The T.R.O.N. Podcast

Our next guest is a serial entrepreneur, growth specialist, and a true powerhouse in the world of customer experience. Over his incredible career, he has built, scaled, and successfully sold six different companies by following a simple mantra: the customer is at the center of the universe.

He is widely known for leading the massive U.S. market expansion of the Australian software giant Panviva, and today, he advises Fortune 500 companies on how to transform their corporate culture and turn casual buyers into lifelong brand ambassadors. He is also a sought-after speaker, an author, and the host of his own hit show, The Science of CX.

Buckle up, because today’s guest is about to completely change the way you think about relationships, business, and success! We are joined by the one and only Jeffrey Meshel—a real estate powerhouse, serial entrepreneur, and quite literally a master networker who is always just One Phone Call Away from solving any business challenge!

As the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Candor Capital Partners and the visionary mind behind The Strategic Forum, Jeff has spent over 40 years building elite, high-value alliances. He is a phenomenal author of four game-changing books, including his absolute must-read latest release, Know Who You Know. If you want to transform your network into your ultimate net worth, you are in for an absolute treat!

High-Octane Talking Points

• Become an Opportunity Magnet: Learn the exact, actionable mindset shifts you need to make so that high-value business deals and partnerships start chasing you!
• The "One Phone Call" Rolodex: Jeff breaks down how to build an inner circle so powerful that you can solve any major business crisis with a single, strategic phone call.
• The High-Stakes Truth About Trust: Why trust is a double-edged sword, how to guard it fiercely, and how to use it as your ultimate competitive advantage.
• Battle-Tested Resilience: Epic stories and lessons learned from the front lines of real estate, tech startups like DivorceForce, and serving on major banking boards.

Sarah Saffari is an entrepreneur, business strategist, and influencer-marketing expert who has built her career at the intersection of creators, brands, and digital growth. As the founder and CEO of InfluencerNexus, Sarah helps brands connect with the right influencers and build campaigns designed to drive real awareness, engagement, and conversions.

Sarah's journey gives her a unique perspective on the rapidly evolving creator economy. After years of helping influencers build their audiences and businesses, she recognized the gaps between brands and creators and built InfluencerNexus to help bridge them. Her insights into influencer strategy, Gen Z marketing, personal branding, and the business behind social media make her a fascinating guest for entrepreneurs, creators, and anyone trying to understand where digital marketing is headed.

She’s not just talking about the influencer economy—she’s helping build what comes next.

Matt Friedman is a serial entrepreneur, business leader, and the co-founder of Wing Zone, a restaurant brand he launched with Adam Scott while they were students at the University of Florida. What began in 1991 as a late-night wing experiment in their fraternity kitchen grew into an international franchise business with locations across the U.S. and abroad.

Matt’s entrepreneurial journey is a story of spotting an opportunity, taking a risk, building a brand from the ground up, and learning what it takes to scale a business. After decades of growing Wing Zone, he has continued his entrepreneurial journey and is now CEO of Epic Wings.

He brings a wealth of experience in entrepreneurship, franchising, leadership, branding, and business growth—and an incredible story of how a simple idea between college friends became a global franchise.

Lisa Baker is an accomplished executive coach, leadership strategist, speaker, and founder of Ascentim, bringing more than two decades of Fortune 500 leadership experience to the conversation. She is passionate about helping ambitious professionals unlock their potential, build confidence, lead authentically, and create careers with greater purpose and impact.

Through Ascentim, Lisa combines real-world leadership experience with practical coaching strategies to help individuals navigate career growth, leadership challenges, and personal development. Her unique perspective makes her an engaging and inspiring podcast guest for anyone looking to become a stronger leader, find greater clarity, and take their professional growth to the next level.

Jason Roberts is a prominent real estate investor, entrepreneur, and the founder and managing broker of Better Blueprint Realty. Successfully transitioning from a corporate engineering background into full-time entrepreneurship, Roberts scaled a minimal initial investment into a multi-million dollar real estate and educational ecosystem.

Early Life & Career Transition

• Real Estate Roots: Raised in New York as the son of a real estate agent and a home builder, Roberts grew up around construction sites and residential developments.
• Corporate Background: He initially pursued a stable career track, working a conventional 9-to-5 job in the engineering sector.
• The Pivot: Seeking a high-yield vehicle to grow his personal savings, he chose to leave his engineering role to pursue active real estate investing full-time.

Investment & Business Growth

• Rapid Scaling: Roberts initiated his investing journey with just $5,000 in capital, generating $400,000 in cash and equity within his first 18 months.
• Volume and Portfolio: During his first three years in the industry, he participated in more than $100 million in sales and acquired a portfolio of over 60 investment properties.
• Strategy Focus: Specializing in high-margin asset types, his operations span high-end fix-and-flips, short-term vacation rentals (Airbnb), multifamily properties, luxury developments, and BRRRR projects.

Mentorship & Media

• Better Blueprint Academy: Moving past the capacity limits of 1-on-1 coaching, Roberts institutionalized his systems into an online educational platform and national mentorship program designed to train six-figure house flippers.
• Philosophy: He strongly advocates for a "quality over quantity" approach, frequently highlighting the structural advantage of managing a single, high-margin $200,000 flip over multiple resource-draining deals.
• Media Appearances: He hosts the Abstract podcast, speaks regularly at live real estate dealmaker masterclasses, and was featured in the television series Legacy Makers.

Cintara is an enterprise AI governance and cybersecurity infrastructure provider that builds execution control systems for autonomous AI agents. The company introduces an in-path Governance Control Plane that intercepts agent intents—such as moving funds, altering data, or changing system configurations—and evaluates them against centralized security policies before execution. Founded as a United States Delaware C-Corporation, Cintara sits directly between AI agents and production stacks to ensure all automated operations are controlled, attributable, and auditable.

The platform is designed to transition enterprise security from legacy, reactive post-incident alerts to real-time, pre-execution gatekeeping. Every action taken or blocked by an agent is permanently written to an immutable, cryptographically verifiable audit trail. Built to satisfy both commercial enterprise and public sector compliance, Cintara operates with established federal procurement identifiers, including a Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) of EAT5ZH6K4PX3 and CAGE Code 18ZU9.

Featured Podcast Guests

• Subodh Shetty (Chief Technology Officer): A veteran of distributed computing and blockchain architecture with over 25 years of experience. Subodh previously led large-scale AI infrastructure projects at Amazon and is responsible for designing the core technical architecture powering Cintara’s agentic trust layers.
• Greg Adams (Chief Commercial Officer): A global go-to-market and platform monetization strategist with 25 years of expertise leading commercial expansion across technology companies. At Cintara, Greg drives enterprise adoption, strategic partnerships, and revenue growth by aligning product capabilities with evolving client compliance needs.

Joshua Altman is a storyteller, strategist and creative force with more than two decades of experience shaping how people see, hear and connect with big ideas. He leads Beltway Media, a bold D.C.-based communications firm that helps brands and organizations cut through the noise.

A former multimedia journalist at The Hill, he now works with everyone from scrappy startups to federal agencies, helping them refine their message, elevate their brand and connect with their audience. Joshua is a storyteller, strategist and creative force with more than two decades of experience shaping how people see, hear and connect with big ideas. Today, he leads beltway.media, a bold D.C.-based communications firm that helps brands and organizations cut through the noise. Before founding the firm, Joshua was a multimedia journalist at The Hill, diving deep into federal policy including energy and the environment, tax and finance, healthcare, immigration, defense and criminal justice, and covering high-stakes election cycles from the front lines.

For more than two decades, Joshua served as a member of The Telly Awards Judging Council, a select group of past winners who judge each year's annual competition. Now he works with everyone from scrappy startups to federal agencies including the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Department of Commerce, helping them refine their message, elevate their brand and 1 of 8 connect with their audience, whether that's customers, investors or the public at large. From reimagining agency websites to crafting magnetic stories, Joshua's work has one goal: to make communications clear, compelling and impossible to ignore. Joshua holds an M.A. in Communication, Culture and Technology from Georgetown University and a B.A. in Journalism and Mass Communications from The George Washington University.

LaWanna Bradford is an internationally recognized business strategist, serial entrepreneur, bestselling author, and dynamic media personality. With over 30 years of corporate, federal, and military-adjacent consulting experience, she serves as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of The Bradford Group—a commercial and investment mortgage brokerage—and the Principal of The Bradford Group Consulting.

Throughout her distinguished career, Ms. Bradford has engineered structural transformation for major federal agencies and global events. Her portfolio includes leading critical strategic development initiatives for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and serving on the planning committee for the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. She is the creator of the proprietary R3 System™ (Refocus. Reframe. Reconnect.), a highly sought-after performance methodology used by executive boards to guide corporate restructuring, leadership alignment, and operational scaling.

An accomplished literary voice, Ms. Bradford is a six-time international bestselling author. Her acclaimed book, I Pledge Allegiance: A Journey Through the Words That Shaped a Nation, earned the 2026 International Impact Book Award in both the Education and Academic categories. Honoring her late father's legacy, she directs 100% of the proceeds from this publication to the Southwest Association of Buffalo Soldiers (SWABS) to support youth education and historical preservation.

A prominent voice in digital broadcasting, Ms. Bradford hosts three distinct streaming talk shows on the e360TV network: Choose to Challenge, Power of the Pen, and Business & Financial Raw Talk. Beyond the screen, she is the co-founder of Celebrate You Embracing HER Wellness, a global network dedicated to empowering women leaders through holistic development, equity advocacy, and community mentorship. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the University of Arizona and a Master of Public Administration (MPA) from Golden Gate University.

Elias Curtis is an accomplished entrepreneur, brand strategist, and web development expert with over 25 years of experience driving digital growth for businesses. He is the founder and co-owner of Transformed Design Inc., a premier branding and web agency based in Oceanside, California. Alongside his co-owner and wife, Danielle, Elias has spent nearly two decades helping service-based companies transition from unpredictable word-of-mouth referrals to high-converting, automated online sales engines.

A graduate of Eastern Connecticut State University with a degree in Graphic and Web Design, Elias combines creative design principles with data-driven business strategy. His agency specializes in building cohesive brand identities, intuitive UI/UX design, and search engine optimization (SEO) frameworks that transform corporate websites into 24/7 lead-generation tools.

As a sought-after digital strategist, Elias frequently shares his expertise on entrepreneurial podcasts. He is highly regarded for his practical approach to modern technology, particularly in guiding businesses on how to integrate artificial intelligence to optimize workflows and increase operational efficiency. Whether speaking to audiences or working one-on-one with clients, Elias is dedicated to building predictable, scalable systems that foster long-term business growth.