Secret Academy Episode – Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey

Secret Academy Episode - Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey

Michael Houlihan and Bonnie Harvey are the founders of Barefoot Wine – a company that launched with virtually no capital, from their laundry room in 1985. Barefoot became America’s #1 wine brand and the Barefoot brand is one of the most recognizable wine brands globally. Bonnie and Michael are the co-authors of New York Times best-selling business book, “The Barefoot Spirit: How Hardship, Hustle, and Heart Built America’s #1 Wine Brand”. Since the sale of Barefoot Wine to E&J Gallo, they have channeled their efforts into consulting and coaching other people and entrepreneurs on how to launch their products and get them placed in big box retailers. Michael and Bonnie have been featured on ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, Forbes, Entrepreneur, The Huffington Post and many more! Michael and Bonnie have further adapted their teachings and launched the “Barefoot Startup” movement, which encourages newly launched startups to adopt key bootstrapping tenets and sales-driven principles and tactics.

Secret Academy Episode – Brian Evans

Secret Academy Episode - Brian Evans

Brian Evans is the founder, CEO and editor-in-chief of Influencive, a media platform for unconventional wisdom. Influencive’s mission is to inspire, motivate and spread positivity to young people, entrepreneurs, and anyone that wants to make positive change in the world. Prior to Influencive, Brian founded BDE Ventures, an online advertising and marketing agency that appeared on Inc. 500’s list of Fastest Growing Private Companies in America and was the 25th fastest growing advertising and marketing agency in America.

Secret Academy Episode – Ryan Stewart

Secret Academy Episode - Ryan Stewart

Ryan Stewart is the Founder of WEBRIS – a digital marketing agency specializing in search engine optimization services. Previously, he was a digital marketing consultant helping clients like Accenture, Target and Best Buy grow online revenues. Ryan’s work is featured by Inc, SEJ, Moz, Ahrefs, CMI and many more. For over 10 years, Ryan has helped hundreds of companies utilize the internet to funnel more customers and sales. He specializes in omni-channel digital marketing strategy and building traffic through organic channels (Google, social and content) and offers services through WEBRIS and direct consulting.

Secret Academy Episode – Josh Kent

Secret Academy Episode - Josh Kent

Josh Kent is the CEO and founder of SunFrog.com. He is a self-taught computer programmer that began building websites for others right out of high school. With a good amount of experience and knowledge under his belt, in 2013 Josh launched SunFrog.com. Josh had a simple strategy to stand out in an already saturated clothing eCommerce industry, even though he had no overhead capital to start with. Josh had no idea that SunFrog would explode overnight. SunFrog went from $1M in sales for 2014, to a projected $150M for 2017.