Living Your Legacy

Barbara Edelston Peterson knows what it takes to perform at the highest level. A 10-time world champion and veteran of 166 XTERRA races around the globe, she built her life around competition, discipline, and the pursuit of excellence. But an unexpected accident forces her to confront a bigger question: what does it really mean to be a champion? Barbara shares how breaking both heels reshapes her...

Philip Fairweather knows entrepreneurship can change more than a career. After an NFL opportunity disappears, an invention born from his own athletic setback launches him into business and teaches him lessons he later turns into opportunity for others. Today, through Entrepreneurs Academy, Philip works with veterans, formerly incarcerated individuals, and underserved communities to build businesse...

Lindsay Mingee enters commercial real estate as a single mother with no guaranteed paycheck, powerful network, or safety net. Fifteen years later, she has facilitated more than $844 million in transactions, but the path there demands far more than learning how to close deals. In this episode of Living Your Legacy, she explores how courage, discipline, and reinvention shape a career built around bo...

After 15 years in the military and a string of corporate jobs that never fit, Curtis Kinsey finds himself moving toward a future he never planned. The veteran entrepreneur starts with a mower and a willingness to work, then discovers what happens when rejection becomes fuel for building something of his own. In this episode of Living Your Legacy, Curtis explores the transition from military servic...

Michele A. Leahy knows firsthand how complicated life with a disability can be. Born with spina bifida, navigating benefits herself, and later losing her leg, she turns lived experience into a mission to help others build greater independence. After returning to disability benefits and spending a year and a half out of work, a simple question pushes her toward entrepreneurship. What begins as an e...

At eighteen, Marcus Engel loses his sight in a catastrophic crash caused by a drunk driver, beginning years of hospitalization, recovery, and a search for meaning. Decades later, the bestselling author and resilience expert joins Marvelyne Engel to reveal how those experiences shaped their work around compassionate communication and their latest book, Resilience Reframed. Together, they explore wh...

Dan Mastropolo drops out of high school, learns business through sales, and eventually turns an unexpected firing into the start of his entrepreneurial journey. But building companies is only part of the story. After surviving repeated brushes with bankruptcy, the staffing entrepreneur discovers how work, technology, and trust can become tools for something bigger than revenue. In this episode of...

Relationship coach and author Vesta Gauntlett believes couples can spend years avoiding the one conversation that could redefine their future. After working with couples who struggled with communication, intimacy, and connection, she searched for a practical tool to help them decide what they truly wanted. When she could not find one, she created Are You In or Out?, an interactive book designed to...

Andre Williams goes from Chicago’s South Side and the nightlife business to building a growing restaurant empire rooted in community. After realizing the club owner was making hundreds of thousands while he earned tens of thousands as a promoter, Andre decides to get on the other side of the business. What begins with a small restaurant grows into 11 locations, including nine under the S2 brand, w...

Melanie and Jeff Siesser never planned to become winery owners. They were searching for land to build a home when they discovered Rancho Victoria Vineyard & Winery, a 315-acre estate that would completely redirect their lives. With no wine industry experience, they step into vineyard operations, events, marketing, and the unpredictable realities behind the romantic image of wine country. They...

William David reveals what it really takes to scale a construction business without letting growth destroy it. Starting with employees driving their own vehicles, the company reaches a defining milestone with its first five branded trucks, beginning a journey that eventually expands into a fleet of 175. But rapid growth brings cash flow pressure, credit challenges, staffing demands, and a lesson D...

Dr. Allen Badeau spent decades solving problems across computational fluid dynamics, defense, AI, and quantum computing, but one of his biggest breakthroughs begins with failure. After building an AI system that reaches 94% accuracy, he watches operators ignore it because they cannot understand or trust its decisions. That experience reshapes how he approaches artificial intelligence and eventuall...

After 20 years in the salon industry, luxury hairstylist and curl expert Lizzie Ramsay reaches a point where skill, sacrifice, and ambition collide. Working 50-hour weeks means giving up precious time with her children, while years of caregiving and personal loss force her to reconsider what she wants her life to look like. In this episode of Living Your Legacy, she shares the turning point that p...

Paul Peters has spent 35 years in his field, built Covenant Case Management Services, written 10 books, and earned four bestseller distinctions. Now, the author, speaker, and TV personality is stepping into a new chapter after acquiring Secret Knock, a 20-year-old entrepreneurial network. In this episode, he explores why purpose should come before money or approval, how passion can become a profes...

Board-certified gastroenterologist Dr. Rajiv Singh is exploring what happens when artificial intelligence meets the human side of medicine. From everyday digestive health and preventative medicine to genome sequencing and personalized treatment, he explains how emerging technology could help doctors identify risks earlier and make more precise decisions. But greater precision raises an important q...

After her mother is diagnosed with brain cancer, a registered nurse experiences firsthand how inconsistent home care can leave families stressed and powerless. Instead of accepting a broken system, she decides to build something different. Debbie Marcello creates Happier At Home around consistency, patient-centered care, and care advocacy, eventually developing the systems needed to turn her visio...

Most people are taught to save money, borrow from banks, and invest what is left. Real Money Masters co-founders Joseph Kovacevic and Brianna Shaw challenge that playbook. Coming from dramatically different financial starting points, they now teach strategies built around control, efficiency, and making each dollar work more than once. In this episode, they unpack the mindset behind infinite banki...

What happens when a joke between golfers starts looking like a real business? Frank and Haley Bassetti take a spontaneous idea sparked by two twisted golf tees and begin building Twisted Tee, a premium golf apparel brand for players who love the game without taking themselves too seriously. They reveal how they created their own branding with AI, navigated overseas sourcing without ever meeting su...

Natan Davoodi is down to $134 when a broken car unexpectedly points him toward the niche that changes his career. The lifelong car enthusiast and consumer protection attorney traces his path from pre-med to law, struggling as a jack-of-all-trades attorney, and finally discovering why specialization matters. He reveals how his own defective Volvo pushed him into lemon law, why he chose real litigat...

After losing his son, father-in-law, wife, and mother within three years, a grieving father faces a question few people could answer: how does he keep moving forward? James Nolan, founder of Pain Through Fire, reveals how profound loss tests his faith, reshapes his identity, and ultimately leads him toward a new purpose. He shares the moment he realizes he is heading somewhere he does not want to...

Real estate may look glamorous from the outside, but behind every closing are pressure, uncertainty, and problems no one sees. In this episode of Living Your Legacy, an award-winning real estate leader and mentor reveals how adversity shaped the way she approaches business, clients, and leadership. From navigating debilitating Lyme disease and rebuilding after a stroke to developing a referral-dri...

What does it take to build something designed to outlive you? Global entrepreneur and philanthropist Arina Arinnitti is turning that question into physical places. Through the Arinnitti Future of Humankind Foundation, she is developing “Paradise on Earth” ecosystems in Costa Rica centered on living art, nature, creativity, wellness, and human connection. She reveals why she donated two properties...

Dr. Jeremy D. Kobler believes health care should help people become less dependent on treatment, not keep them coming back for more. After a nontraditional path through college, fatherhood, multiple careers, and years of clinical training, he builds Kobler Chiropractic and Acupuncture around a different vision of preventive wellness. In this conversation, he challenges the “sick care” model, expla...

Karina Silva reveals how honesty, consistency, and hands-on marketing can turn a crowded personal injury law market into an opportunity to earn trust. As Chief Marketing Officer of 10xLaw, she explains why bringing marketing in-house changed the firm’s momentum, how educational social media helps consumers understand insurance coverage, and why transparency matters when clients face some of the ha...

What happens when the business you built can grow faster without you at the center? Automotive entrepreneur and Ascent Dealer Services CEO Adam Marburger traces the path from a 13-year-old paper boy to building multiple businesses, investing in real estate, and earning a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt. He opens up about wrongful eviction, rebuilding his martial arts academy, and the difficult deci...