Learn about the fishing rod business and what makes a great light tackle saltwater fishing rod. About Ron Buffington and JLS Rods Ron is a light tackle charter guide and CEO and Founder of JLS Rods. JLS Rods started as a custom rod company and while they still offer custom rods they have now turned to manufacturing their own line of saltwater fishing rods.  At JLS all rod blanks are made in the USA as well as all and assembly. JLS makes saltwater fishing rods for serious anglers wanting a...

Thomas dropped into our studio and gives the step-by-step on how he and his co-founder took Midday Superfoods from Zero to One and thousands of customers. About Thomas Lundgard Thomas Lundgard grew up in Half Moon Bay, California, where he began surfing at age 15 at the legendary local surf spot called Mavericks.   He's a serial entrepreneur.  He and his brother co-own Tommy Tsunami Surf School located in Half Moon Bay, CA , he is an avid cryptocurrency investor and Co-Founder of Midday...

Learn how to build big relationships by hosting small cocktail parties. ABOUT NICK GRAY Nick Gray is an entrepreneur and best-selling author living in Austin, Texas. He started and sold two successful companies: Flight Display Systems and Museum Hack. Nick is the author of The 2-Hour Cocktail Party, a step-by-step handbook that teaches you how to build big relationships by hosting small gatherings. Over 75,000 people have watched his TEDx talk about why he hates most museums. He’s been...

Ali talks about what he and other early stage investors look for in companies who are raising money for their early stage companies. ABOUT ALI JAMAL Ali Jamal is a Venture Investor, Product Leader, Growth Expert, Data Scientist, and Corporate Strategist. He is the Founder of First Check Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in early stage startups across the globe. First Check Ventures has supported and invested in more than 130 startups from more than 30 countries including the US,...

Learn how Alexandra got into urban hiking, started a company, wrote two books on urban hiking and some cool things to see on San Francisco's urban trails. ABOUT ALEXANDRA KENIN Alexandra is a Studio Chief at Wordsmithie, Inc., a content and design agency that serves clients in the tech, finance, healthcare, and other industries. She also runs Urban Hiker SF, a San Francisco-based tour company that explores the city’s stairways, hills, and trails. Through her experience building her...

Poker strategy isn't just for winning the World Series of Poker, a back room high stakes poker game in Macau, or a big online poker tournament.  The game of poker mimics life in the sense that it forces you to make decisions without having complete information.  After playing millions of hands over the past 14 years, and mastering the art of taking calculated risks, Alec has developed an unparalleled ability to apply the skills he learned in poker to evaluate situations in life and...

Learn about raising money for your startup, how to raise money for your Pre-Seed and Seed round from investors and a story about how Martin lost $500m and STILL won. ABOUT MARTIN TOBIAS Martin Tobias is the Managing Partner and Founder of Incisive Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing in the first institutional round of technology companies that reduce friction at scale.  Martin was previously at Accenture and Microsoft and is a former Venture Partner at...

Jim visited our studio to talk about how he, his team and the Synapse School community built a school from the ground up with an innovate approach to education. The best way to describe what Synapse is doing is educating Change Makers by focusing keenly on Social-Emotional Learning, innovation and leading edge academics. Their teachers, who are as committed as they are remarkable, build classroom communities and relationships based on trust, an essential ingredient in teaching and learning,...

Life may knock you down. Correction, life will knock you down from time to time.  It will kick you in the gut, kick you to the curb, leave you behind. BUT, you can break through these hard times.  In this episode you learn how you can overcome hard times, build resilience and how you can prepare yourself so when life does knock you down, you get up and kick its butt. Short episode, valuable lesson. This is a Weekend Edition: Lessons worth listening. The episode is from one of my weekly...

You get the framework to use to get someone or a group of people to do what you want. It's not as hard as you think. You get the framework and 3 examples of how people implemented it to get people to do what they wanted. Short episode, valuable lesson. This is a Weekend Edition: Lessons worth listening.  The episode is from my email newsletter that I write for over 22k readers that was sent on July 9, 2023.  Subscribe below. It's free. CONNECT WITH US Claim Your Weekly EDGE...

Building a personal holding company is as old as Warren Buffet and as new as AI these days. Yong-Soo shares how he grew his personal holding company to $20 million in revenue in 8 years and how you can do it too. LINKS  First Class Founders https://firstclassfounder.com  ABOUT YONG-SOO CHUNG Yong-Soo is a serial entrepreneur bootstrapping his business from $0 to $20m in over 8 years. Now, he's on a mission to help founders and creators build an audience, create irresistible product offers,...

A million dollar that you want to learn so you too can make a million dollars. Short episode, valuable lesson. This is a Weekend Edition: Lessons worth listening. The episode is from one of my weekly email newsletters. Subscribe below. It's free. CONNECT WITH US Claim Your Weekly EDGE Newsletter. It's FREE. Written by Brandon with insights giving you an edge to win in your business and your life. Over 24,200 listeners and counting! -> https://edge.ck.page/bea5b3fda6 OTHER GREAT...

New evidence of a second bullet changes the story of the John F. Kennedy assassination. We discuss the significance. About the Conversation In John Kuhn's 20 year career in Army Special Operations he has personally been on the front lines of world events and has been required to know history and politics in a way that not many have because of the operational nature of his profession. He is one of the most well read people I know and we always have enlightening conversations together on a...

You know the t-shirt guns that they use to shoot t-shirts at halftime? Well, this is a lesson I learned from about killing myself in the t-shirt gun frenzy. Short episode, valuable lesson. This is a Weekend Edition: Lessons worth listening. The episode is from my email newsletter sent on July 16, 2023.  Subscribe below. It's free. CONNECT WITH US Claim Your Weekly EDGE Newsletter. It's FREE. Written by Brandon with insights giving you an edge to win in your business and your life. Over...

The story of one of the best hamburgers in the San Francisco Bay Area. ABOUT GILL SEMA Gill Sesma is the owner of SHMASH’D LLC. A mobile food company that pops up all around the bay area making smash burgers. Gill started SHMASH’D in August 2021, by mid 2022 he said goodbye to his construction job and went full time and never looked back. EPISODE LINKS Shmash'd Burger on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/shmashd_ CONNECT WITH US Claim Your Weekly EDGE Newsletter. It's FREE. Written by...

Bryan shares his story how he went from a South Central Los Angles Police Officer to  real estate investor. This episode was originally recorded in 2019 and was never published for some reason.  We're publishing it now. Enjoy! ABOUT BRYAN SEGAL Bryan made a name for himself when we quit the LAPD, took a real estate course with his wife Maira and they did 42 flips between March to December of 2016.  In 2017 they did 88 and never stopped doing over 100 deals in the following years.  Bryan...

Learn what etiquette you should be using in different situations in the times we live in. CONNECT WITH US Claim Your Weekly EDGE Newsletter. It's FREE. Written by Brandon with insights giving you an edge to win in your business and your life. Over 24,200 listeners and counting! -> https://edge.ck.page/bea5b3fda6 OTHER GREAT PODCASTS ON THE THE BEST PODCASTS NETWORK Danielle & Brandon Show All about owning a business https://OnBusinessPodcast.com MARKETING Podcast Marketing...

A life lesson I learned from playing Soccer with Pelé  that will help you win in your business and in your life.  This is a Weekend Edition: Lessons worth listening. The episode is from my email newsletter sent on Jan 7, 2023. Subscribe below for free. CONNECT WITH US Claim Your Weekly EDGE Newsletter. It's FREE. Written by Brandon with insights giving you an edge to win in your business and your life. Over 24,200 listeners and counting! -> https://edge.ck.page/bea5b3fda6 OTHER GREAT...

Injuries don't mean you need to hang up your physical fitness activities forever.  No matter your age you can recover. Dr. Kevin Stone talks about how to  you can recover from knee injuries, ankle injuries, should injuries and the newest break throughs in modern science that will help you play forever. ABOUT DR. KEVIN STONE Kevin R. Stone, MD, is an orthopaedic surgeon at The Stone Clinic and Chairman of the Stone Research Foundation. Trained at Harvard University in both internal medicine...

I share the best investment advice I ever received that is backed up by investment research firms and the stock market performance. It changed my stock market investing and has resulted in great investment returns. It can help you! This is a Weekend Edition: Lessons worth listening. EPISODE LINKS The Intelligent Investor Rev Ed.: The Definitive Book on Value by  Investing by Benjamin Graham Best price on Amazon: https://amzn.to/44ck9a5 CONNECT WITH US Claim Your Weekly EDGE Newsletter....

We talk about how to heal childhood traumas and love traumas so you can have healthy relationships and live your best life filled with love, happiness and fulfillment. The scars from our past effect us more than we realize. Often times creating a recurring themes in the failed relationships in our lives. We dive deep into these in a conversation worth listening. ABOUT RIANA MILINE Riana  was featured in the March 14th 2023 Influencer Daily; Selected as “One of the Top Coaches to Follow in...

Daniela shares her story about how she became a professional chess player. We discuss the psychological games that go on while playing chess, how ego and greed can lead to mistakes and the importance of paying attention to the details. All of which translates over to our daily lives. A fascinating story and discussions you'll enjoy listening to. About Daniela De la Parra Daniela De la Parra is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She...

Learn about the practice of divination, including tea leaf reading, fortune telling, and card reading. We explore the concept of energy and coincidences, and how witchcraft has been used as a tool of control throughout history. Risa explains that it is not witchcraft, but rather a form of therapy that can help people figure out their issues. Learn how to listen to yourself, your hunches, and discover more outside of superstition.  ABOUT RISSA MILLER Rissa Miller is an editor, author,...

Rob is a former 5-time Canadian National Team cyclist turned successful entrepreneur.  Get the lessons he learned from racing downhill at 50mph and the world of being a professional athlete to the $1,000 he invested from his student loans and bootstrapping Outway to over $10M in sales before raising $3.2M to fuel the path to $100M+ EPISODE LINKS Outway Performance Socks https://www.outway.com ABOUT ROB FRASER Rob is a Canadian entrepreneur and the Founder/CEO of OUTWAY.  Prior to founding...