About AmiSights: Financing the Future For Small Business Owners and Entrepreneurs
The weekly AmiSights Podcast will feature dynamic interviews with entrepreneurs, thought leaders, various industry CEOs, industry professionals, public speakers, and more about their unique insights, practices, and valuable life experiences. Join Ami Kassar, CEO of MultiFunding, and his humor on the show that can help you grow and transform your business.
235: The Loyalty Lane: Personalized Business Gifting That Builds Lasting Relationships
On this episode of AmiSights, host Ami Kassar and co-host Lynn Ozer sit down with a very special guest. Charlotte Kassar is Ami's daughter and the founder of The Loyalty Lane, a corporate gifting and relationship management company she launched at 24. Charlotte shares why she decided to bet on herself and how she researches each recipient to create gifts people never forget. She talks about landing her first client, learning the business side of running a company, and why patience matters more than she expected. Ami opens up about trying not to be the overbearing entrepreneur dad and why he believes Charlotte's creativity will take her far.
"Gifting is always something I've loved, and being able to turn your passion into your new job is the end goal. I wake up happy every day now and more inspired than ever. What this is all about is helping people feel unforgettable and making people feel understood."
Today's episode covers how Charlotte launched The Loyalty Lane at 24 and why personalized gifts build real loyalty, getting the numbers right from day one and learning to wear every hat as a solo founder, and what Charlotte learned from watching her dad build MultiFunding.
Connect with Charlotte: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlotte-kassar-35147492/
Learn more about The Loyalty Lane: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-loyalty-lane/home/
Recorded on 9/1/2026
29 Sept 2026
234: How a Seattle Startup Is Fighting America's Home Ownership Gap
Katrina Romatowski joins Ami Kassar and Lynn Ozer to talk about reSpace, her company making single family home ownership possible for about the cost of renting a one bedroom apartment. She explains how fractional co-living ownership works, why the listing service in her market won't touch her properties, and why retirees may be her biggest market. It's a sharp look at the housing affordability crisis and one entrepreneur's plan to fix it.
"What reSpace does is we say, 'Hey, people are living this way. Now everybody gets a piece of the economic benefit. Everybody gets a piece of the pie.'"
Today's episode covers how Katrina went from selling candy in middle school to building a real estate brokerage and a nonprofit, how the reSpace model gives co-living residents real ownership instead of rent, how financing, house rules, disputes, and resale work when you share a home, why the Northwest Multiple Listing Service won't list her properties and how she's going direct to buyers instead, why retirees who want to live with lifelong friends may be her strongest market, and her plan to expand up and down the West Coast in 2027.
Connect with Katrina: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katrinaeileen/
Learn more about reSpace: https://www.respace.co/
Recorded on 7/2/26
15 Sept 2026
233: The myEO Grit Unconference: What Happens When Entrepreneurs Build Their Own Agenda
On this episode of AmiSights, my co-host Lynn Ozer and I welcome three guests from the first ever myEO Grit Unconference: Lauren Banyar Reich, Rachel Costello, and Tiffany Meyer.
All three attended the event in Banning Mills, Georgia, where roughly sixty EO and EOA members built their own agenda, slept in treehouses, and learned from each other with no formal speakers and no cell service. Lauren, Rachel, and Tiffany share what drew them to the Unconference, the moments that stuck with them most, and how the community they built there has continued to shape their businesses and lives since. It is a candid conversation about what happens when entrepreneurs are given space, and nowhere to run to.
"I too will survive and figure it out. And I have this amazing community of resources and people and knowledge and information right at my fingertips." — Lauren Banyar Reich
Today's episode covers what the myEO Grit Unconference is and how it differs from a typical conference. We also discuss why removing Wi-Fi, agendas, and easy escape routes created deeper connection, and how grit circles help entrepreneurs support each other through real struggles. We get into the unexpected topics that came up, from AI to personal branding to divorce, and how the relationships built at the Unconference have continued to grow since.
Want in on the next one? The myEO Grit Unconference returns December 8-11 in Banning Mills, Georgia. Click here to learn more (https://eogrit.com/)!
Connect with Lauren Banyar Reich: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lbrpr/
Connect with Rachel Costello: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelacostello/
Connect with Tiffany Meyer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiffany-meyer-37154b39/
Recorded on 8/20/26
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167: Fortifying Finances: Strategies for Sustainable Business Expansion
Published 11 Jun 2024 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Bankruptcies are going up. And so now more than ever, it's important to start figuring out what your baseline is, what your budget should be and how you're tracking against that. And then, you know, a budget is not a standalone thing you do at the end of the year and then track against it. We forecast as a signature, every quarter we're updating our forecast, both top line and all of our expenses. And where are we trending? You know, what assumptions did we get right? And did we get wrong when we started this? And let's update and let's keep tracking towards where we really are going to wind up this year. […]
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