VOLUME ONE
Brave. Bold. Brilliant.
Meet the people behind the decisions, risks, and turning points. Begin the collection with real conversations about finding the courage to move forward.
View on Amazon ↗REAL PEOPLE. REAL STORIES. REAL WISDOM.
Life doesn’t
follow a script.
Neither do
these books.
The turning points. The bold decisions. The lessons learned the hard way. Discover the conversations behind Unscripted Brilliance, a three-book collection by Adrienne Barker, MAS.
Explore the collection ↓Curiosity opens the conversation. Honesty makes it matter.
THE LATEST IN THE COLLECTION
Business & life lessons
you can’t Google.
Business & life lessonsyou can’t Google.
THREE BOOKS✦CONVERSATIONS THAT STAY WITH YOU✦ADRIENNE BARKER, MAS
01 / THE COLLECTION
A little courage.
A new perspective.
A book worth opening.
Start with the story that speaks to you. Each volume brings another circle of voices and another opportunity to see business and life through someone else’s experience.
VOLUME TWO
The PodMatch Edition
A new collection of voices connected through the world of podcasting. Discover the people and perspectives that make a good conversation worth sharing.
View on Amazon ↗VOLUME THREE / LATEST BOOK
Business & Life Lessons You Can’t Google
Experience brings a kind of wisdom a search result cannot. Explore honest business and life conversations, with a foreword by Dr. Jeff Moffett.
View on Amazon ↗MEET THE AUTHORS / THE VOICES BEHIND THE BOOKS
Every chapter begins
with a person.
Explore the people, their stories, and their work. Choose a book to meet its contributing voices.
17 voices in this collection
Lea Rosenberry
Lea Rosenberry is Head of Community at Chatter Social, where she develops community strategy and builds connections among members, influencers, and brand advocates. She oversees engagement across the platform’s community channels. Based in Altoona, Pennsylvania, she previously taught statistics at UC Clermont College and served as an IT Training Specialist at Penn State University. Rosenberry holds a master’s degree in Education and a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Austin Peay State University.
Company website ↗Chris Carter
Chris Carter is a global SAP and AI expert, technology entrepreneur, and founder and CEO of Approyo, a provider of SAP hosting, managed services, upgrades, and migrations. With more than three decades of SAP-industry experience, he has held executive roles, founded technology businesses, and developed AI-based monitoring tools. Carter also brings expertise in cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and Internet-of-Things security, including Approyo’s Overwatch platform.
Website ↗Andrew Bolton
Andrew Bolton is CEO and co-founder of TechRescue LLC, a 24/7 technology-support and cybersecurity company serving seniors, families, and small businesses across the United States. He holds a Master of Liberal Arts in Finance from Harvard Extension School and a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Thiel College. Before TechRescue, Bolton worked in Wall Street and private equity and held sales and business-development leadership roles in technology, healthcare, and construction management.
Professional profile ↗Justin Baer
Justin Baer is the founder of Collars & Co., a Bethesda, Maryland–based menswear brand he launched in 2021 after creating the Dress Collar Polo to solve the discomfort of a dress shirt under a sweater. A TikTok post helped propel the product, and Baer later secured a Shark Tank partnership with Mark Cuban and Peter Jones. In 2024, Ernst & Young named him a finalist for its Entrepreneur Of The Year Mid-Atlantic Award.
Company website ↗Ricky Lee Travolta
Ricky Lee Travolta is an entertainment executive, celebrity publicist, branding expert, author, producer, screenwriter, actor, and media personality. He has guided the creation and revitalization of No. 1 brands across technology, home improvement, entertainment, telecommunications, publishing, food and beverage, and staffing. Travolta served as Empire Today’s “New Empire Man,” produced and wrote for film and television, and authored the bestselling novel My Fractured Life.
Professional profile ↗Dr. Kristen M. Williamson
Dr. Kristen M. Williamson, DBH, LPC, is a therapist, public speaker, author, and creator of neurodivergent resources. She holds a Doctorate in Behavioral Health Management and has more than 10 years of mental-health experience. As owner of EmpowerMind Solutions LLC, she helps neurodivergent people build sustainable success, supports more inclusive workplaces, and speaks on neurodiversity, mental health, and late-diagnosed autism and ADHD. She is licensed as a professional counselor in Texas, Kansas, Minnesota, and Maine.
Website ↗Ronjini Joshua
Ronjini Joshua is the CEO and founder of The Silver Telegram, a boutique public-relations agency serving technology startups and other growing brands. She launched the agency in 2011 after building two decades of public-relations experience across technology campaigns. Her work focuses on media strategy, brand awareness, thought leadership, reputation management, and crisis communications. Joshua is also an experienced speaker on startup PR, crowdfunding, and diversity in public relations.
Company website ↗LLance Kezner
LLance Kezner is co-founder of Millie’s Sipping Broth, a specialty-food brand he created with his wife, Lori. A former tech executive, he helped turn a kitchen experiment into broth brewed in a tea bag, validating demand at Seattle’s Pike Place Market and growing the product into national Walmart distribution. Based in the Seattle area, Kezner also serves as co-founder and owner of Keep Life Tasty, a family of innovative food and beverage products.
Company website ↗Sharyn Yuloff
Sharyn Yuloff is an online marketing expert, business coach, and human-resources professional who helps small-business owners improve marketing, sales, and workplace operations. Her career includes 20 years in business-affairs and human-resources departments, including responsibility for both functions at three companies. With Hank Yuloff, she co-leads Yuloff Creative Marketing Solutions, teaches small-business marketing programs, and co-authors best-selling business books. She also shares practical guidance through the couple’s marketing education and podcast work.
Company website ↗Hank Yuloff
Hank Yuloff is a small-business coach, targeted marketing tactician, author, and speaker. He brings more than 30 years of experience in advertising, marketing, public relations, and promotional products. Hank co-leads Yuloff Creative Marketing Solutions with Sharyn Yuloff, helping small businesses develop marketing plans, messaging, sales paths, and employee solutions. He founded Promotionally Minded in 1997, has authored marketing books, and has hosted a weekly marketing radio show.
Company website ↗Jeff Standridge
Dr. Jeff D. Standridge helps organizations and leaders generate sustained results in innovation, strategy, profit growth, organizational effectiveness, and leadership. He is Managing Director of Innovation Junkie and the Conductor, co-founded Cadron Capital Partners, and teaches Entrepreneurial Finance and Innovation Leadership at the University of Central Arkansas. Formerly a vice president at Acxiom Corporation, he has led established and startup businesses across multiple regions. He is a two-time bestselling author and holds a Doctor of Education.
Company website ↗Shaun Whynacht
Shaun Whynacht is the founder and Head Strategist of Blue Cow Marketing, where he helps small businesses improve marketing and day-to-day operations through automation, CRM implementation, email and text marketing, and related systems. He brings more than a decade of marketing-automation experience and has guided Blue Cow Marketing’s growth since founding it in Nova Scotia. His work focuses on streamlining workflows so owners can save time, strengthen customer relationships, and grow more efficiently.
Website ↗Favour Obasi-ike, MBA, MS
Favour Obasi-ike, MBA, MS, is the founder of Work & PLAY Entertainment and a technical SEO expert who helps businesses increase online visibility through SEO, Pinterest marketing, content marketing, podcasting, and website development. Obasi-ike also hosts We Don’t PLAY, a digital marketing and SEO podcast. They hold a Master of Science in Entertainment Business from Full Sail University and an MBA from Beulah Heights University.
Company website ↗Summer Woods
Summer Woods is a Chino Hills, California–based singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and music composer. She earned a bachelor’s degree in music composition from Los Angeles College of Music, where she developed her genre-spanning approach. Woods performs, records, and produces her own music, and has opened for José Feliciano, Shawn Colvin, Jim Messina, and Howie Day. Her releases include the Needlejuice Records–distributed album Sunshine, I Swear.
Website ↗Richard Blank
Richard Blank is CEO of Costa Rica’s Call Center, a bilingual nearshore call-center and business-process-outsourcing company serving clients in the United States, Canada, Central America, and parts of Europe. After relocating to Costa Rica to train call-center employees, he learned the business from the inside and later built the company. Blank holds a bachelor’s degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla, Spain.
Company website ↗Rhiannon Franz
Rhiannon Franz is a business and AI advisor and founder of Owners Society. She brings 23 years of experience across digital media, advertising, enterprise ad-tech sales, and founder-led growth, including work across all four global advertising holding companies and management of more than $250 million in digital media for Fortune 100 brands. She now helps business owners build revenue systems, positioning, sales narratives, content engines, and AI-enabled go-to-market workflows.
Website ↗Rg Enzon
Rg Enzon is an active-duty U.S. Navy sailor, founder of Enzon Media, and builder of business software and digital-marketing tools. He began building websites in college in 2008, turning freelance work into agency work and later his own company. Through Enzon Media, he helps local businesses use digital-marketing tools to support organic growth. Enzon also builds apps with a team in the Philippines and is an investor and mentor to military and San Diego communities.
Website ↗16 voices in this collection
Sheila Slick, MS
Sheila Slick, MS, is an entrepreneur, author, podcast host, business consultant, and founder of Five Milestones. With more than 25 years of experience building businesses and a master's degree in leadership, she works at the intersection of entrepreneurship, technology, education, and leadership. She is also behind PodToBook.ai, which helps transform podcast conversations into book manuscripts, and hosts Milestone Moments in Business & Leadership.
Website ↗Alex Sanfilippo
Alex Sanfilippo is the founder of PodMatch and host of Podcasting Made Simple. He created PodMatch to make it easier for podcast hosts and guests to find the right connections, and he is a longtime educator and advocate for independent podcasters focused on growing their reach, relationships, and results.
Website ↗Austin Bonderer
Austin Bonderer is a patent attorney and founder of The Law Office of Austin Bonderer. He works with inventors and businesses on patents, trademarks, and intellectual-property protection, helping clients understand how to protect ideas and innovations before bringing them to market.
Website ↗Katie MacLachlan
Katie MacLachlan is the founder of Be Good Guide. Her work brings together business strategy, astrology, Human Design, and more than two decades of systems thinking from a career in design and technology. She helps founders build businesses around how they actually operate rather than forcing themselves into someone else's formula.
Website ↗Rachel Allen
Rachel Allen is a marketing strategist, fractional CMO, and copywriter who provides data-driven, human-centered marketing for businesses and organizations doing meaningful work. Through Bolt from the Blue Copywriting, she has worked with clients in more than 20 countries and helps companies turn clearer positioning and stronger language into measurable business results.
Website ↗Richard Walsh
Richard Walsh is a veteran entrepreneur, business coach, author, and former U.S. Marine. Through his coaching work and the principles behind Escape the Owner Prison, he helps business owners create stronger systems, improve leadership, scale more intentionally, and build companies that do not depend on the owner for every decision.
Website ↗Aleksandra Ceho
Aleksandra Ceho is an astrologer, teacher, healer, and international instructor based in Toronto. Through Master the Stars, she teaches a structured approach to astrology, mythology, Hermetic teachings, and personal transformation, helping clients and students explore purpose, self-mastery, and deeper patterns in their lives.
Website ↗Wes Towers
Wes Towers is the founder of Uplift 360, an Australian digital agency focused on websites, SEO, online visibility, and trust-driven marketing. With more than 20 years in digital business, he helps builders, trades, construction companies, and other service businesses turn their online presence into qualified enquiries and long-term growth.
Website ↗Swire Ho
Swire Ho, known as #thepromoguy, is co-founder of Garuda Promo and Branding Solutions in Los Angeles. He helps organizations use promotional products, branded merchandise, apparel, gifting, and event marketing strategically to strengthen relationships with customers, employees, and communities.
Website ↗Mike Milan
Mike Milan, widely known as Cash Flow Mike, is an entrepreneur, financial educator, and business consultant focused on helping owners understand the cash inside their companies. Through his Clear Path to Cash approach, he teaches practical ways to improve cash flow, profitability, risk management, and business value.
Website ↗Brandon Leibowitz
Brandon Leibowitz is the founder of SEO Optimizers, a Los Angeles digital-marketing company he started in 2007. He specializes in search engine optimization, online visibility, and strategies that help businesses earn qualified traffic, generate leads, and turn their websites into stronger sales assets.
Website ↗Adam Goldman
Adam Goldman is a franchise consultant, investor, serial entrepreneur, former franchisee, and Master Franchisor. After building businesses in the United States and Europe and growing a commercial cleaning territory into a multimillion-dollar operation, he now helps executives and aspiring entrepreneurs evaluate franchise ownership as a path out of corporate life and into business ownership.
Website ↗Paul E. Pape
Paul E. Pape is a creative entrepreneur, TEDx speaker, author, designer, and business strategist known as 'Santa for Nerds.' After more than 20 years creating custom collectibles, props, and sculptures for clients including Disney, Universal, Nickelodeon, and The Tonight Show, he expanded his work into Gamify Business, where he translates business concepts into frameworks that make sense to creative minds.
Website ↗Rich Kozak
Rich Kozak is a branding strategist, author, and founder of RichBrands. Drawing on decades of marketing and brand-development experience, he helps entrepreneurs, professionals, and organizations clarify the impact they want to create, define what makes them distinctive, and build a brand that supports long-term influence and legacy.
Website ↗James Hilovsky
James Hilovsky is a franchise consultant and founder of The FranDream. A former minor league baseball player with extensive restaurant and franchise experience, he helps aspiring entrepreneurs evaluate franchise opportunities, understand the realities of ownership, and identify business models that fit their goals, investment level, and working style.
Website ↗Doug Katz
Doug Katz is a West Point graduate, disabled Army veteran, entrepreneur, and inventor of NULU Knives. After traditional kitchen knives became difficult and painful for him to use because of upper-extremity limitations, he rethought the design around greater control, comfort, and accessibility. His work now focuses on helping more people maintain independence and confidence in the kitchen.
Website ↗15 voices in this collection
David Aferiat
David Aferiat is an entrepreneurial and growth leader and a Certified Bloom Growth Coach. He co-founded Trade Ideas LLC, a fintech SaaS company that achieved six consecutive years on the Inc. 5000, and works with CEOs and leadership teams on clarity, decision-making, and sustainable growth. He is also the owner of Avid Vines, an Atlanta-based importer of certified organic Champagne, and Managing Principal of The Avid Group.
Website ↗Marcy Axelrod
Marcy Axelrod is a keynote and two-time TEDx speaker, bestselling author, and management consultant. After beginning on Wall Street, she spent more than 20 years in KPMG Consulting’s high-tech strategy practice, advising technology leaders and corporations. She created the Show Up System and is the author of On Your Game! and How We Choose to Show Up, applying research in neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral economics to leadership and growth.
Website ↗Khrystyna Baca
Khrystyna Baca is the founder of Solvix Finance and MyDocMatch and a business partner at Our Global Web. A mission-driven founder, she is building solutions at the intersection of healthcare and finance. Through Solvix Finance, she works in real-estate finance and helps connect investors with capital solutions for acquisition, renovation, development, bridge, portfolio, and commercial financing.
Professional profile ↗Dr. Lisa L. Campbell
Dr. Lisa L. Campbell, PhD, MHA, FAHIMA, is a keynote speaker, author, and founder and CEO of Dr. Lisa L. Campbell, Inc. Known as The Growth Motivator®, she brings more than three decades of healthcare leadership and education experience to organizations and their leaders. Since 1997, she has taught and mentored across nearly 29 colleges and universities. She also hosts the 52 Authors 52 Weeks™ podcast.
Website ↗Lesley George
Lesley George is the founder of The Mosaic, Inc. and Mosaic Publishing. A Caribbean American entrepreneur, publisher, coach, speaker, and host of Mosaic Sparks with Lesley George, she helps women share their stories, recognize their value, and amplify their gifts. Her work spans publishing, coaching, community building, leadership development, confidence-building, and inclusion.
Website ↗Mia Godfrey
Mia Godfrey is an author, international keynote speaker, certified life coach, and Bible counselor. Originally from Romania, she helps people reconnect with identity, purpose, resilience, and authenticity through coaching, speaking, workshops, retreats, and writing. She is the author of Buried, Not Broken: A Memoir of Survival, Sisterhood, and Starting Over and founder of Scribbled Pages International Life Coaching.
Website ↗Dr. Jeff Moffett
Dr. Jeff Moffett is CEO of PIIP, Inc. and a telecommunications and network professional with more than 30 years of experience. Based in Augusta, Georgia, he has also served as pastor of Historic Hosannah Missionary Baptist Church and is a retired U.S. Army veteran with 20 years of service. He holds a master’s degree in management from Southern Wesleyan University and speaks internationally.
Professional profile ↗Tom LeNoble
Tom LeNoble is a confidential advisor to founders, executives, nonprofit leaders, and professionals navigating complex leadership moments. He is an executive coach, speaker, author, philanthropist, and CEO of the Academy for Coaching Excellence. His career includes roles at MCI, Walmart.com, Palm, and Facebook, where he helped establish early customer operations. He hosts the Opening Pathways podcast and wrote My Life in Business Suits, Hospital Gowns and High Heels.
Website ↗Joseph R. Lobosco
Joseph R. Lobosco is a producer and podcast host associated with Debate The News: True Crime, where he co-hosts with Adrienne Barker. His production credits include Dinner with Quinn and Debate The News: True Crime. He has also worked as a writer, editor, and cover-art contributor for the true-crime podcast, and appears as a co-host on Adrienne Barker Speaks: No Prep Needed.
Website ↗Micah Logan
Micah Logan is an entrepreneur, fractional executive, business strategist, author, and speaker. He works with business owners on strategy, operations, leadership, and execution, drawing on more than 20 years of experience leading, scaling, and turning around owner-led businesses. A Forbes contributor, he has written more than 30 articles on entrepreneurship, leadership, small-business strategy, and operational execution. He is the author of The Brown Box.
Website ↗Noah May
Noah May is a podcaster, journalist, and Auburn University journalism graduate based in Centre, Alabama. He hosts three podcasts: Lethal Venom, Music Talks, and Southern Reads. Through these shows, he explores candid conversations, music, books, and a wide range of topics from an Alabama perspective.
Website ↗Antwon Person
Antwon Person, known as The Skillful Advisor, is an entrepreneur, investor, and business advisor and the founder of Skillful Brands, a business consulting and technology firm. A retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, he served for 22 years in leadership roles that included company, battalion, and deputy brigade commander. He developed the Skillful Framework to help entrepreneurs simplify operations and build structured, scalable businesses.
Website ↗Marcia Riner
Marcia Riner is a business growth strategist, profit strategist, speaker, podcast host, and CEO of Infinite Profit®. She helps established business owners improve revenue and profitability, build scalable companies, and prepare for future sale. Riner hosts Profit With A Plan, created the Profit Booster® strategies, has run three businesses, and has worked with small-business owners since 1997.
Website ↗Vera Thomas
Vera Thomas, MA, is an ICF-certified coach, parenting coach, speaker, author, and founder of Instilling Greatness. Based in Canton, Ohio, she works with parents, children, and individuals and brings more than 40 years of personal and professional development experience. She hosts The Vera Thomas Show and has co-authored more than 25 books, including three focused on parenting.
Website ↗Mr. Whiskey
Mr. Whiskey is the founder of Couple O’ Nukes LLC and host of the Couple O’ Nukes podcast. A U.S. Navy veteran, author, speaker, preacher, comedian, and addiction recovery coach, he uses podcasting, speaking, books, and events to connect people with information and resources. His work addresses suicide prevention, addiction recovery, military life, mental health, faith, fitness, finances, leadership, and mentorship.
Website ↗THE IDEA BEHIND THE BOOKS
Some lessons don’t come
from having all the answers.
They come from asking
better questions.
Unscripted Brilliance makes room for the stories behind the polished introductions: the experiences that shape how people work, lead, and live.
AUTHOR. INTERVIEWER. CONNECTOR.02 / MEET ADRIENNE
A curious mind.
A lifetime of
connecting people.
Adrienne Barker, MAS, brings more than 35 years of business experience to her work as an author, podcast producer, visibility strategist, and business consultant.
As the founder of Professional Global Etiquette and a graduate of the Protocol School of Washington, she understands the power of a thoughtful question, a meaningful connection, and a story told honestly.
Her Unscripted Brilliance collection brings those interests together, giving people space to share the business and life lessons their experiences have taught them.
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