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Alex Sanfilippo – PodMatch and Podcasting Jan 14, 2025

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Alex Sanfilippo is a founder of PodMatch a service that supports podcast producers, hosts and guests. PodMatch was created to serve you in your podcasting journey on either side of the microphone Check out PodMatch at podmatch.com PodMatch elevates the voices of independent podcast hosts and guests to maximize their impact

Julian Fisher - Spies and the Art of Influence and Alliances Jan 13, 2025

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Julian Fisher is a seasoned field operative like our own Pete A Turner. Yep, this is a Spy vs Spy episode. Julian has authored a book called "Think Like a Spy." Discover the secret skills of influence and persuasion taught to intelligence officers and learn how to adapt them to win over personal and professional allies to your cause. Get Think Like a Spy: Master the Art of Influence and Build Life-Changing Alliances on amzn.to/4gET4U9 Every day, intelligence officers achieve the unimaginable. They persuade people to share classified secrets with them. To become traitors, in fact. And their targets do it willingly, despite the risk of imprisonment, torture and, even, execution. Spies achieve this thanks to their structured use of nine secret skills of espionage. In Think Like a Spy, you'll learn these techniques and how to adapt them for effective and ethical use in your own life. A good spy is a people-person. She knows how to identify a potential agent, how to attract their attention and what to do to build an enduring relationship with them. From this base, she will coax out personal information to work out what makes her target tick. She will use that knowledge and her understanding of human psychology to her advantage while winning lasting commitment from her new ally.

Jon Shaivitz – Roses on the Vine Jan 10, 2025

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Jon Shaivitz is an LA-based feature film writer/director originally from Baltimore, Maryland. Jon learned the fundamentals of screenwriting and filmmaking from his early days interning and working as a Set PA on TV shows for HGTV, National Geographic and industrial video content for Rock Creek Productions of Washington DC where he also got first hand experience shooting, editing, directing and producing for the US Air Force, among other Federal Government clients. For more on Jon's work head to jsfilms.co Since moving to LA in 2009, Jon has won many accolades for his work including Top 50 Semifinalist in the Academy Nicholl Fellowship 2022, Runner-Up in the StoryPros Awards 2022, the Guaranteed Signing Prize in Roadmap Writers JumpStart 2019, "Best Feature" at the 2021 Atlanta Screenplay Awards and has had multiple scripts optioned. Jon loves everything about storytelling and hopes to show the world stories and characters that have never been seen before. Jon's first written/directed feature film ROSES ON THE VINE starring Cameron Cowperthwaite (FALLOUT) and Madeline Sinclair recently completed post-production and is seeking distribution.

Michael Walsh Forty-two Ways the Press Hates You Jan 09, 2025

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The citizens of Western democracies have been relentlessly propagandized, lied to, and fed a steady diet of distortions and untruths by their media for decades. Editor Michael Walsh brings together a stellar collection of critical thinkers and writers to explain how and why this is happening, its negative effects on our democracies, and what we can do to reverse it. Get Michael's book on Amazon at https://amzn.to/4gZRmfP An informed electorate is a prerequisite for free and fair elections. But rather than striving for accuracy and objectivity, today's journalists openly celebrate the death of objectivity, arguing that they have a "higher duty" to reject the conservatism, police speech, and suppress news that contradicts the liberal narrative. Now, on the heels of his magisterial volume Against the Great Reset, editor Michael Walsh presents Against the Corporate Media, a collection of more than forty essays on the decline and fall of the American and international news media. The book's list of distinguished contributors includes Lance Morrow, Andrew Klavan, John O'Sullivan, Elizabeth Nickson, Monica Crowley, Charlie Kirk, Glenn Reynolds, Steven F. Hayward, John Fund, Armond White, Michael Ramirez, Walsh, and others.

Gavin Stone - Spy Things and Current Events Jan 08, 2025

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Gavin tone is back on the Break It Down Show with Pete A Turner. Gavin and Pete are going to talk about intelligence operations. Tells when deception is about, but also how do you gather secrets. Gavin Stone has decades of work in the intelligence field. His work now includes writing. Is book How to Tell if Someone is Lying is a smash hit. Gavin now writes fiction i addition to his regular professional work. Here's Gavin's book How To Tell if Someone is Lying. https://amzn.to/46FkIfp Pete and Gavin are going to dive in and talk further about the entrepreneurial nature of collection. To get on the street and find out what needs finding, when there are no leads, all the risk and little reward, that's the hard stuff.

Charlie Hurdt - Team Leadership Handbook Jan 07, 2025

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Charlie Hurdt is an Army Officer who comes to the Break It Down Show via our pal Mike Guardia. Mike is a noted author who's appeared on the show with Pete A Turner a number of times. Charlie is here to discuss his Team Leadership Handbook. Leadership is a vital skill for any business. We hope you enjoy Charlie and Pete's chat about his book. To get Team Leadership Handbook, amzn.to/4j2qE8d This handbook presents a dynamic leadership style that prioritizes, facilitates, and optimizes teamwork. Several noteworthy books have been written for developing teamwork. Yet, there stands no leadership philosophy to unite and define those beliefs…until now. While most leadership books focus on individual styles of leadership, author Charlie Hurdt realizes that leaders do not exist in a vacuum. By leveraging what he calls the "Team Collaboration Process," the author shows how any leader can empower their teams, and how the team-oriented leadership approach guarantees superior results. Drawing from author's own leadership experience, and a study of various management systems, The Team Leadership Handbook has taken small yet meaningful references, and refined them into a measured, easy-to-use framework primed for any team endeavor. This handbook will ensure the desired "end state" for any team: high performance and high job satisfaction while accomplishing the team's overall mission.

Roy W Reid - The Trust Transformation Jan 06, 2025

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Trust is a key to business. Trust blended with cultural intelligence unlocks a relationship focus that far surpasses most forms of leadership or success. Roy W Reid's Trust Transformation creates a power formula enabling people and organizations to learn human connection. To learn more about or hire Roy use his website. roywreid.com Here is the link for Trust Transformation head to amzn.to/3W6lvlI More on Roy: Many refer to Roy Reid as a living miracle. His inspirational story of survival is the foundation for the important message he delivers on the transformational power of trust. In 2019, he was struck down by an acute aortic dissection that most medical professionals say should have ended his life. Instead, it transformed it into a purpose Roy describes as: "love people, be grateful, give generously and make a difference". Roy Reid is a leading authority on public relations, business communications, and marketing with extensive experience in healthcare. He works with business leaders and organizations as a counselor, strategist, and coach to grow, maintain, and protect their interests. He is recognized as one of the Top 100 Thought Leaders Influencing Trust Business Behavior by Trust Across America/Trust Around the World.

Lawrence Uchmanowicz - D Co, 165th Military Intelligence Battalion Jan 03, 2025

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Lawrence Uchmanowicz isn't a guy you're likely to know. He spent his early career as an interrogator. As he seasoned into senior leadership, he deployed as a sergeant major for the 165th MI Bn. This deployment is unlike any other in modern history Though the battalion had an infantry company, E Co, 51st, it was D Co, that made the mark on history. Delta Company was strictly a counterintelligence asset. Then the Army started changing post cold-war to de-emphasize the tactical role for CI agents...and drastically reduce the role of interrogators. This change was happening rapidly in the summer of 1995. The company of interrogators was reduced and not back-filling. The interrogator company was shuttered and it's guidon furled. The remnants of the company were housed with D Co. Then they deployed...in a way that was never expected, and never repeated. Larry led the battalion and is on the Break It Down Show with Pete A Turner. How cool is this story. Go ahead and search for Larry Uchmanowicz? You'll find out right away...ONLY on the Break It Down Show is this story possible.

Benjamin Sledge – Where Cowards Go To Die Jan 01, 2025

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Benjamin Sledge is a combat veteran who worked in Civil Affairs. His book Where Cowards Go to Die is an award winning, NY Times best-selling biography of Sledge's life. Ben joins Pete A Turner on the Break It Down Show to discuss conflict at a level that isn't common. Sledge's latest effort is a company called Solid Copy Media which is co owned by our buddy Scott Huesing. solidcopymedia.com More on Solid Copy Media We believe your story matters Solid Copy Media is here to help you achieve mission success Have you ever been at a party or bar telling someone about your story? They pop off, "Yeah, I'm thinking about writing a book, too." Or "Hey, how's that 'writing thing' coming along?" Most people think it's a hobby and have zero comprehension of the work involved. Here's the difference – unlike some loudmouth, braggart half-tanked on elixirs, YOU are actually doing it. Solid Copy Media stacked the team with professional writers, coaches, and agents who know exactly how to take your work from good to great.

Matthew Lesko – Finding Money and Love Jan 01, 2025

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Matthew Lesko has authored 100 books on how to find money through grants or programs. A few decades ago, he jumped into our TV feed telling us to "Ask Lesko!!!" and we did. Head to free.lesko.com/leskohelp to get more help. Matthew continues to help people find help. There more money and aid than ever before. His quest is to help folks get help, but to also do the work to get access to that help. Matthw's lifetime of work has created a powerful community. Among the many resources he's created is a YouTube Channel @matthewlesko, or free.lesko.com there are quite a few Lesko websites...he's waiting to help. This is Matthew Lesko's inaugural visit to the Break It Down Show with Pete A Turner.

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