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 ...

What if the most important introduction of your career started with raking a sand bunker?

In this episode, Bob Whalen, CEO of HB Global and author of Beyond Your Ownership, shares how a 112-year-old mechanical contracting company in Central Pennsylvania became one of the most powerful examples of employee ownership in America. Today HB Gl...

What if the two words you never meant to say turned out to be the most important words of your life?

In this episode, Ryan Lee, founder of Wealth Outside Wall Street and author of Retire in 10 Years or Less, shares how losing most of his net worth in 2008 led him to discover a completely different way of thinking about money. He retired a...

What if the person who shaped your entire career was someone you met on a soccer pitch at university?

In this episode, Kieran Corbett, venture capital professional at StudioVC in New York, shares how a 13-year career in futures trading, a soccer club chairmanship at university, and one chance encounter at an event in New York led him to t...

What if the moment a boss dismissed your vision was the exact moment your career truly began?

In this episode, Chris Rodgers, founder and CEO of CSP Agency, shares how a psychology major turned phone salesman found his way into SEO in the early days of pay-per-click advertising in Chicago. A meeting with a senior executive who didn't beli...

What if the best leaders aren't the ones who avoid crises, but the ones who prepare for them before they happen?

In this episode, attorney, leadership consultant, retired military officer, and author Conan Higgins shares how decades of experience in the military, law enforcement, and the legal profession shaped his approach to crisis lead...

What if the greatest advantage in business isn't talent, but the willingness to keep learning and never give up?

In this episode, Carlos Antillano, Vice President of the Americas for Mauviel 1830, entrepreneur, author, and lifelong student, shares the journey that took him from selling cookware on eBay out of his bathroom to leading one o...