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Why Not
by Nick Peret & Danae McDermott
Why not is a mindset that moves you towards your vision and gives you an opportunity to reach that goal, meet that person, or learn that skill. The podcast studies the mind of entrepreneurs, athletes, musicians, authors, podcast hosts, community leaders, founders of nonprofits, and so much more. Success leaves clues. Listen to those who have done it before and use their methodologies to achieve your goals.
Episodes
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EP 29 | Even If You Can Do, Teach - Dean Mannix
Dean Mannix isn’t a good, but a great coach. As the co-founder and CEO of SalesITV, he has delivered sales performance projects in over 25 countries. He’s recognized as one of Australia’s leading sales performance coaches, advising, coaching, and training senior executives from many of the…
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Habits (Part One) - Summa Sessions
Welcome to another edition of Summa Sessions! This week, we’re talking habits. Johnny led us off with the 8 easy steps to start a new habit, such as taking baby steps and not committing yourself to too many new habits. Ryan then talked about how all of our actions are based in habits we formed…
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EP 28 | I Get Knocked Down, But I Get Up Again - Jared Ward
On July 1st, 2012, Jared Ward was riding his motorcycle when he got into a major accident. He hit two bumps in the road and skidded across two lanes. It seemed to happen in slow motion. Life flashed before his eyes. When he snapped back to reality, he realized he was in trouble. He had a…
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Communication (Part Four) - Summa Sessions
Today is the 4th Summa Session about communication! Johnny led us off with how not to apologize, which is to bring up excuses of why the mistake was made and instead own up to it and hopefully provide a solution. Next up, Chris talked about the difference between extroverts and introverts, and…
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Communication (Part Three) - Summa Sessions
On today’s hump day Summa Session, we’re talking communication. Johnny led us off with some horror stories about communication failures at hospitals, which were extreme examples of the importance of communication. Ryan then discussed a very relevant quote, “Assume the person speaking knows...
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Communication (Part Two) - Summa Sessions
On today’s Summa Session, we’re still talking about communicating! Johnny led us off with a Forbes article on using storytelling in your business to connect emotionally to your clients, which’ll help retain them for longer. Danae then came in with a quote from the book Boundaries, which talked...
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Communication (Part One) - Summa Sessions
On Monday’s edition of Summa Sessions, we’ve got a new topic for the week: communication. Johnny led us off with the top 5 reasons that communication is a must for a small business, a fitting topic for our team. Danae then discussed the positive benefits you get when you have open communication,...
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Winning (Part Three) - Summa Session
On today’s Wednesday edition of Summa Sessions, we’re still winning. Johnny kicked us off with a story of Gene Hammett, a man who lost $3 million dollars and his business in one day and had to learn the lessons from his loss to start winning again. This led to Chris talking about a favorite…
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Winning (Part Two) - Summa Session
On today’s Summa Session, we’re continuing our talk about wins. Johnny started us off with a WikiHow article about how to win at everything. There were 9 steps, and we discussed each one. Danae then brought a quote that said, “Being Positive in a negative situation isn’t naïve, it’s leadership.”...
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Winning (Part One) - Summa Session
On this week’s Monday edition of Summa Sessions, we’re talking about wins. Johnny kicked off the topic by talking about the power of small wins, which was illustrated in a study by the Harvard Business Review that discussed the progress principle. Danae brought in a quote that followed up the…
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Goal Setting (Part Five) - Summa Session
On today’s fifth and final day of goal setting, Johnny led us off with continuing his theme of the week and wrote down 10 goals that he’d like to accomplish for the year, from getting clients for Summa to learning a song on the piano. Danae then talked about the 10 rules confident people live by,...
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Goal Setting (Part Four) - Summa Session
On Thursday’s edition of Summa Sessions, we continued our goal setting conversation by first talking about Bruce Lee’s letter to himself from 1969, which stated that he’d be the most famous Asian movie star, a goal which he achieved in just 4 years before he died. We moved on to a quote from…
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Goal Setting (Part Three) - Summa Session
On today’s Summa Session, we continued the goal setting conversation. Johnny started us off with a quote from Michael Jordan about taking each goal step by step- if you want to be a doctor and are getting a C in biology, your first goal should be getting a B. Danae then touched on the 3 goals for...
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Goal Setting (Part Two) - Summa Sessions
On today’s Summa Session, we continue our talk on setting goals. Johnny led us off talking about Octavia Butler, who wrote on the inside of her notebook her goals of becoming a best-selling author and turned those dreams into a reality. That led to Danae talking about a podcast she listened to...
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Goal Setting (Part One) - Summa Sessions
On this Monday’s edition of Summa Sessions, we are on to the topic of goal setting. Our founder, Nick, just hit the insane goal of running 100 miles, so we decided this would be a fun one for this week. We started off talking about Morolake Akinosun, the US Olympian runner who called her shot on...
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Problem Solving (Part Two) - Summa Session
On today’s Summa Session, we continue the dive into the world of problem solving. It started with a talk about the famous quote, “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” and the mindset of someone in a problem vs someone who has conquered and is looking back at a problem. This led to another...
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Problem Solving (Part One) - Summa Session
Our team spends the first 20-30 minutes of the day with a brainstorming session. We pick a weekly topic to focus on. From there, each of us shares our thoughts and perspective. Our first week is covering problem solving.
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EP 27 | The Most Connected Man in San Francisco - Paul Pendergast
Paul Pendergast has been on a journey of advocacy and advancing of LGBTQ businesses since 1992. Doors started opening when leaders of big businesses in San Francisco such as Bank of America and Gap realized that, to be successful advocates for business at large, they’d have to make sure that all...
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EP 26 | The Story of Buena Onda - Lorena Cantarovici
With $300 to her name, Lorena Cantarovici came to the states without knowing a word of English. Since then, she became the Founder of Maria Empanada with five locations in the Denver area, won 2017 Colorado Small Business Person of the Year, and earned a spot with Guy Fieri on Diners, Drive-Ins,...
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EP 25 | Building an Empire - Fran Roman
Our next guest, Fran Roman AKA “The King”, has built a financial and family empire. Fran has always been an extraordinary athlete. In high school, he won the state championship in basketball and led his school to their only undefeated season in football. At the University of Wisconsin - Stevens...
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EP 24 | Living with a Growth Mindset - Ryan Groth
Our next guest, Ryan Groth, lives with a growth mindset and it has allowed him to reach high levels of success in athletics, entrepreneurship, and family. Ryan became involved in the family contracting business as a teenager; however, he decided that he did not want to take over the family…
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EP 23 | Creating Innovative Solutions - George Bilbrey
Our next guest, George Bilbrey, is driven by creating innovative solutions to critical business challenges. George has started and scaled new businesses twice, brought new product categories to market four times, and developed business processes multiple times to solve challenges where the…
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EP 22 | Scaling a Startup - Mike Villalobos
Mike Villalobos started his career in Silicon Valley and quickly realized his opportunity to have a career in SaaS (software as a service). Shortly after beginning his entrepreneurial journey, Mike was part of the founding team at FuelX. They scaled the SaaS-based advertising company by more than...
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EP 21 | Living On Purpose - Ken Keis
Dr. Ken Keis is an international speaker, author, podcast host, and the leader of Consulting Resource Group that helps organizations worldwide improve employee satisfaction and productivity. Ken’s passion is leading others to experience clarity and joy by creating a life of purpose, and…
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EP 20 | The Millennial Leader - Danielle Shoots
In 2017, Danielle Shoots was named to the Denver Business Journal’s 40 under 40 business leaders. The Colorado Women’s Chamber of Commerce named Danielle one of the top 25 most powerful women in business. She owns the stage as a keynote speaker, including a Ted Talk on leadership. But the weird...
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EP 19 | Succeed By Helping Others Succeed - Randy Brothers
It was not until Randy Brothers realized who he really was as a person, what his purpose was, and what his God given strengths and weaknesses were that he finally became self-aware enough to embrace himself as a leader and a visionary of a company.
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EP 18 | The World Ain’t All Sunshine and Rainbows - Brie Reis
Brie Reis was pregnant and became a mom at 18. Drugs and alcohol were the foundation of her life from 15-years-old on. She became shackled to drugs and her life as an addict. Today, Brie is one of the youngest female, bi-racial CEOs in the construction space. Elite Roofing sold $20 million in...
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EP 17 | Paint Your Dreams - Kyler Williams
At only 21-years-old, Kyler Williams was a successful salesman for Wells Fargo, but wanted to start living life on his terms. Kyler’s first attempt at entrepreneurship was his selling products on Amazon. From there, he started his own moving company, I Like To Move It, Move It. Kyler was running...
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EP 16 | Capture The Crown - Madison Dorenkamp
Madison Dorenkamp, truly captured the crown - the crown of Miss Colorado 2019 and earned a trip to the Miss USA 2019 Pageant in Reno, Nevada. When you see Madison - you see the pageant photos, her beauty, her ability to walk on stage in 6 in each heels, strut her stuff in a swimsuit and then…
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EP 15 | Limitless - Danny Needham
Danny Needham is a former D1 football player who tackled Barry Sanders and Thurman Thomas in the same game. His mindset of having no self-limitations helped him become a successful serial entrepreneur. Danny teaches us all how we can become limitless.
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EP 14 | Get Naked - Summer Forrest
Summer Forrest is an international keynote speaker that discusses - manifestation & visualization, self love, overcoming obstacles, mindful business, financial soundness, domestic violence prevention, and motherhood. She continues to expose her naked soul to live at her full potential and is now...
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EP 13 | Knowledge is Power - Matt Lengel
Matt Lengel is passionate about helping children have access to education, creating generational change for their families and communities. Matt teaches us all that knowledge is power.
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EP 12 | Win Fast & Win Often - Mike Claudio
Mike Claudio, Founder of WinRate Consulting, teaches us how the proper training and process makes it possible to win fast and win often.
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EP 11 | Start with a Vision - Omar Vinas
Omar Vinas left his career to start Keen - a platform that strives to continuously empower purchasing decisions by streamlining the online shopping process. Omar teaches us how to create a vision and make it your reality.
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EP 10 | Get Started - Greg Marthaler Jr
Greg Marthaler Jr started "Solutions for You" four years ago. SFY is a growing organization with 40+ employees with regular goal setting to achieve 500% growth in five years. Greg teaches us the fundamentals of getting started and our goals in motion.
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EP. 9 | Risk and Reward - Chris Pendergast
At just 26-years-old, Chris Pendergast became the VP of Sales at a finance company in Chicago. He was set. His career was in motion, his income was rather wealthy. Yet, he decided to risk it all and become President & Co-Founder of Summa Media. He teaches us all how to play risky and reap the...
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EP. 8 | Building and Leading Effective Teams - Beau Brooks
Beau Brooks is the Senior Vice President of Sales and Customer Experience at Formstack, a husband, a father, a leader at church, an ultra marathon runner, and so much more. Beau teaches us how your success can be a product of building and leading effective teams.
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EP. 7 | Leave Your Legacy - Jeri Jones
Daniel lost his life to Leukemia at 2.5-years-old, but he left a legacy that is impacting the kids who need him most. His mom, Jeri Jones teaches us how we can all leave our own legacy.
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EP. 6 | Live Your Dream Life - Dmitry Lipinskiy
Dmitry Lipinskiy lived in his car for an entire month after moving from Siberia to America. Today, he owns five businesses and teaches us all how to live our dream life.
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EP. 5 | Fate Loves The Fearless - Nathan Patterson
Nathan Patterson quit his job as a software salesman to pursue his dreams of playing baseball. He signed a contract to pitch for the Oakland Athletics and reminds us all that fate loves the fearless.
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EP. 4 | Go All In - Brock Maier
Brock Maier teaches us how to "go all In" on life and reap the rewards. A few hours after recording this episode, Brock won $20,000 playing Texas hold'em.
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EP. 3 | Be Fierce - Jessica Diers
Jessica Diers, Owner of Diers Exhibit Group, shares how to be fierce and unleash your gifts on the world.
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EP. 2 | The Art of Persuasion - Scott Lopina
Without even realizing it, we are salespeople. Scott Lopina teaches us how to master the art of persuasion to influence people and get what you want.
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EP. 1 | Follow Your Intuition - Phillipe Christodoulou
Phillipe Christodoulou, Founder of The Eco Laundry Company, shares how to turn your intuitiveness into hyperdrive.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Why not is a mindset that moves you towards your vision and gives you an opportunity to reach that goal, meet that person, or learn that skill.
The podcast studies the mind of entrepreneurs, athletes, musicians, authors, podcast hosts, community leaders, founders of nonprofits, and so much more.
Success leaves clues. Listen to those who have done it before and use their methodologies to achieve your goals.
HOSTED BY
Nick Peret & Danae McDermott
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