The Dillon England Show
My mission is to provide my listeners with authentic conversations with interesting people, covering a wide range of topics from personal growth, entrepreneurship and lifestyle improvement, all while keeping it entertaining and informative.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-dillon-england-show--6370921/support.
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From $90 A Week Underground To Co-Founding E! Entertainment | Larry Namer
Larry Namer is the Co-founder of E! Entertainment. He started his career splicing cable wires under the streets of Manhattan for $90 a week. A few years later he cofounded E! Entertainment.<br /><br />Everyone told him and his partner Alan Mruvka that regular people don't start TV networks. You had to be Disney or Fox. They heard no around 157 times.<br /><br />The going rate to launch a network back then was $60 to $100 million. After three and a half years, they got $2.5 million.That wasn't enough to buy real cameras, so they bought used sales training gear, hired 11 employees and 31...
What Would It Take For You To Walk Away From A 6-Digit Career? | Marco Savone
Marco Savone co-founded Scusa Media, a revenue agency helping home service and construction companies turn leads into closed jobs. Before any of that, he spent two years working with stage four cancer patients at the University of Michigan Cancer Hospital.<br /><br />He got into two medical schools after failing the MCAT twice. At the same time, his uncle's small liquor brand was starting to take off, and Marco had to pick one. He walked away from medical school. Years later, he turned down a six figure pharmaceutical sales job too, choosing the harder, less certain path both times.<br /><...
Why Nights and Weekends Aren't the Price of Success | Craig Ceccanti
Craig Ceccanti built Pinot's Palette from one location in 2009 to 150 across the country, then exited the business in 2020. Now he installs the same operating system in other people's companies.<br />For years he ran things by working harder than everyone else. He calls it "Craig OS." He held every title, head of tech, head of marketing, head of finance, and the business hit a ceiling because of it. It took a friend handing him the book Traction, and two years of actually running the system, before he'd admit the mess he'd built.<br /><br />Nine months into installing EOS, he...
25 Years in Mortgages, What AI Will Never Replace | Ted Edginton
Ted Edginton has spent 25 years doing mortgages the hard way. In person, on the phone, at the closing table.<br /><br />He started this business straight out of Michigan State, driving around town with paper checks for his clients' loans. One blew right out his car window on Hall Road. He turned around, got it reprinted, and still made it to the closing.<br /><br />That's basically been his whole career since. He built a team with 60 years of combined experience between them, and every client still gets treated like the actual person they are, not a number moving down...
The Mistake That Keeps You Out Of The Room With Powerful People | EO Detroit Founder John Anderson
John Anderson started the EO Detroit chapter in a conference room in 1996 with two other guys and no money. He's now a business coach, an author, and one of the most connected people in Michigan.<br />He used to deliver mortgages by hand as a mailroom clerk making $30,000 a year. One man in that office, the chairman of the board, pulled him aside and told him he was going to do great things. That single sentence rerouted the rest of his life.<br /><br />From there he built relationships with people like Vern Harnish, David Brandon, Bill Ford Jr, and...
This Investor Owns 250 Doors… Here's the ONE He'd Buy Again | Peter Skaggs
Peter Skaggs runs a mortgage company and a 250 door real estate portfolio, and he built both at the same time without quitting his day job.<br /><br />He bought his first investment property in 2007. Then 2008 happened. By 2011 the house had lost half its value. He held on anyway. For fourteen years. He also spent years chasing apartment complexes, land, and short term rentals before realizing he was collecting real estate, not building a portfolio.<br /><br />He sold that crashed property in 2021 for almost double what he paid. That experience is where his framework came from. Buying power, staying power...
“Saving My Assassin" A Story On A Close Call with Death, and The Miracle of How She Survived | Virginia Prodan
Virgina Prodan grew up in Communist Romania, watching her parents whisper behind closed doors about a government that took a little more from them every year. She decided as a kid she was going to become a lawyer and find the truth.<br /><br />She did. Top ten percent of her class, using a forgotten law book she found in a library to get Christian prisoners out of jail. Then the dictator took notice. He sent a man to her office with a gun, told her she wouldn't listen, and said he was there to end that.<br /><br />She...
What Every Michigan Business Owner Should Know Before They Get Sued | Brandon Grysko
Brandon Grysko spent seven years wearing a badge before he ever put on a suit.<br /><br />He started out chasing a fireman's paycheck, landed in EMS, and then his dad, a career sheriff's deputy, pointed him toward policing instead. <br /><br />Brandon started noticing he liked the union side of the job more than the job itself. Contract negotiations. Discipline hearings. The parts that looked a lot like law.<br /><br />Now he runs Fausone & Grysko, a business law firm in Northville, Michigan, and he still thinks like a cop every single day he practices.<br /><br />We covered a...
Detroit Fox News Host: What it’s REALLY like hosting a TV Show | Ronia Shamona
Ronia Shamona has spent 20 years in local news. Overnight shifts in Las Vegas. 20 years of live TV. Now she anchors FOX 2 Detroit Live in the 2 and 3 pm hours and hosts her own segment, Rona's Rundown.<br /><br />She did ten years on overnights before she had kids. After two kids and a stretch of postpartum on that schedule, she said it became impossible. She stepped away for six years to raise her kids before coming back to the chair…<br /><br />Now she is back on dayside, running a live, unscripted show where she does not know what is happening un...
THIS Is Why Most Businesses Stay Stuck | Dr. Tim Tenneriello
Dr. Tim Tenneriello started out as a high school athlete who wanted to coach… which turned into a career running schools, then buying and scaling companies, then rebuilding wealth management practices from the inside.<br /><br />Through his career journey , he learned nobody actually cares about your resume if you can just help them get from point A to point B.<br /><br />That mindset took a struggling school to the top of its portfolio in four years, grew a company from $5M to $9M in his first year, and eventually led him to Procyon, where he now helps a te...
