Unique Leaders Podcast

Unique Leaders: Lisa Patrick

Lisa was born to two wonderful parents. Lisa’s father was a police and her mother was a nurse. Her father was a farmer and she grew up on the farm, working really hard to help out around.After college she worked atthe police department in the sex crimes division. She didn’t like it and went to work for a private investigation firm. She thought she could do it better and started her own business. This was the start of her entrepreneur journey. She was pretty much the only woman in this field.As a startup advisor, and businesswoman, known as the pitbull and queen of persistence she is sought after for her unique abilities in operations and expertise in marketing. Lisa is an award-winning podcast host, co-founder of Belongify, managing partner at Assessments24x7.ca, investor, speaker and recently the co-author with Motivational Speaker and Legend Jim Cathcart of the book Intelligent Curiosity.Today, Lisa Patrick is driven to help others move forward in their greatness. Always on the lookout to help founders startup or scale brands through operations, strategic relationships and marketing. As a startup advisor, and businesswoman, known as the pitbull and queen of persistence she is sought after for her unique abilities in operations and expertise in marketing. Lisa is an award-winning podcast host, co-founder of Belongify, managing partner at Assessments24x7.ca, investor, speaker and recently the co-author with Motivational Speaker and Legend Jim Cathcart of the book Intelligent Curiosity.

Unique Leaders: Michelle McClain

In 2016 Michelle went through a horrible tragedythat no one should endure. She was months into launching her business. After experiencing that kind of loss, she began a downward spiral that she didn't know how to pull out of. She ultimately had to make the choice of victim or victor and after a year ofdrowning in her own misery, she took a leap of faith, bet on herself and decided that she would WIN, no matter what challenges she faced.Michelle is a successful brand strategist, CEO and influencer, better known as “The Queen of Clubhouse.”Peopleare her passion. Her goal is to impact lives and use her journey to help others navigate theirs. Your story is your greatest asset and it deserves to be told.Whatever your story, whatever your past, wherever you’re at right here and now, YOU have the power tochange the ending. You simply have to DECIDE.#WeRiseTogether

Unique Leaders: Rebecca Contreras

Rebecca was born in El Paso Texas. She grew up in a border town. There were a lot of challenges in the area. She was one of 4 children. Her siblings all had different fathers. Her mother struggled with addiction, with drugs and alcohol. She had her identity with men and drugs. One day her mother left her and her siblings. Her younger sister was 6 months at the time. They were all living in their apartment for 3 days alone before their grandmother came to get them.Her mother did come to knowJesus and became clean when Rebecca was 9. She took the kids back and moved to Austin, TX. Even though her mother was clean she still had mental trauma she was still working through. As Rebecca got older she began to get into drugs, alcohol and gangs. She became a product of her environment. She became pregnant at 17. By the age of 19 she started to change her life and worked to change the path she was following.She started to go to a small local church where she met her husband. Through this time she met a lot of encouraging people and she believes this helped her to get her life together. They got married and she started her state job which led to her to be working for the Governor, George W. Bush, who soon became the president. When. He was nominated her and her family moved to DC and worked with the president. After the presidential terms they moved back to Texas where they stared their non-profit.

Unique Leaders: Brian Hess

Brian was born in Union Town Pennsylvania. It is one of if not the poorest county in the state. He was around many different communities and backgrounds. His father was a blue-collar worker and he thanks his father for his work ethic he has today. He had apaper route at 11 years old. He learned early on about work ethic and what it takes to be a businessman and entrepreneur.He was a pretty good student in school but was not interested in school while there. He dropped out of college and went into retail.He ended up moving into business sales in a corporate setting. He moved to Miami Florida. He met an owner of a construction company and he asked Brian to come work for him. Brian was unsure but decided to work for him. He learned a lot during his time there about construction. He decided one day that he wanted to do this type of work on his own. In 2018 he created his own business.He had many great mentors while he was learning about construction. He was always looking for the next great Mentorship within his field. He was looking to find mentors that challenged him and pushed him to grow. He advisors people looking to start their own business and finding mentors would be to look into those mentors. Make sure they are the type of person you want to learn from.In March 2018 he started the Pavement Group. His companies work with large brand companies on their pavement work. They consult with these companies to help them with pavement asset management and the financials with the replacement and maintenance of the pavements/parking lots. They have a very unique approach to this and have technology to help these businesses that no on else has.

Unique Leaders: Dr. Iman Taheri

Dr. Iman was born and raised in Iran. He was born into aordinary middle eastern family. He started the medical studies when he was 17 years old in Iran. He graduated as a general surgeon and then he worked in a trauma zone. He took care of trauma patients and did many surgeries. He worked in the drug war zonesduring this time. It was an in going war. He was there for 2 years and felt discouraged and disappointed. He was there to help but he didn’t feel fulfilled. There was so many times he would do so much good and was not appreciated or wanted by families in the area.Later he moved to Dubai to practice plastic surgery. As a poet and an artist he has always been fascinated by the power of healing and how the human body heals itself. It wasn’t complicated to move to Dubai but it was difficult start in this different practice. He decided he wanted to go from giving his time and help in that way to work in a field to where he could heal/help others heal. But he quickly learned that it was too difficult to focus on the healing aspect so he decided to focus on the business side.In 2020 he went to visit his family in Toronto, Canada and with the worldly pandemic he had to stay there. From being there for that time he decided he wanted to stay. He got his papers done and he he now lives there with his family.He was not able to do his practice in Canada so he started to focus on his social media present. He put his thoughts out there, his poetry out there, and over the last few months he noticed his words have made an impact. He realized he was able to help people heal and help people with their health in a different way, a more holistic way.