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Data Consolation: Jake Tlapek on Marketing Fundamentals vs Dashboards 

Jake The Wizard. Author of Eight Dominoes. A brand messaging focused consultant that believes every product or service can bring meaning and purpose to market. It is our job to tell that story. 

My guest today is Jake Tlapek, better known as The Wizard of Marketing. Jake spent 13 years in the trenches. He built a Chicago marketing agency on a TikTok audi...

Creativity as Spiritual Practice: What Art Knows That Words Cannot Say|April Stace

Queer Priest, Professor & Harpist Doing Theology in Sound & Image 

April Stace is an Episcopal priest, professor, writer, and professional harpist whose work explores the connections between creativity, spirituality, and what it means to live a meaningful life. Her newest album and immersive performance project, Aphelion, grew out of a sea...

Divorce Your Clock & Supercharge Your Productivity|Kim Miller-Hershon

From corporate to entrepreneurship, Kim Miller-Hershon brings a unique perspective to her work as a leadership and management coach.  Her clients love that she customizes her approach to them and makes it easier for them to achieve their goals. She is also the host of the “Unconventional Wisdom About Conventional Wisdom” podcast.  She is ...

"Your Estate Plan Is Not as Private as You Think"|Bryan Thompson

Bryan Thompson is a California trusts and estates attorney with Rod of Iron Trusts and Estates Counsel, where he guides families through some of the most difficult and emotionally charged decisions they'll ever face. These moments bring family tension and confusion even in the best of times, and the outcome can shape how families interact for generations. Bryan's missi...

Why small business is the key to transforming the US/world|Dave Valentine

Author | CEO | 9 Exits, 2400+ Clients Served 

Dave Valentine is the CEO of Finch, a TEDx speaker, serial entrepreneur, and author of The Marketer’s Mind. Over the past decade, he has worked with more than 2,400+ businesses, from single-location coffee shops to AT&T, helping them understand why customers buy, why they don’t, and why another ...

Analog in the AI Era |Matt Hancock|Creative Force Behind DECO-LUXE

Today's guest is the creative force behind DECO-LUXE, a synthwave project that blends nostalgic analog textures with modern cinematic production. With a new album, Eventide, set for release soon, they're exploring the intersection of retro-futurism, storytelling, and immersive electronic music.

In today's conversation, we'll dive into the creative process behind craft...

What If Consciousness Comes First?|ONE IAM

Author & Philosopher Exploring Consciousness, Perception, Hermetic Wisdom, and the Mental Nature of Existence 

Today's guest is ONE IAM, an author, philosopher, and speaker whose work explores the profound relationship between consciousness, perception, and human experience.

Drawing from decades of contemplative practice, Hermetic philosophy, and his studies as a 9+ Degree Frater of ...

Doubt is a Signal, Not a Weakness| Martin J Watts

Author of When Doubt Becomes Design, a prescriptive memoir about turning uncertainty into structure, perspective, and purpose.

Get ready to stop thinking about doubt the way most of us were taught.

Our next guest is Martin J Watts, author of When Doubt Becomes Design, a prescriptive memoir about turning uncertainty into structure, perspective, and purpose.

Martin is an entrepreneur, bui...

“The Secret to Better Lag Putting” |Bob Labbe

Unlock your best putting game with Putting by the Numbers – the proven approach to lowering strokes and mastering the green" - Bob Labbe

About the Book: "Putting by the Numbers"

In this groundbreaking book, author Bob Labbe introduces a quantitative method for improving lag putting that can help golfers reduce their scores by four to five strokes per round—regardles...

Breaking Through the Dream: Discovering What's Real|Aja Emmanuel 
Introduction

Aja Emmanuel is the Vice President of Strategic Growth at Art+Logic, one of America's oldest and most respected custom software development firms. For more than 30 years, Art+Logic has helped startups, enterprises, and organizations solve complex challenges through custom software, AI, hardware, and emerging technologies.

Aja specializes in helping...

Women who reinvent themselves|Joni Marie Iraci Author

Joni Marie Iraci, author of the award-winning novel "Vatican Daughter," 

Joni Marie Iraci, author of the award-winning novel "Vatican Daughter," takes the reader behind the walls of the Vatican to expose corruption and the covered up scandal involving a fictional first American pope. It is also the story of a mother's relentless search for her child while coming head-to-head ...

What it's like to run a podcast for a living|Andy Barnard

Producer, engineer, and personality on the same podcast for 13 years running, and the son of a local radio legend 

Andy has been producing, engineering, running, and co-hosting the Tom Barnard Podcast since 2012.  Started by his father (Tom Barnard, locally famous for the KQRS morning show), he's helped it grow from a side project into a living.  He grew up arou...

Forced Reinventions: My Life Has Not Been One Comeback ft. Gaylen A Wilson 

Heart transplant survivor paying that blessing forward by helping couples rebuild emotional safety, Intimacy, and connection before the relationship collapses 

Today’s guest is Gaylen Wilson, a heart transplant survivor, 20-years-sober former alcoholic, relationship author, erectile dysfunction advocate, Certified Thriving Relationship Coach, ...

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Why Adults Are Obsessed With Tiny Toys Again|Ben Butcher

CEO of Kaleidos Creative, an artist-owned collectibles company 

What if the future of collectibles isn't bigger licenses? But bigger imagination? Ben Butcher, founder of Kaleidos Creative, is building an artist-driven, artist-led company proving that original stories, human-made art, and creative risks still matter. After helping shape some of the biggest names in...

Scaling in the Age of AI: Growth Without Increasing Risk|Brian Beck

Joining us today is Brian Beck from Proxurve Solutions. Brian works with mid-sized organizations to turn AI and cybersecurity from concepts into real business outcomes. 

While most conversations in this space focus on what AI can do, Brian focuses on why companies struggle to implement it—and how to fix that. His work is all about helping leaders cut throu...

Morley Nelson Writer Producer, Director, Actor of the Horror Thriller UNCONTAINED

Bio:

Morley is a father, husband, writer, producer, director, actor known for such projects as his kids, his dog, AMC's The Walking Dead, Bad Robot/Hulu's 11.22.63, and most recently, the horror-thriller, UNCONTAINED, which has earned $1.5M on a $55k budget and over 50M views. He is currently in pre-production on the prequel to UNCONTAINED as well as ac...

Hustle fails. Use physics-style leverage for premium deals with Jake Shannon. 

Our guest built his career on a brutal question every founder eventually has to face: if you stepped away for 30 days, would your business grow — or would it stall?

He's a two-time 10X Performance Coach of the Year and the founder of No1 Coaching, where he installs operating systems that turn founder-led chaos into companies that run, scale, and...

The business and law of creativity|Gordon Firemark:The Podcast Lawyer™

Gordon Firemark  has practiced media, entertainment  and business law in solo practice since 1992.  In podcasting circles, he is known as The Podcast Lawyer™, and is producer and host of the Entertainment Law Update podcast (since 2009), and author of the Podcast, Blog & New Media Producer’’s Legal Survival Guide.  His undergra...

Skate, Paint, Heal: Rewiring Trauma into Flow with Brett Ashby 

Contemporary Performance Artist with 20+ Years of International Practice Creating Portrait Paintings While Rolling and Exploring Human Connection 

Brett Ashby is a multidisciplinary artist working in painting, photography, video, sculpture, and installation, grounded in formal training and over two decades of international practice. He innovatively merges movem...