All In Podcast With Daniel Giordano

How do you define what you do? For today’s guest, Hernan Sias, the answer wasn’t always so simple. After years of gathering expertise and experience he realized the value in sharing knowledge and knowhow with others and thus discovered purpose. As one half of the widely successful Business Bros team, Hernan is many things but put simply, he is a salesman. One who meets people, identifies what needs they have and connects them with people who can help fill that need. Hernan shares how the business began years ago and what steps he took to grow into the consultant, teacher, and salesperson he is today. His “all in” moment came through his own venture into the podcasting space.  With his brother James, Hernan runs the Business Bros podcast to reach others with opportunity and expertise as well as a utilizing it as vehicle for reaching more clients, allowing the pair to see substantial growth. Daniel gets in the weeds with Hernan to talk about how he harnesses the power of networking to grow his business whi

Would you  prefer to rent or own the building? For today’s guest, Frank Agin, it’s  no contest. Once he realized the potential in networking, he was “all  in” with his vision to develop and franchise AmSpirit as an invaluable  point of connection for entrepreneurs, sales reps and professionals  nationwide. In this episode, Daniel does a deep dive to understand the  power of AmSpirit, an innovative organization supporting the exchange of  qualified referrals through 17 franchises in eight states – and  counting! Frank shares a bit about his early years and how he  morphed from a freshly minted law school grad to employee at a Big Six  accounting firm to starting up his own private practice in Ohio. An  active community member and busy father of three nearly grown children,  AmSpirit’s founder had his “all in” moment after realizing the power of  networking and the potential to use his talents as a connector to build  relationships among peop

After five years off of podcasting, Daniel takes a minute to reflect and re-launch the podcast with renewed purpose and passion. Growth over time has allowed him to refine his vision for what he hopes to create with this show.  At its core, All In is about impact sharing, connecting, and serving others.  You never know who or what will inspire you or what message you need to hear where you’re at in life, which is what makes this podcast so special. By combining the stories of those who are the best of the best in their field alongside those who are just starting out there is a diversity of voices and ideas that will inspire any listener to make a move. Utilizing Daniel’s gifts for connection, the All In podcast will continue to impact the lives of its listeners and hopefully lead you to your own “all in” moment. Previous episodes of Daniel’s podcast can be found here.

My guest today is Aaron Janx. He’s going to share an amazing message on the power of being able to sell and also create the life that you want. Aaron was raised in a family of sales people. His mom was an entrepreneur and his dad and grandfather were both in the timeshare business. Aaron was a bit of a rebel and never liked to learn what people wanted him to learn, he wanted to learn what he wanted to learn. He was bright but he got bored and wouldn’t apply himself. As a result he didn’t do well in school and graduated by the skin of his teeth with a 1.99.  

Willie is an amazing internet marketer and has influenced many people over the years. He joined the military after college with a degree in economics and business. He spent 20 years in the military, took part in several conflicts, travelled the world and learned 19 languages. He started an online marketing business 6 years before he retired, and so when he was in a position to retire he already had hosted online seminars and was well placed to market his own products and affiliate products. Currently he is enjoying helping small local offline businesses to use the internet to get customers through their doors. Willie spoke at his first seminar in 2002 on the strength of selling a cookbook through internet marketing techniques. This led to him hosting his own seminar as a guru in his own right. He was still in the military at the time and drove 13 hours to make it to the seminar and not miss work! He is a family man having 2 daughters and 4 grandchildren. He enjoys spending time with his family and his interne

Your life can change in an instant. Every day I see people go through life without preparation. What is it going to take for you to change and take action today? For me, the day that I almost died in North Carolina was a defining moment for me. Even to this day I bring my EpiPen everywhere I go because of that one episode. What can you do differently today to move you forward. If you don't have something that moves you, please find somebody that is going to inspire you to make a difference. If today was your last day, what would you do differently? If we live everyday with that sense of urgency, our reality will look different. I'm here to support you, I'm here to guide you and I'm here to motivate you to step forward and take one step at a time. Go to www.danielgiordano.com and find out about all the great things we have going on and I look forward to meeting you soon!

Have you ever written down your goals and passions in life? What are some goals that you've written down but you didn't achieve? And also think about those goals that you have achieved. "As a man thinketh, so is he". In your heart, what are you thinking right now? Are you thinking about your goal? Is there a goal that you would really love to do but... No buts. What it really comes down is to this: having a clear intention. If you've ever had a goal and haven't been able to achieve it. Could it be that possibly you haven't achieved the goal because you haven't committed to it? If you really are passionate about sharing your story and impacting people's lives, what is it that's going to get you to move and take action to do that? Do you have a vision? Most people don't have a vision. If you have a vision you are lightyears ahead of people. The HOW is not nearly as important as the WHY is very important in goal setting. recognizing that, what can you do differently TODAY? You have to take ACTION on your dreams

Duane was born in Germany before his family moved and settled on the West Coast of the United States. His family was poor, but he never realized the challenges he was over coming as he thought life was great. After losing a soccer scholarship he entered the military just like his father was. After a varied military career he left the military for love as he fell in love all over again with and married his high school sweetheart.

Howard has a unique knack for being able to coach people, and he’s on a daily basis impacting thousands of people worldwide.  Howard is originally from Lower Alabama and grew up in a family of 7 kids in quite a rundown old shack surviving on welfare. At 18 years he moved to Houston. He started his career being a professional waiter and married into an Italian family using the money he got from Wedding presents to start his own business from the trunk of his car. After learning 2 important lessons from Michael Gerber - (1) You gotta have systems in your business and (2) you have to understand what your primary aim is he started to coach other business owners to use their own unique systems, and has continued to do so for 20 years. To get into the coaching side of the business Howard started writing articles, talking at seminars and found that people just liked the systems that he had and what he had to say, and this led on to the successful career that he has today. One of the greatest associations that Howard

Susan has a passion for parenting and she has definitely answered her calling. She grew up mainly in the South and now lives in TX with her husband and 7 children, ages 6 to 19 years old. Lucky for her 1 boy that he is the oldest of the kids! She was raised by parents that just celebrated their 51st anniversary, which in this society is pretty amazing, and it’s something she strives to emulate. In being intentional with her family, she was not only following her parents’ example, but answering her own calling. She knew from a very early time that the most important work of her own life was being a mother to her children. She has lived every day with a purpose directed toward who she needed to be and become in order to raise children in this busy, noisy, highly distracted world. She’s always had the entrepreneurial spirit. When she was just 5 years old, she took a newspaper delivery ‘subcontracting’ job with her older siblings and she’s never lost that drive. So, when she met her husband, it was a perfect matc

Manny Wolfe had a rather unconventional start to life. His story starts out with being born into a cult in the late 60’s in the San Francisco Bay area, where he was programmed from birth not to fit into outside society. At 8 ½ years old, the cult moved from right into the middle of one of the top 10 most violent ghettos at the time, Stockton, CA. Overnight, he experienced violence and spent the next 4 years in a constant state of flight-or-fight mode and the children in the cult received no protection or guidance from the adults. Between the countercultural mindset instilled in him, 4 years of violence, and an environment where drug use was encouraged, by the time he was 12 and they moved away, he was set on a path of drug abuse, addiction, criminal behavior, jails and violence. It took years for him to even realize that his youth was not normal and, finally, he had a moment of clarity at 28 years old that sent him running. He disappeared from the life and the crowd that he was in, never to be heard from agai

Amos grew up Amish, one of the most conservative communities in existence. He knew nothing but farming and hard work but, in his heart, he knew that was not the life for him. That drive for something bigger, coupled with dyslexia, a learning disability that the Amish community refused to understand or recognize, led him to make a commitment at the age of 10 to prove that he could do something greater.   By the age of 21, he was running his own sawmill business, but it was only doing ‘okay’, and he was living paycheck to paycheck. A good friend of his told him, “you can be everything you want to be and have as much as you want”. That thought was always in the back of his mind, but it wasn’t until he was 37 and facing a serious illness that he made the decision that ‘enough is enough’. At that time, he had a wife and 7 children. He realized that if he died, his family would have nothing to survive on. It was at that moment, when he made that decision, that things started to fall into place. He took immediate ac

At age 17, Mark had hit rock bottom, when he woke up in a jail cell with no memory of why and how he had gotten there. He had been going down a path of drinking and drugs and ended up being arrested for DUI. Not only had he been beaten up pretty badly by the driver he rear-ended, but was so intoxicated that he should have been dead. It was his wake-up call to leave that life behind. He moved back in with his parents and started getting his life back on track. Even through the bad times, he had never lost his relationship with God, and this time, God was speaking to him, saying, “What are you going to do with the second chance at life I have given you?”  From that point forward, he improved his physical being and pursued his college degree. He never felt that he was very ‘book smart’, but he was determined to outwork everyone else. He had a bigger mission to live a better life. After receiving his Bachelor’s in Psychology, he moved to Ohio to work with his brother. Through a family friend, he had an opportunit

Jim grew up in Tulsa, OK. All through his teenage years, his one dream and passion was to become a star football player and play in the NFL. He didn’t have a safety net or a Plan B and he pursued football to the exclusion of almost everything else.  During a routine sports exam for his high school football team, he was diagnosed with a condition that would cause him to lose his sight early in life. Everything came to a halt. He realized that not only would he be eventually blind, but he wouldn’t be going to the NFL either to live his life as a football pro. He had to come up with another option. He switched his life path and became a weightlifter. He was able to end his athletic career having experienced championship and a Gold medal in the weightlifting arena. Shortly thereafter, in his late 20’s, he did lose the remainder of his sight. For a while, he was depressed and scared. It was a neighbor who turned him onto to his first motivational speaker, and he began to devour those messages. So much so that he’s

Cadey is the wife and business partner of a previous show guest, Alex Charfen. Born and raised in Dallas, she was a flight attendant when she met Alex 12 years ago and didn’t even realize she was an entrepreneur until they started dating! Her father was the entrepreneur in the family, but, unfortunately, she didn’t get to see much of that lifestyle as her parents were divorced, and her stepfather was a ‘corporate guy’, staying with the same company for 20+ years. While she didn’t stay with Southwest Airlines after meeting Alex, her time there was a great experience for her to see what a really dynamic company looked like from the inside out and to understand what did and didn’t work. After meeting Alex and discovering her entrepreneurial spirt, real estate was the natural path, as that was the predominant career background of almost her entire family. In her first year of selling real estate, she earned a triple-digit income, especially remarkable when considering the average 1st year agent’s income is approx

Stuart got to where he is today because he was really bad in school at one point! As a young kid, Stuart was failing school-in Singapore. Culturally, there is a lot of pride in doing well academically in Singapore and it was really quite the shock that, not only was he not doing well, he didn’t seem to care. He really hated studying and just wanted to ‘get by’. His mom got so worried about school that she enrolled him in some enrichment classes. That’s where things started to change for him and put him on the path that would become his future. Those classes gave him a new-found interest in learning and he started doing so well that one of his classmates thought he was cheating! Stuart told him he made a turn-around because of the extra classes and offered to teach him the same. That first experience of sharing what he was learning, something that someone else could also use to improve, is what set everything in motion. Not surprisingly, he became involved in teaching personal development. He was aligned with

Chase Thompson is a native Texan, born and raised in San Antonio. He is a husband and the father of 2 young children. He knows they’re incredible and his wife deserves all the credit for that! Having his children gave him an entire new level of motivation that he didn’t even know existed until they arrived in the world.   His professional career started in insurance sales and then he moved to the real estate mortgage industry, where he’s been for almost a decade. His started his career in mortgage as a loan originator, and then moved into business development and marketing, an area where he was better able to use his background, talent and skills. He then broke out on his own and today he’s a real estate investor as well as the podcast host of ‘NoteMBA’.

Jonathan Milligan had no idea he’d be doing what he’s doing today. He tells his son to keep his eyes open because this generation will create the jobs and opportunities that didn’t even exist as options when Jonathan was in school.   Both of Jonathan’s parents were teachers, so being in the environment, teaching was a part of him as well. After college, he also started out as a High School teacher and coach but only stayed in that position for three years. He loved teaching but the context was wrong for him-it was too structured for his entrepreneurial spirit.   He took time off to ‘figure it out’, getting a night job in a call center for nine months. He read all there was on starting your own venture but didn’t put anything into action. Finally, he felt that he was ready to go fail at something, because even failure was progress compared with being paralyzed from inaction. His first round as an entrepreneur found him ‘flipping’ a house. Although he made a decent profit, he realized that was not his calling.

Bolaji is the creator of Brave Little Heroes, a series of superhero stories for children ages 6-12.   Bolaji grew up in Nigeria to first-generated educated parents. Although his parents became doctors, they had grown up poor and had a very strong ‘do for yourself’ drive that they instilled in their children. That work ethic, combined with his love for American comics, led Bolaji to be an entrepreneur at just 10 years old, when he would draw and sell Spiderman images for lunch money.   He did well academically, going on to earn his undergrad degree in Computer Science and an MBA. Because his parents had come from a poor background, but became doctors, they saw a “good job” as the path to happiness and success because it provided financial stability. But, he tried working in Corporate America, staying in cubicles for 12 years, and never felt fulfilled. When he was laid off for the last time, even his boss said “I don’t know where you’re supposed to be, but this is not it”.   At the same time, he had been encour

A turning point in Joel’s life came when he was just 5 years old, stemming from an incident that almost resulted in him being hit by a train. While out hiking with family and friends, he had climbed up on a train trestle that was 30 feet above a gorge. By the time his father saw him and was able to run to the tracks, the train was already there, but Joel was not. He had fallen the 30 feet below, where he lay on the jagged rocks, very narrowly missing death. He spent 3 weeks in a coma and, upon waking, had to re-learn everything a child his age already knew had developed. He fought back, going all-in by investing himself in every aspect of his healing. He went on to earn both his MBA and a Master’s in Counseling, as well as becoming a syndicated radio host, life coach, author and podcaster. His latest book, ‘Finding Your Voice’, hit the #1 spot on Amazon in 3 categories-success, happiness and self-esteem. His podcast, ReLaunch, is actually his 9th show, along with wife and co-host, Pei. They really hit the mar