Harnessing FOMO and his love of live events, Evan Samet founded Ticket Insider - a secondary ticket reselling platform established in 2013. Juggling the rigors of undergraduate academia with growing and maintaining a business can be difficult, but Samet is here to tell you it's worth it! "The best time to found a business is in college. You don't need to worry about how you are going to make a dollar tomorrow; you don't have a family to support. Take the risk!" Samet sold Ticket Insider to a com...
Apr 27, 2021•25 min•Season 8Ep. 126
Julia Pimsleur went big. After building her multimillion-dollar language learning business Little Pim, she set a goal to help 1 million women reach $1 million in revenues. Now she wants to help you get out of your own way and go big now! Learn the number 1 mindset technique needed to bust your limiting beliefs and achieve your biggest goals. Her new book, Go Big Now, launched last week. Check it out at juliapimsleur.com/gobignow
Apr 06, 2021•35 min•Season 7Ep. 125
Humans aren't designed for prolonged periods of stress. Our bodies have manifest this stress into various ailments and discomforts. Nicole Mixdorf is the founder and chief wellness office of Balance by Nature, an award-winning corporate health and wellness consulting firm. Previously a high-level executive, Nicole experienced first-hand the challenges of balancing a professional career with personal wellness. She launched Balance By Nature to help companies design wellness programs to support th...
Mar 23, 2021•28 min•Season 7Ep. 124
The most successful people in America didn't necessarily go to the best school, but they certainly worked the hardest and gave everything to be where they are. These are the entrepreneurs. Lewis Schiff helps entrepreneurs go from moonshot takers to moneymakers. He's developed several programs, workshops, and workbooks to guide entrepreneurs to true wealth and long-term success. He shares his advice on becoming successful, his love of entrepreneurs, and tells us what the top trait for success is....
Mar 16, 2021•32 min•Season 7Ep. 123
"I just want to be involved with promoting education, good quality content, making it fun, but making it stick and making kids enjoy it and really kind of stoking the fire of curiosity." Rene Gadelha is the Chancellor of VictoryXR Academy, providing fully immersive virtual reality education. XR is a combination of both Virtual and Augmented reality, making a fully encompassing experience for learning in a virtual space. Seeking something better than the boxed-in setting of a Zoom classroom, Rene...
Mar 09, 2021•26 min•Season 7Ep. 122
Build healthy habits and create positive changes in your life. Andrew Kap is the founder and CEO of Awesome Marvelous, Inc., a content publishing and marketing agency, and the best-selling author of The Last Law of Attraction Book You'll Ever Need To Read. With all of his strategies and techniques, Kap helps people separate themselves and stand out through all the noise. His book offers over 18+ ways to manifest the life you want to live so there's something for everyone. Kap put these technique...
Mar 02, 2021•25 min•Season 7Ep. 121
With 500+ keynotes in 33+ countries, two best-selling books, and 4 world records, Ryan Avery is THE keynote speaker. He's an expert on communication skills and shows leader and their teams how to accelerate their achievement, maximize their potential, and, as his trademark teaching states, go from A to THE in their industry. In this episode, Ryan talks with Jon about making your perfect day a reality, how communication will never change, and the trends he sees in THE leaders of today. Ryan becam...
Feb 23, 2021•27 min•Season 7Ep. 120
Have you grown out of your job? Angela Yeh specializes in strategic career placements and evolutions, both for companies filling a role and for individuals looking to change their career trajectory. Angela is on both sides of the fence in the creative industry, helping companies understand how to identify and attract the right talent to grow their business and culture, but also coaching individuals on how to take their careers to the next level and evolve both personally and professionally. She ...
Feb 16, 2021•27 min•Season 7Ep. 119
Howard Shore is a serial entrepreneur who bought and sold his first company by the age of 21. After selling his first business and attending college, Shore went on to work his way up in a few prominent fortune 500 companies. He tired of the corporate scene and decided to return to his entrepreneurial roots. Shore has mentored executives and entrepreneurs of all sizes personally and professionally. He’s also best selling author of Your Business is a Leaky Bucket and his most recent book, Leadersh...
Feb 09, 2021•24 min•Season 7Ep. 118
Chris Yonker is a recovering high achiever. After years in sales for 3M, Yonker was left unfulfilled. There had to be more to life than a job. Now he and his team work with high achievers like executives, entrepreneurs, and athletes to expand their consciousness and capacity for fulfillment. Chris Yonker is a vision alchemist, NLP practitioner, author of Soul Intention, and speaker. Learn more about Chris Yonker. You only have one life. Design it your way. Get Chris's free vision workbook here. ...
Feb 02, 2021•24 min•Season 7Ep. 117
Prospects falling through the cracks? Losing fantastic employees and talent? You need to expand your leadership team. But how? This is Mike Goldman's specialty - expanding and developing your leadership team so that your organization can grow and scale to the next level. Mike Goldman has been a leadership team coach and consultant for over 30 years. He's helped dozens of businesses of all sizes scale by developing their leadership teams. Mike has recently published his second book, titled Breakt...
Jan 26, 2021•25 min•Season 7Ep. 116
We are living in a time of extreme disruption, there's no denying it. In this episode, we hear from a woman who has centered her life around extremes: Ebony Smith. She specializes in training and coaching in Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous (V.U.C.A.) work environments. Previously, Smith achieved a Masters in operational safety, worked for BP and Sunoco, before pivoting her career to leadership. Ebony Smith talks with Jon Tota about the importance of creating a coaching culture, how V...
Jan 19, 2021•24 min•Season 7Ep. 115
Scott Miller is Franklin Covey's executive vice president of thought leadership and the best-selling author of "Management Mess to Leadership Success," which is the first book in the multi-volume Mess to Success series. He's also the co-author of another recent bestseller: Everyone Deserves a Great Manager. Scott is the host of the highest subscribed-to weekly leadership podcast show on the air right now, Franklin Covey On Leadership with Scott Miller podcast show. In this episode Scott talks wi...
Jan 12, 2021•33 min•Season 1Ep. 114
Anthony Vaughan is the host of the popular E1B2 podcast show, a strategic advisor to multiple companies, and he recently launched the E1B2 Collective, where his team is focused on helping startups, improve their employee experience and put their people first by launching people operations divisions. Vaughan joins Jon Tota to discuss the post-COVID working world, the focus on a return to work, a new working normal, and how to make the employee experience even better than before. Learn more about ...
Dec 22, 2020•31 min•Season 7Ep. 113
Neal Taparia might have saved you in high school or college when you needed to quickly format the citations on your term paper. While in high school in 2001, Neal Taparia and his friend created EasyBib to make citing their sources well... easier. After gaining popularity, Taparia and his partner sold EasyBib to Chegg (another lifesaver) and stayed on to help Chegg scale their business operations and the company 10x. Taparia then founded SOTA Partners where they incubate new businesses and invest...
Dec 15, 2020•26 min•Season 7Ep. 112
Trent Howell is the vice-president of marketing at eLearning Brothers and has over 25 years of experience in information technology and the training industry specifically. But he's not here to talk about that - Trent is here to talk board games! Trent's family love board games so much they have a day of the week dedicated to playing them. They decided to turn their love of board games into a knowledgebase for everyone else with The Board Game Family ( theboardgamefamily.com ). They rate and revi...
Dec 08, 2020•24 min•Season 7Ep. 111
Faith Jones is back with a new book and valuable insight into human rights and the intersection of morality and legality. Faith's new five circle framework, called I Own Me, is a result of the first 22 years of her life spent within a religious cult called The Family. You own the rights to your own body. She encourages us to find the true power in owning yourself. This framework applies to every facet of daily life. Whether someone is harassing you at the gym or someone is defaulting on your con...
Dec 01, 2020•30 min•Season 7Ep. 110
Ryan Mason is a savvy entrepreneur and author who is making waves as one of Yahoo's top 12 entrepreneurs to watch in 2020. He's the founder and CEO of Luxe Brand, a leading luxury shoelace provider featured on Good Morning America, the NFL, and with over 30 athletes and celebrities. Ryan also founded and runs Bizbuzz Digital, an award-winning marketing automation software company. And he just authored his first book called The Digital Playbook where he shares proven processes to increase your vi...
Nov 24, 2020•28 min•Season 6Ep. 109
Tom Frank is a lifelong culture engineer who works to help local and national companies create a better world for their employees - all by asking employees what they want! Previously Frank co-founded the popular restaurant chain PF Chang's as part of the original development team and helped develop the foundation to grow into a global chain. For the past 15 years, Tom has served as the culture engineer and modern elder at Round World Management, where they're developing leaders in both the hospi...
Nov 17, 2020•30 min•Season 6Ep. 108
Big Tech Companies are making money off of your personal data, why shouldn't you? Erik Rind is the founder and CEO of ImagineBC, where they're committed to helping individuals secure their personal data online and control when to share that information as well as their creative content and get paid for it. Think of Youtube but with the security of blockchain and more opportunities to profit from your personal data or creative content. Erik is a seasoned entrepreneur and HR technology executive w...
Nov 10, 2020•27 min•Season 1Ep. 107
As a musician-turned-learning-designer, Adam Larson brings his critical eye for entertainment to eLearning and instructional design at the Institute for Management Accountants (IMA). Striving to create engaging learning and events, Larson embraces chaos, learns from his mistakes, and keeps improving. You can catch Adam making moments for guests to tell their stories on the Count Me In Podcast and delivering just-in-time learning that is worth your time. In this episode, Larson discusses the keys...
Nov 03, 2020•28 min•Season 6Ep. 106
John Blackmon created an LMS and authoring tool before the world even knew what those were. Founder of LMS Trivantis and authoring tools Lectora and Cenario VR, Blackmon has spent his entire career focused on one principle: you shouldn't have to be a technologist to use technology. In this episode, John discusses how he started Trivantis, Lectora, and Cenario VR; the acquisition by eLearning Brothers; how virtual reality is the future of elearning; & his prediction on what it will take for V...
Oct 27, 2020•29 min•Season 6Ep. 104
Christa Peters is a strategic learning and development director. She has worked with companies to scale their training programs and build a learning program and culture where one did not exist before. In this episode, Christa talks with Jon about what it’s like to build a training program from the ground up, convincing leadership that investing in e-learning is beneficial; the challenges of a fully remote program vs an in-person one; the benefits of gamification; and her training content wishlis...
Oct 20, 2020•27 min•Season 6Ep. 104
Your startup has a 50/50 chance of getting to 5 years… and the odds only get worse the longer you stay in business. Bill Flynn takes the guesswork out of growth. With more than 30 years of experience working for and advising hundreds of companies, Bill Flynn has had 5 successful outcomes, two IPOs, and seven acquisitions (including a 2008 turnaround!). He is the guy you want on your team while building your business! In this episode, Bill discusses his advice for startups, strategies for post-st...
Oct 13, 2020•27 min•Season 6Ep. 103
Dr. Christian Weibell is the creator of the Principles-Of-Learning Framework, laying out the seven principles on which all learning is based. Weibell sits down with Jon to talk Computer Science education before the dot com bubble, getting his PhD in Instructional Psychology, developing effective learning experiences, and creating good UX and UI for learning environments. Find out more at principles-of-learning.com Sponsored by eLearning Brothers: Visit www.elearningbrothers.com...
Oct 06, 2020•31 min•Season 6Ep. 102
The Iron Cowboy is back! James Lawrence joins Jon Tota on the podcast to talk about the transition to remote work, bringing the same passion and energy to virtual conferences, and what determination and hard work look like. Since he's last been on the show, Lawrence has starred in TWO Amazon Prime Originals: Iron Cowboy | The Story of the 50-50-50 and World's Toughest Race: Eco-Challenge Fiji (adventure racing from the creator of Survivor!). Key Take-Aways: You won't know what you love until you...
Sep 29, 2020•24 min•Season 6Ep. 101
What can you do with a passion for technology and a background in social science to make an impact on the world? Become a futurist! At least that’s what Trond Undheim did. Futurism isn’t about predicting exactly, but about project long term potential outcomes and deciding what kind of future we want to optimize for. Futurism and futuristic thinking have a place in business, politics, government, and medicine. Making predictions and optimizing for the future are Trond’s specialties. He’s an inter...
Sep 24, 2020•34 min•Season 6Ep. 100
Shay Lynch is the founder of Future State with a mission to help Business Owners, Directors, Department Managers, and their teams solve their biggest problems so they can focus on what is important to them: their customers. Shay talks scaling your business without scaling your costs, systems thinking, helping businesses achieve their potential, and the power of remote operations. www.futurestate.ie https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaylynch/...
Sep 15, 2020•33 min•Season 6Ep. 99
Kate DeGon is in the business of change. She is the founder of ChangeSync - a software that helps organizations of all sizes implement and track organizational change. Change can be intimidating if you don't have the right tools in your kit. Her inspiration for ChangeSync came from her work at Phoenix University. Trying to keep up with the constant organizational change without a thorough tool was impossible, so Kate set out to fix it. Learn about executing successful organizational change from ...
Sep 08, 2020•34 min•Season 6Ep. 98
John A. Dues is the director of the School Performance Institute, the learning and improvement arm of United Schools Network (USN), and the Chief Learning Officer of USN, a network of public charter schools in Columbus, Ohio. John is dedicated to closing the achievement gap in urban areas, and under his leadership, USN schools are some of the highest performing urban schools both across Ohio and nation-wide. Now heading up The School Performance Institute, John is using Improvement Science to he...
Sep 01, 2020•33 min•Season 6Ep. 97
