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Oct 28, 2026

Twenty-Five Dollars and an Eleven-Year Leap with Dan Berkon at Culmen International

From $25 in the Bank to Building a Global Company with Dan Berkon, CEO of Culmen InternationalDan Berkon was 17 when his family lost their business and their home. A year later, he joined Mark Moses at Student Painters, determined to learn how to become an entrepreneur.Years later, Dan left an eleven-year career with just...
10 min read
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Oct 7, 2026

How Losing Four Times Built a Survivor Champion with Aubry Bracco at CEO Coaching International

What happens when you achieve everything you thought would make you happy and realize it still isn’t what you were looking for? Omani Carson started what would become Carson Group from a college dorm room with a negative net worth of roughly $2,600. Years later, when he began working with Mark Moses, Carson Group was managing approximately $3 billion in assets. Omani told Mark he wanted help getting to $5 billion. Mark challenged him to add a zero.
8 min read
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Sep 30, 2026

Inspect What You Expect: The Weekly Discipline Behind Great CEOs with Tom Barrett

Most CEOs chase revenue. The best inspect it every single week. Tom Barrett, Partner and Coach at CEO Coaching International, unpacks sales, hiring, and knowing when to let someone go. Discover the practical leadership habits and hard-earned lessons that separate consistently growing companies from those that plateau.KEY TAKEAWAYS00:00 Inspecting the business weekly prevents problems that monthly...
7 min read
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Sep 2, 2026

Building BIGGER by Becoming More: Omani Carson’s Journey From Success to Abundance

What happens when you achieve everything you thought would make you happy and realize it still isn’t what you were looking for? Omani Carson started what would become Carson Group from a college dorm room with a negative net worth of roughly $2,600. Years later, when he began working with Mark Moses, Carson Group was managing approximately $3 billion in assets. Omani told Mark he wanted help getting to $5 billion. Mark challenged him to add a zero.
10 min read
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Aug 18, 2026

Act Like You’ve Already Made It: How Great CEOs Grow Into the Leaders Their Future Requires

Sheldon Harris, Partner and Coach at CEO Coaching International, talks about the operating principles that have guided hundreds of CEOs through growth, crisis, and reinvention. From a warehouse manager job at Costco in Alaska to leading Cold Stone Creamery through explosive growth and a public food-safety crisis, Sheldon shares the moments that shaped how he leads and coaches today.
7 min read
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Jul 27, 2026

What six years working for private equity taught Jonathan Sherrill about building a business buyers want

Jonathan Sherrill, Founder of Waypoint, built Quicken Steel from a shuttered sawmill and sold it in 2022. He explains what buyers really test for before they buy.
5 min read

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