Transformation Nation

Kara Goldin is the Founder and CEO of Hint, Inc., best known for its award-winning Hint water, the leading unsweetened flavored water.

She has received numerous accolades, including being named EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2017 Northern California and one of InStyle’s 2019 Badass 50.  Previously, Kara was VP of Shopping Partnerships at America Online. She hosts the podcast The Kara Goldin Show.

Her first book, Undaunted:  Overcoming Doubts and Doubters, was released October 2020 and is now a WSJ and Amazon Best Seller. You can get it at www.drinkhint.com/TransformationNation

In this episode we discuss:

· Real stories about her own fears and doubts, the challenges she encountered and what she did to overcome them to eventually build a great business and a life she loves.

· How trying to get healthy helped her identify a market need and started her down path to building Hint

· Shares why it is so important to always be learning

· Her story about putting bookshelves together with Jeff Bezos

Follow Kara on all social handles @KaraGoldin

Mark is a Forbes Featured TEDx keynote speaker, on Amazon Prime's Docuseries the Social Movement, and is a podcast host interviewing Billionaires, New York Times Bestselling Authors and World-Class human beings on his Global Top 100 Humans 2.0 podcast.

He wasn’t always like this though. Once a upon a time he couldn't make direct eye contact with anyone and suffered from social anxiety stemming from various health issues.

He was not living the life he was strategically designed to live, and decided that he wanted to turn his life around. The results have been profound.

In this conversation we discuss:

* Facing racism early in his life

* Hitting rock bottom and how that drove his turnaround

* Escaping his mental prison

* The power of experimentation

Learn more about Mark at https://www.markmetry.com/

Kim Perell's story is remarkable. She started a business from her kitchen and grew it to $100 million in sales within a few years. She sold her company, became the CEO of the merged company (Adconion Direct), and eventually led the sale of Adconion to Amobee for $235 million.

She is an active angel investor, investing in more than 90 startups, of which 10 were acquired for over $500 million in value.

In this high energy conversation with Kim we discuss:

* Her fascinating transformation story, progressing from a startup founder to CEO of an international company and successful angel investor.

* Her book “The Execution Factor: The One Skill that Drives Success” and how it can help you bring ideas into reality, move from dreaming into doing.

* The five factors that make up the “execution factor” and pave the road to success.

* How these five factors can improve both your personal and professional life

Learn more about Kim at:

www.kimperell.com

www.thesidehustleaccelerator.com

Today we talk to Sean Price, VP Industry Solutions at Inphinity and Chief Strategist for Perfect Image. Sean is an innovative and successful industry leader in analytics, delivering transformational and award-winning solutions across public sector and healthcare – well documented in his Linkedin feeds with his best pal #datadog!

Possessing a natural ability to understand and bring technology, people and processes together, combined with a passionate, inspirational and fearless delivery style; a strong reputation and professional following has been built.

Topics discussed with Sean in this episode:

* Piecing together things that don’t seem related

* Finding harmony in your personal and professional life

* How his diverse experience has inspired him to be grateful for what he has

In this episode Jordan and Jason speak with Entrepreneur, Realtor, Coach, Speaker, & Mentor Jimmy Rex.

Jimmy is most known for his career in real estate during the past 15 years. In that time frame, he's sold over 2000 properties and has solidified himself as one of the top real estate agents in the country.

Outside of Real Estate, Jimmy created one of the top business podcasts "The Jimmy Rex Show" that to date has been running weekly for just under two years and has been listened to over 10 million times throughout 165 episodes.

In 2019 Jimmy released his first book, "The Next Wave of Influence in Real Estate," and it immediately hit the bestseller list on Amazon in multiple categories.

Topics discussed with Jimmy in this episode:

* Creating a life by design

* How failure is a critical piece of the formula for success

* The roles vision and execution play in achieving success

Learn more about Jimmy at:

https://www.mrjimmyrex.com/

https://www.instagram.com/mrjimmyrex/

Jason and Jordan recap season 1 by discussing their favorite moments and biggest takeaways.

In this episode Jason & Jordan tackle the most common and challenging leadership hurdles to creating a successful & influential analytics strategy, program, and team.

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In this episode Jason and Jordan lay out practical strategies and steps to help in the formation and implementation of a business strategy that is powered by data and analytics.

Jason and Jordan dig into why analytics has to be on the strategic agenda of business leaders. Jason has implemented greenfield analytics teams in numerous organizations, directly leading to millions of dollars in top and bottom line growth. In this episode Jordan interviews Jason to get his thoughts on what it takes to create an analytics team that has a voice at the strategy table and can help directly drive financial results.

Jordan and Jason break down the practical steps you can start taking today to build your data literacy muscles. Topics covered include 1) The 3 C’s of data literacy: curiosity, creativity, critical thinking  2) Why critical thinking is so important for data literacy development  3) why there isn't an "out of the box" data literacy solution 4) common pitfalls to avoid and 5) why you don't need deep technical skills to be data literate.