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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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
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
