Masterminds are more like a real community than any else. A well-run mastermind provides you with a group of peers that take interest in you. If the mastermind involves your business, they can provide you with support, encouragement, advice and guidance to help you succeed. There’s nothing like a knowledgeable outside team give you a hand. In this episode, Jorge speaks with Sarah Laws who met in a mastermind over a decade ago. They share there experience in mastermind and Sarah’s specialization running and promoting masterminds.

Sarah Laws, is a serial entrepreneur, marketing nerd, and wearer of many hats. Sarah runs a boutique marketing agency (www.LawsMarketing.com), builds and manages partner programs (www.FullstackMarketing.co), herds cats entrepreneurs in masterminds (www.MartiniMastermind.com) and has recently created a mastermind directory, DexConnects.com, to fulfill her mission of connecting entrepreneurs and business owners around the world.

Sarah was voted Keap’s Most Helpful Partner three years in a row and believes that helping others win is really a win for everyone.

Change is inevitable. It’s the only thing we can count on, yet many of us fight and refuse to accept it.  Jorge and Gary Melling talk about change in both their personal and professional lives and polarized people can get moving into competing tribes and fiefdoms at odds with each other. How do we take on change and use it to grow in community for the greater good of ourselves, families, local and global communities?

Gary Melling speaks the languages of Business, Technology, and Change and is a seasoned business leader and architect with deep experience in Management Consulting, Corporate Transformation & Turnarounds, and Systems Integration. Currently leading multiple start-up teams in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML). You can learn about Gary’s business at https://aiinc.cloud/ and can reach him at info@aiinc.cloud.

A well-run mastermind group fosters transparent relationships between business owners. People who would otherwise not speak honestly to each other open up and willingly expose their vulnerabilities to each other. That provides the typically isolated entrepreneurs with relationships to fellow business owners who can get them valuable advice, guidance and feedback on the issues they need to solve.

In this episode, Jorge speaks to Ben Denny. They they discuss their experience with mastermind groups or communities and how they enable members to get answers to business and even personal issues they wouldn’t otherwise be able to get.

Ben Denny is the CMO of Memberium (memberium.com), a Utah based software company that provides membership systems for people selling online courses. Most of the time, Ben is working on executing marketing strategy for Memberium, but in his free time, he enjoys exercising, going out to new restaurants, and spending time with his daughter.