Today's guests are people who are near and dear to Matt's heart. Jeff and Laura Sandefer, the founders and creators of Acton Academy, are the people who started it all. What started as something they wanted to build for their own children has grown into an alternative education program with locations across the world. After being awarded the highly competitive Walter Wattles Fellowship at Lloyd’s of London, Laura worked in the aviation insurance industry in New York City. Deciding to follow her ...
Aug 30, 2022•50 min
Paul Carter is a strength hypertrophy coach and the founder of Lift-Run-Bang, an online coaching website. He has written for T-Nation, Muscle and Fitness, Flex Magazine, and Bodybuilding.com. Paul is also the co-author of the "Maximum Muscle Bible." Paul is a man all about personal development, mindset, and growth- mentally and physically. It's unlikely that you've met someone larger than this guy, or someone whose cheat days are near as epic. He's passionate about helping others to achieve thei...
Aug 29, 2022•1 hr 26 min
Cameron Sorsby is the CEO of Praxis- currently the best college alternative out there that results in a full-time job for participants. Cameron was one of the first people to sign up when the program first launched! He joined the team a year later and has been an instrumental part of Praxis history ever since. He loves doing things that don’t scale while figuring out what does, is determined to always work with interesting people on challenging projects, and enjoys studying greatness through spo...
Aug 29, 2022•56 min
Mikhaila Peterson suffered most of her childhood with multiple health problems, starting with joint pain at the ripe age of 2 years old. By the time she was 7, she was diagnosed with extremely severe Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis with 37 actively inflamed joints. She began treatment with several medically prescribed drugs and as her health continued to decline, she was also diagnosed with severe depression, she experienced hypomanic episodes (Bipolar Type 2), and suffered from fairly severe OCD ...
Aug 27, 2022•53 min
A grateful & loving husband and father first… Alex Hayden is a Transformational Health Coach, Certified Personal Trainer and the founder of Real Results Academy. Alex loves to help people create more freedom, joy, and fulfillment in their lives, relationships, and work through the Appreciative Co-Creation™ coaching process. In overcoming depression, addiction, tragedy, and obesity, Alex discoverd his mission: to help free people from mental and emotional suffering, "Unlock Their Awesome", an...
Aug 26, 2022•56 min
Roshaun Davis is co-founder of Unseen Heroes, an award-winning events and marketing agency that he and his wife, Maritza, started a decade ago. Utilizing his creative talents to help others discover their unique strengths and gifts is Roshaun life’s passion. For him, seeing others flourish and thrive by living their ideal lives with careers they’ve imagined for themselves, creates an energy that can truly shape the surroundings of an entire city. Whether it’s a community of creatives, profession...
Aug 25, 2022•1 hr 12 min
Lenore Skenazy is president of Let Grow, a non-profit promoting childhood independence and resilience, and founder of the Free-Range Kids movement. She is also a speaker, blogger, syndicated columnist, author, and reality show host. A mother who lives in Queens, her controversial decision to let her then-9-year-old son take the New York City Subway home alone became a national story and prompted massive media attention. She was dubbed, "America's Worst Mom." In response, Skenazy founded the book...
Aug 24, 2022•1 hr 3 min
Some people think of success as something they'll achieve once they've reached a certain age or have made a certain amount of money. Others believe it's something that happens when they reach the top of their field and are recognized by their peers for their achievements. Regardless of what your definition is, one thing is clear: everyone around us affects what we think and do, our plans, and our goals. How do we use this power to our advantage? Success can be achieved by any means—you just need...
Aug 23, 2022•1 hr 9 min
JM Ryerson is an entrepreneur and author who has been building companies and leading sales teams for over 16 years. JM is also the co-founder and CEO of Let’s Go Win, a company dedicated to helping people around the world live their best lives. He has spent his career focused on enriching the lives of others while continuing to educate himself on best practices in leadership, vulnerability, and teamwork. JM’s great passions are helping his team members lead a life of fulfillment and become vulne...
Aug 22, 2022•50 min
Curt Steinhorst is the bestselling author of Can I Have Your Attention? Inspiring Better Work Habits, Focusing Your Team, and Getting Stuff Done in the Constantly Connected Workplace , and is a regular Forbes contributor on Leadership Strategy. He is on a mission to rescue us from our distracted selves. After years of studying the impact of tech on human behavior, Curt founded Focuswise, a consultancy that equips organizations to overcome the distinct challenges of the constantly-connected workp...
Aug 20, 2022•51 min
Adults are shaped up from their childhood. Hence it is critical that we need to be trained, taught, and guided as a child. That’s why parents need to show examples and let their children in their journey grow as a man and learn from their mistakes. Ryan King shares his life experiences, lessons, and advice to future leaders. Being a child, making mistakes is unavoidable. That is why we need to learn from them, grow to be mature adults, and help those who cannot just because they are labeled nega...
Aug 19, 2022•1 hr 7 min
Darren Virassammy is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of 34 Strong, a new breed of consultancy that gives a voice to disengaged employees by helping organizations like yours become great places to work. A leading expert in the global Employee Engagement community, Darren leverages the Gallup StrengthsFinder assessment to create massive shifts within organizations, both culturally and on the bottom line. Virassammy entered the realm of employee engagement and Strengths Based-Development...
Aug 19, 2022•58 min
Kirk Uhler is a man who does not stand idly by and allow injustice to take place. First elected to the Placer County Board of Supervisors in 1992, Kirk started his service as a county supervisor to combat the overspending and fiscal mismanagement of previous boards. In 2006 Kirk was appointed back to the board, continuing the same objective he had when first elected. He has been vocal about the handling of Covid-19 since the beginning and when he began to see patterns of mishandling of the situa...
Aug 18, 2022•55 min
Brian Weisfeld has been building businesses his entire life. In elementary school, he bought 95 pounds of gummy bears and hired my friends to sell them. As a teen, he made and sold mixtapes (ask your parents what those are), sorted baseball cards (he got paid in cards), babysat four-days-a-week after school, and sold nuts and dried fruit (and more gummy bears) in a neighborhood store. As an adult, he has helped build a number of well-known billion-dollar companies including IMAX Corporation and ...
Aug 17, 2022•56 min
Since 1996, Joshua Wayne has worked with youth and families in just about every setting imaginable: drug and alcohol treatment, with at-risk foster youth, community mental health, private practice, and as a Director of Special Education at District of Columbia Public Schools. He is currently a member of Top Youth Speakers, where he speaks about adolescent mental health to students, the parents, teachers, and other caring adults in their lives. Joshua is also the author of “The Simple Parenting G...
Aug 16, 2022•1 hr 10 min
Ben Greenfield is a biohacker, human body and brain performance coach, ex-bodybuilder, Ironman triathlete, professional Spartan athlete, anti-aging consultant, speaker, and author of the New York Times Bestseller “Beyond Training: Mastering Endurance, Health and Life”. Ben is a Spartan SGX certified coach, was voted as NSCA’s Personal Trainer of the year in 2008 and was named by Greatist as one of the top 100 Most Influential People In Health And Fitness in 2013 and 2014. Ben's articles, podcast...
Aug 15, 2022•22 min
Bruce Buffer is an American professional mixed martial arts ring announcer and the official Octagon announcer for UFC events, introduced on broadcasts as the "Veteran Voice of the Octagon". Bruce's catchphrase is "It's time!", which he announces before the main event of the UFC. He is the half brother of the boxing and professional wrestling ring announcer Michael Buffer and is the President and CEO of their company, The Buffer Partnership. Buffer holds a black belt in Tang Soo Do and has fought...
Aug 13, 2022•30 min
Jack Bonneau's mission is to provide kids the opportunity to learn and experience entrepreneurship, business, financial literacy; develop social and life skills while making money and having fun. He strives to inspire other kids to find their passions, follow their dreams and have fun! Jack is a TEDx speaker, a speaker at public schools, and is growing his business while helping others. He's been on Shark Tank, he is the CEO and co-founder of Jack's Stands, and as his latest endeavor, he is also...
Aug 12, 2022•40 min
Jordan Kunaszyk is someone who knew early on that football was his passion and has repetitively shown that he's comfortable putting in the hard work- and it continues to pay off. Kunaszyk was born in Sacramento, California, and grew up in nearby Roseville. He attended Roseville High School, where he played football. Arriving to high school at 5-foot-4 and 130 pounds, he did not make the varsity team until his junior year during which time he chose to push his limits and put forth the effort to g...
Aug 11, 2022•59 min
A globally recognized expert in education, Tony Wagner is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Learning Policy Institute, founded by Linda Darling-Hammond in 2015. Prior to this appointment, Tony held a variety of positions at Harvard University for more than twenty years, including four years as an Expert in Residence at the Harvard Innovation Lab and the founder and co-director, for more than a decade, of the Change Leadership Group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. His previou...
Aug 10, 2022•42 min
Brynne Kennedy is an American entrepreneur, author and candidate for US Congress in California's Fourth Congressional District (CA-04). Rooted in the values of hard work and the promise of the American Dream, Brynne was raised in a rural area hit hard by a changing economy. Her father served in the military and was the first in his family to go to college. Her mother runs a small store on main street. An accomplished business woman, Brynne has helped to bring infrastructure and real estate proje...
Aug 09, 2022•55 min
Today's guest is a man who was discontent with the lack of resources available to teach our young people about the economy. And where there is dissatisfaction, there is the space for action. Connor Boyack is president of Libertas Institute, a free-market think tank in Utah. In that capacity, he has spearheaded a number of successful policy reforms in areas such as education reform, civil liberties, government transparency, business deregulation, personal freedom, and more. Connor is also preside...
Aug 08, 2022•56 min
Today's guest is a brother in freedom. T. K. Coleman is the Director of Entrepreneurial Education at the Foundation for Economic Education and Co-Founder & Education Director of Praxis. He is a prolific writer and speaker with a singular mission: to awaken people to their own creative power. T. K. describes himself as an entrepreneur first and a motivator second. He's a strong believer in the idea that he has a responsibility to face the everyday challenges of creating value in the free mark...
Aug 06, 2022•1 hr 16 min
Evan Carmichael, a man with over 2 million subscribers on YouTube, joins us today on the Essential 11 for a value-packed episode. Evan is an entrepreneur who wants to help fellow entrepreneurs #believe in themselves to achieve their goals and big dreams. He's written several books, his most recent being Built To Serve. He is extremely open about the fact that he is an introvert and often gets anxious at networking events- but his passion to help others realize their full potential, to discover a...
Aug 05, 2022•27 min
Ravi Toor is the Founder and Conscious Impact Strategist at Ravi Toor Co. She’s also the Podcast Host to her powerful show LIT (Lead - Inspire - Transform) as well as a provocative Speaker on Personal Transformation, Social Responsibility and Creating a Global Impact through Conscious Leadership. Ravi’s mission is to empower Conscious Leaders to reach their full potential, helping create universal harmony, equality, and fairness leading to global impacts. She’s a bold woman who unapologetically ...
Aug 04, 2022•1 hr 16 min
Dan Moore is a Sacramento native. He previously served as Sr. Director of Marketing for VinSolutions, before that he was the CEO at Smart Web Concepts, and he now is the President of Vistadash. Dan has plenty of experience with public speaking, traveling the country frequently giving keynote talks. On top of all that, he recently released his first book, Do Moore, Get More. Moore is a man of action, but he recognizes that in order to take action on the things that matter, one has to know what it...
Aug 03, 2022•1 hr 10 min
Gary Collins has a very interesting and unique background that includes military intelligence, Special Agent for the U.S. State Department Diplomatic Security Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Collins’ background and expert knowledge brings a much-needed perspective to today’s areas of simple living, health, nutrition, entrepreneurship, self-help and being more self-reliant. He holds an AS degree in Exercise Science, BS in Criminal Just...
Aug 02, 2022•1 hr 13 min
Erwan Le Corre, a French American, is the founder and innovator of a physical education system and lifestyle known as MovNat, which derives from the French words "mouvement naturel" ("natural movement"). As a child he spent his free time outdoors exploring and playing in the fields and woods around his village. At age 18, Le Corre received a black belt in Karate. Through this means of physical fitness, he realized that this method had inherent limits that didn't allow him to push his body and me...
Aug 01, 2022•1 hr 15 min
Jack Donovan has been writing and speaking about masculinity, masculine philosophy, and spirituality for over a decade. His foundational book, The Way of Men, has sold over 100,000 copies worldwide and has been translated into French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, and Polish. Donovan is an occasional speaker and often appears on podcasts to discuss masculinity and the challenges faced by men who want to live masculine lives in the 21st Century. His views are very different from what is becoming t...
Jul 30, 2022•57 min
Mike Marjama sets his sights on the things he wants out of life and then he goes out and gets it. He's also humble enough to admit that it wasn't easy. He's had to push through his own internal and external battles to get to where he is today. Mike wrestled in high school but baseball was his calling. He practiced incessantly and it paid off when he got drafted in the big leagues. Marjama played catcher and first base in the Major League Baseball Organization for the Seattle Mariners up until 20...
Jul 29, 2022•1 hr 34 min
