Build A Bigger Life

My name is Bryan Dewhurst, and I believe we are truly living in the greatest age to create wealth and help others pursue full-time families and time freedom. After 5 years of owning my own business, going through a divorce, and working with hundreds of families, I know that time is the one thing you cannot buy back. Working alongside clients that desire to have full time freedom instead of full-time jobs is what I enjoy most. I like the challenge of thinking differently to organize your resources in a way that supports your true goals and purpose. I am grateful to do this work every day with my best friend and business partner, Phillip Ramsey. By educating, coaching and serving families, we’re able to help our clients’ money to truly start working for them as opposed to a financial institution. My time in this business actually began when I was 6 years old. My mother, who has been in this business for 40 years, would often take me to work and I was able to spend time with lots of advisors at an early age. I r

Grant Baldwin is the creator of the TheSpeakerLab.com and the Booked And Paid To Speak training program. He’s also a nationally known keynote speaker and author and hosts “The Speaker Lab” podcast. As a speaker, Grant has given hundreds of presentations and has spoken to over 400,000 people in 45 different states through leadership conferences, conventions, and other events. His book and curriculum for students, “Reality Check,” is taught in 400 schools around the country. As much as he enjoys speaking and entrepreneurship, Grant loves his family more. He is married to his high school sweetheart and they have three girls. They live in Nashville, TN.

Nick Loper helps people earn money outside of their day job. He's an author, online entrepreneur, and host of the "Best Business Podcast"-nominated Side Hustle Show, which features new part-time business ideas each week. As Chief Side Hustler at SideHustleNation.com, he loves deconstructing the tactics and strategies behind building extra income streams.

As a college student at Arizona State University, author and speaker Evan York found himself sinking into a pit of anxiety and despair. He tried everything to improve his mental and emotional health, but traditional psychiatric treatment only made his condition far worse. After studying, researching, and ultimately experimenting on himself, he discovered a clear path to healing his brain and getting his life back. Having lived through a period of tremendous struggle and risen above it, he now shares what he’s learned on the journey to a healthier life.

Leisa Peterson of The Wealth Clinic joins us for an eye opening money talk.

An interview with a musical genius - Tim Rose

An Interview with the founder of The Scholarship System, Jocelyn Pearson

Joe Saul Sehy of Stacking Benjamins shares his Build A Bigger Life Story

Darron Kitterman has contributed his entrepreneurial spirit to companies in Internet and e-commerce, Insurance, Transportation and Logistics, Network Marketing, Real Estate, Franchising, Non-Profits and Public Education. He currently works in technology, enjoys acquiring assets, running small businesses and is a financial literacy trainer. He resides with his family in the friendly state of Iowa.

Cokie Berenyi has been in financial services and serving the needs of individual and institutional clients and entrepreneurs since 1996. Mother, author, business owner, financial “samurai” and Perfect Day engineer, Cokie loves food, wine, travel, stray dogs, goat cheese, tennis, and alpine mountaineering. Founder of Alphavest, an industry pioneer that is right- sizing Wall Street one client at a time, Cokie inspires investors and entrepreneurs at-large with her vision and storytelling of her many experiences leading clients through the financial and work-life-balance maze. Author of the Liberated Investor, a 40 under 40 recipient and Woman CEO of the Year 2012, Cokie is currently climbing the 7 Summits of the world and beat Stephen Colbert in the Charleston to Bermuda race in 2011. Founder of non-profits Rein & Shine and She CLIMBS, Cokie’s passion for entrepreneurship spans for-profit and not-for profit arenas, alike.

A solocast from Adam Carroll talking about plans for the future.

Imagine leaving college, having lived abroad for a semester, studied, played and had as many experiences as you wanted, and owing not one red cent! Jocelyn Pearson did exactly this. As the oldest of 5 kids, one of the first in her family to pursue a 4 year degree, and knowing that her family didn’t have the money to cover her entire tuition, she set out to find free money in the way of scholarships and grants enough to cover her entire college career. As a junior in high school, Jocelyn began submitting applications into those bogus scholarship drawings, believing that if she just applied for as many as she could she would eventually win some of them. After an entire year of not winning, she decided to change her strategy and go after the applications that had an essay as a component (having won the ONE essay application she turned in as a junior). That’s when her winning streak began. As a senior, Jocelyn won a number of smaller awards, and took those winnings to heart by continuing apply all the way through

Hey life architects, Adam Carroll with a solocast for the beginning of 2016. Today I’m digging out my crystal ball and looking to the future to tell you what to expect in the building of your own bigger life. This podcast is really meant to give you a glimpse into the trends I’m watching as I plan out the next year and beyond in my business and life. And, depending on who eventually is elected president, I may cash in all my chips and buy a condo in the Caymans and peddle shell jewelry on the beach. Heck, we’ll make it a family affair -- I’m sure my kids could sell the heck out of unique t-shirts going chair to chair. The reason I wanted to record this particular podcast is I think looking forward is essential to planning. Sure, most of what you’ll hear over the next several minutes is speculation, but it’s also based on history and facts that I can corroborate. Nothing that you’ll hear is stuff pulled from my backside…. though it may be pulled from the backside of our Federal Reserve, our nation’s investment

Farissa Knox gets to wake up every day and do whatever she likes. The benefit to her is the brands she’s choosing to build she is immensely passionate about. Farissa owns RLM Media, a digital marketing agency, as well as the app What Are You Wearing, a social application for fashionistas to share their daily clothing choices. Not thinking entirely about being an entrepreneur, Farissa found herself in 2008 working for a company that was going bankrupt. She immediately started thinking about getting another job when her husband threw out the idea of working with the clients she had been working with previously. Farissa sent out 5 texts while driving in the car with her husband and all 5 confirmed their desire to continue working with this newly minted business owner. Farissa knew that she’d either have to work like a slave in the business, doing most of the work herself, OR she could bite the bullet and hire people to help her do the work. This decision proved to be the linchpin for her success because she was

Dave Andrews is an author, speaker, and transformational coach about to launch a book called the 30 Day Sobriety Solution with co-author Jack Canfield. Dave’s life’s work is about helping other people take possession of their lives, overcome addictions, and achieve their biggest life goals. And on this episode, he gets super real about his drinking habits, the enormous life event that changed his path forever, and how this impactful book came about. Dave had an unhealthy relationship with alcohol from the time he was in high school and college. In Dave’s own words, he felt better about himself when he was drinking. He thought other people found him more interesting, he fit in better, and a host of other falsehoods that he eventually realized. Two major events happened for Dave that caused him to change his path. The first was waking up in a hotel room covered in vomit, a room littered with alcohol bottles and food containers, a trail leading from the bathroom to the bed, and the realization that he very well

Lauren Greutman, otherwise known as ‘That Lady’ from IAmThatLady.com, and her husband Mark are in the middle of building the New American Dream. Working side-by-side on a daily basis, the Greutmans made a decision to “retire Mark early” from his job as an actuary and focus on building their business, their blog, and their podcast at IAmThatLady.com. What started as a part-time blog for Lauren, writing about extreme couponing, money saving principles, and how to raise a family on less is now a thriving business that supports Lauren and her family of 6. Check out Lauren’s Financial Renovation Course! In the free course, she’ll share: √ Learn how to create a budget √ Learn how to stick to that budget √ Learn a complete financial blueprint for success √ Talk about how to get your spouse on board √ Discover how to create a financial plan that WORKS! √ A special opportunity to go even deeper! Lauren and Mark’s origin story probably sounds much like a majority of Americans. They found themselves $40,000 in credit ca

John Schneider and David Auten, collectively known as “The Debt Free Guys” are two 30-something professionals who found themselves in a deep dark debt hole just a few years ago living life the way that they “assumed” life was supposed to be: Dinners out, expensive clothes, living at full speed, and at times keeping up with the Joneses. At this point in their lives, they were living in a basement apartment, dreaming about buying vacation homes in faraway cities, and facing the reality of being $51,000 in credit card debt, essentially living day-to-day on borrowed money. The overwhelming debt load, coupled with their low light basement apartment, made it feel like their world was getting darker, not lighter. So, they began to shed light on their finances in a major way. They way they got more in touch with their money consciousness, realizing that if they were going to achieve everything they wanted to, they’d have to get serious about blasting away their debt. As a starting point, David put every expense in a

At the very beginning of the year, I embarked on this crazy journey of putting together a podcast that was focused on giving people hope and direction on Building A Bigger Life. My reasoning was pretty simple - it seemed like a vast majority of the folks I interacted with were asking “is there more to life?”. Thoreau has a quote about most men leading lives of quiet desperation, and never wanting to be in that camp myself, I started seeking out and interviewing people that live most extraordinary lives. Folks that were doing more of what they love to do and less of what they have to do on a daily basis. My interview list has grown immensely and while I can’t list all of my favorite interviews from this year, I wanted to give you an inside glimpse into some of the more notable soundbites from episodes of 2015. If you’ve been a listener of the podcast for some time, you know that my format stays pretty consistent, but the conversations tend to wander a bit based on the guest. One of my favorite stray conversati

On this episode of Build A Bigger Life is a guy who makes his living teaching other people how to make one of their own -- on the side. Imagine doing “work” every day that doesn’t really feel like work. That’s how Nick Loper describes what he does on a daily basis through his website SideHustleNation.com, a site dedicated to helping people find meaningful work and income outside their day to day job. What Nick has uncovered through his myriad of interviews with people just like you and me, is there is a lower risk version of entrepreneurship that people are exploring through the side hustle. What prompted the website and subsequent show is Nick realized that relying on one income stream, as most Americans do in their primary job, was not the best method for the future. As a result, he’s built a business that features others who have pursued their side hustle, reporting back on the experiments that others are doing. He also writes as a freelancer, has a private mastermind, as well as courses that are offered