The Ascent Podcast with Joe Burgess

Joe Burgess

This is a show about inspiring people who explain their path to achievement. Guests range from elite athletes to prominent leaders in community and business. We learn first-hand about motivations, successes, failures, and most importantly the wisdom they have gained from their life experience.

  1. 11/11/2023

    Joel Malick - Financial Advisor, Co-Author of After Work.

    Joel Malick is a financial advisor and co-author of the book Afterwork.   In Joel's professional experience, he found many retirees were ill-prepared to experience a meaningful and satisfying retirement.   In our interview, Joel breaks down what he calls the "retirement lie".   From there, he addresses the paradigm shifts and disciplines involved in making retirement the most rewarding stage of a person's life.

    47 min

  2. 10/05/2023

    Tim Niver - Restaurant Owner and Entrepreneur

    Tim is the owner of Mucci's Italian and Saint Dinette restaurants, located in St. Paul, MN.    In addition, started a frozen food business about five years ago.    We talk about Tim's roots, growing up in Jamestown, NY.   We learn about his amazing experiences around food while traveling Europe, and the process and passion it takes to run restaurants in a post pandemic era.

    50 min

  3. 09/18/2023

    Kristin Printon - Co-Founder & Vice President, Moxie Wealth Management

    Kristin is an industry leader in financial services.   In her relatively short 12 year career, she has won numerous awards and is regularly asked to give presentations to a national audience.   She also happens to be Joe's business partner at Moxie Wealth Management.  Kristin shares what it was like growing up with modest means.   She also explains how she found a way to finance her own college and developed a passion for helping others learn about money.   We talk about a trip to Europe that she found inspiring, the interesing way she figured out where she wanted to live after college, and what its like to be a strong woman in a male dominated profession.

    47 min

  4. 08/04/2023

    Jaime Taets - Chief Vision Officer and Founder of Keystone Group International

    Jaime shares how her career path led her from a large fortune 500 company to shift mid-career to build her own firm, Keystone Group International, a business and leadership consulting company.  In this episode, we discuss how leaders can help or hinder the growth of an organization. We also hear about her transformative perspective change as a result of a recent trip to Tanzania.

    45 min

  5. 07/05/2023

    Courtney Godfrey - TV Reporter, Growing Through Tragedy

    Courtney Godfrey is a TV reporter for Minneapolis Fox affiliate KMSP. In 2017, while water skiing with her family, she was involved in a tragic accident resulting in having to amputate part of her leg. We learn how she and her family mentally deal with the loss and how the accident has sparked a better version of herself. We also learn more about Courtney's approach toward chasing success.

    35 min

  6. 06/01/2023

    Christi Krautbauer - President, Marketing Essentials & Board Chair, Diaper Bank of MN

    Join us for a chat with Christi Krautbauer, President of Marketing Essentials, a company that specializes in employee incentive and reward packages. Not only is Christi an expert in her field, but she also serves as chair of a nonprofit called Diaper Bank of Minnesota. She has also started personal coaching, team consulting, and speaking engagements focused on women's leadership and effectiveness. Tune in to learn about Christi's passion for human-centered design, her mission to inspire women to close the confidence gap, and her remarkable sacrifice for a close friend.

    37 min

  7. 05/01/2023

    Andrea and Megan Wagner - Mother and Cancer Survivor, Founders of Reading4Research

    In this episode, I interviewed two amazing and resilient people, Andrea Wagner and her daughter Megan.  A little over four years ago, when she was eight years old, Megan was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a form of bone cancer.   Since then, she's had to become the ultimate fighter, going through two rounds of chemo, and as a result, a heart transplant.   In my interview, we learn about Megan's process for fighting this disease.  In addition, from Andrea, we get a glimpse of the emotional rollercoaster that she, her husband Matt, and their other children Michael and Maddie, have had to endure.    Throughout all of that, Megan and Andrea have now created their own charity in partnership with the University of Minnesota Foundation called Reading4Research.   We learn about how their charity came to be and the impact they are making.    Despite all these trials Megan and her family have endured, this is an inspirational story of hope, with gratitude for all the good things that can come out of a bad situation.

    50 min

  8. 04/01/2023

    Chris Kelly - Founder and President, AssetHR

    Chris is the Founder and President of AssetHR, a human resource, payroll, and benefits company.  He hails from New York City.   His first professional career was managing fine dining restaurants in Manhattan.   We learn how he found his way to Minnesota and started a business in an entirely different industry.   Further, Chris tells us about his relationship first mentality and his focus on family.

    29 min
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This is a show about inspiring people who explain their path to achievement. Guests range from elite athletes to prominent leaders in community and business. We learn first-hand about motivations, successes, failures, and most importantly the wisdom they have gained from their life experience.

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