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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Feb 22, 2022 • 58min
068: Using What You Already Know with Wendy Navarro
Today's guest is Wendy Navarro, the Founder and CEO of the digital marketing agency, Navarro Creative Group, which helps businesses amplify their online presence and grow their business through SEO-driven website design, social media, and various marketing strategies. As a small business owner since 2006, Wendy has had passion to support businesses and business owners for over a decade; and in 2012 she was recognized with the SBA Home-Based Business Champion of the Year Award, at district, state and national levels. At the end of 2019, her husband Rick joined Navarro Creative Group as its Director of Web Design and SEO, with their daughter, Saige, the Social Media Manager for the business. Watch now and learn the values Wendy learned on the way to becoming one of Sumner County’s most reputable digital marketing agencies. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review & share! https://therealjasonduncan.com/podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 15, 2022 • 60min
067: Get Your Ideas off the Ground ft. Josh Wilson
Today's guest, Josh Wilson, has an interesting professional background ranging from wrestling alligators, fighting fires, delivering babies, scaling construction companies, working in venture capital/private equity, and building and selling media brands and podcast shows. Josh has taken the road less traveled and has built a platinum Rolodex along the way, learning the true value of maintaining healthy relationships. Josh is also creator of a group of syndicated internet shows with topics focused on business, investments, and even taboo topics surrounding men's health. He is a Podcast Host, Social Media Influencer, and CEO of Kingdom Syndicate - a company that focuses on syndicating private investment deals putting people and deals together. Watch now and learn the importance of sharing your ideas with others and how relationships can change your life. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review & share! https://therealjasonduncan.com/podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 8, 2022 • 1h 7min
066: Locating Your Blind Spots with Rock Thomas
Today's guest is Rock Thomas, the host of the top-rated Rock Your Money, Rock Your Life Podcast, bestselling author, and motivational speaker with over 30 years of experience in personal development and coaching. Rock is a devoted entrepreneur who has impacted over 100 million lives through M1 mastermind as Founder and Whole-life Millionaire Mentor. His speeches and content videos have been viewed over 100 million times collectively. As the Creator & trainer of the cutting edge Sunday System for Success, he has since helped over 70 people become whole-life millionaires in all aspects of their lives. Rock is also the teacher of accelerated strategies that help entrepreneurs triple their sales and growth using the proprietary models of {SEC and 1 %Rule). Watch now and learn the top 10 rules for personal and professional development, and how they align with the five keys of success. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review & share! https://therealjasonduncan.com/podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 1, 2022 • 1h 7min
065: Passion Over Control ft. Dr. JC Doornick
Today's guest is Dr. JC Doornick ''Dragon". Despite coming from a family of pioneers in the entertainment industry and professional athletes, JC decided he wanted to be a Doctor of Chiropractic and even Cofounder of a worldwide Humanitarian relief organization, serving the third world with health, education, housing and food. Since then, Dragon has been receiving awards such as the Humanitarian of the Year. However, his success was matched with a dark side of substance abuse, divorce and abandonment due to his workaholic lifestyle. Realizing he needed a change, he lost 80 lbs, reclaimed his mental and physical health, transformed his mind and started living his life around the things that mattered most. He and his wife Mieke went on to build an international Virtual Health Transformation and Lifestyle Coaching company that helped them create a 7 figure income from home and leave their 9-5 jobs to live their lives around the things that matter most. Watch now and learn the importance of being able to adapt in a world of constant change. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review & share! https://therealjasonduncan.com/podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 24, 2022 • 57min
064: Showing Up with Confidence ft. Alison Lumbatis
Today's guest is Alison Lumbatis, an empowerment influencer, entrepreneur and best selling author. A thought leader in the personal style and confidence arenas, Alison empowers women and business leaders to show up as the best version of themselves in order to make a bigger impact. She has attracted an audience of millions to her Get Your Pretty On website and has served over 100,000 members through the Outfit Formulas personal styling program. She has been featured in Forbes, Business Insider, Yahoo Finance, Redbook and Life & Style. Watch now and learn how she used all five P’s to exit without exiting and launch her new successful business. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review & share! https://therealjasonduncan.com/podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 20, 2022 • 1h 5min
063: Trusting Your Instinct with Carol Carpenter
Today's guest is Carol Carpenter, who always had an innate sense of duty and responsibility, which has translated into the way she does business today. In her teenage years, being the eldest, her focus shifted to her mother, who had terminal cancer. During that time she was studying to become a doctor, taking four years of Latin to make her mom proud. After her mother passed away at the age of forty-seven, when our guest was only twenty years old, she realized that she didn't want to complete med school, and changed her major to business management. She began working for a tech firm, met her husband and became the mother of two wonderful boys, but by the time they were teenagers her marriage began to deteriorate, and she began to re-explore her goals and passions. Carol took a Motorcycle Safety Class and developed an insatiable desire to make the track experience welcoming for everyone, including women, and wanted to create an environment where riders could form deep friendships that would last a lifetime. Watch now and learn how she used all five P’s to achieve her goals and become successful. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review & share! https://therealjasonduncan.com/podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 17, 2022 • 1h 8min
062: Investing Time Over Money with Alphonso Harvey
Today’s guest is Alphonso Harvey Jr., a businessman based in Nashville, TN. with 15 years of corporate experience, who after graduating with a Master's in Business Administration from Regis University, now serves as CEO of AAA DME LLC, a Licensed Home Medical Equipment Provider, focused on serving the needs of expectant mothers. Alphonso is an expert on patient acquisition and has received many accolades during his career including Top 40 under 40, to being an esteemed graduate of both SSA's Scale Up Program, and CATALYST from Nashville's Entrepreneur Center. Watch now and learn the meaning to "There are no problems, just unfound solutions". Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review & share! https://therealjasonduncan.com/podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 13, 2022 • 1h 3min
061: Writing Your Own Story with Julie Broad
Today’s guest is Julie Broad, Amazon Overall #1 Best Selling Author and founder of the self-publishing services firm Book Launchers. Julie knows what it takes to successfully self-publish a book, and has had massive success with More than Cashflow, which topped Amazon, The New Brand You, and her latest book, Self-Publish & Succeed. An expert on writing a book with marketing in mind, real estate investing, and building a brand that attracts capital, Julie has been featured in 100's of media including Forbes, Entrepreneur.com, Yahoo! Business, CTV, the Vancouver Sun, and Medium.com. Watch now and learn what it takes to transition into entrepreneurship, and the secrets to becoming a self-publisher and bestseller. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review & share! https://therealjasonduncan.com/podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 6, 2022 • 55min
060: Riding the Wave of Success with Cara Mackline
Today’s guest is Cara Macklin, an entrepreneur, creative business leader, coach, and founder of Caram, an innovative scaling system for multi-million entrepreneurs. Cara developed her unique creative methodology to help leaders and businesses strengthen their creative ability and achieve powerful change. Growing up in her family business, she opened her first business at 15, before spending fifteen years as Director of this multi-award-winning, multi million pound healthcare & hospitality group, where it grew from 200 employees to over 600 during this time. Cara envisioned a new model creating Ni's first, 'Lifestyle Care Home' Milesian Manor. Watch now and learn Cara’s essential tips on thinking creatively, adapting quickly and being flexible in a world of constant change and uncertainty. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review & share! https://therealjasonduncan.com/podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 3, 2022 • 1h 14min
059: Defeating the ‘Enough’ Mentality with Jay Jay
Today’s guest is International Speaker and Public Relations Agency Owner, Jay Jay. For the last 15 years and in over 30 countries, he has been moving people with his message. In 2009, he leveraged the social media platform YouTube to grow his channel to 57,000,000M Views online as a magician. Leaving his tricks behind he leveraged his mastery in PR and Personal Branding to start an advertising agency called Ace Of Spades. Today, Ray uses his experience and knowledge to help people and personal brands become seen as number one in their industry. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review & share! https://therealjasonduncan.com/podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
