Conversations with Achievers: Recent Episodes
Robert White
CEO and Conversations With Achievers podcast host Robert White pioneered personal transformational growth in the U.S.A and Asia. He is a Speaker, Trainer, Author, and Consultant. A college dropout who went on to found and lead two high-impact experiential learning companies with over one million graduates.
Your host, Robert White, talks with the CEO and Co-Founder of SearchTires, Tim Shaffer. Tim recounted setbacks and how he perceived them not as defeats but as chances for advancement. He highlighted the importance of pivoting—implementing tactical alterations to a business plan in response to market shifts. Shaffer's narratives affirm that the entrepreneurs who prosper adapt swiftly and are unafraid to revamp themselves or their offerings to maintain relevance.
Tim thoroughly examined the impact of mentorship on business achievement. Tim credited a substantial portion of his success to the insights provided by mentors during his entrepreneurial path. He discussed how a mentor can offer sage advice and a fresh viewpoint that can reveal the overlooked aspects of a business. For novices, Tim's counsel was unequivocal: seek mentors who share your principles and aspirations, and do not hesitate to request assistance.
To learn more about Tim's work, click HERE and HERE.
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Your host, Robert White, talks with the Author, Speaker, and Leadership Coach of Collins Leadership Strategies, Rod Collins. Rod discussed the significant shift from traditional hierarchical models to self-managed peer-to-peer network models in businesses. Rod explained how the digital revolution has accelerated this transformation, necessitating a more agile and responsive approach to leadership. He provided compelling examples of companies that have successfully made this transition, illustrating the benefits of embracing a more decentralized and collaborative way of working.
A fascinating part of our conversation revolved around the evolving role of leaders in this new paradigm. Rod pointed out that leaders in self-managed organizations are more like facilitators than commanders. They focus on creating the conditions for collaboration and enabling the flow of information. This requires a different set of skills, such as emotional intelligence, systems thinking, and the ability to foster a shared vision.
Rod's book is not just about identifying the changes in the business world; it's also a guide on how to navigate them. He outlined key principles that underpin self-managed organizations. These principles include distributed authority, collective decision-making, and a culture of continuous learning. Rod emphasized the importance of trust and transparency in these systems, as they empower individuals to take initiative and innovate without the constraints of a rigid hierarchy.
To learn more about Rod's work, click HERE.
Check out Rod's book, Nobody Is Smarter Than Everybody: Why Self-Managed Teams Make Better Decisions and Deliver Extraordinary Results, HERE.
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Your host, Robert White, talks with the Founder and CEO of Trinsic Technologies, Art Powell. Art's journey as a CEO is a testament to the power of a clear vision. He shared the critical importance of defining the result for his company and the impact he aims to achieve. It's not enough to simply exist in the market; a company must stand out, operate on foundational principles, and adopt a holistic approach that encompasses both employees and clients. Art's challenges in shaping the company's identity and culture were monumental, but his dedication to these principles has been the cornerstone of his success.
As a CEO, Art has faced numerous challenges, but he emphasized the importance of continuous learning and growth. Leaders must be accountable and lead by example, fostering a culture of trust and commitment. The impact of failed leadership can be detrimental to a company, making it essential to seek outside perspectives and feedback to maintain the right course.
To learn more about Art's work, click HERE and HERE.
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Your host, Robert White, talks with the CEO of Blue Collar King Coaching, Matt Murray. Matt's story is one of resilience and determination. He grew up in a blue-collar family, with his father working as a mechanic and meat cutter, and his mother as a checker. From a young age, Matt developed a passion for working on cars and electronics, often assisting his father in the garage.
In 1997, he entered the HVAC industry as a technician in Los Angeles. However, when the company went bankrupt in 2003, Matt found himself unemployed. He took on side jobs to make ends meet, which eventually led him to start his own business. Today, he is a successful entrepreneur, offering coaching services through his brand, "The Blue Collar King."
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Your host, Robert White, talks with the CEO of Cascade Insights, Sean Campbell. Sean is a well-regarded consultant, speaker, author, trainer, mentor, and educator. He has delivered talks for Fortune 50 companies and top-tier conferences around the world and has written extensively on technology and business topics. Sean has been a professional services firm owner for more than 20 years. His work has spanned consulting engagements with tech giants and startups you’ve heard of, the sale of his first company, and the growth of delivery, sales, marketing, and operational practices inside professional services firms.
With B2B-focused market research and marketing services, Cascade Insights helps companies seize opportunities in the B2B technology sector. Their clients range from enterprise tech giants to startups. Some are traditional technology companies and some are from fields such as finance, healthcare, education, etc., and have a B2B tech sector initiative.
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Your host, Robert White, talks with the Founder and CEO of Sockrates Custom, Sam Moses. Sockrates Custom's journey began in 2018 in a small retail store focused on Italian manufacturing. As their expertise grew in creating unique designs, the idea caught on and they began branching out into custom designs for their clients, focusing on made-in-Italy products that grew into their true passion, custom socks.
Their manufacturing facility is located in Italy, right next door to their yarn manufacturer; which is the largest in Europe. This allows Sockrate Custom to match your Pantone™ based colors exactly to your logo and colors, and maintain their industry-leading turnaround time.
To learn more about Sam's work, click HERE, HERE, and HERE.
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Your host, Robert White, talks with the Founder and CEO of The Crone Law Firm, Alan Crone. The Crone Law Firm's focus on employment law for a very good reason: the financial lives of families, the survival of companies, and the integrity of business are usually at stake. They strive to help clients make careful, informed decisions about employment-related matters.
Alan Crone is a Team Leader. Whether he’s helping achieve a business dream or seeking compensation for someone who’s been treated unfairly, he draws from a deep well of compassion and experience. He’s a master at devising winning strategies and innovative tactics.
To learn more about Alan's work, click HERE and HERE.
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Want to learn more about Robert's work at Extraordinary People? Check out his website at https://www.extraordinarypeople.com/.
Your host, Robert White, talks with the Founder and CEO of Solar Staff, Pavel Shynkarenko. Solar Staff's mission is to provide a bridge between companies from advanced economies and freelancers from developing regions, transforming international freelance into a local, barrier-free job. Solar Staff delivers a solution for secure deals, documents, and payments. while working with international talent.
To learn more about Pavel and his work, click HERE.
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Want to learn more about Robert and his work at Extraordinary People? Check out his website at https://www.extraordinarypeople.com/.
Your host, Robert White, talks with the President & CEO of Bosun, Nicole Grinnell. Bosun is a full-service boutique staffing agency that has a passion for helping businesses. They staff at every level and stage of business, whether their clients are start-ups or large corporations. Bosun works across various verticals and industries, and can provide broad services and recruit all sorts of staff members, from entry-level employees to high-level executives. In this episode, Nicole shares her business wisdom, as she has grown up around and with the entrepreneurial spirit.
To learn more about Nicole's work, click HERE.
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Want to learn more about Robert’s work? Visit his website at https://www.therobertwhite.com/.
Your host, Robert White, talks with the Co-Founder and CEO of KoreChain, Oscar Jofre Jr. KoreChain is an AI-based global blockchain platform that manages the full lifecycle of tokenized securities to ensure compliance with securities regulation and corporate law across multiple jurisdictions. It connects companies to the capital markets and secondary markets and facilitates access to capital and liquidity for private investors. KoreChain provides a highly secure, decentralized blockchain ecosystem for fully compliant issuance, trading, clearing, settlement, management, reporting, corporate actions, and worldwide custodianship for tokenized securities.
To learn more about Oscar's work, click HERE.
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Want to learn more about Robert’s work? Visit his website at https://www.therobertwhite.com/.
Your host, Robert White, talks with the Founder and CEO of Costa Rica's Call Center, Richard Blank. Costa Rica Call Center is a state-of-the-art BPO telemarketing outsourcing company. CRCC's bilingual crew is capable of handling any size BPO while offering expansion or staying in contact with customers without stress or added time to hire and train telemarketers yourself. Costa Rica's Call Center personally trains different call centers across Central America.
To learn more about Richard's work, visit https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/costa-ricas-call-center-2/
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Want to learn more about Robert’s work? Visit his website at https://www.therobertwhite.com/.
Your host, Robert White, talks with the Co-Founder of Georgia Trial Attorneys, James Grant. Georgia Trial Attorneys helps personal injury lawyers achieve their entrepreneurial ambitions by helping them grow their firms. They specialize in litigation and economies of scale and are able to provide litigation service at a fraction of the cost of what your in-house operations would be. GTA helps to effectively run your personal injury law firm by separating your pre-litigation and litigation departments.
If you want to learn more about James' work with Georgia Trial Attorneys, check out their website here.
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Want to learn more about Robert’s work? Visit his website at https://www.therobertwhite.com/.
Your host, Robert White, talks with David Perez. David Perez is a tax strategist and is also known as Mr. Economy. David wants to help you avoid or eliminate your tax liability from over paying with advanced tax strategies and to turn that saved money into an investment in real estate. By building your own economy, you control your life and won't let anything get in the way.
To learn more about David's work, click HERE.
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Want to learn more about Robert’s work? Visit his website at https://www.therobertwhite.com/.
Your host, Robert White, talks with the Founder and CEO of heyLIME, James Simmons. heyLIME builds culture and connection in remote and hybrid teams by creating fun, casual social interactions that build friendships, psychological safety, and high-performing, highly engaged teams. heyLIME helps empower your management team, lower the cultural engagement burden, decrease challenges of hierarchy, and give back to your team.
To learn more about James' work, click HERE.
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Want to learn more about Robert’s work? Visit his website at https://www.therobertwhite.com/.
Your host, Robert White, talks with the CEO and Co-Founder of Snapfix, Paul McCarthy. Snapfix was built to be the Simplest Task Management Platform in the world, for Managing and Maintaining Buildings, Facilities & Equipment. Snapfix allows you to keep your building the best it can be by enabling everyone to report reactive maintenance issues. It ensures all your equipment maintenance, and cleaning checks are carried out on time by your facilities team. You can run scheduled checklist-based inspections of fire safety equipment and systems and ensure that escape routes are unobstructed. Snapfix can Save an hour every day now that all work orders and tasks are tracked digitally.
To learn more about Paul's work, click HERE.
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Want to learn more about Robert’s work? Visit his website at https://www.therobertwhite.com/.
Your host, Robert White, talks with the Founder and CEO of Invest on Main Street, Patrick Grimes. Patrick has fifteen years of experience in active real estate investment: purchasing distressed assets, renovating, and stabilizing for long-term cash flow. He has spent 15 years in corporate America working for machine design firms to concept, design, and build one-of-a-kind custom manufacturing automation and robotic systems. He has been able to leverage his corporate experience and real estate knowledge to help pave the way for future success.
To learn more about Patrick's work, click here.
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Want to learn more about Robert’s work? Visit his website at https://www.therobertwhite.com/.
Your host, Robert White, talks with Founder of Trading Strategy Guides, Casey Stubbs. Trading Strategy Guides' vision and goal is to teach traders how to master the markets. They are aiming to solve the issue with the lack of information available to traders in the industry. They are trying to simplify trading strategies by giving traders a detailed plan with step-by-step rules to follow. To learn more about Casey's work, click https://tradingstrategyguides.com/ (here). If you think you’d be a great guest on our show, apply https://go.therobertwhite.com/podcast-guest (here). Want to learn more about Robert’s work? Visit his website at https://www.therobertwhite.com/ (https://www.therobertwhite.com/).
Your host, Robert White, talks with CFO and CBO of the All Health Network, Keith Larson. All Health Network is working towards being the most impactful growth and recovery provider with communities that need them most. They recognize systemic injustices and prioritize building an inclusive environment that focuses on culturally responsive care. To learn more about Keith's work, click https://www.allhealthnetwork.org/ (here). If you think you’d be a great guest on our show, apply https://go.therobertwhite.com/podcast-guest (here). Want to learn more about Robert’s work? Visit his website at https://www.therobertwhite.com/ (https://www.therobertwhite.com/).
Your host, Robert White, talks with CEO and Founder of Moves The Needle, Brant Cooper. Moves The Needle is aiming to teach businesses how to use disruption and uncertainty to their advantage. Developing exploration management capabilities for leaders and teams opens new growth opportunities, reduces time-to-market, and increases operational efficiency. To learn more about Moves the Needle, click https://movestheneedle.com/ (here). To learn more about Brant's work and get a copy of his book Disruption Proof, click https://brantcooper.com/ (here). If you think you’d be a great guest on our show, apply https://go.therobertwhite.com/podcast-guest (here). Want to learn more about Robert’s work? Visit his website at https://www.therobertwhite.com/ (https://www.therobertwhite.com/).
Your host, Robert White, talks with Founder and CEO of Mogul Media, Tameka Chapman. Mogul Media's mission is to create the greatest platform for positivity that delivers positive, empowering content rich in culture, legacy and diversity. To empower and celebrate life and inspire men, women and families, globally, to live in their purpose, on purpose, and by doing so, create a positive vortex where negativity can no longer exist. To learn more about Tameka's work, click https://www.mogulmedia.us/ (here). If you think you’d be a great guest on our show, apply https://go.therobertwhite.com/podcast-guest (here). Want to learn more about Robert’s work? Visit his website at https://www.therobertwhite.com/ (https://www.therobertwhite.com/).
Your host, Robert White, talks with the President and CEO of Paradiem, Eric Dunavant. Eric is an author, speaker, consultant, serial entrepreneur and philanthropist who has been in the financial services industry for over two decades. He has worked with Top Wealth Advisors and received multiple awards and accolades in the area of business and finance. To learn more about Eric's work, click https://ericldunavant.com/ (here). To learn more about Paradiem, click https://paradiem.org/ (here). If you think you’d be a great guest on our show, apply https://go.therobertwhite.com/podcast-guest (here). Want to learn more about Robert’s work? Visit his website at https://www.therobertwhite.com/ (https://www.therobertwhite.com/).
Your host, Robert White, talks with Chris Prefontaine CEO and Founder of Smart Real Estate Coach. Smart Real Estate Coach is a community of wick smart associates all across North America. To learn more about Chris's work, visit http://www.smartrealestatecoach.com (http://www.smartrealestatecoach.com) If you think you’d be a great guest on our show, apply https://go.therobertwhite.com/podcast-guest (here). Want to learn more about Robert’s work? Visit his website at https://www.therobertwhite.com/ (https://www.therobertwhite.com/).
Your host, Robert White, talks with the CEO of Exponentially Human, Chad Burmeister. XHUMN helps you identify your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) Accounts, and then source leads from best-of-breed data providers including Zoom Info, Sales Intel, and Lead 411. XHUMN knows that more activities equal more meetings, which equals more pipeline and revenue for your company. To learn more about Chad's work click https://www.xhumn.ai/ (here). To connect with Chad click https://www.linkedin.com/in/chadburmeister/ (here). If you think you’d be a great guest on our show, apply https://go.therobertwhite.com/podcast-guest (here). Want to learn more about Robert’s work? Visit his website at https://www.therobertwhite.com/ (https://www.therobertwhite.com/).
Your host, Robert White, talks with the founder of Royal Legal Solutions, Scott Smith. Royal Legal Solutions is a boutique law firm focused on protecting our clients’ real estate assets throughout the United States and Canada. Scott Smith is a real estate investor himself and has learned that keeping your wealth is just as important as making it. To learn more about Scott's work click https://royallegalsolutions.com/ (here). If you think you’d be a great guest on our show, apply https://go.therobertwhite.com/podcast-guest (here). Want to learn more about Robert’s work? Visit his website at https://www.therobertwhite.com/ (https://www.therobertwhite.com/).
Your host, Robert White, talks with Arjun Sen, CEO of ZenMango. ZenMango is a win big agency that helps business identify their one-of-one positioning and puts them on the winning path. Their approach focuses on helping your business be the best so you can deliver on your brand promise. To learn more about Arjun's work click https://www.zenmango.com/ (HERE) If you think you’d be a great guest on our show, apply https://go.therobertwhite.com/podcast-guest (here). Want to learn more about Robert’s work? Visit his website at https://www.therobertwhite.com/ (https://www.therobertwhite.com/).
In this episode, Robert White speaks with Gina Folk. Gina is a coach that helps companies optimize their operations through people process and change. With the right vision and the right operations you can your dream of better quality, faster response times, higher productivity, improved customer experience and increased profitability come true. To learn more about Gina's work, visit https://www.ginafolk.com/ (https://www.ginafolk.com/) If you think you’d be a great guest on our show, apply https://go.therobertwhite.com/podcast-guest (here). Want to learn more about Robert’s work? Visit his website at https://www.therobertwhite.com/ (https://www.therobertwhite.com/).
In this episode, Robert White speaks with Miguel Garcia of Natural Choice Company. Natural Choice Company is all about a natural choice to life. They manufacture high quality natural products and make them affordable for people to incorporate the products into their daily routines to improve their health and quality of life. To learn more about Miguel's work, visit http://www.NaturalChoiceCompany.com (www.NaturalChoiceCompany.com) If you think you’d be a great guest on our show, apply https://go.therobertwhite.com/podcast-guest (here). Want to learn more about Robert’s work? Visit his website at https://www.therobertwhite.com/ (https://www.therobertwhite.com/).
In this episode, Robert White speaks with Josh Tapp of Pantheon. Pantheon is a cohort of podcasters transforming their shows into real, high ticket businesses. Pantheon is on a mission to find 1000 people to join their titans of influence and to help them amplify their voice and elevate their brands to new heights. To learn more about Josh's work, visit https://www.pantheon.fm/ (https://www.pantheon.fm/) If you think you’d be a great guest on our show, apply https://go.therobertwhite.com/podcast-guest (here). Want to learn more about Robert’s work? Visit his website at https://www.therobertwhite.com/ (https://www.therobertwhite.com/).
In this episode, Robert White speaks with Axel Meierhoefer of Ideal Wealth Grower. Ideal Wealth Grower helps you grow wealth by providing expertise, help you create wealth with passive income, and help manage it to make smart decisions. To learn more about Axel's work, visit https://idealwealthgrower.com/ (https://idealwealthgrower.com/) If you think you’d be a great guest on our show, apply https://go.therobertwhite.com/podcast-guest (here). Want to learn more about Robert’s work? Visit his website at https://www.therobertwhite.com/ (https://www.therobertwhite.com/).
In the inaugural episode of the Conversations with Achievers podcast, Josh Elledge of UpMyInfluence speaks to the host of the show, lifetime entrepreneur https://www.therobertwhite.com/ (Robert White). Robert loves to learn and he has a natural curiosity. He has learned his business expertise from other business owners, and he has seen enough successes (and failures) to see from many perspectives. Robert shares that his vision for the Conversations with Achievers show is to learn and share the stories of entrepreneurs from all walks of life and verticals. This podcast is all about exploring growth and how our guests overcome business challenges – as well as learning about how to adapt to an ever-changing world of business. We celebrate achievers and want to share their stories. If you think you’d be a great guest on our show, apply https://go.therobertwhite.com/podcast-guest (here).
Want to learn more about Robert’s work? Visit his website at https://www.therobertwhite.com/ (https://www.therobertwhite.com/).