Anything & Nothing Podcast

Dylan Jordan is a realtor and former firefighter, and a good friend of Rob's. He joins the show to talk about leaving the firehouse for real estate, how he uses AI tools in his day-to-day work and thinking, and the vivid-vision goal-setting practice he swears by. Rob and Dylan get into trust and ethics in real estate, the mindset shift behind manifestation and subconscious training, and the hard c...

Bonny Parker lost her son Cannon in 2020, when he was five years old. Teresa Welch was a complete stranger at the time. She picked up the phone anyway. Today they run the Ride on Cannon Foundation together. Bonny and Teresa join Rob to talk about who Cannon actually was, what the days after his death looked like, how two strangers ended up building something together, and what the foundation does...

Charles "Chuck" Sanders is the managing partner of the Rose Sanders Law Firm, PLLC in Houston, Texas. He started out on the other side of the table - a bodily injury adjuster and claims counsel inside the insurance industry - before switching sides to represent injured people. He has since recovered over $50 million for injured families, and was named one of the National Trial Lawyers Association'...

Brenden "Beanie" Hinton is an Army veteran, a former Supervisor of Distribution Operations with the US Postal Service, co-chair of the Kershaw County Housing Authority, and the owner of Earthly Eating Catering. He is also the founder of the TrackBlock Community Development Coalition, launching January 2027. Rob sits down with Brenden for a wide-ranging conversation about growing up between Stamfor...

Dr. James E. "Doc" Fisher returns for a third conversation. Doc is a former Marine, lifelong educator, and analytical philosopher affiliated with ERA USA. Born in 1933 in the Flint Hills of Kansas, he earned his doctorate from Indiana University in 1971 and went on to teach philosophy at Quincy College, Southern Illinois University, Allen University, and Cairo American College in Egypt. He first s...

Rick Starnes is the founder of Courage to Walk. Born in Germany as an Air Force brat, he landed in Columbia after his parents split and has spent most of his life in Kershaw County, South Carolina. He has walked away from multiple six-figure positions — and now helps other people build a realistic exit ramp out of jobs they have outgrown. Rick is candid in this one. We get into the panic attack th...

Dr. James E. "Doc" Fisher returns to the show. Doc is a former Marine, lifelong educator, and analytical philosopher affiliated with ERA USA — first appeared on the pod in Episode 004, and this one picks up where that conversation left off. We go deeper on Doc's Marine Corps years (Camp Pendleton, 81mm mortar platoon, "playing war" post-Korea), the ethical questions AI is now forcing into military...

Vashawne Alexander is a Columbia, SC entrepreneur and the founder of Trash in the Truck, a local junk removal company. Born and raised in Camden, South Carolina, he turned a side hustle into a growing business — and brings the hard-won perspective that came with the journey. In this episode, Vashawne talks about growing up in Camden, getting into entrepreneurship, building Trash in the Truck from...

Burna Gramz is a Columbia, SC artist and music producer with a multidisciplinary creative practice — beats, visual art, the SC Aliens cartoon series, and more. He brings a deep love of classic hip-hop and a producer's ear to a wide-ranging conversation with host Robin Heaston. In this episode, Burna talks about his journey into music production, the craft of beat-making, his cartoon work, manifest...

Today I'm speaking with Dr. James E. "Doc" Fisher — a former Marine, lifelong educator, and analytical philosopher now affiliated with ERA USA. Born in 1933 in the Flint Hills of Kansas, Doc earned his doctorate from Indiana University in 1971 and went on to teach philosophy at Quincy College, Southern Illinois University, Allen University, and Cairo American College in Egypt. At 93, he's curre...

Today I'm speaking with Sam Vohra — suit designer at Paul the Designer in Pattaya, Thailand. Sam grew up in a small town about 260 kilometers north of New Delhi before relocating to Thailand to build his business. We chat about bespoke suits, custom tailoring, his journey from northern India to Pattaya, and the craft of dressing people well. Check out their suit shop in Pattaya Thailand at Soi 13/...

Today I'm speaking with Mark Ostendorf — recently retired, transitioning back home to Fort Mitchell, Kentucky after closing shop in Camden, South Carolina. Mark grew up on a rural farmland in northeast Indianapolis as one of nine siblings, raised four children, and now has seven grandchildren. We chat about retirement, family, life stories, and the long arc of building a meaningful life. ━━━━━━━━━...

Today I'm speaking with Phillip (Marshall) Kelley — founder and owner of Nylah's Squeeze Eazy, Warrior MMA Fitness & Personal Training, and Lockdown Security and Protection. Phillip has multiple business ventures and charity endeavors. We chat about his businesses, philanthropic work, life theory and stories, and what drives him to keep building. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━...