Getting Real with Dan DiSciullo

Dean Barta, founder and CEO of Barta Business Group, shares his journey from the outdoors to business, drawing parallels between guiding in the wilderness and guiding businesses through financial challenges. He emphasizes the importance of easing clients' pain and the evolution of success from financial metrics to personal impact. The conversation covers topics such as flexibility in business, cus...

One-Line Summary (for SEO & social) Annabel Zhang, CEO of International Elite Capital, shares how blending economics, authentic storytelling, and investor matchmaking turns visions into successful IPOs and lasting capital relationships. Full Episode Summary / Show Notes Annabel Zhang, CEO of International Elite Capital (IEC) , began her career as a financial reporter on the floor of the New Yo...

One-Line Summary Peter Prieto shares his raw journey—from young fatherhood and bankruptcy to building NDataStor on relentless customer service, people-first hiring, and never quitting. Full Episode Summary / Show Notes Peter Prieto, Founder & CEO of NDataStor , didn’t follow a typical tech-founder path. A young father by 23, he hustled through bread delivery, warehouse management, high-stakes...

Episode Title (chosen – 88 characters) SecureAuth CPO Brook Lovatt: Passwordless Future, AI Agents & Surviving a Tsunami One-Line Summary (for SEO & social) From surviving the 2004 tsunami to leading identity security at SecureAuth, Brook Lovatt shares insights on phishing-resistant auth, AI risks, and hands-on leadership in cybersecurity. Full Episode Summary / Show Notes Brook Lovatt, Ch...

One-Line Summary From celebrity water endorsements to fighting hype in network marketing, Jeff Pizzino shares 40 years of lessons on why authentic storytelling wins hearts, employees, and headlines. Full Episode Summary / Show Notes Jeff Pizzino, APR, has been a "spin-free PR purist" since 1987—starting at Ketchum in NYC, working with Johnson & Johnson, securing celebrity endorsements for ultr...

One-Line Summary From SEC enforcement to founding FiSolve, Steven Yadegari shares how mediation, authenticity, and relationships turn regulatory challenges into business advantages. Full Episode Summary / Show Notes Steven Yadegari spent decades at the intersection of regulation, law, and finance—starting with senior roles at the SEC, transitioning to prestigious law firms, and serving 16 years as...

From Soviet immigrant to NASDAQ CEO, Serguei Melnik is racing to bring the world’s first truly abuse-deterrent fentanyl patch to market — and end accidental overdoses for good. Full Episode Summary / Show Notes Serguei Melnik never planned to fight the opioid crisis. After ringing the opening bell at the NYSE in 2003 for his first public company (a Moldovan wine producer), taking multiple companie...

Episode Summary He ran the best-performing fund-of-funds AND the best-performing crypto fund of all time (5,500 % in 2014). Tim Enneking reveals how dumb luck, radical honesty, and refusing binary thinking built a legendary career. Full Show Notes Tim Enneking has spent 35 years moving billions across traditional finance and crypto — from Eastern Europe fund-of-funds to launching the world’s first...

Episode Summary Princeton-trained quantum physicist Revant Nair walked away from string theory to build investment models that use the same principles governing the universe. Mind-bending, first-principles investing. Full Show Notes Most investors rely on spreadsheets, news, and gut feel. Revant Nair relies on parsimony, falsifiability, and out-of-sample prediction — the exact same modeling rules...

Episode Summary From real estate law to shipping-container-sized batteries saving Texas lives — JJ Switzer bootstrapped SMT Energy to 500 MW operating + $1B pipeline. No VC. All grit. Full Show Notes John “JJ” Switzer was a structured-finance lawyer who got “bit by the solar bug” in 2013. Six years later he bet the entire company on utility-scale battery storage. Today SMT Energy has 500 MW operat...

Episode Summary Fintech founder Steve Negri lost his best friend at 50. In this raw, unfiltered conversation he reveals the real cost of the founder journey, why relationships beat revenue, and how death at 50 changed everything. Full Show Notes Steve Negri has started four fintech companies, sold one to Jack Henry, and helped build the modern payments rails most of us use every day. But in 2025,...

Summary In this engaging conversation, Randy Tate, CEO and co-founder of iFlip, shares his remarkable journey from a farm in Northern California to leading a fintech revolution with AI-driven investing. He discusses the values instilled in him from his upbringing, the challenges and triumphs of entrepreneurship, and the innovative approach iFlip takes to democratize investing. Randy emphasizes the...

Episode Summary Desert Storm veteran Robert R. Wilson grew up in the shadow of his WWII Ranger father (Omaha Beach). Today he runs R2C — a 140-person defense-tech powerhouse that still moves at battlefield speed to save American lives. Full Show Notes (copy-paste ready) From the beaches of Normandy (his father’s D-Day landing) to the sands of Desert Storm and now leading one of America’s most resp...

Episode Summary 40-year supply-chain titan (UPS → Walmart → billions transformed) left corporate to fix humanitarian logistics full-time. Now building “Angelic Intelligence” AI that asks “should we?” before “can we?” Full Show Notes (copy-paste ready) Steve Robinson spent four decades mastering global supply chains — starting on the warehouse floor at UPS in 1976 and eventually running transformat...