Awakened Nation™

What happens when you've reached the heights of your NFL Football Career, only to have it all come crashing down years later? Marques Ogden gets real with Brad Szollose as he shares his business failures, addiction to pain killers and lost relationships. Life after football is a testament to Marques' tenacity, resilience and raw authenticity. If you are a fan of comeback stories, this is it. About...

What happens when you discover you've been cancelled simply because of your political views? Having lost MILLIONS in speaking and consulting fees over the past year, NYTimes and WSJ bestseller Chris returns to share clear examples of The Radical Left in USA and their attempts to financially destroy anyone who is a Conservative. As a result, Chris took a tactic out of the Radical Left's playbook an...

If you are in HR or Learning & Development, this is an extraordinary episode with the author of The Learn-It All Leader, Damon Lembi. "Great leaders aren't born. They're not made, either. They're in the making. They're constantly creating and re-creating themselves, their companies, and their leadership." Brad and Damon discuss what makes a great leader in this day and age, along with adjustin...

When Cecilly Routman discovered that most of her Jewish kinswomen supported abortion, she was shocked...and became an advocate for the unborn. She quotes Moses ben Maimon... “It is important to not believe everything you think. People idolize their intellect. Especially intelligent people…educated people, people who spent a lot of time in higher education. Or come out of families where that is imp...

Dov Baron is back, and what a powerful show. Dov shares the story of how he helped a former Neo Nazi give up his ways, and even start a foundation to end hate. How did he do it? They bonded over Monty Python. Dov breaks down how humans are Tribal, and what each tribe's emotional Source Code is, and how to transform it. This is a fascinating discussion between 2 friends on getting authentic, and wh...

Richard McPherson is on the forefront of nuclear power and Green Energy movement. Richard shares with Brad his 50 year career (20 of which was in the Navy), the safety and power output of the Molten Salt Nuclear Battery, his involvement in the Hydrogen Car at Mercedes Benz, what's been learned from Chernobyl, and his own trepidation on E-Vehicles under their current state. So far, Green Energy app...

Nathan Schulhof doesn't seem to sit on his laurels. The inventor of the MP3 Player shares his journey from inventor, business man, and visionary, and how he raised money to turn his inventions into a business. A fascinating discussion, Nathan shares his love of E-Vehicles, working with Apple, and the future of Green Energy...and a vision for our planet. About Nathan Schulhof: Nathan  Schulhof  has...

Suicide Survivor Deana Brown Mitchell shares with Brad on Awakened Nation, the moments that lead up to her attempted suicide, and the 20 years it took to finally deal with it all. This is a touching episode as Deana shares her story of a loving and balanced childhood, outgoing and athletic, yet, a crushing blow to her during high school change her life. A multi-book published author, Deana came to...

In his 20s, Peter J. Merrick was just like any other young person to start their career: brash, cocky, and full of himself. It didn't take long for him to become disillusioned. One book changed his life: Siddhartha by Herman Hesse. Within the pages he discovered that all men live through phases in life...from proving yourself, to giving back, Peter learned what each of us must do at each stage in...

Ken Atchity, producer of the movie The Meg, staring Jason Statham, joins us for a fascinating discussion on becoming a Hollywood producer of such movies as "Life, or Something Like It," "The Expatriate" "Joe Somebody," and the HBO movie series "Shades of Love." ...but our time together was much more than talking about his international blockbusters. Ken is a Story Merchant...and he opens up about...

How do you grow a business from scratch to create a global presence in 3 countries, 600 staffed locations, 1800 employees and 1000 automated stores throughout North America, Australia and New Zealand? You go like Hell, and figure out what you did wrong later! Linda Johansen-James shares her extraordinary story of meeting Max James, the founder of North American Kiosk, their massive hyper-growth st...

How does a Type A personality learn to relax? Casey Cavell shares his journey of building several successful small businesses, yet faced burn out...until a wiser, older investor offered another way. "He taught me to value other people's contribution...before that, I pushed people the way I pushed myself: to the brink of exhaustion." Casey is honest about his journey, his family, and his podcast, T...

What if I told you that shortly after the Civil War in 1871 the United States became a corporation, making The United States Constitution null and void? Brandon-Joe Williams breaks down the entire system of contracts, trust law and documents you signed unknowingly, only to wonder why you can NEVER get ahead. Brandon exposes the legal definitions that capture us, the webs of contracts and documents...

If you've ever watched the Amazon Prime series The Tick, or Seven Seconds on Netflix, or  High Maintenance  on HBO, or After on the IFT Network, then you will recognize Joshua Schubart. A big man with an even bigger heart, Josh sits down with Brad to open up about being homeless, growing up in foster care, and how acting and his foster parents, saved his life. "Acting helped me to escape my situat...

Breakout star of the movie The Secret, Dr. Joe Vitale shares his story of being homeless, and hopeless...yet discovering gratitude with a simple pencil. This is a powerful episode as Dr. Vitale gives the secrets beyond The Secret— practical actions to create the world you want, clearing up what holds us back, and the magic behind the 4 statements of Ho'oponopono...with an extra bonus: Joe reveals...

Jennie Byers returns in Part 2, to move past her ability to talk to your dead relatives who have passed on, and now connect you to the higher worlds of God. Jennie opens up to Brad about The Source Field where creation began, reconnecting to God, the false timeline we are living under, and the return of human race to their true divine destiny. This is a mind-blowing episode as Jennie unpacks the f...

What if you grew up with the ability to talk to the dead? Pretty scary for a child... Jennie Byers takes us on her journey from a "visitor" in childhood, who assisted in activating her spiritual gifts of intuition and the ability to talk to the dead...her brother and sister having the same gifts, and finally, working with her mother, Kitti, after she passed away. This is art 1 of the 2 part interv...

How do you go from head of marketing and advertising at NASA to becoming one of the top women entrepreneur's in the marketing industry? Jen DeVore Richter sits down with Brad to share her extraordinary journey of working at NASA's Kennedy Space Center—working with Buzz Aldrin and the original Apollo Astronauts—to setting out on her own as a marketing guru and becoming the "Queen of Magazine Market...

One to the top 10 best speakers in the world, Chris Widener sits down on Awakened Nation to share his story of being a troubled youth, then dedicating his live to Jesus Christ, and turning his life around. This is a man of faith who has been a pastor, ghostwriter for John Maxwell, co-wrote with Jim Rohn, worked with Zig Ziglar, and created the course, Jesus, Master of Influence. "The greatest lead...

What's it like to be a real Top Gun? Well colonel Kim KC Campbell tells her harrowing tale of surviving almost being shot down over Baghdad during Operation Freedom. From being inspired to be an Air Force Academy graduate after watching the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, to being deployed to Kuwait shortly after 911, to her miraculous landing, Kim opens up about overcoming fear, and focusing o...

What's it like to work with David Bowie, U2, The Police and Peter Gabriel? Legendary promoter Tony Michaelides sits down with Brad to discuss his extraordinary career, the genuine care that David Bowie expressed for all new artists, and how he survived the Music Business all these years. This is an epic interview on Awakened Nation from a legend in the Rock & Roll Industry. About Tony Mich...

What if everything you thought you wanted to accomplish was shattered into a million pieces? Michelle Sorro joins us to share her spiritual awakening, her Ayahuasca journey and the profound healing that came from grandmother medicine, then creating her number one ranked podcast Fire and Soul. Michelle shares the wonderful people she has met along the way, including Jack Canfield, Dave Asprey and P...

John Di Lemme, returns to kick off Season 6, and man does he bring the thunder! Starting out in life as the son of Italian immigrants, john was diagnosed as a stutterer at an early age, and spent decades working on himself, becoming an internationally known motivational speaker, author and business coach. John shares with us how he was making over $400,000 a year on YouTube (over a decade ao mind...

On January 6th, 2021, Kirstyn Niemela went to the United States Capitol in Washington, DC to hang out with friends, hear President Donald Trump speak, and to go on a guided tour inside the Capitol Building. To her surprise, one year later, after a former friend and a relative reported her to FBI investigators, without warning, Kirstyn was tackled to the ground and arrested in front of her place of...

Cynthia Covey Haller, daughter of the late Stephen R Covey joins us on Awakened Nation to discuss her father's last book: Live Life In Crescendo: Your Most Important Work Is Always Ahead of You. A capstone to his international bestseller, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, and The 8th Habit, Crescendo shares key insights for people who feel they have peaked in life. "There are all these reti...