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Brent Bowers entered real estate searching for financial freedom—but the deeper motivation was family.

After serving more than eight years in the Army and facing repeated time away from those he loved, Brent began building an exit runway. Traditional rental properties brought repairs, evictions, debt, and frustration. Vacant land introduced him to a different model—and ultimately changed his direction.

In this conversation, Brent joins CJ Moneyway to discuss his earliest land deals, direct-mail strategy, seller financing, military systems, affordable-housing opportunities, and the consistency required to build something over time.

But this episode goes beyond real estate.

Brent speaks candidly about scarcity, overconfidence, costly mistakes, neglected due diligence, and realizing that a business supposedly built for his family could still take him away from them.

This is a conversation about land, leadership, faith, humility, and remembering what freedom was supposed to provide in the first place.

Educational notice: This conversation shares personal experiences and general information. It is not financial, investment, tax, or legal advice. Real-estate transactions involve risk, and results vary.

Guest Bio

Brent Bowers is an Army veteran, real-estate investor, educator, and founder of The Land Sharks. After more than eight years of military service and extended time away from his family, Brent pursued real estate as a path toward greater financial and personal freedom. He now focuses on buying and selling vacant land and educating other investors about the asset class. 

Key Episode Takeaways

• Small victories can create long-term momentum.
• A career transition requires a runway—not merely an exit date.
• Military systems, preparation, and consistency can transfer into entrepreneurship.
• One unsuccessful investment model does not mean every model is wrong.
• Assets that appear undesirable may hold alternative forms of value.
• Early success can tempt an entrepreneur to abandon the controls that created success.
• Due diligence becomes more important as confidence grows.
• Financial freedom is incomplete if it does not restore time and presence.
• A business built “for the family” must be evaluated by how it affects the family.
• Humility protects both relationships and decision-making.

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What if the next chapter of your life requires movement before complete clarity?

On this episode of The CJ Moneyway Show, CJ sits down with Bill Blankschaen, Founder and Chief StoryArchitectof StoryBuilders and author of Your Story Advantage. Bill shares how he moved from ministry and education into storytelling after realizing that someone else could lead the school, but no one else could fulfill the writing assignment he believed God had placed inside him.

The decision came with real pressure. Bill and his wife saw both incomes end on the same day while raising six children. Instead of hiding the uncertainty, they gathered the family, opened the Psalms and began walking

through the season together. Bill studied the craft, developed proposals, wrote and kept moving until one opportunity became a business devoted to helping other people clarify and multiply their message.

CJ and Bill also confront the quieter barriers that keep meaningful stories hidden: imposter syndrome, the Confidence Trap, the belief that familiar experience has no value and the spiritual drift that can begin after success creates comfort.

In this episode:

• Why calling does not always arrive with a complete plan

• How a family can practice faith without pretending fear is absent

• The preparation required after taking the first step

• Why your “normal” experience may contain uncommon value

• Confidence, humility and authenticity among high-level leaders

• How testimony can break the isolation many men carry

• Why success can weaken the disciplines that sustained the struggle

• How to turn a lived story into service, impact and legacy

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Most entrepreneurs begin a book with a topic. Ben Cena believes they should begin with a job.

On this episode of The CJ Moneyway Show, CJ sits down with publishing strategist Ben Cena to examine howexperts can use nonfiction books to strengthen authority, attract qualified opportunities and preserve knowledge beyond their lifetime.

Ben shares how a move from personal training into self-publishing developed into work with entrepreneurs, coaches and thought leaders. He explains why book royalties are rarely the complete business model, why audience research should come before drafting and how the title, cover, formats, keywords, advertising and next-step offer must work together.

CJ presses the conversation beyond publishing mechanics. What does a bestseller label actually mean? How should an author measure the book’s contribution to revenue? When does niche positioning create relevance rather than limitation? And what should someone write if the real goal is allowing future generations to understand the life and principles behind the name?

In this episode:

• Why a book needs a defined business or legacy purpose

• Royalties versus authority and client opportunity

• Audience research before manuscript development

• How titles and covers shape discovery

• Amazon advertising and measurable acquisition

• The difference between retailer availability and shelf placement

• Why bestseller and revenue claims require precision

• How a book can preserve your thinking for future generations

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Kevin Rayner says his mother’s decision to send him away from Gary, Indiana, changed the course of his life. He also says it took writing a book to understand how much of home he lost in the move.

Kevin joins fellow Gary native CJ Moneyway for a conversation about memory, danger, family and the work of telling a story responsibly. He remembers a childhood community marked by Black pride and close neighborhood ties. He also recalls becoming involved in gang life as the environment around him changed. After a confrontation in which someone pulled a gun and attempted to fire it, his mother sent him to Minnesota. Kevin believes that choice gave him a future he might otherwise not have had.

For years, he focused on what the move made possible. Writing The Flight of a Home Town Son brought him back to a different truth. He was not there to watch his father grow older in the same way; he saw his mother only across long gaps; he did not see his grandmother again before she died. He describes realizing that these losses had remained buried beneath his gratitude for surviving.

The book began partly with younger relatives in mind. Kevin wanted them to know the city he remembered before judging only the Gary they had inherited. He also wanted his experience to offer a warning about choices and a reason to believe a different life could be built. Readers have since asked him how he published, and Kevin says he shares what he learned freely.

CJ brings his own Gary memories to the discussion, creating a conversation between two men who know the city as a place of people and relationships rather than a headline. The strongest moments arrive when nostalgia makes room for complexity: a mother’s protective decision can be the right one and still leave a son with grief.

Near the end of the supplied excerpt, Kevin describes using an AI assistant to plan a future book release.

The tool surfaced steps he had not considered. CJ likens AI to a tractor that can spread seeds more widely while the person remains the farmer. That thread is promising as an author-workflow.

This episode is about honoring the people who intervened, preserving a hometown’s story and creating something useful from a life Kevin had to rebuild. His account of the firearm incident and family timeline is presented as his recollection, pending guest review for final release.

Topics

• Gary’s community and Kevin’s memories of growing up there.

• The confrontation and his mother’s decision to send him to Minnesota.

• The complicated grief surfaced by writing about family separation.

• Why he wrote for the next generation.

• Sharing publishing knowledge and testing AI for release planning.

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Your expertise may not be the problem. The problem may be the way you are communicating it.

On this episode of The CJ Moneyway Show(TM), CJ Moneyway sits down with Aurora Winter - media

strategist, author, publisher and former film and television writer-producer - to explore how clear

messaging transforms knowledge into authority, opportunity and business growth.

Aurora shares the story of a struggling business that had a valuable offer but an overwhelming

presentation. Instead of creating confidence, approximately 100 pages of information created confusion.

According to Aurora, the breakthrough came when she reduced the offer to seven words: "Five weeks of

sun, fun and tax shelter."

The product did not change. The message did.

CJ and Aurora also discuss what she learned from working across Silicon Valley, Hollywood,

entrepreneurship and publishing; why a book should begin a relationship rather than end one; and how

leaders can use artificial intelligence without surrendering their authentic voices.

In this episode:

● Why more information can create less understanding

● How to develop a clear and memorable business message

● What Silicon Valley and Hollywood can learn from each other

● Why books should connect to a larger business strategy

● How YouTube, podcasts and websites serve different purposes

● Why websites and email lists remain important owned assets

● How personal stories strengthen authority

● Why AI makes authentic human experience more valuable

Aurora's 2026 book, Turn Words Into Wealth: 7 Ways to Make 7 Figures as a Thought Leader, presents her

approach to connecting books, video, podcasts, artificial intelligence and business strategy.

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What turns a meal into a memory?

Chef Don Bowie grew up in Houston watching his mother cook full meals after working long days, sometimes following work that had already kept her in a kitchen. He remembers the food as one of the clearest ways she showed her children love. Years later, after he had worked in restaurants himself, Don came to understand the effort behind that daily act. It became a model for the feeling he wanted guests to find at Taste Kitchen + Bar.

In this conversation on The CJ Moneyway Show, Don and CJ begin with family. Don describes the scratch-made meals, his mother’s consistency and the role his father later played in cooking and opening a soul-food restaurant. He says he resisted a culinary career for a time. The experiences he gathered elsewhere would eventually help him define a restaurant of his own.

At Red Cat Jazz Cafe, Don learned about the room beyond the plate: the welcome when a guest walks in, customer service, beverages and the role of live music. He later worked with the Sweetie Pie’s brand as it entered Houston, where he observed what public recognition can do for opening demand and why an established name still needs an experience worth returning for.

Before opening Taste, Don says he joined Flower Child for a short period to study how a large hospitality operation built repeatable systems. That experience helped him think through the work behind multiple locations: roles, standards and coordination. His own launch in 2019 aimed to offer Houston a fuller-service, food-led brunch experience that could welcome people throughout the week.

Don resists the idea that Taste happened overnight. He recalls periods of rebuilding and starting again before he reached a concept that connected with guests. CJ brings his own reflections about learning business systems and what it means to take responsibility for decisions made throughout an organization.

The central question reaches beyond restaurants. Don’s mother could personally make a meal feel like care. A founder who wants to offer that feeling to many guests must build a team capable of delivering it consistently while respecting the people doing the work. The episode explores where hospitality begins, how experience is designed and what ownership asks of a leader.

Topics

• The daily meals through which Don felt his mother’s care.

• Why the full guest experience extends beyond the dish.

• Lessons from front-of-house work and live entertainment.

• The purpose of studying large-scale systems before opening Taste.

• Why a 2019 launch represented years of preparation.

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What does five decades in branding teach you about why some businesses earn trust while others lose it?

On this episode of The CJ Moneyway Show(TM), CJ sits down with veteran brand strategist and author Brandon

Coleman Jr. for a conversation that moves from athletics and fatherhood to storytelling, faith, personal branding and the

promise every business makes to its market.

CJ Moneyway Media(TM) - Brandon Coleman Jr. Post-Interview Package Page 2Brandon traces his path from growing up as the son of a Hall of Fame basketball coach and competing as a ranked

tennis player to discovering advertising while watching Bewitched in his Texas A&M; dorm room. That unexpected spark

became the beginning of a career spanning roughly five decades in branding and business.

At the center of Brandon's philosophy is a simple definition: "A brand is a promise wrapped in a delivery." He

explains why logos and campaigns are secondary to alignment, why every customer touchpoint must reinforce the

promise, and why disrespecting an established market can damage trust that is difficult to recover.

CJ and Brandon also go deeper into fathers and sons, discipline, purpose, Christian faith, storytelling, personal brands

and the responsibility to build something truthful.

Transformational Conversations. Built For Purpose.(TM)

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What good is consuming more information if you can't retrieve it when you actually need it?

On this episode of The CJ Moneyway Show(TM), CJ sits down with Steve Kahle, technology executive, fractional

CIO/CTO and author of Leader Recall, for a conversation about memory, leadership, faith, systems and the difference

between consuming knowledge and actually retaining it.

Steve traces his fascination with memory back to bartending through college, where remembering customers' names,

drinks and personal details helped him build genuine relationships. Years later, his Christian faith led him into Scripture

memorization and deeper study of memory science.

That journey eventually exposed a larger leadership problem: executives consume enormous amounts of information

CJ Moneyway Media(TM) - Steve Kahle Post-Interview Package Page 2through books, podcasts, meetings and technology, yet much of what they learn never becomes usable long-term

knowledge.

Steve breaks down his Capture-Catalog-Recall (CCR) framework and explains how tools including Anki, Notion and

simple capture systems help him preserve insights and deliberately move important information toward long-term recall.

CJ and Steve also go deeper into faith, the story of Joseph, entrepreneurship, stewardship, cybersecurity, AI,

first-principles thinking and why the information you retain may ultimately matter more than the information you

consume.

Transformational Conversations. Built For Purpose.(TM)

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A brilliant invention can exist before anyone has answered the most important question: who needs it, and why?

Curtis Sprouse joins CJ Moneyway for a conversation linking team behavior with biomedical innovation.

Curtis is CEO and president of EurekaConnect, a company focused on leadership and team development.

He is also involved with the Institute for Biomedical Entrepreneurship, which works to help researchers understand the path from scientific discovery to product opportunity.

Curtis begins with his roots around Pittsburgh. He recalls the role sports played in learning to be part of a team and describes how his mother helped him seek an early dyslexia diagnosis. He is careful to distinguish the experience of dyslexia from the personal drive that made him competitive. The combination shaped how he thinks about challenges, relationships and the people who help someone develop.

He tells CJ that good leadership increasingly means teaching other people how to think through a problem. A leader who supplies every answer becomes the limit of the organization. A leader who helps teammates define challenges, prepare for them and solve them can build greater capability around the mission.

Their conversation then moves to the gap between scientific possibility and useful application. Curtis describes helping researchers identify their best role in a company. A talented chemist may remain the scientific lead while other people take responsibility for financing, operations or the commercial pathway.

This is not a judgment about the scientist’s worth. It is a decision about how a team makes the work stronger.

A meeting with a medical leader gives the discussion its sharpest test. By Curtis’s account, an outside expert challenged the proposed use of a technology his team was developing. Rather than treating the criticism as the end, Curtis describes the need to identify a clearer use case and put evidence behind it.

The moment illustrates a distinction that applies well beyond biotech: the ability to build something does not yet establish that people need it.

Curtis also explains his company’s use of behavioral assessments to discuss interpersonal strengths, openness and collaboration. These methods and the claims attached to them are Curtis’s account and should be evaluated on their own evidence. The episode’s larger question remains human: can a confident leader stay open to information that changes the plan?

Join CJ and Curtis for a grounded conversation about people, scientific translation and leadership with enough integrity to change course.

Topics covered

• Pittsburgh, dyslexia and the value of early support.

• From competitive athlete to leader who elevates others.

• Connection and trust in professional relationships.

• Why scientific expertise and company leadership can require different people.

• An expert’s difficult question that changed a technology plan.

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Roger Gauthier believes a dream can carry responsibility beyond the person who receives it. The question at the center of his work is simple: “Who’s depending on your dream?”

Roger joins CJ Moneyway for a conversation that begins in prayer and moves into the life behind that question. He describes growing up with a father whose attention he longed for, the effect of bullying and isolation, and how marriage and fatherhood changed his understanding of responsibility.

CJ brings his own experience into the discussion, reflecting on a decision that helped change his life while leaving scars for others. Together, CJ and Roger examine what it means to pursue a vision while taking ownership of its effect on the people closest to you.

Roger also discusses creating a short film around his message and the accountability he felt when sharing it publicly. As the conversation turns toward loss and rebuilding, he begins describing his mother’s death and a difficult transition into entrepreneurship.

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How can a person look successful and feel like they are barely holding everything together?

Mark J. Silverman joins CJ Moneyway for a deeply personal conversation about the distance between external achievement and internal stability. Mark describes struggling with addiction, losing contact with family and reaching a point in his twenties when he was living out of a truck. A call to his brother brought him to Washington, D.C., where family, recovery meetings, work and college classes opened a different path.

Mark went on to build a successful sales career. Income grew, the clothes and car changed, and the public story looked like a remarkable comeback. Yet, as Mark tells CJ, he still felt like someone who did not belong. At a company trip to the Four Seasons, where he had previously waited tables, he worried that colleagues might see through him. He describes using the appearance of success as armor.

The costs of that armor became harder to ignore later in life. Mark talks about panic attacks, a declining sense of control at work, separation from his wife and a period of serious depression. He speaks about seeking support, working with a therapist, training for the Marine Corps Marathon and gradually rebuilding a relationship with himself. He does not present that process as instant or simple.

The conversation also holds a painful family story. Mark’s brother had been central to his early recovery;

Mark later watched him struggle with alcohol and drugs and describes losing him. That experience complicates any easy comeback narrative. CJ and Mark discuss what it means to appreciate the help one received while recognizing that outcomes are not guaranteed.

As an executive coach and author, Mark now works with leaders under pressure. He tells CJ that his most useful leadership tool has become honesty: being willing to connect, show vulnerability and talk about what is frightening rather than performing confidence. CJ brings his own reflections on leadership, faith and the difficulty of accepting how far someone has come.

This episode is about recovery, identity and sustainable leadership. It asks when ambition serves a life, when it begins to shield us from ourselves, and what becomes possible when we stop treating vulnerability as evidence that we do not belong.

Topics

• The call to his brother and the start of a different path.

• Moving from waiting tables to sales success without feeling secure.

• Imposter feelings and the cost of performing a role.

• A midlife crisis, support and a gradual return to self-trust.

• Why connection and vulnerability now shape his leadership practice.

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What happens when good people work inside a system that rewards the wrong behavior?

In this episode of The CJ Moneyway Show(TM), CJ sits down with Jon Read, a two-time healthcare technology founder whose work connects entrepreneurship, product design, behavioral health, and human outcomes. Jon shares how moving repeatedly as a child taught him to enter unfamiliar environments, build relationships, and create games people wanted to play together.

The conversation follows Jon to Brazil, where a motorcycle accident shattered his collarbone and left him vulnerable far from home. A stranger helped him return safely, a landlord drove him hours to a hospital, and a chance connection later opened an investor relationship. During rehabilitation, Jon built a simple tool to keep himself accountable to physical therapy. That tool became the seed of Keet Health.

Jon also speaks candidly about the emotional reality of selling a company. The exit created freedom, but the building was the meaningful part. That realization, combined with the loss of friends to mental-health and substance-use struggles, helped move him toward Confidant Health and a more difficult mission.

The episode's defining leadership lesson is simple: incentives reveal what an organization truly values.

When volume is rewarded more than connection or outcomes, work becomes a math problem instead of a human experience. Jon and CJ explore how leaders can understand constraints, remove administrative

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Episode Key Takeaways

Frequent change can become training in relationship-building and adaptability.

A personal problem can expose a scalable opportunity when the founder observes the system around it.

Authentic, unconventional tactics can open doors that standard playbooks miss.

An exit can provide freedom without providing purpose; the journey may have been the real reward.

Personal grief can become responsibility when it is converted into better access and better systems.

People optimize around the incentives, metrics, and recognition an organization makes real.

Leaders should test incentives for unintended consequences and gaming before scaling them.

Not all recognition is financial; identity, peer respect, and proof of impact can shape performance.

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Confidant Health: https://www.confidanthealth.com/

Provider network: https://www.confidanthealth.com/for-providers

Jon Read on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonread

Keet Health legacy site: https://www.keethealth.com/

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What happens when the person who created the company becomes the greatest risk to its next stage?

In this episode of The CJ Moneyway Show, CJ sits down with Anthony Franco, a serial entrepreneur who describes launching seven companies and exiting six, including two sales to public companies.

Anthony begins by challenging the romanticized picture of entrepreneurship. Building can be hard, isolating and financially demanding. The work becomes more survivable when founders understand the cost, pursue paying customers and develop trusted relationships with people who understand the journey.

The conversation moves into founder ego. Anthony argues that the same pride and drive that create momentum can also prevent a leader from hearing customers and employees. Growth requires more than adding people; it requires systems, delegated authority and enough trust to let capable specialists do their jobs.

Anthony also revisits his Shark Tank appearance with mcSquares and explains how Kevin O’Leary served as an advocate and public evangelist rather than an operating executive inside the company. That experience sharpened Anthony’s appreciation for earned media while reinforcing that attention cannot run the business.

From there, CJ and Anthony examine what makes a company sellable: profitability, understandable financial records, clean taxes, diversified revenue and operating systems that survive the founder’s departure.

They close with risk, community and strengths. Anthony shares an approach to reducing uncertainty over time, encourages founders to find peers who make the journey less lonely and explains why building around strengths can be more powerful than apologizing for every weakness.

The result is a practical conversation about becoming the kind of founder who can build the company - and then stop standing in its way.

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What happens when a founder stops asking, “How big can I make this?” and starts asking, “What do I actually want this business to give me?”

In this episode of The CJ Moneyway Show, CJ sits down with Ashish Gupta for a wide-ranging conversation about entrepreneurship, operational leadership, scaling, spirituality, focus and fulfillment.

Ashish challenges one of business culture’s dominant assumptions: that every successful company should continually grow.

Growth has a cost. It can require more capital, people, emotional investment, time, complexity and personal sacrifice. Before accepting that cost, founders should determine whether expansion serves the life and sense of completion they are actually seeking.

The conversation then moves from philosophy into operations. CJ and Ashish examine the difference between the visionary who can see where an organization needs to go and the operator who can translate that vision into what must happen this week, this month and this quarter.

Ashish discusses fractional operational leadership, why traditional coaching can sometimes leave founders with longer to-do lists, and why small and midsized businesses may benefit from operators who do more than recommend changes - they help execute them.

The conversation becomes more personal as Ashish explains how spiritual service influences his leadership. He discusses emotional stability, empathy versus sympathy, individualized management, service and learning to anchor one’s internal state somewhere deeper than constantly changing business circumstances.

CJ connects those principles with his own experiences around faith, mentorship, legacy, delegation and building systems capable of carrying a founder’s vision.The result is not simply a conversation about scaling. It is a conversation about deciding what deserves to be scaled in the first place.

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What do you do when the job market keeps saying no - and what do you build when an entire industry is

serving the wrong customer?

In this episode of The CJ Moneyway Show(TM), CJ sits down with Anya Cheng, founder and CEO of

Taelor. Anya shares how she entered the U.S. job market during the 2008 financial crisis with limited

English and no easy path into marketing. She printed an alumni directory, made cold calls, traveled

between major cities, found creative ways into conferences, and eventually turned competitive research

into a proposal for a new digital service - with herself as the contractor ready to build it.

That beginning led to a career across personalization, commerce, delivery, international expansion, and

product leadership at organizations associated with Sears, Target, McDonald's, eBay, and Meta. Anya

explains that smart teams are not persuaded by confidence alone. Leaders must make the logic visible:

What is the goal? What is the hypothesis? What trade-off does the strategy make? What evidence would

change the decision?

Taelor applies that discipline to men's fashion. Its customer may want to look prepared for a job interview,

date, presentation, or executive meeting without browsing thousands of products or managing laundry. AI

and human stylists use fit, preference, occasion, behavior, quality, and feedback data to assemble

coordinated outfits through a rental model.

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The most important insight goes beyond clothes. AI generally learns from the past. A company's

advantage comes from creating data competitors do not have and cannot easily buy. Taelor says it can

observe preference without the same price distortion as e-commerce, learn garment durability through

repeated cleaning, and connect customer feedback to brand partners designing future collections.

Human stylists remain close to customers, train the system, and protect the trust AI alone may not yet

earn.

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Episode Key Takeaways

Rejection can become research when you study what the organization actually needs.

A founder can create a role or product by proposing a solution before asking for permission.

Customers may value time, confidence, and peace of mind more than the physical product itself.

The strongest AI moat is often unique, continuously refreshed data rather than access to a general

model.

Observed behavior can be more reliable than what people claim about size, taste, or preference.

Human experts build trust, interpret nuance, and surface needs that structured inputs miss.

Circular systems can turn returns, cleaning, and reuse into quality intelligence.

A clear hypothesis allows teams and investors to evaluate strategy without sharing the founder's

intuition.

Guest Links and CTA

Taelor: https://taelor.style/

Membership options: https://taelor.style/pages/membership

Anya Cheng on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anyacheng/

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What happens when the plan you trusted—go to school, get a good job, and build a secure life—stops working without warning?

In this episode of The CJ Moneyway Show(TM), CJ sits down with Ann Pells, entrepreneur, real estate investor, financial educator, and founder of LifeGiver Legacy. Ann shares the moment her husband arrived home with a pink slip while their three young children stood around her. With the family's only income gone, she began searching for ways to create greater control, resilience, and income beyond a single job. Ann explains the lesson her grandfather gave her at fifteen: 'can't' is not the final answer. The better question is 'How can I?' That shift leads the conversation into the importance of finding the right people, building teams, delegating responsibly, and learning from those who have already traveled the road.

The conversation also reaches a deeper turning point. After Ann trusted the wrong people, lost what her family had built, and watched those people go to jail, she spent the next decade pulling back. Her conclusion is powerful: the greatest cost was not only the lost money—it was the ten years fear kept her from rebuilding with new partners.

CJ connects Ann's story to faith, servant leadership, bigger rooms, parenting, and the Brick by Brick(TM) responsibility to turn hard-earned lessons into a shorter path for others. This episode is not promise of guaranteed financial outcomes. It is a conversation about possibility, recovery, wise support, and the courage to begin again.

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Free ebook page: https://lifegiverlegacy.com/free

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ann-pells-10397615

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What motivates a builder after the company is built, the money has been made, and the world already

calls the journey successful?

Daniel Lubetzky - founder of KIND Snacks and Builders Movement, founder and chairman of Camino

Partners, full-time Shark on ABC's Shark Tank, and host of Build or Break - joins CJ Moneyway for a

conversation about purpose beyond achievement.

Daniel shares why builders are driven by problems worth solving and by the creative process of making

something useful and beautiful. He traces his leadership growth from personally handling every job to

finding people better than him, giving them real ownership, and learning when a founder must step back.

The conversation then moves into failure intelligence. Daniel explains why a humbling setback can make

a talented leader more introspective, hungry, and effective. He and CJ discuss the difference between

experiencing failure and actually learning how to use it.

In the episode's most personal section, Daniel separates external loss from personal worth. Builders may

mourn, cry, struggle, and doubt themselves. But pain must not become identity. The work is to learn the

lesson, treat people with kindness, give yourself grace, and return to the build.

Daniel also introduces the Four C's of a builder's mind - curiosity, compassion, creativity, and courage -

and explains how people who have faced discrimination or limited access can turn those pressures into

empathy, resourcefulness, grit, and strategic advantage.

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The episode closes with the foundation beneath the accomplishments: family, kindness, and the example

of Daniel's father, a Holocaust survivor who endured one of history's hardest chapters without

surrendering his humanity.

Content Advisory and Support

This episode includes discussion of suicide, grief, emotional distress, and financial loss. In the United

States, anyone needing immediate emotional support may call or text 988 or visit https://988lifeline.org.

The 988 Lifeline is available 24/7/365 and describes its service as free and confidential.

Episode Key Takeaways

Money is an outcome of building; it is rarely the only reason serious builders continue.

Founders scale when they replace personal control with capable ownership.

Adversity can strengthen compassion, creativity, courage, and resourcefulness.

Failure becomes intelligence only after reflection changes the next decision.

External success and personal worth must never become the same measurement.

A builder may pause, mourn, and doubt without giving up the right to begin again.

Family provides a form of love that does not depend on the next deal or achievement.

Kindness is not separate from legacy; it is one of the clearest ways legacy is lived.

Guest Links and CTA

Daniel Lubetzky: https://daniellubetzky.com/

Build or Break: https://daniellubetzky.com/podcast

Camino Partners: https://www.caminopartners.com/

AVANCE Global 2026: https://avanceglobal.com/

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What separates a story people enjoy from an experience that changes what they do?

In this episode of The CJ Moneyway Show, CJ sits down with Bob Rogers, founder of BRC Imagination

Arts and author of Deep Story: A Complete Guide to Creating Transformational Visitor Attractions.

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Drawing from a career that began with magic and grew into more than four decades of story-driven

experience design, Bob explains why the most meaningful work begins in the heart of the audience - not

in the creator's clever idea or the newest technology.

Bob breaks down the difference between getting attention and changing identity, the emotional trigger

that connects an audience to a brand or subject, the danger of choosing tools before defining the task,

and the power of a single governing idea to align architects, writers, filmmakers, executives, and

technical teams. He also discusses the ethical responsibility attached to storytelling, the limits and

promise of artificial intelligence, and the long work of building a company that can continue beyond its

founder.

CJ connects Bob's lessons to the Brick by Brick journey and his own keynote principle: AI is the mirror,

not the master. Together, they explore how clarity, empathy, discipline, and responsibility turn creative

ideas into experiences that move people toward lasting action.

Deep Story is scheduled for official release on September 8, 2026. Visit BobRogers.com to learn more

and BRCWeb.com to explore BRC Imagination Arts.

Episode key takeaways

Show business works when the show produces a meaningful business or behavioral outcome.

Changing behavior often requires changing how people see themselves.

The audience must recognize something of itself in the subject or brand.

Clever creative work fails when people remember the spectacle but forget the product, subject, or

purpose.

Storytelling techniques can influence people for good or harm; creators must use them responsibly.

Leaders should define the exact change before choosing design, technology, format, or content.

The strongest central idea eliminates creative chaos by guiding thousands of downstream decisions.

AI may accelerate production, but human judgment still determines what should be made and why.

Founders must begin succession long before they are ready to leave; the transcript's full lesson is

pending the missing second half.

Learn more about Bob Rogers and pre-order Deep Story: A Complete Guide to Creating

Transformational Visitor Attractions at https://www.bobrogers.com/. Explore BRC Imagination Arts and

its story-driven visitor experiences at https://www.brcweb.com/.

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Most business owners do not need more marketing noise. They need a message people understand, a brand people recognize, a clear picture of the customer they serve, and a channel that can produce results repeatedly.

In this episode of The CJ Moneyway Show(TM), CJ sits down with Amber Gaige, a third-generation entrepreneur, international bestselling author, Certified StoryBrand Guide, and founder of Far Beyond Marketing. Amber's entrepreneurial education started at eight years old, when her parents turned a request for a puppy into her first lesson in borrowing, selling, marketing, and paying back a business loan with interest.

After earning a classical music degree and performing in Europe, Amber returned to her family's plumbing, HVAC, and electrical businesses. There, marketing was not theoretical: if the phone did not ring, people could lose work. That pressure taught her to track results, hold vendors accountable, communicate return on investment, and simplify marketing for operators who do not have time or money to waste.

Amber walks CJ through the Four C's of Effective Marketing - Clear Copy, Consistent Branding, Customer Demographics, and Channel Management - and explains why clarity must come before cleverness. The conversation also explores women in male-dominated industries, AI-assisted lead generation, StoryBrand, website ownership, business systems, and what makes a company attractive to a buyer.

What You'll Learn

• Why a customer should understand what you do and how they benefit almost immediately
• How inconsistent logos, colors, fonts, and messaging weaken brand recognition
• Why marketing to the wrong audience wastes money, even when the content looks good
• How channel management turns one-time customers into repeatable revenue opportunities
• Why documented systems, clean books, and repeatable lead generation matter before a sale
• How StoryBrand positions the customer as the hero and the company as the guide
• Why AI performs best when human judgment gives it clear direction
• How faith, respect, hospitality, and service can become operating values - not just brand language

Guest Bio

Amber Gaige is a third-generation entrepreneur, international bestselling author, Certified StoryBrand Guide, and founder of Far Beyond Marketing. Drawing on experience in family-owned home-service companies, competitive industries, agency leadership, and a private-equity exit, she helps business owners simplify their marketing, clarify their messaging, and build systems designed to generate measurable growth.

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• Far Beyond Marketing: https://farbeyondmarketing.com/
• Contact / book a conversation: https://farbeyondmarketing.com/contact/
• Email: hello@farbeyondmarketing.com
• Free marketing assessment / 2-minute marketing quiz: available through the Far Beyond Marketing website
• Book: The Far Beyond Marketing Guidebook: How to Stop Being Duped by Bad Marketing

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Every decision costs something. The hardest decisions are not between good and bad—they are between competing responsibilities, limited resources, uncertain outcomes, and values we do not want to surrender.

In this episode of The CJ Moneyway Show, CJ sits down with Dr. Brad C. Anderson, a Canadian science-fiction author, university business educator, former biotechnology professional, and organizational-wisdom researcher. Brad explains how his seemingly different worlds all examine the same question: How do people and institutions make sound decisions when knowledge is not enough?

Brad shares what science fiction taught him about imagining life beyond the rules of the ordinary world, what biotechnology revealed about the tension between scientific excellence and business reality, and why the strongest organizations combine different forms of expertise instead of allowing one discipline to dominate.

The conversation moves into the heart of Brad’s research: knowledge may be necessary, but it becomes insufficient when we do not know enough, when what we believe is wrong, or when two valid facts point toward conflicting actions. Through examples involving quality, budgets, healthcare risk, vaccines, and organizational constraints, Brad shows why wise leadership requires more than having information—it requires navigating trade-offs.

CJ and Brad also explore why life is governed by probabilities rather than guarantees, how lost trust changes decision-making, and why values, rationality, and power must be examined together. The result is a thoughtful but practical conversation for entrepreneurs, executives, educators, creators, and anyone responsible for making decisions that affect other people.

Because sometimes the challenge is not finding the right answer. It is deciding what cost you are willing to carry—and acting with wisdom when no perfect answer exists.

In this episode, you’ll learn

• Why science fiction can strengthen strategic imagination
• How disciplinary arrogance weakens organizations
• Why knowledge alone cannot resolve complex trade-offs
• The difference between certainty and probability
• How trust shapes whether people accept expert guidance
• Why values, rationality, and power belong in the same decision framework
• How constraints determine what is ethically practical

Episode key takeaways

• Humility is a strategic capability: your expertise is one piece of the puzzle, not the entire puzzle.
• A fact can be true and still be insufficient to determine what should happen next.
• Wise decisions reconcile competing truths under real constraints.
• Good behavior improves probability; it does not guarantee outcome.
• Leaders damage trust when they communicate probability as certainty.
• Values without power remain intentions; power without values can become manipulation.
• The practical question is not only ‘What is right?’ but ‘What is ethically achievable here?’

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• Brad C. Anderson’s website: https://bradanderson2000.com/
• Free open textbook, Developing Organizational and Managerial Wisdom: https://kpu.pressbooks.pub/developingwisdom/
• LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/bcanders
• Amazon author page: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0088AJWW6

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Struggling to generate a meaningful return from Google Ads?

You are not alone.

In this episode, CJ Moneyway sits down with John Horn, CEO of StubGroup, a digital advertising agency specializing in paid media management, Google Ads optimization, account suspension recovery, and advertising compliance.

According to John, StubGroup has helped more than 2,000 clients generate over $400 million in revenue by navigating the complexities of pay-per-click advertising and creating campaigns focused on measurable business results.

John explains why many paid advertising campaigns fail, how poor targeting and weak conversion tracking can drain marketing budgets, and why hiring the least expensive advertising provider can create greater costs over time.

CJ and John also examine one of the most stressful challenges advertisers face: Google Ads account suspensions. John shares why accounts are suspended, the mistakes businesses commonly make when appealing, and how advertisers can build more compliant and resilient campaigns.

In This Episode

• Why many Google Ads campaigns fail to generate a strong return
• Common PPC mistakes made by small and midsized businesses
• The danger of choosing paid advertising support based only on price
• How tracking, targeting, and landing pages affect profitability
• What causes Google Ads account suspensions
• How businesses can reduce advertising compliance risks
• The StubGroup approach to transparency and campaign optimization
• Google Ads strategies for specialized and niche industries
• The role of AI and automation in digital advertising
• How businesses can use paid media to scale responsibly
• John Horn’s advice for companies struggling to improve PPC performance

Paid advertising should not be treated as a shortcut.

It should be managed as a measurable business system—with clear objectives, accurate data, continuous optimization, and a realistic understanding of customer acquisition costs.

Plus, stay tuned for the QuickFire Round, where John answers five rapid-fire questions with the first response that comes to mind.

Listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and all major podcast platforms.

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After 43 years of marriage, Doug Lawrence lost his beloved wife and entered a season that changed his understanding of grief, mental health and purpose.

In this deeply personal conversation, Doug explains why telling his wife’s story became part of his healing, how unresolved losses can accumulate and why asking for help should never be mistaken for weakness. He also discusses how mentors, counselors, family members and trusted friends can support someone through grief—while emphasizing that mentoring should never replace professional mental-health care.

CJ shares how losing his father affected every member of his family differently, including how his mother continues to carry the loss of her husband. Together, CJ and Doug explore the memories, dates and ordinary moments that can bring grief back without warning.

This conversation is about more than learning to live after loss. It is about preserving love, finding safe people with whom to tell the truth and understanding that nobody should have to walk through grief entirely alone.

Doug Lawrence is a grief mentor, author and founder of TalentC. His book, Grief: The Silent Pandemic, examines the emotional and social realities of grief and the importance of connection throughout the healing journey.

In this episode:

• Why grief does not follow a fixed timeline
• How different family members experience the same loss differently
• Why storytelling became part of Doug’s healing
• How unresolved losses can affect future grief
• The role of memory and family rituals
• Why men need safe spaces to discuss emotional pain
• How mentoring can support—but not replace—professional care
• Why it is okay to ask for help

Connect with Doug Lawrence:

Website: https://www.talentc.ca
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/douglawrence-mentor

Grief: The Silent Pandemic is available through Amazon and other major booksellers. ISBN: 9781941680186.

Listener note: This episode discusses bereavement, mental-health struggles and emotional crisis. It is intended for education and personal reflection and is not a substitute for care from a qualified mental-health professional.

If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, call or text 988 in the United States or Canada. If there is immediate danger, contact local emergency services.

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What Happens When a Place Refuses to Leave Your Imagination?

Sometimes a story begins with an idea.

Sometimes it begins with a character.

And sometimes it begins with a place.

For author Myron Edwards, a journey to Aphrodite’s Rock on the island of Cyprus became the creative spark behind Mistress of the Rock—a mythological novel bringing ancient legend into a modern story involving love, war, trauma, obsession, possession, and redemption.

On this episode of The CJ Moneyway Show, CJ sits down with Myron to explore not simply the book, but the creative life that eventually produced it.

Myron’s journey has moved through television comedy, advertising, international travel, media, and publishing. His earlier writing includes work connected with the legendary BBC comedy program The Two Ronnies. Over time, his storytelling evolved from the economy and wit of comedy and advertising into longer, emotionally layered fiction.

And then Cyprus gave him another story to tell.

IN THIS EPISODE

CJ and Myron explore:

• Myron’s evolution as a lifelong creative

• His experience writing in television and advertising

• The transition from comedy writing into fiction

• How international travel influenced his storytelling

• The experience that sparked Mistress of the Rock

• Why Cyprus became more than simply a setting

• The influence of Aphrodite and ancient Greek mythology

• Bringing ancient mythology into a contemporary narrative

• Writing about war trauma, obsession, love, and redemption

• The discipline required to sustain a creative life

• How writers transform experiences into stories

• What Myron wants readers to experience through his work

THE BIGGER MONEYWAY LESSON

A creative life rarely moves in a perfectly straight line.

The work you did ten years ago may prepare you for something you have not imagined yet.

The place you visit today may become tomorrow’s story.

The experiences that appear disconnected can eventually reveal themselves as pieces of the same journey.

That is one of the deeper principles behind this conversation:

Nothing meaningful has to be wasted when you learn how to turn experience into purpose.

Brick by Brick.

ABOUT MYRON EDWARDS

Myron Edwards is a writer and storyteller whose creative career has included television, advertising, travel, media, and fiction.

His work evolved from comedy writing associated with BBC television and The Two Ronnies into long-form fiction influenced by history, mythology, place, and human experience.

He is the author of Mistress of the Rock, a mythological novel inspired by Aphrodite’s Rock and the island of Cyprus.

CONNECT WITH MYRON EDWARDS

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Myron Edwards: @myronedwards

Book: Mistress of the Rock

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THE MONEYWAY MOVE

Listen to Myron’s story and then ask yourself:

What experience, place, relationship, or unfinished idea from your own journey might still be waiting for you to turn it into something meaningful?

Listen. Watch. Subscribe. Share. Rate and review.

Then take one principle from the conversation and put it into action.

One Conversation. Unlimited Assets.

Create Once. Publish Everywhere. Build Forever.

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Clarity Over Comfort

What changes when a man stops using alcohol to escape—and begins confronting his life with clarity?

On this episode of The CJ Moneyway Show, CJ sits down with Shane Ramer, host of That Sober Guy Podcast, for a transparent conversation about sobriety, masculinity, faith, family, accountability, leadership, and the courage required to ask for help.

Shane shares how alcohol became a coping mechanism for stress, relationships, responsibility, and the pressures of life. After trying to quit on his own, he reached a moment of surrender: he recognized that asking for help did not make him weak or a failure.

It allowed him to begin rebuilding.

Nearly thirteen years later, Shane describes a life centered on his faith, wife, children, service to other men, and the daily practices that protect his sobriety and clarity.

This conversation moves beyond the idea that sobriety is only about what someone stops doing.

It explores what becomes possible afterward.

In this episode

CJ and Shane discuss:

• Recognizing when alcohol is subtracting from your life
• Using alcohol as an escape from unresolved problems
• Why surrendering to God is different from giving up
• The difference between religion and a relationship with God
• Why men need trustworthy relationships
• Shane’s experience with Twelve Step recovery
• Recovery stigma and the men who will never enter a traditional meeting
• Why connection is essential to overcoming addiction
• What clarity makes possible in leadership and business
• How better sleep, nutrition, exercise, support, and community affect performance
• Replacing immediate gratification with long-term discipline
• Learning to have authentic fun without alcohol
• Why environments sometimes must change before behavior can change
• The consequences a man’s decisions can create for his family
• Why asking for help is not a sign of weakness
• The danger of victim mentality
• What intentional leadership looks like
• The biggest lie men believe about alcohol

The bigger Moneyway lesson

Alcohol may temporarily change how someone feels, but it does not resolve what remains underneath.

The unresolved relationship is still there.

The financial pressure is still there.

The fear is still there.

The responsibility is still there.

And when the temporary escape ends, those problems often return with additional consequences.

Shane’s journey demonstrates that clarity does not instantly repair every part of life. It gives a man the ability to see what requires repair—and the capacity to begin doing the work.

That work requires faith.

It requires support.

It requires repetition.

It requires accountability.

And it requires the willingness to make the next right decision, even when nobody is applauding.

That is clarity over comfort.

That is Built For Purpose.

About Shane Ramer

Shane Ramer is the host of That Sober Guy Podcast and the founder of the Victory Circle, a free online community supporting men who want to live without alcohol.

Drawing from his own experience with addiction, Twelve Step recovery, faith, mentorship, marriage, fatherhood, and nearly thirteen years of sobriety, Shane helps men pursue greater clarity, responsibility, connection, and personal leadership.

He is also the author of That Sober Guy: How Do I? Real Answers for Men Who Want to Quit Drinking, Lead Strong and Win at Life.

Connect with Shane Ramer

Website:

https://www.thatsoberguy.com

Podcast and Victory Circle information are available through Shane’s website.

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The Moneyway Move

Identify one habit you use to escape something you know needs your attention.

Then ask:

• What am I avoiding?
• Who is affected by my decision?
• What support have I refused to request?
• What is the next right action I can take?

Clarity begins when avoidance ends.

Listen. Watch. Subscribe. Share. Then put one principle into action.

Brick by Brick.

That’s The CJ Moneyway.

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This episode shares personal experiences and is not medical treatment. Abruptly stopping alcohol can be medically dangerous for some people. Anyone concerned about alcohol dependence or withdrawal should consult a qualified healthcare professional.

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Different Minds Build Different Worlds

What happens when fantasy becomes more than escape?

What happens when the worlds an author creates become places where identity, difference, strength, fear, belonging, and human struggle can be explored without limits?

On this episode of The CJ Moneyway Show, CJ sits down with Canadian fantasy author J.M. Shaw, a neurodivergent storyteller, mother, martial artist, psychology enthusiast, and creator of the Callum Walker series.

J.M. has built an expansive fantasy universe through:

• Callum Walker: The Fractured Veil

• The Ascension

• The Convergence

• Forsaken Souls

Her stories move through magical wars, fractured realms, supernatural conflict, destiny, power, and survival.

But the deeper story exists beyond the fantasy.

J.M. has spoken openly about autism and ADHD diagnoses within her family and about the way neurodivergence has influenced how she understands herself and the people around her.

That perspective does not simply exist outside her writing.

It helps shape how she sees character, motivation, difference, internal struggle, and strength.

IN THIS EPISODE

CJ and J.M. explore:

• Where her love of storytelling began

• Why fantasy became her creative home

• Building the Callum Walker universe

• The inspiration behind The Fractured Veil

• How autism and ADHD have influenced her creative perspective

• Motherhood and understanding neurodivergence as a family

• Why different minds can bring different strengths to storytelling

• The connection between psychology and character development

• How martial arts informs discipline, conflict, movement, and resilience

• Creating magical wars that reflect recognizable human struggles

• Writing characters who face identity, destiny, fear, and belonging

• The discipline necessary to build a multi-book fantasy saga

• What she hopes readers find inside the worlds she creates

THE BIGGER MONEYWAY LESSON

One of the most important ideas behind this conversation is simple:

Difference is not the absence of ability.

Sometimes the way someone processes the world differently becomes part of the way they contribute something the world has never seen before.

J.M. Shaw’s journey invites us to reconsider the labels we place on people—and the assumptions we make about how intelligence, creativity, discipline, and strength are supposed to look.

Your mind does not have to work like everyone else’s to build something meaningful.

Sometimes the different perspective becomes part of the gift.

That’s Built For Purpose.

ABOUT J.M. SHAW

J.M. Shaw is a Canadian independent fantasy author from Alberta whose creative interests include storytelling, psychology, martial arts, neurodivergence, and the construction of complex fantasy worlds.

She is the creator of the Callum Walker series, which includes The Fractured Veil, The Ascension, The Convergence, and Forsaken Souls.

Her work combines mythology, magical conflict, fractured worlds, internal struggle, destiny, and character-driven fantasy.

CONNECT WITH J.M. SHAW

Website:

@J.M. Shaw Website

LinkedIn:

@J.M. Shaw LinkedIn

Instagram:

@J.M. Shaw Instagram

Facebook:

@J.M. Shaw Facebook

YouTube:

@J.M. Shaw YouTube

Books:

@J.M. Shaw Books

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Then ask a different question:

What strength, perspective, creativity, or understanding might exist inside the very thing I have been trying to hide?

Listen.

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Permission to Spend: Rethinking Whole Life, Retirement, and Financial Freedom with Tom Wall, Ph.D.

What does true financial freedom look like?

For many people, it’s not simply about accumulating wealth—it’s about having the confidence to use it wisely without the fear of running out.

On this episode of The CJ Moneyway Show, CJ sits down with Tom Wall, Ph.D., Wealth Strategist, Speaker, and Author of Permission to Spend. With more than two decades of experience helping individuals and families prepare for retirement, Tom shares a practical approach to retirement income planning that challenges conventional financial thinking.

Throughout the conversation, Tom explains why so many retirees remain financially anxious despite having significant savings, how whole life insurance can serve as a strategic financial asset, and why retirement planning should focus on creating dependable income rather than simply growing investment balances.

CJ and Tom also discuss the principles behind Infinite Banking, legal tax-efficient retirement strategies, and the importance of building a financial plan that aligns with your personal goals and values—not fear.

Whether you’re an entrepreneur, business owner, professional, or preparing for retirement, this episode offers valuable insights to help you think differently about wealth, security, and long-term financial confidence.

In This Episode:

• Why financial confidence matters as much as financial wealth
• The role of whole life insurance in retirement planning
• Common misconceptions about Infinite Banking
• Strategies for creating tax-efficient retirement income
• Why many successful people still fear spending their money
• Building a retirement plan that provides true “Permission to Spend”

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What if the real secret to longevity in real estate isn’t selling more homes—but building relationships people remember long after the transaction is over?

On this episode of The CJ Moneyway Show, CJ Moneyway sits down with Debbi DiMaggio, a top 1.5% Realtor nationwide, four-time author, podcast host, coach, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, for a conversation about real estate, relationships, reinvention, and the mindset required to build a career that lasts.

With more than 30 years of experience, Debbi has guided people through some of life’s biggest transitions—from buying a first home and preparing a property for market to relocating, downsizing, and stepping into an entirely new chapter.

But this conversation is about much more than buying and selling property.

Debbi and CJ explore why real estate is ultimately a people business and why trust, communication, collaboration, accountability, and service can matter just as much as market knowledge.

Debbi shares her perspective on building referral relationships between agents across different markets, helping first-time buyers become better prepared, and understanding the difference between simply listing a home and intentionally positioning it for the market.

The conversation also goes into an often-overlooked part of real estate: the emotions attached to transition.

For seniors, families, and individuals leaving a longtime home, a move can represent far more than a change of address. It can mean letting go of memories, adjusting to a new stage of life, and making difficult decisions during an already emotional season.

That requires more than a real estate professional.

It requires someone who understands people.

CJ and Debbi also discuss mindset, resilience, accountability, reinvention, and legacy—and what decades in business can teach us about staying relevant without losing the relationships and values that built our success in the first place.

IN THIS CONVERSATION

• Why relationships should outlast the transaction
• How collaboration and referrals can expand opportunities across markets
• What first-time homebuyers should understand before entering the market
• Preparing and positioning a home to sell
• Why mindset and accountability matter in real estate
• The emotional realities of downsizing and major life transitions
• Supporting seniors and families with empathy
• Reinventing yourself throughout a long career
• Building a reputation rooted in service, trust, and consistency
• Why long-term success and legacy are ultimately about people

Debbi DiMaggio’s journey is a reminder that a successful career isn’t measured only by what you sell. It’s also measured by the relationships you build, the people you serve, and the reputation you leave behind.

Listen to this conversation on The CJ Moneyway Show, available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and major podcast platforms.

EPISODE KEY TAKEAWAYS

Relationships create longevity. A transaction may introduce two people, but genuine relationship-building can create opportunities for years.

Collaboration expands the table. Real estate professionals don’t always have to compete. Strong referral networks can serve clients while creating opportunities across cities, states, and even international markets.

Preparation matters for buyers. First-time homebuyers benefit from understanding their finances, expectations, and the process before they begin seriously shopping.

Selling requires positioning. Preparing a home for the market means learning to see the property through the eyes of the next buyer.

Mindset affects performance. Accountability, resilience, and the ability to adapt are essential when markets, clients, and circumstances change.

Transitions are emotional. Downsizing, relocating, or leaving a longtime family home can carry significant emotional weight, particularly for seniors and their families.

Reinvention is part of longevity. A long career requires the willingness to evolve while protecting the principles and relationships that established your reputation.

Legacy extends beyond the sale. The deeper measurement of success is often found in how people remember being treated.

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Pressure doesn’t create leaders.

It reveals them.

On this episode, CJ Moneyway sits down with Claire Hayek—TEDx Speaker, NeuroLeadership expert, executive coach, founder, and host of The NeuroLeadership Edge Podcast, ranked among the top 5% of podcasts globally.

Claire has spent decades helping executives, entrepreneurs, and organizations understand what happens to the brain under pressure—and why the strongest leaders aren’t simply motivated; they’re prepared.

Together, CJ and Claire explore how neuroscience can improve leadership, communication, emotional intelligence, and executive performance when the stakes are highest.

Whether you’re leading a business, managing a team, building a ministry, or navigating life’s unexpected challenges, this conversation offers practical strategies for becoming a leader who remains steady when everything around you is uncertain.

In This Episode

• Why pressure reveals your leadership operating system
• What neuroscience teaches about stress and decision-making
• Communicating effectively under pressure
• Emotional regulation and executive performance
• Building resilient teams and organizational culture
• Why self-awareness is one of a leader’s greatest strengths
• Practical tools for developing pressure-proof leadership
• Creating a lasting legacy through intentional leadership

If you’re committed to leading with clarity, resilience, and purpose, this conversation belongs on your playlist.

Listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you enjoy podcasts.

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EPISODE KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Pressure exposes the systems already operating within a leader.
• Emotional regulation improves decision quality.
• Neuroscience provides practical tools for stronger leadership.
• Communication becomes even more important during uncertainty.
• Self-awareness is essential for sustainable leadership.
• High-performing leaders intentionally prepare before crises occur.
• Leadership resilience is developed through consistent habits.
• Legacy is built by how leaders respond when pressure arrives.

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“Pressure doesn’t create leadership—it reveals the operating system already in place.”

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“Resilient leaders build systems before they need them.”

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What If Healing Doesn’t Mean Pretending It Never Hurt?

Some people talk about transformation after everything has worked out.

Zulma Beatriz Williams talks about it with the scars still visible.

On this episode of The CJ Moneyway Show, CJ sits down with Zulma—a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, motivational speaker, founder of Dragonfly Therapy Services, and the unapologetically authentic mental-health professional known as The Swearing Therapist.

Her style may catch people off guard.

She is direct.

She is honest.

And when the moment calls for it, she is not afraid to use language that sounds more like a real conversation than a textbook therapy session.

But underneath the personality is a life shaped by survival, rebuilding, education, service, and transformation.

Zulma began pursuing her social-work education in her forties. She survived breast cancer, continued her education, navigated trauma and depression, and ultimately built a professional life helping others confront the difficult chapters of their own stories.

This conversation isn’t about pretending pain is beautiful.

It’s about what we decide to build after pain enters the story.

IN THIS EPISODE

CJ and Zulma explore:

• The origin of “The Swearing Therapist”
• Why authenticity matters in mental-health conversations
• Beginning a new educational journey later in life
• Surviving breast cancer while continuing to move forward
• Growing up in Buenos Aires and the experiences that shaped her
• Trauma, depression, and rebuilding identity
• The difference between experiencing victimization and building a permanent identity around victimhood
• Why people can become stuck inside trauma narratives
• Reclaiming your voice after difficult experiences
• The meaning behind Dragonfly Therapy Services
• How transformation differs from pretending the past never happened
• Mental-health stigma and why honest language matters
• The responsibility clinicians carry even when their style is unconventional
• What freedom means after rebuilding your life
• Discovering the warrior within

THE MONEYWAY TAKEAWAY

Healing does not require denying the scar.

The scar proves something happened.

But it does not get to decide everything that happens next.

Zulma’s story raises an important question:

Can we acknowledge what happened to us without surrendering the authorship of what happens after it?

That distinction matters.

Because surviving is one chapter.

Rebuilding is another.

And eventually, some people reach the chapter where what they learned becomes service for somebody else.

That’s transformation.

Brick by Brick.

ABOUT ZULMA BEATRIZ WILLIAMS

Zulma Beatriz Williams is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, motivational speaker, founder of Dragonfly Therapy Services, and a mental-health professional known publicly as The Swearing Therapist.

Her work emphasizes authenticity, trauma recovery, emotional honesty, personal transformation, and helping people reclaim their voice after difficult seasons.

Her personal journey includes surviving breast cancer, returning to education later in life, navigating trauma and depression, and rebuilding across multiple chapters of life.

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Identify one scar—emotional, relational, professional, or personal—that you have allowed to define more of your identity than it deserves.

Don’t deny what happened.

Don’t minimize it.

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What gets to happen next?

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Built For Purpose.

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Can compassion actually make an organization more profitable?

Leadership strategist Hanna Bauer says yes — and she has the track record to argue it.

Hanna is the Founder and CEO of HEARTnomics, a certified trainer with the John Maxwell Team, DISC, and the Ziglar Legacy programs. After serious health challenges reshaped how she saw work and worth, she built a leadership philosophy she calls the Economy of the Heart — the conviction that healthy cultures are constructed on purpose, through trust, empathy, accountability, and genuine care for people.

In this conversation she and CJ Moneyway get into burnout, resilience, servant leadership, and why leading with heart isn’t softness — it’s a competitive advantage most organizations still leave on the table.

IN THIS EPISODE

Building profitable cultures through people-first leadership

Turning personal adversity into lifelong purpose

Leadership lessons from John Maxwell and Zig Ziglar

Emotional intelligence as a business advantage

Healthy workplaces without lowering the bar on excellence

Leading through uncertainty and organizational change

Why love and accountability belong together

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Wes grew up moving constantly — different states, different countries, new friends every few years. The one constant was story: books, movies, television. He wrote plays as a kid. He built a career in tech. And the whole time he watched the craft of storytelling get worse while he waited for someone to do something about it.

Eventually he realized nobody was coming. So he built it himself: Brotherhood of the Wolf, an independent graphic novel series he describes as Berserk meets Black Hawk Down — published in print only, drawn by professors from one of Italy’s serious comic schools, with fifteen issues mapped out and a video game in pre-production.

In this conversation:

•Why story reaches people emotionally when facts and figures never move the needle

•The doorman story — how a consulting firm saved a hotel chain money and cost it customers, because nobody counted what the doorman actually did

•What corporate structure does to creativity, and why skin in the game changes how you think

•The case for print: first editions, resale value, and why digital ownership is really just renting

•Media as diet — what you consume shapes you whether you’re paying attention or not

•Wes on Hollywood’s long record with Muslim and Arab characters, and building the stories he wanted his kids to have

•Quickfire round: dark fantasy, Berserk, and the most misunderstood villain in film

The takeaway: the people and things a spreadsheet can’t measure are usually the ones holding everything together. That’s true of a doorman, and it’s true of the stories you let into your house.

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Susan Hensley spent decades as a corporate executive and leadership coach — until a pandemic and an impending retirement stacked pressure on her at the same time. What pulled her through wasn’t another strategy or a five-year plan. It was a blank page, some color, and a willingness to play again.

Susan is a transformational coach, speaker, and author of Art for Your Sanity: How Art Journaling Can Help You Manage Chaos and Unleash Joy. In this conversation, she and CJ Moneyway get into why so many adults lose their creativity somewhere along the way — and what it costs them when they do.

In this episode:

•Why Susan left the corporate world and found healing in art journaling

•How to start when you’re convinced you “aren’t creative”

•The way creative practice quiets the inner critic and unlocks right-brain problem solving

•What actually keeps people stuck during retirement, career shifts, and personal loss

•Why leaders battling burnout may need play more than another productivity system

•One exercise you can use today to bring clarity and joy back into your week

The takeaway: creativity isn’t a talent reserved for artists. It’s a tool for anyone trying to think clearly, heal honestly, and move forward on purpose.

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What happens when you have the education, talent, knowledge, and skills to succeed—but your results still do not reflect your potential?

In this episode of The CJ Moneyway Show, CJ Moneyway sits down with leadership researcher, professor, consultant, and author Ryan Gottfredson, Ph.D. for a revealing conversation about why lasting transformation requires more than credentials, checklists, and hard work.

Ryan shares the defining professional setback that changed the direction of his career. After leaving academia temporarily for a consulting position, he became frustrated because he believed the organization had placed him in a role that was smaller than his capabilities. When he called his manager to demand a greater opportunity, he was fired.

The experience left Ryan carrying shame and questioning how someone with his education and leadership expertise could still fail so dramatically.

His answer became the foundation of his work:

The problem was not his talent, knowledge, or skills. The problem was the quality of his mindsets.

Ryan explains that people possess two dimensions of development. The Doing Side includes talent, knowledge, skills, abilities, achievements, and credentials. The Being Side includes mindsets, character, emotional intelligence, emotional regulation, and the quality of a person’s internal operating system.

Most education and leadership development focuses almost entirely on helping people do more. Ryan argues that transformational growth begins when people learn how to be better.

CJ and Ryan also explore the story of a talented professional named Cheryl, who repeatedly pursued new certifications after being passed over for promotions. Her challenge was not a lack of qualifications. Fear prevented her from taking initiative and demonstrating the leadership capacity required for advancement.

The conversation moves into constructive criticism, emotional defensiveness, nervous-system regulation, journaling, purpose, fulfillment, organizational culture, and legacy. Ryan explains why the most elevated leaders are purpose-focused, root-focused, culture-focused, and committed to long-term impact rather than short-term results alone.

In this episode, you will learn:

• The difference between the Doing Side and the Being Side
• Why knowledge and credentials do not automatically produce leadership effectiveness
• How self-protective mindsets can keep talented people stuck
• Why emotional defensiveness limits personal growth
• How nervous-system regulation supports better leadership
• Why journaling became part of Ryan’s transformation
• How purpose creates deeper fulfillment than achievement
• The difference between fruit-focused and root-focused leadership
• Why lasting legacy requires making the people around you better
• How healing the mind, body, and heart supports personal transformation

Ryan’s latest book, Becoming Better, presents his science-informed framework for developing the Being Side through stronger mindsets, emotional depth, and internal regulation.

This episode is for leaders, entrepreneurs, professionals, and high performers who have spent years learning how to achieve—but are ready to transform who they are.

Doing better may improve your performance. Becoming better changes your life, leadership, and legacy.

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About Ryan Gottfredson

Ryan Gottfredson, Ph.D., is a leadership consultant, trainer, coach, researcher, and professor specializing in leadership mindsets and vertical development. He helps leaders and organizations identify and improve the internal mindsets that influence decision-making, performance, relationships, and leadership effectiveness.

Ryan is an associate professor and assistant director of the Center for Leadership at California State University, Fullerton. He holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and Human Resources from Indiana University.

His books include:

• Becoming Better
• The Elevated Leader
• Success Mindsets

His newest book, Becoming Better, focuses on developing the Being Side—the mindsets, emotional depth, and internal regulation required for sustainable personal and leadership transformation.

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Every child deserves the opportunity to believe in themselves.

Yet for millions of families navigating dyslexia, that confidence is often replaced with frustration, confusion, and the heartbreaking belief that something is wrong.

In this episode of The CJ Moneyway Show, CJ Moneyway welcomes Russell B. Van Brocklen, better known as The Dyslexia Professor, for an eye-opening conversation about what dyslexia really is—and what it isn’t.

Russell explains why traditional classroom approaches frequently leave dyslexic students behind, why “waiting and seeing” can delay meaningful progress, and how structured literacy and multisensory learning can help children regain confidence.

Throughout the conversation, Russell shares practical strategies parents can begin using immediately while encouraging families to see dyslexia not as a limitation, but as a different pathway to learning and success.

In this episode you’ll learn:

• Why “wait and see” often hurts more than helps

• The biggest misconceptions about dyslexia

• Why dyslexic learners are specialists rather than generalists

• How to rebuild confidence after academic frustration

• Why multisensory instruction produces stronger results

• What parents should advocate for inside schools

• How children can transform from self-doubt to self-confidence

If you’re raising, teaching, coaching, or supporting a child with dyslexia, this conversation offers practical guidance and hope.

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About Russell B. Van Brocklen

Russell B. Van Brocklen, known as The Dyslexia Professor, is an educator, advocate, and creator of structured literacy programs that help struggling readers build confidence and achieve academic success. Through brain-based instruction and multisensory learning, he equips families with practical strategies that empower children to thrive.

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Built in the Pit: Chris Duffin on Resilience, Accountability, and the Discipline to Rise

What does resilience look like when the motivational speech ends and the difficult work remains?

On this episode of The CJ Moneyway Show, CJ sits down with world-record strength athlete, bestselling author, entrepreneur, and resilience mentor Chris Duffin, widely known as the Mad Scientist of Strength.

Chris’s understanding of adversity was formed long before he entered a gym or built globally recognized companies. He grew up homeless in the wilderness, experienced extreme poverty and violence, cared for younger siblings, and learned survival responsibilities at an age when most children are still being protected from danger.

Rather than allowing those circumstances to define the limits of his future, Chris developed an extraordinary belief in his ability to adapt, solve problems, and rebuild.

In this conversation, CJ and Chris explore:

• Why resilience is a capacity that can be trained
• The difference between fear as a warning and fear as a prison
• Chris’s Six Ps cycle of human development
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Technology is evolving faster than ever.

But one question remains:

Are we preparing ourselves just as quickly?

In this episode of The CJ Moneyway Show, CJ Moneyway welcomes award-winning authors Charles V. Breakfield and Rox Burkey, the creative force behind the internationally recognized E-nig-ma Series.

Together they discuss how cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, digital privacy, and innovation have influenced their writing while exploring how fiction often becomes reality faster than we expect.

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From Fear to Freedom: How Amy Koford Reclaimed Her Power and Helped Others Do the Same

What if the biggest obstacle standing between you and your purpose isn’t your circumstances—but fear?

In this powerful episode of The CJ Moneyway Show, CJ Moneyway welcomes motivational speaker, author, and certified hypnotist Amy Koford. Once a stay-at-home mother raising five children, Amy faced depression, anxiety, and a life-threatening illness that nearly claimed her life. Rather than allowing fear to define her future, she transformed her pain into purpose and now helps others reclaim their confidence, overcome limiting beliefs, and thrive.

Together, CJ and Amy discuss:

• Overcoming fear and self-doubt
• Recovering from depression and anxiety
• Finding purpose through adversity
• The power of mindset
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• Building resilience through life’s hardest seasons
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What happens when the dream you’ve spent years building has to be placed on hold?

This week on The CJ Moneyway Show, CJ sits down with author Mark for a deeply personal conversation about purpose, sacrifice, parenting, and rediscovering the dreams you thought were gone forever.

After publishing five books, Mark and his wife made a life-changing decision to adopt four older children, each navigating PTSD and significant learning challenges. That decision transformed every part of their lives and led Mark to step away from writing for nearly seventeen years.

Now, he’s returned with a brand-new young adult dystopian novel, carrying wisdom that could only come from living through one of life’s most meaningful interruptions.

Together they discuss:

Choosing family over personal ambition

Parenting children through trauma

Living with delayed dreams

Faith during difficult seasons

Returning to creativity after years away

Why purpose doesn’t always follow your timeline

This isn’t just an interview about writing.

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If you’ve ever wondered whether you’ve missed your opportunity…

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Most entrepreneurs think growth means working harder.

Michael Barbarita believes something different.

After more than four decades helping businesses improve profitability and performance, the Founder of Next Step CFO has discovered that the key to growth isn't always doing more.

It's doing less of the wrong things.

In this episode, Michael shares the principles that have helped countless business owners simplify operations, increase revenue, and create businesses that support their lives instead of consuming them.

In this conversation, we discuss:

• The power of the 80/20 Rule in business
• How to increase profits without working longer hours
• Streamlining operations for sustainable growth
• Financial leadership and smarter decision-making
• Creating a business that serves your life — not your stress

Because success isn't measured by how busy you are.

It's measured by impact, freedom, and the life you're building.

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Most people spend their lives dreaming about travel.

Ralph Velasco built his life around it.

Ralph is a travel photographer, author, speaker, and the founder of Continental DRIFTER — leading unforgettable five-star adventures across the globe for more than fifteen years. He has helped people explore the world with intention, combining photography, culture, mindfulness, food, and adventure into something far bigger than tourism.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Turning passion into a purpose-driven career
• Becoming location-independent
• Travel photography and visual storytelling
• Mindfulness and living with intention
• Food, culture, and human connection
• Entrepreneurship and building a lifestyle business
• Why experiences matter more than possessions
 

Because success isn't always about climbing higher.

Sometimes it's about living deeper.

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When most people talk about performance, John Goldman is out proving it.

John is the Founder and CEO of Rebel Health, a precision-based health company helping business owners, executives, and high achievers move beyond reactive medicine, guesswork, and generic fitness advice.

His philosophy is simple:

Real results come from data, discipline, and structured action.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Why health is infrastructure, not an afterthought
• The problem with reactive medicine
• How high performers should think about longevity
• Why discipline beats motivation
• Building systems for sustainable energy and peak performance
• The connection between health, leadership, and legacy
 

Because wealth means very little without health.

And legacy requires both.

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Most entrepreneurs spend their lives trying to master one business.

David Steele chose a different path.

As CEO and Co-Founder of One Wealth Advisors, David helps oversee a $1 billion independent wealth advisory firm. At the same time, he's the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Flour + Water Hospitality Group, one of the most respected restaurant groups in San Francisco.

But David's story isn't simply about building businesses.

It's about creating culture.

It's about community.

It's about using entrepreneurship as a vehicle for impact.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Managing a $1 billion wealth advisory firm
• Building acclaimed restaurants in one of America's toughest markets
• Balancing multiple passions and industries
• Leadership and entrepreneurship
• Philanthropy and creating positive change
• Why success and happiness aren't always the same thing
• The mindset behind becoming a modern Renaissance entrepreneur
 

Because business isn't just about building wealth.

It's about building things that outlive you.

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What if closing the racial wealth gap wasn’t a slogan…

But a strategy?

On this episode of The CJ Moneyway Show, CJ sits down with Carter Cofield and George Acheampong, co-founders of Melanin Money — a financial education and tax strategy powerhouse on a mission to close the racial wealth gap by $100 BILLION.

They’ve built a $10.5M business. Helped clients generate over $100M in wealth. Educated 20,000+ entrepreneurs for free.

But this isn’t just about revenue.

It’s about ownership.

Carter, a CPA and brain tumor survivor, brings the tactical brilliance and heart behind tax strategy and business structure. George, a financial architect for rising founders, delivers mindset, clarity, and scalable wealth blueprints.

In this episode, we unpack:

• The $100B vision — and why it’s achievable • The overlooked power of tax strategy in wealth creation • From hustle income to holding assets • The mindset shift from scarcity to strategy • Carter’s health battle and how it sharpened urgency • Why financial literacy must evolve • Building an 8-figure brand rooted in education • The generational wealth blueprint for 2026 and beyond

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What’s the difference between making money… and keeping it?

On this episode of The CJ Moneyway Show, we explore the concept of wealth infrastructure — the systems and strategies that allow individuals and families to build and protect long-term wealth.

Our guest, a former athlete turned capital strategy advisor, breaks down how entrepreneurs and high earners can move beyond income and start building real financial legacy.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Why most people never build lasting wealth

• The difference between income and financial structure

• How to protect and grow wealth over time

• Common mistakes entrepreneurs make

• What intergenerational wealth really requires

If you’re serious about building wealth that lasts beyond you, this episode is essential listening.

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What happens when music becomes more than entertainment?

On this episode of The CJ Moneyway Show, powered by CJ Moneyway Media and Bleav Network, CJ Moneyway sits down with Utah Burgess — musician, producer, entrepreneur, and community builder.

As frontman of the Americana/rock band Noble Hops, founder of Shady Lady Studio Productions, and co-host of the Grass Roots Show on WLER-FM, Utah has built a creative career rooted in grit, authenticity, and service to local music culture.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Building a music career with purpose
• The story behind Life By The Numbers
• Creating space for independent artists
• Entrepreneurship in the music industry
• Why community matters more than clout
• The mission behind Band Jam Grass Roots Music Festival

This conversation is about music, legacy, hustle, and staying true to your roots.

Brick by brick.

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Some stories are so remarkable they sound like fiction.

Katherine MK Mitchell lived them.

On this episode of The CJ Moneyway Show, CJ sits down with Katherine MK Mitchell—a novelist, former Hollywood agent, storyteller, and survivor whose journey began in war-torn Hungary before leading her to America, New York, Hollywood, and eventually a successful writing career.

Katherine shares what it was like growing up amid political unrest, the courage it took to leave everything behind, and how resilience became the foundation for every chapter that followed.

In this conversation, we explore:

Growing up in war-torn Hungary
Escaping Communist Europe and starting over in America
Building a career in New York and Hollywood
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Navigating power, opportunity, and challenges in entertainment
Reinvention, resilience, and lifelong creativity
Why storytelling preserves both history and legacy
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This is more than a story about survival.

It’s a story about possibility.

A reminder that where you begin doesn’t determine where you finish.

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What if storytelling is one of the most powerful ways to shape the next generation?

On this episode of The CJ Moneyway Show, CJ Moneyway sits down with Diann Floyd Boehm—award-winning children’s author, educator, actress, singer, storyteller, and creative voice dedicated to helping young readers discover confidence, kindness, and imagination.

Before becoming a full-time author, Diann spent years in classrooms, on stages, and raising a family. Those experiences now inspire heartfelt stories that encourage children to dream boldly, embrace compassion, and believe in themselves.

Her books—including The Little Girl in the Moon: The Big Idea and Charlie and the Tire Swing: How It Began—blend creativity with timeless lessons about confidence, curiosity, empathy, and emotional growth.

But this conversation goes beyond children’s literature.

It’s about the stories we tell, the values we pass on, and the legacy we leave for future generations.

In This Episode

• Why storytelling still matters in the digital age

• How imagination builds confidence and emotional intelligence

• The inspiration behind Diann’s award-winning books

• Why kindness should be taught intentionally

• Balancing creativity, education, and parenting

• How stories shape identity, empathy, and resilience

• Encouraging children to dream beyond their circumstances

Long before children understand the world…

They understand stories.

And the stories we share today help shape the leaders of tomorrow.

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What if the biggest mistakes in life could be avoided by learning to trust yourself again?

On this episode of The CJ Moneyway Show, CJ Moneyway welcomes Dr. Nic and Prof. Mike Sebastian, founders of the Divine Guidance Institute, for a transformational conversation about intuition, psychology, spiritual intelligence, and personal growth.

After more than 30 years of psychological and sociological research, the Sebastians developed practical systems to help people reconnect with their inner guidance, improve decision-making, and avoid the kinds of life experiences that leave so many feeling blindsided.

This conversation goes beyond positive thinking.

It’s about developing greater awareness, recognizing the warning signs life presents, and learning how emotional intelligence and spiritual wisdom work together to create lasting transformation.

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• The hidden cost of overriding inner guidance

• The connection between psychology and spiritual intelligence

• Understanding the “Trust Yourself” framework

• Emotional healing and breaking destructive patterns

• Making better decisions with greater clarity

• Building healthier relationships through self-awareness

• Why discernment is essential for leadership and personal growth

Sometimes the answers we’re searching for aren’t somewhere out in the world.

They’re waiting to be recognized within us.

Because clarity isn’t something you find.

It’s something you develop.

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What if retirement isn’t the end of your story… but the beginning of the chapter you were always meant to write?

On this episode of The CJ Moneyway Show, CJ Moneyway sits down with David Nassief, a former Fortune 500 executive who proves that purpose doesn’t retire.

After stepping away from corporate leadership at 62, David embraced a completely new calling. He began writing—not just to tell stories, but to preserve lessons, inspire future generations, and leave a lasting legacy.

Now at 68, with three books published and a fourth on the way, David’s journey is a powerful reminder that it’s never too late to create something meaningful.

This transformational conversation explores reinvention, creativity, spiritual growth, and discovering purpose in every season of life.

In This Episode

• How retirement became the beginning of a new mission

• Why his grandchildren inspired him to start writing

• The healing power of storytelling

• Transitioning from memoirs to historical and spiritual fiction

• Lessons learned from decades of leadership

• Why purpose has no expiration date

• Building a legacy that outlives you

Too many people believe their best years are behind them.

David Nassief reminds us that some of life’s greatest chapters begin the moment we’re willing to embrace change, trust the process, and answer a new calling.

Because it’s never too late to rewrite your story.

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What happens when survival forces you to reinvent yourself over and over again?

On this episode of The CJ Moneyway Show, CJ Moneyway sits down with Air Force Amy — USAF veteran, entrepreneur, public figure, recovery advocate, and one of the most recognizable personalities in Nevada’s legal brothel industry.

Known by millions through HBO’s Cathouse, Amy’s story goes far beyond headlines and public perception.

This is a conversation about:

• survival
• trauma
• reinvention
• addiction recovery
• entrepreneurship
• sexuality
• and reclaiming your identity after years of struggle

From running away as a teenager to serving in the military, navigating the legal sex industry, battling addiction, and stepping into leadership as Madam at the Alien Cathouse, Amy opens up about the realities most people never hear about publicly.

In this episode, we discuss:

• The truth about Nevada’s legal brothel system
• What HBO’s Cathouse didn’t show
• Addiction, sobriety, and emotional healing
• Military trauma and survival mode
• Sex work, empowerment, and personal agency
• Business, branding, and entrepreneurship
• Mental health and reinvention
• Why judgment often hides deeper human stories

This episode is raw, reflective, and deeply human.

Because behind every label…

There’s a real person trying to heal, survive, and evolve.

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