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Stupid Cancer and Brain Tumors with Founder Matthew Zachary
Matthew Zachary is Founder of Stupid Cancer, the largest charity addressing young adult cancer. He also Founded Instapeer, the first anonymous mobile matching platform for cancer patients & caregivers. He was a concert pianist when diagnosed with brain cancer at 21.

A Champion in the Making with Dan Kuschell Founder of GrowthtoFreedom & CEO of Genius Network
Dan Kuschell is the CEO for Joe Polish’s Genius Network & Genius Network. He’s the founder of Growth to Freedom™, ProsperityBasedLiving.com, & creator of Millionaire’s Mindset. One of his many companies had over 175 employees and $15 million+ a year in sales. He is the bestselling author of A Champion in the Making: Awaken the Champion Within Your Life, Business, and Relationships.
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[Top Author Series] Disrupt You! and Endless Innovation with Author Jay Samit
Jay Samit has raised over 800 million dollars for startups; sold companies to Fortune 500 firms; taken companies public; and partnered with some of the world’s biggest brands, including Coca Cola, Microsoft, and Apple, to name a few.
He is the author of DISRUPT YOU! Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation.

84 Consecutive Books on NY Times or Wall Street Journal with Michael Drew Founder of PromoteABook
Michael Drew is Founder of PromoteABook, one of the most successful book promoters on the planet with 84 consecutive books on the national bestseller lists like Ny Times, Wall Street Journal. He has helped over 1000 amazon titles to number 1 and worked with authors such as Peter Diamondis, Marshall Goldsmith, T Harv Eker and many more.

11.6 million raised online last year using 4aGoodCause with Ronald Pruitt
Ronald Pruitt is Founder of 4aGoodCause. His e-commerce fundraising software has helped nonprofits bring in millions of dollars in online donations for the past 17+ years. Last year alone they had 11.6 million raised online by 4aGoodCause nonprofits.
They have worked with the Girl Scouts, Alzheimer’s Foundation of America, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Ronald McDonald House Charities of Baltimore and many more.
FUN FACT:
Ronald has collected over 10,000 comic books!
In this episode…
Since founding 4aGoodCause in 1998, Ronald has had the joy of doing what he loves – building websites that make a difference in the world. He’s helped build hundreds nonprofits with his ecommerce solutions raise millions of dollars online. He has more than 17 years experience helping commercial and nonprofit organizations create effective and results-driven e-commerce Web sites, sites that raise money for good causes.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
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At Rise25, we’re committed to helping you connect with your Dream 100 referral partners, clients, and strategic partners through our done-for-you podcast solution.
We’re a professional podcast production agency that makes creating a podcast effortless. Since 2009, our proven system has helped thousands of B2B businesses build strong relationships with referral partners, clients, and audiences without doing the hard work.
What do you need to start a podcast?
When you use our proven system, all you need is an idea and a voice. We handle the strategy, production, and distribution – you just need to show up and talk.
The Rise25 podcasting solution is designed to help you build a profitable podcast. This requires a specific strategy, and we’ve got that down pat. We focus on making sure you have a direct path to ROI, which is the most important component. Plus, our podcast production company takes any heavy lifting of production and distribution off your plate.
We make distribution easy.
We’ll distribute each episode across more than 11 unique channels, including iTunes, Spotify, and Google Podcasts. We’ll also create copy for each episode and promote your show across social media.
Cofounders Dr. Jeremy Weisz and John Corcoran credit podcasting as being the best thing they have ever done for their businesses. Podcasting connected them with the founders/CEOs of P90x, Atari, Einstein Bagels, Mattel, Rx Bars, YPO, EO, Lending Tree, Freshdesk, and many more.
The relationships you form through podcasting run deep. Jeremy and John became business partners through podcasting. They have even gone on family vacations and attended weddings of guests who have been on the podcast.
Podcast production has a lot of moving parts and is a big commitment on our end; we only want to work with people who are committed to their business and to cultivating amazing relationships.
Are you considering launching a podcast to acquire partnerships, clients, and referrals? Would you like to work with a podcast agency that wants you to win?
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Rise25 Cofounders, Dr. Jeremy Weisz and John Corcoran, have been podcasting and advising about podcasting since 2008.
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Intro 0:00
Have you ever walked into the game and write down 100 grand? You are listening to Inspired insider with your host, Dr. Jeremy wise.
Jeremy Weisz 0:23
Dr. Jeremy Weiss here and founder of inspired insider.com where I talk with inspirational entrepreneurs and leaders like the founders of p90x Baby Einstein, Atari and many more how they overcome big challenges in life and business today, I’m excited. We have Ronald Pruitt, he’s founder of for a good cause. His E commerce fundraising software programs have helped nonprofits, and resulted in millions of dollars raised in online donations across the US and Canada for the past 17 plus years. So we will talk about the early days of the internet. Last year alone, they had $11.6 million raised online by for good cause nonprofits. They’ve created ecommerce solutions for the Girl Scouts, Alzheimer’s Foundation of America, Big Brothers, Big Sisters, Ronald McDonald, House Charities of Baltimore, and many, many more. They help nonprofits get paid. And that’s the bottom line. Ronald, thanks for joining me. I appreciate you having me on. I’m excited to chat. And yeah, I always like to include a fun fact. And a really cool fun fact about you is, I mean, you can read it on bow page, obviously, like the Atlanta Hawks and in a bunch of other things, but you have 10,000 comic books. And you’ve been collecting comic books for how long?
Ronald Pruitt 1:42
Probably since I was eight years old. Wow. It’s just something I fell in love with that. You know, I think when I was young, I wasn’t I don’t know that I was a great reader. I didn’t have things that I really fell in love with anything that really inspired me. And we took a little trip to the local stopping shop back in the days when comic books were sold at the local 711. And I picked up I think I picked up an incredible Hulk and something else and just came home and just love with it. And then I begged my parents to get me a monthly subscription so that the books would start coming to the house. And yeah, now I’m up to 10,000 books. It’s just something that
you it’s just inspired me I think one of the things you know, Spider Man’s always been my favorite. He and Daredevil and Spider Man is the great quote. You know, with great power comes great responsibility, right? You’ve probably seen that in the movies. Yes. That’s something that I think it’s inspired me you know that when you’re when you’re out there doing stuff you need to make sure that you’re doing doing not just well for yourself but well for the community as well. It’s something that shaped me it’s an entertaining thing
in my office I have
Jeremy Weisz 3:01
you have any around you now that you
Ronald Pruitt 3:04
well I have some I have a lot of conflict poster art. If you could see their bumpers, Jack Yeah, we got Iron Giant Spider Man, I’ve got the original poster. From the first Spider Man movie. I’ve got the Twin Towers poster.
Jeremy Weisz 3:23
What’s your most prized comic books?
Ronald Pruitt 3:27
Oh I well, I do have a 1934 Bugs Bunny. One,
Jeremy Weisz 3:37
which ones you’re not part with if someone offered you a lot of money
Ronald Pruitt 3:42
probably some of the early SpiderMan ones that I have. Have some in the you know under issue 50 I have an early Daredevil one number four I believe just the ones that I yeah, I wouldn’t I wouldn’t part with them right? I don’t I don’t know that I would be ready to part with most any of them just Yeah. Why is ready for me to shoot, they’re starting to overrun the housing different

Near Death Come Back to Top Silicon Valley Founder with Ramona Pierson coFounder of Declara
Ramona Pierson is cofounder of Declara, a learning technology that bridges artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and algorithms that are under lock and key. Previously, Ramona was founder of SynapticMash which was acquired by Promethean for estimated ~$10million. She had to relearn everything –from walking to talking to eating and even breathing.
She is truly the perfect example of the phrase — triumph of the human spirit.
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[Top Author Series] The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything…Fast! – Josh Kaufman author of The Personal MBA
Josh Kaufman is the bestselling author of The Personal MBA and The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything…Fast! Josh publishes top-quality research on business, productivity, and accelerated learning.
JoshKaufman.net was named one of the “Top 100 Websites for Entrepreneurs” by the staff of Forbes and his materials and videos have been watched and downloaded tens of millions of times.
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Josh learned to play the eukele in record time. He learned windsurfing and much more using the concepts he teaches in The First 20 Hours book.
Background:
Josh Kaufman is the author of two international bestsellers, The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business and The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything… Fast! Josh’s research focuses on helping people how to make more money, get more done, and have more fun.
Josh has helped millions of readers around the world learn essential business concepts and Josh’s work has been featured in The New York Times, The BBC, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Time, BusinessWeek,Wired, Fast Company, HarvardBusiness.org, and Bloomberg TV. The widely-acclaimed Personal MBA manifesto and recommended reading list has been downloaded over 1.28 million times from ChangeThis.com.
The Personal MBA has sold over 150,000 copies worldwide to date, and has been in the top 0.1% of all business books sold on Amazon.com since its publication in January, 2011. On publication, the international edition of The Personal MBA was the the #1 bestselling business book in the United Kingdom. The Personal MBA has also been used as a textbook for business courses at Stanford University, New York University, Howard University, and Portland State University.
PersonalMBA.com hosts over 50,000 readers every month, and has been visited over 2 million times by readers all over the world since its founding in 2005. Josh’s work has directly saved prospective business students millions of dollars by providing an effective, affordable, and debt-free method of learning fundamental business principles.
Josh’s second book, The First 20 Hours, details a universal method of rapid skill acquisition designed to help readers pick up rewarding new skills in record time.
Prior to becoming a full-time author/researcher, Josh worked in brand management for Procter & Gamble’s Home Care division, where he lead multi-million dollar projects that encompassed P&G’s entire value chain, from new product development to delivering in-store marketing campaigns for key customers like Walmart, Target, and Costco. Before leaving P&G, Josh spearheaded the development of P&G’s global online marketing measurement strategy.
Josh’s current projects involve online training programs, live training programs, and ongoing research in business and skill acquisition.
Resources Mentioned:
The Personal MBA
The First 20 hours
Josh Kaufman’s site
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At Rise25, we’re committed to helping you connect with your Dream 100 referral partners, clients, and strategic partners through our done-for-you podcast solution.
We’re a professional podcast production agency that makes creating a podcast effortless. Since 2009, our proven system has helped thousands of B2B businesses build strong relationships with referral partners, clients, and audiences without doing the hard work.
What do you need to start a podcast?
When you use our proven system, all you need is an idea and a voice. We handle the strategy, production, and distribution – you just need to show up and talk.
The Rise25 podcasting solution is designed to help you build a profitable podcast. This requires a specific strategy, and we’ve got that down pat. We focus on making sure you have a direct path to ROI, which is the most important component. Plus, our podcast production company takes any heavy lifting of production and distribution off your plate.
We make distribution easy.
We’ll distribute each episode across more than 11 unique channels, including iTunes, Spotify, and Google Podcasts. We’ll also create copy for each episode and promote your show across social media.
Cofounders Dr. Jeremy Weisz and John Corcoran credit podcasting as being the best thing they have ever done for their businesses. Podcasting connected them with the founders/CEOs of P90x, Atari, Einstein Bagels, Mattel, RxBars, YPO, EO, Lending Tree, Freshbooks, and many more.
The relationships you form through podcasting run deep. Jeremy and John became business partners through podcasting. They have even gone on family vacations and attended weddings of guests who have been on the podcast.
Podcast production has a lot of moving parts and is a big commitment on our end; we only want to work with people who are committed to their business and to cultivating amazing relationships.
Are you considering launching a podcast to acquire partnerships, clients, and referrals? Would you like to work with a podcast agency that wants you to win?
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Rise25 Cofounders, Dr. Jeremy Weisz and John Corcoran, have been podcasting and advising about podcasting since 2008.
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[Veteran Entrepreneur & Health Series] Unbeatable Mind & Kokoro with Mark Divine Founder of SealFit
Commander Mark Divine is an expert in human performance,mental toughness, and leadership. His journey went from MBA to CPA to elite Navy Seal Officer to founding successful Coronado Brewing COmpany, NavySeals.com, to Founder of SealFIt
He is a New York Times selling author of Unbeatable Mind: Forge Resiliency and Mental Toughness to Succeed at an Elite Level
In this episode…
Commander Divine was nicknamed Cyborg in the SEALs
Mark is an accomplished martial artist with black belts in Seido and Goju Ryu Karate, a military hand-to-hand combat certification in SCARS, and senior ranking in Saito Ninjitsu.
Mark Divine has a degree in economics from Colgate University and an MBA in finance from New York University Stern School of Business. Mark’s first career was with Coopers & Lybrand (now PriceWaterhouse Coopers) as a Certified Public Accountant. After joining the corporate world he pursued his vision to become an elite Navy SEAL officer. He graduated as Honor Man (#1-ranked trainee) of his SEAL BUD/S class number 170. Mark served for nine years total on active duty and eleven as a Reserve SEAL, retiring as Commander in 2011.
Mark in 1996 by co-founded the successful Coronado Brewing Company (CBC) and the web e-commerce site www.NavySEALs.com. He later sold his interest in CBC but continues to run NavySEALs.com as the leading website for SEAL gear and information. In 2006 he launched US Tactical, a government contracting business, where he gained contracts with Naval Special Warfare Group ONE for training support and with the Navy Recruiting Command for a nationwide mentoring program for SEAL trainees. This latter program was credited with increasing the quality of Navy SEAL candidates and reducing the attrition rate at BUD/S and was the inspiration for SEALFIT.
Mark was an adjunct professor of leadership at the University of San Diego, where he left a PHD program due to the Iraq War Reserve call-up.He is a trained Ashtanga Yoga teacher and created the innovative Unbeatable Warrior Yoga program taught to his students.
After working with thousands of special ops candidates and professionals developing mental toughness, Mark self-published his first book, Unbeatable Mind, in 2011 and launched the at-home study program www.unbeatablemind.com. He is also the author of The Way of the SEAL and 8 Weeks to SEALFIT.
Mark’s Unbeatable Mind program is helping to forge mental toughness among business leaders as well and his SEALFIT Training Center is a 20,000-square-foot facility.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- http://sealfit.com/
- For one of the most intense experiences of your Life go here>> Kokoro
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#1 Podcasting
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At Rise25, we’re committed to helping you connect with your Dream 200 referral partners, clients, and strategic partners through our done-for-you podcast solution.
We’re a professional podcast production agency that makes creating a podcast effortless. Since 2009, our proven system has helped thousands of B2B businesses build strong relationships with referral partners, clients, and audiences without doing the hard work.
What do you need to start a podcast?
When you use our proven system, all you need is an idea and a voice. We handle the strategy, production, and distribution – you just need to show up and talk.
The Rise25 podcasting solution is designed to help you build a profitable podcast. This requires a specific strategy, and we’ve got that down pat. We focus on making sure you have a direct path to ROI, which is the most important component. Plus, our podcast production company takes any heavy lifting of production and distribution off your plate.
We make distribution easy.
We’ll distribute each episode across more than 11 unique channels, including iTunes, Spotify, and Amazon Podcasts. We’ll also create copy for each episode and promote your show across social media.
Cofounders Dr. Jeremy Weisz and John Corcoran credit podcasting as being the best thing they have ever done for their businesses. Podcasting connected them with the founders/CEOs of P90x, Atari, Einstein Bagels, Mattel, Rx Bars, YPO, EO, Lending Tree, Freshdesk, and many more.
The relationships you form through podcasting run deep. Jeremy and John became business partners through podcasting. They have even gone on family vacations and attended weddings of guests who have been on the podcast.
Podcast production has a lot of moving parts and is a big commitment on our end; we only want to work with people who are committed to their business and to cultivating amazing relationships.
Are you considering launching a podcast to acquire partnerships, clients, and referrals? Would you like to work with a podcast agency that wants you to win?
Rise25 Cofounders, Dr. Jeremy Weisz and John Corcoran, have been podcasting and advising about podcasting since 2008.
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Elevate business relationships with customers, partners, staff, and prospects through gifting.
At Rise25, thoughtful and consistent gifting is a key component of staying top of mind and helps build lasting business relationships. Our corporate gift program is designed to simplify your process by delivering a full-service corporate gifting program — from sourcing and hand selecting the best gifts to expert packaging, custom branding, reliable shipping, and personalized messaging on your branded stationary.
Our done-for-you corporate gifting service ensures that your referral partners, prospects, and clients receive personalized touchpoints that enhance your business gifting efforts and provide a refined executive gifting experience. Whether you’re looking to impress key stakeholders or boost client loyalty, our comprehensive approach makes it easy and affordable.
Discover how Rise25’s personalized corporate gifting program can help you create lasting impressions. Get started today and experience the difference a strategic gifting approach can make.
Email us through our contact form.
You can learn more and watch a video on how it works here: https://rise25.com/giftprogram/
Contact us now at [email protected] or message us here https://rise25.com/contact/
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Turning 15K Loan into Top Natural Health Products Company with Lafe Larson [Health Longevity Series]
Lafe Larson is founder of Lafes Natural BodyCare. He started the company over 23 years ago with a 15K loan from his family and now has some of the top natural healthcare products online.
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Immortality & Ultramarathons with Dr. Bill Andrews [Health Longevity Series]
Dr. William Andrews is one of the top longevity experts in the world and has been on a mission to reverse aging since he was 10 years old. Dr. Andrews is the founder of the biotechnology company Sierra Sciences.
He has worked in the biotech industry for over 34 years focused on extending the human lifespan and has a Ph.D. in Molecular and Population Genetics.