Episodes

After ten years with a nationally recognized financial planning practice, Wesley Pingelton had ambitions to go out on his own. In doing so, he got what he wanted: great success, creative freedom, and the opportunity to work with the right client. But with each complex case, a unique solution produced a massive amount of labor. In short time, he cringed at the thought of growing his business. You'll hear how he learned to construct a business model that's allowed him to scale his business, meet h...

Raised in the Soviet Union, Kristina Panchenko's view of life was conceived in an environment of hard work, scarce resources, and limited opportunities. Subsequently, her guiding philosophy was that rewards and honor only come through hard work, suffering, and struggle. Now living in Miami, Florida, her study with Influence Ecology has helped reorient her view of business and life to take full advantage of her valuable time, exceptional talents, and remarkable history. She credits the philosophy...

As a successful Naturopathic Physician, Dr. Dawn Dalili offers an approach that guides patients toward a vibrant life. In this episode, Dr. Dalili and Co-founder John Patterson discuss why attending to a partial aspect of the body - or a transaction - doesn't address the whole truth; that contemplating whole systems and processes isn't easy, but exponentially more effective. Transactionalism is a philosophical approach that addresses the fundamental nature of social exchange or human transaction...

As biological exchange animals, our moods and transactions are inextricably linked. Most people are naïve to the moods appropriate (or inappropriate) for transacting. To transact powerfully, you must attend to producing appropriate moods. Valorie and Lee J Howard are entertainment experts skilled at building the perfect mood for their customers. They care deeply about delivering customized entertainment and special event experiences, having created over 5000 local and national events since 1995....

Miranda McCroskey is a 20+ year defense attorney who founded Unlock Legal to help 'accidental criminals' unlock their professional license from the collateral consequence of one bad choice. As a business owner, she discovered that the saying “keep it small and keep it all” might also lead to “the new poverty of self-sufficiency.” In other words, as animals of exchange and specialization, we humans only thrive in groups as our ability, capacity, and efficiency is multiplied by a large number of o...

Before embarking on a full-time real estate career, Karina Christensen was part of the personal flight team for American business guru Jack Welch and media proprietor Oprah Winfrey, having the opportunity to travel with them for many years around the world and cultivate within herself what it takes to partner with high-profile clientele successfully. As a specialist now working with Keller Williams Luxury Homes International, she and her team specialize in luxury condominiums in Denver, Colorado...

What she considered flaws are now valued assets — having embraced her Judge Personality, she has become keenly aware of the resource, value, and role she offers a transaction. Lisa Baptista is a senior faculty member at the New Zealand College of Chiropractic, a leading chiropractic institution with an international reputation for excellence. Her extensive family originates from a Portuguese colony off the coast of China next to Hong Kong; raised bi-culturally Portuguese and American, her grandp...

New York Pastor E. Bernard Jordan measures his faith the same way we measure health, money, and career. He preaches that if it doesn't get practiced — if it doesn't get measured — it doesn't get valued. His ultimate aim is for all people to know their value and recognize it as key to honoring others as they honor themselves. His participation at Influence Ecology taught him much about the business of an ever-expanding church and that 'those who transact powerfully, thrive.' In our Guru Talk, we ...

Michael Dunn in Wellington, NZ, is highly regarded for advising governments across all areas of public finance and economics - he helps build forecasting models for government revenues. Superbly analytical in his thinking and personality, he has learned (and is still learning) to develop his ability to navigate the general environments where extreme analytic prowess may prove a social scarlet letter. In our Guru Talk, we listen in on a webinar classroom co-led by Co-Founders John Patterson and K...

Ross Clennett has applied accurate and objective thinking to his financial plans and his business model to produce a robust and satisfying life. He's a high-performance recruitment coach in Melbourne, Australia, whose successful journey did not begin so well. However, you'll hear how he overcame the naïveté of his trajectory, fired his biggest client, and took the right actions required to live a great life. We'll also listen in on a webinar classroom co-led by myself and Co-Founder Kirkland Tib...

John James and Lauren Cato Robertson are co-founders of the C-Section Recovery Center. They are massage therapists with a specialized practice that focuses on clients suffering from C-Section Recovery. Their assertion is that, in modern times, we often "interrupt the biological process" and don't account for the impact of that interruption to our children - or our own bodies. Through their study with Influence Ecology, they have discovered their own entitlement and conceit and have not only lear...

Our featured interview is with an outstanding Chicago trial attorney who talks about his critical and analytical judgy-ness and how it has become a great asset. In this episode, Joe McNerney and Co-Founder John Patterson take the time to learn more about the Judge and Inventor personality and how personality, when understood, can help all of us transact more effectively. But Joe also cautions us all about the error of independence and self-sufficiency. In our guru talk, we hear from Vice Preside...

Dr. Kyra Gaunt conducts research on the unintended consequences of social media, often offering expert testimony on the subject and helping protect our future employability and reputation online and off. With a focus on marginalized groups, she's Professor of Ethnomusicology and Digital Media Studies at the University at Albany and one of the forty inaugural TED Fellows. She has much to say about the aimless consequence of our own naïveté. Having studied with Influence Ecology for four years, sh...

Paul Adams, of Sound Financial Group, leads a team of financial professionals dedicated to helping clients define their financial goals - then helps them develop tailored strategies to reach them. His company offers an approach uncommon to the financial planning industry. You'll learn how he reinvented his business model after careful consideration of his own aims to work in the way he'd like, to labor less, and increase his income. In our Guru Talk, we hear co-founder Kirkland Tibbels address o...

Brandon Hollembeak warns of following the herd's shortcuts. He's a tech product manager who works with startups to help them drive data-driven decisions as they begin to become scalable. His competency for accurate thinking has helped him sift through the short-cut culture popular in the current marketplace. Having assisted in the success of two well-known startups, his journey can help us all sort through the complex, noisy, quick-fix narratives of our current popular media. In our guru talk, w...

Having more than doubled her income and moving her company's market position from #57 to #1, Kim Corbett is an account executive who considers herself a turnaround agent, turning around the sales of failing or emerging companies. She's a top performer with a proven track record for growing revenues and increasing an organization’s profitability. Always ambitious, she had previously struggled to get beyond her current income range — until studying with Influence Ecology. In this interview, you'll...

A panel of advanced members shares how the immersive and practical environment of our global Annual Member Conference produces real, lasting and consequential results. This special feature is an exclusive interview with a panel of advanced members who just returned from our 2017 Annual Member Conference; our flagship global event held annually in some of the world's best luxury resorts. We conducted this interview as a study in the immersive impact of learning and practicing in a social and cons...

Dr. Khush Cooper holds a doctorate in social work. Her journey is quite relevant to those in the non-profit sector, the conscious capitalism movement, or anyone who has ever struggled with making a living and wanting to do good. You'll hear how her view of money changed when she began to understand that money is an exchange of help, rather than a necessary evil. This episode's closing segment is from a membership webinar on the subject of 'indifference of the marketplace'. You'll hear Co-Founder...

Joanna Burgraf is a Chicago-based Senior Lead for an award-winning Creative Services team managing ten brands at Enova International, a company using technology to develop innovative financial products. Having endured an expensive journey to consider a career change, she found that to follow your passion was the worst piece of advice she'd ever gotten. You'll hear how this fashionable, but naive empowerment slogan had shifted her focus away from working on being a valued cooperative member of a ...

Recording artists, Isaac and Thorald Koren (The Kin) got everything they asked for; record deals, international notoriety, playing big arenas (touring with Coldplay, PINK, Bon Jovi, and Rod Stewart) — but hadn't quantified what to wish for or how to transact for it. Naively assuming their talent, passion, and fame would eventuate into their personal and financial satisfaction they confronted a sea of indifference and inventoried their lessons to help others. They launched the Alchemy of Creative...

Ana Athanasiu lives in the San Francisco Bay area of California and is an internet pioneer who had a vibrant career in telecommunications and software development. Best known for the work she did on teams at Sun Microsystems in the mid-eighties — they invented XML — adding speed and usability to internet browsers. Able to retire in 2002, she's spent the last 14 years raising kids and supporting business executives, local non-profit endeavors, and sole-proprietorships toward market and financial ...

Sean Gillespie is a successful artist who creates award-winning abstract sculptures from his one-man studio in Denver, Colorado. His work can be found in exclusive galleries, national juried shows, and in corporate installations across the United States. Influence Ecology's members include business and creative professionals from all over the world; we educate not only executives and entrepreneurs but also artists, designers, musicians, writers, and filmmakers -- and today perhaps we'll tackle t...

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