During each episode of the Built Unstoppable podcast, Justin Levy focuses on interviewing leaders from a variety of industries to discuss how they've achieved their positions in their career. The goal is to help you, the listener, learn practical and helpful tips for achieving your greatest potential, both personally and professionally. Every episode features a guest who shares their experiences, learnings, and unique talents in 45 minutes or less.
Diving Deeper into Cybersecurity and Disinformation Campaigns with the White House's First Female CIO
Theresa Payton is a nationally recognized expert on cybersecurity and she made history as the first female to serve as the White House Chief Information Officer, serving under President George W. Bush's administration. Theresa was named one of the “Top 25 Most Influential People in Security” by Security Magazine and is the author of Manipulated: Inside the Cyberwar to Hijack Elections and Distort the Truth. She is a frequent guest on major media outlets to provide her perspective on cybersecurity and privacy issues. In this episode we talk about her career path to holding her position at the White House, what a normal day there was like (hint: they were long!), examples of disinformation campaigns, and her work at her cybersecurity consulting firm using human-centric design solutions.
27 Sept 2020
What You Learn About Trauma When You Die for 15 Minutes with Josh Mantz
In April of 2007, while being deployed to Sadr City during Operation Iraqi Freedom, retired Army Major Josh Mantz and another member of his team were critically wounded by an enemy sniper attack. The high-caliber bullet severed Staff Sergeant Marlon Harper’s aorta, killing him, and then ricocheted into Josh’s upper right thigh, severing his femoral artery. Josh went on to “flatline” for 15 minutes before being revived by an expert medical team. After recovering at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and redeployed to Baghdad less than 5 months later to finish the deployment with his team. Following his return Josh would go on to become a nationally recognized expert in psychological trauma and moral injury.
This episode takes you minute-by-minute through Josh's experience while he explains what the body experiences during the various stages of trauma. Not only is it an incredible story but Josh provides a mini-lesson on what we can all learn about the psychology of trauma.
17 Sept 2020
Lessons About Becoming Unstoppable from a Former Navy SEAL
Alden is a former 3-time U.S. Navy SEAL Platoon Commander. After leaving the Navy, he became the co-founder and CEO of Perfect Fitness which he led to $90 million in sales in just three years, becoming ranked by INC Magazine in 2009 as being the fastest growing consumer products company with 12,000% growth over those 3 years. Alden is now a national speaker and an author helping people to understand how they can lead using the C.A.R.E. framework that he has developed. The two of us share a similar platform around becoming unstoppable and the lessons that you will learn during this episode are invaluable.
9 Sept 2020
Identifying Your Black Sheep Values with Brant Menswar
Brant Menswar, besides being one of the top motivational speakers in the country, an award-winning musician, and a podcast host, Brant is the author of the new book, Black Sheep: Unleash the Extraordinary, Awe-Inspiring, Undiscovered You. During this episode Brant talks about spending 263 straight days in the hospital with his oldest son, Theo, as he was battling a rare blood cancer. The story is in the book and is the reason he wrote Black Sheep. Theo recovered and the YouTube video that helped save his life made national news. Today, Theo studies graphic design and actually designed the Black Sheep logo. In the book, Brant helps you to explain why identifying your Black Sheep values are vital for your success and how to implement them in your life for maximum success.
You can find Brant online at: https://www.brantmenswar.com (https://www.brantmenswar.com/) and https://www.findyourblacksheep.com (https://www.findyourblacksheep.com/)
2 Sept 2020
Finding Your Consonance and Becoming Limitless with Laura Gassner Otting
Laura Gassner Otting (https://twitter.com/heylgo) discusses the importance of finding consonance in your life and what the 4 C's on consonance are. She is the author of the Washington Post bestselling book, “Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve Your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life (https://amzn.to/3gJupOw).” During this episode we discuss why purpose is such a hot topic right now, if people can still have an impact even if they work in the for-profit sector, and what advice do she has for listeners looking to achieve the goals that they have set out for themselves. You can follow Laura at @heylgo.
26 Aug 2020
AJ Leon on Pursuing Life on Your Terms
AJ Leon (@ajleon), Founder of Misfit, Inc, talks about how he went from going through the motions of life based on what society dictates to leaving a high-paying job and beginning to live life on his terms. AJ went from being on Wall St. to walking out the day he received a promotion letter. It was on that day, as AJ explains, that he began living life with purpose and intention. AJ walks through his story, where he is today, why he focuses on making memories, and the questions you should ask yourself about pursuing your life on YOUR terms.
19 Aug 2020
David Baeza on Building a Company in a Small Town and The Importance of Hard Work
During this episode I talk with David Baeza, founder and CEO of Buttered Toast, which is a marketing agency built for venture backed tech companies, by tech veterans. We talk about how he's building an agency based out of a small town in wine country that works with VC firms. David talks about shifting your mindset to do the work that others don't want to do such as driving 10 hours roundtrip in a single day for one meeting. We spend time talking about the importance of family and how he's teaching his daughters to be independent from a young age. There is so much more that you don't want to miss during this week's episode!
12 Aug 2020
Why We All Need to Develop Our Perfect Pitch and Perfect Calendar
Previous to attending the most selective MBA program in the country where Clay Hebert was one of only 9 people to learn directly from marketing expert Seth Godin for six months, he had led teams at Accenture, the world’s largest consulting firm, solving complex problems for global Fortune 500 companies. After the program with Seth Godin he went on to help over 2000 projects raise over $100 million total on crowdfunding platforms Kickstarter and Indiegogo.
Clay's work has been profiled in the books Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss, Entrepreneurial You by Dorie Clark and Deep Work by Cal Newport. Forbes called him “one of the next generations of business and media influencers” and he was recently named one of Entrepreneur Magazine's "50 Most Daring Entrepreneurs"...along with Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk.
In our discussion we talk about the key threads that he sees from the companies that he works with, ranging from startups to large Fortune 500 companies. We also talk about why you need to develop your perfect intro and how developing your perfect calendar will help you zoom out to see what really makes you happy and then take the steps necessary to achieve them.
29 Jul 2020
Understanding What Makes an Exceptional Leader
Scott Monty, who prior to becoming an executive consultant, was the former Head of Digital Communications at Ford Motor Company and has a knack for helping individuals understand current topics by looking back at history, provides his perspectives on what makes an exceptional leader. He manages to weave in creating journals for his kids, a story about a captain of a ship, a poem, and much more in this episode.
Note: The episode contains a few sections where the two of us step on each other. This wasn't the case when we sat down for the interview so hopefully you can move past it to the great insights that Scott provides!
15 Jul 2020
An Interview With the First Black Person in America to Have a Liquor License
Jackie Summers is an author, public speaker, the creator of Sorel Liqueur, and was the first black person in America to have a license to make liquor. We talked about what it takes to obtain a license to make liquor (hint: it's nearly impossible), diversity & inclusion, fitness, and what it's like to overcome a tumor that he was given only a 5% chance to make it through following his surgery.
8 Jul 2020
How One Woman Is Making a Global Impact
Jennifer Iannolo and I sat down to talk about the incredible work she’s doing to make an impact on bringing a voice to women entrepreneurs globally. Jennifer has a phenomenal story to tell and I had such a great time talking with her.
We talk about everything to her having the opportunity to fly around the world to taste delectable food, the founding of her incubator, taking inspiration from Jay-Z, why she felt that her world had come full circle when moved into her office at the new World Trade Center, and so much more.
Make sure you check out the work that she’s doing over at Imperia (https://imperia.global/), which is a global innovation incubator and leadership development program for women who are changing the world for better.
Note: My goal as far as timing goes is to keep the episodes to 30 minutes or less but this conversation was so good and I think it’ll be helpful to so many that we neared the 45 minute mark.
Follow Jennifer on:
Twitter (https://twitter.com/foodphilosophy)
Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/jenniferiannolo/)
30 Jun 2020
Key Leadership Insights from a Senior Executive at Patron Tequila
Adrian Parker, the Global VP of Marketing at Patron Tequila, provides key leadership insights from the course of his career and how these may be applicable to you. Join this great conversation about the differences between a leader and a manager, balancing home and family life, and what being a senior executive really means.
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24 Jun 2020
Learn Takeaways from 20+ Years of Ninjutsu Training
Christopher S. Penn has spent 20+ years training ninjutsu. Over those years he has learned how to approach life in a unique mentally, both in his day-to-day life as well as in his professional career. In this podcast Chris shares those learnings and how you can try implementing them in your life.
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