Command Your Brand

In 1993, Darin Detwiler was a Navy nuclear engineer on a submarine, in his mid-twenties, fairly sure he had the world figured out. That year, the Jack in the Box E. coli outbreak made over 700 people ill across several states. Four children died. The fourth and last was his 16-month-old son. Thirty years later he's a professor at Northeastern University, a doctorate in law and policy, an advis...

A group of Western executives arrived at a U.S. Chamber of Commerce event in Baghdad inside armored convoys, and didn't want to get out of the vehicles. Dr. Midhat Zwayen had walked there. He told them the weather was nice. Dr. Zwayen grew up in Iraq in the 1990s, under sanctions, in a country you couldn't easily leave. He worked in his father's engineering office, watched that busines...

Rich Schaus beat his own alcohol addiction, became a captain in the U.S. Army, got out — and then couldn't find a job. He was applying for 200 positions a week, including janitor at a small zoo. Then he applied to a women's shelter he'd misread the listing for, and the HR director told him they'd never hire a man. They hired him. He sat down to dinner with the residents and their k...

Most people don't realize they're stuck in the chronic pain system until they're already deep in it. Dr. Ryan Cleland trained as a chemist before becoming a chiropractor. In 2017 he moved his practice into a pain management facility and saw chronic pain up close for the first time — the hardware, the surgeries, the pharmaceutical lists as long as your arm. His analogy for it is quicksa...

Chris Kubecka has spent her career inside real cyberattacks, including the 2012 attack on Saudi Aramco, where she led the response after malware wiped the company's network. Her assessment of where AI sits right now: it favors the attacker, and some systems are already running without meaningful human control. She describes AI swarms that coordinate across websites, message boards and chat sys...

Mark Ryski spent years unable to get retail executives on the phone. He hated cold calling and was bad at it. So he wrote a book — and started sending it to CEOs of retail chains. They started taking his calls. That was three books and 23 years ago. Today HeadCount does traffic and conversion analytics for retailers in more than 20 countries, with a largest client running 1,600 stores. But the roa...

Most companies that hire someone in another state have no idea they've just taken on a compliance obligation in that state. Nellie Akalp has been forming businesses since 1997. She founded MyCorporation.com, sold it to Intuit in 2005, and started CorpNet in 2009 — where she now runs a 100+ person company that keeps businesses compliant across all 50 states. In this episode of the Command Your...

Michelle Mazzara's first business was an online dating site for foodies. She was first to market. Six months in, she shut it down. Twelve years later, Luvafoodie is a clean-eating spice brand sold through regional grocery — and about to make the jump to national. In this episode of the Command Your Brand Show, Jeremy Ryan Slate talks with Michelle about what it actually takes to kill a good id...

After 1,100 podcast interviews, Leigh Martinuzzi noticed something he didn't expect: the happiest people he spoke to weren't the most famous or the most successful. They were the most aligned. In this episode of the Command Your Brand Show, Jeremy Ryan Slate sits down with Leigh — host of The Hidden Why podcast and a real estate agent on Australia's Sunshine Coast — to unpack what a decade and 1,1...

Are you paying more in taxes than you legally need to? Dr. Veronica Everett Boyce believes one of the biggest financial mistakes entrepreneurs and everyday Americans make is relying entirely on other people to understand the tax code for them. In this episode of the Command Your Brand Show, Jeremy Ryan Slate sits down with Dr. V, founder of Dr. V's Tree of Life, to discuss tax education, wealt...

Most entrepreneurs think writing a book is about becoming a bestselling author. They're wrong. In this episode of the Command Your Brand Show, Jeremy Ryan Slate sits down with New York Times bestselling author Anna David, founder of Legacy Launch Pad Publishing, to discuss why most business books fail—and how the right book can become your most powerful authority-building asset. You'll lea...

What if the truth could be crowdsourced? In this episode of the Command Your Brand Show, Jeremy Ryan Slate sits down with Ryan Dalton, former attorney, federal investigator, and co-founder of Closed Horizon, a platform designed to help people uncover information by rewarding those with direct knowledge. The conversation explores: ✅ The concept of a "marketplace for truth" ✅ How governm...

Most business owners are paying far more in taxes than they legally need to. In this episode of the Command Your Brand Show, Jeremy Ryan Slate sits down with Tyler McBroom, CPA, tax strategist, entrepreneur, and one of Tony Robbins’ trusted accounting advisors, to reveal the biggest tax mistakes entrepreneurs make and how to legally keep more of what they earn. Tyler shares:✅ The tax planning str...

Most people think getting a mortgage is just about interest rates. They’re wrong. In this episode of the Command Your Brand Show, Jeremy Ryan Slate sits down with Denise “The Mortgage Nerd” to break down the financial mistakes keeping families trapped financially — and the smarter mortgage strategies that can completely change your future. Denise shares: - How losing her childhood home shaped her...

Water may become the most important investment opportunity of the next decade. In this episode of the Command Your Brand Show, Jeremy Ryan Slate sits down with entrepreneur and water infrastructure innovator Ken Berenger to discuss why the global water crisis is accelerating — and how decentralized water systems could completely reshape the future of infrastructure, investing, health, and industry...

Most businesses don’t fail because they have a bad product. They fail because nobody remembers them. In this episode of the Command Your Brand Show, Alex Latronico sits down with entrepreneur and business strategist Andy Neary to break down what actually drives business growth in today’s attention economy. From professional baseball to building authority in the insurance industry, Andy explains wh...

Most entrepreneurs don’t fail because of bad ideas. They fail because they were never taught how business actually works. In this episode, Jeremy Ryan Slate sits down with Corrie George—an entrepreneur who built a $46M business from scratch—to break down the real reason most founders struggle… and what the education system gets completely wrong. You’ll learn: • Why traditional education trains peo...

Most people think child trafficking is something that happens “somewhere else.” They’re wrong. In this episode of Command Your Brand, Jeremy Ryan Slate sits down with former CIA operative Nick McKinley to expose how modern child trafficking actually works — and why the biggest threat isn’t what you think. From social media manipulation to the shocking economics behind trafficking, this conversatio...

Most people don’t lose money in crypto because of bad picks…they lose it because of one critical mistake. In this episode of Command Your Brand, digital asset expert Jake Claver breaks down the biggest crypto investing mistakes that are quietly costing people thousands—and how to avoid them. We cover:👉 The #1 mistake that destroys crypto portfolios👉 Why “owning crypto” doesn’t mean you actually...

If you’re constantly tired, dealing with brain fog, or struggling with low energy… There may be a pattern behind it—and most people completely miss it. In this episode of Command Your Brand, we sit down with entrepreneur and health innovator Brad Paisley, who overcame autoimmune disease, Lyme disease, cancer, and chronic fatigue by uncovering a powerful root cause: 👉 Oxygen deficiency at the cell...

Most CEOs don’t fail because they lack opportunity. They fail because they overthink, hesitate, and never execute. In this episode of Command Your Brand, we sit down with entrepreneur Jesse Jackson, founder of Mango Automotive, who scaled multiple businesses to 8-figures—while raising seven kids. Her philosophy is simple: 👉 You don’t need confidence to start—you just need to act. In this conversa...

Most CEOs don’t fail because they lack ideas. They fail because they overthink, delay, and never execute. In this episode, we break down the overthinking trap that quietly destroys businesses before they ever gain momentum—and what high-performing founders do differently. Featuring Marcus Aurelius Anderson, this conversation goes deep into the mindset that separates builders from talkers. After su...

Most CEOs think brand is a logo, a website, or a few social posts. It’s not. In this episode, Matt Hines breaks down the real brand blueprint most CEOs never discover: the connection between attention, consistency, leadership, training, mission, and personal alignment. This is a conversation about what actually builds companies that grow — and why so many founders stall out even when they’re talen...

If you’ve tried everything for fatigue—sleep, supplements, labs, doctors—and you’re still stuck… it’s probably not “random.” In this episode, Dr. Evan Hirsch explains why chronic fatigue follows a pattern. He breaks down what he calls the “Toxic 5”—the hidden load that builds over years (heavy metals, chemicals, mold, infections, and nervous system dysfunction). Then Covid or another illness becom...

Most men are told prostate issues are “just part of aging.” But the real problem nobody’s talking about isn’t just symptoms—it’s what’s happening underneath them. In this episode, Dr. Lizabeth Roy (board-certified functional & integrative medicine physician) breaks down: • Why enlarged prostate (BPH) is often treated like “normal” when it may not be • The hidden chronic inflammation + infectio...