The Professional Failure Podcast

My story of failure: Not telling a babysitter where I was going.Mitchell graduated from Evangel University with a bachelor's degree in Business Management. He started with AGCU in 2012 and has served many roles inside the mortgage department, including Loan Officer, Processor, and Underwriter. Before moving to AGCU, Mitchell spent his career helping operate his family's businesses, learning a diverse set of skills that would help him in his roles at AGCU.Mitchell and his wife, Heather, have lived and worked in Springfield their entire lives. They have six children, Ella, Bentley, Parker, Thatcher, Juniper, and Adalyn. The Swanson Family enjoys outdoor activities, playing games, going to the lake, and spending time with friends and family.In today's episode Mitchell talks about:falling into lendingworking for his parentshaving someone follow through with him and offer him a positiontaking a pay cut to get his foot in the doorfocusing on lending nowworking for Mitchgrowing up in the business with friendsgreat memories of workingbeing a part of a small family businesspushing a broom as a kid in the shopcoming to basketball practice smelling like strawberry popcornhard work ingrained at a young agenot eating popcorn for 3-4 years after leavinghis dad as a mentor and instilling doing the right thingtaking care of and serving people first, no matter what“Even if there's an easier way, you do the right thing no matter what.”Royal Rangers and pinewood derbyunshaped woodbuilding his self confidence at a young agePaul Ebbish as a mentorFail forward fastbeing strategic as a small businessnot enough wordsbeing fortunate to have some direct mentorspassive mentorslunch with more experienced peopledon't chase the dollarsgrowing organically over the last decadesharing different perspectives ten years innice to be able to share nowhelping set him apartbeing an overbooked marketdoing the right thing and replicating with othersbuying a house is not a short term dealbeing the highest of integrity through the processcoming from a family of five kidstaking care of six high energy kidshis wife Heather and him wanting four kids in the beginningbeing scared from a physical standpoint to have more kidsgoing from fostering to adoptionnever anticipating six childrenthe same serving principle translates to homebeing entrusted with childrenthe ultimate goal is to be there for his kidswild days and making breakfasthis wife being a champion at homeworth the stress and hair lossthe willingness to enter the madnessdriving and listening to podcastspouring in passivelycoming into the industry in 2012everyday failureshumbling in the beginningthriving in failures  seeing rates in the threeslenders being overwhelmed“There's no excuses. You grind and figure it out.”being forced to look into the processsharpening himself through the processwouldn't have grown without the hard work and failuressome of the sharpest people in the industrytrying to solve it first and then helpingunicycle without training wheelsgetting hung up ona tough and character building timethe exciting thing right now in weird economic timesearning favor and building out a teamthe fun of watching a team succeedhard to imagine where he is nowsomething he needs to work onlike to look back and see that he hasn't lost his rootsgiving back like he was givenfinished building their housethe excitement of a new homeenjoying what God's created and 1/4 mile walkscontinuing the dating pattern and growing togethersparking a love for travelinga podcast with kidsMitch Swanson - LinkedInwww.agcu.com

My story of failure: Getting a hernia from lifting weights in high school.About Rachel Cooper: Sharing all amazon finds that I love and think you would as well. From fitness equipment, to health and wellness items, and all things in between. Follow me to catch my livestreams here on Amazon for interactive demonstrations and live workouts!In today's episode Rachel talks about:living an unhealthy lifestylemaking the shift to eating healthywanting to expand and change to an online presenceAmazon Livecomparing to QVCseeing the product being used in real timestarting from sheer vanityoperating her business out of a country club“When your physical health aligns, you want everything to align.”the main ways to make money through Amazon Livewater bottle exampleshopping from an Amazon carouselvideos and creatorspassive income is not so passiveher cousin being a mentor early on and to this daystory of failure about starting a YouTube documentaryworking with a filmmaker for future profitsbeing ghosted by a filmmakerwhy it's good to go for thingsgetting kicked down and pivotingbeing consistentwhy it's about pressing forwardwhat's the alternative?working on her own websitebuilding your business off the back of another platformrenting vs. owningaffiliate marketers and why they're successfulwww.rachelreviewsitnow.comthe flow of website trafficSEO and email marketingwhat she does with free productsnot promoting products she doesn't usewhat she hopes for RC Fitnesspersonal and group training via Zoom and in personZoom training sessionstraining in an affluent communitythe convenience of training onlinethe limits to training onlinemultiple categories of Amazon Livegetting into Amazon Live Programmore about engagement than followersthe success of live streaming in Chinawhy we're intrigued by what other people are doinga huge audience makes for a big profitRCfitness.nycwhy she does free live workouts on Amazon Livegenius marketingbuying a dumbbell set and watching previous videoswww.RCfitness.live ---Learn more at www.professional-failure.com!

My story of failure: Backing my parents SUV into our pastor's truck.Emily K. Louis is a worthiness coach, wife, mother, and host of the Abundance Grace Podcast! Emily helps people confidently be themselves! She wants people to own their worth so they can stop feeling like they need to be strong and have it all together. She offers individual and group coaching.In today's episode Emily talks about:an unlikely worthiness coachbeing annoyingly rule followingthe “good” checklistgrowing up under an abusive pastornot working to prove her worth anymorestepping into what God calls us intogetting past the pressureThe Pressure is Offtrying to handle the question with gracegrateful for where she ismentored in a narrow boxa church that thought they were the only ones that had it rightbeing genuinely afraid of truthbeing safe even though she's wrongfinding mentors after almost wanting to quitGretchen H. as a mentorborrowing belief from mentors until we own it ourselvesseeing what God has for someone before they dothe mental checklist that becomes a task listnot finding our identity in the place that it should bethe roller coaster that will burn us outLauren Dangle's Song You Sayconstantly being aware of turning anything into a checklistspeaking the Gospel over herself dailywords having the power of life and deathrecognizing patterns fasterlaying new foundationslaying a new foundation takes workstory of mistake setting up childcarenot having the right supportthe negative thought that came to her headowning the mistake but not letting it be a storynot letting failures mean more than it shouldmaking failures lightheartedcomplimenting yourself for trying“If beating yourself up was going to help you succeed, it would have worked already.”goal to be on a TedX Stagegrowing the Abundance Grace podcasthaving four littles at homeperfecting what she already hasdownplaying your hard and it not being healthypraying for God to expand our capacitythe trap of comparisoncomparing other people's hardeasily bypassing our emotionsher struggle a couple of weeks agotexting two people and sharing what was hardwhich one do I text? Why not both?we are worth taking care ofhow does Emily recharge?Sabbath being important and why it's profound that it's the tenth commandmentrememberingsetting aside time and creating margingoing for long walks, talking to God, and journalingnot liking to be boxed inThe Gift of Being Yourself by David Bennerwhy she loves connecting with peoplethe podcast not being her identityAbundance Grace PodcastInstagram @emily.abundantgracewww.emilyklouis.com/professionalfailure

My story of failure: Hitting a tree with a baseball bat and killing it.  Clayton Rothschild is an entrepreneur from Springfield, MO. He is very interested in the creative destruction and disruptive effect technology has on everyday life. His  favorite topics are those that are perhaps undergoing the most disruption: accessibility, economics, consumer behavior, and regulation.He is passionate about product development. He is also the co-founder and co-owner of CloudPano, the standard in 360º virtual tour software. CloudPano has been seen on Redfin and Zillow, and has clients across the globe.In today's episode Clayton talks about:why we failed at the in person interviewClayton's back problem in last podcast attempttraining for his first marathonco-foundng CloudPanovirtual tour softwareexpanding the CloudPano concept to other industriesworking tech consultingmaking his first website in 4th gradeserving Fortune 500 companieshustles that didn't hitthe story of the Baylor Information projectstory of Corpus Cristi Roofing leadsloving that Clayton took a chance and went after a projectwhy it's about executing wellbuilding a communications platform for frats and sororitiesbuilding a fake honor societywhat a 21 year old is expected of early ona bias toward actionsharpening your axea networking only available to college studentswhy startups are able to succeeddelivering value and innovation faster as a startupthe obvious answer of a mentorhis dad and mom being entrepreneurs and teaching him early ontalking business at the table with his parentshis mother making a rule at home that business can't be spoken at the dinner tablereading The New Yorker and Wall Street Journal as a teenagermeeting Clayton at a coffee shopinformal mentorshipsmentored by a managerdelivering electricity to customersputting supply on the grid and forecastingtrying to become a professional that creates valuea high degree of responsibilitylearning how to lead and operate teamsleadership is a balancemission first plus disciplinementors modelhis business partner as a mentorwhy he can be a little pessimistichow a sales person and tech guru can form a great partnershipcultivating the foilwhy CloudPano's success is about execution100% sales and 100% productbring on the rejection!a college student selling Cutco knives during the summerperfect code doesn't fully affect revenuebasically married to your business partnerreflecting on failures“Where has there been an abject failure in my life?”story of starting his career as an accountant and pivotinggeneral business literacy of accountingmaking a space website in 7th gradestarting his first job and realizing that accounting wasn't for himbuilding a transition logthe last of a generation of corporate employeesthe conviction of entrepreneurshiphaving the courage to recognize that your career choice may not be the right thing for yourestarting his careerwhy he grateful for his time as an accountantthe journey of an entrepreneur“Suffering is a huge component of entrepreneurship.”story of waking up early and grinding at Starbucks“The entrepreneurial journey has many moments of discouragement.”making assessments at the weekly or monthly levelsuspending emotion in the day to daywhat does God have in store for me?why working out teaches entrepreneurshipwhat is Clayton looking forward towhy he wants acreage and wants to homesteadokrapraying with discipline and physical posturebeing ok with the suspenseit can take a year or two to execute your goals and that's okhaving the discipline to say no to other projectsLinkedIn - Clayton Rothschildwww.claytonrothschild.comwww.cloudpano.com----Learn more at www.professional-failure.com!See clips from this episode at The Professional Failure YouTube Channel!

My story of failure: Not correctly tying my shoes and tripping over them.Dave Snyder is the CEO of CopyPress. His background in SEO, social media, and content marketing led Dave to look for a better way to scale and create content and market it. That search led to the formation of CopyPress. Today CopyPress is one the most trusted content marketplaces online working with brands like Sears, Macy's, Linkedin, Zenefits, and IHG.In today's episode Dave talks about:getting a creative writing degreeteaching and starting a websitedoing fantasy sports writinglearning SEOfaking it till you make ittripling revenue in eight months at 28starting his first agencybuilding the original blueprint for Copypressgetting kicked out of Blueglassstruggling for ten years out of the gatebeing ahead of the marketpenny a word contentfiguring out their nicheneeding time to figure out your identityhow AI effects businesseswhy AI can't think of new thingsan inherent issue with capitalfiguring out what products people wantnot letting your eyes fool youscaling up but having money issuesstart slow and perfect as you gogoing after the premium markethaving enough humilitydo it, fail, and then do the next thingstructure chaos and building on what worksthe only reason Dave had a partner in businessnot being the grind guynot wanting to let everyone downconfidence vs survivalwhy Dave developed into a good salesmanbeing genuine and transparent to a faultnot trying to sell peoplenot a one size fits all solutionthe biggest failure for Dave with cashflowcashflow problemsmerchant credit account loanspredatory loans for businessesfloating loans revolving for five yearsbeing concerned with the interest rates and people taking loanshaving to personally guarantee short term loansfiguring out cash forecastinghaving to cut expenses and getting profitablethree years to pay down loansbuilding his own software to forecast cashflowmaking sense from a risk perspectiveAI not being creativeAI not creating anything wholly newhow AI could potentially replace developersspammers and AIkids using ChatGPT to do homeworkmoving apart sociallysome form of this has always existedoutsourcing tweets and social media to Fiverrcapitalism will figure itself outburst of people doing dumb stuff and then fading outthe end of social media?an exciting time for business ownersautomating tasksAI sourcing and plagiarismNFT's and copyrightspeople suing over lack of accessibilitywhy you have other cryptocurrenciesthe stability of Bitcoinonly worth what someone is willing to pay for itnothing that keeps Bitcoin from going to zerothe lack of utility of Bitcoinevery investment carrying a riskFTX and the exchange being gone, and being too wild westregulating Ripple and why it would stabilize the marketwhy you might as well gamblewhy Dave likes building producthow he's going to help his employees grow and make more moneycreating cool productgiving up social media and whyemail: dsnyder@copypress.comwww.copypress.com

Story of failure: Accidentally killing a baby kitten when I was younger.Today's guest is Dr. Chase Kelly!About Chase:I am proud to serve my hometown community of Springfield, Missouri, by providing an environment where patients feel safe and where they can trust me as their lifetime dentist. I desire for all of my patients to be excited to visit the dentist and understand the long-term benefits of oral health. My team and I focus on the patient as a whole, and want them to feel we are different from the dental experiences they have had in the past by getting to know the patient as individuals we respect and care for. I believe that listening to our patients and understanding their needs, goals and lifestyles helps my team provide better overall care and achieve better results for our patients.I spend hundreds of hours each year learning new techniques for patient care related to orthodontics, dental technology and materials, cosmetics, implant dentistry, and team building. When we meet as a team to work on the patient experience, I really feel it brings our team together so we may continue to work better to streamline and make it easy to become a lifelong patient at Kelly Dental.I achieved my bachelor's degree from Drury University before attending UMKC School of Dentistry to earn my Doctor of Dental Surgery degree. While in school, and even since graduation, I have spent time teaching other students and dentist techniques related to operative dentistry and dental photography.In today's episode Chase talks about:why it's hard to answer questions seriously with Justinthought he wanted to be brain surgeonwhy someone directed him to dentistrybuying a practice from a retiring dentistdrinking though a firehoseignorance was bliss early onhaving a previous dentist as a mentornot liking payrollwhy teeth only have one responsefeeling like a fake Doogie Howserdon't forget to be yourselfseeing people you grow up with in professional settingspatients aren't a giant tooth walking in the door“If people like you, people will keep coming back.”why Chase wanted to be a brain surgeonconnecting circuitry and wires to solve problemslike the Oscars and Grammyswhy his grandpa was such a big mentor for himhis grandpa starting in the cotton fieldstrying to keep his grades up“If your axe is dull, you just gotta swing harder.”story of organic chemistry as a class  40% of you won't be here tomorrow“It's always easier the second time.”  Grandpa Kellyhis parents being mentorsseeing a Godly marriage with his parents and how they made itnot sure how to move forward with his practice and why he paid someone to help themhaving a coach/mentorwhy it's important to find someone that's been successful and learn from themChase's Dentist EpisodeChase's story of failurethe anxiety of dental schoolseeking out mentorship from his familygrowth failures with his practicehumbling himself down to learnleadership failureshaving that gut feelingmessing up but giving yourself grace and asking for forgivenessa mindset of thankfulness after a mistakebeing able to know when you screw up“You point the finger, and there's four fingers pointing back at you.”why Justin has disconnected with people in the pastwhy you never make it as a leaderWhy President Obama has charismaidentifying where your flaws arehow Chase overcomes the discouragement of failuregiving yourself grace in moments of failurethe mental toughness of improvingnot loving delegating but needing help“When you think you're a good leader, think about hiring someone that does what you do.”filling out the space he currently hasdoubling in the last two yearswhy leadership and fear of failure can be intimidatingwanting someone to stick aroundwhat Chase is looking forward to telling himself in five yearsgetting rid of the golden handcuffswhy he likes to still ride is bikeJustin's mountain biking failure storyChase's favorite places to ridewhy he likes Fellow's Lakewhy he likes NW Arkansas to rideSlaughter Pin trails in Arkansas www.kelly-dental.comInstagram - @kelly_dentalThe Dental Practice Heros Podcast - Chase Kelly

Story of failure: Sitting on and breaking my newish pair of sunglasses.Dr. Rosemarie Downer is a dedicated follower of Christ who aspires to having the closest relationship with Christ possible. Her service in the body of Christ primarily involves teaching and preaching. She also spent well over 30 years serving in youth ministries. Other focus areas in her ministry include women and single adults. As well, she often ministers on issues that address emotional healing and well-being. She counts every opportunity to minister an ultimate privilege from God the Father and does not take it lightly.She is the founder and former President of BRYDGES (Building Responsible Youth by Delivering Genuine Enrichment Services), over which she functioned as the President for 15 years − 2001 through 2016. She is a published author of The Self-Scarred Church and several parenting handbooks. Additionally, she is the author of a comprehensive ministry development course – Find and Occupy Your Place and the Continuum of Care Youth Ministry Development Handbook.Dr. Downer served at The U.S. Department of Agriculture as a social science researcher for 20 years and as an adjunct professor at Bowie State University for 24 years. She is now retired from both positions and is currently a private consultant doing grant writing and research and evaluation. In addition, she is doing what she dreamed of doing for years, and that is to write books to edify the body of Christ.Dr. Downer writes inspirational nonfiction books that are based on the Word of God. Her main reason for writing is to make a permanent record of what our heavenly Father has to say to His people through her pen of a ready writer. Her deepest desire is that the readers' lives will be transformed as, by faith, they apply the words from the pages of her books.In today's episode Dr. Downer talks about:first academic book about parenting stylesfirst non-fiction book being written in 2009having to forgive your offendersthe mandate of forgiveness“Writing is easy, the rest is what's hard.”why it's never worth telling the storyskip the story and tell the victoryher vehicle for healinghurt getting in the way of her relationship with the Lordobeying the mandate to forgivehearing her mother singing at the kitchen sink to Godcrying because she loved the Lordasking for Baptism at age 7her mom's strongest message to hernever being pressured to be marriedwhen her mom was the proudestEvelyn Marshall as a mentorSamuel Carson asking her to preachon the preaching rotation first woman not ordained“if you can teach, you can preach.”a lack of understanding of the scripturesdistinguishing teaching from preachingbeing a passionate personteaching is how deep you go into the conceptsher latest book, D's and F's won't dodoubt, distraction, discouragement, depressionfrustration, failure, fearthe sword to put out the fiery darts against ussetting the foundation and getting it right“We have all failed. Just cut out the pride.”failure story when she defended her PHDwhy her mom said she needed to go back to Jamaica so she could feed herher pet peeve and why cheapen thingsbeing an overachiever and perfectionisttoo much data, not enough findingsnot knowing how she drove home that daywaking up in the middle of the night and figured out a way forwardfailure is not final“Failure teaches us lessons…don't overcomplicate it.”don't give in, don't give up“In order to overcome failure, we must be resilient.”failure happens to us, not in ushow do you handle the failure?the driving scenarioyou're going to hit some potholes, sharp turns, and bad weatherskipping rocks by myself by the lake“Failure is supposed to make us stronger.”there are no small failuresfailure is failure“Failure does not devalue us.”Jesus' missionsetting her standards really highmediocre is not in her vocabularyimpact is what we're aiming atwhy are we overcomplicating it?what Dr. Downer does in her down timewhy she loves walking trailsher favorite travel placeswhy she loves Israelthe deep experience for a believerdoing more conferences and retreatsstarting her next bookwriting two books a yeartopics coming from prayermaking sure what she writes is inspired by the Lordnot wanting to minister out her intellectwanting to die emptywhy she believes whenever the word of God is dispense, something should changewhy she wants something supernatural to happenwww.booksbyrosemarie.comFacebook - Dr. Rosemarie DownerRosemarie Downer Amazon 

Story of failure: Trying to protect our car from hail damage but getting a bigger dent instead.Today's guest is Clinton Young! As an Internationally Recognized Professional Speaker and Self-Leadership Expert, I am humbled by the opportunity to positively impact the hearts, minds, and lives of thousands of people from stage.Through my research, I've found that too many people, (even some of the most successful), are moving through life unconsciously, feeling stuck, lacking direction and belief in themselves.With a mission to inspire an awakening and elevation of consciousness in the world, my keynote speech “Reigniting Your Human Spirit” inspires you to question unexamined assumptions about what's truly possible and discover limiting beliefs holding you back. Through dynamic storytelling and engaging content, I combine unconventional wisdom gleaned from experience with actionable insights to instill confidence, empowering you to unlock your full potential.Rather than provide a mere training where participants learn a new technique to implement in their life only to receive an incremental gain, my message allows for a paradigm shift. This shift provides a whole new lens through which to see the world resulting in exponential gains in personal fulfillment and organizational performance.A recent audience member declared, “You challenged my mind, touched my heart, and inspired my soul”! Another proclaimed, “This is a Message for Humanity!”With a lofty vision of co-creating a global shift in positive consciousness, I've recently spoken to over 50,000 people globally, sharing stages with some of today's top thought leaders.It would be my honor to speak for your sales conference, corporation, university, association, entrepreneur group, pro sports team, church group, service club, or network marketing organization, delivering a world-class keynote speech, groundbreaking team building half or full day program, or powerful and intimate leadership retreat.In today's episode Clinton talks about:full time RV'er and pickle ball coachliving in a van down by the riverstory of who he is and what his purpose ishaving success as an entrepreneur and then 2008 happenslosing his business and credit score within 3 monthsseminar leader telling him that he was dead insidealways followed his intuition and where that lead himbuying real estate for all the wrong reasonsthinking that his intuition failed him but what he learnedblack sheep habitsa Harry Potter lightning boltfailing his intuitionwalking in nature and restgetting the tingles and following thempersonal growth and developmentfeeling very deeplysharing the Black Sheep habitsmeditation and closing your eyesquieting your mind and being presentbeing in three areaslevel of confusioncontemplating and negative ion exchangesallowing thoughts to emergebenefits of journalingpatterns in what you're writingthe concept of natural flowThe Flow Profilebeing in alignment with flowgrounding and walking on the beachvisualization and what it doesstory of Michael Phelps and visualizationwinning in your mindthe most important part of visualizationfinding something that lights them upThe Discovery Process formulastory of Clinton being in grad school and cross-cultural studiesbeing a psychology geekwanting to study overseashaving a mentor that questioned everything he wanted to dotalking to anyone that could help him“Who do you know that I should talk to about this?”“If you want what you want in life, you have to be willing to courageously step into the unknown.”within three months, living an working overseashaving belief that what he thought was possiblethe power of inspirationinterests turn into passionssurrounding yourself with people that are ahead of youlittle kid confidenceNapoleon Hill “The mere thought of a desire is it's proof that it's possible for you.”universal principals“That thought can turn into that thing as long as you believe it's possible.”having to take actionhow he found the RV lifestyle and pickle ballsometimes wise people give the wrong advicewanting to experience more mobilityrenting a 40 foot RV and falling in love with the RV lifetraveling around the US playing pickle balllooking for a way to exercise with his wife and not feel like working outstory of how he found pickle ball in a dentist chaireveryone smiling an laughinglearning to play pickle ballMajor League Pickleballstory of the beginning of Pickle Ball 4 Lifethere's no crying in pickle ballwhy he was crying about pickle balllimiting belief of his life being over competitivelyfeeling good and helping other people find things that make them feel gooda catalyst for positive change in the worldwhy we need more things for adults to act like kidsChicken and PickleDreamland in Austin, TXwww.clintonyoung.comInstagram - @clintonspeaksFacebook - Clinton Young----Learn more at www.professional-failure.com!

Story of failure: Formatting an SD card from a trip to Costa Rica.Erik Cabral left corporate America after 20+ years. He jumped head first into real estate investing in order to achieve financial freedom. Educating himself, building networks, and analyzing hundreds of deals he purchased his first multi-family building in less than one year. He's a partner in the Renault Winery & Resort, which is the 2nd oldest winery in the US, offers private capital to his network of investors for various projects and looks for opportunities to expand and grow his network.Erik is the founder of the media agency, On Air Brands; the innovative networking and podcasting event PodMAX; the real estate investment company Mindado Investment Group; host, co-host, and producer on multiple shows: Entrepreneurs Circle, Capital Hacking, Cashflow Ninja, and VaynerMedia's Chief Heart Officer Claude Silvers' show, “Emotional Optimism: Living in the Silver Lining”. With multiple businesses, partnerships, and podcasts Erik is the quintessential “serial entrepreneur” who spends much of his time helping others grow their businesses, brands, and reputation.Erik loves to share his decades of experience in creative, branding, and marketing strategies as well as helping others leverage the power within the podcasting platform.Erik sits on the board of a 1,000+ member real estate investor group called SJREIA. He is also a proud member of GoBundance, which is a tribe of millionaires seeking to share all successes, struggles, ambitions, and failures without being judged.Erik holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in NYC and lives in Central NJ, with his wife and two daughters.In today's episode Erik talks about:celebrating on the 100th episodeOn Air Brands podcasting agencybeing a graphic designer before real estate and podcastingtwo decades of climbing the corporate ladderloved getting in the weedsscary excitingsaving along a runway before leaving his jobassessing his monthly “nut”left brain vs. right brainErik's wife trusting him to succeed in real estatecould have easily married someone different but lucky to marry his wifemaking the right decisions when it mattersmentors in the form of managersAngelo Ritocco as a mentormodeling his management style after a previous mentortrial by fire in real estatedropping a lot of coin on real estate educationaligning with whoever was in the front of the roomsqueaky wheel type guylocal guy named Rick that mentored Erikwriting deals on napkins during lunchNapoleon complex from short managerscurmudgeon type of men but getting past the hard shellcertain personality types that lean towards helping peopleyou just have to askgetting a little cocky and moving on from mentorsmoving towards syndication and larger dealshow tricky it is to value previous mentors and still move onstaying in touch with previous mentorsembrace the “f” wordshiny object syndromenot cool to be unfocusednot loving real estate, but loving the returnsliking passive investmentstarting On Air Brandsclients wanting to interview people he knewgetting everyone in the same roomlive podcasting eventsassembling a great teamVaynerMedia starting to pay attentionGary V telling Erik he doesn't have patience and that his product stinksPodmaxnot liking a business model and punting on an ideaCaleb Silver scheduled as next event and cancellingso much happening from creating a company that stopped workinggetting into the network of some great peopletrying is better than not tryinganything is possible, but there are levels of difficultydiscerning source and experience of advice“Oh, this is what focus looks like.”making the decision to shift his focus and business modelletting clients gowhy you're saying yes a lot in the beginningfocusing the teams energy on what will grow the companyGoBundance events taking a lot of timeknowing what he needs to do and why it's difficulthow starting a company can get boringdoing things that are repetitious and predictableputting a book into motionthe importance of a personal brandgetting the business to a stable point and not needing himbuilding blocks of consistencyhaving a weekend flingon the fast track to burnoutfour shows every week for a year and a halfcreating something of valuehearing new stories every podcastpod-fading awaycommitting in the beginningknowing that I needed to do it for a yearthe many benefits of podcastinghaving to spend money to gain experience in the pasthow podcasting helped his speaking skillputting the reps inreaching milestones in businessalways being vulnerable in businesslearning so much in a previous venture that would catapult to the next thing“Diluted focus equals diluted results.” Gary Vadenfocusing vs. being focusedless travel and more time at home this yearsomething to giveFree Guide Best Tips And Practices For Being a Guest/Host on Podcastswww.erikcabral.coErik Cabral - Instagram Erik Cabral - Facebook Erik Cabral - LinkedIn----Learn more at www.professional-failure.com! 

Story of failure: Giving the wrong code to an AirBnb guest and locking them out the entire night.Jake Ingledue is a United States Air Force veteran, entrepreneur, real estate investor, host of The Growth Circle Podcast, and much more! He is originally from Oregon, currently lives in Springfield, MO, and is a self-improvement enthusiast! He's also a self-proclaimed ‘average dude with above average dreams!'In today's episode:average dude with above average dreamshaving a podcast and pest control businessnot stressing out paycheck to paycheckbeing in control of his timejoined the military forces out of high schoolworked with The Reapers in the militarygoing on a two-year church missionfrom Oregonmet a girl on the mission and got married three months after he returnedgoing to school to be a dentist but decided not to finishdoor to door pest control sales as a college studentdropped out of college and started a pest control businessnot currently living the lifestyle he wantedowning a job, not a businesscreating systems in order to get back timereading about real estate deals in collegebuying a house knowing it would be a rental somedaythought it would be fun to have a podcastgetting deeper with conversations and being more vulnerablenot having many good mentors in the beginninggood parents but struggled to pay billsreading books and books as mentorsa lot of mentors that don't know they're mentorshaving a mentor in your pocketthe easiness of the waylistening to a book and reading at the same timewriting concepts and teaching himself on whiteboardsFavorite Podcast: Ed Mylett ShowFavorite Book from 2022: 100 Million Dollar Offerssharing mistakes and mishaps is where learning happensstory of failure: door to door salesbeing a naturally gifted salesmana summer leading the way in sales and then losing motivationgoing through a depression state“I wish that I would have grinder a little harder.”searching for purpose beyond moneypossibly being OCD and thinking through thatenjoying the ride of entrepreneurshipthe American culture and stigmatism of work ethiccreating a schedule helps a balanced lifestyle“I think you can grind and have more harmony in your life.”hyperfocusgiving himself grace and knowing he's humanhaving a personal visionslowing down and being consistentsystematizing his lifegetting ready to launch new podcast Pest Control Podcasthelping young entrepreneursfocusing more on creative routinesthe two-day ruleone minute and five-minute miraclesSlight Edge Booksmall tiny things that lead to big miracleswhy success is relativeasking a no questionachieving a certain level of success relative to himserving a two-year missionsharing the message of Jesus Christno girls, no dates, no moviesserving with younger guyslearning that he loves teachingasking inspiring questions and connecting with peoplestory of guy answering the door with a shotgununcomfortableness of wearing a white shirt and riding a bikeovercoming what people think of himstory of man coming into a home and breaking things because he was mad at ex-wife and motherhaving the inner battle of a missionary“Enjoy the journey and be more present and intentional with your time.”struggling with chasing the future Instagram - @jakeingledueJake Ingledue - TikTokGrowth Circle Podcast (Episode w/ Justin)417 Pest Control  

Story of failure: Losing my Dad's antique anchor in the water.Dan Nunney lives in Cleveland, Ohio with his wife and three kids. He is the founder and owner of Golf Cart Garage, an online business dedicated to selling golf cart parts with superior customer service. He is also the founder of Side By Side Garage, and is a co-founder of The Long Game Fund, a crypto fund dedicated to investments in the cryptocurrency space. Dan is also a former attorney and has worked on Wall Street with a hedge firm, bringing him perspectives that few people possess. He attended Indiana University and received his law degree from Northern Illinois University.  In today's episode Dan talks about:from Cleveland, OH and married with three kidsalways wanted to be a business ownerwanting control over his freedomcleaning golf clubs and mowing lawns as a kida Craigslist for Universitiesmaking all the mistakes possible with a new business ideagetting a real job and working for a hedge fundafter 2008, going back to schoolgetting a law degree and working too muchwalking through life without a purposenot wanting to be like the guy a sat next to at work and how it woke him upquitting and starting a golf cart parts online storeworking in the back office of the hedge fund and learning with open eyesalways being interested in learningmistake of not having enough mentors early onalways wanting to do the opposite of everyone elseJesse Itzler as a mentor NetJetsMisogi Year of Challengestory of a kid scoring 8 goals and how he improved5 minutes a dayspending quality time with each of his three kidsowing his son $27.50teaching his kids skills and working with them at least five minutes a daywhy it's easy to forget you're a good parenta local friend as a mentorBob Campana as a mentorliving with intentionprioritizing goals based on valueclimbing the ladder on the wrong buildingwhy he couldn't do a side hustle with lawwriting his time down every six minutesburn the ships routea photo of a guy he didn't want to be like in his closetletting his law license expirestarting a crypto fundlike the early days of airplanesbeing very much into Bitcoindifferent crypto funds for investorsthe current bloodbath of cryptositting in cash and not getting impatientgiving credit to his OG partnerspicking the right partnersnot orange pilling people anymorewhy everyone will come to Bitcoin in their own timecomparing Bitcoin to the early days of the internetwhy it's hard to be associated with cryptothinking of Bitcoin as a massive computer networkwhy Dan doesn't make any price predictions anymoreif macro is bad, everything is badmassive growth over the last two years and dealing with repercussionswhy losing focus is badpositive green shoots in business“I go into action and start trying to figure out the problem.”“I am just seeing the results of not putting in great effort.”“Every single day, get a little bit better, and those efforts will compound.”how bamboo grows and compounding effectsbeing patient in the root building yearswhy cold plunges intimidated him in the beginningdoing one hard thing in the morning, making the rest of the day easierdone wiping butts and changing diapershaving to be a different dad to each of his kidsa brand new challenge everydaytrying every single day to get betterwanting to have the same relationship with his wife and kids five years from nowhoping 2023 is the year of relationshipssending three messages a day to people you care aboutchecking off the box on his daily tracker www.golfcartgarage.comwww.sidebysidegarage.comThe Long Game FundFacebook - Dan Nunneydnunney@gmail.com

Story of failure: Not having a conversation with my mom in a respectful way.  Levi Skinner is a real estate investor and guru from the great midwest. He lives with his wife Lindsay, and their dog Leo and cat Xena, in Springfield, MO. Levi was a standout athlete in high school and college, and pursued a degree in accounting. Once in the accounting world, he decided to make a change to real estate and hasn't looked back. He now spends his time looking for real estate investment, helping clients, and helping businesses and investors understand their numbers.In today's episode Levi talks about:growing up with siblings on a farmleaving accounting to pursue real estateleveraging his CPA background in real estatewhat is a billing analyst?creating systems in excel spreadsheetstrying to be as efficient as possiblegetting into the numbers of a real estate dealwhat is underwriting?helping others build spreadsheetshaving a good dad as a mentorhaving a brother as a mentorbeing a momma's boy growing upmom being a big supporterstory of mom yelling in a basketball gameLevi giving the story of Justin being a mentorbeing a head case freshman yearbeing a perfectionist in baseball and working through itJustin getting heated as a fill in coachhaving professional hopes in baseball“Failures have taught me how to bounce back.”“You're going to fail a lot in your life.”story of failure - second year of marriagenot treating his wife in the best way and realizing itstarting to clean the kitchen after midnight in angerquitting his job after his wife urging him toneeding to take a step backa failure that lead to something coolcommunicating more effectively with his wifesurrounding himself with good people and sharing failures and succeseshaving a close group of guys across the countrylearning from other peoplestarting a new storage unitwhat is a storage unit?having a goal setting meeting with his wifeovercoming being a penny pincherinvesting in marriagewanting to travel moreloving God and proving the best possible life for your familybeing grateful for being blessedbeing a podcasting prowatching the Professional Failure podcast growLinkedIn - Levi Skinner----Learn more at www.professional-failure.com!

Story of failure: Spilling green matcha all over my new white shirt.Hi, I'm Ian Barnard, a hand lettering artist and calligrapher. I have a passion for inspiring, entertaining and helping people to get better at their lettering skills through videos on my Instagram and Youtube channels and also creating and selling digital lettering brushes for the iPad.I also am co-host of a popular creative podcast called The Honest Designers Show, where we give you a transparent look into life as a modern designer. You can find us on most podcasting platforms or check out our website honestdesigners.comI live in a small town just outside London, England with my wife and 2 kids. Attend and help out at my local church and try to balance my love of food by running and riding my mountain bike.In today's episode Ian talks about:originally being a graphic designerleaving his job to freelance on the same day his son was borndecided to teach himself a hobbyteaching himself calligraphyusing Instagram to get feedback on his progressstarting to get work inquiries after he improvedgetting paid for his hobbygetting paid not based on client incomestarting into the world of stock design assetsmaking products to sell on Creative Marketfiguring out effects on certain productsgoing all in on selling products onlineprogressing to typefaces and Procreate assetsthe journey of setbacksself-critiquing your workbeing ok with a product not doing well and moving onsense of being down and working through itlearning through the process to get to the higher mountainloving the adrenaline of releasing a productseeing further into the hope of the futurea healthy competitionproducing things that he likes and not what will necessarily just sellgetting inspiration from Pinterestrealizing he's good a problem solvinglessons from the spinning beach ballbeing ok with the fact that there may not be a solutionthe journey of hits and flopshard to stay positive when you're down in the valleyhis willingness to trya teacher being a mentor growing up, Big Zachhis dad being a head master growing upthe mentorship of a man from Ugandacreating a font, releasing it, and making another onefailures with fontslearning shortcuts and learning how to build“You think you failed…and then you realize it was worth it in the end.”free font that was given away being the most popularstory of a free font showing up on a store windowstory of his font showing up on Krispy Kreme and getting free donutsthe skill of typography and learning the processteaching lettering in the UKteaching his own kids letteringhis son playing soccer and not forcing him to do anythingplaying in the park during the middle of the pandemichis son not wanting to train, just playing for fun“I think that's where you learn the best, when you're having fun.”“The best ideas have come when I'm just having fun.”making lettering out of rubix cubesrealizing your creativity through playingdoing courses online and making his own leather walletbeing intimidated by a custom typeface for a clientnot being great with client relations“I just want to create and deliver the goods.”the back and forth battle of an artistclient liaisons and the trickiness of not having themthe pandemic breaking his consistencymore natural being on video and hearing his voicethe steps to good YouTube videosthe laborious process of videosreleasing a video every week and a product every three weeksthe anxiety of the pandemicfamiliar things feeding his creativity and the lack thereof during the last couple of yearssome people not being affectedshould have started the cat typography videos sooner!Instagram - @ianbarnardTwitter - @ian_barnardYouTube - Ian BarnardDribbblewww.ianbarnard.comwww.ianbarnard.netThe Honest Designers Show Podcast---Learn more at www.professional-failure.com!

Story of failure: Getting my eye brows singed from lighting a bonfire.Sean Williams is an artist, standup comedian, carpenter, and future movie star and prop maker. He lives in Kansas City, MO with his wife Shelby, where he dreams, creates, and brings unique characters into the world. His work has been seen on The Pat Mcafee Show, and Undisputed, with Shannon Sharpe and Skip Bayless. Sean continues to dream up amazing creations and bring them to life. You can reach Sean though his Instagram @the.world.of.sean.In today's episode Sean talks about:doing test run podcasts with Seancousins-in-law?getting into art and sports growing upmom teaching third gradethere was always some sort of art in his lifehaving an artistic familyapplying competitive thinking to artstory of dad teaching him the shape of a facecomparing football with artwhere there's a will, there's a way!“How do I do that, rather than can I do that?”the original Mike Tyson pillow that lead to Mahomesthe process of coming up with a weird end gamegetting in front of Gracie Hunt and giving her a dealmaking Chief pillows for old and new team membersgetting into stand up comedyhis weird life plan laid outwanting to solve a problem by going on stagewriting and telling jokesgetting locked in and getting over insecurities“If you really want to do something, you just figure out how to do it.”telling standup by subject, instead of chronologicalnot having the experience, and getting past the early stagesNorm McDonald and his influence on his jokesavoiding the low hanging fruit and doing a little more workthe skill of failing wellthe philosophy of stoicism  preparing yourself for the bad things to happenpreparing to frame cease and desist letterstricking your brain on enjoying the hard part“It's the journey, not the destination.”the old guys were on to something“Success is a byproduct of you doing what you enjoy.”the story of the mask of Skip Baylessart is literally constant failuredrawing in a weird sketching motiontrying to draw Tom Hardyme trying to paint Steph Curryart theory class in collegea photography of an apple isn't a real applecommunicating to someone through art with the right elements“Well, that didn't work. Try something else.”“Once you stop failing, you're not going to do anything.”not having the juice, or needing to get betterthe lesson of the dog gladiator sculpturelearning to mitigate loss and pivot easilywhy he thinks at some point that his art looks terriblebattling anxietygetting advice from knowledgable people to get to the finish linefirst getting out of college and getting ahead of himselfprocrastinating in school and getting away with itforming bad habits and having to break themthe story of Picasso in the marketpeople don't value your skills unless you value your own skillstrying to make a rod puppetthe intimidation of figuring out something new and making a careerthe caretaker in Harry Potterwanting to give the memorable line in a movieelements of people making up a mentorhis dad building draw bridges out of cardboardwhy he wants to tell himself, “It worked.”what kind of tea?Instagram - @the.world.of.sean---Learn more at www.professional-failure.com!

Welcome to 2023! Today's episode feature no guest, but I share one of my favorite, if not my favorite, story from 2022. It's called The Story of the Fisherman, and it really helped my solidify futures goals and perspectives of success. I hope it helps you stop and think as well! You can also find the story in written form here on my blog. ----Learn more at www.professional-failure.com!

No guest today! A belated Merry Christmas!Story of Failure: Justin shares a story of when he was young and pouted about not getting what he wanted. He tells why he is so thankful his dad has the courage and foresight to discipline him. ---Learn more at www.professional-failure.com!

Story of failure: Burning vegetables in the air fryer.Mr. Robert “Cujo” Teschner is a combat veteran. He's a former F-15 “Eagle” instructor at the prestigious U.S. Air Force Weapons school—the Air Force “Top Gun” program. He's also a former F-22 “Raptor” fighter squadron commander, having commanded one of America's precious few operational F-22 fighter squadrons.During his time teaching at the Weapons School, Cujo served as the U.S. Air Force's Subject Matter Expert on the practice of team accountability. His published work from that time is still in use throughout the Air Force today. Specifically, Cujo authored “The Vocabulary of the Debrief” and helped mold the Methodology of the Debrief, defining the language and accountability practices that the Air Force uses to the present day.A 1995 distinguished military graduate of the Air Force Academy and a 2013 distinguished graduate of the National War College, Cujo retired from the Air Force in December 2015, achieving the rank of full Colonel. But because of a battle with colorectal cancer, Cujo and his family decided to retire from the Air Force early. Team Teschner's ambition was to focus on Cujo's health and to accommodate the fact that his body was largely broken. This led to Cujo's introduction to entrepreneurship.Back when he was teaching at the Weapons School, Cujo believed that the principles he was teaching applied to a much wider audience. In fact, as Cujo started to refine and update the Accountability practices he would teach for the entirety of his time at the Weapons School, he also started thinking about translating those principles to business. Once cancer forced him to give up his ability to fly high-performance fighter aircraft, he pivoted to teaching businesses the principles that allow all teams to thrive in disruption. And he's never looked back.Cujo is now the founder and CEO of VMax Group, an international leadership training company. He is also the national bestselling author of Debrief to Win: How America's Top Guns Practice Accountable Leadership … and How You Can, Too! His second book, Aiming Higher: A Journey Through Military Aviation Leadership also immediately went to #1 on the Amazon bestseller list. Cujo has built his growing company from scratch, and everyone in the company is committed to the company's purpose: To teach and inspire real teamwork so that teams thrive in disruption and keep our economy strong.In today's episode Cujo talks about:watching Star Wars as a kid in St. Louis, MOidentifying with Luke SkywalkerTop Gun and the roar of fighter pilotsdisappointment of not getting accepted into the academy at firstfighter jet with 104-0 record in combatteaching in flight schoolcommanding a fighter squadrongetting colon cancer diagnosis and pivotingthe pain of colon cancer and having to retire earlydeciding to live someplace close to familyraised as a Cardinals fanbecoming an entrepreneurhow do you build a team that wins?building the VMAX Grouplife is always going to be hard but how do we deal with the challenges?the importance of the debrief“The best teams on the planet know how to learn well.”failing in a positive wayas a fighter pilot, it's impossible to do everything perfectlytwice the speed of soundpassing another fighter in the sky9 times the force of gravityyour blood being pulled out of your brain and eyesthe dangerous environment of trainingthe story of a practice dog fightthe fighter pilot objectivethe mechanism to make the next mission better than the lastreinforcing the goodExcellence In All We Dofree from pride and egohumble, approachable, and crediblenobody's ever going to be perfectthe one debrief of Top Gun and why it has changedteaching teamwork principles across America“The best leaders are the best instructors.”a team with a willingly vulnerable leadertimes of not being a good instructor and learning from ithis dad as a big mentorhis dad winning a bronze star in Vietnamloving being around JAG officers at the baseGary Langford as a mentorsquadrons with strong commanders and leadersdoing something epically wrong and learning through itall that needed to be said about a mistakemovie to watch: 12 O'Clock Highfailing consistently and early and bouncing backpainting some degree of calmdoing something that would highlight youtrying for the Wings of the Blue Parachute Teamgetting a cold before the first high altitude jumpgetting sick on the wrong dayconditioning himself to know nothing goes according to plan“How are you going to bounce back and be resilient?”graduating #1 in pilot training and making it to F-15 school and working through failurestory of failure: tape review after his first practice battledoing the exactly wrong thing while thinking he was doing the right thingthe X-rideover G-ing the aircraftpassing the Elimination Rideworking from the bottom of the bottomon the cusp of eliminationtaking full accountabilitywilling yourself“You don't know how you're going to respond to something until you're in that situation.”“Once the mission is done, it's done.”centering on team purpose at homehow cancer drew his wife and him even closerthe epic failure turning into a tipping point in his journeya prayer in the early phase of the diagnosisCujo's ongoing ambitionhelping America dream againshowing people the wayyou can't be defensive in the debrieftelling himself “You were right! And it's working!”lucky to have a great familynew team members to VMAXBook - Debrief to Winwww.RobertTeschner.com www.Vmaxgroupllc.com

Story of failure: Driving off with a gas pump handle in my car.Rocky Lalvani officially retired from corporate America (hooray!), but he has plenty of hobbies that keep him busy. He loves traveling with his wife of 24 years and two kids, flipping and/or renting houses, coaching two high school robotics teams, and volunteering in his community.Although he's always been passionate about managing his own money, personal finance has recently become one of his main interests (#Fincon, anyone?). He started a podcast a couple of years ago called Richer Soul that talks about life beyond money.So while he's interested in money, he's always seen it as a tool, as something that can open countless doors if managed well. Without understanding money, his dad wouldn't have been able to sustain a family in America. Rocky wouldn't be able to live out his dream of taking his family on a vacation across Italy.Rocky has seen how much of a difference understanding money makes in his own life. And he's now made it his goal to help others open doors, solve problems, and gain freedom through understanding the finances for their small business.Rather than only making money off of telling other people what to do, he's truly lived out the experiences of both working a corporate job, working independently, and managing a small business. Now, Rocky wants to take this knowledge and share it with other small business owners at a fraction of the cost that it would be to hire a dedicated full-time financial manager.In today's episode Rocky talks about:looking backward and connecting the dotsbeing an immigrantthings you don't appreciate until laterliving on the wrong side of the tracks at the beginninghis parents getting together with friends and talking about moneyoccurring conversationsnot ever being held backseeing people in different financial situationsdeciding he wanted to be rich as a kidlearning how to do things himselfselling products when he was youngplaying with spreadsheets as a kid and teaching accountantsfrom paper ledgers to spreadsheetsthe skill of building spreadsheetsgood is the enemy of evilselling dictation equipment early onunderstanding working with contractors and what to look for in real estatefinally taking action after twenty yearswhy do people struggle with money so much?“I Will Teach You To Be Rich” - money mindsetswanting to help people with moneynobody wants to get rich in ten yearsreading spreadsheets like storieswhy my brother loves spreadsheetsassuming everyone knows how to do somethingrunning two podcastsan hour of free advicethe benefits of podcastsRicher Soul and Profit Answer Man Podcastsgrowing up in the age of the Marlboro Manaccepting advice and doing thing more quicklymasterminds taking him a step furtheris this true and is it worth it?always being frugal“If you can get a book for $25, don't even think about it. Just buy it.”reading through the mind of an author“The biggest failures I've had were in not starting.”being cautious in natureneeding that first kick to get startedthe friction of startingstory of failure: real estate rental storyfirst mistake: buying rental properties he likednot screening a tenanttaking note of red flags and doing something about themhaving a manager in real estate and not following up enoughhaving a tenant trashing a place and having to evictgetting the highest price on the streetjust keep showing up and understanding you can fix anything“Is my worrying going to fix anything?”taking ownership of a mistake10x the attentionhow are you so calm throughout all of this?me not doing my partcoming to the point where it's ok if things go wrongan age and financial thingmoney isn't going to make you happy, but it can solve problemsDave Ramsey principles  not wanting to deal with broke peoplestaying on messagehow do you buy a house with cash?with any luck, he's a grandfatherhaving the freedom to be close to his future grandkidswhy are more parents not having more fun?something to be grateful fortaking over himself, not the worldwe all have that negative critic and conquering that voicehow breath interrupts patternsHigh Performance Habitseveryone's on meditation and breathingheart rate variability monitorbreathing being a tellbusiness owners that need help beyond our capacityunderstanding how money flows through your businesssimilarities with Marcus Lemonis google: Rocky Lalvaniwww.profitcomesfirst.comTwitter - @rockylalvani Instagram - @richer.soulProfit Answers Man Podcast Richer Soul Podcast

Story of failure: Not eating enough fiber and getting hemorrhoids.Alex Demczak is a former SEC quarterback for the Missouri Tigers. Alex graduated with a degree in Communication and a minor in Business.Alex is an inspiring communicator, facilitator and trainer who challenges businesses, schools, sports teams, and non-profits to maximize their potential and make a difference.Alex is the author of Thrive U. The inspirational book is a collection of stories from 100 collegiate and professional athletes from across the country. The book has been used by many youth groups, schools, and businesses as a resource to help others maximize their platform and Thrive rather than simply survive.Alex Demczak is a top keynote speaker and trainer for the Jon Gordon Companies. He frequently delivers keynotes and conducts training programs based on The Power of Positive Leadership and The Power of a Positive Team with the goal of helping leaders transform their teams and change the world. Alex is an innovative entrepreneur that has a knack for starting new ventures such as Thrive U, Coach's Corner, MU Courtesy Carts, Thrive, Speakers, Ignite small groups, and collaborates with multiple startups.Alex is passionate about helping high-performance leaders take the next step in their leadership journey. Alex has worked with some most successful companies across various industries. Some of Alex's past clients include The Buffalo Wild Wings Citrus Bowl, Veterans United Home loans, OneCoast Retailers, O'shea Builders, and many others. Alex's mission is to help people increase their performance, enhance their leadership, and maximize their life.In today's episode Alex talks about:Mizzou football and growing up as a sport fanaticthe sweet spot of life souringthe meeting going into his junior seasona coach telling him he wasn't good enoughtwo bad options to choose fromfeeling called to staythe humiliation of getting cuttrying to make a positive out of a negativethe yellow flagare you kidding me?serving to the best of his abilitygetting back on the team as a senior“Leadership requires no title.”coming through humiliationwe will all experience trialsThrive U - daily devotional for athletesworking at Kanakuk Campwho's telling the stories of D-1 athletes?sharing his story and testimonysending a copy to Jon Gordonare you willing to work for free?managing Jon Gordon's inquires and helpingspeaking on Jon's bookswriting The Sale together with Jon Gordonwhat is The Sale?overview of the SaleMatt and Kendragetting the chance to make the sale of a lifetimegrowing up in a supportive familyNathan Buxxman - Athletes in Action  Jon Gordon as a mentorRandy in The SaleRandy Sutterlandwhen you do things the right way, it comes back to youworking at a great company but…knowing that he was called to go out on his own“God had me where He had me for a reason.”not looking back with regretwhat are the things holding you back?trusting God in situationsgoing all in on somethingpeople tending to forget about failuresthinking back to when he first started thinkingputting yourself in the arenaJeff Nelson - pastor preaching with no notestrying to take one or two things and learn every time he speakshow can I adapt?“Speaking leads to more speaking.” - Jon Gordonbeing open to criticismcool things on the other side of fearleaving things on the sidelinetrying, failing, and learning“The message is more important than me.”how can I serve the audience?Streamline booksthe daunting task of publishing a bookworth the stress to run a businesshelping people tell good storiesThe Chosena team around you writing a bookbeing proud of the fact of going for ittrudging forward in the unknownfollowing and trusting God in the unknownwww.writemybooks.comwww.alexspeaking.comTwitter - @AlexDemczakInstagram - @alexdemczakLinkedIn - Alex Demczak

Story of failure: Electrocuting myself while changing a light fixture.Tony Castillo's journey began as an overweight middle schooler. This continued throughout high school until he decided to jump on a “diet.” Unfortunately, this resulted in unsustainable weight loss. His weight fluctuated in college due to lack of nutrition knowledge, but this inspired him to understand how nutrition played a role in the human body.Tony's passion today is to teach others how healthy lifestyle modifications optimize performance in ALL areas of life. After working at the University of Florida and then with the Toronto Blue Jays, Tony focuses on helping you to become an elite performer. Being an elite performer in your field can take many forms, whether you're the owner of an investment firm or a professional athlete trying to become an MVP. Tony's plan is to teach his clients how to sustain their weight goals without counting calories or macros.Tony graduated from Florida International University in Miami with a B.S. in Biology, B.A. in Chemistry, and an M.S. in Nutrition and Dietetics. He is credentialed by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics as a Registered Dietitian. Tony continues to hone his practice and regularly mentors with colleagues and professionals such as Tony Stephan, RD and The Dietitian Mentorship program.And did you know? Tony's parents are from the Dominican Republic, and Antonio is fluent in both English and Spanish.In today's episode Tony talks about:his story of why he got into nutritiongetting checked out by a female doctorleaving the urologist confused and frustratedworking through mental health issueslosing weight and gaining confidencetrying all the diets and working outbreaking his foot dancing after malnutritionlearning about nutrition and getting a masterswhat are the secrets to athlete's nutrition?having a good relationship with foodworking at the Toronto Blue Jaysteaching kids how nutrition can impact performancebuilding a plate compositionlong term habits for eatingreframing how he saw foodbodybuilding.com forums and weeding through informationpremium or regular gas?feeling confident through foodPaul Landrum as a mentorcrying in front of another manmentor from the Toronto Blue Jays - Stephanie Wilsonwaiting for a smoothie machine until 2 AMfailing to prepare for presentation and working through itselling himself short because he didn't feel like he was readyonly Spanish speaking kid in 1st gradebeing told he would never be able to speak Englishhis dad working through med school barely speaking Englishhating reading and writing because he was forced to do italways being a fighternever, never, never give upgoing to english school instead of going to baseballgetting an A in English in collegeonly speaking Spanish in the house, but you still need to learn Englishfeeling weak after failing“Always be prepared.”“If we can ask better questions, we can get better results.”asking questions and getting feedbackhelping athletes learnkeeping up with the latest challenges of the sports worldthe power of ‘I don't know'being open and honestthe courage of saying I don't knowbranch chain amino acidsmaking a protein with 20 amino acidslucine amino acidwould you water your plants in the middle of the rainstorm?bird feathers supplementbeing open to chaining his opinion as long as the research backs it upseeing a therapistCam Hall - Leadership Consultant“Are you doing it to them, for them, or with them?”never being taught how to run a business in schoolreforming the way he asks for helpwhy am I eating this way?pausing before he speaksoverly communicating with yourselfhow and why?just doing what you're toldthe intimidation of writing a book and lunching a podcasthelping build authorityChristiano Ronaldo choosing waterwanting to work with athletes that have a great opportunity to promote good changenot being inhibited by my typing skillsyou made it, you survivednot coasting, but achieving www.nutritionfp.comEmail: tony@nutritionfp.comInstagram - @coach_tonycastilloYouTube

Story of failure: Losing a piece of furniture on the highway.Jake Williams is a former teacher, and football coach, with background in sports and art. Jake is also the author of Organic Reconstruction, where Jake details a time in his life where he felt stuck, and the journey he took to overcome his fears.About Jake: In case you're wondering, ‘Trustin' isn't some made up moniker. It's my actual middle name. Some of you know me as Jake Trustin, others know me as Mr. or Coach Williams from when I used to teach high school art and coach football. Most of you probably just know me as Jake. Art has always been a huge part of my life. I started as a little kid drawing pictures of superheroes, then athletes, and then anything and everything else.The older I get, the more I realize life is more of a DIY kinda thing than a playbook you can follow. That's why, a few years ago when I was feeling particularly stuck in life, I decided to set up my own DIY tour through America and Europe. I backpacked 45,000+ miles by way of planes, trains, and automobiles bringing a journal and sketchbook with me to document the experience. When I came back, I made a bunch of paintings and wrote a story to go with it. That's what my book, ‘Organic Reconstruction' is about. You should check it out.Lately I've been really into painting pictures of ancient statues and landscapes from the places I visited along my travelling. I don't know how far this art thing will take me, but I still find as much satisfaction from making things that I did as a kid.In today's episode Jake talks about:- his background in art and sports- teaching high school art and coaching football- feeling stuck in life after tearing his ACL- three years of rough surgeries and not being able to control life- feeling the pressure to be married- comparing himself to other people and feeling stuck- growing up thinking he had to be a perfect person and the weight the comes with that- his parents being concerned about his well being- something he thought he'd never share with anyone- Skyping artists around the world while teaching- Voka and visiting his place- planning the trip to Europe and friends bailing on him- not wanting to look crazy to Voka when meeting him in person- being honored to learn from Voka- his closest mentors being his parents- why it helps hearing from people that aren't family- Stephen Holland as a mentor- not caring about artists or art history growing up- famous people being normal- Norman Rockwell and his routines- there's no guarantee that problems will ever go away- “failure is just unmet expectations.”- “Sometimes finding success in failure is just shifting our expectations.”- finding an interesting story through being stuck- not being married when he thought- opening up about going to a counselor- the constant of expectations- writing a book and fearing no one will want to read it- starting the podcast and knowing it's going to suck at first- Brock Frizzel- his dad telling him to go to counseling- just work through it and don't be soft- the value of counselors- what if I'm not messed up enough?- the story of tearing his ACL and his recovery- working hard to do everything exactly the way they asked in rehab- tearing his ACL again in front of a gym full of people- focusing on other things rather than reliving high school glory days- you can make all the right moves and sometimes it still doesn't work out- the good thing about setbacks being empathy- stuff happens you can't control- working through discouragement and talking with those close to him- praying through tough times and refocusing- being a teacher is a hard thing to do- stepping back and resetting yourself- the intimidation of chasing art full time- getting into Youtube videos- what I work hard and nobody pays attention?- “You have to give yourself permission to say, ‘this is going to be really bad for a while.'”- the first reaction of quitting teaching- feeling passion towards the book and feeling like it was important- looking forward to trying as hard as he could- letting things in our head overtake action- spending 4.5 years working on his book- his former student working with Jake to design his book- going into it with few expectations- it's as simple as tryingwww.jaketrustin.com Jake's Instagram - @jaketrustin Organic Reconstruction BookLink to Jake's Paintings ---Learn more at www.professional-failure.com 

Story of failure: Spraying my nephew in the face with an old can of silly string.Kerry Siggins is the CEO of StoneAge, Inc. a fast-growing manufacturing company based in Colorado. She was fortunate enough to be named a Top Influential CEO in 2021 and was a finalist for Colorado's CEO of the Year in 2017. StoneAge is recognized as a top 100 company to work for by Outside Magazine. Kerry sits on several boards and is a member of Young's President Organization (YPO). She delivers keynotes on how to create employee-centric cultures where it's safe to speak up and show up as your whole self. Kerry hosts several podcasts, including the wildly popular podcast Reflect Forward. She is an author, blogger, and contributor to Forbes, Entrepreneur, Authority Magazine, and BIC Magazine, and myblog is visited by thousands of readers each month.  Finally, but most importantly, I am the mother of an amazing kiddo named Jack, and the wife of Ryan Siggins, a serial entrepreneur whose latest adventure is SoCo Wood & Windows, a where we sell windows, doors, and high-end custom millworks.In today's episode Kerry talks about:growing up as a child and her dad leavinggetting attention through positive and negative waysdad telling her she wasn't smart enough to graduategetting a softball scholarshipbeing lost without purposeoverdosing after collegemom loving but being tough on herher mom being her biggest supporternot going to be that person with dad issuesfeeling unlovable and working through thatdoing everything with gustoa high functioning addictnot being able to go to work after the overdoesbelieving in yourself and reflecting on herselfbeing a driven human beingseeking attention through being the life of the partythe self-destructive personaher mom being the hardest working person she knowsinstilling work ethic in Kerryher mom being uncomfortable pushing backneeding more boundaries as a teenagerwhy coming home to her mom meant so muchhaving an authentic conversation with her momher mom giving her unconditional love“If I'm not failing, I'm not living.”not being scared of failing and putting herself out therestory of her marriage almost failing because of honesty“Everyday there's something you can better.”never having a problem expressing herselfthe consequences of hurting your spouse and not taking feedbacknot wanting a failed marriage like her parentswhat she learned working through her marital issuescracking open her marriage through honest communicationher son Jack and how he understands people as a 10-year oldadult conversations with her sonnot carrying other people's baggageher son Jack wanting to play professional baseballplaying softball and coaching her son's teamit's all about mindsettelling yourself alternative storiesforcing yourself to consider different possibilitiesworking through discouragement with exercisewriting her stories down“Just because you think it doesn't mean it's true.”there can be two truths at the same timechallenging herself with alternative storiesa million different ways things can play outhow do you be empathetic?setting a goal of creating a thousand millionaires, and reaching a billion in evaluationthe intimidation of big goalshaving to stay focused on the bigger picturehow do I get to my next double?chunking goals down to not being overwhelmingwanting to look back and be a good momwhy she wants to spend her time righthaving a husband entrepreneur and how to balanceconnecting every single day over making dinnercommunicating wins and challengesunwavering support of each otherher husband sacrificing for Kerry and believing in herhonoring and respecting each other through individual decisionsliving your life by design instead of just living$100,000 in credit card debt after overdosingsetting goals for yourself and designing your lifeone small step at a timewww.kerrysiggins.com Instagram - @kerry.sigginsLinkedIn - Kerry SigginsReflect Forward Podcast Reflect Forward Podcast - Justin Skinner www.stoneagetools.com

Story of failure: Embarrassing a teammate after a blunder as a new leader my senior year of baseball.David Poland was originally born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. He moved to Springfield, Missouri when he was 15 years old, and attended Hillcrest High School. Athletics were always a big passion of David's as a kid. After winning a state championship in high school baseball, David decided to keep pursuing his passion at a collegiate level. He attended Evangel University in Springfield, MO and played baseball for the duration of his schooling. David graduated with a Recreational & Physical Education degree in the Spring of 2007. During that time, he developed a passion for fitness and health and decided to pursue it as a career.As soon as David graduated, he became certified with I.S.S.A & N.S.C.A, and his personal training career started. This passionate focus for fitness and health opened up a whole new world of growth, not only for himself, but for others as well. David has been training full-time for twelve years now, and has enjoyed every minute of it. He's been fortunate enough to help hundreds of clients over the years, both in person and online, achieve all different types of goals. From fat loss, building muscle, sports specific goals, improved mobility, rehabilitation, to most importantly, nutrition. David has competed in four NPC fitness shows, the last one being at a national level. I also a fitness advisor for KY3, where I do regular fitness segments with Paul Adler on Fit Life, a segment of Friday morning's local news. After having a few years of personal training under his belt, David opened up his own private studio in 2010. XFit has been an amazing journey of hard work, along with great teamwork from his amazing staff and clientele. These people have made XFit what it is today. David is excited for many great years to come and hopes to be able to help you in the future!In today's episode David talks about:getting into personal fitness shortly after collegepivoting from teaching and coaching to owning a gymstarting his own facility in 2010trying to pulling away from attaching from outcomessmall steps and small improvements for long term goalsdetaching yourself from the outcomewinning the daysports helping him in businessthe value of hard work and discipline in athleticshis dad being a mentor to him growing upworking with successful people and learning from themlearning from anyonefailure is just data (“I really don't think there is failure, it's just data.”)God's timing being perfect above his ownlearning when things don't go his waylife is going to hit you, it's how you react to itprocessing failure through datahandling situations in the right wayreal estate deals going south sometimesbeing frustrated in the momenttoday is a new opportunityresetting the next day and moving forward in spite of failurekeeping your mind centered and progressing forward5 AM Club - Robin Sherman20/20/20 Formula“What am I learning currently?”keeping yourself centered when things don't go your way“It's never going to be perfect.”having a better headspacethe game changerNixa, Missouri facility going really wellbring value to clients and helping the communitywhat set XFit apart from other training facilitiespicking people that care and that enjoy helping othersstory of 80 year-old woman that started trainingnot giving upthe before and afters of the fitness realma mental shift in peopleguiding people through the process of transformationlosing 30-50 pounds and life transformationbuilding on a little self confidencelet us be the one to figure this out for youthinking back on the last five yearsThe Compound Effect by Darren Hardycompounding small actions over time does big thingsthe magic of compound interestliving in an instant gratification cultureyou have to pay for success up front in full“Success will come, I don't need to worry.”Instagram - @xfitspf and @xfitnixaInstagram - @extremedavidwww.xfitmo.com---Learn more at www.professional-failure.com!

Story of failure: Knocking a backup hard rive off my desk and breaking it.Juliet Hahn grew up in Moorestown, New Jersey, a quaint town just outside of Philadelphia. She had a fulfilling childhood and her parents, Marc and Barbara, showered their five children with love, support, and humor. Juliet enjoyed being active which led to her year-round involvement in sports. She brought her love of athletics to Rowan University where she starred as a two-sport athlete. After graduation, she moved to New York City and began a career in advertising. Juliet embraced New York City's culture, diversity, and energy and made it her home for fourteen years. It also happens to be where she met her future husband, Dan. Currently, they reside in Remsenburg, New York with their three children: Montgomery (16), Truman (14), and Penelope (12) and two Boxers.Juliet started her coaching career as a virtual health and fitness coach.  After gaining 65 lbs with each pregnancy and her body changing after 40, she made a conscious effort to exercise and eat a more balanced diet.  The results truly changed her life, and it was her mission to share her formula with others. In 2015, she began a new adventure as a virtual health and fitness coach supporting women to lose weight, become stronger, and regain their confidence.In 2021, Juliet decided to pivot away from health and fitness coaching and into helping people connect to their passions. She offers a workshop called “Your Next Stop” (YNS) that empowers people to find their creative passion and turn it into a business which she believes everyone has the ability to do; they just need the correct tools. In addition to her workshop, she uses her YNS Podcast and YNS Live to highlight people who have turned passions into careers. This platform shares inspiring stories from people all over the world.Through these conversations, Juliet guides people to explore their past in order to connect the dots to their own story. Everyone has a story and it is through sharing, active listening (and sometimes laughing) that people connect and learn from one another.Combining these two paths has led to a partnership with NFL Thread to create a series that explores the lives and stories of NFL spouses and partners. This series chips away at the perception of NFL women and showcases their talents, initiatives and missions.In today's episode Juliet talks about:meeting at Podfeststories at what make people go ‘roundthird grade story and being one of fivespeaking vs. writing with teachersdealing with dyslexia in schoolworking with Dr. P and being away from the other kidsBlue Dolphin bookkids playing while she had to read Blue Dolphintelling herself she wasn't creativenever being with her group of friends in schoolexcelling in sports and hating reading out loudteacher asking her, ‘what are you retarded?'remembering how her mom responded and said how proud she was for standing up for herselfcalling a teacher a bad wordlooking around the room and not understanding what the teacher was talking aboutlearning how to fake ithaving a dyslexic dad in the militarydream of playing sports in collegeguidance counselor telling her she couldn't go to collegeplaying sports at elite level but doing school at a lower levelbeing a terrible test takerhaving the SAT's read to herconstantly being short of her goal on the SAT'sgoing Division III instead of going to Marylandstruggling in math and sciencedysgraphiaher dad making relationship despite being called dumbadhd processinghaving a son that learns in spite of dyslexiateachers not realizing the power of their wordsjust sit and try harderacknowledging and teachingthe more you ask questions, the more you don't get it–clearly I'm dumbthe public system is brokenYour Next Stop Podcaststorytelling is an arttaking other people out of their crazy lifeunderstanding what she was meant to dostreaming on Fireside appNFL series with the LinkedIn of NFL Spousesinterviewing NFL player spousesPivot Podcast - Leaving the NFLinterviewing Ricky Waters and his wifesociety needs to think about the good thingshow players are effecting by fans in good and bad waysher mom being her biggest cheerleaderhaving two really close friends encouraging herhigh school coach that was really hard on her, but it was what she neededher husband being a big mentor and cheerleaderhaving to run with an idea in her headNFL Fashion show and interviewing in Arizonathe NFL Hall of Fame show“Just keep creating and see what happens.”“I don't harp on failures.”story of failing when putting together a websitewanting to focus on her family tripstarting the website without the meatgetting the fire goingfailures as seminarsgrowing up and doing stupid things“If you can't change it, don't stress on it.”pray that it's all going to work outnot dwelling on failureworking with HR on the interview processloving her kids sporting eventsthe problem of not hiring the right peoplerolling out something newmost nervous about figuring out how she is able to carry out her visiongoal of retiring her husband and giving him a choicewanting to be there for her kids and not missing big thingssetting up for the Super Bowl shownot seeing the 't'www.iamjuliethahn.com Your Next Stop PodcastYNS Live PodcastTwitter - @iamjuliethahnInstagram - @iamjuliethahnYouTube----Learn more at www.professional-failure.com!

Story of failure: Accidentally starting a field fire in my front yard.Zach Lush is a brand strategist, mental toughness coach, and serial entrepreneur with over 17 years of business building experience. He runs a digital marketing agency with the focus on helping mission driven coaches and consultants scale their impact, influence and income by leveraging the power of their personal brands.Born and raised in Boston, MA Zach grew up playing ice hockey and baseball — later playing baseball at the collegiate level and professionally with the Florida Marlins.After his professional baseball career, Zach owned and operated a sports performance training facility for twelve years training thousands of athletes many of who went on to play at the collegiate and professional levels themselves.A lifelong student of human performance and mental toughness, Zach is constantly encouraging his clients to bring more passion, purpose, and meaning to their life's work.Zach is a husband and father to 3 children who lives in Cocoa Beach, Florida. When he's not at his kid's sporting events, Zach loves to scuba dive, hit the gym with his teenage kids, or attempt to fix his horrendous golf game.In today's episode Zach talks about:building business over the last 17 yearsrunning a digital marketing agencyleveraging the power of a personal brandlearning the power of mindset and having clear goalsgoing from a nobody to making something of himself as a professional athletenewly married with three kidswatching SpaceX launch rocketsgrowing up in Boston watching the Bruins and Red Soxnot offers his senior year and having a dream of playing at Boston Universitybeing ignored in both sports and what he did to overcomehaving Tim Wakefield as a mentor in baseballdoing whatever it takes to earn and keep a spot on the teamgetting drafted after his junior yearstory of Tim getting Zach a tryout with the Marlins and becoming a professional baseball playersimilarities of being a catcher and a goalie in hockeyhim and his brother playing sports growing upgravitating to sports that give you a weaponstory of me trying hockeymentorship of coaches early onTim Wakefield teaching him the mental side of the gameAaron Walker as a mentorstudying old school coaches like Phil Jackson, Lou Holtz, and John Woodenbeing banned by his wife from conferences“People are faster than books.”“Just help the next guy.” - Tim Wakefielddoubting yourself and overcoming thatBig A's authenticity and genuine carethe lost art of being there for peopleauthentic is better than perfect“Vulnerability is a strength.”the mountain goat that constantly gets knocked off the mountainlosing a gym after scaling it from nothing and taking it hard“If your hearts not in it anymore…it's probably time for a pivot.”learning how to lead and inspire a teamhaving a background in aviation and working for a drone companywhen you get knocked down, surround yourself with good peoplethe importance of taking actionTed Lasso - the memory of a goldfishthe team chemistry that is missed“Reality is messy.”the road is rising to meet youHow to Fight a Hydra bookThe Alchemist bookwho you become is more important than the destinationhelping 10,000 mission-driving consultantsoutlining a book for the last 18 months and trying to stay disciplinedAmerican Underdog movielearning to tell his storytimeline of when he wants to release his bookfiguring out when to writeTom Brady quote - “The next one.”being able to look back and be gratefulBe Heroicindirect vs. direct modes of leveraging your platformhelping people find the thing that lights them upjust get on the field“The hardest part of the journey is to start.”shallow on the back endover-delivering for clientssmall, digestible action stepscontrol what you can controljust go play catchteaching his son how to ride a bike by chinking it down to the basicsBranding Toolkit - www.coachlush.com/branding----Learn more at: www.professional-failure.com

Story of failure: Seeing my wife's emotions as a weakness.Kendra Joy Skinner is an entrepreneur, short term rental expert, and exceptional artist! She is also most importantly my beautiful wife! Kendra grew up in Springfield, Missouri and comes from a family of eight! Three brothers and two sisters. Kendra also excels in interior design and started Lilac Paperie, which sells her original artwork and prints through her online shop.In today's episode Kendra talks about:growing up in a family of sixpraying for a sister for so many yearsmeeting Justin in elementary schoolgetting a degree in ceramics at College of the Ozarksrunning AirBnb short term rentalsfeeling like a fake sometimes in interior designhearing the vision of design clients and working through the purposeknowing what a space is going to be used forProject Rescue Lofther parents as mentors and always hostingnot being a morning personseeing her mom praying and reading in the morningher parents allowing her to repaint and redo the househaving creative grandmothersJustin mentoring herstory of her children's line of clothingchanging her thinking from what can stop her to finding a waythe story of the pillow businessprinting her own designs on fabric and selling pillows with fancy zippersthe most beautiful amazing pillowlearning to filter ideasseeing pillows and making us laughstruggles of the last couple of yearslistening to Sam DeFord's episodetrying to have kids for over a decadeGod drawing her out of a dark and heavy timetesting your faith in the hard timesnot knowing how to stop what was happeningliving in a spiritual world“If I'm feeling this way..what are other people going through?”we are managers of God's gracean opportunity to extend God's love to someone else through a hard dayrefining confidence through liferemembering how people made you feelthe process of grieving and seasons of no way outopening up to friends about what is harddelayed fertility and planning around having kidsa peace in writing and stripping away emotionthe scariest thing of writing about delayed fertilitypurpose in the painbeing obedient today and not worrying about the futurewhat Kendra looks forward to telling herselfhoping to improvements in areas of life that mattered the mostbeing intentional in decisions in lifewhat in the world are we going to be in five years?C.S. Lewis booksquote from C.S. Lewis“Why love if losing hurts so much?”“The pain now is a part of the happiness then.”stewarding all that she's been givenwww.lilacpaperie.comInstagram - @kendrajoyskinner ---Learn more at www.professional-failure.com

Story of failure: Scraping my arm with a bow string while practicing.Aaron Owens is the co-owner of Alpha Realty in Springfield, Missouri. Aaron's background is in graphic design and marketing. He jumped into the real estate world after seeing Adam Johnson's passion and excitement for the industry. After hitting the ground running, he was able to sell 35 homes in his first year as an agent. Since then he has been apart of hundreds of real estate transaction, ventured into real estate investing around Springfield and building relationships with other go-getters in the area. He loves the Kansas City Chiefs, music, coffee and all things Apple.In today's episode Aaron talks about:working in a family business growing upgetting into graphic design and being homeschooledlearning Corel DrawAdam Johnson getting Aaron into real estatestarting Alpha Realty with Adampivoting on a float tripgrowing up in a homeschool familytraveling and exploring the country as a homeschool kidreading and listening to podcaststhe struggle of finding a mentorlosing his dad in 2007 and the mentor his dad wastwo brothers as mentorsCraig Groschel - pressure to be a mentorlearning a lot from as many people as he caneach person bringing a good perspective"Do I want what they have?"his dad being a giving guyprofit is not a dirty wordleaving a legacygrowing up on a big farm and the example of hard workthe strong relationships of his familyfiguring out how to make money doing the things his dad lovedcoming up with new business ideas and failing along the wayfailure is not final, it's just a stepstory of starting a company for a digital business cardbeing naive in businessthe advice of not taking money from family for a business ideahis pride taking a hit during a business familymultilevel marketing and shirt subscription companiesconsistent things that carried them through failuresMariano Rivera's story of how he dealt with failuretaking the sting of failure awaystory of his monthly shirt subscription businessModFund company storytiming and executionthe Sevenly companyrunning with an idea and realizing when to cut the cordapproaching business different nowloving the idea of new businesses but having a processwhy Aaron and Adam selfishly created Alpha Realtybasing a Alpha around faith and familyrelationships over real estatebig enough to stand out but small enough for relationshipsnot recruiting but by word of moutha team environment without having teamsgrowing by God, not by Aaronbuying a new building in Springfield for Alphaeverything scares him a little bitinvesting and property management futuresmoving into different market centers and the complexity it bringstaking inventorytrying not to lose the culture of AlphaChik-Fil-A culture and keeping that aliveworking as an owner to keep culturethe scary part of the real estate market in generalproperly budgeting for lean timesgoals to reach by his 40th birthdaystrong relationship with God and familydeveloping systems to duplicate himselfempowering people to goals and not using themseeing the inner workings of AlphaInstagram - @aaronowens10www.alpharealtymo.com

Story of failure: Flipping and crashing my uncles four-wheeler in the woods while chasing a turkey.Jon Dwoskin is an executive advisor, business coach, author and keynote speaker who's been called the “business whisperer” for his skilled and compassionate insights into what can keep a corporate culture from thriving. At age 23, he created one of the first Internet marketing companies in America, then went on to great success at two national real estate firms. Jon has built, trained, expanded and restructured both sales teams and corporate structures, but after 20 years in a C-suite, knew it was time to make a business out of being himself. His Jon Dwoskin Experience teaches the secrets, hard work and discipline required to “Think Big. Very Big!” A prolific business blogger, Jon is the author of “The Think Big Movement,” a fable about getting unstuck and transforming a business. A 16-year cancer survivor, he lives with his wife and two children in Michigan, where he is active in community organizations. He's been included in the prestigious Crain Detroit Business' 40 Under 40 list and named Alumnus of the Year by Eastern Michigan University, where he double majored in economics and journalism..In today's episode Jon talks about:Jon growing up in an entrepreneurial homehis dad being a dentist and all his dad's friends worked for themselvesthe article on Jon in ForbesBrian Tracy tapes that his dad gave himputting his foam walkman headset onspending an hour a day studying and listeningjust knowing what his path wasdealing with dyslexia and retaining audio at a high levelalways enjoyed talking with people, especially older peoplethe power of observing and listeningknowing and retaining information in his 20'sknowing he learned differentlynot having helicopter parentsfiguring out how he learnedrollerblading to class and listening to books on tapeleading and growing sales teams outside of schoollearning discipline in schoolgetting rollerblades during the pandemichis family being his mentors and keeping him groundedbeing told he was the smartest person in the world and how it helpedgetting his first business coach in his late 20'shis family always encouraginglosing his mom at 25 and losing his dadnot looking things as failuresfailures being seminars, some more expensive than othersstory of selling his business and having to write a $100,000 checkwhy his instincts have always lead him$100,000 classnot letting failures get in the way of familystory of evolution of perspectiveworking in commercial real estate and managing his officetaking a 12-week class and halfway through laughing at something no one else laughed atbeing the only one that laughed at a jokerealizing the amount of influence he had in the groupa movie of things that he needed to clean upbeing very conscious of jokes and witty comments at someone else's expensea life changing moment for Jonconnecting through sarcasm and navigating thathis mission is to help people grow, not to make them feel smalllaughter is the best medicine, but not at other people's expensegoing back to intentmeditating in the moment and making the best decisionsthe more he takes time to think, the right way tends to present itselfnot pausing when it's easy, pausing when it's hardhis upcoming second bookmastering time management and building a routine in his bookall about simplicityhis goal with his new booknot typically getting scared by projects he's doinghoping people see the value in his advice and courseslaunching a private coaching groupmaking something affordable to everyone in the worldnot wanting to turn patients or clients awaywhat his coaching group entails and building a communitybuilding on demand 8-week coursescanceling your netflix accounthaving a team and only doing what he loves to dohaving a virtual team that works for himCoffee w/ Jon and Grow Your Business Faster with JonStreamyard“I look forward to enjoying the journey.”helping a billion people get coachingcreating a flow of routineNorman Rockwellwww.jondwoskin.com Text or Call - 248-535-7796jon@jondwoskin.comThink Business with Jon Dwoskin PodcastTwitter - @jdwoskinInstagram - @thejondwoskinexperience----Learn more at:www.professional-failure.com

Story of failure: Letting fear stop me from singing when I was young.Brian Beers is an entrepreneur, investor, podcast host & father.He grew his small family franchised auto repair business into an enterprise with ~30 locations.He's on a mission to teach other entrepreneurs everything he knows about growing a business and creating passive income through investments outside of Wall Street.Join him every week to learn from other successful entrepreneurs on the Business with Beers Podcast.In today's episode Brian talks about: running a chain of automotive repair franchise  Midaslegacy family businessgoing to college and studying entrepreneurship  the state of the business when he joined after collegetaking over operations in 2016 and growing from therereading it and doing it are different thingsstarting his podcast Business with Beersteaching people to run franchisesworking with his brothercountering each others faultsthe sad part of business coming between familyhaving the same goals and building off thatpeople might disagree on the path to get to your goalhis dad being a big mentor early onthe built in community of franchiseshaving a business coachtalking through what's holding him back with his coachunderstanding the concept of fearthe abundance of lifeunderstanding which bucket is holding me backthe fear of nobody signing up vs. creating valueat the end of the day, most people only care about themselvesDerek Jeter and his mindsettrying to ask yourself what you can learn from your experiencethinking of failure as going to seminarsthe story of losing $300,000 in a business venturelearning what a distraction iswho is going to buy a business losing money?the negative of a franchise and signing long term dealsselling the franchise for cheap to get our from under itnot getting distracted from shiny objectsyour focus is a flashlightlearning to negotiate in franchise dealshaving another business to support their venture failurethe due diligence process in franchisesdon't agree to any of the penaltiessplitting your capacity and the downfalls of jugglingworking through the loss of money with his dad and grandadcoming up with a solution through the failurethe higher cost of learning through failurenot giving your energy awayworking through a morning routine with his phonecreating a coaching program and clarity within itwhat do you choose to talk about?if you're all over the place, people question what you're aboutwhat problem do you solve?turning decades of experience into days of learninga good amount of pressureresults over informationmaking sure you have the confidence and you will deliveryselecting franchises and buying existing businessesdoubling sales by bringing in new systems and energysolving one problem for someone, not all problemshow do you create a system to support peoplegroups and subgroupsbeing surround digitally with like-minded peoplethe hardest part is consistencydedicating the time to create contentmoving forward in consistencyconsistency and executionthe same process on every phone call, with every customer“Consistency creates success.”boring can be excitingmaking sure to spend time with his wife and kidsthe whole point of the business, and proactively planning vacationsbuilding a great team instead of running everything himselfhiring a COO and how it helpedstair step growth visualizationgetting people to thinkfocusing on high value actionBrian Beers Newsletter Business with Beers Podcast Twitter - @brianbeers Instagram - @businesswithbeers www.brianbeers.com----Learn more at:www.professional-failure.com

Story of failure: Laughing at a friends expense in high school.In the last three years, Kase built a real estate development company that flips 60+ homes per year, acquired 120+ rental units and hit financial freedom. He focuses on firing himself everyday.Kase's wife, Laura, is seriously patient. Since the start of the pandemic, he's purchased a commercial airplane fuselage, a 42' school bus, an ambulance, imported $900k in classic Land Rover Defenders, and purchased 14 cubic yards of winter beanies. Kase & Laura, their two sons and their dog plan to live/travel in their Toyota Tacoma 4 months of the year starting in Nov 2022.In today's episode Kase talks about:trying to fire himself out of every projectgetting into real estate as an agentselling too much and starting a teamdoing taxes and understanding where he made his money80/20 Sales and Marketingmoving full time into flipping 2018handling 60 flips per yearthe checklist of things to do on a daily basishaving very few things that he doesn't want to dowhen he fires himself, what he fills his time withthe integrator and the visionarynot working on Sundaysworking from 5 AM - 9 AM and from 1 PM - 3 PMa schedule built around nap timegoal of traveling 4 months out of the yearparamotoring and flight having an affordable family and a reasonable budgethis dad retiring early and how it impacted himdid you buy another poopy house?intentionally teaching his childrenliving in West MichiganDetroit is awesomewhy Detroit is awesome“the failures that we've had are often small when we listen and look for red flags.”“The more my ego gets in the way, the bigger the failure is.”story of starting his own real estate brokerage and the failure that happenedthe wrong person in the seatwhy am i doing this?why bringing in additional mentorsthe difference between two teamsthe positive of bringing on a partnercreating waves and messescreating departments where people have the ability to make decisionsnot hiring someone like yourselfgoing from a team of 16 to 3going from delegating to automatingovercoming our lazinessIf this, then thatsimplifying complex actionshow do we make sure every lead doesn't fall through the cracksproductive lazyavoiding the proper sets and building systems to overcome thoseeat the frog!trying to scale down his time in the flipping businessit's a lot of work to growwhat is ten years from now?not knowing what's next“The scariest thing is often one of the best.”not sleeping at night is a very bad thingthe challenge of matching income and lifestyleopening yurts in Michigan (short term rentals)big value add projects and project managementbuying classic Landroverscreating a job out of anything in an hourcreating a system when buying and automating buying Landroversalmost buying an airplane from Kasetrying a lot of things because it doesn't cost a lot of money or timebuilding yurts because of buying an airplane150 miles at 5 mph“Sometimes failures happen and it leads to realization. Sometimes it doesn't.”“Sometimes knowing what you don't want to do is a good place.”getting thrown in jail?why he hates running but loves finishingcontinuing to push himselfInstagram - @overlandinvestorwww.overlandinvestor.com----www.professional-failure.com

Story of failure: Betting everything I had gambling on a cruise.Fran Racioppi, CPP, CBCP, is the Chief People Officer at Analytix Solutions, a 800+ person firm with offices across the globe. Fran also serves as the performance development coach for Boston University Men's Rowing and leads leadership programs under his own company, FRsix. Fran previously led Genius Fund as the Chief Executive and Chief Operating Officer, a vertically integrated cannabis company in Los Angeles, CA. Prior to Genius, Fran served as the Director of Global Security for Snapchat where he was recruited to professionalize and scale the security organization across the globe, earning recognition from the FBI and DHS.Fran holds an MBA from New York University. He graduated with honors from Boston University with a BA in Journalism and a minor in Political Science. Fran served 13 years in the United States Army as a Green Beret, deploying three times to Iraq and spending several years operating across Africa. A lifelong sailor, Fran volunteers teaching Veterans to sail as the Race Director for Sailahead a Veterans service organization dedicated to reducing the Veteran suicide rate.In today's episode, Fran talks about:spending 12.5 years in the army and the last part in special forcesremembering working on project seen in the newsFrom ‘I can do anything' in the army to transitioning to the worlddo you know what a balance sheet is?the troubles of not getting hired after the armywhy he went to business schoolsoft skills vs hard skillsa demonstrated pattern of successhire for character, train for skilllooking for a resume coming to lifewhy 50% of what's written on your resume is faketrying not to throw tantrumsThe Solid Seven Podcaststarting a podcast at 9 PM and ending at 1:00 AMThe Jedburgh Podcastgetting back to his days of broadcast journalismwhy he enjoys talking to people and chases new thingsThe Talent Warfiguring out what to call his podcast in the early dayswho are the Jedburghs?the story of the Jedburgh Operation in World War 2the teams of Jedburgh and how they trained in sabotage and subversionslowing down the German forcesdissolving into the CIA and becoming the first Green Berets with JFKstories of modern day Jedburgh's that change the worldThe Normandy Resistance MovementEP 15 of The Jedburgh Podcast - Linkshort forms and long forms of the podcastRick Nelson as a mentorMajor General Jim Lender as a mentor and life as his aidMajor Lender and Dave Gibbsa southern gentlemen from South Carolinatwo guys with two different backgrounds hitting it off“you get a lot more done in life with a smile and a handshake, rather than coming in and telling someone what to do.”experience matters and listening to people is crucialwatching how General Lender interacted with high level people, along with everyday soldiersrespect for everyone, no matter their positionwhy I pay attention to the quiet peopledoing the right thing and creating impactwe make our own lives difficultapproaching life with an intent to do the right thingthis is the best I can do with what I knowcreating complexitymacro failureshis biggest failure being a husband and a fatherseparating with his wife for 7 yearsfinding himself personally during those hard yearsbeing 25 years old in Iraq and the impact that had on his lifefeeling like he missed a defining point in his lifebeing a volume dial, all in at 10the tremendous sense of failure after failing in characterfilling the gap he felt he never hadwhat it took to get back together with his wife and familymoving to his mom's house for a year and the impact it had“Can I wake up with clear eyes and look in the mirror and like the person looking back?”being resilient through failureall credit going to his wife and daughtergrowing up and figuring out the priorities life“How can I make impact in the world if I'm destroying myself?”from a grenade to an MRE“If I'm not scared or intimated by it, why am I doing it?”growing the podcast and the support of Jersey Mikesfighting the algorithms of Instagram and Social MediaScott Dickers, founder of The Onion coming up on the showSpecial Episode on September 11 - A Lifetime of ServiceBoston had a fire department before there was an Americaworking with analytics and building out a leadership development programsRetro Fitness Program and Blackrockbuilding an elite mindsetstarting the season for Boston's mens rowingChris Schmidt - Best Self Statementwhen are you at your best? when are you out of your comfort zone?why he's at his best when juggling flaming chainsawsthe journalism behind the podcastwhy it was worth it and why he cares about impactthe most impactful part of his journeywhy the podcast is impactful and the feedback he's received LinkedIn - Fran Racioppiwww.jedburghpodcast.comInstagram - @jedburghpodcast

Story of failure: Making a dumb bet with my nephew, and not following through with it.Amit Gaglani PT, OCS is the National Director of Payor Relations at Alliance Physical Therapy Partners, where as a founding father, he helped launch Alliance in 2017. Presently, Alliance has successfully grown offices from Maine to Washington state with aggressive growth plans for acquisitions and new offices throughout the country. With his proven success in business and over 20 years as a physical therapist, Mr. Gaglani negotiates insurance contracts and is instrumental in opening new offices across the country. Through his business experience and acumen, he uses his skills to raise capital for investments. Initially, he would evaluate alternative investment deals for his personal investments. Soon others noticed the benefits and unique offerings that Mr. Gaglani was able to cultivate with risk mitigation, tax efficiencies, high returns and ownership stakes. Now after numerous successful deals, Mr. Gaglani has a group of over 40 accredited investors that partner with him on investments. He is very passionate about investing in the alternative investments space with unique crafted deals. He welcomes other accredited investors to join his group and experience the negotiated high returns that they have been accustomed to attaining. When not connecting with investors, you'll find him investing time with his family on the tennis court, golf course, riding arena or on a plane.In today's episode, Amit talks about:taking a test in high school and learning that physical therapy might be an optionloving gym class and sports, and helping in that areaworking one-on-one with the patientbalancing therapy with medicinesomething clicking in his junior year and grade improvingbeing educated vs learningapplying himself and digging into physical therapythe competitive nature of PT schoolattending Cane College in New Jerseystory of taking Chemistry and realizing someone was cheating off of himstory of me getting an F on paper in collegefriend going to school in Scotlandthe best experience in his lifestationed in the granite citychecking out local castles in Scotlandthe Royal Mile in Edinburghpassing the board and starting his first jobrunning the clinic and taking on more responsibilityreading the book Rich Dad Poor Dad and changing his mindsetreading the eMythopening up his own clinic and learning that he didn't know anything about businessfinding an applicable program and the right training in Floridatrying to learn while your practice is going south“If I don't do this to improve myself, I will stay stuck in the same rut.”Sean Kirk as a mentorhaving different coaches for different thingsmaking you the best you can possibly bewhat specifically coaching does for an individualgood coaches guide you and bring it out of yougrowing from one office to multiple officeshelping more people by hiring more peoplehaving to evaluate his process“When do I get to enjoy the fruits of my labor?”talking to advisors to figure out how to valuate businessesleveraging his experience around the countrybeing considered the utility playerlots of failures when starting off in businessstory of employee causing ripple effect problemsalways interviewing instead of hiring out of desperationtaking notes on people he interviewsfinding talent anywherethe loss of communication skills in recent yearsstory of office manager stealing money and what went wrongletting something go on too long before handling itstory of friend getting stolen from in real estateoutsourcing until finding the right persona higher valuation based on lower expensesprivate equity exit and making choices on his next passionlosing the passion of physical therapyJosh McCowan from Accountable Equity reaching out and asking Amit to joinwhat keeps him up at night - excitementwalking away from years of study and work in physical therapychasing his passioncreating his own fund at Accountable Equity reverse engineeringCDF - Collateralized Debt FundWhen do you take your chips off the table?making 6-10% on hard money loansLBI - the Hamptons of New Jerseygetting returns for the rest of their lifenot accepting no for an answer and pushing throughwilling to have the capacity to figure things outmaking his list and weighing positives and negativesyou need to find something with purpose and passionthe picture of a sunset in Hawaii www.accountableequity.comagaglani@accountableequity.com

Story of failure: Discouraging through a compliment.  Mo Ismail is an learned entrepreneur originally from Cairo, Egypt, and owns the company he co-founded called Makers of Content, MOCS for short. He helps authors grow an audience and become sought after thought leaders using video content marketing. Mo is a wealth of knowledge and continues to grow in his craft and knowledge of the business world.In today's episode, Mo talks about:migrating to the Untied States from Cairo, Egyptwhy his goal was to become an academichow being a creative made a difference in his decisionstory of laying on the couch and thinking through his futureif you fail, academia will not go awaywhen he started freelancing as a photographerstarted doing vlogs and had businesses reach outdeciding to move on from production after the pandemicalways wanted to be an influencer and online personalitythe hybrid of MOCS“people make a change when staying the same hurts more than making the change.” - quotelistening to the clues of changeit's not easy but the upside and fulfillment is worth itshiny object syndrome and how to overcome itJustin's stock photography storythe muscle of learning to stay in itSeth Godin's ‘The Dip'being an academic came easy, but entrepreneurship took a lot of workconstantly resetting the compound effectmilestones and musclesgrowing up in Egypt with religious conditioningbeing taught to bet on yourselfworking through the fear of others when starting something newmoving to Pittsburg during the snowwatching his mom's grit and grind through the tough seasons of newmicro risks at scaleChris Doe as a mentor and his key lessonbeing okay and not assuming failure defines youyou're not good enough yet and you don't deserve itthe difference between a ‘learned entrepreneur' and a ‘thoroughbred entrepreneur'developing that failure musclesometimes business decision don't work, and that's okgetting rejected and working through egounderstanding the mindset around entrepreneurshipGary V - “once you understand who you are…”you have some learning you have to dofailures are lessonsstory of failure from selling a businessdidn't know what he wanted out of being an entrepreneurtwo cultures colliding and not knowing how to navigate“Be slower to pulling the trigger.”come back to us in a yearthe hardest decision was breaking up with his best friendnot allowing everyone to blossommaking the best decision for the greater goodcertain decision need to be made fast but you have to way the risksbeing significantly more curiousthere's a honeymoon phase in everything and you have to be able to see the step afterable to look at things with a dialed eyetendency to take all the blame and why you need to give yourself gracewhat am I doing well and what am I not doing well?objective as humanly possible“The best failure is the greatest lessons that leads to the greatest success.”seeking counsel from people you trustbeing challenged with questions you're uncomfortable withthe scientific method and how it applies to entrepreneurshipyou have to make a decision and have to kill something (-cide)“You stay the same, or make a change, and anxiety lives in the in-between.”Renee Brown - “Choose discomfort over resentment.”“Confidence breeds success, success breeds confidence.”the importance of humilitya mixture of ego and vulnerability“Where can I find the answer?”analogy of listening to a 14-year old on TikTokI know I don't have all the answers, therefore I must need counselyour lack of humility is what's causing your suffering and inability to move quicklyfull walkthroughs of video gamesgetting to the juice fasterthe power of team and the intimidation that comes with itthe disillusion of controlbalancing spending money and forming youngovercoming being the bottleneckwhat makes or breaks a successful personlack that is so uglyalcohol - suppressing all of the bad and the goodlearning and becoming who you need to becomehow failure connects us Instagram - @moismaiwww.mocs.media  

Story of failure: Not believing that I could improve my speed.Nolan Williams is a 12-year old, 7th grade student on NCA in Springfield, Missouri. He is one of four children and the oldest kid in the family. Nolan's playing tackle football for the first time this year and preparing the head into high school!In today's episode, Nolan talks aboutattending NCA in the 7thdifferent hobbies Nolan and why likes themthe best part of Legos and why they're so fun to play withmaking cars with Legos and having battleshis parents as mentorswhat his parents teach him and how they encourage himgetting nervous and mad about joining a football campwhy he was nervous about messing up in front of other peoplelearning why he needs to move on after a mess up“you've got to encourage people and not focus on whether or not you're going to mess up.”story of doing karaoke drill and messing upolder kids helping younger kids at Chargers Lighthouse Football Campwhy new things are hard for him because of the fear of failurebeing prepared and why it's importantdoing things wrong with his siblingstrying to get over being in a bad mood with his siblingsputting aside his bad mood and enjoying the timepeople around him encouraging him through hard timesthe intimidation of starting footballnervous about getting hurt in football and messing up in front of otherswhy he wants to play quarterbackTom Brady and why he does a good jobthe upper hand and how Brady thinks through thingswhat Tom Brady does better than anyone else in historynot just focus on him being good but focusing on the teamthere's always something you can learn from the other personGod always has a planYou just got to lean on Him through hard times 

Story of failure: Failing to keep a game app alive in the app store.Jason Romano is the Director of Media with Sports Spectrum and the host of the popular Sports Spectrum Podcast. For 17 years, he was an Emmy-Award winning Producer and Senior Manager at ESPN. He has created and produced content for shows such as SportsCenter, Monday Night Football, Mike and Mike in the Morning, Sunday NFL Countdown, College Gameday, NFL Live, MLB's All Star Game and many more.In today's episode, Jason talks aboutthe story of why he left ESPN and the impact it had on his lifehis 17-year career at ESPNstory of what happened in 2015 in Nashville at a Christian gatheringhanging out and listening to other people doing things for a great purposethinking how cool it would be to do a job for Godthe halftime of work (and life) and what that means for JasonBrad Lomenick and his advice given to JasonGiving tours of ESPN and why he loved itwhat happened after giving Brad a tour of ESPN‘Be careful because you don't understand'grateful to be a two-time author and speakerspending the better part of a year exploring what Brad's advice meantworking on Mike and Mike In The Morningreally enjoying his job but knowing there was something else for himhaving the time of his life at ESPN in the last year but knowing God was nudging himcalling as many leaders as he could to gain insight for his futureleaving a job, taking a 40% pay cut, and losing benefitsworking through details with his wife and having a peace about the futurethe mode of trusting Godstill not making the same amount of money he did when at ESPN but he has never been happierthe story of Sport Spectrum and where it came fromDr. J had the idea of Sport Focus (video clip?) with Bobby JonesSport Focus MagazinePro Athletes Outreachwanting to host a podcast but being unsure at firstdreaming of hosting his own sports talk radio show in college“Don't ever count God out.”having dreams and thoughts for Sports Spectrum's futurea lot of reps means you'll be a lot better in the futurewhat he's learned from being a host over the yearsit's a good sign if you don't get to all of your questions - it means you listened wellstory of interview with Carson Wentz with zero preptell me your namepeople are afraid to mispronounce names but people need to askDr. J starting the first NBA chapel servicefailures are were you learn and were you stretch your musclesfailures from moments in life and lessons learnedstory of thinking he was being on track to be a manager at ESPNthe worst mid-year review he's ever hadother opportunities opening up from a bad season of lifeyou're glad you went through it because you appreciate the good timestaking his daughter to college and a new season of lifefailures = that's what makes you betterI can work all things together for good. Are you sure?“Those difficult moments are not wanted, but they're needed in life.”why ‘that was meant to happen for a reason' drives Jason nutsJason's grandfather passing away in 2007 and why it was so hard for himthe shock and sadness of a passingwatching how people honored his grandfather at his funeralwhy he's a better dad because his dad wasn't a good dad“You don't ever want to go through the pain…but you're usually better for it.”when and where the holy spirit shows upwriting a letter in honor of his grandpa and trying to read itlosing his brother-in-law suddenly to a heart attackthe story of speaking on behalf of the family at his brother-in-laws funeralsharing the gospel at a secular family funeralgetting emotional when remembering Randy and almost breaking downwhy God gives us hope through His son Jesuspraying in a way that someone hadn't heard and having a peace over himworking through tragedies and difficult momentsfull circle momentsthe anchor and assurance in Christthe intimidation of being an empty nester–remembering how to be married againgrowing Sport Spectrum and how to get more eyeballs on the brandthere are a lot of people that love sports and love Jesusfinding the 30%why Jason is an ‘in the trenches' guymore for Sports Spectrum to do and thinking through what that looks likedreams and vision of the future with open hands30 years of history but also being a startupmedia and ministrycrawling isn't so bad as long as we're movingkeep on keeping on for Godbecoming a better husband and growing in a relationship with Godunderstanding that we flawed  www.sportsspectrum.comTwitter - @Sports_SpectrumInstagram - @sports_spectrumYouTube - SportsSpectrumMagSports Spectrum PodcastWeekly NewsletterMagazine Sign-UpJason Romano Personalwww.jasonromano.comInstagram - @jasonromanoTwitter - @jasonromano 

Story of failure: Losing my composure during competition (and cursing).My name is Jeni Hopkins and I was a coach for 24 years and have loved every minute of it.  Yes, of course, there are a lot of highs and lows in coaching, but the rewards and the privilege of working with such outstanding student-athletes, assistant coaches, managers, athletic directors, athletic trainers, officials, table workers, and many more are what I valued the most.  The intangibles and intricacies of sports deserve to be explored and a voice needs to be given to coaches, players, officials, and others that play such vital roles in the arena of sports. This is about giving that voice.  I am also currently the Media Coordinator of the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association and have a lot of pride in the promotional mission and advocacy of that organization for coaches. I have been on their executive board for over 20 years. Check out our website at www.mobca.org.I am also a proud member, and president, of the board of directors of the Springfield Area Sports Hall of Fame.  This is a non-profit organization that recognizes excellence in sports and in turn raises funds for youth sports. Our website is www.springfieldhof.com.Another adventure is that I am a color analyst for Mediacom and MSHSAA.tv and am thrilled to work with them during basketball season while getting a front row seat to the best basketball! I have also worked games, both play by play and color analyst, for Evangel University, Southwest Baptist University and Drury University.  I also broadcast the Norm Stewart Classic on ESPN3 from Mizzou Arena. I love broadcasting basketball and have also enjoyed bringing volleyball and track and field to the air waves, too.I also am the founder and director of a basketball luncheon every two weeks, Court Talk, during basketball season.  This luncheon promotes basketball in Springfield and includes all of the city high school and college coaches, plus Southwest Baptist and College of the Ozarks. For more information, click here. 'I am also the founder and director of CHAMPS (Champion Humans and Mentoring Partnerships for Success), a mentoring program for seniors in high school.  For more information, click here.I am currently the Interim Assistant Director at Greenwood Laboratory School, my Alma Mater. I love those Bluejays!I am also a Sports Counselor and have been for multiple years.  I love assisting athletes with the mental side of their game!My favorite role is with my FAMILY.  My husband of over two and a half decades is Scott Hopkins. He is a farmer and very involved with children's charities, in particular the Shriners.  My daughter, Hailey Jo, is a graduate of the University of Arkansas and my son, Hayden, is a college student at Missouri State University.In today's episode, Jeni talks aboutwhy she got into coaching after being a collegiate athleteplaying handball at Missouri State and wanting to be a female reporterhow marrying a farmer changed her pathjumping right into the coaching worldbeing a coach for 24 years and pivoting from theregoing out on her own terms and retiring from coachingcolor analyst and broadcasting shows and working with other coachesthe difficult decision of leaving her coaching career“sometimes you have to jump and take a new adventure in your life.”CHAMPS Leadership program and how it worksthe post game talk as a coachmentoring young kids and the best part of the CHAMPS programhow her dad (professional NFL player and super bowl champion) was a big mentorsports counselor for 20+ yearshow she is addicted to her mother's opinionPaul Mullins as a mentorDavid Oatman as a coach and mentor in high schoolsports are the platform but coaches teach lifestealing coaching styles and making it her ownstory of a coach humbling Jeni and making sure she was on time to classthe respect of calling you out when neededthe respect of being on timewhy she wouldn't have any success without failurethe best lesson you get from sports is coping skillsbeing a mentor and coach without ultimate ‘success' of state championshipswhy she loves seeing former players and still being a part of their liveshaving her team watch the movie Meet The Robinsonshow can I fail forward?why younger students don't want to put themselves in a position to failwhy showing examples is importantfailure of people misunderstanding her intentions and why she feels bad about itfinding a way to let go of what she can't controlfailure is growth, congratulations!changing obstacles and adversity into opportunitybeing asked to lead the mental health initiatives for the state of Missourifinding balance as a coachinconsistant confidence“it's failure that makes it sweet.”pressure from parents and our environment affecting young kidsworking with all athleteshow can you be perfect in baseball?specific help for specific playersbuilding your physical and mental skillsreaching your max potentialif the mental isn't there, the physical doesn't matterwhy Jeni's teams beat teams that they shouldn't have won againstin the final four with a 5' 6” centerher father having a doctorate in sports psychology  kids are different now and that's why you need to be differentwhy her favorite role is being a momtrying to be the best parent she can be to her two kidstalking to her kids about trying different sportscoaching with her daughter in a backpackwhy she wanted to find the value of the health and fitness of sportsbeing a part of a team in sportswww.acoachsperspective.com  

Story of failure: Falling out of the top of a tree when I was young.Linh Podetti is a Vietnamese Social Entrepreneur living in Sydney, Australia. She's the Founder of Outsourcing Angel, and Co-Founder of Dawn Media Productions–and also mother to three kids!Her life wasn't always so easy. She was born and raised in Vietnam with very little, so her family migrated to Australia in search of a better life. Upon arriving in Australia, her parents forced her into child labor helping them in their sewing home-based business from the age of 10 and through to her teenage years. She ran away from home multiple times and eventually became pregnant at the age of 19. She was disowned by her family with no financial or emotional support which forced her to a life on the streets as a single mum.Despite the challenge as a young single mum, she managed to complete university and got herself a corporate job. After few years of working in my corporate job, Linh realized that it didn't give her the flexibility and lifestyle that she want for her and her son. That was when she decided to make a choice, take the leap to starting her own business, and change her life. Fast forward to her life now, she has grown my company Outsourcing Angel to a 7 figure business and has created employment for hundreds of people over the years.In today's episode, Linh talks about:going from single, broke mom torebelling and running away from homenot coming from an entrepreneurial familyparents not encouraging to achieve and not being born to be richthe challenge of having a child and workingstarting a business with a kidher superpower of outsourcingspecializing in remote workhow do you transform business and staff membersvirtual assistants being a people's game and solving problemsthe culture of asians and following instructions and how it effectsbeing the shiest kid in Vietnam and working on it in Australiapracticing public speaking and videos and getting good at itbeing surrounded by unsupportive people and using her belief in herselfself learning from books and videosstory of her first business in nail polish and what she learnedlearning from getting ripped off from website businessoutsourcing locally isn't always the right thingcreating a meet-up and moving forwardfiguring out that people look up to you when hostinggiving advice and how it turned into a businesssolving the problem and worrying later about the other stuffhaving no other way out in lifestarting Outsourcing Angel“businesses fail because people think they can set and forget. It's not like that.”starting a company with a partner and having different goalshow to choose the right partner in businessneeded skills in partnerships and not just having a good timevalues and ethics will take you through most but goals have to be alignedbusiness should be scalablescalable, values, and skillsetworking through failure by journaling, feeding your mind, and exercisingthe happiest CEO‘sleeping in' at 4:30 AMnew business's as a newborn and starting againno matter how experience you are, when you launch a new business you have to hustleyou have to love your baby businessat a place of wanting to give back“How to you help people become successful but still enjoy life?”can't wait to see her new business baby grow up and thriveher relationship with her parents nowforgiving her parents and writing a letter that she never gave www.linhpodetti.comLinh Podetti - Facebook Linh Podetti - Twitter - @linhpod Linh Podetti - Instagram - @linhpod Linh Podetti - YouTubeLinh Podetti - LinkedIn 

Story of failure: Striking out in the best comeback I've ever been a part of.Jeremy Wells is a Partner at Longitude°. In 2020, he authored the book “Future Hospitality” – focused on how branding can create more impactful guest experiences. This book is used at Cornell University's Vision & Concepting graduate course. He's also an honored member of the Boutique & Lifestyle Leaders Association (BLLA) Education Committee and has spoken at industry events and associations including AAHOA, Global Hospitality Summit, Hospitality Talks, and more.In today's episode, Jeremy talks about:only lasting in college for a year and then getting a job offerstarting his last year as an employee in 2013 and getting let gostuck in the hamster wheeljoining as a partner at Longitudeº in 2018closing on a hotel project in Branson, MOthinking through different real estate projects through the yearsDarren Pierce, owner of Pinnacle Sign Group as a mentorstory of when he first met his first mentorgratitude when thinking of a mentorsuccessful people being protective of their timeputting mentor's words into actionlessons learned helping him avoid misstepsreading books and gaining insightBrandon Goodwin as a mentorthe limit put on you as an employee and the multiple bosses of entrepreneursis it more safe to control your own business or work for someone else?the biggest failures of his life leading to the next phase of his lifeGod opening new doors if you allow him tofailures are launchpads to the next big thingstory of a personal failure during his power lifting daysbeing physically fit, but not being there for his familyhis first book about training, diet, and exercisestarving himself to get in shape for showsbeing stressed out on a body building trip in Columbus, Ohiobreaking down mentally during a show and then quitting on the spotrealizing the importance of not being consumed with himself and his own desiresnot losing site of God's plan in his liferededicating his life to God and his familywhen good things become bad thingsencouraging others through stories of his mistakesbeing an overly optimistic personno one wants to failfailure is an event, not a personcontinuing to grow his perspectiveintimidation of the hotel project coming updelivering on promises and expectationsJames 4 - not boasting about the futurework like it depends on you, and trust like it depends on GodLinkedIn - Jeremy Wellswww.longitudedesign.com 8 Valuable Lessons I Learn From Buying My First Hotel Future Hospitality Podcast

Story of failure: Cutting myself while clipping my nose hairs.Kurt Theobald is the CEO and Chief Strategist at Classy Llama. Through his commitment to a true agency culture, in which the agent acts in the best interest of its clients without consideration for private gain, the team at Classy Llama has continued to develop greater efficiencies and value opportunities for their clients. Within Classy Llama, Theobald has established the understanding that what makes or breaks an agency is the quality of its relationships.In today's episode, Kurt talks about:having the entrepreneurial bug when he was young and almost losing itchecking out of college when it wasn't for himhad to learn lessons a different wayreigniting a passion for learning through readingfrom real estate, to business failuresjumping from one frying pan to anotherbeing close friends with failure and how that impacted his lifehelping people see the valleys in between the peaks of the journeyexpecting to fail but overcoming at all times and getting back on the horsestory of how one idea led to another opportunitythe irony of a good companylearning how to leadthe transition from Magento to Adobe Commercehaving his older brother Kyle Theobald as a great mentormentors through books and some of the greatest minds of the pastbeing the dumbest guy in the room and asking for helpthere are a lot of people out there that want to helpseeing that passion to learn and supporting others in their journeygo for the people in the margins and the blue ocean strategythe failure of a mentor relationshipJack Stack - The Great Game of Businessretrospectively learning from a past mentorthe failure of arguing, instead of listening with humilitythe truth of a mistake and pride issues when learningrecognizing that he didn't have it all togetherthe falsehood of overnight success and the long ramp to success“God, don't make me successful until I'm ready to carry it well.”needing far fewer failures than what was neededthe story of a failed business of touch screen kiosksstory of taxi advertising, selling the product, and trouble with the permitstendency of thinking what's possible and making it too bigthe big mistake of not losing the deal and not doing market researchthe heaviness of losing other people's money in venturesJohnathan Hodges and learning through his readingwhy you need different messages for different peoplegoing through personal bankruptcy at 23 years oldwhy you need sales and revenue before culture“Most times the shadow is greater than the object itself.”prepare for judgement from people around you“You have to eat the meat and spit out the bones. The bones are the judgement.”Tiger Woods habits - 6 steps to celebrate or commiserateRay Dalio - Principles“When you go through failure, forget the pain, and remember the principles that you learned through it.”the night is darkest right before the dawnasking people to tell him about their failuresthe fundamental belief of ‘this is what I was designed to do'always stepping onto the next edge and being uncomfortablethe amount of money printing in 2020 and how it affects business spendingbeing early to the spending and working through low close ratesjust keep swimmingwhen you find out who is willing to go through the journey with youthe pruning of the vineliving true to who he is www.classyllama.comTwitter - @kurttheobaldLinkedIn - Kurt TheobaldMedium Articles One Simple Change That Improved Performance By 15% Get All The Answers Wrong Neutralizing Your Fear of Mistakes

Story of failure: Not staying in the place we were meant to be.Katy Kelly is the founder of Refresh Organizing, an interior organizing agency  focused on helping you create free space in your home, your workplace, and in your life.After training directly under Marie Kondo, I became Southwest Missouri's only professional organizer certified in this world renowned approach to home organization:  The KonMari Method.®  I work with clients in various life stages - including busy families, empty nesters, professionals, and those about to sell their homes.  This one-time tidying journey results in a decluttered, refreshed space and state of mind.  As a mother, I am well aware of the critical role our home plays in our overall quality of life.  The more we own, the more we must manage — and I believe we were made for more than simply acquiring and managing our belongings.  When working together, I guide you in cultivating a peaceful, supportive home environment that is sustainable long-term; therefore, allowing you to focus your time and energy on the people and passions that bring the most joy to your life.In today's episode, Katy talks about:the Marie Kondo methodhow she always been an organized personstory of organizing as a kid on tripshow she went from the pharmaceutical industry to an organization businesswhy she felt like she was always organizing at homewho is Marie Kondo?keeping things for guilt driven reasons and how to let it goonly one of two KonMari Consultanthaving an aunt as a mentora former boss as mentor and how he taught her many aspects to business and how to say goodbye to the corporate worldher aunt giving Katy her first Bibleconfronting materialism and her own decisions by learning from clientsanalogy/story of canoes and when it's time to turn their canoes aroundwhere am I going and do I want to go this way?working with extraordinary woman navigating big life changesthe burden that accompanies stuffbeing able to observe others“anybody who's ahead of you in life or business that says I could do it all over again, then you just stop and listen to what they have to say.”a holding space and not carrying other's burdensnot having an emotional investment in the thingsthe failure of getting exactly what she wantednot knowing how to sell a large equipment and the grueling part of travellearning humility when apologizing to a directorgracious and disappointedsomething always being a missed opportunitygetting through people pleasing and discouragementthe intimidation of starting a school from scratchCapstone: Acton Academywhat she loves about Actonthe first graduates of Acton Academycurious, happy, successful human beingskeep walkingwalking in the dark with a headlamp www.refreshorganizing.com Instagram - @ourliferefreshedwww.capstoneacton.org@capstoneacton

Story of failure: Not listening and asking questions.Steve Kelly has a diverse banking expertise in: commercial lending, credit risk management, commercial credit/underwriting, collections/problem loan workout, operations leadership, and M&A due diligence/planning/integration. Assisted with due diligence, planning, and integration on three bank acquisitions totaling $2.4 billion in assets since 2010. Most importantly, a husband to Katy, my amazing wife who dedicates her life to raising our two boys Anderson and Turner.In today's episode, Steve talks about:hearing about Acton Academy from Hal Elrodnot being able to get past what they had learnedmoving to Springfield, Missouri with Arvesttransition from banking to starting a schoolembarking on a new adventureself-directing learning modelfocusing on character, grit, and celebrating failure in schoolThomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln growing up in a one-room schoolhousethe problem of fearing failure in schoolcelebrating older students teaching younger studentsteachers as guides and redirecting questionsfostering a life long love of learningcreating an environment where students figure things out on their ownbeing mentored from CEO of Butterball Turkeyencouragement in ways to help other peoplelearning to take career “risk” from his dadlife is short and you don't know when things can happenno wanting to have any regretsgeneration of steady men and learning from themall successes have been correlated to lessons from his failuresstory of his biggest failure when starting a real estate company in 2008humbled to start over in his banking career and leading to one of his greatest successestrying a business and it not working out was the best thingsuccess made up of the bricks of failurea hero isn't a celebritybuilding confidence through failurehaving the clarity to walk through another open doorusing faith to get through his struggle and failureswhy looking up is a good place to bea community of learnershomeschooling is toughcontinuing to expand Acton once people learn about the processgrowth of Capstone: Acton Academy after year onegiving himself a pep talk and self encouragementthe hard and narrow pathjust keep walkingaffiliate of Acton Academywww.capstoneacton.orgInstagram - @capstoneacton 

Story of failure: Punching my brother when we were younger.Jordan Moorhead has been an Entrepreneur since he was a kid.He had a lawn business when he was 13 and walked around putting flyers around the neighborhood. Jordan went the traditional route for a few years and worked jobs while he went to college. Getting laid off while in college was the best thing that ever happened to him.He started investing in real estate in 2016 and was immediately hooked. He'd wanted to be a real estate investor since his early teens but listened too much to others to wait for the “right time”. The right time is always now.Jordan's focus now is growing The Moorhead Team, investing in real estate and helping others get started in real estate as a Realtor or real estate investor.In today's episode, Jordan talks about:story of getting started in house hacking in Minneapolis, Minnesotabuying a duplex for his first investment apartmentrenting a porch on Airbnb for 10+ daysmeeting people while hosting on Airbnbcouch-surfingthe profitability of short term rentalsstarting in Louisville and Minneapolis, and moving to Houston, Texastrying to put himself around people who did big things and feeding off that energyAndy Noble as a mentor and how his work ethic helpedhow his dad encouraged him to take risks and work hardstory of how his dad went through 2006-2008 and work through itplaying sports growing up like lacrosse and trackhis parents always giving him enough but not giving him everything he wantedpaying more attention to learning investingscaling up and building a team in multi-family investingyou could be a multimillionaire if…story of running a real estate team in Austin and the failure of not following up with people36 touch points throughout the year and consistency7 out of every 100 people will need your servicefailure of not having a capital expense budget up frontrunning over on budget effecting cash flowthe timing of the market when sellingthe importance of fixing things the right way when investing and when to have a plan to waitgetting lucky in the marketworking through the discouragement of failureslearning providing opportunity and failing is a good thingthe visualization of targets and tryingwhy he's never really failed because he pivotslearning from a guy who went through bankruptcynot going for the best proven people and why that isshifting his mindset on hiring people and being responsible for people's salaryintimidation of your failures effecting other people and working through thatthe scary part of prices in real estate staying the same and interest rates going upnot being in the same place wth inventory in real estate compared to 2020if less people buy houses, more people need to rentcrazy low interest rates of the last few yearsmedian home price difference in different areaswhy he would love to spend a month every year in a different country and have kidsFrance and Thailand, and the time differencetaking action and letting it take shapeInstagram - @jordan_moorheadTwitter - @Jordan_MoorheadLinkedIn - Jordan Moorhead

Story of failure: Using mothballs to get rid of squirrels in our attic.Aaron Walker is a businessman and Life Coach who has inspired many through his leadership, mentorship, and consistent pursuit of excellence. He enjoys helping others and believes experience is a great teacher. 42 years of entrepreneurship and marriage have given Aaron a wealth of experience. Aaron continues to reach new heights and broaden his perspective of the terrain by examining his experiences and growing from them.For more than two decades and counting, Aaron has taken classes from and has been coached personally by his friend, financial guru, Dave Ramsey. Spiritual mentors David Landrith and Bob Warren have impacted his spiritual life beyond measure. Two other disciplined mastermind groups, 48 Days led by friend Dan Miller and The Torch have played a role in his understanding of how to live a significant and successful life. Aaron incorporates education and learning opportunities into his daily routine, remaining informed of the latest tools and trends available.In today's episode, Aaron talks about:why he doesn't believe in coincidenceshis family backgroundraised a poor kid with amazing parentswhy his dad was a terrible business manstarting working early in life and then opened his own store at age 18sold his business at age 27 and retiredbroker than a convict to retired at 27why a mastermind group he was in encouraged him to coachgoing from one to fifteen mastermind group with Iron Sharps IronBob Warren was a personal mentorDavid Landrith as a mentordodging landmines with mentorsbeing a mentee or mentorlearning what a mastermind group was and why being vulnerable was such a giftsharing ideas with his mastermind and modifying as neededthe perspectives and unique trials of othersJeff Hoffman (Priceline.com) telling him that 10% of everything he reads doesn't apply to him right now, but it gives him a different perspective a new perspective opens new opportunitiesdrinking out of a firehouseconstruction project at his home and how to solve the problem they were up againstcore value: everything is figure-out-ablethe value of an unbiased, trusted advisorwhat he attributes most of his success to over the yearsno one is perfect, we're always learningtrust me, I've been there beforewhy his wife Robin has been his biggest cheerleaderdelaying gratification in the early years of his marriagebeing willing to subject himself to others' scrutinyDave Ramsey quote about living todaywe've only got one life so why not maximize it?why failure is found in not tryingif you don't try out, you won't make the team, guaranteedlaunch, tweak, and pivotmaybe the timing isn't right and that's all there is to itbeing obedient to the leadership of the holy spiritCarol Dweck - Mindsetsurrounding yourself with a growth mindsetbeing successful at the wrong thingcoming home to a house full of strangers after focusing on financial accomplishmentsthe trouble with moving the baroffering his family on the alter of sacrifice for more financial statuskilling a pedestrian in an accident at 40 years oldbigger, better, faster and why they don't scratch the itch of happinessbeing a high D personality and wanting to be challengedwanting to make a difference today vs. when he was youngerhis heart towards helping younger men skip failures he's experience in the pastwhy do you like to make money?not wanting to give out of compulsionI'll just be happier when…money doesn't change the heart, money magnifies itdiscouragement can immobilize youAngela Duckworth - Grit Studystory of when he decided at 15 years old that he didn't want to go to school, he wanted to workgraduating early through summer and night schoolwhy grit makes all the differenceno today, not tomorrownot being the sharpest tack in the box and not settling“Can't couldn't do it and could did it all.”why his mom never allowed her children to say “can't”no longer seeing failure as failureno naysayers or gossipers in his inner circleone bad apple can spoil the whole bunchlooking at things in a new lensalways needing to be on the edge of being uncomfortablegrowing and stretching your mind and abilities in businesswhy you should never accomplish your goal in its entiretybuilding the infrastructure to double in 18 monthsisolation is the enemy of excellencewe don't know what we don't knowborrowing other people's courage, perspective, and insightwhy it's arrogant to say that I have it all figured outwhen life throws you a curve, who do you turn do?life in community vs. life in a silowhy you don't grow through osmosishiring coaches to broaden his skills and push his perspectivewanting to be on the cutting edgelife is a constant journey and why it'sthe message won't change but the methodology will changewhy he looks forward to telling himself good job for not quittingnot wanting his legacy to be about him but about others www.viewfromthetop.comTwitter - @VFTCoachFacebook - @CoachAaronWalkerLinkedIn - aaronwalkerviewfromthetopYouTube - @aaronwalkervfttInstagram - @isimastermind----------------------

Story of failure: Breaking our kitchen window playing baseball.Ethan Bryan is a storyteller whose narratives explore what it means to live a good story.At the age of six, he lost all of his hair due to an immune-system disorder called alopecia. Ethan knows about overcoming personal obstacles and being bullied. He also understands the power of hope, persevering through hundreds upon hundreds of manuscript rejections.The author of ten books, his writings earned him an opportunity to speak at the National Baseball Hall of Fame, an invitation to the White House for the Royals World Series championship, and endorsements from several former MLB players including Jim “The Rookie” Morris.Ethan has appeared ever so briefly in an ESPN 30-for-30 (#BringBackSungWoo) and as a background ballplayer in an Emmy-award winning documentary (First Boys of Spring). He still dreams of playing baseball (throwing out a first pitch) for his beloved KC Royals.A major fan of both Dr Pepper and donuts, Ethan was one of the best benchwarmers on his high school junior varsity baseball team.In today's episode, Ethan talks about:his first Royals baseball game his parents took him to when George Brett hit a walk-off home-runbattling Alopecia as a kid in Kansas Cityasking his dad if he could play baseball without hairretiring from baseball at age 16playing golf and winning conference as a senior at Kickapoo High Schooltaking students to baseball games while attending Baylorhow the idea of A Year of Playing Catch came abouthow playing catch with his daughters formed his writing and visionwhy he's thankful for his daughter's influence on his writingasking a news anchor to play catch and what formed afterwhy playing catch is good for the body and brainwhy playing catch develops trustbeing in a flow state while playing catchthe toll of playing catch on a daily basis and how it strengthenedplaying catch with his dad at the Field of Dreamsmeeting Stan Sipka and not breaking up a no-hittercancelled interviews and in-person meetings being cancelledwriting 90% of A Year of Playing Catch at The Mudhouse in Springfieldfinding his name in an obituary online and his thoughts and actions that followedsending a book to let a grieving family know that someone was thinking of thembeing the inspiration for Dan Bryan (not related) and why he played 365 games of catch in his son's honorstory of playing catch with Dan Bryan after his son's memorialthe story of 99 and a God wink moment with DanRobert Benson as a writing mentor (The Echo Within)story of meeting Robert Benson and thanking him for his workgoing to dinner with Robert Benson and his inspirational quotean inside the book home-run!being a first born, type A personalitystory of a B- on his report cardEthan's definition of success and whyrelationships and community around you to help guide you through failurethe wisdom and warmth of a benchwarmerstory of getting rejected with his new novel and the lessons he's learningnot giving up in the face of failurewearing his emotions on his sleeve and how he works through itprocessing failure and emotions through sweatGrip'n'Rip baseball leagueworking on the sequel to A Year of Playing Catch and why it's intimidatingcatch playing mentorship programa play deprived culture and a loneliness epidemicwhy kids stop playing baseballhow to fix the radical distrust of othersthe science behind playing a game of catchThe Life-Saving Adventure of Graceland Gordon and Her Dogthe scavenger hunt of a lifetimethe day my shoes melted during catch Twitter - @ethanbryanFacebook - @EthanBryanStorieswww.ethanbryan.comDan Bryan's / Ethan Bryan's Game of CatchMiLB ArticleThe Echo Within 

Story of failure: Failing to write consistently. Cindy Louisette Johnson is a painter, mixed-media artist and writer. She lives with her husband two children and chocolate standard poodle in a woodland getaway. The forests offer sanctuary and stimulation for her creativity. Books have also played a major influential role in Cindy Louisette's life from the time she was a small girl. The richness of words, ideas, pictures, adventures and people's stories engaged her mind and broadened her horizons. Nothing pleases Cindy more than a stroll through her gardens, cooking something wonderful for family or friends, a good book or a whimsical surprise. Her writing and art deal with the issues of her heart as it travels through life, sharply contrasted by traumatic turmoil due to severe childhood abuse and wondrous love and beauty. She is continually challenged to make her theology her biography. In today's episode, Cindy talks about: - developing businesses together with her husband- adopting two children- journaling about her life and her abusive upbringing- how she learned to stand on God's promise of sending a counselor- what she would say to Jesus why she would hold him to His truths- the incredible journey of communing with God- the miracle of her healing- whatever the enemy intended for evil has to be filtered through God first- why she's chosen her trials as gifts- we all have stuff and who we can overcome those issues- the intricacy of her mixed media art in her book- the six year project of illustrating her memoire- helping develop her signature for her art- just doing a piece of art wasn't allowed when she was young- the testimony to the power of God- the lion with wings and how it was carried out- hanging on to the spirit for dear life- how do you illustrate the holy spirit?- charging against the gates of hell- mentors in art, spiritual, and financial- reading constantly and gaining authors as mentors- books have been her friend from the time as a small child- her greatest mentor in her life, her husband- get the difficult things out of the way first- observing people and how they handle other individuals- people being multipliers or subtractors- watching how to work with people and rise up to their potential- the principals of being financially independent- Bob McKewen- what kind of message do you send out to the people around you?- trying to accomplish things in her own power- we're each created for a purpose- the red flags of stress and anxiousness- why her life hasn't been easy and why that's ok- the horrific memories of her past and the courage it took to heal- walking away for a little while and recalibrating- being still and listening to God- the power of nature and how much she loves birds- the different leaf shapes and how they thrill her and show God's presence- why everything that's new intimidates her and why it's easy to sometimes procrastinate- why she's compelled to move forward- conquering the next goal and fear- building a social media platform to market her book- why she's proud of herself for facing her fears- choosing to not be a victim- continuing to offer gratitude to almighty God- the hope of her story and what it should bring them back to- in the poetry section of Barnes and Noble- multiple awards for the book- already working on her next book--------www.cindylouisette.comInstagram - @cindylouisette--------

Story of failure: Playing too many video games early in my marriage.Alaura Lovelight is an American R&B recording artist and performer. Based out of New York City, Alaura has performed all over the US for over 100,000 people as well as worked alongside Grammy award winning producers and #1 Billboard artists. Alaura trained classically on the piano for over 25 years and studied music composition professionally at The University of Northwestern.In addition to performing, writing and recording she works with people of all ages through her courses, private consulting and coaching to teach others how to use music to build a life they love.  In 2018 she founded the You Matter Movement to use music to empower and inspire the youth and has since worked with hundreds of youth through after school music empowerment programs, teen empowerment workshops, and individual music lessons for songwriting and performance.As well as a recording artist, she is also a 2 time published writer with Addicted2Success the #1 motivational and inspirational website globally with over 315 million visitors, along with publications on Newsbreak, Thrive Global and Music Matters Blog.In today's episode, Alaura talks about:- playing piano since she was little and before she could read a book- why music has always been a part of her and why it came naturally to her- why she loves piecing music together since she was young- her mom being an amazing pianist- jazz always being on in the background while cooking- story of her grandmother playing jazz at the pool- Whitney Houston and Lauren Hill being big influences for her- the start of the You Matter Movement- what defines us as people- working with kids and talking about feelings and futures- visiting schools, provoking conversations, and how important it is for kids and even teachers- the ten-year plan for the You Matter Movement and the coming workbook- listening to podcast, audiobooks and personal development- with the internet, there's so many people that can be mentors- her admiration of Oprah- Louis Hay, Wayne Dyer, Joe Dispenza, and Abraham Hicks as mentors- Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself- pray from a place of knowing, not needing- shifting her perspective on God and learning to trust- following the flow of the day and journaling every morning- why it took a long time to listen to people with more experience- why she loves to seek advice and opinions of people that have gone before her- deciphering if someone has authority on a subject- sometimes you have to fall on your face and fail- failure is uncomfortable but if you can embrace it, that's the sweet spot- grow through the fork in the road- what can I learn from that and how can I do better?- music and sports are the only arenas where people judge you for things they can't do- having an anxiety of hoping people like it- you only have to win 51% to win the presidency- you have to focus on who does like and not who doesn't- story of failure with pursuing a major label company and relinquishing control- the quicksand of the music industry- walking away from what she had created to gain freedom- why it's hard to walk away from something that you haven't seen a return from- the experiences are the return- trusting that it's going to come back at some point but not here- being extremely discouraged and upset and how she worked through it- the vulnerability of putting yourself out there- story of being made fun of while playing at bars- its unrealistic to think that you won't be disappointed- working on a television project and the intimidation that comes with it- stepping into her worthiness- quickly talking yourself out of a blessing and having positive thoughts- big on taking a walk and connecting to nature- talking yourself out of the old wiring and unlearning what we've told ourselves in the past- working on being present and observing the feeling- the theme of the gap between the thought and the feeling- getting to the root of things and making space for the feeling- writing letters to herself from her future self- relax, it's fine, and it's going to be ok- writing your own eulogy- we get to write our own story----------www.lovelightsoundmusic.comThe You Matter BlogInstagram - @alauralovelight----------

Story of failure: Jumping off a ski lift after losing a ski in Colorado.Craig Valentine is a world champion public speaker, a motivational speaker and a best-selling author of the book World Class Speaking! Craig coaches speakers across the country and is known as one of the best teachers in the subject of public speaking. He's an amazing story teller and has honed his craft over the last 24 years. As a motivational speaker, he has spoken in the United States, Taiwan, Canada, Jamaica, Qatar (Doha), England, Bahamas, Hong Kong, China, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Indonesia, Japan, South Africa, India, Sri Lanka, and Australia giving as many as 160 presentations per year. He is the 1999 World Champion of Public Speaking for Toastmasters International. Craig Valentine is also the Co-Founder of the World Class Speaking program, which helps up-and-coming speakers and speech coaches turn their presentations and programs into huge profits. Craig is the author of the groundbreaking book, The Nuts and Bolts of Public Speaking, Co-Author of the books, World Class Speaking and World Class Speaking In Action, and contributing author for the books Guerrilla Marketing on the Front Lines, Success Secrets of the Social Media Marketing Superstars, and Guerrilla Marketing Remix.Craig has an MBA from Johns Hopkins University.In today's episode, Craig talks about:- story of when he was 10 years old and his conversation with Mr. H- being told not to talk anymore because he sounded like Daffy Duck- the same people that kicked you when you were down will pat you on the back when you perceiver- confrontation with Mr. H after winning the world championship- why he wouldn't be the speaker and man he is today without Mr. H- how he got past his lisp with Dale Carnegie- reading a book emphatically and working at it- why your brain can work things out when you sleep- Winston Churchill - “The farther back we look, the further ahead we're able to see.”- putting gum balls in his mouth and running hills to work on this speaking- a lot of his mentors were in books- Steven Covey, Dale Carnegie,- when he was in prison (visiting)- Will Rogers - “You might be on the right track, but if you stand there, you'll get run over.”- story of trying to get a speaking coach- checking the price of doing something along with the cost- what got me here won't get me there- having bad engagements lead to improvements- story of flying out first class for his first speaking gig and the pressure that came with it- making $3,500 for a speaking engagement but only delivering a $150 speech- how a coach meets you where you are- the biggest lesson for Craig- The Way of the Peaceful Warrior is his favorite book- thoughts dissolve when they hit the present- being in the present moment- it's not about perfection, it's about connection- opposite of stale is fresh- story of a speech in Montreal and the failure that was- not realizing the majority of the audience would be the same- all in his head after a failed speech and realizing he one person throw him off in a speech- switching up in the moment to move on to something else- Bill Gove - first president of national speaking association- I'm responsible to my audience, not for my audience- Craig's biggest failure and taking people's time- the moment he wanted to quit- a lady capturing his failure in a drawing- playing college basketball- the true test of a person is how they handle adversity- how imagination gets him through failure and discouragement- being an events planner in the mid-90's- story of setting up chairs and visualizing himself speaking in front of a crowd- today I move the chairs, tomorrow I move the audience- if you have a strong enough vision, you know that failures are just stumbling blocks along the way- being prepared or not prepared for the opportunity- you're going to rise or fall to the level you see yourself- intimidation of developing an app- the inner circle for speakers- why it's exhilarating to live outside your comfort zone- story of delayed flight and what happened when he cut off a lady in line- sitting down with a stranger for three hours and having a conversation- some people have 30 years of experience and some people have 1 year of experience 30 times over- all in place for speaking and growth in his upcoming app- state it and then illustrate it with an example- seeing a story and concept in action- intimidation of investing and marketing and seeing a return- the difference between an investment and expense- winning the different levels of toastmasters- are you going to win the next one?- why I never reached for the trophy, but I always reached for the life- how he's going to touch many lives- there's only one winner per year and you can touch lives now- leaving a legacy- a positive ripple effect---------www.52speakingtips.comTwitter - @CraigProSpeakerFacebook - Craig Valentine LinkedIn - Craig ValentineYouTube Channel---------

Story of failure: Losing our keys on the beach in Cape Cod and being stranded for two days.Amanda Heal is from Canberra, Australia and is a resilience speaker and author of Seeing By Vision, Not By Sight. Amanda helps leaders and their teams overcome uncertainty and increase resilience by building their courage. She's also scaled a 10,000 foot mountain. And by the way she's blind. In today's episode, Amanda talks about:- being born premature at 26 weeks and weight 1.9 ounces- because she was so small, they gave her too much oxygen and it caused blindness- her parents lobbied the government to allow her in public school- being made redundant that started her journey- climbing in Nepal with a Paralympic athlete, white water rafting, riding an elephant, and petting a baby rhino- lots of training before climbing 10,000 feet- the hardest part of the climb being the altitude- why Kenyan runners do so well- the most unpolluted air she has ever experienced- dancing around in circles on top of the mountain- the best thing about being blind and why it's her superpower- her life's purpose of inspiring and encouraging others- John Maxwell being a mentor to her- Jesus Christ being a mentor to her- story of taking a photo with John Maxwell and getting a one-armed hug by John- always being raised with a Christian background and when it changed at a healing service- worship songs only being three lines long- being prayed for sight but receiving Jesus instead- Jesus being her CEO- being laid off from her legal career after a lengthy career- having to apply for a job that she already held- not being truly happy in her job but discerning her life purpose- living out what God created her to do- excess to requirements and not needed anymore- hearing Nick Voyachik speak- why she used to get upset when people called her inspiring and why that changed- what other people think of her has nothing to do with me- it's ok for other people to have thoughts different from you- reaching out to Nick via email- the failure that helped changed her response and her life- why she used to cry and pray a lot, and let herself be sad- the thing that keeps her life on track- how can I do that better or how can I learn from this?- wanting to get paid speaking work and why that scares her- questioning herself on whether she's worthy or not- I told you you'd get here- goals of keynotes, international travel, holidays and good income- coming off being paid well as a lawyer and asking how much do I really need that gadget?- the blessing of having her income decrease- not realizing she was paying for two gym memberships- why she wants to support her mother in the comfort she would like- her silent business partner- taking her mom on a holiday in luxury- going on their first cruise for her mom's 90th birthday- wanting to write a book on courage- You Don't Need Sight, You Just Need Vision- when God told her to stop messing around and to speak- Seeing by Vision, Not by Sight------------www.amandaheal.com.auwww.purposevisionfuture.comTwitter - @amanda_healLinkedIn - Amanda Heal------------ 

Story of failure: The thought failure of driving by a roofing sign and Kendra not noticing.As a Madison Ave ad man, John Follis, spent the first 7 years of his career getting fired and the next 25 getting famous. Despite his rough career start he ultimately co-founded one of New York's most awarded agencies and was selected one of Madison Ave's "12 Best" by The NY Ad Club.John's high impact creative has helped sell everything from Coke to God and his high impact campaigns have been covered in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Forbes, TIME, The Harvard Business Review, and a Prentice-Hall marketing textbook.As a requested speaker John has addressed The World Business Academy and The Yale Entrepreneur Institute among others. He's also had the remarkable experience of being honored at both The White House for his exceptional public service work.But, in the first seven years of his career John was fired 4 times and told he'd never succeed in the business. How he overcame those harsh rejections to achieve his exceptional success is revealed in John's acclaimed video series “True Stories in Advertising.”In today's episode, John talks about:- spending his career in advertising in New York, Atlanta, and Chicago- a 25-year career on Madison Ave. in New York- why he kept getting fired early in his advertising career- why he loves creating things and how he got into video- early days of iMac movies and still images- creating fun animations and telling the stories of his career- almost got a book published in the mid-90's after signing a book deal with a top New York publisher- 22 rejections when pitching his book- stories that were collecting dust and wanting to do something with them- the start of true stories in advertising- why he doesn't have to focus on making money and can simply create- story of the most bizarre evening in advertising history- the Cleo Awards in the advertising business- $250 ticket in the early 1990's- packed in like sardines with no air conditioning at the awards show- why the head caterer acted as the master of ceremonies and why bread rolls we thrown- the band playing Danny Boy while bread rolls fly- the eventual theft of the golden statues from the stage- the mad dash for the Cleo Awards- having no idea if he had won an award and why he got a certificate a year later- why one of the most frustrating thing in his career was not being able to find a mentor- being hired at a top agency and being excited about a possible mentor that didn't pan out- why his dad was a supportive figure and mentor for him in life- attending Syracuse University and learning a lot in the world of advertising- Steve Jobs talking about connecting the dots- if he had not been fired, he would have not started freelancing which led to a lot of success in his career- a big part of his success was due to a great business partner- what a good partnership looks like- being able to focus on becoming a good copywriter and the production of ads- story of the first advertising course he took at Syracuse- why his instructor told him that he sucked and didn't understand advertising- why you can't dismiss a teacher telling you you're not going to make it- advertising 101- why discouragement didn't feel like an experience he could learn from at the time- taking the course again with a different instructor and brushing off the failure of the first- sometimes you just don't get along with people- looking at things analytically and processing a way forward- trying to look at other paths forward to reach your goal- in order to get fired, you have to first get hired- why he never stopped trying to improve his portfolio- developing and creating as a creative- speculative ads and the role they play in a portfolio- at the point in his life to do whatever he wants- playing the guitar and playing in a band in front of people- certain songs that people know and like that you don't have to play well- knowing what his vocal range is and playing stairway to heaven- the key is picking the right audience- you can't sing classic rock songs to kids in the 20's and 30's because it won't connect- why he wants to spend the next five years productively- why sharing experiences makes him feel good and why he wants to inspire people------------John's VimeoJohn's YouTube------------

Story of failure: Getting rejected by banks when we were first starting out asking for a $10,000 business loan.Hugh Carnahan is a finance enthusiast, investor, creator, and the head mustache at Hillbilly Millionarie! He's been featured on BiggerPockets and is the President and owner of Greater Ozarks Realty.  Hugh currently lives in the great state of Missouri.In today's episode, Hugh talks about:- military school from age 10-22- went to college, got a degree, and went into corporate America- moving to California and learning software and customer support- wheels falling off his marriage and coming back to manufacturing- learning all about 2 Second Lean and eliminating waste from his life- looking into buying solar panels and then pivoting into real estate- listening to BiggerPockets to learn real estate- buying 26 crack houses in north Springfield- successfully BRRR-ing several houses- the brand Hillbilly Millionaire and how he got there- scaling so quickly with 2 Second Lean- why his brand connects with people who feel left out- appealing to people with a sense of humor- smart people refuse to believe how simple 2 Second Lean can be- small changes over long periods of time moves mountains of waste- bringing 2 Second Lean to communist China- running the largest 2 Second Lean meeting in the world with 350 people- starting Greater Ozarks Realty and the first decentralized real estate company- process engineers instead of employees- respecting people and empowering the team to make changes themselves- rearranging a linen area and saving 114 miles per year, per employee- internet personalities, such as Brandon Turner and David Green, being mentors- Paul Akers being a mentor to him in 2 Second Lean- story of running his company in China, needing help, and what happened when Paul Akers showed up after reaching out to him- surpassing where most people quit- why Paul Akers blamed everything on him when they met- we can only go up from here!- tweaking the lens of a magnifying lens to shift the focus- why he fails 50-100 times a day and why he does this- fail fast, fail often- Bob Taylor (Paul's mentor) - “Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly.”- just try it to see if it works before doing something complicated- if I don't see failure, then I know something is wrong- how his biggest failure is his first marriage and why- red flags he brushed aside- learned a lot about himself and life through his failing marriage- compromising his career and blocking friends- learning to be highly selective, guarded, and humble- why the right people and communication is so important- givers and takers in life- if you want to be happy, get rid of the takers in your life- it's ok to be selective- changing the minds of human beings- you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink- what you're saying to givers if you keep takers on the team- stilwell paradox- holding out hope that you will prevail in the end while being able to look at the fact- how hobbies got him through his failed marriage- losing $40,000 because someone burned down a house- how ignoring the problem led to more problems- zooming out and knowing the regardless of the situation his team will prevail in the end- goal of scaling his YouTube past 1000 subscribers- writing a book on 2 Second Lean- the only real failure is not trying- Buy Rehab Rent Repeat - BRRR- BRRR'ing farmland and figuring out how to make it work- restoration agriculture- why land the size of Kansas needs to be converted to farmland- don't let commas scare you- following his vivid vision- why he wants everyone on his team to be millionaires and work less- being a 57 millionaire as a byproduct of growing and developing people- a millionaire adjusted for inflation- having just enough money and not too much- entertaining education channels- wearing an American flag speedo---------YouTube Channel - Hillbilly Millionairewww.hillbilly-millionaire.comInstagram - @hillbillymillionaire How to Retire in 3 Years (After MANY Mistakes) with Real Estate - BiggerPockets---------

Story of failure: Catching a popper on fire while working at Ozark Mountain Popcorn.Michael Sonbert is an entrepreneur, speaker, coach, and founder of Rebel Culture from New York. He's on a mission to transform the way team communicate and operate to increase employee satisfaction, team performance, and overall success. In today's episode, Michael talks about:- being a coach and entrepreneur in self-improvement- talks about crippling anxiety attacks as a teenager and the effects it had on him- sitting with his physiologist and encouraging him to hyperventilate- how he discovered drugs and alcohol in his 20's to escape the anxiety- story of when his mom died and how it impacted the trajectory of his life- “who do I want to be for the rest of my life?”- how he wanted to do more good for people than what they did for him- how he wants to learn about people, even if he never got the chance to share his story- living two different lives within one- how he was addicted to cocaine for almost a decade- how he quit cold turkey once he made up his mind- how he had to land on what was driving his behavior and how it lead back to the lack of relationship with his father- how his lack of relationship lead to confidence issues- how his uncle mentored him and important figure in his life after his mom's passing- how people are always afraid of something, and if you weren't scared, you wouldn't be normal- how teachers and principals taught him how to be a decisive leader- how his coach named Josh Miller helped him work through an opportunity- fear forward and don't let the fear stop you- how speaking and flying still gives him anxiety but he just works through it- how he used to avoid failure like the plague because he never wanted to feel bad- why his fear of taking the last shot in basketball would cause him to not have the opportunity to take the shot- why he would act like he was trying hard just to throw people off the scent- how grades in college prevented him from taking classes- why for the longest time he avoided situations that had a chance of failure- “nothing great can be achieved if you're not willing to fail”- it took him learning to fail before he succeeded- attending a Mets game with his daughter- baseball being a sport of failure- pretending to pitch while playing right field in middle school- having a home that roots for both the Mets and Yankees- how it took a while to learn how to work through failures- reading reviews on his recent book and what it made him realize- why to model yourself after people you admire- impenetrable forcefield towards the negative things people say- on the other side of failure is success in any field- there's no such thing as an overnight success story- story of Florida trip and the failure that came with it, and what he learned through it- there's another opportunity around the corner- the bigger the game you play, the more people won't like you- Derek Jeter joining Twitter and getting criticized- playing music in front of people- why your story doesn't resonated sometimes with people- Rebel Culture launch working with school leaders and teachers- working with marginalized kids across the country and giving them opportunity- finding rebel leaders and not caring about the great resignation- why he's scared launching a new project but why it also doesn't matter because it's the right thing to do- why wishing our weeks away shouldn't be the narrative- why everyone has something to add and bring something to the conversation- regardless of what his organization has achieved, they were committed to doing good in as many ways as they could- his thoughtful and heartfelt dedication to his kids from his book-----------www.rebelculture.com@rebelcultureleaderswww.skyrocketed.org-----------Follow me here: Twitter | Instagram | LinkedIn | Facebookwww.professional-failure.com