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The Success Paradigm

by Jay Adkins & Greg Gray

The Success Paradigm focuses on interviewing some of the most successful people on the planet. We will ask the deep and uncomfortable questions that everyone wants to know.We all see the glory of the successful, but do we know their story?

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Episodes

  1. Dave Williams

    David Williams: Husband, Father, Serial Entrepreneur, and Investor. David started as an entrepreneur in 2009 after the company he worked for shut its doors. David then boot strapped his first business on a shoe string budget scaling it to over 20 million in reoccurring revenue. Since then David…

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  2. Robin Sharma (Eng)

    Robin Sharma is a Canadian author of Indian origin, internationally acclaimed as a motivational and leadership speaker. He became a worldwide sensation with his second book, 'The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari,' and is known as a writer with a deep understanding of life. He holds a master's degree in...

  3. Robin Sharma (Sp)

    Robin Sharma es un autor canadiense de origen indio, aclamado internacionalmente como orador motivacional y de liderazgo. Se convirtió en una sensación mundial con su segundo libro, 'El monje que vendió su Ferrari', y es conocido como un escritor con un profundo conocimiento de la vida. Tiene una...

  4. Tyler Jack Harris

    Tyler borrowed the money from a friend to get his insurance license back in the fall of 2013. He partnered with a new boutique agency that was creating a system to target life insurance to a very narrow niche. The company wrote 13,000 policies that year with 100 agents across the country. They…

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  5. Sina Azari

    Sina Azari is a millennial Financial Strategist and Real Estate Broker recognized to redefine and modernize the way clients harness cultural intelligence, develop brand strategy, plan for attention and equip the complexities of digital media. Since 2003, his passion and focus has been on building...

  6. Jared Moore

    Jared Moore is the owner and operator of Aqua Aces LLC. A commercial parking lot and building exterior maintenance company; Aqua Aces has continued growing even through a pandemic along with the myriad of other challenges that today's business environment throws an entrepreneur's way. Originally...

  7. Kyle Kimbro

    KYLE KIMBRO has spent that last 4 years exclusively building his MONAT business alongside his wife of 12 years, Joi Kimbro. With a team of hundreds of thousands, they became Senior Executive Directors in just 6 months, and have made the Million Dollar Club 3 times! Kyle successfully made a career...

  8. Storey Time!

    Tim Storey is an acclaimed author, speaker, and life coach helping people create the future they desire. He has inspired people from all walks of life, from entertainment legends to professional athletes... from executives to deprived children throughout the world. Using seasoned foundational...

  9. Dawn Williams

    Dawn Williams, President Bringing with her over 25 years of sales management experience, Dawn Williams recognizes what it takes to succeed in sales. She has held managerial positions at Allstream, ACC, Xerox Canada, Medisys Health Group and Pitney Bowes, where from 2005-06 she directed a regional...

  10. Khaliah O. Guillory, Certified Sleep Expert

    The creative mind behind Nap Bar™ is Certified Sleep Expert, Khaliah O. Guillory. As a previous C-level executive, she knows a thing or two about handling stress. Nap Bar™, the first white-glove, self-care napping experience in the world, offers communities and companies onsite and en-suite rest...

  11. Real Estate Matt

    Matthew Larson is a full-time real estate investor with over 14 years of experience. Originally from the Quad Cities, a medium-sized metropolitan area on the Iowa/Illinois border, his business now spans across most of the Midwestern United States. Starting his working career as a low paid…

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  12. THE Megan Eddings

    Megan Eddings is the founder and CEO of Accel Lifestyle, the first socially conscious and fashionable fitness apparel brand. While Eddings' revolutionary Prema® antibacterial fabric was originally created to fight odor in fitness apparel, it first and foremost fights bacteria. With her background...

  13. Gary John Bishop

    Gary John Bishop is the author of New York Times best-seller, Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and into Your Life which offers a refreshing, BS-free, self-empowerment guide that offers an honest, no-nonsense, tough-love approach to help you move past self-imposed limitations. Gary began his...

  14. Leon Brady II

    Leon Brady, a St. Louis native grew up in rough and humbling beginnings. With the passion to learn business, with examples from active men in his family, Leon started his own lawn care business at the age of 10 years old. As a young boy, has always had the knack for business. Leon at a very young...

  15. Jay Wischum

    Jay Wischum was born & raised in Philadelphia and despite living in New Jersey, Chicago, Atlanta & Virginia, he remains a diehard Philadelphia sports fan. Jay has been working continuously since he was 10 ½ years old when he started a paper route, winning a trip to Disney World in 1973 for…

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  16. Keefe Duterte

    Keefe G. Duterte is a husband of 16 years and a father to 3 children. In 2017 Keefe sold his Mega agency in Texas so he could spend more time with his family in WV. He started a small scratch agency in WV at the end of 2017. In less than 3 years he has built a Mega agency with 4 locations and…

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  17. Tolga Demirel

    Tolga Demirel is a Co Founder of AgencZoom and has been active in the insurance industry for nearly 10 years. Tolga started his insurance journey as a scratch Allstate agent and grew 3 agencies organically to around 9,000 customers. Later Tolga founded AgencyZoom, a CRM and sales enablement tool...

  18. Thad Beversdorf

    Thad is a driven and extensively experienced professional highly adept at providing policy development and risk analytics excellence across the investment banking, asset management and equities markets. His history includes investment banking, institutional trading, a professorship, design and...

  19. Mark Drummond

    Mark Drummond is the Owner/Operator of Chick-fil-A Irby Street and has been a Chick-fil-A franchisee for over 20 years. Mark has won Chick-fil-A's Symbol of Success 3 times and achieved champions club 2 of those 3 times. He has been married to his wife Kim, for 29 years and they have one son and...

  20. Successful Partnerships

    On this episode of The Success Paradigm, Jay and Greg discuss the dynamics of a successful partnership - personally and professionally.

  21. Hey Mike!

    Mike was born in West Berlin, Germany. His father was in the US Army, so he spent the first 2 years of his life there before relocating. In the 1970s he was raised mostly in Virginia, Vienna and Warrenton; and moved his senior year of high school, which he graduated from in Elizabeth City, NC…

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  22. Chief Judge Vincent C. Crawford

    Vincent C. Crawford currently serve as the Chief Judge of Dekalb County Juvenile Court. He also sits by designation in Superior Court. He graduated with honors from Florida A&M University in 1987 with a bachelor's degree in Political Science. He received his law degree with honors from Mercer...

  23. Chris Draper

    Chris Draper, a native Houstonian from humble beginnings started working full time at age 15. His work ethic continued in College, working full time as he put himself through school earning an Information Systems degree from Sam Houston State University. Unable to secure work in the IT field…

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  24. Brother Dr. William Bennett

    Dr. William Bennett is currently the Head of Clinical Research with Durable Medical Device Company. Dr. Bennet leads a team of Clinical Research Scientist in the US, Europe and Israel, who focuses on the development of novel therapies that treats Pancreatic, Ovarian, Lung cancer, and metastatic...

  25. Danielle Gray, MBA

    Danielle Gray MBA has one overall mission. It is to remind people what it feels like to be human and connect with others on a genuine level. Known for her reliability and humor, Danielle began her career as a Marketing Strategist composing proposals, writing content, running email campaigns, and...

  26. Chris Burke

    Chris is the co-founder of Charlottesville Insurance Agency, Inc., one of the largest Allstate Insurance Agencies in the United States with annual premiums in excess of $40 million. Additionally, Chris has been involved in more than 100 acquisitions and sales of insurance Agencies, either as a...

  27. Tim Bratz

    Tim Bratz (pronounced "Brotts") is the CEO and founder of Legacy Wealth Holdings, a real estate investment company that acquires and transforms distressed apartment buildings into high-yield assets for their own portfolio. Working in real estate, Tim has built a passive business and created a...

  28. Stuart Macmillan

    Stuart MacMillan is a senior executive with over 30 years of management experience, the last 20 of which have been in the Direct Selling Channel. After a successful career in the telecommunications industry with companies such as Cantel (now Rogers Wireless), ACC TelEnterprises and Teleglobe,...

  29. Takeaway Remix

    On today's episode, we're going to be highlighting the ingredients to success that we've gathered from all our podcast guests thus far. This short recap is intended to give the "quick tips" to success.

  30. Sean O'Brien

    Sean O'Brien is the Director of Sales within the Personal Property - Liability organization for the Allstate Insurance Company. Sean celebrated 30 years with Allstate in May of 2020. As the Director of Sales, O'Brien is responsible for the success and optimization of the Direct Sales team. These...

  31. Alex Morizio- Doctor, Comedian, and Chef Extraordinaire

    Alex Morizio is a board certified ICU medical doctor at Palmetto General hospital. He was born in Brooklyn NY, and raised in Old Bridge, NJ. After attending high school, Christian Brothers Academy, and college at Rutgers, he received his Medical Degree from Ross University School of Medicine. He...

  32. Fearless Moments with Ray Urdaneta

    Ray is a second-generation direct-sales entrepreneur. He followed his parents' example of combining strong family values with the fervent belief that anyone can achieve their dreams through hard work and determination. With a degree in International Business, Ray co-founded ALCORA GROUP and now...

  33. Courageous Conversations

    As tens of thousands of protesters take to the streets to speak out against racial injustice and police brutality across America and all over the world, people are asking "How did we get here?" and "Where do we go from here?" On this special edition of THE SUCCESS PARADIGM, "Courageous...

  34. Charley Todd

    Charley was born and raised in Fort Myers, Florida, and has a strong passion for local businesses and entrepreneurship. He is the CEO of one of the largest Allstate Insurance Agencies in the country, and has also founded or co-founded four different businesses. Charley's startup, Via Citrus, has...

  35. Attorney Brian Pozzi Approaches the Bench

    Brian Pozzi joined Auto Club Group in September of 2017 to lead the Staff Counsel and Insurance Counsel groups as a Vice President in the Office of General Counsel. In 2018, he expanded his role to include that of Corporate Claims Officer responsible for leading more than 1300 claims…

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  36. Mike Sheely, Optimist by Nature, Servant Leader by Choice

    Mike Sheely is the Field Senior Vice President of Allstate Insurance Co., Florida Region; celebrating 37 years with Allstate in October 2020. He is responsible for over $2BB in Allstate P&L, and $1.5BB Brokerage, and is the President and CEO of Castle Key Insurance Company. Mike began his career…

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  37. Lorie Clements, Bringing Success to You

    Lorie Clements is a Certified EOS Implementer, running a full implementer practice serving approximately 30 clients from a wide variety of industries at any time. Her passion is helping clients get the results they want, while fostering team health and having some fun along the way. Known for her...

  38. Pulitzer Prize winner, Dr. Jericho Brown. Rhyming without even Trying

    Jericho Brown is author of the The Tradition (Copper Canyon 2019), for which he won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and he is the winner of…

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  39. Bill White, Master Networker

    Bill White is widely recognized as one of our nations most respected advocate for the nation's military and veteran families. He has raised over $2 billion to support our fallen and injured heroes, and more than $3 billion for private equity, real estate, and hedge funds. He is twice the…

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  40. Ximena Duque, From Actress to Entrepreneur

    Ximena Duque is a well known actress and social media influencer in the Latino community. For over 15 years she was an exclusive actress for Telemundo. Recently, she has entered the world of entrepreneurship; and with only seven months in the MLM business, she's already earned her title as...

  41. Laura Harris, From Employee to Entrepreneur

    Laura Harris has been in the insurance business for 35 years, and an exclusive Allstate agency owner and successful business speaker for more than 20 years. At the start of her business career, she was told that she was never going to make it because she was no good at sales. Now, she is known as...

  42. Jay Adkins, The Journey

    Jay Adkins is a mentor, speaker, author, and the proud owner and Founder of ProVest Insurance Group. He has six exclusive Allstate agencies in three regions of the United States - FL, NC, and TX. As Co-founder and President of one of the largest sales training platforms, Agency Sales Academy, Jay...

  43. Greg Gray, The Rest of the Story

    Greg Gray is the Founder and President of Renaissance Unlimited, Inc. - a professional and personal leadership firm based in Atlanta, Georgia, and is one of the most sought after speakers on the speaking and training circuit today. His keynotes, seminars and workshops have electrified and…

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

The Success Paradigm focuses on interviewing some of the most successful people on the planet. We will ask the deep and uncomfortable questions that everyone wants to know.We all see the glory of the successful, but do we know their story?

HOSTED BY

Jay Adkins & Greg Gray

Produced by Lola (Executive Assistant)

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The Success Paradigm focuses on interviewing some of the most successful people on the planet. We will ask the deep and uncomfortable questions that everyone wants to know.We all see the glory of the successful, but do we know their story?

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