In this episode, we invite Brandon Dawson. Brandon, CEO & Co-founder of Cardone Ventures, is a business scaling, turnaround expert & leadership mentor. He helps business owners & their teams achieve their personal, professional, & financial goals through the growth of their business.

What you will learn:

- What’s been going on at Cardone Ventures
- Brandon’s journey of getting started with Cardone Ventures
- How he started his first business at 26
- Transferable skills that he picked up during his job
- The moment when Brandon felt broken
- How to overcome frustration


Mic Drop Moments:

🎤Brandon at (04:02) - Between 2004 to 2016, I built the business organically generating 50 million dollars in profits, helping a thousand business owners grow and scale, increasing the size of their business three and a half to fifteen times in size and value.

🎤Brandon at (04:50) - We have done over 60 million dollars in revenue and this year will be 75 million revenue. So teaching business owners to do exactly what I have spent the last 20 years doing.

🎤Brandon at (16:00) - Rahul went with me at 7 am and after we left that, he said to his broker, you drive Mr. Dawson’s car and we sit in the back seat and talk for a half hour in traffic. That night, I got my million dollar cheque.

🎤Brandon at (23:20) - If you’re surrounded by people who are placating, going along, agreeing, and all that, you’re with the wrong crowd. You need to find somebody that’s gonna kick you in the butt and help you become the best version of yourself.


Get in touch with Brandon
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandonmdawson/

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💸 Financial Impact of Career Transition:
Financial stress can take a huge toll on your mental and physical health, your relationships, and your overall quality of life. You may be wondering…

- How long will the search take?
- How much of my savings will I have to use?
- What to do with my 401(k), 403(b), pension plans?
- How should I take my severance?
- What happens to my insurance benefits?
- How long will it take to recover?

Separately and independently from the Who Ya Know Show, Trevor Houston and Mark Elder are licensed financial professionals offering insurance and financial products through various carriers. We can help you assess your financial situation and guide you through this transition. For more information, visit 👉 https://www.ClearPathWealthStrategies.com/

In this episode, we invite Bruce Pulver. Bruce is a Global Speaker and Healthcare Executive who has worked in several corporate leadership positions. His TEDx talk helps individuals and organizations understand the power of words in driving outcomes and results.

What you will learn:

- How should jobseekers reframe their mindset after rejection
- How important is self-talk
- How to overcome those days when you feel negative
- The power of words
- Bruce’s book, ‘Above The Chatter, Our Words Matter’
- How to set up your day for success


Mic Drop Moments:

🎤Trevor at (02:33) - I never lose, I just learn.

🎤Bruce at (02:58) - Why not make that phone call? “Can I get five minutes of your time because what I really want to understand is, what didn’t separate me?” Because you never know what might happen. That offer might come through, but something may not work out. We were talking about three or four offer letters that someone else might have. Let’s say, they said yes to one but tomorrow they say, “Oh, I’m gonna do the other.” That opens that one back up. Stay in contact.

🎤Bruce at (05:05) - I call it, kick the ‘cants’ and untie the ‘nots.’

🎤Bruce at (07:17) - Sometimes you gotta embrace it. You gotta say, “Sometimes days are going to be negative.” You can’t be this, like my kids call me Mr. Happy Pants. You can’t be that guy all the time, right?

🎤Bruce at (11:30) - I’m so glad to see you today man. I’m bound and determined, and I’m bound for glory. It’s gonna happen. I’m gonna buckle down and do whatever it takes. I’m so grateful for everybody in this room for just holding me up. The support that I’m getting from everyone is amazing, and I’m so grateful thatI I’m not left alone.

🎤Bruce at (12:50) - First and foremost, I'm with my people. I have never turned in a letter of resignation and I have left three jobs. So figure out how that works.

🎤Bruce at (13:53) - I wrote the word strong, vertically. And I looked at it. Seriously, in 30 seconds I looked at each letter and I wrote: Stand Tall Remain Optimistic Now Go for it.

🎤Trevor at (14:28) - 7 Cs to cash flow, Consistent Content Creates Conversations that Convert into Careers and Cashflow.

🎤Bruce at (09:55) - We all have unique gifts. So we aren't gonna be just like the next person. We're going to have our skills, our own ways to do things, our own ways to look into things, our own approach, how we solve problems, how we face things. I call those GIFTS: God Installed Features To Share.


Get in touch with Bruce
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brucepulver/

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💸 Financial Impact of Career Transition:
Financial stress can take a huge toll on your mental and physical health, your relationships, and your overall quality of life. You may be wondering…

- How long will the search take?
- How much of my savings will I have to use?
- What to do with my 401(k), 403(b), pension plans?
- How should I take my severance?
- What happens to my insurance benefits?
- How long will it take to recover?

Separately and independently from the Who Ya Know Show, Trevor Houston and Mark Elder are licensed financial professionals offering insurance and financial products through various carriers. We can help you assess your financial situation and guide you through this transition. For more information, visit 👉

In this episode, we invite Casey Hasten. Casey is a Top Executive Recruiter Casey, who has spent over 20 years in the accounting space before finding her passion for helping others find their dream jobs. Today, Casey specializes in hiring practices and helping companies of all sizes learn to hire right the first time.

What you will learn:

- Why do people sign on or leave a company
- Effect of remote/hybrid work on productivity
- Setting boundaries while working from home
- Casey’s new planner: Awaken: Your Potential
- Story behind the creation of Casey's workbook
- Casey’s goals for 2022


Mic Drop Moments

🎤Casey at (07:04) - We are seeing multiple offers right now. If companies aren’t moving quickly, that tells the candidate a lot about their internal processes that they can’t get their stuff together to move the process along.

🎤Casey at (17:22) - The third thing that I put on. There was one I was a little nervous about was that I was going to do a TEDx talk. Boom! Everything started falling into place for me to get ready.

🎤Casey at (17:36) - Get your ask in gear.

Get in touch with Casey
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caseychasten/

Get to know all things Who Ya Know:
👉 https://linktr.ee/whoyaknow

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💸 Financial Impact of Career Transition:
Financial stress can take a huge toll on your mental and physical health, your relationships, and your overall quality of life. You may be wondering…

- How long will the search take?
- How much of my savings will I have to use?
- What to do with my 401(k), 403(b), pension plans?
- How should I take my severance?
- What happens to my insurance benefits?
- How long will it take to recover?

Separately and independently from the Who Ya Know Show, Trevor Houston and Mark Elder are licensed financial professionals offering insurance and financial products through various carriers. We can help you assess your financial situation and guide you through this transition. For more information, visit 👉 https://www.ClearPathWealthStrategies.com/

What you will learn:

- Frank’s contracts with UFC

- His plans after becoming the champion

- What excites Frank at this point

- How Martial Arts saved Frank’s life

- Frank’s nationwide program for veterans: Vet Basel

- How to teach someone who doesn’t want to learn

- The Morning Man Greens

- Frank’s strategy for success

Get in touch with Frank

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankshamrock/

Get to know all things Who Ya Know:

👉 https://linktr.ee/whoyaknow

Separately and independently from the Who Ya Know Show, Trevor Houston and Mark Elder are licensed financial professionals offering insurance and financial products through various carriers. For more information, visit 👉 https://www.ClearPathWealthStrategies.com/

In this episode, we invite Frank "The Legend" Shamrock. Frank became a ward of the state at age 12, a prison inmate at 18 & by 22, his name was known around the world as a champion. Frank is many things: visionary entrepreneur, ex-con, author, star athlete, a survivor of childhood abuse, international speaker, husband, dad and is best known for his humor, compassion & ability to use cage fighting techniques to create trust & unwavering focus.

What you will learn:

- Frank’s childhood
- How he went through childhood abuse
- How Frank’s life changed after meeting his first mentor
- The gift that Frank had: his physical abilities
- How he got introduced to Mixed Martial Arts
- Frank’s fighting career and its stages
- Frank’s journey to becoming a UFC Champion


Mic Drop Moments:

🎤Frank at (15:00) - I realized that that was the end. I had to stop. I went to turn myself in.

🎤Frank at (18:02) - It was like a psychological and physical trauma session to see if you really had the cajones to be a professional fighter. And so Ken did that to me, for me, with me.

🎤Frank at (22:22) - It took 14 seconds to win my first championship.

🎤Frank at (22:50) - I’m the only athlete in the history of all recorded sports to win back to back world championships in less than a minute.


Get in touch with Frank
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankshamrock/

Get to know all things Who Ya Know:
👉 https://linktr.ee/whoyaknow

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💸 Financial Impact of Career Transition:
Financial stress can take a huge toll on your mental and physical health, your relationships, and your overall quality of life. You may be wondering…

- How long will the search take?
- How much of my savings will I have to use?
- What to do with my 401(k), 403(b), pension plans?
- How should I take my severance?
- What happens to my insurance benefits?
- How long will it take to recover?

Separately and independently from the Who Ya Know Show, Trevor Houston and Mark Elder are licensed financial professionals offering insurance and financial products through various carriers. We can help you assess your financial situation and guide you through this transition. For more information, visit 👉 https://www.ClearPathWealthStrategies.com/

Rich Cardona is a LinkedIn Video Strategist for Executives, Podcast Host, founder of Rich Cardona Media & Ex-Marine Group Level Legal Advisor. He says, “It's not who you know. It’s who knows you. You can only deliver maximum value if you maximize your visibility.” In this episode, we talk about his journey, lessons learned, advice for early entrepreneurs, optimizing LinkedIn, putting your brand to work & how to leverage content.

What you will learn:

- How did Rich start with LinkedIn
- How important is optimization
- Next steps after initiating conversations on LinkedIn
- The success of Rich’s podcast ‘The Leadership Locker’
- His new podcast ‘NFTs For Newbies’
- His recommendation to somebody willing to start their podcast


Mic Drop Moments:

🎤Rich at (03:03) - The way you respond when you don’t get that promotion. The way you respond when you’re unhappy where you’re working. That sticks. That’s a personal brand. You could leave any job but your personal brand stays intact.

🎤Rich at (04:33) - They are studying what happens and even though you may never see them again. That doesn’t mean that they don’t have a connection at another company.

🎤Rich at (06:04) - Even in negative situations, what is, I don’t like to say silver lining, but what is a positive. Can you transfer into a positive byproduct? And if the answer is yes, it’s your duty to do something about it.

🎤Rich at (10:53) - I like to do what’s called ‘collect the dots then connect the dots.’

🎤Rich at (12:18) - Collect the dots and connect the dots. I think that’s the best approach you can do because it forces you to be unselfish and then all of a sudden, like what you’re trying to manifest comes back full circle.

🎤Trevor at (13:00) - Guys, he has a top 25 podcast.

🎤Rich at (15:35) - You just run into the opportunity. You can’t deny it. Don’t turn your back on it and just go for it.

🎤Rich at (20:50) - It’s literally all about taking your brand into your own hands, demonstrating to the world that you’re an expert in something, and who it benefits can be tenfold. But as long as you’re doing it, you’re just going to continue to grow and enhance your business acumen.


Get in touch with Rich
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richcardona/

Get to know all things Who Ya Know:
👉 https://linktr.ee/whoyaknow

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💸 Financial Impact of Career Transition:
Financial stress can take a huge toll on your mental and physical health, your relationships, and your overall quality of life. You may be wondering…

- How long will the search take?
- How much of my savings will I have to use?
- What to do with my 401(k), 403(b), pension plans?
- How should I take my severance?
- What happens to my insurance benefits?
- How long will it take to recover?

Separately and independently from the Who Ya Know Show, Trevor Houston and Mark Elder are licensed financial professionals offering insurance and financial products through various carriers. We can help you assess your financial situation and guide you through this transition. For more information, visit 👉 https://www.ClearPathWealthStrategies.com/

In this episode, we invite Rich Cardona. Rich is a LinkedIn Video Strategist for Executives, Podcast Host, founder of Rich Cardona Media & Ex-Marine Group Level Legal Advisor. He says, “It's not who you know. It’s who knows you. You can only deliver maximum value if you maximize your visibility.” In this episode, we talk about his journey, lessons learned, advice for early entrepreneurs, optimizing LinkedIn, putting your brand to work & how to leverage content.

What you will learn:

- Rich’s service of 17 years in the Marines
- His career transition from the Marines to the corporate world
- Challenges that he faced in corporate America
- Rich’s mindset while interviewing for jobs
- What is ‘Good Morning. I quit’
- Taking ownership to stand out in your workplace


Mic Drops

🎤Rich at (03:45) - Imagine a hostage situation. The Air Force is going to try and drop a bomb. The Navy is going to try and go through the back door. The Army is going through the front door. With the Marines, he is like we’re coming through the roof.

🎤Rich at (08:00) - Whether you’re military or not, whenever you’re making a transition, whether it’s to another industry, whether it’s to another role, whether it’s to another city. Whatever it is, you have to be okay with the fact that you’re gonna start over. Like no one from the Navy could just come to the Marine Corps and be like ‘I got this.’ That’s not how it works.

🎤Rich at (09:53) - The question was simply this like “If you were to start a business, in your town or wherever, what would you do? How would you start?” And I was like this isn’t about their core values, this is not about managing people, these are not behavioral questions. This is literally like what's your business acumen? And I’m like damn, I have been in the Marine Corps for a while so that’s a little bit challenging. But it’s called O SMEAC, which is Orientation, Situation, Mission, Executionand then Commanded Signal.

🎤Rich at (12:12) - If Mark was interviewing me, I would immediately try and figure out what Mark’s pressing issues are in his role. And if I could solve and even speculate on how I could potentially solve the problem he has with my skills and my talent to make his job easier, he’s gonna hire me.

🎤Rich at (16:50) - I’m not telling people to quit necessarily. There’s great jobs out there and there's a traditional workforce for many many people.But if you feel that there is this untapped potential, I want to be the guy to help you realize it like it’s real. It can happen and I'm a lot better for it.

🎤Rich at (17:17) - This is for anyone who is in a job right now or anyone who is interviewing for a job, or looking for a job. If you’re able to position yourself mindset wise to treat it as if you were paying those people with your money, you’re gonna be a very different person.

🎤Rich at (17:45) - If this was coming out of my pocket, how would you look at it? Would you look at a P&L statement? Would you want to have relationships with the people upstream and downstream from you? There are so many things that I wish I could have done better. And I did things really well but that’s a different story. You will stand out and it doesn't mean you need to be an entrepreneur per se. But if you think like that, that’s going to just help you understand and elevate your business acumen a little bit.


Get in touch with Rich
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richcardona/

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👉 https://linktr.ee/whoyaknow

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Ryan Sullivan is the founder of Podcast Principles. He landed his role helping to produce the WYK Show Podcast. For the last 3 years, Ryan dedicated his life to podcasting & after losing a guest to a car accident he spoke to a life coach that suggested he quit his job. Later that year, Ryan met Gary Vee & made the decision to help other people launch podcasts. Podcast Principles became a reality in 2020 & he has personally helped build over 15 shows from start to finish, including production, distribution, guesting & more.

What you will learn:

- How to create a podcast from your phone
- Utilizing tools to get visibility
- What led Ryan to start his own business
- Challenges that he faced in the beginning
- What Ryan thinks about the future of podcasts
- Figuring out the solution when you’re stuck
- Ryan’s company: Podcast Principles


Mic Drop Moments:

🎤Ryan at (03:58) - Anything that you think that they are gonna think is wrong.

🎤Ryan at (09:30) - I remember the job asked me to come back two months later. And I'm still at the point where I’m making 200 a month doing my editing or whatever. I can’t even pay my bills. I’m just going off of savings and my roommate goes “Yeah dude! 300 a week. You have to take it back. Just do a little bit of work for them.” And now my roommate who said that works for me.

🎤Ryan at (23:10) - Two days you have got to forget, tomorrow, yesterday. Live right now today.

Get in touch with Ryan
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sullybop/

Get to know all things Who Ya Know:
👉 https://linktr.ee/whoyaknow

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💸 Financial Impact of Career Transition:
Financial stress can take a huge toll on your mental and physical health, your relationships, and your overall quality of life. You may be wondering…

- How long will the search take?
- How much of my savings will I have to use?
- What to do with my 401(k), 403(b), pension plans?
- How should I take my severance?
- What happens to my insurance benefits?
- How long will it take to recover?

Separately and independently from the Who Ya Know Show, Trevor Houston and Mark Elder are licensed financial professionals offering insurance and financial products through various carriers. We can help you assess your financial situation and guide you through this transition. For more information, visit 👉 https://www.ClearPathWealthStrategies.com/

In this episode, we invite Ryan Sullivan, the founder of Podcast Principles. He landed his role helping to produce the WYK Show Podcast. For the last 3 years, Ryan dedicated his life to podcasting & after losing a guest to a car accident he spoke to a life coach that suggested he quit his job. Later that year, Ryan met Gary Vee & made the decision to help other people launch podcasts. Podcast Principles became a reality in 2020 & he has personally helped build over 15 shows from start to finish, including production, distribution, guesting & more.

What you will learn:

- How did Ryan get introduced to the #WhoYaKnow community
- The principle of giving first
- Ryan’s experience of meeting GaryVee
- Creating podcasts to adapt to audio platforms
- How to improve the ratings of your podcast
- Ryan’s thoughts on podcasting for jobseekers
- Resources that you need to begin with podcasting

Mic Drop Moments:

🎤Trevor at (04:35) - He showed me a problem I didn’t even know I had.

🎤Ryan at (05:23) - When I’m listening to this show, if I wanna listen to it as a listener, I would like you to fix these things and then I will be able to listen.

🎤Ryan at (09:26) - I’m a real type A personality, controlling person. I think I can control everything, but it turns out that when I let go, things just kind of happened. So I had these opportunities in my life where I just kind of let go.

🎤Ryan at (30:09) - I like the multi-faceted approach because that stood out to me. I make music, but I also make podcasts, I also edit podcasts. I also have all these hobbies. I’m, like you said, type A. I’m doing something all the time.

🎤Mark at (16:35) - I’m gonna give you a mic drop because your comment, the audience, that’s your gauge. If the audience is telling you that’s good or bad, it's good or bad, because they are saying it is.

🎤Ryan at (17:40) - Why do you have that webinar? It’s not because you guys are like “All right man, this is what I think. This is all about my ideas. It’s like we have done 300 shows to know what job seekers need. That’s why we have this webinar. It’s not because we are the master guru people that just automatically know. Nah! We have only just taken real world examples of what’s worked.

🎤Ryan at (20:27) - Let’s reverse engineer from the goal. My goal - get one person away from the person I need. Cool! Let’s record an interview and maybe release it. If not, no worries. You still built that relationship. Go give them five clips from the interview that they can post that benefit them. Go showcase them to your network, and your audience. I don’t care if you have 100 followers.


Get in touch with Ryan
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sullybop/

Get to know all things Who Ya Know:
👉 https://linktr.ee/whoyaknow

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💸 Financial Impact of Career Transition:
Financial stress can take a huge toll on your mental and physical health, your relationships, and your overall quality of life. You may be wondering…

- How long will the search take?
- How much of my savings will I have to use?
- What to do with my 401(k), 403(b), pension plans?
- How should I take my severance?
- What happens to my insurance benefits?
- How long will it take to recover?

Separately and independently from the Who Ya Know Show, Trevor Houston and Mark Elder are licensed financial professionals offering insurance and financial products through various carriers. We can help you assess your...

In this episode, we invite Liam Hubbard. Liam is the Influencer Marketing Manager at Hirect. The 1st Hiring App for Founders where you Chat Directly with Top-notch Candidates to Fill Jobs in Hours. He started at Hirect after being frustrated with the job-seeking process and wanted to be in a position to change that process for others.

What you will learn:

- Liam’s job search experience
- The company that he is working for now - Hirect
- Who is Hirect for
- How does the Hirect App work
- The problem of ghosting in job search
- Types of jobs that you can find in Hirect
- Rehumanizing the job search process

Mic Drop Moments:

🎤Liam at (02:30) - I hate leading people on, I hate being led on. That’s a big frustration of mine.

🎤Liam at (08:26) - We have got an app for everything now. You can order your groceries on an app. You can find a date on an app. So why shouldn’t you be able to flip the hiring process on its head and find your next job on an app.

🎤Liam at (12:55) - Hirect is completely free. Free on both sides.

🎤Liam at (15:10) - There is equal opportunity for all the companies and all the applicants and I think that is a really cool thing that our platform provides. There is no premium. You can’t pay to be noticed more or anything like that.

🎤Liam at (21:00) - I have got respect for whoever that is. I mean, it’s tough. Every single time you get a rejection or ghosted, it's tough.

Get in touch with Liam
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/liam-hubbard/

Get to know all things Who Ya Know:
👉 https://linktr.ee/whoyaknow

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💸 Financial Impact of Career Transition:
Financial stress can take a huge toll on your mental and physical health, your relationships, and your overall quality of life. You may be wondering…

- How long will the search take?
- How much of my savings will I have to use?
- What to do with my 401(k), 403(b), pension plans?
- How should I take my severance?
- What happens to my insurance benefits?
- How long will it take to recover?

Separately and independently from the Who Ya Know Show, Trevor Houston and Mark Elder are licensed financial professionals offering insurance and financial products through various carriers. We can help you assess your financial situation and guide you through this transition. For more information, visit 👉 https://www.ClearPathWealthStrategies.com/