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What is #AskMikeG? 
As a seasoned consultant, I specialize in empowering small business owners to navigate financial challenges, drive growth, and achieve predictable success. With a focus on practical, actionable solutions, I help business leaders improve cash flow management, enhance profitability, and elevate communication for long-term stability.

 I assist businesses by:

+ Identifying gaps in financial practices and building a clear roadmap to stability.
+ Establishing robust tracking and forecasting tools for informed decision-making.
+ Implementing strategies to elevate communication to all stakeholders.

I provide one-on-one, group coaching and consulting.  I have spent 25+ years creating, starting, marketing, failing, and succeeding in B2B and B2C environments. I will happily share with you or your team what I have learned so you don't make the same mistakes I did.

Author, Coach, Consultant, Good Human - Cash Flow is the Success Metric.

Whose Story Is It?

The podcast was created for curious business owners who learn from other business owners’ experiences (mistakes). You will learn from other business owners who have succeeded but not without their own mistakes. But the twist is you will learn about “who” they are as much as what they did. And you will learn all of this without knowing their name. Guest identities will be unveiled after each story in the last few minutes of the podcast. To subscribe go here https://www.michaelgrabham.com/whose-story-is-it-podcast-learn-from-business-owners-stories/

Podcast Host

Hatchet Ventures 🪓

“Hatchet Ventures is defining a new VC model that fits with the needs of today’s founders. With our Co-Op model, Hatchet Ventures surrounds your company with 40+ executives, advisors, and like-minded founders who openly share insights; connections; best practices; and solutions, forming the optimal sounding board for bouncing ideas. Hatchet simplifies access to the knowledge of those who have walked the startup path, and provides attainable support to hatch your venture!”

Advisor

Survive the Streets

My wife and I started this nonprofit to help the homeless. We had originally created an organization that helps hundreds of homeless each year on Thanksgiving day. Go to survivethestreets.org if you would like to get involved with our 501(c)(3) nonprofit..

Director

Orbit Health 

Orbit was started with a simple vision of saving lives in sub-Saharan Africa, by applying technology in healthcare.
Considering the overburdened and clogged up healthcare services in Africa, we wanted to help hospitals and clinics increase their capacity and capability so that they will increase the number of patients by a minimum 10-15 additional patients per day. In this approach,  and if only one fourth of the healthcare facilities are participating in Ethiopia alone, there will be an opportunity for over 10,000 new patients that will be able to see a doctor in a day.

The Door Gym

Help your loved ones maintain their independence with the gift of fitness.
Many of the problems facing our rapidly growing senior population are due to preventable muscle atrophy. This is why we created The Door Gym, a patent pending technology that allows for a new level of safety and security when anchoring resistance bands and straps to your door. Our app and cell phone holder economically deliver over seventy guided exercises that can be tailored to any fitness level.

Customise To Your Style With Samshek

Samshék embraces the fashion popularism that inspires and creates trends that appeal to the modern consumer. Samshék recognizes that not all customers fit the mainstream retail clothing offerings, but rather seek the clothing that better suits their body size and shape, mood, character, style, and temperament. With Samshék’s clothing customization option and timely delivery, the customer's wonderful lifestyle and fashion desires can now become a reality.

samaritan

Samaritan is a mobile IoT startup that enables cashless, effective giving the moment a citygoer sees someone in need on the streets. This is changing the way people can give to people on the streets by knowing that the money is goes to help the person get basic needs met.

Compassion 4 Paws

We are a mobile veterinary practice that specializes in comfort care and end-of-life care for pets. Out of the drive to start her own practice combined with her passion for end-of-life care, Dr. Sara Hopkins founded Compassion 4 Paws in late 2012. Since then, her devoted team of veterinarians and care coordinators continue to offer you and your beloved companion the support and care you need during this difficult time of navigating your pet’s end-of-life journey.

Head of Strategy

Startup Grind

Awarded Chapter Director of the Year 2015.
Startup Grind is the largest independent startup community, actively educating, inspiring, and connecting more than 1,500,000 entrepreneurs in over 600 chapters. We nurture startup ecosystems in 125 countries through events, media, and partnerships with organizations like Google for Startups. 

The cornerstone of our global community is monthly events featuring successful local founders, innovators, educators, and investors who share lessons learned on the road to building great companies. Founded in Silicon Valley, Startup Grind has helped millions of entrepreneurs build their businesses, connect with strategic partners, and secure funding.

We believe in making friends, not contacts. We believe in giving, not taking. We believe in helping others before helping yourself. We are truly passionate about helping founders, entrepreneurs and startups succeed. We intend to make their startup journey less lonely, more connected and more memorable.

Chapter Director Seattle

Consultant | Author | Helping Founders make better decisions to scale their company.

The Two Pillars of Business Success: CASH  & COMMUNICATION
As a business owner, you know that growth is essential—but sustainable, profitable growth requires more than vision. It demands a disciplined focus on two critical areas: managing cash flow and fostering clear communication.

I specialize in helping business owners like you turn strategic goals into actionable plans by focusing on these key areas:

Optimized Cash: By analyzing and enhancing your profits and monitoring your cash flow, I help ensure your business remains financially strong and agile, giving you the confidence to invest in growth and navigate challenges effectively.

Aligned Communication: Both internally and externally, effective communication is essential to align your team with your goals, foster collaboration, and deliver a unified message to customers and stakeholders.

This is a Real life result... I started working with a small service based business. They had few processes in place and almost no financial insights. Fast forward 2 years and they got an offer to sell. We decided to turn it down and fast foward another 2 years and they got an offer they had to take. The value when I started working with them was around $2.5M and they sold for almost 3X that number. The changes we made were about optimizing profits, managing cash flow and making sure the business could operate without the owners doing ALL the work. 

By nature, I am a curious leader who has experienced success, failure, and everything in between. (6X founder).  I have been lucky enough to sell a few of those and unlucky enough to go through bankruptcy. (not fun)

At age 28, a partner and I bought a struggling magazine for the travel industry. Four years later, after growing revenues by 7X and introducing a disruptive product we sold the company to a larger industry leader. (Winner)

I was also a partner in a services company that grew from $750k to $7M in just 3 years. We grew too fast and made some mistakes. Over the next 2 years, I managed to keep parts of it alive but by 2011 I had to close it down. I went through some very dark times with this venture and I learned a few things. (Cash Flow is King)

My wife and I started a nonprofit, Survive the Streets, 25 years ago, to help people who live in shelters or who are almost living on the streets. This has been extremely rewarding and eye-opening. (Helping Others is good)

Mike Grabham

CreatorVerse 

As the CEO of CreatorVerse, I lead a creator-powered growth platform that helps eCommerce brands scale profitably through TikTok.

What sets us apart is the CreatorVerse Engine — a proprietary system that blends creator sourcing, high-performing UGC, and paid media into a streamlined, performance-based funnel. This isn’t just matchmaking. We run the entire growth operation, from ad creative to campaign optimization, driving real GMV with creators who actually convert.

Most agencies throw creators at brands and hope something sticks. We built the infrastructure to make it stick — at scale. Every brand we work with taps into a machine that’s constantly sourcing top talent, stress-testing content, and reinvesting into what works.

We're proud to serve founders who care about results, not just reach — and creators who want real opportunities, not empty promises.

If you’re building something great, let’s connect.

Founder & CEO

Liberty Aid

At Liberty Aid Insurance, I lead the development of our sales department, focusing on leveraging advanced technology to equip our team for profound success. 

My role is centered on innovative strategy implementation and providing our agents with the tools they need to excel in their careers.

Sales Director

EVOLVERE

Transform your brain, body & mind with world-leading functional foods, supplements & personal transformation coaching.

Raising a $1,000,000 Seed+

800% growth from 2020 - 2023.

Founder

Ovox Gym & Training Center

If exercise were a pill, it would be the most widely prescribed medication in the world BY FAR. 

This is what makes personal training one of the most challenging, crucial, and rewarding jobs. As a trainer at OVOX Gym and Training center, it is my responsibility to ensure that I most efficiently, creatively, and effectively drive a client to achieving his or her fitness goals.

Between guiding client's to lose weight, some up to 150 lbs, pushing collegiate and professional athletes to the next athletic level of performance, and improving the functionality of senior citizens so that they can live longer, safer, and healthier lives, I have provided a wide range of people with the gift of fitness. 

This job has required a synergy between the qualitative skills of leadership, relationship building, sales with the meticulous application of more technical skills like anatomy, physiology, and nutritional science to finding the right formula for each client.

Personal Trainer

Olympus Labs

My role was to embody the values of innovation, value, and results as a primary face of the company. 

Through the utilization of social media channels, appearances at demos and expos, presence in YouTube videos, professional photoshoots, and various other channels, Olympus Labs aims to market its athletes like myself and spread a movement of integrity, discipline, drive; the values the company was founded on.

Head Male Athlete

With the booming supplement industry, Olympus Labs still stands out as one of the premier sports nutrition companies. 

As company's are scaling their businesses quickly, the market is getting saturated, and the product marketing is getting more and more intricate, this role required me to drive sales with a team of four others in a strategic way. As an athlete, I faced many customers, both individuals and retailers and successfully differentiated myself as a brand and by product of Olympus Labs along with the products. 

Hustling, data mining, thinking analytically, and prioritizing were all required in this role.

Sales Representative

Johnson & Johnson

As a Co-Op taking on a supply chain role in the deliver space, I was able to contribute to not only a satisfied customer, but also to the elimination of waste.

Project manager for reverse logistics workstream of a new product launch in the diabetes space that facilitated meetings, managed action items, created issues logs, and communicated results to project leader resulting in the strategic synchronization of ERPs and transportation goals.  

Revamped order management processes for domestic distribution report for missed shipments, order cut lines, invoicing data, and order in processes to one employee from two and eliminated multiple steps of the report through automation to reduce report run time by 94%, from 4 hours to 15 minutes.

Main point of contact for transition of Electronic Data Interchange Orders during $1.94 billion divestiture of Cordis from J&J to Cardinal Health. Ensured all orders sent to Johnson and Johnson were transitioned over to Cardinal Health during 60 day transitional service agreement. Aggregated number of issues at the end of each week and created a visual analysis to highlight outliers and explain why they occurred.

Franchise Integration Co-Op

Tengrade, Inc.

At Tengrade, I implemented marketing initiatives, campaigns and strategies to promote products and brand name to potential customers.

Utilized social media streams, and grassroots marketing techniques to differentiate Tengrade from Yelp! along with other competitors.

Intern - Marketing Consultant

Powerhouse Gym

Manager:

Created precise sales goals and ensured monthly revenues reached these goals for the personal training department as well as for individual trainers by systematically collecting data and utilizing a regression analysis. Improved relationships and facilitated active communication with gym owners, franchise owners, and other departments to improve the cohesiveness of the gym as a whole and advance the personal training department as a result.

Trainer :

Created effective personalized training programs for clients based on their fitness goals, body composition, and athletic abilities using extensive exercise science knowledge, subsequently increasing client retention rate from 40% to over 75%. Conducted orientations for potential clients and pitched sales in high-pressure situations with poise and confidence

Trainer and Manager of Personal Training

Obsessed with Human Evolution | Creator of QUANTUMiND Nootropic | Serial Entrepreneur & Biohacker

I’m Neal Thakkar — entrepreneur, fighter, and someone who’s obsessed with the pursuit of excellence.

Over the last few years, I’ve had the privilege of building multiple ventures from the ground up, including CreatorVerse, a creator-powered growth engine helping eCommerce brands scale through performance-based partnerships, and Integrity First Funding, where we help entrepreneurs access 0% APR capital to grow their dreams without getting buried in debt.

What drives me isn’t just business. It’s impact.

I love building systems that unlock human potential — whether it’s helping a founder go from $10K to $100K/month, empowering creators to turn their content into a career, or coaching someone through the mindset shifts that change everything. Business is a sport to me. And just like in the ring, the real battle is internal — discipline, vision, and relentless consistency.

I'm incredibly proud of the work we've done, and equally excited for what's ahead. I’m always learning, always iterating, and always looking to partner with others who share a hunger for growth, integrity, and legacy.

If any of that resonates — let’s connect.

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