The Authentic Networker

Richard Bliss Brooke
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Richard Bliss Brooke—renowned entrepreneur, bestselling author, speaker, and ontological coach—presents The Authentic Networker Podcast, a show dedicated to unlocking the power of genuine relationships in business and beyond. Each episode features inspiring conversations with top Network Marketing leaders, industry trailblazers, and successful entrepreneurs who have built thriving businesses through transparency, integrity, and replicable strategies. Packed with valuable insights, education, and motivation, this podcast is your go-to resource for mastering the mindset, tools, and approaches needed to grow your business, lead a team, or cultivate authentic connections. Join Richard as he guides you on the path to genuine networking and achieving extraordinary growth with honor and authenticity.

  1. 4d ago

    Richard Bliss Brooke on Mach II: Trade Your C Game for Your A Game

    Everyone has two people inside them. Richard calls them your C game and your A game, and which one shows up decides how you lead, how you sell, and how you treat the people around you. Your C game is the petulant child. It shows up in two ways: playing small, staying safe, and letting people walk over you, or having to win every contest, be the loudest in the room, and beat everyone to prove you're enough. Both come from the same place, and both leave a lot on the table. Your A game is something different. It's who you are when you're doing what you love, out of your values, wanting to contribute rather than compete. Richard says every one of us has already accomplished extraordinary things from our A game. Most of us just can't stay there. In this solo episode, Richard walks through the core of Mach II With Your Hair on Fire. You'll hear how to recognize when you've slipped into your C game, why knowing your triggers is half the battle (his is being lied to, and he admits his reaction isn't pretty), and what your C game is actually costing you in your relationships and your business. He also explains how the same A game qualities show up whether you're raising kids or making the ask, breaks down red light, yellow light, and green light stories, and closes with simple homework: name your A game qualities, document your A game wins, and write ten affirmations. If you've ever caught yourself pumping the brakes on your own success, this one's for you.

    Richard Bliss Brooke on Mach II: Trade Your C Game for Your A Game

  2. Oct 2

    Jennifer Glacken, Shaklee Leader: Still Enrolling Every Month After 33 Years

    Most people think a 70-year-old company is old news. Jennifer Glacken has been with Shaklee for going on 33 years, the only company she's ever been in, and she is still personally enrolling at least one business builder and five to ten new customers every single month. Her organization does $3 million a month in sales, and she has more than 400 customers ordering each month. Jennifer started as a customer in 1992, when Shaklee's cleaning products helped her son's breathing. Nobody sponsored her for two years. When her husband lost his job in 2000, she decided to build a business just to fill the gaps, and she never looked back. A former professional dancer with the Washington Ballet, she brought that same discipline to building her business while homeschooling her kids. In this conversation, Jennifer shares how she keeps finding new people to talk to through "fishing holes," why she has held the nutrition seat in her BNI group for 12 years, and how she leads with the opportunity instead of the product. You'll also hear why she has gone live on Facebook every night for 100 days with no script, the 120-day content system that builds consistency in her team, and why staying in "evaluation instead of judgment" is the first thing she teaches anyone who feels stuck. If you've been in the business a while and haven't enrolled anyone lately, this one's for you.

    Jennifer Glacken, Shaklee Leader: Still Enrolling Every Month After 33 Years

  3. Sep 25

    Richard Bliss Brooke on Leadership On Fire: 10 Practices That Build a Team People Won't Quit

    In network marketing, everybody is a volunteer, and every day they're looking for a reason to quit. That's why Richard Bliss Brooke calls it the toughest test of leadership there is. Now in his 50th full-time year in the profession, Richard walks through the core practices from his book Leadership On Fire: casting a vision people want to follow, enrolling instead of selling, and falling in love with "the mundane." You'll hear why everything in your business comes down to the ask, how he learned to get excited when someone called it a pyramid scheme, and why the most interesting person in any conversation is the one who's most interested. Richard also shares the daily habit he's kept for decades, why belief is built one story at a time, and the numbers every leader should have memorized. If you're ready to level up who you're being, not just what you're doing, this one's for you. https://richardblissbrooke.com/leadership-on-fire/

    Richard Bliss Brooke on Leadership On Fire: 10 Practices That Build a Team People Won't Quit

  4. Sep 18

    Revisiting Bethany Shipley, Young Living Leader: Building a 6,000 Person Team With Babies at Home

    This episode is a replay of one of our most popular calls, and it holds up. Girl, you got this! That's the message Bethany Shipley of Young Living wants other moms to know. She fell in love with Network Marketing three days after she had her first baby. Being a mom and a businesswoman sounded like a dream come true, and in five years she personally sponsored 118 people and built a team of 6,000. Bethany had always wanted to wake up in the morning from passion, not from an alarm clock. That's exactly what she found by sharing the oils she loves so much. On this call you'll hear Bethany's story and her best advice for women who want to build a business while still being home with their families.

    Revisiting Bethany Shipley, Young Living Leader: Building a 6,000 Person Team With Babies at Home

  5. Sep 11

    Best Of: The Numbers Behind Every Big Team

    Richard pulls together six past conversations around one question: how many people did the top builders in this profession actually recruit, and how long did it take them.   The answers land in a narrower range than most people expect. Across more than a hundred interviews with people who built a real career, almost all of them personally enrolled somewhere between eighty and a hundred people inside a twenty-four month window, and out of that hundred came four to eight leaders nobody could have picked out in advance. The guests here confirm it from their own teams, walk through what their first month and first year actually looked like, and give the daily ratios they ran to get there.   The honest part is how slow the beginning is. Two people the first year. Three in the first ninety days. Hundreds of conversations for a handful of yeses. And the reason most people quit, as one guest puts it, is that they prospect just enough to get irritated. They talk to three people, get two nos and one who won't call back, and decide the model doesn't work.   Featuring Curt Beavers, Wendy Bakke, Sonia Magruder, Joni Rogers-Kanté, and John Holowaty.

    Best Of: The Numbers Behind Every Big Team

  6. Sep 4

    Dr. Shefali – A Radical Awakening: Reclaiming Your Power

    What happens when a world-renowned clinical psychologist realizes she’s been living a life built on fear, performance, and people-pleasing? In this previously top-downloaded episode of The Authentic Networker Podcast, Richard Bliss Brooke sits down with Dr. Shefali, best-selling author of A Radical Awakening, to explore the moment everything changed. At the age of 44, Dr. Shefali reached a breaking point and made a conscious choice to stop living according to society’s expectations and start living in alignment with her truth. Now a global voice in conscious parenting and women’s empowerment, Dr. Shefali shares how women can break free from the cages of perfectionism, self-doubt, and emotional suppression. She offers a powerful roadmap for stepping into wholeness, reclaiming your worth, and awakening to the life you were meant to live, not the one you were conditioned to accept. Whether you’re navigating your midlife, questioning your identity, or seeking more conscious leadership, this conversation is a call to wake up, rise up, and come home to yourself. Dr. Shefali Links: Website: https://www.drshefali.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doctorshefali Book: A Radical Awakening – Available wherever books are sold Richard’s Mentorship Program: Ready to lead with vision and authenticity? Join Richard’s live coaching program, Momentum Mentorship, and step into your next chapter with clarity and courage. Learn more at https://momentummentorship.com. Richard Bliss Brooke Links: Website: https://richardblissbrooke.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RichardBlissBrooke Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/richardblissbrooke LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardblissbrooke YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@rbbrooke Loved This Episode? Subscribe, rate, and review The Authentic Networker Podcast—with over 1.4 million downloads. If Dr. Shefali’s journey spoke to you, take a screenshot, share it, and tag us. Let us know how you are awakening.

    Dr. Shefali – A Radical Awakening: Reclaiming Your Power

  7. Aug 28

    Joni Rogers-Kante, Founder of SeneGence: What It Actually Took to Build SeneGence

    Joni Rogers-Kante joins Richard to talk about how SeneGence actually got built, starting well before the company existed. She grew up on a farm in Oklahoma, was sent to California at fifteen, and spent her teenage years working at Sav-On Drugs before finding her way into Mary Kay in her early twenties. She quit her day job as soon as her commissions matched her paycheck. From there, Joni and Richard walk through the early years in detail: 1,200 women recruited personally and $1.7 million in sales in her first year, selling out of a baggie of product with a homemade price sheet and a fax machine for orders. She talks about what it took to get SeneGence to a point most people would call a real company, thirteen years, including a stretch where a packaging shortcut caused $10 million worth of product to be destroyed after lip color started leaking in customers' purses. Her approach through most of it comes down to a few things: tell people the truth, take the harder option when it's the right one, and if something isn't working, change how you're learning instead of waiting for circumstances to change on their own. Guest Bio Joni Rogers-Kante is the Founder, CEO, and Chairwoman of SeneGence International, the direct-selling beauty company she launched in 1999 with its flagship product, LipSense®. Raised on a farm in Sapulpa, Oklahoma, she began working at Sav-On Drugs at sixteen and spent thirteen years in direct sales before starting SeneGence to build a long-wear lip color that could survive being a hands-on mom. SeneGence now has offices in five countries and hundreds of thousands of independent distributors worldwide. Joni is the founder of the Make Sense Foundation, a nonprofit supporting women and children in need, and is the author of Million Dollar Lips. She and her husband split their time between Orange County, California, and their home near Tulsa, Oklahoma.

    Joni Rogers-Kante, Founder of SeneGence: What It Actually Took to Build SeneGence

  8. Aug 21

    Dave Grimaldi, DSA CEO: The Fight for Direct Selling on Capitol Hill

    Dave Grimaldi, CEO of the Direct Selling Association (DSA), returns for his second conversation with Richard this year, and the timing is not an accident. September is when direct selling goes to Washington, and Dave says the stakes this cycle are as high as he has seen them. Richard and Dave get into what most of us never see: a Congress balanced by fewer than five seats, a Federal Trade Commission that could be rebuilt and supercharged overnight, and the one fight that matters more than any other for everyone in the field, your status as an independent contractor. They talk about why a younger Congress does not know our story, why the "P words" (predatory, pyramid) keep getting aimed at us, and what actually moves a lawmaker. There is also a challenge in here for you. Dave and Richard both believe the best defense is a better profession: more honest recruiting, kinder selling, and real results people can point to. This one is part civics lesson, part call to action, and worth your time before Day on the Hill on September 23. https://www.dsa.org/submit-my-story Guest Bio Dave Grimaldi is the CEO of the U.S. Direct Selling Association, the national trade association representing direct selling and network marketing companies. He stepped into the role in January 2025, bringing more than two decades of Washington experience in advocacy and public policy. Before the DSA he was EVP of Government Relations at the Blockchain Association, held senior policy roles at the Interactive Advertising Bureau, and opened the D.C. office for Pandora. Earlier in his career he served on Capitol Hill as Senior Counsel to House Majority Whip James Clyburn and as Chief of Staff to FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn. He worked as an independent distributor for ACN during college, which he credits for his distributor-focused perspective. He holds a B.A. in English from Loyola Marymount University and a J.D. from Catholic University's Columbus School of Law.

    Dave Grimaldi, DSA CEO: The Fight for Direct Selling on Capitol Hill
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Richard Bliss Brooke—renowned entrepreneur, bestselling author, speaker, and ontological coach—presents The Authentic Networker Podcast, a show dedicated to unlocking the power of genuine relationships in business and beyond. Each episode features inspiring conversations with top Network Marketing leaders, industry trailblazers, and successful entrepreneurs who have built thriving businesses through transparency, integrity, and replicable strategies. Packed with valuable insights, education, and motivation, this podcast is your go-to resource for mastering the mindset, tools, and approaches needed to grow your business, lead a team, or cultivate authentic connections. Join Richard as he guides you on the path to genuine networking and achieving extraordinary growth with honor and authenticity.

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  • Creator
    Richard Bliss Brooke
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    163
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2025 Bliss Business, LLC. All rights reserved.
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    The Authentic Networker

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