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Hosted by J.V.
The Influence Exchange is a leadership driven motivational podcast designed to help you grow personally, professionally, and intentionally. Each episode breaks down the mindset, habits, and real-life stories that shape true influence, not the kind measured by titles or followers, but the kind built through character, consistency, and impact.
Through authentic conversations, personal experiences, and research-backed insights, J.V. explores topics like mindset, legacy, showing up daily, emotional resilience, and becoming the person others can rely on.
Whether you're leading a team, raising a family, building a career, or working on becoming the best version of yourself, this podcast will help you stay focused, stay grounded, and stay inspired.
Here, influence isn’t about being impressive, it’s about being impactful, and every conversation is designed to help you show up with purpose, courage, and clarity.
New episodes weekly!
Stay curious. Stay consistent. Keep influencing others.
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Text The Influence Exchange Podcast and host J.V. What if the problem isn’t you, but the pain you’ve never had the space to process? In episode 29 of The Influence Exchange, I sit down with trauma therapist and podcast host Malisa Hepner for a powerful and deeply human conversation about trauma, overthinking, shame, and healing. Because the truth is, a lot of people walking around today don’t feel broken, they feel stuck, overwhelmed, disconnected, and unsure why. And most of the time, it’s n...
Text The Influence Exchange Podcast and host J.V. What if the real reason you’re not moving forward has nothing to do with your ability and everything to do with the fear of being judged? In episode 28 of The Influence Exchange, we dive into a conversation that hits deeper than most people are willing to admit, Fear of judgment. Not just from others, but the pressure, the expectations, and the self-doubt that quietly hold you back from showing up fully. In This Episode, We Talk About: Why fea...
Text The Influence Exchange Podcast and host J.V. In episode 27 of The Influence Exchange, J.V. breaks down a pattern most people don’t talk about, emotional spending. This isn’t about budgeting apps, cutting up credit cards, or extreme saving. This is about understanding why we spend in the first place. Because the truth is most overspending isn’t about money. It’s about avoiding something deeper. In this episode, we explore: Why spending feels good in the moment, but doesn’t last The emotio...
Text The Influence Exchange Podcast and host J.V. What if the hardest moment in your life wasn’t the end, but the beginning of who you’re meant to become? In episode 26 of The Influence Exchange, I sit down with Chanoa Inez, who shares a powerful and deeply personal journey through loss, grief, and rebuilding her life from the inside out. After experiencing an unexpected and life-altering loss, Chanoa found herself navigating not just grief, but identity, purpose, and the relationship she had...
Text The Influence Exchange Podcast and host J.V. In episode 25 of The Influence Exchange, I sit down with Danny Brassell, highly sought-after speaker, trainer, coach, co-founder of Well-Crafted Story, and author of more than 20 books including Leadership Begins with Motivation and Misfits and Crackpots. Danny has delivered presentations to more than 3,500 audiences worldwide, but what makes this conversation powerful is not just his experience, it’s his perspective on leadership, communicati...
Text The Influence Exchange Podcast and host J.V. In this deeply honest episode 24 of The Influence Exchange, I sit down with Kristen Crabtree, author of Be the You That’s More You Than You’ve Ever Been and creator of Paramour Paradox, to talk about identity, healing, truth, and the journey of becoming yourself again. Kristen shares how her work was born not from business plans or strategy, but from lived experience after surviving years of deep internal disconnection, including a 22-year psy...
Text The Influence Exchange Podcast and host J.V. In this powerful episode 23 of The Influence Exchange, I sit down with Jay Setchell, a man whose life story is built on grit, faith, responsibility, and a refusal to quit. Jay was born and raised on a working farm, served in the Marine Corps, built ventures as an entrepreneur, worked in the corporate world, and carried one core belief through every season of life - never quit. Now in his mid-70s, mostly paralyzed, having survived multiple near...
Text The Influence Exchange Podcast and host J.V. In this community focused on episode 22 of The Influence Exchange, J.V. reads real, anonymous listener confessions, the kind of thoughts people carry quietly but rarely say out loud. Inside this episode, we unpack confessions like: I still check their social media, even though I know it doesn’t help me. I set a boundary and now I feel guilty. I miss them, but I don’t want them back. I’m afraid to outgrow my friends. I overthink every text I se...
Text The Influence Exchange Podcast and host J.V. Have you ever missed someone, but also knew you didn’t actually want them back? You’re not trying to restart the relationship. You’re not reaching out. You’re not trying to rewind your life. But a memory hits, a song, a place, a random moment and suddenly you’re sitting there asking, “Why do I still feel this?” In episode 21 of The Influence Exchange, J.V. breaks down why that feeling can be so confusing, and why sometimes you’re not missing t...
Text The Influence Exchange Podcast and host J.V. In episode 20, J.V. talks about why vacations often give relief but not transformation and why real growth comes from experiences that interrupt your routine and challenge how you see yourself. You can travel somewhere beautiful and come back the same person. Or you can do something small, unfamiliar, and come back thinking differently. This conversation explores the difference between escaping your life and expanding it, and how confidence, c...
Text The Influence Exchange Podcast and host J.V. How many opportunities have you quietly talked yourself out of? Not because someone rejected you, but because you assumed the answer before you ever tried. In episode 19, J.V. breaks down the subtle ways we hold ourselves back, the thoughts that sound logical, mature, and responsible, but slowly stop our growth. You don’t loudly sabotage yourself. You do it quietly I’m not ready yet I’ll do it later That’s probably not for me What if I mess it...
Text The Influence Exchange Podcast and host J.V. In episode 18 of The Influence Exchange, we’re doing something different and a lot more fun, while still keeping it real. We’re playing Red Flag / Green Flag. I’ll walk you through real-life scenarios you’ve probably experienced in Dating Friendships Family Work And even the way you treat yourself For each scenario, you decide Red Flag Green Flag Yellow Flag (it depends) Then I’ll give you my tak...
Text The Influence Exchange Podcast and host J.V. In this episode 17 of The Influence Exchange, I’m your host, J.V., and we’re talking about something most people avoid, even when it’s quietly draining them, Hard conversations. What we cover in Episode 17: The real cost of avoiding hard conversations (why “keeping the peace” can cost you peace) A simple script to say what you mean without sounding harsh Real-life examples, word for word (home, work, family, friendships) What to do when they g...
Text The Influence Exchange Podcast and host J.V. In episode 16 of The Influence Exchange, I’m breaking down something that impacts almost everyone, but most people struggle to explain it. Why do certain people keep crossing the line and why it keeps happening. What we cover in Episode 16 How people learn what’s acceptable around you (your patterns teach your standard). The difference between being kind and being easy to violate. Real-life situations that slowly drain your respect (without on...
Text The Influence Exchange Podcast and host J.V. With Valentine’s Day around the corner, Episode 15 is a reset from the noise. This isn’t an episode about romance cliches, grand gestures, or “one-day” love. It’s about something more practical and more powerful: The way you love is the way you show up. In this special episode, J.V. breaks down a simple truth: love isn’t just a feeling, it’s a pattern. The way you listen, the way you respond under pressure, and the way you show up when you’re ...
Text The Influence Exchange Podcast and host J.V. In Episode 14 of The Influence Exchange, J.V. breaks down a truth many disciplined people don’t talk about: sometimes you’re not failing, you’re outgrowing your current level. When progress stalls, it’s often not a lack of effort, it’s a signal that your systems, standards, and identity need an upgrade. In this episode, you’ll learn: Why feeling stuck is often a signal, not a setbackThe 4 hidden reasons consistent people plateau (even when the...
Text The Influence Exchange Podcast and host J.V. In this episode 13 of The Influence Exchange, J.V. breaks down the real reason goals stall, habits collapse, and motivation fades, and why leaders who finish what they start don’t rely on willpower, but systems. This episode is a deep, practical dive into follow-through as a leadership skill, not a personality trait. You’ll learn how self-trust erodes quietly, how internal credibility is rebuilt through structure, and how to design environment...
Text The Influence Exchange Podcast and host J.V. In Episode 12 of The Influence Exchange, J.V. delivers one of the most foundational leadership conversations to date, emotional fitness. This episode goes beyond motivation and mindset. It introduces emotional fitness as a trainable discipline, one that determines how you lead under pressure, respond to conflict, recover from setbacks, and rebuild self-trust when consistency breaks down. Emotional fitness isn’t about suppressing feelings or st...
Text The Influence Exchange Podcast and host J.V. In this high-impact episode of The Influence Exchange, J.V. takes on one of the most overlooked barriers to personal and professional growth, the erosion of self-trust. If you’ve ever felt stuck, not because you lacked vision, talent, or opportunity, but because you quietly stopped trusting your own follow-through, this conversation is designed to reset your foundation. Across this episode, J.V. unpacks how self-trust silently breaks through s...
Text The Influence Exchange Podcast and host J.V. Episode 10 marks a defining milestone for The Influence Exchange, not because of the number, but because of the standard it sets. In this milestone episode, J.V. delivers the operating system behind real leadership: The Influence Code. Ten timeless principles that quietly determine how trust is built, how credibility is earned, and how influence compounds over time, at work, at home, and within yourself. Across ten deeply practical and reflect...
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