Startup Hacks

City Leadership Hacks - Valarie McCall

Valarie J. McCall is Chief of Communications, Government & International Affairs for the City of Cleveland. She is a sought-after speaker, panelist, political strategist, and legislative expert who has garnered countless accolades for her work. From around the globe to the neighborhoods of Cleveland, McCall lends her expertise to affect change and improve the quality of life for all people.Website: www.cleveland-oh.gov

Psychedelic Health Hacks - Jemie Sae Koo

Jemie is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Psychable, the #1 trusted and comprehensive online community dedicated to connecting those interested in legally exploring psychedelic-assisted therapy with practitioners who can support them. Psychable is now transitioning to a telehealth platform where they connect individuals to ketamine therapy. Website: www.psychable.comFB: https://www.facebook.com/PsychableDotCom

The Hacking of Art - Kimberly Brooks

Kimberly Brooks is a contemporary American artist and author of The New Oil Painting by Chronicle Books. A prolific painter known for her portraits and landscape series, Kimberly explores identity and memory in her work. As an Artist, Hacks take the form of developing your own creative process that works for you. Tapping into her own creativity is a process that she describes as starting with a Vision, having Hope, finally Diving In, and then is followed by a combination of emotions; Excitement, Doubt, Clarity, and Obsession, on the heels of which follows, Discipline, Faith and Resolution.

Hub Craft Hacks - Shivani Dallas

Shivani Dallas, a successful owner of a top-ranked mortgage company, has set her sights on the Cannabis startup world in Massachusetts. Hub Craft is a vertically integrated Cannabis company with several celebrity products launching this year. A successful salesperson with a strong strategic bent, Shivani values relationships, authenticity, and providing value in business. A strong network is the biggest hack any business person can leverage. It's a secret capital that greatly returns when you mix a history of authentic and value-driven transactions.

Your Best Life Hacks - Katharine McKee

Katharine McKee is the founder of Morphology Consulting, a digital commerce consultancy that uses algorithms to optimize a company’s GTM for exponential growth. Katharine’s own hacks that have fueled the growth of her business were driven by an acute self-awareness of what living your best life means. A fact many busy founders forget as their company drives their lives. Katharine feels goal setting plays a big factor in that and being clear on what KPIs and personas make sense for your business.

Portugal Startup Hacks - Filipa Carvalho

Filipa Carvalho is a Lisbon-based attorney and co-founder of Moss & Cooper, a consulting firm aimed at assisting startups by providing strategic and financial consulting to Portugal-based startups and as well as to those considering moving to Portugal. Filipa's top business hacks are the importance of building, nurturing, and connecting your network to clients to facilitate deal flow. Partnership building is another key hack she feels has a big impact on the growth of your company. Above all, however, she states that finding a balance between work and your social life is critical to maintaining a positive and productive mindset in business.

Cannabis Hacking - Kate Miller

Kate Miller’s career spanned bud-tending in College to developing entertainment company brand partnership deals before she set off to turn a side hustle into a full-time career as the founder of Miss Grass, a cannabis products platform for consumers. Kate’s bootstrapping hacks are inspired by her early days where brand partnership and affiliate marketing deal-making, accelerated growth, exposure, and reach.

Performance and Productivity - Wendy Ellin

Before launching her Workplace Productivity Consultancy, Wendy Ellin spent years in radio and writing her well-timed NY Times Best Seller, “Working From Home, How’s That Working For You?” pre-Covid. As her book details, Wendy has hundreds of work from home hacks to drive productivity, performance, and peace of mind. She shares those and her own secret hacks that have guided the success of her growing business and kept her sane and happy working from home.

Energy Management Hacks - Stephanie Lee

Stephanie Lee is the founder of SelfMade, a beauty brand for consumers committed to well-being. With products such as True Grit Resilience Scrub to combat scalp and Secure Attachment Serum to lower cortisol, the company is a great blend of high-grade beauty products and mental health boosters given its well-being mindset and positive intention mission. Stephanie’s secret founder hacks include energy management and mental health techniques to fuel her productivity.

The McGuire Method Hack - Allison McGuire

Actress, entrepreneur, and presentation coach to Fortune 500 companies, Allison McGuire successfully blends her many career tracks to fuel her current passion, coaching professionals and founders on applying acting skills and methods to elevate the business pitch drive the close. Founder of the McGuire Method, her biggest hacks utilize the power of manifestation, a prosperity mindset, and working smarter, not harder.