The Culture Matters Podcast

"Luck will follow you in the coming year."

"What is lost will soon be found."

"You will soon be recognized for your unique talents."

"The day is near where you will share your talent with the world."

- P.F. Chang's fortune cookies

Good friend of the podcast and the president of Concourse Land Transfer LLC Scott Rutkay is back again for another go around with Jay Doran The Culture Ma...

"Don't be a dick and treat people like they want to be treated and you'd be surprised what they do for you and your business."

Founder of Meleeo, author of an upcoming book, entrepreneur, speaker, and business consultant Brian McNally is joining us on the show today for a great conversation about motivation, success, and so much more.  Brian and Jay are digging into Brian's journey through starting...

"What was lost sill soon be found."

"You will soon be recognized for your unique talents."

"The day is near when you share your talent with the world."

"Luck will follow you in the coming year."

- A series of fortune cookies from P.F. Chang's

Our guests today are the Head of Engagement and Outreach at American Business Media, Andrew Berman, and the Chief Marketing Officer of Paramou...

"If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary." - Jim Rohn

Award-winning keynote speaker, Podcast of the Year Award winner, best-selling author of The Makings of a Millionaire Mind, co-founder of The Mari Strong Foundation (with his wife Mari), business and executive coach, and corporate trainer Daniel Gomez is our guest on today's show and this promises to be one fant...

"Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Owner and CEO of Arawak Beach Club, Co-owner of Nasty Good, and the founder and president of Asphalt Kingdom and AK Dash Judd Burdon is back on the show after far too long of an absence.  Judd and Jay are digging into the motivation behind starting AK Dash and helping small businesses within the asphalt space grow and become more successful...

"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom." - Søren Kierkegaard

We are back again with another dose of culture content and on today's episode, our very own Jay Doran is bringing part two of a discussion he started earlier in the week based on the subject of "fun" culture being a productivity killer.  After a brief summary of part one, Jay digs into the role that trust in the institution plays when it co...

"There is nothing impossible to him who will try." - Alexander the Great

Founder of the Hispanic Organization of Mortgage Experts (HOME), Chief Growth Officer of Empower Mortgage, and a leader within EPM Rogelio Goertzen is making his inaugural appearance on the show today and we could not be more excited to have him here to share his experience and wisdom with our audience.  Rogelio and Jay are digging into Roge...

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced." - Søren Kierkegaard

It's been a little while, but we're back with some more culture content today and our very own Jay Doran is exploring the topic of a company's "fun" culture being a killer of productivity.  This discussion is largely based on the concept of responsibility and people doing what they are meant to be d...

"There was once a wise spiritual master who was the ruler of a small, but prosperous domain and who was known for his selfless devotion to his people.   As his people flourished and grew in number, the bounds of his small domain spread and with it, the need to trust implicitly the emissaries he sent to ensure the safety of its evermore distant parts. It was not just that it was impossible for him personally to order all that n...

"How did I get into engineering? Somebody saw something."

Chief Marketing Officer of Paramount Residential Mortgage Group Paul Lucido and we've got him back on the show for yet another discussion on our very own Jay Doran's work, Thirty Days of Thought.  Today's conversation is focusing on the section of the book called "Relationships" and Paul and Jay are diving in head first.  The major...

"Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it. He who doesn't, pays it." - Albert Einstein

Business Development Officer for Wescott Financial Advisory Group Alex Rawdin is joining us on the show today and we are very excited to get into the nitty gritty of finance, so let's get this show on the road.  Alex and Jay are discussing some of the background and history ...

"We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do." - Mother Teresa

Founder and Executive Director of Raise the Bar Family Services Karly Forman Cohen is our guest on the show today and we are very excited to get into philanthropy, nonprofits, and good work by good people in general.  Karly and Jay are digging into what nonprofits actually are and what purpose they serve, the work that she and her team...

"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit." - Friedrich Nietzsche

Personal trainer and founder of STRONGSIDE Fitness Mitchel Black is hitting the airwaves on our show today and there is a lot of inspiring stuff coming from this conversation.  Mitchel and Jay are digging into Mitchel's journey from bullied kid to fitness aficionado, some of Mitche...

"Life can only be understood backwards, but must be lived forwards." - Søren Kierkegaard

"The two greatest warriors are patience and time." - Leo Tolstoy

On today's show, our very own Jay Doran is pulling back the curtain a bit to give our listeners an update on The Culture Matters Podcast as we see ourselves at the halfway point of 2025.  Jay is discussing how the podcast has evolved, what the moti...

"Out of every 100 men, ten shouldn't even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters ,and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior and he will bring the others back." - Heraclitus 

Psychiatrist, philosopher, neuroscientist, and author of such books as The Master and His Emissary and The Matter With Things Dr. Iain McGilchrist is our guest on th...

"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies." - Friedrich Nietzsche

Christopher Tighe is a U.S. Navy and NCIS veteran, host of the Caffeinated Contractor podcast, and the founder of Elevation Construction and we've got him back on the show for another round of culture discussion.  For this conversation, Christopher and Jay are digging into what Christopher's focus has been on his own podc...

"A man of knowledge must not only be able to love his enemies but hate his friends." - Friedrich Nietzsche

Our guests today are the Head of Engagement and Outreach at American Business Media, Andrew Berman, and the Chief Marketing Officer of Paramount Residential Mortgage Group, Paul Lucido, and we've got them back for yet another conversation surrounding our very own Jay Doran's work, Thirty Days of Th...

"I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundations of the world." - Matthew 13:35

On today's episode of The Culture Matters Podcast, we are bringing you the fourth and final part of a quick series where our very own Jay Doran is using The American Gift (TAG) conference of 2025 held in Atlanta, GA, as a launching pad for further discussion on culture topics.  Today, Jay is using some questi...

"I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundations of the world." - Matthew 13:35

We have our very own Jay Doran back again for part three of our series on The American Gift (TAG) 2025 conference being held in Atlanta, GA.  As we mentioned in the last episode, Jay will be interviewing Dr. Jordan B. Peterson at this year's event and we're using some of those questions to take a look at...