Elevating Beyond with Mark Minard

About Elevating Beyond with Mark Minard

Millions of downloads and counting, Elevating Beyond, is all about sharing the unbelievable story behind the story of what it takes to overcome adversity, and achieve insurmountable levels of significant success in all areas of life! Entrepreneur, Founder, and Active CEO of Dreamshine Since 2007, #1 Best Selling Author, World-Wide Speaker, Mark Minard, Hosts a New Style of Podcast with a 2 word mission statement: CHANGE LIVES. Elevating Beyond is about sharing the real life story behind the story of overcoming adversity, to achieve massive levels of significant success! Our guests include a variety of massively significantly successful people such as: Eric Thomas, "etthehiphoppreacher," The World's #1 Motivational Speaker, Michael Levine (one of Hollywood's most prominent P.R. figures, representing a record-setting 58 Academy Award winners, 34 Grammy Award winners, and 41 New York Times best-sellers,) Former NFL Linebacker, and Current Leadership Expert, Dr Jason Carthen, Breaking Bad's Walter White Jr, Rj Mitte, NY Times Best Selling Author, Dan Miller, Billion Dollar Deal Maker & Best Selling Author, Dan Waldschmitdt, X-Con to famous actor, Dave Vescio, Social Media Guru, Best Selling Author, Tim Fargo, The First and Only Blind Person To Summit Mt Everest, Erik Weihenmayer, Owner of 4Bidden Knowledge TV, Billy Carson and so many more people who are changing lives! Elevating Beyond is all about The Story Behind The Story Connect with Host Mark Minard, learn about our upcoming live events, mastermind, Check out our upcoming live events, and share your story behind the story for a chance to be a featured guest on Elevating Beyond http://markminard.net Who is this Mark Minard Guy!? Mark Minard He is the CEO, Owner & Founder of Dreamshine, which proudly serves individuals with developmental dissabilities since 2007. He's a world-wide speaker, Leadership Strategist, #1 best selling author of, The Story of YOU, Transforming Adversity Into Adventure, Taking You Dreams To The Next Level & Beyond; as well as; 16 Reasons Why Your Bussiness Sucks, How To Be Freakin Awesome at Every Level of Your Bussiness, Leadership, Profits, & Build Your Own Personal Dream Team! Hitting 4 million downloads and counting, Mark is the Host of the world famous Elevating Beyond Podcast, He's a husband and Father of 5 (so please don't come to him with the excuse that you don't have enough time to be awesome.) Mark's just an ordinary dude, with an extraordinary faith, believing all things are possible.

Publisher

Mark Minard

Category

business · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

11 Dec 2014

Latest episode

1 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

34 of 430 episodes have a transcript.

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   1 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   329. Empathetic Leadership: The Balance Between Kindness & Accountibility

   Host Mark Minard shares how empathetic leadership balances kindness with accountability, revealing the costly impact of retaining underperforming employees.

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   3 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   328. The Not-Yet Zone: How to Survive the Messy Middle of Life & Leadership with Dan Waldschmidt

   Host Mark Minard interviews author Dan Waldschmidt about navigating life's challenging "not yet zone" and finding resilience through adversity.

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   1 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   327. Eric Thomas: The Untold Story | I Left Home at 16, Now Mom Tells Her Side with @etthehiphoppreacher

   Mark Minard interviews Dr. Eric Thomas and his mother, Vanessa "ET Moms" Thomas, about his challenging departure from home at 16 and their journey toward reconciliation.

Inside a recent episode

329. Empathetic Leadership: The Balance Between Kindness & Accountibility

Published 1 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Teenagers work here at a fast food place. They're kind. They're respectful. We teach them leadership. And I mean, you go to a Chick-fil-A, they're nice. They're polite. It's one of the most profitable, I think, non-public franchises that's out there still to this day. They have a whole leadership program. They take kids. from high school, help put them even through college. They put them in these amazing leader, like incredible high level leadership classes to be working like at the drive through. And some could be like, well, that's too nice. That's too. But also they have on the flip side, the same thing like us, like they have a no gossip policy or like a no negative, like if you're negative and toxic, like they'll do the same thing. […]

Who has been a guest on Elevating Beyond with Mark Minard

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

• Dan Waldschmidt
• Eric Thomas
• Vanessa Thomas
• Wes Huff
• Billy Carson

Reach and audience

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

YouTube views

802,549,663

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

205 ratings

Spotify

2.7 / 5

7 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 88 / 100

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

Quality

82

Social presence

100

YouTube

93

Engagement

93

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Books guests

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