Running the Bases today with Mark Carpenter, Chief Storyteller: Helping people teach, lead, sell, and inspire through intentional storytelling for business Today’s guest is a serial storyteller. Growing up he loved humor, telling stories, and exaggerating his real-life experiences as a middle child trying to stand out.   He grew up in a home surrounded by books from his English Teacher Mom, which only increased his love of stories.  He leveraged his abilities into a marketing communications and public relations career, then later as a college professor and corporate facilitator. Now ..read more

Running the Bases today with John Jonas, Founder and CEO of OnlineJobs.PH Today’s guest is a self-professed “Terrible Employee”, and we can see why.  On Monday mornings, when others are brushing their weekends off to get back into the office grind, he is most likely still out in the Mountains in Utah, where he lives with his wife and 5 kids.  An extreme sports enthusiast, today’s guest is an avid backcountry skier and mountain biker.  His helmet cam videos of him racing down the slopes can give you whiplash from watching.   When he’s not on the mountain, you might find him ..read more

Running the Bases today with Adam Chronister: Digital Marketer, Speaker, Investor, and Philanthropist.  The 2021 Spokane Washington winner for best SEO Company - the Founder of Enleaf Marketing Adam is a fun and passionate entrepreneur, small business owner, digital marketer, speaker, investor, world traveler, philanthropist, student, husband, father and some might say Fashionista.   How many of us have matched clothing or in his case their glasses to their laptops?  Hailing from the Great State of Washington, this Spokane business entrepreneur founded his successful digital mar ..read more

Running the Bases today with Gil Bar-Lev from HomeRoots. Gil Bar-Lev is a serial entrepreneur specializing in e-commerce, technology, and software engineering. He had the opportunity to work for Toys R Us and Amazon, and was awarded the most innovative web store award from Amazon in 2013. Growing up in a family of CPAs, he was always interested in coding and software development, which led him to start the Home Roots platform, a digital B2B wholesale solution. Gil advises entrepreneurs in the DTC and B2B space to have a killer product and invest in marketing to stand out in the competitive mar ..read more

Running the Bases today with Anne Gannon, Principal at The Largo Group. The Largo Group offers innovative solutions to businesses and individuals to meet their accounting and bookkeeping needs. They specialize in monthly bookkeeping, tax services, and business consulting focused on improving efficiencies and the bottom line. Today’s guest grew up playing competitive golf.  Raised In Fort Lauderdale, her parents would buy her plane tickets and send her all over the country to play in tournaments.  Through this nomadic lifestyle (as she calls it) - she gained a real affection for emplo ..read more

Another episode of “The Random Show”! I always appreciate the opportunity to sit down with one of my favorite SEOs, business leaders, and all-around good guy - Kyle Roof. An enjoyable, educational and informative session with a couple of guys intent on business growth, security and spending time with family. Kyle first appeared on the show in June 2021 - a lot has changed in Kyle’s life since then.  We catch up on all the good stuff! Some background on Kyle….he’s responsible for developing and implementing all SEO techniques used by the SEO agency High Voltage SEO and the SEO tool Pag ..read more

Running the Bases today with Andrew Stallings Founder and President of the Athelo Group. With over 15 years in the arena of sports and entertainment, Stallings has put all of his chips in on the rising tide of sports athletes and properties. With a brevity of knowledge on the brand, property, and media marketing side of sports - Stallings is looking to bring a unique and innovative dialogue to how the evolution of sports can be brought front and center to a whole new audience of consumers. Today’s guest has been quoted as saying “If your Failures are outweighing your successes you’re doing it ..read more

Running the Bases today with Peter Balunek the Founder at Peter’s Safaris - a unique socially conscious luxury safari company that explores fascinating corners of our world.  Peter’s Safaris started in 2015 and has grown to spend over 65 weeks on Safari -including locations like Africa, India, and Alaska. Peter shares his experience of his first safari in 2014 - that ultimately changed his life.  He returned from that trip and shortly after, started his own safari tour company, taking families and individuals on adventures of a lifetime. But, Peter has built more than just a tour com ..read more

Running the Bases today with Ted Kubaitis, Founder and CEO of SEO Tool Lab. Ted has innovated software solutions that drive results for over 20 years for companies spanning the globe. Our guest today is quite a rockstar in the Digital Marketing industry.  A native of Illinois, he attended the flagship university - the University of Illinois in Urbana Champaign.  While there, he studied Computer Science and had the opportunity to research at The National Center for Super Computing Applications housed on the Campus.  After graduation in 1996, he relocated to Seattle to begin his c ..read more

Running the Bases today with James Barrood, Founder and CEO of Innovation+ helping leaders, companies, Higher Ed institutions, and communities grow and drive innovation. “Thoughtfully bringing people together” -  Today’s guest has a history of knowing what the next top trend is going to be, and he is an expert in working a room to connect the right people together in support of entrepreneurs and their ideas.     He is among the top leaders of the east coast’s innovation ecosystem.  For 20-plus years he has helped nurture entrepreneurship,  Innovation, and technology in ..read more