#PirateBroadcast

Today on the #PIrateBroadcast Russ Johns interviews Jennifer Cline who was a self-professed un-handy woman. Her journey to becoming a woodworker and becoming handy happened shortly after her husband passed away. He was a maintenance man at a close college and he could build or fix anything. Jennifer’s first project was turning the farmhouse that was left to her into what she and her husband dreamt it would be. Jennifer is also a Tik Toker and makes videos that she posts on Tik Tok. She also makes flags to raise awareness of repurposing and recycling. Jennifer is an example of what you can do when you set your mind to something.

Today on the #Piratebroadcast Russ Johns interviews Grant Gers. Grant comes from a long line of entrepreneurs. By trade, he is in the Airline industry and served in the Air Force for a time. Unfortunately, with COVID there has been a serious reduction in flights, and they spoke about the effects on Grant’s duties. Grant and Russ talked about the launch of SpaceX the first launching in 9 years. Grant is also working on a clothing line that is inspired by his love of Golf.

Today on the #PirateBroadcast Russ Johns asks Michelle Mras to join. Michelle Grew up in a military home. She went on and married her high school sweetheart. In 2014 she was in a terrible car accident causing her to become a vegetable for 18 months. She lost four areas of her brain, her frontal lobe over her left ear, the back of her head and her two hemispheres was disconnected. After 18 months of not being able to do anything and she was able to talk and move around and she decided she wanted to be a speaker and became an international speaker. Shortly after that Michelle found out that she had breast cancer. Michelle used that to become a coach to coach others in their rough times. You would think that endearing all the things Michelle has been through it would have knocked her down, but instead it brought her to her calling. Michelle has her own Podcast called: MentalShift, where she talks to people who has had a shift in their mindset.

Today on the PirateBroadcast Russ Johns interviews Prof. Pete Alexander. In 2008 Pete was challenged with so many obstacles. His father was dying, mother was going through major hip surgery, he was running a small business while taking care of two small children and going through a divorce. He later then found out that he had stress induced diabetes but kept going. It took for him to be in ICU to realize that he must take better care of himself. When he got out of the hospital he resigned from his job and started trying different stress relief tools and techniques. Using these tools, he realized that his stress levels, blood sugar and weight decrease, and his energy went up. His friends and family told him he should write a book about this and he did, and it became Amazon’s best seller. Ask yourself. What would I do if I knew I could not fail?

Today on the #PirateBroadcast Russ Johns talks with Josh Tapp. Growing up Josh always believed in entrepreneurship and it was always something he wanted to do. He had 5 companies by the age of 21, doing different things. He started a marketing agency doing ads for small businesses on Facebook. When Josh learned that getting and keeping customers was hard, he realized that, that was something he did not want to something he did not love to do. He needed to make a major shift in what he was doing, because he loved his customers and marketing, but he did not like feeling like he was begging for their business. He sold his part of the company, making him a 10% silent partner of it, and he started The Lucky Titan Podcast

This episode welcomes Marc Halpert one of the recognized Linkedin Experts. He and the Host Russ Johns, talk about Linkedin of course, Linkedin Live and Marc's book that he is just starting to write. This will be the second book Marc writes, Follow Marc on Linkedin and see what he is all about https://www.linkedin.com/in/marchalpert/

Today on the #PirateBroadcast Russ Johns interviews Gary Frey. Gary had to learn the art of pivot. He is a connecter, MacGyver, Confidant who loves helping CEOs and teams save and make money. He has always been good at being able to relate to CEOs and always pushing to win awards. In 1999 Gary got hired to run a .com they sold 20% to Microsoft after they blew up a year later. Gary says there are things that we are typically good at. We must think about what they are and then apply them wherever you are. Try to serve versus be served. Learn what you do well and then create value from it every time.

Today on the #PirateBroadcast Russ Johns talks with Jennifer Corcoran. Jennifer studied English and French, she worked on a magazine in Dublin as an editor’s assistant. She Re-branded herself as a personal and executive assistant after she realized that publishing was not her thing in London. She ended up being a PA in London for 15 years and that began her journey on to LinkedIn.

Today on the #Piratebroadcast Russ Johns invites Christine Teh. Christine started her coaching business in 2016. She stopped her corporate year for a year and started to do entrepreneurship. She gave it one year and she has completed that one. She tried to figure out how to market and where she could market. She tried Facebook (was for personal use), Instagram (she did not really understand that, it was more of a picture platform), and LinkedIn. LinkedIn mad the most sense to her, so she got on and started showing up and posting every day. Between September and December is when she started building her personal brand. She started getting her first clients in January.

Today on the #PirateBroadcast Russ Johns talks With Dr. Ai Addyson-Zhang. Ai is the founder of classroom without walls. Classroom without walls is an alternative school. She was in a high education school for 10 years and resigned last year to start her own school. Being a teacher inside the classroom showed Ai that the school system was failing the children. Everything was decreasing, Children’s imagination, creativity, and the drive to learn was all decreasing and was not being used in the future. This is the reason Ai wanted to change the reason for what she loves. She wants to give children the things they need for their future and to make it better.