Tony Whatley became known as “The Side Hustle Millionaire” after his book with the same title became a #1 best-seller on Amazon. But, this book title isn’t just fiction; it is based on his actual story. You see, Tony once led a successful corporate career for over 25 years, but that is less interesting than the side-businesses that he created, which generated millions in profit. AS A SIDE HUSTLE!!B Today, Tony helps OTHERS with THEIR start ups and teaches exactly how to create Everything from No...
Jun 06, 2019•45 min
As founder + CEO of The Balanced Life, Robin Long provides workouts and resources for busy women who struggle to find time to exercise, who desperately want to love their bodies again, and are looking for an exercise plan that will work for the long-haul. Robin is also passionate about helping women transform their relationship with exercise and healthy living by choosing "grace over guilt" and finding a balance that feels like FREEDOM. Robin Long is a mother of 4 and the creator of the very pop...
Jun 03, 2019•31 min•Ep. 70
Pauline's career as a personal trainer caught the attention of the producers for the Nordic version of “Biggest Loser.” She was the trainer, diet coach, and the leader for the Swedish team, leading her team and country to victory in the Biggest Loser show. Pauline is as fit as they come. She is a walking billboard for fitness today. BUT That is not where she started. Born in Sweden with a challenging self image around control, she battled anorexia and then the other extreme of unhealthy weight g...
May 30, 2019•47 min
Today on Leveling Up I sit-down with my friend JJ Virgin! If you don't know who she is, you must have been living under a rock. If you know anytime about fitness, nutrition, health & wellness, she is the go to person. She is a 4 time New York Times Best Selling Author and so much more. JJ Virgin is one of the nation's foremost fitness and nutrition experts, an accomplished public speaker and media personality. Her 25 years in the health and fitness industry, the past 10 in holistic nutrition...
May 27, 2019•53 min
Dropping out of school at 14 in Switzerland, Andres lived a life on the streets flooded with gangs, alcohol and fighting. By 20, he had collected several near-death experiences and decide to leave and start over on the beaches of Phuket. He quickly became homeless living on the beaches with one bag and two towels. Embarrassed to ask his parents for help, he asked friends for money to get back on his feet, but none could help; except one. A FRIEND, that friend, sent a book instead of money. It wa...
May 23, 2019•29 min•Ep. 74
Sandra Joseph is a history-making Broadway star, a #1 international bestselling author, and a keynote speaker. Her legendary run as Christine Daaé in The Phantom of the Opera spanned ten years and more than 1,300 performances, and earned her the record as the longest-running leading lady in the longest-running Broadway show of all time. She has been seen on numerous national broadcasts, including The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, The Today Show, Dateline, The Early Show, The View, and Oprah: Where Ar...
May 20, 2019•49 min•Ep. 73
As a former felon and drug addict, Doug Bopst history is a distant memory. He chose to use his time locked up to beat his demons and reinvent himself. Working out and learning how to eat right from his cell mate, he transformed while in prison. He is now on a mission to help others integrate the lessons he learned. He’s been featured nationally in media outlets such as the Today Show, Men's Health, Goalcast, Cheddar, Dr Drew, Thrive Global, One37pm, Brobible and others. Now, author of “Faith Fam...
May 16, 2019•47 min
You guys know me as a top fitness influencer turned high performance coach. What you may not know is my mindset work, my business side, and my journey of how I got to where I am today. So, today on leveling up I wanted to switch it up a little bit so you can get to know me a little more on a deeper level. Especially with my new book Aging in Reverse coming out soon. I've invited my friend Justin Schenck; the host of the Growth Now Movement to interview me on the 3 questions that I get asked all ...
May 13, 2019•38 min
After an amazing twenty year career with Oprah Winfrey Sheri Salatas action packed days as Executive Producer of The Oprah Winfrey show were chronicled in the acclaimed docuseries Season 25: Oprah Behind the Scenes. Sheri also served as Co-President of Harpo Studios and OWN. But now in her 50’s, Sheri was ready to fully live a present life! She is now the cofounder of thepillarlife.com and co host of the podcast The Sheri + Nancy Show. She is also the author of a powerful book “The Beautiful No”...
May 09, 2019•44 min
Zhena Muzyka is known as an award-winning, purpose-driven social entrepreneur, teacher, author, executive coach, public speaker, and former publisher. But what you may not know about her is she is PASSIONATE about SERVING others and being an activist for women's rights in developing companies. She is also the enrolling visionary behind Fair Trade teas being in the big box stores! As an immigrant of a family of gypsies, she has been on a mission to SERVE since she was a little girl. When at 25 sh...
May 06, 2019•40 min
Jennifer Gilbert was violently attacked in the worst imaginable ways when she was just 22 years old Her PAIN turned into PURPOSE as she decided to live her life surrounded by joy and celebration instead of fear and a place of victim and blame. What started as a passion and healing quest turned into transformative, self-sustaining company. But Jennifer did not stop there. Jennifer revolutionized the event planning world working with clients such as Google, Oprah Winfrey, the YMCA, the American Re...
May 02, 2019•1 hr 3 min
Originally a highschool dropout raised by a single mom who held three jobs, Allyson's environment was NOT set up to win. BUT What Allyson Byrd did have working for her? She BELIEVED. She BELIEVED she “could accomplish anything” and her mother believed she could too. Her journey is nothing short of fascinating. Today Allyson known as the “Profit Accelerator™,” is the first and only small business owner to create an international production house for thought leaders to be executive produced in pub...
Apr 29, 2019•46 min
Liana Werner-Gray is a sought-after speaker and advocate for natural healing using a healthy diet and lifestyle. After healing herself of many negative health conditions including a pre-cancerous tumor, digestive issues and disorderly eating through embracing a natural lifestyle, Werner-Gray began lecturing and teaching about The Earth Diet internationally. Through her company and book, The Earth Diet: Your Complete Guide to Living Using Earth's Natural Ingredients , Liana has helped thousands o...
Apr 25, 2019•25 min•Ep. 66
Michelle Norris survived the unimaginable. The TRAGIC loss of her young daughter right before her 23rd birthday. To add injury to the pain, it was Mother's Day weekend. Michelle knows all to well what it’s like to level up after an overwhelming loss. Instead of wallowing in self-pity, and blame, she used tragedy as a catalyst for her to “put up or shut up”, and follow through with her vision of leaving the economic status quo behind, and becoming a self- made entrepreneur. All this, at the pit o...
Apr 22, 2019•42 min
Andy Dane Carter has said MANY times that “Its not how much money you MAKE its how much money you KEEP” Andy is passionate about people and real estate. He am committed to helping people thrive in their businesses and investment power so they can be in alignment with their SUCCESS mindset. His UNLOCK NOW program is a platform to support your MINDSET with knowledge that gains leverage in your true potential for investing in your legacy. Andy is a STAND for a financially free life. AND he should k...
Apr 18, 2019•38 min•Ep. 64
Forbes magazine calls Steve Sims the MODERN DAY WIZARD OF OZ and after chatting with him for this episode, I feel they NAILED it with that name! You see, Steve grew up in London and came from very humble beginnings. Growing up in the 80’s , when entrepreneurship was frowned upon, he was a bricklayer by trade just like his dad and just like his grandfather. This is all he knew, and was taught to be. When it hit him one day that THIS was going to be his whole life, he decided to SHIFT and create e...
Apr 15, 2019•48 min•Ep. 63
Once an overweight, unmotivated Realtor, Susan Hyatt described herself as a couch potato. You would not know it now because today she is a Master Certified Life and Business Coach who specializes in helping women get more of whatever they want—whether it’s more money, more media recognition, more pleasure, more passion, or more time to pursue meaningful goals. She is now the author of TWO books, Create Your Own Luck and BARE. Her work has been featured in places like O: The Oprah Magazine, Woman...
Apr 11, 2019•33 min
Zion Kim came from very humble beginnings. He was poor as a child, bullied as a teen and faced depression for YEARS. After several near death experiences including falling asleep at the wheel while driving, and then and almost drinking himself to death over a broken heart he was LOST. Interestingly, GAMING was a passion to him and became a lesson in leadership! It is incredible that even after being kicked out of business school his freshman year of college, TODAY, Zion Kim is the brilliant visi...
Apr 08, 2019•49 min
Stacy Tuschl is an entrepreneur, author, speaker, philanthropist and the creator of She’s Building Her Empire where she helps women entrepreneurs and business owners unapologetically be themselves and create a legacy they can be proud of. Through her modern end-to-end process, she helps purpose-driven women entrepreneurs break through their challenges, operate at their highest potential and create self-sustaining businesses- without sacrificing their family. Because starting, launching and scali...
Apr 04, 2019•34 min
Growing up in a poverty all around in the middle of violence and chaos Maja did not have the fairy tale childhood or family life. With a mom in and out of prison and a dad out of the picture, Maja used to count down the days until she would be old enough to leave. She describes feeling like she was in the wrong family and that her “real family” was going to come find her one day. Fortunately, Maja had an uncle, just 10 years older than her that became her biggest fan. That uncle was her guide an...
Apr 01, 2019•52 min
Jennifer Shultz was just 47 years old when she started feeling chest and back pains. Her daughter, insisted taking her to the ER. Jennifer was in denial that anything was actually “wrong” with her and was SURE that the ER would send her right back home. She was wrong. You see, the EKG that the ER ran for her? Well, it had some some life changing information. Jennifer, who was in GREAT SHAPE, did not drink, nor smoke, had just had a heart attack! A heart attack at 47. WHY was the next question? W...
Mar 28, 2019•45 min
Scott Oldford has been an entrepreneur since he was 7 years old! He started selling eggs out of his parents garage. By the age of 9, he learned how to program computers and by the time he was 13, he had a team across the world. By 16, he was discovered by “the media” and won a bunch of awards. Business came naturally to him DESPITE being really poor in school. He was overweight, not liked by his peers and he enjoyed the “virtual” world more than the “real” world Between the ages of 16-21, he sta...
Mar 25, 2019•49 min
Todd Durkin works with a high-profile clientele and elite professional athletes including NFL MVPs, Super Bowl Champions, Olympic and X-Game Gold Medalists, and many other champion athletes. He is a 2X Personal Trainer of the Year and named as one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Health & Fitness for the past four years. And, he is a life coach to some of the most successful CEOs and leaders in the world. But, most of all, Todd is a friend who has PERSONALLY impacted my life! I have...
Mar 21, 2019•53 min
Terri Murphy will be 51 this August. She is bubbly, glowing, has a contagious energy about her and is extremely fit. By looking at her you would assume that she is genetically blessed! However, when I met Terri Murphy a few years ago, she was was overweight, depressed, low on energy and in her own words, hated herself. She had “tried everything” , yo yo dieted constantly and continually would lose faith in getting and staying healthy. As I talk with her today, she is a totally different person t...
Mar 18, 2019•32 min
Standing 5 feet tall and 177 lbs, Nicole was depressed, overweight, unhealthy and had lost her confidence and purpose. While viewing a picture of herself on vacation she had a defining moment. She didn’t recognize the person she had become. Nicole DECIDED she had ENOUGH and it was time to change. She Declared it, Cleared her past beliefs around weight, visualized who she wanted to step into and COMMITTED to the change. Today, Nicole is a new person. Dropping FIVE sizes and over 40 lbs, she is no...
Mar 14, 2019•50 min
I first learned of Isabel Price and Beyond diet years ago when the company and her face seemed to be EVERYWHERE on the internet! Isabel D. Price is the co-founder and creator of the wildly successful internet-based nutrition program Beyond Diet which is in its 10th year having sold over 2 million programs to people all over the world. I met Isabel in person about a year ago and got to know the authentic human behind the brand. As Isabels small group coach in a leadership program she was in, I ha...
Mar 11, 2019•32 min
For years, Jenna Ballard Phillips did not believe she was worthy of fairytale love, career success or financial abundance. Why would she have believed that? Although she had celebrity clients like Ben Stiller, Katy Perry and others, her low self esteem was blocking everything that mattered. Things had to get really BAD many times in her life before her true light started to shine. A rape, a head injury, brain damage, a coma, a life threatening disease diagnosis, and more… Things happen FOR us, a...
Mar 07, 2019•43 min
Ricky Carruth is not like any other ultra successful entrepreneur I have interviewed. There is a HUGE Calm Focus, sense of neutrality and faith about him that is evident throughout our conversation. Growing up in a hard working family filled with manual labor, Ricky was roofing with his father from about age 12 until he was 20 years old. When he got his real estate license in 2002, by age 23 he was a self-made millionaire, that is, until the market crashed. Ricky found himself bankrupt at the ag...
Mar 04, 2019•55 min
Mega Lifestyle Brand Chalene Johnson has built a successful 8 figure empire, top ranked podcast , and so much more but it was never as easy as it can appear online! What worked for Chalene was that she was taught at a young age to ask questions, listen and figure things out and she learned to be a relentless at finding answers. What didn’t work was being “stressed” and feeling “inauthentic” at times. What I love MOST about Chalene is that she is a master at teaching whatever she is learning in h...
Feb 28, 2019•58 min
At 22 years old, Erin gave birth to a stillborn baby. She describes sitting in a room staring at the tragedy before her with a loss for words. It was In those moments, that she wanted to know the purpose of life. She realized he (the baby that laid before her) wasn’t his body. She noticed him as a spiritual being. She didn’t know this then, but her life was just beginning to truly have meaning. Over the coming years, Erin came to know that what you once triumph over is our soul contract and it i...
Feb 25, 2019•35 min
