Chiseled - We're all a work in progress - with Rob Commodari

Chris Compton, Jr. blew up his life from alcoholism. The detonation was a long time in the making. Like many young people, Chris started drinking a bit in high school and much more aggressively in college. Gregarious and outgoing, Chris career-tracked early to become a sports broadcaster, even working while a Towson University student with some of the big guns in the local sports market — play cal...

What if the greatest challenge in our relationships isn't a lack of love, but a lack of understanding? In this episode of Chiseled, Rob Commodari sits down with John Gray, internationally bestselling author of Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, a relationship classic that has sold more than 50 million copies worldwide. What begins as a conversation about communication between men and women q...

Better. Bit by Bit. When COVID shut down the conferences, seminars, and rooms where Jeff Wu felt most alive, he did not simply wait for the world to reopen. He created a room of his own. Jeff started a weekly Zoom call to bring people together, exchange ideas, and share the kind of energy he had been missing. Six years later, that call is still happening every week. It has also become what Jeff ca...

If you have never heard of Bob Beaudine, you're in for some high-energy inspiration! The president and CEO of Eastman & Beaudine, Bob got started in brand management for Carnation (Nestlé) before joining his father in the executive search industry. Executive recruiting may be familiar to you now, but it was a new industry when Bob got started and he took it to a whole other level. How? "(My da...

Richie Huffman learned how to be an entrepreneur from his mom. A CFO-turned-preschool-owner, she was always giving him tips on the next big idea. It taught Richie to be curious, entrepreneurial, and strategic. "She's never steered me wrong, ever," Richie said. By time Richie was 26, he was on his fourth business. First, baker, then landlord — Richie had 24 apartments by time he was 26 — then tanni...

Noelle Banks knew when she was 12 years old the life she was going to lead. Attending a non-denominational church for the first time in her family's adopted town outside Atlanta, Ga., she found herself in a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. She also found a community of people that would model her lifelong relationships. It certainly came in handy in 2017, when Noelle found herself facing a...

Ron Tite is funny. The standup comedian-turned-business-consultant-turned-bestselling-author is, as they say in show business, a natural. He will have you laughing throughout this week's episode of Chiseled. Ron's disarming charm is due not only to his comedic instincts but also his endless interest with the unknown. Growing up poor, he was surrounded by people who told him he just had to find wor...

Will Davis thought his future was already written. As the son of a pastor, he believed ministry was the only path God could truly bless. But after years of trying to force an identity that wasn't his, God led him somewhere unexpected—real estate. Today, Will is one of Denver's top real estate professionals and a financial educator helping people rethink conventional wisdom about money, wealth, and...

OK, bias alert: This week's guest is my cousin, 31-year-old Chris Fusco, who owns Summit Fitness and Performance and is founder of the All-Mountain Athlete Project. I admit I'm living vicariously through Chris. I've often thought of living off the land, so to speak, but that ship has sailed for me. For Chris, he's living on his own terms with no regrets. See, Chris is a professional nomad. He spli...

Matt Tyner Sr. grew up a "normal kid in Smalltown U.S.A." In his hometown of Decatur, Illinois, he learned about sports the old-fashioned way, attending local games. But in 1974, while watching ABC's Wide World of Sports, he saw University of Miami play in the College World Series and he knew that's where he wanted to go.  ​ "Since I was in fourth grade, I decided that I either wanted to be a prof...

Many young people dream of performing on big stages. Few get the opportunity before adulthood. For Marie Miller, that dream began at age seven. Raised in a musical family, she spent her childhood performing bluegrass, singing and playing both mandolin and guitar. At 15, her father took her to Nashville. By 17, she had signed with  Curb Records and later earned a No. 1 Christian radio hit with "You...

There's an adage that says when people reveal themselves to you, believe them. I like to add an adjunct to that: when someone tells you who he is trying to become, support him. When Adam Buttorff describes himself as a "heathen," a "SOB," and "depraved," I know he's talking about someone he was. When I hear him describe his love for God and commitment to Christianity, I encourage it. It's no surpr...

Lots of people love their pets, but few turn the loss oftheir dog into a life mission. But that's what Cindy Aronstam did after herbeloved English bulldog Winston passed away. Cindy, a real estate agent in San Diego, hadalways been a dog lover. Her parents had a dog before she was born. She grew upwith them. When she got her first dog of her own, she picked an English bulldogwhom she named Winston...

If you've been listening to Chiseled, you know I have amazing guests who share personal stories of overcoming hardship, living through the paradoxes of faith, and using everything they've learned to help others. Every guest on this show has discovered a purpose in pain or testified about a lesson learned from conquering their own challenges. It's a blessing for me to have interviewed each of them...

Sometimes when I interview someone very affable and professional, I think to myself, "No wonder this guy sold a million books." That's how I think about today's guest on Chiseled, Jon Acuff. Jon is so funny, polished, and purpose-driven that he fills the screen and every room he enters. Some would say, Jon was born winning. He was fortunate enough to grow up the son of a minister in a household wh...

When Miriam McKinney got divorced in the early 2010s, she ended up in a financial hole. Depressed and broke, she wallowed a bit and wondered what to do with herself. But her self-pity didn't last long. As an already successful realtor, Miriam did what she advises her clients to do — invest in real estate. "It's the best long-term investment; it's the best way for wealth. That's what we tell our cl...

At age 21, Ty Nichols was "cooking" as Comcast's top Mid-Atlantic region salesman for 19 months in a row. He was looking to buy property in Panama and create a successful life and career — until he ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time. Hanging out with friends he had known since preschool, Ty found himself caught in a massive brawl. Though a bystander, he was arrested and charged with fir...

Rich Bernstein always wanted to get back to his roots. Born into a Jewish family in a rural area up north and originally expecting to become a farmer, Rich ended up in Baltimore, MD, as a pre-med student at Johns Hopkins University. Detouring from that plan, he instead became a highly successful financial analyst and funds manager. Rich then took another unexpected route: he converted to Christian...

When Marc Allen was in his 20s and desperate for cash, a man hired him and his then-girlfriend to help prepare a seminar for 25 paying guests on spirituality and self-improvement. Five minutes before it was supposed to start, the guy bolted. Left with his own bills to pay and a crowd to enlighten, Marc and his partner, Shakti Gawain, gathered together all they had learned about spirituality and pe...

Mary LouKayser is a best-selling author of seven books, a podcaster, educator, writer,and mother of two. She is also a listener of the universe. And when it sendsher a message, she's ready to receive it. But at no time did she expect amessage to tell her that she needed to write a book of poems. However, when her father unexpectedly passed awayand a new person came into her life who had a profound...

Glenn Morshower knew as a child that he wanted to be an actor. It wasn’t just because he watched a friend perform at a local theater—it was because he never treated other people’s doubts as anything more than a challenge. That mindset has carried him through a career spanning more than 250 films and television shows, including 24, Law & Order, NCIS, ER, Baywatch, Star Trek: The Next Generation...

In this episode Dan O'Dell, a real estate agent in Oakland Park, KS shares with us the importance of building relationships in business and in life. More important than negotiating real estate deals, Dan discusses the importance of negotiating relationships.

Bill Hampton is not from the south, but he got there as fast as he could. At age 24, while moving from Atlanta to Nashville to build his music management and concert promotion business, he tuned into a radio station and heard a "hillbilly" talking about money. And Bill understood every word he was saying. As someone who was making money but never had any, when Bill arrived at his new apartment com...

Dr. Christina Paul felt a calling — help people to live better, healthier lives right up to the end. The root of her dedication, she says, came from what she calls a gift from God to be able to study science and grow up in a household where wholesome living was fundamental. She also spent a lot of time in the critical care units of hospitals encountering patients with life-threatening chronic illn...

You may remember David Sidoni from the 1990s. He was the PatSajak of the tween set (were they called 'tweens' back then?). David had abrief but successful career on TV and in music videos, most notably on thesketch comedy show Roundhouse and as host of Wheel 2000,the kids' version of the game show Wheel of Fortune.  But David decided to put his acting career behind him and gointo real estate.  "As...