Bold Perceptions

We welcome on Blake Cashman once again! He has just completed his rookie year in the NFL as a linebacker for the New York Jets. Blake started 5 games this season as a 5th round draft pick out of the University of Minnesota. He shares his rookie year experiences, playing with & against some of the greats, dealing with the spotlight, being a bachelor in New York City and much more. We wish Blake a l...

Dear *****, Whenever I feel down or start worrying about little things, I think of what you are going through and snap out of it. You have made me realize how precious life is and inspired me to live my life to the fullest. To live BOLD! Love ya, Nick

Craig Nester joins us today! Craig has 25 years of experience as a successful business owner, building companies from scratch to over 400 employees, generating 25 million a year in revenue. He is a turnaround specialist for Fortune 500 companies, and also is high-performance marketing & sales coach for entrepreneurial businesses. We discuss replacing negative habits with positive ones by using the...

We welcome on Marcus Newsome, better known as DJ Nuski today, a Minneapolis based DJ who primarily residents every Friday night at Monarch Minneapolis, a popular night club in the Twin Cities. Marcus has been DJing for 3 years while also throwing parties and hosting his own events. We take a look at the scene in Minneapolis, what it takes to be a DJ, his back story, club life, and throwing & hosti...

Josh Parks is the 2019 MIAC Football Player of the Year. He is an All-American running back from the University of St. Thomas, a division III football power house located in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is an entrepreneur, founding his own clothing brand GhostFit, and his own barbershop. Josh shares his story of overcoming his own ego after leaving the University of Minnesota to finding success on and...

One of the biggest personalities that we’ve had on the podcast, Mike Morris, joins us today! Mike was an NFL player for 13 years and found a home in Minnesota with the Vikings for 9 of those years. After his playing career, he thrived in radio on Minnesota’s most popular radio station. Now he is a personal trainer, football coach, and mentor. Mike shares experiences from his playing days in the NF...

Nick Hanson is a Professional Baseball player in the Cincinnati Reds organization, a pitcher drafted in the third round of the MLB Draft, directly out of high school. Nick has dealt with a considerable amount of adversity in his short MLB career. He had one of the worst injuries a pitcher can have early in his first year, and has had three more since. He shares experiences in the minor leagues, de...

Mark Esch joins the Podcast today! Mark is a Minnesota state champion football coach. He has just released his debut book, Rise of the Warriors, a book about his experience growing up in a toxic football environment at Caledonia high school, its transformation into a powerhouse and lessons he has learned that have shaped him into the successful man that he is today. He goes into depth about those...

Eric Johnston joins the podcast. Eric is a personal empowerment coach that helps individuals with: dealing with depression, attachment trauma, and recovery using neuroscience to rewire the brain. He is currently working toward getting his masters in communication and has worked in behavioral health for 10 years, doing outreach, marketing, and business development for treatment centers. Eric joins...

Building the Bold Perceptions team, Jake makes his debut with Nick as they welcome on Ammar Ahmad onto the podcast. Ammar is a war refugee who moved to Denmark during the midst of the Iraq war. He has had a challenging life, overcoming obstacle after obstacle. He has his own podcast, DenmarkReal, which is about helping others become aware of their talents and finding themselves through stories and...

A childhood friend of Nick joins the podcast from his hometown in Prior Lake. Skyler Hackett is a future pilot and has traveled to 68 different countries. His goal is to travel to every country on the map. He shares different stories and experiences from traveling country to country, compares and contrast the differences between America and the rest of the world, how it has shaped his mindset, cre...

Live from the Rocky Mountains in Denver, Colorado, Nick welcomes Serg Mendoza on the podcast. Serg is a former college football player, who is now attending law school in pursuit of his Masters Degree. He discusses the importance of financial education, shares tips on managing money, deciding on finance as his future, his father migrating to America and working long days to become his own boss, an...

Joey Rosensteel is an entrepreneur who started his own insurance brokerage at the age of 23, while only having attended college for six months. Joey discusses the insurance industry and trusting himself to start his own company. He shares his story from his senior year of high school, where he had a child and his father went to prison and how he overcame those challenges using faith. Background on...

Chris Walton is an performance psychologist, entrepreneur, psychical trainer, and author of the book; The Gamma Mindset. He gives us an overview of The Gamma Mindset, a system that puts an individual in a peak state of consciousness, which everyone is capable of reaching. Chris discusses flow, aligning your subconscious with the universe, manifesting, power of the subconscious, and aligning your t...

Nick is back in America and welcomes his long-time friend Jake. Jake had a three year battle with addiction and opens up about it for the first time on the podcast. His longtime marijuana use morphed into full on indulgence with harder drugs, such as, Opiates and Xanax. Nick and Jake take a deep dive into the dark world of drug addiction. He illustrates his experiences, being a functional drug add...

Nick welcomes the multi-talented, Claus Elming, during his last day in Copenhagen before traveling back to the United States. Mr. Elming is a Danish TV Host and American football proprietor. Claus is comparable to John Madden in what he has done in growing American Football in Europe. He facilitated bringing American football to Denmark after falling in love with the game while living in the Unite...

After a tough loss in the National Semi Finals, Nick sits down with the President of the Søllerød Gold Diggers. Casper Reinhardt, became the President of the club when he was only 21 years old, and has built a very successful organization that includes 7 year old cheerleaders to 35 year old adults on the senior team. The road wasn't easy, as Casper had to prove to many his age wouldn't be a proble...

While in Lisbon, Portugal, Nick met up with the newest member of the Bold Perceptions Team: Martina Rmush! At Nice Way Cascais Hostel and Surf Camp, Martina and Nick talk about what she will be bringing to Bold Perceptions, and her crazy life story. Martina, from Macedonia, has been traveling the world for the past 8 years. From studying Italian Literature in Tuscany, working real estate in London...

Kali Ketterling, a young successful Human Resources Coordinator, sits down with Nick at Cafe Beruit in Copenhagen, Denmark. Kali, from Minnesota, was on a two week travel experience around Europe and stopped by to see her favourite person in the world! This episode is all about building a successful and happy work environment, resume and interview tips, working with the Minnesota Twins, how to ear...

Heem and Nick talk about how they go about networking. Networking success stories, action tips you can do TODAY, and much more. Enjoy!

In the midst of everyday relationship building, the universe aligned me (Braheem) with a gentleman who goes by the name of Jeremy Salvatori. I know he has the name for a lead actor in an Academy Award-winning film, but this guy is the furthest thing from an actor. He is very much the real deal as he has found a way to obtain and sustain substantial success in commercial real estate over the past 7...

Synchro destiny, that is what took place on a sunny day at the beautiful Macanudo Cigar lounge in the heart of Copenhagen. Nick noticed an interesting fella in the lounge and decided to joke around with his outfit, tennis shoes and a sports jacket. Turns out, that someone was none other than the world-renowned doctor, author and speaker - Sanjiv Chopra. The Doctor and Nick clicked right away, spea...

Nick sits down with a Swedish Pastry Chef in Ystad, Sweden. Alice Reinholdsson talks about her journey in cooking, getting into a flow state, the 'movie experience' of fine dining, fresh ingredients, dealing with critics, food around Europe, and how she escapes through creating delicious food that puts smiles on faces. Enjoy!

In this podcast, we’re going to dig deep into the story of Kenzie Shell. A woman who has made a significant impact on the lives of strangers such as myself(Braheem) due to her being the genuine individual that she is. She is always willing and seeking to help others because she has helped herself through so much adversity that she believes it is part of her purpose to make an impact on others as w...

Heem and Nick are joined by John Mill, a neuroscience researcher in Washington DC, to talk affirmations. John has used affirmations for the past three years to help achieve his goals, or “systems”, and talks about how affirmations can not only change a daily attitude, but change an approach to life. Affirmations have played a big role in the successes John, Nick, and Heem have achieved, and this e...