The Pathways to Success with Julian Placino

Melinda Preston is a networking marketing and essential oils expert. She has a passion for educating people on natural ways to stay healthy and keep their lives above the wellness line. She is the mother of seven beautiful children, grandmother of four amazing grandchildren, and the wife of her husband Tad for 33 years. Three years ago she was faced with a health issue that brought her to Young Li...

Stewart Youngblood is a technology startup expert. He was the former Program Director for Tech Wildcatters,  an early stage tech seed fund and accelerator in the Dallas area. Stewart was responsible for facilitating the selection and coaching process for numerous startups.  This experience has given him valuable insights into the commonalities and best practices of successful tech startup business...

Baylor Barbee is a best selling author, nationally acclaimed speaker and sponsored triathlete. He's done numerous motivational speaking engagements for fortune 500 companies, churches, schools and universities. Baylor delivered the Keynote speech for the 2014 Fall graduating class for the University of North Texas. He is named one of the "Top 12 Most Influential African-Americans in Dallas" by the...

Samantha Reid is the Owner and CEO of Obstacle Warriors, a gym that is inspired by the hit television show, American Ninja Warrior. Obstacle Warriors is a place for people to challenge themselves on a variety of obstacles in an indoor and climate-controlled environment.  Obstacles include the Salmon Ladder, Warped Wall, Quintuple Steps, Body Prop, Spider Jump, Rope Climb and so much more!  The gym...

Gary De Rodriguez is an internationally acclaimed expert in the science of human excellence and known as the People Mechanic, Gary de Rodriguez has over a 30 year career in designing and integrating the most effective models of psychology-based systems of success in leadership and team dynamics.  He is the CEO of Peopleistic LLC formerly People Rich LLC, a Director of the Business Education Instit...

Joan Dizon is the creator and CEO of The Limitless Family, where she and and her family challenge themselves and others to unlearn limiting habits through service, travel and spreading love. Joan is a military wife and mother of 3 boys. Joan loves to world-school her kids, takes thousands of photos a day, has a passion for entrepreneurship, dance and is a wanna be surfer.  Topics Discussed How Joa...

This week I interviewed Tomasz Kwiatkowski, former professional European league basketball player and NCAA division one athlete from SMU. On this episode, he shares how he leveraged his experience in high level sports to succeed in business and the corporate world.  Today, he is a sales executive, a strategist and a seven-foot tall leader who is passionate about the intersection of people, sales a...

Christopher is a writer, podcaster, speaker and juggler extraordinaire!  He shares a short story a month at nolumberjacks.com and is 1/2 of the Men in Gorilla Suits podcast -- a weekly pop culture podcast that sometimes borders on philosophical. A technical writer by trade, he also blogs at TheJugglingWriter.com and ChristopherGronlund.com On this episode we discuss:  The Christopher Gronlund orig...

In grade school Tara was known as the "Questioning Queen."  Being dyslexic, she had to find alternative ways to gain a deeper understanding of the subject at hand. Which meant asking "Why," "How" and "What if" until the point of exhaustion. She owes these experiences to the reason why she values the importance of intellectual curiosity and encourages others to engage in this way of thinking.  In 2...

Thomas Doweidt is an American Ninja Warrior Season 8 competitor. Out of 75,000 applicants, he was one of the few who were selected for their incredible athleticism, multitude of fitness accomplishments and compelling life story.  Tom was successful in completing the qualifiers which landed him at the OKC finals which will be aired on August 1st on NBC.  In addition to his physical gifts and many f...

Jason Osburn is the accomplished founder of Design Unto Others (DUO), an experience design consultancy that works with clients to uncover their core value and craft a great digital experience around it. Prior to DUO he's designed brand identities, digital platforms, award-winning apps, founded a successful TV Everywhere platform and leads an innovative consumer mobile app startup. Whether designin...

Bob McDaniel is a Certified Spartan SGX Coach and Spartan Obstacle Specialist.  He's achieved more than 12 first place finishes in his age group.  On this episode, we discuss preparation techniques to successfully conquer the Spartan Beast  which I will be doing this October.  The Spartan Beast is the most difficult of the three races in the Spartan trifecta.  The Beast is 12-14 miles with an aver...

Jarrad Abshire is a small business expert and Executive Consultant with Ambit Energy, a billion dollar energy retailer and one of the largest direct selling companies in the world. He wasn't always a savvy and financially successful entrepreneur. He started off his working career has a high school band director. As a high school band director, he realized that he was facing a future of working 30-...

Amber Kidwai is a Recruitment and Job Search Expert with over 10 years experience in the staffing industry. After graduating with a degree in Psychology from UCL – a university ranked #3 in the UK, and #7 in the world, she went on to pursue a Masters in Organizational Psychology which inspired her to apply psychology best practices in the workplace. She began her career as a Career Coach, helping...

Zack Hooper is the Co-founder and Principal of NPC Commercial Roofing, one of the fastest-growing new roofing companies in Texas. Zack considers himself a perpetual student and master of sales, and credits a significant amount of his ability to sell to his experience as a stand-up comedian. Starting stand-up as a college student in 2009, Zack learned a great deal about how to connect with people i...

Jason Croft is the Producer and Host of Startup Dallas, a Youtube Channel and Podcast where he interviews successful entrepreneurs from the Dallas area.  He is also on the verge of launching his own show, The Jason Croft Show. Jason is a true media veteran with 22 years of experience specializing in  video production.  On this episode, Jason gives us some amazing insights into his media experience...

Joshua Hall is a Usability Expert who has worked in a variety of industries including gaming, travel, e-commerce, healthcare, retail, food & restaurant. Highlights of Joshua's Career:  Certified Usability Analyst with Human Factors International. His testing experience includes mobile, tablet, web, command line, kiosk as well as gaming applications  Led the usability testing effort for Sabre Airli...

Brock Hardman is a Survivalist who has built a substantial firewall for himself and his family in case of any major financial, political or even natural disaster.  Some have even referred to him as a, "Doomsday Prepper." His interest in overall preparedness and survival techniques began in 2011 after watching  a financial documentary that completely changed his way of thinking. Since then, he's le...

Ryan is a solo freelance developer consistently making over a quarter of a million dollars per year from consulting work, while having the freedom to pick and choose the clients that he works with. Using the lessons from his own consulting business, he teaches other freelancers and consultants how to build sustainable six-figure businesses of their own. In 2015, he launched LetsMakeApps, a lead ge...

Laura Lamons is a lifelong athlete and sponsored runner by RunOn!  Although she's competed in soccer, tennis, cycling, basketball, volleyball and softball she began to hone in on running during college at the University of North Texas. She became a sponsored runner in 2014 so you can find her running competitively in DFW  almost every other weekend. In just a few years she has completed over 50 ra...

Mark Sinatra is CEO of Staff One HR. Before joining Staff One HR, Mark co-founded Gordian Capital, a private investment company that focuses on making long-term investments in lower middle market companies. He has worked in the private equity, investment banking, consulting, and business process outsourcing industries. He came to Staff One HR with some impressive roles under his belt at companies...

Bob McDaniel is certified Spartan SGX Coach & Spartan Obstacle Specialist. He started Spartan racing in May of 2012. Since then, he's completed 4 Spartan Trifectas which are 3 separate Spartan races, of varying distances completed over the course of 1 year.  Bob has accomplished 12 first place finishes in his age group from 2013 - 2015. In this episode, Bob shares his best advice on training, nutr...

Brandon Jenkins is a talented musician who was first inspired by rap music at the age of 12 years old. Since then, his life long dream was to become a professional musician.  While most kids his age were busy playing video games or hanging out with their friends, he was honing his craft by writing song verses and turning them into raps.  Determined to make his dream a reality, using pure grit, det...

Anthony Victorio is a software engineer lead currently working at Facebook. In this episode he shares his insights  on how he got the job at Facebook as well as what it's like to work for the social media giant. As a bonus, he gives us some insights into his approaches to problem solving.  Anthony is one of my oldest, closest and most loyal friends. He has influenced me a great deal throughout my...

Mike Leduc is a very accomplished software engineering leader with over 20 years of experience. He was former the Vice President of Software Engineering for Bottle Rocket Studios,  a mobile app development company that has produced some of the highest quality mobile apps in the world. At Bottle Rocket, he managed the software engineering group which consisted of iOS, android, sever, web and qualit...