Leap Academy with Ilana Golan

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Ambitious professionals: Melissa Arnoldi, EVP at AT&T Business, on bold leaps, staying curious, and how senior leaders really make decisions. Melissa leads 17,000 people and a $25 billion portfolio at AT&T. She took a title step down to join from Accenture, then led an international business across 11 countries without the expected background.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissaarnoldiinnovator/
Resource (AT&T Business): https://www.att.com/smallbusiness/
YouTube (Interview): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inXmTzk0114

#CareerGrowth #WomenInLeadership #ExecutiveLeadership #BoldCareerLeaps #MelissaArnoldi
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Leap Academy helps professionals reinvent their careers, build portfolio careers, land board seats, and grow executive leadership skills through expert coaching, personal branding, and career development strategies. Founded by Ilana Golan, it's where bold professionals come to grow.

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🎧 PODCAST | Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Inspiring, unfiltered conversations with leaders and professionals who broke the mold. Learn how to build your reputation, impact, and income on your terms.
▶️ https://www.leapacademy.com/podcast
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📲 Connect with Ilana:
Facebook ▶️ https://www.facebook.com/IlanaGolanLeapAcademy
LinkedIn ▶️ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilanagolan/
Instagram ▶️ https://www.instagram.com/ilanagolanleap
Website ▶️ https://www.leapacademy.com/

🧠 Produced by APodcastGeek: https://itl.ink/APodcastGeek

Communication skills and sales pitching: Dr. Forbes Riley explains how a painful, isolated childhood gave her the instincts behind $2.5 billion in sales.

Fitted with braces, headgear, and a tongue thruster for eight years, Forbes had no friends and communicated by writing and pointing. Television became her only window to human connection, and that solitary study built a pitch instinct she later carried into nearly 200 infomercials.

Host Ilana Golan and Forbes cover the psychology of making anyone say yes, why knowing someone's pain sets your price, and what Forbes wishes she had learned far earlier.

Pitch Secrets A to Z (Book): https://pitchsecretsbook.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/forbesriley/
Website: https://www.forbesriley.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/forbesriley
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/forbes_riley/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/forbes.tvhost/

#CommunicationSkills #SalesTraining #PitchStrategy #InfomercialSales #ForbesRiley
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Leap Academy helps professionals reinvent their careers, build portfolio careers, land board seats, and grow executive leadership skills through expert coaching, personal branding, and career development strategies. Founded by Ilana Golan, it's where bold professionals come to grow.

🧠 Start with a free strategy call with Ilana.

🎓 Watch the free masterclass on building multiple income streams.

👇 Like what you hear? Comment below and let us know what resonated!
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🎧 PODCAST | Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Inspiring, unfiltered conversations with leaders and professionals who broke the mold. Learn how to build your reputation, impact, and income on your terms.
▶️ https://www.leapacademy.com/podcast
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📲 Connect with Ilana:
Facebook ▶️ https://www.facebook.com/IlanaGolanLeapAcademy
LinkedIn ▶️ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilanagolan/
Instagram ▶️ https://www.instagram.com/ilanagolanleap
Website ▶️ https://www.leapacademy.com/

🧠 Produced by APodcastGeek: https://itl.ink/APodcastGeek

Founders and executives: Stacy Brown-Philpot traces her path from Detroit to Google, TaskRabbit CEO, and a $172M debut venture fund.

Stacy spent nearly a decade at Google, growing from a 14-person team to leading over 1,000 people in India. She later became CEO of TaskRabbit and sold it to IKEA after launching it into four new countries.

To build Cherryrock Capital, she met 366 investors over two years and closed 83 of them, including Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, and the Ford Foundation. Her core advice: find the investor who fits your stage, then ask how they will help you win.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stacyphilpot/
Cherryrock Capital: https://www.cherryrockcapital.com/

#VentureCapital #CareerAdvice #WomenInVentureCapital #FirstTimeFundManager #StacyBrownPhilpot
Get your FREE training here!
Leap Academy helps professionals reinvent their careers, build portfolio careers, land board seats, and grow executive leadership skills through expert coaching, personal branding, and career development strategies. Founded by Ilana Golan, it's where bold professionals come to grow.

🧠 Start with a free strategy call with Ilana.

🎓 Watch the free masterclass on building multiple income streams.

👇 Like what you hear? Comment below and let us know what resonated!
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🎧 PODCAST | Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Inspiring, unfiltered conversations with leaders and professionals who broke the mold. Learn how to build your reputation, impact, and income on your terms.
▶️ https://www.leapacademy.com/podcast
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📲 Connect with Ilana:
Facebook ▶️ https://www.facebook.com/IlanaGolanLeapAcademy
LinkedIn ▶️ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilanagolan/
Instagram ▶️ https://www.instagram.com/ilanagolanleap
Website ▶️ https://www.leapacademy.com/

🧠 Produced by APodcastGeek: https://itl.ink/APodcastGeek

This episode is dedicated to food creators and entrepreneurs: how Carleigh Bodrug built PlantYou into a bestselling cookbook brand while privately grieving her mother's lung cancer death.

Carleigh grew PlantYou to 13 million followers while filming recipe videos from chemo waiting rooms. She signed her second book deal two weeks before her mom's diagnosis and kept the ordeal off social media.

Her debut cookbook sold out in two days and hit the New York Times list. She also covers the infographic photo formula, her Reels pivot, and why her 225,000-person email list beats any algorithm.

LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/carleigh-bodrug-29193850
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/plantyou/
PlantYou: https://plantyou.com/about/
Books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/carleigh-bodrug/

#PlantYou #FoodEntrepreneur #PlantBasedCooking #BestsellingCookbook #CarleighBodrug
Get your FREE training here!
Leap Academy helps professionals reinvent their careers, build portfolio careers, land board seats, and grow executive leadership skills through expert coaching, personal branding, and career development strategies. Founded by Ilana Golan, it's where bold professionals come to grow.

🧠 Start with a free strategy call with Ilana.

🎓 Watch the free masterclass on building multiple income streams.

👇 Like what you hear? Comment below and let us know what resonated!
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🎧 PODCAST | Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Inspiring, unfiltered conversations with leaders and professionals who broke the mold. Learn how to build your reputation, impact, and income on your terms.
▶️ https://www.leapacademy.com/podcast
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📲 Connect with Ilana:
Facebook ▶️ https://www.facebook.com/IlanaGolanLeapAcademy
LinkedIn ▶️ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilanagolan/
Instagram ▶️ https://www.instagram.com/ilanagolanleap
Website ▶️ https://www.leapacademy.com/

🧠 Produced by APodcastGeek: https://itl.ink/APodcastGeek

We’re bringing back one of our favorite conversations from the Leap Academy podcast with Shopify President Harley Finkelstein. Harley Finkelstein didn’t set out to be an entrepreneur. He had no choice. With his father out of the picture, he had to pay for university and support his mother and sisters. So, he turned to his go-to problem-solving tool: entrepreneurship. Starting a t-shirt business changed his life, eventually leading him to Shopify, where he became one of their first merchants and later, its president. In this episode, Harley shares his incredible journey, highlighting key lessons on how entrepreneurship can solve real-life problems and the power of adapting quickly in a fast-changing world.Harley Finkelstein is the President of Shopify. He is also an entrepreneur, lawyer, and investor. He is one of the “Dragons” on CBC’s Next Gen Den and has been recognized among Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 and Fortune’s 40 Under 40. In this episode, Ilana and Harley will discuss: 00:00 Introduction 01:11 Early Entrepreneurial Ventures 07:44 College Years and T-Shirt Business 14:14 Transition to Shopify 19:39 Challenges and Growth at Shopify 45:56 COVID-19 Impact and Adaptation 49:31 Black Friday and Cyber Monday Insights 53:27 Mentorship and Personal Growth 56:31 Encouragement for Aspiring Entrepreneurs 59:57 Conclusion and Final Thoughts Harley Finkelstein is an entrepreneur, lawyer, and President of Shopify. He is an advisor to Felicis Ventures and a notable investor. He has been recognized as Canadian Angel Investor of the Year and among Canada's Top 40 Under 40. Connect with Harley: Harley’s Website: harleyf.com Harley’s LinkedIn: Harley Finkelstein on LinkedIn Harley’s Twitter: @harleyf 📲 Connect with Ilana: Facebook ▶️ https://www.facebook.com/IlanaGolanLeapAcademy LinkedIn ▶️ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilanagolan/ Instagram ▶️ https://www.instagram.com/ilanagolanleap Website ▶️ https://www.leapacademy.com/
Get your FREE training here!
Leap Academy helps professionals reinvent their careers, build portfolio careers, land board seats, and grow executive leadership skills through expert coaching, personal branding, and career development strategies. Founded by Ilana Golan, it's where bold professionals come to grow.

🧠 Start with a free strategy call with Ilana.

🎓 Watch the free masterclass on building multiple income streams.

👇 Like what you hear? Comment below and let us know what resonated!
---------------
🎧 PODCAST | Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Inspiring, unfiltered conversations with leaders and professionals who broke the mold. Learn how to build your reputation, impact, and income on your terms.
▶️ https://www.leapacademy.com/podcast
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📲 Connect with Ilana:
Facebook ▶️ https://www.facebook.com/IlanaGolanLeapAcademy
LinkedIn ▶️ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilanagolan/
Instagram ▶️ https://www.instagram.com/ilanagolanleap
Website ▶️ https://www.leapacademy.com/

🧠 Produced by APodcastGeek: https://itl.ink/APodcastGeek