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Logan Lessar always wanted to do something big with his life. He didn’t want to go the normal rout of getting a job and being held down in the same place, he wanted freedom.
He started his first business at age 15, he travelled to South Africa alone at age 17, and he did that to work with his business partner with whom he met online. He continued to complete his traditional schooling and achieved straight A’s.
Logan is an adventure seeker who loves racing motocross, skiing, snowboarding, jet skiing, wakeboarding, mountain biking, traveling the world and overall doing anything that will push his limits to force him to face his fears.
Now at the grand old age of 19, he lives in Cape Town, South Africa, and today we’re going to explore the “Champion mindset”. We’re going to find out about his “No Quit” mentality, what it takes to fail at motocross, and then go on to win!
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In this episode, we have the privilege of speaking with Mandy Hickson, a remarkable individual who has blazed trails and achieved extraordinary success in both the military and business worlds. As the 2nd female fighter pilot in the history of the Royal Air Force (RAF), Mandy's story is one of courage, resilience, and unwavering determination.
During her time in the RAF, Mandy faced numerous challenges and overcame them with her exceptional skill, expertise, and the indomitable spirit that defines fighter pilots. Her journey was marked by breakthrough moments and the relentless pursuit of excellence, as she soared through the skies piloting powerful fighter jets.
Having transitioned from the cockpit to the corporate world, Mandy's leadership skills and unique experiences have proven invaluable in her role as a business leader. She has seamlessly translated the principles she honed as a fighter pilot into her approach to leadership, driving teams towards success and fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and resilience.
Mandy's captivating story is an inspiration to aspiring aviators, young women seeking to break barriers, and individuals striving for personal and professional growth. With her remarkable insights, she shares the lessons learned from high-pressure situations, the importance of teamwork, decision-making strategies, and the ability to adapt to change.
Today, we delve into Mandy Hickson's incredible journey, exploring her experiences as the 2nd female fighter pilot in the RAF, the exhilaration of flying powerful jets, and how her unique career path has transcended into exceptional leadership in the business world. We also discuss her best-selling book “An Officer, Not A Gentleman” Please stay with us as we gain invaluable insights from this trailblazer, role model, and true exemplar of courage and leadership."
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Tom Clancy died in 2013, but his legacy is continuing with the permission of his family estate with the new authors, Brian Andrews and Jeffrey Wilson.
On 21 May, 2024, now 40 years after the release of Red October, we see the launch of the new Tom Clancy book, Act of Defiance, written by Andrews and Wilson. Brian Andrews is an Ex-Submariner and Jeffrey Wilson is a Ex-Navy SEAL Medic. Their joint experience packs an amazing punch in their many novels, including the continuation of the Tom Clancy legacy.
In this episode, Jeff Smith is talking with Jeff Wilson, about how he and Brian Andrews work together as joint authors to write best-selling books such as the amazing series, Tier 1, and Sons of Valour, and now Act of Defiance in the Tom Clancy, Jack Ryan Series.. There's no holds barred, they talk about how they write, the money they make, books, audiobooks and eBook strategies.
Navy veteran and Wall Street Journal and bestselling thriller author Jeffrey Wilson is a vascular surgeon who was completing his training when terrorists attacked America on 9/11. Already having served, Jeff immediately re-joined the active duty Navy and served as a combat surgeon with the Marines and then with an East Coast–based SEAL team and a Joint Special Operations Task Force, making multiple deployments. His experiences there --- seeing things that cannot be unseen --- sent him on his own journey exploring, and at times questioning, his faith, and are the inspiration for this novel. Jeff has also worked as an actor, a firefighter, a paramedic, a jet pilot and a diving instructor.
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Sex Games, Drugs, I Even Planned A Murder, But Now I'm A Doctor Saving Lives - Jeff Smith Talks With Dr Reynolds Kairus
Dr Rey as he’s known by his friends is a medical doctor in New York. This is the ultimate underdog story, but he made it through to being Top Dog! Brought up by his mother on welfare in New York, he descended into the world of gangs, he dropped out of school, he was arrested, he was shot at, escaped on a motorcycle, and he planned a murder. Despite all of those things, he made it through to become a successful Medical Doctor & businessman who’s reached over 4 Million people Worldwide
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In today’s episode, Jeff Smith, The KPI Guy is talking with Matt Shoup
Matt is an award-winning serial entrepreneur, author, keynote speaker, aspiring paella chef, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu black belt, and Spanish coffee addict. Now, I’ve mentioned all of these things because they’re all totally relevant to Matt’s life and his reason for being here on the show.
Matt first found his love for business at 10 years old, when he started a mowing lawns to earn $200 for a boombox. Ten years later, while studying at Colorado State University, he learned about sales, marketing, and business operations. He made lots of money in college but then spent three times what he earned.
In March of 2005, Matt got married, he was six figures in debt and working at a job he hated as a loan officer. After hitting rock bottom, he then founded a company with the last $100 he had to his name and the company grew to more than $35 million dollars in revenue.
He wrote his first book Become an Award Winning Company in 2011, and his second book called Painted Baby in 2023. He also has a passion to help others who are less fortunate, which is the Matt and Emily Shoup, Spain Study Abroad Scholarship.
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In today’s episode Jeff Smith, The KPI Guy, is talking with Dave Albin
Dave is the #1 Firewalk Instructor in America. Firewalking is a 1,000 year old rite of passage ritual where you literally walk across hot burning coals.
Dave worked with Tony Robbins for 20 years running his fire walk events, and he and Tony set a World Record in London in 2005 with more than 12,300 people walking barefoot over the burning coals. Then in 2014, Dave started his own business called Fire walk Productions and during his time, he’s fire walked hundreds of thousands of people.
His success has a very dark, scary and violent past. On June 8th, 1988 he put a gun to his head to stop the excruciating pain from both drug and alcohol addiction and
2023 will mark 35 years of sobriety.
If you admire Tony Robbins, his work and his achievements, then this show is for you! Dave Albin is the guy who ran the amazing Fire Walks 🔥 for Tony for 20 years, and he's sharing his secrets here! In this episode, Dave lays bare his life, before, during and after his time with Tony, and believe me, it's very dark, very violent and very abusive.
The secrets he shares are life-changing, they've changed my life, and they may change your life too.
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Jeff Smith, The KPI Guy, talks with Jan Cavelle
Jan Cavelle is the author of Scale for Success and Start for Success, which are books aimed at helping entrepreneurs to grow their businesses
After having micro businesses in the past, things collapsed for Jan and she found herself as a single Mum on social support needing to make a future for her family. She started off by selling an assortment of goods to get by, which refined itself into to being furniture. To ensure a steady supply, she went into manufacturing, built the business up to 50 employees and won many awards over the next couple of decades.
But then she lost her passion and the reasons for doing it, coupled with increased problems having made errors in the foundations of the business and she walked away from it all, virtually overnight.
But she soon got bored, she missed writing articles for business publications and decided to start writing books to help entrepreneurs.
This is a story of starting up in business and getting the foundations completely wrong, losing your passion, and then following your childhood dreams to rediscover your passion and to live your life on purpose.
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In today’s episode Jeff Smith, The KPI Guy, is talking with Dr. Corrie Block
Corrie is a leading expert in Business Strategy, Organizational Behaviour, and Leadership. He is the Professor of Strategic Management at Monarch Business School in Switzerland, and a Forbes Certified Executive Coach. He has over 25 years’ experience coaching and training and has worked with more than 150 companies such as Microsoft, Emirates Airline, and the United Nations.
He is also the author of 2 acclaimed books:
Spartan CEO: Six Pillars of Executive PerformanceBusiness is Personal: A Blueprint for Finding Meaning at WorkThis is going to be a story of personal development intertwined with business development, to explain what you are capable of achieving and of course how to achieve it.
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In today’s episode Jeff Smith, The KPI Guy, is talking with Jeanne Omlor
Jeanne is a resilient lady who’s gone from being down and out on the streets of Paris and London to making her first $1 dollars in just 17 months. But her journey wasn’t as easy as you might think. She’s been a fashion designer, she became an actress, moved on to be a top executive recruiter in Wall street, became a professional coach and speaker, got divorced and ended up as a single mom with 2 kids to look after, she found herself in deep debt at the age of 54, and then finally, she found her magic formula and made over 2 million dollars in 3 years.
This is going to be an incredible story of resilience, fighting for survival, and finding yourself when everything was almost lost.
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In today’s episode Jeff Smith, The KPI Guy, is talking with Robert Kerbeck, the corporate spy!
In the 1990s Robert had built for himself what most would consider a respectable acting career, but it wasn’t making him enough money to support the lifestyle he had envisioned. So, Robert got a side gig.
That side gig was to become a spy! Yes! He got paid for tricking the people inside multibillion-dollar corporations into telling him things they definitely should not have told him. He charmed eager-to-please assistants, gaining their trust along with total access to a company’s most valuable information.
His once promising acting career tailed off as he burrowed deeper and deeper into the world of corporate espionage, to the point where his income jumped from tens of thousands, to hundreds of thousands, and then to millions of dollars a year.
His new book called “Ruse” which his memoir, has been released and is set to become a Hollywood movie.
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In this episode, Jeff Smith, The KPI Guy, is talking with Scott Aaron
Scot is a 3 times best-selling author, a speaker and is the go-to specialist when it comes to establishing connections, generating leads, converting traffic, creating sales, and building personal brands using LinkedIn.
Scott is passionate about helping fellow entrepreneurs achieve success while building their own network organically and without complicated and costly marketing tactics.
In today’s episode, Scott is talking about how to create wealth online and generating organic traffic which is a real game changer when it comes to competing in a saturated digital world.
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In today’s episode Jeff Smith, The KPI Guy, is talking with Melissa Acob
Melissa is a Business Mindset and Manifestation Coach. She helps people to overcome their limiting beliefs to gain clarity, scale their businesses, and find inner peace. Her speciality is showing us how to master our mindset to create extraordinary results in business and our personal life.
Melissa realised that the key for her to become successful was to overcome the negative behaviours and experiences learned from the people she looked up to in her childhood.
In 2019, in less than two years of running her business part-time, Melissa was able to leave her 6-figure corporate job to coach full-time. She is an accredited Master Life Coach and Energy Psychologist
This is an incredible story of rediscovering who you truly are, what you are capable of achieving and of course how to achieve it.
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In this episode Jeff Smith, The KPI Guy, is talking with Dame Clarissa Burt
Dame Clarissa is an internationally acclaimed award-winning media personality, producer, director, writer, author, public speaker, former supermodel and winner of the Celebrity Survivor show!
With hundreds of television and film credits to her name, this Who’s Who of International and American Women brings over 35 years of entertainment industry experience in both International and American markets.
Clarissa is the Founder and CEO of “In the Limelight Media”, a multi-media platform consisting of TV/video, a podcast and a digital magazine. She’s also the best-selling author of “The Self-Esteem Regime” published in 2021.
She was the first American to present Russian TV at the Kremlin and has had two private audiences with Pope John Paul II honoring her social work. As the Ambassador to the United States, she actively helped African women win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011.
But that’s not all… In June 2022, Clarissa was Knighted by The Royal Order of Constantine the Great and Saint Helen, joining the ranks of only 350 Dames worldwide.
This is a story of amazing success, recognition, and the trials and tribulations of what it took to get there
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In today’s episode Jeff Smith, The KPI Guy, is talking with Peter George
Peter is a public speaking coach. That itself is not amazing, but what is amazing is that throughout his childhood Peter dealt with a lisp and a stutter. Consequently, he grew up shy and introverted, avoiding communicating with others as much as possible.
When he got into the business world, he quickly realized that his lack of presentation skills kept him at a disadvantage. After seeking help, he now credits his public speaking coaches for much of his business success.
He is the award-winning author of The Captivating Public Speaker: Engage, Impact, and Inspire Your Audience Every Time.
This is going to be a story of childhood struggles, overcoming adversity and then using his adversity to understand and to help other people find their own voice.
Let’s bring in the amazing man himself, welcome to the show, Peter George
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In today’s episode Jeff Smith is talking with Beate Chelette who sold out to Bill Gates
Beate is the Growth Architect and founder of The Women’s Code. She creates strategies, designs process maps and blueprints for visionaries and leaders who want to maximize their profits and scale their impact.
A first-generation immigrant who found herself $135,000 in debt as a single parent, she bootstrapped her passion for photography into a highly-successful global business and eventually sold it to Bill Gates in a multimillion-dollar deal.
Beate is “One of 100 Top Global Thought Leaders in 2021” by PeopleHum and “One of 50 Must-Follow Women Entrepreneurs by HuffPost. She is the author of the #1 International Award Winning Amazon Bestseller “Happy Woman Happy World – How to Go from Overwhelmed to Awesome”–a book that Brian Tracy calls “a handbook for every woman who wants health, success and a fulfilling career.”
This is an incredible story of rags to riches with many, many failures along the way
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Mission Impossible 2, Legally Blonde, Die Another Day, just a few of the big hollywood movies where Geoffrey Klein learned this secret.
In this episode, Jeff Smith Talks with Geoffrey Klein,
Geoffrey Klein is a visual storyteller who trained in the trenches of Hollywood. Working in the “story” department at a top talent and literary agency to working for the president of production at both Paramount Pictures and MGM Studios, Geoffrey worked on films such as the Truman Show, Mission Impossible 2, Legally Blonde and Die Another Day.
Geoffrey built on his love of story and used it to share with others – whether that be on the Tedx stage, in a university classroom as an adjunct professor, or as an award winning producer of marketing video and animation for corporate clients.
Whether telling stories about climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro, swimming with sharks, or having a gun pulled out in front of him – Geoffrey loves to share stories and help others craft and share their stories.
This is a story about how to get the right message, to the right audience for the greatest impact.
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In today’s episode Jeff Smith is talking with Fitz Koehler – she describes herself as Noisy, Bossy and compelling.
Fitz Koehler is among the most prominent fitness experts and race announcers in America. With a Master’s Degree in Exercise and Sport Sciences and decades of experience teaching fitness worldwide, Fitz has helped countless people live better and longer by making fitness understandable, attainable, and fun.
But she’s faced her challenges… In 2019, Fitz was diagnosed with breast cancer, and her once healthy, athletic body was brutalized by 15 months of chemotherapy, radiation, and multiple surgeries. Instead of shutting down, this noisy and bossy lady turned the volume up on her career and her life. She strategically orchestrated her own healthy cancer comeback from being sick, scrawny, and weak, to becoming a strong Boston Marathon finisher. Her memoir My Noisy Cancer Comeback: Running at the Mouth, While Running for My Life, was released in 2020 and has been a great source of motivation for those facing hardships in many areas of their lives.
In her free time, Fitz enjoys water sports, strength training, obstacle course racing, animals, hugs, sarcasm, getting muddy in her Jeep Wrangler, and travel.
In today’s programme, she’s going to share inspirational lessons from her cancer-crushing whirlwind to convince you that, “you can do hard things,” too.
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In this episode Jeff Smith is talking with Michael Diederich, the Improv Guy
Michael has spent his whole life on stage! He performed most of his youth in California, studied musical theatre at Wagner College in New York, and had a brilliant career for over a decade in the Netherlands.
However, after many years of theatre productions and tours, Michael still wanted more variation, and improv was the answer. He began performing with Boom Chicago in 1993 and in 2006 became a full-time improv actor.
During his time there he gave thousands of workshops, helped them improve their syllabus, created their Public Speaking programme, and helped them develop Interacting, their highly successful improv training for children with autism.
But after many years, Michael realized he was working extremely hard for a small portion of the profits, and was doing the majority of the work himself. With some encouragement from friends and mentors, Michael decided to take a risk in 2018 and go freelance. He is now working even harder, but now instead of a slice, he gets the whole pie!
This is going to be an interview where you will not believe some of the things that have happened to Michael, the depths of despair reinventing himself, and then finding his way to amazing success.
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In today’s episode Jeff Smith is talking with Anthony Kitchens
Tony as he’s known by his friends, is the author of a book entitled “The Gift of Pain”, an entrepreneur and philanthropist. The companies Tony founded have generated more than $100 million in revenue and serviced the largest multi-national corporations in the world. Tony is on a mission to help as many people around the world through the wisdom he shares using his various platforms.
This is going to be an interview of questioning defining your purpose and what it takes to obtain it.
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In this episode I’m talking with Habib Chammas about "The Magic Formula for How To Be A Best-Selling Author"
Habib, or H.J. as he’s known to his friends, is an award-winning best-selling author, coach, entrepreneur, and investor who achieved financial independence by investing in rental properties, creating online businesses, and helping other authors to publish their bestselling books.
He’s the founder of the Employee Millionaire (a financial education and book publishing company). He’s guided thousands of students through their personal finances, launching their online business, publishing their bestselling books, and investing in income-producing assets. HJ is also the author of 4 books himself: The Employee Millionaire, The Employee Millionaire – Personal Workbook, The 4 Stages of Building Wealth, and his newly published book, Millionaire Mindset and Success
This is going to be an interview that explores, not only writing a book, but also the magic formula for making it a #1 international best-seller.
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