey to the summits of the highest mountains on each of the 7 continents and to the north and south pole, a feat called the Explorer’s Grand Slam. As she endured outstanding hardships and overcame seemingly insurmountable obstacles, she made an astonishing discovery. She discovered that excitement is the driving force motivates and empowers every one of us and the secret to innovation, peak performance and extraordinary achievement. Today as a speaker, author and adventurer she travels the world to ascend new summits and empower individuals and organizations to tap into the power of excitement to realize their potential and reach the heights of success.  In today’s The Money Hour segment, Lei talks about success.   Listen to Lei’s segment.

Danielle has over 27 years in Marketing, IT and Network design, development and training. She is the owner of Gray Lux, Inc. and understands the real needs small businesses have in creating value both online and in person with their clients. She is dedicated to creating successes for her team and her clients.  In today’s The Money Hour segment, Danielle talks about maximizing your marketing.   Listen to Danielle’s segment.

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