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We‘ve Got a Problem

by Andrew Wallace

You often wonder what people did to become successful—whether they had it easy and caught a stroke of luck or just plain persevered until they surmounted their obstacles—and what you can learn from their experience. Each week we explore inspiring stories of struggle, success, and solutions to prevalent problems and how guests turn problems into opportunities.Episodes cover a diverse range of topics and focus on fascinating stories including how to manage stress and anxiety, how to improve communication skills, how to create a career in entertainment, how to build resilience, future trends in the music business, the importance of play and adventure for adults, and more.

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Episodes

  1. What Happened to Made in USA?

    Until the 1980s, a lot of what we bought was made here from companies based here in the US. Now? Not so much. Sure, we still make plenty of stuff, but there are a lot of things we used to make here, entire categories of stuff, that we just don’t anymore. From what I understand similar situations...

  2. The Problem With Your Refrigerator

    Refrigerators— things that used to have an expected life of 15 years at the minimum— aren't lasting like they used to. Here's why. @stevelehto just posted a video about the epidemic of bad refrigerators last week, and because I’m weird, I wanted to expand upon that and dig into why things aren’t...

  3. Are EVs Worth It?

    Are electric vehicles from Tesla, GM, Polestar, BYD, Volkswagen, and the like over-hyped? Are they "worth it" for the planet and your wallet? Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ZSkEs5JxE0Q Electric cars are becoming more and more common. If you live in a major city, they’re…

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  4. The Importance of Self-Awareness w/Kshama Singhi

    Coach Kshama Singhi joins the podcast to share how she helps professionals transform their lives by empowering them to deepen their self-awareness, find their purpose and direction, and move toward taking massive and decisive action. If you want to know more about Kshama, check out her website...

  5. Taking Full Advantage of Opportunities w/Steve Wright

    Former professional athlete, entrepreneur, and reality television contestant Steve Wright joins the podcast this week to tell his story and talk about his new book, Aggressively Human: Discovering Humanity in the NFL, Reality Television and Life, his new book which is out Tuesday, November 7....

  6. Dealing with Burnout w/Tess Jewell-Larsen

    Certified mindfulness coach, somatic healer, and a Yoga Therapist in training Tess Jewell-Larsen joins the podcast this week to talk about her work focusing on stress management, nervous system resiliency, and the mindset and lifestyle shifts that will help her clients feel more joyful, balanced,...

  7. How to Get More Sleep

    It’s 3am. You’re tossing and turning, trying to fall back asleep. You look at the clock again, it’s only been 10 minutes since the last time you checked, but you know you’ve gotta get up at 6, so you need to get to sleep NOW. What do you do? 25% of Americans experience insomnia every year, though...

  8. 5 Simple Habits of Millionaires

    What is it that millionaires are doing that you and I aren’t? Why aren’t we doing it too? I’m not interested in accumulating a bunch of money to have a bunch of useless stuff, I want it for the security that it’ll provide, to one day be financially independent where I work because I want to, not...

  9. Finding Career Satisfaction w/Randi Roberts

    Executive and career-life coach Randi Roberts joins the podcast this week to talk about how she helps her clients unlock their highest potential by recapturing the fire in their careers and turn challenges into new opportunities. Guided by her 30 years in the corporate world, Randi knows what…

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  10. The Problem with Elon Musk

    I just finished reading the new biography of Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson. Love him or hate him, Elon Musk seems to be everywhere with a hand in everything. He’s the richest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of either $249 Billion or $226 Billion depending on who does the…

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  11. Encore: Align Your Life with Your Values w/Lana Hall

    Enjoy this encore presentation of a popular older episode! Lana Hall, a psychologist based in Brisbane, Australia and founder of the Slow Life Project, joins the podcast this week to discuss her story, how we can thrive by aligning our lives with our values, and how we can transform the...

  12. Finding Better Jobs w/Melanie Mitchell-Wexler

    Former recruiter turned career coach Melanie Mitchell-Wexler joins the podcast to talk about how she leverages her more than 26 years in the industry to help job seekers find meaningful and fulfilling careers. Having spent time on both sides of the equation, from the job search to the resume that...

  13. Are Bank Bonus Offers Worth Your Time?

    I'm trying something different again and telling a little story about my own personal experience. You can also watch this episode on YouTube for your entertainment pleasure here: https://youtu.be/vxhB0PNaLnI How many times have you seen some bank bonus offer and thought, hey, free money! And then...

  14. Encore: From Music to Mixed Reality Metaverse w/Chad Gerber

    Enjoy this encore presentation of one of my early episodes: Chad Gerber (Woodrowgerber) - Platinum-selling musician, patented inventor, NFT artist, and founder of the mixed reality technology company Meloscene, joined the podcast last year to chat about his circuitous route to success, the future...

  15. Empowering Healthy Women w/Louisa Valentin

    Empowerment Wellness Coach Louisa Valentin joins the podcast this week to talk about how she coaches professional women to find their strength to achieve their optimal state of mental, physical and spiritual health. In addition to her work as a coach, she’s also a BSN Registered Nurse, a…

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  16. Why Most People Don’t Achieve Their Goals

    Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/gN-8Qo9x3iw You've got goals, right? Are you making any progress? Why not? Based on my own personal experience and interviewing more than 70 guests for the We've Got a Problem podcast, there seem to be four main reasons people fail to achieve their...

  17. Why Culture Matters w/Claire Chandler

    Executive advisor and business mentor Claire Chandler joins the podcast this week to share what she's learned during her 30 years of experience helping business owners, leaders, and acquirers grow, scale, and create value while building a culture that reinforces that same growth. Download…

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  18. Building a 7-Figure Online Business w/Shawn Bayley

    Certified copywriter turned sales success coach, mentor, and online business expert Shawn Bayley joins the podcast this week to share how he helps coaches, consultants, and experts build 6 and 7-figure online businesses. His new book “High Ticket Funnel Secrets” is out now. Watch this episode on...

  19. Responsible Resilience w/Fiona Demark

    Inspirational speaker, executive trainer, and resilience coach Fiona Demark joins the podcast to share her story and how she focuses on providing practical strategies that make a lifelong impact upon her coaching clients. What sets her apart from other resilience coaches is the fact that she has...

  20. Blend Passion and Profession w/Sarah Marie Page

    Sarah Marie Page joins the podcast this week to talk about her life as a part-time author in the young adult fantasy space as well as a full-time trust and estates attorney, and how she has managed to successfully blend two disparate lives into one. Her work has been featured in Y Magazine, The...

  21. How to Maximize Life w/Shruti Rustagi

    Shruti Rustagi joins the podcast this week to talk about her rise to success. As a certified coach who focuses on helping her clients grow their leadership effectiveness, build resilience, and maximize life though mindset shifts, she shares several tips for optimizing your enjoyment and success....

  22. Human-Cenetered Content Marketing w/Raj Goodman Anand

    Raj Goodman Anand joins the podcast this week to tell his story, discuss the past and future of content marketing, expound upon the future roll of AI in writing content, and share his passion for helping advance the roll of women in a male-dominated field. Raj has 16 years of experience in B-2-B...

  23. Learn How to Think w/Wayne Faulkner

    Wayne Faulkner, author of “How to Think and Create Success," joins the podcast this week to tell his story and make the case for learning how to think. His professed goal is to inspire and empower people to cultivate and manifest a heightened level of consciousness and achievement to help them...

  24. How to Find a Better Job w/Dr. David Petrovay

    Employment strategist and career coach Dr. David Petrovay joins the podcast this week to share his story as well as tips and tricks for finding a more fulfilling, more joyful life through your work. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/cxDccyvEVuE Listen & subscribe to We've Got a...

  25. Child Athlete Parenting Tips & Tricks w/Laura Zukosky

    Entrepreneur, former attorney, mother of four kids, and author of We’re Not Here for the Hockey: A Guide to Raising a Competitive Athlete Without Going Nucking Futs, Laura Zukosky joins the podcast this week to share her thoughts and stories from her personal roller-coaster ride through parenting…

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  26. From Contract Worker to Serial Entrepreneur w/Tim Bridges

    Former pipeline contract worker turned entrepreneur Tim Bridges joins the podcast this week to share his story. His career has involved a multitude of different business experience from pipeline construction to fashion to b-2-b specialty services, Tim’s an entrepreneur, podcaster, problem-solver,...

  27. Why Immigrants Succeed w/Dr. Slava Shut

    Doctor of Physical Therapy, CEO, entrepreneur, motivational speaker, and financial literacy advocate Dr. Slava Shut joins the podcast this week to discuss his career, what drives him to excel, and what he thinks we're all overlooking when it comes to making a difference in our own lives. Watch…

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  28. Thriving into Retirement w/Joyce Porter

    Retired professor turned professional actor, voiceover artist, and author Joyce Porter joins the podcast this week to talk about her new new book Mastering Senior Life: Thriving and Surviving, which is aimed at helping seniors enjoy retirement and overcome the inevitable challenges that crop up…

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  29. Fighting Fear and Embracing Love w/Cindi Buckley

    Phoenix-based author Cindi Buckley joins the podcast this week to talk about the difference between fear and love and how we can all lead more fulfilling lives full of kindness, gratitude, and compassion. Her new book Love Awakens You: A Surprisingly Refreshing Guide on Reconnecting with Peace,...

  30. The Problem with Commodities Markets w/Noah Healy

    Noah Healy joins the podcast this week to talk about his work as a professional algorithm developer and recreational mathematician with expertise in game theory and designing marketplaces. Leveraging breakthroughs in game theory from the past few decades, he’s recently developed a patent-pending...

  31. How to Be a Rocket Scientist w/Brett Hoffstadt

    Rocket scientist, aviation engineer, and now author Brett Hoffstadt joins the podcast this week to give practical tips on how to encourage kids to pursue a career in the STEM fields, share his enthusiasm for the challenge and promise of the future, and why he believes "hope is not a plan." Listen…

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  32. A Different Way to Heal w/Anna Brooke

    Anna Brooke joins the podcast this week to share her personal journey, tips and tricks for finding balance, and how she found redemption and clarity in unexpected places. She’s an interdisciplinary healing arts practitioner but also a burlesque performer, show producer, educator, and advocate of...

  33. Secrets For New Writers w/Tyler Snure

    Tyler Snure, author of two young adult fantasy novels, joins the podcast this week to talk about his writing process, words of encouragement for anyone embarking on the novel creation process at any age, and how he's found success pursuing his passion. Tyler's second book, The Sword of Sorenth,...

  34. Confessions of a Serial Entrepreneur w/Dan Cumberland

    Dan Cumberland joins the podcast this week to discuss his life as a serial entrepreneur, how he addresses burnout, what it took to launch multiple sofware-as-a-service products, and how he's helping others as leader of the Meaning Movement, a community of people pursuing deeper meaning in their...

  35. Betting on Yourself w/John Mendez

    Connecticut realtor and Host of the Walk-2-Wealth podcast John Mendez joins the podcast this week to tell his personal journey and talk about how he is on a mission to empower young adults to build wealthy, abundant lives. Listen & subscribe to We've Got a Problem wherever you get your podcasts—...

  36. Plan to Get Unstuck w/Deborah Johnson

    Inspirational speaker, author, and international award-winning music artist Deborah Johnson joins the podcast this week to talk about how she helps mid-career individuals get unstuck and make their future more fulfilling and exciting than their past. A 20-year veteran of the music industry and...

  37. Saving Entrepreneurs Time w/Nickie Cobble

    Nickie Cobble is a young entrepreneur who, in the short time since graduating from Florida State, has built a credit card processing company, developed, grown, and sold a digital marketing agency, and now heads an outsourcing agency helping business owners save, scale, and succeed. She joins the...

  38. The Process of Success w/Sandy Rutherford

    Success Mindset Coach, International Speaker, and Best Selling Author Sandy Rutherford joins the podcast this week to talk about why outstanding success eludes so many people, what we can do about it, and how we can follow the scientifically-tested approach to creating and nurturing success in…

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  39. Online Dating for Older Humans w/Catherine Berra

    Equestrian, mother, world traveler, and expert dater Catherine Berra joins the podcast this week to talk about her new book, These Stories Are True... I S*** You Not: A Humorous Look at Online Dating for the Unsuspecting Older Human. We talk about why dating is so intimidating, why keeping a…

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  40. Get Unstuck & Build a Better Business w/Marcus Schaller

    Entrepreneur, marketer, coach to other entrepreneurs and freelancers, and now a fellow podcaster Marcus Schaller joins the podcast this week to talk about how he's helping people get unstuck and build the business they were born to create. Listen & subscribe to We've Got a Problem wherever you…

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  41. Why Literacy Matters w/K.M. Woods

    May thai practitioner, fiction author, and literacy evangelist K.M. Woods joins the podcast this week to talk about the crisis we have with literacy in the U.S., the importance of finding books for kids that give them a taste of adulthood and responsibility, and why comfort is highly overrated.…

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  42. The RIGHT Way to Publish Your Book w/ Rod R. Garcia

    Arizona-based author, publisher, and former literary/talent agent Rod R. Garcia joins the podcast this week to talk about how he made his way into the publishing business, his experience publishing his own work, and when and why people should self-publish instead of finding a publisher. Watch…

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  43. Executive Peak Performance w/Steve Smith

    Orange County, CA-based business coach Steve Smith joins the podcast this week to talk about the tools and strategies he uses to help senior leaders and teams move past the challenges that prevent them from performing at exceptional levels. Listen & subscribe to We've Got a Problem wherever you…

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  44. Build Better Businesses w/Kevin Ly

    Serial entrepreneur Kevin Ly joins the podcast this week to discuss the process he uses to incubate business ideas, how we can maintain perspective and enjoy the process, and why applying a process to the ideation process is the secret to making dreams into realities. Co-founder of The Butterfly...

  45. Raising 4-Dimensional Kids w/Tim McCarthy

    Tim McCarthy, author of Raising 4 Dimensional Children in a 2 Dimensional World, joins the podcast this week to talk about his philosophy that we need to take a revised approach to parenting, beginning with prenatal care and continuing through the teenage years, in order to give kids the best...

  46. Break & Untangle w/Chad Peevy

    Chad Peevy, author of Break and Untangle: Discover the Freedom to Be You Despite the Inherited Mindsets Holding you Back, joins the podcast this week to share his personal journey, tips and tricks for doing the work to break through our own limiting beliefs, and how we can all move toward living...

  47. How to Find Your Dream Job w/Bill Priestley

    Bill Priestley, creator of The Dream Job Blueprint, a program which helps young people (and not-as-young people as well) use and tailor their education to get their "dream job,” joins the podcast this week to share tips and trick for helping to find your own dream job at any age. Learn more about...

  48. Why Manners Matter w/Donald G. James

    Donald G. James joins the podcast this week to talk about his book, Manners Will Take You Where Brains And Money Won't: Wisdom From Momma And 35 Years At Nasa and his belief that how you carry yourself throughout the world not only speaks volumes about your character, but it can also help form…

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  49. Doing It Better and Saving Jobs w/Peter Christian

    Peter Christian, a business consultant with 40-plus years of experience in the consumer goods industry, joins the podcast this week to share how he has helped more than 300 clients reduce costs and increase profitability by millions of dollars while simultaneously saving and adding thousands of...

  50. Hilarious NYPD Stories from Vic Ferrari

    Retired NYPD detective turned author Vic Ferrari joins the podcast this week to share his experience working for the largest police department in the U.S. He’s written four books that give us a humorous behind-the-scenes look at the New York City Police department, and his latest book…

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You often wonder what people did to become successful—whether they had it easy and caught a stroke of luck or just plain persevered until they surmounted their obstacles—and what you can learn from their experience. Each week we explore inspiring stories of struggle, success, and solutions to prevalent problems and how guests turn problems into opportunities.Episodes cover a diverse range of topics and focus on fascinating stories including how to manage stress and anxiety, how to improve communication skills, how to create a career in entertainment, how to build resilience, future trends in the music business, the importance of play and adventure for adults, and more.

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Andrew Wallace

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