
The Results Engine Podcast
From a thriving Software Engineering career, yet struggling with anxiety and panic, to leaving it all and building a successful High-Performance Coaching and Consulting company. My name is Mike Szczesniak, and I’m a life-long student of high performance, productivity, and entrepreneurship. On this show, we connect with the world’s top performers and share the tactics that can help you get next-level results in life and business.
Latest episodes

Sep 26, 2022 • 43min
TRE 239 - Stefan Georgi - Get Uncommon Results
Stefan Georgi first discovered the world of copywriting in 2011 after a chance encounter at a Las Vegas poker table. Since then, he's sold over $1BN worth of products online through his words. He's written for online businesses, including VShred and Golden Hippo, and helped capture the voice of folks like Sir Nick Faldo, Mike Tyson, Tommy Chong, Dr. Steven Gundry, Tony Horton, Jim Kwik, and Dr. Claudia Aguirre through his writing. In addition to writing copy for clients, Stefan is an entrepreneur who has founded or cofounded 9 different businesses that have scaled to at least 7 figures - with several of those businesses reaching the 8 or 9-figure mark. In this episode, Stefan talks about writing sales letters, advertising his services, getting paid through Upwork, and now having his coaching business. He also talks about creating the four steps in writing a copy and how copywriting changed his life to have different companies. This episode is for you if you're a copywriter and want to level up your skills!

Sep 19, 2022 • 46min
TRE 238 - Kate Perkovic - From Server To CEO
Kate started as a server with a dream. She saw other entrepreneurs making a life for themselves online and knew that was the life she wanted. Initially, she started a fitness coaching business. She then transitioned into business coaching, where she was able to help entrepreneurs do this every day. In this episode, Kate Perkovic discusses some challenges she faced while building a seven-figure business.

Sep 12, 2022 • 57min
TRE 237 - Jessie Lee - Success Loves Speed
Jessie Lee is a heart-driven, culture-driven, women-focused, influencer-building multiple 7-figure annual earners, as verified by Network Marketing Pros’ Hall of Fame. She is currently the number one female network marketer in the world. She started in direct sales 10 years ago when she needed $300 extra monthly to pay rent. In 2015, Jessie Lee learned about network marketing through Facebook and moved to better her future and build a lasting legacy with residual income. In this episode, Jessie Lee reveals how she became a network marketing boss and what it takes to succeed. Jessie shares secrets about taking accountability, detaching from the outcome, and trading your expectations for appreciation which she learned from Tony Robbins.

Sep 5, 2022 • 41min
TRE 236 - David Priemer - Cerebral Selling
Today, as the Founder and Chief Sales Scientist of Cerebral Selling, David's unique science and empathy-based approaches to driving revenue and talent growth have been published in the Harvard Business Review as well as Forbes, Entrepreneur, and Inc. magazines. Often referred to as the "Sales Professor," David is also the author of the Bestselling book, Sell The Way You Buy and an Adjunct Lecturer at the Smith School of Business at Queen's University and the London Business School. In this episode, Mike interviews the "Sales Professor," David Priemer. David started his career as a research scientist over 20 years ago and got into sales at the turn of the .com boom. As he realized all the problems and psychology behind sales, he fell in love with it. He loves teaching the art and science of modern selling and trying to share everything he learned, which is what he does through his practice of cerebral selling.

Aug 29, 2022 • 41min
TRE 235 - Nick Gray - The 2-Hour Cocktail Party
Nick Gray is an entrepreneur and author living in Austin, Texas. He started and sold two successful companies: Flight Display Systems and Museum Hack. Nick is the author of The 2-Hour Cocktail Party, a step-by-step handbook that teaches you how to build significant relationships by hosting small gatherings. He is featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and New York Magazine, which called him a host of "culturally significant parties." After finishing college, Nick was working and living with his parents and realized he didn't have much social life and wanted to turn things around. He moved to New York, where he started working on the idea of creating events everyone would want to attend and how to become that magical person who hosts incredible parties and connects fantastic people. That's how The 2-Hour Cocktail Party was born. Find out more about the 2-hour cocktail party and why you need to be a host of unforgettable events. For people that do solar, for all that stuff that sells those things. You can do it all for under $100. It would be best if you hosted a party for your potential and past customers.

Aug 22, 2022 • 38min
TRE 234 - Sarah Saffari - From Gym Owner To Digital Nomad Business Coach
Sarah Saffari is a fitness entrepreneur, business coach, writer, and Health Scientist. Following her success with clients, Sarah co-founded CEOwned in 2019, a consultancy whose mission is to help Fitness Entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses using the framework she used to grow and scale her own. She uses neuroscience principles to remove mental barriers and increase business results for her students and clients in her easy-to-understand and compassionate style. Her techniques can be applied to any individual, regardless of their background. This episode explains how Sarah developed and co-founded a successful business in the fitness industry and how she balances her business with her digital nomad lifestyle.

Aug 15, 2022 • 51min
TRE 233 - Roland Frasier - Build A Business That Can Be Sold
Roland Frasier is an investor and business strategist with over 1,000 acquisitions and exits completed for himself and his clients. His current portfolio includes real estate, restaurants, business, home services, events, eLearning, e-commerce, franchise, and SaaS businesses. He has been a principal of 6 different Inc. fastest growing companies and serves on the Stanford University Advisory Board for Global Projects and their Family Office Steering Committee. Roland Frasier thinks about business from an equity and acquisition standpoint and shares how thinking outside the box can bring success and fulfillment in the business world. In this episode, Roland talks about helping companies grow, get bigger, and exit. Whether it's growth by acquisition or development by more traditional means, all that stuff is fair game. He also mentioned that you need to identify your acquisition criteria to do a transaction or deal before you go in. Because if you don't know that, you'll end up in many things that aren't what you want. This episode is for you if you are interested in business, buying, and selling businesses.

Aug 8, 2022 • 60min
TRE 232 - Lux Narayan - The Obituary Guy
Lux is the CEO and a co-founder at StreamAlive, a category-defining, fun, and engaging web application that helps lifestreams and live events on Zoom, YouTube Live, and everything in between come alive. StreamAlive's goal is to help presenters and creators take their audiences from bored-away to blown-away. Lux is a perpetual learner of "stuff' who enjoys reading obituaries and has given a talk on the TED main stage - on lessons from 2000 obituaries. Lux may have grown up in a traditional Indian family, but curiosity led him down the entrepreneurial path and helped him establish several businesses. From co-founding a data backup software company with a friend. To realize there was a niche in social media content, building a benchmarking platform, writing a book, giving a Ted talk, and ultimately revolutionizing live streams. In this episode, Luz talks about the advantages of being observant and the joy of creating a start-up company, sharing it with people, receiving feedback, developing the product, and making people's lives easier through the company he built and the apps he created.

Aug 1, 2022 • 47min
TRE 231 - Matthew Gallagher - From Tech Support To Watch Mogul
Matthew Gallagher is Los Angeles-based entrepreneur with a history in computer engineering and digital advertising. As the founder and CEO of Watch Gang, Matthew oversees the day-to-day business operations of the world's largest watch club, leading the business to $300m in sales. Matthew's childhood in poverty made him passionate about helping others and led him to become a committed philanthropist. In this episode, Matthew explains how his early fascination with computers led him to become an engineer and successful e-commerce entrepreneur.

Jul 25, 2022 • 1h
TRE 230 - Colin O'Brady - The 12-Hour Walk
Colin O'Brady is a 10-time world record-breaking explorer and one of the world's best endurance athletes. He isn't your typical adventurer despite his unmatched athletic accomplishments, including a world-first solo crossing of Antarctica, a world-first ocean row across the Drake Passage (from South America to Antarctica), and summiting Mt. Everest twice. Colin is an expert on mindset, a highly sought-after keynote speaker, and a New York Times bestselling author. And he's done it all after overcoming a devastating accident - that nearly left him unable to walk - to prove that anything is possible. In this episode, Colin shares his anything but familiar story. From growing up in Portland, Oregon, and loving nature, to earning an economics degree at Yale, to following his gut and taking a trip rather than taking a high-paying job on Wall Street after graduation. His journey was turned around by an accident he suffered in Thailand. He learned he wouldn't be able to walk again. Still, with the unconditional love from his mother and a "possible mindset," he managed to recover and later won the Chicago triathlon, setting him on his path of pushing his limits while creating an impact on others.