Through the Fire

Marty Hofmann is a real estate investor, podcast host, speaker, and father of 6 who refuses to let success become an excuse for complacency. Marty is the guy who believes showing up beats talent, consistency trumps intensity, and your choices matter more than your credentials. He’s unapologetically direct, deeply rooted in faith, and convinced that most people aren’t failing, they’re succeeding at...

Liz Coleman is a certified transformational life coach with a degree in psychology. She works with women who look successful and steady from the outside but can’t remember the last time they truly relaxed; the ones stuck overthinking every decision, always on, unable to switch off even when nothing is wrong. Liz shows them how to quiet the noise and start trusting themselves again. Alert -The answ...

Joe Dillon has spent nearly two decades in rooms where marriages end — which gave him an unusually clear view of exactly how they go wrong. As founder of Equitable Mediation Services, he has helped thousands of couples navigate the hardest transitions of their lives across 20+ states and countries. But somewhere along the way, he started noticing the patterns. The same failure modes, over and over...

Shawn Maftounian is the founder and director of Prestige Personalised Training on the Gold Coast. Shawn has 14+ national and international awards to his name, including Australia’s #1 Personal Trainer, a 2025 7News Young Achiever Award, and being named the #1 Best Personal Trainer in Gold Coast, QLD at the 2026 Quality Business Awards (top 1% of 10,000+ Australian businesses assessed). Beyond his...

Kathy Rogers is a speaker, business owner, podcaster, and author whose life was forever changed by two breast cancer diagnoses—first her own, then her daughter’s. Despite a fierce battle, Kathy’s daughter passed away at 29 years old. This unimaginable loss transformed Kathy’s lens on life, allowing her to find faith, joy, and peace in all circumstances. Her voice is a guiding light for those seeki...

Samuel Garza Bernstein’s life and writing reflect the wild intersections of modern life. He was born to an undocumented Mexican mother who everyone assumed was a white Texan, and a Jewish father who passionately supported the Palestinian cause in Egypt, where the family lived for a year when he was a kid. “I was six-years old in Cairo,” Garza Bernstein says, “Surrounded by hot Egyptians, spinning...

Phil Calandra has been in financial services since 2003. He won every production award the industry handed out — and in March 2009, at two in the morning, he sat looking at eight cents in his business checking account with payroll due when the sun came up. A credentialed money expert with no personal wealth system of his own. He rebuilt over the next three years, went on to build and exit two busi...

Lane Kawaoka guides high net worth professionals in wealth-building via real estate rentals, advanced tax strategies, and infinite banking. Lane Kawaoka, an ex-engineer, owns 10,000+ rental units worth $2.1 billion. He focuses on passive real estate, avoiding house flipping due because those strategies take too much effort. Lane writes for Forbes, hosts a Top-50 investing podcast, and is an Amazon...

My guest today has a contrarian take that might make you rethink your relationship with alcohol entirely. He says high performers who drink don't have a drinking problem — they have an architecture problem. And he'd know: he's been alcohol-free for 44 years, he made that decision at 22 before he'd built anything, and everything came after — including a decade in U.S. Army counterintelligence, wher...

Tony Dina is a Professional Coach at Crucial Canvas LLC after three decades in high tech leadership, including work as a Field CTO at Dell Technologies. He works with high performing leaders when the old patterns stop working and the real issue is not execution, but identity, meaning, and judgment. In other words, the stuff no dashboard solves. Tony brings lived perspective, but with an added lens...

Cynthia Hauk, MFA, is the founder of **Mindful Creative Muse**, an online school offering Mindful Art workshops, retreats, and internationally accredited teacher training programs. Since 2007, Cynthia has helped people around the world use simple Mindfulness and Art practices to de-stress, reconnect with themselves, and express their creativity. Her courses, retreats, coaching programs, teacher tr...

Ted Kopecko is the author of the #1 International Best Seller Finding JOY… Journey Of You and a commercial real estate broker with more than 30 years of experience in business, architecture, and entrepreneurship. Ted helps people shift from reactive, “Life-Led” living to intentional, “JOY-Led” living by aligning mindset, identity, and time to create greater purpose, value, and freedom. His message...

Vincent Van den Broeck survived a scooter accident with a 10% chance of living, woke from a three-week coma, and had to learn to walk and talk again. He speaks to the psychological reality of recovery after brain trauma, and what loved ones go through during prolonged critical illness, without turning it into inspiration theater. Facing death didn’t reinvent his values; it stress-tested them. He’s...

Doug Red Hail Pineda is the founder of The Church of Psychedelics, a provocative thinker exploring the intersection of consciousness, spirituality, psychedelics, and the future of human evolution. Through bold questions and unconventional insights, he challenges cultural assumptions about religion, personal transformation, and the untapped potential of the human mind. Whether discussing mystical e...

Rob Heller is a successful entrepreneur, youth development innovator, and founder of the Boost Program, a comprehensive personal development curriculum designed to equip teens and young adults with the essential life, social, and mental health skills that traditional education overlooks. After selling his insurance firm for eight figures to a publicly held company, Rob witnessed firsthand the crit...

Chad C. Betz is the author of An Authentic Success and a financial services professional with 30+ years of experience helping organizations and professionals navigate leadership, reinvention, performance, uncertainty, burnout, and long-term growth without relying on motivational clichés or unrealistic advice. Chad brings a practical, experience-driven perspective to these conversations, helping au...

Today’s guest is Jerry Brazie, an entrepreneur who has built, bought, and sold more than a dozen businesses that have generated north of $450 million in revenue. But it’s his journey that will make you rethink what’s possible.  Raised in abject poverty as number seven of nine kids, he faced violence early and often: shot at, stabbed, beaten within an inch of his life. Those experiences built...

Michael Seiler has over thirty years in the corporate world in a variety of roles and industries including human resources, television and healthcare. For the past 20 years, Michael has been leading digital strategy initiatives to solve consumer problems. Michael is also a serial entrepreneur who has founded successful companies in e-commerce, digital strategy and endurance coaching.  Through...

Today’s guests are Marc Rogala and Kelsey Dunbar. Marc and Kelsey help men and women (usually 25 to 55) find real clarity, balance, and lasting wellness by healing all parts of themselves: physical, emotional, and spiritual. Because true recovery isn’t one-dimensional. We’ve lived the chaos: burned out, anxious, constantly stuck in cycles of shame, overthinking, and self-sabotage. From the outside...

Today’s guest is Steve Barton — executive coach, author, and creator of The Game of Ten®, a powerful awareness-based framework helping leaders operate at their highest level of clarity, confidence, and performance. Steve has over 47 years of real-world business experience, having grown a company from $200,000 to $2 million in annual revenue. His work blends practical business strategy with deep in...

Today, I'm excited to introduce Tannera Lindvall, a Christian Communication & Boundaries Coach, author, speaker, and founder of Communication Architect. Tannera helps Christian women overcome people-pleasing, establish healthy boundaries, navigate difficult conversations with confidence, and build stronger relationships through practical, biblically grounded communication principles. Drawing from...

Today’s guest is Chip Scholz, a writer, storyteller, and executive coach who’s spent nearly 30 years helping leaders navigate change. Along the way, he discovered that the most interesting conversations weren’t really about business—they were about how people respond when life refuses to go according to plan. Through his books, coaching, and stories, Chip explores the small decisions, unexpected t...

Dr. Larry Brant is a Navy Chaplain with 16 years' experience and 25 years' experience as a local minister before the military. He is a board-certified chaplain with a proven track record dealing with PTSD and moral injury. Find out more about Larry’s ministry and calling: https://restoring-the-broken.com/ Contact Dr. Larry Brant: Website: https://restoring-the-broken.com/ Contact us: Facebook @Rya...

Noah May is the host of three podcasts. The main one, "lethal venom" focuses on various topics where Noah and his guests speak nothing but the truth. His other two, "Southern Reads" and "Music Talks" focuses solely on books and music respectfully. He is also an Auburn University Alum with a bachelor's degree in journalism. However, these accomplishments have not come with some bumps in the road. T...

Dr. Carolyn Hatton is on a mission to help women in their 40s, 50s, and beyond break free from the belief that aging defines their future. Through mindset shifts, lifelong nutrition, joyful movement, brain health strategies, and building resiliency, she guides women to create a vibrant, strong, and fulfilling second act. Carolyn’s own journey has been a testament to this transformation. She’ll nev...