Free Agent Academy is led by guides who excel in their areas of expertise, yet who also are on the journey together, with each other and you. Many of them do business together outside of this Academy, and over time, we’ve come to be family on many levels. We share common goals in business and life, which we don’t separate.
Role: Founder and Chief Evangelist of Free Agency
Business: You’re at it
Website: You’re in it
Location: Woodland Park, CO
Family: Husband to Teri, Daddy to Caleb, Autumn, Eliza, Ian, Canyon, Serene & Nekoda
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Just as I state that you can’t succeed in free agency alone…I can’t lead you alone. I’ve compiled not only incredible experts in every area of self-employment…I’ve compiled people who have a passion to help others make positive change. You’ll notice we’ve listed their personal businesses, where they live,and their family. Why? Because they are all successful free agents. Nine of the eleven started out as students at Free Agent Academy, and now they are leaders. It’s a good testimonial, don’t you think?! We show where they live and who their family is, because that’s at the core of their free agency – to live where and how and why they believe fits them, and their family is why they want their freedom and purpose.
Free Agent Academy Faculty
Chief FAA Maximizer: Brenda Dunagan
Role: Chief Maximizer (she manages Kevin and most of the FAA back end!)
Business: 7 Chapters
Website: http://www.7chapters.com
Location: Smithville, MO
Family: Wife to Tim
Brenda corrals and brings to fruition the ideas and intent of Kevin’s vision for FAA. Kevin may lead, but Brenda truly runs things around here. She left her job as personal assistant to high powered CEOs to do what she does best, on her own terms – with people and organizations she truly cares about. She not only administrates as a personal assistant, but she manages her radical entrepreneurial clients so that they do more than create…they finish what they start. “Personal Manager” is really the appropriate term for Brenda. She and her husband live in Missouri, but love to travel and explore whenever possible.
Chief FAA Host: Alan Jackson
Role: Host with the Most
Business: SNAP Coaching
Website: http://www.snapcoaching.com
Location: Paducah, KY
Family: Husband to Addy, Daddy to Jordan, Jarron and Jenna
Alan truly is…the host with the most. He’s a professional marketer and lifetime successful free agent, with wise counsel for us all. He runs SNAP Coaching in Kentucky. He also has the gift of being a gracious host. Welcoming students in, helping them learn their way around, getting them plugged in to the appropriate groups, and answering questions for our entire student body.
Co-founder of FAA: Chuck Bowen
Role: He resides over it all at FAA
Business: Chuck Bowen Coaching
Website: http://www.chuckbowen.net / http://www.saddlebackleather.com
Location: San Antonio, TX
Family: Husband to Lori, Daddy to Haley
Chuck is the head cheese at Chuck Bowen Coaching in San Antonio, TX, though these days he devotes almost all his time to working as the Wizard behind numerous successful businesses. He loves to help entrepreneurs not just “Dream big, but DO big.” Chuck helped me create FAA and is my personal business coach. In a world of specialists, Chuck brings it all together and proves his favorite quote, “If we can work it out on paper, we can work it out in real life.” He’s done that for more free agents than I can count, and in the process has partnered with numerous companies, such as Saddleback Leather Company, which he lead from a fledgling company to wildly successful in only three years. If there’s a “Don” of the free agent mafia, he’d be it. He’s a master at getting to the heart of personal issues that encumber a person’s success and eradicating them to remove obstacles.
Free Agent Academy Professors
Gary Barkalow
Role: Professor of “CALLING”
Business: The Noble Heart
Website: http://www.thenobleheart.com
Location: Colorado Springs, CO
Family: Husband to Leigh, Daddy to Alexie, Jesse, Nick and Lacy
Gary has been studying and speaking on the subject of calling for 25 years. He is the author of It’s Your Call. Founder of The Noble Heart ministry, Gary’s mission is to help people recover their heart, walk with God, interpret their life, offer their glory, and persevere with joy, equipping people to interpret their life as God instructs them in the way chosen for them”. (Psa. 25:12). Before starting The Noble Heart ministry, Gary was on the leadership team and a speaker with Ransomed Heart ministries for seven years. Before that, Gary was with Focus on the Family, Campus Crusade, and Athletes in Action.
Deb Ingino
Role: Professor of “YOU”
Business: My Wired Style
Website: http://www.mywiredstyle.com
Location: Long Island, NY
Family: Wife to Greg and Mother to Melissa
Deb hails from a high profile corporate job in New York…the big salary and fancy title. The grand “American Dream” in all senses. In her role there, she became enamored with the power of personality profiles in helping understand a person’s core “wiring.” And with her heart for seeing people of all ages move into their best and seeing the power in her own life…she crafted a plan for a business she believed in and owned. Today, her My Wired Style is infiltrating the lives of aspiring entrepreneurs, businesses and families, equipping them for success by harnessing how they are wired and leveraging their strengths.
Jonathan Pool
Role: Professor of “IDEA”
Business: Jonathan Pool Coaching
Website: http://www.jonathanpool.net
Location: Traverse City, MI
Family: Our most eligible bachelor…though maybe not for long…
Jonathan is a true adventurous soul to the core, with a personal story of overcoming that will blow your mind when you see where he is today. He’s passionate about helping people discover, in his words, “What they are innately good at.” He exudes this passion and ability from every pore in his body. His commanding presence, intuitive discernment and infectious heart are a powerful combination.
Jimi Gibson
Role: Professor of “BRAND”
Business: Find Your Banana
Website: http://www.findyourbanana.com
Location: Richmond, VA
Family: Husband to Dana
Jimi spent a decade as creative director of an international advertising agency, where he crafted brands and marketing campaigns (15 national awards!) for Fortune 100 companies. Today, he enjoys four business pillars where he plays at what he loves: He’s helping run Saddleback Leather Company’s branding and marketing, he runs his own corporate entertainment business where he performs on stage nearly weekly around the country, he personally consults entrepreneurs with their brands, and he leads the Free Agent Academy Brand course (he created it).
His passion for helping individuals and corporations discover their true brand is evident from the workshops and speaking engagements he is asked to do on a regular basis. Jimi looks forward to helping members of FAA truly discover YURU™ (Why You Are You) and serving as the “branding professor”.
James Woosley
Role: Professor of “ROADMAP”
Business: Woosley Coaching
Website: http://www.woosleycoaching.com
Location: Mobile, AL
Family: Husband of Heather, Father to Anna and Ian
James was once dubbed by Chuck Bowen as the “biggest underachiever in FAA”, and he may still be, considering the powder keg of potential between his ears! He has a gift for finding patterns in chaos and breaking complex tasks into manageable and achievable pieces. He can see the small things that make the difference between success and failure. According to James, “planning doesn’t have to be complicated to be effective…in fact, it’s often the simplest plans that get the greatest results.”
Armed with “real people” communication skills, “real world” experience as a military officer and project management consultant, and a “real deal” Computer Science degree (to give him nerd credentials), James is applying this strategic ability to help small businesses, start-ups and solopreneurs build plans for greater growth and profitability. That’s why he’s the perfect fit for FAA, as a member and a professor!
Justin Lukasavige
Role: Professor of “MARKETING” and “COACHING”
Business: Lukas Coaching and CoachRadio.TV
Website: http://www.coachradio.tv/
Location: Cary, NC
Family: Husband of Christine and Father of Ava, Amanda and Brie
Justin is the founder and host of CoachRadio.tv, author of Become A Coach, and one of the most successful free agents I know when it comes to turning online social media and promotional efforts into SALES. He’s put more time and testing into these areas than the rest of us combined, and the benefit we get is knowing what works, why and how. He begin free agency as a financial and career coach and cut his self-employment teeth by having to sell what matters most…himself. You must know how to do this, online.
Pierce Marrs
Role: Professor of “SALES”
Business: Pierce Marrs Coaching
Website: http://www.marrscoaching.com/
Location: Thompson Station, TN
Family: Husband to Lesa, Father to Nick & Nathan
Pierce is a lifetime sales professional and the kind of personality you immediately trust. He’s a student of sales and lives it out every day. His power as a sale coach, however, comes from realizing that entrepreneurs come in all personality styles…and that they are all capable of successful selling – just not in the same ways. “Selling Within Your Comfort Zone” is one of his teaching titles. And further, selling is selling is selling…whether face-to-face or online, it’s just a differing application. Sales is where many entrepreneurs who are otherwise set for success…fail. We have Pierce on hand to remedy this.