This is Changing Lives Selling Knives — a podcast that shares transformational life and business lessons from highly successful entrepreneurs and business leaders. All the guests on this podcast have two things in common. First, they’re all changing lives today through their work and their influence. Second, they all got their start in business by selling Cutco knives with Vector Marketing.
This podcast was created to share inspiring stories from Cutco’s most prominent alumni and current leaders. On this show, you’ll meet successful entrepreneurs, best-selling authors, superstar business executives, and transformational leaders from many walks of life. The lessons of the Cutco/Vector experience are numerous, are compelling, and are REAL-WORLD concepts for business and life. Through hearing real-life stories and hands-on experiences, you’ll gain insights that can help you in whatever it is that you do in life. Press play to learn how you apply these life-changing lessons.
Eric Gillman is an Elite Cutco Sales Professional who has accumulated over $3.3 million in personal sales, and was over $500K in 2021. Eric is taking a special journey from Miami to San Diego on his …
Dave Powders is the Bay Area Division Manager for Cutco/Vector Marketing. A veteran of over 23 years with the company, Dave is responsible for over $59 million in sales, and is a long-time member of …
Nik Leindecker has been one of the most consistent top performers in the District Manager ranks in Cutco/Vector Marketing in recent years. His Anoka County (MN) team was #1 in the company’s Elite Lea…
David Siegel is the CEO of Meetup, the largest platform for finding and building local communities. He has 25 years of experience as a technology and digital media executive leading organizations thr…
Amiee & Josh Mueller have teamed up to create a formidable “power couple” in the Cutco/Vector Marketing sales organization. In his 20+ year career with the company, Josh has risen to become the #3 al…
Tim O’Keefe is the Chief Operating Officer for Cutco Corporation. His path through the company has been an inspirational journey from working on the factory floor to spending time in customer service…
Matt King knows how to build a winning team. As a leader in Vector/Cutco, he advanced from District to Division Manager in less than 2 years, then built his Division into a National Champion in anoth…
Gerard J. Restaino is a serial entrepreneur who has spent years developing expertise in the areas of personal and business credit. After his time as a Cutco/Vector sales rep, Branch Manager, and Divi…
Joe Cardillo considers himself “the luckiest man in Vector” because of all of the amazing connections that he has developed through his work experiences. He was born in Canada, but started with Vecto…
Ethen Campbell won the Silver Cup as the #1 New District Manager in the Cutco/Vector Marketing sales organization in 2021. As the son of Hall of Fame Division Manager, Stacy Campbell, Ethen grew up w…
Jamie Bianchini is an Adventurer, Entrepreneur, Author, and Philanthropist. As a Cutco/Vector Marketing representative in the early 1990s, Jamie advanced as far as Branch Manager, while attending col…
John Carpenter is one of the most universally admired leaders in the Cutco/Vector Marketing sales organization. He was the company’s #1 sales rep in his first year, and has been the long-time leader …
Tasha Saran Smith is the Founder & CEO of Emerge Sales Training, a company that provides sales and leadership coaching to network marketing leaders. From scratch, Tasha created a 7-figure revenue coa…
The Cutco Sales Professional (CSP) position has experienced an incredible transformation over the past 20 years or so. At the forefront of this evolution has been Cutco’s Director of Sales Developmen…
Kip Mangira was a Cutco Sales Professional in Vector Marketing’s Midwest Region. He was born on September 2nd, 1995, in Akron, Ohio, with Osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle-bone disease), which confine…
Ryan Trembler is the Northern New England Division Manager for Cutco/Vector Marketing. As is the case for most people, his career has passed through several distinct stages as he has advanced with th…