INspired INsider Podcast

Alex Glenn is the Founder of PartnerPrograms.io, a Marketplace as a Service for vetted partner programs and top digital agencies. He is also the Founder and CEO of Partnerhub, a unique new marketplace and partner management solution built for digital agencies to find, vet, manage, and enable their partners. Before starting these businesses, Alex was a digital marketing agency operator and an advisor for various companies including Founder Institute and Rainmakers. He is also the Host of Make Them Famous, the partner enablement podcast. In this episode… Are you an agency owner or SaaS company looking to grow through strategic partnerships but not sure how to set it up? Hiring a partner manager right out of the gate will be the first wrong move to make, and the second bad move will be joining random communities and consuming content without getting real value.  So what should you be doing to maximize partnerships for long-term collaborations? Look inwards at your client data. Find out who your clients are working with or the tools they use to get work done. Determine how best to give, and have a strategy that works for both parties. Want to learn more?  Listen to this episode of the Inspired Insider Podcast with Dr. Jeremy Weisz featuring the Founder and CEO of Partnerhub and PartnerPrograms.io, Alex Glenn. They discuss launching a successful partnership program from scratch, finding willing strategic partners, the best ways to give value, partnership best practices, and lots more!

Peter Cunningham is the Founder and CEO of Evolve Healthcare Marketing, a Chicago-based, data-driven healthcare marketing agency specializing in helping medical practices and healthcare enterprises grow profitably in highly competitive markets throughout the US.  Before founding Evolve Healthcare Marketing, Peter founded and exited a public relations firm, built a real estate investment firm specializing in affordable housing in Chicago, and worked in private equity.  He's also the Publisher of the American Healthcare Journal, an authoritative, digital-first, and editorially-independent publication for the latest insights, news, and analysis in healthcare. In this episode… If you're looking to expand your medical practice, you need to consider some core challenges. The first is the location and size of your competition. Is the competition a dominant health system where referrals are kept within the organization? When you figure that out, the next step is how positioned are you to attract patients online? Do you know your buyer's journey?  Today's guest, Peter Cunningham of Evolve Healthcare Marketing, has built an engine that addresses these challenges for a client to expand from nine to 60 locations with increasing patient inflow. What is this engine he's created, and how did he help his clients overcome the difficulties of expansion?  Listen to this episode of the Inspired Insider Podcast with Dr. Jeremy Weisz featuring Peter Cunningham, Founder and CEO of Evolve Healthcare Marketing. They discuss the current changes in healthcare marketing, the medical service buyer's journey, challenges to consider when expanding your practice locations, how to overcome them, and lots more. 

Jason Smith is the Owner and CEO of Spotlight Social Advertising, a company that specializes in helping businesses grow and scale with Facebook and Instagram ads. He is also the Host of The Truth About Social Ads, where he interviews guests from all corners of the digital marketing landscape.  Before founding his company in 2016, Jason spent 14 years in uniform with the LAPD and later started a side gig helping people with their online traffic, advertising, and Facebook ads, which became his core business. He then left the police department permanently to focus on Spotlight Social Advertising. In this episode… Whiskers away from getting killed, benched for doing his job, fighting gang violence, and at the verge of losing all he has worked hard for in the last 14 years, Jason Smith discovered the power of Facebook ads. He went from earning $4,000 a month and getting shot at while working for the LAPD to $10,000 a month running social media ads for clients. Multiple clients later, Jason now earns way more than that — and loves his job. So what changed for Jason? How did he get so good at Facebook advertising? What’s his process for helping clients get 3x back in revenue? There's so much to unpack, and Jason’s here to share all.  Listen to this episode of the Inspired Insider Podcast with Dr. Jeremy Weisz, featuring former LAPD Officer and now Owner and CEO of Spotlight Social Advertising, Jason Smith. They discuss mistakes people make with Facebook Ads, how the IOS update impacts your social media marketing, Pinterest advertising and who should be using it, and lots more! 

David Oates is the Principal at PR Security Service and has more than 25 years of strategic public relations and crisis communications experience. David started his career as a US Navy Public Affairs Officer before moving into leadership roles at ContentOne, Financial Profiles, Inc., and Stalwart Communications. He has expertise in addressing various crises spanning from the military government, corporate, charity, and startup environments.  Bill Byrne is the Co-founder and Director of Remedy Public Relations, where he oversees and helps execute public relations, social media, and marketing programs for clients. He has been in the public relations field for 25 years and has worked on campaigns for Intel, Burton Snowboards, Sony, Procter & Gamble, and emerging brands in tech, healthcare, finance, and even craft beer. In this episode… You're often in the public eye as a business owner, which comes with many responsibilities. In this day and age, when one misstep can bring down your business, how do you promote your company as an underdog in a competitive environment?  Unfortunately, many business owners focus too much on the campaign side of PR while forgetting to handle their image and devise a plan for crisis management. How do you manage your public image safely and stay ahead of the narrative if — and when — a crisis occurs? Listen to this episode of the Inspired Insider Podcast with Dr. Jeremy Weisz featuring the Principal at PR Security Service, David Oates, and Bill Byrne, Co-founder and Director of Remedy PR. They discuss staying on top of your public image, winning PR battles as an underdog, how to handle your public image in a crisis, and lots more.

Ian Garlic is the Founder of Garlic Marketing, the brand behind Video Case Story, where they help brands with the strategy and goals for video case stories. Ian is also the Founder of StoryCrews, a company that helps businesses connect with top-rated videographers and market and expand their brand through powerful stories captured on video. He also runs and hosts his podcast, the Garlic Marketing Show, and has featured amazing guests such as Gary Vaynerchuk, Neil Patel, Ryan Deiss, and many more. In this episode… If you were to rank your ability to set and achieve your goals on a scale of one to 10, what number would you score yourself? If you didn’t score as high as you would like, what do you think are the roadblocks stopping you?  As simple as goal setting may seem, we are often disappointed because we forget that it’s not all about the goals we set — it’s about our plan to achieve them. Sometimes we even make the mistake of taking other people’s goals and making them ours, and then we get frustrated when we don’t achieve them. How can you better set and achieve your goals?  Listen to this episode of the Inspired Insider Podcast with Dr. Jeremy Weisz featuring Ian Garlic, Founder of Video Case Story. They discuss goals setting, the importance of self-awareness, why small goals matter, achievement and process goals, as well as roadblocks to expect. Stay tuned!

Aaron Walker is the Founder of View from the Top, where he offers professional life and business coaching services. He also moderates and facilitates twenty weekly mastermind groups, including Iron Sharpens Iron. Aaron coaches both existing entrepreneurs and those aspiring to become successful entrepreneurs to grow their success and significance. Aaron has been an entrepreneur for the past 42 years. He built eight successful businesses, including Broadway Pawn Shop, which he started when he was 18 years old and later sold to a Fortune 500 company for seven figures. He also created and ran American Diamond Exchange, a multimillion-dollar construction company, among many others. In this episode… What are you grateful for? We’ve all been asked that question at some point, and we often come up with a list of things we are thankful for, which is excellent. But what if we could do more than just say it? What if we could show someone else how grateful we are through random acts of kindness?  Anyone can take part in random acts of kindness — because you don’t need to have a ton of money to start a cycle of gratitude and generosity. Sadly, not many people remember to do it, and when they do, they are not sure how best to go about it. But don’t worry, this episode has you covered.  Listen to this episode of the Inspired Insider Podcast with Dr. Jeremy Weisz featuring Aaron Walker, the Founder of View from the Top. They discuss why Black Friday means Gratitude Day for Aaron and his grandkids, why it matters, and how you too can start doing random acts of kindness.

Verne Harnish is the Founder of the world-renowned Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO), an establishment with over 16,000 members worldwide. Verne has been chairing EO's premiere CEO program held at MIT for 15 years and counting. He's also the Founder and CEO of Scaling Up, a global executive education and coaching company with over 200 partners in six continents. Verne has spent the past four decades helping companies scale.  He is the author of multiple books, including the best-seller, Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, The Greatest Business Decisions of All Time, Scaling Up, and his latest book, Scaling Up Compensation: 5 Design Principles for Turning Your Largest Expense Into a Strategic Advantage. In this episode… With brands taking new routes in their compensation plans and workers wanting to get the most value for their work, your compensation scheme can become a strategic advantage when done right. Unfortunately, many business leaders wrongly set up their compensation plans, so their most considerable expense has become a downer. How then do you craft a fair compensation plan that attracts and motivates the right people for your company? What do you do about compensating management staff fairly when their contributions are hard to measure, especially for a service business where people ‘eat what they kill?’  Listen to this episode of the Inspired Insider Podcast with Dr. Jeremy Weisz featuring the Owner of Scaling Up, Verne Harnish. They discuss why compensation is top of mind for businesses today, mistakes leaders make when setting up compensation plans — and what to do about it, the best ways to structure compensation, and more!  

Dr. Jeremy Weisz is the Co-founder of Rise25. He has been involved in podcasting for 11 years and was a Senior Producer for one of the early business podcasts; he assisted in putting all of their systems in place and helped them add volume, feature, and edify various business leaders. Dr. Weisz has also been running his podcast, Inspired Insider, since 2011. He has featured top entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs of P90X, Atari, Einstein Bagels, Mattel, the Orlando Magic, and many more. In addition to running Rise25, Dr. Weisz owns a nutritional supplement business and runs his chiropractic and massage facility, Chiropractical Solutions & Massage. John Corcoran is a recovering attorney, an author, and was a former White House writer and speechwriter to the Governor of California. Throughout his career, John has worked in Hollywood, the heart of Silicon Valley, and has run his boutique law firm in the San Francisco Bay Area catering to small business owners and entrepreneurs. John has been the Host of the Smart Business Revolution Podcast since 2012. He has interviewed hundreds of CEOs, founders, authors, and entrepreneurs, from Peter Diamandis and Adam Grant to Gary Vaynerchuk and Marie Forleo. John is also the Co-founder of Rise25 Media, a company that connects B2B businesses with their ideal clients, referral partners, and strategic partners and generates ROI through their done-for-you podcast service. In this episode… If you already have meetings with your referral partners, potential clients, and other people you admire on your schedule, then that’s all the time you need for a podcast. But if you don’t have these people on your schedule already, a podcast is a great method to do so and get value from it. You gain and give value by having a podcast — from saving travel time, networking on a deeper level, fast-tracking your sales process, giving to your best relationships, and more. Having a podcast is the smart way to create value if you’ve been trying to achieve all this. So how do you begin?  Listen to this episode of the Inspired Insider Podcast with Dr. Jeremy Weisz, featuring Co-founder of Rise25 and the Host of the Smart Business Revolution Podcast, John Corcoran. Together they talk about saving networking and referral marketing time through podcasting, uncommon ways to give and get value from a podcast, and much more.

Ronald (Ron) Diamond is the Founder and CEO of Diamond Wealth, a boutique financial services firm catering to 100 single-family offices' unique needs ranging in size from $250 million to $30 billion.  At Diamond Wealth, Ron helps single-family offices navigate the entire spectrum of investments, including advice on investments in private equity, real estate, and venture capital. They have investment banking, private investment, environmental and social governance, and philanthropy divisions.  Ron is also the Chair of TIGER 21 in Chicago. TIGER 21 is the premier peer-to-peer learning network for high-net-worth individuals. In this episode… As the world changes around you and people search for opportunity, it’s vital to focus on one question: what is your north star? While you think about it, remember you’re a business owner creating wealth — what comes after that big exit?  This episode is packed with insight about being the go-giver, providing value, and getting it back as wealth. But wealth and succession planning are not nearly talked about enough. Our guest, Ron Diamond, peels back the layers of wealth growth and transfer, but beyond all that, he wants you to do it from your north star.  Listen to this episode of the Inspired Insider Podcast with Dr. Jeremy Weisz featuring the Founder and CEO of Diamond Wealth, Ron Diamond. They discuss the fragmentation in family offices and how Ron is trying to solve it, why wealth transfer is declining, the foundation for wealth growth and transfer, and what your north star has to do with all of it. Stay tuned.

Ed O’Keefe is the Co-founder of Consulting For Equity, where he teaches Roland Frasier’s CFE™ method that generated 20,000 new customers through a 5 Day Challenge. Ed is also the Author of the book Time Collapsing! The New Art of Speed, Money, Power, and Meaning. He has used his time collapsing methods to leap to the top of industries. He has started multiple companies from scratch and built them up to seven and even eight figures. In the dentistry field, Ed sold over $50,000,000 in marketing systems and seminars. He started Marine Essentials and has sold over $60,000,000 in health supplements. On top of having seven kids and running his businesses, Ed is a graduate of Kokoro 40, the 51-hour mini hell week challenge created by Commander Mark Divine. In this episode… How do you push yourself to do what scares you? Many people stop themselves from doing physical challenges by thinking that others who have achieved these feats do not feel the same pain.  The episode is about pushing yourself mentally and physically and having others help drive you towards your goals. Ed O’Keefe has been through it. He was a graduate of Kokoro 40, a 51-hour mini hell week created by Commander Mark Divine. If you want to successfully take on a physical feat or challenge, this episode is for you!  Listen to this episode of the Inspired Insider Podcast with Dr. Jeremy Weisz featuring the Co-founder of Consulting For Equity, Ed O’Keefe. Ed challenges Jeremy to do a Murph, and they discuss how people stop themselves from taking on physical challenges, the importance of remaining positive and present, and how to do what scares you to death. Stay tuned.