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Sid Meadows is a business strategist and high performance coach who works with entrepreneurs and small business to leverage digital sales strategies.

John David Mann, co-author of "The Go-Giver", describes his past experiences & failures in music, nutrition and education before he became a writer. This episode has lots of valuable insights and practical strategies for reframing one's perspective towards failure and using it as a tool for growth and success.

LinkedIn expert and friend Judi Fox joins to share some of the failures on her way to truly being herself and showing up as her best self. Hear Judi discuss her new podcast with Vinnie Potestivo called "Let's Talk Social Audio".

William Hung from American Idol seems to have a failure forcefield that's impossible to penetrate. His positivity is infectious, and his ability to turn what most thought to be a failure into lifelong success makes this episode incredibly special.

Actor, Keynote Speaker, and Author of 'The Power to Speak Naked' Sean Tyler Foley shares candid insights to his very non-traditional career path and the failures he faced (and embraced) along the way.

At her lowest point, Natasha Graziano was a homeless single mother in over $100K in debt. Now, she is a successful mindfulness coach, best-selling entrepreneurial author, and Forbes' #1 female motivational speaker under 40. In this episode, Natasha talks about her new book Be It Until You Become It: The Law of Attraction Explained Through Neuroscience and Ancient Wisdom.

Tracey Becca is a fabulous friend who does hilarious things out in the world. Her 'Terrible Advice' Instagram account has me in stitches on a regular basis. I'm very happy to be bringing her joy, warmth, and some of that funny bone onto the podcast and into your ears! As she says: "everything you want is attainable, the only limits that you have are the limits that you place on yourself".

My friend, and a breath of fresh air on LinkedIn, Chris Bogue stops by to say hello! Learn how he came into his own level of comfort after studying improv at Second City. He shares his struggles trying to fit as a non-square peg in a very square world, dealing with divorce, and lacking self-confidence. He's hilarious, genuine, and oh so great to have on the podcast!

Are you a data head? Jordan Goldmeier is! We have a fantastic conversation that dips into everything from pushing Excel to the limit, failing in business, and becoming a digital nomad! He's a three-time author as well as a fellow Microsoft MVP. We also deep dive into Jordan's interesting tattoo of a hot dog which leads us to: What is the proper Chicago-style hot dog? Is Big Ketchup out to get Jordan? Are hot dogs a sandwich? Are hot dogs a taco? Are tacos a sandwich..? All these questions and more will be answered right here!!!

The voice & personality behind Deb's Den and former Playboy playmate & centerfold, Deborah Driggs shares her experiences on her journey to becoming a friend of failure, in acting, sales, and now in becoming an author! Her upcoming book, releasing later in 2022, 'Son of a Basque' comes directly from her grandfather and tells a story she's been dying to tell! Learn from her experiences getting rejected from audition to audition as well as experiencing quite a lot of struggle in her personal career and in the process of writing and publishing her first books!

What started as a simple little obsession with Skittles has now brought Phillip Deason, aka k1ngrand0om on TikTok, to the tiny screens of millions of users! With over 110 million views and over half a million subscribers, the Royalty of Random has found some of his passion. But he's just getting started! While the conversation certainly does drift into randomness here and there, his insights into how to get seen on platforms like TikTok are super useful. I still have yet to record my first official TikTok, but I can only imagine I'll use a video from our discussion as a first attempt. Enjoy!

Co-Author of The Go-Giver, Bob Burg, shares his insights as to why you should think about giving more than getting. We discuss topics like being resistant to change, pushing yourself outside of your comfort zone, and the importance of providing immense value to everyone you deal with. His book has forever changed how I think about business, and my hope is that many of you will benefit from the concepts in his book and podcast!

I'm so excited for you to meet Raj! Raj Subrameyer is a tech career strategist focusing on helping people to land their dream job and becoming successful leaders. He is bursting at the seams to help professionals discover their zone of genius. He has given multiple TEDx talks and is a sought-after speaker at various conferences and has been featured in numerous TV news segments, podcasts, and publications including CBS, FOX, NPR, NBC, and many more! Enjoy his failures on his way toward conquering his fear of public speaking, and how he turned that fear into fuel to get himself on TEDx!

I've been looking forward to chatting with Ved for such a long time. He's developed one of my favorite SAAS tools as of late, which is Lead Delta, a CRM for LinkedIn. Despite being on it for 15 years, I've only recently started really digging into it. Our conversation is equal parts insightful and juvenile. We talk entirely too long about Arnold Schwarzenegger, and not long enough about why Ved is so scared of hosting a new podcast with me. Enjoy!

ADHD coach extraordinaire Damon Manley has a deep desire to help others overcome their inner & outer struggles with ADHD. Throughout our time on the show, he talks about some of his failures and successes which include losing his engagement ring during the proposal, ascending from 400 Instagram followers to 27,000 in less than 6 months, his dashed dreams of being a basketball player, and his ambitious goal of planning to give away $50K in 2023 despite making a small fraction of that so far in his business. Wishing you all the best, Damon!

The most important person in my life is finally on my podcast! To celebrate March as MS Awareness Month (just a hair late), I've finally edited what has been 6 different phone calls with my Nana into one podcast episode that really shows off just how much life you can pack into 90 years. I call her every Sunday, but honestly, these calls where she had to tell her own life stories were so illuminating for me that I feel like I've been given a gift I didn't know was already there. Listen to her recount her life-long battle with MS. In addition, we also tackle semi-random topics like the transition from radio to black & white TV, my grandfather's rejection of Alexander Graham Bell, and even how the Boston Strangler made it harder for my Nana to collect donations for the MS organization she founded with her friend. I hope you enjoy her as much as I do (which, let's be honest, isn't possible). Thanks, Nana!

Have you ever been so inspired by someone that you walked away feeling like you owed them something? I feel that way every time I chat with Tom Langan, owner & founder of Talex Media. He's logged over 40,000 hours professionally behind the camera lens, and you'd do well to listen to the whole episode if you want to learn all the great insights he has to share. Special thanks to Dominick Domaski (episode 32) for the introduction!

Troy Holt, Chief Encouragement Officer of Troy Holt Consulting LLC shares intimate stories about working to spread financial literacy, and also lets us in on fabulous insights regarding failure: "Failure is an event, but if you get in a spirit of defeat, you'll give up, and you quit. Failure doesn't mean that a person is a failure, it just means that something didn't work out, they didn't have success, but they can get up and move forward." He shares a lesson I had to learn the hard way as well, but it's a lesson that is incredibly important: "You learn more in the valleys than on the mountaintops. When you're on the mountaintops, everybody wants you, and they're your friends, but when you're in the valleys, your low places, in the failures, that's when you have your true friends. They'll be with you when you're up or when you're down, and so just remember those that stick with you... don't forget those people when you get to the top!"

Emmy-winning Casting, Brand & Talent Development legend Vinnie Potestivo shares just how difficult show business can be. He discusses many hilarious and insightful stories about his career including his time at MTV Networks where, as producer, he helped to launch shows like Punk'd and The Osbournes. In addition, he also helped cast for shows like TRL, The Tom Green Show, Pimp My Ride and many more! I love his outlook on failure: "When you prepare for failure, it sets you up to win epically or fail collectively. If you're failing really really big, and you're the only person who's failing, you did it wrong. But if you're failing with a group of people, that's learning! That's relationship building and pioneering."