EGGS! The Podcast

Hi there and welcome back to Eggs. Today's special guest is entrepreneur and leadership coach, Jeffrey Deckman.

Jeffrey is a nationally recognized thought leader and award-winning author on the next evolution of business leadership: Conscious Leadership. His recently published book on the topic,  “Developing the Conscious Leadership Mindset for the 21st Century” won a total of four national and international Stevie Awards® and is an Amazon best seller. He’s also 2021’s winner of the International Business Awards bronze medal for 'Innovator of the Year.'

Jeff’s background is one of a serial entrepreneur having bootstrapped 2 multi-million dollar companies, several non-profits, and multiple political organizations. Since 2005 he has been a leadership and organizational performance consultant and leadership coach. In that time he’s helped scores of clients grow by strengthening their leadership teams and helping them uncover, then mobilize, the hidden human capital that drives performance and profits in the 21st century.

Joining us today for a conversation about developing a conscious leadership mindset, discovering the organizational trinity — the “invisible” force that drives all organizational performance, effectively using proven consciousness and energy shifting strategies to significantly improve relationship resiliency, and so much more. Please welcome to the show, Jeffrey Deckman.

In this episode of Eggs, the podcast, we are pleased to introduce you to Alejandro Szita. Alejandro is a California & Florida mortgage broker and president of Prosperity Lending, a firm that specializes in servicing self-employed borrowers such as artists and small business owners.

A real estate and mortgage professional since 2005, Alejandro has seen the world of real estate finance from all angles—commercial, residential, and capital raising. Not only does he have a significant background in real estate and finance, but as an entrepreneur, he created a million-dollar retail enterprise through the Home Shopping Network.

A lifelong student of economics, Alejandro provides his clients with practical financial advice on a routine basis. In his upcoming book “Money—What It Is, How It Works, And How You Can Use It to Create Wealth and Prosperity for Yourself and Your Community,” Alejandro teaches the fundamentals of wealth building and answers questions such as “what is money” and “what is value.”

Joining us today for a conversation about whether or not it's a good idea to own property right now, what can you do to survive and thrive under any economic conditions, the difference between investment and speculation, and a whole lot more. Please join us in welcoming to the show, Alejandro Szita.

Hey everyone, and welcome to an exciting episode of Eggs. Today’s special guest is Stacey Smith, CEO of Plasma Kinetics.

In the race for alternative fuels technology — and supremacy — Plasma Kinetics has created an innovative hydrogen storage solution that stores the gas in a solid state. According to their website, this system is safe, clean, and scalable, holding more energy than lithium-ion battery technology, at less cost, and can be recharged in just minutes. Their patented hydrogen capture and containment system can easily be embedded into their customer's products and integrated into existing infrastructure making hydrogen more practical for real-world applications.

The leadership team of Plasma Kinetics is joining us today for a discussion about Hydrogen’s place as an alternative energy source, the journey and the innovation behind their latest product, how hydrogen might actually make a move into the mainstream, and so much more. Please join us in welcoming to the show, Stacey Smith.

Hey everyone, and welcome back to Eggs! First things first, thank you all so much for your ongoing support and your contribution to our ever-growing community of business leaders and entrepreneurs. Be sure to visit our website, eggscast.com, for more than 250 past interviews with amazing people who have been willing to share their experiences with our audience. Also, be sure to follow us on the socials for the latest and greatest from the Eggs show. But now… today’s show.

Today’s special guest is Albert Flynn DeSilver, an award-winning and internationally published writer, TEDx speaker, and workshop leader known for his merging of creative writing with the practice of mindfulness meditation.

Albert’s work is widely known, appearing in more than a hundred literary journals worldwide, and he’s been recognized for his accomplishments in being named Marin County, California’s very first poet laureate. When he’s not writing, he’s teaching writing, driven by a passion for showing people how they can rediscover and reconnect with their inherent creative genius and reignite joy, fun, spontaneity, and wisdom through the practice and process of writing.

Albert joins the show today for an insightful conversation about how people can use writing as a transformational process for healing, implementing practices to help alleviate anxiety and compulsive behaviors, managing fear and doubt to reconnect with our authentic creative selves, and so much more. Please join us in welcoming to the show, Albert Flynn DeSilver.

Hey everybody, and welcome back to Eggs. Thanks so much for tuning in this week and contributing to our ever-growing community of entrepreneurs and business leaders. Be sure to check out our website at eggscast.com for past episodes from the brilliant people who have been kind enough to share their knowledge on the show, and today’s episode will be no exception.

Today’s special guest is the incredible Bob Wheeler. Bob is a financial expert, motivator, author, comedian, podcast host, and founder of The Money Nerve. In addition, he’s a partner at the Santa Monica-based accounting firm Wheeler and Bi CPA and CFO of the world-famous Comedy Store.

Bob has melded his crusade for personal growth with his accounting expertise to create a new approach to personal finance. He works vehemently to help others gain insights into how their emotions drive their financial decisions and helps them regain control of their pocketbook by creating a healthy relationship with money.

Bob joins us today for a conversation about how our emotions can impact financial decision-making, why nearly all of us could benefit from a little financial therapy, taking baby steps to get back on the path to financial freedom, and so much more. Please welcome to the show financial expert Bob Wheeler.

Hey everyone, and welcome back to Eggs. Today’s special guest is none other than Jason Yormark. Jason is the founder of Socialistics, a leading social media agency that helps businesses turn their social media efforts into real, measurable results.

With 20+ years of marketing experience under his belt managing the social media efforts for the likes of Microsoft Advertising, Office for Mac, the US Airforce, Habitat for Humanity, and more, Jason has led the field, becoming recognized as a top B2B social media influencer and thought leader by publications including Forbes.

He’s recently published the wildly popular book, Anti-Agency: A Realistic Path to a $1,000,000 business and hosts the Anti-Agency podcast, where he shares stories of doing business differently.

Joining the show today for a discussion about social media strategies that drive real results, unique and different ways to think about running your business, how to create YOUR realistic path to a million-dollar business, and so much more. Please join me in welcoming to the show the incredible Jason Yormark.

Hey everyone, and welcome back to Eggs! This week’s special guest is none other than Raul Galera, Chief Advocate at ReferralCandy.

ReferralCandy is a referral program management tool that, since its launch, has amassed more than 30,000 paying users generating more than $10M in annual revenue. What’s cooler than that? Among those 30,000 users, they have paid out more than $300M in referral commissions!

Referrals are the key marketing tool for a lot of businesses, and for many of us, we simply don’t know where to begin. For that reason, Raul joins us today for a primer on referral programs, what they are and how to implement them. How to grow revenue and scale a product launch with referrals. How to get started with a referral program if you are new and don’t already have a built-in audience, and so much more. Please join us in welcoming Raul to the show.

Hey everybody and welcome back to Eggs! Today we have special guest — the founder and CEO of Profasee — Chad Rubin.

Chad is a lifelong entrepreneur. In 2008 he decided to set up his first eCommerce shop — Crucial vacuum — selling vacuum cleaner parts out of his garage. It was a great success! It wasn’t long before that site exploded from just one to thousands of different SKUs, but that experience showed Chad one thing. Due to a lack of proper technology to manage their growth — and thousands of products — their warehouse became an absolute jungle to manage. To solve his own problem, Chad created Skubana, which went on to become one of the most powerful operations platforms in e-commerce.

On the back of the Skubana platform, Crucial Vacuum evolved from selling vacuum cleaner parts exclusively to covering all the replacement parts for your home. It also got a new name — Think Crucial. Skubana was eventually acquired by 3PL central, and in addition to the continued success of Think Crucial, in 2021 Chad launched his latest venture — Profasee. Profasee is a platform that enables Amazon resellers to dynamically predict the perfect price and the perfect moment for the products they sell using AI and comprehensive data management.

Joining us today for a conversation about his entrepreneurial journey, starting, scaling, and selling businesses, the state of eCommerce and so much more. Please join us in welcoming to the show, Chad Rubin.

Hey everyone, and welcome back to Eggs. This week we have Emmy award-winning camera operator turned entrepreneur Howie Zales.

With over 25 years of television experience, Howie created HJZ productions in 2000 to address the need for a professional sports broadcasting crew and staff in the New York Market. Under his leadership, HJZ grew and became a nationwide provider of top talent in broadcasting and a multi-million dollar organization.

In 2019 Howie formed a new company, Viridity Entertainment Services or VES, with a primary focus on broadcast staffing in non-union markets. However, in response to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, they rapidly pivoted to become a provider of best-in-class broadcast quality live streaming solutions for sports shows and interviews, corporate events, and religious services. Additionally, Howie launched the much-acclaimed TV Sports Course, a hands-on boot camp designed to train the next generation of television production professionals.

Joining us today for a conversation about the lessons learned in 25 years of entertainment production, where Livestream broadcast events will figure into our post-pandemic landscape, the experience of building, not just one but two very successful organizations, and so much more. Please join us in welcoming to the show, Howie Zales.

Hey everyone, and welcome back to Eggs! Today’s special guest is the founder and CEO of FE International, Thomas Smale. FE International is a leading mergers and acquisitions firm dedicated to helping software and tech companies get maximum value from the sale of their business.

Thomas founded FE International in 2010 with the aim of helping entrepreneurs running self-funded and profitable businesses exit. Since then, Thomas has built FE into an industry-leading M&A advisory for on to one-hundred million dollar technology businesses. With experience dating back to the early 2000s, Thomas offers invaluable technical, diligence, and negotiation advice to early-stage and seasoned business owners alike, which has resulted in over 1200 successful exits and more than a billion dollars in lifetime acquisitions.

Joining us today for a conversation about the factors that make a business attractive to buyers, the hurdles entrepreneurs encounter when looking to scale their business, how business owners can position themselves for an acquisition, and so much more. Please join us in welcoming to the show, Thomas Smale.