Changing Lives Selling Knives

David Siegel is the CEO of Meetup, the largest platform for finding and building local communities. He has 25 years of experience as a technology and digital media executive leading organizations through innovative product development, rapid revenue growth, and digital traffic acceleration. Prior to joining Meetup, David was CEO of Investopedia and before that, President of Seeking Alpha. David ho...

Amiee & Josh Mueller have teamed up to create a formidable "power couple" in the Cutco/Vector Marketing sales organization. In his 20+ year career with the company, Josh has risen to become the #3 all-time sales rep in the history of Cutco, with over $7.5 million in career personal sales and three National Championships. Aimee has been influential in the company in multiple roles, and more notably...

Tim O'Keefe is the Chief Operating Officer for Cutco Corporation. His path through the company has been an inspirational journey from working on the factory floor to spending time in customer service, helping set up several international operations, and then significant time in labor relations and human resources. Through it all, Tim has learned and applied the principles of people-centric leaders...

Matt King knows how to build a winning team. As a leader in Vector/Cutco, he advanced from District to Division Manager in less than 2 years, then built his Division into a National Champion in another 3 years. A juggernaut competitor during his Vector career, Matt produced a staggering $90 million in Cutco sales and was inducted into the company's Hall of Fame. Matt left Vector to found his own c...

Gerard J. Restaino is a serial entrepreneur who has spent years developing expertise in the areas of personal and business credit. After his time as a Cutco/Vector sales rep, Branch Manager, and Division Office Manager in the Southern Tide Division with Brian Stephenson, he decided that accumulating real estate investments was the path he wanted to follow to financial freedom. He has put his learn...

Joe Cardillo considers himself "the luckiest man in Vector" because of all of the amazing connections that he has developed through his work experiences. He was born in Canada, but started with Vector/Cutco while in college in Michigan. He became a part of the Canadian start-up team for Cutco, then developed into the long-time head of the company's Canadian operations, now General Manager. He is w...

Ethen Campbell won the Silver Cup as the #1 New District Manager in the Cutco/Vector Marketing sales organization in 2021. As the son of Hall of Fame Division Manager, Stacy Campbell, Ethen grew up with Cutco. He was Vector-Trained from birth, and can provide a truly unique perspective on what it was like to grow up in a Vector family. He has succeeded as a sales rep, Division Office Manager, Bran...

Jamie Bianchini is an Adventurer, Entrepreneur, Author, and Philanthropist. As a Cutco/Vector Marketing representative in the early 1990s, Jamie advanced as far as Branch Manager, while attending college at the University of Southern California. After college, Jamie embarked on a series of business ventures, but struggled to gain traction as something was missing from his life. He decided to go on...

Matt Graves is the #18 all-time sales rep in the 70+ year history of the Cutco/Vector Marketing sales organization. During his college years, he was the #1 student sales rep in Cutco, and in 2021, he won the Silver Cup as Cutco/Vector's National Champion sales professional in the Premier League category. Through his experiences in sales and also as a professional body-builder, Matt has honed an el...

John Carpenter is one of the most universally admired leaders in the Cutco/Vector Marketing sales organization. He was the company's #1 sales rep in his first year, and has been the long-time leader of the Texoma Division, headquartered in Dallas. A veteran with the company since 1987, John has produced well over $100 million of Cutco sales throughout his career, and is a member of the company's H...

Ryan Supplee and his Bucks County (PA) sales team won the Silver Cup as National Champions in Cutco/Vector's Premier League for managers in 2021, and his story can be an inspiration for anyone. Ryan received great mentorship on his path to becoming a District Manager in Vector. Now, paying that forward by showing up the right way for the people around him, Ryan has developed a new wave of top tale...

Tasha Saran Smith is the Founder & CEO of Emerge Sales Training, a company that provides sales and leadership coaching to network marketing leaders. From scratch, Tasha created a 7-figure revenue coaching business within her first 2 years. Emerge has helped thousands of clients grow their businesses, even if they have no sales experience. Tasha worked with Cutco/Vector in sales and management for...

Brian Carter has one of the most unique roles in the Cutco/Vector Marketing sales organization. He's the Events Coordinator for the Texoma/Great Plains teams and Assistant Division Manager in the Texoma Division. His Highland Park team just won the Silver Cup as the #1 District office in Vector, and Brian contributed $350K in personal sales. He impacts both sales reps and managers at a very high l...

The Cutco Sales Professional (CSP) position has experienced an incredible transformation over the past 20 years or so. At the forefront of this evolution has been Cutco's Director of Sales Development, John Kane. In his role, John has overseen the development of numerous new ways to sell Cutco, the combination of which has led to incredible growth in the field of professional selling at Cutco. Tod...

Kip Mangira was a Cutco Sales Professional in Vector Marketing's Midwest Region. He was born on September 2nd, 1995, in Akron, Ohio, with Osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle-bone disease), which confined him to a wheelchair for his entire life. Still, he had an indomitable spirit, and was not afraid to take on the challenge of selling Cutco Cutlery, starting in 2013. He won numerous awards for his ex...

Ryan Trembler is the Northern New England Division Manager for Cutco/Vector Marketing. As is the case for most people, his career has passed through several distinct stages as he has advanced with the company and evolved as a leader. Ryan has learned the habits and mindsets necessary to continue to progress as responsibilities increase and challenges get larger. Through it all, he has become one o...

Hal Elrod and Jon Berghoff are the 2 most popular guests in the history of this podcast. Both of them are changing lives in such profound ways throughout the world. As the author of The Miracle Morning book series and The Miracle Equation, Hal has influenced millions of followers around the world to live better lives. As the founder & CEO of XChange, Jon is having an exponential impact on the worl...

Geoff Woods is the co-Founder and President of ProducKtive, a training company and community that's based on the iconic, best-selling book, The ONE Thing. Geoff is an expert in the areas of habit formation, goal-setting, and productivity. He hosts The ONE Thing podcast, which is in the top 5% of all podcasts in the world. He has been featured in Entrepreneur.com, and is on a mission to help people...

Andy Tse is one of the top-producing real estate sales professionals in the entire United States. Working with Intero Real Estate Services, Andy and his team, the Tse Group, produced an astounding $920 million in sales in 2021. Throughout his 20-year career in real estate sales, Andy has been able to experience consistent growth through ongoing learning and disciplined activity. His growth curve w...

A New Year is a perfect opportunity to reflect on the year gone by, and also to decide what you want in the year ahead. There's a natural motivation to make the changes necessary to achieve your goals. Dan Casetta has spent his entire professional life coaching others on the process of goal-setting and goal-achievement. In this podcast episode, Dan shares 4 changes that you can make in order to fu...

Confidence is a common thread among all successful people. The high expectations that result from confidence are a major key to massive success. Dan Casetta has experienced the different stages of building confidence, and has spent the vast majority of his career helping countless others to build their own confidence and develop high expectations. In this solo episode, Dan shares seven key ways in...

Mike McCarthy is a husband, a father and a serial entrepreneur who has played a major role in the growth and expansion of Keller Williams to become the #1 Real Estate Company in the world. He leads over 9000 real estate agents as the Regional Operating Partner for the Greater Pennsylvania Region. He is also the co-founder of the elite Mastermind groups GoBundance and FamBundance. Mike and his wife...

John Oberg is a highly-skilled business leader focused on helping professionals build more meaningful relationships to achieve exceptional business results. For the past 13 years, John has been a mentor, advisor, consultant, and coach to hundreds of organizations across the spectrum of size and scope, even including the U.S Military. John brings a strong educational background (MBA, and currently...

Danielle Posa is deeply passionate about the subject of wellbeing — what it means to live a full and meaningful life. As a workplace wellbeing advocate and advisor, she works with organizations to help them develop comprehensive, long-term wellbeing strategies. She has worked with the best thought leaders in this space, including being personally mentored by Deepak Chopra, and notably, she is a ca...

Dedric Polite grew up in the Roxbury neighborhood of inner-city Boston. From an early age, education was his way up in life. After being identified as a promising student, Dedric advanced to attend Amherst College, and he augmented his education through his Cutco/Vector experience. After graduating from college, Dedric spent some time in Corporate America while learning and preparing himself for a...