The Journey of My Mother's Son

In this episode of "The Journey of My Mother's Son" podcast, I sit down to talk with Andrea Lukac. When Andrea entered the working world after studying economics, she noticed very quickly how unhappy she and other people around her were in their day to day lives. This awareness led to her having the courage to follow her passion of inspiring people to live life to the fullest. Utilizing her knowle...

In this episode of "The Journey of My Mother's Son" podcast, I sit down to talk with Kevin Palmieri. Kevin is the CFO, Founder & Co-Host of Next Level University, a Global Top 100 Self-Improvement podcast with more than 1,000 episodes reaching over half a million people in more than 125 countries. He has studied personal development every single day since he had a moment where he thought about tak...

In this episode of "The Journey of My Mother's Son" podcast, I sit down to talk with Renee Schyjer. Renee fell in love and married the rocker Freddy Moore who was an incredible songwriter, lyricist and musician and recently published his memoir "It's Not a Rumour" His memoir is a sad and raucously funny story with so many facets. Freddy and Renee's story is a love story of true soul mates.  It spe...

In this episode of "The Journey of My Mother's Son" podcast, I sit down to talk with Danielle Bernock. Danielle founded 4F Media (Faith, Family, Friends, Freedom) in 2014 to promote inner healing and personal freedom through the power of 'The LOVE that heals', using all forms of media, beginning with her first book. The following quote from the book has gone viral: "Trauma is personal. It does not...

In this episode of "The Journey of My Mother's Son" podcast, I sit down to talk with Amy and Joe Rogan. Amy and Joe are fellow full-time nomads, traveling in a van, rolling with the punches that life throws at them, and making wonderful memories. They are currently working on their first book, Happy Medium, which is scheduled to be released in the Spring of 2023. Amy has had extensive personal and...

In this episode of "The Journey of My Mother's Son" podcast, I sit down to talk with Sean Tyler Foley. Tyler is an accomplished film and stage performer and has been acting in film and television since he was 6 years old after his father passed away suddenly in a motor vehicle accident. He has appeared in productions including Freddy Vs Jason, Door to Door, Carrie, and the musical Ragtime. Tyler i...

In this episode of "The Journey of My Mother's Son" podcast, I sit down to talk with Michael Mitreuter. A native of Germany, Michael is the co-founder of the long-distance hiking series, MammothMarch. Here are some quick bullet points on Michael's career and personal life: Since AUG '20: Managing Partner of  MammothMarch : Hosting of long-distance hiking events across the US SEP '16 – FEB '20: Man...

In this episode of "The Journey of My Mother's Son" podcast, I sit down to talk with Ashton Martin. Florida musical artist, Ashton Martin, grew up around music. His grandmother, father, and aunt were all amazing singers in choirs. He began writing poetry at the young age of 11 that soon developed into rap. In 2018, Ashton Martin moved to Atlanta, Georgia with $965 in his pockets and the dream to g...

In this episode of "The Journey of My Mother's Son" podcast, I sit down to talk with Dave Combs. A native of Erwin, Tennessee, Dave grew up in a family that enjoyed making music. Both of his parents and his grandmother Combs played the piano, which began his musical journey that included being a church choir director and pianist. After college, Dave moved to Winston-Salem, North Carolina where he...

In this episode of "The Journey of My Mother's Son" podcast, I sit down to talk with Taralyn Michelle. A native of the southern Chicagoland area Taralyn is the CEO of Divine Designed Media LLC, a published author, Spiritual Mindset and Wellness Coach, and host of "The Grind Defined" podcast. Taralyn is passionate about sharing her message of cleansing the mind (resetting the negative reel), body (...

In this episode of "The Journey of My Mother's Son" podcast, I sit down to talk with Alex Croft. Alex is the third grandchild of mine that I have had on the show so far. He'll be entering his senior year at Conrad Weiser High School in Berks County, Pennsylvania this coming fall of 2022.  We talk about how he adjusted to remote learning during the covid lockdowns.  How he's looking forward to his...

In this episode of "The Journey of My Mother's Son" podcast, I sit down to talk with Tony Gentile, Jr. Tony, along with my nephew Donnie wrote and performed the theme song to my podcast many years ago.  He is also a former employee of mine and a longtime friend.  He comes from an amazing family who instilled an ethic of hard work and dedication in him at a very young age. Tony is an incredibly tal...

In this episode of "The Journey of My Mother's Son" podcast, I sit down to talk with Katelyn Reece and Matt Abbott of the indie folk duo, RustedMelody. As with Quinn Leach, who I interviewed a few weeks ago, we saw RustedMelody perform at Talona Ridge RV Resort in East Ellijay, Georgia. I always love talking to musicians and other creative people and learning about what inspires them to do what th...

In this episode of "The Journey of My Mother's Son" podcast, I sit down to talk with Keith Shenk. Keith is co-owner of Petrucci's Ice Cream in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania and we've been friends for 38 years. We talk friendship and entrepreneurship.  Keith reflects on his early days in business and the struggles to keep moving forward under the stress of making ends meet financially.  He talks ab...

In this episode of "The Journey of My Mother's Son" podcast, I sit down to talk with Quinn Leach. Back in April, Sandy and I were staying at the Talona Ridge RV Resort in East Elijay, Georgia.  As part of the customer experience, Talona Ridge offers live music every Friday and Saturday night.  On the Saturday that we were there, we were to enjoy the talents of solo guitarist, Quinn Leach. Quinn sp...

In this episode of "The Journey of My Mother's Son" podcast, I sit down to talk with Mike Latona. Another one of my former players, Mike Latona is now a Quality Engineer. Just like last week's guest, Collin Fesi, we were able to reconnect with Mike in Maryland.  What a blessing that night was to not just see one of my former players, but two in the same night.  Mike and Collin played for our organ...

In this episode of "The Journey of My Mother's Son" podcast, I sit down to talk with Collin Fesi. Collin is another one of my former players who we were able to reconnect with on our journey. He now lives in Maryland and works as a sales representative for the Pepsi-Cola Company. We talk about baseball, business, and life experiences. Collin talks about how the game of baseball taught him to be a...

In this episode of "The Journey of My Mother's Son" podcast, I sit down to talk with Wes Henderson. A few weeks ago, Sandy and I had the pleasure of staying at the Talona Ridge RV Resort in East Ellijay, Georgia. It's a family-owned business and I was able to talk to third generation owner, Wes Henderson. A development company that spent years in the apartment business, the opportunity arose to pu...

In this episode of "The Journey of My Mother's Son" podcast, I sit down to talk with Nan Arkwright and Joe Bauman. Nan Arkwright is the author and Joe Bauman is the illustrator of the new super hero children's book series, Badges of Power.   Nan remembers the moment she decided in third grade that she wanted to work with children. As a pediatric occupational therapist, she gets to do just that. Sh...

As we kick off the second 100 episodes of The Journey of My Mother's Son podcast, I thought that it would be interesting to put together a compilation of some of the answers to my final question from the first 100 episodes. As you all know, the subtitle of the podcast is, "Many little people in many little places."  It is inspired by the opening lyrics of the Michael Franti song, "Gloria." Those l...

In this episode of "The Journey of My Mother's Son" podcast, I sit down to talk with Toni Reece. When I saw that I was approaching my 100 th episode of the Journey of My Mother's Son podcast, I wanted to make sure that I had a very special guest on the show to commemorate the milestone occasion.  With that thought in mind, it only made sense for me to have my former producer, Toni Reece as my gues...

In this episode of "The Journey of My Mother's Son" podcast, Sandy and take a few minutes to reflect on our journey thus far. This is the 99 th episode of The Journey of My Mother's Son podcast, so I wanted to sit down and have a conversation with my wife to talk about some of the highlights of being on the road full-time for over 19 months now. We recorded this episode on Easter Sunday while stay...

In this episode of "The Journey of My Mother's Son" podcast, I sit down to talk with Mike and Ginny Walsh. Mike and Ginny are another amazing couple that we've been blessed to meet through A Year to Volunteer.  We first met them when we dropped in for a day at the Vancleave, Mississippi project. We then worked with them at the Y2V2 project in Roan Mountain, Tennessee. Mike is a retired San Antonio...

In this episode of "The Journey of My Mother's Son" podcast, I sit down to talk with John and Karen Gailey. Natives of Utah, John and Karen are fellow full-time RVers as well as fellow Y2V volunteers. We first met them at the A Year to Volunteer project in Picacho Peak State Park in Arizona. They love hiking, checking out the National Parks, but more than anything, they love giving back through vo...

In this episode of "The Journey of My Mother's Son" podcast, I sit down to talk with Orien Fadler. Orien is a retired general contractor who we first met back in October during our project at Picacho Peak State Park in Arizona with A Year to Volunteer. At 79 years old, Orien is one of the hardest workers I've ever met.  He was raised with the philosophy to give back and has no plans on slowing dow...