The Story Box

For readers who haven’t heard about Byron Katie, here is some background. In the midst of ordinary American life—two marriages, three children, a successful career—Katie entered a ten-year-long downward spiral into depression, agoraphobia, self-loathing, and suicidal despair. She drank to excess, her husband brought her pints of ice cream and codeine pills that she ate like candy, and she ended up...

Resilient, relentless and real, Brooke Ence is a Utah native and elite CrossFit athlete who slays PRs with a smile. Brooke, raised by two hard-working and driven parents, grew up doing gymnastics, softball, swimming and dance alongside her three older siblings. Fast-forward to 2015 when she placed 1st in the California Regional and went on to place 14th at the 2015 CrossFit Games in her rookie yea...

Samantha Jade is an ARIA Award -winning Australian singer, songwriter, actress and former child model from Perth , Western Australia. She has written tracks for artists including JoJo and Ashley Tisdale . On 20 November 2012 Jade won the fourth season of The X Factor Australia , the first woman to win the Australian series. She subsequently signed with Sony Music Australia and released her winner'...

Will Ahmed is the Founder and CEO of WHOOP, which has developed next generation wearable technology for optimizing human performance. WHOOP today works with professional athletes across every sports league, college athletes across every conference, Olympians and the U.S. military; the company more recently released its first consumer product. Ahmed has raised more than $100 million from top invest...

Dave’s journey from a left-leaning progressive to a free-thinking classical liberal has been quite an adventure.  Dave spent the majority of his adult life subscribing to a certain political belief system based primarily on his immutable characteristics. Fed up with the mainstream media narrative and click-bait news, Dave decided to open up about his awakening, for all to see. He came to real...

Pastor Miles McPherson played four years in the NFL with the San Diego Chargers from 1982-1985. It was during this time that he developed a cocaine addiction that found the NFL star in a tailspin as he began feeding his habit. After his second season in the NFL and after a weekend-long drug binge, he called out to Jesus Christ, accepted Him and stopped doing drugs in one day. After his football ca...

Lisa Messenger is the vibrant, game-changing founder and CEO of Collective Hub. She launched Collective Hub as a print magazine in 2013 with no experience in an industry that people said is either dead or dying. Collective Hub has since grown into an international multimedia business and lifestyle platform with multiple verticals across print, digital, events and more recently, co-working spaces –...

originally from High Ridge, MO, Michael grew up in a fairly typical blue-collar, hard-working, middle-America household. Michael is the son of a union carpenter and a secretary. The value of hard work was instilled early on by Michael’s parents and he attributes a lot of his blue-collar work ethic to the example they provided. Passing on scholarship offers to smaller schools, Michael took a leap o...

Eric Roberts is an Academy Award nominee for his role in Runaway Train, and a three-time Golden Globe nominee for Runaway Train, Star 80, and King of the Gypsies. In addition, Roberts received acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival for his role in A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints and It's My Party. He also starred in La Cucaracha, which won Best Film at the Austin Film Festival, and for which Rob...

Dr Ian Smith is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling books, SHRED: THE REVOLUTIONARY DIET , and SUPER SHRED: The Big Results Diet, BLAST THE SUGAR OUT, The Clean 20, THE ANCIENT NINE and eleven other books with millions of copies in print. His newest book— CLEAN & LEAN: 30 Days, 30 Foods, A New You! hit the stands April 9th, 2019 and was an immediate NY Times bestseller! His newest...

Alright everyone get out your pens and note pads - there is so much to write down in this episode!  Andrew D. Huberman (born in 1975 in Palo Alto, California ) and is an American neuroscientist and tenured professor in the Department of Neurobiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine . He has made numerous important contributions to the fields of brain development , brain plasticit...

Leah is an accredited Snowy Mountains guide, certified Level 2 Wim Hof Method Instructor, breathwork specialist, extreme cold tolerance practitioner and mother of two. Having conquered her own battle of anxiety, stress, depression and sleeping problems, her mission is to help people improve their health & wellbeing by reconnecting them to nature and helping them to rediscover their inner wild...

Arthur Charlafits is the former COO of Australia's No.1 Property Sit for Real Estate - Realestate.com.au. When Arthur saw a unique gap in the market of Childcare, he decided to create a company that would help parents find the right childcare and learning centre that's suitable for parents and kids. On this episode of The Story Box, Jay unboxes Arthurs journey from childhood to founder/CEO. ...

This has to be the longest unboxing Story on The Story Box to date and for good reason too!  Jon Played 14 seasons in the NFL, notably making the Pro Bowl twice as a member of the Philadelphia Eagles. In 2016, Jon competed on America’s Got Talent where he showcased his skills as a sleight-of-hand magician, making it to the finals and placing third overall in the competition amongst tens of th...

David Meltzer is the Co-founder of Sports 1 Marketing and formerly served as CEO of the renowned Leigh Steinberg Sports & Entertainment agency, which was the inspiration for the movie Jerry Maguire. His life’s mission is to empower  OVER 1 BILLION people to be happy! This simple yet powerful mission has led him on an incredible journey to provide one thing…VALUE. In all his content a...

This might be a difficult episode to listen too - Yet It's such a powerful and needful story to be shared with the world. Frank Rich is my guest today and he has an incredible story and message to share with the world.  Frank Rich is an online fitness entrepreneur, fitness author, certified trainer & nutrition coach, and bodybuilder. He has close to 2 decades of training experience himsel...

This is a huge episode, my friends! This episode of The Story Box we have the legendary Grant Cardone.  Who is Grant Cardone? Internationally renowned business and sales expert. Named the number-one sales trainer in the world and number one of the “25 Marketing Influencers to Watch in 2017” by Forbes. Author of seven sales and business books, including the New York Times bestselling author of...

Born in Staffordshire, England. Lara Jade first picked up a camera at the early age of fourteen - influenced by self-portraiture and conceptual photography. Growing up with the rise of social media and digital techniques enabled Lara to see the bigger picture of an international industry. After graduating college she made the move to London, where she naturally felt the transition to fashion photo...

PREPARE TO BE AMAZED! Ladies & Gentlemen this episode promises to be THICC and BIGG! Why? Because we have the co-founder and co-owner of the legendary Thicc Cookies, Bigg Brownies, Passiontree Velvet and now Banksia in Sydney's CBD Chris Sheldrick. Chris's story is just wild! From selling items on eBay as a young boy, to now running 4 hospitality-related companies in Sydney, Australia. What Ch...

This episode is sure to inspire a lot of you!  Casey Adams is a 19-year-old Best Selling Author, Entrepreneur, and Public Speaker who has been able to turn his negative situation into a positive outcome. After almost becoming paralyzed during a football injury, Casey was able to start his journey by looking at ways to leverage social media & build a personal brand. Casey runs a top 50 bus...

Jeff Cole and IKONICK have certainly come a long way since 2016. IKONICK is a Los Angeles brand putting a new spin on the business of inspiring others through art. Embodying popular culture, our exclusive collections exist to motivate in a way that’s entirely our own. Whether you’re working out of a cubicle or hustling with an ocean view, we’ve created hundreds of pieces to motivate you through yo...

Joel McHale is one of Hollywood's most respected and well-known actors working today. Many of you will know Joel from the hit comedy TV show Community where he played Jeff Winger starring alongside talents like Donald Glover (Childish Gambino), Danny Pudi , Nicole Yvette Brown , Ken Jeong (Hangover)   Jim Rash , Alison Brie , Gillian Jacobs and the iconic Chevy Chase . Joel has made quite the...

Michael is a successful entrepreneur having started and run 9 businesses (1 business successfully listed on the Australian Stock Exchange). With over $1billion in sales through his businesses, Michael is considered an Expert in the touring space having run more than 1400 events in the last 17 years. Michael is passionate about the entrepreneur scene and is one of only a few who specialise in educa...

Dr. Jud is the Director of Research and Innovation at the Mindfulness Center and associate professor in psychiatry at the School of Medicine at Brown University, as well as a research affiliate at MIT. Before that, he held research and teaching positions at Yale University and the University of Massachusetts’ Center for Mindfulness. As an addiction psychiatrist and internationally known expert in...

Brad Lambert was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA so there's no surprise why he got into the Sports Industry after graduating from  North Carolina State University . Brad followed his passion for the Steelers and all things Pittsburgh and worked in that industry for almost 10 years. After working with his favorite athletes ( Hines Ward ,  Lynn Swann ,  Will...