Amberly now regularly shares the stage with people like Ed Mylett, Trent Shelton, Bedros Keulian and more..but it wasn't always like that. As a personal trainer, wife, and mother, Amberly Lago was living the California dream until it turned into a nightmare in May 2010. As she rode her Harley down Ventura Boulevard that breezy, sunny day, Lago was hit by an SUV, throwing her thirty feet down a busy street and shattering her right leg. Months in the hospital and 34 surgeries, along with plates, pins, and sheer will eventually spared Lago’s leg and severed femoral artery, despite the initial recommendation to amputate. However, as a sexual abuse and divorce survivor, Lago determined to save not only her leg, but her career, her dreams, and her dignity. This Texas girl at heart dug deep to find the hope and faith needed to face her life’s greatest challenge. Amberly’s unwavering commitment to regain her active lifestyle of training clients transformed her tragedy into victory and she motivates her audiences to find resilience in their own difficulties. She is a fierce advocate for others who suffer from CRPS and proves that any challenge can be overcome by the support of others as well as a determination and belief in oneself. Join the Growth Now Community Today!
When Spencer Schneider was a twenty-nine-year-old Manhattan corporate lawyer, an acquaintance invited him to a secret meeting of an “esoteric school for inner development,” known to its students simply as “School.” Suspicious yet curious, he went. At first, he found support, community, and meaning. But soon, he found himself trapped in one of the nation’s most secretive and abusive cults. In the name of personal development, hundreds endured decades of sexual and physical abuse, forced labor, arranged marriages, swindled savings and inheritances, and systematic terrorizing. Some of them broke the law. All for their charismatic and demented leader Sharon Gans, a washed-up actress who claimed to be on a spiritual par with Buddha. This is Schneider’s story of how he got entangled in School, why he stayed, and how–– impossibly––he got out after twenty-three years. It’s a cautionary tale about the power of group psychology and how anyone can be radicalized. It’s also a story of surviving traumatic abuse and ultimately finding a path to healing. Spencer Schneider is an attorney who specializes in corporate litigation in New York. A native of Brooklyn, Mr. Schneider is an open water marathon swimmer and ice water swimmer. He works as an ocean lifeguard, operates a lifeguard training academy, and co-founded a water rescue group. He is the only member or former member of School to have published his experience in the cult. He was a member of School’s inner circle for twenty-three years. Hestarted the blog about School called “Cult Revolt.” A contributing writer forEast Magazine, he lives in New York City and East Hampton. Spencer can be reached @officialspencerschneider on Instagram and on Facebook at Spencer Schneider. Make sure to take advantage of GrowRev's FREE audit! Want to grow your business? You have to be properly optimized on social media. They'll help you get there, FOR FREE! www.getmyfreeaudit.com/audit
What does it take to be able to heal yourself physically, mentally, spiritually? Is it possible to heal yourself so quickly, that it's considered a miracle? Our mind's a powerful thing....it can either make or break us. This week on the podcast, I sitdown with Jennifer Love of the Living Wealthy Institute and we discuss the power of the mind and how it relates to money, relationships, and even your physical well being. Jennifer Love is a wealth philosopher, money therapist and the founding CEO of The Living Wealthy Institute. She is a sought after advisor to world leaders and an international speaker, author and educator weaving the aspects of our humanity into her garden conversation about the nature of wealth. Award winning, 5x career entrepreneur with 20+ years under her comfy Keds, Jennifer Love is a thought leader with a heart that matches her name. For almost two decades, Jennifer has studied human and organizational behavior, and the relationship leaders have with their wealth and money. Metamorphosis and the patterns of nature inform her methodology. She unpacks our dichotomy of emotional poverty to reunite us with our innate desire to be free. Jennifer is on a mission to help world leaders free themselves of the chains that hold them back from living wealthy – replacing overwhelm, stress, and anxiety in the money equation with a wholesome, regenerative, and nourishing experience while raising, making, managing, growing, and contributing money. These leaders become good allies in society and to future generations while living soulfully connected, deeply satisfying, and very wealthy lives.
Dream about building your own business? Want to Be Your Own Boss? Brian Scudamore the CEO & Founder of O2E Brands (The home of 1-800-GOT-JUNK?) shares his insights and wisdom in this episode. Which happens to be his 3rd Appearance on the Growth Now Movement podcast. Brian Scudamore is the founder and CEO of O2E Brands, the banner company for 1-800-GOT-JUNK?, WOW 1 DAY PAINTING, and Shack Shine. Brian is a serial entrepreneur, known for pioneering the professional junk hauling industry with 1-800-GOT-JUNK?. Since conquering that market, he’s gone on to apply the O2E (ordinary to exceptional) formula to the painting and home-detailing industry with WOW 1 DAY PAINTING and Shack Shine. Currently, he’s at the helm of a burgeoning home-service empire; each brand has franchise locations in every major metro in North America and Australia. He’s a respected industry leader and speaker, well-known in the business community for his belief in people and passion for innovation. His companies have made celebrated appearances on ABC Nightline, Good Morning America, Dr. Phil, CNN, The Today Show, Oprah, and CNBC. Brian’s story has been featured in Fortune Magazine, The New York Times, Huffington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and he contributes regularly to other noteworthy publications. Brian is a strong believer in ongoing personal and professional development, and has attended programs offered by MIT for several years. If he’s not launching a new brand or coming up with a new, big idea, he’s biking or hanging out with his family in Vancouver, BC. Come join the Growth Now Community and learn directly from Brian inside the community as he will be teaching live next week www.growthnow.community
Rohan Sheth is the founder and CEO of one of the world’s fastest-growing 8-figure Direct Response marketing agencies - GrowRev Digital. His agency helps business owners to scale their business through innovative marketing strategies that in the past have resulted companies to go from nearly bankrupt to $10M in just 10 months. Rohan’s hands on approach, no BS attitude and decades of experience have lead him to astonishing results of $150M + in ad spend with a $750M+ in return. His client list is full of industry leaders like Dean Graziosi, Russel Brunson and Harv Eker. Throughout his entrepreneurial career Rohan has been on the battle field against the biggest social media conglomerate, Meta(Facebook) which has taken his “unicorn” software idea and turned into their own. Whether you are an inspired entrepreneur or industry leader, Rohan has a creative solutions to help you to take your business to the next level! Signup for a Audit on your Social Media Ads ($500 value) with no-obligaction for FREE!
I'm back with another solo-episode! After reflecting on Growth Now Summit LIVE! & launching the Growth Now Community...I've had some time to reflect on how I've been able to lean into my fears and live in my purpose. After reflecting, I came to realize that it is the Spiritual piece that has allowed me to embrace the fear. When we remove the human part of our experience on earth, we realize that its what's inside of us that's our super power....but we allow our "skin suit" to hide our super powers. So, tune into the episode and figure our why spirituality is such a key part to living a purpose drive, fulfilled life. Then, join the Growth Now Community where you're able to learn from and connect with myself, our monthly guest mentors, and the others in the community.
Dan Clouser founded and ran a nonprofit youth sports organization for 30 years called the Berkshire Baseball & Softball Club, which later became the BIG Vision Foundation. He truly loved every second of what he did. His passion was working with kids and teaching them leadership skills and life lessons through sports and community service. He honestly thought that he would have died doing what he loved. Then in 2019, Dan felt a calling from God for his wife, Sandy, and him to leave their comfort zone and start a new journey. A literal journey, selling most of their material things and setting out across this beautiful country in an RV with their golden retriever, Youkilis. Sounds crazy, but it was also destined to happen.
Because this is Summit week - we have a Quick solo episode this week talking about the fact that you're one connection away from changing your life. Justin challenges you to push yourself out of your comfort zone so you're able to find your community and level up your life. There's still time to get virtual access to Growth Now Summit LIVE! Sign up now!
How would you life be different if you focused on people instead of profits. If you focused on building strong relationships, and serving at the highest level? That's exactly what Vincent Pugliese and I discuss in this episode. Vincent is keynote speaker, the host of the Total Life Freedom Podcast, the author of The Wealth of Connection as well as Freelance to Freedom, and he is the owner of The Total Life Freedom Mastermind Community for entrepreneurs and those looking to become entrepreneurs to build a life of time, money and location freedom. Vincent Pugliese is, most importantly, a husband to his wife, Elizabeth, and father to their three sons, Andrew, Nolan and Dylan.Vincent and his family live in Bradenton, Florida, where they homeschool their children through interest-based learning. Sign Up for Growth Now Summit LIVE's FREE live stream! www.growthnowsummit.com
Hugh McTavish is the founder and Executive Director of COVID Sanity (COVID-Sanity.org). He is a Ph.D. biochemist and immunologist and also a patent attorney. He has authored 18 refereed sci-entific journal articles and is the inventor on 21 U.S. patents. He has started two pharmaceutical companies off of his own inventions—IGF Oncology, LLC, for a targeted drug for cancer, andSquarex, LLC, for a treatment that prevents cold sores or oral herpes virus outbreaks. The cancer drug invention came as an outgrowth of his having cancer. It was an improvement on the drugs and treatment he received as a cancer patient. The cold sore treatment he invented in order to treat his own frequent cold sores and originally tested on himself. So Hugh has a history of taking personal adversity and turning it into a positive. He did it again with the COVID lockdowns. When COVID lockdowns started, Hugh says he lost his entire social life because Tim Walz ordered his church and his health club closed. It threw him, like 63 million other Americans, into depression. But it also energized him to fight back—not only for himself but also for everyone else whose lives were deemed unimportant by Tim Walz and Antony Fauci with the lockdowns. He started a nonprofit, COVID-Sanity.org. He started writing against the lockdowns within days of their being implemented, predicting that the harms of the lockdowns, even in deaths caused (due to increased suicides and drug overdoses and increased cancer deaths) versus those prevented, would be vastly greater than the benefits. He has been proven right. Now Hugh is introducing his idea of Jury Democracy to transform our system of government for the better, unite us instead of dividing us, and make policy based on evidence and reason instead of money and anger and divisions.