The Tony DUrso Show - Journey to Success!

Meet Wylie McGraw. He's a former star athlete, a competitive bull rider, and a 3-tour combat veteran. He's the founder of Radical Performance Acceleration. He started out helping fellow combat veterans who were struggling with PTSD while trying to transition back into civilian life. His success with them led to working with various health professionals, high-powered executives, professional athlet...

Carol Sanford is a best-selling, award-winning business educator, Summit Producer, podcaster, and author. She is consistently recognized thought leader working side by side with Fortune 500 and new economy executives in designing and leading systemic business change and design. Through her university and in-house educational offerings, global speaking platforms, best-selling, multi- award-winning...

Peter Sterling is one of the world's premier harpists in the genre of new age and contemporary instrumental music. During his 28-year career with the harp, he's had several #1 records on the international radio charts. He was a bronze and silver medal winner in the prestigious Global Music Awards, and he won the New Age/Ambient Song of the Year in the 2017 Hollywood Music and Media Awards. Listen...

Andrew Bryant is the World's Leading Expert on Self-Leadership and Author. He coached hundreds of leaders and leadership teams to become the best version of themselves and to scale their companies. The tagline for his fourth book, The New Leadership Playbook, is Being Human Whilst Delivering Accelerated Results. Post pandemic everyone is looking for accelerated results but despite digital transfor...

Chris Duffin is the cofounder and chief engineer at Kabuki Strength, an organization devoted to optimizing human performance and making the world a better place through strength. Chris is arguably one of the strongest pound-for-pound humans in the world having been the ONLY person to Squat and Deadlift over 1000lbs for reps holding the Guinness World Record on the Sumo Deadlift. Listen to The Tony...

Hall-of-Fame-nominated marketer, bestselling author, and Wall Street Journal cartoonist Stu Heinecke shares his fascination with weeds and how anyone can grow their business into something resilient and unstoppable. Stu explored the Weeds model for several years, collecting insights from thought leaders from the worlds of business, government, and entertainment including T. Boone Pickens, Kathy Ir...

Byron Reese is an entrepreneur with a quarter-century of experience building and running technology companies. He is a recognized authority on AI and holds a number of technology patents. He is the author of four books on technology, his most recent was described by The New York Times as "entertaining and engaging." Listen to The Tony DUrso Show on VoiceAmerica Influencers Platform every Friday at...

Amy Newmark is the bestselling author, editor-in-chief, and publisher of the Chicken Soup for the Soul book series. Since 2008, she has published more than 170 new books, most of them national bestsellers in the U.S. and Canada, more than doubling the number of Chicken Soup for the Soul titles in print today. Listen to The Tony DUrso Show on VoiceAmerica Influencers Platform every Friday at 2pm Pa...

Ian Foster was finishing his Master's internship as a social work counselor when C-19 hit. He and his fellow interns transitioned to remote-counseling using video-conferencing technology, but the young men they were working with were distracted by the tech. No one knew where to look. The rapport they had built fizzled out. Throughout 2020 he began developing prototypes and when he was satisfied wi...

Prior to joining The Oak Ridge Boys in 1972, Richard Sterban sang with various groups, eventually joining J.D. Sumner and the Stamps Quartet, which afforded him the opportunity of a lifetime—the chance to sing with Elvis, the King of Rock and Roll, singing with him every night on stage, recording with him, and appearing in one of his movies (Elvis on Tour). It was during this time in the midst of...

From broke jazz musician to $50 million in online sales, Jeff Lerner's story and message are now inspiring millions. After a decade of building multiple online businesses to over 8 figures and twice landing on the Inc. 5000, Jeff turned his focus to educating and inspiring entrepreneurs about the power of digital business. In 2018, he founded ENTRE Institute where over 50,000 students have discove...

Philippe Bouissou, Ph. D. has spent three decades in Silicon Valley as an entrepreneur, a CEO, a venture capitalist, and a management consultant. He is Managing Partner at Blue Dots Partners LLC, a firm he co-founded focused on top-line acceleration. He led US business development for electronic publishing for a $12 billion, high-tech and diversified media company before joining Apple as Director...

A former radio announcer and program director, Jim Rafferty puts three decades of marketing experience to work helping businesses communicate better, writing in a conversational and entertaining style, and bringing that same voice to his work as a speaker and presenter. He's a former Boy Scout leader, the story of which serves as the catalyst for Leader by Accident.

Prior to joining The Oak Ridge Boys in 1972, Richard Sterban sang with various groups, eventually joining J.D. Sumner and the Stamps Quartet, which afforded him the opportunity of a lifetime—the chance to sing with Elvis, the King of Rock and Roll, singing with him every night on stage, recording with him, and appearing in one of his movies (Elvis on Tour). It was during this time in the midst of...

Mark Samuel has been consulting and coaching organizations since 1980, specializing in strategic planning, strategy execution, business transformation and culture change, building high performance teams for Senior Management, Middle Management, Department, and Project Teams; and Leadership Development for Executives and Middle Managers. Listen to The Tony DUrso Show on VoiceAmerica Influencers Pla...

AJ Vaden is CEO & Co-Founder of Brand Builders Group, one of the world's leading authorities on personal brand strategy.  She's also the co-host of the Influential Personal Brand podcast, named one of Forbes' top 10 podcasts to listen to in 2021. Along with her company she's been featured in Inc, Success Magazine, Fast Company, Entrepreneur, and Good Morning America.  Listen to The Tony DUrso Show...

Max James — Air Force Academy graduate, pilot, shot down twice in Vietnam to become the original founder and CEO of American Kiosk Management, a billion-dollar global presence in North America, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand with 5 million repeat customers, 600 staffed locations, 1000 automated stores, and 54,000 employees. Through personal stories and business adventures, Max James delivers i...

A disciple of Michael Gerber and a lifelong student, Susie Carder started with one salon and health spa and built it into one of the most successful businesses in the country. She then founded and sold three profitable companies, the last of which sold for eight figures to Cengage (previously Reuters and Thompson Learning). Listen to The Tony DUrso Show on VoiceAmerica Influencers Platform every F...

Paul Smith is one of the world's leading experts on organizational storytelling. He's one of Inc. Magazine's Top 100 Leadership Speakers of 2018, and the author of three Amazon #1 bestsellers: Lead with a Story (now in its 11th printing, and published in 7 languages around the world), Sell with a Story, and The 10 Stories Great Leaders Tell; in addition to Parenting with a Story and his newest wor...

Jonathan is the CEO of EstateSpace, which developed the world's first asset management solution that provides a single point of record for a family's physical assets. A 3x startup founder, Jonathan provides information regarding managing your valuable physical assets, increasing and protecting the value of your assets and transitioning your family's generational wealth. Listen to The Tony DUrso Sh...

An advertising agency owner for 30 years, Cody Lowry is the King of Schmooze. He set up a meeting with the President of The United States in one week, got a baseball signed by the Pope, carried the Torch in the Olympic Torch Relay, and was gifted a Super Bowl Ring by one of the NFL Hall Of Fame Coaches among some of his honors and distinctions. His book Schmooze - What They Should Teach At Harvard...

Reimagining Global Philanthropy. Kirk Bowman is a professor and previously was the founder of a nonprofit in Fiji that helps small Fijian coastal communities. Jon Wilcox is a founder and former CEO of the California Republic Bank. And theTerm Chair of Global Development & Identity and Global Politics in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Listen to...

Renée Marino is a professional communication coach named by Yahoo Finance as one of the "Top 10 Communication Coaches to Follow in 2021!" She was the co-host of Tony Robbins and Dean Graziosi's first-ever virtual "World Summit" and has spoken, performed, and been interviewed on thousands of live and virtual stages, including Dean Graziosi's podcast The Dean Graziosi Show. Listen to The Tony DUrso...

Ryan Foland is known for his knack on making things simple, and powerful. He helps people clarify their personal brand, and shows them how to build it authentically. Ditch the Act shows how to present your humanness?imperfect and flawed but honest, resilient, and willing to learn?in strategic ways to achieve clear, defined goals. It provides an actionable program for building an authentic, long-la...

Fredrik van Huynh is the Co-Founder of Absolute Internship, one of the world's largest internship programs for students. Frequently covered by Forbes Magazine, The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, Financial Times, and BBC News, Freddie is recognized as one of Sweden's top entrepreneurs, having built a multi-million dollar business from the ground up. Listen to The Tony DUrso Show on VoiceAm...