The Authentic Networker

Gary Montalvo and Dawn Speaks are a dynamic business duo at a company called LimeLife by Alcone. Gary is the Chief Growth Officer and Dawn is the Regional Director. They first came on my radar when I was at a Direct Selling University presentation. The MC was talking about how their messaging is so powerful that it’s spreading like wildfire across the industry. So of course, I had to bring them on...

The great Tom Chenault has a massive network of over 1 million people. This superconnector is the CSO and co-founder of Contact Mapping, one of the best CRM apps, inspired by his secret to success, which you’ll get to hear all about today.  Tom’s a keynote speaker, co-host of the Legacy Leadership show alongside his son Adrian, and a global force in the world of business and sobriety. His openness...

Dan McCormick is an accomplished entrepreneur, network marketer, and host of the popular podcast "The Greatest Salesman." With an unwavering commitment to helping others and a genuine passion for personal development, Dan has created an inspiring legacy for his family and impacted the lives of countless individuals around the world.   Born and raised in Kirkland, Washington, Dan's early years were...

Rudy Revak was born in a refugee camp in southern Germany and lived there until age five. Upon immigrating to America, he and his family raised chickens – 26,000 little cluckers! – on a farm in the middle of New Jersey.  Farm work taught Rudy the value of hard work and persistence. Ironically, it was the farm that his dad used as collateral to secure a bank loan so Rudy could get started in his fi...

Dr. Joseph I. Castro is the first Californian and first person of color to serve as the chancellor of the California State University (CSU), our nation's largest, most ethnically and economically diverse four-year university.    The grandson of immigrants from Mexico and the son of a single mother, he was also the first in his family to graduate from a university, eventually earning a Ph. D. in hi...

Today on The Richard Brooke Podcast, Bennie Johnson joins us for a special podcast to talk about his Journey in Marketing Bennie Johnson is the new CEO of American Marketing Association.. A Yale and Columbia grad, Bennie most recently headed up and transformed the 100-year-old American Institute of Graphic Artists into a contemporary professional society.   

Long before it became a business buzzword, Kindra Hall was making storytelling work for her in a big way … and lucky for all of us, began to teach it to others.    She’s a keynote speaker, former Chief Storytelling Officer at Success Magazine, and best-selling author of “Stories That Stick: How Storytelling Can Captivate Customers, Influence Audiences, and Transform Your Business” ... a book that...

As one of the world’s most beloved motivational speakers, Les Brown is known for his unique charisma, warmth and humor, captivating audiences of up to 80,000 across the globe.    If he had believed the labels he was given in grade school – “the dumb twin” and “intellectually disabled,” his life would look much different today. Fortunately, Les tapped into the powers of determination, persistence a...

When Dr. Shefali, a renowned clinical psychologist, was 44 years old, she faced a pivotal choice, as most women do in mid-life: She could either continue being inauthentic to herself and encaged in fear OR she could step into a new dimension of being fully, consciously, her true self. That was the start of her radical awakening.   Today this expert in family dynamics is known for teaching other wo...

Best known for founding Travelocity.com and serving as founding Chairman of Kayak.com (later sold to Priceline for $1.8 billion), Terry Jones is one of the leading innovators and digital disruptors of our time.    Terry began his career as a travel agent and spent 24 years at American Airlines in marketing and information technology, capping his career as Chief Information Officer of its SABRE div...

After making a series of bad decisions, one that led to devastating consequences, Sunil Godse spent thousands of hours on research and interviews to find out WHY we waste time making bad decisions.    What he found is that we ignore our intuition, a subconscious phenomenon we’re all born with. He then developed a seven-step process on how to sharpen our intuition so we can make the right decision...

You’d never guess that world-renowned speaker and Law of Attraction expert Bob Proctor used to struggle with low self-esteem and poor ambition. He was a kid who wouldn’t listen to anyone, and he eventually dropped out of high school. He began a series of factory jobs and later joined the Navy.    At age 26, Bob was working in a fire department in Toronto when a man handed him the book “Think and G...

Chris Spurvey consciously chose entrepreneurship as a way to create a better life for his family. Yet there was one giant hurdle blocking his path to success: the negative way people view sales.   He knew this was a problem, not just for his own business, but for the businesses of virtually every other entrepreneur. (Can you relate??) So he found a way to sell that felt right and went on to focus...

Jim Packard is the rare 20% who's excelled his entire life through consistent action, from being the top producing paper boy as a kid, “Distributor of the Year” for two Network Marketing companies, and married for over four decades.    And then there’s George Campbell – the type of person who would drive Jim crazy. Even though he was a successful Hall of Fame professional speaker, he was the class...

Named one of the “Top 25 Most Influential People in Real Estate” by Realtor® Magazine, Don Hobbs has served as an industry coach, trainer and business consultant for more than three decades, and has spoken to more than 1 million realtors.    Don began his seminar career at the age of 18 when he went to work for Jim Rohn, one of the true pioneers of the global personal development movement. Setting...

Les Brown was introduced to personal development and positive thinking at age 10 when he worked part time cleaning the office of a man named Mr. Sidarsky, who listened to the likes of Norman Vincent Peale, Earl Nightingale, and Ernest Holmes. Les loved to eavesdrop on the messages of hope and abundance.   In spite of being labeled “the dumb twin” and “intellectually disabled” in grade school, Les...

Money tends to produce more money—when invested right. These are the words of the great Ken McElroy, who’s like the guru of real estate investing. He has over 1 billion dollars in real estate investments and is the real estate advisor to Robert Kiyosaki of The Rich Dad Company. He is also co-founder and principal of MC Companies, a full-service real estate investment and property management compan...

Dr. K Sow was Shaklee’s FIRST Presidential Master Coordinator in Malaysia – that’s the company’s highest rank. And in 32 years, he’s built a team with more Masters and Presidential Masters than there are in ALL of North America.  This is a man with incredible vision and determination. When Taiwan was new to the market, he knew no one. He did not even speak the language. But Dr. K Sow built a huge...

After breaking several Guinness World Records, James Lawrence wondered if he had truly found his mental and physical limits. He knew there was more. Repeatedly mocked for choosing a goal so big, Lawrence takes on the challenge of doing 50 Ironman races, in 50 consecutive days, through all 50 states. His journey will make you laugh, cry, and possibly squirm in your seats in disbelief. James shares...

Mitzi Perdue is a science and health writer. She holds a bachelor's degree with honors from Harvard University and a Masters of Public Administration degree from George Washington University.     She is a past president of the 35,000-member American Agri-Women's coalition. She’s also a former syndicated columnist for Scripps Howard. In the 1990s, she was the most widely-syndicated environmental co...

Mark Schulman has enjoyed an unprecedented career over the last 30 years as a first-call drummer for world-class rock and pop artists. He has been voted "Top 3 Pop-Rock Drummers" in the 2014 and 2019 Modern Drummer Reader’s Poll and was the featured cover artist in the May 2019 issue. Mark has done four record-breaking world tours with P!NK. Mark has also played with Cher since 1999 including her...

Mark Victor Hansen is probably best known as the co-author for the Chicken Soup for the Soul book series and brand, setting world records in book sales, with over 500 million books sold. He is also a prolific writer with 307 books authored or co-authored, including The Aladdin Factor, The Power of Focus, The Richest Kids in America, The Miracles in You, You Have a Book in You, and the One Minute M...

Mike Robbins is the author of five books, which have been translated into fifteen different languages. Prior to his current career, Mike was drafted by the New York Yankees out of high school. He turned the Yankees down and instead chose to play baseball at Stanford University, where he pitched in the College World Series. He was drafted by the Kansas City Royals out of Stanford and played three s...

Dewitt Jones is one of America’s top professional photographers. Twenty years with National Geographic photographing stories around the globe has earned him the reputation as a world-class photojournalist. As a motion picture director, he had two documentary films nominated for Academy Awards before he was thirty. Speaking to audiences across the country, Dewitt is recognized as a renowned lecture...

Kody Bateman is the founder of the modern-day relationship marketing movement, and Founder and Chief Visionary Officer of SendOutCards, the premier relationship marketing service in the world today. Nearly 1 million users have used his systems to send more than 160 million tangible greeting cards and 12 million gifts to over 100 countries throughout the world. Kody’s newest company is Sendogo, an...