Welcome to the Second in Command Podcast, produced by the C.O. Alliance and brought to

its founder Cameron Herald.

In the second-in-command podcast, we talked to top COOs who share the insights, strategies,

and tactics that made them the chief behind the chief.

And now here's your host, Cameron Harold.

Our guest today is 34 Strong's co-founder

and CEO of Darren Burrasami as's co-founder and CEO

Darren Burrasami.

As the co-founder of 34 Strong, TEDx speaker,

and someone who's obsessed with seeking personal greatness

through connection with nature,

Darren is uniquely positioned to help those in corporate America and

individuals reach the potential they desire. Darren works hard on his own personal

development through his hobbies, passions, and personal life. As a father, husband, avid bassist, and black belt, he believes

downtime is just as important as work time. And amazingly, this is actually the very

first in-person live podcast interview I've done and Darren and I are sitting in Barbados doing this interview so Darren

welcome the second-of-command podcast. Thank you so much Cameron it's great to be here.

Yeah I'm looking forward to this so you and I got to know each other through the CEO of Alliance, and when I said I was coming to Barbados back about six months ago, we decided to get together and got together for dinner and met each other's, you met your wife and you got my fiance and

got to learn a little bit more about you. But tell me a little bit more about first off what

34 Strong is and how you got involved in that and then I'm going to kind of go back into your career a little bit.

Yeah, so 34 Strong, what we do is we focus on creating great places to work just across the United States predominantly. We work through

creating strengths-based organizations. For those of you they're familiar with the

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