052: Change Is Coming
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Erik shares the changes with the show in the coming month such as a name change. His purpose is to provide you with the tools that are going to help you the most which is why some changes to the show are coming. There will be a new name which will be announced soon.
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051: Dr. Lindsey Marvel | Our Vision Reflects What We See or Don’t See
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Dr. Lindsey Marvel, optometrist describes getting into the field which was not widely accepted by her family even though she is a doctor. The focus she had growing up was on sports, especially tennis as she was a highly ranked tennis played that led to a collegiate career and school was secondary.
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050: Not All Financial Education is Created Equally
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Erik Smith shares a story of a conversation he recently had with an individual who studied finance and daily trades in the market. It was interesting to find that the individual was not aware of different financial concepts.
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049: Kristi Lee Cronin | Curing Heartache Literally & Figuratively
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In this episode of Fitness & Finance, Kristi Lee Cronin, Cardiology Nurse Practitioner shares how she got into the field of nursing and the challenges that came along the way. Her story is inspiring because it shows that persistence pays and we cannot avoid the things that are on our hearts.
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048: Take Advantage of Every Moment in Life
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Erik talks about the news of Kobe Bryant’s death and what it means to him and the lessons learned from the tragedy. Unfortunately it takes tragedy to bring people together and appreciate one another as we need to tell people how we feel about them always because we do not know how long we are going to live.
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047: Vee Khuu | Into The Real Estate Lab
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In this episode of Fitness & Finance, real estate investor Vee Khuu shares his experiences getting into real estate investing as an immigrant from Vietnam in the midst of the 2008 financial crisis, the benefits of investing out-of-state, tax liens & more.
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046: The Winning Stages-Magic Mirror
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Erik shares a story about a mentor of his who shared the stages of why people are successful and also why they fail. Most people become successful and do not know why, which keeps them from having continued success. Others also do not understand why they fail. Erik shares a personal story relating to his health and fitness journey of success and failure.
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045: Aimee Carlson | Terminating the Toxins in Our Lives
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In this episode of Fitness & Finance, Aimee Carlson, entrepreneur and host of podcast, The Toxin Terminator, shares how she began her journey of eliminating toxins from her life, some useful first steps you can take today and more.
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044: Taking Action Before It’s Too Late
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Erik shares stories that have impacted him in his career, whether good or bad. He discusses a time when he was in a situation with a client and could help them but was not able to.
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043: Jason Priest | Transforming the Dad Bod
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In this episode of Fitness & Finance, Jason Priest, Founder of Dad Bod Health and a Registered Nurse, shares how he chose to change his pattern of bad health decisions, how nursing school led to his entrepreneurial journey, the importance of stepping outside your comfort zone and more.
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In the first part of a 3-part episode, Sofia Shah (CEO, Dynasty Leadership) talks to your host Erik Smith about her origins.
EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:
- Moving to the US from Peru when she was 4 years old, not knowing any English, taught her to acclimate quickly to new environments.
- Health was always a priority in Sofia's household growing up, including a vegetarian diet and playing soccer.
- Sofia always wanted to identify as an athlete because she loved the competition and admired the discipline and eventually became a runner in high school because it was the least expensive sport to participate in.
- She got onto a cross country team in college but had to leave the team due to health issues, but after that in order to keep up her fitness, she started running shorter races and found herself winning.
- Growing up, she had always assumed she would end up working for someone else until she read about Sam Walton founding Walmart and Sam’s Club.
- Sofia turned down scholarships to graduate school in order to go into business for herself and tried real estate when she graduated college at age 20, but it didn’t stick because of the market crash.
- When the real estate market crashed, she found a stable job at Verizon Wireless, and to distract herself from how much she hated it, she started working out more regularly.
- With her coworker (who later became her husband), they grew their Verizon store to number one in the franchise.
- When Sofia found the financial services business she is now in, she knew immediately that’s what she wanted.
KEY POINTS:
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Nobody starts off great at what they do.
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Be open to ending up where you never expected.
TWEETABLE QUOTE:
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“The store that we worked at, the Verizon in Irvine, when we both started to really care and work, we brought that store to the top, number one store.“ –Sofia Shah
RESOURCES MENTIONED:
- Schedule a time to talk with Erik.
- Find Erik on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter