The Quiet Warrior Show

Tom Dutta
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  • Business
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The Quiet Warrior Show helps seekers, top leaders, find their pathway to higher happiness and success. A combination of interview with leaders who tell their heroic stories of success and challenges/failures along the way makes this a show like no other. Hear leadership talks on how to find purpose in life, take action and create the life you deserve and desire. Your host Tom Dutta is the CEO of KRE-AT a Motive Leadership Company, #1 International Best Selling Author and International Speaker. Tom created a unique coaching and mentoring formula "The Way of the Quiet Warrior®" and received the William Shatner Moving America Forward award for helping leaders. Learn more about Tom visit: www.kreat.ca/who vimeo.com/238882128 as see on Moving America Forward https://www.facebook.com/thewayofthequietwarrior/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomdutta/

  1. 5d ago ·  Video

    TRY AGAIN: Nick Marshall on Prison, Power and Finding True Self Again

    ⚡ What happens when armed robbery at 21 catalyzes a Hollywood dream? ⚡ 🎭 From New Jersey state prison to NYC's hottest nightclubs, then back to his true calling 🎭 💭 What does it take to rebuild your identity when society has already written you off? Host and producer Dr. Thomas A. Dutta in conversation with Nick Marshall, author of the brutally honest memoir Try Again: An Ex-Con's Path from Prison to Prosperity and co-founder of The Collective NY theatre company. After serving 3 years for armed robbery, Nick clawed his way from parole officer check-ins to A-list celebrity events at 1OAK, Avenue, and The Darby, only to discover that glitter isn't gold. Now he's directing films, running a theatre company, and proving that your past doesn't define your future. 🔹 What you'll take away from this episode: ✅ The raw truth about prison's failure to rehabilitate, and what transforms lives ✅ How Nick navigated the impossible maze of finding work, housing, and acceptance as an ex-con ✅ The seductive trap of NYC nightlife success and why he walked away from Saint-Tropez trips and infinite freebies ✅ The moment he realized his artistic dreams couldn't take a backseat to celebrity treatment ✅ Why mental health, addiction, and PTSD became the invisible battles Nick has fought ✅ How writing and storytelling became his pathway to healing and purpose 🎯 This isn't your typical redemption story. It's a masterclass in resilience, reinvention, and the courage to try again. 🔗 Follow Nick Marshall: 📚 Try Again: An Ex-Con's Path from Prison to Prosperity (Available Now | Viva Editions/Simon & Schuster) 🎬 The Collective NY: thecollective-ny.org 🌐 Website: thecollective-ny.org/nickmarshall #FinalCutPremiere #TryAgain #SecondChances #ExConSuccess #TheQuietWarriorShow #NickMarshall #PrisonReform #MentalHealthMatters #NYC #Theater #Redemption #AuthorLife #CreativeForce #BreakingBarriers

  2. Oct 21 ·  Video

    Wisdom for Life: Perry Atwal on What Knowledge Cannot Teach You

    What makes a man leave a career at Morgan Stanley to spend his life teaching others how to live well? In this episode of The Quiet Warrior Show, host and producer Dr. Thomas A. Dutta talks with Perry Atwal: UBC Sauder faculty, former Morgan Stanley banker, and author of Wisdom for Life, a #1 Amazon bestseller in Personal Transformation. Perry is the son of immigrant parents who left small villages in India for England. They gave him discipline, hard work and strong character. The networking and easy connections that some classmates grew up around, he had to learn on his own. He has lived with keratoconus, an eye disease, through eleven surgeries and three corneal transplants. He has taught more than 20,000 students. His book makes one case: knowledge is everywhere, but wisdom is in short supply. In this hour you will learn: ✅ Why the principles that made people wise 2,000 years ago still hold today ✅ What his years in investment banking taught him about what wisdom is not ✅ How hardship, including years of surgery to save his eyesight, shaped his perspective and gratitude ✅ The patterns he has seen repeat across every industry and country he has taught in ✅ How to begin making wiser decisions in everyday life More about Perry and his book Wisdom for Life: perryatwal.com Recognised among the best: • #2, Feedspot Top 30 Canada CEO Podcasts • Feedspot Top Canadian Leadership Podcast • Top 100 Life Stories Podcasts, worldwide (MillionPodcasts) • Top 10 Pacific Northwest Leadership Podcasts (MillionPodcasts) • Top 10 Canadian Leadership Podcasts (MillionPodcasts)

  3. Oct 7 ·  Video

    They Called Him the Chicken Man: Terry Conway's Crab Empire

    He had never sold a product, never run a plant, never sourced a single ingredient. He was forty-one, a father of five, and he had just bought a crab company he knew almost nothing about. In this episode of The Quiet Warrior Show, Terry Conway joins host and producer Dr. Thomas A. Dutta to tell the story of how one word carried him from the docks of Maryland to seafood villages in seventeen countries. In this conversation: ✅ Why trust, not expertise, was the real engine of a global brand ✅ How a self-taught structure called "Business Is Simple" tamed years of chaos ✅ What the watermen of the Chesapeake taught a former CFO about respect ✅ How a man in his late fifties ended up at the Ironman World Championship in Kona ✅ The succession thinking that keeps a 130-year-old family company whole From a family cottage business to world processing and markets, this is a conversation about building something that lasts. More about Terry and his new book Business is Simple: terryconway-bis.com Recognition for The Quiet Warrior Show: • #2, Feedspot Top 30 Canada CEO Podcasts • Feedspot Top Canadian Leadership Podcast • Top 100 Life Stories Podcasts, worldwide (MillionPodcasts) • Top 10 Pacific Northwest Leadership Podcasts (MillionPodcasts) • Top 10 Canadian Leadership Podcasts (MillionPodcasts)

  4. Sep 23

    The Spy Washington Never Named

    Two hundred and fifty years later, we still do not know her real name. Historians call her only "355," a number buried inside the Culper Ring, George Washington's real spy network in British-occupied New York. Award-winning educator and bestselling novelist Dr. Randy Overbeck joins host and producer Dr. Tom Dutta on The Quiet Warrior Show to talk about his historical suspense novel, ABIGAIL TRENCH: A Novel of Washington's Spy Ring (Diversion Books, distributed by Simon and Schuster). Overbeck gives that unnamed woman a name, a voice, and a reason for disappearing so completely from the record. In this conversation: ✓ How three decades in education led to seven published novels and nine national awards ✓ The real historical mystery behind an unnamed woman spy lost for 250 years ✓ Why the Culper Ring's secrecy still keeps historians guessing today ✓ Historical details Randy's own research turned up that even he had never encountered "[A] rousing, top-notch tale of courage amid our nation's struggle for independence." William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author Learn more about Randy Overbeck: www.authorrandyoverbeck.com The Quiet Warrior Show is recognized as: #2, Feedspot Top 30 Canada CEO Podcasts; Feedspot Top Canadian Leadership Podcast; Top 100 Life Stories Podcasts, worldwide (MillionPodcasts); Top 10 Pacific Northwest Leadership Podcasts (MillionPodcasts); Top 10 Canadian Leadership Podcasts (MillionPodcasts). Follow The Quiet Warrior Show so you never miss an episode.

  5. Sep 2 ·  Video

    Failure Is an Option: Six-Time Silicon Valley CEO Mike Grossman

    Six-time Silicon Valley CEO Mike Grossman joins host and producer Dr. Tom Dutta on The Quiet Warrior Show, ranked #2 on Feedspot's Top 30 Canada CEO Podcasts, for a conversation about what running a company in Silicon Valley actually feels like when the cameras are not rolling. Mike has led six venture-funded technology companies over thirty years, and all six were acquired: the largest for $400 million, the smallest in a $250,000 fire sale. He is the author of Failure Is an Option: Reflections of a Silicon Valley CEO (Ideapress, June 2026), forty-four candid, self-contained stories about luck, timing, loneliness, and the truth the glossy founder myth leaves out. In this episode: Why effort and talent do not guarantee success, and where luck and timing really rule The counteroffer he still calls his deepest professional regret, twenty-five years later The hardest layoff of his life, and what it taught him about carrying responsibility for people and their families Why he focuses on inputs over outcomes, and how that steadies a leader in a crisis What thirty years in the Valley taught him about loneliness, honesty, and holding it together Learn more about Mike and the book: failureisanoption.com Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, Pandora, Audible, Pocket Casts, Castbox, Overcast, and wherever you listen to podcasts.

  6. Aug 12

    From a Village With No Power to Canada's Calm: Nuttha Goutier Founder Sabai Thai Spas

    Nuttha Goutier grew up in a village in Chiang Rai, northern Thailand, with no running water and no electricity. She learned massage at her grandmother's side, arrived in Canada in 2001 with a new language and little else, and in 2005 opened the first Sabai Thai Spa. Today she leads seven locations across Greater Vancouver and is opening the brand to franchise partners across Canada. In this conversation with host and producer Dr. Tom Dutta, she tells the human story behind the calm: the doubt, the reinvention, and the belief that self-care belongs in everyday life, not saved for a rare luxury. The Quiet Warrior Show is recognized as a Top Canadian Leadership Podcast and one of the Top 100 Life Stories Podcasts worldwide. Learn more about Nuttha's work at Sabai Thai Spa: https://sabaithai.com #TheQuietWarriorShow #Leadership #Wellness #WomenInBusiness #Entrepreneurship #SabaiThaiSpa

  7. Jul 29 ·  Video

    Beyond the Dollar: The Inner Voice of Fundraising | Jeff Schreifels

    What if fundraising was never about money? In this episode of The Quiet Warrior Show, host and producer Dr. Tom Dutta sits down with Jeff Schreifels, Principal and Owner of Veritus Group, internationally renowned fundraising expert, keynote speaker, bestselling author, and pioneer of relationship-centred major gifts strategy. With over 30 years in nonprofit leadership, Jeff has helped organisations like St. Jude's, United Way, Seton Hall University, March of Dimes, American Cancer Society, GLAAD, and New York City Ballet increase revenue while strengthening donor relationships through what he calls the Veritus Way. But beneath the strategy lies something deeper. Jeff shares how listening to his inner voice at four to five pivotal life moments altered the trajectory of his life, shaped his leadership philosophy, and redefined what legacy truly means. This is a conversation about risk, intuition, leadership, and why the future of nonprofits depends on relationships over transactions. Learn more about Jeff and the Veritus Way at veritusgroup.com.

  8. Jul 15

    FINAL CUT PREMIERE: House of Pretend: Joanne Redding on Silence, Wall Street, and Reclaiming Her Voice

    boss offered her a million dollars to have his baby. The story in between is the one Wall Street never told. Joanne Redding sits down with host and producer Dr. Tom Dutta on The Quiet Warrior Show, a Top 20 Leadership Podcast in Canada and Top 2 CEO Podcast in the USA (Feedspot), and a Top 100 Storytelling Podcast internationally (Million Podcasts), to talk about House of Pretend (She Writes Press, now available), the memoir fans of The Glass Castle and Educated have been waiting for. What you will hear: ✅ The bridge, the kerchief, and the sentence that shaped four decades of silence ✅ How a sixteen-year-old escape became a Wall Street trading desk ✅ The night a million-dollar offer changed her life forever ✅ Why she stopped waiting to be saved, and what she did instead ✅ The day a dementia ward delivered three words she had waited a lifetime to hear Listen now wherever you get your podcasts. https://joannereddingauthor.com/

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The Quiet Warrior Show helps seekers, top leaders, find their pathway to higher happiness and success. A combination of interview with leaders who tell their heroic stories of success and challenges/failures along the way makes this a show like no other. Hear leadership talks on how to find purpose in life, take action and create the life you deserve and desire. Your host Tom Dutta is the CEO of KRE-AT a Motive Leadership Company, #1 International Best Selling Author and International Speaker. Tom created a unique coaching and mentoring formula "The Way of the Quiet Warrior®" and received the William Shatner Moving America Forward award for helping leaders. Learn more about Tom visit: www.kreat.ca/who vimeo.com/238882128 as see on Moving America Forward https://www.facebook.com/thewayofthequietwarrior/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomdutta/

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  • Creator
    Tom Dutta
  • Years Active
    2017 - 2026
  • Episodes
    292
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © The Way of the Quiet Warrior®
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