165 _ No Locked Doors; Master the Keys to Transform Problems Into Possibilities w/ Greg Smith

Greg is a financial
service professional with over 50 years of experience.

He started his career in
commercial lending and earned a CPA certificate while at a national CPA firm.
He also served as managing partner of a FINRA Member firm in Minneapolis
engaged in M&A and private placement transactions for 3 years. Over the
past 15 years, Greg has been a Registered Rep with several FINRA Member firms,
which led to joining Rainmaker Securities.

28 years Greg has held C
level positions in banks, bank holding companies, airlines, chemical companies,
insurance, and real estate and fleet finance entities. He has served as
Chairman of boards of directors of public and private companies and has
successfully managed over $1.5 Billion in buy-side and sell-side transactions
and numerous private equity placements.

Greg is effective in
business turn-arounds, recapitalizations, and management restructurings and has
led numerous mergers, acquisitions, debt placements and equity capital
placements.  He also wrote the Amazon #1 Best-Seller No Locked
Doors (master the keys to transform problem into possibilities).

Greg and his wife Kate
have been married 50 years. They have four grandkids (Ava, Cooper, Everett and
Sebastian), affectionately known as the 4 ACES.

I ask Greg about competence and confidence, what motivates him now 50 years
into his professional career, the importance of learning from mistakes, how his
grandkids bolster his value of curiosity, his secret to being married (to the
same person) for over 50 years, and so much more!

Thank you, Greg, for coming on the pod. 

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