Episodes

March 4, 2021

From Selfish to Selfless with Frank Mengert

Frank Mengert is the Founder of EBM, a 5X Start-up Founder, Speaker, Social Superstar, and all-around amazing human. As you will hear on the podcast, my first time meeting Frank made an impression on me as to his character that I will never forget.
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Feb. 19, 2021

Becoming the Authority Through Digital Marketing with Krista Mashore

Krista Mashore is a digital marketing coach that helps professionals utilize video and social media to become the go-to authority in their community. She is also the author of Four best-selling books focusing on digital marketing.
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Feb. 11, 2021

Be(ing) Authentic as Featured on the Rockstars Rocking Podcast

A few months back, I was blessed to be invited onto the Rockstars Rocking Podcast, hosted by Eric Silverman. Eric has become a great friend over the last couple of years and even a client. In this episode, Eric and I discussed how I started my business...
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Jan. 28, 2021

Exceptional Organizations Start at the Top with Jamie Hawkins

Jamie Hawkins is the Founder and CEO of BTR – Benefit Technology Resources, a firm delivering value to its clients through innovative solutions and product partnerships that set the standard of excellence for HR technology.
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Jan. 14, 2021

Reclaiming Your Wonder with Harris III

Harris III is a world-renowned speaker, storyteller and entrepreneur. He is the creator of Transformation Theory and author of the bestselling book, The Wonder Switch. Harris impacted my life personally back in 2017 when in the midst of a magic show th...
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Jan. 7, 2021

Burnout, Creativity, and Being Enough in 2021

In this solo episode of Authentic Conversations, I open up about the burnout I started to experience at the end of 2020, what led to a resurgence in my desire to create, and why ENOUGH became my theme for 2021.
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Dec. 18, 2020

Frameworks Make the Dream Work with Jake Jordan

Jake Jordan is the Chief Clarity Officer for Quirk Advertising, the Founder of Impact Over Attention, and a double podcast host (yup, two). He is focused on improving content and messaging performance for cause-driven organizations.
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Dec. 10, 2020

Reflecting on 2020 and Projecting for 2021

The year-end often has us considering how well we did, where we measured up, and what we are going to do the following year. While there are other great practices (and many really bad ones) for reflecting on your year,
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Dec. 3, 2020

Being at Your Best to Bring Your Best with Andy Neary

Andy Neary is a keynote speaker and performance coach. He’s also a former professional baseball player, Ironman athlete, and 20-year veteran of the health insurance industry. But most importantly, at least to me, is he’s a good buddy.
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Nov. 19, 2020

Be Grateful for What’s Happened to You

I was recently given the opportunity to close out an amazing session on gratitude with 100+ colleagues and friends. In this week’s episode, I share my closing excerpt on how we can look at gratitude and thankfulness in 2020. I challenged the audience,
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Nov. 5, 2020

Captivating Content that Compels an Audience with Derek Doepker

Derek Doepker is a content marketing and digital marketing consultant. His certifications include an NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) Trainer Certification, Digital Marketer Copywriting Certification, and the Digital Marketing Content Marketing Certi...
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Oct. 22, 2020

Human Behavior and Performance with Brian Bogert

Brian Bogert’s story is a crazy one. As a young man, his arm was literally ripped from his body in a freak accident. Twenty four surgeries later, his arm was rebuilt to function once again. Crazier, many years later he nearly lost that same arm a secon...
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Oct. 13, 2020

Politics, Religion, and Other Off-limits Topics with Kody Fairfield (part 2)

We’ve long heard people say that talking about politics, religion, and other socially-charged issues were no-nos in business or even at the Thanksgiving dinner table. While I get the reasons why this is the case,
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Oct. 8, 2020

Politics, Religion, and Other Off-limits Topics with Kody Fairfield (part 1)

We’ve long heard people say that talking about politics, religion, and other socially-charged issues were no-nos in business or even at the Thanksgiving dinner table. While I get the reasons why this is the case,
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Sept. 24, 2020

The Limited Nature of Human Kind with Eddie Williams

Eddie Williams is a former 5-year NFL veteran, a pastor and the creator of Ex Nihilo Health, a site for biblical wellness. Eddie and I get right into discussing the lack of control we really have and how today’s volatile culture demonstrates that so (u...
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Sept. 18, 2020

Celebrating 100 Episodes with a Few of my Favorite People

I cannot believe I made it to 100! A simple idea in early 2018 has created some of the most amazing relationships, best conversations, happy moments, hard discussions, and lots in between. Episode 100 was a chance for me to share time with my beautiful...
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Sept. 10, 2020

Making the Most of the Time We Are In with Ryan James Miller

Episode 99 is a solo one. And in it, I wanted to catch you up on where I am while sharing a few things I’ve been learning (which could help you too). One thing I have really learned is that making the most of the time we are in doesn’t require us to ma...
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Aug. 27, 2020

The Physical, Mental, and Emotional Necessity of Fitness with Chad Burleson

Chad Burleson is the owner of multiple The Camp Transformation Center franchises in Southern California. As you can expect, the first half of 2020 has presented many potential challenges for Chad, his team, and his fitness community.
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Aug. 20, 2020

Real Talk on Forgiveness and Reconciliation | from AC13 Live with Ryan James Miller

By mid-June 2020, the United States was being further and further divided over issues of race and health concerns. These two severe issues were compounded an already significant problem driven by division over politics (amongst other things).
Aug. 13, 2020

The Value of Life and How to Protect It with Robert Clark

Robert Clark is an income protection specialist, providing Executive Disability Insurance to employer groups and high-comp business leaders. More importantly to me, Robert is a client and dear friend. He has the utmost integrity and is all about adding...
Aug. 6, 2020

Your Lack of a Referral Strategy is Killing your Business | from AC12 Live

We all know referrals are an amazing way to create new business opportunities. And we hear many people say that they get “tons” of referrals. But are you really getting the referrals you deserve? In this episode of Authentic Conversations,
July 30, 2020

Growing Impact and Scaling Income with Jenn Kennedy

Jenn Kennedy believes that when your business is driven by impact, your income will grow as your impact does. I appreciate this statement so much because we often hear things like “put it out there and it will come back” and yet,
July 23, 2020

The 4 P’s Necessary to Achieve Success | AC11 Live with Ryan James Miller

Welcome to Authentic Conversations hosted by Ryan James Miller, an awesome new look featuring more valuable content than ever before.  Authentic Conversations highlights the best, the most successful, and the most fulfilled business leaders and influen...
July 16, 2020

The Character of a Champion with Adrian Conway

Adrian Conway is a four-time CrossFit Games Athlete, a three-time CrossFit Games Team Champion, the co-owner of FNX, CrossFit Affiliate owner, Coach at Brute Strength, and a CrossFit Level 1 Trainer. He is also a husband, father,