Wake Up The Sun

Paul Christopher is a man of the world who has enjoyed a very active lifestyle, traveling around the world mixing it up with world class athletes, playing competitive beach volleyball and landed in South Florida as his current destination. He has worked in the fitness industry for many years and co- created G+O (gravity and oxygen) several years ago in east Boca Raton Florida. He has experienced t...

The restaurant business isn't for everyone! For Troy Ganter, he was born into it and learned from a young age what it was like to be in the front of the house to the underbelly of everything involved in with restaurants. His love for his family, friends, community and philanthropy was and is strong to this day. Several years ago that took a turn down a dark path where Troy had to make a decis...

From a small town in the midwest, Jeremy excelled at sports early on which allowed him to do anything he wanted without any consequences. After several challenging attempts to get his life together, he found himself in South Florida starting over. He was reintroduced to sobriety, fitness, health, wellness and accountability from some awesome people living a better life. His passion for helping oth...

Dave Niknafs came from a large family, got lost in the shuffle and ended up taking care of himself at an early age. He has faced some serious health challenges which led him to approach life and do whatever he wanted, whenever he wanted. It led him down a dark path of drug addiction, repeated failure after failure and landing in South Florida seeking to be an actor. After a chance encounter with a...

Taking fitness and training to another level, Rob started from a small facility in downtown Delray and grew to two amazing group training facilities in a short time. Group fitness redefined in Central Boca and the newest facility in Boynton Beach. Hear about the struggle of setback after setback, struggling through personal and medical issues to following through with an opening of a facility duri...

So grateful to have my wife Chelsea Williams on the show. She was born in NY and raised in South Florida, right here in Boca Raton. She followed her passion for teaching and helping families with their young children. Knowing several families, she found herself working for one in a business setting. From there she was able to learn, grow, find solutions and understand the inner workings of a succe...

Fresh from the beat laboratory in East Boca where he makes music and spends some personal time banging away on the drums, Jordan and I discuss his routines with work, fatherhood, sobriety, weight loss and fitness and what it takes to move forward in an uncertain time. Jordan works in the treatment industry and helps as many people he can on a daily basis, on his off time he really enjoys his morni...

With a growing and successful restaurant business across the country, an amazing new lease on life with sobriety, an honest truth about fighting and dealing with a lifelong disease, Rocco shares all. His life is an open book because he knows that if he can help just one person, then it is all worth It. His focus today is all about time and time management. Spending time with his daughter and those...

I've had the privilege of knowing Kyra Allen since she was 15 years old. She has always demonstrated a tremendous work ethic. Kyra has created her own routine and followed the music. She started her own unique jewelry line made with guitar picks called Soul Picks. She started out of her garage in her childhood home and is now moving to Austin, Texas to pursue her dream of doing what she loves...

The road to success comes in many different forms. For Jacob Karram It comes in the form of slime. His passion for many different hobbies changed when he found slime and its many different properties. He became “obsessed” with It and to his words he believes that unless you love what you are doing, then you will be miserable. At the young age of 17 he created an online presence with the sheer enjo...

National Champion swimmer, lawyer, crackhead, barista and artist. These are only a few words that have described Scott Jeffries life. We sat down with him in his new artist studio that he shares with other local artists to find out more about his amazing journey. His art is what makes his happy and after losing his corporate job as a result of the global pandemic Scott became more immersed in crea...

Ripped from his family after years of battling the Federal government, we get to know the story of Ross spending close to 6 years in prison after living a life most would only dream of having. A New York stockbroker living in Boca as a family man to living in a small cell shared with other inmates, we learn about what makes a man stay big.  Ross was instrumental in saving my life in 2010 as everyt...

An incredible journey of self discovery, sobriety, fitness, coaching, business and balancing life. All came to a screeching halt at the peak of 10 years and he started over. Octavio has overcome obstacles and hardship to finding peace in marriage and fatherhood. One of his greatest accomplishments is his home life and time spent with his wife and newborn son. He speaks of ‘Buckets” and what is sup...

Danielle is a super successful entrepreneur who owns the popular restaurant Oceans234 in Deerfield Beach. What started out as an epic year in the restaurant business was stopped in its tracks with the global pandemic. She was forced to make some tough decisions regarding her passion and stepped into a community activist role by turning her restaurant into a grocery delivery service and feeding sch...

Being in a family business has its ups and downs. Adam has flourished over the years by running the local family business started by his grandfather who was a real life cowboy. He has found sobriety while raising a family. A new beginning with the selling of the family business at then end of 2019. His passion for coaching others, striving for the best and pulling that out of other individuals is...

Erik Zeyher is an entrepreneur, coach, owner of Crossfit Warlock, and Move the Needle coach. Originally a Division 1 athlete, his soccer career ended after multiple knee injuries in 2005. It was at this time that Erik was introduced to Crossfit. Eight years later, Erik opened his gym, Crossfit Warlock. Within his gym, he saw a need for nutrition coaching. After taking on an overwhelming amount of...

Alex Porro is a self-proclaimed “normal guy” with an absolutely incredible story. Over the last few years, Alex has lost 280 pounds through making radical changes in his life. Now he is passionate about helping others throughout their personal journeys. On this episode, Alex discusses what inspired him to begin losing weight and the steps he took to do so. Alex details his daily routine from 5am w...

Amanda Marino is a recovery coach, interventionist, wife, and mother. Amanda’s business is centered around recovery and life coaching, interventions, as well as providing sober companions, transports, and employer consulting. Despite being a new business, she has already experienced tremendous growth, including bringing a partner to her company. During 2020, Amanda hopes to grow her business even...

Steven Celi is a young, motivational athlete living his life in the dunk world. For the last 8 years, Steven has been on a dunking journey. In 2018, Steven was stuck in a corporate job thinking how he could get out of it. Around this time, he began to make major shifts in his life to focus on learning, fostering his skills, and valuing his happiness. He created a Youtube channel sharing his dunkin...

Tony first vacationed in Delray Beach in 1938 from the north and fell in love with the place. He returned years later to continue his dream of building a life in one of the nicest beach communities in South Florida. A former stock broker and family man he was faced with a decision and in 1982 was sick and tired of being sick and tired. He jumped head first into sobriety and his journey which has b...

Joe Drake is a husband, father, trainer, and fitness educator. In his career, he has worked in several different facets of fitness. Though that was a focus of the last five years, Joe now devotes most of his time to fitness education through his co-ownership of and involvement in The Axiom Fitness Academy. He has traveled all over the globe to share his wellness expertise from Canada to Italy to T...

Scott Russell is the creator of From the Grave Clothing and From the Grave Podcast. With no prior entrepreneurial experience, he started the brand as an avenue for his creativity. He channeled this desire into learning the ins and outs of building and running a business. This process has brought purpose and passion to his daily life. Through all that he does, Scott leads with curiosity and emphasi...

Robert Levy is a husband, father, and owner of two South Florida businesses—Bagel Works and Crossfit Hardcore East “The Station.” Rob has immersed himself in the local community since moving to the area in 2009. With all that he does, Rob is passionate about inclusivity, particularly through his work to build a fitness community that includes everybody.  As someone who wears many hats, routine and...

Alex Celis is a small business owner in the South Florida community. He and his two brothers created Celis Produce in 2014. Though their concept began as a produce buying club, they quickly realized there was a need for more in the community. In the fall of 2015, Alex and his brothers opened the first brick and mortar Celis Produce location in West Palm Beach.  The produce industry has been a big...

Sarge Pickman is a husband, father, comedian, motivational speaker, and philanthropist. His path toward achieving his personal definition of success has not been linear. After becoming sober 29 years ago, he was living in Hollywood and trying to make it as a comedian. In this environment, he struggled to feel successful while constantly surrounded by the displays of others’ successes. Through this...