Enlighten Millionaire Podcast: Recent Episodes
J Flow
Enlighten Millionaire Podcast releases weekly episodes! EMP is about how anyone can look and leverage opportunities in life to create success in their life with an abundance mindset. Listen in to the incredible stories as J Flow interviews entrepreneurs, investors and people from all walks of life and how they were able to pivot from different challenges to success. The purpose of the podcast series is to be the guide and show how others can find the path to living a life of true abundance and inspiring at least 1,000,000 Enlighten Millionaires.
Meet Kruze, he helps awakening Beings live in their authentic truth, reclaim their divine inheritance, and step into their rightful role as leaders in the evolution of human consciousness.
Listen to how he quickly breaks free from the shackles and chains of who he were taught to be, to break from from old habits from drinking, old behaviors, and old mindset that no longer serve in moving into a high vibration life and way of Being. He saw an opportunity and pivoted to more abundance.
Meet Junaid Lughmani, investor, providing hope for the promise of cryptocurrency. To Junaid, enabling social and economic growth through financial services is personal.
Junaid helps entrepreneurs looking for funding for their crypto start-up, or an organization in need of Web3 advisory services. Junaid shares about how Bitcoin represents hope for so many doesn't matter who you are, what country you're from, it represents a hope of what stability can provide for people and infrastructure for digital money.
Meet Tony Shriller, he is a Trilingual entrepreneur, award-winning musician, TEDx Speaker, and Organizer. Tony is also the Founder of Shriller Creative, A Modern Creative Agency that specializes in innovative digital media content strategy, creative production, and integrated marketing.
Listen to Tony's story of jumping out of the destructive mindset by getting out of his head. Learning to take a step back to bring awareness to his self-sacrifice mindset modeled by his father to his grandfather. Tony shares his story of how his dog in a way as a huge part of what saved his life.
Meet Gavin Masumiya, an influencer and life coach, inspiring many through the power of communications and psychology, guiding people out of depression.
Listen to Gavin's exploratory path starting young in high school, successfully giving advice to provide great values to his classmate, then realizing his passion, digging deeper into the career trajectory of coaching inspired by Tony Robbins.
Meet Rudy Rodriguez, a motivational coach, teaching and inspire others to reframe their mindset of unfulfillment to understanding that their grand success is an accumulation of small wins.
Listen to Rudys story and journey through life along with methods of improving quality of life through various methods of self-actualization such as journaling, pre-framing mindset, and meditation. Visualize your health, success, and career jump.
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Meet Bryan Neff, an rising artist sharing music with the world .
Listen in on how Bryan transforms as an artist, to an athlete training with Olympians to owning a marketing company working on Coca Cola campaigns and many others, to traveling and exploring his ways of impacting others.
Meet Ross Strome, an advisor, investor, and strategist. Ross started in management consulting at a prestigious firm and was in the grind which caused him back pain and some health issues, however, the experience of Burning Man helped him pivot his life's trajectory to traveling and creating entrepreneurial ways to solve difficult problems at rising startup Boosted Commerce.
Listen to Ross's self-realization and self-actualization journey to make the leap to find something that truly inspires him beyond money and how he discovered what he passionate in creating in the world.
Meet Simon Saito, a visionary and accomplished leader. Founder and CEO of Ctrl Me Robotics, a multirotor drone technology company acquired by Snapchat that serviced some of the world’s largest brands such as Disney, Apple, ABC, and Universal Studios.
Listen as Simon describes his experience from studying aerospace engineering to mechanical engineering to working in a start-up and then mastering in innovation entrepreneurship. Simon shares his experience working with Snapchat and how a shift of mindset changed his life.
Meet Arjun Bhatnagar, an innovator and venture capitalist.
Listen in on how Arjun grew up with conversations of becoming an engineer and found a pivotal moment in his life in pursuit of entrepreneurship. Arjun then became one of the youngest VCs after leaving his job where he was managing hundreds of software engineers. Currently, Arjun has been building a consumer privacy technology startup.
Meet David Stankunas, a serial entrepreneur in Los Angeles who created many different businesses from the ground up. Listen in to his incredible story as he pivots from one business to another capturing opportunities and leveraging them. He started a business on creating and selling Poker Bling during the Texas Hold 'em Poker Tournament craze that helped him quit his job to becoming an full blown entrepreneur. Eventually he started an apparel business learning the ins and outs of branding, marketing and retail to ultimately land on Shark Tank.
Transcript:
David Stankunas 00:00
I didn't get on Shark Tank until several, seven or eight years later, after I launched BeardHead. Hard work and motivation is the biggest thing. If you are motivated to work hard, you're going to probably succeed over talent or intelligence or resources. Hard work is the most important thing.
J Flow 00:23
Welcome, everyone, to the Enlighten Millionaire podcast. Today, we have a special guest, David, all the way from Los Angeles. And so David, if you could share, what is something that most people know about you? And what is something that a lot of people don't know about you?
David Stankunas 00:41
Well, I guess most people will know that I have my own business. I've been an entrepreneur for more than a decade now. Something that they might not have known as I started out with a corporate job. Just as a communications consultant for years out of college, spent a fair amount of time there. It took a little while before actually jumping out and off on my own and starting businesses.
J Flow 01:04
Amazing. I would love to dive into that transition a little bit more. But let's go way back. What was your childhood like? Where did you grow up? Where do you go to school?
David Stankunas 01:14
So childhood, I grew up in the Bay Area, San Jose, Saratoga, in California, upper middle class, I guess. Both my parents are engineers, I have one sister, it was a very privileged life, I would say. I was afforded love, opportunities. I didn't have to really worry about trouble at home, or you know, are we going to be able to pay rent?
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Meet Dr. Manal Fakhoury, CEO of Vestech Partners, has a strong business intuition and has managed multimillion dollar budgets after escaping from a war torn country as a child.
Listen to Manal's story of coming to America, adjusting to go into consulting for the pharmaceutical industry to earning her MBA with the title Most Outstanding Business Student Award. She ultimately became a successful CEO teaching people how to build legacy wealth
Manal has been recognized with many professional and community awards including Pharmacist of the Year, Person of the Year, Business Women of the Year, Communicator or the Year, Volunteer of the Year, Webster’s Distinguished Alumni Award, and United Way Community Service Award.
Manal 00:00
This whole breakthrough of you know, private equity and teaching people and being an educator and empowering people to know that they can use their money to be able to invest, and to have the some safeguards and guardrails to, you know, some of the things that we learn, you know, like, you know, having the best in the industry, aligning yourself with the best that happens on the game, the inverse risk, reward the allocation, you know, reducing taxes. It's teaching people and empowering them.
J Flow 00:33
Welcome to the Enlighten Millionaire podcast, Dr. Manal Fakhoury. Welcome to the show. How's it going?
Manal 00:40
Great. How are you?
J Flow 00:41
Amazing, I'm so grateful and excited to have you here as a special guest. You know, as we're growing up, like there's, at times that thing that we want to be that dream that we want to become, I know your incredible entrepreneur, CEO, managing multi million dollars, you have over 30 years of service of for profit and nonprofit from all over. From TEDx, and just serving all over the world. But before we get to there, I want to start all the way back. Where did it all begin for you?
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Meet Damon Darnall aka The Drone Boss. Currently, Damon is the President at Sky Eye Network, Premier Network of Professional Drone Operators all over the world.
Damon started being an entrepreneur at the age of 5 selling Hot Wheels through selling, trading, and obtaining commission for his first business. Listen to how Damon took a gap semester from college to kick-start his drone business and made the pivot to follow his calling. Now, he's embarking on the path to influence 1000 people to become millionaires in the next 5 years.
Transcript:
Damon Darnall 00:00
If you don't enjoy it, you're not going to do it long term. You can make yourself do anything but it's not going to be long term. And it has to have some learning and growing, which I think pretty much anything does. Whether you're looking at racing little stupid Toy Drones, because there's always up leveling, there's always the competition. There's always you can tweak this or do this and you're always looking for one little thing, you know, or whether it's business or up leveling your relationship or up leveling your health or something. I think there's always you can always learn and grow and be open to that.
J Flow 00:30
Welcome to the Enlighten Millionaire Podcast with Damon Darnall, what's up, Damon, welcome to the Flow Show.
Damon Darnall 00:37
Hey, J Flow, it's great to be here. Excited to get to talk to you and unpack all the amazing stuff we're gonna be going through.
J Flow 00:45
I am so grateful you taking your time and energy to share your story, your journey of how you became the drone boss, right? So before all of that, like before the network that you created helping teach 10s of 1000s of people. I want to go all the way back. Back to when you were a child. And what was that dream for you growing up? Did you have like a vision or goal when you were a child?
Damon Darnall 01:10
Yeah, I did. I mean, I think all kids, you know, we have this incredible ability to dream and we don't have limits on it. I think as we get older, we then learn to give up or crush those dreams down and stifle them and not give them power. But I think that the driving force, I think what sets entrepreneurs apart is they hang on to that desire in that dream a little more than other people. They don't give it up as as easily.
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Meet Mouneeb Shahid, an extraordinary digital marketer, who helps serve hundreds of businesses to strengthen their innovation and visioning through education and implementation Listen to how Mouneeb grew up with his parents' expectation of going into Medical Science, he pivoted to follow his heart and interest in computer programming, then joining his the Chamber of Commerce to network, and build his business of marketing to impact hundreds of companies.
Mouneeb Shahid 00:00
Motivation is important. And all factors like belief and so forth are important. But it's really important to have the discipline because I think without discipline, you know, nothing can really get done. Consistency is really the key to success. I mean, you have to consistently continue to perform the tasks that you need to be able to perform, to achieve the success that you desire. So discipline plays an extremely important role over there. It's one of the key recipes to success of any form.
Transcript:
J Flow 00:28
Welcome to the enlighten Millionaire podcast. Mouneeb Shahid. What's up, brother?
Mouneeb Shahid 00:34
Thank you for having me, James.
J Flow 00:35
Thank you so much for joining us. You know, I know you're a digital pioneer in marketing services, and helping empower entrepreneurs with their passion and teaching them about digital marketing. But before we get into all that, and all that, because you've been doing it for since 2004. Right? And so before we get into all that, I like to start all the way back. Right, when you were just a kid growing up, where did you grew up? And what was your dream? What was that thing for you growing up?
Mouneeb Shahid 01:05
I was the only child in my family. So there was a lot of attention, you know, that I took from my family as a result of being the only child, I guess it's one of the perks, but it also, I was to myself a lot when I was growing up. I had this passion of being able to connect and socialize with the friends that I had at the time. Based on my background, I wanted to really get out there and make as many friends as possible because I don't have any brothers or sisters. Initiated the salesperson within me at the time.
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Meet Josh Berger, Founders of Packet and Packet Coin (an open source digital technology that's created by the people for the people). Listen to how Josh took the travel and redefine his model of education than following the college provided model and traveled to South Africa to experience the perspective of empathy with his mentor. Learn how Josh honed into the energy of empowering the masses to create wealth as he leaped into entrepreneurship.
Josh Berger 00:00
If you could fail, doing things that you don't want, then you might as well take a chance and do what you love. There's nothing wrong with failure. You have to fail because you learned so much from your failures. But having that resilience to get back up and that passion to move forward, I think it's just the most important piece of life and especially entrepreneurism.
J Flow 00:28
Welcome to the enlighten Millionaire podcast with Josh burger. What's up, Josh? How's it going?
Josh Berger 00:33
It's going great. How you doing?
J Flow 00:36
Welcome. I am doing very well, thank you so much for joining us. I am so grateful for your time and energy and you coming to share your story. For those of you who don't know, Josh is out creating impact in the world. He's one of the founders of Packet and also Packet Coin, an open source digital technology that's created by the people for the people. But before we get into all that, I'd like to start all the way back. Where did it all start for you, Josh? Can you remember a time when, let's say you were young? And you had this dream? What was that for you growing up?
Josh Berger 01:13
Honestly, when I was young, my mom always said that I would change the world. It's a lot of pressure to put on a kid. But I always really took that to heart. And so yeah, I think through my whole life, and through my whole career, through my aspirations, I really wanted to impact the world in a positive way. And that really started in the film business. I started in radio when I was six, and I joined the Union when I was eight.
J Flow 01:39
Okay, wait, wait, wait. You started in the radio business when you were six years old? How did how did that opportunity come about?
Josh Berger 01:47
Yeah, my aunt was a casting director for radio. And I think she was a little lazy, because she just hired all of her grandkids, or all of her nieces and nephews to do it. But I really loved it. And I kind of started my first career when I was a little kid, just doing radio. And I just love to be part of that and create and be creative. And that led into acting and then that led into wanting to create stories that I was passionate about. And that led to writing. And then once I...
J Flow 02:21
Woah, woah, woah. I want to unpack that a little bit more. As a six year old, what was the radio show about? What was the intention behind it. And just as a six year old, what was the meaning that you gave to that?
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Meet Steve Olsher, Founder and Editor in Chief of Podcast Magazine. He is the original chairman of liquor.com and New York Times Best Selling Author of "What is your what, discovered the one amazing thing that you were born to do." Steve is a creator of New Media Summit and an international keynote speaker. Listen in to Steve's journey of how Steve tacked the .com bubble burst and other entrepreneur challenges to become a success.
Meet Phi Do who is a certified facilitator through the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center and the International Mindful Teachers Association. Hear Phi's journey through life and how he overcame his challenges and struggles to become who he is today helping bring mindful leadership into organizations. Phi teaches people to develop mindfulness, leadership and emotional intelligence for more success in life through guided meditation practices as owner of Kidophi.
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Nick's story, he is a serial entrepreneur who saw opportunity with rise of the internet and leveraged his skills at 12 years old to build his first business creating websites. Tune in to his journey from working his way through college on Elance to building his own business which started out as a side hustle. Nick always knew he wanted to control his own fate so he started building skills in an emerging market to make that transition a success. Now, he impacts lives as he's out to serve and develop his venture capitalist firm. Come join us on the Enlighten Millionaire Podcast and hear Nick's story
Meet Dr. Kien Vuu who is one of the top anti-aging physicians in the country as he shares how his parents gave up everything and fled by Vietnam by boat for 8 months and being the only infant who survived all in pursuit of the American dream. Listen in on this incredible podcast as he shares his journey and how he overcame bullying and difficult obstacles as an immigrant who eventually becomes a Epigenetics doctor.
At his VuuMD Longevity and Performance Clinic, Dr. Vuu regularly works with celebrities, top corporate executives, and high-functioning professionals to optimize their health, performance, and vitality.
EnlightenMillionaire #Doctor #Podcast
Kien Vuu 00:00
I pick up the chart for a patient that I'm supposed to see next. And I see on the chart, it says a 43 year old man terminal pancreatic cancer, and I'm supposed to drain 10 liters of fluid from his belly. What I expected to see was this guy full of despair. But in comes Ishmael looked me straight in the eye. "Hey, Doc, how are you? Man? Thank you so much for doing this today. I'm so excited to get this done. Man, I look like a watermelon donor". And so he's joking. He's full of love. But I remember asking him, "Ishmael, you know, how are you so positive now?". And he says, "You know, Dr. Vuu, it's easy. But it wasn't always this easy. I didn't always used to be like this. I always used to be angry, and couldn't control my emotional states. But this cancer has sort of given me a gift. And the gift they gave me was, it reminded me I always have a choice of how I show up every day. That's the one thing I have control of, I may not control of what happens with his cancer. But I have a choice of how I show up. And I choose to show up with joy with love and with gratitude".
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Meet Pattycakes who went from being an engineer to a full time successful YouTube gamer with over 100,000 subscribers. Listen in on his journey of how he saw an opportunity when he was laid off from his engineer job to pursue his passion. Patrick shares his mindset of leveling up in personal development and how he changed his focus on the opportunity rather than scarcity Please like and subscribe to the channel for more incredible stories of our guests
#Pattycakes #YoutubeGamer #EnlightenMillionairePodcast
Meet Christian Mickelsen who started from nothing to become a millionaire coach. Christian witnessed his parents divorce at an early age, he thought as a child money would solve all his problems. Before finding his roots in entrepreneurship, he would get bullied and fired from job after job. His mindset on personal development and persistency empowered him to become a multi millionaire business coach who is on a mission to heal the world.
Timestamp:
4:58 Christian witnessing his parents' divorce at a young age that led to his perspective on money
4:59 Christian talks about his student teaching experience in college about yelling everyday to get kids to listen
19:36 Christian shares his early career experience with a difficult boss that led him to quitting his job
21:57 The story of when Christian got bullied at work and caused a breakthrough for Christian to quit the job and become a coach
28:05 Christian's first entrepreneurship ventures
32:58 "Either it dies right here if I say no, or it lives on, and maybe it turns into something great if I say yes"
37:55 How to leverage opportunities to start a business without much capital to start
42:53 From coaching for free to coaching as a million dollar business
46:56 Fear of being shamed
50:38 Understanding the peace process
54:34 Letting go the shame of not having enough money
1:00:30 Entrepreneurs change the world
1:03:48 Christian's book: Abundance Unleashed and free coaching tips
1:07:29 Living an epic life
1:11:07 Success is inevitable if you're willing to do the work
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Abundance Unleashed by Christian Mickelsen available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Abundance-Unleashed-Christian-Mickelsen-ebook/dp/B071GPYVB9
Meet Derral Eves on the Enlighten Millionaire Podcast, he is the Executive Producer and CEO of The Chosen, Partner to Mr.Beast, and YouTube consultant with billions of views. He has helped 27 Youtube channels achieve the Gold Play Button of over one million subscribers
Listen in on Derral's journey and his pivotal moments, how it all started for him growing up mowing lawns to buy his first car. How Derral saved a corporation $863,000 and was forced to quit because they wouldn't give him a $10,000 raise and went on to make millions on Youtube.
Enlighten #Millionaire #Producer #CEO
Episode Timestamp
3:21 Derral Eves' childhood
6:26 Having a bank account at a young age
11:33 Derral answers whether growing up being in a big family to prove himself or seek approval from his parents
12:24 From delivering newspapers to milking cows
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Transcript
Derral Eves 00:00
A student that I mentor and she's 86 years old and loved what she what she does is amazing to see a lady in one year make well over seven figures more money than she's ever made in her whole life. Now, I think that's why I love YouTube so much. There's a lot of ideas that it's just for the young people, and there's always an opportunity. It doesn't matter how unique it is. There's a community for everyone. There's content for everyone.
Enlighten Millionaire Podcast 00:26
Welcome to the Enlighten Millionaire podcast with special guests Derral Eves. What's up, Derral.
Derral Eves 00:33
Hey, I am excited to be here.
Enlighten Millionaire Podcast 00:35
I am so excited and grateful for you taking the time and energy to share your journey. For those of you don't know, Derral, is a Wall Street Journal best selling author with a YouTube Formula. Having taken over 27 channels from zero to a million subscribers earning that gold button generating 68 billion views on YouTube alone. And over 22 billion views on Facebook, inspiring YouTube creators all over the world for net positive impact. He's the executive producer of The Chosen with over 378 million views with the purpose to inspire over 1 billion people. Welcome to the Flow Show, Derral.
Derral Eves 01:19
I'm excited to be here, for sure.
Enlighten Millionaire Podcast 01:22
Excited to have you. And before we get into all that, I like to start all the way back? Where did it all start for you?
Derral Eves 01:32
Well, at birth, of course, Come on No, come from a pretty big family. I'm one of 10 kids and family is pretty much everything for me. And it started with an amazing mom and dad and siblings to match for sure. And I think my journey on just understanding hard work and having things pay off started with my dad, he owned a couple companies incent general contractor and did a lot of development. So I was always seeing hard work and you know, things that he was project that he was working on. But my dad is a big believer that you got to pull your own weight.
Meet Mark Strome on the Enlighten Millionaire Podcast, he is an Entrepreneur and Chairman of Strome Investment Management. He has a wildly successful track record of investments and an incredible journey.
Listen in on Mark's journey and his pivotal moments, how it all started for him growing up on a farm with only $600 to achieve the American dream with hard work and resiliency. Mark shares how he grew his retirement account from 8k to 80M. Tune in to hear what money meant to him and how his perspective on money changed when he almost died twice as he shares his life lessons.
Enlighten #Millionaire #Investor
Episode Transcript
Enlighten Millionaire Podcast 00:00
I remember you sharing with me how you took your retirement account, and you invested like 50 or 100,000. And you took it to like 80 90 million. What would you say is a key to that success?
Mark Strome 00:13
Call it intuition or whatever. But when the stars line up, I put my bed down again, I don't put 10% of my mind to it. I put all my money into it. So like for Zion all my money in Bitcoin
Enlighten Millionaire Podcast 00:26
Welcome to the enlighten Millionaire podcast with special guest, Mark Strong. Welcome to the flow show Mark, I flow. So before we get into it, mark is an amazing American entrepreneur. He's the founder chairman of Strome Investment Management, along with incredible and abundant track record of investments and philanthropists. But I like to start all the way back. Where did it all start for you, Mark?
Mark Strome 00:55
So I think my story is probably started when my grandfather went out to shoot a chicken hawk, tripped over a wire and blew up his right arm right at the shoulder. And how that affected me was, he had one son and Eugene, my father. And he expected Eugene to do everything for him because he only had one arm. So my father was tasked with working probably 18 hours a day since he was a young child on the chicken farm. And he got conditioned to basically be a complete workaholic. And lucky for me, my father, another entrepreneur decided to leave when he was 18 and start another entrepreneurial venture, which was a small dairy farm. And he was equipped with this incredible workaholic capability. And you know, in those days when you had a small farmer, basically everything so he really could do everything, you know, he could do. He built his barns, he did his plumbing, his electricity, he fixed his tractors, he put he did everything. Fortunately, or, unfortunately, for me, he only had one son, me. And you know, he only thing you really knew was to, you know, work constantly, all day long. He did teach me how to work smart, by not wasting time, but I was really had to sort of fit in his shoes of being this constant workaholic. So he was probably not consciously, but just an amazing teacher, because he did several things, you know, I got the workaholic, which is no success comes without hard work.
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