The Transformation Blueprint

Starting this season, I’ve decided to add solo episodes every other week, in between interviews, where I’ll be answering your questions, sharing insights and lessons from my own journey.

On today's episode, I was joined by my business partner, producer, and wife, Alexandra, and we talk about the top three lessons we learned from our first year in business in 2018. Some of these perspective shifts were un...

Sitting down for this interview I had only one objective: to understand how this guy makes it his duty to make as many luxury cars disappear out of the lot as possible. I wanted to break it down in a way that anyone listening - myself included - could replicate, raise their prices and get more customers.

I got that, and a lot more. As you'll hear on this episode...

It’s easy to take things for granted once they start to feel like the norm. We forget that they weren’t always there and that they could actually be gone one day.

Louis CK makes this joke about travelling by plane. He says it’s one of the most marvellous inventions of the last century (* I know the first flight was 1903, this sounds better *), yet we’re totally ...

If you have a great corporate job, and you’re on an upward path, making excellent money, would you leave it all and risk getting nothing? Scott Dunn’s “dream” was too big to ignore, and he’s getting paid massive dividends for jumping off into the deep end.

Scott is the Managing Director of Dream Entertainment, masterminds behind the renowned Dream Weekend event, Xodus Carnival Band, stalwart parties like Twisted Spiritz, Yush, Dayd...

How do you organize huge events and connect with high-impact influencers like Mark Cuban and Gary Vee all while being under 20 years old? For the Managing Partner of Disrupt Ventures, Ja’dan Johnson (@officialjadan), it’s by being the type of person you don’t underestimate.

When most of us were thinking about girls, games and exams, Ja’dan was enrolling in Wharton Business School - he was on a quest for knowledge. Through shutting...

John Henry (@johnhenrystyle) is an entrepreneur, speaker and Venture Partner of Harlem Capital Partners, a minority-owned, diversity-focused early-stage investment firm on a mission to change the face of entrepreneurship. John also hosts the #ChopItUpShow on YouTube and the Open For Business podcast from eBay and Gimlet Creative.

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Andre Burnett (@dre.notnice) is a Brand Strategist, Creative Director, Copywriter, you name it - he probably does it, and Managing Director of Muse 360 Integrated. Andre & Muse are behind many of Jamaica’s most creative ads around today. We get into a lot of his journey to starting his company, his philosophy for melding creativity and business and the mistakes he's had to overcome along the way.

One unusual tidbit: we recorded thi...

Marcia Forbes (@marciaforbes) co-founded her company Phase 3 Productions over 35 years ago. She is now the Executive Chairperson and has transformed it into a strong family business, where her son, Delano is CEO.

It’s interesting how they’ve been able to reinvent and renew the business each decade by building on the principles of technology & empowerment.

She's a Senior Lecturer at Caribbean Institute of Media & Communication (CARI...

Jason Resnick (@rezzz) sits in the podcast today!

He has been making a living and a life that he loves purely from his freelancing for multiple years, and he now helps people to do it the right way with his community and course called “Live in the Feast”. What is the right way you ask? How about working less, charging more, and doing only on the projects that you love? We get into it today!

In this episode, you’ll also learn about ...

I have known Craig Powe for some time now, months before he started Adtelligent, and it really has been exciting to witness his transformation into his role as CEO of this company. Don’t sleep on this episode folks, he dives into a lot and he literally pulled the curtain back on Adtelligent and uncovered a ton of what makes it continue to grow month over month. I wanted to show a different perspective this week, what it looks like ...

This week I sit down with Kell-Dawn Hamilton! She and I spoke to a group of young aspiring entrepreneurs late last year in the parish of Clarendon and the moment I heard her speak at the lectern, I knew I needed to have her share her message on this podcast.

Kelli-Dawn is a serial entrepreneur. She is the founder of Let’s Assist, a virtual assistant company and iCourage, a motivational speaking company. She is also the Director of ...

Ray-St. Michael is a long-time lecturer and the founder and CEO of two companies - Discovery Technologies and Y Smart Data - both centred around his passion for data and analytics. He has done a lot of impactful work in Jamaica in the almost 10 years his company has been around, building transformative teams and transforming Jamaica through data.

In this episode we talk about:
- The top 3 values every entrepreneur should have;
- Ho...

Conrad Mathison (@conradmathison) is the CEO of It’s Pixel Perfect, a digital marketing agency here in Kingston, Jamaica. He has done branding, social media and multiple campaigns for many of the top businesses in Jamaica and has recently walked away with the Prime Minister’s Youth Award for Entrepreneurship.

In this episode you will learn:

• Why is life bigger than success;
• How do you rally after hugely unfortunate losses;
• What...

Michael Dann is the founder of Fusion Professional Solutions, an I.T. professional services firm working with credit unions, insurance companies and small businesses to develop successful web solutions. He is also a Senior Consultant and Technical Manager at RealDecoy and Tutor at the UWI Open Campus.

With over 15 years as a Technology Professional, Michael is driven and passionate about technology development, technical training a...

Yanique Grant (@yaniquewagrant) is the Managing Director and founder of Professional Training and Occupational Services Inc., a customer experience training company here in Jamaica. She has worked with companies internationally to craft their customer experience to create raving fans and customers. Since starting her business in 2007, she has trained over 25,000 people in Jamaica and across the world. 

She is also the host of the N...

Entrepreneurship is cool now, but it’s still one of the toughest experiences we could have in life. And failure is a big part of it, they kind of go hand in hand.

But what is failure really? Is it something we experience only when we give up, or can we have dozens of micro-failures as we’re growing our business? And, is failure a bad thing, or something we should embrace, or even celebrate?

That’s what we’re exploring in today’s ep...

Kenia Mattis (@keniamattis) is a founder of ListenMi, a creative design studio that helps companies, communities and NGOs create messages that excite and connect with their audiences through non-traditional brand-driven storytelling.

ListenMi specializes in visual storytelling, illustration, animation, voice-over and music scores and reinvests part of its profits into producing its own content such as digital graphic novel series a...

Tyrone Wilson (@CallTyrone_W) is the President and CEO of eMedia Interactive Group Limited, a digital media and advertising company. Tyrone is also Founder & President of iCreate Institute, a partnership with the University of the Commonwealth Caribbean that prepares students for jobs in the creative industry.

Tyrone is on the board for several institutions such as the GraceKennedy External Innovation Council, the Jamaica College O...