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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 181: Joey Mure and Russ Morgan - Partners at Wealth Without Wallstreet

Welcome back to Eggs. Todays guests are Joey Mure and Russ Morgan. They are partners at Wealth Without Wallstreet, a firm that provides financial insight and tools to break free of the mindset and bondage of Wall Street. Joey started his career in the mortgage business in 2003. Quickly growing to become a branch manager with one of the Nation's top mortgage lenders leading 25 loans officers. By 2010 he had achieved national recognition. However, despite earning an impressive income he still had ...

Nov 05, 202056 min

Eggs 180: Thom King - Founder and CEO of Icon Foods

Welcome back to Eggs! This week's special guest is equal parts CEO, part personal development wonk, part biohacker info geek, and serial entrepreneur. Our guest is none other than Thom King. While his list of favorite books contains many success-oriented and personal-development classics, the traditional definition of achieving success isn't what motivates Thom. He follows more of a “you aren’t doing well unless you’re also doing some good” line of thinking. Consequently, his company, Icon Foods...

Oct 30, 202049 min

Eggs 179: Steven Goodman - President and CEO at SHG Planning

Welcome back to Eggs! Today's guest is Steven Goodman. For more than 30 years, Steven, President, and CEO of SHG Planning, has provided insightful solutions to the challenges of business succession, wealth preservation, retirement, and charitable planning. Steven currently services hundreds of clients focusing on the needs of owners of closely-held businesses and high net worth individuals. He is the author of Business Succession Planning: A Guide to Transfers, Sales, Family Harmony, and Minimiz...

Oct 22, 20201 hr 5 min

Eggs 178: Carl Allen - Founder of Dealmaker Wealth Society

Welcome back to eggs! Todays special guest is Carl Allen. Carl is a world-class entrepreneur, investor and corporate dealmaker who has worked on more than 330 transactions worth close to $48 billion. After nearly missing the birth of his second son he committed there and then to leave the rat race behind him and committed to brokering — and eventually buying — businesses for himself. Today Carl is considered one of the world’s premier experts on buying and financing small business acquisitions. ...

Oct 15, 202058 min

Eggs 177 - Chris Rabold (FOH Engineer for Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga)

Welcome back to Eggs. This week's guest is Chris Rabold. Chris is the front of house engineer (AKA sound guy) for some of the most prominent musical acts of the now, and maybe ever. He's worked for Bruno Mars on the 24K Gold tour (one of the largest and most complex concert experiences in history), Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Kenny Chesney, and so many more. He joined us to talk about life on the road, the struggles of the tour-support community amid pandemic, how he got his start and so much more. Plea...

Oct 08, 20201 hr 3 min

Eggs 176 - Myoshia Boykin-Anderson CEO and Founder of AndTech Solutions

This week on Eggs we have special guest, founder, and CEO of AndTech Solutions, Myoshia Boykin-Anderson. Myoshia truly represents the “American Dream.” A native Houstonian and a proud graduate of Jack Yates Senior High School, Myoshia saw some of life’s most difficult times, but she didn’t let that stop her from striving for a better future. In November 1998, with no savings and no college degree, Myoshia got her first taste of entrepreneurship by starting her first company. Over the past 11 yea...

Oct 01, 202052 min

Eggs 175: Randy "Yukon Smitty" Smith - Mining Industry Legend

On this week's very special episode of Eggs, we have the legendary Randy "Yukon Smitty" Smith. For those of you who may or may not have noticed, our very own co-host Mike spent much of the summer in Nome, Alaska. While in Nome, Mike was introduced to Smitty who is an absolute legend in the mining industry. After some discussion, the two decided to sit down for a little interview to learn more about the guy who might actually be the real "world's most interesting man." In what ended up being a 4....

Sep 24, 20202 hr 40 min

Eggs 174: Shane Foss - Founder and CEO of Hooray Health

Hey everyone and welcome back to Eggs. Today's special guest is Shane Foss. Shane has worked as an executive in the medical industry for more than 20 years, and in that time became frustrated with how under-served Americans were with the current healthcare options. He set out to make a change and in 2018 achieved this goal through launching Hooray Health, an unconventional health insurance company dedicated to providing affordable basic and urgent health care alternatives to high-deductible heal...

Sep 17, 202054 min

Eggs 173: Greg Hickman - Founder and CEO of AltAgency

Hey everybody! Welcome back to Eggs. This week's guest is Greg Hickman. Greg is the Founder and CEO of AltAgency. Over the last 4 years, Greg and his team have transformed AltAgency from an automation consultancy serving many well-known entrepreneurs and growth experts into one of the top coaching and training companies for agencies looking to grow and scale by packaging their expertise, installing systems for growth, and leveraging automation to save time. Here to talk about serving more people...

Sep 10, 20201 hr 1 min

Eggs 172: Dr. Glenn Livingston - Psychologist and author of Never Binge Again

Hey there and welcome back to Eggs. Today's special guest is Dr. Glenn Livingston. Dr. Livingston is a veteran psychologist and was the long time CEO of a multi-million dollar consulting firm. Disillusioned by what traditional psychology had to offer overweight and food obsessed individuals, Dr. Livingston spent several decades researching the nature of bingeing and overeating via work with his own patients AND a self-funded research program with more than 40,000 participants. Most importantly, ...

Sep 03, 20201 hr 23 min

Eggs 171: Kathy Bowman Atkins - Founder and CEO of The Lattitude Group

Welcome back to Eggs! This week's special guest is Kathy Bowman Atkins, founder, and CEO of The Lattitude Group. Kathy helps CEOs and business leaders set the course for their businesses. Her no-nonsense approach, combined with her unique talent for asking tough questions, get to the heart of the matter quickly. Kathy left the corporate world 17 years ago in order to work from home while caring for her ailing parents. In that time she discovered a love for helping businesses find their true nort...

Aug 27, 202057 min

Eggs 170: Tony Guarnaccia of Small Steps Grow Profits

Hey everyone and welcome back to Eggs. Todays special guest is Tony Guarnaccia. Tony is an educator, coach, entrepreneur, and a widely recognized authority on digital marketing having driven serious results for thousands of businesses from startups to the Fortune 500. Tony’s personal mission to "Democratize Marketing" is fueled by a desire to keep small business owners profitable by sharing the insights he's discovered in working alongside the biggest brands across hundreds of niches. He believe...

Aug 20, 202057 min

Eggs 169: Joe Sullivan - Thinker and Founder at Gorilla76

Hey everyone and welcome to the show. This week on Eggs we have special guest Joe Sullivan. Joe is an Industrial Marketing Consultant with more than 10 years of experience and the co-founder of the St. Louis-based industrial marketing agency Gorilla 76. Gorilla helps midsized B2B manufacturers identify, attract, engage, and drive sales opportunities with ideal-fit customers. They make this happen through a combination of positioning, content marketing, SEO, website development, account-based mar...

Aug 13, 202055 min

Eggs 168: Carman Pirie - Co-founder of Kula Partners

Welcome back to Eggs! This week we have special guest Carman Pirie. Carman is the co-founder of Kula Partners, an agency that helps leading B2B manufacturers craft digital experiences that transform how they engage buyers, serve customers, and outpace their competition online. He’s also the co-host of The Kula Ring podcast for manufacturing marketers. Combining three decades of marketing and communications experience with a distaste for the ordinary, here to talk about positioning and differenti...

Aug 06, 20201 hr 1 min

Eggs 167: Jonathon Hensley - Co-Founder and CEO at Emerge Interactive

Welcome back to Eggs! Today's guest is Jonathon Hensley. Jonathon is the co-founder and CEO of Emerge, a digital product consulting firm that works with companies to improve operational agility and customer experience. For more than two decades, Jonathon has helped startups, Fortune 100 brands, technology leaders, large regional health networks, non-profit organizations, and more, transform their businesses by turning strategy, user needs, and new technologies into valuable digital products and ...

Jul 30, 202057 min

Eggs 166: Jon Tobin - Founder and Attorney at Counsel for Creators

Today's special guest is none other than Jon Tobin. Jon is a graduate of the UCLA School of Law, where he studied intellectual property, business law, and international law under the nation’s top-ranked practitioners. While at UCLA Law he served as one of two editors-in-chief of the UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs. Before studying law he worked for years as a designer and software developer, so he knows what it means to work in creative industries and how things actually ge...

Jul 23, 202059 min

Eggs 165: Brian Gill - Computer scientist, entrepreneur, and chairman at Gillware

Welcome back to Eggs. This week’s guest is Brian Gill. Brian is a computer scientist, entrepreneur, and angel investor who currently serves as Chairman of Gillware digital forensics. A firm which provides cyber risk assessments, data recovery, incident response, and digital forensics services. He is also a co-founder of Phoenix Nuclear Labs where he has served on their board from inception to when the company spun-off SHINE Medical Technologies. Those two companies combined have raised over 100 ...

Jul 16, 20201 hr 11 min

Eggs 164: Derick Van Ness - Founder and Wealth Strategist at Big Life Financial

Derick Van Ness is a Wealth Strategist who is passionate about helping people reach their full potential. His company, Big Life Financial is focused on removing the mystery and misinformation surrounding money and financial strategy so people can live their BIGGEST LIFE! Derick believes that each person has something unique and valuable to contribute to the world, but that most people are never able to express that gift due to fear, doubt, or worry related to money. His mission is to eradicate t...

Jul 09, 202056 min

Eggs 163: Thais Gibson - Author and Founder of Personal Development School

Hey everyone and welcome back to Eggs. This week we have special guest Thais Gibson. Thais is an author, speaker and co-creator of the Personal Development School. She is extremely passionate about personal growth, the subconscious mind and connecting with others. With an MA and over 13 different certifications ranging from CBT to hypnosis, she strives to continuously learn and grow. After overcoming her own challenges with addiction in her early years, Thais is profoundly determined to educate ...

Jul 02, 20201 hr 1 min

Eggs 162: Lance Graulich - Founder and CEO of ION Franchising

Welcome back to Eggs! This week's special guest Lance Graulik. Lance is the founder & CEO of ION Franchising, an industry-leading franchise consulting and development group, that represents over 500 franchise brands & business opportunities within 90 categories. Lance helps prospective entrepreneurs find their perfect franchise at no cost to them. He also assists independent business owners in creating a franchise system. Joining us today to talk about the pros and cons of franchising, w...

Jun 25, 20201 hr 3 min

Eggs 161: Bill Coletti - Founder & CEO at Kith and Author of Critical Moments

Welcome back to Eggs. Todays guest is Bill Coletti. Bill is a reputation management, crisis communications and professional development expert, keynote speaker, Wall Street Journal Risk & Compliance panelist, and best-selling author of Critical Moments: The New Mindset of Reputation Management. He has more than 25 years of global experience managing high-stakes crises, issues management, and media relations challenges for both Fortune 500 companies and winning global political campaigns. Her...

Jun 18, 20201 hr 1 min

Eggs 160: J.C. Granger - Founder of Infinity Marketing Group

Welcome back to Eggs! This week we have special guest J.C. Granger. J.C. has more than 20 years of digital marketing experience. He launched his agency, Infinity Marketing Group, in 2011 and finds particular joy in empowering tech companies to grow while discovering exponential digital sales success. J.C is a passionate and skilled marketer who takes pride in his team’s ability to deliver a comprehensive ROI for its clients. Growing up in Silicon Valley left J.C. with a strong impression of the ...

Jun 11, 202055 min

Eggs 159: Ian Reynolds - Partner and Chief Solutions Architect at Zibtek

This weeks guest is Ian Reynolds. Ian is a partner and the Chief Solutions Architect at Zibtek, a software development consultancy focused on helping businesses build custom software. They help growth companies, enterprises, and visionary firms solve their core business objectives with agile software development. Ian has spent the better part of his career in consulting and has served in diverse industries from finance and energy, to healthcare and e-commerce. Here to talk about rapid software d...

Jun 04, 202059 min

Eggs 158: Mark Willis - Best Selling Author and Owner of Lake Growth Financial Services

Welcome back to Eggs! Today’s guest, Mark Willis, is a man on a mission to help you think differently about your money, your economy, and your future. After graduating with six figures of student loan debt he discovered a way to turn his debt into real wealth while everybody else was losing their retirement savings and home equity in 2008. Since then, Mark has helped hundreds of his clients take back control of their financial future and build their businesses with proven, tax-efficient financia...

May 28, 202059 min

Eggs 157: Susan Meier - Brand strategist and visual artist At Susan Meier Studio

Welcome back to Eggs! This week we have special guest Susan Meier. Susan is a brand strategist and visual artist at Susan Meier Studio. She is on a mission to dispel the myth that creativity and strategy are at odds in order to help business leaders electrify their work and amplify their impact. Susan has developed a unique point of view that is driven by the merger of analytical and creative thinking. She’s devised a set of processes and tools that get teams to problem-solve more creatively, he...

May 21, 202055 min

Eggs 156: Rylee Meek - Founder and CEO of the Social Dynamic Selling System

This week on Eggs we have special guest Rylee Meek. Rylee is the founder and CEO of the Social Dynamic Selling System, which turns dinner seminar marketing into a science. After responding to a small ad on Craigslist in 2009, with just $673 in his bank account but a drive for more, Rylee was introduced to a new concept of selling that radically changed his life forever. Since that time, Rylee has gone on to produce over $100 million in sales in the past 9 years. Having now perfected his model th...

May 14, 20201 hr 1 min

Eggs 155: Lori Hibma - Founder and CEO at CP Solutions and VMD Services

This week on Eggs, we have special guest Lori Hibma. Lori is the CEO and founder of CP Solutions and VMD Services—marketing firms with specialized interest in the healthcare industry. In a really valuable conversation we explored topics ranging from Lori's start in the marketing field, the myth of work/life balance, the challenges she's encountered a woman in business, and how to build successful teams. It was an awesome chat with lots of actionable insights. Tune in, then rate, like, share, and...

May 07, 20201 hr 2 min

Eggs 154: Ken "Pooch" Van Druten - Co-Founder and Director of Sound at NVDVM

This week's special guest is Ken "Pooch" Van Druten. Ken is the co-founder and director of sound at NVDVM. In laymen's terms, he's a kick-ass front of house sound engineer for some of the biggest musical groups on the planet. Ken came on the show to tell us the amazing story of his life so far coming up through the ranks of the music business to his current post as the lead sound engineer for the legendary rock group, Iron Maiden. It was an amazing show with a lot of cool stories covering his la...

Apr 30, 20201 hr 4 min

Eggs 153: Grant Aldrich - Founder and CEO of OnlineDegree.com

This week on Eggs we have special guest, Grant Aldrich. Grant founded his company, OnlineDegree.com, with a purpose-driven mission: make college more accessible and affordable for everyone. After graduating college with an overwhelming amount of debt, he was determined to change how students embark on their college education. Grant has spent his entire career working in startups with nearly 15 years of experience and 2 prior exits to a publicly traded company. He has been a board member and dono...

Apr 23, 202059 min

Eggs 152: Maddy Martin - Head of Growth and Education at Smith.ai

This weeks special guest is Maddy Martin. Maddy is the head of growth and education at Smith.ai, which provides integrated phone and web chat services for small-to-medium sized businesses including their virtual receptionist & intake service, live website chat, and Keypad cloud phone system. She has spent the last decade growing tech startups from New York to California, and has expertise in digital marketing, small business communications, lead conversion, email marketing, SEO, and event ma...

Apr 16, 202053 min
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