Thrive LouD with Lou Diamond

Jacklyn Dallas is back on Thrive LOUD. Jacklyn is a technology YouTuber. She started her channel at 13 years old with the objective of helping people through tutorial videos.  Although four years have gone by, her objective is still to help people by both entertaining her viewers and informing them about the latest tech. Her videos can range from an in-studio product review, to travel vlogs a...

Jeff Hunter is the Chief Growth Officer of Branded Media where he creates solid, recognizable, legacy driven personal brands for legitimate companies and influencers. Branded Media is on its way to being the #1 branding agency in the world. Jeff and the Branded Media team build personal brands for CEO’s and founders of companies who are ready to leverage their business accomplishments to become a...

At eighteen years old, Stanley Padgett married his seventeen-year-old high school sweetheart.   In what easily could have been another divorce statistic.  Another couple who naively wed too young and couldn't make it work. But that's not who Stanley is. And that's not how he works.    Today we have a man that has found himself with a burning desire to share the secrets to...

*** Zack Friedman , CEO of Make Lemonade, will release his debut book “T he Lemonade Life: How To Fuel Success, Create Happiness, and Conquer Anything ” on August 6, 2019 via HarperCollins Leadership (available for preorder now). Friedman’s debut title features inspirational and practical stories, including the entrepreneur who failed 5,126 times before becoming a billionaire; the fourteenth-centu...

This minisode is a chance for us to go back to a great conversation we had last summer with Lisa Carpenter . Lisa shares that one of her goals is to focus on doing less a little bit better than she has.  She reminds us all the importance of appreciation and to live in the moment and work on being 'Human Beings' vs. 'Human Doings'. *** Connect to Lou Diamond: www.loudiamond.net Subscribe to Th...

Ryan Silbert  is an award-winning writer, filmmaker, producer, and founder of Origin Story Entertainment, a multi-platform entertainment company with a global focus on storytelling. Silbert’s new project is Stan Lee’s Alliances: A Trick of Light, an original, first-of-its kind audio storytelling event produced by Amazon’s Audible Studios and starring GROWN ISH’s Yara Shahidi. Created by Silbe...

Caroline Maguire is a passionate personal coach, author, teacher, and speaker whose work has inspired important conversations about social skills at elementary and middle schools and in homes all across the county, she believes all children can shine.  Her work is critical to parents everywhere who support children with executive function challenges struggling to show their best selves. Her n...

Stefani Reinold is a psychiatrist and branding expert who dropped the pill poppin’ path of mainstream mental health care in order to make real change in real women’s lives by teaching them how to find their hearts and embrace their real selves so they can create the life and business of their dreams.   Pulled from their original interview , Stefani shares with Lou her HEART Method® . &nb...

Jonathan Sackett is the Madness to the Method. He is the President and CCO of allscope - a full service advertising agency headquartered in NYC. And he's part of the team at allscope that is pioneering initiatives in the Cannabis industry! Jonathan is no stranger to Thrive LOUD as he appeared on the Thrive LOUD episode that featured Jamal Mashburn . Listen in as Jonathan and Lou Diamond chat about...

Alexa Curtis inspires teens around the globe to be fearless. She started this journey at the age of 12 and has been living a life unfiltered for almost a decade. Her incredibly popular Life Unfiltered blog , podcast , Radio Disney show Fearless Everyday and brand are everywhere and she is one incredibly fun person. Hear all about her story, her passion, her " Be Fearless " summit and her desire to...

Jonathan Soares is a man that has built a business no one thought was possible in the agency world. He is  solving one of the biggest problems digital and creative agencies face - limited access to high caliber engineers.  As Founder and CEO of Agency Labs , Jonathan and his team of full-stack engineers and technical project managers serve as the technical team for some of the world’s mo...

Joseph Bilotta is a program manager, teacher, counselor, coach, academy director who has over 35 years of professional experience working with young people in education and/or soccer related programs. He is the founder & President of EduKick .  A tri-lingual ex-professional American Soccer player that has played at the soccer powerhouse St. Mary's College,  in Spain and several seasons i...

Sometimes those that Thrive LOUD inspire others from their journey on the long road back. From the Brooklyn housing projects, to private Catholic School, to a near 17-year incarceration at Five Points Correctional Facility, to Cornell University, Darnell Epps '19 is not your typical Cornell Senior. Hear Darnell's fascinating and inspirational story about taking the wrong path in life, lessons lear...

Wrapping up “FinTech” week we go back to one of our early guests Adam Frisch CEO of BIM Networks . In this minisode, Adam shares what the BIM payment platform is all about. Since the initial recording,  BIM is up and running with some of the world’s largest brands where "every day, every week and every month" transactions are most prevalent.  BIM is being used at Shell and Phillips 66 ga...

Thomas Sponholtz is the founder of Unison (the smarter, better way to own homes) and leads the company’s overall strategic direction. He has more than twenty years of experience building large-scale consumer finance and investment management businesses. Thomas has been on the Board of Outward Bound, he is an avid sailboat racer and kite surfer, and he launched the world’s first junior kite board r...

Johnny Reinsch is the co-founder & CEO of Qwil .  Previously, he was the SVP of Strategy at Xapo , the world’s secure bitcoin wallet and vault where he helped evangelize bitcoin in developing economies as an alternative to broken banking and financial systems. He is a recovering M&A lawyer, having done over $10B in M&A deals before leaving big law to tackle financial inclusion. He’s a UCLA Br...

In the midst of Thrive LOUD's "FinTech" week it made perfect sense to catch up and reconnect with "The Godfather of FinTech" himself Ron Suber. Enjoy this "Catch Up" minisode where we also tacked on Ron's focus on "ReWirement" vs. "ReTirement".   *** Connect with Lou Diamond: www.loudiamond.net Subscribe to Thrive LOUD: www.thriveloud.com/podcast    

Media personality Amanda B. Johnson has been providing cryptocurrency research and commentary since 2014. She is obsessed with monetary theory.  Her educational and opinion pieces have appeared in leading industry publications including Bitcoin Magazine, Finance Magnates and  Bitcoin.com . For FinTech Week, we go back to the original Thrive LOUD episode where Amanda answers everythi...

Chris White  is the founder and CEO of  ViableMkts  &  BondCliQ . His 20 year career in finance has been almost exclusively dedicated to fixed income market evolution and has included roles at MarketAxess, Barclays Capital, and most recently, Goldman Sachs. To kick off "FinTech" Week on Thrive LOUD - listen in to Chris White as he shares with Lou Diamond how BondCliQ is providi...

Julien and Suelyn Farel are a truly dynamic duo. Julien is a world-renowned hair stylist and Suelyn is a master marketer. Together they have managed to run a machine of a business...remain solid life partners and parents They have created a hair care line ( Restore and Magnifique ) which aims to rejuvenate the hair via the scalp, which is wildly successful on QVC. The Julien Farel is the go-t...

Speaker, Educator, and would be vegan… if it weren’t for peanut butter chocolate milkshakes… Jess Pettitt is featured in a Thrive LOUD Minisode.  Plucked from their conversation back in 2018 , Jess shares with Lou Diamond how she became the most unlikely, but perfect, vehicle to help the average "white guy" with the issues they confront. Enjoy !! *** Connect to Lou Diamond: www.loudiamond.net...

Scott Amyx is an expert in innovation that integrates exponential technologies and out-of-the-box thinking and methodologies to create breakthrough new innovations for organizations. In his most recent Forbes column, he discussed the use of crowdsourcing and AI with research-based analogical innovation that can systematically and consistently generate profoundly new-to-the-world innovations that h...

John Mitchell ’s 12 minute a day Think It Be It technique is recognized today as the “Top Practical Application in the World” of the legendary book Think and Grow Rich. When he applied his technique to his own life, he saw his income go to over $5 million a year. Previously, for 20 years as an entrepreneur, he earned low six figures a year. The 20 times difference happen because his daily techniqu...

In this Thrive LOUD Minisode - we go back two years to Lou's conversation with Mark Bomback.  The "unstoppable" screenwriter shares his advice to any future screenplay writers out there that there's no secret sauce or magic wand for being successful.  Mark reminds us that there is no substitute for perseverance and hard work. Be on the lookout for Mark's new movie " The Art of Racing in...

Alice Heiman is the ideal sales strategist.  She delivers results by working with a company’s senior executives using her unique combination of experience in sales, sales management, process implementation and facilitation. She has provided her expertise to start-ups and small businesses up to Fortune 100 companies the world over. Getting connected is her passion and she has created many prod...