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🎙️ The Doug Thompson Podcast: Storytelling, Speaker Secrets & Epic Laughs! 😂🔥🚀

Doug Thompson

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Frequency: 1 episode/15d. Total Eps: 129

🎙️ Tired of boring corporate babble? Welcome to The Doug Thompson Podcast—where storytelling meets real-world wisdom with a splash of humor and authenticity. Doug, a tech-savvy "edutainer" and passionate BBQ enthusiast, chats with charismatic speakers and trendsetting event planners, giving you exclusive hacks to land dream gigs and craft events worth talking about. Subscribe now, because life’s too short to settle for dull stories—this is the caffeine kick your adulting routine needs! ☕️🎉🚀

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🇺🇸 USA - selfImprovement
10/09/2025
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Failure Was the First Down with Marques Ogden

Season 8 · Episode 10

Friday, August 29, 2025 • Duration 24:34

Keywords

NFL, resilience, speaking, personal growth, rock bottom, coaching, gratitude, service, entrepreneurship, success

Summary

In this conversation, Marques Ogden shares his transformative journey from being an NFL player to hitting rock bottom and eventually becoming a successful speaker and entrepreneur. He discusses the importance of resilience, the lessons learned from his struggles, and the five key steps to becoming a successful speaker. Throughout the conversation, he emphasizes the significance of gratitude and service in his work, aiming to inspire others to avoid the mistakes he made and to thrive in their own journeys.

Takeaways

Marques Ogden transitioned from the NFL to a challenging period of addiction and bankruptcy.

He emphasizes the importance of hitting rock bottom as a catalyst for change.

The five steps to becoming a successful speaker include branding, marketing, sales, operations, and finance.

Authenticity and service are crucial for success in speaking.

Ogden's experiences have shaped his approach to coaching emerging speakers.

He believes that knowledge is powerful, but applying that knowledge is life-changing.

Gratitude plays a significant role in his journey and work.

He aims to help others avoid catastrophic mistakes through his coaching.

Ogden's story is a testament to resilience and personal growth.

He encourages speakers to focus on their mission and the impact they can have.

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"Rock bottom taught me lessons that success never could."

"I help people avoid the large catastrophic mistakes."

"You will be a very not booked, very lonely speaker."

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00:00 From NFL to Rock Bottom: A Journey of Resilience

10:08 The Five Steps to Becoming a Successful Speaker

20:15 Building a Brand: The Importance of Authenticity and Service

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Importance of Emotional Intelligence in Sales with Dr. Grant Van Ulbrich

Monday, August 11, 2025 • Duration 25:27

In this conversation, Dr. Grant Van Ulbrich discusses his unique perspective on sales transformation and personal change management. He shares insights from his doctorate in sales transformation, emphasizing the importance of understanding change in sales and the psychology behind it. Dr. Van Ulbrich explores the difference between forced change and positive change, and how to manage fear associated with change. He also highlights the impact of COVID-19 on the sales industry and the need for transformational sales strategies that focus on empathy and collaboration. The discussion concludes with a look at the future of change and the importance of continuous adaptation in a rapidly evolving world.

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Dr. Grant Van Ulbrich holds the first doctorate in sales transformation.

Sales transformation is essential for adapting to modern customer needs.

Understanding the psychology of change is crucial for sales success.

There is a difference between forced change and positive change.

Managing fear of change can lead to better decision-making.

Sales should focus on relationships and empathy, not just closing deals.

COVID-19 forced many organizations to rethink their sales strategies.

Transformational sales strategies involve co-creating solutions with customers.

Change is a constant in life and business, and we must learn to adapt.

The 'Scared So What' model helps individuals manage change effectively.

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Transforming Sales: Insights from Dr. Grant Van Ulbrich

The Doug Thompson Podcast's Emerging Speakers Series featuring Angela Schaack

Season 7 · Episode 6

Thursday, July 11, 2024 • Duration 27:09

Join us for an enlightening episode of The Doug Thompson Podcast's Emerging Speakers Series featuring the inspiring Angela Schaack! As the Founder of Way to Wellness, Angela has dedicated decades to teaching and speaking about physical and mental well-being. Angela's career spans roles in family service agencies, mental health hospitals, and the public education system. Frustrated by systems that emphasized diagnosis and medication over lifestyle management, Angela founded her dream company, Way to Wellness, five years ago. Her holistic approach aims to help individuals optimize their health for more joy and longevity. An essential part of her mission includes wellness retreats and community speaking engagements. Actively involved in the National Speakers Association - Austin Chapter, Angela serves on the Board as the Membership Director for the second year. When not speaking or coaching clients, you can find her swimming, biking, or running near her home in NW Austin, training for her next triathlon. Reflecting this passion, Way to Wellness has recently added a beginner triathlon training plan to its list of services available this Fall. Tune in to hear Angela Schaack's unique insights and stories on living a healthier, happier life. This is one live stream you won't want to miss!

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Angela has dedicated decades to teaching and speaking about physical and mental well-being. Her career includes roles in family service agencies, mental health hospitals, and the public education system. While these experiences were often fulfilling, it also presented challenges and frustrations working in systems that emphasized diagnosis and medication over lifestyle management and education to improve health outcomes and encourage prevention efforts.

Five years ago, Angela founded her dream company, Way to Wellness. It offers a holistic approach to well-being that aims to help individuals optimize their health to live well, with more joy and longevity. An essential part of the Way to Wellness mission is to provide education through wellness retreats and community speaking engagements.

Deanna Russo

Season 3 · Episode 42

Monday, October 11, 2021 • Duration 22:20

I have a great conversation with Deanna about how she grew 25x on LinkedIn in 18 months and tons of tips on how to make your profile, regardless of platform, more powerful.Helping people understand LinkedIn, grow their business and make money using this platform are my primary goals.I love sharing my knowledge. I grew my network on LinkedIn and I started Leverage Up to pass on my knowledge and help others achieve all the benefits that I learned on my own.One thing that sets me apart from others who do what I do is: I have a distinct LinkedIn strategy made up of 3 parts. I call it my LinkedIn triangle - profile, engagement and content.There is a link between each part of that triangle and once you’re successful in one part, you need the other two parts for a good balance.I work with my clients to maximize the benefits of this platform in the fastest way possible.I help people understand the value of creating an “all star” LinkedIn profile, engaging with the people that they want to do business with AND how to create the right content to get their attention on this platform.To see a detailed breakdown of my strategy, how I work with my clients, testimonials and podcasts that I've been featured on, visit: http://leverageupllc.com/Aside from my professional side….I’m a survivor. I've survived the loss of my sister in a drunk driving crash in 1998. I survived lung cancer in 2008. I'm stronger because of all of it.I'm happily married to my husband, the proud mom of 3 beautiful (I'm biased :)) children, and we have two adorable cats too.Always available via email: deanna@leverageupllc.comLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/deannarusso1/

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Rollis Fontenot III

Season 3 · Episode 40

Tuesday, October 5, 2021 • Duration 33:08

Rollis Fontenot III is a national speaker, live stream host, author, Forbes Business Council Member and founder of HR Maximizer Inc, the only subscription based talent acquisition service of its kind in the US that helps healthcare organizations attract applicants on the hardest to fill req’sHe has appeared in Forbes Magazine, ASHHRA’s Pulse, Locum’s Life and other publications.His firm has produced dozens of live shows and hundreds of videos with over 1.5 million views that has led to hundreds of clinical and provider hires for its clients.He hosts two live (#livewithrollis) weekly shows called #growthmonday & #thursdayroundtable that reaches thousands each week. He has a network of over 200k in direct connections and groups on Linkedin.com and runs one of the largest healthcare executive groups on Linkedin with over 115k members.He coaches recruitment pros & leaders on how to build their personal and job brands to attract the qualified candidates that are hardest to find.Reach out to Rollis on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/rollisfontenot/

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New Podcast Trailer

Season 3 · Episode 37

Friday, August 27, 2021 • Duration 02:19

Changing things up for Season 3 of the podcast/ New Name but similar mission to find great storytellers and recording episodes LIVE on LinkedIn and YouTube.

Wendy Weiner Pt 1

Season 2 · Episode 35

Friday, April 30, 2021 • Duration 25:28

Meet Wendy WeinerLots of boxes to check: Daughter, sister, wife, Mom, grandmother, Partner, entrepreneur, mentor, award winning film producer, writer, and convicted felon. Striving to live up to our long line of kind, compassionate, incredibly funny people. My WHY: To Incite Gratitude Our original novel series, the MY GOLDEN BLOOD is being developed in Hollywood. https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendy-weiner-runge-850a697/https://www.linkedin.com/company/now-what-studio/about/Theme music - Elevators Need Rock Too by Spence

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Dr. Al Pisano

Season 2 · Episode 34

Sunday, April 25, 2021 • Duration 21:03

Al has a wide breadth of dynamic experience and knowledge within the educational and corporate space with proven success as a presenter, thought leader, author, innovator, entrepreneur, K-12 administrator, higher education administrator, curriculum and program developer, educational consultant and instructor. Extensive work with K-12 school districts, higher education institutions, non-profit organizations and corporate educational arms in culture transformation, futures-based/visionary leadership, as well as curriculum and program analysis, adaptation, creation and development.https://www.linkedin.com/in/alpisano/Theme music - Elevators Need Rock Too by Spence

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Kristin Sherry Pt. 1

Season 2 · Episode 32

Sunday, March 28, 2021 • Duration 17:39

This is Part 1 of my 2 part Interview with Kristin Sherry.Kristin A. Sherry is a bestselling and award-winning author, globally recognized career expert, and creator of the YouMap® profile which won a 2020 Career Innovator Award from Career Directors International.She is a speaker, trainer, and author of international bestseller, YouMap, and a 2020 Pencraft award-winner in business books for Your Team Loves Mondays...Right? She is the managing partner of YouMap LLC, which certifies coaches, career services and HR professionals as YouMap® coaches and facilitators.Kristin has been a guest on Wharton Business Radio, a DisruptHR speaker and a contributor for Entrepreneur Magazine.Her award-winning children's book You've Got Gifts! released November 2020 and #1 New Release personal success book, Maximize 365, released February 2021.You can contact her at:https://www.myyoumap.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinsherry/Theme music - Elevators Need Rock Too by Spence

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Bob Ferguson Pt 2

Season 2 · Episode 31

Friday, March 19, 2021 • Duration 22:11

In the first 20 years of Bob’s engineering career, he worked as a general aerospace engineer on airframes, wind turbines, undercarriages, propellors and air-to-air weapons. During that early part of Bob’s Aerospace career, he realised that the standard of presentation in engineering was very poor. But he was not going to do anything about it as he detested speaking in public and would do almost anything to avoid it.Then in 1995 a happen chance visit to a Toastmasters International Club changed his life and started a 25-year journey that continues to this day. It started with him overcoming his fear of public speaking which was his only real target. After that though a whole world of possibilities opened up. He started to enter the twice-yearly competitions and by 2002 had won the UK & Ireland International Speech contest that took him to America to compete in the semi-finals of the World Public Speaking Championship; an event that was in equal measure exciting and a learning experience. It taught him the necessity of having processes in place to deal with writing high-quality speeches. Around Bob started his 20-year career in the space industry. He dealt mainly with the European Space Agency missions to Mercury (Launched October 2020) and to Mars (due to launch 2022). It was a fantastic and enjoyable experience working on spacecraft and led to him giving many presentations to expert and lay audiences to explain the complex concepts of the flight hardware.So, he continued to focus on improving his crafting techniques and won the UK & Ireland evaluation contest in 2005. This is a competition to provide structured, supportive and encouraging feedback to a test speaker. By this time, he had achieved the award of Distinguished Toastmaster, the highest educational award available in Toastmasters.Then he embarked on his toughest challenge – the humorous speech crown. Humour is one of the hardest skills to learn and Bob reckons it is harder than the contest that leads to the World Championship! In 2006 he was the runner up in the competition and another 3 years of work paid off when he won the Humorous speech championship in 2009. Humour is such an important skill for all speakers to be able to make listening easy and highlight important points that Bob thinks it should be mandatory training for all speakers. Bob’s success in the speech championships attracted private speaker coaching clients who wanted to improve their crafting and delivery of important presentations and speeches. For many years Bob ran the two careers in parallel. Eventually the work on the ExoMars rover finished and Bob decided to focus solely on his speaker coaching and event speaking career. He now specialises in coaching technical experts to communicate their valuable information effectively. He also speaks at conferences, largely to technical managers, about getting communication in their organisations right so that information flows up and down the organisation effectively. His life-long learning continues. In 2018 he worked with199 World Champion of Public Speaking, Craig Valentine to achieve the Certified World Class Speaking Coach qualification.Bob has an engineering degree, an MBA and was a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, A Fellow of the Professional Speaking Association and a member of the UK Guild of Speechwriters.Notes:Toastmasters International is a worldwide organisation with 364,000 members in 145 countries with over 16,200 clubs. It is an organisation that promotes public speaking and leadership skill development. It is not associated with the red-coated MCs that the word Toastmaster is associated with in the UK.Contact Details.Bob can be contacted by email at: bob@bobferguson.co.uk or bobferguson@live.co.ukHis website is:

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