Erin Halper is the founder and CEO of The Upside , a company that supports solopreneurs and connects them with businesses seeking best-in-class scalable, flexible and on-demand senior-level talent. She also ran her own consulting business for 7 years, started a handbag company while working full time in NYC, and generally knows how to make sh*t happen. In this episode we discuss how she built her own successful consulting company, why she's now focused on changing the world of work, and how peop...
Aug 26, 2018•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 11
Jes Osrow ( TheRiseJourney and JOSROW ) gets sh*t done, has the energy of four people, and only puts her name on things that represent her best. She contributes with enthusiasm and a “it’s not done until it’s done right" mentality. Her goal is talk transparently about HR, recruitment, and talent development (since these topics get a bad rap). She'd like to create and join conversations as a means of being part of a fundamental change in approaches and underlying assumptions in the People Ops rea...
Aug 19, 2018•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 10
Andrew Forero is an MBA candidate at the USC Marshall School of Business and an aspiring strategy consulting professional with a background in investment research and consumer product sales. As an effective communicator with C-suite executives, he has evaluated domestic and international public company management teams’ long-term corporate strategies and capital allocation policies. His investment recommendations have led to over $40 million of investments across the cement, payment processing, ...
Aug 08, 2018•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 9
Zach Evans, my best friend since high school, is a kick-ass entrepreneur who turned his passion for piano into a six-figure business that allows him to live the life of his dreams. Zach now lives in Los Angeles and, with the extra time his lifestyle business gives him, is focusing his time and effort on breaking into the music industry - this time as an artist. In this episode we talk about how to build a business, accelerated learning techniques, developing a strong work ethic, how to break int...
Aug 01, 2018•2 hr 6 min•Ep. 8
Rob O'Reilly is a hilarious stand-up comedian (I loved his Brian Scalabrine joke ) who has performed hundreds of shows, written jokes for Jimmy Fallon and MTV's Ridiculousness , and was named one of LA Weekly's Top 10 Comedy Acts to Watch in 2012 . He's also a full-time MBA student at the USC Marshall School of Business in Los Angeles, California where he's looking to explore other career options in the entertainment industry. In this episode we talk about how he got his start in comedy, his exp...
Jul 22, 2018•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 7
Christina Calabrese is a woman on a mission to make a difference in this world - while living life to the absolute fullest. She's worked with organizations like UNICEF, the Peace Corps, Save the Children, and more to help those in need. Along the way she's traveled to 47 countries, lived all around the world, and served as in inspiration to others to take advantage of all the opportunities life presents. In this episode we talk about her experience working for a variety of organizations, how she...
Jul 17, 2018•55 min•Ep. 6
Mike McElherne is the CEO of Next Gen Talent Strategies , a company that "enables organizations to attract, hire and align talent properly to achieve growth goals, eliminate risk, reduce turnover and create a culture of accountability." During his career Mike has interviewed over 25,000 people, hired more than 4,000 people, and reviewed around 100,000 resumes. He's an experienced and knowledgeable talent professional who possesses a wealth of insights on the job search process and talent acquisi...
Jul 09, 2018•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 5
TJ Guttormsen is a communication and behavior expert from Norway who has been coaching and speaking at live events for a decade. He's one of the most highly profiled coaches in Norway and has published two books through publishers and three on his own. Throughout his career TJ has coached CEOs, award winning artists, professional athletes, entrepreneurs, students, and more to help them, as he puts it, get out of their own way. TJ also has a master's degree in pedagogy (The science of learning), ...
Jul 03, 2018•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 4
Travis Pyan is one of the managing partners of CLARKtoys.com , one of the leading online retailers of licensed sports and entertainment figures, bobbleheads, ugly sweaters, and more. He's a passionate, experienced entrepreneur, easily one of the most knowledgeable people in the sports collectible industry, and he's helped to design and bring to market hundreds of sports figures and bobbleheads in the last 15+ years. I worked with Travis at CLARKtoys for more than two and a half years before ulti...
Jun 26, 2018•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 3
After the article sharing the career story of Spud Davis, The Path to a Dream Job: Failure, Persistence, and Self-Awareness , became one of the most popular articles on Just Go Grind - I couldn't wait to get him on the podcast as well. Spud is a medical device sales representative at Medtronic, one of the world's largest medical equipment development companies in the world. His path to his current position is one helluva story and filled with useful insights. I hope you enjoy it!...
Jun 18, 2018•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 2
Eddy Barrows is a President's Associate at Caesars Entertainment in Las Vegas. He got his MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, majored in Finance at the University of Southern California, was a management consultant for five years, and has interned at places like Paramount Pictures and Discovery Communications. In this episode we cover all of that and so much more. If you've ever thought about getting an MBA, are interested in finding the right career path, or are just curious about ...
Jun 09, 2018•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 1
