Above & Beyond: Where Excellence Meets Elevation

About Above & Beyond: Where Excellence Meets Elevation

Above & Beyond: Where Excellence Meets Elevation is a podcast that dives deep into the stories of business owners, community leaders, and aspiring entrepreneurs who are striving to make an extraordinary impact. Each episode explores their roots, motivations, and defining moments to inspire listeners on their own journey to excellence.

Publisher

Jan Simon

Category

business · business · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

8 May 2025

Latest episode

8 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

70 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   8 Oct 2026

   You're the Guest of Honor of Your Own Life | Terence Leclere

   Send us Fan Mail Brands like Netflix, HBO and Peacock spend millions building sets for live events, and then leave the most important part to chance: the people. Terence Leclere is an immersive actor, TEDx speaker and founder of Metaforyou, the experiential consultancy behind guest interactions at activations including the Saturday Night Live 50th anniversary experience and Peacock and Blumhouse's Overnightmare at The Stanley Hotel. He arrived in New York from France at nine years old, a "lit...

2. 

   2 Oct 2026

   Why Disagreement Makes You a Better Leader | Elaine Kessler

   Send us Fan Mail 36 postal addresses. Three continents. One Army scholarship lost in a single week. Elaine Kessler is the Director of Foundation and Community Impact at the Gilbert Chamber of Commerce, president of Gilbert Sister Cities, a Flinn-Brown Fellow and Gilbert's 2019 Businesswoman of the Year. She is also a photographer, educator and speaker whose message is simple: the tension you avoid is often where the growth is. In this episode, Elaine shares how a childhood between...

3. 

   24 Sept 2026

   Fired, He Sold It All and Bet on Himself | Charles Shepherd

   Send us Fan Mail Fired on a phone call in a parking lot, Charles Shepherd went home to a rented room and decided to sell everything he owned and bet on himself. Three years later, his company, Alpha Appliance Repair, holds an A+ with the Better Business Bureau and has won Best of the Desert Community Choice Awards in both the East and West Valley three years running. The last time it won, it beat the company that let him go. Getting there took 20 years of detours: he left high school as a sop...

Who has been a guest on Above & Beyond: Where Excellence Meets Elevation

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Jeff Breid
• Rob Rodriguez
• C Andrew John
• Bob Flecken
• Leticia Barwick

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

133

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

7 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 54 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

70

Social presence

0

YouTube

64

Engagement

32