Work at Home RockStar Podcast

Episode Summary In this episode of the Work at Home Rockstar Podcast, Tim Melanson chats with Hadley Nightingale, CEO of New Zealand Property Buyers , who helps investors purchase property by reducing the risk and complexity. Hadley decided to start his business, and three days later New Zealand went into lockdown. From there, he had to figure out working from home, serving overseas and expat Kiwi...

Episode Summary In this episode of the Work at Home Rockstar Podcast, Tim chats with Jon Ostenson, Founder and CEO of FranBridge Consulting . Jon spent years in the corporate world wanting to be a business owner but not knowing where to start. Then franchising landed on his radar, and today he helps people explore the world of non-food franchising and find the top opportunities in their market. Jo...

Episode Summary In this episode of the Work at Home Rockstar Podcast, Tim Melanson chats with Timmy vanVonno, Vice President of Growth at 20four7VA, about helping businesses grow remote teams with virtual assistants. Timmy shares how he reinvented his career from civil engineering and custom home construction to running his own fix and flip projects, and then into remote staffing. His lesson from...

Episode Summary In this episode of the Work at Home Rockstar Podcast, I'm rocking out with Scott Maderer, coach and founder of Inspired Stewardship . Scott helps people master their time, their talent, and their treasures so they can live out their calling. He kicks things off with a coaching win where a money conversation turned out to be a communication breakthrough, and he explains why we can't...

Episode Summary In this episode of the Work at Home Rockstar Podcast, Tim Melanson chats with Max Emma, CEO of Franchise With Max, who helps people find the right franchise, including many that can be run from home. Max came to the U.S. from the former Soviet Union at 18 without a word of English. He worked his way through corporate America, then grew his own business from three employees to 96, o...

EPISODE SUMMARY In this episode of the Work at Home Rockstar podcast, Tim Melanson sits down with Patrick Van Der Burght, owner of Ethical Persuasion Training and Consulting and a certified coach and licensed trainer with the Cialdini Institute. Patrick helps professionals become more persuasive in their communication using the science of human decision-making, as taught by his business partner, D...

Episode Summary In this episode of the Work at Home RockStar Podcast, Tim sits down with Benas Leonavicius, founder of the personal branding agency Avium, to talk about the long game of freelancing. Benas started out writing for pocket money in university, spent years earning average income while sticking with it, and then found a new growth path in the last three to four years that led him to lau...

Episode Summary In this episode of the Work At Home Rockstar Podcast, Tim sits down with copywriter and marketing strategist Rachel Allen of Bolt From The Blue Copywriting. Rachel takes us back to 2008, when she landed in Hong Kong with about $200 in her bank account, no work visa, and a journalism degree that wasn't landing her a job back home. A quick Google search for "how to make money online"...

Episode Summary Tim Melanson sits down with Bradley Rausch, owner of Level Up Influence, who helps coaching, consulting, and SaaS founder-led brands make more money from the clients they already have through stronger client success and customer experience. Bradley shares his origin story, from rising as a high-ticket closer at a nine-figure sales organization at just 19 years old, to walking away...

Episode Summary: In this episode of the Work at Home Rockstar Podcast, Tim Melanson chats with Dr. Rob Yonover, founder and CEO of Sea Rescue Corporation, who has worked from home for over 30 years inventing survival gear for military and civilian use. What started as him "screwing around with a piece of plastic" on his patio became the SeeRescueStreamer, a signaling device he says is now military...

Episode Summary In this episode of the Work at Home RockStar Podcast, Tim Melanson chats with Robert Siciliano, owner of Protect Now LLC, about building a long-term work-from-home solopreneur business and the security habits every remote entrepreneur needs to avoid scams, data breaches, and account takeovers. Robert shares his biggest business mistake, hiring "experts" without fully understanding...

Episode Summary On this episode of the Work at Home Rockstar Podcast, host Tim Melanson sits down with Anil Gupta, owner of For Your Eyes Only LLC and known internationally as The Love Doctor. Anil opens up about being suicidal in 2008, and how that low point became the turning point that led him to speak to audiences of up to 10,000 people, write three bestselling books, and appear on major media...

Episode Summary In this episode of the Work at Home Rockstar Podcast, Tim chats with Matt O'Neill, owner of Matt O'Neill Real Estate and Tide Property Management, and a happiness coach. Matt shares his path from hating engineering and a soul-crushing nine-to-five sales job to becoming a real estate agent, only to realize that client work had given him "40 bosses" instead of one. That realization l...

Episode Summary In this episode of the Work at Home Rockstar Podcast, Tim Melanson chats with Travis Cormier, CEO of 10X Travel, about building a remote-first business that continues to feel personal even as it grows. Travis shares how his team transformed a fast-growing company into one of Inc.'s Best Places to Work by intentionally investing in employee culture, meaningful relationships, and sys...

Episode Summary What happens when you achieve everything you thought you wanted, only to discover you've lost yourself along the way? In this episode of the Work at Home Rockstar Podcast, Tim Melanson sits down with Randy Vlasic, Founder and CEO of LIWMI Logistics, to discuss the lessons that came from building, selling, and rebuilding businesses while redefining what success really means. Randy s...

Episode Summary Building a successful business isn't about getting everything right the first time. In this episode of the Work at Home Rockstar Podcast , Tim Melanson sits down with Brian Samson, founder of Plugg Technologies, to discuss the lessons he's learned growing three different companies from zero to $4 million in annual recurring revenue. Brian shares how listening to customers led him t...

Episode Summary In this episode of the Work at Home Rockstar Podcast, Tim Melanson chats with Melinda Colón, owner of Melinda Colón Consulting and co-founder of Fortis OBM Proposal Development. Melinda helps service-based businesses, particularly those in construction, engineering, and consulting, secure government and corporate contracts that create more predictable revenue and long-term stabilit...

Episode Summary In this episode of the Work at Home Rockstar Podcast, Tim Melanson sits down with Curtis McCullom, CEO and Clinical Hypnotherapist at Bespoke Human Potential Coaching. Curtis shares how his LEGIT Mindset framework, centered around learning, growing, expanding, and transforming, has shaped both his personal journey and the work he does with entrepreneurs looking to overcome the ment...

Episode Summary In this episode of the Work at Home Rockstar Podcast, Tim Melanson chats with Kirsten Graham, CEO, business coach, and outsourcing specialist at Six Figure Business Coaching. Kirsten shares how a decade of mentoring self-employed business owners unexpectedly evolved into a coaching business that gave her the flexibility to support her family during a difficult season and ultimately...

Episode Summary In this episode of the Work at Home Rockstar Podcast, Tim Melanson chats with Fernando Angelucci, CEO of SSSE. Fernando shares how a fear-setting exercise from The 4-Hour Workweek helped him leave his engineering career behind and commit fully to entrepreneurship. What started with a bold leap of faith and nearly $100,000 in credit card cash advances has grown into a self-storage p...

Episode Summary What if your business could run without depending on you for every decision? In this episode of the Work at Home Rockstar Podcast, Tim Melanson sits down with John Whitt, Founder and President of BusinessWhitt, to discuss how entrepreneurs can move from building a business by default to building a business by design. John shares lessons from more than 15 years of working from home,...

Episode Summary In this episode of the Work at Home Rockstar Podcast, Tim Melanson welcomes back Clay Green, Chief Enthusiasm Officer at Conscious Flow Control. Nearly a decade after their first conversation, Clay returns to reflect on more than 12 years of working from home, navigating personal and business challenges, and helping others become more intentional about how they think, react, and gr...

Episode Summary In this episode of the Work at Home Rockstar Podcast, Tim Melanson chats with Tracy Brinkmann, founder of Success at Last!, LLC, podcaster, entrepreneur, and email marketing strategist. Tracy shares his journey through personal setbacks, entrepreneurship, mindset shifts, and building a business around helping local businesses grow through email marketing and modern AI-powered tools...

Episode Summary In this episode of the Work at Home Rockstar Podcast, Tim Melanson chats with Daron Campbell, president of DC Properties, about teaching people to buy "creative real estate" and build predictable wealth. Daron shares his success story of growing up in a struggling single-parent household and later using real estate to buy his mother's dry-cleaner business and give her the keys. Dar...

Episode Summary In this episode of the Work at Home Rockstar Podcast, Tim Melanson chats with author and voiceover artist Aaron Ryan about building a creative career through self-employment, storytelling, and persistence. Aaron shares how he transitioned from wedding videography into voiceover work and authorship, creating a business rooted in creativity and independence while navigating major ind...