From Jewelers To The Marijuana Business. Meet The Instagram Entrepreneurs Changing The Game.

We are all constantly searching for people to lean on, mentors, the game changers of our respective industries. We have searched and scrolled until our thumbs hurt to get to the bottom behind the hype of these individuals and why they deserve a spot on our list. See what we've unveiled and read their stories below.

1. Clint Asbell aka @diddy_style ( Editors Pick )

Clint Asbell, AKA @Diddy_Style believes life can be great if you follow these few simple principles. Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life, you are who you surround yourself with, mindset is everything, positive vibes only and work hard travel harder.

Clint and his wife (of 12 years) Sheena, are owner's of @HaileJewelryAndLoans where relationships, customer service and providing a great experience have earned them 10 years of success in business. It does not hurt that they specialize in previously~loved luxury good's such as diamonds, engagement rings, estate jewelry, fine watches and designer handbags.

They are most passionate about local charity and giving back to the community that has been so great to them. Over the past 7 years they have collected nearly 100k pounds of food for the Food 4 Kids Backpack Program of North Florida, who fills backpacks with non perishable foods and distributes them to the hundreds of kids in need.

Sheena nor Clint came from money so they love to spoil themselves with nice things from time to time. However, don't think for a second it's ever changed who they are and both say they don't need any of it to be happy.

They say they don't live for the "things", they live for the "experiences".

2. Adam Rahman

Adam Rahman is the founding member and managing partner of Green Vision Capital Holdings, LLC and Aculliance Holdings, Inc. Green Vision Capital is an angel Investment group within the cannabis and hemp sectors that has raised an excess of seven figures into various projects within the space. Adam also holds a Human Biology Degree from Michigan State University and currently has a pending offer into Campbell University School of Osteopathic Medicine's Class of 2022. With a strong medical, analytical, and business development background, Adam is well versed and has handled consulting, project management, investment oversight, quality control, channel development and strategic partnerships for the past 3 years. Adam’s ultimate goal is to expand the business development and vertical integration of Aculliance with proper positioning into the medical and pharmaceutical realm for exit. Adam has built numerous team’s around his investment projects and has established a deeply connected network of industry leading scientists, researchers, cultivators, investors, manufactures, distributors, and other professionals in both the cannabis and hemp industries.

3. JJ McDaniel @jamcdaniel

JJ McDaniel

Instagram @jamcdaniel

Current Projects

DIRT : Partner + Director of Operations @dirteatclean

Social Media Consulting (ongoing, various clients)

Digital Marketing + Ecommerce (ongoing, various clients)

Drive Revolve: Brand Ambassador @driverevolve

Fashion Basel 2018: Production + Digital Marketing Strategy

JJ McDaniel strives in the daily competition with himself and his peers to be better than yesterday, to prove he can learn something new, learn something quickly, and hopefully make a positive impact on others along the way.

JJ is a Partner and the Director of Operations of DIRT, a Miami based “health conscious” counter-casual restaurant that is poised to change how we approach food and dining out altogether. Even with multiple locations in Miami and an expansion into the DC market in 2019, JJ has managed to expand his need for competition into other industries as well.

While studying Journalism and Mass Communication at UNC Chapel Hill, JJ fine tuned his eye for branding, digital marketing talents and passion to connect consumers to their needs. He is now excelling in social media marketing, brand consulting, e-commerce and more, mostly acquiring clients through referrals and social media networking. Currently he is working with DRIVE REVOLVE (Luxury Car Subscription), FASHION BASEL 2018 (fashion show at ART BASEL), and an impressive rolodex of social media accounts on their growth, brand awareness and digital marketing strategy. There have also been rumblings that he and another entrepreneur on this list are launching a business together in the world of ecomm at the end of 2018… stay tuned for that announcement.

When asked about inspiration, he has a quick response and an almost relentless look “ I grew up with nothing, now I want everything for my wife and kids. It’s simple, they are my inspiration.”

4. 4. Noah Gelerman @noahg_fitness

Noah Gelerman, aka @NoahG_Fitness has been crushing the Instagram game for over 5 years. Being a serial entrepreneur, Noah Gelerman has been able to push well into the 7 figure mark on product sales, along with with a massive 30M followers across his Instagram accounts. Ranging from 50,000 followers all the way up to 1.9M followers per account. Noah Gelerman started his instagram career marketing for various brands, celebrities, and more. Once that became easy to maintain he pushed into creating his own brands, his current product based brand, Global Tactical Supply LLC, @GlobalTacticalSupply (500k+ Followers) is the largest tactical gear business on instagram. Stocking over 2500 different units in his warehouse, located in Maine, USA. Keep an eye on this 21 year old serial entrepreneur @NoahG_Fitness / @BossOfIG.Noah

5. Dion Jaffee

As a serial entrepreneur, Dion Jaffee went from selling electronics in high school, to selling various different fitness programs on the Internet. Shortly after his time in grade school, he went right into teaching. He developed strategies that were highly profitable in the ecommerce arbitrage space, in which he was able to teach by way of online videos, as well as live webinars. These teachings reached nearly 100,000 members from all over the world, through two top ecommerce educational platforms. Revenues from online sales, generated by the collective members have gone on to exceed $2 billion in just a few short years. With a keen eye for winning ideas and team building synergy, him and his brother took a failing cleaning product and have gone on to sell over a million of dollars worth, with just one ecommerce platform, shortly after. Living comfortably Dion found himself not traveling much. To change this, he co-founded two companies, Top View Films and Top View Media, in 2015, which has been a driving factor for his team and him to capture greatness with drones, and other amazing cameras all over the world. Dion finds great pleasure in connecting amazing minds with equally amazing ventures, to bring new light in emerging fields. Through his unique abilities to network in very exclusive places, he’s been able to connect everyone from the celebrity types, to the small town family man, enabling the seed of new promising opportunities. Dion is currently on a mission of creating many more success stories in the years to come.

6. Travis Dodd @travisdodd1

Travis Dodd, aka @Travisdodd1 has been absolutely killing it on social media. Being a serial entrepreneur, Travis Dodd has been able to push well into the 7 figure mark on online sales. He also has a massive network on social media Ranging from 60k followers all the way up to 2.1 followers per account. Travis Dodd started his instagram career mainly because he had a passion for the automotive industry! He had the most viral truck built that went all over social media being one of the first of its kind in the whole entire country. People began to steal images of his truck pretending it was their truck it went viral that much. After Travis Dodd saw how much attention his truck was getting he began to create his own personal brand based around it. One being a subscription company @Truckpak that now has over 6k followers) Stocking over 1,000s of products in his warehouse located in Tampa Fl , USA. Keep an eye on this 27 year old serial entrepreneur Travis Dodd / @Travisdodd1

7. Shaun Byrnes @shaunbyrnes

Shaun Byrnes is an Australian born brand ambassador, business man and CEO of a health and fitness startup.

After spending years helping expand companies across numerous industries, Shaun turned his attention to social media and his passion of health and fitness. Creating a new platform to completely unify the many disparate aspects of an booming culture, which is now mainstream and only continuing to boom.

Shaun lives fitness and tech; a unique combination. The platform he and his team are bringing to market, Shredded, is an ambitious take on a huge global market. Combining exercise and diet tracking, programming, personal training, wearables, payments and social in a single source of truth, Shredded simplifies, motivates and adds accountability for you to reach your exact goals.

Every day he documents his travels, fashion, business and busy lifestyle to an Instagram following of almost 100,000 people from around the world. The business has taken him from Florida to Finland, San Francisco to Singapore, on a journey to build something special; with the aim of helping people on their own health and wellness journey.

In a time where technology has moved to the forefront of our lives, Shaun is moulding his background as a software engineer with his unique flair for aesthetics and passion for fitness, into the new thing which people need and want. With almost 5,000 signups for the Shredded Beta, stay tuned for Shredded's launch and what he will do next.

8. Emily Ronning @emily_ronning

Emily Ronning, (@Emily_Ronning) on Instagram, is a 21 year old e-commerce entrepreneur from Arizona who has accumulated 900k+ followers and over a million dollars in revenue across her instagram accounts and companies over the last 5 years. She grew her pages from the ground up, working with many well known brands and celebrities. At 20 years old she started her own 100% organic health and beauty company, Sonoma Essentials LLC (@SonomaEssentials) on IG. Her self care brand took off in 2017 and has quickly reached it’s way to the top with over 100k followers on the company’s Instagram page and has reached the 7 figure sale mark in its first year. Her personal instagram, @Emily_Ronning, features motivating stories, hoping to push those who follow her to take risks and live to their full potential. Watch out for this young ladypreneur’s next move!

9. Michael Ronning @michael_ronning

23 year old Michael Ronning, @michael_ronning on instagram started his serial entrepreneur career at 19. Michael Ronning has successfully grown two businesses into the 7 figure mark on product sales as well grown a huge network on instagram of 3M followers. The largest account being 1.3M and smallest 500k. Michael Ronning started out marketing for various brands across Instagram and has now moved into doing his own businesses over the last 14 months. His two main businesses are @SonomaEssentials & @indigopetco. Sonoma Essentials is an all natural cosmetics company he started 14 months ago. Indigo Pet Co is one the top pet brands on instagram that he started this year. Both brands have surpassed 100k followers on Instagram and are growing rapidly everyday. Both brands stocked and shipped out of his hometown of PHX, Arizona. Michael plans to continue to dominate social media with his online businesses by scaling them everyday.

Follow him @michael_ronning on instagram to stay updated!

10. Harrison Frye @harrisonfryeventures

Professional Paintball Player, Fun loving Traveler, Adventure Taker, Harrison Frye lives an action packed life on the road but still has time to stop and smell the roses.

A man who is in touch with his "hippy" side, He shows a powerfully different perspective on how to enjoy precious free time.

Always traveling to different countries to play his sport, Paintball, at a professional level He constantly leaves room for "extracurricular" activities in the many countries he visits.

Savy with Buisness, Health, Wealth, Spirit, and Athletics, he loves to share his ideas on those matters he is passionate about.

"Never say no to an adventure" is his motto and daily mantra. His antics will leave you laughing or in awe.

Follow his FryeVentures across the World!

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12. Graftan Darnall

Graftan is a serial entrepreneur and branding guru, working with rapidly expanding consumer brands to develop the brand visions and key marketing strategies to back it up. He has grown successful branded companies in mens fashion, consumer electronics, e-cigarette/vape, and now the fast-paced cannabis industry with emphasis in CBD health & wellness (Cannabidiol). He also owns a software-backed service that significantly optimizes website page speeds commonly resulting in overnight jumps of revenue into the double digits for his clients. His brands are on track to far surpass the 7-figure revenue mark in the next 12 months. With profits and the ever expanding team, he plans to re-invest heavily to SAAS, branded subscription model products, and the cannabis industry. Graftan is positioned to become a major leader in the entrepreneurial community, with his extensive background in market positioning and growing brands. He primarily is the founder and CEO of his own businesses, but takes on selective consulting projects when passion strikes. Graftan feels he has a lot of value to share and is extremely passionate about nurturing and incubating other talented entrepreneurs to meet their potential.

13. Brian Cunningham @briancunningham_

Brian Cunningham –

Serial Entrepreneur. Business Consultant. Brand Ambassador. Motivational Leader.

From recently creating an online consulting / educational platform for startup entrepreneurs to plan, brand and launch their own companies featuring the resources offered through his digital marketing agency, to planning the first ever fashion show to run in conjunction to ArtBasel Miami, “what do the people need next?” is always on the mind of this self- made entrepreneur.

“My ultimate goal in being an entrepreneur is to empower people to realize their true ability to make their dreams come true. So many times, we hear of the rags to riches stories, while so many people in the middle class lives in a dull state of comfort and complacency. The young generations need to see the hard work it takes to truly become successful and realize that you really can have everything your heart desires, if you believe in yourself. Be relentless and purposeful in your pursuit of the dream. I’ll never have that ‘Oh I’ve arrived’ attitude. Three keys I live by: Know Your Purpose, Build Your Platform, Trust the Process.”

The next big project, named “FashionBasel,” is around the corner, set to take place in North Miami Beach this December 8, 2018, and he feels confident that every art - loving, fashion enthusiast will want to be there to see this fashion movement, in such an expressive time.