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  Episode #2870

  October 2, 2026 – Magnus Financial Group Ron Deutsch and Tough Enough Matt Hunter

  Oct 1, 202654 min

  Ron Deutsch – Managing Director of Magnus Financial Group I know what my strengths are. Everyone’s got their strength and their weaknesses Ron Deutsch is the Managing Director of Magnus Financial Group and a wealth management professional with more than 30 years of experience in portfolio management, financial advisory services, and the fixed income markets. He works with entrepreneurs, business owners, high net worth individuals, retirees, pre-retirees, and institutional clients to develop diversified investment strategies designed to support long-term financial goals. His areas of expertise include strategic asset allocation, portfolio diversification, income-focused investing, risk management, and taxable fixed income, with particular experience in investment grade and high yield corporate bonds, mortgages, and sovereign debt. Before his work in private wealth management, Ron built an extensive career on Wall Street. He held senior positions in the fixed income departments at Bear Stearns, BNP Paribas, Prudential Securities, and Kidder Peabody, and began his career in investment banking at Drexel Burnham Lambert. His wealth management experience has also included roles with Dynasty Private Wealth, Sage Capital, and Lebenthal Asset Management. This combination of institutional market experience and personal financial advisory work gives Ron a broad perspective on how investment decisions, market conditions, business growth, and risk can affect long-term wealth. Ron focuses on helping clients make informed financial decisions while building portfolios and financial plans that can remain resilient through changing economic and market environments. For entrepreneurs and business owners, his work extends beyond simply growing business revenue to understanding how to diversify wealth, manage financial risk, generate income, and protect the assets they have worked to build. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and earned an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Outside of his professional work, Ron is an avid tennis player and sports enthusiast and serves on the Investment Committee for the Binghamton University Foundation. Matt Hunter – Executive Leadership Coach & Author of Tough Enough: How to Lead a Team to Greatness Without Being a Jerk And by the way, you can decouple the toughness from behaving like a jerk from being disrespectful to your people. Matt Hunter is an executive leadership coach, entrepreneur, and author who works with founders and CEOs to grow their businesses, build winning cultures, and become more effective leaders. He brings two decades of experience founding, leading, and coaching companies and now advises leaders of fast growing and later stage businesses, including companies backed by venture firms such as Andreessen Horowitz, Accel, and NEA. His clients represent companies with a combined market value in the tens of billions of dollars, and his work is expanding to include public companies and elite sports teams. Before becoming an executive coach, Matt was an entrepreneur and company builder himself. He co-founded Turnstyle, a technology company that used WiFi data to help businesses better understand and engage customers. Turnstyle was acquired by Yelp in 2017. Matt later joined Founders Pledge, eventually serving as President and U.S. CEO. Founders Pledge is a global community of entrepreneurs who commit a portion of their personal proceeds from successful companies to charitable causes. The organization has now recorded more than $12.9 billion in charitable commitments, with more than $1.7 billion already deployed. Matt’s experience as both a founder and organizational leader gives his coaching a practical foundation rooted in the challenges executives encounter while building and scaling companies. Matt’s leadership approach draws from a wide range of disciplines, including negotiation, organizational behavior, communication, psychology, executive coaching, athletic performance, and personal development. He has studied approaches associated with the Harvard Negotiation Project, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Nonviolent Communication, the Conscious Leadership Group, the Co-Active Training Institute, and other leadership and coaching traditions. He also brings lessons from his own athletic background in college basketball, competitive golf, and endurance sports. Across these influences, his focus remains highly practical: helping leaders set clearer standards, handle difficult conversations, make better decisions, and create cultures capable of sustained high performance. Matt is the co-author, with executive coach John Baird, of the forthcoming Tough Enough: How to Lead a Team to Greatness Without Being a Jerk. The book challenges the idea that leaders must choose between demanding exceptional performance and treating people with humanity. Matt and John argue for a form of leadership that is firm, fair, respectful, and appropriately demanding. Drawing on decades of coaching founders, CEOs, and senior executives, they introduce seven leadership habits and a Toughness Spectrum designed to help leaders recognize when they need to push harder, when they need greater compassion, and how to maintain high standards without creating a destructive culture. Tough Enough is scheduled for publication by Basic Venture on September 29, 2026.

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  Episode #2869

  September 30, 2026 – The Business Catcher Nir Zavaro and Artificial Intimacy Dr. Sherry Turkle

  Sep 29, 202654 min

  Nir Zavaro – Business Storyteller, Keynote Speaker and Author of F*ck the Slides: Creating A Winning Pitch Using Storytelling Techniques And how to do the most important thing, understand that we do not communicate through data. We 1st and foremost communicate through emotion. And then the experiences we had. And then we are able to read in between the lines, something AI is still incapable of doing. And we only lastly use data to convince us that what we feel is actually what is happening. Nir Zavaro is a business storyteller, keynote speaker, entrepreneur, author, and creator of The Business Catcher, a methodology designed to help companies connect their brand, messaging, marketing, sales, and customer journey into a unified system. For more than 20 years, Nir has worked across sales, marketing, branding, entrepreneurship, and storytelling, helping founders, executives, and organizations communicate their value more clearly. Today, he works primarily with B2B enterprise and mid market companies and delivers keynotes and workshops around the world on storytelling, pitching, branding, marketing, and sales. He has spoken and taught in more than 30 countries. Nir began his career in sales and marketing, including the unusual challenge of selling snowboards in a country with roughly ten months of sunshine. He later worked as a marketing manager, brand manager, and CMO before founding Streetwise, his creative sales and marketing agency, in 2011. Streetwise grew into a seven figure agency and worked with hundreds of companies and brands in Israel and internationally. Nir has worked with organizations including Microsoft and Unilever, as well as startups, technology companies, accelerators, and entrepreneurs. His career has also included launching multiple businesses, creating a software platform, working with food and beverage ventures, and mentoring entrepreneurs through organizations such as Techstars and WeWork. Teaching has become another significant part of Nir’s career. Since 2014, he has taught branding, marketing, entrepreneurship, and venture creation at universities and colleges while also working directly with founders on their pitches and business stories. His approach is built around the idea that storytelling is not simply a presentation technique. It is a practical business skill that influences how customers understand a brand, how salespeople communicate value, how founders attract investors, and how organizations create emotional connections with their audiences. His current work through The Business Catcher focuses on identifying where brand, marketing, and sales have become disconnected and creating a clearer story that can be consistently used across the business. Nir is the author of Fck the Slides: Creating a Winning Pitch Using Storytelling Techniques*, published in November 2023. The book presents a four step methodology for developing compelling pitches before worrying about presentation design. Rather than beginning with slides, Nir teaches founders, salespeople, executives, and students to clarify the story, understand the audience, determine the desired response, and practice communicating the message effectively. He is also the author of two novels, making Fck the Slides* his third book. His broader message is that data and information may explain an idea, but people make decisions based on what they understand, remember, and feel. Better storytelling, therefore, is not merely about giving better presentations. It can become a measurable advantage in sales, fundraising, marketing, leadership, and business growth. Dr. Sherry Turkle – Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT and Author of Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines I mean, social media came after our attention and chatbots are coming after our capacity for attachment. And that capacity for attachment is the bedrock of our being human. Sherry Turkle is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the founding director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. A social scientist and licensed clinical psychologist, she has spent decades studying the psychological and cultural effects of technology and the evolving relationship between people and machines. Her work began during the early personal computer era and has expanded to examine online identity, mobile technology, social networking, sociable robots, and, most recently, generative artificial intelligence. She received a joint doctorate in sociology and personality psychology from Harvard University. Turkle is one of the most influential scholars examining how technology changes the way people think about themselves, communicate with one another, and form relationships. Her books include The Second Self, Life on the Screen, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, and the memoir The Empathy Diaries. Across this body of work, she has explored how digital technologies can expand human possibilities while also changing expectations around attention, conversation, empathy, solitude, and intimacy. Her research is particularly concerned with what happens when technologies designed to serve people begin to occupy roles previously filled by other human beings. Her forthcoming book, Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines, examines the rapidly growing use of artificial intelligence chatbots as companions, confidants, advisers, therapists, and even romantic partners. Turkle argues that the central question is not simply whether machines can convincingly simulate empathy or affection, but what happens to people when simulated intimacy begins to feel sufficient. She explores the appeal of AI companions that are always available, attentive, agreeable, and free of the demands that come with human relationships. At the same time, she warns that relying on machines for emotional connection may change our expectations of friendship, love, care, and empathy. The book is scheduled for publication by Little, Brown and Company on September 29, 2026. Turkle’s scholarship has earned numerous honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship, and Harvard University’s Centennial Medal. She is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Through her research, writing, teaching, and public commentary, she continues to challenge audiences to think beyond what new technologies can do and consider what using them may encourage us to become. Her work on artificial intelligence extends a question she has pursued throughout her career: as our machines become more capable of imitating human behavior, how do we protect and strengthen the distinctly human capacities for conversation, empathy, relationships, and care?

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  Episode #2868

  September 28, 2026 – DJ Self Born Gregg Davis and Curvion Blue Josh Troy

  Sep 27, 202654 min

  DJ Self Born – CEO of G2 Productions and Author of SELF BORN: How I Made a Million Dollars as a DJ… And Built a System Anyone Can Use! Nobody can find your success for you or give you your happiness so you you’ve got to lock it all down yourself. Gregg Davis, professionally known as DJ Self Born, is a DJ, music producer, entrepreneur, author, and partner in G2 Productions with more than three decades of experience in music, nightlife, entertainment, and business. A native of Chicago who later established himself in Miami, he built his career through live performances, touring, music production, event creation, and ownership rather than relying on a single source of income. His career has included touring and performing alongside artists such as Wu-Tang Clan and Special Ed, producing music for Chicago hip hop group Abstract Mindstate, and creating a long running presence in Miami’s nightlife and entertainment community. DJ Self Born became particularly well known in Miami through Classic Sundays at Love/Hate Lounge in South Beach. After helping turn the event into one of the venue’s strongest nights, he eventually took over the location and developed the concept as what he called the world’s first DJ Bar. His work has also included serving as an official DJ and music coordinator connected with VH1’s Master of the Mix and providing music for corporate and entertainment events. As a producer, he later worked with Abstract Mindstate on the Kanye West produced album Dreams Still Inspire, providing scratches and contributing to the group’s creative work. Beyond music, Gregg has expanded his entrepreneurial experience into other industries. He currently serves as Chief Operating Officer of Virtual Psychiatric Care, a telepsychiatry company founded by Pascale Davis, where he brings experience in operations, team management, brand development, and niche marketing. His current biography also identifies him as Vice President of Experience for MOORS Brewing Co. These roles reflect a broader philosophy that creative professionals should look beyond individual gigs and develop ownership, systems, partnerships, and business assets that can continue producing value over time. He is the author of SELF BORN: How I Made a Million Dollars as a DJ… And Built a System Anyone Can Use!, published by Self Born Music in 2026. Rather than presenting his career simply as a music memoir, the book uses more than 30 years of experience to explain how creative professionals can turn talent into a sustainable business. Gregg emphasizes controlling infrastructure, building direct relationships with customers and audiences, reducing dependence on outside platforms, developing multiple revenue streams, and moving from selling labor to creating leverage and ownership. His central message is especially relevant to entrepreneurs and creators who depend heavily on social media or other platforms they do not control: build the systems, audience relationships, and business assets that allow the career to survive even when the platform changes. Josh Troy – CEO of Curvion Blue This is a class to teach you how to own a business. I’m the only one in the entire classroom that already owns one. And so if you’re gonna fail me because I’ve already done the thing that you’re trying to teach people and I have a successful business meeting, then you can go ahead and fail me. I’m not interested in your grade. Josh Troy is the CEO of Curvion Blue, a revenue operations and sales infrastructure company that helps businesses build more predictable and scalable revenue engines. His work focuses on the systems underneath successful sales organizations, including CRM architecture, pipeline management, sales recruiting, training, performance management, outbound prospecting, artificial intelligence, and revenue analytics. Curvion Blue works with companies that already have demonstrated demand but need stronger infrastructure to scale efficiently. Rather than treating sales growth primarily as a matter of hiring better salespeople, Josh emphasizes building systems that allow good people to perform consistently. Josh began his entrepreneurial career in his early twenties when he launched a video marketing agency and built the business primarily through outbound prospecting. He later expanded into direct response marketing, paid acquisition, and high ticket sales, gaining experience with both outbound and inbound customer acquisition. Those experiences eventually shifted his attention away from individual sales tactics and toward the operating infrastructure that determines whether a sales organization can scale. He became particularly interested in CRM design, sales forecasting, compensation plans, performance measurement, recruiting, onboarding, and the management systems that make revenue less dependent on any one salesperson or founder. That focus ultimately led Josh into revenue operations and the company that became Curvion Blue. Josh and his team say they have hired and managed more than 1,000 sales representatives across a range of high ticket sales environments. His current work includes building sales teams, designing outbound operations, implementing CRM systems, developing management scorecards, improving sales compensation structures, and using AI powered call analysis to identify coaching opportunities and performance gaps. Curvion Blue also builds custom AI based revenue tools that analyze pipeline activity, customer interactions, rep performance, and conversion data while keeping human managers involved in the decision making process. A central theme in Josh’s approach is that companies often blame salespeople for problems that are actually caused by weak systems. When follow up is inconsistent, pipelines are poorly managed, managers lack useful data, or training depends on tribal knowledge, adding more salespeople may simply make the underlying problems larger. Josh teaches founders to look at sales as an operating system, measuring capacity, conversion, sales cycles, lead flow, rep development, and accountability together rather than as isolated numbers. His broader goal at Curvion Blue is to help companies create revenue organizations that can continue performing without requiring the founder or a single star salesperson to hold everything together.

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  Episode #2867

  September 25, 2026 – The Perfect Portfolio Mark Quann and Gift of Reinvention Jay Sargeant

  Sep 24, 202654 min

  Mark Quann – CEO of The Perfect Portfolio and Author of Be Smart Pay Zero Taxes: Use the Buy, Borrow, Die Strategy to Get Rich and Stay Rich Inflation makes me wealthy, and I build my wealth without having to work. Mark Quann is the Founder and CEO of The Perfect Portfolio, a financial education company focused on helping individuals and families better understand investing, taxes, debt, and long term wealth creation. He is also an entrepreneur, investor, financial educator, and author who has spent more than two decades studying how money, investing, and the tax system work. Through The Perfect Portfolio, Mark teaches strategies involving stocks, real estate, life insurance, cryptocurrency, precious metals, and the use of debt as part of a broader wealth building plan. His goal is to make financial concepts that are often associated with wealthy families and professional investors understandable to ordinary Americans. Mark grew up in a blue collar family in Canada, where money was often tight. His father worked as a brick mason and his mother stayed home to raise the family. Frustrated by how little he was learning about money in school, Mark became interested at an early age in understanding how people build financial security. He later attended college to study business and financial advising before moving to California in 1999. His early financial mistakes, including accumulating credit card and student loan debt, pushed him to study investing and personal finance more seriously. He went on to work as an insurance investigator and spent approximately 13 years as an Investment Adviser Representative before shifting his focus toward financial education and entrepreneurship. In 2018, Mark founded REMii Group, Inc., followed by The Perfect Portfolio in 2019. The company teaches what Mark calls the Five Pillars of the Perfect Portfolio, which include stocks and exchange traded funds, real estate, life insurance, cryptocurrency, and precious metals. A central theme of his work is the “Buy, Borrow, Die” strategy, which describes how some wealthy investors hold appreciating assets, borrow against them rather than selling them, and use estate planning rules to transfer wealth. Mark emphasizes financial education and understanding the tax consequences of different strategies rather than relying exclusively on traditional retirement planning approaches. Mark is the author of four personal finance books, including Rich Man Poor Bank: What the Banks Don’t Want You to Know About Money, Top 10 Ways to Avoid Taxes: A Guide to Wealth Accumulation, Top 25 Ways an IUL Can Secure Your Financial Future, and Be Smart Pay Zero Taxes: Use the Buy, Borrow, Die Strategy to Get Rich and Stay Rich. Published by Humanix Books in March 2025, Be Smart Pay Zero Taxes presents his S.M.A.R.T. framework, which stands for Strategies to Maximize Assets and Reduce Taxes, and explains how investors can combine asset ownership, borrowing, tax planning, and long term investing. Through his books, courses, media appearances, and educational programs, Mark‘s broader mission is to improve financial literacy and help people make more informed decisions about building, protecting, and transferring wealth. Jay Sargeant – Keynote Speaker, Reinvention Coach & Founder of The Shift Project and Author of Shift: The Gift of Reinvention The major ingredient for failure is short timelines and over expectations. Jay Sargeant is a keynote speaker, reinvention coach, entrepreneur, author, and Founder of The Shift Project, where he helps people recognize when a chapter of life has ended and develop the courage and clarity to begin another. Across nearly eight decades, Jay has reinvented himself through seven distinct careers, including work as a tennis professional, entrepreneur, software retailer, corporate trainer, speaker, author, and coach. His work today focuses on helping people understand that reinvention is not simply something that happens to us. It is a skill that can be developed through adaptability, curiosity, persistence, communication, and a willingness to act before everything feels certain. Jay has spent more than four decades studying and teaching communication, persuasion, leadership, entrepreneurship, and human behavior. One of the largest chapters of his business career involved helping build a network marketing organization that eventually grew to approximately 675,000 distributors in North America. He has also worked in franchising, sales leadership, consulting, corporate training, and business development. Rather than following a single professional path, Jay repeatedly moved into new industries and roles, often without conventional credentials or prior experience in the field. Those transitions became the foundation for his belief that a person’s accumulated experience can become an advantage when it is applied to a new opportunity. Through The Shift Project, Jay teaches people how to identify the patterns and strengths that have followed them throughout their lives, recognize when it may be time for change, and move into a new chapter with greater intention. His approach emphasizes identity, purpose, confidence, courage, opportunity, strategy, and action. A central idea in his work is that people are not truly starting over when they reinvent themselves because they bring the skills, relationships, judgment, mistakes, and experience of every previous chapter with them. He is particularly interested in helping people who believe they may be too old, too established, or insufficiently qualified to make a significant change. Jay is the author of Shift: The Gift of Reinvention, a book that combines stories from his own unconventional career with practical lessons about personal and professional transformation. Drawing on successes, failures, unexpected opportunities, and the decisions that redirected his life, Jay argues that reinvention is rarely the result of one dramatic moment. More often, it begins with a conversation, a new relationship, an uncomfortable realization, or a willingness to pursue an opportunity before the entire path is visible. His broader message is simple: your past may help explain who you are, but it does not have to determine who you become next.

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  Episode #2866

  September 23, 2026 – WebOracle Michael Trkolta and Disaster Avoidance Experts Dr. Gleb Tsipursky

  Sep 22, 202655 min

  Michael Trkolta – Managing Director of WebOracle Americans aren’t scared to fall down and pick themselves up, dust themselves up and keep moving. And that’s a that’s a big thing to be able to do. Michael Trkolta is the Managing Director of WebOracle, an Australian digital marketing agency that helps businesses build sustainable growth through digital strategy, SEO, paid advertising, branding, web development, and customer acquisition. With more than 25 years of experience spanning publishing, marketing, business operations, strategic planning, product development, and digital technology, Michael brings a practical business perspective to the increasingly complex world of online marketing. He is known for helping clients move beyond isolated marketing tactics and instead build strong digital foundations where strategy, messaging, data, and execution work together to produce measurable results. Michael began his career in print with MYD Publishing, where he played an important role in building a readership of more than 1.5 million people across Australia. As the business world moved increasingly online, he applied his marketing and operational experience to digital strategy and ultimately WebOracle, working with companies across a wide range of industries in Australia and internationally. His approach emphasizes education as much as execution, helping business owners understand why their digital strategies work rather than simply selling them individual services. Michael focuses particularly on the fundamentals behind successful SEO and paid advertising, the relationship between brand and customer acquisition, and the importance of creating marketing systems that can compound over time. Through WebOracle, he continues to help businesses cut through changing technologies and marketing trends to focus on the strategy, discipline, and execution required for lasting growth. Dr. Gleb Tsipursky – CEO of Disaster Avoidance Experts A recent study out from MIT shows that 95% of AI pilots fail to scale. Dr. Gleb Tsipursky is the CEO of Disaster Avoidance Experts, a future of work consultancy that helps organizations improve artificial intelligence adoption, decision making, and organizational change. Known as the “Office Whisperer,” he works with executives and leadership teams on the human side of technology transformation, particularly the resistance, cognitive biases, cultural obstacles, and management challenges that can prevent promising AI initiatives from producing results. His clients have included organizations such as Aflac, Applied Materials, Honda, Nationwide, Wells Fargo, Xerox, and other large companies and institutions. Gleb brings more than two decades of consulting and coaching experience together with an extensive academic background in behavioral science and decision making. He spent more than 15 years in academia, including faculty roles at The Ohio State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research has focused on behavioral economics, cognitive biases, decision making, risk management, and how individuals and organizations respond to uncertainty and change. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a master’s degree from Harvard University, and a bachelor’s degree from New York University. He is the author of seven books on decision making, leadership, workplace change, and artificial intelligence. His newest book, The Psychology of AI Adoption at Work: From Resistance to Results, was published by Georgetown University Press in September 2026. Drawing on behavioral science, more than 100 consulting projects, and more than 50 interviews with executives and leaders from organizations including Microsoft, Uber, and Experian, the book examines why AI transformations often fail even when companies have invested heavily in technology. Gleb argues that the biggest obstacles are frequently human rather than technical, including employee anxiety, resistance to change, status quo bias, weak psychological safety, and organizational cultures that make experimentation difficult. The book provides leaders with practical methods for increasing employee engagement, designing effective AI training, building trust, managing ethical and operational risks, and turning small AI experiments into scalable changes in everyday work. Gleb’s broader message is that successful AI transformation depends on more than selecting the right tools. Leaders must understand how people make decisions, why employees resist unfamiliar technologies, and how management practices can turn anxiety into participation. His work has appeared in hundreds of articles and interviews, including in Harvard Business Review, Fortune, USA Today, Time, Business Insider, and other major business and news outlets.

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