LA Business Podcast

In this week’s episode of the LA Business Podcast we talk to Chris Wyland, Chief Development Officer of Roll-Em-Up Taquitos. Roll-Em-Up Taquitos is the only franchise taquito concept, based in California and is expanding fast nationwide. https://rollemup.com/

Please welcome Gila Kurtz, Co-Founder of Dog is Good. Gila is the #1 international best-selling author and serial entrepreneur who found her deepest passion for working with dogs and their people. She co-founded the award-winning lifestyle brand for dog lovers, Dog is Good. Along with her husband Jon, Gila took the brand from start-up to multiple seven-figures.
www.dogisgood.com

Please welcome Michele Harrington, Head of Strategic Partnerships at Foria (Fouria) CBD. Michele helped her husband, retired NBA star, Al Harrington launch Viola (cannabis pre-rolls), the largest Black-owned multinational cannabis brand in the world. During the pandemic, she pivoted her career to focus on CBD. She lead the partnership between Viola and Foria to educate more minorities about the benefits of CBD for intimacy.

www.foriawellness.com

Please welcome Sener Korkusuz, CEO and Co-Founder of American 7s Football League (A7FL)- 7-on-7 football without helmets or hard shell pads. There are 28 teams in 4 divisions based in New Jersey, Maryland (Baltimore), Florida (Orlando) and Southern California (San Diego). Founded in 2014 by CEO Sener Korkusuz and President Ryan DePaul, the league recently added UFC Co-Founder David Isaacs to its ranks.

www.a7fl.com

Please welcome Deborah Haile, CEO of Tiny Global Footprints. Deborah has spent the last several years building a profitable publishing business with her eight-year-old son, Jonah. Deborah and Jonah are bestselling co-authors who love to share their world adventures and educate through travel.
https://tinyglobalfootprints.com/

Please welcome Dr. Barbara Paldus, Founder of Codex Beauty. By creating Codex, Barbara has brought biotech to beauty and bringing data driven transparency to the beauty industry.

https://codexbeauty.com/

Please welcome Olga Bortnikova and Ivan Bortnikov, Co-Founders of YouTravel.Me, an algorithm-powered online marketplace for booking multi-day small group adventure tours organized by travel experts.
www.youtravel.me

Please welcome Olga Bortnikova and Ivan Bortnikov, Co-Founders of YouTravel.Me, an algorithm-powered online marketplace for booking multi-day small group adventure tours organized by travel experts.
www.youtravel.me

Please welcome Partha Unnava, CEO and Founder of Lasso Compression. Partha started Lasso Compression with the goal to help improve the way you move. Partha is a Forbes 30 under 30 recipient who was invited to the White House to recognize his past innovations in healthcare.
www.lassogear.com

Please welcome Blagica Bottligliero, Co-Founder & Head of Marketing and Partnerships at Bottles Nation. Bottles Nation is one of the first companies offering virtual tastings for wine, craft beer, cocktails and spirits. The co-founder, Michael Bottligliero, is a certified sommelier who has run wine events for over a decade in Chicago and nationwide.

www.bottlesnation.com

Please welcome Aaron Hsu, Founder and CEO of Blerp. Blerp has grown to over 30,000 creators on Twitch and helped them generate over $500K in donations through their integrations.

www.blerp.com

Please welcome Kate Duchene, CEO of RGP, a global human capital firm helping clients match the right professional talent needed to tackle change and transformational initiatives.

www.rgp.com

Our guest, CEO Mike Ward, talks about technology innovation and adoption by the marketplace and commercial real estate trends and projections for the next 10 years.
www.therabreath.com

Our guest, CEO Mike Ward, talks about technology innovation and adoption by the marketplace and commercial real estate trends and projections for the next 10 years.
www.therabreath.com

Learn how this entrepreneur competes in the marketplace and works on his product becoming relevant through Tik Tok. He also shares how he integrates learnings from Amazon into their e-commerce business.

www.therabreath.com

Discover how this week’s guest uses rapid problem solving and gets rid of the fear of failing. Allen Brooks talks about taking the first step in developing great products and services by using what you have at your disposal.

www.buildmo.com

Nellie Akalp is a serial entrepreneur in the online legal document filing space. She and her husband started their first business together in 1997, and eight years later it was acquired by Intuit for $20 million. Her current company CorpNet is on the Inc. 5000 list.

Learn how this entrepreneur identified an opportunity in the tech space and built innovative technology for businesses to communicate to the masses through text messaging.