

Small Steps Big Wins©
Sue Saller
Welcome to the Small Step BIG Wins podcast where I’m dedicated to helping you take control of your life. Each week, embark on a personal journey found nowhere else and be inspired by guests that will challenge your thinking and expand your knowledge. Becoming the hero of your story takes time, commitment, and determination. Small Steps do lead to BIG Wins when you pair your desire for transformation with people who know how to get you there.
Are you ready to change your life? Let’s go do this!
Are you ready to change your life? Let’s go do this!
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Jun 4, 2023 • 1h 7min
E 31 | Roman Tomkiv - W-2 to Small Business Owner: Stay Patient and Stay Focused
This week’s guest is Roman Tomkiv. Born in the Ukraine and came to the US at 15, Roman went from corporate professional to small business owner in an industry that he is passionate about - Short Term Rental management. He desires to help professionals that want to leave their corporate jobs and pursue small business ownership in this field. He is also an IronMan athlete and find out how attending a Tony Robbin’s event changed his life. Listen to Roman’s inspiring story and journey from his youth to where he is today.
You can reach out to Roman on LinkedIn and Facebook.
If you want to watch the video, please check it out on Spotify or YouTube!
If you have enjoyed my podcast, please hit subscribe, and visit my website at www.suesaller.com. I would love to hear from you. And if you think you have a Small Steps, BIG WINS story to tell, you can also reach out to me on my website. You can find links to all the books mentioned on my podcasts at my bookstore. If you would like to support my podcast, please click here.
Have a great day and God bless!

May 28, 2023 • 45min
E 30 | Marty Nocchi - Holy Cow! From priest to personal coach
Welcome to the Small Steps Big Wins podcast and today’s guest is Marty Nocchi. Marty is a personal coach with decades of experience working with people through teaching, counseling, and coaching. With a background in operations, spirituality, philosophy, and theology, Marty understands the intricacies of the human condition and how it influences businesses and entrepreneurs. In his time working with young men and women, his mantra has been, “don’t settle”. He first had to live into those words himself, leaving it all behind in order to live authentically. His career has been dedicated to stabilizing organizations that lacked leadership, restructuring operations, re-organizing teams, developing culture, and strategic deployment of 7-figure budgets.
Join in on the conversation to find out what it was like to be a priest, why he left, and how coaching is a reflection of his authentic self.
You can reach out to Marty at https://aaronvelky.com/
If you want to watch the video, please check it out on Spotify!
If you have enjoyed my podcast, please hit subscribe, and visit my website at www.suesaller.com. I would love to hear from you. And if you think you have a Small Steps, BIG WINS story to tell, you can also reach out to me on my website. You can find links to all the books mentioned on my podcasts at my bookstore. If you would like to support my podcast, please click here.
Have a great day and God bless!

May 21, 2023 • 57min
E 29 | Diego Corzo - From DACA Recipient to Financially Free Real Estate Investor
Welcome to the Small Steps Big Wins podcast and I am so honored to have Diego Corzo on the show. Diego is a 32 year old DACA recipient from Lima, Peru, a Forbes-featured Entrepreneur and TEDx speaker from Austin, TX. Graduating from college in 2012, he went to work as a software developer, but soon discovered that he was destined for more and pursued a career in real estate. Diego is a realtor for Keller Williams and currently owns 64 rental properties. He leads a mastermind called FI Investors and his desire is to help others, especially millennials and Latinos, achieve financial success and freedom.
Listen to today’s episode to learn more about Diego and how his experiences and mindset shaped and determined his future. He also gets into goal setting and how it has helped him. What is great about Diego’s story is that he does not let circumstances or excuses get in his way. Be inspired to achieve your goals and dreams!
You can reach Diego at:
IG: @realdiegocorzo
FI Investors Website
Diego's website
If you have enjoyed my podcast, please hit subscribe, and visit my website at www.suesaller.com. I would love to hear from you. And if you think you have a Small Steps, BIG WINS story to tell, you can also reach out to me on my website. You can find links to all the books mentioned on my podcasts at my bookstore.If you would like to support my podcast, please click here.
Have a great day and God bless!

May 15, 2023 • 8min
E 28 | Josh Beauvais - What you need to take ACTION
Welcome to the Small Steps BIG Wins podcast where today’s Monday Morning Matters unpacks a small step mentioned in one of my interviews. So I’m going to challenge you to do something different today that could have a big win for you in the near future. Today’s special guest is Josh Beauvais. Josh spent 17 years in corporate America in the commercial banking industry as a Chief Credit Officer until 2022. In the midst of an unexpected but timely change, he bought a landscaping business and started a self storage investment company.
In this episode, we talked about stops us from taking action and some things we can do to help us take action. So to recap for today…remember take action over thinking, build your confidence by taking action, and don’t figure out every step from start to finish. Trust yourself and just get started! So what is that one thing you are going to take action on this week? Let me know by going to my website, clicking on the Let’s connect button and send me an email.
I want to thank you for listening to my podcast. I value your time with me because I realize you could be listening to someone else right now. If you got any value or think someone else can benefit from what you heard, please spread the word, hit subscribe, and check out my website at www.suesaller.com
Please drop me an email and let me know what your big win was for the week. I would love to hear from you. Remember life doesn’t get better by chance, it gets better by choice. Take small steps and make today awesome, friends.
God bless.

May 14, 2023 • 56min
E 27 | Josh Beauvais - W-2 to Entrepreneur - Overcoming Addiction & Limiting Beliefs to find My Authentic Self
Welcome to the Small Steps Big Wins podcast and today’s special guest is Josh Beauvais. Josh spent 17 years in corporate america in the commercial banking industry as a Chief Credit Officer until 2022. In the midst of an unexpected but timely change, he bought a landscaping business and started a self storage investment company. Our conversation takes us through Josh’s experiences where limiting beliefs were set up when he was a teenager to the circumstances around his departure as a W-2 employee and well as some great conversation inbetween so make sure you listen to the end to get a complete picture.
In this episode, we unpack:
The importance of who you surround yourself with
The limiting beliefs that we have impressed upon us when we are younger and what impact they have on us
How Josh pivoted from his W-2 to the landscaping business
The unexpected life consequences of working for a corporation that he didn’t realize until after he left
The unexpected good consequences of acquiring his business
How becoming an entrepreneur has changed him and his family
If you want to reach out to Josh, you can email him here:
Josh@investwithelevation.com
I hope you enjoyed this episode of my podcast. If you liked listening to Josh’s story, then check out the episode right after this one to hear what small steps Josh suggests you can take to change your tomorrow. And as always, I would love to hear from you. Feel free to reach out if you have any comments or suggestions. If you have enjoyed my podcast, please hit subscribe, and visit my website at www.suesaller.com. And if you think you have a small steps, big wins story to tell, you can also reach out to me on my website. You can find links to all the books mentioned on my podcasts at my bookstore. If you would like to support my podcast, please click here.Remember life doesn’t get better by chance, it gets better by choice. Take small steps and make today awesome, friends.
Have a great day and God bless!

May 8, 2023 • 9min
E 26 | Torre Samonek: 7 practical things you can do today to change your tomorrow
Welcome to another episode of the Small Steps, BIG WINS podcast. I am so glad that you decided to spend your time with me today. In today’s Monday Mornings Matter, we drop into a conversation that I had with Torre Samonek. If you missed his story, please go back and listen because I think you will be inspired.
In the following episode, we identified 7 things that you can do today:
If you are doing a job that you don’t like, take action and do something it to change it. This makes me think of the Steve Job’s quote that says, “ If today was the last day of my life, would I be happy with what I am about to do today? If not too many times, change it!”
Learn to critique yourself, but not in a harmful way. Don’t beat yourself up but look for those negative qualities that you can turn into positives.
Make a decision and then act on it. That’s self explanatory but if you are not taking action, then ask yourself why?
Look for opportunities and be open to what is in your path; shift your mindset.
Fail fast - learn to see failure an opportunity to learn and grow and become better. The story goes that Edision failed 1000 times before he discovered the light bulb. I think we can all agree that we’re glad he didn’t give up!
Torre talked about to deal with imposter syndrome
Realize it’s OK to be wrong.
I hope you enjoyed this episode of Monday Mornings Matter. If you want to hear more of Torre’s story, please check out the episode right before this one. If you got any value or think someone else can benefit from what you heard, please spread the word, hit subscribe, and check out my website at www.suesaller.com. Feel free to drop a comment or leave a review. I would love to hear what small steps you took this week.
Remember life doesn’t get better by chance, it gets better by choice. Take small steps and make today awesome, friends.
God bless.

May 7, 2023 • 47min
E 25 | Torre Samonek: Incarceration to Real Estate Investor with Purpose
Welcome to the Small Steps Big Wins podcast and today's special guest is Torre Samonek. Torre's story will inspire you as he shares how he refused to let his challenging childhood completely wreck his life. Torre leverages his years of construction skills by currently working as a software engineer for a construction scheduling company. He is also a real estate investor and Director at Hammock Sober Living Homes in the Bay Area out in San Francisco. He is also a member of Gobundance Emerge and lives in Vallejo, CA.
Join Torre's story as he chronicles his life from incarceration, to construction, to real estate investor. In this episode, we uncover:
His challenges with running a sober living facility
How he got into real estate investing
What habits keep him focused
His thoughts on limiting beliefs
What he would tell his younger self
What Torre's 3 year vision is - it will inspire you and blow your mind!
@tmoney_realestate_investor
If you want to watch the video, please check it out on Spotify!
If you have enjoyed my podcast, please hit subscribe, and visit my website at www.suesaller.com. I would love to hear from you. And if you think you have a Small Steps, BIG WINS story to tell, you can also reach out to me on my website. You can find links to all the books mentioned on my podcasts at my bookstore. If you would like to support my podcast, please click here.
If you want to learn more about Gobundance Emerge, you can find out more here.
Have a great day and God bless!

May 1, 2023 • 11min
E 24 | Kyle Wakeman and Randy Meyers - The IDEAL Skills you need TODAY to change tomorrow
Welcome to the Small Steps BIG Wins podcast where today’s Monday Mornings Matter unpacks the things you can do to start taking action today to change your tomorrow.
In Episode #23, I talked with Kyle Wakeman and Randy Myers. They started the IDEAL podcast and have a coaching program around these IDEAL skills. Their IDEAL skills stand for intentional, discipline, emotional intelligence, accountability, and loyalty. Today we are going to listen to their words of advice that were not released with the original podcast.
Kyle and Randy shared what you can do today to make changes in your life.
Changes don’t have to be big and something is better than nothing.
To recap the big takeaways from today:
Be intentional about one area in your life that you want to change
Surround yourself with people you want to be like
Take action now, don’t wait
If you have enjoyed my podcast, please hit subscribe, and visit my website at www.suesaller.com. I would love to hear from you. And if you think you have a small steps, big wins story to tell, you can also reach out to me on my website. You can find links to all the books mentioned on my podcasts at my bookstore. If you would like to support my podcast, please click here.
Have a great day and God bless!

Apr 30, 2023 • 48min
E 23 | Kyle Wakeman and Randy Myers - The IDEAL Skills: Why you need to have them!!
Welcome to the Small Steps Big Wins podcast. In this episode I interview Kyle Wakeman and Randy Myers. Kyle is a former member of the Ohio Army National Guard, an experienced corporate leader, a real estate investor and now an entrepreneur. Randy has been an educator and coach for 13 years and has a Master’s in Educational Leadership. They have started a coaching program and podcast round what they call the IDEAL skills.The IDEAL skills can be applied in small steps to influence big changes in life. Randy and I are both living examples of this and we believe living a more IDEAL life can have a long lasting positive impact on society.
IDEAL stands for:
Intentional
Discipline
Emotional Intelligence
Accountability
Loyalty
Kyle and Randy talk about their life experiences that led them to the IDEAL podcast and coaching as well as what each of those components stand for. If you enjoy what you hear today, check out episode 25 - Monday Mornings Matter - where they talk about the small steps that you can take today change your tomorrow.
You can find the IDEAL podcast on Instagram and Facebook. You can also reach out to Kyle on LinkedIn.
If you have enjoyed my podcast, please hit subscribe, and visit my website at www.suesaller.com. I would love to hear from you. And if you think you have a small steps, big wins story to tell, you can also reach out to me on my website. You can find links to all the books mentioned on my podcasts at my bookstore. If you would like to support my podcast, please click here.
Have a great day and God bless!

Apr 24, 2023 • 14min
E 22 | Dr. David Powers - How to face Fear and manage anxiety under pressure
Welcome to the Small Steps Big Wins podcast and I am so happy to have back on the show, Dr. David Powers. Dave is a founding member of the US Dept. of Homeland Security, a decorated US Marine Corps and US Army veteran. He is a distinguished member and diplomate of the American Academy of experts in Traumatic Stress and a board certified expert in traumatic stress and emergency crisis response.
Today's episode of Monday Mornings Matter, Dave talks about how to face challenges and fears and discusses what actually happens in the body when we encounter a situation when we want to either fight or flight. In this episode, we talk about:
What happens to the body when we have fear
Realizing that we cannot suppress fear but we can control it
What changes happen in the body when we go into fight or flight mode
Tips on controlling fight or flight
Answer the question of "can we eliminate fear
You can watch the video by subscribing to Spotify!!
Dave can be reached at all social media channels found on www.BeARuggedDad.com.
You can also get a copy of Dave’s free e-book Be Smart, Be Safe, Stay Alive. Go to www.RuggedDadLives.com to get that downloaded to your email.
If you have enjoyed my podcast, please hit subscribe, and visit my website at www.suesaller.com. I would love to hear from you. And if you think you have a small steps, big wins story to tell, you can also reach out to me on my website. You can find links to all the books mentioned on my podcasts at my bookstore. Have a great day and God bless!