Escape Velocity Advanced Event: Client Roster

Alex Barron

My name is Alex Barron. I am the founder of Financial Freedom & Success Institute LLC.

I am a Wall Street Analyst. I started the Financial Freedom Seminar in January 2012 with the goal of transforming people’s mindset regarding finances. I believe that prosperity can be taught and it can be learned. I want to help 1 million people become debt free, and show them the formula for accomplishing any financial goal or desire they wish.

I have many core strengths. I am very analytical, methodical, detail oriented, persistent, hard working, and inquisitive. I started looking for the formula of financial success 20 years ago. I made it my goal to pass it on to others once I discovered it and proved it worked in my own life.

In order to achieve my business goals I want to learn more about sales and marketing to be able to take my message to a greater number of people.

By participating in Escape Velocity Mastermind I expect to learn how to create a successful organization that effectively reaches people with the most effective methods and tools. I also believe there is power in learning from an experienced mentor and successful businessman like John Assaraf and interacting with other like-minded entrepreneurs.

Contact information: (415) 425-6434; abarron73@gmail.com; www.financial-freedom.org

Bree Cox

Bree Cox is the President and founder of Diamond Head Upholstery Tack, appealing to sophisticated luxury product consumers. Bree has enjoyed more than 20 years of successful entrepreneurship in multiple personal business adventures. As a creative thinker, she is a leader in development and management of profit generating small businesses. Bree develops her businesses with strategic decisions that produce a monthly income, while grooming the business with an objective goal, a future sale.

Credentials include ownership at Spa Country, an outdoor lifestyle recreation store that sold for $3,000,000+ in 1999. While taking a break from building business and in the hopes of retirement Bree was offered a 7-year modeling contract with major film companies including Kodak, Konica, and Fuji Film as a head shot model, which she accepted and

fulfilled. Realizing that semi-retirement was not in her DNA she went on to build Satisfy My Soul.

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Satisfy My Soul was a men’s and women’s clothing boutique in downtown Laguna Beach, which she built in 2002 and sold in 2007. After selling Satisfy My Soul, she went on to create Pacifique Maison an interior design company. She moved quickly from residential projects to large commercial ventures including hotels and shopping centers. She currently holds the position of head interior designer for Craig Realty Group, Inc. CRG is a privately-owned company that buys expansive swaths of property throughout the country and turns them into huge, luxury outlet malls. While simultaneously balancing the needs of Pacifique Maison, Diamond Head Upholstery Tack emerged from the depths of her imagination. She views this as her “fun” business but realizes the potential and is on course to create another business that will be marketed for sale. Diamond Head Upholstery Tack embellishes interior environments in palaces of Abu Daubi, hotels such as Hard Rock Hotels in Punta Cana and Riverea Maya, The Cosmopolitan, The Cromwell and Caesars Palace. Diamond Head Upholstery Tack has also made its debut in the centerfold of Playboy Magazine.

Bree enjoys a lifestyle designed around her values in Laguna Beach, CA. She enjoys the diverse outdoor lifestyle that Southern CA provides including taking her dog on daily beach walks.

Her lifetime tagline is, “Release Resistance, Practice the Art of Allowing.” She can be reached at 949-285-2191 or bree@diamondheadut.com.

Corey Smith

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Deb Erickson

ICAN Institute, Inc. Motivational Speaker & Life Coach My core strengths:

● I am highly creative and can move very quickly from idea to product.

● I am an intuitive coach and excellent teacher/trainer. ● I am a student of "the power of the mind", and I can turn anything I

learn into a product or program very quickly.

What I need help with in order to achieve my business goals… ● I need to refine my systems to open up another nitche ● I need help expanding into international markets

What I expect to achieve/accomplish by participating in Escape Velocity Mastermind.

● I expect to achieve my dream of doubling my income, doubling my participants, and launching and international markets

Contact information and business website URL

● Phone: 505-918-7888

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● Email: Deb@DebErickson.com ● Website: www.DebErickson.com

Eamon McCusker

I am a graduate from the University of Ulster in Communication, Advertising & Marketing. I have worked within the hospitality sector since the age of 11. My father was a publican & restauranteur and from my early experiences within this industry I vowed to seek alternative employment. This worked out pretty well in my early career as I started as a sales & marketing manager for a drinks distribution company then later for Bunzl international. I helped during my seven year tenure with Bunzl to take the company from 6 million to 18 million in sales within my sector. The company through various acquisitions has now gone public. Part of my remit while with Bunzl was contract design and management of new build projects therefore I would help clients within the hospitality sector take their businesses from concept to reality.

My first experience of self employment came at the age of 29, when I decided as a result of contacts that I made, to open a stainless steel manufacturing and supply company. We would source and finish products from eastern European countries, cutting out the middle supply chain, providing high end product at really competitive prices. Due to Poland, entering the EEC in 2002 our market advantage was lost and the company sadly folded. This however was one of my greatest learning curves.

In 2002 I opened up my first restaurant that has now expanded to 4 spaces that I currently operate today. We currently have over 60 staff. I have ultimately ended up in the industry that I vowed initially to never be a part of. I am extremely passionate about business but feel I am not fulfilling my full potential hence the reason I have sought council from John & his team.

Elizabeth Norton:

Who I am… My aim is to make a positive difference whenever, wherever and with whoever I can.

What I do… I’m an Entrepreneur with in depth understanding of international seafood & fishing operations, commercial and leadership experience.

Currently, I am an executive Managing Director with high energy and strong ethical backbone of a young start-up company- Glasshouse Mountains Coffee and Wild Horse Mountain Brewing Pty Ltd. My specialties have been

focused on International trade and fishing operations developments, Joint Venture partnerships, liaison and logistics. Areas of Expertise Include:

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● Executive reporting directly to shareholders and Board ● Experienced Director of a number International corporate entities ● Joint Venture management of a number of fishing syndication projects and operations ● Experience in International capital raising and strategy partnership formation ● Complex project leadership

Glasshouse Mountains Coffee has just completed a profitable first year of operation, set and achieved some ambitious targets. We are here for the long haul. In our first year we have established a coffee roastery division, and created outstanding coffee blends from high altitude world class estates – all done primarily through the formation of creating a wonderful passionate team.

Currently, we have finalized syndication and shareholding of Wild Horse Mountain Brewing, (Queensland), which is now in the phase and challenges of commencing commercial production. Our immediate task ahead is that of creating our brand, messaging and marketing strategies so as to insure the successful launch of new coffee products into the Australian marketplace for the Queensland summer. Once established, Global distribution is very much on our radar.

Greg Dixon

My name is Greg Dixon and I live in Sydney with my beautiful wife and four wonderful teenage children.

I am a Director at Property Solutions for Australia and we are Australia’s trusted foreclosure and repossession advocate.

You know how some people get into financial trouble that sometimes leads to repossession or foreclosure of their homes, well what we do is help them avoid repossession or buy their house from them.

We provide free or low cost tools and resources to guide them through the mess they have gotten themselves into. We also have a real estate investment arm that can even buy their home to help them out.Prior to being a director of this business I was leading and growing medium size national business units for corporate and private companies, often being involved in business turnarounds in the industrial wholesaling industry.

James Campbell-Bruce My name is James Campbell-Bruce and I am a Director of Property Solutions for Australia. I am based in Sydney, Australia and I have been married to Beth for 10 years. At Property Solutions for Australia, we are "Australia’s Trusted Foreclosure and Repossession Advocate." A brief outline of what we do is:

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Do you know how some people get into financial problems that sometimes lead to having their homes repossessed or foreclosed on? Well what my company does is to help them avoid foreclosure or we help them by buying their home from them. How do you do that? Well we have 2 divisions in our company;

1. Is we provide free or low cost tools and resources to guide them through the financial mess they have gotten themselves into.

2. We also have a Real Estate Investment arm that can even buy their home if needed to help them out.

Joey Osborne

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Kaz Iso:

Kaz Iso is a life coach, currently active mostly in Japan.

He is an author of two books, one on Internet Marketing, and another on life coaching (both in Japanese)

His newsletter, "How to optimize your life" has 60,000 subscribers. Before starting his own business in 2003, he was a Director for Internet Sales and Marketing at Sony Electronics Inc, achieving 700% sales increase of AV electronics products in 6 month period.

Keith Carey:

After graduating high school in 1977 Keith Carey, a boxer, martial artist and bodybuilder grabbed a knapsack and a gym bag, jumped on a greyhound bus with $300.00 and left Philadelphia for Los Angeles California to follow his dreams.

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With a strong work ethic and a drive to succeed, his experience in the restaurant industry immediately provided him a springboard to began a new chapter of his life.

As part of his dream, Keith joined the original Golds Gym in Santa Monica CA and attended Santa Monica College where he received his Cosmetologist license.

While working as a hair stylist to the stars in Malibu, Beverly Hills and West Hollywood, Keith discovered that he also had a talent for singing and eventually joined a band and was signed as a singer/songwriter to the independent label “Street Productions”.

When the record deal didn’t match Keith’s vision, in 1987 he resorted to bar tending where he was introduced to the Network Work Marketing Industry by one of his regular customers. He continued to write, produce and perform original music as a hobby and had a moment of success when he wrote a top 40 song in 2001.

For the past 27 years, Keith has built several MLM teams into the 10’s of thousands of distributors. Through his personal coaching and training he has helped thousands of people earn part time and full time incomes working from their homes. Motivational and inspirational speaking has always been a love of Keith’s, and one of his goals is to pursue it professionally.

In 1999, while between MLM companies, Keith and his wife Mona started “Hollywood Cookie Company”, a gourmet bakery in North Hollywood CA where they catered to the TV and Movie industry. After 8 years of a brick and mortar business, Keith’s artistic side desperately needed to be exercised and he picked up a digital camera one day and began photographing actors head-shots, portraits and eventually gravitated towards high fashion photography. Photoshop and videography soon followed.

BUT the idea of passive residual income tugged at Keith and he once again he dove back into the Home Based Business Arena, this time with an understanding of Web 2.0 which eventually transitioned his career as an SEO expert.

Keith has been in the MLM business ever since then and was just recently introduced to his current company MyNyloxin where he is one of the top distributors and team builders with the company.

MyNyloxin is the new exclusive marketing arm of a 10 year old publicly traded company, Nutra Pharma Corp. which operates as a biotechnology company specializing in the acquisition, licensing and commercialization of pharmaceutical products and technologies for the management of neurological disorders, cancer, autoimmune and infectious diseases. NPHC was founded by CEO Rik Deitsch who has over 25 years in biotechnology, research and development.

MyNyloxin is using Multi Level Marketing and TV infomercials to spread the word of their first product Nyloxin, wich is an FDA registered all natural, anti-inflammatory, non-addictive,

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non-narcotic, non-steroidal pain reliever for people with mild to chronic pain. Nyloxin’s active ingredient is cobra venom.

As MyNyloxin releases their first wave of infomercials, they will introduce PetPainAway in the Fall of 2014. PetPainAway is a category creator allowing cats and dogs to be pain free without the harmful side effects to the liver and kidneys. MyNyloxin is a natural platform for Keith to express his love and commitment to improving the lives of millions of people financially, physically, mentally and spiritually.

Monique Williams

Monique Williams is an intuitive coach and Thinking Into Results facilitator. She works specifically with other coaches and healers, helping them create success, wealth and happiness. Her ultimate aim is to help others create the lifestyle they truly dream of.

Monique has found, working with other coaches and healers that whilst they have a calling to help others, they do not necessarily understand how to make money. They struggle unnecessarily.

After being in a similar position for a number of years, including facing bankruptcy, Monique realised that her own calling was to ensure that others didn’t go through the same scenario. She set about finding other

teachers, including Bob Proctor and John Assaraf, who could help her achieve these goals.

Today, Monique provides individual coaching and online courses to support her cause. She is redefining her marketing, message and focussing her business in a new way, whilst sharing what she is learning with her own clients.

Neil Smoli

Neil Smoli is the Founder and Managing Director of Aviate Group, a specialist property investment and research firm which has helped thousands of Australians successfully invest in residential property since 2001. From a family of award-winning property developers responsible for some of Australia’s most prominent projects, Neil has pioneered a rigorous due diligence process to identify investment properties that are best positioned to deliver strong returns and long term capital growth. Based on the application of investment criteria unique to Aviate, this approach is recognised as the most discerning in the market by some of Australia’s leading financial institutions, which form part of the Aviate strategic alliance network.

Neil is well known in property investment circles and his opinion is well regarded by the industry at large. Neil was recently a headline presenter at the 7th Annual Housing Congress and his expert

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commentary has been featured in The Australian, Australian Financial Review, Money Management, Smart Investor, Sydney Morning Herald and other business and mainstream titles around the country.

Raised in Melbourne, Neil now resides with his wife and two children in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs.

Reuben Salazar

I am Reuben Salazar. I was born and raised in Southern California. I am married to my soul mate for over 32 years, Anita Salazar. I have 2 daughters, 2 grandsons and 1 very beautiful diva granddaughter. Family life is one of the most important values I cherish and have.

As a pre teen I must have had the entrepreneurial spirit as I started my own lawn mowing route when I was about 11 years old. I believe I was ahead of my time as in Southern California many years later it is Hispanics mowing lawns! By that time I was out of that business. I mainly liked doing that because I could save money and buy things.

My father was a welder dating back to the 1950’s. His father was also a welder. I would go to his work during the summer when my dad’s boss wasn’t around (it was a 2 man shop) and watch him weld. When I was around 8 years old my dad would let me weld, or at least melt metal. I really found it fascinating. By the time I was around 13 years old his boss would actually let me weld on real parts.

When I was a senior in high school my dad got the entrepreneurial bug and he and my mother started a welding shop in Downey, California in 1976 where I began to work after school. Southern California was the hotbed at the time for the aerospace/aircraft industry.

When they retired in 1991 I took over my dad’s company, “Dan’s Certified Welding Inc,” named after my father.

I continued to run the business and still do to this day. We are a “Nadcap Accredited” company meaning that we get audited

so we can weld on brand new component parts that go on aircraft either as replacements or on new aircraft.

As of January 2015, Boeing Aircraft has almost 6000 planes ordered while Airbus is running not far behind. I am looking forward to growing the business while there is growth in the aircraft industry that has not been seen. We are accomplishing this by hiring more skilled welders and purchasing the latest equipment while having a top level team.

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At the same time I am also working with partners on forming a investment syndication in beautiful Belize in a brand new resort. Doing this has been one of my dreams, to help folks invest in what is called “lifestyle investing” where investors can get a monetary return on their investment and also a return by vacationing in a beautiful tropical place.

I believe as the song says: “The future is so bright, I got to wear shades!”

Suzanne Sykurski:

I was a Navy kid who lived all over the US and Italy. I’ve always loved science and wanted to be a doctor from a young age. I took a different path in college and did ROTC training along with my chemistry degree. I jumped out of perfectly good airplanes and got my Airborne wings. I passed up a chance to go to the Armed Forces medical school in 1983 and instead wanted to go back to Europe. With degree, Army commission, and a fighting spirit, I took off by myself and served in Germany.

Fifteen years and 4 languages later, I settled down and spent over a decade working in various fields as a chemist, spending 11 of them in the

courtroom as an expert witness. I ALMOST went to law school….when I decided to finally go to medical school; but this time, as before, took another road less traveled, and went out the Northwest to study naturopathic medicine.

Six years later, I entered the work world again, but this time on my own. I am aware of several things that have hindered my business/ practice growth. I started my medical practice not knowing a thing about having my own business. I seem to have lost quite a bit of my moxie. After 10 years “in the field”, I am losing some of my self-confidence. I need to be out in the public speaking. I am a huge procrastinator. I daydream about the many books I want to write.

I am a big picture thinker and idealist and don’t do well with paperwork and bookkeeping. I’ve tried a few different marketing approaches, but not sure they have been successful. I have been sitting in my office and just waiting for people to show up. (OK, I did create my own website). My practice has not grown as much as it could have. I want to be the best at what I do and I want people to seek me from around the world for my services and expertise.

My current interest is neuroendocrine medicine. I am entering into our EV212 group so that I may continue to grow and become the best I can be and help as many people as humanly possible while I am still here.

Travis Gopaul

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Varsha Lad:

Who I am…My name is Varsha Lad. This also is the name of my company.

What I do…I have a Beauty & Clinical business.

Treatments involved are threading, waxing, massages, nails, Electronic facials, laser treatments. Bridal dressing, hair upstyles, makeup.

My core strengths…I am renouned for my eyebrow threading and i do have strengths in all other things i do too.

What I need help with in order to achieve my business goals…Marketing,Bring more people through the door. How to run my books. How to talk business lingo. How best to run the business. How to bring more income through the door. How to turn my business into a multime billion pound company, and more. Basically everything about the best way to run a business and to hold yourself in the business and in every other business.

What I expect to achieve/accomplish by participating in Escape Velocity Mastermind… I want to achieve all of the above.

Contact information and business website URL: Varsha Lad / 12 Audrey Gardens / North Wembley / Midlesex / UK / HA0 3TG / 07931776802 / varsha.lad@hotmail.co.uk

Zina Solomon:

Zina Solomon is the President and Founder of Step Into Your Creativity, LLC. Zina has 10+ years of Human Resource and Recruitment Consulting experience where she has partnered with Fortune 500 companies as the subject matter expert in creating and executing recruitment and HR plans, business strategy, and social media integration with candidate sourcing.

Zina holds a Masters degree from Rutgers University in Human Resource Management and is certified in social media. Zina is passionate about health and wellness. Certified in personal training, Zina assists her clients with increasing energy, releasing excess weight, etc.

Zina is an avid runner and enjoys running half marathon distances. Zina is the co-author of the Amazon Bestselling book “Step Into Your Vision 2.0.” Zina is currently pursuing her passion of Stage performance, TV Commercial, and Voice Over projects. You may connect with Zina at: Coaching@ZinaSolomon.com

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