The Long Game

In this episode with Samantha Russell we talk about her journey to being Chief Evangelist for FMG Suite. The unique marketing approaches she took to growing Twenty over Ten with her husband and the power of content, specifically video. 

Samantha Russell is one of the best and brightest minds in the marketing space for financial advisors. She was most recently the Chief Marketing Officer for Twenty over Ten until they FMG Suite bought the company. Now she is Chief Evangelist Officer for FMG Suite. Last year she was honored with the InvestmentNews 40 Under 40 award as well as being named to the "10 to Watch" list by WealthManagement.com.

In this episode with Taylor King we talk about:

• Going against the grain and choosing a career path that Taylor is passionate about and loves
• Working for one of the most famous influencers in the game (Alisha)
• Having multiple streams of income
• What it is like to be an influencer
• Finding success once she dove into being uniquely herself and not pretending to be someone else
• Producing content (that sometimes can be cringey) and how to overcome the fear of what others think
• How to take advantage of creativity when it strikes
• The power of a strong network
• Her future aspirations

Paul Jorgensen is a currently a professional basketball player for Cab Madeira in Portugal. Previous to that, he grew up in New York where he was nicknamed 'Prince Harry of Harlem'. After he graduated high school, he spent 2 years at George Washington then transferred to play basketball in the Big East at Butler University. 

In this episode we talk about making decisions that are best for yourself, chasing your dream, never giving up, and always believing in yourself even if others don't.  

In this episode with Alan Stein, Jr. we talk about his journey post D1 basketball where he paves a new path and starts training basketball players. We also talk about his experience with Kobe and the basics, how he's woven his passion into his life, and some advice for younger people he wish he knew in 20's. 

In this episode with Austen we talk:

• About his mission he went on to Ukraine after leaving BYU
• To living in his car as he went all in on betting on himself
• To writing a book to get the seed money to start the Lambda School which is all about helping people transform their financial lives 
• To his experience with Y Combinator 
• To managing a business that is getting hundreds of thousands of applicants a year (managing growth can be tricky)
• To his best and worst money decisions 

Austen Allred is the Co-Founder and CEO of Lambda School. A native of Springville, Utah, Austen’s start-up journey began in 2017 with him living in his two-door Civic while participating in Y Combinator, a San Francisco-based seed accelerator. This experience became the foundation of Lambda School’s rapid growth.

Before founding Lambda School, Austen was the co-founder of media platform GrassWire. He co-authored the growth hacking textbook Secret Sauce, which became a best-seller and provided him the personal seed money to build Lambda.

Austen’s disruptive ideas on the future of education, the labor market disconnect, and the opportunity of providing opportunity at-scale have been featured in: The Harvard Business Review, The Economist, WIRED, Fast Company, TechCrunch, The New York Times, among others. Austen is fluent in Russian and currently lives in San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and two kids. 

In this episode with Tyrone Ross Jr. we talk about

• His journey of being the first one in his family to go to college
• To almost competing in the Olympics as a runner
• To digging under a seat of a car for change to buy himself food
• To working on Wall Street
• To being a financial advisor and the CEO of Onramp Invest
• To ultimately running his nonprofit that will be bringing free financial education to everyone in the US.

We also spend some time talking about Bitcoin and the problems it is solving.  Please rate 5 stars and share if you enjoyed!