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George Rivera

George Rivera

CEO of 18 Summers Advisory, Creator of the Buy Back Time Formula
Cut his work week from 80 hours to under 30 after his dying father said six words he's never forgotten.
Jerome Knyszewski

Jerome Knyszewski

Founder & CEO of Authority Magazines and Valiant CEO
Founder of Authority Magazines who has run roughly 10,000 interviews in about four years — and has never charged a single person to be published.
Mitch Matthews

Mitch Matthews

Speaker, Executive Coach, Host of the DREAM THINK DO Podcast
Twenty years coaching high achievers through one question — what's next for you? — and the diagnosis most of them get wrong.
Yarin Gaon

Yarin Gaon

Founder of Fractional Partners, Entrepreneur-Turned-Investor
Started his first company at 14, built and sold Israel's largest e-commerce platform for military goods, and now teaches founders to grow by subtraction.
Blake Erickson

Blake Erickson

Partner at Scaling.com, TEDx Alumnus, Co-Author of The Science of Scaling
Sold his companies and real estate portfolio to go all-in on Scaling.com — and took it to $10 million ARR in eight months.
Adrian Rosebrock

Adrian Rosebrock

CEO of Chief of AI, Founder of PyImageSearch
Computer vision PhD who built and sold PyImageSearch, now telling companies why a $20-a-month AI account is not a competitive advantage.
Sue Gilad

Sue Gilad

Broadway Producer, Co-Founder of In Fine Company
Broadway producer behind The Outsiders and Moulin Rouge! — 30 Tony Awards, a Grammy, and a working theory of how rejection math actually works.
Anthony Suppa

Anthony Suppa

Founder of Slice of Charity, Marine Corps Veteran
Marine Corps veteran who turned a restaurant toy drive into a 501(c)(3) — and built a company to fund it so he'd never have to ask for donations.
Spencer Carpenter

Spencer Carpenter

Founder of Outlier Audio, Podcast Booking Agency
Booked 3,500+ podcast interviews since 2020 — and argues 50 of the right listeners beat 100,000 of the wrong ones.
Nathan Winston

Nathan Winston

Founder of Next Level Mindset, Former Pro Baseball Player
Born with PFFD, amputated at four, told he would never play sports — he played basketball, football, and baseball, then baseball professionally.
Michele Morley

Michele Morley

Founder & Host of Yes Women's Network
Bought a women's network with her husband in 2020, then spent six months fighting pericarditis before deciding to build it anyway.
Curtis McCullom

Curtis McCullom

Founder of Bespoke Human Potential Coaching, Host of The Curtis McCullom Show
Coach and clinical hypnotherapist who works with the 95 percent of the mind that traditional coaching never reaches.
Rod Khleif

Rod Khleif

Multifamily Real Estate Investor, Bestselling Author & Podcast Host
Lost $50 million in the 2008 crash, then rebuilt — and now teaches students who own more than 260,000 apartment units.
Mark Silverman

Mark Silverman

Executive Coach, Author & Host of The Rising Leader Podcast
Leadership rarely fails for lack of knowledge. It fails when pressure outpaces the nervous system's capacity to stay steady.
Cory Procter

Cory Procter

Founder of ProCapital Wealth Management, Former NFL Player
Six NFL seasons on near-minimum salary — and a family bankruptcy before that — taught him to build a vault around everything he owned.
Brad Kugler

Brad Kugler

Founder of DirectMail2.0, Marketing Strategist
Watched a 23-year family business collapse with the CD, then built an AI-driven direct mail company on what that failure taught him.
Drea Lynn

Drea Lynn

Attorney, Former COO, Author of Smart Quit
Attorney and former COO who left the corner office, landed in six figures of debt, and rebuilt to half a million in revenue.
Anthony Perera

Anthony Perera

Managing Partner of Exuma Capital Partners
Built Air Pros USA from a single HVAC truck past $200 million in six years, and now buys founder-led companies and operates them himself.
BreeAnn Allred

BreeAnn Allred

Founder of Aylara Pelvic Health, Pelvic Floor PT
One of Utah's earliest pelvic floor physical therapists, with 20 years spent proving that a common symptom is not the same as a normal one.
Hugh Hornsby

Hugh Hornsby

Founder of Blue Collar Smart, "Voice of the Trades"
Told at 14 he wasn't smart enough for college. Spent the next 40 years scaling trades companies and mentoring 240 people.
Braeden Furgeson

Braeden Furgeson

Co-Founder of Venn Social, Founder of Smash It
Sold his house to bootstrap Venn Social — a platform that sorts people by life circumstance, not broad topic
Lane Martin

Lane Martin

Co-founder of Modern PURAIR, Franchise Operator
He turned duct cleaning into a 22-franchise system by learning one thing: people don't fail, systems do.
Jonathan Otto

Jonathan Otto

Founder of RedLife & Well Of Life, Documentary Filmmaker
Investigative journalist who beat Lyme disease and chronic fatigue, then built a career interviewing hundreds of doctors about what actually heals cells.
Tucker Bern

Tucker Bern

AI Automation CEO, President of Bern Investment
At 29 he manages a nine-figure family office — and built an AI assistant that turned a $60,000 development quote into a $100 build
Ben Kjar

Ben Kjar

NCAA D1 All-American Wrestler, International Speaker
Born with Crouzon Syndrome — turned the bullying into a D1 wrestling career and a global speaking platform.
Stephen Kimball

Stephen Kimball

Direct Response Copywriter & Marketing Strategist
Twenty-five years writing direct response copy for Capital One, Walmart, and first-time founders — and diagnosing why offers don't convert.
Marco Lopez

Marco Lopez

Founder & CEO of MindTune, Peak Performance Strategist
Employee number 26 at Qualtrics turned peak performance strategist — he teaches leaders to tune the mind the way a musician tunes an instrument
Nicea DeGering

Nicea DeGering

Emmy-Winning TV Anchor, Good Things Utah
Emmy-winning Utah broadcaster on why connection — not polish — is what builds lasting authority.
Jed Morley

Jed Morley

CEO of PlatPay, Co-Founder of Payment Cowboy
FinTech operator on why execution and relationship capital outperform every shiny object in the market.
Anmol Singh

Anmol Singh

Founder of Live Traders; Trading Coach & Author
The trader who started in a college dorm — on why curiosity, integrity, and emotional control separate consistent winners from the rest.
Heather Valeri

Heather Valeri

Founder & CEO of Meridian Business Advisors, Award-Winning Business Broker
Award-winning business broker on why the inner game of the owner — not the strategy — decides who actually builds, scales, and sells.
Kasim Aslam

Kasim Aslam

Founder of Driven Mastermind, Author of You vs Google
Built the number one ranked Google Ads agency in the world without ever running a campaign himself, then sold it for eight figures.
Jay Conner

Jay Conner

Real Estate Investor, Private Money Authority & Author
The investor who lost his bank line overnight — and raised $2M in private money in 90 days by never asking anyone for a dime.
Jim Matuga

Jim Matuga

Founder of InnerAction Media; Author of "Humble Influence"
Media veteran who flips the leadership obsession on its head — arguing the real power in any organization is humble, intentional followership from the middle.
Ken Rusk

Ken Rusk

Bestselling Author, Founder of Rusk Industries
Built a nine-figure construction company from six employees to over 200, and replaced the word goal with something he calls a timed pathway.
Lisa Even

Lisa Even

Leadership Speaker, Culture and Joy Connoisseur
Leadership coach with a non-clinical healthcare background who builds cultures around one question: is this good ripple effect?
Donny Case

Donny Case

Founder & CEO of Air Scientist Solutions; HVAC Innovator
The Navy veteran and environmental scientist out to obsolete the thermostat — with a Wi-Fi smart unit that polices a billion-dollar HVAC industry.
Spencer Howard

Spencer Howard

Founder of Straight to the Points; Travel Rewards Expert
The points expert who turned six months of obsessive research into business-class travel for everyone — without spending a dollar more than you already do.
Simon Severino

Simon Severino

CEO of Strategy Sprints, Author & Sales Strategist
The strategist behind $2B in client sales on why the best closers talk less than a third of the time — and listen for the rest.
Rob Kalwarowsky

Rob Kalwarowsky

Executive Leadership Coach, TEDx Speaker & Author
The MIT engineer turned executive coach on why your emotions aren't problems to manage — they're signals pointing straight at the beliefs running your life.
Terry Rich

Terry Rich

CEO, Keynote Speaker & Fraud-Busting Innovator
The executive who cracked the largest lottery fraud in U.S. history — on why failure is the path to an epic life, not the price of one.
Mike Jesowshek

Mike Jesowshek

CPA, Founder & Host of the Small Business Tax Savings Podcast
The CPA-turned-entrepreneur on turning the spending you already do into legal, pre-tax deductions — and why planning beats prep every time.
Wayne Mullins

Wayne Mullins

Founder & CEO of Ugly Mug Marketing, Author of Full Circle Marketing
The "guru's guru" on why marketing's real job is to make the sale unnecessary — and how to turn customers into evangelists.
Don Pendleton

Don Pendleton

Founder of Protect Wealth, Asset Protection Author & Adviser
Sued after a drive-by shooting at the park he managed, he spent the next decades teaching business owners how to keep what they build.
Dan Gomer

Dan Gomer

Real Estate Team Leader, Author & Burnout Coach
The former science teacher who burned out at the top of real estate — on why misalignment, not overwork, is the real culprit.
Douglas E. Noll

Douglas E. Noll

Attorney-Turned-Peacemaker, Mediator & Author
The trial lawyer turned peacemaker on the neuroscience-backed skill that calms any angry person in 90 seconds — no matter the language or culture.
Bronson Kaufusi

Bronson Kaufusi

Former NFL Tight End, Real Estate Investor & Mindset Coach
Former NFL tight end on why the mental work you do before adversity strikes is what determines whether you survive it.
Dr. Eric Holsapple

Dr. Eric Holsapple

Real Estate Developer, Author & Founder of Living in the Gap
The real estate developer with a PhD in economics on why presence — not more hours — is what actually moves the needle on profit.
Lane Kawaoka

Lane Kawaoka

Real Estate Investor, Author of The Wealth Elevator
A former civil engineer whose accidental Seattle rental grew into more than 10,000 units and over $2.1 billion in assets under management.
Kasey Anton

Kasey Anton

Founder of Spark Business Consulting, Author of Profit First for Restaurants
Former Boston restaurateur turned consultant on why the balance sheet — not passion — decides whether a restaurant survives.
Dr. Noah St John

Dr. Noah St John

Father of Afformations, CEO of SuccessClinic.com
The mindset mentor who replaced affirmations with questions — and showed entrepreneurs why the inner game runs the whole business.