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“My Path” is about Alan Olsen’s personal life experiences and his reflections from his highly rated Silicon Valley radio show and podcast, “American Dreams”. He discusses the people he interviewed, and the common values they all shared to create their own American Dream.

Written by Alan Olsen

Co-Written by Andrew Olsen

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Over 64 Million Views this Year (2023)!

Learn how these entrepreneurs found success in business and life, with Host, Alan Olsen CPA, MBA.

In his weekly show, Alan Olsen invites successful individuals to discuss their career path and share how they were able to find success. These guests share valuable life experiences we all can be inspired from.

Meet Some of Our Guests

Majority Governor NBA Golden State Warriors and VC
Actor, Comedian, SNL Alumni, and former US Marine
Co-Founder & CEO Ascend and father of modern internet
Past CEO & President of MSG, NY Knicks & Utah Jazz
Co-Founder Logitech – CEO, Noventi Ventures
Co-Founder, Interwest Partners – President SHV NA – SIEPR
MPA, past President AAW, syndicated columnist, and Speaker
CEO, Dryers Ice Cream-- Chairman of Safeway inc.
CEO of Ryzeo
Co-Founder LinkedIn
Chairman of the Board at Chatham Created Gems & Diamonds, Inc.
Co-Founder DCM – past Chairman NVCA – SIEPR & Hoover boards
Co-Founder General Resonance – past Dir. BCG – SVU President
CEO Co-Founder LuLaRoe – Speaker -
CEO & Chief Strategist, Quill Intelligence
NBA record holder, past All-Star & DPY – Founder – Author
Movie Producer, Castlerock/Columbia Pictures, Universal Studio
President TiE – General Partner Monta Vista Capital – VC
Managing Dir. Billionaire Foundation – Co-Founder SCCI - VC
Founder DFJ – Founder BizWorld - #52 top 100 Harvard Alumni

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Key's to Life's Success

The American Dreams show was the brainchild of Alan Olsen, CPA, MBA. It was originally created to fill a specific need; often inexperienced entrepreneurs lacked basic information about raising capital and how to successfully start a business. Alan sincerely wanted to respond to the many requests from aspiring entrepreneurs asking for the information and introductions they needed. But he had to find a way to help in which his venture capital clients and friends would not mind. The American Dreams show became the solution, first as a radio show and now with YouTube videos as well. Always respectful of interview guest’s time, he’s able to give access to individuals information and inspiration previously inaccessible to the first-time entrepreneurs who need it most. They can listen to venture capitalists and successful business people explain first-hand, how they got to where they are, how to start a company, how to overcome challenges, how they see the future evolving, opportunities, work-life balance and so much more..

Topics from guest have included:

Creating purpose in life

Building a foundation for their life

Solving problems

Finding fulfillment through philanthropy and service

Becoming self-reliant

Enhancing effective leadership

Balancing family and work

American Dreams discusses many topics from some of the world's most successful individuals about their secrets to life's success.

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Recent American Dreams Episodes

Australian Sports and Best Practices: Insights from Ian Robilliard

Transcript: Alan Olsen Welcome to American Dreams My guest today is Ian Robilliard. Ian, welcome to today’s show.   Ian Robilliard Thanks very much Alan. Really lovely to be here.   Alan Olsen Well, it is certainly a pleasure to to have you here. I know you’re you’re recording from Australia, the Land Down Under…

The Tech Entrepreneur – Cory Warfield

Alan Olsen Hi, this is Alan Olsen and welcome to American Dreams. My guest today is Corey Warfield. Corey, welcome to today’s show. Cory Warfield Thanks so much for having me, Alan, and thanks for everyone for tuning in. Alan Olsen So I’m excited about this, you have a lot of really good insight to…

Revolutionizing Athlete Development, Shona Eichorn CEO of NIAS

Transcript: Alan Olsen Hi, this is Alan Olsen and welcome to American Dreams we have today Shona Eichorn. She is the CEO of the Northern inland Academy of Sports. Shona, welcome to today’s show. Shona Eichorn Thank you very much for having me. I’ve very privileged to be with you all. Alan Olsen So Shona,…

The DNA That Drives our Money Behavior with Hugh Massie, Founder of DNA Behavior

Transcript: Alan Olsen Hi, this is Alan Olsen and welcome to American Dreams. My guest today is Hugh Massie. He is the chairman and founder of DNA Behavioral International, and which is focuses on behavior, money insights. And he has also done a lot of tremendous work in, in his life path. And I’m gonna…

Peptide Therapy: Treating the Root Cause, Not Symptoms – Regan Archibald

Transcript: Alan Olsen Hi, this is Alan Olsen and welcome to American Dreams. My guest today is Reagan Archibald Reagan. Welcome to today’s show. Regan Archibald So good to be here, Alan. Alan Olsen So in your in your life path can you give the listeners your timeline of how you got to where you…

The Man That Helps People Live their Financial Dreams with Comedy – Charlie Epstein, Host of Yield of Dreams

Transcript: Charlie Epstein My ministry in life is to ease people’s pain and suffering about their money and make money funny. They go. So I’m blessed that I’ve found this vehicle, the show that I created called yield the dreams where I get to entertain people live on stage. Or if you download the version…

Finding Infinite Freedom with Eric Francom

Transcript: Eric Francom A lot of people invest in stocks and bonds and retail products, but they don’t get into the part of a portfolio that tends to make the most money for the ultra wealthy and the Yale endowment funds the successful endowment fund. So it’s nice to have the really tried to help…

The Man Bulks Up Owner Managers For Exits – Pete Worrell, Co-CEO & Managing Director of Bigelow LLC

Transcript: Pete Worrell My interest was all about how, owner managers flourish and thrive. And I’ll just give you a teensy bit of a complication, which you pointed it out. Many times these people have spent their lives in a domain, building an organization, they love the people, they love what they do. They know…

Journey of a Tech Entrepreneur with Jack Liang, Founder of Coral Global

Transcript: Jack Liang I was running ads since college and one of my ads for my restaurants have like, over 100,000 impressions with just $50. And I went in to speak to their team on how I was able to accomplish. So after that they wanted to recruit me. And Harvey work on the Instagram…

Leaving A Medical Career to Thrive in Entrepreneurship with Frédéric Brunner, CEO & Founder of Genioo

Transcript Alan Olsen Welcome to American Dreams. My guest today is Frederick Bruner. Frederick, welcome to today’s show. Frederic Brunner Thank you pleasure to be here, Alan Alan Olsen Frederic you have a remarkable career path. And in such a short period of time, your company has grown. And it’s a big demand. So I…

My Entrepreneurial Journey with AI, an Interview with V Ray, co-founder of Valex Solutions

Transcript: V Ray AI has the ability to take in data and make decisions that would just seem so overwhelming for human beings to do. And it does it so quickly. And so I think there’s so many different ways to leverage it. For example, in my past, when I was working with Benefit Cosmetics,…

Lee Brower

Empowering Leaders of Family Businesses

Transcript: Alan Olsen Welcome to American Dreams. My guest today is Lee Brower. Lee, welcome to today’s show.   Lee Brower Alan, I’m delighted to be here. Thank you for having me.   Alan Olsen Oh, I’m excited for this session night ugly. I’ve sat in classes with you. Management Consulting techniques, strategic planning. And…

David Reiling

Banking As A Social Entrepreneur

Transcript: Alan Olsen Welcome to American Dreams. My guest this week is David Reiling. David, welcome to today’s show.   David Reiling Thanks, Alan. Great to be here.   Alan Olsen So David, you have a very unique background. You know, tell us a little bit about the, the picture your your background in, you…

Mastering Age Reversal with Richard Rossi

Transcript: Richard Rossi And I don’t know if you remember the day, chat GPT first came on your radar. For me, it was my birthday, the 13th of January of this year. And I’ve never gotten through a day since where the word chat GPT, or AI has been uttered by someone and one of…

Ken Neumann

Using Nutritionists to Prepare Meals Personalized For You

Interview Summary: As Ken Neumann wanted to share his God given talents with others, he started a business called, “Youtopia”. It started off as a simple question, “Is there a way to increase the nutritional value for those who have some type of health disorder?” Like a chain reaction that gave way to creating a…

The Master of Retention with Lynn Thomas, CEO of Thomas Consulting Inc

Transcript Alan Olsen Welcome to American Dreams. I’m here today with Lynn Thomas. Lynn, welcome to today’s show. Lynn Thomas Thank you for having me on. I’m delighted to be here. Alan Olsen So Lynn, for the listeners, you have a remarkable career. I think you started out with Arthur Andersen. Lynn Thomas Yes, I…

The Extinction of Chronic Disease with Dr. Lee Hood, Co-founder of Institute for Systems Biology

Transcript: Dr. Lee Hood If we succeed, the largest transformation of healthcare would be essentially if we could eliminate all chronic diseases. So we spend 86% of our $4 trillion a year in health care on chronic diseases. And we know from these phenol measurements, that we can actually identify molecules in the blood, that…

The Business Owner’s Dilemma with Ali Nasser, Serial Entrepreneur

Transcript: Alan Olsen Welcome to American Dreams. I’m here today with Ali Nasser. He’s the author, the business owners dilemma, and best selling author on Amazon. So welcome to today’s show, Ali. Ali Nasser Thanks so much for having me, Alan, it’s a pleasure to be here. Alan Olsen So you’ve done a lot in…

Good Financial Planning Let’s You Live Your Lifestyle with Michael Cave, Managing Director of Cave Financial

Transcript: Alan Olsen Michael, for the listeners here. Can you give us your background and how you got to the point you are today? Michael Cave Yeah, well, I guess like a lot of advisors, I got recruited into the industry. But I’ve always had a bit of a passion LM for financial affairs and…

The Self Funding House with Derek Lobo, Commercial Real-Estate Titan

Transcript: Alan Olsen Welcome to American Dreams. My guest today is Derek Lobo. Derek, welcome to today’s show.   Derek Lobo All him great to be here, man.   Alan Olsen Derek you have a new book you’re putting out. But let’s let’s go through a couple areas I want to touch on. So you’re…

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