Passion In Progress with Javier Mercedes

Jay Gordon owns Blackout Signs and Metalworks located in San Marcos, TX, but services clients all over the country. From custom made Neon signs for restaurants and businesses, fabricated trophies for Redbull, to the main entrance signage for music festivals like ACL and Lollapalooza. Jay and his team are unique craftsman that deliver professional handmade signage - A rare art in today's society of mass production and cookie cutter designs.


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Singer-songwriter Sydney Rhame tells what it was like being a contestant on NBC's the Voice, and what it meant to her career afterwards. We also talk about the production process for her studio albums as well as how it is for a young woman in the music industry today. @SydneyRhame on all social. Be sure to check out her single "Look good together" on Spotify or your preferred music platform. 

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John Douglass has worked on albums for Metal Bands like Megadeth and Coheed and Cambria. He is also a contributing Audio Engineer instructor for URM Academy teaching his techniques in Metal Drums editing. We go in depth into his process and background in this highly competitive job market of being a full time audio engineer. 

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"You have to start expressing yourself and putting yourself out there In order to figure out what your voice is." - Romina, also known as REDROMINA online, is a creative entrepreneur creating video content online and offline. Travel vlogs and tips, entrepreneurship, and style content amassing over 5M+ views and over a decade of work. Romina has partnered with brands like Coca-Cola, San Diego Comic-Con, Toyota, Hostelling International, & VRLA. With her digital media and film production company, Romina has also produced award winning shorts and feature films. Aside from the business of entertainment, Romina is also a creative as a published author, performer, podcast host and public speaker.

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Alik Mock is the Founder of Genwise, a platform for simplifying the way you create and operate your business by offering free business resources and advanced tailored services. Their mission is to invoke an entrepreneurial movement by providing access to the knowledge, tools, and resources that facilitate building and owning a successful business.

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"Mastery doesn’t create passion, passion creates mastery."

Georgia Pellegrini is a modern-day pioneer with "Superwoman Skills" who empowers audiences to step outside of their comfort zones and discover inner bravery and resourcefulness. Her critically acclaimed books include Food Heroes, Girl Hunter, and most recently, Modern Pioneering, a cookbook for homestead cuisine and living off the land.

Called “an empowerment guru” by The New York Times, Pellegrini is a phenomenally gifted speaker, and her Adventure Getaways attract audiences from as far as South Korea.

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“Journalism is hard work, it’s tedious, it’s serious, it’s necessary, and it’s the foundation of democracy.”

In August of 1973, after attending the Michelle Clark Fellowship Program for Minority Journalists at Columbia University, Pinkston was promoted to WLBT’s 6:00 PM newscast, the first African American to anchor the #1 newscast at Mississippi’s #1 television station. In 1974, he accepted a position with Post-Newsweek Station WJXT-TV, a CBS affiliate in Jacksonville, Florida, as the urban affairs director and producer. In 1976, Pinkston transferred to Post-Newsweek’s WFSB-TV in Hartford, Connecticut, where he held posts as anchor, reporter and producer of public affairs programs.

While working in Hartford, he earned his J.D. degree from the University of Connecticut School of Law in 1980. That same year, Pinkston was hired as a correspondent with WCBS-TV, where he worked until 1990 when he was appointed as a CBS News White House correspondent. Pinkston reported on stories of national and international significance from the Persian Gulf War to the nomination of Justice Clarence Thomas. In 1994, he moved to the CBS New York news bureau and served as a correspondent for CBS Evening News as well as a contributor, reporter and correspondent for other CBS news broadcasts, including CBS Reports, CBS 48 Hours, and CBS Sunday Morning.  In 2013, Pinkston ended a thirty-three year career with CBS. His final report included an interview with Myrlie Evers Williams on Medgar Evers’ efforts to open broadcasting to minorities. 

After CBS, Pinkston worked as an adjunct professor at the City University of New York School of Journalism and The University of Mississippi Meek School of Journalism, and as a freelance journalist for Al Jazeera America. 

Pinkston’s work was first recognized by the Great New York Safety Council for his reporting on underage drunk driving and its influence in the shaping of New York state law on underage drinking and driving. He is the recipient of a national Emmy award and an Edward R. Murrow Award for his work on CBS Reports’ “Legacy of Shame,” and two other national Emmy awards for reporting on the death of Princess Diana and the TWA Flight 800 disaster. He has also received a Community Service Award from the Society of Professional Journalists for a report on the aids crisis among African Americans.

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"People buy who you are before they ever buy why you do what you do."

Phoebe Mroczek is a podcaster and marketing strategist who helps online entrepreneurs create a profitable business that is a reflection of who they are and what they want most.

She is the host of the Unbecoming Podcast, a show that helps entrepreneurs release judgment, expectations and past conditioning to redefine their metrics of success and live a fun, free and fulfilling life.

Over the past few years, she’s built an online marketing business that helped established entrepreneurs refine their paid ad and launch strategies, created a podcast she co-hosted with 900K+ downloads and organized various in-person events, masterminds and online communities. 

Phoebe believes that while what we do in the world is important, we’re meant to do so much more in life than just work. As an curious explorer and recovering perfectionist, she’s traveled to more than 60 countries on 6 continents, been cage diving with great white sharks, camped in the Serengeti and motorbiked across Europe.

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Jericka Duncan is a CBS News correspondent based in New York. Duncan has reported on a wide range of national stories and breaking news including; the shooting deaths of four Marines and a Navy sailor in Chattanooga, historic snow storms in Boston, and the 70th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy. More recently, she spent a month in Canada traveling with the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team documenting its run to the 2015 World Cup title.

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Brian Sellers has stuttered his whole life. After discovering the McGuire Programme 4 years ago he still has a stutter but talks very eloquently. Brian is the regional director for the United States and Canada McGuire Programme now. In this episode we talk about his stutter and how he teaches others to over come their stutter and overcome their fears.

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