The Overcomer’s Podcast

Jeremy was born and raised in Elmira, New York, where he currently lives with his wife, Kristen, daughter, Jocelyn, and son, Julian. Jeremy graduated from Elmira Free Academy and continued on to Corning Community College and eventually SUNY Brockport where he earned a bachelor’s degree in Health & Sciences. In the Spring of 2014.    Jeremy launched his fitness career at Journey Fitness’ first loca...

David is a former consulting actuary to Fortune 100 companies. He built the world’s largest coaching business, becoming #1 on Google for life coaching and coaching thousands of hours in 12 countries around the globe.   As well as helping others, David is no stranger to overcoming challenges himself, having survived a full collapse of his paraglider and a fractured spine, witnessing the death of hi...

This podcast is about you, your goals, your thoughts, and your feelings.  We here at the Overcomer’s Podcast hope that this helps you focus yourself and get your goals set firmly in your mind.  We hope that you’re feeling well, and having a good holiday season!

This is the first episode of Overcomer’s Podcast where we’re highlighting members of the Journey333 team.  Today we have Ricardo Mullinax, a  man that I met in El Salvador on a mission trip, and who now owns a Journey location in Indiana.  At the time, he was down on himself, feeling bad about his health and his fitness.  So I offered him a chance to do some workouts with me, and everything after...

David is a personal trainer who has devoted his life to helping both CEOs and Olympians achieve peak-performance at work. He is often the cure for people wanting to achieve massive things in life, but don’t want to put up with the toxic hustle culture. He is not your typical expert, he has a black belt in Wing Chun (Southern Chinese Kung Fu style and a form of self-defense) and had a professional...

Sylvia is a wellness advocate and co-founder of Lifted Naturals, which is one of the top probiotic brands that is carried by major retailers like Walmart. With just 3-years (and extreme competition in this space), they have been able to take it to over $1m in revenue.  What Sylvia is most proud of is that she ‘retired’ her husband from his job so he could be home with them, and bring her family cl...

Brandi is a veteran in the exercise and wellness industry, having been an Exercise Physiologist and coach for 18 years. She holds a Masters of Science in Exercise Physiology. Brandi left her hometown in Tennessee and enlisted in the Navy and served aboard aircraft carrier USS Nimitz in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Upon completion of her military commitment she returned home to Tennessee where she star...

Greg Justice is a speaker, author, fitness entrepreneur.  He opened AYC Health & Fitness in Kansas City, its original personal training center, 35 years ago.  In this time he has personally trained in over 50 thousand one-on-one sessions.  Now AYC specializes in corporate wellness and personal training. He’s been involved in fitness and sports most of his life.  From martial arts, to being a club...

Jason’s journey started at 19, he had already found himself hopelessly addicted to drugs and the consequences had left him with 2 alternatives. Go on, fighting a losing battle of addiction or get help facing the things he’s been running from for as long as he could remember. Choosing the latter he sought to heal as best he could. The journey wasn’t easy but he found hope in the seeking of growth....

John Lee Dumas is the creator of the podcast “Entrepreneur on Fire” and the author of the book “The Common Path to Uncommon Success.”  These are his most recent achievements, but there is plenty more to his story.   Mr. Dumas graduated from college in 2002 and was commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Army.  He then did a 13 month tour in the Middle East, and came home to a new life.  A fresh sta...

Elias Soukatos is an entrepreneur that comes from a long line of entrepreneurs.  His family is in the salt business, but everyone in the family from his grandfather to his mother had actually started up their own businesses.  So he decided he had to try his hand at it.   He ended up creating his first business based on things that his own family’s businesses needed, but he eventually decided that...

David Richman has worked in several different industries.  He was a financial advisor for a Wall Street firm, decided that he was more suited to managing money than people, and proceeded to manage businesses for that same firm.  David has also launched two start-up companies.   David, in his late 30’s, became very into fitness as well.  He was overweight and unhealthy, and decided to change all of...

Cyndy Barnes is the founder and franchisor of Journey 333. She is an ACE certified personal trainer, coauthor of the book “Journey Fitness” with forward written by Todd Durkin and co-author of 52 Amazing Journeys. She is also ranked number 11 of the 50 most inspiring women of all time according to Shape Magazine.    She has also had her own struggles as well.  Whether it be with addiction, a husba...

Kelly Roman has been with Fisher Wallace since 2009.  Prior to him founding the company with Charles Fisher, Mr. Roman had graduated from Harvard and had been an award-winning executive in both the digital advertising and software-as-a-service industries.   While at Fisher Wallace, Kelly has been heading the program with their neurostimulation mental-health device.  This device uses low-level elec...

Mark Henick is a man that has dedicated his life to helping people change their lives through mental health.  He’s had direct experience with depression.  When he was young his depression was so severe that he had even had several suicide attempts.  Now he spends his time trying to help others get out from underneath the crushing weight of their depression, like he made it out of his.   Currently,...

Leah Guy is many things; an author, an intuitive healer, and an inspirational speaker being three of the most stand out things right off the bat.  Beyond that, though, she is a fighter.  She’s overcome many obstacles in her life.  These include, addiction, rape, eating disorders, and anxiety.  She made it through all of this so she could be here to help people today. She’s achieved much in her yea...

Tracey McCubbin is an expert on clutter and how to help you get rid of it.  At one point, Tracy was working for a major television director in Los Angeles.  During this job, she realized that she had a gift for seeing past the mess, past the clutter, and seeing the vision for a clean, organized, and clutter-free space.  She used this skill to help people get rid of all the excess in their lives, a...

Peter Shankman is a keynote speaker, an entrepreneur, and an author.  He started his career many years ago at America Online.  He helped to found AOL Newsroom.  Afterward he started a PR firm called The Geek Factory.  After that he founded a service for journalists called HARO (Help A Reporter Out).    He’s an angel investor, a speaker, and has written 5 books, including the bestseller Nice Compan...

Robin O'Grady has been extremely successful in her career.  From humble beginnings, and a tough home life, she has risen above to become a fitness professional, certified mindset coach, and an international speaker.  She uses simple-to-understand strategies to help people achieve mental and physical wellness.   She is the owner of O'grady Fitness, which includes O'Grady Consulting.  She regularly...

Daniel Blue is a successful man.  He's a regular contributor to Forbes.com.  He's the owner of Quest Education, which is a company that helps entrepreneurs obtain capital for their companies, pay off high-interest debt, among many other things.  Under Daniel's guidance this business has flourished, earning over 7 figures two years in a row.  Outside of his professional life, he's very into fitness...

David Pohorence is many things: a former athlete, a fitness management consultant, a certified personal trainer, a franchise owner, a husband, a father, a son, he has a Master's Degree in Sport administration, and he is now an author as well.  He is just finishing writing his book, "Why not me?"  A book on how to overcome obstacles and live your best life.   David grew up in a blue-collar home.  D...

Chris Poirier is the General Manager of Perform Better, and he has been for 30 years.  Perform Better manufactures and markets fitness equipment and accessories with headquarters located in West Warwick, Rhode Island.  They are the experts in functional training & rehab. Chris has helped grow the company, the brand, and the fitness community as a whole.  Where they were 30 years ago, and where the...

Tom Campanaro has been a part of the fitness community for almost 50 years.  He created the Total Gym back in 1974.  Total Gym is a name so synonymous with fitness that most people would think that it had always been a vast success, but this is not the case.  When Tom first created the Total Gym, he couldn't even get people to try it.  He had to find a way to market the device in a pre-internet er...

Travis Chappell grew up in Lancaster, California.  A place right next to LA County.  He grew up on a campus that was populated by a large community of Fundamental Baptists.  A community that was no more than 1 thousand at the time and is now 70 thousand strong.  As it grew, they added other features, like a college.  Travis got his degrees in Bible and Church Ministries here.  He realized that thi...

Jose Flores is a man who has achieved much in his life, but to achieve all of that he has had to overcome his physical disability.  Jose suffers from Spinal Muscular Atrophy, a type of muscular dystrophy.  When he was young, his doctors said that he wouldn't make it to the age of 19.  He is currently 44.  Since the age of 22, he has been confined to a wheelchair, but none of this has stopped him f...