From Embers To Excellence™

Andrea Johnson is a certified John Maxwell Leadership Coach and a certified DISC Behavioral Analysis Consultant. Andrea helps high performing, mission minded women grow, lead and succeed, using the six tenets of Intentional Optimism. She operates a collaborative group coaching program called “Launch from The Beach.”

In Feb. 2017, Andrea’s mother finished her 15-year fight with breast cancer, and the reflective nature of grief allowed her to purposefully walk through the pain and anxiety, and emerge, as if from a crucible, holding the gem of Intentional Optimism - her personal growth plan - a comprehensive approach to Personal Growth and Leadership Training viewed through the lens of hope.

Andrea and I discuss Intentional Optimism and it’s six tenets. We talk about how women are uniquely qualified to be leaders and how Andrea defines Unconventional Leadership. This is a great conversation for both men and women to listen to. To learn more about Andrea, please visit: http://www.theintentionaloptimist.com/

Corey Poirier is a multiple-time TEDx, MoMondays, and PMx Speaker and International Bestselling Author. He is also the host of the top rated ‘Get Paid To Speak’ Show, founder of The Speaking Program, Author of the For The Love of Speaking Book, founder of bLU Talks, and he has been featured in multiple television specials.

A columnist with Entrepreneur and Forbes magazine, he has been featured in/on CBS, CTV, NBC, ABC, is a Forbes Coaches Council member, and is one of the few leaders featured twice on the popular Entrepreneur on Fire show. He has also interviewed over 5,000 of the world’s top leaders.

Corey and I discuss his life growing up and what put him on his current path. We talk about his speaking career and how he is so successful at helping others land speaking engagements around the world. He even provides a free gift to the audience. So, listen and take advantage of his offer.

To learn more about Corey or if you would like to connect with him, here are several links that will help:

http://thespeakingprogram.com/

http://thatspeakerguy.com/

http://www.thebookofwhy.com/

http://thebookofwhyaudio.com/

Chancellor was born in Fulton County, Georgia and grew up in Smyrna, Georgia. He attended Stetson University. He played football at the high school and collegiate level for nine years. After graduating with a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication and Media Studies, Chancellor lived abroad in China from 2018-2019. He began writing after his traumatic experience of being arrested and detained in Beijing for 14 days. His first book, "14 Days in Beijing" has ranked #1 over fifteen times on Amazon in multiple genres.

In our conversation Chancellor tells me a little about his life, football career, and the path that led him to writing his first book. Chancellor is a great guest and has a great story. If you are interested in learning more about him or his book follow this link: https://www.chancellorkjackson.com/

Garrett Wienckowski is a 20+ year veteran of Orange County Fire Rescue, a battalion chief, TF4 Team Leader, special operations technician, and leadership instructor. In this episode Garrett talks about his experiences as an officer in special operations, what has influenced him most in his career, and recommends training courses that are applicable to every firefighter. We discuss Lencioni’s Pyramid and the book “Extreme Ownership” by Jocko Willink. Garrett talks about his son following in his footsteps and how proud he is of him; he gives some advice for new firefighters, a group which happens to include his son.

Lucas Caneda is global team leader at Uniqorn Incubator and a professional rugby player in Sarlat Rugby. Lucas grew up as a die-hard rugby player starting at the age of 5. Even though he suffered what many thought would be a career-ending knee injury, he moved to France and became a professional rugby player. After a few years in France, he joined the Sarlat Rugby Team, where Lucas met Dom Einhorn, the Founder and CEO of the UNIQORN incubator-accelerator. Lucas immediately integrated Rugby into the incubator's program where he now works as a team leader for both the incubator as well as for one of its startups, FORMATION.GG, an up-and-coming platform dedicated to eSports. A student of engineering, management and economics, self-taught in nutrition and fitness, Lucas has always had a very keen interest in business and entrepreneurship.

Lucas and I discussed his influences growing up in Argentina and how rugby helped him develop his leadership philosophy. He tells me about how adversity has helped him grow and become a better rugby player, entrepreneur, team leader, and man.

Learn more about Lucas and Uniqorn here: https://uniqornincubator.com/