In life, we receive messages and revelations that come to us in different forms.  A close family member or friend.  Heartbreak. An accident. Transformation. Everything we need to know and have for our journey here is woven into the fabric of our lives.  But, we don’t always want to see what’s in plain sight. Sometimes, we have to take the hard roads up the mountains to help us realize the power of who we truly are before we can impact the world as intended. 

Clint Riggin is Founder and CEO of Limitless Coaching, a one-stop-shop for helping entrepreneurs with maximizing their health and fitness so they can be better leaders, better parents, better business people, and overall, better human beings. He’s an 8-year Navy Veteran and competed in bodybuilding for 3 years. 

Jeff and Clint don’t waste much time talking about a period of Clint’s life that almost removed him from the planet. Clint candidly shares how pressing his body to the limits with the use of various drugs almost destroyed his thyroid, sent him into depression, and almost led to his suicide. He shares a revelation he received from his father at the young age of 14.  He wouldn’t remember this until much later in life. Jeff and Clint discuss the various masterminds they’re involved with, the importance of meditation and its transformative effects on the human psyche. They share their experiences they had at a 3-day event hosted by Lisa Marie Platske and why you should connect and get to know her.   Clint shares his focus and vision on how Limitless Coaching is transforming the health and fitness industry by doing one simple thing………creating the synergy for overall wellness through connecting the mind, body, and spirit. 

What You’ll Learn:

 

• The length of time Clint Competed in Body Building 
• Why Clint’s Thyroid stopped working, why it led him to be addicted to drugs and close to suicide 
• How many people live in their past and why it’s holding them back 
• Creating time, mending relationships, and uncovering the truth of who you are
• The power of meditation and how it helps plow through the micro-stress signals our body receives first thing in the morning 
• Why it’s important to have a mentor that will push you to do the work and hold you accountable 
• Jeff reveals one instrument that will make your family into a wealthy one 
• 3 people Clint would love to have dinner with be they dead or alive 
• What taking 12ccs of TRT per week will do to your body
• Addictive personalities and the age Clint revealed he had one, and the wisdom his Father shared with him on how to use it
• Who Lisa Marie Platske is and why Jeff and Clint both love her; they’ll share their experience with you
• How Limitless Coaching has become a one-stop-shop for all of your health and fitness needs online
• What Apex is and what it’s about 

• And much more! 

  

Favorite Quote:

“I didn’t know I had an addictive personality until I was 14 years old. My dad said, “You do have  a genetic disposition and you can use it for good, or for bad.”

-Clint Riggin

 

Connect With Clint: 

 Limitless Life on Facebook

Facebook

Instagram 

 

How to Get Involved:

Addicted to Winning connects listeners through stories that prove why mindset matters. Jeff Brekken was working a 60-hour week on his family’s farm by the time he was 10. When he wasn’t helping with the harvest, he was at the hockey rink. Jeff’s early life experiences taught him he needs to be either all-in or all-out. 

In 2000 he started a single-family home construction business and by 2008 he was looking for his next big thing. Jeff founded the Blue Sky Benefit Solutions & Rise Above HR/Recruiting on top of a lifelong passion for helping people. Through this show, Jeff will take that passion one step further.

If you enjoyed this episode, head over and visit us on Apple Podcasts - leave a review and let us know what you thought! Your feedback keeps us going. Thanks for helping. 

Experience is a powerful thing.  It’s not qualified by the length of time doing something, but the repetitions of doing so. The more you do something, the quicker you can become a master, giving you the experience to qualify you as an expert. Everything begins and ends with creating a vision, setting goals, focusing on the work that needs to be done, replicating it, and implementing quickly. 

Doug Mitchell is President and CEO of Argenta Field Solutions and Argenta Solar.  He and his family reside in Texas.  His biggest goal is to constantly evolve into the best version of himself for his family, his employees, clients, and business associates.

Jeff and Doug have a great conversation today about some of the things that make them unemployable now that they’ve been entrepreneurs.  Doug shares why telling people how to do their jobs got him fired from 20 of his. They discuss how imposter syndrome cripples many when joining a network of high-performance leaders, and how to break the frame of feeling inadequate by acquiring the knowledge to create the opportunities. Doug takes a deep dive into some close friends and influences he currently has in his life, as well as 3 people he would love to have dinner with.  He shares a big hairy audacious goal he’s currently on track to achieve by the end of 2023 that will impact 100 families or more. Doug also drops in some wisdom about how the brain operates and software you can use that will make your life easier when it comes to running any business. Bring your notepads and get ready to take notes! 

What You’ll Learn:

 

• Overcoming imposter syndrome
• The power of true mentorship and Doug’s first mentor
• Why it’s important to have a mentor as soon as you get into a career 
• One big hairy audacious goal Doug has to make 100 6-figure earners
• How much money the company will have to make in order to hit that goal
• Doug shares something he heard about the brain from a friend of his that can benefit everyone in life and business
• The best place to leverage knowledge, network, and opportunities
• Doug’s first job working door to door
• What a PJ trip is and why Doug enjoys taking them 
• A big source of discomfort for Doug he’s not experienced in over 10 years
• What Apex is and what some of the members in the network are doing in business
• One book Doug revisits every single year 
• How Doug gets into a state to help maximize his impact in his life and business
• 3 people Doug would have dinner with whether they’re alive or not and why
• How to build a great sales team brick by brick 
• Why changing the culture in your company starts with talking  

• And much more! 

  

Favorite Quote:

 “I had 20 jobs and got fired from 19 of them.  I got fired from the 20th company twice, and then bought it.”

• Doug Mitchell

 

Connect With Doug: 

 TXBizDad

Podcast: Building Great Sales Teams

Facebook

Instagram 

 

How to Get Involved:

Addicted to Winning connects listeners through stories that prove why mindset matters. Jeff Brekken was working a 60-hour week on his family’s farm by the time he was 10. When he wasn’t helping with the harvest, he was at the hockey rink. Jeff’s early life experiences taught him he needs to be either all-in or all-out. 

In 2000 he started a single-family home construction business and by 2008 he was looking for his next big thing. Jeff founded the Blue Sky Benefit Solutions & Rise Above HR/Recruiting on top of a lifelong passion for helping people. Through this show, Jeff will take that passion one step further.

If you enjoyed this episode, head over and visit us on Apple Podcasts - leave a review and let us know what you thought! Your feedback keeps us going. Thanks for helping. 

We have experiences while we’re here that give us a frame, scope, and reference. At the time, we don’t know why. Sometimes we second guess the importance of what we’re being exposed to or learning, even discounting as a minor irritation. But pay attention to the little details along the way in your life.  Be alert to the coincidences that occur.  Take note on how everything is always working out for you, despite your lack of qualifications.  You have ordination on your life, an agreement you made before you came to this planet.  Today’s guest is going to take you on a journey in this brief episode that will stick with you for a lifetime. 

Hilary Jastram is Founder of J. Hil Creative, Inc and Bookmark Publishing.  She’s invested thousands of hours in discussions with 130 humans to help extract their true stories and turned them into written books. She’s a dynamic host of the podcast, “Write Effing Now,” and is a best-selling author of “Sick Success: The Entrepreneur's Prescriptions for Turning Pain Into Purpose and Profit.” She lives in Minnesota with the love of her life, “D,” and all their fur family made up of cats and dogs. 

Jeff and Hilary get to the episode in a friendly fashion discussing their affinity for Minnesota life and connect on having similar childhood upbringings.  They talk about the power of extracting certain lessons from those experiences to help them get to a better place later in life. They discuss taking betrayal, dishonor, and impoverished circumstances and turning them to a creative motivation to make a better life. Hilary shares how she takes an author into being very succinct about what their book is about starting with the exercises that bring forth a resonant message. Jeff and Hilary talk about the importance of having a passion and standing out amongst the crowd. Hilary shares how she wrote her first book between the ages of 4 and 6 years old about a potato chip getting married.  She has always written and discusses how writing comes easier than her interest in graphic design.  Hilary shares how she discovered copy editing while being an Executive Assistant.  One big opportunity would change the trajectory of her career back in 2015.  You’re in for an up-close look behind the scenes of what it takes to write your life and bring your message to the world. 

 

What You’ll Learn:

• The method Hilary uses to stay positive through the tough times 
• Who 67-year-old Charles Hamm is, how he has 20,000 followers and why you should be one of them
• A course of study Hilary almost pursued in her life and the reason she didn’t 
• How long Hilary has been copy-editing books 
• The number of books she has copy edited for authors to date and when she started
• What it was like living with no electricity, extreme poverty while moving frequently
• Why every married couple should have a “talking stick”
• The name of Hilary’s book and podcast
• The adventures of the Minneapolis skywalks 
• An exercise where Hilary used the appearance of a real-life perfect stranger (unbeknownst to him) to write a character in one of her first books
• A few authors Hilary has worked with
• Why doing nothing is more important when you’re angry or have a ton of stuff going on
• Knowing when is a good time to stop 
• Why it was important for Hilary to learn how to fight properly
• How Hilary got into copy editing books  

• And much more! 

  

Favorite Quote:

“The biggest part of self-worth is we can sometimes be afraid to see how wonderful we are.”  

 -Hilary Jastram 

 

Connect With Hilary: 

Facebook

Instagram

Podcast: Write Effing Now! 

Book: Sick Success 

 

How to Get Involved:

Addicted to Winning connects listeners through stories that prove why mindset matters. Jeff Brekken was working a 60-hour week on his family’s farm by the time he was 10. When he wasn’t helping with the harvest, he was at the hockey rink. Jeff’s early life experiences taught him he needs to be either all-in or all-out. 

In 2000 he started a single-family home construction business and by 2008 he was looking for his next big thing. Jeff founded the Blue Sky Benefit Solutions & Rise Above HR/Recruiting on top of a lifelong passion for helping people. Through this show, Jeff will take that passion one step further.

If you enjoyed this episode, head over and visit us on Apple Podcasts - leave a review and let us know what you thought! Your feedback keeps us going. Thanks for helping. 

Many entrepreneurs do not fit inside of a box, unless they’re the ones who have created it.  Some start off their journeys taking corporate positions and rise through the ranks quickly, only to be left with a need and yearning to create beyond the scope and frame of the organization. This is rooted in our existential search for purpose, meaning and significance.  

Nate Johnson is Co-Founder and CEO of Maison Bloom, providing an elevated experience of perfectly dosed cannabis infused beverages to consumers wanting something healthy and refreshing. He originally started his career as a Chemical Engineer working for Shell in Los Angeles, rose through the Corporate ranks and later became a co-founder of a luxury clothing company based in San Francisco. After selling their business, he and his business partner teamed up to create Maison Bloom.

Jeff and Nate take a trip down memory lane as native Minnesotans as they share their affinity and love for hockey as they highlight the foundational lessons learned that would help them years later in business.  Nate shares how an unspoken challenge thrust him into pursuing a Chemical Engineering degree in college.  He and Jeff talk about the importance behind pre-launch and pre-sale branding, market research, and why it’s necessary to leverage it to ensure a successful launch of a brand.  Nate explains what a “consumption lounge” is, and shares how they’re leveraging special events to promote Maison Bloom. If you are curious about the cannabis industry and the approach taken when it comes to educating consumers, while involving them in the development of particular brands, you’ve landed on the right episode.  

What You’ll Learn:

• Why Nate ended up getting a Chemical Engineering degree 
• The Luxury Clothing line Nate and his business partner founded in San Francisco
• How Maison Bloom, a Cannabis infused beverage company was created
• How many milligrams of cannabis are in Maison Bloom’s seltzers
• Important lessons on leveraging other people’s skills
• What California Cool and French Sensibilities have to do with the Maison Bloom brand
• How human center designs can help you discover if a product is a good fit for the market
• Some of Nate’s favorite mentors including CEOs, Co-founders, and Influencers
• Pre-launch and pre-sale concepts and best practices for launching a brand correctly
• How sports like Hockey and Skiing helped Nate develop individually while preparing him to lead successful organizations
• How to learn more about Maison Bloom 
• Why the Book “Evolve Your Brain,” by Dr. Joe Dispenza has helped Nate stay balanced
• The importance of relying on your discipline, experience, and knowledge is key to your success
• How old Nate was when he started his first business and how long he ran it

• And much more! 

  

Favorite Quote:

“If somebody can do it, then I can do it better. There’s no ego behind it. It comes from a curiosity to learn and evolve myself over time and that’s worked to my advantage.”

-Nate Johnson

 

Connect With Nate: 

 Love Maison Bloom

Email: [email protected] 

How to Get Involved:

Addicted to Winning connects listeners through stories that prove why mindset matters. Jeff Brekken was working a 60-hour week on his family’s farm by the time he was 10. When he wasn’t helping with the harvest, he was at the hockey rink. Jeff’s early life experiences taught him he needs to be either all-in or all-out. 

In 2000 he started a single-family home construction business and by 2008 he was looking for his next big thing. Jeff founded the Blue Sky Benefit Solutions & Rise Above HR/Recruiting on top of a lifelong passion for helping people. Through this show, Jeff will take that passion one step further.

If you enjoyed this episode, head over and visit us on Apple Podcasts - leave a review and let us know what you thought! Your feedback keeps us going. Thanks for helping. 

 “REGULATORS…………Mount Up!”  That’s the phrase you hear as an employee or business owner when you learn HR (Human Resources) is in the building. HR gets a bad wrap for being black and white in their methodologies. They’re seen as the limiting part of a partnership, the rule keepers, the “complaint” department, and unfortunately they’re a necessary evil in business. That very mindset is about to change today as you learn what HR can be to you and your company.  It was intended to protect, impact, organize, and mitigate organizations.  Today, you’re going to learn what doing HR the right way will do to change the trajectory of the company positively starting today. 

Lisa LaPlante is Chief Integrator at Iconic HR who leads small to large companies to becoming better organized, effective communicators, creation of the processes and systems that manage, scale, and grow organizations rapidly. She started her career in Pharmaceuticals and helped build many successful companies starting with their culture. 

Jeff and Lisa jump into today’s episode like old friends from high school as they discuss why she’s addicted to winning citing a relationship with her divine self, a calling higher for the betterment of the masses.  Lisa shares some of her influences, breaks down what HR is, why it’s important to any organization starting with employee number one.  She shares how there are different iterations of processes, systems, and protocols that require training and accountability which allows businesses to grow healthily. 

What You’ll Learn:

• Why you can’t take yourself too seriously 
• How Lisa is getting stronger as she gets older
• What made her jump into HR many years ago
• Who her family is and why she admires them so much to this day
• The importance of when to Hire HR. 
• Why it’s important to know what types of manuals you have be them living documents or something old and outdated. 
• The journey for HR in most companies
• How to hire a “fractional HR company” as you’re building your business and how it will help you scale easily
• Why Iconic is tailoring conversations around specific hires for a business
• 5 things you need to know about a candidate before you hire them
• Things that should be done before determination
• 2 things you can do to help employees improve dramatically
• The power of the Arete’ Syndicate 
• Solutions for Business Owners that transcend space and time while keeping the human element in it.
• Some of Lisa’s impactful and favorite books 
• The power of empathy. 

• And much more! 

  

Favorite Quote:

 “My approach is to interview in the transparency that I bring. I take people back a little bit by the questions I ask and the level of honesty that comes out in the interviews because I really want people to know what they’re getting. And it’s okay. I’m not for everybody.  And a business owner shouldn’t be either.  You should be hiring people to fit who you are and to fit what you need for your company.”

• Lisa LaPlante   

 

Connect With Lisa: 

My Iconic HR 

Email: [email protected] 

Phone: 320-558-7558

 

How to Get Involved:

Addicted to Winning connects listeners through stories that prove why mindset matters. Jeff Brekken was working a 60-hour week on his family’s farm by the time he was 10. When he wasn’t helping with the harvest, he was at the hockey rink. Jeff’s early life experiences taught him he needs to be either all-in or all-out. 

In 2000 he started a single-family home construction business and by 2008 he was looking for his next big thing. Jeff founded the Blue Sky Benefit Solutions & Rise Above HR/Recruiting on top of a lifelong passion for helping people. Through this show, Jeff will take that passion one step further.

If you enjoyed this episode, head over and visit us on Apple Podcasts - leave a review and let us know what you thought! Your feedback keeps us going. Thanks for helping. 

Being an entrepreneur is the equivalent of running with scissors………in both hands.  It can be fun, and exhilarating, with an element of danger that could cost you more than your eye with one wrong step.  Every single entrepreneur has figured out that working a 9-5 is not the true path to wealth creation, and at some point, they do the one thing 95% of people are not willing to do………bet on themselves.  Today’s guest is one of those people who broke free from a corporate structure and is currently putting an industry on its back. 

Dennis Morales is founder and CEO of The Drink Labs based out of L.A., California.  He currently helps companies create every type of beverage from coffee drinks, energy drinks, to alcoholic beverages with their unique branding. They handle the research and development, manufacturing, and sales and distribution based on the way modern-day consumers purchase.  

Jeff and Dennis dive into why Dennis is addicted to winning as he cites his early childhood, competition in athletics, and his affinity for math.  Dennis comes from a very healthy childhood that led to a natural progression of attending college, getting a degree and making his way to work for corporate structures like 3M.  There he spent many years in Research and Development creating solutions to man’s modern day challenges around energy, pain, hormones and everything that would result in products produced from some of the most effective solutions to come out of human ingenuity and pharmacology.  Jeff gets straight into asking Dennis about how fulfilled he was working for companies like 3M where he shares how having a great salary, benefits, and 401K were not enough to keep him strapped to a 9-5.  Dennis shares the one thing that made him break for something new, something fresh, and something that would create abundance in his life not found in a 9-5 corporate job. 

What You’ll Learn:

• What made Dennis decide to break from 3M
• Where Dennis was raised 
• The specific focus Dennis participated in while at 3M
• 3 Phases of the Beverage industry
• Why Research and Development are so important in the initial stages of any product launch 
• Regulations surrounding manufacturing of products made for human consumption
• How distribution has changed since the advent of the Covid laced world 
• Worldwide solutions found in nature such as roots, leaves, plants, and tree bark 
• The power of networking and why Dennis enjoys being in the room with other high-performance individuals 
• Why betting on yourself is one of the best things you can do starting today

• And much more! 

  

Favorite Quote:

“I like being around like-minded people. I didn’t know there were people out there that kinda thought the way that I did.  They just have this gut feeling that there’s something, not necessarily bigger and better, but there was something more fulfilling to them than just your typical 9-5.  In Pharmaceuticals, it was neve 9-5.  It was always 12 to 16 to 18 hours a day just because of the nature of research, but in finding people and meeting people that have similar drives, they all do the same thing as I do and they bet on themselves.”   

-Dennis Morales  

 

Connect With Dennis: 

833-4-Drinks 

The Drink Labs  

 

How to Get Involved:

Addicted to Winning connects listeners through stories that prove why mindset matters. Jeff Brekken was working a 60-hour week on his family’s farm by the time he was 10. When he wasn’t helping with the harvest, he was at the hockey rink. Jeff’s early life experiences taught him he needs to be either all-in or all-out. 

In 2000 he started a single-family home construction business and by 2008 he was looking for his next big thing. Jeff founded the Blue Sky Benefit Solutions & Rise Above HR/Recruiting on top of a lifelong passion for helping people. Through this show, Jeff will take that passion one step further.

If you enjoyed this episode, head over and visit us on Apple Podcasts - leave a review and let us know what you thought! Your feedback keeps us going. Thanks for helping. 

 

Have you ever asked why some people are more successful than others?  At this period in human history, we have access to more information, more technology, and more resources than ever before.  There’s one differentiating factor that separates living a “common life” from those who live a high-performance lifestyle.  That one factor is the most important relationship that determines the outcome of their lives………….their relationship with themselves. 

 

Stacy Raske is the Founder of Inflowential Impact, helping Executives, Business Owners, and Leaders find the key within them to unlock their untapped potential in life, love, and business. She’s a best-selling author of the book, “Be a Boss and Fire That Bitch,” and Host of the InFLOWential CEO Podcast. Stacy is an Apex Executive Coach for Break Free Academy.  

 

Jeff and Stacy plunge right into the episode to discuss how she developed her drive starting in childhood.  They break down what it means to be a high-performance human being and how we are always “performing” in some capacity.  Stacy talks candidly about the difference between chasing as opposed to simply being.  The conversation turns to self-sabotage, self-abuse, and how to change the patterns producing the same generational cycles for many people that keep them stuck in life. Jeff shares his belief that everything happens for a reason as Stacy shares some of the battles we all fight that is connected to having the best relationship with the most important person first…………you.    

What You’ll Learn:

• Some trauma cycles that keep us stagnant like self-sabotage
• Where Stacy grew up in early childhood
• Why it’s important to live in the discomfort of being in a community 
• How to leverage the intelligence of a community to collapse time and obtain 5X returns in all areas of life
• What the true easy button in life is
• Why being a control freak was preventing Stacy from attaining more love, more money, and optimal health
• How clearing the way and creating the space for yourself will help you truly unlock the potential of what your life can be
• The direct correlation between purpose and freedom and why you can’t have one without the other
• Why it’s important to have a mentor and coach for your life, and not just your business
• Stacy’s ideal client 
• How dealing with your internal climate will free you

• And much more! 

  

Favorite Quote:

“The second I was willing to say to myself, “I am worth investing in at that level and my vision, my purpose, my impact, my passion is worth investing in at that level. And then I focus and I show up. You can find all the information online but without the accountability and support, and guidance to utilize those tools, we’re not going to show up and do it.”

-Stacy Raske 

 

Connect With Stacy: 

Stacy Raske

InFLOWential CEO Podcast 

Book: “Be a Boss and Fire That Bitch”

How to Get Involved:

Addicted to Winning connects listeners through stories that prove why mindset matters. Jeff Brekken was working a 60-hour week on his family’s farm by the time he was 10. When he wasn’t helping with the harvest, he was at the hockey rink. Jeff’s early life experiences taught him he needs to be either all-in or all-out. 

In 2000 he started a single-family home construction business and by 2008 he was looking for his next big thing. Jeff founded the Blue Sky Benefit Solutions & Rise Above HR/Recruiting on top of a lifelong passion for helping people. Through this show, Jeff will take that passion one step further.

If you enjoyed this episode, head over and visit us on Apple Podcasts - leave a review and let us know what you thought! Your feedback keeps us going. Thanks for helping.  

  

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not everyone is born to go a certain way or take a certain path while they’re here on this planet.  Some accept, at an early age that they are to go to school, make good grades, go to college, get a job, and work 40 hours a week with a nice retirement egg to spend into their golden years.  

 

Jeremy Schreifels is everything, but the typical societal cliche.  He’s quite the opposite.  Born in Canada and raised in Minnesota, Jeremy is the epitome of what it means to break the mold, burn it, and never look back.  He’s a Producer, Author, Realtor, and songwriter.  He’s written with some of the most prolific songwriters of today’s modern age affecting the culture of a generation while living quietly in Champlain, MN. 

 

Jeff and Jeremy dive in and go existential on the meaning of life.  The purpose of our gifts, and how to leverage a person’s natural talents and abilities is a strong theme in this episode as Jeremy shares the beginning of his music career, what he learned and what he knows.  They talk about falling in love, writing, the process of writing and not letting the outcome of the end result get in the way of progress.  They discuss the importance of having multiple streams of income and the beginning of Jeremy’s career. 

What You’ll Learn:

• How old Jeremy was when he started his career.  
• Some of the various cities Jeremy is working in this year with a total of 50 gigs for 2022. 
• Writing music
• Playing music 
• The gap between college and professional learning
• How many hours someone really works before their brain shuts off. 
• Why it’s important to collaborate with people around the world
• A book Jeremy has coming out very soon
• Falling in love and what you can do to really take it to the next level
• How many hours someone works before they truly master a craft
• What it’s like working 20 gigs with 9 different bands

• And much more! 

  

Favorite Quotes:

“As you begin, like most businesses, you have to take everything you can.” 

“Three Years ago, I think one month I played 20 gigs with nine different bands and that just makes my head hurt just thinking about it.  What I realized then was, yes, I can do all those things and I can do them well and the beauty is I can save all those charts and refer back to them. I don’t have to recreate the wheel every time. But what I really figured out is, I just really need to narrow this focus and be the best at only a few things.”

-Jeremy Schreifels

How to Get Involved:

Addicted to Winning connects listeners through stories that prove why mindset matters. Jeff Brekken was working a 60-hour week on his family’s farm by the time he was 10. When he wasn’t helping with the harvest, he was at the hockey rink. Jeff’s early life experiences taught him he needs to be either all-in or all-out. 

In 2000 he started a single-family home construction business and by 2008 he was looking for his next big thing. Jeff founded the Blue Sky Benefit Solutions & Rise Above HR/Recruiting on top of a lifelong passion for helping people. Through this show, Jeff will take that passion one step further.

If you enjoyed this episode, head over and visit us on Apple Podcasts - leave a review and let us know what you thought! Your feedback keeps us going. Thanks for helping.  

  

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

Many people look for revelations in prayer, meditation, wishes, and everywhere you think they would be except for one place………………..another human being.  If you watch to look, listen to hear and are present to receive, you’ll find the messages you’ve been searching for.  

Kevin Tetz  Launched PAINTUCATION Instructional Videos  in 1999 producing the award winning Paintucation instructional series focusing on fundamental automotive restoration and refinish techniques. Kevin has also enjoyed writing for magazines including Nashville Arts, Southern & Northern Rodder, Mustang & Fords, Car Craft, and Mustang Monthly, Car Craft, Wheel Hub and Truck Hub.   Kevin has hosted his own TV series since 2000, including three seasons of “CLASSIC RIDES” on DIY Network and Nine seasons hosting and co-producing the popular “TRUCKS! TV” series on SPIKE Network. Currently his show “Hands On Cars” airs on Amazon Prime, and a third season is in the works.  Kevin’s new book “Patina, creating and preserving” is available through Cartech Publishing, and he is developing an online trade school  (Paintucation University) that will be available late summer. 

 

Jeff and Kevin start the episode off talking about Kevin’s 10 year, 80’s hair rock band career where he learned some very important lessons about life, business, and knowing when to pivot quickly.  Kevin shares a huge bit of wisdom he learned from the lead singer of a once-famous band called WASP, and the impact it had on his life.  Jeff and Kevin talk about reinvention, and having to start over again in life, sometimes multiple times.  A common theme of having a “service” attitude is highlighted.  They discuss the brain, PTSD, and some of the effects of misfiling some memories that become “triggers” for us.  Kevin shares the importance of physical health, and the huge factor mental health plays in our society. Jeff asks Kevin about Paintucation, a combination of paint and body, and education, which has made Kevin wildly successful in his life since 1999. Kevin shares how starting this one company led to oppportunitites to write, produce, and collaborate on projects that would leave most motor heads eaten up with envy. You’re going to love the energy, the education, and mindset of Kevin Tetz. 

What You’ll Learn:

• How Kevin got his start in the music business
• The best advice Kevin got from the lead singer of  a popular 80s hair band named “WASP” and the big revelation delivered to him one night in a club he was playing 
• Why Kevin’s best friend told him he didn’t have time to co-write a song with him and the attitude he took when his friend told him no. 
• One mantra Kevin breaks down and recites every single morning
• A pivotal moment in 1989 that caused Kevin to make a drastic change after 10 years in the music industry 
• One model of success Kevin follows to this day 
• Why Kevin decided to return to the automotive trade
• What Hands on Cars is
• How to realign yourself and get through past trauma by using knowledge and therapies 
• Who Princeton Clark is and why you should care
• 3 Book Kevin recommends
• How long most music careers last in the music industry 
• The power of having a good circle of friends
• Thoughts on mentorship, self-education, and leading with service

• And much more! 

  

Favorite Quote:

“We have an insulated world that we live in and we live in the greatest time that there’s ever been to live in the human race.  We have the longest life spans.  We have the most opportunities.  We’re in the most amazing digital age where training and info are at our fingertips.  And we are cocooned with privilege, opportunity, and advantage.  This feeling that everything is supposed to feel good is disingenuous.” 

•  Kevin Tetz 

 

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Addicted to Winning connects listeners through stories that prove why mindset matters. Jeff Brekken was working a 60-hour week on his family’s farm by the time he was 10. When he wasn’t helping with the harvest, he was at the hockey rink. Jeff’s early life experiences taught him he needs to be either all-in or all-out. 

In 2000 he started a single-family home construction business and by 2008 he was looking for his next big thing. Jeff founded the Blue Sky Benefit Solutions & Rise Above HR/Recruiting on top of a lifelong passion for helping people. Through this show, Jeff will take that passion one step further.

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We all grow at different paces and at different levels. Some of us know what we’re supposed to do when we arrive on this planet and some of us take time ignoring that very “thing” until it becomes blatantly obvious.  We all have a plan while we’re here and there are a few that do not require a “Plan B.” 

Danny Galvez is an Emcee/Hype-man for Apex who works with entrepreneurs, CEOs, and investors from all walks of life. He is the Founder of Voice Your Life Media which helps those same business owners and authors create their podcasts and narrate their audiobooks for the world to hear. 

Jeff and Danny jump right into the episode wasting no time in catching up, sharing their familiarity, and talking about real things in life, like the thrill of not having a plan B.  Danny shares some insights that brought him from young adulthood, having a large family, the challenges of pursuing a formal education due to financial issues, some of the mentors he had, and some of the lessons he learned while trying to figure out what his “thing” was.  He details out some adventures in Radio and an opportunity to reinvent himself in the Mortgage industry.  Danny talks about marriage, DJing weddings, and working for a greedy boss.  A grand revelation came that drew all lines back to one simple question: “What Do YOU want?” 

What You’ll Learn:

• One question Danny is bold enough to ask
• Knowing the true value of your worth and where to leverage and outline the true value of what it’s going to cost to make that investment
• The rigged collegiate system to which Danny was a beneficiary all because he had a Spanish surname
• Why it’s important to narrate your own audiobook 
• How Danny started in narrating audiobooks and the genres he auditioned for and landed opportunities
• 4 Key mentors that have contributed to Danny’s success and how he arrived working with one of the most influential personalities (Ryan Stewman) on Social Media.
• One thing Danny loves to do more than ANYTHING in the world.  
• The path that has led him to emcee, entertain, and introduce some of the most influential thought leaders in business
• An earth-shattering question he was asked at dinner one night and his honest answer  

• And much more! 

  

Favorite Quote:

“We are not perfect as human beings. We are not perfect as business owners.  We are not perfect as family people. There are quite a few areas we could use some improvement in our lives, but we don’t have to do it by ourselves.”

•  Danny Galvez 

 

How To Get Involved:

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 How to Get Involved:

Addicted to Winning connects listeners through stories that prove why mindset matters. Jeff Brekken was working a 60-hour week on his family’s farm by the time he was 10. When he wasn’t helping with the harvest, he was at the hockey rink. Jeff’s early life experiences taught him he needs to be either all-in or all-out. 

In 2000 he started a single-family home construction business and by 2008 he was looking for his next big thing. Jeff founded the Blue Sky Benefit Solutions & Rise Above HR/Recruiting on top of a lifelong passion for helping people. Through this show, Jeff will take that passion one step further.

If you enjoyed this episode, head over and visit us on Apple Podcasts - leave a review and let us know what you thought! Your feedback keeps us going. Thanks for helping.