The Apex Podcast

Kyle has always been the spitting image of what true health and wellness looks like inside and out. Growing up as a multi-sport athlete from 4 years old, it was always natural to live a health-conscious lifestyle.   After Kyle got a job at a local physical therapy clinic. His life would change forever. A patient of his introduced him to cryotherapy. Kyle was one of the first in the United States t...

Welcome to the 11th episode of The Disruptor Podcast ! Our guest today, David Kundtz, grew up in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio.  He went out west in the 1960s, as a Catholic priest, and spent 20 years in the Diocese of Idaho as well as a couple of years in Cali, Colombia, South America. Shortly after returning to the United States, he left ministry, and attended the Graduate Theological Union in...

In this episode of The Apex Podcast Jan and John take the show’s standard mantra a little bit off track. We still focus on “ ordinary people accomplishing extraordinary things ”, but we are adding a bit of a personal twist. A few years ago, Jan and John discovered that their respective families have roots in two cities only 35 KM apart and as many listeners know Jan is Slovak and his family hails...

In this episode, Jan sits down with Karen Berger. Karen Berger is highly motivated and drawn to leadership, she aspires to help employees reach their ultimate ability within the workforce. She oversees business operations, sales strategies, and global business expansions, she has grown businesses and people. Her business success has been intentional, thoughtful, and thorough. She has accumulated a...

We are in a period of digital disruption, and, as we like to say, “You are either being disrupted, or you are the disruptor.” Normally during The Disruptor Segment of The Apex Podcast, we discuss experiences and stories from the field that will empower any burgeoning entrepreneurs to deepen their design thinking practice and any naysayers to give it a second look.    During this segment of The Dis...

In this episode, Jan sits down with Catherine Zack. A corporate lawyer turned meditation teacher, relaxation guide, mindfulness coach, and wellness consultant. Catherine began her career as a litigator at a top-tier law firm in Washington, DC, a classic Type-A, high-achieving go-getter who checked all the right boxes and built a “successful-on-paper” legal career. But after a few years of that fas...

Pallavi Agarwal is the CEO & founder of Kander, a Salesforce consulting firm in Washington DC. Her passion is finding ways to help clients determine their true path and identify the technology which can be the vehicle to achieve the north star through project management and delivery. She believes that it’s about the business process and understanding the "why" of the user experience...

In this episode, Jan sits down with the Bee Man himself, Mr. Trent J Balduff. Trent is an environmentalist, beekeeper, and mindfulness advocate that has grown a beekeeping hobby into a fully formed non-profit. - Be sure to subscribe to our youtube channel for exclusive access to our highlights as well as our favorite pieces of advice!    Link to Youtube Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC...

In this episode, Jan interviews Jasz Rae Joseph on what it's like being a young woman in entrepreneurship, advice on self-awareness, and why you don’t need to be a morning person to be “productive”. Jasz is the founder of Jasz Rae Digital, a marketing consulting firm focused on helping service-based businesses achieve their growth goals. When she's not strategizing with clients, you can...

We are in a period of digital disruption, and, as we like to say, “ You are either being disrupted, or you are the disruptor. ” During this segment of The Disruptor podcast, we discuss experiences and stories from the field that will empower any burgeoning entrepreneurs to deepen their design thinking practice and any naysayers to give it a second look.   Jan and John interview Nicholas Jayanty, a...

If you know what Google is... LISTEN UP!   If you REALLY want to learn about and become an expert in something new, the first step is learning HOW the language is spoken.   In this episode, Jan and James discuss how much of an advantage it is having instantaneous access to literally ANYTHING that you want to learn.   But with great power, comes great responsibility.   Sometimes, there are so many...

Welcome Apex Chasers to the 8th installment  The Disruptor Segment  of the Apex Podcast Even Though the main focus of our podcast segment is Digital Disruption, I think everyone would agree that 2020 pitched us the mother of all disruptive curveballs. As a result, I felt that we should kick off the 2021 Season of The Disruptor Podcast with a bit of motivation from Garry Guller, Motivational Speake...

Throughout 2020, Apex Co-Founder and Lead Brand Cicerone Jan Almasy encountered a slew of curveballs. From leaving the military after a 6+ year career to phasing out of working as an ICU Nurse in the middle of a global pandemic... All rooted in the faith that an entrepreneurial dream would manifest into reality. For the rest of 2021, Jan's mission through the "Getting It Off My Chest&quo...

In this episode, Jan and RJ spend some time with a guest that has been riding with us since the beginning, Mike Eversole! Mike offers advice about growing a clothing brand, speaks about overcoming obstacles in business, and we end the show talking about the recent fight between Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr. Also... Jan opens a Christmas present from Jacob... if you want to find out what it is, stay...

What started as an introduction podcast, turned into a deep discussion about life. We wanted to take this episode and dedicate it to introducing James Warnken, our Data/SEO Practitioner. James grew up in Canton, Graduated from Walsh University, and has a passion for figuring out new and innovative ways to help businesses grow online using the power of Google. Like most Apex discussions, we take a...

In this episode, Jan Almasy and John Kundtz interview co-founder of Somersault Innovation and co-author of "Naked Sales: How Design Thinking Reveals Customer Motives and Drives Revenue", Ashley Welch!   Learn more about Ashley HERE:  https://www.somersaultinnovation.com/about     In her own words, Ashley is "endlessly curious" about the "Why" behind people and their i...

In this episode, it is another segment of The Disruptor, Justin Woods and Jan Almasy take a deep dive into the line between sales and marketing. Shawaiz Bhatti throws in a few User Experience Curveball questions, and we all arrive at one single conclusion. The line between B2B and B2C marketing is massively shifting. Listen closely if you want some KEY pieces of advice that you can use on a daily...

This episode is another segment of the disruptor. In this episode of The Disruptor, Jan Almasy and John Kundtz interview The Honorable Judge Ray Headen from Cuyahoga County, OH. Ray grew up in Glenville when it was a hub of excellence and home to Black professionals and county leaders.  Even then, however, waves of poverty, violence, and racism plagued the community.  Challenged by these inequitie...

In this episode, Jan interviews Michael Brody-Waite. They discuss what it means to lead "Mask Free", and discuss deep personal experiences, as well as three key things you can practice on a daily basis to start living your life mask free. Great Leaders Lead like Drug Addicts. What a powerful statement. Jan has always had a passion for the addict population due to his personal experience...

In this episode, it is another segment of The Disruptor. Jan and Shawaiz discuss the power of storytelling and how it relates to business. Both Jan and Shawaiz break down what exactly storytelling is and why it has lasted for so many years. They discuss how every company has a story and how that story is told through the products and services each business provides. As innovators and disruptors of...

If you're trying to figure out your business's path moving forward, this is not an episode you can afford to miss!   Ever feel overwhelmed by the amount of data that is available in the digital space today? Sometimes it can be so intimidating, it's paralyzing. I know it was like that for us until we figured out ways to make the picture more clear.   You might say... we put our data...

Being a #Disruptor means you're willing to drastically alter or change the structure of something.   Our passion is to EDUCATE businesses on how to use the power they have available right at their fingertips.   In this episode, you're going to learn a couple of key things... 1. What is Design Thinking? 2. How can I use empathy to sell more products/services? 3. Why is it important that m...

In this episode, Jan interviews Gary Sirak (Sir-ack). Sirak was born in Canton, Ohio in the 1950s. In this interview, Gary paints a picture of his early childhood, selling enough mints to pay for summer camp (without talking), and the values his family instilled in him that still act as a moral compass for him today. You'll also get some practical financial advice from the man himself! So sta...

In this episode, Jan and RJ interview an ordinary guy from Wisconsin... Or so it seems... Since 2000, Tim Friede, a truck mechanic from Wisconsin, has endured some 200 snakebites and 700 injections of lethal snake venom—all part of a masochistic quest to immunize his body and offer his blood to scientists seeking a universal antivenom. For nearly two decades, few took him seriously. Then a gifted...

In this episode, Jan and RJ sit down and dive into the journey of Centivax senior scientist Jack Wang. Jack talks about his childhood, moving to the United States in 2008, and all of the cultural/language barriers that he encountered along the way. Eventually, he saw an opportunity to work as an antibody engineer in the biotech field with a company called Distributed Bio. He soon realized this was...