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EGGS! The Podcast

Ryan Roghaar and Michael Smithwww.eggscast.com
Eggs is podcast that centers around creativity in all forms. From building businesses, personal projects and constructing brands to crafting music empires, finding social fame, fortune and more—we discuss whatever, whenever, with whomever in search of patterns, expertise, shared experience and knowledge. Along with our guests—usually experts in a field or subject—we drill down to uncover the steps taken and the hurdles crossed in pursuit of excellence, aiding our listeners in chasing down their own dreams and taking their "egg" from coup to table. Eggs is a show co-hosted by Mike Smith "DJ Ontic", a Seattle, WA based DJ and Ryan Roghaar owner of R2 Media Group, a full-service marketing communications agency based in Salt Lake City, UT and Barcelona, Spain.
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Eggs 151: John Stoj - Financial expert and founder at Verbatim Financial

This week's special guest is John Stoj. John is likely the only Investment Advisor you've ever met who has managed both $3.5 billion and a sushi kitchen! From a career in finance that began on a Wall Street trading floor over twenty-five years ago, with stops at investment & commercial banks, money managers, and even his own hedge fund, John was uniquely prepared to see the financial services industry for what it is: flush with companies and professionals far more focused on their own best i...

Apr 09, 20201 hr 5 min

Eggs 150: Steve Gordon - CEO of The Unstoppable Agency

This week on Eggs we have special guest Steve Gordon. Steve is the CEO of The Unstoppable Agency, a firm that helps consultants and digital agencies land great clients by hosting their own podcasts and find success using his proprietary "Podcast Prospecting Method." We had an amazing conversation discussing the importance of podcasting in landing new clients, some of the biggest barriers that keep service businesses from growing, 4 ways of overcoming the biggest challenges in attracting clients ...

Apr 02, 202059 min

Eggs 149: George Papadeas - Chief Operating Officer at the HOTH

This week on Eggs we have special guest George Papdeas. George is COO at The Hoth, a large SEO agency based in St. Petersburg, Florida. We had a really interesting discussion about scaling a business utilizing freelance resources and finding opportunity in this post-corona world. He also talked about their recent acquisition of FreeUp a freelance marketplace and how people who have had their work negatively affected by the corona outbreak can ply their trades online as a freelancer through their...

Mar 26, 202056 min

Eggs 148: Raitis Purins - Head of marketing at Printful

This week's guest is none other than Raitis Purins, head of marketing at the innovative print on demand company Printful. In the three years since joining the team at Printful has since then led the winning marketing strategy and execution and scaled the marketing team from 5 to 40 people. He is responsible for content marketing, SEO, PPC, CRO, and affiliate marketing and so much more. In our conversation, we talked about what a "print on demand model" is, how it works, and why it's growing glob...

Mar 19, 202057 min

Eggs 147: J. Massey - Author and Speaker at CashflowDiary.com

This week on Eggs, we have special guest J. Massey. J. is an author, speaker, and coach who teaches those he encounters how to build a short term investment business by way of his amazing rags-to-riches story. On the show, he talked with Ryan and Mike about his experience from nearly living on the streets to developing a multi-million dollar business. He shares great, actionable insights, and goes deep to share with listeners practical information that they can apply in their own lives to build ...

Mar 12, 20201 hr 13 min

Eggs 146: Tracey Bissett - President and Chief Financial Fitness Trainer at Bissett Financial Fitness Inc.

Welcome back to another exciting episode of Eggs! Our guest, Tracey Bissett is on a mission to redefine the world's economic future by increasing the financial literacy of entrepreneurs—also known as financial fitness. With over 20 years of experience in the financial services industry, she helps entrepreneurs across all industries get their financial lives in order. We discussed a myriad of things from overcoming debt, creating healthy cashflow, where and how to gain financial knowledge and wha...

Mar 05, 20201 hr 1 min

EGGS 145: Carl Gould - Business Growth Expert and Entrepreneur

Welcome back to Eggs! This week we have another great guest in store. Today we talked with business growth expert and entrepreneur Carl Gould. Carl is a prolific and accomplished entrepreneur, having built three multi-million dollar businesses by age 40, mentored the launch of 5,000 more, and to date has trained and certified over 7,000 business coaches in 35 countries. We had a great conversation where we discussed the skills most critical for business owners to master to thrive today, he share...

Feb 27, 202054 min

EGGS 144: Jack Bosch - The Land Guy

This week on Eggs, we have special guest Jack Bosch, AKA The Land Guy. Jack is a real estate investor, educator, husband, and father. Originally an immigrant from Germany who came over with just two suitcases and a boatload of student debt, Jack (along with his wife Michelle) has found his niche in real estate buying and selling more than 4,000 lots and unimproved properties since 2002. Since then, Jack has made it his mission to educate people on this lucrative aspect of real estate investing a...

Feb 20, 202051 min

EGGS 143: Chris Tabish - Business consultant and author of Comediology

Welcome back to Eggs! This week's episode features special guest Chris Tabish. Chris is a Silicon Vally business professional, stand up comedian and the author of the book "Comediology" which is all about how to be more effective and fulfilled in business by using comedy. We had an awesome conversation about life, relationships, business, comedy and so much more. You're going to want to take a listen—and take notes! Rate, like, share and subscribe to Eggs anywhere great podcasts are found.

Feb 13, 20201 hr 1 min

EGGS 142: David Wachs - CEO and Founder of Handwrytten

This week we have special guest David Wachs. David is the CEO, founder and Chief Robot Mechanic at Handwrytten. Handwrytten, is bringing back the lost art of letter writing through scalable, robot-based solutions that write your notes in pen. Developed as a platform, Handwrytten lets you send notes from your CRM system, such as Salesforce, the web site, apps, or through custom integration. Used by major meal boxes, eCommerce giants, nonprofits and professionals, Handwrytten is changing the way b...

Feb 06, 202057 min

EGGS 141: Jennifer Peek - Founder of Peek Advisory Group

Today's guest is Jennifer Peek. Jennifer is the founder of Peek Advisory Group which provides strategic financial services for the mergers and acquisition process of small to mid-size companies as well as out sourced CFO services for an exclusive group of clients. Peek Advisory Group specializes in business valuations, financial due diligence (including Quality of Earnings reviews), information memorandums and strategic projects ranging from out sourced CFO and Controller services to forensic ac...

Jan 30, 202050 min

EGGS 140: Larry Ludwig - Entrepreneur, Tech & Digital Marketing Guru

This week on Eggs we have special guest Larry Ludwig. Larry is a long-time entrepreneur and marketer with who has helped some of the largest companies in the world achieve new levels of success. Additionally, Larry has owned and sold his own business and is now pursuing his passion of helping other business owners leverage technology and digital marketing to find success of their own. We're really excited for the conversation, join me in welcoming Larry Ludwig.

Jan 23, 202055 min

EGGS 139: 2020 State of the Union

This week on Eggs we sit down with the guys for our annual "state of the union" show. Ryan and Mike go deep talking about where the show has been, where it is presently, and where it's headed. The guys get totally transparent about what's gone on these past two years since the show began and what the future has in store. It was a lot of fun. Take a listen and tell a friend. Rate, like, share and subscribe on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify or just about anywhere else great pods are found.

Jan 16, 202050 min

EGGS 138: Musician Ryan Speer

This week on Eggs we have special guest Ryan Speer. Ryan is a guitar player best known from his time in the wildly popular Phoenix, Arizona-based bands Mink Rebellion and Good with Grenades. This episode is a blast from the past for Mike and Ryan as well as they worked closely with Mink Rebellion more than 10-years ago! Having just recently re-connected with Ryan, the guys thought it would be fun to take along on a walk down memory lane to compare notes and share war stories. Ryan was an open bo...

Jan 09, 20201 hr 11 min

EGGS 137: Dr. Karen Hardy - Risk Management Expert, Author and Speaker

Happy new year! To kick off 2020 we're back with another great show for you. This week we have special guest, Dr. Karen Hardy. Dr. Hardy is a best-selling author and expert in Risk Management. She is also the founder and dean of the Flip this Risk Academy, an online training resource created to bring a fresh perspective and energy to known challenges that risk management professionals encounter when designing and implementing Enterprise-level Risk Management. We had a great conversation and lear...

Jan 02, 202054 min

EGGS 136: 2019 Eggy Awards - Annual Award Show

Come one, come all! Welcome to the second annual Eggy Awards! The Eggy's are a celebration of all the many amazing people who have graced the Eggs airwaves this year. Narrowing it down to the big winners featured in this show was no easy feat. We are thrilled to have had the opportunity to meet so many amazing people this year that we simply can't say thank you enough, but nonetheless the Eggy's are an opportunity for us to thank a few people who rose to the top for one reason or another. This s...

Dec 26, 20192 hr 4 min

EGGS 135: Eggy Award Nominations and Christmas with Scott Foster

This week on a very special episode of Eggs we break down the year and announce the nominees for the 2019 Eggy Awards. Afterward musical guest Scott Foster (Foster Borothers Music / Discovery's Bering Sea Gold) stops by to drop a little Christmas cheer by way of a live, in-studio performance of his new song, Santa Daddy. It was a great show, and we had a great time putting it together. Take a listen and get into the spirit of the holidays with your friends at the Eggs show.

Dec 19, 201941 min

EGGS 134: David Hoffmann - CEO at GlobalTQM

Hey everyone, welcome back to eggs. Today’s guest is David Hoffmann. David is a serial entrepreneur with a long history of building multi-million dollar businesses. For more than 15-years David has been working as CEO of Global Regency — where they ship more than 200 million dollars in product to more than 40 countries every year — and he is widely considered to be an expert in Chinese sourcing, supply chain, private label, and brand licensing. We had an awesome conversation about living and wor...

Dec 12, 20191 hr 4 min

EGGS 133: Scott Ringlein - Founder and CEO of The Energy Alliance Group of North America

Hey everyone, welcome back to eggs! Our guest this week Scott Ringlein. Scott is the founder and CEO of The Energy Alliance Group of North America or EAG for short. EAG is a green energy solution and cost recovery company that provides energy-saving products, technologies, and services for commercial, industrial, multifamily, and non-profit buildings in addition to providing many energy solutions for agricultural applications. We had a great conversation about the state of the industry, great in...

Dec 06, 201959 min

EGGS 132: Thanksgiving Day Bonus Show

Happy Thanksgiving and welcome back to EGGS! Our hosts Ryan and Mike get together for a fun-filled holiday conversation that you won't want to miss. They get into some recent So-Cal travel for Ryan and a trip to DesignerCon and Mike shares his experience buying a car online from Carvana.com. It's a light and fun conversation, and just like family around the holidays, we'd love to have you join in the fun!

Nov 28, 201948 min

EGGS 131: Melvin Figueroa - Web designer, branding expert, and the founder of Mello Multimedia

Hey everybody, welcome back to Eggs. This week's guest is Melvin Figueroa. Melvin is a web designer, branding expert, and the founder of Mello Multimedia. For the past decade, Melvin has been working passionately in the design industry, creating brand identities and building websites for small business owners on both a local and national scale. We had a great conversation with tons of great takeaways! Come along, listen in each Thursday and get involved! Rate, like, share and subscribe.

Nov 21, 201956 min

EGGS 130: Women in Business Clipshow

Hey eggrybody! Welcome back to Eggs. Mike and Ryan are out of the studio this week so we've prepared an awesome clip show sure to inspire you to be the best version of yourself. This time we're featuring 5 past guests, all women, all CEOs and entrepreneurs, and each butt-kickers in their own way! Get ready to revisit recent classic interviews with Maece Sierafi, Keri Murphy, Stormy Simon, Becca Moros and Kelly McCausey. Tune in, turn up, rate like and subscribe!

Nov 14, 20191 hr 22 min

EGGS 129: Oscar Trimboli talks deep listening and how to get the most out of your relationships

This week on Eggs we have special guest, listening expert, keynote speaker, and author Oscar Trimboli. All the way from Sydney, Australia Oscar calls in to share with us some tips on how we can all become better listeners and maximize our conversations. Talking with — and listening to — Oscar was a really enjoyable experience and the crew is thrilled to share the conversation with you here. Enjoy!

Nov 07, 20191 hr 22 min

EGGS 128: Ryan and Mike talk DJ battles, Little League Football and Pomodoros for Time Management

Welcome back to Eggs! This week the guys go guest free to catch up on the goings on from the last couple months. Mike has been on the road so we talk Arizona and DJ Battles while Ryan has been coaching little league football and talks about their team's upcoming championship battle royale—Go Wildcats! Outside of the chit-chat Ryan also gets into his latest effort to master time management going deep — well not too deep — into the wide-world of pomodoros: timed-focused-task-management. The guys h...

Oct 31, 201940 min

EGGS 127: Tommy Breedlove talking self-help, self-love and living a "Legendary Life"

Welcome back to another exciting episode of Eggs. Today's guest is Tommy Breedlove. Tommy is a featured keynote speaker, author and premier business and mindset coach. His purpose is to help those he works with to achieve what he calls a "Legendary Life." Overcoming incarceration as a young man and working his way up the ladder at the largest financial consulting firm in the world gave him business notoriety and financial success. He was Senior Partner, International Practice Leader, and Member ...

Oct 24, 20191 hr 16 min

EGGS 126: Rytis Lauris talks about his company Omnisend and the future of E-Commerce

Welcome back to Eggs! This week the guys sit down with Rytis Lauris, the co-founder and CEO of Omnisend, an all-in-one ecommerce marketing platform. Along with Rytis the guys talk AI, marketing, and the best way to keep your customers using email, SMS, and more. Join in the conversation! Rate, like, share and subscribe!

Oct 17, 201958 min

EGGS 125: Jen McFarland talks podcasts and how to run your business efficiently

Welcome back to Eggs! This week we have special guest Jen McFarland. Jen is the CEO of Women Conquer Business, where she consults business owners on how to work logically and intuitively to reach their organizational goals. Further, Jen hosts the Women Conquer Business podcast. Each week she releases new episodes available on all major podcasting platforms. We had a great time exploring topics like time management, carving out productivity killers and documenting and achieving goals! It was a gr...

Oct 10, 20191 hr 1 min

EGGS 124: Nicolle Merrill - Podcaster, author and founder of Future Skills

Welcome to another exciting episode of EGGS! Today's special guest is Nicolle Merrill. Nicolle is the founder of Future Skills, a consulting company that examines emerging forms of expertise, skills, and training for the new world of work. Additionally, Nicolle is the host of the podcast, 50 Conversations, where she interviews 50 career changers on their journey to their new career. Her new book, Punch Doubt in the Face: How to Upskill, Change Careers, and Beat the Robots, discusses the future o...

Oct 03, 20191 hr 13 min

EGGS 123: Kelly Glover talks podcasts and fighting imposter syndrome

Throw on some headphones and sit down with Ryan and Mike from eggs! This week the guys talk with Kelly Glover, owner of The Talent Squad, a podcast agency! They go over tips of how to run a successful podcast, finding advertisers, and fighting imposter syndrome and podcast fade!

Sep 26, 20191 hr 14 min

EGGS 122: Chris Wallace - Co-Founder and President of InnerView

This week on Eggs we have special guest Chris Wallace. Chris is the founder and president of InnerView, a marketing consulting firm that helps companies effectively transfer their brand messages to their employees and partners. He is a successful entrepreneur in the sales consulting and coaching space, with over 15 years of experience in sales, marketing, and corporate leadership. Beyond his work with clients, Chris is able to apply his passions as a teacher and author. He has taught as an adjun...

Sep 19, 20191 hr
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