How do successful people become successful and
what are their secrets?
Jeff Smith is a multiple award-winning Keynote Speaker, International Business Trainer, Best-Selling Author and he runs this podcast for The Jeff Smith Foundation to help others who are less fortunate that ourselves. On this show, Jeff talks with people from all walks of life to uncover success stories from all over the world. He talks with the people involved at the sharp end, he asks them how they overcame their toughest challenges and he digs deep to uncover their strategies and shares their inner-most secrets with you.
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Season 5, Episode 1
Former Supermodel And Hollywood Actress Tells It All
Jeff Smith talks with Dame Clarissa Burt
Dame Clarissa Burt
Episode Release Date 28 March 2023
In this episode I’m talking with Dame Clarissa Burt.
Dame Clarissa is an internationally acclaimed award-winning media personality, producer, director, writer, author, public speaker, former supermodel and winner of the Celebrity Survivor show! With hundreds of television and film credits to her name, this Who’s Who of International and American Women brings over 35 years of entertainment industry experience in both International and American markets.
Clarissa is the Founder and CEO of “In the Limelight Media”, a multi-media platform consisting of TV/video, a podcast and a digital magazine. She’s also the best-selling author of “The Self-Esteem Regime” published in 2021.
She was the first American to present Russian TV at the Kremlin and has had two private audiences with Pope John Paul II honoring her social work. As the Ambassador to the United States, she actively helped African women win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011.
But that’s not all… In June 2022, Clarissa was Knighted by The Royal Order of Constantine the Great and Saint Helen, joining the ranks of only 350 Dames worldwide.
This is a story of amazing success, recognition, and the trials and tribulations of what it took to get there.
Season 5, Episode 2
How To Manifest Success Into Your Life And Win Every Time
Jeff Smith Talks With Melissa Acob
Melissa Acob
Episode Release Date Tuesday 04 April 2023
In this episode Jeff Smith, The KPI Guy, is talking with Melissa Acob
Melissa is a Business Mindset and Manifestation Coach. She helps people to overcome their limiting beliefs to gain clarity, scale their businesses, and find inner peace. Her speciality is showing us how to master our mindset to create extraordinary results in business and our personal life.
Melissa realised that the key for her to become successful was to overcome the negative behaviours and experiences learned from the people she looked up to in her childhood.
In 2019, in less than two years of running her business part-time, Melissa was able to leave her 6-figure corporate job to coach full-time. She is an accredited Master Life Coach and Energy Psychologist
This is an incredible story of rediscovering who you truly are, what you are capable of achieving and of course how to achieve it.
Season 5, Episode 3
How To Create Wealth Online And Avoid Those Expensive Mistakes
Jeff Smith Talks With Scott Aaron
Episode Release Date Tuesday 11 April 2023
“Oh WOW! I’ve been on so many podcasts that I thought I heard it all, but Jeff Smith took me to a whole new level – Seriously, this guy should be on TV! He asked me some amazing questions that other people simply miss. His knowledge of success and what it takes to achieve it is second to none, and that’s why he never lets his guests off the hook when they make any throw away comments.“
Scott Aaron
Episode Release Date Tuesday 11 April 2023
In this episode, Jeff Smith, The KPI Guy, is talking with Scott Aaron
Scot is a 3 times best-selling author, a speaker and is the go-to specialist when it comes to establishing connections, generating leads, converting traffic, creating sales, and building personal brands using LinkedIn.
Scott is passionate about helping fellow entrepreneurs achieve success while building their own network organically and without complicated and costly marketing tactics.
In today’s episode, Scott is talking about how to create wealth online and generating organic traffic which is a real game changer when it comes to competing in a saturated digital world.
Season 5, Episode 4
I Was A Corporate Spy,
And Here Are All My Secrets And Lies
Jeff Smith talks with Robert Kerbeck
Robert Kerbeck
Episode Release Date 2 May, 2023
In today’s episode Jeff Smith, The KPI Guy, is talking with Robert Kerbeck, the corporate spy!
In the 1990s Robert had built for himself what most would consider a respectable acting career, but it wasn’t making him enough money to support the lifestyle he had envisioned. So, Robert got a side gig.
That side gig was to become a spy! Yes! He got paid for tricking the people inside multibillion-dollar corporations into telling him things they definitely should not have told him. He charmed eager-to-please assistants, gaining their trust along with total access to a company’s most valuable information.
His once promising acting career tailed off as he burrowed deeper and deeper into the world of corporate espionage, to the point where his income jumped from tens of thousands, to hundreds of thousands, and then to millions of dollars a year.
His new book called “Ruse” which his memoir, has been released and is set to become a Hollywood movie.
Season 5, Episode 5
Down And Out On The Streets Of Paris,
To Making A Million Dollars
Jeff Smith Talks With Jeanne Omlor
Jeanne Omlor
Episode Release Date Tuesday 09 May, 2023
In today’s episode Jeff Smith, The KPI Guy, is talking with Jeanne Omlor
Jeanne is a resilient lady who’s gone from being down and out on the streets of Paris and London to making her first $1 dollars in just 17 months. But her journey wasn’t as easy as you might think. She’s been a fashion designer, she became an actress, moved on to be a top executive recruiter in Wall street, became a professional coach and speaker, got divorced and ended up as a single mom with 2 kids to look after, she found herself in deep debt at the age of 54, and then finally, she found her magic formula and made over 2 million dollars in 3 years.
This is going to be an incredible story of resilience, fighting for survival, and finding yourself when everything was almost lost.
Season 5, Episode 6
The 6 Pillars of Executive Performance and Success
Jeff Smith Talks With Dr. Corrie Block
Episode Release Date Tuesday 16 May, 2023
“What a fantastic show and what a knowledgeable guy Jeff Smith is. He has the uncanny knack of asking the right question at the right time to get the most of me and I gave it all to this awesome interview. I talked about going bankrupt not once, but twice, then going on to achieve great success, and Jeff squeezed every last ounce of juice out of me“.
Dr. Corrie Block
Episode Release Date Tuesday 16 May, 2023
In today’s episode Jeff Smith, The KPI Guy, is talking with Dr. Corrie Block
Corrie is a leading expert in Business Strategy, Organizational Behaviour, and Leadership. He is the Professor of Strategic Management at Monarch Business School in Switzerland, and a Forbes Certified Executive Coach. He has over 25 years’ experience coaching and training and has worked with more than 150 companies such as Microsoft, Emirates Airline, and the United Nations.
He is also the author of 2 acclaimed books:
- Spartan CEO: Six Pillars of Executive Performance
- Business is Personal: A Blueprint for Finding Meaning at Work
This is going to be a story of personal development intertwined with business development, to explain what you are capable of achieving and of course how to achieve it.
Season 5, Episode 7
I Did Everything Wrong, Then I Finally Got It And
Here are my Secrets
Jeff Smith talks with Jan Cavelle
Jan Cavelle
Episode Release Date 30 May, 2023
In today’s episode Jeff Smith, The KPI Guy, is talking with Jan Cavelle
Jan Cavelle is the author of Scale for Success and Start for Success, which are books aimed at helping entrepreneurs to grow their businesses
After having micro businesses in the past, things collapsed for Jan and she found herself as a single Mum on social support needing to make a future for her family. She started off by selling an assortment of goods to get by, which refined itself into to being furniture. To ensure a steady supply, she went into manufacturing, built the business up to 50 employees and won many awards over the next couple of decades.
But then she lost her passion and the reasons for doing it, coupled with increased problems having made errors in the foundations of the business and she walked away from it all, virtually overnight.
But she soon got bored, she missed writing articles for business publications and decided to start writing books to help entrepreneurs.
This is a story of starting up in business and getting the foundations completely wrong, losing your passion, and then following your childhood dreams to rediscover your passion and to live your life on purpose.
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