060: James Swanwick | How He Got his Dream Job as an ESPN Sports Center Anchor, with Zero Experience, By Being a Giver
Swanwick has been a coach, an author, an even a Columbian coal trader. One thing I really admire about him is he continues challenging himself and is always trying new things, not afraid to try and perhaps to fail.
059: Robert Richman | How to Build Killer Company Culture
Today, Robert is a culture architect and keynote speaker and author of The Culture Blueprint.
In this episode, we talk about what it was like to work for Zappos and what it takes to ensure your business has a good culture that contributes to your bottom line.
058: Derek Coburn Author of Networking Is Not Working | Why Networking is Broken — and What to Do About It
Today, Coburn is also the co-founder, with his wife Melanie, of Cadre DC, which is a business networking group in Washington DC that uses non-traditional networking strategies to bring together highly successful entrepreneurs and business owners who are focused on helping one another.
057: LaRae Quy | How to Read People Like an FBI Special Agent
Today, Quy is the author of Secrets of a Strong Mind (affiliate link), which is a book about understanding mental toughness and how to fortify your mental toughness in the world of business which is based off Quy’s years of working as an FBI Special agent.
056: Tom Morkes of Bootstrapped Mag | Jumping Out of Helicopters and Getting Paid to Travel the World
Today Tom is a business coach and business consultant, author, owner of a boutique publishing house and publisher of Bootstrapped Mag, a business and arts journal I’ve been privileged to write for.
054: Jordan Harbinger of the Art of Charm Podcast | From Wall Street Lawyer to Men’s Charm Expert
Jordan Harbinger is a former Wall Street lawyer turned men’s charm expert. Yes, you read that right. You don’t hear that combination every day. But once you hear him speak, you see why Jordan ended up where he did.
055: Adam Grant Author of Give and Take | How to Succeed in Business by Being a Giver
Adam Grant, author of Give and Take, explains why givers, people who are interested first in helping others, are more likely to rise to the top of the success ladder.
053: Brett McKay of Art of Manliness | How He Built the #1 Independent Men’s Interest Website
Brett McKay was fed up. He was looking at row after row of men’s interest magazines on a magazine rack, and he found that every “men’s interest” magazine – like Maxim and FHM Magazine – seemed to offer little more than pictures of scantily-clad women and tips on how to throw an awesome frat party. None of these magazines shared real advice on how to be a better man.
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