Season 4, Episode #23: Deb Coviello
Deb Coviello, widely known as the Drop-In CEO, is a leadership consultant, author, and podcast host who helps executives and founders navigate chaos with clarity and purpose. As the founder of Illumination Partners, Deb brings together deep operational rigor and human-centric leadership to elevate businesses and the people inside them.
Season 4, Episode #22: Adam Goldman
Adam Goldman is the founder of FranchiseCoach.net and a seasoned entrepreneur who has built, scaled, and exited multiple businesses across IT, real estate, and franchising. In this episode of Clicks & Bricks, Adam shares why franchising—when done intentionally—can be a powerful path to business ownership, lifestyle design, and long-term financial freedom
Season 4, Episode #21: Tanya Akimenko
Tanya Akimenko is the founder of Golden Apple Agency Inc., a multi-entity accounting and tax firm built for entrepreneurs at every stage of growth. With more than 20 years of hands-on experience, Tanya helps business owners translate financial complexity into clear, actionable strategies that protect profit and peace of mind.
Season 4, Episode #20: Rion Westfall
Ryan Westfall is the founder of 537BD (business development) and a revenue-growth strategist who helps small businesses “own their revenue” by finding repeatable patterns that create scalable growth. In this Clicks & Bricks conversation, Ryan and Ken get practical about what makes entrepreneurs tick—and why discipline, clarity, and culture determine whether a business survives long enough to become truly generational.
Season 4, Episode #19: Roy Osing
Roy Osing is an entrepreneur, author, and performance-first leader behind BeDifferentOrBeDead.com. In this Clicks & Bricks episode, Roy breaks down how he helped grow a startup internet company to a billion dollars in annual sales—not by following “textbook” playbooks, but by building a culture that embraced uncertainty, moved fast, and executed relentlessly (even inside a monopoly telephone company with major internal roadblocks).
Season 4, Episode #18: Kathryn Smith
Katherine Smith is the Founder and Principal Consultant at Walton Birch, an Atlanta-based web development and data consulting firm specializing in complex, high-impact websites and online stores. A former corporate marketer turned entrepreneur, she has become a trusted partner for small businesses, nonprofits, and agencies that need serious web infrastructure—not just a quick DIY site. She’s also the co-founder of Black Lady Business School and a Georgia Tech 40 Under 40 honoree, using her skills to make entrepreneurship more accessible and sustainable.
Season 4, Episode #17: Amir Elion
Amir Elion is the founder of Think Big Leaders, a consultancy that helps leaders and organizations navigate their AI journey and build real, repeatable innovation mechanisms. Drawing on a career spanning Amazon Web Services, Motorola, Teva, and multiple startups, Amir brings a rare mix of hands-on product leadership, strategic thinking, and deep curiosity about technology. He matters because he’s not just talking about AI and innovation in theory—he’s out there helping teams apply it responsibly, practically, and at scale.
Season 4, Episode #16: Alan Lazaros
Alan Lazaros is the Founder and CEO of Next Level University, a Global Top 100 podcast and coaching company built around one mission: helping people become the next level of themselves. From a tough childhood marked by loss and abandonment to high-earning success in engineering and industrial automation, Alan’s journey took a dramatic turn after a near-fatal car accident at 26 that forced him to rethink everything. Now, instead of building smarter machines, he’s obsessed with building stronger humans.
Season 4, Episode #15: Michael Elliott
Michael Elliott is a UK-based entrepreneur, PPC veteran, and AI implementation leader who rebuilt his life from rock bottom into a seven-figure Google Ads agency and multiple businesses, including a holiday park and trade company. From depression and heartbreak at 18 to owning six businesses, Michael shows what happens when you refuse to stay down and commit to getting “1% better every day.”
Season 4, Episode #14: Chris Miles
Chris Miles, founder of MoneyRipples.com, joins Clicks & Bricks to break down what financial freedom really looks like—beyond Wall Street, beyond the “save and pray” strategy, and beyond the outdated advice most Americans still follow. Chris retired twice by age 39, escaped the traditional financial system, and now helps high-income earners create real passive income so work becomes optional—not mandatory.