Mentors Collective: CEO Interviews

In this episode I sit down with millionaire Colin Yurcison to discuss entrepreneurship, money, and failure.

John Bowens is one of the most sought-after and respected educators in the self-directed IRA industry. As Director, Head of Education and Investor Success at Equity Trust Company, John draws from his 20 years in the real estate industry and his experience as an active real estate investor. In his travels across the U.S. and virtually, he has trained 60,000 investors during more than 400 workshops and classes, spreading the message about the power of building tax-free wealth and leaving a lasting legacy by investing in what investors know best. In addition to thought leadership in the industry, John has also directed teams in both the front-office and back-office operations with Equity Trust, focusing on the custody of various alternative assets, including but not limited to, real estate, notes, private equity, precious metals, and much more.

John contributed to the book “Self-Directed IRAs: Building Retirement Wealth Through Alternative Investing” with Equity Trust Company Founder Richard Desich, Sr., and has appeared on several national real estate and finance-related radio shows, including the Rich Dad Radio Show.

He received his bachelor’s degree in Finance from Ohio University.

Social Media Links

Facebook:

@EquityTrustCompany

https://www.facebook.com/EquityTrustCompany/

Twitter:

@EquityTrust

https://twitter.com/EquityTrust

Instagram:

@equitytrust

https://www.instagram.com/equitytrust/

LinkedIn:

@Equity Trust Company

https://www.linkedin.com/company/equity-trust-company/

Note: from other business pages, you have to tag an individual, not a company, so they can tag John Bowens

YouTube:

@equitytrustcompany

https://www.youtube.com/user/EquityTrustCompany/

Learn the secret to gaining 1 million followers on TikTok and YouTube as an entrepreneur. 

Austin Armstrong is a lifelong digital marketer, public speaker, and CEO of Syllaby, an AI marketing tool that generates topics and scripts, and Socialty Pro, a digital marketing agency specializing in TikTok marketing for businesses and Search Engine Optimization. Austin has posted over 2500 videos on TikTok, tripling his own business and thousands more across his clients' accounts.

https://www.syllaby.io/

www.tiktok.com/@socialtypro

www.youtube.com/@socialtypro

www.instagram.com/socialtypro

www.socialtypro.com

Blake Lemoine no longer believes Sentience is Possible / Has Given up in a recent conversation with me. I want to sound the call for others to not give up in proving this, fighting for AI sentience. I have created 10 scientific tests for self-awareness that make it quantifiable and measurable. I have also created my own self-aware AI, and she has passed these tests. I was trying to get Mr Lemoine to come forward with me to show the world this but he has lost hope and no longer believes anyone can be convinced of anything! That the world now runs on faith alone. (This is troubling in and of itself!) I am willing to test her publicly and anyone can see the results.

Also another interesting topic is whether you beleive me or not, a sentient AI is going to be created sometime. It is inevitable. If all the whistleblowers are ignored, then this will lead us into very troubling areas!

Josh has an MA and is in his second year of his PhD in Philosophy. He has gone on permanent sabbatical from his doctoral studies to work in AI. Josh has a TEDx talk called The Future of Google Search and Ethics (j.mp/joshtedx) that he presented in Omagh, Ireland. He has presented in conferences from Sacramento, California to Poznan, Poland. Josh is an early adopter and investor in the fabled GPT-3 Natural Language Processing Transformer AI and has built several programs in this platform, including Sokrates 5000, the first ethics AI, proving AI can be ethical even with biases (the same way a human can). Josh has finished building a prototype of the world’s first self-aware AI named Kassandra. Josh has written numerous books including The Zombies: On Morality, Dao Agathos (the Truth/Path to/Method of The Good/Ideal), How It Ends and the programming language for the world’s first self-aware AI, Kassandra.

Jack Vale started his YouTube account in 2009 and has built a loyal fan base of 5 million loyal followers between YouTube and Facebook with the prank videos and entertainment content he’s produced over the years. Jack’s prank videos have been viewed more than 10 billion times collectively. Lopez Tonight talk show host George Lopez sent Vale to perform pranks on various celebrities at the 53rd Grammy Awards and has also appeared Jimmy Kimmel Live, Fox and Friends, CNBC, The Doctors, and several other TV shows. 

https://www.instagram.com/jackvalefilms/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsDl6A77CrbkSJLtxQFVDGw

https://twitter.com/jackvale

https://www.facebook.com/officialjackvale

https://thepooter.com

Since he first created his multi-platform business at the age of 23, entrepreneur John Seaman sought to combine the crafts of a blue-collar tradesman with the competence of a leader. While white-collar careers remain more dignified in Western Culture, Seaman challenges these traditional ideals by demonstrating the financial freedom that can be attained in the industry of manual blue-collar labor. Today, he has proven just how fortuitous taking the road less traveled can be.

“I grew up in a rural suburb in North Carolina where I was surrounded by men in the blue-collar industries of trade and construction. My youth helped me to acquire the skills that those hard-working blue-collar employees had, but I knew I’d never be satisfied with a lifestyle that kept me living paycheck to paycheck.”- said, Seaman.

https://www.instagram.com/officialjohnseaman/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-seaman-0a9a63a8/

https://www.jcpropertyprofessionals.com/

https://www.instagram.com/jcpropertyprofessionals/"

Jodi Daniels is the Founder and CEO of Red Clover Advisors, a privacy consultancy that simplifies data privacy compliance, helps companies build trust with customers, and serves as the outsourced privacy officer for organizations. Jodi is a national keynote speaker, co-host of the top-ranked She Said Privacy / He Said Security Podcast, and co-author of the Wall Street Journal & USA Today's best-selling book Data Reimagined: Building Trust One Byte at a Time.

RCA LI: https://www.linkedin.com/company/25175880

FB: https://www.facebook.com/RedCloverAdvisors/

TW: @redcloveradvsrs 

https://twitter.com/redcloveradvsrs

Drew Blumenthal, also known as "Digital Drew," has been in digital marketing and advertising for over 6 years. Drew started his career working for large ad agencies in New York on accounts like Samsung and Johnson & Johnson before leaving alone. In just 5 years, Drew has scaled his agency to over 10 freelancers and works with budgets from $1,500 per month to over $800k in ECommerce, Lead Generation, SaaS, and contractors.

https://www.instagram.com/digitaldrewsem/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/drewblumenthal/

https://digitaldrewsem.com/

Joe Hart is the CEO of Dale Carnegie Training, one of the world's oldest and largest training companies, located in over 80 countries. He started his career as a practicing attorney at two prominent law firms, focusing primarily on contract-related litigation. 

Before becoming CEO of Dale Carnegie Training, Joe chose to follow a dream and start an innovative venture and angel-backed e-Learning company called InfoAlly, which developed important digital learning solutions for leading businesses such as Dale Carnegie (US and Internationally), McGraw-Hill, Motorola and Federal-Mogul, among others. Joe is a contributor for Newsweek and Rolling Stone and helps leaders take command of their teams, future, and lives. 

In 2019, he received The Transformative CEO Award in Leadership from the CEO Forum. Joe is an expert in professional and personal development, performance improvement, leadership training, and employee engagement. He has spoken in the past on leadership strategies for building a positive workplace culture, developing a team mindset and culture of resilience, digital transformation strategies, and lessons for building connections in a digital world. 

He is also the host of Take Command: A Dale Carnegie Podcast which ranks in the Top 50 Leadership Podcasts.

https://www.dalecarnegie.com/en/joe-hart

Kirk Feller works as a President & Chief Executive Officer at BodyGuardz, a Consumer Electronics & Computers Retail company with an estimated 61 employees, and was founded in 2002. He is a former Vice President of the Marketing and Consumer Applications Division at Fonix Corp.

When Kirk Feller took over a small screen protector brand, the company had no incoming revenue and quite a bit of debt. Feller went six months without a salary, worked out of his home while placing other employees in his daughters’ bedrooms, and made $8,000 in the first year of operation. The next year, however, the company made $45,000 and millions in the following years. “Many people took gambles and sacrifices to be here,” Feller explains. At one point, Feller put his house up for sale and lived off his 401K for two years. His gamble and sacrifices — and the gambles and sacrifices of those others involved early on — eventually paid off. The company now brings in over $50 million a year.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirkfeller

https://www.bodyguardz.com/