Episode 167: Building Genuine Connections for Business Success with Alex Aanderud
Release Date: 04/23/2025
Episode 190: Courage, Healing & Self-Love with Erin Jean
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Erin Jean's BIO: Erin Jean is a dedicated relationship coach and personal transformation expert, passionate about helping women revitalize their marriages and rediscover self-worth. With over four years of coaching experience, Erin has crafted a unique system guiding women toward self-love and relationship renewal. Drawing from her own 19-year challenging marriage, Erin blends empathy, practical strategies, and spiritual wisdom. As a certified Rapid Rewire Practitioner, she specializes in rewiring limiting beliefs, empowering women to build fulfilling lives and loving relationships. Erin...
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Episode 189: The Reinvention Mindset with Lori McDowell
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Lori McDowell's BIO: Dr. Lori McDowell is an international speaker, best-selling author, and founder of Reimagine U Strategies. She inspires audiences worldwide with talks that blend personal story, mindset mastery, and actionable clarity—helping others lead with purpose, courage, and joy. Lori is also the creator of Done-For-You Transformational Retreats, partnering with heart-centered coaches to design powerful, soul-aligned experiences without stress or overwhelm. With decades of experience in engineering, leadership, and event design, she brings a unique mix of strategy,...
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Episode 188: Entrepreneurship, Grit and Growth with Harvey Mitchell
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Harvey Mitchell's BIO: As a broker at Crane Agency and founder of Church Risk Advisors, I specialize in guiding organizations with complex needs through the insurance process with clarity, care, and confidence. Whether I’m working with a ministry, a pain management clinic, or a contractor, my goal is always the same: deliver protection that fits your mission. In this episode, Virginia and Harvey talked about: Harvey’s entrepreneurial journey Bridging the gap between business and ministry Building the courage to build relationship ...
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Episode 187: Money Mindset & Financial Clarity with Melissa Miranda
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Melissa Miranda's BIO: Melissa Miranda is a Certified Public Accountant and the owner of Step By Step Accounting, a Woodard Top 50 Accounting Practice. Step By Step is a fully cloud based, teaching-oriented accounting and advisory firm. Melissa's mission is to empower 100,000 entrepreneurs to have financial success and mental health. She speaks about how businesses can be even more successful by covering cash flow planning, pricing strategies, and business financial foundations. She has been named a US Top 100 QuickBooks ProAdvisor for the past 2 years, and with her team of 12, provides...
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Episode 186: Transforming Trauma into Thought Leadership with Deidre Sirianni
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Deidre Sirianni's BIO: Deidre Sirianni is an International Best Selling Author, TEDx Speaker, and Founder of Radically Aligned Life Academy where Impact Driven Entrepreneurs, Visionaries, and Leaders come to master their inner world and make a bigger impact in the world with their gifts. She helps people who are ready to step into higher levels of leadership and impact the world, release self-sabotage, heal trauma, and go all in on their vision and purpose without compromising when it comes to matters of the heart. She believes...
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Episode 185: From Tragedy to Triumph with Wendy Melrose
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Episode 184: Build your Business Foundations with Nikki Green
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Nikki Green's BIO: Nikki Green is a Life & Business Resiliency Expert who has been in the international business industry for over 25 years and is a 7x published author. Nikki is an avid traveler, visiting 16+ countries and completing 7 marathons and dozens of triathlons across 3 continents. Nikki has dedicated her life to assisting others reduce their fear and go after their dreams. Nikki's greatest passion is empowering people to reach their full potential. In this episode, Virginia and Nikki talked about: Nikki’s entrepreneurial journey Major mistakes...
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Episode 183: Making Accounting Approachable with Steve Koch
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Episode 181: The Power of Perception with Christian Hansen
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Christian Hansen's BIO: Christian Hansen Has gone behind the scenes in some of the biggest organiza'ons in the world to find out why some people get chosen and why others don’t. As the interna'onally recognized author of The Influence Mindset—a #1 bestseller and one of LinkedIn’s Top Ten Marke'ng Books—Chris'an helps individuals and organiza'ons stand out and become the obvious choice. With degrees from Brigham Young University and The London School of Economics, Chris'an has helped thousands of students and professionals upgrade their influence and sell themselves. An ac've...
info_outlineAlex Aanderud's Bio:
Alex Aanderud, world renowned leadership, communication and human behavior expert, has been brought in by some of the top coaching companies, organizations and teams around the world to train their people on new and innovative perspectives of human performance, leadership and communication.
Alex combines his background as an engineer supporting experimental flight test for Boeing and the US Military with his advanced certifications in integrative psychology and behavioral analysis to apply systems thinking and analytics to the human capital of organizations.
Utilizing various psychometric assessments to improve team dynamics, retention, integrative leadership and profitability, Alex has helped teams and organizations create massive growth, increased retention, productivity and engagement
Alex's mission is to create a world where leaders promote authenticity by adapting their communication and leadership to the needs of their people, creating and cultivating the highest potential for success.
In this episode, Virginia and Alex talked about:
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How Alex’s resilience made him a perfect candidate for entrepreneurship
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The power of forgiveness for success
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The psychology of networking
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Setting networking boundaries and finding Golden Geese
Takeaways:
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You aren’t broken, you are just unique in your own way
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Their business card is a bid for connection
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Become a hunter for someone’s Golden Goose
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Make sure your networking expectations are clear
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Be clear about who you want in your world
Connect with Alex on these platforms to learn more about his work and insights into networking effectively:
- LinkedIn.com/in/Alexaanderud
- Instagram.com/AlexAanderud
- Facebook.com/Alexaanderud
- YouTube.com/@AlexAanderud
Vitalspark.ai:
- LinkedIn.com/company/vitalsparkllc
- Instagram.com/vitalspark.ai
- Facebook.com/AILifeCoach
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