Return To Authenticity

Episode 68!   A fun conversation with Dr. Kevin Gazzara about the joys of driving in Philly with Jersey plates, Philly cheese sandwiches and dancing Intel processor chips on television.  Seriously, Kevin drops some great stories and some serious knowledge bombs about how to build a career while also building a bridge to your dreams and what lights you up.  An entertaining and engaging conversation...

Episode 67! John Jackson began mountain bike racing as a teenager and while preparing for a 6-hour endurance race, he crashed over the handlebars and broke his back and neck in a devastating crash.  During his road to recovery, he stumbled upon making healing oils and ended up creating a beard oil company before beards were a thing in a market that didn't exist.  He battled through through th...

Episode 66!  Meet Charles Smith.  Charles lost both his mother and his father before he turned 12 years old and then lived in 10 houses over the next 11 years.  As a young adult, he turned to drugs as a way to cope with the loss and depression he experienced.  He joined the military in an effort to gain control of his life and struggled while working in a Gitmo Bay Cuba detention center in riot co...

Episode 65!  What a great conversation with this podcast pro, Kevin Palmieri.  He tells a great story of bouncing off the bottom again and again in one dead end job after another and being caught in his own victim mentality.  Once he decided to take ownership for his circumstances and go all-in, life turned and through hard work, and staying true to his values, he's created an unbelievable pl...

Episode 64!  Meet Megan Lowdon.  She built up a corporate career in hospitality and event management working 80-hour weeks and giving her all to her career.  When the world went on lockdown during the virus outbreak, events were cancelled and she was let go without a defined date to return.  After a brief respite enjoying the downtime, Megan started to get anxious to get back to work.  She found a...

Meet Daniel Laudon, CEO of Nature's Warehouse which is dedicated to promoting natural health and providing resources for people to make their own decisions about their health and the health of their families.  Daniel grew up on a farm, living, working and playing in the great outdoors.  We have a fun and informative discussion about farming, food, pesticides, GMO's, egg shortages, and bu...

Episode 62!  Welcome and meet Jesse Fisco.  Jesse is a serial entrepreneur with multiple seven-figure businesses.  He didn't start that way however as Jesse struggled with a scarcity mindset, anger and poor health.  His family life suffered and his wife and kids became accustomed to angry outbursts and non-stop talk about business.  He finally decided something needed to change and he started...

Episode 61! Meet today’s guest, Dr. Debi Silber Debi is a holistic psychologist, health, and mindset speaker, author and mentor helping people move past betrayal.   She is the founder of the Post Betrayal Transformation Institute and the author of “Trust Again.”  She is a 2-time, #1 International bestselling author of: “The Unshakable Woman” and “From Hardened to Healed” and hosts the leading podc...

Episode 60!  It was an honor to welcome Nicky Billou to the studio this week.  He shares the very real perspective of watching his home country slip from a thriving, modern, democratic and free country to one of oppression and tyranny.  This was the country of Iran in the 60's and 70's and what ultimately led Nicky's family to flee when he was 13 years old.  They ended up settling i...

Episode 59!! Today's guest is Tyler Pigott.  Tyler grew up in Washington State on a 100-acre Christmas tree farm and learned to drive a tractor before he was 10 years old.  He watched his father start and run his own businesses which took Tyler on a similar path of working for himself and having an entrepreneurial mindset.  Tyler's skills in computer technology and design were learned wo...

Episode 58!! Meet Danielle Matthews.  Danielle is a super energetic, sporty person who loves athletic and intellectual challenges.  Her life was nearly cut short when she was struck by a drunk driver and suffered a traumatic brain injury that made even sunlight too much to bear.  Without the ability to work, she had to move back into her childhood home where her doctors coached her to accept her p...

RTA Episode 57! You'll love the stories Robert Kerbeck tells about becoming a corporate spy on his way to becoming an actor and a writer.  It's like something straight out of a novel or a tv series or movie - and in fact, his story has been picked up to be just that! Enjoy!      ---------------------------------------------------- Connect with Robert here: Website: https://www.robertkerb...

Welcome to Return to Authenticity episode 56 with guest Matt Shoup! Matt grew up in Northern New Jersey with his parents as the oldest of 4 siblings, and he says he'd be dead or in prison if his family hadn't moved to Colorado when he was 10 years old.  His school life was rough up to that point and involved abuse and bullying.   His parents challenged him to raise his own money to buy a...

Welcome to RTA Uncut Episode 2 with return guest Matt McCartney! Matt was a guest one year ago to the day on Episode 4 and he brings us up to speed on all he's been up to this year: launching two coaching programs for men - one virtual and one in person.  He's also part of a team of coaches in a virtual program called the Thriving Man academy.  Matt shares his thoughts on some things to...

Episode 55!  Meet Tim Branyan.   Tim is a combat veteran of the United States Air Force. After the military he decided to pursue his passion for software development and launched his first project with about $6k dollars and no formal education. He grew to become a tech industry leader and entrepreneur having developed and launched hundreds of apps and platforms, scaling to millions of users and mi...

Episode 54 with our guest, Matt Drinkhahn.   Matt grew up a military brat, whose father was an Air Force pilot and mother was an English teacher, and he moved 17 times in 21 years, including 13 different states and 4 different high schools before heading to college. Matt began selling CutCo knives in college and he was transformed into a selling machine. Matt graduated college with a Psychology an...

Episode 53 of RTA! Meet Ashwin Vaithianathan  Ashwin grew up in a suburb of Denver as an only child in a traditional Indian household.  His parents had him focused on academics first with sports for fun.  And he played them all.  He found tennis in his junior year in high school and fell in love with the sport.  He was determined to play college tennis and even dropped out of Purdue when he learne...

Welcome to episode 52!  Meet Clint Laukhuf.  Clint grew up in Dallas in an athletic home, playing competitive tennis as soon as he was able to hold a racket.  This led to burnout and resentment and after a short stint in college, Clint found himself in the US Marine Corps where he graduated selection to the elite 1st Recon division and deployed to Iraq in 2003.   After leaving active duty, Clint w...

Episode 51! Meet Phil Moeller.   Phil is from a large Catholic family, raised in Dayton, Ohio. His father owned his own trucking company after driving a milk truck earlier in his career when Phil was a kid.  Phil went to Ohio State to study engineering and moved into corporate America in a product development and management role, as his parents guided him toward the safety and security of a corpor...

Welcome to episode 50! Charles Kao grew up in a home that valued hard work and being your own boss, as Charles's father and mother owned and operated a restaurant and commercial real estate properties in Michigan.   Charles embraced travel and gaining knowledge in a variety of areas from exercise to banking to sales before taking a hint from his personal training clients regarding how to be w...

Episode 49!  Meet Dr. Mike T Nelson.  This conversation was so fun as Mike is super knowledgeable about all things the human body.  We discuss how his educational pathway led him to dive deep into the world of physical optimization despite being more interested in music as a kid - a love of Metal that continues to this day.   His depth of knowledge on physical performance based on clinical researc...

Here we go with RTA episode 48!  Meet Nick Alfano.  Nick grew up in a broken home and by the age of 14, he was couch surfing to find a roof over his head each night and living out of his backpack.  This led to Nick craving affirmation and achievement to compensate and hide his rough upbringing and he excelled at school and business.   There was no price too high to pay to be seen as the best and s...

RTA Episode 47!   Meet Josh Ramsey.  Josh grew up in South Africa in a loving home with a supportive family.   Along with his successes as a fitness model, stuntman, and entrepreneur, Josh struggled with depression and overuse of medications and psychedelics.  Addictions to weed, alcohol and porn continued to pull him down.   Something had to change.   Tune in and hear how Josh began to focus on s...

Return to Authenticity Episode 46! This is the first "part 2" episode with Chris Trapper returning to the studio for a continuation of our first conversation on last week's episode 45. I love talking with Chris and we settle into an easy banter brought on by knowing each other since we were kids living down the street from one another, playing sports and chasing adventure the way we...

Return to Authenticity Episode 45!   I had a blast with my good friend and guest, singer/songwriter, Chris Trapper, in the studio.  Chris grew up in Buffalo, NY, and his love of music started at a young age and was encouraged by his parents.  Chris describes what it took to follow his dreams and stay true to his authentic self in becoming and remaining a professional musician for over 20 years. Ch...