Megan Auman is a designer, metalsmith, educator, and entrepreneur who has built a multi-faceted business around her passion for great design and sustainable business. Her eponymous jewelry line is sold in stores across the US and online. Her designs have been featured in Design Sponge, Better Homes and Gardens, Cooking Light, and more. In 2009, Megan founded Designing an MBA to help designers and makers develop their business skills. Since then, she has created a number of successful e-courses, including Marketing for Makers, Wholesale Academy, and Do/Teach. She is a frequent speaker on pricing, wholesale, and business thinking for creatives.
Megan Hoeppner has enjoyed an amazing career in the crafting world. Her adventure began the day Stampin’ Up! hired her to work in their public relations department more than a decade ago. This is where she quickly fell in love with stamps and paper arts.
Megan is an entrepreneur, tech evangelist, engineer, and connector. At Google[X], Megan worked on a range of projects including co-creating/hosting SolveForX.
Mei Pak is a marketing strategist guiding and supporting small and creative business owners. She helps makers, artists and designers create more buzz for their business at Creative Hive Co.
Mel Robbins is the most booked female speaker in the world, a serial entrepreneur, and a best-selling author. She’s also a CNN legal analyst and opinion columnist, a Dr. Oz Healthline Expert, a SUCCESS Magazine Contributing Editor, and one of the most popular TEDx speakers of all time.
Melanie Duncan is a serial entrepreneur and online educator. She owns multimillion dollar apparel and home decor ecommerce sites, and teaches people around the world how to increase their visibility online.
In this episode, Melina shares her extensive process of writing a cookbook including framing the narrative, creating the recipes, styling, cooking, testing, and photographing. Hear about her first career as a metalsmith and evolution into food photography.
Melissa has been a working mountain guide since 2004.
Melissa Cassera is an award-winning Business Strategist and Professional Screenwriter. She teaches entrepreneurs how to build an audience who is 100% obsessed with their work, while making every step feel like a total guilty pleasure.
From an upside down start, $70,000 in debt, and having walked out on a job, Melissa Galt built a 6-figure interior design practice with determination, creative marketing, and her success blueprint.
Melissa Piccone has been using Photoshop to create and design since it was released. She has done everything from computer game design to digital scrapbooking to web design.
Michael Bierut studied graphic design at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning, graduating summa cum laude in 1980.
Michael Clark is an internationally published outdoor photographer specializing in adventure sports, travel, and landscape photography.
Gervais is a high performance psychologist working in the trenches of high-stakes environments with some of the best in the world, training the mindset skills and practices essential to pursuing and revealing one’s potential. His clients include world record holders, Olympians, internationally acclaimed artists and musicians, MVPs from every major sport and Fortune 100 CEOs.
Originally from Richmond, Virginia, Michael Gottwald graduated from Wesleyan University in 2006. He served as Executive Producer on Court 13's Glory at Sea in 2007.
For the past 20 years, Michael has been working to understand the secrets of human connection. His projects have turned into international movements and impacted millions.
Michael Murphy (@theindesigner) is a Digital Media Solutions Consultant for Adobe, acting as a technical liaison to Adobe’s enterprise customers in the publishing, broadcast, and agency markets.
Michael Port has been called an “uncommonly honest author” by the Boston Globe, a “marketing guru” by The Wall Street Journal and a "sales guru" by The Financial Post (which is remarkable given that he may be the only former professional actor to be a New York Times bestselling business author).
Michael Stinson is a founding partner and Creative Director at Ramp Creative as well as instructional director for the company's educational typography program, TypeEd. He has created business-transforming work for brands such as Quiksilver, Wet Seal, K2, CWS Capital Partners and Sicor.
Michael is an independent designer and creative director. For over a decade, he has run the design studio Weirdo, helping early-stage startups and enterprise companies alike clarify their unique value proposition and meaningfully engage their customers.
Drawing on his experience as a certified Design Sprint facilitator and former startup co-founder, Michael has worked side-by-side with leaders at LinkedIn, Bose, KonMari, Lovevery, IntelyCare, Hazel Health, and more to launch new brands, products, and services. His projects have been featured in the likes of TechCrunch, The Wall Street Journal, and NPR, and won awards at South by Southwest and Games for Change.
Prior to his position at Noble Desktop, Michael served as an adjunct professor at the City University of New York, where he co-created the user experience curriculum for their workforce training program. He has also taught user experience design at General Assembly and lectured on playful design at MIT and Haverford College.
In his former lives, Michael covered arts and culture as a journalist, shipped award-winning educational games as a digital producer, and participated in two successful startup exits as a founding designer (SwitchUp acquired by Optimal in 2018, VocaliD acquired by Veritone in 2022). Raised in Hong Kong and educated in Vermont, he now lives in Queens, NY.