“Reinvent or DIE” with Bob Rodgers

Welcome to Episode #12 with Ruth Sherman.

In this episode, Ruth shares her incredible journey as a Master Communicator who has truly had a global impact on the world.  From the essentials required for building a Personal Brand to a Winning Formula for commanding a room and having a winning mindset, her wisdom is both powerful and inspirational.

She shares amazing techniques such as how fundamental the "art of listening" is to becoming a Great Communicator.  Also, she hammered home how important it is to connect "emotionally" with your audience.  When you connect on a deep, emotional level, you open the doors to delivery excellence!!

In the end, you will walk away with one amazing takeaway which is Great Communicators are MADE not Born!!

Quick Bio:

- Ruth works with CEOs, Celebrities and public figures looking to have a greater impact.

-  She has worked with some of the world’s largest and most prestigious companies, including Microsoft, Google, and Apple, as well as top CEOs, movie stars and international celebrities. Five of her clients have won Oscars and one, the Pulitzer Prize.

- Projects include the recently released film, The Assistant, starring Julia Garner, and Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Always, both of which are now streaming. Getting paid to watch films & TV shows is a nice perk!

- Ruth is a widely quoted expert on political and presidential communication who contends the best communicator and connector wins!

- Her latest book, SPEAKRETS®: The 30 Best, Most Effective, Most Overlooked Marketing & Personal Branding Essentials, focuses on building a commanding presence and a strong personal brand.

- Her first career was as one of a handful of successful New York jingle-singers whose voice was heard around the world on commercials such as Coca-Cola, Ford, McDonald’s and Clairol and as a backup singer for major recording artists.

- Ruth has a masters degree in speech and interpersonal communication from NYU.

GUEST Contact Details:

Website: https://www.ruthsherman.com/

IG:  https://www.instagram.com/ruth_sherman/

HOST Contact Details:

https://linktr.ee/BobRodgers

Sponsorships: off for this episode

Welcome to Episode #11 with Lauren McClerkin.

In this episode, Lauren shares with passion her early journey as a 19 yr old traveling through Europe to becoming a Master Pilates Instructor while balancing raising a young family. She shared many lessons that will be invaluable to anyone considering becoming an entrepreneur.

One of her golden lessons was realizing that you must take inventory of your strengths and weaknesses in your overall skillset. Armed with this awareness, the best approach is to seek the appropriate mentors to enable a road to success and minimizing overall business risks.

Sit back and enjoy a fantastic conversation!

Quick Bio:

- Lauren is the Founder of Conscious Strong™, a multi-certified Pilates instructor, and the owner of an award-winning North Carolina fitness studio.

- After countless hours of research on the mind-body connection, Lauren identified a simple method for helping people feel good and live their best lives by incorporating mindfulness and reflection into the physical practice of Pilates. Her unique approach combines three essential elements into a lifestyle of balance and strength.

- The Conscious Strong™ Lifestyle is designed to create physical, mental, and emotional strength and bring balance back to your body and mind while your life is in flux.  Move beyond painful and confusing life challenges to live a life that is truly healthy, inside and out. 

- She understands the challenges of balancing a busy family and career with self-care and personal growth. The Conscious Strong™ lifestyle comes out of her own journey to find balance and fulfillment in all areas of life.

GUEST Contact Details:

Website: https://consciousstrong.com/

LinkedIn / FB / IG:  @consciousstrong

HOST Contact Details:

https://linktr.ee/BobRodgers

Welcome to Episode #10 with Lorie Marrero.

After getting recognized in airports and grocery stores, doing hundreds of media interviews, and becoming a social media influencer before it was "a thing," she desired to retreat from the spotlight and help other thought leaders get their messages out there. She spent 17 years achieving exactly what speakers, authors, and experts want to do...

- Getting on the Wall Street Journal bestseller list

- Becoming a spokesperson for major brands like Goodwill, Microsoft, Walgreens, Brother, and Staples

- Speaking on high-stakes stages and webinars

- Building a large email list and social media following

- Garnering a Contributing Editor position on the masthead of a major print magazine (Woman's Day/Hearst)

- Earning dozens of "go-to" media source relationships with reporters and producers for major media outlets

- Creating a membership site that served thousands of people in 18 countries over 10 years

- Inking corporate and nonprofit partnership deals with Rubbermaid and Goodwill Industries International

- Producing 7 profitable online courses

- Manufacturing her own closet product sold at The Container Store and other retailers nationwide

- Selling portions of her business when she decided to make a change

The learning and insight she gained from these experiences is now put toward helping others reach similar goals-- whether clients need consulting and strategy or literal hands-on content production, she is the "Swiss Army knife" they need to leverage their time and efforts.

Here are some things she achieves with her clients:

- Designing online courses, including one with its own smartphone app

- Producing a webinar that attracted over 800 registrants and 320 attendees and coaching the influencer how to do their first webinar, making their slides and writing their speaker notes

- Writing and editing countless articles, lead magnets, and eBooks, along with layout/design

- A standing ovation for a high-stakes speech to a 1300-person audience--and the longest meet-and-greet line of all of the event's speaker line-up for a client who had never spoken on a big stage before. She wrote her speech and helped her rehearse it and memorize it

- A successful high-pressure TEDx talk for a physician that was science-heavy and being questioned by TED's main office for "pseudoscience"-- they worked together on-site until the last minute making slides and providing 69 scientific references to back up what was said

- Growing a client's email list from a handful of people to over 10,000 very engaged subscribers

- Project-managing development of a world-class website that took a year to build

- Writing video scripts, importing into a teleprompter, and (hands-on) directing video shoots for a client with no experience, and overseeing the editing process to completion

GUEST Contact Details:

Website: https://loriemarrero.com/

Complimentary 30 Minute Consultation Call:  https://calendly.com/loriemarrero/complimentaryconsult?back=1&month=2020-05

LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/loriemarrero/

HOST Contact Details:

https://linktr.ee/BobRodgers

Welcome to Episode #10 with Lorie Marrero.

After getting recognized in airports and grocery stores, doing hundreds of media interviews, and becoming a social media influencer before it was "a thing," she desired to retreat from the spotlight and help other thought leaders get their messages out there. She spent 17 years achieving exactly what speakers, authors, and experts want to do...

- Getting on the Wall Street Journal bestseller list

- Becoming a spokesperson for major brands like Goodwill, Microsoft, Walgreens, Brother, and Staples

- Speaking on high-stakes stages and webinars

- Building a large email list and social media following

- Garnering a Contributing Editor position on the masthead of a major print magazine (Woman's Day/Hearst)

- Earning dozens of "go-to" media source relationships with reporters and producers for major media outlets

- Creating a membership site that served thousands of people in 18 countries over 10 years

- Inking corporate and nonprofit partnership deals with Rubbermaid and Goodwill Industries International

- Producing 7 profitable online courses

- Manufacturing her own closet product sold at The Container Store and other retailers nationwide

- Selling portions of her business when she decided to make a change

The learning and insight she gained from these experiences is now put toward helping others reach similar goals-- whether clients need consulting and strategy or literal hands-on content production, she is the "Swiss Army knife" they need to leverage their time and efforts.

Here are some things she achieves with her clients:

- Designing online courses, including one with its own smartphone app

- Producing a webinar that attracted over 800 registrants and 320 attendees and coaching the influencer how to do their first webinar, making their slides and writing their speaker notes

- Writing and editing countless articles, lead magnets, and eBooks, along with layout/design

- A standing ovation for a high-stakes speech to a 1300-person audience--and the longest meet-and-greet line of all of the event's speaker line-up for a client who had never spoken on a big stage before. She wrote her speech and helped her rehearse it and memorize it

- A successful high-pressure TEDx talk for a physician that was science-heavy and being questioned by TED's main office for "pseudoscience"-- they worked together on-site until the last minute making slides and providing 69 scientific references to back up what was said

- Growing a client's email list from a handful of people to over 10,000 very engaged subscribers

- Project-managing development of a world-class website that took a year to build

- Writing video scripts, importing into a teleprompter, and (hands-on) directing video shoots for a client with no experience, and overseeing the editing process to completion

GUEST Contact Details:

Website: https://loriemarrero.com/

Complimentary 30 Minute Consultation Call:  https://calendly.com/loriemarrero/complimentaryconsult?back=1&month=2020-05

LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/loriemarrero/

HOST Contact Details:

https://linktr.ee/BobRodgers

Welcome to Episode #9 with Sam Cook.

In this episode, Sam shares his powerful journey from growing up in Belfast, N. Ireland to attending one of the world's most elite universities, the United States Military Academy at West Point.  After 13 years serving as a combat Army Officer, he made an incredible career pivot into the world of entrepreneurship.

This conversation is packed with so many seeds of risk, courage and the steadfast belief in becoming who you were meant to be:  Innovator, Creator, Storyteller...anything you want to become!!

Sam will remind you that the greatest tragedy in LIFE is your unrealized potential.  Never stop...never quit...just FORWARD.

Sam's Summary Bio:

1.  Graduated from West Point in 2000.  He went on to become a U.S. Armored Cavalry Officer where he served as the Regimental Adjutant for Colonel H.R. McMaster in the Battle of Tal Afar in 2005-2006 that was cited by President Bush as a turning point in the war. With a front row seat to history, Sam was responsible for the media messaging and writing the history of this campaign.

2.  In 2007, Sam returned to Iraq as the commander of Crazyhorse Troop, 1st Squadron, 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment where he was cited in the Washington Post and Tom Rick’s best-selling book on Iraq for his novel counterinsurgency strategy that combined tribal negotiations and police trained parole system for a mass surrender.

3.  When he returned from Iraq in 2008, Sam went on to get a Masters in Russian and Ukrainian history at New York University’s Jordan Center for Slavic Studies. He then went on to teach history at West Point from 2010-2013.

4.  Sam founded James Cook Media in 2013 after leaving the army. The company is a storytelling marketing agency that focuses on growing then brands of authors and experts around the world. Here he created the StoryMatters mini-course with over 100,000 subscribers as well as the StoryMatters Podcast.

5.  In 2019, he founded SanityDesk, a full stack software solution for experts and small service businesses to launch and manage their business online. SanityDesk is funded by Angel investors and is rapidly becoming an innovative solutions for savvy marketing professionals who help smalL business owners grow their brand online.

GUEST Contact Details:

Website: https://jamescookmedia.com/reinvent

LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuelpncook/

HOST Contact Details:

Sign Up for a FREE 20 Minute Connection Engagement:

https://mailchi.mp/5fa5083f6f0b/reinvent-or-die-podcast

Instagram:  @bobrodgers_usa

Twitter:  @bobrodgers_usa

LinkedIn:  linkedin.com/in/dfwexecutiveleader 

Welcome to Episode #8 with Dale Smith Thomas.

In this episode, Dale shares her amazing journey of how a "small town Mississippi girl" went on to win the Mrs. Tennessee Pageant.  From there and after losing the Mrs. America Pageant in Moscow, a moment occurred with someone from the audience that literally changed the direction of her life!

After signing an autograph and leaving a simple message of HOPE, the fan's reaction became the tipping point of her life.  From that moment forward, she knew that she had within her the opportunity to make a difference...to inspire...to share around the world that "SUCCESS is a CHOICE!"

Dale's Summary Bio:

1. International Motivational Speaker and Author for over 25 years

2. Her new book for women is titled Good Morning Gorgeous...Building Your Gorgeousness from the Inside Out

3. She is often referred to as "The Hope Doctor"...Hope meaning Helping Other People Excel

GUEST Contact Details:

Website: https://www.winnersbychoice.com/

Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/dalesmiththomas/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/DaleSmithThomas

Facebook:  DaleSmithThomasFanPage

2nd Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/thehopedoctors/

HOST Contact Details:

Sign Up for a FREE 20 Minute Connection Engagement:

https://mailchi.mp/5fa5083f6f0b/reinvent-or-die-podcast

Instagram:  @bobrodgers_usa

Twitter:  @bobrodgers_usa

LinkedIn:  linkedin.com/in/dfwexecutiveleader 

Welcome to Episode #7 with Carly Ferguson.

In this episode, Carly shares a fantastic Blueprint for "Mid-Career" transitions to lead and thrive in a career where you can live authentically and with massive confidence.  Also, her journey from shyness as a young girl to being a high energy, high impact leader will leave you knowing that "reinvention" is in your control; REINVENT and launch the Real YOU!  

Carly's Summary Bio:

1.  Career and Business coach working with leaders, founders and career changers; offering them guidance, 

coaching and ultimately empowering them to thrive in the careers they authentically desire with confidence.

2.  Began her career in the TV & Film industry and then spent 10 years in the Corporate arena leading marketing teams and transformation programs for FTSE 250 companies and global software start-ups.

3.  Her background means that she is no stranger to the pressures and strains that having a demanding role can have on your health and wellbeing while also having a strong belief that you can achieve whatever you put your mind to and have a positive impact on those around you while doing it.

4.  Having experienced coaching herself later in her career, it had a powerful effect on her life that she realized it was something that should be available to everyone; so after taking some time out to travel and volunteer abroad, she gained her qualification to help others.

5.  Today, Carly runs her own coaching business working with big-hearted leaders, founders and career changers to lead the lives that they most desire with courage and authenticity!!

GUEST Contact Details:

Website: coachingwithcarly.com

Instagram / Facebook: @coachingwithcarly

HOST Contact Details:

Sign Up for a FREE 20 Minute Connection Engagement:

https://mailchi.mp/5fa5083f6f0b/reinvent-or-die-podcast

Instagram:  @bobrodgers_usa

Twitter:  @bobrodgers_usa

LinkedIn:  linkedin.com/in/dfwexecutiveleader 

Facebook Business Page:  @bobrodgers.usa

Email:  [email protected]

Welcome to Episode #6 with Adam Mendler.

In this episode, Adam shares his incredible entrepreneurial journey that spans leading a diverse portfolio of companies, utilizes his deep expertise and talents into creating a Lessons in Leadership series and deep involvement with both USC and UCLA Alumni organizations.

This conversation is packed with lessons of excellence from start to finish!

Adam's Summary Bio:

1.  Adam Mendler is the Chief Executive Officer of The Veloz Group, where he co-founded and oversees ventures across a wide variety of industries: Beverly Hills Chairs, a leading office furniture e-tailer; Custom Tobacco, a one-of-a-kind cigar customization e-commerce platform; and Veloz Solutions, a technology consulting and software development practice. Adam remains active in each portfolio company, providing strategic guidance and support. Adam also provides business thought leadership as a speaker to businesses, universities and non-profit organizations; as the host of the leadership and personal / professional development podcast Thirty Minute Mentors; as an expert regularly cited in national media outlets; and as an advisor, consultant, coach and board member.

2.  Adam utilizes his professional, entrepreneurial and managerial background developed through a unique set of experiences.

Adam created both the Lessons in Leadership series in Thrive Global and the Thirty Minute Mentors podcast, where he regularly elicits insights from America's top leaders.

Adam has conducted over 300 one on one interviews with leading CEOs, founders, athletes, celebrities, influencers and generals / admirals. Adam has also written extensively on leadership, management, entrepreneurship, marketing and sales, having authored over 70 articles published in major media outlets including Forbes, Inc. and The Huffington Post.

3.  Adam has worked for D.E. Shaw & Co., then the largest hedge fund in the world, and for Credit Suisse; for the strategic planning groups at William Morris Endeavor and Universal Pictures; at TWC Sports Management, a leading sports agency; and on a successful presidential primary campaign.

4.  Adam has served as the Executive Producer of Virtually Israel; as a Strategic Partner and Advisor to Here Media; and as a consultant to the LAUSD. Adam is an advisor to the accelerator Fusion LA and to several early-stage companies.

5.  Adam graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Southern California, earning a B.S. in Business Administration and a B.A. in Political Science, and earned an M.B.A. from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where he received the UCLA Anderson Fellowship Award. Adam serves as Chairman Emeritus of the USC Alumni Entrepreneurs Network; on boards for the USC Alumni Association and the UCLA Master of Applied Statistics program; and as a founding member of the UCLA Anderson CEO Forum.

GUEST Contact Details:

Website: adammendler.com // thirtyminutementors.com

Instagram/Twitter: @adammendler

HOST Contact Details:

Sign Up for a FREE 20 Minute Connection Engagement:

https://mailchi.mp/5fa5083f6f0b/reinvent-or-die-podcast

Instagram:  @bobrodgers_usa

Twitter:  @bobrodgers_usa

LinkedIn:  linkedin.com/in/dfwexecutiveleader 

Facebook Business Page:  @bobrodgers.usa

Email:  [email protected]

Welcome to Episode #5 with Kara Michelle.

In this episode, Kara shares many stories and insights into recovery from incredibly traumatic events.  Her inspiration will leave you with hope that there is always a better tomorrow.

Kara's Summary Bio:

1.  Holistic Life Coach and Reiki Master who has spent the last 8 years traveling the world and working with various coaches and healers to learn how to break free from the past.

2. After losing her brother at 18, being sexually assaulted and then having a traumatic car accident, she felt like there had to be more to life and she was determined to find happiness and purpose.

3. She is passionate about helping others go from pain to purpose and create the lives that they always dreamt of!!

GUEST Contact Details:

Website: karamichelle.co

Instagram: @realkaramichelle

Facebook:  @realkaramichelle

HOST Contact Details:

Sign Up for a FREE 20 Minute Connection Engagement:

https://mailchi.mp/5fa5083f6f0b/reinvent-or-die-podcast

Instagram:  @bobrodgers_usa

Twitter:  @bobrodgers_usa

LinkedIn:  linkedin.com/in/dfwexecutiveleader 

Facebook Business Page:  @bobrodgers.usa

Email:  [email protected]

Welcome to Episode #4 with Joel Evan.

I had the privilege today of welcoming Joel to the show.  We had a fantastic conversation that hit so many themes that will make you reflect and Move Forward.  One of the golden nuggets was his perspective on "Being Your Own Biggest Fan".  So may truths to that...in the end, it's what YOU believe in that counts...BELIEVE in YOURSELF and GO!

Joel's Summary Bio:

1.  First Responder (SFPD for over 13 years);  thanks again Joel for making a difference!!!!!!!!!

2.  Human Potential Coach and Health Coach with expertise and a deep fascination with Bio-hacking

3.  Non-Stop hunger for Learning and Growing each and every day!! 

GUEST Contact Details:

Website: joelevancoaching.com    

Instagram: @coach_joel_evan

Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/joelaylworth 

Email:  [email protected] 

HOST Contact Details:

Sign Up for a FREE 20 Minute Connection Engagement:

https://mailchi.mp/5fa5083f6f0b/reinvent-or-die-podcast

Instagram:  @bobrodgers_usa

Twitter:  @bobrodgers_usa

LinkedIn:  linkedin.com/in/dfwexecutiveleader 

Facebook Business Page:  @bobrodgers.usa

Email:  [email protected]