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Healing Images LLC
Trish Ferris (owner)

Tell Us About Your Business?
Aesthetics

What Sets You Apart From Your Competition?
I am a holistic healing center using natural products

What Do You Love About Your Business?
I love being able to help people heal their mind, body and spirit

What’s The Best Advice You Would Give Someone Starting A Business?
Remember that it takes a long time yo get to where you want to be

What Were The Biggest Challenges You Overcame?
Stepping out of my comfort zero to try something new

How Do You Give Back To The Community?
I haven’t yet but I would like to help support a conservation center

What’s The Most Fun You’ve Had With Your Job?
I love talking and learning with my clients

What Do You Consider Successful?
Success is someone telling you that you have made a difference in their life.

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Glory Cloud Coffee Roasters
Scott M Coleman (owner)

Tell Us About Your Business?
Together: “We Make Life Taste Better” in every way. Thanks to our Arabica Q Grader [like a wine sommelier; only more rare], we provide the finest hand-craft roasted coffee (from the holy grail of green coffee beans), extravagant loose-leaf teas and herbal drinks from the best Fair Trade ethically sourced ingredients available on the planet. We are here to provide you the best products, educate you about coffees and teas, get you excited about amazing health benefits and make your beverages more flavorful and aromatic to improve your life and flavor pleasure.

What Sets You Apart From Your Competition?
Our craft coffee is roasted to artisan and scientific specifications with unique recipes for each bean and type of roast. These roast profiles were developed by our Q Grader secret weapon wizard of flavors. We also have loose leaf teas and herbals sourced by our tea sommelier to give fantastic coffee & tea products for every palate. Our ridiculously amazing customer service will excite and inspire everyone who walks through our door or meets us online. Our Motto is: Honor All. We do this with super wonderful products and respecting and valuing every person in our lives.

What Do You Love About Your Business?
The People! The products are great. The People on staff and our guests are our life line.

What’s The Best Advice You Would Give Someone Starting A Business?
Network like crazy. Go to lots of entrepreneur events to get the training and consulting you didn’t know you would need. Persevere. Go ALL in. Ask a lot of people for help. Take good advice and dump the rest. Your business plan WILL change. Adapt and modify.

What Were The Biggest Challenges You Overcame?
Marketing! Get brand awareness so people know you exist and THEN will desire to buy your products.

How Do You Give Back To The Community?
We don’t advertise this on our website. I don’t feel it is honest to use our donations and service as a marketing gimmick or ploy. We donate products, baskets and time to many events and charities. We also have Gratis Gives as our wholesale merchant processor where we have three local charities we support.

What’s The Most Fun You’ve Had With Your Job?
Serving people and making them smile through learning, tasting great coffees & teas and inspiring them about how valuable they are as people.

What Do You Consider Successful?
We are making many wonderful life-long friends and a bit of profit. People first!

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Mr. Bubbles Laundromat
Alycia Tanner (owner)

Tell Us About Your Business?
We have 7 laundromats in Northern Nevada.

What Sets You Apart From Your Competition?
We offer a fluff and fold service at 5 locations with pick up and delivery available

What Do You Love About Your Business?
Our customers. We meet very unique, fun, and interesting people daily. Both local and visitors.

What’s The Best Advice You Would Give Someone Starting A Business?
Be prepared to work everyday

What Were The Biggest Challenges You Overcame?
Complying with covid measures to enhance the safety of our customers

How Do You Give Back To The Community?
We offer free dry for homeless helping groups, donate funds to non profit organizations, and donate clothing to shelters

What’s The Most Fun You’ve Had With Your Job?
Everyday is fun

What Do You Consider Successful?
Increasing our services

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Your Grant Writer
Christie Johnson (owner)

Tell Us About Your Business?
My business is all about helping people find funding for their businesses. I mostly work with non-profits but do work with some for-profits organizations.

What Sets You Apart From Your Competition?
I am different from my competitors because they mostly provide resources to grants such as listings or a listing of grant writers for a fee. However, I provide services that include finding grants (prospecting), strategic planning for grant approach, grant writing, and research.

What Do You Love About Your Business?
I love the work. I love being able to help people fund their dreams.

What’s The Best Advice You Would Give Someone Starting A Business?
You’ll never be completely prepared for it so just get started and be willing to learn as you go.

What Were The Biggest Challenges You Overcame?
The biggest challenge I overcame was my own fear. I never wanted to own my own business because I used to believe in job security but with the pandemic I had to pivot and finally start my own business.

How Do You Give Back To The Community?
I work with non-profits because they typically don’t have the same resources to invest in development and getting funding even though there are a lot more resources for non-profits for grant funding.

What’s The Most Fun You’ve Had With Your Job?
The most fun I’ve ever had with my job was working logistics on getting a microscope ordered in the US but delivered to Chile. I enjoyed the challenge.

What Do You Consider Successful?
I consider happiness successful. If you are happy with the work you do and the life you built then you are successful.

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Webb Homes Ferrari-Lund Real Estate
CynDee Webb, Realtor

Tell Us About Your Business?
CynDee Webb is a seasoned real estate professional who has been living and working in the Reno/Sparks area for the past 21 years. CynDee and Ferrari-Lund Real Estate take a different approach to real estate, one that is built on personal touches, win-win deals, and positive results. We utilize the latest technologies, market research, and business strategies to exceed your expectations. More importantly, we listen and that means we find solutions that are tailored to you.

What Sets You Apart From Your Competition?
CynDee received a graduate degree in 2002 from the University of Nevada, Reno in Counseling and Educational Psychology, giving her the unique skills to build close professional relationships with her clients. She understands the art of leadership and human relations and uses those skills in negotiating and communicating.

CynDee’s specialty is providing you with the quality real estate services you deserve in order to make educated and comfortable decisions, whether it’s buying and selling, investing or exchanging properties. She brings her market insight and expertise to each transaction. She will make the process manageable and fun! Her primary goal is to provide you with the finest representation in your next real estate endeavor.

What Do You Love About Your Business?
CynDee loves her client relationships above it all. Her commitment to her clients entails a personal, hands on approach and her own personal interest in the security of your future and the accomplishment of your dreams.  She will show you how . . . “Your home is the heart of her business!”

What’s The Best Advice You Would Give Someone Starting A Business?
Hang in there!

What Were The Biggest Challenges You Overcame?
Consistency and perseverance!

How Do You Give Back To The Community?
Currently volunteering to support our community in our fight to save America!

What’s The Most Fun You’ve Had With Your Job?
The most fun is closing day when either a Seller gets a check or a Buyer gets a house and everyone is happy happy happy!

What Do You Consider Successful?
Return and referred clients are the gage for my professional success! More importantly, a happy long-time marriage, a couple of fantastic grown children and good health are my gage for personal success!

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UpCycle Coaching LLC
Ly Smith (owner)

Tell Us About Your Business?
I created The CANDY Method, helping entrepreneurs and business professionals design their sweet life and win their inner game so that they can break through their procrastination, self-doubts, and limiting beliefs to achieve their desired success for making more money, having more energy, and creating more time to enjoy their day. I offer masterminds, workshops, intensives, and group coaching.

What Sets You Apart From Your Competition?
I am a thought leader in mindset and self-talk. While on holiday with my family, I became painfully aware of my deep depression, which I had been enduring for three years. I used my personal growth development studies to reclaim my joy, rediscover my purpose and reengage my passion for public speaking and life coaching. I went on to become a two-time Amazon Best Seller author, an award-winning speaker with Toastmasters International, a graduate of Dale Carnegie, Tony Robbins, Dean Graziosi, and Brendon Burchard, and launched my first business, B2BMatched, all in under eight months.

I went on to create UpCycle Coaching LLC, where I use the CANDY Method to help my clients make more money, improve their productivity, and enhance their teams so that they can be the leaders who look like rockstars without the burnout.

I have been a featured speaker on Les Brown’s Power Voice Summit, one of six summits presented to his 1.8 million followers. I am also an Executive Contributor to Brainz Magazine and an honoree on the Brainz CREA Global Award List 2021.

I believe that when we change our mindset, habits, and integrity, we become unstoppable. What I’ve been able to do for myself, I can now teach to others so that they become unstoppable, too.

What Do You Love About Your Business?
I love giving my audience value and takeaways that they can then implement to get quick results and lasting transformation. Whether it’s the way they optimize their morning routine, manage their energy, set their intentions, improve their health, clarify what matters most to them, I love hearing how they choose to step into the best version of themselves, feel more alive and have fun doing what they do.

What’s The Best Advice You Would Give Someone Starting A Business?
You don’t have to be great to get started, but you do have to start to be great. So, get started, make a hot mess, and embrace the adventure of the venture!!

What Were The Biggest Challenges You Overcame?
The biggest challenge I overcame was my relationship and mindset regarding money so that I could break through my limiting beliefs with sales. When I dug deep and got in touch with the narrative instilled in me since childhood, I could create the change I needed to get out of my own way and start generating revenue.

How Do You Give Back To The Community?
I love networking with like-minded entrepreneurs and business professionals for collaborations and win-win connections. I share ideas and resources whenever I can. And I volunteer my time at the Food Bank and special events.

What’s The Most Fun You’ve Had With Your Job?
I have fun every time I get to speak and share my signature mind hack to help the audience see the best version of themselves.

What Do You Consider Successful?
Success to me is loving the person I see in the mirror and contributing to the world the gifts, genius, and greatness I see inside her.

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The Rick Charles Show
Rick Charles (owner)

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A “start-up” political/news-talk podcast hosted by a guy who spent the better part of 3 decades doing *real* radio and coming out of a forced semi-retirement to try and bring people together and find solutions to the challenges we all are facing. Though I’m unabashedly conservative, I find that connecting with people from every arc of the spectrum of our great American life we find that when we locate the things we all care about, there is still a big fat target to work together on in that Ven diagram. Hope you’ll tune in and contribute.

What Sets You Apart From Your Competition?
Hopefully my experience and the fact that I love to learn something every day. If I’m not learning, I feel that I’m stagnant. I’m like a shark that’s not moving forward if I’m not seeking some knowledge that either I didn’t have yesterday, or my M.S. addled brain has forgotten 🙂

What Do You Love About Your Business?
When I was young I watched my dad do what he loved, which was service and supply swimming pools and within a few years of going out on his own with a shove and a small loan from one of his customers, he built a pretty big business that stretched from the Mexican Border at the beach to the top of San Diego County and all the way out to the Borrego Valley in the East, including multiple retail pool supply stores and two sporting goods locations. Why? Because he LOVED what he did. I fell in love with radio when I first went on the air at age 15 while attending a boarding school in Homer, Alaska and never looked back. I knew that if my dream of being a big-league catcher didn’t happen RADIO was it for me, and it was. Now it’s a mess out there and podcasts and online streaming are the way to go, and I’m ready to ride that wave (again) until I fall off of my board.

What’s The Best Advice You Would Give Someone Starting A Business?
Have the support of your family, especially your spouse if you have one, and then JUMP IN WITH BOTH FEET and work (smart but) as hard as you can. You *will* sometimes have to take those calls when you are tired, sick, spending time with friends, sometimes even when you’re sleeping. DO MAKE TIME FOR YOUR FAMILY, but besides that, until you are successful, you must put in the time!

What Were The Biggest Challenges You Overcame?
With this new podcast I’m still pre-launch, so I’ll let you know soon, but I’ve done this all before so finding those who believe in you and believing in yourself. That was the biggest hurdle in the beginning. I first broke away from *real* radio to do digital back in 2001, after doing both for two years, it was a REAL leap of faith, but I found those who believed in me and the listeners and advertisers followed and it was an huge success until my health could no longer stand up to the rigors and I was forced to retire.

How Do You Give Back To The Community?
I do my best to give back as much as I can with PSA’s and by having candidates for office on my show, also I love to have community leaders from non-profit and other NGO’s on. I feel that we are all in this together, no matter what “team” we’re on.
What’s The Most Fun You’ve Had With Your Job?
If I told you that, I’d have to quit and go into hiding. I was a Rock n’ Roll DJ while I was single in the early 80’s. I’ll let you guys do the rest in your minds, and yes, I’ve met them all from back then.

What Do You Consider Successful?
I’m not really as concerned with chasing the dollar as I was back before I got sick. Having a life-changing illness like M.S. can do that to a person. I consider my two 30-something kids having kids of their own all of whom love me and respect me as the biggest success any of us can hope to achieve while we’re here on this Earth.

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Portnoy Gallery LLC
Neal Portnoy (owner)

Tell Us About Your Business?
Portnoy Gallery, located in Las Vegas, NV home of the world famous “Portnoyed” Wall Of Honor features the artwork of nationally recognized Master Illustrator Neal Portnoy

What Sets You Apart From Your Competition?
We ARE the competition! Realistic illustrations created with felt-tip markers

What Do You Love About Your Business?
Putting smiles on peoples faces every day!

What’s The Best Advice You Would Give Someone Starting A Business?
Have a passion for what you do!

What Were The Biggest Challenges You Overcame?
Patience

How Do You Give Back To The Community?
We are involved in a number of Children’s related charitable foundations including The Tyler Robinson Foundation. Also are Rotarians

What’s The Most Fun You’ve Had With Your Job?
Entertaining with live caricatures, and accolades received from happy clients

What Do You Consider Successful?
Success is Recognition

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Red Zone SEO
Rob Kafka (owner)

Tell Us About Your Business?
Red Zone SEO is a boutique digital marketing agency offering the best SEO solution for small businesses available today. We have helped thousands of brands generate over 100,000 first place rankings, driving more customers to their websites. We make brands #1 on Google, Yahoo, Bing & DDG.

What Sets You Apart From Your Competition?
We don’t just build links and write content to hit a quota every month. Our network members benefit from a concise, well researched article for each target keyword being shared on other real and relevant businesses online.

What Do You Love About Your Business?
We help small business owners thrive without having to pay for every click with Google.

What’s The Best Advice You Would Give Someone Starting A Business?
Stay humble, stay coachable, stay focused. Also, do not use WIX!

What Were The Biggest Challenges You Overcame?

My biggest challenge has and will probably always be delegating tasks. As a big believer in ‘if you want it done right, do it yourself’, I have spent the last year or two working on delegating as much of those tasks as I could stomach.

Now I have a team of really talented people who have mastered each of those tasks I thought only I could complete.

How Do You Give Back To The Community?
We donate our service free of charge to several local non-profits on top of giving 5% of all revenues to various charities.

What’s The Most Fun You’ve Had With Your Job?

There’s a lot of experiences that come to mind, with on so many different campaigns, in so many different industries… but I have to say the most fun I have is during conferences and expos. The energy of meeting new and existing clients face-to-face, ideally on a beach, is unmatched.

A close second is when clients call and ask if I know anyone looking for work because they’re too busy now.

What Do You Consider Successful?
Success is nothing more than a measurement of one’s happiness with what they currently have.