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Ken Steven is the Creator and Chief Architect of the Job Passion Type Indicator (JPTI)™ at Careerzgroup. He helps individuals and organizations understand why career success and job satisfaction often fail to align—and how to fix it. With over 30 years of experience, Ken challenges the belief that being good at your job is enough, revealing why passion for the work itself is the missing link to engagement, fulfillment, and energized teams.

https://careerzgroup.com/

Hi, I’m Bart Merrell—International Entrepreneur, Author, and Presenter of Monetize Your Mindset.

As a serial entrepreneur, I’ve been turning opportunities into successful ventures since before I could legally drive (though, admittedly, I did crash my parents' car when I was eight). I’m also the creator of two YouTube channels: Beyond Limbs: Amputee Answers & Options and Side Hustle Samurai.

Fun fact: I helped take the first commercial bungee jump to Japan. I’m still not sure if that’s something to brag about, especially since I jumped off the tower while holding the cord with my hands!

My mission is simple: I want to help you create financial security by monetizing what you already know. Life’s curveballs are inevitable—but when you’ve built a solid financial foundation, you’ll be ready to handle them.

In my book, Monetize Your Mindset, I teach that ordinary people can achieve extraordinary success when they learn to see and act on the opportunities that surround them. Whether you’re building your first side hustle or expanding an existing business, the key to sustainable financial freedom is right in your mindset.

https://bartmerrell.com/

The "63 to 69" Turnaround
"I was the guy they whispered about—the one who got fired at 63 with a 40-year career behind him and only two years of runway left before hitting zero. But I wasn’t done yet. Six years later, I was safely a millionaire."

I ranked #1 Amazon Hot New Release author, and the story of being fired at 63, nearly broke, safely a millionair by 69 has already sparked over 600 requests on Goodreads. I’d love to bring that same energy and the 'One-Page' survival map to your audience.

The Story for Your Audience

Most audiences—whether they are 25 or 55—share a silent, crushing fear: “Am I doing enough? Is it already too late for me?” I lived that nightmare. After 18 years at one company, I was let out to pasture. The math was brutal: even with my savings and retirement, I’d be broke by 65. Out of sheer desperation, I stripped away the complex "financial jargon" and built the One-Page Wealth Compass. It’s a system that turned a tiny nest egg into seven figures in under six years—achieving what most people spend 30 years trying to do.

Why Your Listeners Will Want to Hear This

I don’t talk about "beating the market" or high-risk gambles. I talk about age-defying  financial freedom. On your show, I will share:
• The Janitor vs. The Doctor: Why a high school dropout retired with $8 million while 1 in 4 doctors earning 10X as much retire with only six figures. 
• The 6-Year Impossible Math: How younger listeners (25–35) can use my same "Set-it-and-Forget-it" strategy to reach total financial independence decades earlier than their peers.
• The average NBA player earns $10 million a year, yet 60% go broke within 5 years of retirement. Meanwhile a basketball loving carpenter became a multimillionaire on an average income. How does this happen? 
• The Power of "Doing Nothing": Why doing nothing beat every fancy strategy I tried for 40 years.
The Unique Perspective
I provide the "Safety" factor. In an era of volatile crypto and confusing 401k options, I offer the power of simplicity. Whether your audience is a 25-year-old looking for a "speed-run" to freedom or a 55-year-old who feels they’ve started too late, I show them that the math is on their side—if they have the right compass.

I’m not here to give a lecture; I’m here to give your listeners their "second act" back. Getting fired at 63 was the worst day of my life—until it became the best. I’d love to show your audience how to make that same shift whatever their age.

For younger listeners, this isn't just a retirement plan; it's a blueprint for escaping the 'cubicle-for-life' trap before they hit 40.

https://onepagewealthcompass.com/

https://onepagewealthcompass.com/

🔥 Coach Jon McLernon helps people break free from addiction, emotional eating, self-sabotage, and burnout—blending neuroscience, psychology, metabolic health as a part of his NeuroQuit(TM) Method.

💡 A survivor of near-fatal trauma, financial ruin, and food addiction, Jon rebuilt himself—becoming debt-free, losing 100 lbs, and overcoming crippling anxiety without fad diets or sheer willpower.

🌍 From nanotech researcher to Navy Marine engineer to globetrotting mentor, his science-meets-spirit approach empowers people to reclaim their health, identity, and freedom.

⚡ Now, he’s on a mission to help others break destructive cycles, rewire their brains, and step into the life they were created for.

https://jonathanmclernon.substack.com/

Between The Before & After (The Stories that Shape Us) Podcast

I am a strength and mindset coach for almost 15 years, owner of Breakthrough Secrets and host of The Strength Connection Podcast.

I work with busy professionals create a harmony in 
their physical, mental and spiritual strength practices to help them live out their fullest potential and most joyful life. 

I believe in the process of mastery, and everyone is capable of becoming a master of their own lives using strength practice.

 http://www.mystrengthconnection.com

This is the breakdown of my coaching program, and where people can grab a free copy of my ebook, The One Day Strength Challenge, a way to begin incorporating intuition into your training plan.

http://www.mystrengthconnection.com/

https://podmatch.com/hostdetail/1663100640545x590806995957614100

About Lidia Axe

Let’s get real.

You didn’t become a coach to become a marketer.

You became a coach to help people.

But unless your calendar is fully booked with paying clients, your impact—and your income—is limited.

That’s where I come in.

I help talented, heart-driven, qualified coaches go from “I’m posting and praying” to consistent $10K+ months—without resorting to sleazy tactics or cookie-cutter advice.

If you’re still stuck juggling a full-time job and a part-time coaching hustle that barely covers your software stack, I’m the coach who will lovingly—but firmly—call you out on what’s keeping you stuck.

And spoiler: it’s probably not your skills. It’s your strategy.

WHAT I BELIEVE:
・ Sales is service—if you truly believe in your work, you owe it to people to make the offer
・ Content without a conversion path is just unpaid performance
・ You don’t need another certification—you need paying clients
・ You’re not “bad at marketing.” You’ve just never been shown how to do it in a way that feels good
・ Specificity attracts. Generality repels. (Yes, you need a niche. Yes, even if you “help everyone.”)
・ You don’t need a bigger audience. You need a better offer.
・ Showing up consistently beats switching strategies every two weeks because “Instagram hates me”

https://www.skool.com/a-zone

https://www.skool.com/a-zone

https://podmatch.com/hostdetail/172570212055132145df31738

Jim has discovered hitherto unknown natural phenomena, which greatly aid in the understanding of people, from which he created a revolutionary practical philosophic system and published it in a very well received book called Septemics: Hierarchies of Human Phenomena.

http://septemics.com/

Ari Rastegar is a real estate investor, author, and entrepreneur known for turning failure into long-term leverage. 

Starting with a $3,500 loan while in law school, Rastegar went on to build a multi-billion-dollar real estate portfolio- and along the way, learned that real success isn't just about capital, but clarity, resilience, and health. 

Today, Rastegar shares hard-earned lessons on building sustainable success from the inside out. He consistently delivers thoughtful content and brings an engaged audience of more than 750,000 followers across social platforms.

Ari Rastegar's Website
https://www.rastegarinvest.com/

Kerisma Vere is a holistic wellness coach and author who helps people move away from all-or-nothing self-help and toward healing, self-trust, and quality of life. Drawing from lived experience and years of coaching, her work explores trauma-informed, non-prescriptive approaches to change. She’s the author of The Light Switch Myth: Contemporary Approaches to Creating Lasting Change, the companion journal Ways I Showed Up for Myself, and the creator of the seven-module course From Pressure to Path: A Compassionate Framework for Change

 https://towardswellness.ca/

This link brings listeners to my wellness hub, where they can learn more about my approach, my vision for healing and quality of life, and explore resources and offerings that support gentle, sustainable change.

My life reads like a movie about resilience, reinvention, and grit — all wrapped in a smile and a wicked sense of humor.

I was born in Southern California and dropped into rural Montana at age 12, which meant I grew up straddling two very different worlds: fast-paced city life and slow-grit country living. That contrast shaped how I see people, opportunity, and possibility. At 19, I joined the LDS Church, served a mission in Brazil at 21, and spent 25 years as a committed member before life, growth, and experience led me down a different spiritual path. The transition wasn’t easy — but like everything else in my story, it made me wiser, more grounded, and more human.

Professionally, I’ve lived nine business lives in one. Over 39 years, I’ve built, operated, bought, broken, and resurrected companies in remodeling, construction, manufacturing, real-estate development, foreign investment, hospitality, restaurants, and retail. I’ve worked with everyone from EB-5 investors to small-town contractors. I’ve won big, lost big, survived cancer, finished two Ironmans, and I still show up with the enthusiasm of a guy launching his very first venture.

I’m a customer-service fanatic, a storyteller, and an entrepreneur with the scars — and the receipts — to back up every lesson I teach.

Today, I’m the founder of Bootstraps & Battle Scars and the creator of Founders Exchange, where I coach entrepreneurs in the trenches, help them become extraordinary, and create powerful mastermind experiences where people can finally drop the armor and get real.

I’m a father, step-father, husband, and the kind of guest who is wildly entertaining, brutally honest, deeply insightful, and genuinely fun to talk to.

If your audience loves real stories from real entrepreneurs — the messy ones, the triumphant ones, and the ones that teach you something you can actually use — I’m your guy.

Check out my podcast here: https://www.youtube.com/@chrisshurian2025