The Jimmy Rex Show

Guest Bio:CEO of CardoneCapital, international speaker, entrepreneur and author of The 10X Rule & creator of 21 best-selling business programs, Grant Cardone owns & operates seven privately held companies and a $1.5B portfolio of multifamily properties. Named the #1 marketer to watch by Forbes Magazine, Cardone is also the founder of the The 10X Movement & The 10X Growth Conference, the world’s largest business & entrepreneur conference.

Guest Bio:All topics that touch our daily lives in one way or another, yet most people (due to an extremely sensitive and politically correct society) fail to speak about these topics privately let alone publicly. (Apparently Sean Whalen did not get that memo). Sean has a way with words that will get you talking whether you want to or not, and over 675,000,000 (and counting) people have viewed Sean’s videos and social media posts. Some label him brash, others say he is bold, many simply call him an asshole, but one thing you will always get from Sean is his unfiltered and direct truth on any and all issues, politically correct or not. Sean’s story of being raised in a single parent home, success at a young age, bankruptcy, depression and divorce has been shared by over 100 podcasts and media interviews from dozens of countries around the globe. Sean is the founder of multiple companies including apparel and technology, but his role as founder and CEO of LIONS NOT SHEEP, the global movement for men, women and children is closest to his heart. He is a best selling author, strategic business coach, social media and marketing genius, and life changing keynote speaker. When not speaking, coaching or working with his clients, Sean can be found riding horses with his daughter, racing off road trucks with his sons, shooting guns from his collection or traveling the world in search of the finest whiskey and cigar.

Guest Bio:Tarek El Moussa is the star of HGTV hit series Flip or Flop, now in its seventh season. Tarek received his real estate license when he was 21 years old and quickly made a name for himself in Orange County, California. At the height of the housing boom, he was selling multi-million dollar mansions like hotcakes, but when the housing bubble burst, he carved out a new niche for himself in the world of real estate: flipping distressed properties. With hundreds of successful flips on their resume, Tarek and partner Christina showcase their real estate and interior design savvy on Flip or Flop as they find, buy, renovate and flip homes for profit. Tarek also stars in the HGTV series flipping 101 with Tarek El Moussa where draws upon his enormous success from flipping over 300 homes to help novice renovators get in the game.

Guest Bio:As a founder, investor, and consultant, Jeremy spends his time starting and scaling businesses and teaching others to do the same. He is most known for his ability to take an entrepreneur or aspiring entrepreneur to the next level in life and business. He and his team have been able to simplify the success in a business down to three main components: Vision, Culture, and Strategy. By getting really clear on these three components, he can simplify and optimize any business. One of Jeremy’s true geniuses is his ability to see ten steps ahead when others can only see one or two.In 2009 He founded Xcite Satellite which employed 1,000+ individuals over a ten year period, generating over $70 million in sales before making a successful exit in 2019. During his time at Xcite Jeremy was passionate about helping his people become better leaders, increase their earnings, provide for their families and serve in their community. During and after his tenure with Xcite, He has consulted a number of businesses, most notably a company that he helped grow revenue by $90 million year over year. Jeremy is a powerful, compassionate, inspiring leader who creates trust by being real.Today, when He's not found working on a business, he can be found working on his other two passions in life: his family and saving trafficked children. Jeremy is part of an undercover team responsible for rescuing children from sex-trafficking around the world. He is passionate about helping all people know that they are valued, loved, and remembered, whether here or abroad. Jeremy chooses every day to reach for his potential by living life to its fullest and helping others do the same.

Guest Bio: My professional journey started in 2002 as a new financial advisor. I found a natural market with business owners and young married professionals. As my practice was building, I noticed that many of my clients needed more than financial advice, they needed advice about life in general. There were many clients who were unhappy in their careers, relationships, and overall health. I was unable as a financial advisor to give much more than financial planning advice, however, I had a desire to do more.I attended multiple trainings and invested heavily in my own personal development. In one of these training sessions, the speaker put a challenge to the crowd that if they wanted to be on this stage to make the changes they needed to. I knew that he was speaking to me and I started to figure out the changes that I needed to in order to live my life on purpose and help clients with more than their financial aspects of life.At this same time period, my father passed away suddenly and at a very young age. While it was a horrible experience I was inspired to make major changes about who I was and the direction that my life was being taken. My wife and I began to make health, relationship, and career changes that affected the rest of our lives and afforded me the education needed to help others to live their lives with true purpose.I was working in the personal development space and saw many clients start and fail and return again. So many of them were individuals with poor or no relationships. I theorized that the breakthrough in personal development should come through marital relationships. Ironically, several marriages close to us at the time were ending in divorce and it pained me and wife greatly. This only fueled my desire to better understand how to help before couples needed therapeutic intervention. In 2010, I published the ebook, "Rescue Your Marriage: How Couple Development can Save Your Ship" and began coaching couples on this concept and saw great success. The first couple that came to me had divorce papers ready and been to several therapists. They were in a really bad way financially and needed help with their overall health. When the coaching was over, they transformed their situation into a $50,000 financial cushion and were working together as a couple eventually opening their own family business. In addition to this success, I saw first hand that personal development was anything but personal. My wife and I learned how to face challenges and grow together not in just our relationship but to reach our personal goals. Couple Development turned from a theory into a practice. This helped me introduce the concept of Couple Development to UVU students and for whom I wrote and published a manual for in 2011, called "Couple Development: How Couples who Build Thriving Marriages are Healthier, Wealthier, and Happier."I now speak and coach business owners and self-employed individuals to Make Time work for them so they can achieve their goals and am the founder of the Make Time Institute.

Guest Bio:As the CDO or Head of Data in your organization, what steps are you taking to build a data-driven culture?To close the data literacy skills gap and establish a data-centric culture, we need to dispel the myth that only data scientists are qualified to work on data analytics. Through education and training, organizations can create a culture where everyone has the skills and is encouraged to be curious about data.As the Global Head of Data Literacy at Qlik, I help individuals and organizations realize their data and analytical potential by strengthening their data literacy.I lead Qlik’s data literacy program across our various channels, which has seen a rapid rise in engagement and is now at the forefront of industry thought leadership. This curriculum is designed to help people learn and improve their data and analytical capabilities, gain an understanding of how to effectively use data and analytics and help prepare them to work with the large amounts of data found in modern organisations.Before the transition to Qlik, I was involved in the development of the Business Intelligence group for the United States Consumer Card group at American Express. For my involvement that led to the creation of strategic reports, curriculum and training for this program, I was awarded the President's Club Award in 2017.I’m passionate about bringing the human touch to a world of numbers. I get the greatest feeling of satisfaction when I can help people see and understand the power that data and analytics can bring to them -- in their careers, their businesses or in their personal lives.When not working with helping our customers upskill their organizations’ data literacy capabilities, I can be found with my family or trail running the mountains of Utah.

Guest Bio:Today on the podcast, I wanted to tackle a very tough issue, one that is obviously veryprominent right now in the news and going on every single day. So I sat down with Lex Scott. She is the head and the president of the chapter of Black Lives Matter here in the state of Utah. And in this podcast, the reason I want to get Lex on the show is I'm personally trying to understand and trying to listen. I'm trying to figure out ways to bring the community together and figure out ways to understand better this issue, the things I don't understand, the problems that I don't have in my own life or I can't see. And so I sat down with Lex and we had a really fun, interesting conversation. We touched on a lot of subjects, some that are very controversial. But more than anything, what I tried to get out of this and what I tried to do is kind of come into this podcast as a student and try to learn so that I could actually make these situations better, try to be a person that has empathy towards others situation and tried to infect change myself in any way that I can. So I hope as you listen to this podcast that you'll be able to take away from this, that most people, when we sit down and we appreciate each other and we just talk and we actually hear each other out, that we are able to respect each other and get to a place where we can both walk away better people, we can understand each other better, we can have love for each other. I would consider Lex as a friend of mine now, after doing this podcast and we didn't agree on everything, which was kind of cool, but I think that is the thing that they are trying to do the most right now. Those that are trying to divide is trying to get both sides to really put ourselves into a corner of paint yourself into a corner where you can't find this middle ground or this medium ground and so me and Lex, I felt like did a really good job of that on the podcast. I'm super proud of this conversation that we were able to have.

Guest Bio:Russell Stevenson is a freelance writer born and raised in rural western Wyoming. He received his undergraduate degree from Brigham Young University and his master’s degree in history from the University of Kentucky. He has taught history and religion at Brigham Young University and Salt Lake Community College.

Guest Bio:Robbie Bosco was the BYU starting quarterback from 1984-1985 and led BYU to its first and only National Football Championship in 1984.Bosco, who led the championship campaign became the first member of that 1984 team inducted into the BYU Athletic Hall of Fame.In his two years as a starter for the Cougars, "The Rocket from Roseville" (California) compiled a 24-3 record, breaking nine NCAA records and tying another. Among the most impressive of Bosco's accomplishments as he rewrote the NCAA record book were his 8,148 passing yards over two seasons and the 338 passes he completed in 1985.The crowning performance of Bosco's career came in 1984 at Holiday Bowl VII; the game featured a gimp-legged Bosco, a fuming Michigan Coach Bo Schembechler, and two BYU fourth-quarter touchdown drives that staked the Cougars' claim to the national championship. After the first non-New Year's Day bowl game ever to determine the nation's number one team, the Cougars were 13-0. And the 1984 season ended much as it began, with an aching Bosco lying flat on the airplane floor, just as he had on the flight home from Pittsburgh after BYU upset the then third-ranked Pitt Panthers, 20-14.No other season has been more chronicled than 1984, with Bosco trying to live up to the just-completed legends of All-Americans Steve Young and Gordon Hudson. In 1984 and 1985 Bosco emerged from the shadows and took his place among BYU gridiron greats; he was selected All-America by Associated Press, United Press International, The Football News, and The Sporting News during his junior and senior years. The 1984 WAC Player of the Year, Bosco finished third in the Heisman Trophy balloting in both 1984 and 1985.At least two of Bosco's 66 career touchdown passes are indelibly etched in the memory of every loyal Cougar fan - the 50-yarder to Adam Haysbert that beat Pitt and the 13-yarder to Kelly Smith with 1:23 remaining against Michigan - but there were numerous others to David Mills, Glen Kozlowski, Mark Bellini, and Lakei Heimuli.Bosco opened his senior season by guiding BYU to a 28-14 victory over Boston College in the annual Kickoff Classic. The Cougars went on to an unprecedented tenth consecutive WAC Championship and an 11-3 record; the three losses during Robbie Bosco's starting career (UCLA, UTEP, and Ohio State) were by a total of 13 points.Green Bay's third-round draft pick, Bosco played two years for the Packers before his NFL career was shortened by a shoulder injury. He served as the BYU quarterback coach from 1990-2003 and served as the varsity club director and the interim head coach for the women’s golf team.Among BYU's great quarterbacks, Robbie Bosco will always be remembered as the one who brought the national championship home to Provo.

Guest Bio:Fighting was a practiced routine for Lieutenant Ivan Castro. But when a mortar round struck the rooftop of his sniper’s post in Iraq, he found himself in a battle more difficult than even he could have imagined. The direct hit killed two other soldiers and nearly claimed Castro’s life as well. Mangled by shrapnel and badly burned, Castro was medevac’d to Germany more dead than alive. His lungs were collapsed. He couldn’t hear. One eye had been blown out, the nerve to the other severed.In the weeks and months that followed, Castro would find that physical darkness was nothing compared to the emotional darkness of loss and despair. Desperate for a reason to live, he eventually fought his way back to health through exercise and a single-minded goal: running a marathon. Once he set his course, there was no stopping him. Stubborn to a point that at times bordered on insanity, he managed not only to recover but to return to active duty. Since 2007, he has run over two dozen marathons, including the Boston Marathon in 2013, where he was one of the runners diverted when the bombs exploded.Today, Castro helps prepare soldiers for combat, working exactly as if he were “sighted.” Fighting Blind, this frankly told account of his struggle through adversity, the highs and lows and the always bumpy road in between, is a story of hope and perseverance against the odds: an Unbroken for the present generation.