Million Dollar Relationships
Have you ever been introduced to a person that completely changed the course of your business or your life… so much so, that much of what you have today wouldn't be possible, if not for this person? Each week on The Million Dollar Relationships Podcast, your host Kevin Thompson interviews successful entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs as they share their personal stories and experience around this very question. Your invitation is to have a seat at the head of the table as they honor and introduce you to the most valuable people in their lives and remind us that relationship capital is the most valuable asset we possess. Each week you'll be inspired and motivated to intentionally create more meaningful, rewarding and profitable relationships in your life so that together we can make a far bigger impact in this world.
Episodes
What if the six companies you sold had less to do with your talent than with the two people who told you to go?
Mike Grossman has run six venture-funded technology companies over thirty years, every one of which was acquired. He now sits on four boards, informally coaches close to ten first-time CEOs, and wrote Failure Is An Option: Refle...
What if the only thing that changed between being called stubborn and being called visionary was the world, not you?
Dr. Rodney S. Ridley Sr. is the chief economic, community and strategic development officer at Alvernia University, founding dean of its College of STEAM, and COO of the O'Pake Institute. A materials engineer by training, h...
What if the hardest part of your business has nothing to do with people?
Kerri Roberts spent more than twenty years in corporate human resources before founding Salt & Light Advisors, a consulting firm built for businesses that never built an HR foundation. She is also the host of Don't Waste the Chaos and the author of The HR Easy Bu...
What if a stranger who had no idea what you did decided to introduce you anyway, purely on a feeling?
In this episode, Aaron Vaccaro, President of Singularity University and Managing Director at West River Group, shares how a lunch he asked for in a college cafeteria led to a five minute phone call that shaped his entire career.
What if the person who could not take your call was reachable through the person sitting beside him?
In this episode, Elana Frank, founder and CEO of the Jewish Fertility Foundation, shares how a conversation in a baby pool at her local Jewish community center in Atlanta led her to build an organization that now operates 11 offices and gr...
What if the people who change your life are the ones who put you somewhere you have not earned yet?
In this episode, Ethan Giffin, founder and CEO of the B2B eCommerce Agency, shares how losing every penny on a failed nightclub in his early twenties led to a chance encounter at a bar that relocated him, employed him, and changed his caree...
What if one unsolicited demo, sent to an artist you had never met, set the direction of your entire career?
In this episode, John Petrocelli, founder and CEO of Bulldog DM, shares how encrypting a copy of Purple Rain and sending it to Prince's organization led to building the first direct-to-consumer music service for a major artist, and ...
What if talent was never the problem, and the only thing missing was someone willing to fund it?
In this episode, Christie Garton, former attorney and founder of 1,000 Dreams Fund, shares how a bestselling college guidebook series turned into a national nonprofit that has now granted close to $2 million to students chasing dreams they cou...
What if you could reach the top without leaving your health, your relationships, and yourself behind to get there?
In this episode, Ariana Hall, executive coach to CEO founders, shares how a three-year-old asking for violin lessons led to a professional singing career in front of a million audience members, and eventually to coaching lead...
What if the empire you built became the thing you got lost inside?
In this episode, Michael Fineman, author of The Authority Drift and co-founder of the Les Brown Prodigy Program, shares how a kid who was on his own at 15 taught himself to be an adult by listening to Les Brown cassettes in a beat-up car, and later found himself sitting ac...
What if the highest use of a CEO's time is the one thing that never shows up on a balance sheet?
In this episode, Shane Pliska, president and CEO of Planterra, shares how a film school graduate who wanted to make movies ended up running his family's 53-year-old interior landscape company and turning its legacy greenhouse into one of the m...
What if the most sustainable thing you could build started with the smallest thing you could give?
In this episode, Gina Gabel and Priscilla Heffelfinger, co-founders of Thrive, share how two mothers living in Bangladesh for their husbands' work started delivering bananas to one school once a week and built a feeding program that now serv...
What if you hit every number you ever set for yourself and still woke up feeling like something was missing?
In this episode, Ray Higdon, sales trainer, author, and founder of Rank Makers, shares 21 years of lessons from telemarketing, door to door advertising, and selling $7,000 education systems from stage to cold rooms. He has never se...
What if the only thing standing between where you started and where you could go was one person willing to tell you the truth?
In this episode, Chelle Neff, founder of Urban Betty in Austin, Texas, shares how a girl from a small West Texas town with no savings and no safety net built a salon company with three locations, nearly 100 employ...
What if the simplest way to open every door in front of you is to refuse to close any of them?
In this episode, John Loyack, President of Rider University, shares how 40 years across corporate finance, energy, rail, and higher education led him to a model that turns struggling universities into engines of economic redevelopment for the ci...
What if the relationship that changed your life also uncovered the business opportunity you were meant to pursue?
In this episode, Moshe Edri, Founder of Spa Sphere, shares how an unexpected relationship led him to discover a massive gap in the aesthetics industry and inspired him to build an AI-powered platform designed specifically for ...
What if the biggest obstacle to building lasting wealth isn't a lack of money, but meeting people who make it possible?
In this episode, Peter Skaggs, Founder of Investor Lighthouse and Innovative Mortgage Alliance, shares how decades in real estate investing taught him that financial freedom isn't built through luck or chasing trends. It...
What if your greatest adventure isn't about where you go, but who you become?
In this episode, Kevin Thompson sits down with entrepreneur, adventurer, and Wayfinders founder Mike Brcic. After bui...
What if one relationship could help save thousands of lives?
In this episode, Kevin Thompson sits down with Andrea and Jessica La Mesa, co-CEOs of The Life You Can Save, a nonprofit dedicated to lifting people out of extreme poverty by changing the way people think about and donate to charity. Drawing on successful careers in Silicon Vall...
What if every door that ever opened for you started with a message you almost didn't send?
In this episode, Susanne Sandler, SVP and GM of Fintech at Mews, a $2.5 billion global hotel technology ...
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