Josh Clark shares about struggles growing up as the "poor the poor talked about" with insecurities ranging from a lack of high school diploma to severely bucked teeth. And shares many valuable lessons he has learned along his path to being a successful husband, father, State Rep, and entrepreneur.

Who is Josh Clark?

Josh is an entrepreneur, former Georgia State Legislator, former U.S. Senate candidate and until recently an Executive Vice President for an International nutrition company based out of Silicon Valley. 

Josh grew up on a small farm in Suwanee Georgia as the oldest of 10 children and married his childhood sweetheart, Chelsey. Together they’ve been raising six children, ages 6 to 18 on a small farm in Flowery Branch, GA.

Earlier this year Josh resigned his executive position with the international nutrition company to run for office in the United States Senate in the Georgia Republican primary. Josh and his family of 8 lived in a bus as they crisscrossed the state of Georgia meeting with voters. He ended up losing the primary to football great, Herschel Walker. 

They are now living in Costa Rica for a year where they’re learning Spanish, serving in missions part-time, surfing and running their network marketing businesses and loving life! 

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John Crist shares about the importance of not being afraid to fail, and speaks candidly about his past failures, including his personal issues with alcohol and his perspectives on life, business and overcoming challenges.

Who is John Crist?

John is one of today’s fast-rising stand-up comedians, with more than 1 billion video views, over 5 million fans on social media and sold-out shows from coast to coast making PollStar’s top 100 global tours list in 2019 with over 197,000 tickets sold. Widely known for his viral videos like “Honest Football Coach,“ “Every Parent at Disney,“ “Brands That Need to be CANCELLED“ plus hundreds more. John Crist has performed all over the world and in 2021 began his multi-city national theater tour called “Fresh Cuts“ selling out theaters all over the United States. John has been seen on ESPN, Sports Illustrated, CBS Sports, Barstool Sports, and BuzzFeed, just a name a few. 

In 2022, John released his second special named, “What are We Doing“ on YouTube and released his first book titled, “Delete That” in October. John also has a weekly podcast called “Net Positive.” When asked where he finds the inspiration to write jokes, Crist says, “I grew up in the deep south, my dad is a pastor, and I was the third of eight homeschooled children. My first job was at Chick-fil-A. Coming from a background like that, how do you NOT write jokes?! “

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Dwight Johnson shares about insecurities he's had to deal with as a result of not graduating high school and never obtaining a high equivalency certificate, and the internal self doubt and negative self talk he's had to overcome. .He also shares a great deal of knowledge and wisdom on this episode resulting from his years of continuing (informal) education of reading, listening, studying and most importantly applying the knowledge he has learned as he continues to succeed in a big way in business, marriage, parenting and in life!

Who is Dwight Johnson?

Dwight Johnson is the owner of a natural skin care company focusing on goat milk as it’s base ingredient. Dwight, along with his wife Marilee founded the Bend Soap Company in 2011 because of a son who had severe eczema. Over the past 11 years, they have grown it from a few goats making soap in their kitchen, to a multi-million-dollar business. 

He has also found a lot of joy in his various other entrepreneurial ventures, many of which are multi-million-dollar businesses of their own.

Dwight currently resides in Bend, Oregon with his awesome wife, Marilee, and their 10 amazing children ranging in age from age 18 to down to age 3. 

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Ray Higdon speaks candidly about going from foreclosure, bankruptcy, divorce and $1 million in debt sleeping on a friends couch in 2009, to building an Inc 5000 company and being one of the elite trainers in the nearly $200 billion/year direct sales industry.

Who is Ray Higdon?

Ray Higdon is the bestselling author of Time, Money, Freedom and a highly respected expert who works with high achievers to help them master their emotions and reach their full potential in business and in life. Specifically, in the last 5 years he’s helped his clients generate over 300,000 new customers. His podcast, Home Business Profits,  has had over 9 million downloads and gets about 160k downloads every month. His company, Higdon Group, has been recognized as an Inc 5000 company, and hosts annual events with as many as 2,000 people live and nearly 7,000 registered online. 

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Shannon Payton ("Shanny Pants") discusses challenges of growing up in a cult, infertility, adoption, dealing with "haters" as a social media influencer, and the importance of being authentic off and on social media.

Who is Shannon Payton?

Shannon is a 41-year-old wife and mother of three kiddos ages 14, 10 and 9. When one of Shannon’s social media videos went viral it opened up a whole new world for her. She now has many viral videos and hundreds of thousands of social media followers. She shares her struggles of growing up in a cult, battles through years of infertility that ended in a hysterectomy, and finally her journey to parenthood through foster care and adoption. 

Shannon is currently writing a memoir and has recently started a podcast (The ShannyPants Show). She has created a platform where she shares the struggles of life in a humorous way as part of her self-prescribed therapy and is excited to share even more through her book and podcast.

Shannon’s social media notoriety has led to her being a guest on The Kelly Clarkson show and she has appeared on the local TV show GoodDay Sacramento multiple times.

When Shannon is asked where she gets all of her ideas for her humorous videos, she sarcastically states, “I’m married and have kids, that’s all the inspiration I need for some crazy content.”

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Cody Hollister, a Tennessee Titans wide receiver, shares about his struggles of going from an All State high school football state champion to an unknown, 9th receiver at a community college, and how he worked through challenge after challenge with his no quit mindset to now be playing in the NFL today.

Who is Cody Hollister?

Cody Hollister is a wide receiver for the Tennessee Titans. Cody played high school football at Mountain view High School in Bend, Oregon with his identical twin brother Jacob. Jacob was the Quarterback and Cody his number one target at wide receiver. In high school, Cody broke all wide receiver records for his school, and they won the 2011 state championship his senior year.

Cody walked on at university of Nevada Reno and redshirted his freshman year. He then transferred to Arizona Western Community College to play as a redshirt freshman, where he earned a scholarship to join the SEC at the University of Arkansas the following year.

After three seasons at Arkansas which were plagued with injuries, Cody signed with the New England Patriots in 2017. He played two seasons with the Patriots along with his twin brother Jacob and won the super bowl against the Los Angeles Rams in 2019.

On May 13, 2019, Hollister signed with the Tennessee Titans where he has been ever since.

His brother Jacob Hollister is now a tight end for the Minnesota Vikings.

Cody is a man who loves Jesus and desires to honor and glorify Him in all he does, enjoys outdoor adventures, and is a singer/songwriter and guitarist.  

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Christina Swyers talks about the limiting beliefs and mindsets that held her back for many years as a young, struggling single mother and the changes that took place to allow her to become one of the nation's top realtors.

Who is Christina Swyers?

Christina Swyers is a top St. Louis, Missouri Realtor, global team leader, social media influencer, and a "digital mayor" of her town. She has become a multiple six-figure earner utilizing unorthodox career tactics to grow and scale her business and has taught many other professionals through her course content and direction. More recently, she has pioneered as one of the very first agents in the country to obtain the Consortia Blockchain Compliance Designation and become a Certified trainer and speaker. 

Working smart and having FUN are both motto’s of hers! In 2021 she became a best selling first time published author with her book collaboration Resilient Women in Real Estate. She has been featured in multiple other publications including Vanity Fair, Success Magazine, Real Producers, & St. Louis Magazine and on many Podcasts.

Since 2015 she has belonged to both the National and St. Louis Associations of Realtors and currently holds her license with EXP Realty LLC, a cloud-based brokerage where she is a certified mentor, two time ICON award agent, and is in the top 1% of EXP influencers. Christina is a dedicated wife, mother, and community leader.

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Robby Gallaty talks candidly about building a successful business, losing it all, getting addicted to drugs, and the keys to overcoming these challenges that has led him to where he is today.

Who is Robby Gallaty?

Robby Gallaty is a dear friend, and the Senior Pastor of Long Hollow Church in Hendersonville, TN. Robby completed his Masters of Divinity Degree in Expository Preaching in 2007 and his Ph.D. in Preaching in 2011 from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.

Robby is the author of numerous books and also provides a wealth of discipleship resources through Replicate Ministries. When he’s not serving at Long Hollow, you might find Pastor Robby hanging with his family, communicating on his HAM radio, cutting and measuring wood in his woodshop, out on the nearest disk golf course, or cheering for LSU.

Robby is married to Kandi and they have two sons; Rig and Ryder.  

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Aaron Walker shares insights and lessons learned from some of his life challenges including "retiring" at age 27, hitting and killing a pedestrian and others.

Who is Aaron Walker?

Aaron Walker has served his community for more than 43 years as an entrepreneur of multiple businesses. It has taught him to have No Excuses, Make it Amazing, and that Everything is Figureoutable.

Two decades ago, Aaron had the opportunity to join a peer advisory group with Dave Ramsey and others called a mastermind, where he received wise counsel from other competent leaders helping him maximize his potential.

In 2013, Aaron was encouraged by his mastermind group to start the Iron Sharpens Iron Mastermind, a brotherhood of men focusing on developing the whole man - growing themselves, their businesses, relationships, and faith.

Hundreds of men’s businesses and families have and continue to experience generational change.  Aaron enjoys giving back through his own experiences in both The Mastermind Playbook - a program for helping others develop and build their mastermind, as well as his book View From The Top.

Aaron lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife Robin of 42 years. He has two amazing daughters and five beautiful grandchildren.

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Simon Chan shares his journey from an ultra-shy, quiet Chinese American growing up in Brooklyn, NY, with a voice he did not like, to living a life of freedom, propose and impacting hundreds of thousands around the world,

Who is Simon Chan?

Simon Chan is a Consistency Coach, speaker and author of the Amazon best seller, The Consistency Pill; The 7 Step System to Increase Sales and Transform Your Business.

He helps network marketers succeed by helping them to be consistent, defeat overwhelm, and build a successful business online.

Simon is best known as the host of MLM Nation Podcast, the #1 network marketing podcast that features in depth interviews of over 700 top income earners worldwide and now includes millions of downloads.

Simon retired from network marketing in 2013 to become a full-time trainer and founded the MLM Nation Podcast, after building a million-dollar business with over 200,000 distributors in his organization.

He is also a devoted husband, father, Christ follower, speaker, and my good friend.

Nicole and I would not be where we are today in our business if it was not for Simon.

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