The Massimo Show

On this episode of the Massimo show Rod sits down with a ghost writer and (his own) writing coach Wally Bock. Wally is an authority on the  issues of supervision, leadership, and management and has the various career endeavors to prove it. More recently he has spent his time helping others lean into and expound upon their own leadership qualities by helping them write about them.  Wally was born i...

On this episode of The Massimo Show Rod sits down with one of his own coaches - NYT best-selling author and world renowned hall of fame speaker Chris Widener . Early Life  Chris was born in Seattle, Washington. His father was the CFO of an architecture firm called NBBJ and was making almost 100K in the late 1960's. Unfortunately, he was severely underinsured and when died at 41 years old (when Chi...

On this episode of the Massimo Show Rod sits down with Tom Ziglar, son of Zig, CEO of Ziglar, and key collaborator on his father's 30th book, Born to Win. Tom Ziglar carries on the organization's "profoundly simple" philosophy "You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want."   "You have got to be ready or sick and tired of the way things are...

On this episode of the Masimo Show we get a special message straight from our founder, Rod Santomassimo.  Let's focus on you, the end of 2020, and look forward to where we are moving too.  Every year we provide an outline of a road map to allow you to craft a plan that is right for you. This year we've updated our plan- the 7 step plan we call The Seven Days to your Best Year Yet plan.  This plan...

On this episode of the Massimo Show Rod sits down with highschool basketball coach and motivational speaker, Jim Johnson.  Based on what transpired in a few short moments in early 2006, Coach Jim Johnson is now an authority on the subject of realizing your dreams. In his many public-speaking appearances, the Rochester, New York resident relates his role in a basketball game that got Hollywood call...

On this episode of The Massimo Show Rod sits down with Steve Rizzo.  An American motivational speaker, author, and former stand-up comedian, Steve is notable for his humorous style of motivational speaking and writing. Rizzo is a member of the National Speakers Association and an inductee of its Council of Peers Award for Excellence Speaker Hall of Fame. At one time Steve was sharing the marquis w...

On this episode of the Massimo Show, Rod sits down with webinar coach, webinar consultant, webinar expert, and online marketing advisor Jon Schumacher.  Today Jon is a client acquisition strategist, a webinar specialist and an online marketing advisor to consultants and service providers but he hasn't always been working in the digital world.  Finding Online Marketing:  Jon grew up in rural Idaho...

On this episode of The Massimo Show Rod sits down with decorated former US Army Black Hawk Helicopter pilot and Motivational Speaker, Elizabeth McCormick.  Elizabeth flew command and control, air assault, rappelling, top-secret intelligence missions, and also transported high level government VIPs including the Secretary of Defense. She has received many awards in the army, and supported United Na...

On this episode of the Massimo Show, Rod sits down with former NFL player turned motivational speaker JJ BIrden.  Born and raised in Portland Oregon, JJ went to the University of Oregon where he was a two sport star in Football and Track and Field. A 5'10", 157-pound wide receiver, JJ was drafted by the Cleveland Browns in the 1988 NFL Draft and played nine seasons (Cleveland Browns, Dallas Cowboy...

Jeb Blount is a best selling author including Fanatical Prospecting, Sales EQ, Objections and most recently Virtual Selling. He's published hundreds of articles and is among the world's most respected thought leaders on sales, leadership, and customer experience.  He is the leader and CEO of Sales Gravy.  Sales Gravy is the #1 most trafficked website in the world.

This week on The Massimo Show Rod sat down with an internationally recognized client-acquisition expert, author, and speaker - Bill Cates.  Bill has delivered his business-growth message to over 300,000 professionals, small business owners, and salespeople across 5 continents; helping them increase revenue without increasing their marketing budget. Bill is the author of four popular books:  Get Mo...

On this episode of the Massimo Show, Rod sits down with Joe Calloway Joe Calloway helps leaders, owners, and entrepreneurs make great companies even better. He helps organizations focus on what is truly important, inspires new thinking about challenges and opportunities, and motivates people to immediate action. Joe is the Executive In Residence at Belmont University's Center For Entrepreneurship....

On this episode of the Massimo Show  Rod sits down with David Newman certified speaking professional marketing expert and founder of Do it! Marketing .  David is the creator of the Speaker Profit Formula seminar and mentoring program. He has worked with over 600 executives and entrepreneurs to monetize their message including IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Qvc, Merrill lynch and more. His podcast is the...

Joe was born and raised in Seymour, Wisconsin just outside of Green Bay.  As a kid he loved sports, all sports. His  mother would have to call him in at night because he was always outside playing until the sun went down. But there was just one problem - Joe was not a very good athlete.  At some point, someone said to him "with your love of sports and your big mouth you ought to put those two toge...

On this episode of The Masimo Show, Rod sits down with two-time memory champion, Ron White, as they discuss how to mastery your memory. Ron is best known for winning the USA Memory Championship in 2009 and 2010 and held the record for the fastest to memorize a deck of shuffled cards in only 1 minute and 27 seconds. But Ron isn't interested in showing off how great his memory is, he is on a quest t...

Rod sits down with Tremendous Tracey Jones.   Author of eight books and counting, Dr. Tracey C. Jones is a motivational speaker, business leadership resource, and president of Tremendous Leadership - a company that offers you the very best books, resources and programs to cultivate your professional and personal development.  Tracy's story is really the beginning of a beautiful love story. Her Fat...

On today's episode of The Massimo Show, Rod sits down with Jessica Magoch. When you think about art, whether that be painting, music or your favorite art, you may think about something that has moved or changed you.  Sales is about moving people to take action.  To show someone a different way of looking at things that they haven't seen before.  Sales is creating a story of helping people move fro...

Betty started her life in Columbia, South America, and wanted for nothing. Despite having everything she could have asked for; life was not as perfect as it seemed in her house. Although she had a loving millionaire father his demons often got the best of him when it came to alcohol. By the time Betty was 12 her mother had had it and she wanted to leave her husband and move to America. Betty was g...

On this episode of the Massimo Show Rod sits down with top producer, Matt McGregor. Matt grew up in a suburb north of Seattle and his passion was certainly sales from the very beginning. He had always envisioned himself in corporate America and had a passion for entrepreneurship. When it came to school Matt struggled from dyslexia and recalls loving school for the social aspect but that what he re...

On this episode of the Massimo show Rod sits down with James Nelson – James is Principal and Head of Avison Young's Tri-State Investment Sales group where he leads a group of three dozen professionals in the sale of multi-family, office, development, and retail properties. In the past, he served as Vice Chairman of Cushman & Wakefield and was a partner and top producer for Massey Knakal for six of...

On this episode of the Massimo Show Rod sits down with Beau Beery and jumps right into what he is seeing and doing as COVID is impacting his business and the businesses of his clients. The truth is that the vast majority of folks are undecided and don't understand what is happening and so the natural reaction is to take a pause and see how these things play out.  But, according to Beau, as a broke...

On this episode of the Massimo Show Rod sits down with CRE professional Beth Azor . Beth grew up in a small beach town in Florida and came by the business naturally with a father in CRE. At first, she was determined to do anything EXCEPT real estate and it was easy to see she could do anything she put her mind to. Young Beth enjoyed all kinds of extracurriculars from cheerleading to editor of the...

With all the fear-mongering out there… It's time for some much needed "courage mongering". So Rod sat down with Hall of Fame Speaker, NY Times best-selling author, and combat veteran Lt. Col. Waldo Waldman to give you the flight plan to succeed during turbulent times.

On this episode of the Massimo Show Rod sits down with "The Millionaire Maker" Loral Langemeier. Loral is a money expert, sought after speaker, entrepreneurial thought leader, and best-selling author of five books who is on a relentless mission to change the conversation about money and empower people around the world to become millionaires. Loral discusses being an entrepreneur from a very young...

A conversation with Rod's tax strategist Kevin Bassett, CPA where they discuss the Corona Virus Stimulus Package and what it means to you and your clients.