Life is hard. This podcast will help. Lessons from the greatest thinkers on the planet with Chris Williamson. Including guests like David Goggins, Dr Jordan Peterson, Naval Ravikant, Sam Harris, Jocko Willink, Dr Andrew Huberman, Dr Julie Smith, Steven Bartlett, Ryan Holiday, Robert Greene, Matthew McConaughey, Alain de Botton, Alex Hormozi, Tony Robbins, Chris Bumstead, Mark Manson and more.
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The Jeremy Hanson Podcast: Build Your Business. Empower Your Life. Master Your Mindset This podcast contains creative segments that feature artificial intelligence, including the voice of Grinder Gus, a recurring AI-powered sidekick who offers humorous and practical insight into entrepreneurship and small business ownership. Are you ready to transform your entrepreneurial journey and design the empowered life you've always envisioned? The Jeremy Hanson Podcast is your ultimate guide to build ...
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The largest insurtech podcast going on 700+ episodes. This is not your grandpa's insurance industry!
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Every week on the Sports Illustrated Media Podcast, host Jimmy Traina sits down for an informal conversation with the biggest broadcasters, athletes, sports personalities, celebrities, and anybody else interested in sports or media. Plus, get a window into the storylines Jimmy is following closest in the weekly Traina Thoughts segment.
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What happens if your worst fear becomes your reality? Brent Cassity was a successful CEO working in a family business that grew to a national company that was recognized by the media of being the pioneers in their industry. Brent had it all and lost it all. He found himself standing at the gates of Leavenworth Prison to serve a 5 year sentence. Brent's podcast explores the stories of inmates who were in and now out of prison. What was life like before they went in, life inside prison, and li ...
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The Land Podcast is a platform for people looking to educate themselves in the world of land. If you're interested in the pursuit of land ownership, land investing, staying up to date with current land trends in the Midwest, and hearing from industry experts and professionals, then you're in the right place! Join Illinois licensed real estate broker Jake Hofer on his land journey and learn from some of the best in the land business along the way.
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Welcome to Between the Bottles—the podcast where great drinks spark even greater conversations. Join us as we gather with friends, pour our favorite beverages, and dive into stories that range from life’s big moments to the everyday musings that make us who we are. Whether it’s sharing personal experiences, exploring new ideas, or simply enjoying a good laugh, each episode brings a unique blend of insight, humor, and the warmth that only comes from connecting over a drink. Perfect for anyone ...
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The Partnership Paradox: Why Business Partners Usually Fail (and How to Avoid It)
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25:04Business partnerships often start with excitement and big dreams—but most end in disappointment, conflict, or even lawsuits. In this episode of The Jeremy Hanson Podcast, Jeremy breaks down why 50–80% of business partnerships fail, why 70% collapse within five years, and the three biggest killers of partnerships: unequal workloads, money conflicts,…
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#984 - Colton Scrivner - Why We’re Drawn to Death, Crime, & Danger
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1:06:47Coltan Scrivner is a behavioral scientist, an expert on morbid curiosity in horror and true‑crime media, and an author. Why are humans so curious about death? From car accidents to scary stories, roller coasters, and horror movies, some people are fascinated while others are repulsed. What draws us toward the very things we should naturally want to…
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Voice Silenced, Stifled, Taken Away: Shocking Story of Saffron Gustafson
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2:16:05In this raw and powerful episode of Nightmare Success In and Out, host Brent Cassity interviews Saffron Gustafson, who shares her harrowing journey from a successful business owner of medical clinics to facing federal charges after an FBI raid on her medical business. Eventually she is sentenced to 22 months in prison at the Dublin prison that was …
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Presented by YahooFantasy #YahooPartner. Play Now at yahoofantasy.com/simedia Episode 569 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" is a mix of "Traina Thoughts" with WFAN and SNY TV's Sal Licata and a mailbag answering listener questions. Topics discussed include the onslaught of sports docuseries, ESPN's new direct-to-consumer app and its best feature, pre…
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#983 - Gay Hendricks - Deeply Connected Relationships
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1:32:04Gay Hendricks is a psychologist, teacher, and an author renowned for his work on relationship transformation. Conscious loving is about more than just romance, it’s about clarity, commitment, and growth. With endless advice on the internet on how to optimize your love life, what if the real answer is aligning your expectations and evolving together…
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Jeremy Jawish, CEO at Shift Technology - PIR Ep. 727
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33:49I chat with Jeremy Jawish, CEO at Shift Technology, they are a vertical AI company providing solutions for the insurance industry helping us make better decisions. They already serve 70% of the US P&C market for AI fraud detection! They just launched the Insurance Data Network, which will allow carriers to better share claim claims and fraud data w…
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Murtaza Ali, Co-Founder and CEO at Symphony - PIR Ep. 726
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45:13Tony chats with Murtaza Ali, Co-Founder and CEO at Symphony, they have created a voice AI to build role plays to train insurance professionals. These fully dynamic voice AI agents can provide full conversations for practice, including on really complex conversations. Then it can analyze both the content and the emotional parts of the conversation. …
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#181 - From Pre-Approval to Purchase: Understanding Recreational Land Financing with Buckland Funding
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59:56Welcome to the land podcast, a platform for people looking to educate themselves in the world of land ownership, land investing, staying up to date with current land trends in the Midwest, and hearing from industry experts and professionals. On today's episode, we are back in the studio with a different kind of podcast. Our friends from Buckland Fu…
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Grace Hanson, Co-Founder and CEO at Elysian - PIR Ep. 725
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48:35Tony chats with Grace Hanson, Co-Founder and CEO at Elysian, they are an AI native TPA that handles claims end-to-end. They build the best tech and combine it with highly experienced adjusters and it results in better handling of commercial claims. The whole company and their processes are truly based on what adjusters really do and the way they re…
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#982 - Jesse Michels - UFOs, Aliens, Antigravity & Government Secrets
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2:10:23Jesse Michels is a YouTuber and show host, exploring subjects like UFOs, consciousness, and reality. For nearly a century, UFOs have captured our imagination as one of humanity’s greatest mysteries. Are they secret technology, alien visitors, or something else entirely? Who is behind them, what has been concealed, and what has been revealed about t…
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#981 - MacKenzie Price - Alpha School: A New Approach To Education
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1:11:21MacKenzie Price is an entrepreneur, podcaster, and co-founder of Alpha Schools. Just how broken is education? For fifty years, lofty promises in education have yielded dismal results. Now, with AI, infinite knowledge at our fingertips, and personalized one-on-one learning, how radically different could the school of the future look? Expect to learn…
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Surviving War, Cancer, and the DOJ: The Resilient Dr. Rifai
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59:10In this episode of Nightmare Success, Brent Cassity interviews Dr. Muhamad Ali Rifai, who shares his incredible journey from surviving a war-torn childhood in Syria to facing a federal investigation in the United States. Dr. Rafi survived machine gun fire as a child. He escaped thyroid cancer and a car crash that should have killed him, but nothing…
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Presented by YahooFantasy #YahooPartner. Play Now at yahoofantasy.com/simedia Episode 568 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" features a conversation with TNT's Mike Golic Jr, who will be an analyst for Big 12 college football games this season. Golic Jr. talks about going into a full-time role as an analyst after working just four games last year, the…
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#980 - David Pinsof - This is Your Brain on Bullsh*t
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1:12:26David Pinsof is a research scientist at UCLA, co-creator of Cards Against Humanity, and an author. Everything is bullshit. Your opinions, your arguments, even your thoughts. Most of it’s manufactured, borrowed, or absorbed without question. So if all that’s fake, what’s real? And if we can’t trust our own minds, or anyone else’s, what can we trust?…
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Joseph Sigona, Head of Business Development at MGM Technology Partners - PIR Ep. 724
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44:30Tony chats with Joseph Sigona, Head of Business Development at MGM Technology Partners, they bring complex scalable enterprise level applications to production. They can be the one stop shop in all of the pieces to get your application into production. From planning, to building, QA support, all the way through integration. Their Cosmo platform cov…
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The Excuse Epidemic: Why Home Service Businesses Fail Faster Than You Think
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28:17In this hard-hitting episode of The Jeremy Hanson Podcast, Jeremy exposes the #1 silent killer of home service businesses—and it’s not bad weather, slow seasons, or aggressive competition. It’s the excuses you keep making instead of taking action. Whether you run a plumbing company, HVAC service, landscaping crew, pest control outfit, painting busi…
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#180 - Building a Business to Buy a BIG Farm & Seller Financing Benefits: What First-Time Buyers Need to Hear with Matt Kline
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1:19:50Welcome to the land podcast, a platform for people looking to educate themselves in the world of land ownership, land investing, staying up to date with current land trends in the Midwest, and hearing from industry experts and professionals. On today's episode, we are back in the studio with Matt Kline. We discuss: Early lessons learned about land …
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Brian Baughman, CPCU, ARM - ESOP Evangelist - PIR Ep. 723
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56:44Brian Baughman, CPCU, ARM - ESOP Evangelist and VP of Sales at The Hartwell Corporation. We chat about why it makes sense for agencies to adopt an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) and what the advantages are. All employees are automatically owners after roughly a year. This aligns incentives in a way virtually impossible in other types of owner…
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Presented by YahooFantasy #YahooPartner. Play Now at yahoofantasy.com/simedia Episode 567 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" features an interview with WWE Undisputed Heavyweight Champion, Cody Rhodes. The man known as the "American Nightmare" talks about his SummerSlam match against John Cena, how it felt winning the title for a second time, how bang…
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#979 - Dwarkesh Patel - AI Safety, The China Problem, LLMs & Job Displacement
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2:45:59Dwarkesh Patel is a writer, researcher & podcaster. The rise of AI marks the next great technological revolution, one that could reshape every aspect of our lives in just a few years. But how close are we to its golden age? And what warnings does the global AI race hold about the double-edged nature of progress? Expect to learn what Dwarkesh has re…
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#978 - Spencer Greenberg - How Much Does IQ Matter?
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1:28:59Spencer Greenberg is a mathematician, founder, CEO & creator of ClearerThinking.org How much does IQ really matter? Most of us have met people on both ends of the spectrum and wondered where we stand and what that means for our future. But is IQ truly fixed, or can it be shaped in some very surprising ways? Expect to learn how much IQ matters in al…
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David Serna Perez, Account Executive at LivePerson - PIR Ep. 721
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48:22David Serna Perez, Account Executive at LivePerson, they are an AI native company that has developed two AI agent assistant for the underwriter. They are mainly focused on MGA and underwriting teams. One is focused on MGA underwriting teams and the other one is focused on reinsurance brokers and underwriters. A great conversation with an experience…
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Chris Merideth, Candidate for Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner - PIR Ep. 722
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25:41Tony chats with Chris Merideth, Candidate for Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner. Chris Merideth: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-merideth-a6b4a255/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/xrTdfGMQ4TQBy Insurance Nerds
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Pamela Winn: Prison to Presidential Lifetime Award Winner
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1:26:07What makes someone go from "I can't" to "I can" mindset. Pamela Winn's mindset change came from having a conversation with a friend after returning home from a 78 month Federal Prison Sentence. Pamela Winn earned a scholarship to college and later became a registered nurse before her world came crashing down with a charge of mortgage fraud. She had…
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Presented by YahooFantasy #YahooPartner. Play Now at yahoofantasy.com/simedia Episode 566 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" features two guests plus the weekly "Traina Thoughts" segment. First up is Puck's sports correspondent, John Ourand, who shares insight into the blockbuster ESPN-NFL Media deal. Ourand explains why each company wanted to make th…
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#977 - Dr Robert King - Why Does The Female Orgasm Exist?
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1:32:32Dr Robert King is a psychologist, professor at University College Cork, and researcher on the evolutionary function of female orgasm. What makes the female orgasm so mysterious? For generations, men across the globe have sought to decipher it, and many women share their curiosity as well. So why does the female orgasm even exist? What’s its evoluti…
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Daniel Palacios, Co-Founder and CRO at Sytrex - PIR Ep. 720
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31:00Tony chats with Daniel Palacios, Co-Founder and CRO at Sytrex, they are an AI native company that has developed two AI Agents assistants for underwriters. They are mainly focused on helping MGA underwriting teams, basically co-pilots for insurance and reinsurance operations. They place underwriters in the center and take away the manual and boring …
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Charles Merritt, Co-Founder and CEO at Buddy - PIR Ep. 719
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29:10Tony chats with Charles Merritt, Co-Founder and CEO at Buddy, the insurance gateway for people who build software. They help product teams and developers that are being tasked with integrating insurance APIs and help accelerate distribution of digital insurance products. Charles Merritt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesmerritt/ Charles first app…
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Bill Martin, President & CEO at Plymouth Rock Home Assurance - PIR Ep. 718
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58:05Tony chats with Bill Martin, President & CEO at Plymouth Rock Home Assurance in a friendly debate about the merits of remote vs a full return-to-the-office (RTO). Bill Martin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/billmartiniv/By Insurance Nerds
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#179 - Phil Lincoln: The Man That Had Jim Ward, Tony LaPratt, Don Higgins, and Jeff Sturgis Help Set Up His Farm!
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1:11:07Welcome to the land podcast, a platform for people looking to educate themselves in the world of land ownership, land investing, staying up to date with current land trends in the Midwest, and hearing from industry experts and professionals. On today's episode, we are back in the studio with Phil Lincoln. We discuss: Phil bought his farm in 2012 af…
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#976 - Ray Dalio - The Changing World Order: How Countries Go Broke
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1:26:09Ray Dalio is the founder of Bridgewater Associates, billionaire investor, philanthropist and an author. How do countries actually go broke? In a world of abundance, it’s easy to think the good times will last. But with global debt soaring, we may be nearing an unprecedented economic reckoning. History shows these cycles repeat; the question is, can…
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#975 - James Bloodworth - The Manosphere, Pickup Culture & Male Loneliness
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1:18:16James Bloodworth is a journalist reporting on working-class life and society, podcaster, and an author. The manosphere isn’t what you think. Even though it is often labeled as toxic and extreme, the truth is a bit more complicated. So what’s really going on with men, dating, and masculinity as of today? Expect to learn what the current state of the…
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Nadav Interstein, VP of Marketing at Swifter.io - PIR Ep. 717
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53:54Tony chats with Nadav Interstein, VP of Marketing at Swifter.io, they started as a low-code no-code platform but they have now shifted and have aggressively focused on AI. Now they have created a software development life cycle tool that uses agentic AI to generate the entire software development life cycle process going from project definition all…
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"From Rock Bottom to Roofing Powerhouse: Brandon James Rewrites His Future"
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1:08:26Brandon James walked out of prison over 6 years ago, and has created one of the biggest roofing companies in the state of Missouri. Brandon was stuck at rock bottom who attempted to take his life a few weeks out of prison. This is an incredible redemption comeback story. He says you cannot be a victim and victor at the same time. Brandon became int…
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Peter Schrager on his move from NFL Network to ESPN
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1:39:45Presented by YahooFantasy #YahooPartner. Play Now at yahoofantasy.com/simedia Episode 565 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" features a conversation with ESPN's Peter Schrager Schrager goes in-depth about his decision to leave the NFL Network and "Good Morning Football" for ESPN, why he wasn't nervous about making the big career move and how he feels …
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#974 - Joe Folley - Existential Philosophy, Nietzsche, Suffering & Self-Awareness
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1:25:56Joe Folley is a philosopher, writer, and host of the Unsolicited Advice YouTube channel. Philosophy has a way of finding us in one form or another, sometimes in a book, sometimes in a moment of crisis. Thinkers like Nietzsche and Camus have helped shape how we see life, death, and everything in between. But can these ideas truly help us live better…
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Mary Rossi, President at Rossi Claims Training Academy - PIR Ep. 716
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27:15Tony chats with Mary Rossi, President at Rossi Claims Training Academy. Mary is a 35 year veteran of the claims world, with extensive experience both carrier claims and running an IA firm. She's now offering training for claims adjuster for both new and experienced adjusters. The teaching is focused around case studies. Mary Rossi: https://www.link…
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Nima Ashtari, Founder and CEO at Manifold - PIR Ep. 715
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39:56Tony chats with Nima Ashtari, Founder and CEO at Manifold, they help insurance in the auto space use video analytics for telematics. From dash cams to telematics devices they can help you digest all of it. Essentially they are an aggregation and analysis tool for underwriting and claims. A very interesting company with a very interesting back story…
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Wired for Success: How AI Is Supercharging Blue-Collar Service Businesses and Boosting Profits
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31:06In this powerful episode of The Jeremy Hanson Podcast, we pull back the curtain on how artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing blue-collar service businesses—from HVAC and plumbing to landscaping, pest control, and general contracting. AI is no longer just a tool for tech startups and Silicon Valley — it’s now helping everyday tradespeople …
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Michael Ley, Director of Network Relationships at Hawksoft - PIR Ep. 714
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44:46Tony chats with Michael Ley, Director of Network Relationships at Hawksoft, they are the third largest Agency Management System (AMS) with a passionate group of users. (For High Ds: Actual content starts at about minute 8.) I had heard about Hawksoft every once in a while and it was awesome to finally hear the story direct from them. What an intere…
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#178 - Don't Do This When Buying A Farm With A Partner: Hard Lessons Learned with Joe Kavanaugh
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1:32:52Welcome to the land podcast, a platform for people looking to educate themselves in the world of land ownership, land investing, staying up to date with current land trends in the Midwest, and hearing from industry experts and professionals. On today's episode, we are back in the studio with Joe Kavanaugh. We discuss: Joe Cavanaugh shares his journ…
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#973 - Rory Sutherland - Waymo, Texas Culture, Airline Lounges, OpenAI & Uber Eats
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1:53:14Rory Sutherland is one of the world’s leading consumer behaviour experts, the Vice Chairman of Ogilvy Advertising and an author. The world is evolving at an unprecedented pace. With the rise of AI, we're witnessing a collision between the old world and the new. As technology advances, the question becomes: how can innovation repair outdated systems…
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#972 - 3.7M Q&A - Fatherhood Plans, Medical Update & New Hairstyle
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1:32:21I hit 3.7 million Subscribers on YouTube!! To celebrate, I asked for questions from YouTube, X, and Instagram, so here’s another 90 minutes of me trying to answer as many as possible. Expect to learn all about my new hairstyle, how to best deal with procrastination, which people are up next on my "Mount Rushmore" of podcast guests, what the current…
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John L. Connell, Co-Founder and CEO at Focal - PIR Ep. 713
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28:52Tony chats with John L. Connell, Co-Founder and CEO at Focal, they are the enterprise grade AI notetaking platform and automation platform for financial advisors and in the insurance agency and broker/dealer space. They are used across Charles Schwab, Vanguard, Commonwealth, and others. They deliver a vertical specific purpose built platform that s…
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From Judge to Prison: Jessica O'Brien's Fall and Rise
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1:50:21In this powerful and revealing episode of Nightmare Success In and Out, Brent Cassity sits down with former Illinois Judge Jessica O’Brien—the first Filipino-American elected to the bench in Cook County—who went from a respected courtroom authority to a federal inmate. Jessica opens up about her stunning journey through the justice system:the decis…
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