#359 - Chris Carlin gets REAL about Customer Experience at The Upper Deck Company
Release Date: 09/27/2021
#471 - Scott Proposki gets REAL about Losing It All, Rebuilding Stronger & Turning Passion Into Profit
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The Be Real Show with Travis Huff What happens when you build a successful business, lose nearly everything overnight, and have to completely reinvent yourself? In this inspiring episode of The Be Real Show, Travis Huff welcomes entrepreneur, author, photographer, and business advisor Scott Proposki for a powerful conversation about resilience, reinvention, entrepreneurship, and what it really takes to build a sustainable business. Scott spent more than 27 years building an incredible photography career, working with major organizations including National Geographic, the White House, and the...
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#470 - Hollis Pirkey gets REAL about Turning Anger Into Power, Purpose & Positive Change
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The Be Real Show with Travis Huff What if anger wasn't something you needed to eliminate, but something you could learn to transform into one of your greatest strengths? In this episode of The Be Real Show, Travis Huff welcomes Hollis Pirkey, author, speaker, entrepreneur, and anger-channeling expert, for a powerful exploration of emotional awareness, personal transformation, and the impact anger can have on our relationships, businesses, and everyday lives. For decades, Hollis struggled with anger and its consequences. Through his personal journey of self-discovery, he developed a new...
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#469 - Timothy Rexius gets REAL about what's popping with Omaha Protein Popcorn and it's worldwide GROWTH
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🎙️ Be Real Show — Guest Notes: Timothy “Tim” Rexius Quick Guest Overview Tim Rexius is an Omaha-based serial entrepreneur whose businesses span nutrition, supplements, gyms, consumer products, consulting and speaking. His ventures include Rexius Nutrition, Omaha Protein Popcorn, VHI Supplements and Iron Heaven Gyms. He's also a husband and father of six. His backstory is particularly strong for your show. Tim has talked publicly about being broke and sleeping in his car when he was young, then starting a lawn-care business to get himself back on his feet. He eventually left...
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#468 - Dr. John Oberg gets REAL about better behaviors of individuals, communities, and systems lead to best-in-class outcomes
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Over the last 3 decades, I have studied the behavior of individuals, communities, and systems. I have observed our world as it becomes more transactional and less connected. This trend is impacting our work, our health, and our communities. My career is now focused on reversing trends that negatively impact humans. Better behaviors of individuals, communities, and systems lead to best-in-class outcomes, not to mention happier people and a better society.
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#467 - Scott Alldridge gets REAL about Cybersecurity in an AI World
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"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein Scott Alldridge is a tech-forward C-Suite Executive, Board Director, Amazon Best Seller Author and exceptional Problem Solver with deep experience in AI, cybersecurity, data governance and risk management spanning a broad array of industries. He is a transformational leader adept at driving organizational change, mitigating financial and reputation risk and formulating high-impact tech strategies that lead to significant value creation. ______ CYBERSECURITY SME. Scott’s work is grounded...
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#466 - Joe Terry gets REAL about going from NFL Linebacker to helping companies, leaders, and people drive extraordinary results
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🎙️ Be Real Show Podcast Notes Guest: Joe Terry CEO, Culture Partners | Former NFL Linebacker | 16x Ironman | Bestselling Author Episode Title Ideas From NFL to CEO: The Power of Surrendering to Lead Why Company Culture Beats Strategy Alone How Elite Performers Think Differently Leadership Without Ego Building Winning Cultures in Business and Life Joe Terry Bio Joe Terry is the CEO of Culture Partners, a leadership and organizational culture consulting firm. Before entering the business world, he played linebacker for the Seattle Seahawks, later completed 16 Ironman...
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#465 - Michael Walsh gets REAL about Why Businesses Grow
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We’re about one simple thing. We help the owners of companies between $2 million and $20 million in size achieve large-scale growth of their business. We don’t believe in growth for growth’s sake. As far as we’re concerned, a company is just a tool to support the goals of its owners and its people. We help people to grow their businesses in support of whatever those goals are. We help with marketing, sales, operations, human resources, underlying structures, management, leadership development – whatever it takes to grow. That’s what we do. About Walsh Business Growth...
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#465 - Adrian Koehler gets REAL about being a No BS coach for restless and relentless Founders
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I spend all of my time helping fast moving founders bust up the bullshit in order to create new outcomes. I do this by training and coaching entrepreneurial leaders in the art and science of personal engagement for themselves, their teams and clients in order to create new results and experience fulfillment in their work. In the process of developing my craft I have worked in multiple contexts: Fortune 500 organizations, Multinationals, Higher Education, Start-Ups, and Healthcare. Over the last decade my passion for human performance has taken me around the globe to...
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#464 - Stewart Cohen gets REAL about producing Visual work that resonates far beyond our field.
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My company is called SCPictures, which is a full-service production company catering to the advertising/marketing world. "We produce work that resonates far beyond our field." I am a director/photographer who strives to capture the spirit of the moment from the viewer's perspective so that the results are genuine. "We continually strive to work with like-minded people to create extraordinary work." Stewart’s Profile Websites In 2019, I took on SuperStock, a media licensing house that has been around since 1973. With my team of twelve, we collectively manage twenty-five...
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#463 - Jesse P. Gilmore gets REAL about Launching your scalable agency offer in 14 days.
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Attention: Full service, creative, marketing agency owners. The number #1 reason you started the agency: 1) Freedom That's how simple it is. You want to grow your agency while working less in the business, right? We help you transform from the hustler/doer to the CEO. With our Leverage for Growth program and my 1-1 support, together we: — Create scalability in your agency so as you take on more clients, you don't increase your personal hours to serve them. — Increase your revenue by consistently attracting your dream clients that value your services through an effective...
info_outlineHaving worked with the Upper Deck Company for over twenty years, I have been able to develop a diverse management background in Customer Care, Sales, Marketing, Public Relations, Events and Social Media. Colleagues have called me an inspirational leader throughout all the management positions I have held with my current company.
By managing Upper Deck's Customer Care and Direct Sales teams for several years, I believe one of my strengths is my ability to develop staff and coach them into new roles. I have promoted over 40 employees to other opportunities within my organization.
In recent years I have truly enjoyed a management position in Marketing and Social Media and found my niche where I've had the greatest impact for the organization. I have created and implemented several initiatives that have made a real impact on our business like National Hockey Card Day, a nationwide sampling program and our Heroic Inspirations program which creatively uses trading cards to help support kid-focused charities. These types of programs drive loyalty and advocacy.
I have also implemented our social media strategy, corporate guidelines and created a social media committee. I run point on creating magnetic content in the social space on the Upper Deck Blog, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube in particular. I also rolled out our extremely popular Upper Deck Random Acts of Kindness program (#UDRAK) which changed the way fans talk about the category and our brand for the better.
Additionally I have worked with some of the biggest names in sports like Wayne Gretzky, LeBron James, Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Shaquille O’Neal, Ken Griffey Jr., and more. I also have extensive experience in event management having ran point on huge industry trade shows and consumer driven events.
Specialties: Customer Care, Sales, Marketing, Public Relations, Social Media, Events and Management