The Special Generalist Podcast

Kellen Kersten, entrepreneur, adventure runner, co-owner of Embrace North, and former MEd, Teacher. Kellen discusses the recent struggles of regulation and scale with his Sauna and Cold Therapy business in the city of Minneapolis and the future of the business. As well as the modern disconnect with fundamental human needs such as being outside, healthy stress, running, etc. Kellen speaks on behalf of his experience running from Duluth, MN to the Twin Cities (170 miles) and the unique perspective that was only offered through such conditions.

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Jake Thompson, professional speaker, leadership advisor, and author of the book titled Compete Every Day. He is the Chief Encouragement Officer and has worked with numerous leaders and organizations many featured in Forbes. His message delivers the idea of reaching your potential through competing against yourself. Listen with Peyton and Jake as they touch on several of the book's concepts and ideas and how they blend in with Peyton's thoughts. Jake was a great resource and is an example of a modern-day entrepreneur. You can find his podcast here. His Instagram is here. 

Carmine Gallo, popular keynote speaker, communication advisor, and international bestselling author, two books of which I had the pleasure of reading the first Talk Like Ted. Was used in the modeling of my first and recent keynote speech. The other book, newly released titled The Bezos Blueprint 

This guest has been featured in the Wall Street Journal and on CNBC, MSNBC, and ABC's 20 for 20. Tony Robbins calls his book titled Five Stars, an "enormously valuable Tool for entrepreneurs and Leaders in every field." 

Kumar Mehta PhD, is an author, his two books, The Exceptionals and Innovation Biome are #1 Amazon bestselling . He writes regularly for organizations like Forbes. He has a long and diverse history/experience. He was Senior Director at Microsoft for 14 years, a CEO of several organizations. He is actively the Principal and Founder of an organization titled Bridges Insight, a think tank committed to personal and organization excellence. He is also currently Senior Research Fellow at University of Southern California, focused on a Center for Digital Future. As well as Board Member of a non profit called Committee for Children. Lastly – he holds a doctorate in Pharmaceutical Socioeconomics. 

Peyton and Mehta discuss his two books and Kumar's philosophies around development and innovation through his experience and research

Datrice Mulsomo, entrepenuer and CEO of Applied Knowledge Academy, is a striving young professional with an interesting success story. Born in Liberia, homeless, and now coaching individuals to sales in 6-7 figures. Datrice sits down with Peyton and details his story while Peyton extracts ideas and philosophy from his development. 

Datrice quotes, "Sometimes you have to give up what your good at for what your great at." which threads through the entire development and management philosophy of Datrice. Tune in more for more practical insight, such as Communication as a general necessary skill, EOS, employee position selection, entrepreneur framework.  

Adam Blees, former Division II wrestler, Financial Advisor, Cattle Raiser and Co-Head Youth Wrestling Coach, sits down with Peyton and talks about the proper application of assessing P4P rankings, PEDs in Sport, Mental Toughness from Sport, Selective Suffering, Wrestling Development through different learning styles. Along with practical and conceptual Financial advise from diversification, dollar cost averaging, risk-reward, compounding interest. Peyton and Adam have a long history with fluent conversation, demanding listeners to feel apart of the conversation. They expand and tie Special Generalist themes of development from Adam's experiences. Tune into full episode

Scott H. Young, Author of Wall Street Journal's Best Selling Book "Ultralearning", sits down with Peyton and talks about the principles and concepts to Ultralearning. Scott has several personal stories such as his MIT challenge of taking a 4 year Computer Science undergraduate degree in under 1 year or traveling to 4 countries in one year and learning their local languages. Scott has great insight on some of Peyton's themes and they discuss education systems, apprenticeships, the definition of knowledge and much more. Tune into the full episode.

Colten Jesse, Professional Bull Rider and Musician, chats with Peyton to discuss his current headspace of being both a successful Bull Rider, but also what he stumbled upon as a musical career. Colten's songs record over millions of streams and he is currently making his first studio album. Colten and Peyton talk a lot about creating a good product, how to handle the balance of multiple opportunities, and much more. He recorded this while he was on the road driving to a show so the quality may be a little lower than usual. It is still a quality conversation and another quality Special Generalist.