In this episode, we invite Ryan Leak. Ryan is an author, speaker, executive coach, and podcaster. He’s known for two documentaries: The Surprise Wedding & Chasing Failure. Ryan is the son of a preacher man that grew up in the church with a marketplace passion.

Today, Ryan’s career is split 50% speaking in churches and 50% doing executive coaching and speaking in Corporate America through his company The Ryan Leak Group, LLC. Ryan has a unique church position in that he is on the teaching team of 5 mega-churches. He rotates speaking at each of them 7 to 8 times a year. He regularly teaches 48,000 people between those 5 churches.

Ryan does about 120 events each year reaching over 50,000 people each month and trains approximately 15,000 leaders annually. Ryan, along with his wife (Amanda) and children (Jaxson & Roman), reside in Dallas, TX.

What you will learn:

- Ryan’s thoughts on creating a course

- What’s next for Ryan

- Chasing things that we don’t want

- Giveaway of Ryan’s book: Chasing Failure

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👉https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanleak/

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👉 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevorhouston/

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

In this episode, we invite Ryan Leak. Ryan is an author, speaker, executive coach, and podcaster. He’s known for two documentaries: The Surprise Wedding & Chasing Failure. Ryan is the son of a preacher man that grew up in the church with a marketplace passion.

Today, Ryan’s career is split 50% speaking in churches and 50% doing executive coaching and speaking in Corporate America through his company The Ryan Leak Group, LLC. Ryan has a unique church position in that he is on the teaching team of 5 mega-churches. He rotates speaking at each of them 7 to 8 times a year. He regularly teaches 48,000 people between those 5 churches.

Ryan does about 120 events each year reaching over 50,000 people each month and trains approximately 15,000 leaders annually. Ryan, along with his wife (Amanda) and children (Jaxson & Roman), reside in Dallas, TX.

What you will learn:

- What would Ryan choose: time machine or teleport

- Ryan’s background and his childhood

- His doubts while growing up

- Ryan’s driving force for what he is doing now

- How to help a stranger

- Ryan’s book: Chasing Failure

- Ryan’s story with the NBA

- Ryan’s advice to job seekers facing rejection

Mic Drop Moments

🎤Ryan at (06:15) - He said something that I will never forget. He goes, “Yeah, but your dad did.”

🎤Ryan at (09:58) - I never connected my faith in God to faith in humans.

🎤Ryan at (12:56) - If we could add so much value to a company, they would bring us to them.

🎤Ryan at (29:42) - I can’t tell you how many people have applied to crazy jobs that they were not qualified for, and got them.

🎤Ryan at (31:57) - My identity is not on the line today.

🎤Ryan at (32:44) - If you find yourself in a place of contentment, I think you’re the wealthiest person on the planet.

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Get in touch with Ryan Leak:

👉https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanleak/

Get in touch with Trevor Houston:

👉 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevorhouston/

Get to know all things Who Ya Know:

👉 https://linktr.ee/whoyaknow

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

In this episode, we invite Mark Dyson. Mark is a prolific writer, thinker,  speaker, award-winning blog, and podcast, a rich source of information for anyone exploring the job market. He is always hacking and reimagining the modern job search. He is the author of the E-Book “421 Modern Job Search Tips 2021! He has been featured in Forbes, Business Insider, Inc., Fast Company, NPR, and Linkedin News LIVE.

What you will learn:

- Mark’s thoughts on autopilot system for job search

- Mark’s strategies for job search

- Multitasking and why should you do that

- Taking charge of your life and career

- Having the mindset of a consultant

- Upgrading your skills

- Mark’s e-book: 421 Modern Job Search Tips 2021

Mic Drop Moments

🎤Mark at (03:08) - For every time you apply to a job, you should try to get in contact with a human who can also refer you on a backend.

🎤Mark at (05:36) - If you’re just looking when you need it, you’re really behind, months and months.

🎤Mark at (06:00) - You’re giving. And giving is a strategy.

🎤Mark at (06:11) - You’re gonna probably give 10 times as much as probably get back if you’re doing it right.

🎤Mark at (08:49) - Just because I’m working on the kitchen doesn’t mean I can’t still and things are stalled in the kitchen, that doesn’t mean I don’t work on the bathroom.

🎤Mark at (11:26) - If you want to control the circumstances and control the way your career goes, don’t wait for the company. Company is gonna go 2-3 years because it wasn’t approved last year's budget and because COVID, it wasn’t approved on this budget.

🎤Mark at (16:17) - You have to just show up as relevant by keeping up your skills.

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Get in touch with Mark Dyson:

👉https://www.linkedin.com/in/markanthonydyson/

Get in touch with Trevor Houston:

👉 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevorhouston/

Get to know all things Who Ya Know:

👉 https://linktr.ee/whoyaknow

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

In this episode, we invite Joseph Wolz. He is a principal writer and career endeavor consultant specializing in resume and business communications document writing, editing, and dissemination.

What you will learn:

- Joseph’s tool for job search automation

- How does the tool work

- Results post the application of the tool

- The working of ATS

- Some off-the-wall that Joseph has put in his resume

- Joseph’s advice for jobseekers on interviews

Mic Drop Moments

🎤Joseph at (09:45) - I have yet to have anybody not getting an interview in 48 hours.

🎤Joseph at (10:47) - I go on somewhere between 50 and 70 interviews a year.

🎤Joseph at (12:53) - One of the things I noticed about the job market is that it’s incredibly dehumanizing.

🎤Joseph at (13:53) - You should never settle. You’re worth a lot more than that. No matter what they think.

🎤Joseph at (15:37) - For the person on the other side of the desk, this is some annoying crap they have to do on a Tuesday.

🎤Joseph at (19:15) - Imposter Syndrome only affects the competent. Only someone who can do the job will feel Imposter Syndrome.

🎤Joseph at (23:15) - I have yet to have a client out of 5800 resumes that I have written, I have yet to have a single client who didn’t get a job.

🎤Trevor at (23:49)- That’s what I’m trying to hear right there. It’s all about results.

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Get in touch with Joseph Wolz:

👉https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-wolz-46898098/

Get in touch with Trevor Houston:

👉 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevorhouston/

Get to know all things Who Ya Know:

👉 https://linktr.ee/whoyaknow

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

In this episode, we invite Michael Mehterian. Michael is a 15-year Award winning IT Operations leader who has been on the journey for the next opportunity since 3/1/2019.

What you will learn:

- Challenges that Michael is facing

- Michael’s featuring on the national news

- Being an expert on yourself

- Opportunities that Micheal is looking for

- The power of networking and relationships

- Mark’s ‘paying it forward’ and helping other jobseekers

Mic Drop Moments

🎤Michael at (02:08) - Here I am!

🎤Michael at (07:20) - You’re not necessarily in competition with everybody else but you’re in competition with yourself.

🎤Michael at (09:57) - I achieved one of my goals that I set for myself which was to be sitting in this chair to have a live conversation with you.

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👉https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikemehterian/

Get in touch with Trevor Houston:

👉 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevorhouston/

Get to know all things Who Ya Know:

👉 https://linktr.ee/whoyaknow

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

In this episode, we invite Mark Savant. Mark is a digital media expert and social media agency owner. He helps people create better content in less time. Mark focuses on the power of video collaborations to help clients create a constant social media presence in less than 1 hour a week. His YouTube channel has over 600,000 views. His podcast, the After Hours Entrepreneur features top digital marketing and media experts. If you’re looking to build your brand and reach people online, Mark Savant can help.

What you will learn:

- How was growing up for Mark

- Mark’s thoughts on social media

- How Mark helps people overcome the impacts of social media

- Mark’s perspective on using different social media platforms

- Repurposing and reusing your content

- Mark’s strategy as a jobseeker

- How to make your social media profile stand out

- Pursuing your passion

- Mark’s activities on Clubhouse

Mic Drop Moments

🎤Mark at (05:05) - The problem right Trevor, is that social media is this giant monster that is insatiable. It eats and it eats and it eats. How can we satiate it so we can at least buy some time, and that’s really what I focus on.

🎤Mark at (06:40) - Helping you create great content in less time so you can focus on what you love. I didn’t use the word “I” or “me.”

🎤Mark at (09:18) - We record it and then we produce it, chop it up, for memes, outlines, sliders, just a lot of pieces of content you can reproduce off of one 30-minute show.

🎤Michael at (10:50) - The real success comes when you step out of it and then you think of it as you’re the product.

🎤Michael at (20:13) - There is more to life than keeping the creditors happy.

🎤Mark at (24:12) - People hire you based on whether they like you or not. And if they like you, you can chat with them, and if they feel you’re trustworthy, much better shot of getting a shot.

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Get in touch with Mark Savant:

👉https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-savant-ba777145/

Get in touch with Trevor Houston:

👉 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevorhouston/

Get to know all things Who Ya Know:

👉 https://linktr.ee/whoyaknow

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

In this episode, we invite Mark MK McLaughin. Singer-Songwriter Mark MK is an advocate for Music Therapy. He's placed music in films like Bring It On by Universal Pictures and created the theme for Colon Cancer Foundation, The Encourage kids Foundation, and TARGET to name a few.

What you will learn:

- Inspiration behind Mark's song: Don’t feel lost

- The response that Mark’s song got

- How did the virtual experience affect Mark's life

- Amplifying and elevating your capacities

- The importance of presentation

- Mark’s on Donna Drake Show on CBS's WLNY

- Clubhouse for singers and performers

- Mark’s country soul project

Mic Drop Moments

🎤Mark at (04:00) - I didn't realize that you don’t have to be in church to preach.

🎤Mark at (06:41) - The virtual experience changed my life in a way. I was never doing it to my capacity.

🎤Mark at (08:20) - Own your position and amplify it.

🎤Trevor at (19:04) - We are in Texas buddy. I’m just saying.

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👉 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevorhouston/

Get to know all things Who Ya Know:

👉 https://linktr.ee/whoyaknow

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

In this episode, we invite Mark MK McLaughin. Singer-Songwriter Mark MK is an advocate for Music Therapy. He's placed music in films like Bring It On by Universal Pictures and created the theme for Colon Cancer Foundation, The Encourage kids Foundation, and TARGET to name a few.

What you will learn:

- Mark’s childhood and growing up

- How did Mark realize his gifts

- Obstacles in Mark’s journey to the music industry

- Mark’s sources of inspiration

- His definition of Music Therapy

- Letting your emotions out

- Mark’s song: Why not us

Mic Drop Moments

🎤Mark at (03:38) - I had a birthday party and I invited all the staff to the birthday party and finally sang and it was Off To The Races.

🎤Mark at (04:14) - I’m that kind of guy that you give an inch, I’m taking two miles from it.

🎤Mark at (04:42) - I was handling the station’s money.

🎤Mark at (07:24) - Prayer, and like your show says, who you know.

🎤Mark at (10:14) - Me not listening to him, I proved to myself that hey, I could write a country song and it can get licensed by Target.

🎤Mark at (12:46) - Some people hold things in and those tears need to be brought out sometimes. You need to release sometimes.

🎤Mark at (15:54) - Fear is afraid of you too.

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👉 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevorhouston/

Get to know all things Who Ya Know:

👉 https://linktr.ee/whoyaknow

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

In this episode, we invite Celinda Farias Appleby, aka Celly. She is the Director of Global Talent Attraction at Visa and is passionate about employer branding. Diversity and inclusivity are major principles that guide her work in designing human-centered, talent attraction strategies.

What you will learn:

- Celinda’s work and the job at Visa

- How Visa makes their candidate’s experience better

- Visa’s 3-day SLA: Service Level Agreement

- How long has Visa been service-oriented

- Perks of working at Visa

- Challenges in the process of hiring people

- Celinda’s work as a career coach

- Her clubhouse rooms that help job seekers

- Her tips for job seekers to differentiate themselves

Mic Drop Moments

🎤Celinda at (05:24) - It’s a candidate promise that we will contact you within 3 days, whether it’s a yes or no.

🎤Celinda at (08:59) - During COVID we didn’t lay anyone off. Everybody’s job was protected and safe.

🎤Celinda at (09:52) - Recently added fertility and adoption credits.

🎤Celinda at (14:36) - When I help people in their career journey or mapping, I like to introduce them to my network if at all possible.

🎤Celinda at (22:05) - I think humans right now are struggling with decision-making.

🎤Celinda at (24:22) - When you start looking at it as an interview for them, you’re picking out if they are the right fit, whatever that may look for you, I think you will make better decisions.

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Get in touch with Celinda:

👉https://www.linkedin.com/in/celindafariasappleby/

Get in touch with Trevor Houston:

👉 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevorhouston/

Get to know all things Who Ya Know:

👉 https://linktr.ee/whoyaknow

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

In this episode, we invite Samuel Assael. Samuel is the Head of Consumer Markets for the Home Loans Division for Union Bank. Sam oversees all fee income loan origination initiatives, drives financial literacy in underserved communities, manages product growth, monitors profitability, and is constantly hiring new talent to the staff (in both Sales and Operations).

What you will learn:

- How did Samuel get into the mortgage industry

- How saying a simple ‘hello’ can make a difference

- What sets Union Bank apart as a workplace

- How Samuel’s institution pivoted during COVID

- Samuel’s financial leadership program

- Union Bank’s talent development program

Mic Drop Moments

🎤Samuel at (05:42) - It’s a matter of who you know. You don’t know them if you don’t say ‘hi’ to them.

🎤Samuel at (09:35) - Just send an email to me and I’ll guide you for the appropriate person that you can go ahead with and I’ll make an introduction.

🎤Samuel at (12:38) - We also serviced billions of dollars of credit card debt and we did the same thing in helping consumers get through those times as well.

🎤Mark at (14:10) - Come on down man!

🎤Samuel at (18:12) - I’m not guaranteeing the hire but I’m not guaranteeing you that you will have someone that will talk to you about the opportunity. You can count on that.

🎤Samuel at (22:30) - There are 1080 total ranks open at Union Bank MUFG.

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Get in touch with Samuel Assael:

👉https://www.linkedin.com/in/sdsam/

Get in touch with Trevor Houston:

👉 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevorhouston/

Get to know all things Who Ya Know:

👉 https://linktr.ee/whoyaknow

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