The Launchcast

Season 2 of The Launchcast premieres with a very special Episode 201: The Holiday Giving Show. We spent the episode with Dana and James Battaglia, two of George's co-founders and co-board members from Shannon's Fight, and we got to talk with four other incredible non-profit organizations about their missions and how they've pivoted in 2020. We selfishly added "The One Where We Pretended We Were Op...

It's a reboot of one of our deepest cutting interviews. Join The Launchcast on Episode 144 as we interview director, editor, and documentarian Ben Duffy. We're talking about his life as a filmmaker, his projects, and the unexpected role in leadership that he has found himself in. Trigger warning for those sensitive to mental health conversations, but MAN was this a necessary interview. Dive in, pe...

We're rebooting a classic appearance when TV personality, keynote speaker, and Executive Chef Allison Fasano joined us and now you're gonna relive it on Episode 143 of  The Launchcast. This pairing of the LaunchDad and the Chef is better than Ratatouille and Rioja (it's restaurant speak, go get woke). From her beginnings in Williamsburg, Brooklyn all the way to her rise through the culinary ranks...

So nice the first time, we had to reboot this one and brand it "a classic" episode.  The Launchcast is coming at you with Episode 142 featuring our legendary guest and best selling author, Dr. Greg Reid . We're talking writing, servant leadership, producing a movie (that's on Netflix!), and much more. Leadership, business, life, and growth with the author of Three Feet From Gold , Wealth Made Easy...

We're rebooting one of our favorite two-part interviews, and melding them back to one monstrous, beautiful episode. The LaunchDad chats with the legendary (and recently retired) News 12 Long Island news anchor Carol Silva, who drops truth bombs like, "damn it, there is no shame in cancer."  Topics include growing up in New York, Carol's career arc (from radio to television), the voice of women, 9/...

It's the first Launchcast Reboot episode leading up to season 2 in a couple of months. Episode 140 comes from the December 12, 2019 interview with guest Mike Delguidice, solo singer/songwriter, vocalist/guitarist in Billy Joel's band, and New York music legend. George and Mike talk life, growth, leadership, and everything in-between. Rewatch our first episode ever with fresh content and commentary...

It's finally here. Episode 139 of The Launchcast  finds the LaunchDad discussing the difference between being a leader and being an excellent leader.  Excellence is what we strive for and how unique we become along the way is the key to authenticity in self. Leadership, business, life, growth and as always, more. Hosted by entrepreneur and keynote/TEDx speaker George Andriopoulos .   Follow @launc...

It's time to wax poetic on the most epic mystery that can possible befall a man's life: The Fatherhood Paradox. The LaunchDad becomes a father for the third time and he goes into detail on the gift of fatherhood in Episode 138 of  The Launchcast . George talks about the chaotic day when Baby A. #3 arrived in this world and why this time around, it wasn't as chaotic as he thought it would be. Leade...

The landscape of business is changing in the wake of technological innovation, culture, and the pandemic. Time to turn on the Lean, Mean, Entrepreneur Machine on Episode 137 of  The Launchcast  and talk to Brant Cooper. Brant travels the globe speaking with entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs about how to discover and create new value and empowering individuals to make the change they want to see in t...

Sometimes you live a normal life, doing normal things, thinking normal thoughts. No delusions of grander. Not an inkling of leadership...and then disaster strikes. On this special Episode 136 of  The Launchcast  we talk talk to Nikki Ruppenstein and Katerina Katolis about the leadership that follows crisis and how important it is to listen to your gut when it tells you that it's time to step up. W...

What do you get when you cross a competition-driven Division 1 NCAA left tackle for San Diego State with a leading technology platform for extraordinary lifestyle products in need of a corporate makeover? You get our guest on Episode 135 of  The Launchcast  Greg Spillane, the CEO of Fancy.com. When Greg and George wax poetic on business shop talk, these two corporate turnaround artists go into a d...

It's no secret that the great Sam Cooke's song was the inspiration for the title of Episode 134 of  The Launchcast .    "There been times that I thought I wouldn't last for long, Now I think I'm able to carry on, It's been a long, a long time coming, But I know a change's gonna come, oh, yes, it will.   The LaunchDad was inspired to talk about the concept of change, how to get through it, how to t...

How does The Big Bang Theory theme song go? "Our whole universe was in a hot, dense state, then nearly 14 billion years ago expansion started, WAIT." Episode 133 of  The Launchcast  is aptly titled "The Big Bang Query," because we're looking at the idea of a singularity that explodes in our lives that causes one of two things: creation or destruction. But, why? Why do big bangs in our lives have s...

Time for a riddle: What has 2 hands, 2 feet, has slayed the hair-band songs of the 80s on Broadway, captured the hearts of teens across the world on tv screens, and was stuck out at sea for 2 months during a quarantine? Why it's our guest on episode 132 of  The Launchcast,  Broadway star Dan Domenech of course! The obvious thing to say here is that Dan has appeared on a ton of productions includin...

If we told you that a man was born with Down syndrome, a hole in his heart, and required intestinal surgery at 2 days old, what would your expectations of his life be? If your answer is "low expectations," you're missing the secret ingredient: happiness. On episode 131,  The Launchcast interviews John Cronin and his father Mark Cronin, co-founders of John's Crazy Socks, a social enterprise that th...

It's too cliché to say that all good things must come to an end...in fact, it's downright wrong.  The Launchcast  premieres Part 4 of The Protest Series: "How to Be a Human Being" with episode 130, our final addition to this four part series that discusses the uncomfortable conversations surrounding race in the United States. Over the course of these episodes, the audience and panelists have taken...

It's a different perspective from a different panel, but the mission remains the same: educate the misinformed, activate the undiscovered leaders, awaken those on the fringe.  The Launchcast  premieres Part 3 The Protest Series: "How to Be a Human Being" with episode 129, our second in a series of panel discussions. Last week we spoke to 2 teenagers and 3 twenty-somethings who are leading the figh...

It's time for the elephant in the room. The conversations that we've been avoiding because we're "tired of the negativity." Black Lives Matter, privilege, neutrality, systemic racism...all of it.  The Launchcast  premieres Part 2 The Protest Series: "How to Be a Human Being" with episode 128, our first in a series of panel discussions. George moderates (or attempts to moderate) a discussion with 5...

A new line has been drawn in the sand and the leadership gauntlet has been thrown down. Will you pick it up? I'm talking to black people who are angry, white people who are allies, black people who are traumatized, white people who refuse to see what's really going on, and people of all colors who are tired of the social media wars and want to just do the damn thing, already.  It's time to listen...

"Without the Jedi, there can be no balance in The Force, and all will be given over to The Dark Side." - Alan Dean Forster (Star Wars novelist) The Launchcast  broadcasts from a remote vacation locale for Episode 126 and George takes a look at one of his most important pillars of leadership, "The Balance Phenomenon." Imagine the feeling that Luke Skywalker felt when he finally mastered The Force,...

25 episodes of  The Launchcast  and we're celebrating on Episode 125 by having George give "The State of the Podcast" address to our loyal listeners. We talk about the tremendous growth of the show, listened to in 35 countries, with no end in sight. Former guest Marc Cordon of The Golden Mic Podcast stops in for a little conversation about the importance of podcasting and the boys talk about how t...

We've all heard of the superhero origin stories that graced the silver screen or the pages of classic comic books. Bruce Wayne's parents were murdered in front of him and Batman was born. Bruce Banner was poisoned by gamma radiation in his lab and became The Hulk. Peter Parker was bitten by a radioactive spider and became Spider-Man. Our guest on Episode 124 of  The Launchcast , Joe Salamone, was...

"We are born boys, responsibilities make us men, choices make us kings. As iron sharpens iron, so does one [king] sharpen another." Quarantine be damned, The Launchcast  is back in studio with an incredible interview. In Episode 123, George dives deep into the purpose of intentional men with the incomparable Fred Banny, keynote speaker and thought-leader behind Conversations With Kings. Fred is a...

You want to talk serious leadership? Look for your coaches. Yes, of course we're including sports coaches, but we're talking professional coaches in episode 122 of The Launchcast . Join the LaunchDad as he dives into the world of coaching and discusses his journey to founding his leadership coaching class as well as what led him to coaching with The Joy Revolution. If you're a coach yourself or yo...

You asked for sports leadership, you got it. There's no greater sports hero to the LaunchDad than the G.O.A.T. himself, Michael Jordan. In this next quarantined episode (#121) of The Launchcast , George discusses the 10 part ESPN documentary "The Last Dance," an intricate look at the final season of the Chicago Bulls NBA dynasty in 1997-98. You want a cast study of leadership and some inspiration...