Are you planning an event in your future? A wedding? An anniversary?

On this episode of "The Dad Who Knows Nothing" I speak with Keith Willard, an event planner in South Florida, one of the busiest event areas of the country. He is also the host of the "Behind the Veil" podcast, where he provides tips and tricks for event planning.

We talked about many of his insights on event planning (and maybe a few stories as well) and it is required listening if you are going to be hiring someone to plan or planning an event in the future.

For more information Keith Willard and his event planning, visit https://www.keithwillardevents.com/

How do you grow your brand and your network? BUILD RELATIONSHIPS!

This episode's guest is an expert in this very thing and it has translated to great success, including having a podcast "Now Hear This Entertainment" that is a top 2% podcast in the world.

Bruce Wawrzyniak has been promoting for many years.  
A cum laude graduate of Medaille College in Buffalo, New York, his background runs the gamut from marketing to broadcasting to public/media relations and promotions.  He has served industries such as sports/entertainment, radio/TV (on-air positions in both), and full-service (advertising/public relations) agencies.  He also taught a Promotions Techniques course to college juniors and seniors.  Bruce has dealt with (and been quoted by) national and international media.  Some of his successful story placements include USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and Sports Illustrated, to name just a few.  His résumé also includes video work and websites.  Plus, he has done numerous speaking engagements from Orlando to Nashville to Washington DC to Las Vegas to Los Angeles and points in between.  His work over the years has not only taken him throughout the United States, but, to more than 15 different countries.  He is a member of the Social Media Marketing Society and the American Marketing Association and can even be found on IMDb.

“Now Hear This Entertainment” is a weekly podcast featuring interviews with guests who are having success in entertainment – primarily music.  A new episode has been delivered on-time, every week since February 2014.  The show has gotten listeners from 162 countries around the world and is one of the top two percent most popular shows out of more than 3.1 million podcasts globally.  “Now Hear This Entertainment” has had multiple placements in the iTunes Top Ten (Music category) and the show has received two honors and been nominated for three other awards. In late spring of 2021 it was in the "20 Best Entertainment Podcasts of 2021," as published by Welp Magazine.

Guests on NHTE have ranged from Roy Orbison, Jr. to the keyboard player for Aerosmith to the lead guitar player for Garth Brooks to the drummer for Cheap Trick to the bass player for P!NK to the trumpet player for Billy Joel, plus, five GRAMMY Award winners, a Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, a Las Vegas headliner, three Emmy Award winners, and even participants from “American Idol,” “The Voice,” “America’s Got Talent,” and “The X Factor” (including one singer who won “The Voice”).  Guests have come from an array of genres and locales (the latter to include twelve different countries).

How do you get the right customers to your business? Marketing is usually the answer that first comes to mind, but is all marketing created equal?

On this podcast, I speak with Steven Lentz, founder of Ocelot Traffic. The agency creates multi-faceted, branded content that can be shared across high-authority platforms, allowing SMBs to increase their reach among potential customers who are actively searching for their products or services. The service also helps clients improve their Google ranking, building trust and credibility in the process.

They help your business reach your best clients by crafting meaningful hyper-local ads and media coverage. If there's a service you offer in a specific location, neighborhood, or region, they will help you get seen.

Connect with Steven at:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-lentz-96079b1b6/

Have you ever wanted to learn French? It is a great goal to have for your development, because:

• 1. French has secured its status as a top international language
• 2. Learning French gives you access to the world
• 3. French is on the rise
• 4. French is a favorite among language learners
• 5. For an English speaker, French has a great difficulty-to-benefit ratio

To assist you in that goal, I spoke with Angel Pretot, the premier French learning coach. He helps English speakers learn French fast and become fluent. 

He uses a holistic approach designed so you can start living your best French life right away. Learning a new language is an amazing personal growth journey. It gives your brain and your personality an upgrade. Thanks to his new, holistic approach, you will be able to learn French faster and use it in your daily life.

And plus, speaking French just sounds cool!

Connect with Angel at https://www.frenchfluency.net/about

John Katsavos is a Personal Trainer and host of The Fitness Oracle podcast who is dedicated to helping people regain their confidence through exercise, martial arts, and mindset hacks.

Over the past 20 years, he has developed healthy hacks both in and out of the gym which have been proven to improve mental health in young men and women by implementing his 4 “Pillars of Health.” His pillars include nutrition, rest and recovery, exercise, and mindset, which work together to achieve health and vitality.

John has his own personal experience with anxiety and depression which became so severe that he found himself standing on the edge of a bridge, ready to end his life. Now it is his mission to help others on the road to living their life as healthy as possible - both physically and mentally.

"Mind over matter" is a phrase that many of us have heard at various times. This phrase is usually in reference to utilizing our minds to self-regulate in moments when situations or events seem out of our control. Our minds have the innate ability to drive us to achieve amazing things, while at the same time being an unrelenting critic that can bring our progression to a screeching halt.

Helping her clients to master their mindset to perform at the highest level is the calling of my guest, Elizabeth Louis. She specializes in performance, trauma, & crisis therapy, group psychoeducation, and mental health coaching. Having gone through therapy herself to overcome traumatic experiences in her life, she gets it. She leverages neuropsychology but walks along that path with you as therapy is so much more than what happens for a shorter time period in a room. She also hosts mental health boot camps, online courses, a mental health podcast, a blog, and so much more to help you become the best possible while making the impossible possible.

Connect with Elizabeth on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/louiselizabeth/

Or at her website: https://elizabethlouis.com/

Beer, wine, whiskey, bourbon, vodka, rum, tequila, and gin represent most of the traditional alcohol consumed in this country, either straight or as a key ingredient in our favorite cocktail. However, there is a whole other spirits category that is Japan's greatest secret. It is not sake, but rather an incredibly diverse spirit named sochu. On this episode I speak with Christopher Pellegrini, who started out brewing American beer in Vermont and now lives in Japan where his mission is to pull back the curtain on this type of spirit - for the world's enjoyment!

Christopher Pellegrini cut his teeth in alcohol as a teen brewer at Otter Creek Brewing Company in Middlebury, Vermont. He discovered shochu and awamori after moving to Tokyo while he was a full-time professor at Waseda University. In 2014, he published the first ever English language guide to shochu and awamori, The Shochu Handbook. He also contributed to The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails, published in 2021. Christopher launched Honkaku Spirits in March 2020 (great timing, huh?) with the mission of bringing intensely artisanal Japanese spirits to discerning consumers worldwide. He also co-hosts two podcasts focused on the education of Japanese spirits: Japan Distilled and Sake on Air. Fluent in English and Japanese (conversational in Spanish and Korean), Christopher’s contribution to increasing global knowledge of Japanese spirits continues to shape opinion on this burgeoning category.

When I grow up, I am going to be.....or do..... Do you remember saying that when you were younger? Do you remember what those dreams were? And maybe life has moved in fast motion as you took care of what you needed to. But what if you could still do what you wanted to do, but are scared or stuck?

and struggled to figure out what was for her. She has worked in many industries and has launched multiple businesses. But most importantly, she's constantly reassessing her “why” and using that as a guiding force in how she makes decisions.

Now she helps her clients pursue their passions as well!