Talk About It With Franjez

📖 Get my book Steady Living Meditative: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HP5Y9BJG Your body will scream at you. That does not mean you have to obey it. On this episode of Talk About It with Franjez, I sit down with Jonah, 18 years old and fresh off his amateur Muay Thai debut win at RFC Fight Night. Born in Germany, raised in Canada and China, now training in White Plains. He walked in with broken toe...

📖 Get my book Steady Living Meditative: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HP5Y9BJG Most of us are not tired. We are overstimulated, and we have forgotten what quiet feels like. On this episode of Talk About It with Franjez, I sit down with Thays Barao, founder of the Buzzley app, and Jackie Giraldo, luxury development consultant, singer and soon to be podcast host. October is Women’s Small Business Mon...

Cash$tar Genesis is back on Talk About It with Franjez! Master Lou, Cashstar Chris and J.R. Gretzky tell the wild story of taking their music from Yonkers to Tokyo. They threw sold out shows in Japan, got banned from a club because the crowd was too loud, shook a stage so hard it moved, and got stuck in a typhoon flood on the way home. They also talk about the Japanese food that blew their minds,...

Richie De Frisco, host of the Little Victories Podcast, cashed out his pension, spent $100,000 in one year on photography, and walked away from six figure jobs to live as an artist. In this episode of Talk About It with Franjez, Richie opens up about growing up in the Bronx, graffiti, his photos ending up on a Tats Cru mural, how Alan Watts started his spiritual journey, the night in 2016 that cha...

Work with Franjez: https://stan.store/franjez Ricardo Trevino has spent 18 years guiding people through training, bodywork and retreats. He also guides people through mushroom journeys. He says most people get so caught up in the visuals that they miss the message. On Talk About It with Franjez, recorded in Tulum, Mexico, he explains how he learned to tell his body apart from his mind. He also cov...

On this episode of Talk About It With Franjez, Franjez sits down with Vera and Oerd, the pastry chefs behind Aroma Cafe and Patisserie in Hastings on Hudson. They share their journey from Montenegro and Albania to New York, years spent training in France, Italy, Greece, and Spain, and working inside one of the city's most romantic, reportedly haunted restaurants before building their own artisan b...

On this episode of Talk About It With Franjez, Franjez sits down with yoga teacher and Stock Room Records owner Josh Dooz and Agora Social Club founder Vinny Brusco for an honest conversation about morning routines, building a personal brand, and why even your own business can start to feel like a matrix you can never escape. Vinnie opens up about his ayahuasca ceremony in Peru, an ego death exper...

This week on Talk About It with Franjez, host Franjez sits down with John Gristina, owner of Pizza Fenice in Pelham, New York. John opens up about growing up in the Bronx, losing both parents young, chasing a premed degree for over a decade, and the strange twist of fate that led him back into the pizza business his family started decades ago. From working in a county jail kitchen to getting revie...

Episode 168 of Talk About It with Franjez was filmed inside ByrdCage in Atlantic City, New Jersey, with Atlantic City born content creator and media personality Whitney Ullman aka @GoToWhitney, alongside ByrdCage owners Giulietta Consalvo and Richard Helfant. We went far beyond food and nightlife. We talked about the Atlantic City most people never hear about: the city’s history before the casinos...

3SomePookie returns to the studio for the 3rd time!   New podcast episodes every Wednesday at 6PM.

Yonkers Comic Con started with about 30 people looking at photos on a wall. Four years later it pulls in over 5000 fans for a free day of cosplay, art, and community. On this episode of Talk About It With Franjez, returning guests Evan and Katori, the team behind Yonkers Arts and Yonkers Comic Con, break down exactly how that growth happened and what is coming for year four on September 26 at the...

This week on Talk About It with Franjez Podcast, host Franjez sits down with Foxy Award winning filmmaker and actor Malu Leal. Malu opens up about growing up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, moving to Florida and then New Jersey at just fifteen years old, and never returning home. She shares how a spontaneous school placement test changed the course of her life, how theater helped her find belonging aft...

This week on Talk About It with Franjez, host Franjez sits down with Esther Moscoso, a securities processing analyst and host of the From the Ground Up with Esther podcast. Esther opens up about immigrating from Peru at 13, growing up in a home with domestic violence, and staying nine years in a relationship she knew was not right until a single prayer changed everything. Esther also shares how st...

This week on Talk About It with Franjez Podcast host Franjez sits down with Paris born photographer/director Paul Merelle and returning recording artist Khons. They dig into Paul's path from a music and film obsessed French childhood to self teaching photography, dropping out of school, moving to New York in 2023 chasing the Ghost Dog dream, and his unique process blending iPhone shots with darkro...

Sean Degnan runs a restaurant The Jailhouse, a men's leadership brand A.C.E, and previously a commercial cleaning company. In this one we skip the highlight reel and go straight at the stuff most interviews don't touch. If you've ever wondered whether your hustle is building you or burying something, this episode is for you.   Follow Sean: IG: @sean.degnan     #SeanDegnan #MensMentalHealth #SelfHe...

This week on Talk About It with Franjez Podcast, host Franjez sits with Dave Reggina, founder of Ace and author of “30 Lessons to Lead.” Dave opens up about growing up between Mount Vernon and Greenwich, battling Crohn’s disease as a teen, his mother’s 28 year struggle with addiction, and the affair that led him back into therapy and eventually into a life of faith. Dave also shares how podcasting...

Broadway Joel Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/broadwayjoel?igsh=bnhxNnhmNnd2NzZ1 Franjez sits down with Broadway Joel, boxing analyst, podcast host, and the self proclaimed Voice of Dominican Boxing. Joel opens up about growing up 12 people deep in a two bedroom in East New York, witnessing a murder at 12 years old, and finding his calling through journalism and YouTube. This one goes deep. F...

TG Flockaa: https://www.instagram.com/darealtgc80__?igsh=NzFnem92dW9qeTcy 3SomePookie: https://www.instagram.com/3somepookie?igsh=MWw5d3J1czEwM2lodQ==   TG Flockaa is a Bronx drill rapper whose music videos have generated millions of views, helping establish him as one of the notable voices in New York City’s drill scene. During his appearance on Talk About It with Franjez Podcast, he opened up ab...

Dylan Smith was adopted from a Russian orphanage, misdiagnosed and put on the wrong medication for 10 years, failed out of nearly every class, and never went to college. Today he's a bestselling author, motivational speaker, and the face of sold-out tours across the country. This episode covers all of it, the orphanage, the dyslexia diagnosis at 16, learning to read from scratch, working for free,...

MARLA BETH: https://www.instagram.com/marlabeth_designs?igsh=NTZzNzFsajE3YjYy   BETTY EASTLAND: https://www.instagram.com/boo.eastland?igsh=MTJ5anQwY202a3IyOA== Franjez sits down with Betty Eastland, interdisciplinary artist, poet, educator, and social worker, who opens up about growing up in rural poverty, facing homelessness in her 20s, and how art pulled her through mental health struggles all...

Two time NYC Golden Gloves Boxing Champion, USA National Champion, and memoir author Patty “Boom Boom” Alcivar sits down with Franjez to tell her raw, unfiltered story, from surviving abuse in Queens to conquering four of the seven world summits. This is a conversation about faith, forgiveness, discipline, and what it really takes to rise above your circumstances. New episodes every Wednesday at 6...

Episode 155 of Talk About It With Franjez features Laura Cons, a hair artist from the Bronx and the creator of Lau's Dilemma, a platform built around real relationship advice drawn from real life experience. Laura grew up in Mars Park in the Bronx in an Italian household. She was a quiet, shy kid who loved dance, hip-hop, and art. Her early career took her from managing a clothing store as a teena...

Franjez sits down with Mark Vecchiarello, owner of Hartsdale House of Pizza, located at 203 East Hartsdale Avenue in Hartsdale, NY. Since opening in 2019, Mark has built one of the most talked-about pizza spots in Westchester County, earning recognition as the best pizza maker in Westchester along with both APN and culinary certifications. Before Hartsdale House of Pizza, Mark spent years as a foo...

In this episode of the Talk about it with Franjez Podcast, host Franjez sits down with Diane Marie Pisera, a business and leadership advisor and TEDx speaker. Diane shares her journey of immigrating from Italy to New Rochelle at age eight, navigating the challenges of learning English as a fourth grader while maintaining her status as a top student. She discusses the cultural shocks of American sc...

In this episode of the Talk about it with Franjez podcast, host Franjez sits down with Bronx recording artist 3SomePookie for his first-ever on camera interview. Pooky opens up about his journey from being expelled in the second grade to making the honor roll, his experiences navigating life between the Bronx and Westchester, and the wild true story behind his unique artist name. The conversation...