The One Broken Cog Podcast

Find Your Dream

Shawn Harper is a former NFL offensive lineman who played a total of seven seasons with the Rams, the Oilers, the Colts, and NFL Europe. Since 2004 he has owned and operates American Services and Protection, a multi-million-dollar security services firm headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. His journey from the grit and sweat of the NFL locker room to the corporate culture of the boardroom proved that he could win in both worlds by using many of the same principles and strategies! As a powerful, nationally-recognized motivational speaker, Shawn Harper has inspired countless individuals and corporations such as Dow Chemical, Northwest Mutual, Beach Body, and Goodwill Industries to maximize their resources, harness their potential, and manifest their vision, growth and reproduction in the areas of leadership, capacity, teamwork, adversity, and communications. Shawn understands that on the journey to victory, obstacles will arise and challengers will push back, but he believes that “a setback is just a setup for a comeback”! He shares the concepts that catapulted him to the front of the line in his book “The Winning Edge, 8 Principles that Will Bring Out the Winner in You” on Amazon.com Shawn joins the show to share how he manifested his dream of playing professional football, the habits of elite-level athletes to triumph in business and life, and the principles and strategies that carried over from the gridiron to the boardroom.

The Discipline of Now

Eric Twiggs is a founding partner and president of The What Now Movement. His mission is to build high performing entrepreneurs, authors, and career professionals, who are prepared for life’s unexpected curve balls. He is author of The Discipline Of Now: 12 Practical Principles To Overcome Procrastination, which has been recognized as a Global Top Ten Finalist For The 2020 Author Elite Awards in the category of Best Self Help Book. This recognition was based on the combination of the following criteria: cover design, content, popularity, and social contribution. Eric is also the host of a weekly inspirational podcast titled "The 30 Minute Hour." As a Certified Life & Business Coach, Eric has conducted over 28,000 coaching sessions, helping executive leaders and entrepreneurs who have moved from feeling frustrated, to finding fulfillment. He has also led organizations of 500 or more people in corporate America, and shared his message with corporations, associations, and congregations across the country. Eric joins the show to detail his journey from college partyer to successful entrepreneur, and to share tips on how to beat procrastination so that you make more money, get more done, and feel more confident. 

 

The Opportunity in Change

Patti Mara has worked with hundreds of entrepreneurial owned and operated businesses to reposition them for success and dramatically increase their growth, customer retention, and profit. She is the owner of Maranet Inc. and the creator of The Profit Generator Program*, which takes business owners through a process for developing the ability to see through their customers’ eyes. She also created the Breaking Through Barriers Program*, which helps business owners identify and eliminate the bottlenecks that impede growth and success. Patti joins the show to discuss her new book: UpSolutions - Turning Your Team into Heroes and Customers into Raving Fans. She also shares pivots that lead to breakthroughs, how to use crisis to reinvent your business and emerge as a market leader, and how to turn your customers into your own business growth catalyst.

Sales According to Kahle

Dave Kahle who is widely regarded as the authority on sales and sale systems, returns to the show to discuss the need to take responsibility to improve yourself during turbulent times, how he turned a crisis into an opportunity, and the do's and don'ts of sales etiquette including the highly controversial topic of talking down your competitors. 

Happiness is Priceless

Vernon Brown is the owner and founder of What's Your Happi? LLC : a hands on Happiness coaching practice designed around an individual's true happiness, and their mission is to help anyone in getting his or her life back on the right track. Vernon’s work has touched the lives of hundreds of entrepreneurs who have doubled their business beyond six figures and has helped save countless personal relationships in the process. While assisting clients to find and sustain their influence, presence, and happiness, Vernon challenges businesses to think more expansively while maintaining their integrity to increase profits and personal growth. Vernon joins the show to chronicle his journey from overcoming adversity and finding his happiness to starting a business to help others do the same. He also shares the reason for now being the right time for entrepreneurs/business owners to double down and not hold back, how business owners and leaders can “Play Bigger”, and why his clients businesses have grown since the start of the pandemic. 

Warrior of the Heart

A former business attorney turned master business & lifestyle consultant, Sloane successfully scaled her boutique law firm in Santa Monica to over 400 clients, all while traveling the world. Having been behind the scenes of hundreds of businesses - she’s had a unique vantage point to catch blind spots in operations, profitability, and her client's mindset around it all. After coaching hundreds of clients to help them through their toughest business challenges - Sloane sold her near 7 figure firm to pursue her true calling. Now as a visionary business and lifestyle consultant, Sloane educates and inspires ambitious women from around the globe, who are ready to expand beyond conventional possibilities to live and play full out. Sloane joins the show to discuss her journey from attorney to business & lifestyle consultant, overcoming adversity, what women are struggling with, and the connection between profit and pleasure. 

From Broke Mindset to Wealthy Mindset

Billionaire P.A. has an amazing story of redemption to share. He faced five-to-eight years for two felony convictions. One hundred fifty-two companies rejected his employment. His Mother was told she would never walk again. His Father was in a coma, not expected to pull through. Incarcerated over 10 times before age 22, he lost all faith in god. Suicidal thoughts and pain surrounded him. Later he found himself living in the back of his truck for 63 straight days and homeless for 36 months, which turned out to be the turning point in his life. It was there in that truck, homeless and alone, that he developed his wealthy mind. Now his mission is to inspire billions to do the same. Billionaire joins the show to detail his journey from being homeless to Founder, CEO & President of Wealthy Minds, Inc. He shares how to speak your dreams into existence, how to develop a wealthy mindset, and how to speak less and execute more.   

Your Brandista

Ashley Graham is the Founder & Creative Director of Your Brandista, a marketing and PR coach that offers 1 on 1 consulting, expert media and people relations, online and in-person courses and workshops, and caffeinated brand strategy to help your business get the “buzz” it deserves. Ashley believes that every brand has a story and In the competitive landscape of agencies around the world, Your Brandista is on a mission to break the disconnect and cut-throat agency dynamic in order to create a more holistic, cohesive, and heart-centered approach to branding, communications, and business development. And her results have been stellar as she has landed clients in over 100 media outlets and pioneers the growth of businesses and brands worldwide. Ashley joins the show to discuss PR best practices, the hottest PR trends of 2020, where PR is headed in 2021, and her approach vs the traditional agency model. 

RevGenius

As Co-Founder of RevGenius, Jared Robin is on a mission to educate, empower, and inspire revenue leaders. Jared joins the show to chronicle his journey from sales leader to entrepreneur, and to share how he created a community of revenue generating sales and marketing professionals brought together to learn, share, support, and grow with each other.

 

 

The Road to Digital Marketing Profits

David Somerfleck is a retired digital marketing executive and business growth expert with over 20 years' experience working for marketing agencies and 10 years' experience as a Certified Small Business Mentor for SCORE (a division of the United States Small Business Administration. And Some past clients include Microsoft, AOL/Time-Warner, Caribou Coffee, and hundreds of business owners across the country. Now David is also the author of "The Road to Digital Marketing Profits" available for sale at Walmart, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Books-A-Million. David joins the show to discuss all things digital marketing.