When Jonathan Baktari was arguably at the peak of his medical career as a triple board-certified physician, he saw an opportunity to try something new. Taking everything he’d learned as a doctor, medical director, and educator, he launched two businesses—a vaccine clinic and a drug-testing enterprise—that are driven by technology and designed for fast, customer-centric service. Now, as those businesses grow, he’s continuing to write his second career chapter as a health care CEO. Dr. Baktari’s c...
Sep 07, 2021•50 min•Ep. 402
Welcome to the Fall 2021 season of PYP. Let's talk about leadership as we build, invent, explore, and move our lives forward. Ready to do something bigger with your ideas? Tired of junk thinking clogging up your social feeds? Join me for THE WRITE TO GROW™ COLLECTIVE 2021 ** Register Today = = = = = The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience m...
Sep 01, 2021•7 min•Ep. 401
It's a special day here at PYP. Celebrate with me as I raise a glass to the 400th episode of the Play Your Position Podcast and why a podcast could be in your future! Cheers! = = = = = Ready to do something bigger with your ideas? ** Register Today for THE WRITE TO GROW™ COLLECTIVE 2021** ***Early Bird Pricing available now through August 15, 2021*** = = = = = The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, r...
Aug 01, 2021•15 min•Ep. 400
Calvin Brown is a tech founder with experience managing global teams and multi-million dollar software deliverables. His software architecture background, coding capabilities, and keen understanding of the entire process help inform his mindful but competitive approach. Calvin is fueled by his passion for understanding the nuances of the technical challenges businesses face across all industries. He considers himself a ‘forever student,’ eager to build on his hands-on technical foundation by arc...
Jul 30, 2021•46 min•Ep. 399
When the time comes to say goodbye, write it in a letter. = = = = = Ready to do something bigger with your ideas? ** Register Today for THE WRITE TO GROW™ COLLECTIVE 2021** ***Early Bird Pricing available now through August 15, 2021*** = = = = = The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your bus...
Jul 28, 2021•10 min•Ep. 398
Rich Kasparian is the founder of Garden City Financial Group Inc. Rich and his firm work passionately with individuals, families, and businesses to plan, manage, and pursue their financial goals with confidence. Rich founded the firm in 2009 because he knew there was a need for sound, personalized, and objective advice in the confusing world of financial planning that sometimes seems to lack common sense. He is passionate about helping business owners and other individuals protect their investme...
Jul 26, 2021•45 min•Ep. 397
Many people go into business with their eyes on their eventual exit. Today's guest Jessica Fialkovich takes us inside the world of business valuations, giving us insights about what's involved, what's not, and when to know it's time to move on. Jessica became a first-time entrepreneur at the age of 25 and since has been able to successfully establish, develop and sell multiple small businesses in a number of different industries. In the last eight years, Jessica has been able to build her busine...
Jul 23, 2021•37 min•Ep. 396
You're not alone if you're struggling to let go of the you you used to be. Episode 393 = = = = = Ready to do something bigger with your ideas? ** Register Today for THE WRITE TO GROW™ COLLECTIVE 2021** ***Early Bird Pricing available now through August 15, 2021*** = = = = = The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and L...
Jul 21, 2021•18 min•Ep. 395
It's what everyone wants. More happiness. More success. Today's guest, business psychologist Dr. Roger Hall, shares ways of getting both. He has one trick: training leaders to MONITOR and MANAGE their thinking. Successful people are first and foremost disciplined thinkers. Yogi Berra was right. He said, “Ninety percent of baseball is mental. The other half is physical.” He may not have been great at math, but he was right about successful people. Successful, happy people discipline their thought...
Jul 17, 2021•39 min•Ep. 394
Go ahead. The rest of your life is waiting. = = = = = Ready to do something bigger with your ideas? ** Register Today for THE WRITE TO GROW™ COLLECTIVE 2021** ***Early Bird Pricing available now through August 15, 2021*** = = = = = The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career,...
Jul 14, 2021•12 min•Ep. 393
Erin Fults is a strategist, coach, implementer, and the founder of Acorn Studio, a business coaching, and marketing consultancy. Erin passionately believes that healthy, sustainable small businesses can change the world. She helps business owners figure out the next right step to move their business forward and implement simple frameworks that maximize revenue and productivity. As a Storybrand Certified Guide and a Business Made Simple Certified Coach, Erin draws on her background in photography...
Jul 10, 2021•41 min•Ep. 392
Most people are like most people yet we work so hard not to be. = = = = = The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career, side hustle, or passion. We always appreciate your 5-star rating and review of the show. Thank you for helping us get the word out about PYP! Here are a few ...
Jul 06, 2021•13 min•Ep. 391
Think SEO is a thing of the past? Think again! Today's guest John Vuong takes us inside the world of SEO and why it matters more than ever and how you can make it work for you without knowing all the backend tech stuff. John Vuong is the owner and founder of Local SEO Search. He helps small and medium-sized businesses rank on Google and dominate their local market. John puts a strong emphasis on relationships and treats his client's like family, wanting to not only help them rank but to help the...
Jun 29, 2021•40 min•Ep. 390
Get inside the mind of an experienced marketer to learn what works, what doesn't, and why adopting a marketing mindset can transform your business or career. Today's guest Nedra Rezinas offers excellent tips and advice on getting the most out of your marketing efforts. Nedra Rezinas is a marketing coach with 20+ years of business experience, including working with over 200 businesses on their websites and marketing decisions. She has worked in a variety of roles such as business owner, web desig...
Jun 24, 2021•41 min•Ep. 389
How childhood games shape our attitudes and set us up for persistent failure or success. = = = = = The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career, side hustle, or passion. We always appreciate your 5-star rating and review of the show. Thank you for helping us get the word out a...
Jun 15, 2021•15 min•Ep. 388
Curtis May is the creator and owner of Practical Wealth Advisors (PWA) and host of The Practical Wealth Show Podcast. The primary focus of his financial planning firm is to help individuals and families become financially free by following the principles of wealth creation that have endured for centuries around the world. As the host of his popular podcast, The Practical Wealth Show, and in his individual meetings with clients, Curtis teaches people that their number one financial asset is their...
Jun 10, 2021•43 min•Ep. 387
Which one is better for achieving success? = = = = = The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career, side hustle, or passion. We always appreciate your 5-star rating and review of the show. Thank you for helping us get the word out about PYP! Here are a few ways I can help you: ...
Jun 08, 2021•19 min•Ep. 386
Janice Schacter Lintz is a passionate, accomplished hearing loss consultant and advocate. She is well known and respected for her ability to assess situations, identify areas for improvement, recommend solutions, and implement programs that help organizations improve customer service and grow profits. A culture lover, Janice felt her heart sink whenever her daughter – diagnosed with hearing loss at 2 ½ – struggled to understand museum guides and actors on stage, even with hearing aids. Not one t...
Jun 03, 2021•51 min•Ep. 385
Jonathon Hensley is 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 services. Jonathon writes and speaks about his experie...
May 27, 2021•40 min•Ep. 384
Over the last 30 years, Tracy Goodwin has had the honor of transforming the lives of hundreds of 7 figure entrepreneurs, executives, business professionals, and celebrities simply by shifting sounds that are sending the wrong message out of their voice. Tracy’s interest in how voices are subconsciously perceived and the effect that can have on a person’s life and success started when she was a child. She was raised in a family where children were to be seen and not heard. She wasn’t really allow...
May 20, 2021•54 min•Ep. 383
Beyond the cap and gown. = = = = = The Write to Grow™ Writing Workshop teaches you how to write better for your business, your professional life, yourself. Registration for the spring cohort is now open. Learn more here. = = = = = The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career, ...
May 17, 2021•12 min•Ep. 382
Neville Billimoria is an award-winning communications executive who also teaches martial arts, yoga, and meditation on the UC San Diego campus (which he's been doing for 38 years!). He is a frequent speaker on topics including brand as culture, purpose-driven leadership, social capital optimization, and civic engagement. Neville writes a weekly blog over at Soul Food Friday intended to feed, grow and energize your soul. I think you are going to love Neville's energy and enthusiasm as much as I d...
May 11, 2021•52 min•Ep. 381
They may not look like the ones of old, but rest assured -- Gate Keepers are alive and well. = = = = = Write to Grow™ is a writing workshop for independent business owners and solopreneurs who want to use writing more effectively to grow their businesses. Registration for the spring cohort is now open. Learn more here. = = = = = The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversation...
May 06, 2021•19 min•Ep. 380
Over the past 25 years, Chuck Cooper has been involved at the ownership level with a number of companies across several different industries, but of all his work-related accomplishments, one stands above the rest. Chuck loves partnering with companies to develop their HR strategies. For him, the greatest reward is seeing clients achieve greater levels of success. Chuck’s passion for helping to create better companies led him to found WhiteWater Consulting in March of 2019. WhiteWater Consulting ...
Apr 29, 2021•41 min•Ep. 379
Amanda Clements is a Certified Professional Coach (CPC) who specializes in teaching and training the mental aspects of sports. She helps athletes perform under pressure, overcome disappointments, handle stress, and increase emotional intelligence. Her "whole life" approach can also help those who feel they are lacking direction, purpose, motivation, organization, passion and/or life balance. She has experience working with a wide range of age groups and uses mental performance techniques to help...
Apr 25, 2021•43 min•Ep. 378
How often and why you choose to travel there is up to you. Write to Grow™ is a writing workshop for independent business owners and solopreneurs who want to use writing more effectively to grow their businesses. Registration for the spring cohort is now open. Learn more here. = = = = = The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, e...
Apr 19, 2021•19 min•Ep. 377
Mary Mosham is an award-winning leadership coach, mindfulness teacher, and author. She specializes in leadership, team, and personal development, yoga and meditation, and corporate mindfulness. With over 20 years’ experience in corporate change consulting and management at Cisco and Fortune 100 companies, she pioneered innovative people development solutions and led global change efforts that enhanced organization, leadership, and team performance. Mary earned a master’s degree in organization d...
Apr 15, 2021•44 min•Ep. 376
As a Master Connector, Kimberly Crowe gets entrepreneurs the stages and connections they need to stop being overlooked, and massively grow their revenue and reach. Kimberly is an award-winning international inspirational public speaker, best-selling author, audiobook producer, and six-time entrepreneur. Kimberly is the founder of Entrepreneurs Rocket Fuel, an active community of Entrepreneurs, looking to contribute, connect, and grow with other entrepreneurs. Kimberly is also the mother of two a...
Apr 09, 2021•26 min•Ep. 375
It's a new month here at PYP with a new theme: attitude. What exactly is your attitude and what does crying have to do with it? I answer these questions plus so much more explore in today's episode of the Play Your Position Podcast. = = = = = The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your busine...
Apr 07, 2021•16 min•Ep. 374
This episode is dedicated to Dr. John "Jack" Cooper May 14, 1932 - March 29, 2021 A seasoned public relations professional, Jenna Cooper, APR is Founder/President at The C3 Collective. Her nose for news has transplanted her in television broadcast markets across the country including Boise, Austin, Atlanta, and Seattle. Cooper has successfully woven her award-winning journalism skills together with high-profile public relations and communications positions, serving as a strategist and front-line...
Apr 01, 2021•42 min•Ep. 373
