What if your wedding didn’t just cost you money, but made you money? That’s exactly what entrepreneur and marketing powerhouse Marley Jaxx is doing. In this electrifying episode, Marley shares her bold and unfiltered plan to monetize her actual wedding... and no, this isn’t just a quirky idea, it’s a fully branded, multi-day festival experience complete with speakers, sponsors, VIP tickets, and a headlining performer.

Whether you’re a business owner, marketer, dreamer, or creator who loves bold moves and brilliant strategy, this conversation will have you rethinking what’s possible. It’s more than a wedding. It’s a blueprint for how to turn real life into a business model, and make it profitable, magnetic, and deeply aligned with your values.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

The Wedding Industry Disrupted – Why Marley and her fiancé Steven J. Larson are flipping the script on traditional weddings and making it a profitable experience.

How to Turn Any Life Event Into Revenue – Discover the three pathways they’re using to monetize their wedding, and how you can apply the same model to your own events.

Marketing That Feels Like a Movement – How Marley’s post about charging for her wedding triggered thousands, built a fanbase, and became the first case study for a brand-new industry.

From Criticism to Confidence – The raw truth about dealing with backlash, insecurity, and pushing past the fear of being judged for doing something that’s never been done before.

How to Price Your Value (Even If It’s a Wedding) – The real talk about ticket pricing, brand integration, and what it means to truly overdeliver, whether you’re hosting a concert or walking down the aisle.

Rare Moves, Rare Life – Marley’s take on creating a “rare” life through rare choices, rare thoughts, and rare courage and why boldness is the only way forward.

The Power of the Right Partner – How Marley and Steven's relationship philosophy fuels their business success, personal evolution, and shared mission to disrupt industries.

What You Can Do Right Now – Whether you’re planning a wedding, building a business, or simply trying to live bigger, Marley’s story will inspire you to take that bold first step.

Memorable Quotes

Links

• Crash the Party: crashthepartywithstevenmarley.com – Explore the full wedding experience, ticket options, and the story behind the movement.
• Wedding Funnels: weddingfunnels.com – Learn how to monetize your own wedding through tickets, sponsorships, or brand deals.
• Watch the Doc: I Got Cancelled and I Did It to Myself –

Gary Evans isn’t just another CEO. He’s a four-time public company leader, a Wall Street dealmaker who’s raised $7B in capital, and a man who once turned a $1,000 investment into a $2.2 billion sale. Today, he's back in the arena, this time leading U.S. Antimony Corporation, the only fully integrated Antimony supplier in the Western Hemisphere.

This conversation is a blueprint for building an unshakable business, especially when the odds are against you. From mining overlooked minerals in Alaska to going toe-to-toe with China in the critical minerals race, Gary shares battle-tested insights on grit, timing, leadership, and national impact.

Whether you're an entrepreneur, investor, or visionary looking to build something that matters, this episode will challenge your limits and refocus your mindset.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

The Antimony Advantage – Why this obscure semi-metal is now essential to national security, defense, tech, and energy, and how Gary’s company controls the only two smelters in the entire Western Hemisphere.

How to Compete with China (and Win) – Gary explains how he’s positioning a small U.S. firm against the biggest player in the world, and why the Department of Defense is taking notice.

A Billionaire’s Leadership Philosophy – The Super Bowl approach to building a winning company, including why Gary gives his team “enough rope to hang themselves” (and then pulls them back).

Tenacity Over Talent – The raw story of starting with nothing, barely making payroll, foreclosing on oil wells, and sticking with it long enough to catch the wave that built a multibillion-dollar empire.

Building Fast in a Slow World – How Gary is doing in one year what usually takes mining companies 25 years, using scrappy oil-and-gas instincts to shortcut the process and gain strategic control.

Why Retirement Isn’t the Goal – Hear why Gary, now 67, refuses to quit, what really drives him, and the priceless legacy of making 37 of his employees into millionaires.

Memorable Quotes

“If you're not in the game, the opportunity can’t find you.” – Gary Evans

“We’re picking up 100-year-old trash in Alaska that turns out to be gold... well, Antimony. Same thing.” – Gary Evans

“I started with $1,000 and made 37 people millionaires. That’s what I’m proud of.” – Gary Evans

“Most people quit right before the breakthrough. I didn’t. And that’s the only reason I made it.” – Gary Evans

“We’re not just building a company. We’re building resilience for America.” – Gary Evans

What if the financial industry’s best-kept secret wasn’t a stock tip, but a storytelling strategy? In this episode, Josh Cary is joined by longtime friend and trailblazer Mitch Slater, a 35-year veteran financial advisor at UBS, who has made it his mission to help advisors stop being invisible and start being known.

Mitch is leading a quiet revolution inside one of the world’s largest financial institutions by fusing decades of Wall Street experience with his first love: broadcasting. From working with Larry King and Howard Stern to pioneering UBS’s in-house podcast and TV division, Mitch shares how personal branding and storytelling are transforming an industry that’s notoriously slow to adapt.

This episode is essential listening for any professional, inside or outside finance, who knows they’re hiding behind credentials and compliance, and is ready to build real trust by being truly seen.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

Why Most Advisors Stay Hidden

Discover the cultural and psychological reasons financial advisors avoid visibility, and how that limits both their impact and influence.

The Truth About “Time” as an Excuse

Mitch calls out the most common objection professionals use to avoid content creation and how he reframes it into opportunity.

From Radio to ROI: A Media-Driven Career Reinvention

How Mitch transformed his early broadcasting career into a powerhouse visibility platform inside UBS, and how it’s now helping other advisors do the same.

The Power of Storytelling in Finance

Learn why stories beat stats when it comes to building trust and loyalty, and how advisors can use storytelling to become the “first call” in their clients’ lives.

Building Personal Brands in a Regulated World

Mitch breaks down how to navigate compliance while still showing up authentically—and why perfection is overrated.

The Future of Influence in Wealth Management

Why the next generation of clients won’t care about your credentials unless they know who you really are, and what that means for every advisor who wants to stay relevant.

Memorable Quotes

“Advisors don’t have a marketing problem, they have a visibility problem.” – Mitch Slater

“It's not about timing the market. It’s your time in the market, and your time in front of the right people.” – Mitch Slater

“You don’t need a fancy degree to build trust. You need the courage to tell your story.” – Mitch Slater

“If you want to be the first call your clients make, they need to know who you are before they need you.” – Mitch Slater

“Authenticity beats perfection. Every time.” – Mitch Slater