Behind the Dreamers

Send us a text Chancellor Jackson shares his journey from being detained in Beijing for 14 days to becoming an author coach. He emphasizes the importance of resiliency and perspective, sharing insights into his coaching process. The episode also explores his passion for writing, working out, and traveling, with Chancellor encouraging aspiring authors to visit his website for a free consultation. K...

Send us a text After twenty-five years, Allison Hare quit her corporate career in technology sales to become an entrepreneur, podcaster, and blogger. She left without a plan and is documenting her journey inward by boldly creating a gutsy full-throated "hang on to your seats" adventure in her second career. Allison has been proactively exploring the wildest experiences to find her new path as a mo...

Send us a text Dr. Davis McAlister is an author, public speaker, coach, and Doctor of Chiropractic. He coaches powerlifting at the high school and national levels and is active in his local community by volunteering and supporting high schools in North Texas. Dr. McAlister is also a Sports Chiropractor and Certified Strength and Conditioning Coach working with high-performance athletes in Dallas....

Send us a text Dave Combs has had over 40 years of experience in music as an entrepreneur, building a successful business with virtually no advertising and creating a worldwide following, generating over 50,000 personal notes and letters of support for his music. He is a songwriter, photographer, and entrepreneur. He's the author of the best-selling book, Touched by Music, How the Story and Music...

Send us a text Kamron Enger is the CEO of Engler Enterprise. He is a real estate agent out of North Georgia. He and his wife have done over 9 million in sales in 3 years. As a result, Kamron has been featured on various podcasts, including"The Money Show with Andrew Cordle. From having a son at 16 and then going straight to foster care to 6 million in sales in 2021, he and his wife are two of the...

Send us a text Have you ever wondered what it's like to work for the NYPD? Vic Ferrari is a retired twenty-five-year member of the New York City Police Department. With no formal training, he wrote four behind-the-scenes books about his former employer. With remarkable attention to detail combined with a sarcastic flair, Vic exposes the good, the bad, and the ugly of America's largest department....

Send us a text Juliana Dever is a professional actor, experiential travel expert, and cultural tour curator. In the last 25 years, she has traveled all over the world. Her award-winning travel blog CelverDeverWhenever.com helps readers find unusual experiences in unexpected places, and it was named Best Independent Travel Blog in North America by NATJA (North American Travel Journalists Associatio...

Send us a text Angel Pretot is a French learning coach and online entrepreneur. Through his coaching and courses, he helps English speakers learn French fast, become fluent and live their best international lives. After a master's degree and 15 years of teaching and coaching French learners, he is still obsessed with improving his methods. He loves seeing his students learn faster and better and c...

Send us a text Growing up, Jason Queen experienced many life challenges, leading to failing classes, fighting, drug and alcohol abuse, foster homes, and programs for at-risk youth. But, he turned his life around, and now his passion and work over the past 20 years have been to mentor students and adults alike, so they can overcome adversity to become the best version of themselves and elevate thei...

Send us a text Steve Stewart owns Southern Comfort Mechanical, a company dedicated to delivering comfort to homes and businesses via HVAC system maintenance/repair and replacement in the Dallas area. He says it took him 25-plus years to act on his entrepreneurial dream. Steve grew up in Northern Ireland and said there wasn't much opportunity when he finished high school. So he began his journey in...

Send us a text Kelly Tuttle says her traumatic brain injury marked the beginning of a new life and a self-rediscovery journey. She joined the "head injury survivors club" in 2015, the night another car pulled in front of her. It wasn't until three months later that she realized something was seriously wrong. Kelly is a neurology nurse practitioner and the author of "After the Crash." Her book prov...

Send us a text Chris Felton is an Amazon best-selling author, a seven-figure entrepreneur, and the founder and principal of his financial services firm. With this latest book and speaking series, "Think and Grow You," Chris is focused on helping driven entrepreneurs break through plateaus in their growth by learning how to get out of their way and take their success, peace, and impact to the next...

Send us a text Hank Ebeling is a sought-after speaker, small business entrepreneur, and the founder and owner of H-4 Training gyms. He's built his career on a passion for customer service and customer experience, and today helps other small business owners transform their customer service. Hank hosts his popular Success Trails Podcast, focusing on small business owners and their success. He also r...

Send us a text Gregg Goodhart, a recovering high school music teacher, found within teaching music the fundamental principles that allow for accelerated improvement, commonly referred to as talent. His findings resulted from a serious interest in and study of cognitive and behavioral training programs. Using his teaching as a lab to experiment with these ideas, he developed unique expertise in exp...

Send us a text John Follis is an award-winning advertising executive and marketing expert. He says he spent the first seven years of his career getting fired and the next 25 getting famous. Despite his rough career start, he eventually co-founded a Mad Ave Agency that, in 3 years, became one of the most awarded agencies in the country. Relatedly, John was selected as one of Madison Ave's "12 Best"...

Send us a text Victoria Short is the author of Find Your Mini Pumpkin: Life Lessons to Live with Purpose. Her book gives you wisdom and wide-ranging advice she shared with her students over her long career as an educator. She says she taught thousands of students in her teaching career and mentored many young educators. Through the lens of literature and decades of classroom interaction, she devel...

Send us a text Pranay Parikh is a medical doctor, serial entrepreneur, and podcast host. He says he thought he had made it when he finished training in medicine. He had all the skills he needed to be a great physician but very little of those to handle the rest of his life. His unconventional journey to medicine helped him learn the skills to excel in entrepreneurship and real estate. Over the pas...

Send us a text Kevin Palmieri is the CFO, Founder, and Co-Host of the Next Level University, a Global Top 100 Self-Improvement Podcast with more than 1200 episodes reaching over 700,000 people in more than 140 countries. After his rock bottom moment, Kevin says he went all in on holistic self-improvement. He was determined to overcome his anxiety and depression and live the life he'd always dreame...

Send us a text Kim Sorrelle is the director of a humanitarian organization, a speaker, and the author of two books. "Cry Until you Laugh" is a book about her and her husband's battle with cancer after being diagnosed just four months apart, and "Love Is" chronicles her year-long quest to figure out the true meaning of love. She says this sometimes funny, sometimes scary, always enlightening journe...

Send us a text Vinnie Potestivo is an Emmy Award-Winning Media Advisor who helps his client leverage their media exposure, find fame and make an impact. He is the Editor in chief of "I Have A Podcast" and is responsible for discovering and amplifying the voice of independent podcasters worldwide. Through the use of original content, he has helped elevate personal brands like Mandy Moore, Ashton Ku...

Send us a text Dustin Jones is the owner and CEO of EncompassHR, LLC, a boutique fractional HR consulting and leadership development company that provides human resource consulting services focusing on HR strategy development, planning implementation, and oversight. With over two decades of experience in tactical HR and HR leadership working with various companies and industries, Dustin has develo...

Send us a text Inesa Ponomariovaite is the visionary founder and CEO of Nesa's Hemp, the world's first-ever full-spectrum CBDa oil. The research-based hemp products she has created combine modern science with ancient wisdom. The product is backed by certifications from the largest clinical FDA-registered labs and has white papers written by Harvard and Stanford cannabis experts and doctors. Inesa'...

Send us a text Nicole Elizabeth Smith is the President, Founder, and Chairman of the Board for the Treetop Clubhouse, a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization that provides curriculum and resources to students, guardians, and educators. She is also the owner of Fine Pearls Media, a digital marketing company that offers services such as website development, corporate branding, content creation, and oth...

Send us a text In episode 48, we sit down with Steve Sommerfeld, a Professional Freestyle Motorcross Rider, tv host and commentator, podcaster, author, and entrepreneur, to chat about his journey from a young boy in Australia living on a farm to turning his passion into a career. We talk about how he came into the profession, what it's like to be an action sports athlete and how he overcame one of...

Send us a text This week on Behind the Dreamers, we sit with Toni Caruso, the Executive Managing Director for eWomenSpeakerNetwork. Toni says speakers fail to engage their audience because they are unclear, and their rapport and connection with the audience is simply a ho-hum. She wants to guide speakers and teach them how to effectively transform the audience and maximize their impact while creat...