The Jimmy Rex Show

Guest Bio:Writer. Gold Diver. Cage Fighter. Missionary. Troubled Teen. Musician. Entrepreneur. Social Worker. MBA. reality tv celeb. Ball player. Traveler. Photographer. Alaskan. Minimalist. MAXIMALIST.

Guest Bio:Author and international speaker, Laura Dawn has been leading transformational retreats for 10 years. After building a volcanic hot spring on the Big Island of Hawaii, she founded her new company AYA Visionary, offering a new retreat framework for exploring sacred plant medicines as powerful visionary tools for transformation and creative manifestation. She weaves together Eastern philosophy with the latest research in the fields of neuroscience, psychedelic studies and quantum physics to teach you how to become the visionary of your life, radically expand what you believe is possible and anchor your inner visions into reality.

Guest Bio:Jimmy Rex is best known for his top-rated podcast "The Jimmy Rex Show" and his best-selling book "You End Up Where You're Heading." But his life is so much more than that. He is a real estate expert having sold over 2500 homes in his career, an angel investor in over a dozen businesses including a seed round investor in Nikola motors, entrepreneur, adventurer, and family man. ​Jimmy is also an adrenaline junkie and loves to give back, always looking for the next great story. Whether it is swimming with tiger sharks, climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro, running with the bulls, or working undercover to help rescue kids being sex trafficked, Jimmy is never bored. Recently he returned back from his 70th country visited. His mission is to share love with all and to show everyone around him how to live an extraordinary life.

Guest Bio:Geoff Wilson is a tech entrepreneur, investor and mentor, with a passion for sports card collecting. Geoff’s first job was working at a sports card store in Sarasota, Florida, at age 14. Through buying and trading sports cards as a teenager, Geoff learned many of the basic principles of business that supported him through his entrepreneurial career.Geoff has founded nine companies, creating hundreds of jobs and tens of millions of dollars in value. Geoff’s primary venture is his innovation and growth firm, Three Five Two, which helps leading companies find transformational growth through innovation, digital development and growth marketing services. 352 has sixty employees with offices in Atlanta, Tampa and Gainesville, Florida.Geoff is an avid startup investor and mentor. You can often find Geoff at TechStars Atlanta or Atlanta Tech Village, where he coaches startup founders to accelerate their growth. Geoff also helped his wife, Kim Wilson, found her high-growth startup, Social News Desk. Social News Desk is the world’s leading social media toolset for journalists and newsrooms and was acquired by Fortune 500 company Graham Holdings in 2014.Geoff’s success led him to be named one of America’s Top 30 Young Entrepreneurs by Inc. Magazine, and the University of Florida Warrington College of Business’ Young Entrepreneur of the Year.Geoff is a University of Florida graduate and huge Gator fan, and was in the stadium to see every Gator football (1996, 2006, 2008) and basketball (2006, 2007) national championship win in person. Geoff has three kids, and credits his oldest son, Reaves, for getting him back into sports card collecting. Reaves has his own YouTube channel where he and Geoff have fun opening packs of cards together.

Guest Bio:As the first female wrestler on her high school boys’ team, Cat owns the school record for getting pinned the most and fastest. Her bruises and losses prepared her to come alongside others who need to be “scraped off the mat,” shined up, and put back in the fight. Cat’s underdog spirit led her to launch three groundbreaking organizations: Hustle 2.0, Defy Ventures, and Prison Entrepreneurship Program. In 16 years, 8,500 incarcerated people have graduated from her programs. Her efforts have led 7,000 executives, entrepreneurs, and investors to volunteer as mentors and employers. The programs reduce violence and have produced industry-leading recidivism rates of less than 8%. Cat was named a #MakeTechHuman Agent of Change by WIRED and Nokia for being one of “17 Global Influencers Expanding Human Possibility Through Technology.” She has received the MDC Partners Humanitarian Award on behalf of Defy Ventures and was included in Forbes’ 40 Women to Watch over 40. She was also named by Fast Company as one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business and received an Ashoka Fellowship. Seth Godin published Cat's best-selling book A Second Chance: For You, For Me, and for the Rest of Us, a powerful reflection on the struggles and triumphs of her journey, and on her graduates’ journeys.

Guest Bio:Braydon Ross, a 26 year old Canadian entrepreneur took advantage of this new way of vacationing and decided to create a service where high-end clients could easily access luxurious property rentals. He entered the Airbnb space about 5 years ago and decided to turn his genius business model into one of the largest short term rental management/marketing companies in all of North America, Plenty of Villas. As the co-founder of Plenty of Villas, he helped form this business to turn his vision of providing a full suite concierge service for prestigious clients into a reality by partnering with top tier vacation rental companies, luxury boutique hotels and even homeowners.Plenty of Villas lives up to their name and has grown immensely over the past year and a half by utilizing a new management / marketing method in places such as St. Barths, Italy, Spain, Mexico, Croatia, and other places. Braydon has been involved in the Airbnb industry for about five years now and has perfected his business model of using other people’s properties to make money on Airbnb. He utilizes sites like Airbnb, VRBO, HomeAway, and many others. Despite being heavily involved in the Plenty of Villas business, Braydon has chosen to pursue social media as well. He began growing his Instagram presence several years ago and has managed to accumulate over 185k followers under his page, @mrairbnb. He decided that he would use his wisdom and begin teaching his business models to anyone who wanted to enter the same industry. He began to see real results and soon enough many of his students were quitting their day jobs to manage temporary rental properties full time.

Guest Bio:Today on the show, Jimmy brings on someone that he feels has a story that deserves to be told and that is by a man named Shane Baldwin. Shane is the founder and president of the financial company Silverlead and about 5 and a half years ago he was sent to prison on financial crimes. He was recently released just 6 months ago after serving his time. Shane has a story that all of us can learn from. He is now doing really great things with his life and he is showing how members can do their time and be forgiven.

Guest Bio:Barry Gittleman is the President/CEO and Owner of Hamlet Homes.Barry is one of four members of the management team who purchased Hamlet Homes from the founder in January 2017.  As President and CEO, he is responsible for the overall corporate strategy and vision, culture, architecture and home design, our customer experience, and neighborhood homeowner associations. Barry is also responsible for Land Acquisition and Special Projects.Prior to joining Hamlet, Barry was Division President for Fischer Homes, starting the Atlanta division from scratch and growing it to 18 neighborhoods, building more than  200 new homes in the first two years. Barry also worked for John Wieland Homes, the top luxury homebuilder in the Southeast region. For Wieland, Barry served as Corporate Vice President of Land, Strategy and Finance, responsible for acquisition of 12 new neighborhoods, strategy in 60 existing neighborhoods in 5 states, and the 2012 sale of the company for more than $100 million. Prior to Wieland, Barry worked for Centex Homes as Director of Strategic Marketing and Land in Jacksonville, Atlanta and Nashville, leading Centex’s strategic planning, marketing and market research operations, and land acquisition. Barry was a Project Leader with Boston Consulting Group, advising C-suite executives on major corporate projects in the airline, medical, consumer goods, energy, and entertainment industries.Before his business career, Barry served as a U.S. Navy nuclear submarine officer for 20 years. He retired with the rank of Commander after serving as Sonar Officer, Engineering Officer, and Weapons Officer on three nuclear attack submarines, and conducting multiple extended deployments and national security missions.Barry earned degrees in engineering from the United States Naval Academy, in management from Troy State University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is a board member for the Salt Lake Homebuilders Association, and a member of the Military Committee for the National Ability Center.Barry currently resides in a Hamlet home in Draper with his wife and son. His current and previous home were both built by Hamlet, and he’s proud to live in a neighborhood where Hamlet is actively building and many of his neighbors are Hamlet customers.

Guest Bio:My focus has been on sales management and leadership in 3 different industries. Real Estate, Home Automation, and Solar. I have built and managed multiple sales teams. I have started new revenue channels and opened up new territories

Guest Bio:Brendan is an innovation strategist for Fortune 500 corporations, brands, and celebrities. Helps them to unlock value and transform their businesses.