Interview with Tom Rubens: Author & Entrepreneur

Interview with Tom Rubens: Author & Entrepreneur

In this episode Derek Champagne interviews friend an successful business owner, Tom Rubens. Tom shares his entrepreneurial story and life lessons from decades of business experience. Over the last 40 years, Tom founded, bought, sold, and managed businesses in industries as diverse as a commodity trading company, a real estate brokerage, investment groups, and minor league baseball and basketball franchises. Tom is also the author […]

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Interview with Kavit Haria, Author of “Don’t Sleep on it! Turn Your Passion & Expertise Into A Profitable Business”

Interview with Kavit Haria, Author of “Don’t Sleep on it! Turn Your Passion & Expertise Into A Profitable Business”

In this episode Derek Champagne, CEO of The Artist Evolution, interviews Kavit Haria. From a young age, Kavit Haria learned to play “the world’s most difficult percussion instrument,” the Tabla. Having immersed himself in learning about artist promotion, Kavit began to raise his profile and performed across the UK at venues large and small, with many artists (including Jimmy Page at the Royal Albert Hall) […]

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Accelerating Your Agency With Jason Swenk

Derek Champage, founder of The Artist Evolution, interviews successful entrepreneur Jason Swenk on this episode of the Business Leadership Series. Jason shares his journey of struggling as an agency owner before discovering formulas for significant growth. Today, Jason helps other agency owners and has consulted close to 40,000 agencies in 42 countries. Swenk is also the author of the new book “Accelerating Your Agency: An 8 […]

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Interview with Cash Keahey, Global Leader-Architect & President of LeaderType™

Interview with Cash Keahey, Global Leader-Architect & President of LeaderType™

CASH KEAHEY is a global leader-architect with a natural gift for engaging audiences, facilitating learning and coaching leaders to greater effectiveness. He earned a bachelor’s in marketing as well as his MBA from the University of Houston. A 23-year professional career inside global Fortune 500s in diverse functions and industries exposed Cash to different corporate cultures with different styles of leadership. Through these experiences, Keahey […]

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Interview with Steve Dorff, 2018 Songwriter Hall of Fame Inductee

Interview with Steve Dorff, 2018 Songwriter Hall of Fame Inductee

This is a must listen to episode! Derek interviews 2018 Songwriter Hall of Fame Inductee, Steve Dorff. Steve talks with Derek about his personal journey, legendary career, dealing with personal tragedy, what success looks like, and stories of writing and working with the top musical artists of all time. Steve also shares highlights from his new book “I wrote That One Too…A Life In Songwriting […]

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Interview with Robin Waite, Business Coach, Author & Speaker

Interview with Robin Waite, Business Coach, Author & Speaker

Derek Champagne interviews Robin Waite. Robin, business coach, author and speaker, works with clients to set goals and achieve success through his coaching program, born out of a deep passion for personal and business development. Robin puts his experience to work for his clients. From 18 years old until 22, Robin worked as a systems analyst for a medical device company. Putting systems into play, […]

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Interview with Dev Ganesan, CEO of ItemMaster

Interview with Dev Ganesan, CEO of ItemMaster

Derek Champagne talks with the new CEO of ItemMaster, Dev Ganesan. Dev shares the importance of having a good a team of people to help you grow and scale your business, understanding what your weaknesses are, and surrounding yourself with advisors and mentors to help you where you need help. Dev also talks about some important leadership principals to follow such as, listening instead of […]

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Interview with Betsy Brumley-Bernier & Kevin Bernier, Co-Founders of the Power of Music Festival and the I’ll Fly Away Foundation

Interview with Betsy Brumley-Bernier & Kevin Bernier, Co-Founders of the Power of Music Festival and the I’ll Fly Away Foundation

In this episode Derek interviews Betsy Brumley-Bernier and Kevin Bernier, Co-Founders of The Power of Music Festival and the I’ll Fly Away Foundation. Betsy shares stories of her grandfather, Albert E Brumley, who is noted as one of the most successful song writers in history. Albert wrote iconic songs such as “I’ll Fly Away.” Drawing on outstanding local and national performers from multiple genres, The […]

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Interview with Scott Beebe, Founder & Head Coach of MyBusinessonPurpose.com

Interview with Scott Beebe, Founder & Head Coach of MyBusinessonPurpose.com

Scott Beebe is the Founder and Head Coach of MyBusinessOnPurpose.com, and the host of the Business On Purpose podcast. He liberates Small Business owners from the chaos of working IN their business and helps to get their lives back by articulating and implementing intentional Vision/Mission/Values, Systems, and Processes. To do this, Scott created Four Steps To Business Freedom, a six month group coaching experience exclusively […]

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Interview with Jesse Cole, Owner of the Savannah Bananas

Interview with Jesse Cole, Owner of the Savannah Bananas

Derek talks with Jesse Cole, owner of the Savannah Bananas. Jesse helps companies stand out by thinking different, creating attention and creating fans for life. Jesse is the Owner of Fans First Entertainment, who owns and operates the Savannah Bananas and the Gastonia Grizzlies. The teams have welcomed more than 1 million fans to their ballparks and have been featured on MSNBC, CNN, and ESPN. […]

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