The Ryan Pyle Podcast

Today's Podcast is with Billy Mandarino. An author and speaker Billy's mantra is trying to help people Live in the Moment, Live in the Now, and he is the ultimate "Now-ist". Join us for a discussion about growing up in a small town, to modelling to making the move to California and finding a way to work with trauma. Tune in for our wide-ranging conversation.

Today's Podcast is with Bunny Young. As a former stuntwoman, she learned how to literally be on fire and still remain safe and calm, and in China of all places. Whether it's corporate keynotes, coaching, retreats, and consulting Bunny has crafted a persona of a calm oasis even in the midst of chaos, burnout, and uncertainty. Tune in for this wide ranging conversation. www.bunnyyoung.com

Today's Podcast is with Julia Silverton. A former speech writer, and nearly a war correspondent, Julia is a producer and director that helms successful productions of all scales for ad agencies, brands and television production companies; but documentaries is still her passion, and her EMERGENT tells the story of Africa's technology revolution through a handful of brilliant Kenyan teenagers, and i...

Today's Podcast is with Gueston Smith. With a degree in architecture Gueston has helped pioneer progress in the industry of prefab structures, custom modified shipping container spaces, and mobile pop-up retail trailers in the United States. He has also taken his passion for designing spaces to designing products, clothing, sneakers and there is more to come. www.guesscreative.com

Today's Podcast is with Danielle Gray. A former gymnast turned celebrity trainer, she is also a published model, frequent speaker, a mental health advocate, and the founder of Train Like a Gymnast which is her own fitness methodology. Tune in for a wide-ranging conversation. www.daniellegrayfit.com/

Today's Podcast is with Zach Romeo. An NYU graduate, a film maker, a musician, an editor, a postproduction supervisor and much more. Zach also worked with me for a decade, first helping me with my social media work, and eventually working up to editing and post supervising an entire ten-episode series for Discovery Channel. Tune for an intimate talk about storytelling, music and the backstory to o...

Today's Podcast is with Suzanne "Sunny" Stroeer. Sunny is an absolute free spirit and adventurer. After a Harvard MBA and hard-charging strategy consultant in her twenties, she turned her back on material possessions and her career at age 30 in order to live in an Astro Van so she could run and climb full-time. Her specialty is the high altitude endurance realm; she holds speed records on Aconcagu...

Todays' podcast is with GaKnew. GaKnew Roxwel is a multi-faceted artist from Los Angeles. His skills range from lyricist and producer to muralist and animator. He's also a case manager for foster youth who are involved with the juvenile justice system. GaKnew uses his art to convert behavioral science and psychological theories into everyday language for the world to digest. www.gaknew.com

Today's Podcast is with the Jason Wood. We first met online during the Covid pandemic and offered each other some support then via a series of Covid Calls, a prequel to my eventual podcast, but now that we are free to travel and Jason was in Los Angeles we had to get a face to face conversation in the books. This broad conversation covers college football, the military, Iraq, mental health, the Ve...

Today's Podcast is with the David Allardice. Based in Los Angles, David is an accomplished brand ambassador for the iconic, Glenfiddich Single Malt Scotch Whisky brand owned by William Grant & Sons. But beyond his more than a decade of experience educating people in the United States about the magic of Single Malt Scotch Whisky, David is also an accomplished DJ and has a deep love of football (soc...

Today's Podcast is with the Brian Rousso. Based in Los Angles, Brian is a seasoned creative professional with an extensive media & technology business background, equally adept at writing produced scripts for television, film as well as digital streaming. Brian has a deep network comprised of creative talent, artist representatives, media & entertainment executives, financiers, and technologists....

Today's Podcast is with the Robin Rowe. Starting from the early days of working on his families organic farm in Illinois Robin's life and career have taken him all over the world; for example working for the U.S. Department of Defense, sailing in the Aircraft Carrier USS Lincoln, working as a U.S. navy research scientist and all the while also staying relevant and busy in the startup space, and by...

Today's Podcast is with the Daniel Krassenstein. With over 20 year's experience in China, and more than 25 years in Asia Pacific, Dan is what is known as a Global Supply Chain Expert. Our wide-ranging conversation covers early days of following in family footsteps, learning Chinese in Taiwan, and his time spent in Jakarta and Shanghai where we overlapped and met. We also discuss risks like Covid a...

Today's Podcast is with the Jeff Neumeister. A Certified Public Accountant (CPA) by day, and an Ultra Marathon running by night. Not exactly but close. Jeff started running in high school and just kept running – save the Forrest Gump jokes – and it started small with running just for fun, then some organized races, and then an Ultra Marathon which took him 150 miles across the Sahara Desert in Mor...

Today's Podcast is with the Sean French. After growing up in Utah and making the move to Los Angeles to follow his passion for acting by attending The American Academy of Dramatic Arts. After some twists and turns Sean gets into Production Equipment and our wide ranging conversation slides into Covid, Production, Tax Credits, Burning Man and literally everything in-between.

Today's Podcast is with the Kurt Tocci, the self-proclaimed "Happiest Creator on Earth". Kurt tells of his life story of coming to LA from Colorado to act and falling into social media in-between his filming projects, and eventually making the transition to making regular content for his various social media channels.

Today's Podcast is with Jeremy Evans a Sports and Entertainment Lawyer based in Los Angeles, California. Jeremy's journey is incredible as he has traveled the world, picked up degrees at UCLA and Pepperdine and practices his trade in the beating heart of Los Angeles, where sports and entertainment collide. A part of the conversation discusses how the amateur sports world changed forever with NIL T...

Today's Podcast is with Patrick Briand, a filmmaker and creative producer living in Los Angeles. After graduating from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, he worked in scripted Film & TV development at The Combine, a production company owned by actor Jeremy Renner. He went on to work in physical production, working across departments on various commercials, music videos, and films. As a producer Patri...

Today's Podcast is all about David Butow, he is a Photographer who has spent decades traveling the world on assignment for some of the world's most influential magazines. We met in China over 15 years ago and it was great to catch up and discuss his new book "Brink" looking at the events leading up to Donald Trump becoming the President of the United States, and also the breach of the Capitol Buil...

Today's Podcast is all about Cassius Michael Kim, Director, Writer & Executive Producer of Man On The Run – a Netflix documentary about the 1MDB Scandal in Malaysia that premiers on January 5 th 2024. Of course, our conversation goes well beyond the current project, looking back at Cassius and his previous time with CNN, The Wonder List and then now moving to his new production company: The Smokin...

Alessandro Pavone is an Italian director of photography focused on documentary and feature news stories. In this episode I talk to him about what it is like to be a filmmaker in a war zone. He often works as a one man crew, his work has taken him to such places as Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, South Sudan and Somalia. Follow me on Instagram @ryanpyle Catch Extreme Treks on Amazon Prime here: tinyurl.c...

Hello friends on this episode I want to take you on a journey where my TV Show - Extreme Treks have been, how we make the show happen, and get nominated for five Asian Academy awards. Extreme Treks was a moon-shot, to begin with nobody wanted to take the show, but now the series is global, and we are one of the very few independent TV productions making this kind of content for BBC, Discovery and...

This episode the talented musician DD Foxx.  DD is a Lebanese Billboard Charting Recording Artist based in Dubai, UAE. We take a journey through her life in music, from her childhood; singing along to commercials and jingles to her music today which is a mixture of Pop, Dance, R&B and Funk with a unique Middle Eastern flavor. On February 23, 2019 DD Foxx's debut U.S. single "Need Your Love Tonight...

Friends you find me finally back in my office in Dubai, in this episode I shall try to put into words how challenging 2020 has been for us all collectively.  After being stuck in Istanbul for four months along with my cat Whisky I was able to get to Europe, along with Whisky and this is my story of that journey through Switzerland, Poland, Germany, Malta, Croatia and lastly Montenegro. Follow me o...

Paris Norriss is an adventurer, producer and television host. After spending his formative years in the UK and with a degree from the University of Edinburgh he headed to the middle east and got involved in several businesses before deciding that what he really wanted to do was make television and have fun, and he created the successful Guy in Dubai series and has expanded his reach beyond the mid...