The One Broken Cog Podcast

Niching Down

After growing his digital marketing agency into a 7-figure agency, generating over a million in sales annually, Dylan Ogline turned his focus to helping other people start and grow their own hyper profitable digital agency. Dylan undoubtedly believes that anybody can start and build their own digital agency that will allow them to have more freedom and live a life with purpose and meaning. And he wants to give everyone possible the tools to do just that. Dylan joins the show to discuss his journey from high school dropout to successful entrepreneur, tips to show your value instead of hiding behind low prices, and how to achieve success by narrowing your focus. 

Roger Up

Brent Magnussen is a best selling Author, professional speaker, and a former U.S Army Combat Engineer. An adventure seeker, and self-proclaimed human test subject for peak social, mental, and physical development, in 2020 Brent released his much-anticipated book, ROGER UP - an enthralling action plan for living life to the fullest and rising out stronger and better from adversity. Brent is an avid practitioner of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, an accomplished cook, a voracious reader, and a Freemason. 
Brent sits on the board of the Resilient Warrior Foundation, a 501 (c) 3 organization that serves US Veterans and First Responders who suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder acquired during their service to the country. Brent joins the show to discuss his bulletproof morning routine that helps to foster a Samurai Mindset, how to master the 30 second elevator pitch, and the impact of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu on his life and the lives of US Veterans. 

The Demise of Real News

Tim Sprinkle is the Founder and Chief Strategist of Layup Content, a thought leadership and content marketing agency for the financial services and fintech industries, working with that range from regional banks and insurers to growing startups and more. Before that, Tim spent 20+ years in journalism, working for outlets and publications like Yahoo Finance and Seeking Alpha, while writing on a freelance basis from some of the largest media brands in the world covering everything from business and finance, to outdoor sports and other fun stuff. In between, he wrote "Screw the Valley: A Coast to Coast Tour of America's New Startup Landscape" and has been doing that work ever since. Tim joins the show to discuss the demise of real news. 

Feedback is the Breakfast of Champions

Libby Robinson is the Managing Partner of Integral, an award-winning leadership, executive coaching and advisory company working with Fortune 1000 companies globally. Libby has worked for 26 years with senior leaders globally, helping to bring more mindfulness, resilience and greater capacity to brilliant and ambitious leaders. Her company Integral uses a multi-disciplinary approach to foster deep personal change in leaders and to evoke “conscious leadership” cultures for their clients. Libby joins the show to discuss the state of workplace feedback and the launch of BackFeed+, her new app that helps individuals and organizations get better, faster feedback using a method backed by the latest neuroscience data about how individuals receive feedback with less stress.

Check out a demo of the app: https://www.backfeedapp.com/video-copilot/

Slow is Smooth, Smooth is Fast

Justin Kier is a speaker and coach who specializes in leadership development and collaboration. His core philosophy of leadership is wrapped up in a quote by Dwight Eisenhower: “The art of leadership is getting other people to do what YOU WANT DONE, because THEY WANT TO DO IT.” After spending years in the education industry and running his own fitness business he saw firsthand what it was like to “lead” people in something that was good for them but that they didn’t feel like doing! He’s now had over a decade of working in leadership development and coaching that has given him a unique perspective on what it takes to lead effectively. As an Executive and Performance Coach he has worked with leaders and teams from some of the largest companies in the world, as well as individuals such as small business owners that are seeking to make more of an impact in their communities or men struggling with isolation and identity. He is passionate about raising up men that are great leaders of themselves, their families, and their businesses...all seen through the lens of his faith. Justin joins the show to discuss the dangers of isolation and going it alone, who we should surround ourselves with to see the greatest success, and how to be seen as an effective leader.

Chief Happiness Officer

By day, Sarah Ratekin is Chief Happiness Officer at a global corporation. She is a radical positivity activist, and the owner of Happiness Is Courage Inc., sharing her message of hope, happiness and gratitude as avenues to greater personal and professional resilience and well-being. Sarah has spoken at conferences across North America, facilitated numerous workshops on workplace excellence, and worked with groups from 1 to 200+ to discover and embrace their personal strengths, ambitions and relationship goals. Sarah joins the show to discuss the neuro and social science data behind what really creates happier workplaces, and the idea that happy employees translate to successful businesses that drive sustainable innovation, performance, and well-being.

Introvert to Leader

Pull up a comfortable chair and a calming drink and come spend a few minutes with Robert Greiner and me. Robert is a technology executive and enterprise architect with 14+ years of diversified IT leadership, strategy, business development, cloud transformation, alliance management, delivery, and consulting experience. Robert believes strongly in a human-centric leadership approach and has designed and implemented strategic initiatives at some of the largest and most complex organizations in the world. Relax and listen while he takes us though his life’s journey to date, learning and maturing into a quiet and caring leader.  Starting his career as an engineer, he’ll talk about the realizations and the process of discovering his true self.  How his children affected his decisions as well as coping with COVID and turning it into a learning experience. No fireworks.  Just a normal, good human being sharing his learnings.

Raising Your Tech IQ

Aman Agarwal is an engineer whose work has ranged from building self-driving vehicles in Silicon Valley to AI-powered brain-computer interfaces. He has also been a business executive at two tech companies valued over $1 billion each. These days he's the Founder and President of SANPRAM Transnational, an executive education company that helps business leaders and entrepreneurs survive and thrive in a future that will be driven by AI and new digital technologies. I’m not sure if it’s the DaVinci drawing on his LinkedIn page or his personal website that starts with: ”Greetings. Your time looks delicious.
Let me take a small bite.” that intrigued me more.  Either way, Aman Agarwal is a fascinating character and I’m, glad you’ll have a chance to “meet” him on this podcast.  Businessperson, thought leader, autonomous vehicles engineer, teacher.  Aman has a perspective you will want to hear.

Culture Crash

Keith Wilson grew up in small-town Ohio and was surprised to find himself starting his career in Full-time Ministry. As a Pastor with a side-hustle, he helped launch three nonprofit startups, start two businesses and consulted in 40 other organizations. Although each organization was different he kept seeing the same people problems over and over again. Eventually he decided to dedicate his career to helping leaders build environments of mutual trust and respect so they can avoid the problems that plague them most. In the last 10 years as a certified coach, consultant and facilitator he's spent 3,000+ hours coaching leaders, 1,600+ hours training teams and spoken 300+ times to live audiences up to 2,500 people. As an Organizational Development Consultant for ScrogginsGrear, he has spent the last 5 years helping small businesses, medical practices and non-profits recover from internal, culture problems that have caused an organizational crash. Keith joins the show to discuss the 10 early warning signs of culture crash to help professionals prevent problems before they spiral out of control. 

Building Resilience

Susan Drumm is a CEO Advisor and Leadership Coach focused on helping leaders and their teams to develop the capacity and mindsets to lead in today’s disruptive environment.  She has been running a boutique consulting firm, Meritage Leadership, with a cadre of 15 coaches and consultants, since 2006. They have worked with Private Equity firms and their emerging portfolio companies, as well as large corporations such as Oracle, Viacom, KPMG, A&E Networks, Genentech and others.  Susan has graduate degrees from Harvard Law School, Carnegie Mellon University and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Susan joins the show to discuss building resilience, why resilience is the #1 trait leaders need during this time of change and uncertainty, and why leaders who operate with greater coherence/resilience are able to access the highest functioning parts of the brain—enabling them to think clearly under pressure and create more innovative solutions to problems. Susan also shares proven techniques to be able to develop the capacity to prepare for, recover from, and adapt in the face of stress, challenge, change or adversity.