Ken Kobrick

This is an interview with Mickey Smith, a retired assistant team leader for Chesterfield county VA SWAT. He tells us that being a member of SWAT is more than just a job and what it's like to "go through the door" first. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ken-kobrick/support

This is an interview with Steve Prezioso, he's the General Manager for West Broad Honda in Richmond, VA. He tells us what he did to become the GM for a Honda dealership and how he learned every aspect of the car buying experience from talking to potential customers to delivering the vehicle and everything in between. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ken-kobrick/support

Ken Kobrick: Hey guys, this is Ken Kobrick. I’m bringing you another successful business person who’s going to tell us how they got where they are now. Today I’m excited to have Gayle Turner with me, he’s the executive producer of the Storytellers Channel, and he is going to tell us how he became a master storyteller. So without any further ado, Gayle, take it away. Gayle Turner: Thank you. Thank you. It’s funny when you asked me earlier was I a master storyteller and my response was, that’s what they tell me, because see I’ve been telling stories since they were called lies. So, it’s very interesting to actually stand up to people and say, “Yes, I am a storyteller.” I started performing in public when I was four years old. By the time I was 15 I got my first professional job as an actor and I spent 20 plus years in the theater before I moved on to doing other things. The years after the time I spent in the theater, I worked for advertising agencies and eventually I became a consultant, it’s a circuitous route that got me here. I like to say that if you look over the stern of my career, it looks like a drunk was at the helm. There’s been so many moves along the line. But I should say the through line though has pretty much always been story, because I believe we live into the stories we tell ourselves. I think the first time I became really aware of that was a movie in the ’80s called Mon Oncle d’aMerique. It means my uncle in America, it was a French film by a director name Alain Resnais. He showed these people who when they were in circumstances, they were always running a film clip in their head. And I began to realize how often I was playing a role. I would be doing something, but I was trying to live into a story that I was telling myself. And most often that story was, you know what, when my daddy have done I, I was deeply influenced by my daddy. As a matter of fact, I bought my first business when I was 10 years old and it was a direct result of my father having told me something that he had done when he was growing up. Consequently, I have always been drawn to being the guy in charge, so to speak. My dad used to say that anybody who’s paying attention some time or the other lies awake at night worrying about who’s making payroll. He said, “You know, there’s two choices. You can either be the guy lying there worrying how he’s going to make payroll, or you can be lying there worrying about whether the guy who is worrying about making payroll is worried about you being on it or not.” And so, I’ve been self-employed all but six years of my adult life. And even when I was an employee, my mindset was, how’s this company going to do what it’s doing? Selfishly, how are they going to make my check? So, you asked how I became the executive producer of the Storytellers Channel. It’s really a good story. I was sitting around with a buddy of mine who’s married to my first wife, he’s a great storyteller. He’s an artist, he’s a painter, he’s a chef, he’s an actor, he’s an all around Renaissance man. He said, “I need an audience.” And I said, “Me too.” He’s a writer, he said, “I’d like to pollock some of the pieces that I’ve been working on.” I said, “Yeah, me too.” I’m a firm believer that the sense of impending public humiliation will get you off your butt. So I went out and rented a theater and I said, “Okay eight weeks from now we have a performance date, what are we going to do? I wound up inviting a bunch of my other type A friends together and we’re sitting around a table, seven other men and a woman and divine inspiration. I had my buddy Sam, tell his story first, and he’s a great storyteller. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ken-kobrick/support

Brenton tells us how he went from a car salesperson to GM of Audi Richmond. There’s some golden nuggets here so check this out if you’re climbing the mountain and need a little help. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ken-kobrick/support

How the heck did I get here? I went from owning an up and coming handbag company to losing it all and starting over reborn in the digital world! My name is Ken Kobrick, follow my podcast as I teach and learn Instagram and come with me on my journey as I re start my business! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ken-kobrick/support