The Honoree Corder Show

Anna-Vija McCloud built Piccolo Solutions out of a spare bedroom and one email to 350 people, and grew it to within fifty thousand dollars of a million-dollar year. Then the next year she had to lay off her entire team on her fortieth birthday — and the year after that posted the highest net income she had ever had. On the drum beat of scale, trusting your gut, and why the calendar date with her best friend is not weird.

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Melissa R. Collings spent years in the operating room taking down one side of a spine while the surgeon took down the other — and her favorite part of the job was sewing the tattoos back together, because that part was art. She read the statistics on getting published and had exactly the wrong reaction. On rejection, waiting, and the book she was told to put away that sold in a week.

Melissa R. Collings is an award-winning au...

Cliff Jones started a temporary landscape company in the 2008 recession and is still running it seventeen years later. He has also been through three brain cancer diagnoses in fourteen years while building it. His word for his life right now is thankful. On the migraine that would not quit, what he had to give up control of, and why he now blocks time on the calendar to sleep in.

Cliff Jones is the founder of Landscape Solutions, a...

Jim Daneker is an award-winning and Billboard-charting composer, producer, and musical director. In addition to twenty-seven years as Musical Director, Keyboardist, and Producer for CCM icon Michael W. Smith, Jim has enjoyed a diverse musical career. He has produced several #1 albums, written music for film and television, and created a popular virtual instrument series called Backstage Pass in 2019. After two decades...

Justin Zebell is a founder, creator, and lifelong learner who has spent more than twenty-eight years at the intersection of business, creativity, and human experience. A natural entrepreneur, he has built multiple companies and led teams that have helped some of the world’s leading brands tell their stories through unforgettable moments. Through the highs of success and the lows of failure, Justin has discovered...

Joel Robare grew up the youngest of seventeen children in the farm fields of Illinois, in a house where the loudest thing was the drama. Thirty years later he has scaled luxury brands across North America and has four letters tattooed on his wrist that tell him what to do with his one life. On the $50,000 that walked out the door with his name still on it, the plan he could not see, and why the subway is where he does...

Grayson Garvin was a first-round MLB draft pick out of Vanderbilt who spent seven seasons with Tampa and three of them under a surgeon’s knife. When his body ended the career his identity was built on, it took the better part of a decade to work out who he was without it. Today he is a Certified Financial Planner who has helped steward more than half a billion dollars — and he says the recipe for success i...

Jeff Goins is a bestselling author of five books including the national bestsellers Real Artists Don't Starve and The Art of Work. As the founder of Bestow Literary Group, he is a prolific book collaborator and ghostwriter of more than thirty titles, including Gen. Stanley McChrystal's recent New York Times bestseller On Character and Pat Flynn's Lean Learning. He also runs a bestselling Substack newsletter on creativ...