️Exciting news! In my latest podcast episode, I chat with Benjy Dobrin, the Founder/Owner/Instructor of Benjy Dobrin Studios. We talk about how the pandemic transformed his business moving to Zoom teaching acting and providing corporate training.
Benjy shares his experience of now having an international business instead of a Denver-based one. He also discusses the nuances and conveniences of learning acting on Zoom, including how to french kiss and fight on the platform.
Did you know that BDS provides corporate training too? Benjy has taught lawyers how to address juries and finance folks how to address investors, among other scenarios. For actors, these classes are essential to landing work, especially since almost all initial auditions in Hollywood are now held on Zoom. Take a listen to hear how Benjy is currently teaching a #WWE wrestler to talk smack. BDS is here to help you improve your skills and succeed in your career!

Benjy is a Minnesota native, die-hard Vikings fan, and he likes the band Phish. Prior to opening Benjy Dobrin Studios, Benjy was an actor in Hollywood, CA. His students range from working actors, to folks who want to do it as a hobby to learn, to people in the business world, and more. Benjy's slogan is, "Work Hard. Dream Big. Celebrate Life." Visit benjydobrin.com for more information. You can also email him at info@benjydobrin.com 

If you're unemployed and have a job interview Brothers Cleaners will clean your clothes for free. Powerful stuff!! The sign in the window caught me walking by. Generous, kind, and sharp marketing! Brothers Cleaners Owner & CEO Ben Hikler joins my podcast for C-Suite Executives. Brothers is a family owned and operated dry cleaners since 1916. Putting free cleaning for job interviewee's is motion is all Ben. He reveals how the promotion came to life and the reaction it's received. One free cleaning at one of his locations has endeared him to folks and earned his business a lifetime of loyalty from customers. Compassionate real marketing. Ben also reveals the hit his company, and the dry cleaning industry as whole took during the pandemic/WFH movement with less clothes needing to be cleaned. Many don't think of this business when thinking about industries hit hard by Covid. He also fills on in on why the dry cleaning business will always be around, and won't be swallowed up by Technology/AI.

Matt Guidice, Co-Founder of Matt's Flights, joins to discuss how he flat out saves travelers $ and his business is a real life "travel hack". He calls his Matt's Flights a "new age airfare concierge". His email newsletter service is both free with a premium option which personalizes the businesses relationship to the subscriber's travel needs. Listen to the ins and outs of how he conducts his magic, how the company will track your desired trips, so you don't have to. Additionally, while price hunting is a major driver of his business, Matt discusses how not so cost-conscious folks use his service as well as they can do first class or put together multi destination trips. He outlines what his company will and won't do for the customer in putting together a trip.
Matt explains how his service superior to & differs from Orbitz, Expedia, and other flight search engines. He explains how he differs from his competitors in the space. In this interview he tells YOU how to utilize his service. He with a wink and a smile discusses how he's like Dave Matthews of Dave Matthews Band. Matt has two co-founders, but his name is on the billboard a la “Matt’s Flights”. He answers why the company is named after him. His website is mattsflights.com You can email him at matt@mattsflights.com