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Today’s guest, Andy Kaufman is a recognized expert on leadership and project management, helping organizations around the world improve their ability to lead and deliver. He works with leaders at organizations such as the United Nations World Health Organization, NASA and other global clients, to improve their ability to deliver on their initiatives before becoming an internationally sought after speaker, Andrew. Andy started as a software developer and was promoted into management for all the wrong reasons. He started his small business in 2001, two weeks before nine 11, which provided all kinds of lessons about how to scale a business during difficult times. He’s the author of three books and the host of the Acclaimed People and Projects podcast, which provides interviews and insights about leading and directing for his global listeners. Please welcome to the show, Andy Kaufman.

Our guest on this episode of Scale Your Small Business, Sean Orr, has held a range of senior executive positions, including President, Corporate CFO, Operating CFO, and Corporate Controller roles at such notable companies as PepsiCo, Frito Lay and Readers Digest. He began his career as an audit partner for KPMG, where he served numerous clients that are global household names. He most recently served as Chief Financial Officer of a national logistics and distribution business, where he built a finance and IT organization that supported over a hundred percent growth through acquisition and organic expansion. Today, he’s an effective business advisor and coach who believes in making big lasting impacts by building businesses properly from the foundation up using a value-based approach.

Today’s guest learned how to build a business from nothing. After a partnership, the breakup left him with no clients, no cash flow, and no work backlog, and almost a half a million dollars in debt. He spent most of his early career obsessing about understanding what drives business success, but more importantly, how to create a life by design through entrepreneurship and business. Today, he helps business owners and entrepreneurs build meaningful businesses so they can have more profit fans and freedom. Please meet Mel Abraham!

Today’s guest is a published bestselling author who helps empower professional women to eliminate debt and build successful financial portfolios so they can achieve financial freedom and create generational wealth. She’s created a community of like-minded women who wanna live life more deliberately, but more importantly, abundantly. Please welcome Sharlene Mohlman.

Today on Scale Your Small Business Podcast we have with us Sarah Quiggle, an advanced certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor and a very detail oriented bookkeeper. Her love for numbers led her to pursue a degree in mathematics. She’s great at problem solving and loves helping her clients find solutions to what is troubling them most in their business.

Today’s guest on this Scale Your Small Business episode is Paul Long, a business banking leader with 24 years of experience who works with business owners across Washington State. He is partnered with Gisa Credit Union (the second largest credit union in the state), where he is their SBA lending manager. His goal is to assist small businesses in restructuring their balance sheet, purchasing equipment, or acquiring another business. Most importantly, he helps businesses stop renting and instead purchase their own commercial real estate. He does this through the government guarantee programs and the US Small Business Administration (SBA) which provides lower down payments and longer terms than conventional financing.