The Iron Deep Podcast

Entrepreneurs go hard to make their business work but often have a hard time figuring out how to balance the other areas of their life. Many entrepreneurs desire to spend more time with their families. Business owner  Alex Pardo  shares how being an entrepreneur has affected his family life, and what some good ways are to keep things healthy at work and home.   Alex shares some grea...

As the digital future continues to evolve and flourish, the future is sure to be rich with new technologies. Right now, cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence, and Web3 are making the biggest waves. Scott Perry is here to discuss how and why we should embrace these emerging technologies that are transforming the virtual landscape and real life. He breaks down the four types of cryptocurrency, the...

There's a popular African proverb that says, "If you want to go fast - Go Alone. If you want to go far - Go Together." Many times, visionaries want to go fast themselves, but they get frustrated when they don't know how to develop and empower a team to go with them.   David Cowling of Sharper Process helps visionaries and businesses empower their work teams by building the right processes. Da...

John McLaughlin is a successful Entrepreneur who found a way to use business to help bring reform and change to many convicts lives.   As a Christian understanding God's forgiveness and gifting of a second chance for his own life, John wanted to extend the same grace to ex-convicts looking for a second chance. John began to teach business classes to felons and other convicts in prison. In doi...

Steve Richards is a successful Real Estate Investor and has a great coaching program for entrepreneurs called CEO Nation. While Steve has crushed it in growing businesses and accomplishing many goals, he found himself at a loss in his life.   Steve realized he was spinning his wheels and not knowing what for. Steve understood the importance of margin in business, but not in his personal life....

Chris Miles grew up broke. On his journey of trying to find ways to generate wealth, he dropped out of college and left being a financial advisor, to become one of the best Passive Income earners around.   Chris saw that the systems people follow are broken and don't let them generate real wealth. Even Dave Ramsey limits people from generating wealth, and Chris advises not to follow much of D...

This is the first episode of The Iron Deep Podcast. Brett Snodgrass interviews Guest (and new co-host) Michael Stansbury. Michael and Brett discuss the struggles and stresses entrepreneurs face. They also discuss how to find victory and stability as a man in and outside of business. And they talk more about Iron Deep and the direction of the entrepreneur brotherhood. Michael Stansbury has been in...

Join us for an exciting transition as we celebrate Michael Stansbury's 20-year real estate journey in the Memphis area and his successful venture, MemFixerUpper, established in 2015. Michael, the CEO and owner, has built his real estate investment company from the ground up and achieved immense success. In this special episode, we embark on a new chapter together!   We bid farewell to The Bre...

Are you an entrepreneur grappling with the pressure of endless responsibilities, multitasking, and the struggle to keep your business on track? Staci Gray, an organizational expert, is here to help. She specializes in streamlining operations for entrepreneurs, optimizing performance, and ensuring business success. In this episode, we delve into crucial entrepreneurial skills, the significance of h...

Every business owner and entrepreneur wants customer retention and the ability to always have people who are willing to buy their products or partake in their business. Author Brittany Hodak joins us on the podcast today to discuss tips and tricks from her most recent book, Creating Superfans: How To Turn Your Customers Into Lifelong Advocates . We go over why it's important to make the customer f...

Are you a young entrepreneur looking for guidance or advice in the world right now? Seeking how to get your foot in the door and wanting to attain that "freedom" that comes with being your own boss? Well, on today's podcast I have IU student Nick O'Patterson join me and the roles are reversed! Nick interviews me as we talk about advice I'd offer to my younger self, how to find a mentor, and why yo...

Today's real estate market is very different than what it was a year ago, let alone a couple months ago. Today on the podcast we have real estate expert and entrepreneur Eric Brewer talking to us about creative strategies to try in today's real estate market. We go over the Brewer method and his innovations in the wholesaling market and also the importance of having a secondary income when the mar...

So often health comes at the end of priorities as an adult business man who has a family and kids and a million different responsibilities. On the podcast today I have old friend J Malone with me who underwent his own personal health transformation where he made exercise and a healthy diet a priority. Listen in from J as we go over tips, tricks, and words of advice that has helped him stay healthy...

Being a man in today's culture is all about being a macho man and all the tough things you can do. No one talks about caring for your wife or being a good father when being a man. Adventure enthusiast Bear Woznick joined me on the podcast this week to go over what being a man actually is. We talk about ways to be a man without all the stigma's that society has around it. Lastly, we discuss how bei...

Leadership is one of the most important things we can have as business owners but is never really spelled out what it is or how exactly it benefits us. Tony Moore and Dakota Bailey are two young entreprenurial real estate investors out of Fort Wayne, Indiana who are great leaders and even better men. Learn from these two on how leadership can change your entire business and help you make more mone...

Our health and how we feel is a very simple recipe to follow. Exercise daily, eat natural food, and practice habits that stimulate your mind and body. Doing all these isn't exactly easy though. Dr. Michael Pierce joined me on the podcast this week to discuss our health, how to establish healthy habits, and why so many of us have health problems to begin with. 

Entrepeneurship is very seldom something that you learn on your own. Becoming an entrepreneur and learning how to be one is a skill you most likely learned from a parent, grandparent, or authority figure in your life. Patrick Grayson is a 3rd generation real estate investor and he shares with us how his father and grandfather taught him the skills necessary to be successful as an entrepreneur. We...

A lot of people use the saying "God's Plan". The phrase was so popular that rapper Drake even made a song titled that. How many people actually mean that they are trusting in God's plan though? In today's podcast episode, I talk with filmmaker/director Jason North who is part of the team at Iron Deep about how God's plan is always better than ours. Jason tells his story of how he got to where he i...

Have you ever felt like these personality tests just know you so well and understand why you do the things you do? Have you tried to explain an action you did by some random letter and number combination that a personality test told you that you were? Well Jarrod Hanning, founder of the MindScan, joins us on the podcast this week to talk about how individuals and business leaders can increase thei...

Joining me on the podcast this week is good friend and self taught real estate investor Sep Shoemaker. On this podcast we cover Sep's story, how he got into real estate, and most importantly Sep's relationship with God. Sep is a faithful servant who makes sure to put quality time with God at the start of his day every single day. We go over why spending quiet time with God is so important, how to...

Are you making marginal returns on your real estate investments and tired of having to work so hard for them every single time? Land development expert Cody Bjugan joins me on the podcast this week, where we discuss how to make 6-7 figures on every deal you do in real estate through the buying and selling of land. Cody and I cover his strategies, why money isn't the end goal in his business, and h...

Faith, Fatherhood, and Work. Some of the most important things and areas of a man's life. Publisher of the Kinsmen Journal, Peter Ostapko, joins us on the podcast this week to go over the values and purpose behind his modern artifact that isn't a book but also isn't a magazine. This journal is laden with amazing stories and images for men to relate to and have conversation about. Join us as we exp...

Today the words anxiety, stress, and worry are thrown around like completely normal ways of life. Brad Chandler is here to tell you that by loving yourself and eliminating the things that cause stress and exiety in your life, you can find happiness. We go over whether money leads to happiness and how money can alter the definition of happiness for you. We also dive into questions that everyone sho...

Life is not all about money, experiences, or the things we own. These "things" are nice to have but what do you ultimately want to accomplish through working? Recent author Nathan Brooks joins us on the podcast again where we go over his new book "The No Quitters Guide to Crushing Real Estate Investing and Building an Extraordinary Life". We go over why Nathan does what he does, putting your mind...

The decision and process of whether or not to start a business and how to do it are some of the most pressing questions that entrepreneurs face. Everyone wants financial freedom and one of the easiest ways to achieve that is by starting your own business. Join Paul Wakim and I as we discuss his personal journey of starting his own business and his current project, Town Square.