Thrive Loud With Lou Diamond

Jonathan Silver is a career entrepreneur who pioneered loyalty programs for Banks and Processors. He is the CEO of Affinity Solutions, the first data-led intelligence platform helping marketers deliver emotionally resonant experiences that enrich people’s lives.  In light of COVID-19 - his company just launched “DATA for GOOD” which is dedicated to providing data-led behavioral insights to those on the front lines so they can engage thoughtfully to deliver brand experiences that advocate for the health, safety and economic well-being of customers. Jonathan has been sharing valuable INSIGHTS with his clients and in this episode he share's his own with Lou Diamond on Thrive LOUD.

Tricia Brouk is an international award winning director. She is works in theater, film and television. In addition to her work in the entertainment industry, she applies her expertise to the art of public speaking. She’s the executive producer of Speakers Who dare, a TEDx producer. She choreographed Black Box on ABC, The Affair on Showtime, Rescue Me on Fox, and John Turturro’s Romance and Cigarettes, where she was awarded a Golden Thumb Award from Roger Ebert. The series Sublets, won Best Comedy at the Vancouver Web-Festival. She curates and hosts the Speaker Salon in NYC, The Big Talk an award winning podcast on iTunes and directs and produces The Big Talk Over Dinner a new tv series. She was recently awarded Top Director of 2019 by the International Association of Top Professionals and her documentary Right Livelihood A Journey to Here about the Buddhist Chaplain at Riker’s Island won Best Documentary Short at The Olympus Film Festival and You’re Gorgeous, I Love Your Shirt, An Inside Look at Bullying and

Casey Stubbs is the founder of Trading Strategy Guides along with several other trading related businesses which include Learn To Trade for Profit, Finance & Markets, Price Action and Income. Since 2009, Stubbs has helped thousands of traders by providing the best free trading education and trading strategies. Casey and his team’s mission is to simplify trading strategies by giving traders a detailed plan with step-by-step rules to follow. We continue to do this with each and every strategy that we produce on our website. Meet the team of experienced day traders like Hubert Miranda, forex traders, financial advisors, chart experts, and market analysts like Raman Gill who make this site possible. Casey connects with Lou Diamond on Thrive LOUD.

Kelley Earnhardt Miller is part owner and general manager of JR Motorsports and is considered one of the most prominent businesswomen in NASCAR today. Kelley oversees the company’s race team, management team, and business ventures for her brother Dale Earnhardt Jr. and is the daughter of seven-time NASCAR champion Dale Earnhardt.  She is the author of DRIVE: 9 LESSONS TO WIN IN BUSINESS & LIFE and she shares some of these lessons with Lou on Thrive LOUD. Listeners start your engines!! *** CONNECT TO LOU DIAMOND: www.loudiamond.net SUBSCRIBE TO THRIVE LOUD: www.thriveloud.com/podcast  

Ora Nadrich is the founder and president of the Institute for Transformational Thinking and author of Live True: A Mindfulness Guide to Authenticity, named in the 100 Best Mindfulness Books of All Time by BookAuthority. She is a certified life coach and Mindfulness teacher, specializing in transformational thinking, self-discovery and mentoring new coaches as they develop their careers. Her  rare combination of insight, intuition, compassion and charisma has made her one of the most effective and sought-after coaches. Enjoy this conversation between Ora and Lou pulled from the Bedside Reading Authors That Thrive podcast. *** CONNECT TO LOU DIAMOND: www.loudiamond.net SUBSCRIBE TO THRIVE LOUD: www.thriveloud.com/podcast  

Global Credibility Expert Mitchell Levy (pronounced Lee Vee) is a TEDx speaker and international best-selling author of over 60 books. As The AHA Guy at AHAthat , he helps to extract the genius from your head in a two hour interview so that his team can ghostwrite your book, publish it, distribute it, and make you an Amazon bestselling author in four months. He is an accomplished Entrepreneur who has created twenty businesses in Silicon Valley including four publishing companies that have published over 850 books. Mitchell connects with Lou Diamond while spreading "CREDUST" before, during and after his appearance on Thrive LOUD. *** CONNECT TO LOU DIAMOND: www.loudiamond.net SUBSCRIBE TO THRIVE LOUD: www.thriveloud.com/podcast  

Bill Cates is an internationally recognized client-acquisition expert, author, and hall of fame speaker who motivates others to take action with proven strategies.     A successful entrepreneur his’ client-acquisition system has been featured in such publications as Success Magazine, Entrepreneur Magazine, Selling Power, the Huffington Post and The Wall Street Journal.  And his own business success has been featured in Money Magazine.   Cutting through the noise Bill Cates connects with Lou Diamond on Thrive LOUD.   ** CONNECT TO LOU DIAMOND: www.loudiamond.net SUBSCRIBE TO THRIVE LOUD: www.thriveloud.com/podcast  

Pulled from their original interview - Jonathan Sackett is featured in a Thrive LOUD Minisode. The President and CCO of allscope - a full service advertising agency headquartered in NYC chats with Lou about the challenges and possibilities around marketing "the plant" and one of the fastest growing industries on the planet. A rather timely and timeless episode released on 4:20. ** #agency #President #CEO #ChiefDigitalOfficer #Advertising #Marketing #Chief #Cannabis #CBD #Digital #cpg #b2b #b2c

Founded in 2014 by industry expert Michael Abboud, TetherView revolutionizes cloud use by offering simple, affordable, and secure solutions. As more companies move their workforce to remote locations, TetherView’s Frictionless Cloud is designed to keep data secure and accessible while ensuring the highest levels of compliance--allowing IT teams to focus on innovation. He hopes to put minds at ease while providing access and security that is vital to keep businesses safe and productive during this period of uncertainty.  

Michelle Cox is the author of the multiple award-winning Henrietta and Inspector Howard series as well as “Novel Notes of Local Lore,” a weekly blog dedicated to Chicago’s forgotten residents. She suspects she may have once lived in the 1930s and, having yet to discover a handy time machine lying around, has resorted to writing about the era as a way of getting herself back there.  Coincidentally, her books have been praised by Kirkus, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Booklist and many others, so she might be on to something.  Unbeknownst to most, Michelle hoards board games she doesn’t have time to play and is, not surprisingly, addicted to period dramas and big band music.  Also marmalade. Michelle 5th book -- comes out in Late April 2020… A CHILD LOST - which she talks about with Lou Diamond in a special episode pulled from Bedside Reading's Authors That Thrive. *** CONNECT TO LOU DIAMOND: www.loudiamond.net SUBSCRIBE TO THRIVELOUD: www.thriveloud.com/podcast  

Vincent Chiappetta is the co-founder and the fourth president of New York Road Runners, and has been running for over 71 years. He was the Yin to Fred Lebow’s Yang when they co-founded New York Road Runners and the New York City Marathon. During his heyday, he ran a total of 114 marathons, 50 of them under 2:40. Flirting with his 90s, he still teaches at Yeshiva University. He is the author of New York As We Know It... Very few people have been around the New York City running scene longer than this man.  Hear his story and more about his book on this engaging episode with a true New York Legend pulled from Bedside Reading's Authors That Thrive.

Brett Fogle has been marketing online since 1999 and has sold 3 of his previous companies including a three-time Inc 500|5000 company which he started from the proverbial ‘kitchen table’ and grew it to the 276th fastest growing private companies in the U.S.A. in 3 just years. He has had a successful career as a businessman, starting his first business at age 7, and has continued to start, grow and sell various businesses from retail to online. Brett is co-founder of Click and Grow Business / Click and Grow Rich Seminars and speaks internationally on how to start, scale and sell online businesses, teaching their proven ‘MP5MS2’ success formula and internet marketing strategies as far away as Singapore, Hong Kong, New Zeland, South Africa, Australia, London, Canada and the USA. He is also CEO and co-founder of ClickSales, a sales and email marketing automation platform that helps online business owners succeed with powerful yet simple software tools. Brett and Lou connect on Thrive LOUD. *** CONNECT TO LOU DIAM

Dirk Izzo serves as Senior Vice President of NCR Hospitality. He is a seasoned leader with experience in building and marketing innovative cloud-based solutions to help clients optimize their business performance. In his current role, Dirk is responsible for developing simple and innovative solutions that run the restaurant from end to end. NCR is the technology provider of choice for restaurants around the world and Dirk is focused on delivering the next-generation software, hardware and services that delivers on what customers want, when they want it. He is intimately involved in a unique program to get front line entrepreneurs closer to funding in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. Learn about all the great things Dirk and his team at NCR are doing to keep commerce running during these difficult times. *** CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE NCR & Nymbus - SBA Paycheck Protection Loans Program. *** CONNECT TO LOU DIAMOND: www.loudiamond.net SUBSCRIBE TO THRIVE LOUD: www.thriveloud.com/podcast  

As COVID-19 has forced many people to either "Shelter-In-Place", "Stay-At-Home", Be on "P.A.U.S.E.", "Social Distance" and self quarantine...it made sense to have an episode that captured what life in the midst of these unique times is like. Thrive LOUD listener, fan, guest contributor, good friend and neighbor of Lou's -- Jeff Dorst shares his thoughts, opinions and the ramifications of the situation we're all in while strictly adhering to social distancing rules. Recorded live from beyond six feet in Lou's driveway - enjoy the "Thrive LOUD Quarantine" episode.

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to remember how much "we all matter" during this unique time.   With that, Lou Diamond invited back one of the very initial guests on Thrive LOUD. Angela Maiers catches up with Lou and shares the 'mattering' work she is doing and how much of her messaging is so relevant as our country enters a peak period of the spread of the coronavirus. Listen, learn, laugh, love and lean on one another. *** CONNECT TO LOU DIAMOND: www.loudiamond.net SUBSCRIBE TO THRIVE LOUD: www.thriveloud.com/podcast  

Robbie Samuels is a keynote speaker, TEDx speaker, and relationship-based business strategist who has been recognized as a “networking expert”. He is the author of the best-selling business book Croissants vs. Bagels: Strategic, Effective, and Inclusive Networking at Conferences and has been profiled in the Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Fast Company.  He is the host of On the Schmooze podcast  and Robbie takes some times out to schmooze and connect with Lou Diamond on Thrive LOUD.

Life as we know it will never be the same. When the Covid-19 pandemic is far behind us, the way we do business, communicate and connect will forever be transformed. Virtual 5 O'Clock (a.k.a., Cocktails & Comfort) is a virtual platform like no other. Where a group of highly intelligent, innovative and successful leaders connect to lend a helping hand and share support to their community. The give-and-take program is all about helping to ease tension, steady anxiety and create the connection we all crave. Lou Diamond sits down with the three founders: Alan Kaye - a partner of the international insurance brokerage firm Fidens Insurance Brokerage who has lived and focused on establishing  long-term relationships with his colleagues and clients. Layne Frank - has been designing and building optimized voice, video and data solutions for his customers around the globe for over 2 decades through his firm BBH Solutions.  Mindie Barnett - former TV anchor, best-selling author, speaker and founder of  MB and Associa

Success magazine calls Simon T. Bailey one of the Top 25 people that will help you reach your business and life goals. He joins a list that includes Oprah Winfrey & Dr. Brene Brown. His viral video posted by Goalcast to Facebook has over 87 million views. Simon is a Breakthrough Strategist who goes beyond feel-good content and provides real-life deliverables that impact lives. He is the author of ten books and in his latest, "Be The Spark", Simon shares how you have the opportunity to Be the Spark for your company, customers, and employees, and this book will teach you how. Enjoy this conversation pulled from BEDSIDE READING'S AUTHORS THAT THRIVE between Simon and Lou Diamond.

In the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic, Lou reconnects with one of the "front-line" heroes Dr. Darria Long Gillespie. The ER doctor, best-selling author, speaker, frequent TV specialist and Thrive LOUD Alum provides Lou and the Thrive LOUD community a real glimpse into the reality of COVID-19, where we are, where we're headed and reminding us that '..we've got this.." as we all do our parts battling this virus. Enjoy this "CatchUp" with Dr. Darria and follow her on Instagram and watch her feed updating us with great tips each day.   *** Dr Darria made a shout out to this performance by the Chino Hills Choir performance of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow".    

Denise Gosnell is an attorney, strategist and growth hacker... She has authored and co-authored over eight business and technology books as well as the VACATION EFFECT.  Which is also a program and podcast which helps to teach you how to grow your business by subtracting—not by adding more—from your to do list. She is a frequent speaker at various television, radio, and industry events for her expertise on business, legal, and technology matters. Denise was also honored to receive the "Top 40 Under 40" award by the Indianapolis Business Journal in 2005 in recognition for her accomplishments before the age of 40. Denise connects with Lou as the two talk about all of the recent happenings in the world and how a great deal of these tactics are very useful in today's environment. *** CONNECT TO LOU DIAMOND: www.loudiamond.net SUBSCRIBE TO THRIVE LOUD: www.thriveloud.com/podcast