Jodi Samuels

Partnering with CEOs of small businesses, founders of seed-funded startups, and marketing professionals to drive sustainable growth. I identify missing resources, remove growth inhibitors, and design practical scale-up strategies that strengthen market presence and operational efficiency. My approach blends strategic insight with hands-on execution to help leaders grow faster, smarter, and with greater impact.

- Diagnose operational and marketing gaps to optimize performance and profitability.

- Develop customized scale-up strategies aligned with each client’s goals and resources.

- Guide go-to-market planning to improve positioning, brand visibility, and sales.

- Provide executive-level coaching to strengthen leadership and decision-making.

Independent Startup Consultant

Jodi's Voice

Jodi’s Voice (formerly Metroimma.com) is a global platform dedicated to advocacy, thought leadership, and building meaningful connections. It reflects my mission to create lasting impact — from championing women’s networking and fostering inclusion for the disability community, to sharing perspectives on current events and timeless wisdom with purpose and authenticity.

Since publishing my memoir, Chutzpah, Wisdom, and Wine: Journey of an Unstoppable Woman, I have been invited to speak in 12+ countries, delivering keynote addresses and workshops on challenging mindsets, leadership, disability inclusion, Israel, and discovering purpose. Through Jodi’s Voice, I connect diverse audiences with stories and strategies that inspire action, break barriers, and spark meaningful dialogue.

Key Contributions & Activities:

- Deliver keynote speeches at international conferences, community gatherings, and corporate events.

- Facilitate workshops tailored to leadership development, inclusion, and personal growth.

- Author and publish thought pieces, blogs, and articles to expand advocacy reach.

- Organize and host impactful events to strengthen networks and foster collaboration.

Founder

Jewish International Connection

Leader and community builder with a proven record of founding and directing organizations that empower individuals, strengthen global connections, and drive cultural impact. At Jewish International Connection, I have combined strategic leadership with purpose-driven growth to expand programs, engage stakeholders, and create sustainable impact across diverse communities.


– Established and scaled Jewish International Connection, defining its mission and long-term growth strategy to strengthen global Jewish communities.

– Forged inclusive networks that unite professionals, families, and leaders across borders through cultural, social, and professional initiatives.

– Provided board-level leadership, securing sustainable funding, cultivating donor relationships, and ensuring organizational resilience.

– Designed and launched impactful programs that drive engagement, preserve heritage, and foster cross-community collaboration.

Founder, Executive Director & Board Member

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Board Member

Metroimma.com

Visionary leader and brand innovator driving the creative and strategic growth of Metroimma.com. With a proven ability to merge business acumen with bold creative direction, I specialize in building impactful brands, scaling organizations, and shaping experiences that inspire and engage. As both CEO and Creative Director, I bridge strategy with execution delivering results that reflect excellence, originality, and purpose.

Key Highlights:

- Founder’s Vision: Established Metroimma.com as a forward-thinking brand that blends creativity, innovation, and business strategy to redefine industry standards.

- Executive Leadership: Driving organizational growth, market positioning, and sustainable business models through visionary leadership and strategic execution.

- Creative Direction: Spearheading design and brand storytelling initiatives that elevate client engagement and differentiate Metroimma.com in competitive markets.

- Impact & Innovation: Leading with purpose to create lasting value for stakeholders while championing innovation, collaboration, and global reach.

Founder, CEO & Creative Director

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Council of Young Jewish Professionals

jdeal.com

 Daily deal site for the Jewish market.

Accounting Comes Alive

 Accountancy Training for Professionals
 Business Development and Operations Management

Owner

Direct Response Technologies

 Director of startup online media property MyCoupons.com
 Determine Strategy, Write Business Plan and Implement
 Identify Market Opportunities and Negotiate Business Development Deal
 Initiate marketing Efforts to drive traffic to the property
 Manage Cross Function Team including technical staff, marketing and offshore resources

Director

I’m an entrepreneur, consultant, and global speaker with 20+ years of experience founding, scaling, and exiting both mission-driven and for-profit ventures. I specialize in helping startups and nonprofits streamline operations, strengthen teams, and scale sustainably while staying true to their mission.

As founder of JICNY, JDeal, and Color Accounting, I’ve built organizations from the ground up to global impact and successful exits. Today, through Jodi’s Voice, I partner with leaders to design operational strategies, foster resilient cultures, and turn vision into execution.


✨ Core Strengths
• Startup growth & scaling strategies
• Operational design & optimization
• Leadership development & team empowerment
• Community building & stakeholder engagement
• Inclusion, resilience & organizational culture
• Strategic planning & execution
• Program and event design
• Thought leadership & public speaking


Clients ranging from:
-CEOs of small businesses
-CEOs of seed-funded start-ups
-Marketing professionals

Practically-Speaking:
-Identify missing resources and growth inhibitors
-Create a scale-up strategy in order to grow and market effectively

Read this message from a soldier

Tree weeks into the war, right before I went into Gaza, I got a package.

A tallis, sent from England through a messenger.

The sender's father was a Holocaust survivor named Ziggy Shipper. The message with it said this was his talis wear it and "make sure it never happens again."

I brought my tefillin and the tallit with me into Gaza.

Early on we got intelligence on a Hamas commander responsible for October 7th. Our mission was to take over that complex.

We went in. We secured it. We found weapons but more shockingly we found correspondence, with the BBC, with major news agencies from France, Australia, around the world.

This was proof that Hamas commanders were coordinating directly with international media.

This wasn't just a military command center. It was a propaganda machine for the extermination of our nation.

Right there in that house, I did something that will stick with me for the rest of my life.

I put on my tefillin. I wrapped myself in Ziggy Shipper's tallit. And I prayed.

I was praying in the house of someone who spent their entire life trying to wipe us out, proof of their failure.

I made a video there expressing what never again actually means.
Something along the lines of
"The difference between then and now...1,200 Jews were killed on Oct 7th. Families destroyed. People kidnapped. Two or three days of absolute terror and rockets. BUT.... we're not marching to concentration camps. We're not being gassed. We're not being kicked out of our homes by the millions. We're not helpless.

We have an army. We have a country. We have the ability to fight back.

That's what Ziggy Shipper's generation fought for. So their grandchildren wouldn't be helpless anymore. So when his daughter sent me that tallit, she wasn't just giving me cloth. She was passing down a promise, and I got to fulfill it."

Standing in that Hamas commander's house, wearing a Holocaust survivor's tallit, practicing Jewish traditions in the exact place where someone planned our destruction and manipulated the world against us.

That's a privilege our grandparents died to give us.

We're not victims anymore. We're defenders. We're fighters. We're Jews who stand up.
And yeah, the world criticizes us for it. Yeah, people call us oppressors for refusing to be victims again.

But I'll take that over being marched into gas chambers any day.

This war changed me. It showed me what it actually means to be a Jew.

It means we can never stop fighting for our survival. It means wrapping tefillin in enemy territory because we can.

Because we're not hiding anymore. We're not apologizing for existing anymore.

We're here. We're strong. And we're making sure never again actually means never again.

That's what Ziggy Shipper survived for. That's what I fought for. That's what we all need to remember.

With my message to the world; I want to say thank you to Ziggy, all the survivors and  those who died simply for being Jewish.

Am Yisrael Chai

My passion for growth and connection has inspired me for over 20 years in the business and not-for-profit sectors. I have consulted for many clients ranging from marketing professionals, up the ladder to the CEOs of small businesses and seed-funded start-ups, identifying missing resources and growth inhibitors, and creating a scale-up strategy in order to grow and market effectively. 

I founded and exited 2 businesses, started my own non-profit organization, Jewish International Connection, which runs successfully in four cities across two continents, and am often brought in to share my insight and experience with businesses and business students. I am very well-connected, having built a vast network and fostered relationships between people across the industry spectrum. I believe one of the keys to success is knowing how to powerfully network and effectively build relationships. 

As a business founder with two successful exits, I understand the need to effectively scale, the importance of critical thinking to drive the process, and the essential role of resilience and overcoming failure to succeed.

I am a fierce advocate for the disability community, often on speaking tours in front of international audiences on inclusion and other topics. My book, "Chutzpah, Wisdom, and Wine: Journey of an Unstoppable Woman", is a memoir in which I share stories of balancing life as an ambitious female entrepreneur, parenting three children (one of whom is a teenager with Down syndrome), and running over 200 events every year through my non-profit. 

Life mission: make a lasting impact in this world. 

Buy the book: www.amazon.com/Chutzpah-Wisdom-Wine-Journey-Unstoppable/dp/9655992640

Follow me on Instagram: www.instagram.com/jodisvoice/

Follow me on Facebook: www.facebook.com/jodisamuelsvoice/

www.jodisvoice.com

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Connector & Community Builder | Social Entrepreneur | Disability Advocate | Keynote Speaker & Author | Inspiring Impact, Driving Social Change & Empowering Global Communities

Scott Henry

A former trainer from the Mossad’s psychological unit once said something that stuck with me: People don’t usually break from failure itself - they break because of narrative shift.

It starts small:
“I messed up.” → “I’m messing everything up.” → “I am a mess.”

That mental drift destroys composure faster than exhaustion or pain ever could.  To stop it, Mossad agents are trained to use a cognitive anchor - a simple reset phrase.  

After a setback, they say: “Update. Data received.”

It reframes the moment. The brain stops treating failure as injury and starts treating it as information. Neuroscience backs this up - neutral labeling interrupts emotional spirals before they harden into identity.

Instructors said they could spot the trained minds immediately: after bad news, they didn’t flinch.  They’d tilt their head back, exhale, whisper “data received,” and move forward.

That is resilience - viewing setback as data.  

#Leadership #Resilience #Mindset #Neuroscience #GrowthMindset #Success #MentalToughness

Mark Bajcar

80 years ago today, in Nuremberg, the World stared in the eyes of the worst criminals in human history. 

They were human beings with an education, family, culture, and the mental capacity to understand exactly what they have done. 

They knew what they were doing and nonetheless did it. 

Today, the rise of Naz|sm in the United States of America with the anti Israel street mobs on one side and the Nick Fuentes Groypers on the other, there are too many people who know better and are silent. 

We cannot afford to go down the path the world went 90 years ago, a path of the cost the lives of 50 million people. 

The time to ferociously speak out against hate is now.

David Littauer

Thanks Sandra Dayan for highlighting the happiness contradiction that so many people don’t understand or can’t imagine that this is the Israeli reality!! 

Israel is full of contradictions
That’s what makes it real.

How can a country at war still be in the world’s top 10 for happiness?

Yes, we have been through trauma.
Yes, there is grief, fear, uncertainty.
And still we are ranked among the happiest nations on earth.

How?

Because happiness here is not about calm. It is about connection.
About meaning.
About knowing your neighbor will bring you soup when your child is sick.
About singing together on balconies during lockdown.
About reservists showing up without hesitation.
About having strangers become family in one Shabbat meal.

In Israel we don’t wait for perfect conditions to live.
We laugh, we argue, we cry, we dance.
We build businesses while rockets fly. We celebrate weddings under sirens.
We hold each other tight.
We choose life, again and again.

Maybe happiness isn’t comfort. Maybe it is knowing what matters most and living like you mean it.

If you are thinking of building a life here, even with the noise, I understand you.
You are not crazy. You are probably just Israeli already.

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