Knucklehead Podcast

Cryptocurrency represents a new form of digital asset that sits outside the traditional financial system. It is an asset class that is uncorrelated to the stock market providing investors with a greater opportunity for portfolio diversification. With crypto becoming a more and more popular investment, what makes it so appealing at a time when stock markets are volatile?

In today’s edition of the Knucklehead Podcast, our guest, Jeff Sekinger talks about what attracted him to cryptocurrency investing, why crypto is an important component of a portfolio, as well as the darkest point in his life that led him to where he is today.

Jeff Sekinger is the Chief Investment Officer at Boron Capital, an alternative wealth management firm that specializes in moving people from the volatility of the public markets into private investment fund options focused in real estate and cryptocurrency.

Jeff Sekinger is also the Founder of 0 Percent, a financial consulting firm that empowers people to accelerate their path to financial freedom through financial education and consulting services and Orca Capital, a cryptocurrency hedge fund that manages multiple 8 figures of assets for 60+ limited partners around the globe.

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Delegation can be a challenge for some business owners. They feel like they need to do everything themselves in order to be successful. This simply isn't true! In fact, delegation is one of the most important foundations of any business. Delegating tasks to your team frees up your time to focus on the things that matter most - growth.

In today’s edition of the Knucklehead Podcast, our guest, Emily Morgan talks about what business owners need to do to scale up their business, why hiring an assistant is the first step to delegation, and the truth about why some people are scared to delegate.

Emily Morgan is the Founder and CEO of Delegate Solutions. Her mission is to create freedom for people to do what they love and have a big impact. As the leader of Delegate, she works tirelessly to help reshape the culture of the traditional workforce by providing professional flexible employment for her team while also providing entrepreneurs with strategic workforce options to help them grow more efficiently and effectively.

Delegate Solutions is a delegation company with a mission to create freedom for people to do what they love and have a big impact. It offers premium-level virtual assistant services for entrepreneurs. Emily Morgan and her team at Delegate Solutions help entrepreneurial leaders stay productive without the hassles of HR.

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A lot goes into creating an effective database for your business. You need to have a plan and a goal in mind before you even start - what are you hoping to achieve with this data and how will it help your business grow. Without a clear goal, you'll find yourself wasting time and energy on something that doesn't produce results. Having a solid data analytic is essential for any business. Make sure you create yours with your goals in mind!

In today’s edition of the Knucklehead Podcast, our guest, Jack Tompkins talks about how data is becoming the next big thing in the corporate and entrepreneurial worlds, what Jack learned from failing to consider the end goal when creating a dashboard, and why having an end goal in mind when creating a data model is important.

Jack Tompkins is the Managing Partner and Founder of Pineapple Consulting Firm. He loves helping small businesses with data driven decisions from their custom dashboards.

Pineapple Consulting Firm is a data analytics company. They are excel experts and fractional analysts that help analyze and visualize data so small businesses can become data-driven.

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Making mistakes is an important part of the learning process. It's an opportunity to reflect on what you could have done differently and how you can improve in the future.

Even the most successful and admired leaders make mistakes. The key is to learn from those failures and grow from them.

Today’s edition of the Knucklehead Podcast features our guest, Michelle Reines. She will talk about the mistakes she made in her leadership in the past, what she learned from them, and how she leveraged those mistakes to become a badass leader today.

Michelle Reines is the founder of MDR Coaching & Consulting and creator of the unconventional Badass Leader brand. She has a coveted reputation of exceeding expectations in a highly competitive, distressed or volatile business climate. Her strengths encompass extensive people aptitudes in leading and developing large, diverse teams. She possesses over 34 years of intense hands-on leadership, mentorship, organizational and operational expertise.

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There are few things in this world that are as powerful as words. They can be used to build relationships and make a change, but also have the potential to create a negative impact on people. Words are so powerful that they are capable of affecting not only those around us but also our own lives. How can we protect ourselves from the negative effects of words and harness the positive power of language?

In today’s edition of the Knucklehead Podcast, our guest, Jonah Larkin talks about the influence his father's words had on his mindset as an entrepreneur, what it takes to deal with some potentially life-threatening situations, and how he applied the lessons he learned from his experiences to become a leadership coach today.

Jonah Larkin is a combination of an executive coach and a life coach with expertise in mindfulness, communication, interpersonal dynamics, and entrepreneurship while still maintaining your health and well-being. He helps founders, executives and those in the helping professions create higher levels of self-mastery.

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Mistakes are a natural part of the learning process and they can happen to everyone. It's normal to look back on them with regret. But what we learn from these mistakes is more valuable than anything else we could have learned at the time of doing something right. The point of making mistakes is not to avoid them altogether, but rather to learn from them and use that knowledge in the future.

In today’s edition of the Knucklehead Podcast, Stephen talks with Cordell Bennigson, Advisor at Echelon Front, about one of the biggest mistakes he made in his corporate career, why he moved from large to smaller companies, and how ego is the most common pitfall people make.

Cordell Bennigson is a former U.S. Marine Corps officer, pilot, and forward air controller. Since leaving active duty, he has led business teams in the United States and around the world in a wide variety of industries, roles, and companies.

Cordell brings a blend of Marine Corps, combat and extensive private-industry leadership to the Echelon Front team. He continues to provide leadership within private companies today and has first-hand experience with the power, effectiveness, and challenges of implementing a culture of Extreme Ownership within business teams.

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Mistakes happen all the time, they’re inevitable. They’ve always been part of being human, since time immemorial. Though mistakes are often seen as negative, they can actually be positive learning opportunities. We all make them. Whether they’re big or small, what matters is what we learn from them.

In today’s edition of the Knucklehead Podcast, our guest, Joseph O'Connor shares some of the knucklehead moments that he has learned from, why people are hesitant to take risks, and what role coaches play in helping individuals.

Joseph O’Connor is an internationally recognized author, trainer, executive coach and consultant. He is a leading author and trainer in coaching and Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Systemic thinking. Co-author with Andrea Lages, Joseph wrote the book Coaching the Brain: Practical Applications of Neuroscience to Coaching.

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Mistakes happen, it's a fact of life. But what you do with them can be the difference between success and failure. They can be defining moments that empower you to do better next time, and they make you stronger in the end. There is no one who has made it to the top without making mistakes. They become a part of your story and give you the opportunity to grow and move forward.

In today’s edition of the Knucklehead Podcast, our guest, Ian Koniak talks about the life-threatening situation that changed his career trajectory, how knucklehead moments can empower you, and why you should surround yourself with mentors.

His mantra:

• Mistakes happen for me, not to me.

In the midst of a near-death experience, Ian thought about the regrets he would have by not living a life of service where he can use his skills to help people and use his gifts to better the world. As part of the commitment he made, he built a coaching business where he shares his secrets of success with sales professionals.

Ian Koniak is the Founder and President of Ian Koniak Sales Coaching. He has been a top-performing Account Executive for 19 years, with over $100M in career sales at Fortune 500 companies. He's led and developed teams and was recently the #1 Account Executive in the Enterprise Select Division at Salesforce. Today, Ian is on a mission to share his secrets to success with the sales community.

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The world of art is a place where anyone can be themselves. Some people are born with a creative spark in them, others need to learn how to be creative by practice. Regardless of the circumstances, creativity applies not just to art but also to business and life in general. Being able to create innovative ideas that are relevant to today can make you stand out, thrive, and survive.

In today’s edition of the Knucklehead Podcast, our guest, Maria Brito talks about the business side of creative arts. She will speak about the mistake she made at the beginning of her business and what she learned from it, the customs and traditions of the art industry, and why artistic talent should not be confused with creativity.

Her advice:

● Never underestimate the power of your ideas and what you have inside of you.

Maria Brito is the CEO at Maria Brito, LLC, an award-winning New York-based contemporary art advisor, author, and curator. She has a demonstrated history of more than a decade working in the fine arts industry developing more than one hundred private and corporate art collections.

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As someone who has gone through horrible bankruptcy, slept on his mom’s floor, did not have a job, and fasted for 72 hours, Tay Sweat has suffered every hardship imaginable. But rather than feeling pity for himself over his failures, he took full advantage of them and invested in himself.

Today, Tay has earned his reputation in the world of health and fitness, stock trading, and entrepreneurship. He runs three multibillion-dollar businesses and is a full-time investor in real estate and the stock market.

In today’s episode of the Knucklehead Podcast, our guest, Tay Sweat will talk about the rough times of his life, how he capitalized on these hardships to achieve success, and what he learned from the many failures he had along the way.

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