Optimize! Develop an Operational Strategy to Create a Highly Functional and Effective Organization for Growth with Cary Prejean – Leaders Are Readers For Success Book Club | Episode 229
Wired For Success: Success Mindset, High-Performance Habits, and Business Success for Entrepreneurs
Release Date: 06/16/2025
Spiritually Intelligent Leadership: Building Success Through Purpose and Presence with Dr Yosi Amram | Episode 261
Wired For Success: Success Mindset, High-Performance Habits, and Business Success for Entrepreneurs
EPISODE SUMMARY What if the reason some leaders inspire people isn’t because they have the perfect vision, the strongest personality, or the best communication skills? What if it starts somewhere much quieter? In this conversation, Dr. Yosi Amram explores a powerful contradiction: the leaders who are most capable of changing the world are not the ones constantly chasing external validation—they are the ones who have learned how to reconnect with themselves. Because before you can build a movement, lead a team, or create something meaningful, there is a deeper question to answer: Are you...
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The Legal Mistakes That Destroy Businesses (Before Founders Notice) with Matthew Fornaro | Episode 260
Wired For Success: Success Mindset, High-Performance Habits, and Business Success for Entrepreneurs
EPISODE SUMMARY What if the biggest threat to your business isn't your competition—but one decision you're making today without realizing the consequences? In this episode, business attorney Matthew Fornaro shares what twenty years of working with entrepreneurs has taught him about lawsuits, partnerships, contracts, and the hidden patterns that separate thriving companies from expensive cautionary tales. If you're building a business, this conversation could save you years of headaches—and a lot of money. WE TALKED ABOUT … The most expensive mistake entrepreneurs don't know...
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Preventative Brain Health & Salivary Biomarkers with Neuroscientist Dr. Lavinia Alberi Auber | Episode 259
Wired For Success: Success Mindset, High-Performance Habits, and Business Success for Entrepreneurs
EPISODE SUMMARY What if your saliva could predict your brain health, stress resilience, and even your future risk of dementia? In this episode, neuroscientist and biotech entrepreneur Dr. Lavinia Alberi reveals how the future of healthcare is shifting from reactive medicine to real-time precision diagnostics — and why so many ambitious entrepreneurs are unknowingly damaging their cognitive performance in the pursuit of success. We explore the hidden neurological cost of hustle culture, the science of cognitive resilience, and how to build a million-dollar life without sacrificing your brain,...
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From Pro Athlete to BigLaw Partner to Entrepreneur: Reinventing Success with Angela Kerek | Episode 258
Wired For Success: Success Mindset, High-Performance Habits, and Business Success for Entrepreneurs
EPISODE SUMMARY Professional athlete. BigLaw partner. Entrepreneur. Most people spend their lives trying to become one of those things. Dr. Angela Kerek became all three. In this conversation, we unpack the surprising lessons she learned about performance, identity, reinvention, and sustainable success—and how those lessons led her to create ActiveGiving, a company turning movement into measurable impact. This is a powerful conversation for founders, leaders, and ambitious professionals navigating their own next chapter. We talked about... How Active Giving transforms...
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Life Storms: Finding Your Clear Sky with Tracy Doyle | Leaders Are Readers – Wired For Success Book Club Episode 257
Wired For Success: Success Mindset, High-Performance Habits, and Business Success for Entrepreneurs
EPISODE SUMMARY What happens when outward success hides inner burnout? In this powerful conversation with entrepreneur, resilience coach, and author Tracy Doyle, we explore the hidden cost of high performance, the emotional toll of ambition, and why so many successful people feel disconnected despite achieving everything they thought would make them happy. Tracy shares her journey from childhood trauma and instability to becoming an award-winning CEO, then hitting a breaking point that forced her to confront burnout, relationship strain, and unresolved emotional patterns. We dive into the...
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Clearing Trauma & Addiction For Good with David Ian Rogers | Episode 256
Wired For Success: Success Mindset, High-Performance Habits, and Business Success for Entrepreneurs
EPISODE SUMMARY Can trauma, anxiety, and addiction really be cleared permanently—not managed, but fully resolved? In this powerful episode, David Ian Rogers shares his unconventional approach to mental health, emotional healing, and high performance. After overcoming his own trauma and addiction, David developed a process designed to eliminate emotional “charge” at the root—helping thousands break free from anxiety, compulsive behaviors, and inner pressure. We explore the psychology of trauma, the hidden patterns driving addiction, and why ambitious entrepreneurs often stay stuck...
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The Dreamer’s Guide to Achieving in Uncertain Times with Alex Chaparro | Leaders Are Readers – Wired For Success Book Club | Episode 255
Wired For Success: Success Mindset, High-Performance Habits, and Business Success for Entrepreneurs
EPISODE SUMMARY What if the real reason you're not moving forward isn't strategy, resources, or timing — but a paradigm you haven't examined yet? In this episode of the Wired For Success Podcast, Claudia Garbutt sits down with ICF Certified Executive Coach, business strategist, and author Alex Chaparro to explore what it really takes to move from stuck to unstoppable — especially when the world around you feels uncertain. With over 30 years of experience across real estate, sales, and executive leadership, Alex has seen every version of human potential — realized and unrealized. Today he...
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Powerful Imperfection, Ego Mastery & Integrated Success - Forging Legends with Kevin Voisin | Episode 254
Wired For Success: Success Mindset, High-Performance Habits, and Business Success for Entrepreneurs
EPISODE SUMMARY Why do so many high achievers reach the top of their field… only to realize they don’t actually like their life? In this powerful conversation, Claudia sits down with Kevin Voisin — founder of Forge Legend, Ironman 70.3 finisher, father of five, and coach to over 40,000 high-achievers — to dismantle the myth of work-life balance and introduces a radically integrated approach to success. We dive into ego mastery, powerful imperfection vs. perfectionism, personalized life-operating systems, and why fragmentation — not ambition — is the real cause of burnout. If...
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The LUNA Smart Ring Revolution with Swapnil Vats | Episode 253
Wired For Success: Success Mindset, High-Performance Habits, and Business Success for Entrepreneurs
EPISODE SUMMARY What if your next level of business growth depends less on hustle—and more on biology? In this episode, entrepreneur and Head of Business and Product @Luna Ring Swapnil Vats shares powerful insights on scaling AI-driven startups, building global communities, and leveraging wearable technology to measure over 70 biomarkers that directly impact sleep, stress, recovery, and peak performance If you're serious about high performance, longevity, biohacking, startup scaling, and sustainable success, this conversation is for you! We talked about... - The psychology of zero-to-one...
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From Brain-on-a-Chip to Personalized Medicine & Scientific Breakthroughs with Dr. Nisim Perets | Episode 252
Wired For Success: Success Mindset, High-Performance Habits, and Business Success for Entrepreneurs
EPISODE SUMMARY What if we could predict whether a drug will work for a specific person before they ever take it? In this episode, Claudia Garbutt interviews Israeli neuroscientist and biotech entrepreneur Dr. Nisim Perets, founder of Itay&Beyond — a company pioneering patient-derived brain organoids on a chip to accelerate precision medicine for neurological and psychiatric conditions like Autism Spectrum Disorder and epilepsy. Dr. Perets and his team are growing miniature brain tissues from a patient’s own cells, placing them on a chip, and measuring their electrical activity to...
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Join scientist and mindset & high-performance coach Claudia Garbutt and Business Consultant Cary Prejean for another Leaders Are Readers Wired For Success Book Club feature and author interview!
If you’re ready to scale and turn your business into a well-oiled machine that thrives without you, this is the book for you!
In this episode, we talk about:
- Cary’s proven framework for operational strategy — drawn from 30+ years of hands-on experience and his book Optimize!
- How founders can stop being the bottleneck — and start leading with clarity, vision, and confidence
- Why your words matter more than you think — and how effective communication builds (or breaks) trust within your team
EPISODE NOTES
Cary is a native of Louisiana, where he graduated with High Honors from UL-Lafayette with a major in accounting, and minors in Economics and Finance. He acquired his CPA license in 1982.
He founded Financial Design Consultants, Inc. in 1987 with offices in three south Louisiana cities and a staff of 16, During this period of working with business owners, he also taught courses at four universities in south Louisiana - LSU, UL-Lafayette, SLU and BRCC. He became a certified ontological coach with the Newfield Group.
He's coached hundreds of business owners and couples in empowerment and effectiveness during that time. He founded CFO Consulting, LLC in 2020 and changed the name to Strategic Business Advisors, LLC in lat 2023 to reflect the work he does in strategic planning and change management.
His vision is to work with business owners on mastering 1. business self-sufficiency, 2. visionary development as an ongoing practice, and 3. long-term strategic planning and execution.
Links:
Freebie:
https://strategicbusinessadvisors.org/book/
Get the book:
https://www.amazon.com/Optimize-Operational-Functional-Effective-Organization/dp/1948382849
https://strategicbusinessadvisors.org/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/caryprejean/
https://www.facebook.com/CFOconsultingLA
https://www.instagram.com/cfoconsultingllc54/
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