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Jason Reichl is CFO of Breadcrumbs and the former CEO of GoNimbly, and he is a long-time supporter of RevOps. For Jason, the RevOps methodology is a way for companies to focus on one thing: increasing revenue. In his view, RevOps changes the organizational structure by introducing the role of revenue operators, but it also changes tactical components of sales and marketing, such as how leads are scored, which data helps drive revenue, measuring the right KPIs, and more. Episode Guide 2:37: What's wrong with the way most companies are scoring their leads? 5:08: How many companies are doing little to no lead scoring? 7:13: B2B marketers are awash in data. What is the data that really matters? 11:44: Indicators and KPIs that lead to revenue. 15:20: Growth from existing customers vs. new customer acquisition. 22:23: What does it look like when revenue operations is done well? 29:30: The importance of customer experience in B2B.

This week's guest on this Best Of Edition of the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast is Jason Geiman of kingofpressurewash.com! When Shane Sams met Jason Geiman years ago - he had a great offline business in the greater Cincinnati area and he had built that revenue up to 7-figures. After selling that business and looking for a way to make money he discovered online business through the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast! Now, he has created a multiple 6-figure membership business. In today's episode you'll learn: How Jason built has multiple 6-figure businesses so fast (primarily focused on YouTube as a content channel) Organic growth, what is working best on YouTube right now YouTube ads (what works, what doesn't work, and how we can get better at finding new traffic) Mindset struggle to get past plateaus in your business What it's like to work with your spouses every single day as an entrepreneur Show Notes Jason started out early in his career as a mechanic. But, after several years he ended up working full-time as a fireman. On the side, while working as a fireman, he started a pressure-washing business in the greater Cincinnati area. After hard work and buckling down on the marketing side of his business - Jason grew to $1 million!   How do you get people to find you? (12:00) If you can help solve someone's problems and give detailed information that can truly help someone on the internet - someone will find you. You are always one question away from somebody giving you money: whether it is for discovering you (joining, your membership) or next month's retention.   Why did you decide to create a YouTube Channel? (20:00) Everyone knows to build an audience there are a couple of major players you can choose from: A podcast YouTube A blog Jason chose to really go in on YouTube by going LIVE twice each week and posting two tutorial videos each week. By sitting down and answering questions each week has allowed Jason Geiman to grow exponentially!   What have you learned on the other side of entrepreneurship? (48:00) First off, you never really figure everything out. You will always face mindset issues and setbacks. It's just part of the game. However, you will learn and grow A LOT! Entrepreneurship opens up doors and opportunities for you and your family that you simply would not have had access to without your online business. One of the biggest things Jason has learned? You've got to get around like-minded people to truly succeed as an entrepreneur! You truly are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time around - pick those people wisely!   What is it like to work with your wife? (1:00:00) For Jason, working with his wife brought them a lot closer - but it also has been stressful (as you can imagine)!  It is hard navigating home life while being an entrepreneur and trying to keep work boundaries separate at the same time. It is certainly difficult at times, but make sure to remind them how thankful you are for their work (especially if they work more behind the scenes) and make time for your wives apart from work!   Connect with Jason! kingofpressurewash.com  Find us on: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Facebook Twitter The Official Flipped Lifestyle Podcast Facebook Group Join the Flip Your Life Community! We would love to have you as a member of The Flip Your Life Community! We believe you have God-given talents and experiences you can use to start an online business! All you need is 100 people to pay you $50/m online to make $5,000/m, $60,000/y! Let us help you start, build, and grow a membership of your own. We offer a 30-day FREE trial to all new members. Click here to learn more: https://flippedlifestyle.com/flipyourlife   Check out last week's episode!

After deciding to leave the mean streets of LA, where he worked as a police officer for 13 years, Jason Smith started working at the leading Facebook and Instagram advertising agency Tier 11. He eventually moved to create his own company Spotlight Social Media Consulting in 2016. Today, he joins us to talk about the key factors that have helped him grow his team and making the decision to bring a VP of Operations. 3 Golden Nuggets Having a good foundation to grow your agency. For Jason, an integral part of growing an agency is having a great team that have your back and know what they’re doing and are team players. People you can trust with the tasks that you’re delegating and also, why not, people that you like. On hiring a VP of Operations. Many people are afraid of this step because of the cost it entails. But Jason has seen his agency really evolve since hiring his VP of Ops. Now his agency has SOPs, there are clear steps to bringing new employees and clients onboard, and a new project management system. Definitely worth it. The right Facebook ads agency will be a great partner. Make sure you ask the right questions when looking for a Facebook ads company because the right one will help you triple and quadruple your business and become a great asset to your brand. Sponsors and Resources Oribi: Today's episode of the Smart Agency Masterclass is sponsored by Oribi. Check out Oribi.io/smartagency for a free trial. Plus when you sign up for Oribi get 20% off the first three months with promo code: Smart Agency Subscribe Apple | Spotify | iHeart Radio | Stitcher | Radio FM How Hiring a VP of Operations can be the Best Call to Grow Your Agency Jason Swenk: [00:00:00] On this show. I talk with an agency owner who talks about how he has grown his team, how he's grown his agency. And when is the right time to bring in a VP of Operations and how did he do it? So let's sit back and check out the episode. Hey, Jason. Welcome to the show. Jason Smith: [00:00:24] Hey, how are you doing? Thanks for having me on. I appreciate it. Jason Swenk: [00:00:27] Yeah, man, I'm excited to have you on, I've gotten to know you over the past couple of years, but for the people that have not heard of you yet tell us who you are and what do you do? Jason Smith: [00:00:35] Yeah, my name is Jason Smith, owner and CEO of Spotlight Social Media Consulting. We're a, uh, Facebook and Instagram only, I say only because we're not an all-in-one, we're Facebook and Instagram only ad agency. So we do paid media for Facebook and Instagram. Jason Swenk: [00:00:52] Awesome. Now you have a quite interesting story of how you became an agency or really even what you were doing beforehand. So, yeah, I think it's interesting just to tell people kind of where you came from. Jason Smith: [00:01:05] Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Crazy story, actually. When I tell it, people take a 360-degree turn and they're like, wait, what? So I was a, a policeman for the Los Angeles Police Department for, gosh, just about 14 years before I became an agency owner. And the reason why it's kind of crazy is because I went from getting shot at, chasing gang members, getting into shootings, all this stuff, and the mean streets of LA. And literally, I mean that literally, I mean, we're talking about 250 homicides in six square miles in a year, and very violent places in, in Los Angeles. And, uh, went from that to, you know, the thing that kinda drove me to look for something else was number one, I was never home, was in court all the time. My days off were filled with court and overtime and it was just, you know, I never get to spend time with my family and I just, it was getting old, real fast. And it sounds cool when you're up on the stand testifying as a gang expert or weapons expert and all this stuff. But in hindsight, personally, it's not that fun. So, and you know, I've been involved in tons of, and literally tons of stressful situations. I've been in shootings and been shot at and all that stuff. And, man, for making $80,000 a year doing that. I just wanted to start looking for something else. And I stumbled across an opportunity where, you know, running Facebook ads was a core part of one of my friend's businesses originally, like with a supplement company. And he just kind of asked me buddy to buddy, like, hey dude, do you want to help me do these Facebook ads? I'm like, yeah, I don't, I'm a dumb policeman. I don't know how to do this, but let's try it out, you know. So I ended up getting some good results and then I did a little bit more research and ended up finding a certification course. And gosh, the rest is history. And next thing you know, I have, I had 10 clients, not even a year later and making, you know, 30,000 a month, which I never thought possible from home. And yeah, it was pretty cool. Jason Swenk: [00:03:05] So which is more stressful running an agency or getting shot at? Jason Smith: [00:03:09] Man, I don't know. I’m just kidding. Well, it's funny because people will. You know how clients are sometimes. They'll try to intimidate you or something or say something to you. I'm like, dude, relax. Okay. It's not that doesn't work on me, okay. So, and when I, when I shoot back stuff to them, they're like, Oh wow. This guy is not going to take my usual agency fluff here, right. You know, so it's pretty funny. Jason Swenk: [00:03:33] I interviewed an ex-Navy Seal and he was basically was like, look, we just went over so much of training when we get in situations. Like, we weren't stressed. And I was like, that's a great principle to apply, like in your agency, like go over this scenarios is over and over again. And it shouldn't be that stressful. Jason Smith: [00:03:52] Right. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I don't get stressed too much. Even my wife tells me like, man, you don't stress over anything. And I'm like, well, you know, after being shot at and being all these stressful situations, not, not much more in life is going to stress me out, you know? So. Pretty funny. Even the guys on my team, stress out about stuff. I'm like, guys don't, don't stress out about that stuff. Just everything will work out, so. Jason Swenk: [00:04:16] How has your agency grown in the past couple years? Like, what are some things that have worked for you that you wish you knew back when you were just getting started messing around with Facebook? Jason Smith: [00:04:29] Yeah. Well, I mean, number one, I think having great people behind you and supporting you. That's probably the number one thing. I mean, you know, I'll never forget how I found you was through Ralph at Tier 11, but it was funny because the first time I applied to work with you, you denied me because I wasn't big enough, right? But that was great motivation. No, no. And Hey, I mean, that's, and that's why you have an elite mastermind that you do because you get to pick and choose the people in it. And that's very important. And, um, I mean, I think number one, support and people behind you, I mean, Ralph and Deacon, those guys at Tier 11 have, you know, and still helped me today. I mean, those guys have been an integral part of why I've grown and there's no, like, even though we're the same, we do the same thing. There's plenty of business to go around. They're just cool guys. They've helped me a ton. Um, I could call Ralph right now and say, hey, you know, what do you think about this? And he would, you know, he would tell me and we could talk about it. So, that's I think probably the number one thing that's helped me the most and then being a part of, you know, probably your mastermind and the group and the support there. I can go to you or anybody else. And I mean, gosh, I just went to you recently, right? About some stuff and was, and you helped me out. So that probably for me is the number one thing. And number two is having a great team, you know, having a great team of people who you can, you know, like, and trust. And not get bogged down with people you can't trust or waste your time or whatever. Those are probably the two things that helped me the most grow the agency and where I'm at today. And I mean, I literally started from nothing. Like I had no clients, you know, and I tell the story on my podcast and Deacon from Tier 11 is the one that gave me, like my first two clients. And then it just kind of went from there. So, having that support structure and those people in your life. And I say your life, because it's not just all about business and you know, you and I could go out and have a drink or something. And we're good friends. I think outside of the business world, you know, we also like the same things, right. You used to ride motocross, you're a big Jeep guy. So that's very important, so. Jason Swenk: [00:06:34] Yeah, we'll party this summer. Jason Smith: [00:06:37] Can't wait. Jason Swenk: [00:06:38] I know. Talk about your team because a lot of people listening, they may be trying to scale their team, trying to grow their team. Where did you find them? How did you find them? How'd you evaluate them? You know, because, you know, that's an integral part. Jason Smith: [00:06:53] Yeah, for sure. Yeah. I mean, most of my team came from recommendations from the mastermind, um, your mastermind and, um, Ralph actually helped me out. Ralph and Deacon over there at Tier 11 helped me on how to kind of screen people, give them a little bit of a test, have them record a loom video. You know, you can tell a lot about a person when they record a quick video. And of course, they're going to be nervous and I think I'm a pretty fair guy. Like I can kind of read through the bs and the nervousness and stuff like that. But when it comes down to the core values of who they are as a person, you can tell a lot by just a five-minute video and it's, we send them basically a little test and say, hey, I want, give me a five-minute overview of this test. And it's not so much of a test. It's really just like an aptitude test of how much they know about Facebook because I. We all do it on resumes. We all overcompensate for all this stuff, right. And, um, for them going through this competency test just shows me how much they know. And then what I do is send them over to my VP of operations. And actually my VP of operations came from a referral from a friend of mine. He used to be a professional skateboarder was, was in the upper ups of Ogio. You know, the company, Ogio, big company. He used to work for them because he was a pro skateboarder. And then when he hurt himself, he went to work for Ogio and loved the operation side. So I got to know him. And just a cool dude, you know, and that's really what comes down to it in my opinion. And yes, they have to have a good work ethic, but if they're going to be part of your team, like, you gotta like them, right? You really do, you know, and people say, oh, well, keep your personal side out of it. Well, I mean, I tend to think there has to be a personal side in it to make a team really solid, a good culture and a team that you can trust. So that's kind of how we evaluate stuff and really it's me talking to them or interviewing them. I have a pretty good, from my background and experience as a policeman, I have a pretty good idea of a person, right. When I talk to them. Jason Swenk: [00:08:50] When they're lying or not. Jason Smith: [00:08:52] Yeah. Just slap them around a little bit, you know? Jason Swenk: [00:08:55] So, are you the good guy or the bad cop or good cop? Who would you play? Jason Smith: [00:09:00] You know, it's funny. A couple of people that I've met, like clients have said, oh man, you're, you're such a nice guy, but then when I saw you in person, I was like, oh man, like this dude, could do some damage. I mean, I'm not the tallest guy, but I, you know, whatever it is, what it is, I'm all tatted down. And I don't, I definitely don't look like the normal marketer. And I do talk about that in my podcast, how I went into this Facebook ad agency world and I don't look like your normal agency owner, and it's pretty funny. But I try to be the good guy, unless the bad guy has to come rear its ugly head. And if it does, you better watch out cause you may get pistol-whipped or something, you know. Jason Swenk: [00:09:36] I love what you said about, yeah, you have to like them. I think it's… and you have to have that similar belief in the values that you share as an individual, because I used to hire the wrong way where I would try to hire my identical twin because I'm hiring someone to pick up the clack for the stuff I suck at. And then if I hire my twin. Well, now we're going to have two people that suck at this one thing. It makes it a really big challenge. So a lot of times you have to figure out what do we personally believe in. Like, do we believe in resourcefulness, do we believe in failure and success and all this kind of stuff. And then, and it's not just about quizzing them and saying. Jason Smith: [00:10:23] Right, right. Yeah, exactly. Jason Swenk: [00:10:25] Coming up with scenarios that you can have them describe that a little bit with that. Jason Smith: [00:10:32] Well, and too, I actually made the mistake one time of hiring somebody who is too entrepreneurial. If you know what I mean? Like when you're an owner of a company and you're trying to hire like exactly what you said, you can't hire your identical twin because that twin is then going to want to take over and be too entrepreneurial and almost do his own thing, you know. Which, you got to follow the systems, you got to follow the policies we have, right. And an entrepreneur will not follow that. They need to be out doing their own thing. Um, and so I look for that as well. Like especially being a team player. And that's one of the, my biggest red flags is they say anything about me, me, me, then I'm like, then I kind of, have to side-eye them a little bit and say, I don't think this is going to be the right fit. So. Jason Swenk: [00:11:19] If you're like many agency owners, it's very hard to show results and show value to your clients for the hard work that you've done. And up until now, you've probably been using Google Analytics, which is really kind of clunky and hard to use and just been around a long time. And there really hasn't been an alternative until now. And I want to tell you a little bit about Oribi. Now I've checked out this tool and it's really pretty cool. It doesn't require any code for you to track interactions and conversions. There's no more jumping from different platforms. You can track your social and paid media really all in one place. And it really allows you to build smart funnels and get tons of insights. I mean, literally, I've even set it up where I could say I want this visitor to get to this particular page and it will tell me what's the likely chance that they're actually get to this page and what pages are actually coming from. It's really pretty cool. So if you want to really kind of get away from Google analytics, I want you to check them out, go to Oribi. oribi.io/smartagency. And just for my listeners, you're going to get 20% off for the first three months using coupon code smart agency. Let's talk about your VP of Ops of when you were looking to bring them on. Like, walk me through that scenario because a lot of times people don't know when to bring on that person. So what was the scenario of like, what was lifelike like in the agency and then we'll talk about the next. Jason Smith: [00:12:58] Yeah, well, actually I had come to you about that probably what a year and a half ago, and was like, hey, I had a couple account managers that were managing accounts. And what I noticed really quickly was that there was all this information in my head and things that I was trying to disseminate to them and balls were being dropped. You know, client communication wasn't the best. And they were coming back to me often saying, hey, Jason, I don't really know what to do here. And I'm like, what do you mean you don't know what to do? But it was in my head. It wasn't on paper, in an SOP, in any operations was not in the agency. And that's what I needed at the time. And you're like, Jason, you're just going to have to drop the money because I was worried about, do we make enough as an agency? Like how much does one of these guys costs? I mean, all the things you don't really know about. And then when I finally found Eric and it was almost, it was a referral, I didn't really know he was good at operations. I kind of hired him to be a video editor because he's a high level video guy. And then he's like, oh, by the way, I'm also really good at operations. And I'm like, oh shoot, really? Awesome. And then he's like, hey, I've been looking at all this stuff at the company. And I could really come in and help out with SLPs. And, you know, we didn't have a project management system at the time. Like we didn't have Trello or. Uh, I mean, we had Slack, but Slack is not a project management system. It's a communication tool, right? And we kind of talked about it and he came in and all of a sudden, next thing, you know, six months later, we actually have things documented and hey, this is what you do to like reach out to Facebook and, and appealing an ad account that's been disabled and everything started coming down in writing, and it was really cool to see that process evolve. And it's still evolving today. But it makes it easier for when we bring on somebody new. Hey, okay, review these videos. This is the kind of first step here. And, uh, yeah, we've evolved a lot as an agency since then. It's been pretty cool. Jason Swenk: [00:14:50] And walk me through when you actually started onboarding him or when he started, did you just kind of give him like, here's what we need to do, go do, and then he'd just go execute. Or did he start coming up with all the, you know, hey, getting off Slack as a project management tool and that kind of stuff. Jason Smith: [00:15:05] Yeah, no, he was great. I mean, he, he had the experience from Ogio to be able to come in and say, okay, these are the top-level things that we need to integrate, which is SOPs and what happens in this scenario and, you know, Facebook's pretty complicated. So there was a lot of things and we kind of sat down one day for half the day and he just went through and picked my brain on everything and just kind of wrote it down. What are the most important things when we onboard a client, like we need to have a system for this stuff. So, you know, the account managers, when they onboard somebody, they can just check the boxes, which is really cool. And I mean, honestly, he's been probably one of my biggest assets in the, in the company and the growth right now. And he went in and went in lucid chart and like mapped out, okay, you guys, we're going to have 10 account managers by this date and we're going to be doing these things. And. It's really cool, you know, to have somebody like that. And, um, at first I thought, man, I gotta pay him all this money, but look how much money we're making now. It's pretty awesome. Jason Swenk: [00:16:03] Yeah. I mean a lot of people, they go, well, I don't know if I can fill up this person full time, because I think the holdup in their mind or their, their mindset is I need to come up with everything that they need to go do. Which I think is a mistake, and a lot of people don't really. Jason Smith: [00:16:18] Right. Well, not really, but yeah. Jason Swenk: [00:16:20] Yeah. It's just like, I have to detail everything I want you to go do, rather than just saying here's where the agency's going. Now you're the how person. I'm the where and why you're the how, right. And you just go execute it. And like you said, you hired the right person. It's going to be amazing. Jason Smith: [00:16:38] Yeah. And you may not hire the right person the first time, you know, I mean, and don't get me wrong. We've had our ups and downs and we've had our disagreements and, but that's just, I mean, that's life in general, you know, and you just gotta get through it. He's a great guy, great person, very organized. He's an operations dude. That's exactly what I needed. You know, cause I am not an operations guy and I do not know how to go into Trello and build boards and cards and all that. Like, I hate doing that stuff. So I'd rather be talking to somebody about our agency and how good we are at Facebook ads and, and running high-quality Facebook ads. That's what I'm good at. Jason Swenk: [00:17:14] Awesome. Well, this has all been amazing. Jason, is there anything I didn't ask you that you think would benefit the listeners? Jason Smith: [00:17:20] No, I just, uh, the only thing I do want to add is, is when you're ready to hire an agency for your Facebook ads, make sure you interview them. You have some great questions for them. If you have a resource that you can reach out to, to ask if, hey, if this agency is good or whatever, don't blame the current agency coming in for all the stuff that happened before, because chances are, you know, if you hire the right agency, they can be a good partner. And I want to stress the word partner because a lot of times. Business owners don't think a Facebook agency is necessarily a partner, but we're helping you grow your business triple and quadruple your business. And that's what we've done for companies. And that's why they'll never leave us is because we've grown them so much. And we're such an asset to their brand. They'll never, they'll never leave. So it's pretty cool. Jason Swenk: [00:18:06] That’s awesome. And where can people reach out to you if they want to chat more about Facebook and I highly recommend they do an amazing job. So where can they go and check it out? Jason Smith: [00:18:15] Yeah, they can go to, um, spotlightsocialadvertising.com or reach out to me. Jason at spotlightsocialllc.com. Jason Swenk: [00:18:23] Awesome. Everyone, go check them out. Reach out to Jason. They do an amazing job. And if you guys want to be surrounded by amazing agency owners, like Jason and many others, and just really be able to have that sounding board, that board of advisors to show you or see the things you might not be able to see and just have a lot of fun doing it. Make sure you guys go to digitalagencyelite.com. That's digitalagencyelite.com apply and maybe we'll have a conversation and then maybe you get to hang out with Jason and I and a bunch of other really cool people. All right. Till next time, have a Swenk day.

Jason Blum, founder of Blumhouse Productions, is a three-time Academy Award®-nominated, two-time Primetime Emmy Award-winning and a two-time Peabody Award-winning producer. Blumhouse is known for pioneering a new model of studio filmmaking: producing high-quality micro-budget films and television series, and his multimedia company is regarded as the driving force in the horror renaissance. Throughout his career Jason has relentlessly innovated and defied collective wisdom on the business of filmmaking. His low budget approach is much more than about 'keeping costs down', it's about fundamentally reducing risk and retaining control. And the result of this? For Jason it has meant staying INDEPENDENT, empowering artists (like Damien Chazelle, Spike Lee and Jordan Peele) and building a global direct to consumer and industry brand. In this very special interview with journalist Wendy Mitchell, Jason discusses his work and the future of the film and television business. It was recorded in November 2020 for the Future of Film Summit.

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Jason Ganahl is a Maestro of Meat and Marketing.  The GQue BBQ founder's love for barbecue, people, and sports has allowed him to flourish. To do so, he’s had to network not only to thrive but also to survive. Being outside of the major traditional barbecue markets has made Jason Ganahl hustle hard not just in his food service area but also online. Jason Ganahl is our guest on the Digital Hospitality podcast, where he talked about running a successful BBQ and catering business in Colorado, growing a YouTube channel, digital marketing, and more. Still, the GQue BBQ team is dedicated to serving the best BBQ catering services in Denver and beyond. “The BBQ isn’t going to sell itself,” Jason Ganahl admits about GQue BBQ restaurants in the greater Denver area. “We’re not in Kansas City, we’re not in Austin and we’re not in St. Louis.” Listen to this barbecue podcast episode and learn and let us know what you think about this episode featuring Jason Ganahl of GQue Championship BBQ by emailing the Cali BBQ Media team at podcast@calibbq.media.  ***   Learning to Hustle Online — “I started making videos about seven years ago,” Jason Ganahl says about his early YouTube ventures. “Ironically, I taught myself how to make YouTube videos by watching how-to YouTube videos. I never really took it seriously, at first my goal was just to get 100 subscribers. We got to 10,000 subscribers.” By teaching himself through other content creators and the rich resources of the internet, Jason was able to build his brand to an audience also obsessed with barbecue. Like joining competitions as a judge, it all stemmed from passion and fun, not finances. https://youtu.be/BeLTD9lA34s “You can’t get into YouTube thinking you’re going to make money,” says Jason Ganahl about building a YouTube channel. “It’s a passion project. I would do it on the weekends, but as my kids got older, I just didn’t have time to do it. YouTube loves consistency, so now I just fired my channel back up and it feels like we’re starting from scratch. I’m on YouTube every single day now.” As expected, the daily digital grind for Jason isn’t just publishing videos to YouTube. Rather, it’s a variety of social media platforms that allow him to engage with a community that shares the same passion or region as him. For Jason, being on top of his digital game is a mix of connection and metrics. “Your online reputation is pretty much everything nowadays,” admits Jason. “So, I look at Google and utilize that. I utilize the conversations I have with the employees that I have. I utilize the conversations that I have with the guests to utilize all the direct messaging that we get from all of our guests to kind of get a sense of where we're at and what our perceptions are and in how we're performing.” When it comes to his own Digital Hospitality, Jason Ganahl is well aware of the power online resources give him and his GQue BBQ business. At first, the internet was the bridge for him to learn more about barbecue and become a judge at contests. Next, it was how he learned to make YouTube videos and build his brand. Now, it’s how he connects with his community and learns just how good of a job his business is doing. In addition to founding GQue BBQ, Jason Ganahl is also the founder of Ice Cream Farm. So, what’s Jason’s advice for you when it comes to digital hospitality and building a brand online? “Stop just putting pictures of food out there, people want to connect with you!” beams Jason Ganahl on the Digital Hospitality podcast. “You can’t let the fraction of people who will judge you determine your outcome. You’ve gotta think about the 80% of people who want to support you and want to see you succeed. Innately, I think people want to help people and it breaks my heart to see people too scared to put themselves out there on social media because of fear of other people.” *** Read more about Jason Ganahl and GQue BBQ on our C...

In this episode of Coaches Corner Jason and Darryl sit down and talk about losing your “fitness mojo”. You might think that coaches always have motivation to workout, but that's not the case. For Jason and Darryl, they lost their fitness mojo around the time that their children were born. At the end of their days, they would rather use whatever energy they had left in spending time with their family. So how did they get their fitness mojo back? And how do you regain your mojo? Listen to the episode to find out!

15. Déjà vu - Cover Songs Show  Tuesday 19th January. Presented by Rich Davies   TRACK 1 All along the Watchtower - Eddie Vedder & The Million Dollar Bashers (Bob Dylan 1967) TRACK 2 Take me to the River- Annie Lennox 1995 (Al Green 1974) TRACK 3 White Flag - Felix Schorn & Chris van Dutch (Dido 2003) TRACK 4 The Man Who Can't be Moved (live) - N-Dubz (The script 2008) TRACK 5 September (Live from Nashville) - Taylor Swift (Earth, Wind and Fire 1978). For Marty. TRACK 6 Bad Guy - Violet Orlandi. (Billie Eilish 2019) Thanks to Stuart for introducing me to the talented Violet. TRACK 7 You Belong to Me - Jason Wade from Shrek (Joni James 1952) For Jason. TRACK 8 Crying at the Discoteque - Alcazar 2001. (samples Spacer by Sheila B. Devotion from 1979) For Gary. TRACK 9 Crying at the Discoteque - Sophie Ellis Bextor 2021. TRACK 10 Nothing Else Matters - Macy Gray (Metallica 1992). TRACK 11 I'll be There for You - Scott Brandlee's Postmodern Jukebox (The Rembrandts from Friends 1994) For Phoebe. TRACK 12 Lovecats - Paul Anka (The Cure 1983). TRACK 13 Louder - Escala (DJ Fresh 2011) TRACK 14 I Just Died in Your Arms - Northern Kings (Cutting Crew 1986) For Glen, TRACK 15 Changes - Puddles Pity Party (David Bowie 1971) For my old mate Paul B.   If you have any cover requests, send them to rich@solihullradio.com

14. Déjà vu - Cover Songs Show  Tuesday 12th January. Presented by Rich Davies   TRACK 1 All along the Watchtower - XTC (Bob Dylan 1967)  TRACK 2 Don't Give up- Herbie Hancock with John Legend and P!nk (Peter Gabriel and Kate 1986) TRACK 3 Whiskey in the Jar - Pulp (Traditional Irish song) TRACK 4 Eloise - Claude Francois (Barry Ryan 1968) For Aline. TRACK 5 You've Got the Love - Florence and the Machine (The Source featuring Candi Staton 1986). For Ian and Sean. TRACK 6 Naive - Lily Allen, singing live (The Kooks 2006) TRACK 7 Blinding Lights - Kaleidoscope Orchestra (The Weeknd 2019) For Jo & Phoebe. TRACK 8 It's Oh So Quiet - Betty Hutton 1951. For Jason and Toni. TRACK 9 It's Oh So Quiet - Björk 1995. TRACK 10 Mr Brightside - Paul Anka (The Killers 2004) For my Dad. TRACK 11 Dance Monkey - Peter Buka (Tones & I 2019) For Geoff. TRACK 12 War Pigs - Cake (Black Sabbath 1970) For Stuart. TRACK 13 Feeling Good - Muse (Nina Simone 1965) For JJ. TRACK 14 Like a Prayer - Susan Boyle (Madonna 1989)   If you have any cover requests, send them to rich@solihullradio.com

Jason takes a moment to wish all of you a happy and healthy holiday celebration. Take a break and chill, because this is the time of year to rejoice, celebrate, and feel rewarded. No matter how distant our loved ones may be this holidays season, let’s never forget the importance of sharing. For Jason and his family, Christmas is a BIG deal. Every year, the Fuchs family has a tradition of reading "Twas the Night Before Christmas" on Christmas Eve. Jason thought it would be fun to create his own version based on his experiences this year. We hope you enjoy it!We'll see you in January for a fresh episode of Dad Cents. Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!Contact us at jfuchs@sagepathfa.com or 904-366-9388. Thanks for listening! We appreciate you!

09. Déjà vu - Cover Songs Show Tuesday 8th December. Presented by Rich Davies   TRACK 1 All along the Watchtower - Spirit (Bob Dylan 1967) for Marc Cjifer. TRACK 2 Careless Whisper – Gossip (George Michael 1984) For Steve Evans. TRACK 3 Jealous Guy - Roxy Music (John Lennon) For Mom. TRACK 4 Master and Servants - Nouvelle Vague (Depeche Mode 1984) For DJ Tony Bates and Lee Guest. TRACK 5 Bad Guy - The Interrupters (Billie Eilish 2019) For Marty. TRACK 6 Torn - Natalie Imbruglia 1997 (Lis Sørensen 1993) For Jason and Toni. TRACK 7 Sway - Dean Martin 1954. TRACK 8 Sway The Pussycat Dolls 2004. TRACK 9 The Passenger Siouxsie and the Banshees 1987 (Iggy Pop 1977) TRACK 10 Eye of the Tiger - Paul Anka. (Survivor 1982) TRACK 11 Light my Fire - The Mike Flowers Pop  (The Doors 1967) TRACK 12 Strawberry Fields Forever - Peter Gabriel (The Beatles 1967) For Ringo Starr. TRACK 13 Smells Like Teen Spirit - Tori Amos (Nirvana 1991) TRACK 14 Enjoy The Silence - Susan Boyle (Depeche Mode 1990)   If you have any cover requests, send them to rich@solihullradio.com

07. Déjà vu - Cover Songs Show Tuesday 24th November. Presented by Rich Davies   Track 1 All along the Watchtower - Neil Young (Bob Dylan 1967) TRACK 2 What a Wonderful World – Joey Ramone (Louis Armstrong 1967) For Mark and Mags. TRACK 3 The Man - Jamie Cullum (The Killers 2017) For Jo. TRACK 4 Crazy - Daniela Andrade (Gnarls Barkley 2006) For Martin. TRACK 5 Planet Earth - Luxxury (Duran Duran 1981) For Marc Cijfer of the Night Bus. TRACK 6 Venus - Shocking Blue (1969) from Queen's Gambit (Netflix) TRACK 7 Venus - Bananarama (1986) TRACK 8 Sweet Dreams/Seven Nation Army - Pomplamoose (Eurythmics 1983/White Stripes 2003) For Stuart. TRACK 9 Every 1's a winner – Ty segall (Hot Chocolate 1978) For James. TRACK 10 Love Machine - Wham (The Miracles 1975) For Jane Beckett. TRACK 11 Mrs Robinson - The Lemonheads (Simon & Garfunkel 1968) For Jason and Toni Jones. TRACK 12 Money for Nothing - Leo from Frog Leap Studios (Dire Straits 1985)  TRACK 13 Whole Lotta Love - C.C.S. (1970) (Led Zeppelin 1969) For Steve Evans.  TRACK 14 Medley - Algal the Bard (various) For Glen Davies.    If you have any cover requests, send them to rich@solihullradio.com    

Jason Feifer is the Editor-in-Chief of Entrepreneur magazine, which alone keeps him busy enough. But on top of that, he also hosts three podcasts: Problem Solvers (an Entrepreneur podcast), Pessimists Archive, and Hush Money. For Jason, podcasting is a different way to tell stories, and one that can only add value for Entrepreneur magazine's readers. In fact, some conversations for Problem Solvers become articles or interviews for the magazine. In this episode, Jason talks about why podcasting is valuable for brands. Jason and Erik discuss the intimate nature of podcasts and how that can build a dedicated fanbase. They also get into what it takes to start a podcast, and why sometimes it might help not to have a concrete plan, and the advantages of producing multi-platform content.

For Jason, joy comes from being part of the community and seeing that community do something together that’s greater than our individual parts. He’s the VP of Sales for Axia Technology and shares motivation on Mondays and highlights nonprofits on Fridays through LinkedIn as a way to share joy, happiness, and kindness with others. Jason believes that relationships matter most, and that joy is outwardly focused and a deep feeling.

For Jason the secret to playing better is to set very specific goals. “A talented player can get very far by putting in the hours, but most will improve quicker if they practice with purpose,” says Vieaux, who has played with over 100 different orchestras around the world. “You can play for 10 hours a day, but if you aren’t focused you may not get better. Finding a good teacher is important because they will help you set realistic goals, which will lead to better technique."

This episode the boys are digging into their watch discomfort zones – those types of watches that simply haven't worked for them in the past. For Jason, it's dress watches. For James, it's chronographs. From special examples to wild blind spots, the guys know they are in the wrong and chat about how best to frame these genres in a way that might work in the future. From the top, Jason and James are talking Speedmaster bracelets, bronze watches, and the never-ending sagas of vintage Land Rover repairs and project property updates. Sit tight for Final Notes for historical deep dive on NATO straps, the calamity of building a remote cabin, and a brand new album James can't stop listening to. Finally, a huge thank you to Seiko Watches for supporting this episode via their Built For The Ice Diver US Special Editions. Just press play for all this and more – thanks so much for listening! 00:30 Seiko! bit.ly/seikoicetgn 14:10 Forstner Flat Link bracelet https://bit.ly/2GLBFgh 16:45 Oris Holstein Edition 2020 https://bit.ly/36znYMy 21:10 Vertex Bonze 75 https://bit.ly/2GA5yR0 25:22 Seiko Prospex Built for the Ice Diver bit.ly/seikoicetgn 32:38 Grand Seiko SBGM021 https://bit.ly/3lnxVk6 45:13 Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar In-Depth https://bit.ly/3d5kbrl 46:37 Collectability https://bit.ly/2F5rN0u 48:59 Hamilton Intra-matic 38 mm with a Champagne Dial https://bit.ly/30BND39 55:!7 Speedmaster Apollo 11 Anniversary LE https://bit.ly/30DUJV9 59:54 IWC ceramic chronograph via AnalogShift https://bit.ly/30DUYj1 1:01:13 Longines BigEye Chronograph Hands-On http://bit.ly/2mWchYE 1:02:10 Sinn SRS 910 Anniversary Chronograph https://bit.ly/3nivtxc 1:05:19 Junghans Max Bill https://bit.ly/3iCUwYm 1:08:50 Milestones In The Development Of The NATO Strap https://bit.ly/36EuqC3 1:11:03 Rover Haven straps http://bit.ly/2licIwC 1:11:54 Fleet Foxes “Shore” https://bit.ly/3npJ3is 1:12:20 Robin Pecknold on Instagram https://bit.ly/33zuX6g 1:17:44 “We Quit Our Jobs To Build a Cabin – Everything Went Wrong” https://bit.ly/3jxObyF

Jason Harris is Co-Founder and CEO of Mekanism, an award-winning creative advertising agency. Jason is the author of The Soulful Art of Persuasion that highlights the 11 habits you need to become more authentically or soulfully persuasive. He proves that persuasion is not a dirty word, but the most positive, productive, and ethical way of changing peoples’ minds through the cultivation of character building habits. Become a person with more fulfilling experiences and more authentic personal relationships! Tune in to this episode to learn the power of positivity and persuasion, collaboration, storytelling, building lasting relationships, and actionable habits that you can implement to become a master influencer.  Why did you write The Soulful Art of Persuasion? What was the inspiration behind it? He’s an avid reader, listener of podcasts, and loves reading business books. As an entrepreneur, he’s figuring out how other people approach business and sales, so he consumes that type of content. It dawned on him that there’s something different about the way he approaches business and the principals he follows compared to everyone else’s approach. He saw transactional, short-term methods of building a business rather than relationship and long-term focused methods. He had a different angle and a different thing to say in the business book atmosphere. To Jason, the idea of being a soulful persuader and influencer is being an influencer in your personal and professional sphere. What are the core principals of your book and how did you develop these principals? Jason worked at a lot of different companies before starting his own and he felt like he didn’t respond well to a lot of the company cultures he was experiencing. There wasn’t much of a space where people could feel truly themselves and be original, so he learned a lot of what he wanted to create and the ways he wanted to work from seeing what other people were doing, both positive and negative. He kept a journal of these ideas and beliefs until he developed the four core beliefs that he follows to this day. The four principals are: be original, be generous, be empathetic, and be soulful. His inspiration also came from books he was reading, the way people made him feel, and seeing success growing from long-term relationships. How did you decide that those four, out of all the principals we could live by, were essential? The 11 habits he mentions in the book fall under these categories. Being soulful came last to him, but the other three came from a balance of business, how he wants to pursue his life, and the type of person he wants to be. Some of the habits came naturally to him and some he had to practice and develop over time. What’s an example of something that was not natural for you? Jason isn’t a naturally generous person. He says he was born on the more self-absorbed and slightly selfish side. Through work and growing up and his experiences, he realized that it’s a characteristic that’s really important. When working with big brands, how do you tell a story that can build a sense of trust, but that is also not transactional? You can’t always do that. They’ll send you a brief of what to talk about and then you come up with the creative work off of that brief. You have to absorb what they’re saying and what they want to accomplish, then crack the creative and spit it back to them with ideas that position the brand in a way that you feel is right. It’s always a dance with what you feel the audience will respond to and what the brand thinks they will respond to. He tries to embody the principals of being original and knowing the audience. Do you think the art of storytelling in a way that connects with the person or brand applies to long-term relationships? Definitely, 100%. When he talks about relationships, there are personal and professional relationships and you have to approach them in a similar fashion. Can you share with us your journey and how you got to where you are now? Jason is an odd duck in the sense that he knew he wanted to be in advertising at the age of 12 or 13. Both his parents were teachers so he grew up in an academic household. He was a TV junkie and would always break down and study the stories in between the shows he watched. He realized that must be a fun job to create those advertisements and the first time he thought he was persuaded was around the same age when the band KISS transported him through storytelling. Stories can be from your heart, your life, books you love, music, and movies. Success in a lot of areas is built on storytelling techniques. Did you get your degree in advertising? Jason got his degree in economics to make his parents happy, then he hustled to get his foot in the door at a design firm, then a few advertising agencies doing direct mail, strategy, and production. He got a feel for how business is done and what it’s like through these different areas of the companies. With a decade of advertising under his belt, he started a production company, and then a couple years later, he co-founded Mekanism which has been around for over 10 years. Looking back, had your journey been a bit confusing but now makes sense? Yes, when you start out, it meanders a lot and he did have aspirations to open his own company after college. He didn’t know exactly what area or that he wanted to be CEO but he had that entrepreneurial spirit. It’s interesting how your journey can be both focused and flexible. The hardest thing is figuring out the industry you love and what skills you have that you can apply in that industry. What’s an obstacle, fear, or limiting belief that you feel like you encountered in your journey of figuring out the path that you really wanted to be on? For Jason, he likes to have control. When he moved to having partners, from having all the control in his own company, the limiting thing for him was: can he learn to let go and let other people take the reins and control their areas? That was a really hard thing for him to learn and he feels like he’s good at it now, after a few years of learning. How do you build trust? Today more than ever, trust is so important because we’ve gotten so entrenched in our beliefs. We watch the stations and follow the social media that are going to tell us what we believe is right. We have to try and open this view about the idea about empathy and understanding and being curious about other people. That builds trust. When we, in business, think about techniques like mirror matching our audience to help sell something, that’s not building trust, that’s not being vulnerable or showing who we are. When you’re allowed to tell stories to people you might not even know, that allows them to do the same, and it allows trust to be built. Listening and trying to learn more than you might be judging other people also builds trust. Empathy allows you to collaborate better. That’s another aspect of persuasion, joining forces with other people. Look at other people and see that we’re really not that different from each other. Seek the common ground and approach everyone as an equal, thinking about collaboration. Can you share one or two of these 11 habits that can be really simple and practical that we can apply today? One thing Jason always thinks about in business is this notion of never be closing. It’s an idea of shifting your thinking, when you’re thinking about any deal, and going against the transactional way of thinking that will sabotage your attempts at persuasion. Thinking about building a relationship rather than closing the deal. If you do that, the impact of what you’re actually trying to close magnifies. Another thing is trying not to let your relationships drop to zero. Think about reaching out to five people every week to keep those relationships going. When it comes to social media, how do you think about sharing your interests with everyone vs reaching out and sharing with a particular person or group of people that would care about that issue. Could you post something on Instagram and share it personally with another person? Either way, it’s the ability of thinking about it as an act of generosity and thinking of who might benefit from this piece of knowledge and the connection. It’s the mindset that makes a big difference. Can you share a story of a time where you didn’t have a relationship with somebody but you wanted to foster one and the process you went through to make that happen? Jason shares about a business relationship where he met an interesting guy at a conference, how he wrote him a letter about how great he thinks his brand is and sent him a Mekansim hoodie. That meant a lot to him and about six months later, they decided to put the business up for review and threw Mekansim into the mix because he had that memory on his chest all the time. Now, they’ve been working together for over six years. Let me know if you agree, I think complementing people is so underused. Jason agrees! Reach out to your role models to express your thoughts and the impacts of the business on you personally. Let them know you’d love to have a follow-up conversation about it, that’s how you build a relationship. There’s so few people who do that nowadays and when someone does that, it’s super powerful. Part of persuasion is that awareness of the other person and generosity, acknowledgement, and research on who you want to network with can be very similar to complements. What’s a question you ask yourself a lot in terms of business in order to move it forward? He’s always thinking about: are the messages that we’re putting into the world positive stories? Are we filling the world with more positivity or are we just adding to the negative noise? What’s the best advice you’ve ever been given? This idea that business is a marathon and not a sprint. Building your career doesn’t have to happen as fast as you think it has to happen. Allow yourself to realize that you can take time with it. Allow yourself to know that relationships do take time and work and you always have to exercise that muscle. I think the essence of business is relationships, what’s your take? Yeah, that’s all it is. It’s relationships with people and that’s it. Any last thoughts? The idea of soulfulness in business – something that’s helped Jason is trying to be inspirational in whatever career or industry he’s in. It does help you become more influential and feel good, putting positive things out there and inspire by giving back. Direct your skill(s) towards something that’s bigger than yourself, like teaching tennis in low-income areas. It’s a very important aspect of success. Do you use the word intention in your work? He doesn’t but now he’s going to because he really likes it and it’s important! Connect with Jason + Get his book: www.thesoulfulart.com

In this episode of the Millionaire Mindcast, we have a superb guest, Jason Medley who shares tips and perspectives on how to creates massive results, why integrations and connections are necessary to entrepreneurs, how to make a business healthy, the importance of Balance Sheet and what this pandemic reveals to everyone! Jason is a serial entrepreneur, and CEO and Founder at The Collective Genius, a COMMUNITY of investors that is really focused around placing high caliber real estate investors on the FAST TRACK to becoming visionary leaders that scale their business, build wealth and give back. It brings together 140 of the nation’s top real estate investors on a quarterly basis to brainstorm about housing market changes and to share their most intimate secrets, strategies, resources and systems. In 19 years of his career in real estate & finance, he has partnered in over 1300 multi-family doors with CG members and funded North of 1500 Loans. Therefore, Jason has built a strong foundation in his business, a huge wealth and portfolio. Hence, this pandemic doesn’t have an effect on the stability of his company and still be able to move forward towards his goals. The connection is what Jason enjoys focusing on, that’s why he co-founded the Collective Genius (CG) that will celebrate its 10 years in February 2021. At the moment, it continues forming a strong community of entrepreneurs. Despite this quarantine, its 144 members still do life together and show up virtually for a mastermind. Accordingly, it still creates a community and massive results.  Though it is typical to feel a little bit guilty about being very fortunate for doing well these days, he suggested staying humble and giving empathy on all sides. On the bad side, if you’re currently struggling, try to ask yourself why. For Jason, this pandemic reveals the real problem that you've been neglecting for so many years. But even with Jason’s achievement, he admitted that there were times he still feels fears to fall down and to lose the momentum. But manage to flip the positive side and just create awareness. According to him, in order to win against COVID-19 is to focus and determine how you thrive and strive when an opportunity presents itself. Always be prepared for the opportunity.  Besides, to win is to not wait for the pandemic to go away but learn to function in the environment you’re in right now and navigate it better than anybody else, be empathetic, and find the way to get the desired outcome.  Some Questions I Ask:  When did you start Collective Genius? (03:01) How did Collective Genius come about? Where did this whole idea come from? (04:40) What is a Mastermind? Why is it something of value to a business owner or to an investor? (07:35) What do you like to focus on beyond the connections?  What are your identified superpowers or strengths that you like to spotlight that other people can pick and pull from in their own leadership journey?  (14:42) How have you managed to balance being this hard-charging entrepreneur & still maintains that level of excellence in other areas of your life too? (19:16) What are some of the big challenges you see many people struggling within their business that others could learn from? (23:55) What are some of the things that you guys are paying attention to? What do you think, what do you see in? (37:20)  In This Episode, You Will Learn: How the pandemic revealed the real problem that been neglecting for so many years (00:03) The Mastermind Principle. (07:59) The ‘genius thing’ of Collective Genius (17:02) The biggest fight or challenge that Jason had faced (20:08) The difference between doing what you than running the business (24:30) Jason’s principle in business (29:04) Why entrepreneurs should pay attention to their Balance Sheet (32:58) The Dead Cat Balanced-what is it (38:30) How to be a bankable person? (43:19) Jason’s perspective about COVID-19 and pushing life forward (44:28) Quotes: “For the right person at the right time, a mastermind is a marked moment in time.” Momentum is a precious thing.” “Making money is a skill set, keeping money is a discipline.” “Don’t get focused on the vanity numbers, get focused on the sanity numbers.” “The best sales team is gonna win.” “The biggest thing that you could focus right now, to determine how you thrive and strive when an opportunity presents itself. “ “There’s three truths: your truth, my truth, and there’s the truth.”                                Resources Mentioned: Game Changers book by Mike Lupica  

OVERVIEW: Jason A. Duprat, Entrepreneur, Healthcare Practitioner and Host of the Healthcare Entrepreneur Academy podcast talks about the importance of 'shutting off your brain' on occasion to achieve better mental health and clarity. He shares various ways to disconnect in order to reconnect and run your business more effectively.  EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: Entrepreneurs are a completely different breed of individuals. Oftentimes, they're thinking about the business and how to make it better and easier for their customers. Entrepreneurs and business owners have a difficult time disconnecting mentally.  Taking a mental break is crucial for clarity and health. The subconscious mind is incredibly powerful. It works hand in hand with your conscious mind.  Jason recommends disconnecting the conscious and engaging your subconscious to achieve mental relaxation.   Get involved in an activity requiring immersion. For Jason, physical activity or sports works best. Other options include playing video games, watching a movie or reading a book. To ensure a good night's sleep, use blue light filters, read a 'light' book or meditate. Success in business is not the end goal - it's who you become in the process.  It's a process so enjoy the journey and figure out what works best for you. 3 KEY POINTS: Many entrepreneurs and business owners find it hard to disconnect and relax and take their minds off their businesses. Taking a mental break is crucial for clarity and health Get involved in activities requiring deep immersion like playing sports or video games, watching a movie or reading a book. TWEETABLE QUOTES: “Success in business is not just about the end result or the end goal. It’s about all these different types of things you have to learn to overcome and it’s about who you become in the process.” -Jason Duprat “This whole process is just that, it’s a process. It takes time. There’s lots of things you have to work on to reach that pinnacle of success.” -Jason Duprat #HealthcareEntrepreneurAcademy #HealthcareBoss #healthcare #entrepreneur #entrepreneurship #mentalhealth #mentalbreak #productivity #wellbeing

Shine yourselves because it is the Sixteenth episode of the Kink Kloset!Lubing themselves up next for the Kink Kloset is none other than the lovable rubberman, Jason! Jason was raised in country Western Australia and grew up with a passion for motorcar racing. It was with racing where Jason became a high profile person in his local community. For the longest time, he felt like he was in two worlds, juggling his core being and his public profile. Eventually, Jason moved to Melbourne and came alive in this sex-positive city. Once in the community, he knew that he wanted to channel the same passion he had for motorcar racing, and help make the community thrive. In 2019, Jason was awarded the 2019 Melbourne Rubberman Title and has been an active member of the Australian Kink Community.As kinksteers and queer people, we are always dealing with a sense of belonging and looking for those places which make us feel comfortable and safe. For Jason, it was a struggle to connect to his kinks being in such a remote community. He also found it challenging to be comfortable with his kink self when his mates ridiculed kinksters because it wasn't the status quo. We then discuss on how great it is during these times to be able to connect to so many communities, where Jason reflects on the great success of Melbourne Rubber.

    Jason Tremere lives in Eastern Canada where he has a background in the computer science field as a programmer. He did systems analysis and even became an IT auditor. For the last 20 years or so Jason has done investing. When he was at one corporation he ran two investment clubs. He had about a dozen people in each one and they would meet weekly. In these clubs Jason would tell people what he looked for in a stock. Jason actually would have people put money in the market and they would watch it. Jason has decided that since he can teach this in person, it's time to teach people the same things online through his very own membership site! What You'll Learn: If you can teach in person, you can teach online. (6:30) What it means to figure out your next step. (12:50) You've got to be relatable. (17:45) The price doesn't really matter in the beginning. (19:00) How often do you communicate with your members? (22:57) How to let your content flow into other platforms. (25:00) Why you don't want to teach on your YouTube channel. (26:15) How to do one thing until it's done. (29:35) A bigger market is not always better. (33:00)   Show Notes Investing has really been a hobby for Jason for the last 20 years. He truly enjoyed the analytic side of watching investments, helping others learn to understand and love it too.   If you can teach in person, you can teach online.  For Jason the appeal of bringing his work online is because he is not currently doing any work in person, but he still continues to invest in the stock market for himself. Some days making thousands of dollars. Jason is a master of all trades when it comes to investing. Not only does he invest in Canadian stock, but trades in the US too. And, then he invests in gold when the time is right for that market as well. Jason's online membership would look like a paid virtual version of his invest clubs. He says that he could taking the people that are new to investing through the very foundational steps, taking them from mutual funds into ETFs. Then, he would take them into the active versions of investing that he likes to do. That area of online business is weird because everyone has their own little way they like to invest. It's so personality driven even though a lot of people try to teach the stock market in online business. It's all about, “can you do it and can you teach me how to do it?” It's an easier nut to crack in the online business world if you know what you're doing!   What it means to figure out your next step. When we see someone with so many questions swimming around in their head, sometimes it's easier to say, “here's your next step.” For Jason, this is probably what will work best: He doesn't want to be convincing people to join the stock market. He should start his avatar at helloing moving the mutual fund into the market. That is really appealing to a lot of people! Here is what this does for Jason: It lets him be himself. He doesn't have to do anything different he just has to tell his story.  Most people don't want spread sheets, they want the story. The why you do it they way you do it. When they get in the membership and pay you money, then they'll care about your spread sheets.   You've got to be relatable. We are in a Facebook group with a bunch of very successful entrepreneurs. One day someone asked what was successful. Of course I said, “get 200 people to pay you $50/month and make $120,000. Low energy, you get time with your family, you get to serve people.” I got hammered because this was all bro-marketers, Lamborghini driving gurus. They didn't get contentment and happiness. It's about real people and what they want. It was awesome to hear what Jason said drew him in to us: it was simply seeing an add with our tee with a math equation of how many members it takes to make $60K/year. Jason wasn't looking for the 6-figure people.

Why is empathy so important in the discussion of masculinity? For one, it's important to understand but also interpret back another person's feelings. But it also allows you to walk in their shoes and understand how they feel. For Jason, Empathy is at the core of the work he does with Jubilee Media as the CEO. Jubilee is a digital media company that believes in the power of empathy for human good. With over 5 million subscribers, Jubilee is creating a global movement. Some of the topics we discuss on this week's episode include why Jubilee discusses the topic of masculinity so much, the importance of empathy in the masculine journey, how we've created unhealthy systems of manhood and dating, and the grey area in conversations about consent. They are one of the inspirations behind me starting this podcast in the first place, and they've done many many many videos talking about masculinity which I have linked bellow. Spectrum with NFL Player Do All Men Think The Same? Men's Rights and Feminists and Feminists and Non-Feminists You can find Jason on Instagram and Twitter at @jasonylee_ and you can find all of Jubilee's videos here. Jason has also given a Ted Talk on following your dreams which you can find here. If you want to join a group of other Jubilee fans, you can find their FB group here! Lastly, here is a link to BLM donations and petitions in order to continue the mission. I hope you enjoy the episode!

When we got a Voxer message from Jason Geiman a few weeks ago saying ‘you're not going to believe this we got 100 members.' We were pumped! Then, much to our surprise, we got a message a few days later saying Jason and his wife Jody's membership had reached 150 members we were blown away! So, we were absolutely floored when we heard Jason and his wife had reached 189 members! That means their membership site is making more than $10K each month!   The 'lowdown' on Jason: Full-time firefighter Previously owned his own pressure-washing business Now makes a 5-figure monthly income from his pressure-washing online membership https://www.pressurewashhelp.com   What You'll Learn: How To Turn Your Membership Into A Community (9:10) You Don't Know How Far Your Stone's Throw Will Go (14:15) Your Membership Gives You and Your Family Freedom (17:45) Your Safe, Secure Job Is Not So Safe (21:50) Become Less Accessible (34:20) How Often Should You Offer A 30-Day Trial? (39:45) Lead Magnet 101 (41:40) Get Your Members To Renew (45:00)   Show Notes Jason and his wife Jody had started a pressure washing businesses in their town. After some time, they had grown that business to about $1M. However, in 2018 they sold that business. The Geiman family had been listening to the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast for several years prior to 2018. In the fall of 2019, they came to our Flip Your Life Live event. Back then, they had about 2 members. We, of course told them to build their audience, hammer that nail over and over again. For them, this meant taking the view off of the memberships. But, what built their 5-figure monthly income with 189 was: learning to gain trust, learning to build their audience, start getting testimonials and success stories. Since then, the Geimans have been very active on YouTube, so that is where most of their online traffic has been coming in. This year, Jason has been uploading 4 YouTube videos a week, getting their channel around 200,000 views a month. Which is where now, they sell their memberships and get around 20-30 members a week, talk about being prolific! Turn your membership into a community. Not only is Jason getting members, but building a community. He is having not only his videos for the members, but members are posting videos of their stories and growth, in a personal Facebook group. Therefore, they are growing together! It keeps people paying over and over again. You have to show up consistently for your audience. If someone wants to learn how to pressure wash, there's probably not someone around that can do that. But for Jason's members, he is there for them, wherever they are. He is accessible. Now they can build this business, now they can do this thing, through Jason's community. These members are not in competition with one-another because they are from all over. They are spread out. Now they have a community that they can collaborate with. Give your members: Content to learn how to do ____ faster and without having to make a bunch of mistakes. Build a community of people they can lean on and are in it with it. A leader (you, as the expert), that can walk them through whatever it is that you are teaching. Encourage and empower them they can do this too!   You don't know how far your stone's throw will go. This goes back to why we started our membership site to begin with. We wanted to not only provide for our families, but help others do the same! It's about waking up everyday and throwing your stone into the pond. For Jason, his online membership already changed the life of a local fireman. Can you imagine how many ripples and waves throwing his stone for that person, and all of his members looks like? Who knows? The business that your members are creating to provide for their families may be passed down through generations. A generational gift that will continue to help families for years and bless...

For Jason there wasn't one monumental loss, but many considerable loses along the way to discovering what makes his heart sing. We don't even get to go through all his career changes, so hopefully this brings some hope to someone still trying to find their true passion and changing up their career a lot. It's especially relevant with what we're going through now when many people could use this as an opportunity to try something new. We talk about the value of college and why you may or may not want to wait to go. More information about this week's guest:Jason Cutter | CEO/Founder| Cutter Consulting Group| site: www.CutterConsultingGroup.com| listen: The Sales Experience PodcastLinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jascut/

It's the third week of Jason and Steve broadcasting from their bedrooms, but they're on the look out for the positive stories that you have to share, including what this lock-down has got you out of doing. For Jason it was a stag do to Benidorm and Soccer Aid.

Friends since childhood, Mio, at 13, couldn’t work the fast lane like Jason. Their paths diverged and they didn’t meet again until their early 20’s when Mio had a little more street cred. He even showed Jason how to chop and snort cocaine. The party was on. Mio, however, couldn’t sustain the hard partying and went to AA. For Jason, however, it remained go-time. Still, Mio was able to convince his friend to attend a meeting with him. Not well received. Especially the idea of not drinking; at all; ever! Jason escaped to England and started working as chef - and drinking like one too. A long awaited visit from sober Mio saw Jason sick and bloated out of all proportion, still drinking. Mio finally left knowing he might never see Jason alive again. But there was a surprise in store for him. Support the show (https://www.instagram.com/lovelycreaturespodcast/)

We had a blast chatting it up with Eduardo and Jason of Men's Vows. An online magazine dedicated to sharing advice and inspiration for gay weddings AND the first wedding directory exclusively for grooms! Eduardo Braniff is founder and Editor-in-Chief of Men's Vows. Leveraging his expertise in editorial, branding and experiential design, and having attended over 175 weddings in his life, Men's Vows is a natural intersection of his professional and personal experience. Men's Vows is dedicated to supporting men who marry, helping create new wedding traditions and celebrating men who've found “their man.” Men's Vows shares advice and inspiration from engagement to honeymoon, illustrating the process from “I will” to “I do” and beyond. Founded five years ago, Men's Vows is proud of being one of the largest gay male wedding sites, with over 75K followers on Instagram, countless couples who have selected us as the platform for sharing their love story, and being part of changing how everyone understands and embraces what it is to get married today. Jason Mitchell Kahn is the owner and creative director of his own namesake wedding planning company Jason Mitchell Kahn & Co., and the “In-House Expert” for Men's Vows Magazine. Jason began working full time as a wedding planner after the 2014 launch of his new book GETTING GROOMED: THE ULTIMATE WEDDING PLANNER FOR GAY GROOMS Jason's work experience spans from serving as resident Wedding Planner for Shiraz Events to being the In-house wedding expert at Soho House New York. While at Soho House New York, Jason also designed, planned, and ran fashion shows, book launches, art festivals, movie premieres, opening nights, gala dinners, and awards shows post parties. The job took him around the world from Oscar parties in L.A. to events held in chateaus in Cannes and even an underground subway station in Toronto. Jason brings to weddings his passion for drama honed from his career and education in theatre. Two of his plays had professional premieres in New York and have since had productions around the world. Jason approaches all weddings with his playwriting background: What is the couple's version of their most beautiful story to be told? *Big Takeaways * For gay men, and lesbian women, it has only been about five years since the marriage equality law has been passed. It's relatively new. Finding a wedding planner who understands your wants and desires is so important. Jason and Eduardo are fighting hard to make it accessible, and easy for every couple to have their dream wedding. Men's Vows allows for representation of all types of people, not just the picture perfect, model-esque couples. Most men are not targeted in the wedding industry, and neither are lesbian women. For Jason, he sees the importance that marriage could have for the non-traditional scenarios. It's important to find your flavor and taste and make the day for you. Just because the known thing is most common doesn't mean you have to do it! There is no steadfast way to wed. It's important to take a look at every element of the wedding, and see if you are doing something because you feel like you have to, or because you want to. Aside from signing the paperwork, it's your day to play with and make your relationship shine. Pinterest is a beautiful place to get inspiration, but it's also important to acknowledge that it's not always representing the typical budget or set-up for a wedding. You don't have to have an insane budget to have a special and meaningful day. When it comes to putting together who to invite, there are beautiful, kind ways of letting the people you love know you love them, but that they aren't invited to the wedding. Jason talks about receiving a letter from a couple who are dear friends that explain how much they are excited to have him in their life, and can't wait to share about the wedding. It is a nice way to make people not feel forgotten or unwanted, but makes it clear that there just isn't room without having to be so blunt. Quotes “The princess fantasy becomes the bride fantasy. But where is the prince fantasy that becomes the groom fantasy?” - Eduardo “I love the idea of wedding as culmination, instead of wedding as beginning.” - Eduardo “One of the things that I do want to underline, particularly in the gay space where it's sort of like, ‘chart your own course, and everything's independent, and reinvent the rules!” If you wanna walk down the aisle with your mother or your father and like hand over a bouquet, and raise a veil, and do in sickness and health vows, go and do that!” - Jason “Every article, and every picture that has ‘performed better,' in these days of digital metrics, are the ones where it's an unexpected pair.” - Eduardo Links We Referenced https://mensvows.com/ instagram.com/mensvows Get In Touch EMAIL: thebigweddingplanningpodcast@gmail.com FACEBOOK: @TBWPpodcast FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/TBWPP/ INSTAGRAM: @thebigweddingplanningpodcast BE SURE TO USE THE HASHTAG: #planthatwedding PHONE: (415) 723-1625 Leave us a message and you might hear your voice on the show! PATREON: www.patreon.com/thebigweddingplanningpodcast Special Guests: Eduardo Braniff and Jason Mitchell Kahn.

Are you living your best life? Sadly, most people aren’t because they’re in a constant cycle of overconsumption and indebtedness, and mindlessly spending on things that don’t add value to their life or purpose. Today’s guest was once in that exact spot.  Jason Vitug, author of You Only Live Once, remembers how the path to success was drilled into him growing up. It’s the same path we’re all told to follow – graduate high school, go to college, get a job, get a car, get a promotion, buy a house – pretty standard, and oftentimes simply achieving these things doesn’t make us happy. For Jason, he started on this path and then began to question it, asking, “When do I actually become happy?”  It’s this realization coupled with the concept of YOLO in reverse that became the topic for his book. In You Only Live Once, Jason applies YOLO to personal finance and discovers it’s not about instant gratification, but rather about long-term satisfaction. Listen in and learn how you can shift your money mindset and experience YOLO today and for years to come. This episode is brought to you by Purpose 2 Platform, a 20-week business accelerator and mentorship program that will get you clear on HOW to package your PURPOSE, communicate your PROMISE to your ideal audience, choose the best PLATFORM for your personality and lifestyle and create a PREMIUM offer. Through this program, you’ll receive accountability and support in a dynamic community designed so you can finally make progress and be ready before you even need to pull the trigger on what’s no longer serving you. Book a Breakthrough Call today at https://patricewashington.com/purpose2platform/ You Only Live Once Takeaways I was income stable, but still financially inept. – Jason Vitug You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. – Mae West NO should stand for New Opportunity because the moment you say NO to something, you open yourself up to something greater. – Jason Vitug Money isn’t everything, but money permeates every aspect of our life. – Jason Vitug If we don’t tell our money where to go, then we’ll always wonder where it went. – Jason Vitug Money is a tool. But as with any tool, if we lack the skill to use it, it won’t benefit us much. If you purchase a TV for $600 and you make $10/hour, that TV now represents 60 hours of your life. Think about that. – Jason Vitug When it comes to living your best life, where are you? Are you mindlessly spending money on things that don’t add value to your life or purpose? What can you do going forward to course-correct? Drop a comment below and let us know. Redefining Wealth Rapid Wisdom Questions  And with that, let’s dig into Jason’s responses to our Redefining Wealth Rapid Wisdom Questions. Define Success: “Success is the ability to fall down and get right back up and keep moving forward. Failure is just a pit stop to success – it’s not permanent unless we decide it’s permanent.” Define Wealth in 3 Words or Less: “To live well.”  One Book that Has Redefined How You See Wealth: A Guide to a Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine Fill-in the Blanks … “My name is ___ and the truth about wealth is ___”: “My name is Jason Vitug and the truth about wealth is wellbeing. Wealth is truly about living our best life and that includes the mental, emotional, spiritual and physical wellbeing.” LINKS: To advertise on the podcast: http://www.patricewashington.com/podcastads Become an Official Purpose Chaser: http://www.iamapurposechaser.com Join Patrice’s Pod Club: http://www.patricespodclub.com To check out ALL of our past guests + episodes: http://www.patricewashington.com/Listen If you have questions about booking Patrice or sponsoring the podcast, email us at info@seekwisdomfindwealth.com.  Find me in Social Media:  Our podcast hashtag is #RedefiningWealth  Instagram: @SeekWisdomPCW  Twitter: @SeekWisdomPCW  Facebook: @SeekWisdomPCW  YouTube: @SeekWisdomPCW  

Session 108 Pediatric GI was a natural fit for Dr. Jason Shapiro, who was interested in diverse pathologies, performing procedures, and developing relationships with patients. Also, please check out all our podcasts on Meded Media for more resources to help you along your premed and medical school journey! [01:05] Interest in Pediatric Gastroenterology Jason is a pediatric gastroenterologist at Brown. He initially got interested in GI during the first month of his intern year. He likes the diversity of the field. It has a lot of procedures involved as well as research, immunology, microbiome, medication, and optimizing medication effects. [03:00] Traits That Lead to Being a Great PGI Physician Most of Jason's clinical time is dealing with kids with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, which are impactful conditions. You want to have as minimal effect on the child's daily life as possible. So you need to be empathetic, compassionate, and a hard worker. [04:00] Types of Patients Most kids with IBD (inflammatory bowel disease) present themselves during early adolescence. But there's an uptake of very early onset IBD where kids less than 5 years old come in with it. For the most part though, new diagnoses are in early teens although it can run the spectrum. Their bread and butter cases for Pediatric GI include infants with gastroesophageal reflux, milk protein allergy, constipation, Coeliac disease, and functional abdominal pains. They're also seeing a huge increase in an allergic condition called eosinophilic esophagitis. At Brown, they work with a team of GI psychologists who help them manage some of those more complicated cases. Most of the referrals they get from a blank canvas. The majority of their new patient referrals from a general pediatrician have not had too extensive of a workup just yet. So there's a degree of diagnostic work that needs to be done. There isn't a huge amount of patients that they do procedures on. Although they're generally non-invasive, there are procedures that need general anesthesia. And this is something they don't just do without a good reason to do it. Out of the total numbers they see in clinic, Jason estimates 10% of them would be procedure-related. His typical week would involve doing endoscopies. When on call, they're probably doing more procedures than they like. So there's no lack. [09:10] Academic vs Community Setting For Jason, research is a very important part of his career. Even in residency, he was involved in an Ivy League research that he did all through fellowship and up until he was already an attending physician. As a PGI across the country, you need access to pediatric anesthesia, which means you need to be in an academic center. In New England, there's not much practice in pediatric GI so most of them are affiliated with an academic institution.  [10:08] Taking Calls and Work-Life Balance Jason takes calls between 8-10 weeks a year. Calls are variable. Their fellows take the first call from the ER or the community doctors. The calls may vary from a couple of calls overnight to a week of procedures, most of which are esophageal foreign bodies, mostly coins. Every now and then, they do a few GI bleeds and variceal bleeds. Jason believes work-life balance is an acquired skill in terms of working on time management and trying to get as much done. Since having his kid over two years ago, he had adjusted his work schedule accordingly. At every phase of the medical career, it's a hard adjustment. But having been in faculty for several years now, Jason has learned to set priorities and make the necessary adjustments. [14:05] Training Path The path to becoming a ped-GI doctor requires three years of general pediatrics. On your second year, you apply for fellowship and then you get into three more years of pediatric GI fellowship. Currently, some people are doing extra years within ped-GI. So there are advance fellowships in transplant hepatology, motility, and IBD. Competitiveness-wise, Jason thinks the subspecialty is generally competitive from a pediatrics field standpoint. Therefore, you want to have good letters of recommendation and good board scores. They recently graduated a DO fellow whom they think was one of the best fellows they've ever trained. For osteopathic students, just like any other traditional MD student, you have to have good letters and good scores. That said, he claims he doesn't see a huge stigma against DO as much as it used to be. If you're a good doctor, you're going to be good doctor regardless. [17:30] Working with Primary Care and Other Specialties What they wished primary care physicians knew was that they were able to spend more time and counsel some of the more basic stuff. He believes some of those cases could already be managed by a general pediatrician. But he's also aware that the primary care setting deals with a ton of patients to keep up with the demands. Major stuff they could be counseling on would be constipation or functional abdominal pain. But can be difficult to get the message across to families so it takes time. And sometimes, hearing it from a subspecialist is important.  Jason adds that there is an art to treating constipation. And explaining this to a family can take time. Investing time and energy early on is therefore important in terms of keeping the kid feeling well and helping the family understand the plan. Jason works closely with pediatric surgery, pediatric psychology (specific to Brown), pathology, radiology, and hospitalists. For Crohn's, he works closely with dermatology and neurology. [20:54] Special Opportunities Outside of Clinical Medicine There are a lot of opportunities in pharma. He knows a few people who practiced the subspecialty for a few years and ended up working at various pharmaceutical companies. Jobs in pharma can be widely varied. You can work on clinical trials or drug design, depending on your background and interest. There is a need within the bigger pharma companies to have input from physicians with clinical experience treating these diseases. [22:22] If He Had to Do It All Over Again... With everything that he knows now, Jason would tell his old self not to be too distracted by the salary discrepancies within different fields of medicine. No matter how much money you make, if you're not doing something you love, you're not going to be happy. Money isn't everything and it doesn't buy happiness. Still, Jason would still have chosen the same field, if he had to do it all over again. He loves the patients and their families. It's something he enjoys. He loves the science and the research aspects of the field. He loves the procedures. [24:05] The Most and Least Liked Aspects What he likes the most about his subspecialty is the ability to develop relationships with his patients and families. He finds it very rewarding. Jason has been in the same institution for 14 years in total now. He has seen kids from being small to graduating high school. He also likes the relationships he has built with colleagues and support staff. On the flip side, what he likes the least is the EMR. He does think that the business side of medicine is necessary but it can be ugly. There is this sense that you need to bring more money and you need to do more and it's tough. He is lucky though for being a part of a department that's really supportive and truly cares about child health. [26:45] Final Words of Wisdom Work hard. Find a good mentor. For Jason, having great mentors has been so important to him. Have somebody to guide you no matter what phase of career you're in. Find somebody you trust and who cares about you and your career. Your mentor doesn't have to be in your subspecialty. Be honest. Always treat everybody with kindness – your colleagues, junior and senior people, nurses, secretaries. You can't do your job if other people aren't doing theirs. You're a part of a team and it's important for you to understand that. [28:20] Final Thoughts for DOs I just would like to point out to this discussion around how DOs are not respected. It's not true. There are some programs out there that disrespect DOs but there's a lot of disrespect happening in general. So it's not a broad idea that if you're a DO, you're “lesser than.” As mentioned by Dr. Shapiro, they have had DOs graduating from Brown and DO attending at Brown. So if you're a DO interested in Pedia GI, there is hope for you. Just do your best. Links: Meded Media

Jason Hull’s personal mission statement is “to inspire others to love true principles,” which means he is passionate about learning what works in business and life, and sharing what he learns with others. As a world-leading property management growth expert, Jason devotes much of his time to finding unique ways to help property management business owners to grow their companies. He believes that good property management can change the world, by impacting thousands of families & lives. He is the founder & CEO of DoorGrow, a company whose mission is “to transform property management businesses & their owners.”   Jason leads a contribution-focused community, the #DoorGrowClub, a Facebook group full of property management entrepreneurs that believe in this vision. He also shares his wealth of industry knowledge with others through his podcast, the #DoorGrowShow, by helping thousands of property managers throughout North America to pinpoint powerful ways to take their businesses to the next level.   Podcast Highlights   Who is Jason Hull? Jason considers himself more of a nerd that has been pushed into the limelight in order to help entrepreneurs. He credits a lot of that to his entrepreneurial mother. In college Jason decided that he wanted to start a band and went around preselling a CD that didn’t exist in order to fund the recording time, he did this despite not really thinking of himself as an entrepreneur.   Later on in life, Jason got married really young and the marriage fell apart. He needed to figure out a way to be able to spend time with his kids and around the same time his employer got hit hard by the financial crisis and no longer pay him. All this forced him into the entrepreneurial life as a freelancer web designer. Jason has an insatiable desire to learn which has served him very well as a business owner.   Now he teaches property managers how to win. Jason helps property managers clean up their branding, marketing, and help them find revenue and growth.   During his youth, Jason always had the entrepreneurial spirit without even really knowing that’s what it was. At the core of people who are entrepreneurial, they know they are unemployable. For Jason that means that he creates positive uncomfortable change wherever he goes. Entrepreneurs need to allow ourselves to do what we need to do to lower the pressure around us instead of playing everyone else’s game.   Jason’s super power is his ability to see what other entrepreneurs can’t, combined with his curiosity that pushes him to figure things out. Confidence has always been an issue for Jason, he’s had to deal with imposter syndrome since the beginning, especially since he never considered himself the go to expert for property managers.   Solving Interesting Problems Opportunity can be very distracting for entrepreneurs because we tend to see it everywhere. On the positive side, we see that the world can be better. Entrepreneurs have always been the ones that have made people uncomfortable and moved the world forward. Jason never planned on being a property management coach. In the beginning he tried to work with multiple types of businesses and resisted it becoming his niche but a lot about the niche really started to appeal to him. Jason found that he loves working with property managers and seems to resonate with the type of entrepreneur that’s found in the industry. Property Management and DoorGrow Every business exists to solve a problem and for property managers they face two major challenges. The biggest challenge is awareness. Only about 30% of rental properties in the US are professionally managed and most people don’t really know what property management entails. In many ways propert

Let us start off by saying EVERYONE deals with self-doubt. Especially when it comes to running your own business or making a big change in your life, it's normal to go through imposter syndrome. One way Caroline deals with self-doubt before starting something new is to acknowledge how much she'd regret not doing that thing. Yes, it's scary to navigate uncharted waters, but it's much worse to have never dipped your toes in those waters and always wondered "what if." For Jason, dealing with imposter syndrome and self-doubt comes down to challenging his own assumptions. Put your doubtful thoughts to the test and don't let them impact business decisions or life choices until they prove that negative assumptions are correct. Don't let self-doubt hold you back from getting started and don't compare where you are on your journey to the end of someone else's journey. QUESTION FOR YOU: What self-doubt are you currently dealing with in your life or business? Want to learn more about Wandering Aimfully? Head to wanderingaimfully.com and get our weekly email newsletter about living the life you want. And, don’t forget to subscribe and leave a review if you enjoy the show!

Today on the show I have iPhone filmmaking master and TEDTalk Speaker Jason Van Genderen. I've wanted to have Jason on the podcast for a long time. He is a true inspiration to anyone who wants to pick up a camera and tell a story. He has made an industry out of professional shooting with iPhones for corporate clients, on commercials, music videos, and short films. Here's some more info on our guest.No script, storyboard or crew. No exposure to focus controls. A resolution of 640 x 480 pixels and a total memory of just 160MB. That was Jason’s unexpected entry into the global filmmaking stage back in 2008.‘Mankind is No Island’ went on to win numerous prestigious accolades at film festivals around the globe and was one of the very first exemplary​ films to champion a whole new emerging medium of iPhone filmmaking.With screenings and awards from Tropfest NY, Aspen Shortsfest, Palm Springs, San Francisco Short Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival right through to Sundance London, Jason’s made mobile stories that matter, becoming an unexpected voice for marginalized or emerging storytellers. It’s the very reason he proudly labels himself a Filmbreaker.An equally passionate educator, Jason’s talks have inspired audiences from TEDx Newy to the Aspen Ideas Festival; from countless televisions, how appearances to keynote addresses at film schools and festivals. His masterclass workshops continue to inspire both beginners and seasoned professionals alike. Jason Van Genderen has also consulted and collaborated with some of the world’s largest imaging brands, from Sony and Nokia to Nikon and currently Apple Australia. This year he also commenced an on-air role presenting guest segments on Channel 7’s ‘Get Arty’ children show, and has recently consulted to 7 West Media Group on broadcast applications for smartphone technology.When your introduction to puberty is selling pet rocks and wearing a back brace, you'd have to hope that the ability to think creatively comes naturally. For Jason, his life of creative problem solving was seeded by 20 years hard labor in the advertising & design industry... before turning his hand to short films. His reputation for quick thinking under challenging circumstances saw him carve an early niche, being a four-time winner in the 24-hour in-camera film festival The Shoot Out.Always a custodian of content over craft, in 2008 he experimented with filming on his mobile phone, making a short with no script, storyboard, actors, narration or budget. 'Mankind is no Island' went on to win Tropfest NY and numerous other accolades globally, by breaking every rule in the book. His unorthodox approach to filtering story with low-tech simplicity has seen him in demand internationally as a presenter on pocket filmmaking.There are NO MORE EXCUSES ANYMORE. You can tell your story with what's in your pocket.Enjoy my conversation with Jason Van Genderen!

After graduating from college, Jason Weimer wanted to be intentional about integrating his faith and work in a holistic way. His entrepreneurial interests have led him to starting two businesses, Espresso Partners and Gratus Capital, LLC. Jason and Bob Willbanks discuss the service driven business model in this episode of The Thrive! Podcast. For Jason, social entrepreneurship is all creating a culture that values people. Listen to the episode to hear Jason unpack some ways he seeks to value people in his businesses and what he has learned about this key aspect of business over the years.

In this episode, please meet ‘The Bald Avenger” whose superhero powers include, saving women and children from evil situations, consulting for over 100 companies, a mix to be admired with an edge of danger ....Join Melody and Janie as they have a conversation with Jason Sisneros, his story and his gold nugget takeaways.This conversation will start you week appropriately. Grab whatever you drink and join the episode!Listen to the episode and immerse yourself into this high energy, transparent and high vibe conversation.About JasonJason Sisneros is a public speaker, serial entrepreneur, and philanthropist. His life has taken him around the world speaking on over 3000 stages, consulting with hundreds of business owners, and supporting charities across the globe. Jason is board member of Feed A Billion, a nonprofit organization that exists to provide a billion meals by November 20, 2020, via the "Billion Meal Challenge," an effort to raise awareness, like the "Ice Bucket Challenge" for ALS research. A former drug dealer who became a top trainer for motivational leader Tony Robbins, Jason Sisneros is a ‘The Bald Avenger”.This is an episode to listen, bookmark, download and re-listen!For Jason’s Story and to connect with himListen to the episode

In this week's episode, Scott and Jason compare the happenings of each other's weekends.  For Jason, it was a surprise trip to Chicago for a fully packed 4 day weekend.  For Scott, sitting on the couch watching King of the Hill reruns and playing Madden 2018.  Talk about parallel lives....Sit back and enjoy this week's episode of Liquid Kernedge.

In this week's special episode of Liquid Kernedge, Scott and Jason reminisce about the traditions that they do every year for special occassions.  For Jason, July 4th holiday allows him to watch the Ken Burns Thomas Jefferson special, now celebrating his 22nd year of watching it.  Scott watches the movie Jaws and the Nathan's hot dog eating contest.  Talk about parallel lives.  Happy 4th of July and we hope you enjoy.

What does it take to disrupt the performance sunglasses market? Is there an innovative and revolutionary way to present performance sunglasses to consumers? What if there was a pair of sunglasses designed for lifelong use? On this episode, you’ll hear from founder and CEO of Revant Optics, Jason Bolt. In his conversation with Roy, Jason explains how Revant got started selling replacement sunglasses lenses, why they chose to base their business on the direct to consumer model, what they’ve learned from their successful crowdfunding campaign, and much more! You don’t want to miss a minute of this engaging episode featuring Jason and Revant Optics! Discovering the need for a sustainable solution. Have you ever destroyed a pair of sunglasses? Whether it’s from scratching them on a tree branch, dropping them from a rock climb, or just accidentally sitting on them, we’ve all been there. Chances are, your next step was to toss the ruined pair and go shopping for new sunglasses. What if there was a way to repair and reuse that same damaged pair of performance sunglasses over and over again, eliminating waste? That’s where Jason Bolt and his team at Revant Optics come in. They’ve committed themselves to disrupting the performance sunglasses market with their new product, Revant Sunglasses. These sunglasses may be the last pair you ever buy. Purpose-built right here in the USA out of the best materials available, Revant Eyewear is made for the long run and backed for a lifetime. To hear more about Revant Sunglasses, make sure to listen to this informative episode! Learning from successful Kickstarter campaigns. You’ve heard it said that the best predictor of future events is past behavior, right? So wouldn’t it make sense for business leaders to study and learn from past results that they want to replicate? Surprisingly, many leaders and innovators fail to adhere to this simple truth! On this episode, you’ll hear from Jason Bolt as he explains how Revant Optics took the opportunity to learn from successful Kickstarter campaigns and understand their process in the hopes of duplicating or exceeding their results! While it wasn’t always easy, Jason looks back at this decision to study, interview, and learn from innovators and entrepreneurs who went before him as one of the key aspects that led to Revant Optics’ positive and fruitful Kickstarter campaign. Learn more from Jason’s story by listening to this episode, you don’t want to miss it! Finding the right marketing partner to help you tell your product’s story. What is it that causes some crowdfunded campaigns to succeed when others fail? While there are a lot of takes on this important question, a huge part of crowdfunding success comes down to telling your story the right way. On this episode, Jason Bolt shares why he and his team decided to connect with Enventys Partners to help with marketing their product. For Jason, it all came down to the strategy that the Enventys team rolled out and the great connection they were able to develop from day one. To hear Jason expand on his crowdfunding campaign and how they were able to tell the story of their unique performance sunglasses, make sure to listen to this episode! Tips for future crowdfunded campaigns.   It’s been said that preparation is half the battle and for the most part, this truth has resonated with many in the crowdfunding community. On this episode, Jason Bold reveals his tips for leaders and brands who hope to feature their product on Kickstarter. The biggest tip that Jason has for future crowdfunded campaigns is to focus on prep work as much as possible. This also includes honing in on specific messaging that communicates your products unique advantage. Jason is convinced that without thorough prep work and an articulated message, most crowdfunded campaigns are doomed to failure. Learn more from Jason's seasoned insights and lessons by listening to this fascinating episode! Key Takeaways

Jason Vanlandingham has proven to be one of reining’s leading horsemen, earning himself a place on the NRHA Million Dollar Riders list and respect throughout the industry. In this FIRST episode of Finding The Feel, he sits down with Kaitlyn to discuss how his career started with training Christmas ponies, how his family-run business is essential to his success, how lessons from great horses have shaped his program, and why knowing when to release pressure is the key to working with your horse. Key Takeaways: Knowing when to release the pressure on your horse is how you teach them, and is one of the most important parts of training Find what works for you and your horse, put together a plan, and stick to it while it works The little things are what separates the great riders from the rest of us. Think about the start of your maneuver: your lead departure, the start of the spin, the transitions. Set your horse up for success, then trust them. Staying honest and loyal to your priorities helps to keep everything in perspective, and will bring good things your way. For Jason this is his family, God and his faith, and staying honest at all times. Show Notes: [01:02] ] – How Jason got started, by training Christmas ponies [04:55] – Seeing reining for the first time and falling in love with the sport [05:56] – Working with other trainers and the having the right mentality to learn Your coach is just trying to help you [09:28] – Why knowing when to release your horse is one of the most important parts of training [13:36]  – Teaching a horse to relax under pressure and what that looks like [17:45] – Dealing with pressure as a rider and a competitor [23:20] – Why it’s the little stuff that make a big difference How to focus on the basics Trusting your horse [29:37] – Constant improvement makes showing fun, and the lessons from a mistake on a great horse [34:14] – And a time where it all came together [36:31] – Jason & Not Ruf At All: the backstory [44:19] – A lesson from a horse with a huge heart and a lot of try [46:34] – Some solid advice from Tim McQuay to Jason [50:49] – Learning how to get a horse mentally focused, and focusing as a human to be able to feel your horse [57:15] – Priorities and personal habits that help Jason find success in life, and with horses [01:01:26] – Learn more about Jason, his family, and his business Vanlandingham Reining, on their Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/vanlandinghamreininghorses/) !

Jason Crawford How did the journey begin? Jason worked at Amazon, this is when the seeds for Fieldbook started getting planted. It was surprising to him that companies dedicated so much time developing internal tools. Amazon focussed on building a system that helped track their internal recruiting. Years later, Jason joined a startup where he built internal tools for them too which was a data collection workflow tracking system. The problem with spreadsheets is that very quickly you end up using the system for things like project tracking, inventory and CRM, when in reality Spreadsheets are more specifically for those in finance.  Jason worked at Amazon, this is when the seeds for Fieldbook started getting planted. It was surprising to him that companies dedicated so much time developing internal tools. Amazon focussed on building a system that helped track their internal recruiting. Years later, Jason joined a startup where he built internal tools for them too which was a data collection workflow tracking system. The problem with spreadsheets is that very quickly you end up using the system for things like project tracking, inventory and CRM, when in reality Spreadsheets are more specifically for those in finance.  What did you learn from startups and what was instrumental to your learning when you were first starting out? Jason always wanted to start his own company, but over the years the motivation changed. Initially he didn’t want to work for anybody else, but as he matured he realised there’s a lot of people he could learn from. For Jason, running a company was the ultimate challenge and as he got more experience, he slowly shifted in the direction of running a startup all without a plan. From companies like Amazon, he learnt a lot about processes and vision. After Amazon, the startup in Seattle called: “Pelago” was a location based social network pre-iPhone. While working at the startup, he wrote software for feature phones like the Motorola Raze.  A lot of lessons from this, this was right around the time the lean startup movement was getting off the ground in 2008, Jason realised the value that Eric Ries was bringing and some of the lessons were really working well for Jason including doing monthly iterations of softwares instead of weekly.  Click Here For: Eric Ries Blog What is Fieldbook? Fieldbook is a simple online database that anyone can use as a spreadsheet. Fieldbook is a better solution for those use cases where you may be logging inventory, project management and using spreadsheets as a CRM. How did you validate the business case for Fieldbook? Validation goal is not something that happens once, it’s an ongoing process. It’s constant testing against users in the market. Before they had a demo or prototype, he went around asking people to show him their spreadsheets. Asked a number of questions that identified what people did with it, problems, what they used it for, etc.  After initial conversations, make a quick demo that shows people the concept that gets better feedback. What are the problems that people need to solve. Get people to try it. Start well before you think the product is ready, but start with your closest friends and family. Show it to people who know you the best and will forgive you how bad it is.  There’s a couple of perspectives on this, Reid Hoffman says that if you’re not embarrassed with the first prototype then you left it too late, others say well if why would you ever try and get feedback on a half baked product, but it’s important to remember both of these arguments are based around “launch time”, there’s really not a particular launch time because you’re constantly getting feedback. Your immediate network will give you your first 100 users. Then you go can go to BETA List which a platform specifically for products in BETA phase. When you have something a little more substantial you can launch your product on Product Hunt. There’s all sorts of ways to get people in, keep trying new things out and keep testing it.  At what point do you stop testing and you get ready for that launch? Look at both qualitative and quantitative metrics. Ask smart questions like: are people sticking with your product? Are people paying for your product? etc. The data you look at depends on your platform. For example, a SaaS platform you look at conversions, paying customers etc. For a social network you look at engagement, virality etc.  Andy Jones: Sustainable Growth = Top of Funnel (getting people on the product) + Magic Moment (when people see value in your product) + Core Product Value (on going value you deliver that keeps people retained). You want to start by proving Core Product Value before Top of Funnel and you’re not great at Magic Moment, because this teaches people what you’re doing will be worth it. Initially you’ll have to hand hold people through the process, at this point it doesn’t matter if things scale or not because you’re just proving core product value.  A lot of Entrepreneurs see the big launches that people are doing and go for big fancy launches but this results in premature launches, which means that people go into a leaky bucket.  How did you find investors? Finding investors is a lot like creating a product. Jason has raised a few early stage funding rounds now. It’s about starting with people you know, put together a pitch and show it to your closest friends and family. When you do this you’ll get great feedback on the opportunity, holes, and areas you need to work. Eventually you’ll be in a place where you’ve asked a lot of people and you’ve filled many of the loop holes that are present.  Then reach out to people in your immediate network, this may be angel investors or people that know angel investors. Ask them if they wouldn’t mind spending some time to review your pitch, if they are happy with it, they will pass it to others in their network or better yet, invest themselves.  Remember, if you can convince angel investors, you can convince larger venture capital companies.  What makes a successful pitch? Cover the basics, you need explain what you do clearly, quickly and concisely. Investors need to be able to tell what you’re doing very fast for them to be interested. Other things you want to consider include: explain the opportunity, explain the market, compare yourself and your alternatives and even compare yourself against those that aren’t competition but alternative solutions.  It’s important to know who your target market is and how they are solving the problem today. There’s always going to be different pitches for different businesses so don’t be too formulaic about it.  Resources:  Sequila capital Pitch Deck Template Fred Wilson AVC — Best Seed Pitch Ever Jason Lemkin Pitching Advice How did you get onto the App Sumo Platform? App Sumo actually approached Fieldbook. The deal they offered was very above board, they ensured that they aligned the incentives and it was scheduled months in advance. App Sumo understands what would be a good deal, and they write the copy once you provide them with screenshots, demo videos etc.  What are some of the pitfalls you would avoid if you had to start the process again? At some points they got distracted and lost sight of the original vision, you often do this as a you’re looking for a silver bullet, and then you realise there’s no silver bullet, there’s no a tonne of lead bullets! Success lies in the ability to do day to day execution, and staying true to the vision. As Jeff Besos says: stay stubborn to the vision and flexible on the details. Make progress and incrementally through daily execution.  How do you continue to get feedback now that the product is launched? Fieldbook built a waitlist and then got people off the waitlist if they agreed to do a user test. This worked better than usertesting.com because had an incentive to do the user test which in turn gave them invaluable feedback.  This is a great opportunity to ask a lot of questions. When users are using your product for the first time sign up, be the silent observer don’t help them because then you’ll understand how a user interacts with your product. There’s a catch 22 between Marketing and Building Product. What do you focus on and when? It’s an iterative process, as you iterate you’re going to capture more people who are going to be your user testers. At one point, nobody was even interested in testing the product and that’s when they realised that they are not pitching an interesting concept, so they needed to change the way they market the product. They iterated their way to a demo video to get people excited and then they built a product around what excited people.  Some people create a landing page like a one page site, but you can always use platforms like Product Hunt and a section called upcoming where you can use it to collect user subscriptions. It’s also important to start with a community, this could be a blog or a Facebook Group.  When people weren’t receiving the product well, how did you know it wasn’t the product but it was the marketing instead? Honestly, it’s about your vision. Some products start from a tech trigger. In the success business, you need a market, a technology that enables the product, price point the market is willing to pay and the right channels to reach the correct people.  You don’t need to start in one place you just need to ensure it comes together in the end It’s like seeing a mountain so far in the distance you don’t know how you’re going to get there, but at the same time it’s so huge that you don’t need to worry about the small details on how you’re going to get there Seeing that mountain in the distance and having the drive is what get you there You talk about everything coming together as a symphony, but how do know which area of the symphony isn’t working? There’s no formulaic approach to this. There can be all sorts of problems that could occur and it can be very difficult to find out where the issue is. You need to work on keep going to a deeper level, i.e. if your ad copy is not working, try change this, if there’s no results go to a deeper level and choose a new channel, see how things progress, if there’s no change here then question the market. Whatever you do, just keep going deeper. What have you seen that is best practice when it comes to creating a SAAS product? Your Marketing is your promise to the users and you win if you deliver on that promise. Just ensure you ask people what they are hoping to get out of the product or service. Success is getting people to that magic moment.  An interesting talk is about Josh Elman is that Twitter actually increased the number of steps it takes to complete your profile but it was successful because it was clearer and more intuitive. Twitter found that more steps actually led to higher conversions, so it’s important to be very clear in the steps when creating a SAAS Platform.  To hear a talk by Josh Elman click here.  Everyone needs to learn different lessons, but the top three takeaways are: Have the closest possible connection to the users Be data driven and be qualitative. Ensure there’s weekly iterations to the products.  Keep the momentum going and have a strong vision. 

eZ Talk Live is a Variety Entrepretainment Talk Show hosted by what third party perspective is calling the digital Dick Clark Eric Zuley known as the Influencer of the Influencers in the Digital Media Space, focusing on Influencers with a story to educate and inspire our listening audience. Our Exclusive guest this week is the extraordinary Jason Sisneros - widely regarded as one of the brightest minds in business and innovation. For Jason, world-class performance is not some dusty scrap of paper hanging on a wall. It's a lifestyle, a commitment that Jason demands of himself and the people he surrounds himself with. The businesses that he owns and consults for hold themselves to a higher standard, and aggressively attack their internal weaknesses and external competition. Jason is an author, speaker and turnaround specialist. Tune in to hear this exclusive one on one with Jason Sisneros and the 1 and only EZ on EZ Talk Live today! #eZWayFam Spotlight Promo

Jason Nash and I hang out in the mancave for the last podcast of #soberoctobert and talk about vlogging, being a youtuber, Casey Neistat, why i'll never go to AA, and marriage.  To donate to Georgia, Gabby, and Tatum's goal of installing refillable water bottle stations in their middle school please go to http://www.gofundme.com/troop13376silveraward  Jason Nash has a live podcast at the Wilber Theater in Boston MA Nov 12th. For Jason's youtube go to http://www.youtube.com/jasonnashcomedy  For all TOUR DATE & MERCH click HERE: http://www.bertbertbert.com To Follow me on.. Twitter: https://twitter.com/bertkreischer Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BertKreischer Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bertkreischer/?hl=en Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/Akreischer This episode is brought to you by ZipRecruiter and right now, my listeners can post jobs on ZipRecruiter for free by going to https://www.ziprecruiter.com/bertcast    

This week, the Bowery Capital team hosted Jason Dorfman, Inside Sales Manager at Rubrik, to discuss "Sales Recruiting 101 for Founders." Founded in 2014, Rubrik offers live data access for recovery and application development by fusing enterprise data management with web-scale IT, and eliminating backup software. This marks the end of a decade-long innovation drought in backup and recovery, the backbone of IT. Within minutes, businesses can manage the explosion of data across private and public clouds. Rubrik is trusted by some of the world's leading companies, including Driscoll's, JLL, the Tampa Bay Rays and Berkeley College. In today's episode, Jason joins us to discuss sales recruiting 101 for founders. He starts by touching on the importance of building your product and getting market validation before hiring your sales team. He discusses how to think about hiring your first salesperson and whether it should be a lead generating SDR or an inside sales rep with closing experience.He talks about how what he pitches candidates on has shifted as the company has grown from startup to 400+ employees and how his interview style has changed with that growth. Jason tells us his favorite question to ask during the interview process and recommends using recruiters as a resource to fill pipeline. He says he allocates about 30% of his time to recruiting and finds it to be seasonal - spending a lot of his time in interviews and on phone screens. For Jason, when it comes to hiring, the most important thing is finding the right people. He even urges managers to be willing to fall short of hiring goals if you haven't found the right people during an interview process. He says every time you hire a salesperson, you should believe there is a chance they can be the number 1 salesperson at your company. Finally, Jason advises anyone who is hiring to be patient, keep a cool head and think long term - even if you are under intense pressure to fill roles - and he leaves us with a great quote: "good people fix bad process, good process and bad people is not a good situation."

This week, the Bowery Capital team hosted Jason Dorfman, Inside Sales Manager at Rubrik, to discuss "Sales Recruiting 101 for Founders." Founded in 2014, Rubrik offers live data access for recovery and application development by fusing enterprise data management with web-scale IT, and eliminating backup software. This marks the end of a decade-long innovation drought in backup and recovery, the backbone of IT. Within minutes, businesses can manage the explosion of data across private and public clouds. Rubrik is trusted by some of the world's leading companies, including Driscoll's, JLL, the Tampa Bay Rays and Berkeley College. In today's episode, Jason joins us to discuss sales recruiting 101 for founders. He starts by touching on the importance of building your product and getting market validation before hiring your sales team. He discusses how to think about hiring your first salesperson and whether it should be a lead generating SDR or an inside sales rep with closing experience.He talks about how what he pitches candidates on has shifted as the company has grown from startup to 400+ employees and how his interview style has changed with that growth. Jason tells us his favorite question to ask during the interview process and recommends using recruiters as a resource to fill pipeline. He says he allocates about 30% of his time to recruiting and finds it to be seasonal - spending a lot of his time in interviews and on phone screens. For Jason, when it comes to hiring, the most important thing is finding the right people. He even urges managers to be willing to fall short of hiring goals if you haven't found the right people during an interview process. He says every time you hire a salesperson, you should believe there is a chance they can be the number 1 salesperson at your company. Finally, Jason advises anyone who is hiring to be patient, keep a cool head and think long term - even if you are under intense pressure to fill roles - and he leaves us with a great quote: "good people fix bad process, good process and bad people is not a good situation."

Retired Phoenix Police Officer, Jason Schechterle, is here with one of the most inspiring personal stories you will ever hear. It's a miracle he survived after his patrol car was rear ended by a taxi traveling 100mph. Jason's car burst into flames trapping him inside. The incredible teams at Maricopa Integrated Health System and Arizona Burn Center saved his life. Today, Jason is a Keynote Speaker inspiring people across the country to ‘keep going' and he is the author of BURNING SHIELD. “LIFE IS 10% WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU AND 90% HOW YOU REACT TO IT”. A proud father, his youngest son just graduated 8th grade. Jason said by all accounts his son should not even be here but goes on to say, “We both have a deeper appreciation for his life. I am excited to see him go on to his next journey. He loves life, he's got a bright future.” Both Jason and his son were gifted life. They are both miracles. Recently at the Night of Hero's Event, Maricopa Health Foundation honored Jason. The event opened with a dramatic video. On March 26th, 2001, Jason's squad car was rear ended by a taxi and engulfed in flames. His life changed forever. Dr. Daniel Caruso, MD Chairman MIHS, said Jason should have died at the scene. “People do not survive when their entire head and upper body is engulfed in flame and smoke. It is physiologically impossible”. Jason Schechterle not only survived, he is a hero and an inspiration. When asked if watching this video was hard, Jason says, “It's not difficult… I am enthralled, and humbled and so appreciative of what the people on that scene did that night. They are the heroes”. When Jason listens to what the firefighters and police officers did that night, and the opportunities they gave him to live, he feels they are the true heroes. He understands that being a First Responder is a true calling. For Jason to be here today, 16 years later, is a miracle. He came through something that no one else has survived. But, on March 26th, 2001, the twist of fate was on his side. A firetruck was sitting at that intersection. Great medical teams were put in place and they acted quickly. Dr Daniel Caruso, a kind and caring burn doctor, raced to the hospital and was in shock when he saw Jason. The doctor once told Jason that he wondered if he was doing him a favor trying to save him. Jason does not have memories of that night, but he loves the stories and the human side of it. He suffered 4th degree burns. Burns that go through the muscle, through the fat, all the way to the bone. Jason was not just surrounded by fire in the accident, he was on fire. He lost his entire physical identity. “Dying would have been easy. This path (survival) was not easy”. Instead, he was left with a long and painful road. He has had more than 52 surgeries. He never once wished he was dead, but having no memory from that night he says,” passing away would have been very simple”. What he was facing was fear and pain for a lot of years. Jason always chose life. He fought hard, both physically and mentally, to have a great life for his family, and to continue to reach out and help others. “Now that I understand the full power of the human spirit. There is nothing you can't overcome with a positive attitude. The sun rises. Life goes on, and you can either be part of it or not. It is that simple.” Jason explains that when he hears people saying life sucks, he thinks to himself there is nothing like life. “You can't give up on anything, and the sun is coming up tomorrow if you want it to or not. You have to be capable to see things that are bigger than yourself”. He believes that you have to find what moves you, what inspires you. Coming out of the hospital, Jason was prescribed a low dose antidepressant, but he realized with his huge support system, he couldn't fail. So, he only took the drugs for a very short time. He wanted to feel what he was going to feel and get through it. He did not want to take a chance of becoming dependent or addicted to something that would set him back. He embraced his feelings in order to get to the other side. The future came about when he and his wife found out that they were pregnant with their third child. Jason wanted to be stronger for his children. He had a responsibility to be the best dad he could be to his three children. Looking back, the toughest parts are really the best parts. His daughter was just 7, and his son at age 3, had a hard time dealing with what happened to their dad. His son would cry and run out of room saying,” you are not my dad”. This lasted for months. But now, at 18, his oldest son has grown into a “most beautiful soul ever put on this earth”. To tell his story, Jason decided to write a book, BURNING SHIELD, a legacy for his children. He wanted his story told accurately. Now a Keynote Speaker, Jason travels around the country as he continues to be inspired by telling his story to others. He continues to inspire and help others with whatever they are going through. He says that people always want to compare their adversities. Jason goes on to say you can't. “Your adversity is your own, and it is a very big deal, no matter what it is. You cannot compare adversities”. Many people want to share their stories with him as well. In 2010, following a speech to about 700 people, a NYC firefighter came up and told him that he had been through 9/11. And he was currently going through a divorce. He wanted to let Jason know that his story changed his life. His comment was powerful. Jason was humbled. If he can just touch one person by telling his story, it is worth it. His story is not about being burned or being a cop, it is about adversity, it is about life. He speaks to all age groups, all genres. Jason recognizes the courage it takes for people to walk up to him. He finds it heartwarming. Sometimes the looks that people give him can bother him and then sometimes not. Of course, he is “human”. He says he has good days and bad days like anyone. About 18 months ago, he started traveling alone. His eyesight makes it difficult, but in true Jason style, he does not want to travel with friends as a crutch. In a picture from his book, Jason is photographed alone on the golf course. This best represents his comeback. He had to overcome his adversity by himself. Even his wife acknowledges she couldn't do it for him, he had to do it by himself. This picture represents the serenity he feels. The one thing Jason wants everyone to take away from his story is “don't let the pain of today blind you from the promise of tomorrow. Your human spirit can shine so bright. Your attitude is everything. Just don't give up.” Jason Schechterle, and everyone touched by his story, his inspiration, is forever in debt to those heroes that saved his life. The post Burning Shield – The Jason Schechterle Story appeared first on Inspired Media 360 TV - Inform | Inspire | Engage.

We're back! For Jason and Rebecca's first episode of the Trump presidency, we review three sequels that all work non-terribly: the tastefully trashy thrills of FIFTY SHADES DARKER (9:45); JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2's (28:58) nonstop head-shot action; and THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE's (45:43) deliciously referential hilarity.

Jason Van Orden helps influencers and thoughts leaders turn their expertise and ideas into courses, content and automated systems that amplify their income and impact. He has been doing and teaching this since 2005. Knowing his own authentic best self is central to everything he does. Jason and Jeremy Frandsen's Internet Business Mastery course was the reason Kevin Appleby and Graham Arrowsmith got to know each other. Jason and Jeremy created a Facebook Group for course buyers and the rest is history. If you are thinking about making the most out of the new year, then this episode is for you. Listen and find out how to leverage your own authentic best self. 11 years ago, that's 2005, Jason and Jeremy created the first internet business podcast with Internet Business Mastery which has produced over 340 episodes. http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/internet-business-mastery-business-development-and-internet/internet-business-mastery-get-paid-to-live-your-purpose Why Authentic Best Self? Jason has been practising “Authentic Best Self” for some years. The phrase itself is credited to Amy Cuddy from her new book “Presence, Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges”. (Amazon UK http://amzn.to/2hmJKu4 and Amazon USA http://amzn.to/2gi39aJ Jason sees Authentic Best Self as a continual self-awareness and understanding of the factors and strengths that contribute to YOU performing at your peak. Leading to you creating maximum value in the world, and enjoying maximum fulfilment and having maximum energy all from the work that you do. Amy Cuddy advises that when you need to show up as your best self, if you PRECEDE that by referring to some information about your values and your strengths, and you remind yourself of that regularly, the science shows that you perform at a higher level with less stress. Hence your creativity is better and your output is better. Authentic Best Self is an understanding and leveraging information that you are continually discovering about yourself that leads to peak performance that leads to impact in the world. So, how does Authentic Best Self work in practice? For Jason, it is literally a DropBox folder of stuff, of assessments that he has taken, of journal entries he has made, feedback letters from people. How does Jason use this information? When he is faced with a business opportunity, this self-insight, acts as a sort of compass. As entrepreneurs, you are faced with lots of ideas and opportunities than you can pursue, with your limited resources – time, energy, money – than you can apply yourself to with any form of efficacy. Jason uses these materials to remind himself that he performs best when he allows himself to work in a particular way. He can quickly assess whether the opportunity will lead to him being over-extended or stressed. It is a FILTER and a COMPASS. One of Jason's strengths is research. He takes in a lot of information. He looks carefully at existing systems. This is the root of his success. Alternatively, his wife is kind of the opposite. Jason builds into his business people who will avoid him taking too long. Whether that is his wife or having a business partner who is more of a quick start person. How would Jason advise listeners to create their ABOUT YOU understanding material? Ask your close friends and colleagues Reach out to 5, 6 or 7 people who know you well enough and whose input you trust. It might be in a conversation, sending an email or writing them a letter. Ask them “What are the things that you value in me most?”, “What are the times that you see me as the most passionate, or most effective?”, “What are the things that you can depend on me for?”.Why do this? Often, we discount our strengths. Because these things come naturally to us, so we assume doesn't everybody operate that way? That's why it is important for others to affirm your strengths. You can then OWN the commonalities and themes,

Jason VandeBoom is  founder of ActiveCampaign, which is a web based marketing platform that helps hundreds of thousands of small businesses improve and automate their marketing. Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn: [0:37] Jeremy’s introduction of Jason VandeBoom, founder of ActiveCampaign.com. [0:57] What’s been the lowest point for ActiveCampaign? [2:34] What was the most painful part as far as products? [3:53] How do you disconnect from that level of stress when you go home? [5:36] The proudest moment for ActiveCampaign. [6:16] What are you most excited about in the future of ActiveCampaign? [7:16] The proudest customer experience you’ve had. [8:16] What’s the most unique type of business you work with? [9:00] Jason’s final thoughts. In this episode… For Jason VandeBoom, growing his company, ActiveCampaign, hasn’t always been easy. Like most businesses, there have been bumps on the road and times when he wasn’t sure if they could keep pushing forward. Jason shares the high and low point for ActiveCampaign, along with some useful insight into how he’s grown the business into the success it is today. What’s been the low point for ActiveCampaign? Jason discusses the low point, which came in 2008 after his honeymoon. When Jason returned from his 2-week honeymoon, things were not going well for the company. He offers insight into the cause of the problems and how they were able to move forward and overcome the issues. Jason also shares his key learnings from this low point and how he’s avoided similar problems later on. Jason goes on to discuss one of the most painful parts of facing the issues in 2008 - realizing he had people focusing on the wrong product. He shares how long it took to regain stability, as well as the toll it took on him personally. How do you disconnect from work when you go home? For Jason, disconnecting is a challenge. He shares how his family has helped him learn to disconnect and why it can be tough to do so when you’re passionate about the business. What’s been the high point for ActiveCampaign? Jason shares why the past 6 months have been the high point for the company and some of the things that have contributed to their current level of success. He also discusses what’s next for ActiveCampaign and why the customer experience is so valuable to him. In closing, Jason leaves us with some final thoughts about how you can better utilize your time with automation. Resources Mentioned on this episode www.ActiveCampaign.com

This week Trish forces us to watch & remake My Best Friend's Wedding. For Jason this is like kneeling in broken glass while acid drips into his eyes. We've now scratched that nagging itch Trish had for reworking a romantic comedy. Thankfully we watched this so you don't have too. We took that bullet for you. Listen to this humorous rage filled episode as we rip apart this Julia Roberts, Dermont Mulroney, Cemeron Diaz, and Rupert Everett led romantic comedy that came our at the height of Julia's career and was a bafflingly huge success. Don't miss our funniest episode yet! Please share the podcast with your friends and help spread the invasion. Rate, review and subscribe! Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/invasionoftheremake/ Follow us on Twitter: @InvasionRemake Email us: InvasionoftheRemake@gmail.com  

EPISODE 7 Be sure to share any questions, complaints, feedback, love, topic ideas or media requests with us by emailing: podcast@ideacharger.com About 10 years ago, Jason Jump had stepped out of a coaching career, and was looking for his next challenge.  In a time before smart phones, he spotted a void in the sports media world that was overlooked and launched a website built to serve the athletes, families, and fans of private & Christian schools in the state of Texas. A few short years ago, Jason traded his successful digital livelihood based in Houston, Texas, for something unexpected…a community print newspaper in rural Kansas. Listen in to this incredible interview with a man who loves his family, his community, his life…and his newspaper!  We explore how print news plays such a critical role in sustaining rural communities in the midwestern United States. Success Chargers like you define success and happiness your OWN way…and Jason shares his story of the satisfaction of making old things new again. For Jason, be sure to follow:   ·         @KCNONLINE on Twitter (Kingman County News) ·         www.KCNOnline.com (Home of the Kingman Leader-Courier) ·         @LSCSN – Lone Star Christian Sports Network For Success Charger: ·         @IdeaCharger & @CookseyConnects (Twitter) ·         @CookseyConnects (Instagram) ·         www.SuccessChargerPodcast.com ·         www.IdeaCharger.com ·         www.FaceBook.com/successchargerpodcast If you love the show, be sure to click on the link below to leave your 5-Star Review: ·         iTunes   ·         Stitcher Radio

For Jason's latest pick, we're back in metal mode, this time revisiting the 1995 Subhuman Race by Skid Row. Many of the hair/glam rock and metal bands of the 1980s made failed attempts to update their sound in the 90s, how does Subhuman Race fare? Tune in to find out. Songs in this Episode: Intro - My Enemy3:33 - History of the Band10:31 - Subhuman Race12:55 - Eileen21:46 - Frozen26:45 - Breakin' DownOutro - Remains To Be Seen Follow on Twitter / Facebook Request A Review

For Jason's latest pick, we're back in metal mode, this time revisiting the 1995 Subhuman Race by Skid Row. Many of the hair/glam rock and metal bands of the 1980s made failed attempts to update their sound in the 90s, how does Subhuman Race fare? Tune in to find out.Songs in this Episode:Intro - My Enemy3:33 - History of the Band10:31 - Subhuman Race12:55 - Eileen21:46 - Frozen26:45 - Breakin' DownOutro - Remains To Be SeenFollow on Twitter / FacebookRequest A Review

For Jason's latest pick we return to 1994 and tackle the debut album Naveed by Our Lady Peace. Following this record, the band found greater success with the second release Clumsy, but is Naveed actually the better album? We dig into Naveed, discuss the merits of the second wave of alternative in the 1990s, and ponder the origins of the nasally Canadian singer. Songs in the Episode: Intro - Supersatellite 3:33 - History of the Band 14:41 - Supersatellite 21:37 - Dirty Walls 24:14 - Neon Crossing 27:15 - Starseed Outro - Naveed Follow on Twitter / Facebook Request A Review

For Jason's latest pick we return to 1994 and tackle the debut album Naveed by Our Lady Peace. Following this record, the band found greater success with the second release Clumsy, but is Naveed actually the better album? We dig into Naveed, discuss the merits of the second wave of alternative in the 1990s, and ponder the origins of the nasally Canadian singer. Songs in the Episode: Intro - Supersatellite 3:33 - History of the Band 14:41 - Supersatellite 21:37 - Dirty Walls 24:14 - Neon Crossing 27:15 - Starseed Outro - Naveed Follow on Twitter / Facebook Request A Review