Doin' the Thing Podcast

As our listeners know, Jason and I are professional Career Ownership Coaches, and by design we work intentionally on helping our clients explore self-sufficiency strategies. Whether you're entrepreneurially curious, looking to diversify your portfolio and revenue streams, or to explore a new career direction, our tools, resources and methodologies can help you the clarity you seek on your path for...

Whatever your long term financial career and wealth building goals are, one thing is for sure - we're living through exceptional times that have created mitigating and complex possibilities. Will interest rates rise, will the Ukrainian situation and it's impact on the energy markets have ripple effects on our investments and portfolios, what effects will the shutdowns in China effecting the supply...

In today's episode, Phil and Jason answers your questions on the pros and cons of buying a franchise vs. building a business from scratch. To negate many of the problems associated with starting a new business, many decide to invest in franchising as the best of both worlds option. A franchise system provides an individual with professional freedom, yet a proven system that can be depended on. As...

Join us for an engaging and insightful conversation with Dr. Wisdom. Dr. Wisdom is a veteran, holds a PhD in Psychology and a Masters in Public Health and Epidemiology.  Would it surprise you to know that a full 50% of all leaders are Millennials? It's true, and their needs, goals and visions are truly worth understanding and embracing. Corporate Culture matters, social good matters, collabor...

How many of us wish we'd invested in Apple stock back in the day, or Tesla, or BitCoin? Early adopters who catch the wave early can reap significant rewards, but what about the potential risk?  If you're exploring entrepreneurship and franchising is your chosen vehicle, you may find yourself in the position of considering an emerging brand. If so, this episode is worth a listen as we'll discu...

Get ready to learn! Today’s episode we get the opportunity to speak with Karim Kerachni from http://PropertyGuys.com, a unique real estate franchise concept. PropertyGuys is an Award-winning real estate system that helps homeowners sell successfully on their own, saving them literally thousands in the process. From listing till sold, their private sale, flat-fee approach places home sellers at the...

Listeners of our Podcast know that Jason and I are advocates and evangelists for healthy minds, bodies and spirits. Today we explore part two of our healthy living conversation by diving in to easy to implement and incrementally beneficial nutritional habits to help you become your best self.

Did you make a resolution to hit the gym and now find yourself unable to lift your arms or walk without hunching? You're not alone!  As the saying goes, "I'm opening a new gym called Red Wine. It's full of folks with committed goals in January and becomes a wine bar in February." Don't give up in your fitness goals, instead learn valuable periodization principles that will help you bridge the...

Today Jason and Phil explore NFT’s together. Please know this is not investment advice, but a high level educational episode to help others (and ourselves) understand what this strange expensive digital concept actually is! Show notes are below: The total market capitalization of crypto and NFT's is 1.4 trillion dollars - jp morgan and Bank of America are creating their own financial teams on this...

Jason and I espouse entrepreneurial thinking in all its forms - and Adam Pritchett is an example of how creativity and passion can lead to a brilliant entrepreneurial freelancing career. Adam is a classically trained actor, voice talent and (I'm proud to say) the narrator of my audiobook - The Conduit. Adam brought nearly one dozen written characters to life in the project, brought the passion, em...

The Elon Musk origin story is inspiring. After founding PayPal he had a vision of colonizing the planet of Mars - something the majority of us dream of (kidding). His first three missions failed, and he had only enough resources to launch one more mission - which succeeded. Next, he dreamed of sustainably powered vehicles. In 2008, in the middle of what was arguably one of the worst financial situ...

It's that magical time of year when we all envision a better version of ourselves as the calendar page flips from December 2021 to January 2022. In this episode we explore why New Year's resolutions have such a high fail rate, and more importantly - how to succeed in creating your new and better self in the New Year.

As the old adage goes..."It doesn't matter what you make, it only matters how much of it you keep." Business ownership not only builds equity, creates the potential for a sale-able asset, but also leverages potentially significant tax-saving advantages.  In this episode, we'll talk through the four corporate structures - DBA, LLC, S-Corp and C-Corp and share insights into the features, benefi...

In today's episode Jason and Phil have the honor of being joined by Career Transition, Executive Coach and published author Bill Kieffer. Bill is a former U.S. Army officer with over a decade of active duty service. He is also a human resource and talent management executive with over two decades of senior leadership experience in large, complex, global companies. Throughout his career he has coac...

You may not know it, but our co-host Jason Madden earned his MBA in Project Management last year. This, coupled with his international military logistics and project management experience arguably makes him an expert on the topic. In this episode I interview Jason and together explore how basic tenets and principles of Practical Decision Making can be applied by you - to the simplest or most compl...

Gen X and Millennials are re-evaluating their considering leaving their current roles in significant numbers. Learn what's driving this generational "Great Awakening"

Many dream of becoming a published author, if you're one - this is the episode for you. Phillip Macko has published three works, two non-fiction titles and a fictional work available in paperback, eBook and on Audible called The Conduit. In this episode he'll share his tips, tricks and learnings across his 9-year author's journey.

As we say, good paper makes good friends. But much more than this, how do you choose the right partner? How do you avoid overlapping competencies? And most important, how do your develop your exit strategies before launching the partnership venture? All this and more on today's episode of Doin' the Thing!

A recent ProPublica study (https://www.propublica.org/article/older-workers-united-states-pushed-out-of-work-forced-retirement) finds that there are currently 40 million Americans over the age of 50 in the workforce. According to their projections, as many as 22 million of this employed population will face a layoff, forced retirement or involuntary job separation. Of the 22 million, only an estim...

Monster.com commissioned a study - their findings were more than surprising. 95% of all currently employed participants indicated they were actively considering a career change. 92% indicated considering not just a career change, but also an industry change. The greatest driver? 32% cited burnout. What does this mean and what impacts might we see - that's what we're discussing in this episode.

On this week's episode, we're honored to have Diana Corbin join us and share the very motivating story of how her grade school dream became her passion, and then her career. For Megatrax Production Music, Diana is the Executive Director of Accounts for the country of Brazil. In this capacity, she works with major film studios, television station, ad agencies and content producers all throughout th...

We've all heard about the Colonial pipeline hack, one that cost the company $5 million dollars. How did it happen? And more importantly, how can you as a business owner protect yourself and your company? We'll be discussing this and more with industry experts Brittany Fugate and David Warner from Cenetric.  Here's the reality - 300,000 new malware programs are created every day, and because t...

We are doing things a little bit differently this week. This is another episode from our Facebook live chat where we discuss DISC and use it as a resource. DISC is a behavior assessment tool to examine an individuals' behavior in their environment or within a specific situation. It is based on the DISC theory of psychologist William Moulton Marston. DISC is an acronym of four different personality...

This episode is from our FB Live Chat. We took a bit of a break from our hiatus.  We're slowly going to get back from our weekly episode. We just wanted to take this opportunity to go live on Facebook and update you guys and let everybody know what's going on, what we're up to, and our plans for 2021.  We've touched on many subjects,  challenges, and the things to learn from 2020 to...

We have another opportunity to have our dear friend and Industrial and Organizational Psychologist, Founder of The Connect IO, Dr. Leroy Simpson, to another of our talks. You might think that there's some symbolism or unusual story behind the title. Swords and pomegranates have several symbols in different cultures, and the fruit was prominently featured in the story of Persephone and Hades in Gre...