Always on the GROW with Manny Vargas

Enjoy the holidays and prepare for the best year ahead. 

Do you need clarity and focus in life? Are you loaded with baggage that are holding you back? Do you have issues in relationships in both your personal and professional life? Have you ever tried virtues like Forgiveness and Love? Forgiveness Expert Anil Gupta says 'Forgiveness is the Express Pathway to Freedom' Anil is on the mission to make a difference in the lives of millions these days, and he...

Brian Wright...during high school one of his  teachers, who is also a speech coach, encouraged him to go out for speech events, but the idea of speaking in front of an audience terrified him. He got involved in a radio event all because he doesn't have to face an audience. He did really well in the event and from there went on to the district, and state levels. Awesome! Brian's by-birth Radio voic...

Jess Phoenix is fortunate enough to have parents, who were both FBI agents, that put on bulletproof vests as they went to work everyday. They were great role models, and Jess could see a less conventional career path. Though many people thought Jess, too, would become an FBI agent, she took to geology as she realized it was absolutely amazing and answered the fundamental questions about the world....

Chris Widener's life started out pretty good for the first 4 years, until his dad passed away at age 41. He was a partner in what has become one of the largest architecture firms in the world and was making ninety thousand bucks a year in 1969! That is a lot! Chris eventually ended up living in 28 homes and went to 11 different schools . He began to get in a lot of trouble; he started drugs in the...

Cy Waits was named America's most eligible bachelor when he was 30 years old. Within the first couple of years of starting a business, they were doing about 40 million dollars with a 70 percent profit margin. They had colleges, and business leadership classes, interviewing them, media all over them. They were on lots of covers of magazines. Is he from a Royal background? Did all this come as a fam...

Liza Glucoft is a Millennial digital strategist, producer, and director who's been crafting digital content for nearly 10 years. She worked at both 'Who What Wear' and POPSUGAR, where she served as the head of fashion and beauty, video. She also worked as Supervising Producer at Conde Nast Entertainment in New York where she developed and oversaw productions across all the Conde titles including V...

Tragedy struck Jen Betts, in the year 2000. As she was walking into a room, a playful environment, where somebody was swinging something around and she walked right into it, causing ocular damage to her left eye, and leaving her blind in one eye. Now, after the tragedy, she's left with only a couple of options; just sit down and be depressed, or get up and keep going. Courageously, she chose to ke...

Maria Hunt, in her early twenties always had that entrepreneurial spirit and wanted to do something to help people. That's just been her nature as she's loved working for people. She had been a horrible student in her student days barely graduating, but once she started working with these huge technology companies that's where it sparked her interests in learning. She learnt everything there is to...

This chef is different. He is not like the other chefs who can't get onto the stage and certainly, is not nervous to be in front of guests, in the dining room. Some may cook a heck of a lot better than him, but he is the type, who's always on stage, and in board meetings. Though he's not a professor to be able to do bars and graphs, he's written a couple of books on leadership, both being used in...

The Go-Giver the book, 10 years after its publication, has just won the 2017 Living Now Evergreen Medal. It's a medal given out to books that have stood the test of time for their contribution to positive global change. Its author John David Mann, New York Times bestselling author has now teamed with a very famous chef, Charles Carroll who does 80 to 100 food functions a week. Charles even represe...

Brandon Webb was a 12 year kid when he started learning how to Scuba dive. Brandon had an alternative childhood as he grew up living in a boat at a harbor during that time while his parents wanted to sail around the world with the family, living that cruising lifestyle. And from that his father bought a 47-foot boat for the same purpose. Brandon's life had been adventurous all through. One night a...

When Sean Stephenson was born, doctors predicted he would not survive more than 24 hours because of a rare bone disorder. Sean's bones are extremely fragile and they have been broken about 200 times, all by the time he was 18 years of age. He has stunted growth, stands about 3 feet tall and is confined to a wheelchair. BUT the man, has a GIANT HEART! All this did not stop Sean Stephenson from beco...

How many times have you heard from highly successful people, entrepreneurs, and professionals, and they follow an early morning routine or ritual, which really gets their day going strong?! Well, Becky Dickson is all different. Her work day starts at 11 am in the morning . They talk about all the discipline and the grind they go through. But Becky says, "very rarely do I ever even approach discipl...

Albert Einstein once said, 'It's never too late to have a happy childhood.' Peter Brandl (President of the German Speakers Association) like many other boys, had a childhood dream to drive Airplanes. But at 14, his dreams were shattered when a medical seminary said Peter cannot become a pilot because he wore glasses. But, at 35 when Peter was being successful in his career and consulting business,...

It's almost unbelievable… A few years back, Kevin Hogan (International speaker, Influence and Persuasion expert) got a telephone call from a government agency in Poland. They told him how Kevin was good at making companies make money and all, but they have a growing problem in Poland which is, 12 - 13 year old girls are getting aids because they're on the streets and truck drivers are stopping by....

Mike Domitrz was very determined he was going to be on broadway, was going  to be in movies, going to be an actor. He graduated high school, went to Chicago, did college, and studied theatre. Until one day while in college, he learnt from his Mom that his sister was sexually assaulted. The incident changed the entire course of his life and career, which in turn had changed many people's lives. He...

She spent half a million dollars just on education to follow her NEW vision of career and life. Because, after years of schooling, college and, university, she one day visualized her education and the system she grew up with, was not taking her in the direction she wanted her life to be going in. Regan Ann Hillyer grew up in Auckland, New Zealand studied and worked hard to be an architect, but, wh...

Do you realize..? You were put here on this planet for a unique and singular reason, to fulfill a function that no other human being could. That's why your fingerprints; your DNA's are all different. It's not a mistake, not an accident; you're the only one of the kind that you are, and you don't want to squander away that opportunity. Some people are fortunate enough to find life's purpose or stum...

Most people have a fear of selling! Are you one of them? According to Anthony Iannarino, Selling is a philosophy more than anything. You need a combination of mindset and skill sets. It starts with self discipline, optimism, and caring about other people and having a sense of competitiveness. It's all a process . Anthony grew up in a situation where he didn't have any money, his mom raising 4 kids...

Do you really love your present job or career? Statistics reveal more than 78% of people are not in their ideal career or job, more than 50% are 'aspirational' for entrepreneurship, 50% plus are looking for new job, and basically, they hate their jobs. Adam Markel spent 18 years as a full time lawyer but 5 to 6 years into it, he noticed it was all anxiousness, dread, anger, and difficulty sleeping...

Incredibly PUMPED UP about today's guest and, gentleman, Chris Savage who joins the, A Desire to Inspire with Manny Patrick show, who I met back in April, in Boston, Cambridge to be exact during a local entrepreneur night. He's the Co-founder and CEO of Wistia, an incredible online video posting platform that now has hosted up to 300,000 videos and has 300,000 customers worldwide, with nearly 100...

I am so energized and fired up of the gentleman I have on the show today!! When I finally met him in person, I said, "shit he's a really tall dude!" But as it turns out, he is one of most authentic and incredible human beings, I've ever met. He comes from a pure place of just fun and energy, with love, a sales guru at that. So, it's my distinct honor and pleasure to bring Mr. Victor Antonio to the...

Alec Stern, an absolute stellar human being whom I met back in Las Vegas as a random in December of 2016. He is an ingenious business man, but also, a generous man of contribution, overall.   Alec was very receptive, engaged, and also, I watched along his business journey. In the interview, Alec talks about how he was an Entrepreneur since age 12 or 13 and Entrepreneurship was in his DNA. Alec dis...

Bob Burg, coauthor of the National Bestselling book, The Go-Giver- A Little Story About A Powerful Business Idea, joins the A Desire to Inspire with Manny Patrick, show, to discuss his leadership journey. Currently he is a sought-after speaker at company leadership and sales conferences sharing the platform with everyone from today's business leaders and broadcast personalities to even a former U....