Excuse the Disruption with Dan Cox

Before Josh Taekman founded the Beverage and Nutrition Company EBOOST he started as a glorified intern at Bad Boy Records under Sean Combs (Puff Daddy).  Josh has a great story of taking chances, working in the hip hop industry, turning marketing ideas into agencies, to developing an award winning Beverage company. 

For more info on Josh and EBOOST click the links

Steven is the founder and CEO of one of the fastest growing direct to consumer clothing brands in the mens space.  Steven has an amazing story of leaving the agency world and moving home to start from absolute zero in the garment space to start Cuts Clothing.  If you have ever had an idea or wanted to start something on your own, his story is super inspiring, and is full of true resilience, drive, hard work and blind faith around succeeding.  

If you want to learn more about Steve or Cuts use these links.

Hope you enjoy!

Tucker is the Founder and CEO of Imlak'esh Organics who is literally bringing superfoods to the people.  Following a calling he had to go to Peru, he ended up in the Amazon for a year studying plant medicine to then bringing back some of the best superfoods he could find.  Tucker is an extremely passionate person who is living a mission to support superfood farmers/harvesters, their land and the people consuming their food.  For more info on Imlak'esh check out

imlakeshorganics.com

@imlakesh

Nathan Garrison found a problem in the ocean sports space that has created fear in many and has kept even more from entering the water.  A fear and the danger around swimming, surfing, scuba diving, snorkeling, spear fishing, etc in the ocean...Sharks.  After being laid off from an outdoors company creating content and his friend being bit by a shark, he went down the path to find a solution to help minimize the risk of being bit by sharks in the ocean.  Its a great, "problem, figure it out, find a solution" story that I think you will enjoy.  As always if you could rate and review the podcast it would mean the world.  For more on Nathan and Sharkbanz click the link below 

@sharkbanz/

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Blake Cook (aka Blackbeard) was blown up and severely injured in Afghanistan during OEF.  After spending 2 years in rehab learning how to walk and talk again, he joined a Cartel & Gang SWAT team where he spent 5 years dealing with PTSD & survivors gilt which lead to a night where he put a gun to his head to take his life.  He didn't end up pulling the trigger and now spends his off time from service helping other veterans, police and first responders with PTSD.  

If you or anyone you know is an Active Service Member, Veteran, Police officer or First Responder, please share this with them, their friends and family.  They may not need to hear it, but there is a good chance someone they know may need this.  

For more info on Blake or if you need to reach him the best place is his instagram @blackbeard._._

Brandin Cohen CEO & Founder of Liquid IV is on a mission to Change The World.  He founded the company with the idea to help the world hydrate better and create major change.  His story is an amazing journey from selling one stick of Liquid IV at a time in a single Whole Foods, to running one of the most iconic businesses in the nutrition space gaining the investment of some of the most influential people in culture today including; Gary Vee, Scooter Braun, DJ Khaled Steve Aoki, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Kevin Heart, Kendal Jenner, and Justin Bieber to mention a few.  Brandin has some great advise for those looking to create something special and how to stay the path when odds are against you. 

To learn more about Brandin and Liquid IV use the links for each.  As always would love your feedback on the Instagram post for this podcast. Let me know what you look away or learned from it and if you have any follow up questions.  If you could share it, it would mean the world.

Nate Checketts has an amazing story and mindset around building one of the most disruptive companies in the Mens Clothing space.  He built the brand around the idea of being the absolute best in the category.  His story is a great entrepreneurs tail that has lead to the growth of this iconic company.  In this episode he tells his story, gives some great advise for business and life and talks about his journey and involvement as a Type 1 Diabetic and the Chairman of Beyond Type 1.  

As always let me know what you think of this episode by commenting on the instragam post about it @danielgcox

For more info on Rhone, Nate, or Beyond Type 1 click on these links.

Kasey Stewart is a creative, Guinness World Record holder and embodies the idea that you can create the life you want.  Kasey and I met on our season (9) of the Bachelorette over 6 years ago and recently got back in touch when he moved back to LA.  He spent the majority of his professional career as a creative director but was not fulfilled.  In 2017 he decided to sell everything he owned, buy some camera equipment, and spend a year traveling around the world while teaching himself how to film, create and post produce.   The year culminated with him achieving the Guinness World Record for traveling to all 7 continents in the shortest amount of time.

 For more info on Kasey click here

Bryan Mineo is the founder of SMOG (Swim Mechanic Ocean Group) who has created a community across North America of Swimmers from Olympic Athletes to first time ocean swimmers.  He truly embodies the concept of "doing what you love for a living."  Bryan started SMOG with out charging anyone for over 2 years because he just loved brining people together around a common interest he loved; ocean swimming.  SMOG has now grown into a extremely loyal community, very successful business and a non profit with groups all across North America including a number through CA, HI, TX, FL, ME and Mexico with more in the works.  

If you are struggling to figure out how to "do what you love" for a living or have an idea you want to bring to market but not sure if its what you really want to do, this is a great episode to listen to.  Its also an amazing episode if you have always wanted to swim or start a new sport.  A lot of great life, athletic and business advise in this episodes that you will enjoy and get a lot out of.  For more information on Bryan and SMOG use these links.

Blake Pinsker is the Brand Director of MVMT, host of Dare To Be Legendary Podcast, and an amazing Keynote Speaker and social media/influencer ninja.

In this Episode Blake walks us through the path that led him to head up brand development at MVMT and the social media and influencer strategy that became legendary for D2C brands across all categories.  He helped build MVMTs community to over a million follows and help grow the brand which eventually led to their acquisition by the Movado Group this last year. 

Whether you're an entrepreneur, influencer, or interested in either, you will get a lot of value out of Blakes stores and advice.  To learn more about Blake, follow him and subscribe to his podcast below.

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