

The Jeremy Ryan Slate Show
Jeremy Ryan Slate
The Jeremy Ryan Slate Show is a bi-weekly investigation into how power really works—across history, empires, and the modern world.Each episode draws on two core lenses:Hidden forces behind history—royal murders, lost colonies, financial systems, modern elites, NGOs, propaganda, and the quiet mechanisms that shape events long before they reach the headlines.And the Roman pattern—the idea that today’s crises aren’t new. Currency collapse, political division, border chaos, military overreach—Rome faced them all first. The Roman Empire spent centuries making every mistake a civilization can make, and left behind a playbook we’re following again, page by page.Through expert conversations with historians, researchers, and serious thinkers—and deep dives into primary sources, documents, and records—this show connects ancient history to modern power with evidence, not opinion.You’ll learn to: • Recognize collapse signals before they’re obvious • Understand modern crises through ancient parallels • See how empires actually rise, decay, and fall • Spot the patterns shaping what comes nextFrom medieval conspiracies to modern cover-ups, from Augustus to Constantine, from ancient Rome to today’s global order—this is history as investigation.No spin. No narratives. Just receipts.New episodes twice a week.
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Dec 18, 2020 • 25min
810: The Future of Payroll that Actually Puts the Consumer First, Feat. Matthew Kopko | Freestyle Friday
About This Episode: Matt Kopko is DailyPay's Vice President of Public Policy, where he manages DailyPay's interactions with regulators, legislators, other government officials and stakeholders. Prior to his role at DailyPay, Matt served in a similar role at Bird, the micromobility company. Matt was also a senior government official and member of the Senior Executive Service, as well as an attorney in private practice. Matt holds a bachelor's degree from Princeton University, and a JD/MBA from the University of Chicago. Find out more about Matthew at: Daily pay LinkedIn Check out our YouTube Channel: Jeremyryanslatebiz Make Extraordinary a reality: jeremyryanslate.com/extraordinary See the Show Notes: www.jeremyryanslate.com/810 Sponsors: Command Your Brand Media: Be featured as a guest on top-rated podcasts, just like this one, for massive attention for your brand. www.commandyourbrand.media/apply Audible: Get a free 30 day free trial and 1 free audiobook from thousands of available books. Right now I'm reading "The Science of Getting Rich,"by Wallace D. Wattles, about building real wealth. www.jeremyryanslate.com/book

Dec 16, 2020 • 37min
809: Building a Niche Business that Actually Scales | Mike Arce
About This Episode: WHO IS MIKE ARCE? With 12+ years working in and on the fitness industry, Mike has helped over 2,000 fitness studios and over 50+ franchises within the fitness studio industry be more successful. Mike has been asked to speak and coach on sales, marketing, advertising, leadership, and culture across the country. He's the host top rated podcast, The GSD Show, host of fitness studio conference, GSDCON, and CEO of Loud Rumor, an agency that helps fitness studios across the globe be more successful. Find out more about Mike at: Loud Rumor Facebook Instagram Check out our YouTube Channel: Jeremyryanslatebiz Make Extraordinary a reality: jeremyryanslate.com/extraordinary See the Show Notes: jeremyryanslate.com/809 Sponsors:Gusto: This episode is sponsored by Gusto. Run your payroll the easy way, the same way we do at Command Your Brand. You'll get a. $100 Amazon Gift Card just for running your first payroll! http://www.jeremyryanslate.com/gusto Audible: Get a free 30 day free trial and 1 free audiobook from thousands of available books. http://www.jeremyryanslate.com/book

Dec 14, 2020 • 34min
808: Riddick Bowe | A Conversation with a 2X World Heavy Weight Champion Boxer
About This Episode: Riddick Lamont Bowe is a retired American professional boxer who competed between 1989 and 2008. He reigned as the undisputed world heavyweight champion in 1992, and as an amateur he won a silver medal in the super heavyweight division at the 1988 Summer Olympics. After turning professional in 1989, Bowe went on to become a two-time world heavyweight champion. In 1992 he won the undisputed WBA, WBC and IBF titles by defeating then-unbeaten former undisputed heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield. That same year, Bowe was named Fighter of the Year by The Ring and the Boxing Writers' Association of America. Bowe vacated the WBC title later that year in protest, instead of defending the title against their number one contender, Lennox Lewis This left the undisputed championship fragmented until 1999. In a rematch with Holyfield in 1993, Bowe narrowly lost the WBA and IBF titles in what would be his only professional defeat. Find out more about Big Daddy at: Twitter Facebook Riddick Bowe Responds to Lennox Lewis’s challenge of Unfinished Business Riddick's Website Untitled Christian Frazier Projects Check out our YouTube Channel: Jeremyryanslatebiz Make Extraordinary a reality: jeremyryanslate.com/extraordinary See the Show Notes: jeremyryanslate.com/808 Sponsors:Gusto: This episode is sponsored by Gusto. Run your payroll the easy way, the same way we do at Command Your Brand. You'll get a. $100 Amazon Gift Card just for running your first payroll! http://www.jeremyryanslate.com/gusto Audible: Get a free 30 day free trial and 1 free audiobook from thousands of available books. http://www.jeremyryanslate.com/book

Dec 11, 2020 • 23min
807: The Body is a Battery, Feat. Scott Sommer | Freestyle Friday
About This Episode: Scott Sommer LAc started his health and healing journey at just 18 months old when he was diagnosed with Epilepsy. Scott made a commitment that if he could remove the disease from his own brain, he would spend the rest of his life helping others do the same. As organic farmers at heart, Scott’s parents were already strong on the subject of nutrition and provided their son with a diet including healthy fats, such as nuts and avocados, to help repair the brain and by 15 years old, Scott was declared healed and free from Epilepsy. Scott went on to pursue a degree in Chemical Engineering and then another degree in western medicine. Scott became inspired by the power of Chinese medicine and he pursued a degree in Nutrition, a Master’s degree in Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture. Now Scott is an award winning practitioner treating patients all around the world with his unique techniques combining his knowledge of both western and eastern medicine where he approaches 100% of the problem to find 100% of the solution. He is able to properly assess the problem and then get to the ""why"" of his patient’s health problems and ultimately resolve them. He likes to spend his free time traveling in his RV, hiking, working out, biking and enjoying his family. Find out more about Scott Sommer at: Sommer's Holistic Health Facebook Instagram Check out our YouTube Channel: Jeremyryanslatebiz Make Extraordinary a reality: jeremyryanslate.com/extraordinary See the Show Notes: www.jeremyryanslate.com/807 Sponsors: Command Your Brand Media: Be featured as a guest on top-rated podcasts, just like this one, for massive attention for your brand. www.commandyourbrand.media/apply Audible: Get a free 30 day free trial and 1 free audiobook from thousands of available books. Right now I'm reading "The Science of Getting Rich,"by Wallace D. Wattles, about building real wealth. www.jeremyryanslate.com/book

Dec 9, 2020 • 31min
806: How to Talk to Someone and Not Die; A Handbook for Superheroes | Lee Burns
About This Episode: With a voracious curiosity, fueled in part by an IQ in the top .03% of the planet, this rough and tumble Texan was riding horses solo by the time he was 5, calling the cattle home with his grandfather. In his early twenties, finally a full-grown cowboy, he switched to riding bulls. Lee has shared the screen and stage with Oscar/Golden Globe winners and Hollywood legends alike, while living and working in Hollywood. During that season he also taught at a top acting school and developed The 7 Steps to Getting on Set, to help actors understand the business of Hollywood and their own tools to succeed. After remodeling and flipping houses, and penning his first successful novel, Lee ventured into two fields of no previous knowledge, GPS and franchise car dealers. He quickly rose to national director at one GPS company, then VP/Partner at a new one he helped launch, before also taking on the title of COO/Advisor to the Board and Shareholder of yet another, all while starting more companies in other industries as far afield as social media and on-line selling. Inspired by the success he was experiencing in business, spirit and family life alike, (and as he will tell you, “All the damn fun I’m having!”), as well as his passion for helping others, Lee began delivering seminars on the Game of Life and How to Win It. Find out more about Lee at: Lee Burn's website How to Talk to Someone…And Not Die LinkedIn Check out our YouTube Channel: Jeremyryanslatebiz Make Extraordinary a reality: jeremyryanslate.com/extraordinary See the Show Notes: jeremyryanslate.com/806 Sponsors:Gusto: This episode is sponsored by Gusto. Run your payroll the easy way, the same way we do at Command Your Brand. You'll get a. $100 Amazon Gift Card just for running your first payroll! http://www.jeremyryanslate.com/gusto Audible: Get a free 30 day free trial and 1 free audiobook from thousands of available books. http://www.jeremyryanslate.com/book

Dec 7, 2020 • 41min
805: Creating a Solution to the Veteran Suicide Epidemic Pt. 2 | Dr. Mark Gordon
About This Episode: Dr. Gordon is Medical Director of Millennium Health Centers, Inc. — Medicine for the 21st century, in Encino CA. In 2010 he became the Medical Director of Education for Access Medical Laboratories of Jupiter, FL, helping to promote the newest technologies in laboratory science. In 2015, Dr. Gordon released his newest book, Traumatic Brain Injury – A Clinical Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment, presenting the science and his experience treating all precipitating causes of traumatic brain injury in both military, veteran, sports, and civilian populations. Presently, Dr. Gordon has joined with charitable organizations Warrior Angels Foundation and Task Force Dagger to provide services to members of the armed forces both active and veterans. Find out more about Dr. Gordon at: TBI Help Now! LinkedIn Make Extraordinary a reality: jeremyryanslate.com/extraordinary See the Show Notes: jeremyryanslate.com/805 Sponsors:Gusto: This episode is sponsored by Gusto. Run your payroll the easy way, the same way we do at Command Your Brand. You'll get a. $100 Amazon Gift Card just for running your first payroll! http://www.jeremyryanslate.com/gusto Audible: Get a free 30 day free trial and 1 free audiobook from thousands of available books. http://www.jeremyryanslate.com/book

Dec 4, 2020 • 24min
804: Creating a New Life For Individuals Released from Prison, Feat. Karen Lee | Freestyle Friday
About This Episode: As Chief Executive Officer of Pioneer Human Services, Karen Lee leads one of the nation’s largest nonprofit social-enterprise organizations in the United States. Under Karen’s leadership, Pioneer successfully operates several revenue-generating businesses that provide living wage jobs to mission-related employees and help fund its mission of empowering people who have been involved in the legal system to build healthy, productive lives. Headquartered in Seattle, Pioneer serves over 10,000 people a year through its diversion, treatment, housing and job training programs. Karen is a graduate of the University of Washington School of Law and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Find out more about Pioneer Human Services at: www.PioneerHumanServices.org Twitter Facebook Make Extraordinary a reality: jeremyryanslate.com/extraordinary See the Show Notes: www.jeremyryanslate.com/804 Sponsors: Command Your Brand Media: Be featured as a guest on top-rated podcasts, just like this one, for massive attention for your brand. www.commandyourbrand.media/apply Audible: Get a free 30 day free trial and 1 free audiobook from thousands of available books. Right now I'm reading "The Science of Getting Rich,"by Wallace D. Wattles, about building real wealth. www.jeremyryanslate.com/book

Dec 2, 2020 • 34min
803: Creating a Solution to the Veteran Suicide Epidemic | John Spagnola
About This Episode: John Spagnola is an experienced Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of working in Federal Government Relations. Strong business professional, skilled in Business Planning, Coaching, Federal Government, Lobbying, Federal Legislation, Entrepreneurship, Event Management. and Coalition Building. Consulting and Advocacy Strategies to Assist Non Profits and Businesses with Issues Regarding Government and Legislative Policy Matters, Coalition Builder and Federal Lobbyist who focuses on safeguarding veterans and their health. Works in conjunction with doctors and mental health specialists and Veteran Service Organizations as well as other aligned groups. Dedicated to spotlighting the underlying causes versus the symptoms of veteran concerns. Helped passed the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act and the COVER Act that conducts pilot programs on complementary medicine. Worked with US Congress to initiate a Government Accountability Office Investigation (GAO) and a National Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine (NAS) Study into veteran suicides. Find out more about John at: John Spagnola LinkedIn Make Extraordinary a reality: jeremyryanslate.com/extraordinary See the Show Notes: jeremyryanslate.com/803 Sponsors:Gusto: This episode is sponsored by Gusto. Run your payroll the easy way, the same way we do at Command Your Brand. You'll get a. $100 Amazon Gift Card just for running your first payroll! http://www.jeremyryanslate.com/gusto Audible: Get a free 30 day free trial and 1 free audiobook from thousands of available books. http://www.jeremyryanslate.com/book

Nov 30, 2020 • 37min
802: "Are You Getting this?" The Hero's Journey and the Art of Telling a Story | Robert Fergusson
About This Episode: Robert Fergusson has been part of the teaching team at Hillsong Church for the last 30 years. He is English by birth, Australian by choice and European by taste. He has seven growing grandchildren, three married children and one patient wife. He is a biologist by training, but dislikes the color green. He is a teacher by calling, but hates marking. He loves travelling, reading, photography and coffee. For over 40 years, he has taught people how to live in order to please God. He and his wife currently live in the parrot-filled suburbs of Sydney. Find out more about Robert at: Robert Fergusson - Hillsong Teaching Pastor https://www.amazon.com/Are-Getting-This-Robert-Fergusson/dp/1922411019" Make Extraordinary a reality: jeremyryanslate.com/extraordinary See the Show Notes: jeremyryanslate.com/802 Sponsors:Gusto: This episode is sponsored by Gusto. Run your payroll the easy way, the same way we do at Command Your Brand. You'll get a. $100 Amazon Gift Card just for running your first payroll! http://www.jeremyryanslate.com/gusto Audible: Get a free 30 day free trial and 1 free audiobook from thousands of available books. http://www.jeremyryanslate.com/book

Nov 27, 2020 • 30min
801: Understanding the World of Apps and the Wearable Ecosystem, Feat. Elisabeth Bohlmann | Freestyle Friday
About This Episode: Elisabeth is VP of Client Strategy at December Labs, a high-touch Design & Development firm for mobile and web products that are at the frontline of innovation. She drives December Labs’ expansion strategy and accompanies up-and-coming startups and enterprise companies towards scalable and continuous growth, making her a sought-out speaker from key industry events such as CES to deep-dive workshops. With a 10+ year leadership background in tech, digital marketing and international operations and a degree in Economics from Bonn University/ Germany, Elisabeth is a scrum-trained trilingual cross-functional marketing executive with a passion for design-thinking and integrating cutting-edge technologies into human-centered and value-driven solutions. She has developed and led projects for iconic brands such as Mattel, NBCUniversal, Food Network and the NBA. Find out more about December Labs at: December Labs Twitter Instagram Make Extraordinary a reality: jeremyryanslate.com/extraordinary See the Show Notes: jeremyryanslate.com/801 Sponsors:Gusto: This episode is sponsored by Gusto. Run your payroll the easy way, the same way we do at Command Your Brand. You'll get a. $100 Amazon Gift Card just for running your first payroll! http://www.jeremyryanslate.com/gusto Audible: Get a free 30 day free trial and 1 free audiobook from thousands of available books. http://www.jeremyryanslate.com/book


