The Jake Sasseville Show

I never intended for this audio to be released publicly.  Leah Komaiko did a private session with me. She's part muse, part brand strategist, part sage. I've been coached by the best in the world -- and no one comes close to the profound breakthrough that I made with Leah. It's today's show.  Leah calls Hollywood royalty, the biggest brands in the world, Olympic champions and hip-hop artists her c...

Zoe Nightingale's 'sexy' and 'sassy' brings grown men to their knees. It gives life to women who want to release their own childhood shame. Her comedy is recklessly acute, her intelligence is nearly lethal - and in recent weeks her podcast (which she's been at for two years) is blowing up.  Behind the brash tough girl Jew and mouthy DC-native, though, there is a humanitarian at heart that you ough...

Although few black gay men from the South ever talk about their sexuality or coming up in the deep south, the ones that do stand out. Lawayne Childrey shouldn't be alive today. When he was 4, he watched his cousin burn alive in a fire. When he was 5 all the way to second grade, Lawayne was molested. Diagnosed with HIV and then "full blown AIDS," he watched his lover die in the early 90s as well as...

Shep Gordon is a legend... and he's been very kind to me.  He's the focus of the 2014 Mike Meyes doc: "SUPERMENSCH: The Legend of Shep Gordon." Shep has managed Luther Vandross, Alice Cooper, Raquel Welch, Teddy Pendergrass, Emeril and others. Hollywood royality, British royalty and the Dalai Lama consider him a friend. He lives in Maui and he has a life that is as fascinating as it is instructive...

  Equality and #LoveWins.   An episode about about why now, and how it happened so quickly, a look back, why it took so long, what roll popular culture played and the spiritual shift that had to happen for same-sex marriage to be legalized in all fifty states.   Thanks to Topher Keene, CC Hutten, Matt Baume, George Lizos, Joseph Matthew Garrett for being apart of it.   An incredibly important epis...

James McCrae, author of SH*T YOUR EGO SAYS, talks at length about the process of writing his book, including moving to NYC penniless, becoming homeless in Hurricane Sandy and eventually hitting rock bottom -- only to realize that much of his suffering (and his incredulous thoughts that he was a fraud) was due to the ego.   From a beach in the Caribbean, the stranded wanna-be author started writing...

With the recent killings of nine Bible Study members in South Carolina, we look at the real root issues -- best as we can -- about race in America. White people have to stand up and realize that they're part of the 2-sided issue and that it's not enough to be color blind. Our guests are Kweku Mandela, grandson of South Africa's Nelson Mandela, Mr. Jeff Dess, author of "Deconstructing Ratchet" and...

Our (slightly off) Father’s Day episode!   In 1996, Matt Sweetwood, the author of "Man Up" became a single dad of five children who were between the ages of 18 months and 8 years old. Matt’s ex-wife (and mother of his five children) left the house (in handcuffs, as Matt recalls). Apparently during one of her psychotic breaks, she tried to take Matt's race car for a spin. That, Matt says, was the f...

Mindie Kniss has a Ph. D in Heart Intelligence. She teaches headstrong entrepreneurs how to dip into their heart.  On the personal side, she talks about filing for bankruptcy, a home foreclosure and how she ended up living in her office for a time in her early career. “Part of my journey, apparently…” said Mindie.  She's married to superstar speaker and inspirational fellow Sean Stephenson. What a...

Adam   Gilbert  used to be in finance, but has transformed his clients lives as the founder of MyBodyTutor. He's a nationally recognized health, fitness and motivational expert and trainer. He says he created MBT help people stop making excuses when it comes to health and fitness, by providing daily and personal accountability.  Loved having Adam on the show. Long time coming. Enjoy, Jake The Jake...

Cindy is the wildly insightful founder of “Make Love Not Porn.” She's done my most favorite TED talk ever and she's the owner and designer of New York City's  famed “Black Apartment." Cindy's life imitates art, and art is imitating everything she stands for. She's 55, she dates younger men (thirty years younger!) and she's on a mission to change how we think about love, porn and sex.  I love her,...

Norweigan Grammy Winner  Maya   Vik  may be from Oslo, Norway, but her new song ---Young Michael Douglas (YMD) --- is turnt up on radio dials / internet channels / computer screens worldwide.   Maya told me that the song, her first US release, was inspired by a clip she saw where Michael Douglas told the interviewer his cancer was caused by his sex addiction.   That set the pace for a left-of-cent...

Kenton   Lee  is an incredible entrepreneur who tried to sell his "The Shoe that Grows” to Tom’s, Crocs, Sketchers and everyone else. When no one bit, Kenton patented it, and started to fundraise. Then, seemingly overnight, his “Shoe that Grows” has become a global sensation. It's a shoe. That grows. And it's helping kids all over the world.    Rarely do we get to have an inside peak at an entrepr...

Garrett Madison was leading 14 people up Mount Everest when an earthquake shook Nepal in April. That earthquake also caused avalanches that decimated base camp and Garrett's only forseeable way out. He was at roughly 21,000 feet (almost a 4,000 feet above base camp) when the quake hit.  For the first time since being rescued off of Everest, Garrett Madison tells his story on The Jake Sasseville Sh...

If you're an artist or consultant, Tracey Erin Smith (founder of SOULO Festival and kickass corporate consultant) will have you at HELLO. She's is an incredible storyteller! My most favorite interview this month and the most fun I've had in 100 episodes. She believes that we should tell our stories more often, that it would heal our past and create a more optimistic future. She’s a super powerful...

Super-Entrepreneur RAJ LAHOTI is the “Online Guru” and Inc’s 30 under 30 (DMV.org & UnitedStates.org) who recently checked himself into a wellness center in Arizona to detox. We talk about entrepreneurship, why we didn't speak for two years, ego and a lot of other cool stuff. We laugh a lot.  We talked right before he was set to leave the center catch a plane home to Southern California.  “I was l...

Locky  Brownlie is Katy Perry’s lead backup dancer. He used to dance for Taylor Swift. Cue the questions. He could "feel the beat" in his body at the age of 2, and for much of his childhood he was the only boy in dance in his small town in Australia. He now tours the world with music superstars and Broadway shows, and recently appeared at the Superbowl.  He sat down with me in Macau while on tour...

George   Kourounis  is an extreme storm chaser and star of “Angry Planet.”   He tells the story of chasing a 12,500 foot wide tornado (2.5 miles) with swirling winds of 200 MPH, and how he lost his dear friends in the chase.  George  stopped by the show to talk to us about climate change and chasing extreme weather, and about his recent visit to the coldest continuously inhabited place on the plan...

Marco  Borges is Beyonce’s business partner and author of The 22-Day Revolution, advocating for a plant based diet.   The Godfather of spin class in Miami (in the early 90s!),  Marco 's parents met in Miami, despite being born in Cuba, and  Marco ’s life is all about contributing to the health and wellness of others… proactively.   Great, fun and important interview, and raised my awareness a lot...

Bobby Bailey is the co-founder of Invisible Children. We talk addiction, nonprofits, his brother, redemption, Invisible Children, Jason Russell, tribal history and historical rights of passage and people-owned companies.  Delighted. “The CEOs of our generation are still operating at 395% more income than their employees. The gap is dangerous.”    The Jake Sasseville Show is co-executive produced b...

Jennifer Russell's powerful conversation about polyamory, BDSM, freedom vs. devotion (Paradox of Romance), money systems, belief systems and more left me breathless more than once.   She’s helped thousands of entrepreneurs create 6, 7, and 8-figure mission driven businesses with a unique combination of business strategy and deeply transformative identity level work.     She feels she's now at the...

Activist DeRay McKesson joins us live from Baltimore to discuss the arrest of six officers in the death of Freddie Gray.    Profoundly Human senior editors Emma Bracy and Mtali Banda, both who have written extensively on race, over-policing and the murders of unarmed black men fill out the panel.    We discuss how to move forward, things the public can do that are not on the ground, how a few hund...

Marc Gafni is a controversial and remarkable spiritual leader and author of more books than I can count. He created the Success 3.0 Summit with John Mackey (CEO of Whole Foods) and Ken Wilbur. He invited Arianna Huffington, Alanis Morissette and Tony Hsieh to speak among two dozen others.   More than his accomplishments, Marc’s commitment to love, growth and expansion is what I found most impressi...

Hip-hop Artist + Producer  Gregory   Stutzer has opened for B.o. B, Wale, DJd for Tyra Banks and corporate clients -- but perhaps his most meaningful work is his new single, "Let Go," out today, about the suicide of his childhood best friend, Mike.    Greg  is half black, half white, born in Tanzania, grew up in Kansas City and speaks to so many of who we are as dreamers, immigrants, artists and c...

In Part 2 of my interview with Adam Barr, Emmy winning producer, he tells me about the "stupid business of Hollywood," including how it's a one "ruled by sociopaths." (again, from Adam's mouth)   And yet, he says, "I love it more than anything, because I can create. But I don't forget that it's ephemeral."    Thank God for honesty and redemption. This is perfect for any writer, actor, director in...