The Black Diamond Podcast

Over the last 15 years, Deacon Andres have competed in Wakeboarding, Skiercross, MMA, Jiu Jitsu, Motocross, and Tennis. He has proudly served his country in the US Army and now have the amazing opportunity to help prepare athletes and soldiers to perform at the highest level. Their company (SISU Strong) has not only been able to provide great training to the highest level athletes but we have found a very easy and effective way to provide the same performance goals to the everyday client that they come across. Passion powers the hard work, determination, and creativity that make great accomplishments possible. In this episode, Deacon shares his journey as US army, his passion in action sports and the challenges he had, that leads him to start his online training facility, SISU Strong, which is their goal is to help people begin to enjoy the world of action sports and help clients reach their performance goals. Quotes: · "I just wanted to help people hurt less and do that longer. And that kind of led me to where we are now." · "It's a beautiful thing. So when you can truly have a better understanding of what your clients are going through and what it's like." · "It's kind of evolved into my biggest, like passion and love for doing it that way. And it's in a unique environment that allows me to do it the way that I want, but has really directed me to where I kind of want to go business-wise." Resources and Links: www.sisustrong.com Sisu Strong Instagram Connect with Deacon

Denis Vidmar grew up on mushroom farms scattered across the world, Zlatko, from Asia, Europe, to now, North America. His fascination and passion grew in the last decade and he evolved from the Button White, Cremini and Portabella, into Exotic, Wild & Medicinal Mushrooms. He believes your refrigerator should be your medicine cabinet and that path begins with Mushrooms. Mushrooms are an ingredient that should be a part of every meal, and because of the vast varieties and taste profiles, for every meal, there is a Mushroom that will highlight it, and in this episode, Denis talks about how he educates people on the tremendous health benefits and magical power of mushrooms and how it benefits the environment, the culinary world, his company MushHub and so much more! Quotes: · "Mushrooms will definitely be the chat of the decade." · "I find that every month forward from now on we're going to find a way of how mushrooms are interrelated with what we do on a day to day basis." · "We all believe in fungi and we should." Resources and Links: www.themushhub.com @themushhub on all channels

Adam Mendler is the CEO of The Veloz Group, where he co-founded and oversees ventures across a wide variety of industries: Beverly Hills Chairs, the leading seller of refurbished Herman Miller Aeron chairs in the country; Custom Tobacco, a one-of-a-kind e-commerce platform where customers can create fully customized, private-label cigars in real-time; and Veloz Solutions, a technology consulting and software development practice. Adam is also a nationally acclaimed thought leader, writer and speaker on topics including leadership, entrepreneurship and management. Adam is the creator and host of the podcast Thirty Minute Mentors, where each week he goes one on one with one of the most successful people in the country on how they got to the top and how listeners can too. Entrepreneurship can be challenging. Thankfully, there have been lots of successful entrepreneurs like Adam that have actually paved the way and had given us with some insight. In this episode, Adam shared his entrepreneurial journey, tips when is the right time to take a leap and start own business, why is it harder to be an entrepreneur than working as an corporate employee, challenges as an entrepreneur and his mission to help people become more successful entrepreneurs, and more successful leaders. We also talked about his podcast Thirty Minute Mentors podcast which each episode features a wealth of practical, actionable advice from a leading CEO, founder, athlete, celebrity, influencer or general/admiral on how they made it to the top. Quotes: · "And the answer that I give people is, don't take the entrepreneurial leap, unless you have a great idea that you are dedicated to pushing on that deeply compels you to drop everything you're doing and go all-in on your business." · "I think the most important thing is, when you do something, when you make a decision, you have to live with it, you have to learn from any decision you make whether it's a good decision or a bad decision" · "As any entrepreneur can tell you, it's all about execution." Resources and Links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adammendler/ https://www.adammendler.com/ https://www.thevelozgroup.com/

Gregg Treinish was named a National Geographic "Adventurer of the Year" after completing the first-known trek along the spine of the Andes mountain range - a 7,800-mile expedition. In 2011, he founded Adventure Scientists, a nonprofit organization that deploys outdoor adventurers to collect high quality scientific data that can amplify and accelerate solutions to environmental and human health issues. Gregg has been named a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, a Grist 50 Fixer, and one of Men's Journal's "50 Most Adventurous Men," among other accolades. Gregg shared his journey leading him to become National Geographic's "Adventurer of the Year", he talked about his passion for scientific discovery, exploration, and their mission to amplify and accelerate environmental impact. Adventure Scientists, which he founded, serves scientific partners, by providing them with data they need to solve critical environmental and human health issues from the outdoors, from remote areas and at large scale; and outdoor adventurer volunteers, who want to give back by contributing to game-changing science. Quotes: · "It was just creativity and optimism, persistence that we use to navigate around." · "The more that I saw, environmental degradation, the more I was inspired to work for the benefit of animals and places that couldn't speak for themselves." Resources and Links: https://www.facebook.com/AdventureScientists https://www.instagram.com/adventurescientists/ https://twitter.com/AdvScientists https://www.linkedin.com/company/2055092/admin/

Dr. Sean Pastuch is a thought leader in the health and fitness world whose industry-disrupting company, Active Life, is bridging the gap between performance and rehabilitation. Dr. Sean believes that the larger the problem, the more valuable the solution. He believes that the biggest problem worth solving is the absence of healthcare and the abundance of sick care in the United States and Internationally. That's why the mission of Active Life is to humanize the doctor, professionalize the coach, and empower the individual. There is a core truth, businesses need to change and adapt. It's a core part of the business process. In this episode, Dr. Sean talked about "change" towards a more beneficial business mindset and grow his business, on how he can execute on that change to create more opportunities. He also shared his entrepreneurial journey, his history in the fitness industry and personal growth. Quotes: · "Things will need to change in your business." · "But we were willing to take it on whenever the challenge was, we could figure out how to persevere through it." · "And how I need to change my personal mindsets so that my business mindset can grow. And then I need to execute on that change. So that it creates more opportunities. And then I'll need to change my mindset again to be able to accommodate those opportunities" Resources and Links: https://www.facebook.com/activeliferx https://www.facebook.com/Active-Life-Professional-101396418019386 IG: activeliferx / activelifeprofessional https://www.linkedin.com/in/sean-pastuch-02ba88109/

One of the most successful business owners like Ken Andrukow have mastered being effective to the fact that it makes him work smarter, sharing one of the easiest ways to keep our priorities in order is by focusing on W.I.N - "What's Important Now?" A question that can serve as a guide to help us prioritize the choices and decisions we are facing every day and how to be real by focusing on our present moment thoughts, feelings and actions. Quotes: · "When you make your whole life about work, other things start to fall away and become challenging. And then those challenges affect your work." · "Think about all the things that have you got in front of you and pare it down to what's important right now. 90% of them fall away and you just folk you just work on the thing that's most important." · "When you have an entrepreneur who's standing in his own way, and doing too much work, they don't have the ability to ask those questions. Because they're so confused by how many things are going on." Resources and Links: Reebok Crossfit Ramsay Ken Andrukow's LinkedIn Level 5 Mentors

Nathan Hirsch is an entrepreneur and expert in remote hiring and eCommerce. Most recently, Nathan co-founded FreeeUp.com in 2015 with an initial $5,000 investment, scaled it to $12M per year in revenue, and was then acquired in 2019. Today, Nathan is a co-founder of OutsourceSchool, a company working to educate entrepreneurs on how to effectively hire and scale with virtual assistants through in-depth courses. Nathan has appeared on 300+ podcasts, is a social media personality, and loves sharing advice on scaling remote businesses. Today, Nathan tells his story on how he became an entrepreneur, how he started FreeeUp with the initial investment of $5000, how he co-founded Outsource school and its purpose, he also shares his expertise in faster outsourcing, providing tons of tips and ideas for how to successfully build businesses remotely. Nathan also tells us how he built his Amazon store to 8-figure business in gross revenue, how his business is doing during this pandemic, his biggest challenge he had, and many MORE! Quotes: · "Virtual Assistants can do really any parts of your business and it's all about creating good systems and good processes." · "Our goal is to just make work as easy as possible." · "I always feel like you kind of take what you learn from one business and apply it to the next." Resources and Links: Outsource School Links: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/outsourceschool1 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/outsourceschool Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/SchoolOutsource OutsourceSchool: https://www.outsourceschool.com Email: [email protected] and [email protected] Personal Links: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nathan.hirsch Facebook: https://wwwfacebook.com/FreeeUpNathanHirsch Twitter: https://wwwtwitter.com/realnatehirsch LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanhirsch/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/realnatehirsch/

In today's episode, we have Jake Bertelsen, a tattoo artist and owner of Bertelsen Art and Tattoo shop, he shared his story on how he became an entrepreneur, and how being a tattoo artist changed his life, his struggles and his keys to success, also, his true definition of integrity. Quotes: · "And so it was pretty cool because I feel like the quest to become a decent tattoo artist ended up just totally changing my life and, and it was really fun and exciting." · "I really think that overall tattooing is probably one of the most amazing art forms out there." · "If you're really going to have integrity, it's a continual search for honesty. Besides yourself, it's not just like, trying to do the right thing when no one's looking. It's this ever evolving thing that ends up taking you to this deeper and deeper and deeper place of honesty inside yourself." Resources and Links Jake's personal Instagram Bertelsen Art Carry The Skull

Elin Lindqvist and Marko Oivo opened their gym in July 2016. They opened as CrossFit North AX and worked with the CrossFit and group fitness model for 3-5 years before they transitioned over to an OPEX gym. As a CrossFit gym they had around 100 group class members and as of this moment, they are at 35 individual design clients. In this episode, they talked about how they provide their clients with guidance, tools and over time knowledge to be autonomous in their health and fitness, how important is building relationships with each of their clients, how pandemic affects the business, what is individual fitness and how it differs to other model and their concept of 100% Individualized coaching - individualize the prescription (exercise, nutrition and recovery) to take them from where they are currently and also towards where they want to be. Quotes: · "It's showing that we really care about the basic things in health and taking care of yourself" · "So we have a limit to how many clients we can serve. Per coach. Before we have to hire more people, which is a challenge to find the right individual to coach together with us." · "I would say that their ideal client is a person who is willing to put in the effort in actually listening and changing things in their lives." Resources and Links: https://www.instagram.com/opexaland/ https://opexaland.as.me/consultation https://www.instagram.com/oivo Email Elin

In this episode, we have Mark Samuel, the entrepreneur behind iWON Organics, a protein and fiber snack company. IWON stands for I'm Winning On Nutrition, and makes flavorful snacks from plant-based proteins such as peas, beans, and brown rice resulting in a balanced nutritional profile that's higher in protein and fiber than other snacks on the shelf. Iwon snacks can be found in close to 5,000 U.S. stores, with 1,000 more overseas. He also shared how iWON Organics started, their mission to provide healthy snacks to consumers, entrepreneurship, his show "Let's Eat" and his true definition of success and happiness. Quotes: · "The founder needs to be the driver of all things." · "I am a fan of optimism and happiness." · "To be truly successful in my view, you need to be happy." Resources and Links: https://iwonorganics.com/ https://www.facebook.com/iwonorganics/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/markalansamuel