Chasing The Insights

In this episode of Chasing the Insights, I talk to inspirational keynote speaker Scott K Harris.

Scott talks to us about how and why we need to get out of our own way as entrepreneurs.

Scott Harris is a well-known skydiver, veteran, businessman, and motivational speaker.

Scott's interactive keynote presentations and workshops make him popular with his audience. He uses his personal journey to create an exceptional storytelling experience for his audience. He utilizes the skills he has learned from his multifaced life experience to help entrepreneurs, managers, leaders, and young people face the inner fear that holds them back.

Scott shows how to embrace challenges to improve performance and find joy in self-improvement.

In this episode of Chasing the Insights, I talk to mindset expert Cassandra Powell.

Cassandra talks to us about mindset shifts and how to break out of people-pleasing.

Cassandra Powell helps passionate people accomplish big goals while shifting into an empowered mindset to increase daily satisfaction of life.

She has helped over 700 clients move through fear, resistance, and discomfort to take action.

She also runs the personal growth subscription box company, CoachCrate. She is from the foothills of Colorado but currently lives in Philadelphia with her gray tabby, Nali.

In this episode of Chasing the Insights, I talk to best-selling author and living legend Dr. Taj Shotwell.

Dr. Taj talks to us about how to avoid mistakes that professionals make and lose it all.

Dr. Taj Shotwell, is an educator, Amazon bestselling author, poet, songwriter, screenwriter, and playwright.

She was born Theresa Ann James the sixth and middle child of eleven children raised in Memphis, Tennessee by a career Army Sargent and a gospel singer/homemaker.

Obtained former education in San Francisco where she taught business at colleges and universities while working as an accountant. Joined the faculty at FAMU in the business school and later education, teaching accounting, professional development, and educational leadership courses, and chaired a department before retirement.

Written and published five non-fiction books including a 3-part series coming of age in Memphis based on her life called Middle Child. She also wrote a fiction drama faith-based book Maggie: Never Bitter which she adapted as a musical and won contest awards in 2016 and 2017.

In this episode of Chasing the Insights, I talk to innovative entrepreneur Beau Button.

Beau talks to us about how we can use Web3 as an inspiration for our business.

Beau Button has been actively involved with software development since he was 11 years old.

He got his start learning about computers around age 9, digging into the hardware side of things first, and eventually picked up software development at age 11.

Having spent the majority of his career as a serial entrepreneur working in the government space Beau has now transitioned into the mobile gaming space through his company Atlas Reality, Inc.

Beau has become a technology & automation enthusiast, even in his personal life. He spends a majority of his time outside of work building through 3d printing, and is very passionate about hunger/food scarcity, education and veganism.

In this episode of Chasing the Insights, I talk to inspirational leader R. Michael Anderson.

Michael talks to us about the leadership mindset and his upcoming book.

R. Michael Anderson, MBA, MA has a striking combination that creates truly impactful transformation in leaders – he has the real-life business success of founding, scaling and exiting three software companies, plus the educational background of a Masters Degree in Psychology.

This combination gives him the unique ability to connect to other leaders as a peer, then teaches evidence-based leadership skills that genuinely drive behaviour and performance.

See why companies like Uber, Microsoft, Salesforce and PwC bring him up to level up their leaders.

In this episode of Chasing the Insights, I talk to the Battle Warrior himself, Chad Smith.

Chad talks to us about his journey to writing an international best selling book.

Chad Smith is the CEO of Battle Warrior Brands, a national based Apparel company that promotes the beauty of Mental Health throughout this nation.

He is the three-times best selling author of Battle Warrior "The Inspiring Story of Chad Smith, A Dyslexic Survivor of Addictions."

Chad also teaches people about print on demand and merchandise and is a recovered Addict from both Alcohol and Pornography.

Currently Chad is 1000 Days + Sober Despite growing up around addictions ranging from Alcohol, Painkillers, and Pornography, Chad uses his sobriety to teach people on how to strive in this alcohol driven society.

Chad is also an active volunteer at Community Church in Oshkosh and in 2021 recieved the Sir Clyde Rivers Youth Empowerment Leadership Award for his Youth Empowerment throughout the world.

He has also won the 2022 WORLD CIVITY Youth Icon of the Year Award.

Chad is a born again Christian that is super passionate about addiction, camping, cars, hunting, horsepower, farming, fishing, running, metal music, working out, and sobriety living. Living his favorite Motto " Fast Cars, Loud Guitars!"

In this episode of Chasing the Insights, I talk to America's only Chief Results Officer® Blaine Oelkers.

Blaine talks to us about the crazy (and powerful) concept of the 30 Minute Hour

Blaine Oelkers is a TEDx Speaker and leading authority in personal implementation and consistency.

He is America's only Chief Results Officer®. He's a habit master with documented streaks of 1,717 days in a row and counting!

As a top LinkedIn Connector he has over 25,000 1st level connections. Blaine graduated from Purdue University and Stanford University's Social Entrepreneurship Program. He is powered by Selfluence, a personal development and training company. He is excited to share with you ways you can take control of your life by taking control of yourself.

In this episode of Chasing the Insights, I talk to coach and sales expert Ross Keating.

Ross talks to us about the fact that sales is NOT a numbers game. Sales is a people game!

Ross Keating believes all businesses, regardless of their size, can be more successful, including yours. When you are successful it not only helps you and your customers, but it also helps your employees, your suppliers, the community around you, AND your family.

Many of Ross' clients have 2x and 3x their revenue and profits yet become more relaxed and able to have more focus to "working on the business". The result is their business continues to grow. These clients say they have also been able to achieve personal and lifestyle goals as a result of working with Ross.

Ross is a certified coach for the B.A.N.K.™ Personality Profile tool. B.A.N.K.™ is the only independantly validated profiling tool scientifucally proven to accurately predict buyer behaviour in less than 90 seconds and increases sales and influence by up to 300%.

Over the last 15 years or so his clients have been in industries such as industrial equipment sales, pet grooming, civil construction, fitness, lighting and motor systems, house construction, mining, animal welfare, tourism, and pest control.

In this episode of Chasing the Insights, I talk to author and legendary sales person David F. D'Orazi.

David talks to us about how to become a number 1 sales person.

David D'Orazi was born and raised in Los Angeles. This is where he became part of his fathers story.

His father was a big TV Star and later a top sales man for many different companies. Dave's Sister Kathy O'dare was a star on the famous sitcom in America " Happy Days". Both his dad and his sister suffered from mental illness along the way.

He wrote the life stories of both of them, and how him and them got through it, and still managed to become successful. Dave has managed to become not only an author, but an award winning salesperson, for many years, and he will soon be publishing his new book, "How to manage to all be in the top 2% of your sales force" which should be coming out in the next year.

his first two books "The In Between Artist" is his dad's story, who was also the first animator for Walt Disney. His sisters story will be out in three to four weeks. It is Called "Is Everybody Happy"? He credits his father for being a great salesman that he has become, and continues to sell.

In this episode of Chasing the Insights, I talk to inspirational entrepreneur and podcaster J.R. Rivera.

J.R. talks to us about living a life of purpose and fulfilment.

J.R. Rivera is the host of "Results Leader" FM podcast. The founder of ThePodcastFactory.com.

He is also a podcast producer and has been podcasting since 2008.

His teachers said he would never amount to anything. But God had another plan for him.

From High School dropout, to faith-driven entrepreneur living a life of limitless possibilities.