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Doug Nordman served for 20 years of active duty in the U.S. Navy’s submarine force and retired in 2002 at the age of 41. He and his spouse, a retired Navy Reservist, reached financial independence in 1999 on a high savings rate. Carol Pittner was born & raised in Hawaii, and joined the Navy on a ROTC scholarship.  She’s been stationed around the world on a destroyer and an aircraft carrier before...

Villa Cappelli! Steven Crutchfield grew up in Kenedy, Texas, a small town with a population of 3,763. Being a bit of nerd, I graduated the top of my class and moved to Austin, Texas to attend the University of Texas where my first class was bigger than my entire high school and my dorm was bigger than my entire hometown. Eventually, graduating with a degree in both English and Advertising, I heade...

Cynthia Cummins sells houses in San Francisco. It’s arguably the most daunting real estate market in the country, where winning a 900 sq. ft. two bedroom condo means coughing up $1.2 million in cash and doing battle with five other buyers for that dubious honor. It’s a pressure cooker where commerce and human emotions collide, and in her 30 years spent swimming in that soup, she has gained a lot o...

Anita Dhake is part of the FIRE (Financial Independence/Retire Early) community who I found through the Mr. Money Mustache blog. I checked out her blog and was amazed by her story. Here are the cliff notes: 1) Went to law school because she was good a solving puzzles 2) decided very early that she could be "thrifty" and save enough money to 3) pay off her student loans 4) and then "retire"(!) in h...

Rob Scott is a Master Level Coach and the founder of Fundamental Shift, LLC. His work has influenced hundreds of thousands of people, helping to “shift their identities.” He helps them evolve their consciousness, and create profound changes in all the important areas of life. His coaching programs take you through proven processes that will get you past your biggest, deepest limiting beliefs, so y...

Steve Pavlina and I shared a fun and insightful conversation covering a wide range of growth stories and a ton of laughs...instant best-of show! Steve Pavlina Podcast:  Steve's mission is explore, clarify, and elegantly codify conscious growth challenge the status quo, to take intelligent risks, and to experiment strengthen our global society's alignment with truth, love, and power advance conscio...

Caroline Greene is a recovering lawyer, chronic overachiever, and two-time Amazon best-selling author of MATTER: How to Find Meaningful Work That’s Right for You and Your Family and NEXT: How to Start a Successful Business That’s Right for You and Your Family. As a life and business coach, Caroline helps determined moms build businesses – and whole lives - that truly matter to them. Caroline Green...

Aaron Walker is, without question, a veteran entrepreneur. Starting his first business at 18, and selling to a Fortune 500 company nine short years later, demonstrates Aaron’s passion for success. Unwilling to rest on past success alone, Aaron started, bought, and sold eight successful companies over the past 36 years. Having a strong desire for personal development has kept Aaron in a weekly mast...

Russ Yeager is one of the top fitness coaches in the world -- but he wasn’t always fit and healthy. He grew up a chubby kid wearing the “husky” pants, constantly looking for answers. He became obsessed in his pursuit of knowledge around building a lean, fit, healthy physique, maintaining abundant energy, and still having a real life. It took 25+ years of research, trial & error, and real-life expe...

Nigel Bennett was shocked to witness first-hand the real impact of oil spills on our natural world. After almost being shot down by FARC guerrillas on the Venezuela-Colombia border and being forced to escape Egypt while working for his father's oil spill contingency planning company, he decided to break away and start Aqua-Guard Spill Response. Aqua-Guard now provides equipment and services that p...

David Wood veered after life as a consulting actuary to Fortune 100 Companies, and built the world’s largest coaching business, becoming #1 on Google for “life coaching.” He believes the tough conversations we avoid are our doorways to confidence, success, and even love – in both work and life. David coaches high performing entrepreneurs, executives and teams and even prison inmates - to amazing r...

Carlos Rosales worked in business leadership roles for 35 years, he knows what it takes to be a successful executive. His career has centered largely around sales and management, with experience in product development, new market establishment, and building/growing successfulteams for aggressive startups. A Certified Professional Leadership Coach and Certified Process Consultant, Carlos launched h...

Kelly Glover launched her media career in 2001 and has since worked her way up the entertainment industry ladder from intern (Miramax) to agency owner. She started podcasting in 2006 prior to attending The Australian Television and Radio School’s elite commercial radio broadcasting program (AFTRS) after which she landed her own syndicated radio show (New FM/ Super Radio Network). Kelly’s track rec...

Jacob Bustos is a chef, cooking coach, and food enthusiast who has been in the food business for twenty-four years. Jacob, who has always been passionate about eating healthy, beat his battle with morbid obesity and has set out to make a positive impact on others. His mission of food, family and fellowship in concert with healthy meal/food choices has served him well during his battle for health....

Dirk van Reenen, CEO of GoBundance, is an award-winning entrepreneur and internationally sought-after business growth consultant, speaker, and trainer. For over a decade, he has owned multiple businesses and has served as CEO of 2 large companies, leading both to record-breaking growth, including a real estate brokerage exceeding annual sales of $800M. Dirk now owns and leads R&D company BERGflow,...

Dr. Grace Lee is not a typical brain and behavior expert with a PhD in Neuroscience. Rather, she is a career educator, quantum leap accelerator, and strategic reinventionist on a mission to end the separation between work and fulfillment. To that end, she is building a global mass movement called Career Revisionist, a term she created to represent an identity of empowered individuals resolved to f...

Dr. Josh Wagner is an international speaker, seminar leader. author and consultant to successful doctors’ practices and their staffs around the world. After building a private practice in New York City and seeing patients for years, Dr. Wagner realized his true passion is in guiding others to their own success while building greater peace of mind. In his book, You Deserve it, Dr. Wagner details th...

Kelly DiNardo is a freelance journalist and the author of several books including Living the Sutras: A Guide to Yoga Wisdom beyond the Mat, which gives readers a modern and personal look at ancient yogic philosophy. She is also the producer and co-host of the Living It podcast and owner of Past Tense yoga studio in Washington, DC. Kelly DiNardo Vroom Veer Stories Kelly shares about how J. Lo made...

Brian Weaver is chief executive officer of Torch. AI, a Leawood, Kansas company that helps organizations leverage artificial intelligence through a proprietary enterprise data management software solution. With nearly 20 years of business experience, leading mission-driven, high-growth technology enabled organizations, his companies have earned recognition as Kansas City Small Business of the Year...

Sir John Hargrave returns to tell us about his new book Blockchain for everyone. He was on the show before and he is an amazing storyteller, stand by have fun and maybe finally learn what the hell blockchain is anyway. John is the author of three books, including Mind Hacking. He is one of the most sought-after speakers on the blockchain circuit, educating and entertaining audiences around the wor...

Carmen Dellutri is the Founder and President of the Dellutri Law Group, P.A. He is certified by the American Board of Certification Consumer in bankruptcy law. He is also a Florida Supreme Court Certified Circuit Court and Family Law Mediator and a Qualified Arbitrator. Carmen Dellutri Vroom Veer Stories Grew up in New Jersey; at age 4 he started working with his father in the family business work...

Betty Jean Bell is the founder of BeingBadass.com. She has a passion for helping entrepreneurs transform their confidence, body image, and health with meaningful science, psychology, spirituality, and uncommon action that works. She believes that when you love the body you have, it becomes the body you want. Betty Jean’s unique approach has helped countless individuals around the world to lose wei...

Cody Byrns is an internationally recognized speaker, a number one best- selling author and the founder of The Cody Byrns Foundation for Burn Survivors. In May 2013, Cody’s life was changed drastically after he was rear-ended by a box-truck whilst stopped at a red light on the highway. He was considered dead until first responders saw his hand move. He received many injuries that day, including sev...

Sunday Burquest is a professional keynote speaker, author, breast cancer survivor, and a competitor on the reality TV show Survivor - she is the ultimate Grit Girl. With her dynamic and engaging personality, she empowers audiences to discover their strength by breaking down the true meaning of G.R.I.T. Sunday delivers hope Grit Girl Story in Brief Sunday’s life changed forever the day she heard th...

Joe Trodden has been a mindset coach for nine years and with a specific focus on entrepreneurs for the last five, working with around 300 across all sectors. They come to Joe to work on the next level of their strategy growth and to develop their mindset to become effective entrepreneurial leaders. Mindset is the single biggest factor in success for entrepreneurs. The journey is incredibly difficu...