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Elad Avigan is originally from Israel, and now lives in Porto, Portugal with his wife and two daughters.
An early interest in music, and radio, led him to some interesting opportunities, announcing professional wrestling shows, and hosting his own radio show on Israeli radio, which he does from Portugal.
He also has his own YouTube channel, which he monetized, and he helps others get theirs up and running.
Elad shares his story, of how he overcame obstacles, and is able to live a life of purpose. -
Patricia Pasquini is from Argentina, and one night, seven years ago, while drinking in her own bar, with some friends, and lamenting how she always wanted to travel. One of her friends said, "Stop talking about it, and just do it!" and gifted her a one-way ticket to Thailand...
She hasn't stopped traveling since!
Patricia is a true digital nomad, who has been all over the world, supported only by her ability to find online work teaching, etc.
She is the administrator of the Facebook group, "Digital Nomads over 50", with over 59k members, some of who are digital nomads themselves, and many who aspire to it.
Patricia shares her story, how she's able to maintain this lifestyle, and some anecdotes from life on the road, rail, air and sea!
We all have our Buts, but Patricia hasn't let hers stop her! -
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Published author, Catherine Clarke is from Wellington, New Zealand, and is a now, retired, medical lab scientist. She became interested in a story about a woman named Lillian Adair who was a woman who had a career in the 1800's doing shows where she'd ascend in a homemade balloon, then parachute out of it. She did this all over the world and was associated with many dubious characters who owned the shows she was in, most of whom were pioneering balloonists themselves.
An interest in genealogy led her to an extramural degree in English and History. and after learning of these balloonists, she did extensive research to uncover the true origins of these fascinating aerial stunt performers. and believe that Lillian’s story is too incredible to be left untold.
The interesting part of this story, and how Catherine came to be on our podcast, is that one of these dubious characters, "The Notorious Jimmy Price" happens to be John's maternal grandmother's father!
Catherine shares some of her story of how she went from scientist to novelist, and genealogy researcher, and of course, a few more stories about Jimmy Price.
"The Only Living Lady Parachutist", Catherine's book about Lillian Adair can be found on her website: www.catherineclarkeauthor.com -
Cynthia Burns is a graduate of Purdue University, and is a Registered Veterinary Technician licensed in both Indiana and North Carolina.
After graduation her career included working in several veterinary facilities and with multiple veterinary distributors. Then she found her true passion for anesthesia equipment service and repair when her anesthetic professor introduced her to this interesting and challenging profession.
Cynthia has been servicing anesthesia equipment since 2012, the last 4 years have been as the proud President and CEO of Fix-it Lady: Medical Service & Repair, LLC.
In her down time, she likes to spend time with her 4 grandbabies, going wine tasting with her husband, landscaping around the house and chilling with her dog, Yoshi and cat, Fancy Pants. -
Curtis Regimbal is the vice President of Business Development Operations for Bank of America's Practice Solutions division. He manages the Greater Mid-Atlantic markets for Animal Health.
His division provides premium access to capital and expertise for veterinarians who are interested in start-ups, expansions-real estate, acquisitions, or refinances. He specializes in assisting new and existing owners with strategic pathways to ownership. -
Alison Burell is a dedicated real estate broker with CARR, specializing in healthcare properties across the Triangle, Triad, and Eastern North Carolina. With a strong background in real estate and a deep understanding of the healthcare sector, she provides clients with a unique perspective that helps them confidently navigate the complexities of real estate transactions.
Alison is committed to delivering exceptional service to healthcare professionals, advocating for their right to fair negotiations in real estate dealings. Her personalized approach, combined with her extensive knowledge of local market trends, allows her to secure the best deals for her clients.
Since joining CARR in 2021, Alison has successfully negotiated numerous lease and purchase agreements throughout North Carolina. Her attentive guidance and dedication to her clients’ best interests have made her a trusted advisor in the industry.
With 15 years of experience in commercial construction and development project management prior to joining CARR, Alison brings valuable expertise to her role as a trusted North Carolina broker at CARR. A native North Carolinian originally from Fayetteville, she studied Engineering at NC State and currently resides in Wake Forest with her two sons. In her free time, she enjoys outdoor activities, fitness, live music, and cherishes moments spent with family and friends, especially in the scenic mountains of Western North Carolina. Additionally, Alison is an advocate for ALS awareness and research, a cause close to her heart following the loss of her husband in 2019.
For personalized assistance with your real estate needs, reach out to Alison at [email protected] or fill out the contact form. She’ll be glad to discuss how she can help you achieve your real estate goals.
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Denis Havalec is from the small country of Slovenia, and grew up with limited options and opportunities. He saw basketball as a way out, and became a professional basketball player, playing in 14 countries, including the national champions of Iceland in 2009.
After basketball, Denis built an AI company and secured a 8 figure exit. He's now a "serial entrepreneur" and investor.
Denis founded Cre8Value agency to help companies scare and CEOs to build high-performance teams.
Book a FREE 30 min consulting call with Denis here: https://calendly.com/free_consulting/30min
Online shop: www.cosmo-lab.store
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Rob Kancler is not your average sex and relationship expert. With over 15 years of hands-on experience (no pun intended) exploring consciousness, embodiment, and mysticism, Rob has emerged as a pioneer in men's sexual empowerment and relational intelligence.
What sets Rob apart is his unique ability to make these unusual conversations feel normal and accessible to regular guys, meeting them exactly where they're at in their journey. As co-founder of the "Men of Substance" program, Rob guides men beyond conventional sexual paradigms into a world of profound connection, ecstatic pleasure, and spiritual awakening. His approach blends cutting-edge somatic practices, forgotten sex secrets of the sages, and a hefty dose of humor to create lasting change.
Rob's style is all about jamming with people, having a good time, and making these transformative concepts relatable and fun. Rob's journey from a sociall anxious church-raised mama's boy with serious issues with sexual performance to globally recognized sexuality mentor is as fascinating as it is inspiring. He's danced with porn stars, studied with Taoist and Tantric masters, and explored consciousness with shamans.
BUT, it wasn't all tantric bliss and cosmic orgasms. Rob's path includes plenty of fumbles, repeated failures, and "WTF am I doing?" moments, making him relatable to men facing their own challenges. Today, Rob's mission is to help revolutionize how men thinnk about and approach sex, love, and intimacy.
This was an extremely fun podcast to record. Hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we did making it!
For more about Rob: https://ihatenothavinggreatsexallthetime.com/ -
Joey Fulkerson is Delaware music Royalty. He is a well known and respected musician, repairman and instructor with over forty years experience.
In his long career, he has performed with some of the most well-known bands the mid-Atlantic area, including Hyde Park, The Cutters, The Hurricanes and currently tears it up with his own band, Nothin’ But Trouble.
Joey also was the touring guitarist and road manager for the “King of the Twist” Chubby Checker. A gig he held for over 5 years, outlasting many of his predecessors! (We could have done a full episode of his stories from those years alone!)
Joey builds custom guitars, and has an extensive background in string instrument repair.
He was recently honored by his peers, and fans, by being inducted in the Delaware Rock & Roll hall of fame, joining many other great local musicians including, of course, George Throrogood!
Joey is living the dream of most musicians... The ability to earn a living in music! He has a great story to share about the ups and downs of a life in "the business".
We hope you will enjoy hearing about his journey, and be inspired to not ever lose sight of your dream!
Joey has a new album out that can be downloaded at: https://fulkersonmusicservices.com/shop/ -
Alberto De Icaza is a mixing and mastering engineer based in Austin, Texas. He started his production career at the Machine Shop under legendary producer Machine and then opened his own studio in 2016.
Alberto’s discography includes Robert Glasper, Clutch, Megan Thee Stallion, Crobot, Ne-Yo, DJ Chose, Billy Ray Cyrus, Phil Anselmo, High on Fire, Crobot, Miss May I, King Crimson, Yoke Lore, and has mastered soundtracks for movies such as Ruby Gilman, Teenage Kraken, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talen, Chaos Walking, and About My Father.
Alberto also mastered the soundtracks for 2021 Emmy Nominated “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist” ("Outstanding Original Music And Lyrics - 2021”) and two time 2024 Recording Academy (Grammys) nominated “Robert Glasper, SIR and Alex Isley’s - Back to Love”
Alberto overcame But, after But. It all starts with the parents. BUT... how will you live!? BUT, you need a "real job"|
Alberto did it! Listen to hear out how! -
Ralph Figueroa is a businessman in Dover, Delaware, who owns The Pool Doctor, which is a swimming pool building, and maintenance company, started by his father, and that he took over as a small, mobile business after his father passed away 18 years ago, building it into a large, and very successful company with a fleet of trucks, heavy machinery, a real estate portfolio, and over a dozen employees.
He also owns and manages a restaurant with his family, that he started working in when he was 10 years old, and has grown to owning two parcels of land, and is expanding to include a catering/event space. Ralph began to run weekly karaoke in the restaurant, which expanded to twice a week, including the "Anything Goes Tuesday Night Karaoke Party", which now only lives on in the hazy memories of those who took part!
Ralph tuned his Karaoke skills into fronting his own band, which has played gigs in some of the largest local events in the area. His real estate portfolio is ever growing, and I feel like he's just getting started!
We are happy that Ralph took the time to share his journey, so far, with us! -
From humble beginnings, Jeffrey Shaw became one of the most preeminent portrait photographers in the United States. His on-location style and fine craftsmanship made him the go-to photographer for families of C-suite executives of Anheuser-Busch, Twitter, and many others, Supermodel Stephanie Seymour, news anchors Jim Nantz and David Bloom, sports icons Tom Seaver, Pat Riley, and Wall Street executives too many to mention. His portraits appeared on The Oprah Show, CBS News, in People and O Magazine and hang at Harvard University and The Norman Vincent Peale Center.
After 35 years of exceptional service to his exclusive clientele, Jeffrey decided to share his knowledge of business, branding, and marketing to support self-employed and small business owners as well as progressive-minded companies. He's an in-demand keynote speaker at conferences such as HOW Design, Growth Marketing, corporations the likes of Verizon and BMW, and institutions such as Florida Atlantic University and the Adams Center for Entrepreneurship. Jeffrey is also the author of two books, LINGO and The Self-Employed Life, a LinkedIn Learning instructor, and a regular contributor to various publications.
In 2014, Jeffrey started a podcast, Creative Warriors, later rebranded as The Self-Employed Life which is amongst the top 15% of all podcasts. His TEDx LincolnSquare talk was later moved to TED.com which is so rare it’s been said you have a better chance of getting hurt at home by your toilet.
We are excited to have Jeffrey on to share the story of his journey, thus far, how he overcame his own BUTs, and what's to come!
Learn more about Jeffrey at jeffreyshaw.com -
A chance meeting from a comment on Facebook, led us to meet Cory Harner from Colorado adn what a story of overcoming adversity he has, and what a journey.
Cory grew up in Auroa, Colorado, and though he was identified as a "gifted" student, he started running with the wrong crowd at a young age, party to fit in, and party survival instinct. By the time he was 15, he was incarcerated for the first time, and by the time he was 21, he was sentenced to 10.5 years in state prison in Arizona.
Cory tells us his story, from that rough beginning, to eventually learning that overcoming his "Buts" required him to look outside himself, and turn to dedicating himself to the service of helping others.
He finally turned it around, and is now the founder, with his wife, and director of a non profit helping veterans, called Valor Vanguard. He has never shared this much of his story, and did in the hope that it may inspire others to know that there's always hope around the corner.
Learn about Cory's charity at valorvanguard.org
DIsclaimer: We provide a platform for people to tell their stories of overcoming adversity - we don't condone violence in any way - Viewer/Listener Discretion is strongly Advised! -
Moni Basu is an award winning journalist who began her career in Florida with the Tallahassee Democrat and The Florida Flambeau. Basu worked for CNN for nine years, covering the Iraqi War from its inception. She wrote Chaplain Turner’s War from a series of Atlanta Journal-Constitution stories on an Army chaplain serving in Iraq. She also was a distinguished professor of practice in the University of Georgia’s narrative nonfiction MFA program.
It's impossible to get someone’s story in just 90 minutes, however Moni was generous enough to share a condensed version of it with us.
From her first day of life, when she was found on the steps of an orphanage in Calcutta, and adopted by a renowned mathematician and his wife, to growing up all over the world, and eventually becoming a journalist at the highest level, covering a range of stories, from reporting on the aftermath of devastating earthquakes in Haiti and Nepal, to traveling with John Kerry's Presidential campaign, and being embedded with the Georgia Army National Guard's 48th Brigade during the Iraq war.
Moni is a person who has, and does, overcome the "Buts" in her life on a daily basis.
Moni's blog is at monibasu.com -
Dave Tabler - Retirement is History!
From a young age, Dave Tabler had a love of photography. After earning a degree in Photojournalism, and despite being told he needed a "Plan B" (As in, BUT...) and began working in the field, contributing photography to book projects (Before the days of the internet, and Getty Images) and museum curators, and collectors. He was successful enough in these endeavors to be able to retire in his mid 50's.
In 2010, Dave moved to Delaware, and became smitten with its rich past, as the First State. He came out of retirement, put his photojournalism experience to work, and went on to write three award winning books, and counting, about Delaware history.
Dave has a story that follows a common But Fixer theme. If you have an idea, and a dream, take action and do it! Don't let anyone say, "But, what if...."
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JP Carter is one of John's trainers, and after our quick interview, during an in-person event we put on in Kansas City, I decided to call him "The Pitchman". He sold everything, then woke up one day, quit his job, and made a list of what he wanted to do with his life that made him happy.
Despite not really liking dog trainers, (ha ha) he loves animals, and dogs, and found his way to Canine Trade Group, becoming a trainer in Kansas City, and managing multiple markets around the United States.
Never let anyone say, "BUT.... you can't do it!" ANYTHING beats punching The Man's clock! -
Vinnie Soma is a life long dog lover, who started training dogs professionally in 2012, after a few serious injuries derailed his hockey career.
College just wasn’t for him, so he connected with his uncle, who had been training dogs since the 1970’s, and through trial, error, ups, and downs, he created Say it Once Dog Training, the biggest dog training company in Pittsburgh, PA, and has since branched out into Cincinnati, Nashville, and DC.
He started a non-profit, to provide training for rescue dogs, to ensure that they transition smoothly into their new homes, and avoid being returned back to the rescue. His “Say it Once Dog Derby” has raised tens of thousands of dollars towards this effort, and had over 400 participants last year.
Vinnie’s is a great story of perseverance and overcoming many BUT’s on his way to success!
Read more about Vinnie and how to get involved in the Dog Derby, or helping rescue dogs at www.sayitoncedogtraining.com -
After getting his Master’s degree and working a few unfullfiling years in the corporate world, Mike Wombacher changed gears, and has been involved with dogs for over forty years. Over thirty of them as a professional trainer. During this time, he has performed around 40,000 private consultations covering the entire spectrum of dog behavior, from the mundane to the bizarre.
Mike is also the author of three other books – There’s a Puppy in the House, Integrated Dog Training, and Good Dog, Happy Baby – and has another book slated for publication – Hey, What’s with the Collar: Inside the War in the World of Dog Training.
Mike has trained dogs for high profile celebrities in the entertainment, financial and academic worlds including Charles Schwab, Robin Williams, Linda Ronstadt, Barry Levinson, Chad Hurley (founder of YouTube), Max Levchin (co-founder of PayPal), Jeremy Stoppelman (founder of Yelp), Dr. Robert Sapolsky (author of many books on animal behavior and neurobiology), Joe Satriani, Bob Weir (Grateful Dead), Linda Ronstadt, Kirk Hammet (Metallica) and Michael Tilson Thomas, music director of the San Francisco Symphony,
who commented that "Michael Wombacher is a maestro of dog trainers. His clarity of thinking, sense of humor and skills in communicating make dog training fun for both pet and pet lover."
Mike has a great story of overcoming the doubts of others, and persevering, to overcome his buts, and the buts of others!
(Note that this is part 1, and cuts off at the end, but we plan to get Mike’s partner on a future episode to talk about her time in Iraq, Afghanistan, and how they are now working with PTSD service dogs for veterians.) -
From White Gold To White Beaches: How a Wanna be Asparagus farmer ended up running a successful BNB and management company in Aruba.
Meet Rik Maes, Rik was born and raised on a farm in The Netherlands that specialized in White Asparagus (also known as White Gold). Riks story is a story of being at the right time in the right place and meeting the right people and recognizing & seizing opportunities without asking himself the “what if” questions and ignoring the “yes this is an opportunity BUT ……..” remarks from people around him.
His story is the epitome of what happens when you do not plan out your life but just do what sounds right and hope it will all works out.
Find Rik's place at https://stonethrowaruba.com/ -
Page Skelton is the co-founder of the Cackalacky® Brand – makers of Cackalacky hot sauces, barbecue sauces, snack peanuts, specialty coffees, clothing, and more. ( and our very first sponsor!).
Page attended West Virginia University (1991) where he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree and, North Carolina Central University (2000) where he earned his master’s degree in Library and Information Science.
Page is an Eagle Scout and father to a teenage son. Page and his wife, Caroline Skelton along with their son, Harry own and operate the Cackalacky Brand together. Prior to creating the Cackalacky Brand in the early 2000’s, Page was a global accounts manager with WorldCom, a telecommunications company.
Cackalacky, Inc. is a family operated company headquartered at 697 Hillsboro Street, Suite 600, Pittsboro, NC with a company store that is open to the public. To learn more, visit BeerBQNuts.com - Näytä enemmän
