My mission is to provide my listeners with authentic conversations with interesting people, covering a wide range of topics from personal growth, entrepreneurship and lifestyle improvement, all while keeping it entertaining and informative.
Virgina Prodan grew up in Communist Romania, watching her parents whisper behind closed doors about a government that took a little more from them every year. She decided as a kid she was going to become a lawyer and find the truth.
She did. Top ten...
Brandon Grysko spent seven years wearing a badge before he ever put on a suit.
He started out chasing a fireman's paycheck, landed in EMS, and then his dad, a career sheriff's deputy, pointed him toward policing instead.
Brandon started noticing he...
Ronia Shamona has spent 20 years in local news. Overnight shifts in Las Vegas. 20 years of live TV. Now she anchors FOX 2 Detroit Live in the 2 and 3 pm hours and hosts her own segment, Rona's Rundown.
She did ten years on overnights before she had...
Dr. Tim Tenneriello started out as a high school athlete who wanted to coach… which turned into a career running schools, then buying and scaling companies, then rebuilding wealth management practices from the inside.
Through his career journey , he...
Robert and Doug both stumbled into financial advising. One was a chief engineer building lithium ion batteries. The other was a high school science teacher and football coach.
Today, they run an independent practice built on faith, stewardship, and...
What does 30 years as the voice of Detroit sports teach you about business? According to Matt Dery, it’s all about who you know.
As the Business Development Lead at Freedom-First Pathway, Matt has seen the 'fragmentation trap' destroy countless...
John Glon spent a decade at GE climbing a ladder he wasn't sure he wanted to be on. He left corporate America in 2014, bet on himself, and built Great Lakes Essential Power from the ground up in Michigan.
The company grew but Covid hit hard. When the...
Dave LT works with a company that pulls data from connected cars to make roads safer: Compass IoT.
He grew up in a small corner of Australia, watching the rest of the world through a TV screen and assuming he'd never really register in it....
Most people know Blake's from the cider mill out in Armada, MI.
Five years ago, Bobby Blake took that heritage and launched Bakehouse 46. Today they have six locations across Metro Detroit, from Ann Arbor to Grosse Pointe, and a menu that covers...
At the peak of George Rivera building his company, he was practically printing money, but was working 90 hours a week and hating life.
The business had everything. His family got what was left.
He had to stop being the answer to everything inside...
Trevor Baker built one of the most respected YouTube agencies in the world starting from a roach-infested apartment in New York - editing videos for $20 a pop.
A LinkedIn message changed his trajectory: One conversation turned into a coffee meeting,...
Manager Jon has worked with TikTok, brokered KSI fights, built podcast studios, and managed some of the biggest creators on the internet.
But that's only half of it, the version everyone sees.
He’s spent years grinding through YouTube channels...
Daniel Russell is VP of National Sales at Trion Solutions, one of the fastest-growing PEO companies in the country. He’s been in sales for over 26 years and he helps businesses manage payroll and HR for over 1.2 million employees worldwide.
And he...
At 40, Mike “C-Roc” Ciorrocco had everything most people chase.
He went on a self-discovery journey, started surrounding himself with mentors who had what he wanted, and made one commitment: getting on podcasts to build relationships, and eventually-...
Matt Loria built a top-tier cybersecurity and IT firm without a single tech degree or certification.
Back when he and his brother ran a computer recycling business, they went repeatedly through IT providers. It was always the same: things started...
Most people who want to change the world start with a cause, not with Chris Lambert, ‘coz he started with a crisis…
Chris Lambert, Founder & CEO of Next Level Nonprofit, grew up in a small town in northern Indiana, gave his faith the finger at...
Most people think real estate is easy money.
Donny Samson knows better.
He got his license at 22, just because a friend did it first and his wife said, "If he can do it, you can." His first two commissions paid for her engagement ring. He was...
Most people know Herman Moore as the Detroit Lions' greatest wide receiver. The records. The Pro Bowls.
What they don't know is what happened after.
Herman left the NFL and walked straight into one of the hardest seasons of his life. Business. He...
Amy Wang spent over 20 years building a career she never planned.
She started premed at Michigan State University simply because she liked school — until she realized she couldn’t handle blood. Needing to graduate on time without extra loans, she...
Wes Mathews got his first job washing dishes at 12 years old. He built High Level Marketing from nothing into a company doing over $22 million in revenue. And then he sold it.
Three years later, Wes started Stealth Consulting with his original...