The CJ Moneyway Show

Roger Gauthier believes a dream can carry responsibility beyond the person who receives it. The question at the center of his work is simple: “Who’s depending on your dream?”

Roger joins CJ Moneyway for a conversation that begins in prayer and moves into the life behind that question. He describes growing up with a father whose attention he longed for, the effect of bullying and isolation, and how marriage and fatherhood changed his understanding of responsibility.

CJ brings his own experience into the discussion, reflecting on a decision that helped change his life while leaving scars for others. Together, CJ and Roger examine what it means to pursue a vision while taking ownership of its effect on the people closest to you.

Roger also discusses creating a short film around his message and the accountability he felt when sharing it publicly. As the conversation turns toward loss and rebuilding, he begins describing his mother’s death and a difficult transition into entrepreneurship.

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How can a person look successful and feel like they are barely holding everything together?

Mark J. Silverman joins CJ Moneyway for a deeply personal conversation about the distance between external achievement and internal stability. Mark describes struggling with addiction, losing contact with family and reaching a point in his twenties when he was living out of a truck. A call to his brother brought him to Washington, D.C., where family, recovery meetings, work and college classes opened a different path.

Mark went on to build a successful sales career. Income grew, the clothes and car changed, and the public story looked like a remarkable comeback. Yet, as Mark tells CJ, he still felt like someone who did not belong. At a company trip to the Four Seasons, where he had previously waited tables, he worried that colleagues might see through him. He describes using the appearance of success as armor.

The costs of that armor became harder to ignore later in life. Mark talks about panic attacks, a declining sense of control at work, separation from his wife and a period of serious depression. He speaks about seeking support, working with a therapist, training for the Marine Corps Marathon and gradually rebuilding a relationship with himself. He does not present that process as instant or simple.

The conversation also holds a painful family story. Mark’s brother had been central to his early recovery;

Mark later watched him struggle with alcohol and drugs and describes losing him. That experience complicates any easy comeback narrative. CJ and Mark discuss what it means to appreciate the help one received while recognizing that outcomes are not guaranteed.

As an executive coach and author, Mark now works with leaders under pressure. He tells CJ that his most useful leadership tool has become honesty: being willing to connect, show vulnerability and talk about what is frightening rather than performing confidence. CJ brings his own reflections on leadership, faith and the difficulty of accepting how far someone has come.

This episode is about recovery, identity and sustainable leadership. It asks when ambition serves a life, when it begins to shield us from ourselves, and what becomes possible when we stop treating vulnerability as evidence that we do not belong.

Topics

• The call to his brother and the start of a different path.

• Moving from waiting tables to sales success without feeling secure.

• Imposter feelings and the cost of performing a role.

• A midlife crisis, support and a gradual return to self-trust.

• Why connection and vulnerability now shape his leadership practice.

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What happens when the person who created the company becomes the greatest risk to its next stage?

In this episode of The CJ Moneyway Show, CJ sits down with Anthony Franco, a serial entrepreneur who describes launching seven companies and exiting six, including two sales to public companies.

Anthony begins by challenging the romanticized picture of entrepreneurship. Building can be hard, isolating and financially demanding. The work becomes more survivable when founders understand the cost, pursue paying customers and develop trusted relationships with people who understand the journey.

The conversation moves into founder ego. Anthony argues that the same pride and drive that create momentum can also prevent a leader from hearing customers and employees. Growth requires more than adding people; it requires systems, delegated authority and enough trust to let capable specialists do their jobs.

Anthony also revisits his Shark Tank appearance with mcSquares and explains how Kevin O’Leary served as an advocate and public evangelist rather than an operating executive inside the company. That experience sharpened Anthony’s appreciation for earned media while reinforcing that attention cannot run the business.

From there, CJ and Anthony examine what makes a company sellable: profitability, understandable financial records, clean taxes, diversified revenue and operating systems that survive the founder’s departure.

They close with risk, community and strengths. Anthony shares an approach to reducing uncertainty over time, encourages founders to find peers who make the journey less lonely and explains why building around strengths can be more powerful than apologizing for every weakness.

The result is a practical conversation about becoming the kind of founder who can build the company - and then stop standing in its way.

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What happens when good people work inside a system that rewards the wrong behavior?

In this episode of The CJ Moneyway Show(TM), CJ sits down with Jon Read, a two-time healthcare technology founder whose work connects entrepreneurship, product design, behavioral health, and human outcomes. Jon shares how moving repeatedly as a child taught him to enter unfamiliar environments, build relationships, and create games people wanted to play together.

The conversation follows Jon to Brazil, where a motorcycle accident shattered his collarbone and left him vulnerable far from home. A stranger helped him return safely, a landlord drove him hours to a hospital, and a chance connection later opened an investor relationship. During rehabilitation, Jon built a simple tool to keep himself accountable to physical therapy. That tool became the seed of Keet Health.

Jon also speaks candidly about the emotional reality of selling a company. The exit created freedom, but the building was the meaningful part. That realization, combined with the loss of friends to mental-health and substance-use struggles, helped move him toward Confidant Health and a more difficult mission.

The episode's defining leadership lesson is simple: incentives reveal what an organization truly values.

When volume is rewarded more than connection or outcomes, work becomes a math problem instead of a human experience. Jon and CJ explore how leaders can understand constraints, remove administrative

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Episode Key Takeaways

Frequent change can become training in relationship-building and adaptability.

A personal problem can expose a scalable opportunity when the founder observes the system around it.

Authentic, unconventional tactics can open doors that standard playbooks miss.

An exit can provide freedom without providing purpose; the journey may have been the real reward.

Personal grief can become responsibility when it is converted into better access and better systems.

People optimize around the incentives, metrics, and recognition an organization makes real.

Leaders should test incentives for unintended consequences and gaming before scaling them.

Not all recognition is financial; identity, peer respect, and proof of impact can shape performance.

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Confidant Health: https://www.confidanthealth.com/

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Jon Read on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonread

Keet Health legacy site: https://www.keethealth.com/

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What happens when a founder stops asking, “How big can I make this?” and starts asking, “What do I actually want this business to give me?”

In this episode of The CJ Moneyway Show, CJ sits down with Ashish Gupta for a wide-ranging conversation about entrepreneurship, operational leadership, scaling, spirituality, focus and fulfillment.

Ashish challenges one of business culture’s dominant assumptions: that every successful company should continually grow.

Growth has a cost. It can require more capital, people, emotional investment, time, complexity and personal sacrifice. Before accepting that cost, founders should determine whether expansion serves the life and sense of completion they are actually seeking.

The conversation then moves from philosophy into operations. CJ and Ashish examine the difference between the visionary who can see where an organization needs to go and the operator who can translate that vision into what must happen this week, this month and this quarter.

Ashish discusses fractional operational leadership, why traditional coaching can sometimes leave founders with longer to-do lists, and why small and midsized businesses may benefit from operators who do more than recommend changes - they help execute them.

The conversation becomes more personal as Ashish explains how spiritual service influences his leadership. He discusses emotional stability, empathy versus sympathy, individualized management, service and learning to anchor one’s internal state somewhere deeper than constantly changing business circumstances.

CJ connects those principles with his own experiences around faith, mentorship, legacy, delegation and building systems capable of carrying a founder’s vision.The result is not simply a conversation about scaling. It is a conversation about deciding what deserves to be scaled in the first place.

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