Chris Larsen is the founder and Principal of Next-Level Income. Since “retiring” after 18 years in the medical device industry, he dedicates his time to helping others become financially independent through education and investment opportunities. Chris has been investing in and managing real estate for over 20 years. While completing his degree in Biomechanical Engineering and M.B.A. in Finance at Virginia Tech, he bought his first single-family rental at age 21. Chris expanded into development,...
Mar 20, 2023•49 min•Ep. 463
In today's episode, I walk you through a simple exercise that can have a profound effect on where your life goes next. = = = = = My latest book, The Far Unlit Unknown -- will be launching again on March 20th! Keep an eye open for the official announcement on social: @maryloukayser (Instagram) https://www.linkedin.com/in/mlkayser/ (LinkedIn) Here are three more ways I can help you: Share this episode with one person who could use a boost of inspiration and positivity today. Bring me in to speak a...
Mar 15, 2023•17 min•Ep. 462
Stephanie Nivinskus is the CEO of SizzleForce Marketing, a Fractional CMO agency that services scaling companies. Since 1995 she’s been developing brand-building marketing campaigns that have been used by companies including Starbucks, Quiksilver, The National Football League and Cox Communications along with thousands of privately- owned companies. Stephanie has written for Forbes and Entrepreneur magazines and is the author of the international #1 best-seller, Absolutely Unforgettable: The Ent...
Mar 07, 2023•55 min•Ep. 461
Mark Yegge, the Wealth Architect, has spent his entire life learning and teaching people about wealth and the importance of a success mindset. He started investing when he was 12 – and made enough to buy his first car at 16. Mark started, and later sold, his Wall Street software company - the company that ushered in after-hours trading. He then “retired” at the age of 39, but not before growing the company from nothing to a $30-million dollar enterprise. Along the way, he garnered awards as Smal...
Mar 02, 2023•59 min•Ep. 460
Today's audible is all about artificial intelligence (AI) and the growing role it's playing in how we live and work. Ultimately, we each have to ask ourselves, is our brand, our reputation, the kind of work that we do worth turning over to robots? Are we destined to become a copy of a copy of a copy? = = = = = My latest book, The Far Unlit Unknown -- is available now! Grab your copy here Here are three more ways I can help you: Share this episode with one person who could use a boost of inspirat...
Feb 26, 2023•22 min•Ep. 459
With a Ph.D. in Business Psychology, Dr. Jean is one of the country’s top business consultants, a top-rated speaker, a world-class business performance coach and the creator of Caveman Brain®. Dr. Jean developed The Caveman Brain® Business Growth System to help individuals, teams, and companies who want to accelerate their business growth. This groundbreaking business growth system is the only one that uses skill set, mindset and tool kits to specifically align an individual, a team, and a compa...
Feb 21, 2023•56 min•Ep. 458
Rob Commodari helps people find the path to reach their fullest potential. He discovered his own path in 1990, when he realized that speech and communication are powerful tools that animate hearts and minds. Rob developed a personalized approach to communicating that teaches awareness so that listeners may find their purpose and set attainable goals. A serial entrepreneur, Rob has been involved in several businesses. He had his own newspaper business from 1994 until 2004. Rob was partners in a c...
Feb 13, 2023•51 min•Ep. 457
Formulas are great for chemical companies. Recipes come in handy when you’re looking to make something you’ve never made before. Like a 3 layer orange lemon sunrise surprise cake. Step by steps are excellent ways of learning new, useful skills. But here’s the thing about formulas. Their success and execution depend on any number of variables that are often not in our control. Getting the exact same results as the original is possible but not common. Eventually you have to learn how to rely on yo...
Feb 09, 2023•11 min•Ep. 456
Spencer Snakard is an Executive Transformation Coach, Trainer, and Speaker. She helps visionary entrepreneurial women leaders break through upper limits so they can turn their mission into a world-changing movement … without life-sucking consequences! With 25 years of experience, her transformative programs cause profound & lasting shifts in participants' lives by getting to the heart of what drives us, what holds us back, and what it takes to be truly fulfilled as spiritual beings having a ...
Jan 29, 2023•50 min•Ep. 455
Owen McGab Enaohwo is the CEO and Co-founder of SweetProcess, an easy to-use software that enables company executives and their employees to collaborate together to quickly document and/or improve their standard operating procedures, processes, and policies. In our conversation, Owen explains why businesses with well-defined processes and procedures outperform businesses that don't. Owen was previously the CEO of Hire Your Virtual Assistant (H.Y.V.A.), a virtual assistant service for small busin...
Jan 20, 2023•51 min•Ep. 454
This episode was inspired by a blog post on www.maryloukayser.com = = = = = When you're feeling the post-holiday, January blues, and can't quite get things in gear, the two techniques I share in today's episode can get your mojo up and running. = = = = = My latest book, The Far Unlit Unknown -- is available now! Grab your copy 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 conversat...
Jan 16, 2023•18 min•Ep. 453
The post Patrick Woods on Driving Success with Community appeared first on the Play Your Position Podcast . = = = = = For brands of all sizes and shapes, community is fast becoming the driver of success. Today's guest has been at the epicenter for many years of helping brands bake community into their ecosytems for long-term growth and sustainability. If you're wondering what factor can determine setting your brand apart from others in your space, you will want to listen to what Patrick has to s...
Jan 10, 2023•53 min•Ep. 452
Happy New Year, Team PYP! In today's episode, I present to you the voices of my 30 phenomenal guests from the past 12 months who gave us wisdom, encouragement and reminders that it's okay that we don't get it right every time. That we can bounce back. That we can rebuild. That we can build something new from scratch. That like the tide, our lives ebb and flow. And at the core of it all is to remember that you are a leader, and in turn, show up in service and love. Enjoy today's episode, and we'l...
Jan 04, 2023•56 min•Ep. 451
Tim Tortora started working in Hollywood over 30 years ago as a tape operator in a recording studio and worked his way up through the ranks to CFO by 2008. He learned a lot along the way and worked with some amazing people and some of the biggest companies ( Harpo Films, Mandalay Entertainment, Sony Pictures, Disney, TriStar Pictures, Columbia Pictures). He did it all having no family connection or friends who sat in key positions in the business. Since he started working as a CFO in 2008, the i...
Dec 28, 2022•45 min•Ep. 450
Brooke Chapman started her career as a television journalist before moving into corporate communications and public relations roles, advising leading brands across the mining, travel, property, recruitment, and not-for-profit sectors. Today, Brooke Chapman is the Executive Director for ThreeBy3 and 9Boxes. Having worked within and alongside marketing teams for over 10 years, Brooke made the transition into strategic marketing roles and has led the marketing functions for leading plaintiff litiga...
Dec 16, 2022•51 min•Ep. 449
The recent release of artificial intelligence apps like Lensa and ChatGPT are casuing a huge commotion across the Internet right now. In today's episode, I focus on the ai photo app Lensa and its widespread implications. Tons of interesting questions we all need to be asking. You won't want to miss this episode! = = = = = Click here to check out the blog post of this episode My latest book, The Far Unlit Unknown -- is available now! Grab your copy here Thanks so much for listening and for your o...
Dec 12, 2022•20 min•Ep. 448
Zack Booth is the Founder of Driving For Dollars Mastery, where he helps people replicate his success through real estate investing. Just a few years ago, Zack was a window cleaner. You can even find his window cleaning tutorial videos on YouTube with millions of views. He even ended up on the history channel because of those window cleaning tutorial videos. Although he achieved success with his window cleaning business, he always dreamt of being a real estate investor. Taking a leap of faith, h...
Dec 08, 2022•51 min•Ep. 447
Valerie Hayes is on a mission to help small businesses beat the odds and push through the roadblocks to become an industry leader. She helps overburdened entrepreneurs, small business owners, and CEOs run their companies like a high-performance sports car. Fast and effective. As a Fractional COO, Valerie helps untangle everything that’s not working smoothly, sorts it all out, and puts it back together. No more late nights stuck at your desk trying to figure it all out. Valerie’s background as a ...
Dec 05, 2022•45 min•Ep. 446
Jack Tompkins is the owner of a consulting firm with the best name ever: Pineapple Consulting Firm. Based out of Charlotte, NC, Jack absolutely loves helping small businesses become data-driven! Originally from Connecticut, Jack spent years after college in Corporate America with roles ranging from analyst to partnership manager, but moved down to Charlotte and started his company, Pineapple Consulting Firm. Now he and his team help small businesses become more data-driven by creating KPI (Key P...
Nov 19, 2022•44 min•Ep. 445
When you think about a work environment, what immediately comes to mind? For many people, their work environment is a physical place -- an office, a renovated closet, even the kitchen table. My guest today talks about another kind of work environment -- our digital spaces, where many of us spend considerable time as well. Ian Robinson and his team at Enliven design and build highly functional, collaborative web apps for expert operational and project management processes. Ian works with establis...
Nov 12, 2022•55 min•Ep. 444
Content Anxiety Syndrome is the name of a disorder I made up to explain what's happening to a lot of people. It is yet another unnecessary and heartbreaking side effect of the Internet Age plaguing far too many amazing people who have fallen into the trap of thinking they must “make more content” or else risk irrelevance. If you are experiencing too much time on your laptop or phone making content to share on the social channels; if your kids are telling you to get off the computer; if you have ...
Nov 08, 2022•22 min•Ep. 443
Carol Sanford is an award-winning business educator, summit Producer, podcaster, and author. She is a consistently recognized thought leader working side by side with Fortune 500 and new economy executives in designing and leading systemic business change and design. Through her university and in-house educational offerings, global speaking platforms, multi-award-winning books, and human development work, Carol works with executive leaders who see the possibility to change the nature of work thr...
Oct 24, 2022•50 min•Ep. 442
Dirk van Reenen is the founder and CEO of BERGflow, a company that specializes in helping small and medium sized businesses build better teams to grow faster, with higher profits, and more time freedom. Dirk is an award-winning entrepreneur, international consultant, trainer, and former CEO of an $800 million a year sales organization. After a decade of experience in building fast growing companies by focusing on building strong teams, Dirk made some huge life changes in 2017. Since 2017, Dirk h...
Oct 14, 2022•59 min•Ep. 441
My personal experience with self-promotion isn't exactly the poster board for how to do it well. Like most people, I'd rather spend my time doing just about anything else besides telling the world about myself. Unfortunately, there is a direct correlation between how effective our self promotion efforts are and how many zeroes are in our bank account. In today's episode, I share some tips about how to self promote, and provide an example of a self promotion piece I'm sharing on my LinkedIn feed ...
Oct 11, 2022•16 min•Ep. 440
You still have made a choice. What is it costing us to not make decisions? I explore this quesiton in today's solo episode of the Play Your Position Podcast. Musical excerpt from "Freewill" thanks to RUSH Enjoy! === *** My latest book The Far Unlit Unknown launchs on October 30th!!! Stay tuned for details!!!*** = = = = = 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 tha...
Oct 06, 2022•12 min•Ep. 439
Anthony "Tony" Wall is the founder and president of Noēsis, a non-profit dedicated to issues of human sustainability, to examine evolutionary influence upon modern behavior, and to one day free humankind from the churn of perpetual conflict. Wall, who comes from a family of nine, graduated from the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia. He then moved on to Chicago, where he graduated from Lake Forest College. Wall credits his Liberal Arts education as the catalyst for his ongoing interest ...
Oct 03, 2022•56 min•Ep. 438
Do you remember the first time you sat down to use the Internet? I do. I was teaching high school English at the time. It was the mid-90s and I already knew my students knew more about this wild thing than I or any of my colleagues did because I’d seen groups of them gathered around clunky laptops on the floor gawking at their screens. A palpable buzz filled the air. We all knew things were going to be different from now on. We just didn’t know how different things would be. What didn’t happen t...
Sep 29, 2022•17 min•Ep. 437
Doing the next right thing can be easy -- or the hardest challenge we've every faced. Today's guest William Gammon is an accomplished senior executive, advisor, thought leader, author, and mentor coach with more than 50 years of success across the airline, securities, and insurance industries who knows a thing or two about taking the next right step. William has held a leadership position as a financial advisor and Vice President for Ameriprise Financial Services Inc. He also founded Gammon and ...
Sep 26, 2022•43 min•Ep. 436
James Davis is the owner of Tech Commandos, a company on the forefront of the new era of hybrid workforce solutions which has been singled out by Goldman Sachs as a visionary business in the IT sector. When the pandemic hit, much of the world’s workforce went online, creating a demand for reliable cloud based solutions. James noticed that smaller companies were at a disadvantage and didn’t have access to these solutions because of funding constraints. Tech Commandos was born to level the playing...
Sep 22, 2022•53 min•Ep. 435
Delegation is something every leader must learn how to do. Today's guest, Emily Morgan, shares with us what goes into learning this critical skill, and perhaps more importantly, how to get really good at it. Emily Morgan is an entrepreneur with an innate heart for supporting others. Her mission is to create freedom and energy for people to do what they love by helping them master delegation. Emily speaks nationally on the topics of delegation, automation, remote workforces, and flexwork culture,...
Sep 19, 2022•40 min•Ep. 434
