inventRight Podcast

Episode 32 - Hosted by Sylvia Pomazak Featuring inventRight Alumni Joey Groves

Joey’s wife could never get her fingers into her wallet to remove her credit cards, which inspired him to come up with a simple solution to help with this problem. When he started to research how to commercialize an idea

Episode 33 - Hosted by Sylvia Pomazak Featuring inventRight Alumni Andrew Hodgson

Episode 36 - Hosted by Sylvia Pomazak Featuring inventRight Alumni Aaron Orozco

Episode 26 - Hosted by Sylvia Pomazak Featuring inventRight Alumni Arkady Grigoryan

“I win or I learn, but I never lose." After quitting smoking cigarettes, Arkady started to smoke, well, marijuana. Being a natural “clean freak,” he needed a way of storing his half-smoked joints, but no sanitary packagi

Episode 27 - Hosted by Sylvia Pomazak Featuring inventRight Alumni Taryn and Shy Omran

“Play to your strengths and find others to complement you. The no’s are discouraging, but be kind to yourself and push through the hard part, and know that every single thing is not going to be what you love doing.” — in

Episode 37 - Hosted by Sylvia Pomazak Featuring inventRight Alumni Otto D’Agnolo

Episode 28 - Hosted by Sylvia Pomazak Featuring inventRight Alumni Phil Case

For 10 years, Phil Case would come up with new ideas for products and always wonder, “What do I do next?” An entrepreneurship class in college taught him how to write a business plan, but after seeing how much money it w

Episode 21 - Hosted by Sylvia Pomazak Featuring inventRight Coach Brayton Bushby

Brayton Bushby – “Focus on the process and be open to learning and growth” Brayton grew up always having ideas so when it came time to decide between a degree in business or engineering he chose mechanical engineering. H

Episode 16 - Hosted by Sylvia Pomazak Featuring inventRight Student Brad Kons

Brad Kons heard about licensing in 2009 after reading the book The Four Hour Work Week, written by Stephen Key’s former student, Tim Ferris. He immediately knew that licensing was something he wanted to learn, and being

Episode 14 - Hosted by Sylvia Pomazak Featuring inventRight Student Sef Chang

Sef Chang learned the term “licensing” during his last year in Art School from one of his teachers. After learning what it meant he decided to dive deep into what the process was all about. With an advertising background

Episode 4 - Hosted by Sylvia Pomozak Featuring inventRight Coach Kelly Goode

Before Kelly Goode decided to become an entrepreneur, she spent two decades working in her home state of Alaska’s legislature. As a chief of staff to members of the legislature, she drafted and edited legislation and wor

Episode 7 - Hosted by Sylvia Pomazak Featuring inventRight Coach Paul Sorenson

Paul Sorenson has been an entrepreneur practically his whole life, especially since graduating college. Owning and running multiple businesses in different industries, including an insurance agency for 15 years, has taug

Episode 1 - Hosted by Sylvia Pomazak Featuring inventRight Coach Amy Jo Brogan

Amy Jo has been an IR coach since 2015. Starting as an inventRight student and later becoming a coach, she talks about what lead her to the path of learning about licensing and now helping others do the same. She has nev

Episode 10 - Hosted by Sylvia Pomazak Featuring inventRight Coach Judy DePrang

Judy DePrang grew up watching her father own a chain of Dominoes pizza. Having to travel every year and watch her father run the business she learned about marketing, business and developed an entrepreneurial mindset. Be

Episode 22 - Hosted by Sylvia Pomazak Featuring inventRight Coach Matthew Palmer

“Some of the greatest challenges reap the greatest rewards” Matthew Palmer loved to take apart toys when he was younger. Learning how to put things back together naturally developed into a desire to learn how to create n

Episode 30 - Hosted by Sylvia Pomazak Featuring inventRight Alumni Craig Allen

Craig Allen – Licensing His Product in the Midst of COVID -19 Growing up watching his dad constantly fix things, Craig caught the bug. He approached a patent attorney, but then asked if instead of filing a patent he coul

Episode 34 - Hosted by Sylvia Pomazak Featuring inventRight Alumni Keanu Alfaro

Keanu never knew what a product developer did. In 2018, he drew up a pocket knife on a piece of paper and put it away. Two years later, when he felt stuck in life and found the piece of paper in front of him, he decided

Episode 24 - Hosted by Sylvia Pomazak Featuring inventRight Alumni Kirk & Brian

Kirk Hyust and Brian Halasinski – “Build a team, be resourceful, learn as much as you can” When Kirk was renovating Brian’s house, he would show and talk about all his product ideas with Brian, one of which was a wrench

Episode 18 - Hosted by Sylvia Pomazak Featuring inventRight Student Garth Patchen

Garth Patchen, a man who has worn many hat’s throughout his career, decided he wanted to start brining his ideas to market through licensing. He worked on his idea for five years, before finding and reading the book One

Episode 19 - Hosted by Sylvia Pomazak Featuring inventRight Student Eric Van Dalen

Eric’s only wish for his birthday present one year was to start the InventRight coaching program, and so he did. As a small business owner in a very small town in Montana, Eric always found himself being creative and con

Episode 12 - Hosted by Sylvia Pomazak Featuring Former inventRight Coach Karen Steinbock

Karen Steinbock worked as an ER nurse and hospital administration when she soon began to experience the burnout. Looking for an opportunity to be able to use her creativity, she read about Stephen Key and licensing. Afte

Episode 8 - Hosted by Sylvia Pomazak Featuring inventRight Coach Ryan Diez

Ryan Diez came up with a hand –held washing device for dog at a very young age. However, having no money and not knowing how to get it to market he wanted to figure out another way. That is when he discovered Stephen Key

Episode 11 - Hosted by Sylvia Pomazak Featuring Former inventRight Coach Howie Busch

Howie Busch stumbled upon the book One Simple Idea by Stephen Key after licensing two of his products. He realized that the time and money he was spending on the process could be easily streamlined into something that re

Episode 13 - Hosted by Sylvia Pomazak Featuring Former inventRight Student Jeff Shackleford

Jeff Shackleford has always been an inventor at heart; constantly building and creating new ideas. With lack of education and knowledge he did the first thing he thought he needed to do in order to protect his idea. He w

Episode 15 - Hosted by Sylvia Pomazak Featuring inventRight Student Tim Brennan

Tim Brennan decided, at a very young age of 12, that he wanted to be an inventor. He went through the school system and after earning his higher level of education with a Masters in Engineering; he was ready to get his i

Episode 17 - Hosted by Sylvia Pomazak Featuring inventRight Student Dana Kowles

Dana Knowles – “ From Recovery to Licensing, Some day some how” Dana Knowles did not follow the traditional route of going to college, getting a degree and starting a job. Since the age of 16 she struggled with school an

Episode 20 - Hosted by Sylvia Pomazak Featuring inventRight Coach April Mitchell

April Mitchell - “Be Ready to Learn and Be Ready to Change” A mom of boys, April created a product to keep towels off the bathroom floor. She licensed her idea to a company but with poor advice from an attorney and no li

Episode 25 - Hosted by Sylvia Pomazak Featuring inventRight Alumni Mike Van Horst

Michael Van Horst was working in real estate when he noticed that no one ever actually hung up their pictures on their walls; instead, they were always left on the floor. Why? He decided to come up with a solution to thi

Episode 3 - Hosted by Sylvia Pomazak Featuring inventRight Coach Terry O'Mara

Terry O’Mara has always been creative. Starting as an inventRight student and becoming a coach soon after.  What he appreciates most about the inventing community is its willingness to take action. “It’s great to ha

Episode 31 - Hosted by Sylvia Pomazak Featuring inventRight Alumni Craig Isakow

Craig Isakow – “It’s not about the ideas, it’s about the execution.” In 2013, Craig created an eye-blocking cover for his webcam and started to test the market. Once he saw there was interest, he hired a freelancer and m

Episode 29 - Hosted by Sylvia Pomazak Featuring inventRight Alumni Courtney Laschkewitsch

Courtney Laschkewitsch always has ideas. By the time she was in high school, she already had 300 of them written down! She didn’t want to start a business, so she needed another way of bringing her ideas to life. She sta

Episode 35 - Hosted by Sylvia Pomazak Featuring inventRight Alumni Vladan Kristic

Vladan Kristic started to pursue his dreams of inventing in 2015 when he began researching product licensing. When he was looking for help, he would speak with invention promotion companies but they all sounded like mone

Episode 6 - Hosted by Sylvia Pomazak Featuring inventRight Coach Arleta Daniels

Reading inventRight cofounder Stephen Key’s book about licensing One Simple Idea was life-changing for Arleta Daniels. She’d been creative all her life, but unsure of exactly what to do with her hundreds of ideas. “When