The Real Jason Duncan Podcast

Today’s guest is Dan Vega, an entrepreneur, investor, speaker, business coach, talk show host and producer. Starting his first business at 19, he has written and spoken in the field of business for over 25 years, achieving extreme success in several careers including sales, marketing, management, corporate restructuring and consulting. He understands the business world from top to bottom and has h...

Today’s guest is Patch Baker, a serial entrepreneur, expert marketer, investor, and speaker, who specializes in creating extraordinary results and growth for businesses. Patch spent nearly 15 years serving our country and is a Service Disabled Veteran of the United States Marine Corps. Patch has acquired a unique set of skills through multiple acquisitions and business exits while connecting Veter...

Today's guest is Janet Hogan, an entrepreneur who wears many hats. Starting as a punk rock model, then a movie actress by 21, later becoming a soap star, restaurant owner and Australia's youngest ever writer to win a Lion at the Cannes Advertising Awards. After starting and running an ad agency with her partner, Janet also had a multi million dollar real estate development company, setting up 6 bu...

Today's guest is Virgil Herring, who after winning TN Section PGA Teacher of the Year in 2003 and 2015, and Middle TN Chapter Teacher of the Year 6 times, is now the Director of Golf at Ensworth High School. As a former Charter Member of Golf Channel Academy, Virgil is also the golf analyst for CBS WSMV-TV Newschannel 5 here in Nashville, TN. Since 1997 Virgil has helped 198 junior golfers earn a...

Today's guest is Tyler Cauble, a young but highly successful entrepreneur who sold over $12,000,000 in commercial real estate while working for Vastland Realty Group from the age of 21. As a millennial working in an industry with an older average age, Tyler realized he could innovate and disrupt the industry by incorporating new technologies and practices, leading him to create The Cauble Group. H...

With more than twenty-five years of experience in structural, architectural, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineering design and construction, today's guest, Dr. Garry Vermaas, founded BASE4 and Stonepile Construction College. As a CEO with a Ph. D. and a Master's in Engineering Mechanics from Columbia University, he focuses his extensive knowledge and influence on offering executive coach...

Today’s guest is Joe Valley, who after building, buying, or selling half a dozen of his own companies, helped build one of the leading online-focused M&A Advisory firms in the world. Now, after facilitating nearly 1/2 billion in exits, he has written the bestselling book The EXITpreneur's Playbook - which shares real-life stories of successful and failed exits, and teaches readers how to reverse e...

Today's guest Matt Bodnar, is a great example of how far you can go with the right amount of entrepreneurial spirit. Matt, who was named "Forbes 30 Under 30" and partner in multiple "Inc Fastest Growing Companies," is an expert deal maker and strategy specialist who scales businesses across multiple industries. He is the Chairman of Fresh Technology, Cofounder & Managing Partner of Fresh Capital a...

Today's guest is Dr. Rubin Cockrell, an Award-Winning International Speaker, Author, Entrepreneur and Professor who also serves as CEO of Positive Images & Associates LLC, a global consulting firm specializing in educational leadership. From being on the verge of getting locked up for 20 years at the age of 20 to having four degrees, Dean of a University and starting a global consulting company by...

Today's guest is Stephen Scoggins, a highly successful, multi-million-dollar serial entrepreneur who is not only a best-selling author, but also the creator of Transform U, a proprietary Life Mastery System dedicated to coaching Fortune 500 leaders, professional athletes, entertainers, hardworking individuals, and everyone in between. In order to help each of his clients accelerate their progress,...

Lucas Robinson is a great example of how far you can go with enough endurance, passion, and perseverance. His entrepreneurial spirit was first discovered in 1997, when he opened his first shaved ice cart at the age of 16. The week after graduating high school, Lucas spoke with the store manager of a local Lowe’s and offered to sell shaved ice out front. Then one year later, he went to Walmart's he...

Blake C. McCall started his career in sales by working in the business machines, software, and telecommunications industry. Since working with big companies like Seattle Mariners, Oakland Athletics, Pizza Hut, Granite Construction, and Volunteers of America, Blake utilized his knowledge and became self-employed for 4 years before deciding to do something completely different. In 2017, he received...

Our first two-person guest is here to talk about their incredible story of how they became successful media growth specialists. While preparing for the opportunity to become professional soccer players, they realized a job would be needed to help fund their journey, as well as make a large impact in the world. Since a typical job was not an option, the Bros made numerous business attempts such as...

Erik Peterson is one of those entrepreneurs whose determination and spirit is almost contagious. Erik has been active in the real estate business for the last 18 years, with a majority of those years having been with Sequoia Equities, a multifamily real estate investment firm with over $4.2B of assets under management. Erik has acquired approximately $2.5B in assets and over 9000 units, while also...

David Wood is an interesting and experienced entrepreneur who worked as Consulting Actuary for major Fortune 100 companies including Sony Music, Chanel, and Exxon. David left 20 years ago to build the world's largest coaching business, and has since then become #1 on Google for "life coaching", serving an audience of 150,000 coaches, and coaching thousands of hours in 12 countries around the globe...

Today’s guest is Brett Swarts, one of the most well-rounded Capital Gains Tax Deferral Experts in the nation. He is also a top informative speaker, Founder of Capital Gains Tax Solutions and host of the Capital Gains Tax Solutions podcast. Each year, he equips hundreds of high net worth business professionals with the DST tool to help their high net worth clients with topics like divesting from a...

Today's guest is Mitch Russo, an extremely successful entrepreneur with years of wisdom and experience that dates back to 1978 with no signs of slowing down. After working as an Electrical Engineer at Digital Equipment Corp, Mitch migrated to application engineering for Mostek (a semiconductor company) and then entered the software business as the founder of Timeslips Corp (sold to Sage Pie) after...

Anthony Trucks is the product of overcoming numerous obstacles and tribulations and shifting his identity to fit his goals, landing himself in the successful position he is in today. This former NFL Athlete, American Ninja Warrior on NBC, international speaker, host of the Aww Shift podcast, and the founder of Identity Shift coaching has faced extreme adversity since childhood. After being given a...

Greg Kimble is one of those entrepreneurs who wears many hats and still manages to live a successful lifestyle. As a teenager, he got his start in the music industry as a singer/songwriter. Quickly realizing he wanted to do more than sing, Greg went on to become a producer, engineer, performer, speaker, educator, and business owner. While acknowledging his own creativity, Kimble also attributes hi...

Steve Carlis is one of the most interesting entrepreneurs on this show, due to his unique presence in everything media related. Steve was the President of Shooting Gallery, which helped create over 50 films including two-time Academy Award Nominated film, Slingblade. On top of being the winner of the Ernst and Young 2000 Entrepreneur of the Year award, he was also the executive producer of the Aca...

Before Stephen Epstein was a private equity investor, CEO of a public company, and a serial entrepreneur, he was a USC graduate with a degree in international relations. Having only a small idea of what he wanted to do in life, Stephen started his career in real estate finance and investment, working his way up to GROSVENOR, the Duke of Westminster's real estate company. In late 2007, Stephen foun...

While Jeff Lopes has been an incredibly successful entrepreneur for over 20 years, he takes more pride in being a father of two, and a husband. Jeff has founded numerous highly profitable companies like TrueBlue Homes, a portfolio of vacation rentals properties, and Kimurawear, a boxing / martial arts equipment brand. On top of hosting the popular podcast Jeff Knows Inc, Jeff uses his knowledge of...

Brad Lea is one of those guests that you will most likely never forget, which is for the best considering how much advice Brad has picked up along the way. Starting off young at 17, (and writing 18 on the application) Brad decided to start selling cars, quickly becoming the top salesman on the team. This is when Brad found his passion for selling, which fueled his enthusiasm for success. After sel...

Chuck Garcia is an incredibly wise and successful entrepreneur who has used his path in life as a metaphor to help others in their own journey to success. After climbing and navigating a difficult mountain in Alaska, he founded Climb Leadership International, a program Chuck created which uses the idea of persevering through a mountain as the climb to success. Chuck uses his vast knowledge and exp...

Lance Goodman has been met with what some people may call “luck”, however luck has very little to do with his wide range of success. Since the age of 12, Lance has lived outside his comfort zone working for business owners such as passing out signs for a pizza shop. This balance of creativity and innovation cultivated in Lance’s mind, leading him to become the President of Premier Development Part...