The Root of All Success with The Real Jason Duncan
The Real Jason Duncan
Welcome to The Root of All Success with The Real Jason Duncan—a podcast where I uncover the real stories behind today's most successful entrepreneurs, creatives, athletes, artists, and leaders. In every episode, I dive deep into honest, unfiltered conversations that reveal how these trailblazers define success, overcome challenges, and craft transformative strategies to excel in their industries. I'm not just your host—I'm an entrepreneur behind 12 thriving ventures and the founder of The Exiter Club, a mastermind community dedicated to living #TheExitLifestyle. I built XOS™ (The Exiter Operating System) to empower business owners to transition from the daily grind to becoming strategic owner-investors, creating a life that blends professional achievement with personal fulfillment. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, my journey—from an 8th-grade history teacher to a serial entrepreneur—has been fueled by a passion for authentic success. Outside of my business interests, you'll find me enjoying motorcycle rides, RV adventures, and cherishing everyday moments with my high school sweetheart of 30 years and our two grown children. My life, both personal and professional, is guided by unwavering faith in Jesus. Tune in on all major podcast platforms and YouTube for actionable insights, fresh perspectives, and inspirational stories that can spark your own journey toward balanced success. And if you’re feeling overwhelmed or burnt out in your business, visit businessburnouttest.com to take our Business Burnout Test and get personalized recommendations to reignite your passion and transform your life.
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May 3, 2022 • 52min
078: Using Money As a Resource ft. Jeff Wright
Today’s guest is Jeff Wright, a serial entrepreneur who is always exploring new profitable business models that fill a void in the market. After selling a successful Commercial Leasing Business, he found himself looking for a new venture in early 1998. Having gained expertise as "the middleman" in getting Term Life coverage for large leasing clients to enable them to secure loans for which they would otherwise not be eligible, Jeff moved immediately into the Life Insurance business by building an agent group focused on selling Mortgage Protection Insurance. The sheer volume of business his teams produced provided him the unique opportunity to gain direct distribution from a relatively new carrier in the Mortgage Protection market. From there Jeff's ability to comfortably converse with everyone from the bathroom attendant to the CEO of a Fortune 500 carrier vaulted ASG into one of the most successful IMO's in the industry. Watch now and learn how you can manage your time to be the most successful version of yourself. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review & share! https://therealjasonduncan.com/podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 26, 2022 • 59min
077: Finding Yourself through Passion ft. Bill Caskey
Today’s guest is a sales development leader and experimenter who has been improving B2B sales teams and executives since 1990. His philosophies and strategies have fueled explosive growth in sales and profits for his clients. Bill’s passionate about sharing his ideas about selling, business, life, money, and meaning. But his work expands beyond B2B and individual training and coaching; he is the author of Same Game New Rules, Rewire The Sales Mind, and The Sales Playbook, to name a few. He also co-hosts two podcasts: The Advanced Selling Podcast, and The Bill Caskey Podcast. He is also creator of The High Achiever Mentor’s Program, a small group coaching program for high performing B2B sales people who want to scale their income - and The World Class Sales Leader (.com) program, helping sales managers and leaders inspire and motivate their teams. Watch now and learn how you can not only excel in life, but in business as well. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review & share! https://therealjasonduncan.com/podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 19, 2022 • 55min
076: The Harmful Effects of Waiting ft. Ashish Nathu
With an academic foundation in finance and accounting from Boston University, today’s guest is Ashish Nathu, founder and CEO, entrepreneur, triathlete, and host of the Rich Equation Podcast. He is a proud member of Vistage, an executive coaching organization, since 2014, and through his experience has seen inside of 100s of companies. By age 24, he became the CEO of a global furniture distribution company and scaled his business over the last decade from scratch to the second largest business in the category. He is a servant leader and student of continuous learning and is motivated to create as much impact while he is on this planet. Watch now and learn the most important rules of running a business while maintaining your personal identity. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review & share! https://therealjasonduncan.com/podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 12, 2022 • 59min
075: Maintaining Determination for Success with Shaahin Cheyene
At 15 years old, Today's guest Shaahin left home with nothing but the clothes on his back and created over a billion dollars in revenue by inventing the legendary smart drug known as Herbal Ecstasy. Later Shaahin went on to invent Digital Vaporization (the forerunner to today’s vapes) and start a number of successful businesses with a couple notable failures. Today, he is the Founder and CEO of Accelerated Intelligence, Inc. a major Amazon FBA seller with millions in sales, the lead coach at Amazon Mastery where he teaches entrepreneurs how to CRUSH IT! on the Amazon platform and an active YouTube creator. Shaahin is considered one of the leading global minds on what’s next in e-commerce, Amazon and the internet. He is described as the “Willy Wonka Of Generation X” by the London Observer and Newsweek and is one of the most forward thinkers in business. Watch now and hear some fascinating stories about the life and rise of Shaahin. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review & share! https://therealjasonduncan.com/podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 5, 2022 • 48min
074: Leave Your Company in Good Hands ft. Dr. Sascha Becker
Today's guest is a little bit different from the rest of the guests we have had before. Today we have an economist, Sascha O. Becker, the "Xiaokai Yang Chair of Business and Economics” at Monash University, Melbourne, and part-time Professor at the University of Warwick, England. Previously, he held positions at Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich and at the University of Stirling, Scotland. He studied Economics at the Universities of Bonn, Germany, and at the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique (ENSAE) in Paris, France. He obtained his Ph.D. at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence in 2001. In Spring 2000, he was a visiting scholar at the Center for Labor Economics at the University of California in Berkeley (UCB). In 2006, he spent 7 months at the University of California in San Diego (UCSD). During 2014/15 and 2018 he was a Visiting Professor at UCLA Anderson School of Management. His research has appeared in many international journals, including the Review of Finance, the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the American Economic Review. Watch now and learn the importance of preparing your company for the inevitable, and the potential damage a sudden loss can have. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review & share! https://therealjasonduncan.com/podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 29, 2022 • 56min
073: Needing It Like a Breath of Air with Omar Medrano
Today's guest is Omar Medrano, an entrepreneur who has had tremendous success as a serial franchise owner; he is also the author of What If It Did Work?, a book named by Entrepreneur Magazine as one of the Top 25 Business Books of 2021. Not only highly effective in helping to motivate young entrepreneurs, but also has an interesting story that he shares on the show. Omar’s passion is helping his audience crush the fear that is holding them back from their potential and inspiring his listeners to start the business they've been dreaming of. Watch now and learn what it means to rise above the rest, even when people say you can’t. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review & share! https://therealjasonduncan.com/podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 22, 2022 • 1h 4min
072: When to Start Your Business with Alex Terranova
Today's guest is Alex Terranova, a performance alchemist who was dubbed “The AntiExcuses Coach” by Yahoo Finance. Known for breaking limiting mental beliefs, Alex is a professional certified coach. He is also the author of Fictional Authenticity, CoAuthor of the best-selling Redefining Masculinity, host of The DreamMason Podcast, The Frequency Shifters Show, & Co-Hosts The Coaching Show Podcast. He pushes people to live lives of purpose, passion, and impact. After graduating from the University of Southern California, he led teams in the hospitality industry, training hundreds of people, opening businesses across the country, and running 8-figure businesses. Shortly after, Alex became certified as a coach and launched DreamMason Inc. Since then he has coached hundreds of people, interviewed over 200 of the world's highest performing, brilliant, and successful leaders and been featured as an expert on NBC, FOX, Yahoo Finance, Disrupt Magazine, Thrive Global, Elephant Journal and over 30 top podcasts. Watch now and learn some valuable tips on reaching success without excuses. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review & share! https://therealjasonduncan.com/podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 15, 2022 • 52min
071: Discipline Your Disappointments with Sabrina Lloyd
Today’s guest has always been a leader, and has the distinct ability to lead through example. After her undergraduate education at the University of Toronto, Sabrina was recruited by American Income Life and her professional trajectory changed. She began working with the company in New Jersey and quickly stood out as one of the top earners. She then transferred to Maryland to begin working as a manager, helping her team to achieve their goals. Today, she is an entrepreneur, executive coach, and self-made millionaire. She empowers women and equips them with the right tools and knowledge so they can become the leaders they were meant to be, and now operates under her own company name. Watch now and learn what Sabrina calls the “First Mentality” and how you can apply that to everything you do. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review & share! https://therealjasonduncan.com/podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 8, 2022 • 1h 4min
070: Putting Your Employees First with Sherry Deutschmann
Today's guest is Sherry Deutschmann, a serial entrepreneur, author, and passionate advocate for entrepreneurship. With only 1.7% of women-owned businesses ever getting to $1M in annual revenue, In 2019, Sherry founded BrainTrust, a company dedicated to helping women entrepreneurs grow their Businesses. Now, 6% of BrainTrust members reached that milestone in their first year! Prior to BrainTrust, she was founder and CEO of LetterLogic, Inc., a company she grew to $40 Million and sold in 2016. LetterLogic was named an INC 5000 company (fastest growing privately held businesses in the US) for ten consecutive years. Sherry attributes the success of LetterLogic to its unique culture in which the needs of the employees came before those of the customer or shareholder. That culture led her to be recognized by EY as one of their 2009 Entrepreneurial Winning Women and LetterLogic was featured in the New York Times, Forbes Magazine, Business Leaders, INC, and Fast Company. Sherry was honored by President Barack Obama as a White House Champion of Change in 2016. Sherry’s book, Lunch with Lucy – Maximize Profits by Investing in your People – was released on March 20, 2020. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review & share! https://therealjasonduncan.com/podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 1, 2022 • 54min
069: Debunking Myths About Success with Avery Carl
Today's guest is Avery Carl, who was named one of Wall Street Journal’s Top 100 and Newsweek’s Top 500 agents in 2020 with Avery’s team, The Short Term Shop, being named the Wall Street Journal Top 50 Teams in 2021. She and her team focus exclusively on Vacation Rental and Short Term Rental clients. Avery has sold over $300 million in ShortTerm/Vacation Rentals in 2021, and over $750 million since her start in 2017. An investor herself, with a portfolio of over 50 properties, Avery specializes in connecting investors with short term rentals with the highest ROI potential, and then training them to manage their short term rental from anywhere in the world. Watch now and learn some valuable tips on managing your most important assets, focusing your strengths, and becoming valuable to those around you. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review & share! https://therealjasonduncan.com/podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
