Invest In Yourself Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Today I am joined by author / attorney Kerrie Droban. Today we talk about Kerrie’s book named Running With The Devil. This is a book about a group of undercover agents infiltrating a motorcycle club. She has written quite a few books about biker clubs from the law enforcement and criminal perspective. Kerrie’s  book is in the video description. I highly recommend it. Please subscr...

Send us Fan Mail Today I am joined by ex-mob associate Larry Rolla. Larry was a big time horse race fixer back in the day. Larry knew many mob guys and helped them fix races. One very major mob figure He got to meet was Tommy Lucchese. Larry wrote a book named Horse Racing and The Mob. I highly recommend this book if you like mafia related content. Please subscribe to my channel for more interview...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to the Invest In Yourself Podcast. Today I am joined by former marijuana smuggler Tim McBride. From 1979-1989 Tim ran his smuggling operation in the ocean waters of Florida Everglades. Tim ran this operation with some modern day pirates! Tim was one of the biggest pot smugglers way back in the day. Tim wrote a book about his life experience doing this called Saltwater...

Send us Fan Mail Today I am joined by former getaway driver for the mafia, Mafia Wife, Author, Model, and Stuntwomen Georgia Durante. Georgia grew up in Rochester New York and met a lot of the mob guys there. She would go on to marry a mobster as well. Georgia speaks on being a getaway driver for the mob. Also she explains how she got out of that criminal life and made a better life for herself. G...

Send us Fan Mail Today’s returning guests are Colombo Crime Family soldier Carmine Imbriale and his co author Craig McGuire. Carmine was a mafia street soldier in Carmine and Michael Sessa’s crew. This is part 2 of our interview we did a month ago. We covered his life in the mafia as a criminal in the first one. Now we will cover the day Carmine was busted, why he cooperated with the FBI, and what...

Send us Fan Mail Today I am joined by former ATF undercover agent Ignacio Esteban. Today we talk about Ignacio's new book Miami’s History With The Mafia. We talk about all kinds of different mafia activities in Miami like Al Capone house, mafia hangouts, mafia involved with professional boxing, Meyer Lansky, and Castro and the mafia. Ignacio’s book is in the video description. I highly recomm...

Send us Fan Mail Today’s Guest Is 9/11 survivor Erik Ronningen. Erik was inside one of the twin towers the day of the plane crash attack. Erik ran into quite a bit of trouble while escaping. He did end up making it out before the building went down. He wrote a book about his experience called From The Inside-Out! Please subscribe for more interviews like this.  Erik’s book- From the Inside Out: Ha...

Send us Fan Mail Today’s guest is ex-gang member Casey Diaz. Casey details seeing Murders and Kidnappings when he was young. Casey also talks about his life as a gang member and participating in robbery’s, stabbings, and beatings. Casey went to prison and was put in solitary confinement for quite some time. While in solitary confinement Casey had a awakening. Casey has turned his life around and h...

Send us Fan Mail Today’s  guest is former mobster Frank Dimatteo. During Frank’s life in the mob he was with 3 different crime families. The first one was the Colombo Crime Family with Joey Gallo’s Crew. The second one was the Genovese Crime Family when Vincent “The Chin” Gigante was boss. The last one was the DeCavalcante Crime Family with Anthony Rotondo crew. Frank talks about his life after th...

Send us Fan Mail Today’s guest on the show is an upcoming rap artist named Lyriq Luchiano. Growing up Lyriq was involved with street life for a number of years. Lyriq discovered a passion for making music and never looked back. He has been making music for years now. His style is so different and that’s what stood out to me. He raps about pain that everyday people go through on a daily basis. Such...

Send us Fan Mail Today’s show features Ronald Fino, one of the FBI's foremost undercover operatives. His father was a mafia boss Joseph Fino. Joseph Fino  was a captain in the Buffalo crime family under long-time mob boss Stefano Magaddino. Under the protection of his powerful father, Ron Fino joined the corrupt Laborers’ Local 210, which was controlled by Magaddino. Ronald  also managed to i...

Send us Fan Mail Today’s guest Rick Porrello. Author, drummer, and former police chief. Rick’s family was in the Cleveland Mafia. His grandfather was Joe Porrello who was the boss at one time. Rick wrote a book called The Rise And Fall Of The Cleveland Mafia. Please subscribe for more interviews like this. Rick’s website- https://rickporrello.com   Find all of our Invest In Yourself Platforms  Sub...

Send us Fan Mail Today’s guest is a former Shot Caller of the Aryan Brotherhood, Michael Thompson. When Michael was 22 years old,  Michael was sent to state prison with a sentence of 7 years to life. He ended up being in prison for 45 years. During his time in prison, he would join a  prison gang  by the name The Aryan Brotherhood. Michael would go on to become an informant against The Aryan Broth...

Send us Fan Mail Today’s guest is former Mongols biker club leader Justin DeLoretto also known as “Mooch”. Mooch  was also in the Vagos biker club when he was first coming up. Mooch details his life story as a biker and what all the ins and outs that go on in biker clubs. Mooch has changed his life around and he is now an author, scholar, and public health professional. His brand new book “The Rid...

Send us Fan Mail Today's guest features Michael Vecchione. Michael is a former Chief of the Rackets Division in the Brooklyn (NY) District Attorney’s Office. His career as a prosecutor spanned four decades. He has written many books and today we talk about one book in particular. The name of the book is called Homicide Is My Business. The book is about Michael Meeting mafia hitman turned info...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to the Invest In Yourself Podcast! Today’s guest is Chad Hollamon. Chad used to be a drug dealer and had quite a run. He would go on to being set up and busted by the feds. Chad was sentenced to 40 plus years. Chad worked hard to change his life in prison. He was eventually released much earlier than his original sentence for 40 plus years. During his prison time Chad...

Send us Fan Mail Today’s guests are Colombo Crime Family soldier Carmine Imbriale and his new book’s author Craig McGuire. Carmine as a child vandalized Joe Colombo’s house. Carmine was very close with Joe Brewster and Joseph Ida. Carmine was in the Carmine and Michael Sessa Crew. Carmine also had serious beef with Greg Scrappa. Larry Mazza was also trying to kill Carmine during the Colombo. Carmi...

Send us Fan Mail Today’s guests are former mafia bookies Tommy Stigs & John Murges. Tommy was a bookmaker in New Jersey. John was a bookmaker from Chicago. They both tell their war stories and talk about their daily life as bookies for the mafia. They also explain how bookmaking works. They both had a lot of workers and clients reporting to them. Both these men have changed their lives around...

Send us Fan Mail Today’s podcast features Ex-Mobster of the Gambino Crime Family Andrew DiDonato. Andrew and I talk about his early life and getting into crime. Then we talk about him joining the Gambino Crime Family. Andrew was a soldier in Nicky Corozzo’s crew. Nick’s crew had shootouts with a Lucchese Crew run by Anthony Casso & Vic Amuso. Andrew was involved with this. Andrew was also very...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to the Invest In Yourself Podcast. Today I am joined by Colombo Crime Family / Los Angeles. Crime Family associate Kenji Gallo. During his time in the mafia he worked in adult films as a producer. Kenji would also secretly sell drugs as well. After years in the mob Kenji  turned informant and wore a wire against the Colombo, Lucchese,and Los Angeles crime families. He...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to the Invest In Yourself Podcast. Today I am joined by former ATF undercover agent Ignacio Esteban. Today we talk about Ignacio's new book Psycho Killers which is about serial killers. A few killers we talk about are Ted Bundy and Jim Jones. We also talk about Ignacio's life as an undercover agent. Please subscribe to my channel for more interviews like thi...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Invest In Yourself Podcast. Today's guest is Jody Plauche. Many people have seen the video of Jody’s father Gary Plauche killing a child molester on live TV inside an airport. The reason Jody’s father did this was because he found out that is son had been getting raped by his karate instructor. Jody wrote a book about what he went through. To get his side of th...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to the Invest In Yourself Podcast. Today I am joined by mafia historian / author Sandra Peddie. Sandra and I talk about the book she wrote. Sandra recently wrote a whole book about Colombo Crime Family underboss Sonny Franzese. Sandra got to meet Sonny a few times before he died to get his life story out there. Sandra interviewed many people who knew Sonny to make thi...

Send us Fan Mail Today’s podcast features retired undercover agent Bob Hamer.  He is now an author. We talk about His book The Last Undercover Agent. It is about his experiences as an undercover agent and taking down notorious criminals such as Mobsters, pedophiles, gangsters, and many more. This book was absolutely incredible! I can’t believe all the nasty scary things Bob went through! Bob is ve...

Send us Fan Mail Today’s podcast features mafia author Tony DeStefano. He has written a number of books about the mafia Such as The Big Heist, The Deadly Don, Gotti’s Boys, Vinny Gorgeous, King of the godfathers. We mainly talk about his book Gotti’s boys. This book is about John Gotti and the men that were in his crew read this book front to back and he is a fendmonal writer and did his research!...