
Red Beard Radio with Brian Keith
Brian Keith helps small business owners get efficient business growth with less overwhelm and less frustration.
That means more results out of every dollar and every hour you spend on your business.
On Red Beard Radio he interviews masters in every field to share with you their secrets of focus, speed, and victory, so you can enjoy the success you work hard for.
Latest episodes

Jan 31, 2023 • 20min
#181: Inspirational Life Lessons From a Dog Sled Team | Robert Forto
Robert Forto lives in the wilds of Alaska with his team of 36 sled dogs. He is an entrepreneur that owns several businesses and is obtaining a doctorate in strategic leadership with research focusing on expedition leadership in the corporate environment. Facebook: Robert Forto Twitter: Robert Forto Instagram: Robert Forto 2:01 Robert's discovery of professional dog sledding. 3:16 "I've been called crazy from time to time, yes." -Robert Forto 7:20 "It literally is like a National Geographic photo." -Robert Forto 9:59 What it means to work with Alaskan dog sled dogs. 15:47 "You see that whole team process coming into play where everything is just working." -Robert Forto 18:00 Living a life in negative temperature weather.

Jan 24, 2023 • 26min
#180: Why CustomerHub Is a Great Choice for You | Kyle Leavitt
Kyle Leavitt is a membership site pioneer and the CEO and co-founder of CustomerHub, a simple knowledge commerce platform that dramatically reduces the cost and complexity of launching and managing online courses, memberships, and other digital products. Kyle and his team have helped thousands of entrepreneurs increase their profits by selling their expertise online over the past 12 years. Kyle is an entrepreneur, family man, tech enthusiast, golf lover, Madden player, Russian speaker, ASU alumnus, and Arizona sports fan. www.customerhub.com LinkedIn: Kyle Leavitt Twitter: @Kyleleavitt 4:27 "How much am I prepared to manage this?" -Kyle Leavitt 9:07 Why CustomerHub has interesting pricing priorities. 11:02 "Integration as automated and hands-free as possible." -Kyle Leavitt 14:21 Dobbin uses CustomerHub for new employee onboarding. 16:49 "All you have to do is upload that stuff to your CustomerHub app." -Kyle Leavitt 18:21 The cost of onboarding multiple hires a year. 20:34 Your best ROI for a CustomerHub free trial.

Jan 17, 2023 • 37min
#179: Define Your Culture Before It Defines You | Dobbin Buck
Dobbin Buck is an award-winning marketing agency owner and entrepreneur. His career got its start in developing museums and interactive exhibits around the world for notable institutions like The U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame, The Guggenheim Museum, Disney’s Epcot Center, The Museum of Sex, Universal Studios Florida, The Audubon Society, Kenneth Cole NYC, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the National Parks Service, and countless other world class clientele. Currently living in the Appalachian Mountains of Dahlonega, Georgia, with his wife and two children, Dobbin is the co-owner and Chief Revenue Officer of GetUWired Web Services, a full-service marketing agency of nearly 50 team members that operate out of their rural northern Georgia cabin-based headquarters. Dobbin and his partners have developed an incredible business culture which provides ongoing employee team building events, leadership training, fitness challenges, financial training, progressive mindset, and meditation training program for their employees. The balance of an incredible workplace culture and backwoods home life is Dobbin’s passion. www.getuwired.com Instagram Business: @getuwired Instagram: @dobbin LinkedIn: Dobbin Buck Twitter Business: @getuwired 2:18 "It went from being some pithy stuff up on the wall to something that we really believed in." -Dobbin Buck 4:54 "The culture is something that's really more emotional and spiritual." -Dobbin Buck 5:55 All of the training that has built Dobbin's business culture. 12:27 The purpose of a career in our lIves. 17:15 The role of leadership in a healthy business culture. 19:53 "I'm often learning from other people and taking great ideas and implementing them." -Dobbin Buck 26:20 The idea of keeping yourself “right-sized.”

Jan 10, 2023 • 22min
#178: Using Cycling to Boost Your Health Like Never Before | Anthony Walsh
Anthony Walsh wants to help you find health, happiness, and longevity through cycling and is building a community around him that is accomplishing just that. Cycling is in Anthony’s blood. As a child, his bike was an adventure machine providing him with a way to explore the land outside of his local community. Through adulthood, a bike was always there not only as a commuting machine, but as a way of life when he became a professional cyclist. Now he wants others to realize that the path to longevity and vitality is best traveled atop a bike and emerging from this ethos is Roadman Cycling. Roadman Cycling offers coaching to elite, expert, and professional cyclists alike, but it’s his podcast where he and his guests share wisdom through inspirational, intimate, and disarmingly-unfiltered conversations about how to recapture your health through cycling. Instagram: @Roadman.cycling Facebook Business: Roadman Cycling LinkedIn: Anthony Walsh Twitter: @RoadmanCycling 2:10 How cycling impacted each portion of Anthony’s life. 5:59 "The way we live at the moment, we're not designed for that." -Anthony Walsh 8:08 "All we need in life to be happy is progress." -Anthony Walsh 11:07 "You don't have to carve out more time for this." -Anthony Walsh 14:35 The price Anthony paid to gain focus. 16:54 "This was the first time I'd ever taken a guy in his mid-forties, overweight, and all the bad lifestyle habits you can imagine."-Anthony Walsh 18:50 Anthony's 5-step system for health and wellness.

Jan 3, 2023 • 27min
#177: Lessons From Being a Delusional Professional Athlete | Alex Feinberg
Alex Feinberg was a scholarship athlete at Vanderbilt University, where he majored in economics. He was drafted by the Colorado Rockies in 2008. After his professional baseball career, Alex went on to work at a global macro hedge fund in Hong Kong before spending six years working for Google in sales, corporate strategy, and search partnerships. During his time in corporate America, Alex discovered an intuitive eating framework that he uses to stay ripped year-round without ever counting calories or going hungry. Instagram: @alexfeinberg1 Twitter: @alexfeinberg1 2:57 "Don't understand yourself. It’s a trap!" -Brian Keith 5:00 How a winning athlete mindset is not always the best. 7:37 "Logical circuitry takes too much time to process information to come out with an accurate decision in one second." -Alex Feinberg 11:28 How intuitive students are different from logical students. 14:04 "I experience a lot of my learning and transformative growth when I remove myself from environments and then revisit them." -Alex Feinberg 18:06 "I can't control every minute detail about what happens in my career." -Alex Feinberg 19:56 Alex's food strategy to build a healthy lifestyle.

Dec 27, 2022 • 25min
#176: Business Then and Business Now | Todd Snively
Todd Snively has been a serial entrepreneur since 1983. Today, Todd is best known as an eight-figure Amazon seller, creator of multiple seven- and eight-figure online businesses, and consultant to thousands looking to make money online. He has taught over 6,000 people the wholesale distribution method of selling name-brand products on Amazon using the buy box rotation method. Todd is available for speaking engagements all over the world. He is a frequent guest on some of the best-known podcasts and his keynote speeches at masterminds are always well received. Todd has two books coming out, "The Amazon Code" and "How to Become a Virtual CEO". Facebook Facebook - Business YouTube LinkedIn 1:55 A taste of the four units of measure to value your offer by. 4:45 "If you can't, you have no business making the promise." -Todd Snively 6:08 People want to work with those who have already done what they want to do. 8:36 "Any fear that I had about running a community mastermind just disappeared." -Todd Snively 11:45 Dealing with the limits of your knowledge. 13:29 "If I don't know, then I'm going to tell you I don't know." -Todd Snively 15:04 "That's how the wallet gets things done and you don't get frustrated." -Todd Snively

Dec 20, 2022 • 21min
#175: Gaining Mindset, Mastery and Discipline In Your Life | Keith Keppner
Keith Keppner began training as a boxer as a way to regain his health from a chronic illness. At the age of 17, he was in constant pain, had extreme fatigue, and had issues with depression, anxiety, short-term memory, and other cognitive challenges. He had gone five years with no answers to his health issues; however, once he was finally diagnosed with Lyme disease, he used boxing as a way to get his life back. After several years of training, Keith endured many injuries and struggles due to compromised health from intensive Lyme disease treatment. In 2010, he was forced to retire from boxing due to a severe neck injury in Mexico. After that, he began coaching boxing full time and soon opened up his own gym, Keppner Boxing, in 2013. Having produced Golden Glove Champions from scratch, Keith has trained professional boxers who have fought on ESPN, Showtime, and Telemundo. Keith also prides himself on his work with everyday people who just want to get in great shape, learn boxing, and improve themselves mentally and physically. He has coached and instructed everyone from kids to clients with Parkinson’s disease and is great at connecting and positively impacting individuals from all walks of life. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/keith.keppner Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coachkeithkeppner/ 3:10 "I wanted to be recognized as something more than what I was." -Keith Keppner 5:06 "Focusing on the desired activities first." -Keith Keppner 7:35 "You want to be able to be a champion in your life." -Keith Keppner 9:33 "If you're truly serious about serving a community or serving other people, you're going to master the skills of business." -Keith Keppner 11:20 "Sales can be a cure-all. It is the top line of a balance sheet." -Keith Keppner 14:23 The cliche perspective about sales. 15:53 "The most dangerous thing you can say is, 'Well, this is just how we do it.'" -Keith Keppner

Dec 13, 2022 • 29min
#174: The Power of an Entrepreneur’s Belief | Chris Widener
Chris Widener is widely recognized as one of the top motivational speakers in the world today. He has spoken all over the world, such as Germany, Spain, Russia, China, Egypt, Singapore, Australia and, of course, all over the United States and Canada. His clients are a “Who’s Who” of American businesses and organizations, including: General Electric, Cisco Systems, Microsoft, and the Harvard Business School. Chris began a small publishing company called the American Community Business Network in the 1990s. Chris then changed the name to Made for Success and grew the company into a large business selling tens of thousands of personal development programs through large retailers such as Costco, Sam’s Club, Walmart, Target, and Barnes and Noble. He sold that business to his partner in 2009 to focus exclusively on speaking, writing, and coaching. Twitter: @ChrisWidener Facebook: ChrisWidenerSpeaker Website: ChrisWidener.com 3:33 Meet Chris Widener. 5:47 "Everybody's a speaker now." -Chris Widener 8:43 "You can own quite a few little different businesses." -Chris Widener 11:36 "Entrepreneurism isn't for everybody." -Chris Widener 13:19 "Number one answer: "I didn't take enough risks."" -Chris Widener 15:11 The value of people who believe in you. 17:09 "Your belief system is like a thermostat." -Chris Widener 23:26 The quickest anyone has gone from zero-net-worth to $1 billion.

Dec 6, 2022 • 20min
#173: The 5-Step Big Brand Framework | Cassie Hanuscak
Business takes vision. You have that. Branding takes strategy. Let Cassie Hanuscak be your guide. Cassie is a brand strategist and designer with almost 15 years of experience working with start-ups to large corporations. She is incredibly passionate about empowering thought-leading entrepreneurs with the brand clarity and consistency needed to thrive through her established 5-Step Big Brand Method™ for small businesses. You don’t need magic to build a big brand, but you do need a method. With the right guidance and resources, you can confidently build a strong foundation for your brand that primes you for unparalleled growth and success. Cassie's Site Instagram Facebook LinkedIn 1:07 "A brand is how a company makes you feel." -Cassie Hanuscak 3:13 The three-circle Venn diagram method. 8:42 "You need colors that are aligned with your strategies and intentions." -Cassie Hanuscak 11:28 Part of Cassie's 5-step Big Brand framework. 14:29 "Get clear on your branding strategy and figure out why it is you do what you do." -Cassie Hanuscak 16:44 "Branding isn't about changing: it's about evolving." -Cassie Hanuscak 17:53 What a conversation with Cassie about your personal brand would look like.

Nov 29, 2022 • 15min
#172: The Body Language of Deception and Fraud | Traci L Brown
She’s trained in the body language of deception detection right alongside our country’s top law enforcement. In her fast-paced, interactive keynotes that are sure to entertain, Traci Brown teaches the lie, fraud, and identity theft detection skills she’s used to get to the truth in billion-dollar business deals, crimes, and politics. You’ll be able to immediately use the same tools to tell whose pants are on fire, stop fraud, and create more success in your own organization and personal life so you see more zeroes (before the decimal) in your bank account. Traci is a three-time U.S. Collegiate Cycling champion and former member of Team USA. Yeah, she’s fast on two wheels. She is a past president of the National Speakers Association, Colorado Chapter, and the author of four books, including her latest, 'How to Detect Lies, Fraud and Identity Theft: Field Guide.' Facebook: Traci Brown 2:09 "The signs are hidden in plain sight. They are completely hidden to those who aren't looking for them." -Traci Brown 3:26 "I thought I was a hero for going to a convention and coming back with a big fat contract." -Brian Keith 7:56 "Do the body language and the words match?" -Traci Brown 9:54 "If you are literally asleep at the wheel as you are talking to anyone, you've just missed the boat." -Traci Brown 11:12 "If you want to get a feel for what people are saying, just turn the volume off." -Traci Brown 13:12 "Body language is the first three pages of hypnosis and NLP training." -Traci Brown