December 22, 2025 – Failing to Success Phillip Cantrell and Publisher Justin Sachs

Phillip Cantrell – Founder of Benchmark Realty & Author of  Failing My Way to Success: Lessons from Forty-Two Years of Winning (and Losing) in Business So if you do a 2% improvement, you will be 14 100% better in a year than you are today. Is that not something everyone would like to see, but you have to have dedication. You have to stay after it. You cannot stop. You cannot let up. You cannot stop for a moment. Phillip Cantrell is a seasoned entrepreneur, real estate leader, and author whose four-decade career is defined by resilience, innovation, and a relentless commitment to helping others succeed. A Nashville native and graduate of the University of Tennessee, Cantrell began his professional journey in the commercial printing industry, where he worked his way up from entry-level roles into leadership before transitioning full-time into real estate in the early 2000s. After years of investing in and rehabbing residential properties, he earned his broker license and went on to launch Benchmark Realty, LLC with his wife Amanda in 2006, building it from a single-office startup into a thriving brokerage with offices across Tennessee, Kentucky, and Alabama and nearly 2,000 agents. Along the way the company weathered the Great Recession and reinvented its business model, growing into a high-performance firm that ultimately merged with United Real Estate, where Cantrell now serves as Executive Vice President of Strategy. Drawing on his experiences founding or leading ten companies, both successful and not, Cantrell is the author of Failing My Way to Success: Lessons from Forty-Two Years of Winning (and Losing) in Business, a candid memoir that turns hard-won failures into actionable insights for entrepreneurs and business leaders. He lives in Tennessee with his wife Amanda and remains passionate about sharing lessons of leadership, perseverance, and service with the next generation of founders. Justin Sachs – Founder of Motivational Press and Author of Skyrocket: Your Sales, Your Business, Your Success The only thing that’s kept us alive as a publishing house, against the top publishing houses in the world, is our ability to innovate and change our strategies very quickly. When the big publishers take five years to change their strategies, we move fast. Justin Sachs published his first book at 18, and now has published several more, 5 of which are best sellers! He owns 8 companies, including Motivational Press which has published 50 authors! His international speaking tour, The Ultimate Success Tour, cemented his position as one of the world’s leading leadership and peak performance speakers. Having advised and trained hundreds of thousands of people internationally, Justin is a highly regarded business expert on effectiveness, peak-performance, and marketing tactics. Justin has produced 3 movies including his best-selling Achieve Your Ultimate Success. He has written on topics ranging from leadership to business growth. He has been featured in hundreds of media outlets throughout the world including MSNBC, CNBC, Fox News, and Yahoo Finance and alongside world-renowned business experts including Brian Tracy, John Assaraf, Mark Victor Hansen, Loral Langemeier and many others.