Most People Don't... But You Do!

Identity, mindset and real change, with Anthony Trucks, former NFL player, speaker and author of Identity Shift. Anthony Trucks grew up in foster care, made it to the NFL, and by his mid-twenties had watched his marriage, his business and his sense of himself fall apart. In this conversation with Bart Berkey he talks about the morning he looked in the mirror and did not like who he saw, and the sl...

Fear, self-talk and mental performance, with Collin Henderson, mental conditioning coach and author of The OZ Method. Collin Henderson lived with a stutter from sixth grade until his late twenties, and it shaped how he showed up as a Division I athlete at Washington State and later in pharmaceutical sales. In this conversation with Bart Berkey he explains how asking for help, speech therapy and ye...

Chronic pain, root cause diagnosis and the human side of medicine, with Dr. Sean Altman, functional medicine doctor, doctor of physical therapy and creator of Orthopedic Functional Medicine. Dr. Altman's approach starts from one idea: the mystery is in the history. In this conversation with Bart Berkey he explains why so many people with persistent pain move from specialist to specialist witho...

Jeff Borman is Global Head of Sales, Revenue and Distribution for Virgin Hotels Collection, and he and Bart Berkey have known each other for more than twenty years, since the days when Jeff ran revenue for The Ritz-Carlton Pentagon City and Bart was there. Which makes the first thing Jeff says about that period surprising. He thinks he did it badly. His explanation is not modesty. He had come from...

Alex Snider spent fifteen years inside federal work, in domestic policy, at the State Department, at the World Bank and in the Senate. Then a bicycle accident stopped him, and he came out of it having written a book arguing that you should sometimes be late on purpose. He is careful about what that does and does not mean. He is not a productivity guest, he does not do tips, and when Bart asks him...

Mark Pattison was drafted by the Raiders in the seventh round, played five years in the NFL, and will not use the word retired. His words for what happened are that he got kicked out and not let back in. What came next is the part of his story he has told least. For two years he had no purpose and no skill he could name other than catching a football. He was in the University of Washington Hall of...

Caitlin Weis was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at three months old. She has been admitted to hospital 96 times. For twenty five years almost nobody outside her family knew, because her mother used to walk her out of the room before the talks began so she would not hear how long people thought she had. What makes that strange is that she was never actually hiding. She has been an ambassador for th...

Josh Zolin was a Hollywood stunt man before he became a CEO. He walked away from the film business, started at the bottom of his father's restaurant equipment company as a field technician on minimum wage, and now runs it as President and CEO of Windy City Equipment. In this conversation with Bart Berkey, Josh explains the thing that made all of it possible. Every level of success he reached r...

SEASON 4, EP. 248 Guest: Ryan Bartlett | Co-Founder & Chairman, True Classic | Los Angeles, California Web: trueclassictees.com LinkedIn: Ryan Bartlett (30,000+ follow EPISODE SUMMARY AND KEY TAKEAWAYS Ryan Bartlett flunked out of Michigan State, went broke trying to make it as a poker pro in Vegas, worked nightclub VIP rooms in Orlando and LA, and then spent a year quietly researching the mos...

At 16, Matt Ebert wrecked his car twice. The first one was totaled. The second time, he was too afraid to file an insurance claim, certain it would cost him his coverage and with it his newfound freedom to drive. So he found a man in town who worked a day job and fixed cars at night in his garage, and asked to be taught. He has been in collision repair ever since. Today he is the founder and CEO o...

Episode Summary Some people you meet feel less like new acquaintances and more like a reunion. That's how Bart Berkey describes meeting Tia Crystal — an internationally recognized artist, author, wellness advocate, clinical hypnotherapist, and founder of Be Wellness Mind — whose work has been shown at the United Nations in Geneva. In this warm, wide-ranging conversation, Tia opens up about gro...

Guest: Kaye Gitibin, CEO and Founder of Go Rentals Company: Go Rentals (elite mobility rental serving private aviation, 300+ locations, the only rental company recognized by the Forbes Travel Guide) Host: Bart Berkey Episode details: Season 4, Ep. 245 Thirty years ago, Kaye Gitibin and his brother Habbas started with seven vans and an idea nobody else in the industry was chasing: what if renting a...

Seth Berge spent his 30s being comfortable. Good at making money, better than his friend group, never quite pushing past good enough. Then he hit 40, got around the right rooms, and asked himself a question that changed everything: if other people built something great, why not me? Seth is the founder of two regenerative medicine companies: Regenerative Revival, a concierge in-home stem cell thera...

When Stacey Lauren was eight years old, a girl who was deaf came to her house and fell in love with her Smurf collection. Stacey gave it away. All of it. Every last Smurf. Her mom was stunned. Stacey did not think twice. That instinct, giving without being asked, never left her. It drove 20 years of running a staffing company with 1,260 combined employees. It drove the identity crisis she fell int...

Episode Description For 13 years, Craig Siegel measured his life in external wins, the number in the bank account, the apartment in New York City, the next goal. And none of it made him feel like enough. In this episode, the Wall Street Journal bestselling author, TEDx speaker, and founder of CLS (Cultivate Lasting Symphony) tells Bart Berkey how a "dark night of the soul" and a global pandemic fo...

You climb the mountain, the money, the awards, the deals, and then you look around and realize it's not filling you up anymore. So what does? In this episode, Bart Berkey sits down with Brett Kaufman - entrepreneur, advisor, investor, and founder of Inner Space. After nearly 30 years in business and building, managing, and selling billions of dollars of real estate (including The Gravity Project i...

EPISODE SUMMARY AND KEY TAKEAWAYS Ten years in the NBA. Golden State Warriors, Chicago Bulls, Brooklyn Nets, Indiana Pacers, Orlando Magic. Games overseas in Italy, Greece, Turkey. And when it was all over, CJ Watson sat on his couch and asked himself one question: how do I keep giving back? That question became children's books. A foundation. Free basketball camps. A Black history essay contest w...

EPISODE SUMMARY AND KEY TAKEAWAYS What does a 36-day water fast, a decade of rebuilding, and 60 years of change research have in common? They are all part of how Jaclyn Orent became one of the most uncommon leaders Bart has ever had on the show. Jaclyn is the co-founder and CEO of the Cultural Catalyst Network, the first infrastructure built for societal-level change, connecting leaders across org...

Bart Berkey walked into Strictly EBikes with a broken foldable bike that two other shops had turned away. Ten minutes and $38 later, he walked out with a fixed bike and a future guest. Asif Shakeel spent decades building service stations and car dealerships on one principle: compete on service, not price. Then he retired, bought the wrong e-bike online, crashed it, couldn't find anyone to repa...

A 51-year-old executive was about to be put on a stimulant for the first time in her life. She had spent a decade running things, and suddenly she couldn't focus. Her primary care doctor sent her to a psychiatrist. Instead, she went to STAT Wellness, ran a hormone panel, and found out she was in perimenopause. Nutrients, hormone replacement, a cleaner diet, and the brain fog was gone. No stimu...

EPISODE SUMMARY Bart reconnects with one of his earliest podcast guests, Gail Lowney Alofsin, speaker, author, URI professor, and founder of Leadership at All Levels, for a conversation that feels less like an interview and more like two old friends solving the world's problems over coffee. Gail shares how a childhood of intentional giving, literacy volunteering at 17, and decades of mission work...

Candice built her framework the hard way. After a stroke and brain hemorrhage in 2018 rerouted a decades-long corporate finance career, she gave herself the "graceful pause" to ask where she really wanted to go, and discovered her true gift wasn't the numbers, but being a bridge and connector of relationships. Out of that came ACE: Align your strategy and structure, Connect to the ri...

What if treating people like humans, not transactions, was your biggest business advantage? Bart Berkey welcomes back his friend Kelly Bishop, Senior Director of Experiential Strategy & Organizational Engagement at Blood Centers of America, for a heartfelt conversation recorded live in Los Angeles. Kelly is one of the few guests Bart has ever invited back, and this episode is equal parts frien...

Most people see opportunity and hesitate. Nik Agharkar sees it and jumps - even when the timing looks insane. In this episode, Bart sits down with the founder and CEO of Crown Point Tax & Wealth Council, a tax attorney who quit his job with a three-month-old at home, built 122 clients in nine months entirely alone, and eventually discovered that the real gap in the market wasn't just tax s...

EPISODE SUMMARY For 18 years, Shawn Walchef has run Cali BBQ in San Diego -three restaurant locations including a spot at Snapdragon Stadium and the local Navy base. But the story most people know isn't about brisket and peach cobbler. It's about the media company he built on top of his barbecue business after he sent a press release to 14 San Diego writers celebrating Cali BBQ's five-...