The Planet Club

DIG LIFE DEEP!

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DIG LIFE DEEP! with John Aidan Byrne brings fascinating guests from Main to Wall Street and the worlds of finance, economics, politics, Silicon Valley, Hollywood, sports, art, science and more. The show celebrates success, a spirit of enterprise, in an age of unparalleled social upheaval. An award-winning Irish journalist in his beloved America, Byrne seeks hope for our existential crisis. Byrne is a writer, reporter, editor and Broadway alumnus. His work is published in the New York Post, Wall Street Journal, National Catholic Register, Institutional Investor and other major outlets.

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Sep 5, 2025

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GIFT OF DYSLEXIA: Elyse Dickerson, CEO & Co-Founder, Eosera, explains how she overcame the pain of dyslexia to succeed in big pharma, business & sports. Why dyslexia has given her unique abilities 13.02.2021

Elyse Dickerson, co founder and CEO of Eosera, started as a dyslexic child who could barely read in front of her class and was branded as hopelessly below-average by her teachers. She learned how to cope with criticism and turn being different into being successful. She steeled herself in both mind and body, becoming a lifelong athlete in marathons, triathalons, and the Ironman competition. In tim...

TOM CRIDLAND interviews legends from Sir Cliff Richard & Gloria Estefen to Don McLean & David Crosby for his top podcast. He says today's artists are mostly a choir of politically correct conformists 06.02.2021

Tom Cridland is host of the Greatest Music of All TIme podcast with sharp insights on the political tone and direction of music industry culture, past and present. The rebel spirit and force that gave rise to the legends of recent decades is gone, he says, replaced by artists who have lost the common touch, who have been more tightly packaged and controlled by corporations that in the past, and ye...

TODD STOTTLEMYRE: 3x World Series Champ, MLB Star Pitcher, author new self-help book, opens up on the moment his troubled life and career were brilliantly transformed 29.01.2021

Todd Stottlemyre is well known for his successful MLB career as a star baseball pitcher, but his accomplishments off the field are just as impressive. After leaving baseball, he pursued a career in finance building an asset management business at a high-profile Wall Street firm. He then, founded a private equity fund that owns, manages, and oversees several companies. Today, Stottlemyre is a globa...

MANIA ON WALL STREET: Dr. Alden Cass, therapist for CEOs & stock traders, fears a financial bubble as irrational exuberance returns amidst social isolation & pandemic mental health upheaval. 23.01.2021

In this age of the pandemic shutdowns, life has turned a new corner for Dr. Alden Cass. Dr. Cass, a therapist for CEOs and Wall Street traders, is president of Competitive Streak Consulting (CSC) in New York City. With the Federal Reserve flooding the US economy with trillions of dollars, buying back corporate bonds and other debt – and Uncle Sam releasing stimulus checks to help struggling Americ...

WALL STREET'S JIM TOES urges independent study of US Election fraud charges for market confidence. Son of NYC Police Captain & head Security Traders Association talks highspeed trading - & DC riots 16.01.2021

Jim Toes is President and CEO of the Security Traders Association (STA), a grassroots trade organization which serves individuals employed in the financial services industry. In his role, Toes maintains STA’s relationship with U.S. regulators and congressional policymakers. Since assuming his role in 2011, STA has written more than fifty (50) comment letters on a wide range of issues under the reg...

PITTSBURGH'S NICK BOGACZ: World Pizza Champion, Founder Caliente Pizza & Draft House, published author & podcaster, explains how he skipped college, built his empire & created America's best pizza 09.01.2021

Nick Bogacz is Founder and President Caliente Pizza & Draft House, launched in 2013 with five locations today in the Greater Pittsburgh region. He's won a multitude of awards on his journey to success and is the modern personification of the American Dream. Nick skipped college -- no student debt! --  worked multiple jobs and long hours from an early age. How Nick arrived at this point in...

CHINA'S COVID COVER-UP: Leading epidemiologist Dr. Maureen Miller of Workplace 2030 pandemic initiative opens up on China's role in Covid-19 & unveils the NEW futuristic office for protecting workers 02.01.2021

Workplace 2030, a not-for-profit initiative to reimagine the office, has now opened to the public the world’s first epidemiologically-guided “office of the future” prototype in San Francisco, CA. The prototype office is an interactive learning center where workplace leaders can experience first-hand the latest workplace designs, technologies and collaborations for workplace health, security, confi...

CAPITALISM FOR THE POOR: Christine Soule on her journey from drug-addicted stripper to Christianity; founder Seattle's Providence House, author, Broken and Beautiful; her economic solution for poverty 25.12.2020

Christine Soule’s life was a jumbled pile of broken pieces. Her father was married seven times; her mother four times. Between her parents’ divorce when she was 5 years old and the day she allowed the power and presence of God into her heart, she watched her sister have an affair with her adoptive father; met 15 siblings she never knew at her biological father’s funeral; turned to drugs and alcoho...

THE MONEY PLOT: Frederick Kaufman's penetrating history of money myths & fiction is perfect timing with Central Bankers' Covid-19 trillions. This injection is saving mankind, believes Kaufman 18.12.2020

In his scintillating, controversial history The Money Plot: A History of Currency's Power to Enchant, Control, and Manipulate (Other Press Hardcover; November 24, 2020; ISBN: 9781590517185; $27.99), journalist and Professor Frederick Kaufman delves into the past 65,000 years to demystify the concept of money, reminding us that whether its form is polished shells, bills or bitcoin – in the end, it’...

TRUMP'S LAST STAND!? After Joe Biden's Electoral College 'win,' all eyes on Congress Jan 6 for last minutes surprises. YES, it's not over. Electoral College expert Emily Conrad has the inside scoop. 12.12.2020

Emily Conrad has written a comprehensive account of the US Electoral College in her new book, The Faithless? The Untold Story of the Electoral College. As another presidential election rapidly approaches this November, the fate may well rest in the hands of the Electoral College. Conrad conducted extensive interviews, profiling a diverse roster of faithless electors in the 2016 Electoral College....

TULSA: Star, director, writer Scott Pryor & his wife Laura reveal stunning details on this #2 Box Office Movie Hit inspired by true events, streaming soon, & discuss the role of faith in their lives 05.12.2020

The box office hit TULSA has just became the #2 All-Time Box Office for self-distributed films and announced that it will be available for streaming everywhere on February 2nd .   TULSA is an unlikely Hollywood success story despite the pandemic's effect on Hollywood and movie theatres. The movie's star, director and writer, Scott Pryor, is also a renowned trial lawyer and with this film he t...

ESCAPE TO BLISS ISLAND: Eric Lochtefeld, on road to becoming a billionaire, explains why he quit California, purchased Bliss Island, Hawaii as a retreat for entreprenuers & artists seeking purpose 28.11.2020

Leaving The Billionaire Monster Behind: Many want to be rich and successful but is there a point where it gets to be too toxic? What type of person can you become on the path to building a billion dollar empire? According to one entrepreneurial expert, Eric Lochtefeld, it can make you into a monster. Lochtefeld , co-author of The Purpose Code, is a massively successful investor and developer that...

TOM LIBELT: America’s former Polish hip hop sensation, record label owner, now an SEO magnate in Thailand, on decline of US & rise of Asia. He recalls his escape from Communist Poland at age 11. 20.11.2020

Tom Libelt, 40, is an avowed and successful free enterprise businessman, describing himself without apology as a capitalist. This former hip hop sensation has led a charmed life from a young age, escaping as an 11-year-old with his family from his native Poland during the waning days of the Communist regime. Libelt eventually found himself in New York where he would take the hip hop scene by storm...

CELEBRITY CHEF MATTHEW KENNEY discusses his 10 new 'vegan' restaurants, global success in face of pandemic. Award-winning Kenney has 40+ outlets, 12 cookbooks, named one of America's Best New Chefs 13.11.2020

Legendary chef Matthew Kenney who is opening 10 new restaurants in the next 10 months (he doesn't sleep), shares his inspiring restaurant industry advice and business success in the face of the pandemic. As the world's most influential chef behind healthy plant-based dining with over 40 restaurants worldwide, 12 cookbooks, and food critic praise (The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Esquire, Har...

CHILD CRISIS: Dr. Irwin Redlener, TV analyst, befriends Paul Simon, Joan Baez, Michael Jackson fighting child poverty; talks COVID-19; his dinner with Fidel Castro & praises strong two-parent families 06.11.2020

His approach is always subtle; his banter is casual and absent any pressure to respond. But when renowned pediatrician and children's advocate Dr. Irwin Redlener casually asks his young patients, "What do you want to be when you grow up?” the lights invariably come on, eye contact occurs, and the child emerges from deep inside a protective shell. "Children are essentially dreamers … undaunted by a...

RED CHRISTIAN MENACE: NY Times best selling author, Rod Dreher, looks to the Church in China as theme for his next book. American Security Institutes' Will Coggin shares his first hand experience 30.10.2020

New York Times bestselling author, Rod Dreher reveals how the seeds of political oppression are already taking root in America, and provides a roadmap for resistance. In a new book, Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents , (Penguin, Sentinel, September 29, 2020), Dreher amplifies the alarm sounded by the brave men and women who have fought and escaped the clutches of totalitarianism....

President Trumps' Tweets Analyzed! After masterminding a social media campaign for Enda Kenny’s 2011 Ireland election victory, Dr. Savneet Singh breaks his silence & also unveils his Trump twittersite 24.10.2020

Dr. Ravneet (Ravi) Singh was born in the United States of America. He wears a turban as a requirement of the Sikh religion from northern India. His parents immigrated to the United States to pursue the American dream. Ravi grew up in the cornfields of Illinois in the village of Prestbury. His favorite hero is Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican (GOP) President. He adopted at an early age the Lin...

NEW COMMUNIST MANIFESTO!? VIKTOR SHVETS SAYS REPAYING GLOBE'S HUGE DEBT IS CRAZY! Banker & Author, The Great Rupture, proposes more government financial control, a Universal Basic Income 17.10.2020

Viktor Shvets' medicine for overcoming our greatest financial challenge in decades - record global debt - is daring and controversial: Forget about repaying the massive bill of as much as $500 trillion since this would lead inevitably to a collapse in asset prices, he says, from homes to 401(k) pension plans. The global economy is wedded to technology and "financialization" of everything from mort...

ROD DREHER: NY Times best-selling author discusses his new book, Live Not By Lies. A Manual for Christian Dissidents; rise of anti-Christian militancy; Catholic Church; trouble in America & Europe. 10.10.2020

As a new left-wing cultural revolution takes to the streets and seizes control of American institutions, Rod Dreher renews the great Russian dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s stirring call to “live not by lies” – that is, to refuse to compromise with ideological tyranny. In a new book, Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents, (Penguin, Sentinel, September 29, 2020), Dreher amplifies t...

FED MONEY SCANDAL: John Horvat's domestic solution to record money printing for big business bailouts & zombie companies. He identifies immeasurable untapped wealth at our doorstep. 02.10.2020

Scholar John Horvat  II,  in a recent op-ed , said he believed current US government monetary policy will lead to  disaster.  “We already have unprecedented government involvement in the economy,” he says. “At the same time, leaders in both parties call out for even more “stimulus” to deal with the effects of Covid-19. When will it stop? Can it stop?” Horvat, author of “Return...

WHOLESOME CAPITALISM? Alexander McCobin, CEO, Conscious Capitalism & Rob Waldron, Curriculum Associates are dedicated to elevating humanity in business, uniting left & right in pursuit of happiness 25.09.2020

Alexander McCobin and the organization he leads, Conscious Capitalism , believe that capitalism is a way forward for humanity to ethically engage with each other to build and support a global network of businesses dedicated to this conscious mindset. One of Conscious Capitalism’s partners , Curriculum Associates , has been ramping up this conscious focus even further in light of COVID-19. Under CE...

FAITHLESS: Author Emily Conrad on stunning rise of US Electoral College members who voted against Presidential or VP candidate they'd pledged; death threats & foreign interference in 2016 and 2020. 18.09.2020

Emily Conrad has written a comprehensive account of the US Electoral College in her new book, The Faithless? The Untold Story of the Electoral College. As another presidential election rapidly approaches this November, the fate may well rest in the hands of the Electoral College. Conrad conducted extensive interviews, profiling a diverse roster of faithless electors in the 2016 Electoral College....

TOPGUN: Commander Guy Snodgrass, celebrated US Navy fighter pilot & instructor, author of new book, chief speechwriter to former Defense Secretary James Mattis. Guy discusses Mattis & President Trump 12.09.2020

Commander Guy Snodgrass is a famed TOPGUN pilot, instructor, and former Director of Communications & Chief Speechwriter to former Secretary of Defense James Mattis . Commander Snodgrass is celebrated as one of the most skilled fighter pilots in the U.S. Navy, directing combat jets over some of the most dangerous war zones in the world -- and he did it all using the lessons he learned at the Na...

CHINA'S GLOBAL DOMINATION: Will Coggin of the American Security Institute on China's world ambitions, sinister influence in US from Hollywood and spying to religious freedom and economic sabotage. 05.09.2020

Will Coggin, who spent some years in China, is managing director of the American Security Institute (ASI), which launched in 2020. ASI educates Americans about the often-hidden influence of the Chinese Communist Party in the United States. National security experts have deemed Communist-controlled China to be the biggest strategic threat to the United States in the 21st century. ASI is a project o...

THE BLECH EFFECT: Filmmaker David Greenwald on his emotional new film on David Blech, disgraced King of Biotech, once one of world's richest men, felled by fraud, gambling and his bipolar disorder. 28.08.2020

David Greenwald's powerful and intimate new film from Virgil Films, feature documentary THE BLECH EFFECT, follows David Blech, showcasing the disgraced former "King of Biotech" (dubbed by the New York Times in their profile ). Blech was a pioneer investor in the industry, once worth more than 300 million dollars, securing his place on the Forbes 400 list. At the start of the film he is $11 million...

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