7-Figure Mentor

Most people think retirement is the finish line. Cross it and you're free.

But there's a quieter fear nobody says out loud... what happens to my money when I don't have a paycheck coming in anymore?

In this episode, Robby breaks down the exact system he built after watching his own family almost lose everything in 2008. He was on Wall Street when Lehman Brothers blew up. He watched a 35-person team shrink to two. He watched people's retirement accounts get cut in half overnight.

That experience is why he built something different. He calls it the Double Dipping Dividend Strategy, and it's designed to do ONE thing really well: give you consistent monthly cash flow, even when the market is a mess.

What You'll Learn

• The real fear behind retirement that nobody actually admits to.
• What Robby saw with his own eyes on Wall Street during the 2008 crash, and why it changed how he thinks about money forever.
• The two BIGGEST mistakes that blow up people's retirement accounts (chasing "shiny object" strategies is one of them).
• Why he moved away from high-risk trading into something way more boring... and way more reliable.
• Options trading explained like you're five. No jargon. Just the simple version of how you can make money even when a stock goes down or sideways.
• How much money you actually need to start ($5K minimum, but here's the sweet spot).
• What REALLY happens to this strategy during a market crash, using his own real IBM position as the example.
• Why you do NOT need years of experience or some finance degree to do this the right way.
• Where to grab his free Dividend Digest and join his weekly live call.

About the Guest

Robby started on Wall Street in 2008, right as everything fell apart. He watched his team shrink from 35 people to 2. He even loaned his own family $150,000 to save them from the crash.

That experience led him to build the Double Dipping Dividend Strategy, a simple way to generate consistent monthly cash flow using dividend stocks and covered calls. No day-trading required. Just about 90 seconds a month.

Connect With Robby

• Website: vitality-trading.com
• LinkedIn: Robby Hogle
• Instagram: Robby Hogle
• Youtube: Vitality-Trading

Your savings account is quietly robbing you. The dollar lost a huge chunk of its buying power over the last two decades, and the bank hands you back 4% to sit still while they lend YOUR money out at 20-30% and pocket the spread.

Vadim Voss knows the theft firsthand. His money got taken straight out of his bank account. He watched $6 million disappear. By the end of it he had one apartment left, sold it for $200,000, and made a decision most people never make... he bet the last of it on learning a completely different system.

That system is DeFi liquidity mining, and in this episode he breaks it down in plain English. No jargon. No "you have to be a tech genius" gatekeeping. Just the exact playbook he's used to coach 270+ regular people (including retirees who couldn't even set up Zoom) to earn returns their bank could never touch.

If you've got money sitting still... this one's going to change how you think about it.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN IN THIS EPISODE:

• Why your "safe" savings account is the riskiest place to keep your money and the invisible tax eating it alive every single year
• The difference between the casino part of DeFi (memes and shit coins that go to zero) and the infrastructure part that pays you like a business
• How liquidity mining lets you become "the house" instead of the gambler... you sell the pickaxes, you don't dig for gold
• The four buckets of returns explained: stablecoins (20-30%), blue chips (60-150%), high-yield (150-400%), and the meme casino (skip it)
• How to get paid to hold Bitcoin and Ethereum while you're holding them anyway... and stack MORE of the asset at the same time
• Why you don't need a huge bag to start (the math actually works better than people think)
• The truth about DeFi scams and the one rule that keeps you from ever getting rug-pulled
• How self-custody works so nobody... not a bank, not an exchange, not even your coach... can touch your money
• The 5-10 minutes a week automation setup once the learning curve flattens out

ABOUT THE GUEST:

Vadim Voss is a 14-year crypto veteran and the founder of Next Level DeFi, a do-it-for-you system that teaches complete beginners how to earn income through decentralized finance.

His story starts with loss... money stolen straight out of his bank account, $6 million gone, down to a single apartment he sold for $200,000. Instead of going back to what he knew, he poured the last of it into mastering liquidity mining and rebuilt his wealth on rails he actually controls.

Since then he's personally coached 270+ clients, from crypto traders to retirees in their 50s, 60s, and 70s who had never touched crypto in their lives. His whole mission is serving the people the rest of the industry ignores: total beginners who just want their money to work harder without gambling.

CONNECT WITH VADIM:

• Website: nextleveldefi.com (free training)
• LinkedIn: Vadim Voss
• Instagram: Vadim Voss
• Youtube: Vadim Voss

Most people don't have a motivation problem. They have a "too much motivation, zero action" problem. In this episode, Brock Holyoak breaks down why you're stuck, why the fitness industry wants you confused, and the stupid-simple way to start dropping weight this week. No starving. No hour-long gym grind. Just start, stay consistent, and watch it spill into every part of your life.

In This Episode, You'll Learn:

• Why being "over-motivated and over-informed" is the real reason you're still out of shape, and the one shift that fixes it
• The two things to cut from your day to start losing a pound or two every week (you don't even have to eat less)
• The sneaky reason the fitness industry overcomplicates diets and workouts on purpose
• How to kill your junk food cravings in about 1 to 2 weeks so willpower stops being the problem
• Why short, hard 20-minute workouts beat hour-long sessions AND beat your body up less
• The "confirmation equals confidence" loop that makes you motivate yourself, so you don't need Tony Robbins standing behind you
• Why you should fix your fitness FIRST if you want to level up your business, your marriage, and your money
• The "go all in vs. half-ass everything" mindset that changes every area of your life

About Brock Holyoak:

Brock started swinging a hammer at 14, built a construction empire, lost everything in 2008, and rebuilt from nothing. He's a former strongman competitor turned speaker and creator of the New Fit app: 20-minute bodyweight workouts you can do in your living room, built to get regular people back in shape without the overcomplicated fitness-guru nonsense.

Connect With Brock:

• Instagram: @BrockHolyoak
• YouTube: @BrockHolyoak
• Tiktok: @BrockHolyoak

At 18, Xavier walked out of Marine Corps boot camp, pulled a $40,000 loan and a $20,000 credit card, and bet all of it on a single stock. Then it went to zero.

Not because the price dropped. Because nobody was left to buy it. He learned the hard way that you don't actually have money in a trade until someone on the other side wants to buy what you're holding.

That mistake put him roughly $60,000 in debt with years left on his military contract and paychecks that never felt like his own.

This is the story of how he climbed out.

He kept raising his hand for deployments just to make more money. He read books in a tent in Korea. He started teaching the guys on his ship about trading, even while he was still broke. And that teaching is exactly what made him sharp enough to catch the trade in 2021 that touched $400,000 in a single run.

From there he built a community, rode the COVID market, and crossed 7 figures by February 2022.

In this episode, Xavier breaks down the mindset and the method behind the comeback, including his "auction literacy" framework that changes how you look at a chart forever.

What You'll Learn In This Episode:

• The hidden risk that wiped out his account (and why "the price says I have money" is a trap most new traders fall into)
• Why people freeze when the old plan stops working and how to snap out of it fast
• What "auction literacy" actually means and why reading the market like an auction beats staring at candles all day
• Why the person looking at the chart matters more than the chart itself
• How teaching other people made him a better trader than trading alone ever did
• His take on tokenization, Bitcoin, and the U.S. debt problem and what it could mean for your 401k
• How to trade Bitcoin moves through MSTR when shorting crypto directly is a headache
• The one thing that changes in a person after a year of doing the real work (hint: it's not the account balance)

About Xavier:

Xavier is a Marine Corps veteran who went from $60,000 in debt at 18 to seven figures through trading. After blowing up his first account, he spent years grinding through deployments, self-education, and teaching others before he finally cracked the code. Today he runs Overstanding, a mentorship and community where he teaches everyday people how to read the market like an auction and build real discipline around their money. His approach blends politics, economics, and psychology, not just charts.

Connect With Xavier:

• Website: ovrmarketlab.replit.app
• Instagram: Xavier Rivera

Most business owners don't realize they've got the wrong legal help until it's already too late.

You cross $1 million. Then $5 million. The deals get bigger. The stakes get higher. But your legal setup? It's the same one you threw together back when a buddy from college "knew a guy."

In this episode, Evan Zumwalde sits down with Joe, a high-stakes M&A and litigation attorney who does $10 million-plus deals every single day, to expose what's really happening on the deals you can't see inside.

Joe breaks down why legal is the one area you can't double-check like your accounting... the quiet warning sign that means you've already made an expensive mistake... and the single sentence in a term sheet that's cost business buyers up to a million bucks.

He also pulls back the curtain on what big law firms actually do behind closed doors to pad your bill, and how a real deal attorney thinks about a case like a chess match instead of a checklist.

If you're scaling past 7 figures and still running on handshake deals and DIY contracts... this one's a must-listen.

In this Episode, You'll learn:

• The exact moment your deals quietly outgrow the people advising you on them
• Why legal is the ONE area you can't "check the work" like you can with your books
• The early warning sign that means you've already made a costly mistake (Joe calls it "catching yourself in the act")
• Why DIY and ChatGPT term sheets cost founders millions without them ever knowing
• The single sentence in a business purchase that's worth up to $800K to a million dollars
• What big law firms do behind closed doors to pad your bill (and the ~30% number that'll shock you)
• How a top deal attorney thinks about a case like a war general, not a box-checker
• The simple gut-check that tells you it's time to bring in a real one

About the Guest: 

Joe Prencipe is a high-stakes M&A and litigation attorney who handles $10 million-plus deals daily and litigation cases worth north of $100 million. He runs his own boutique firm, Prencipe International, built on one idea: deliver big-law-level legal firepower without the big-law overbilling.

Before launching his own firm, Joe trained inside some of the largest firms in the world, including Freshfields in Tokyo and Baker McKenzie, and served as SEC counsel at Virgin Hyperloop One (the Musk and Branson-backed venture). He's one of the rare attorneys with deep legal experience AND real operator experience... he's a co-owner of one of the largest wineries in Washington State and a co-founder of a cybersecurity startup.

Based in Los Angeles, with a new Beverly Hills office on the way.

Connect with Joe:

• Website: prencipe.com
• LinkedIn: Joe Prencipe
• Youtube: Joe Prencipe

What if the thing you were forced into against your will turned out to be the thing that saved your entire family?

That's exactly what happened to Digna Deleon-Morris.

She spent over 20 years climbing the corporate ladder. Started at $5.25 an hour in a drug store. Worked her way up to running an $82 million operation across 30 locations. Made high six figures. And she was miserable. Two phones. On call seven days a week. Zero time with her four kids.

Then her fourth baby was born with the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck. Emergency C-section. He almost didn't make it. That moment became her real "why" and changed everything.

In this episode, Digna breaks down how she walked away from corporate, survived losing everything in 2016, and built one of the top Hispanic financial services agencies in the country. All in Spanish. All built to give families the peace of mind nobody ever gave her.

If you've ever felt stuck in a job you hate but scared to leave because of the "security," this one's for you.

What You'll Learn

• Why the "safe" corporate paycheck is actually the riskiest bet you can make
• The real moment that flips someone from employee mindset to entrepreneur (it took her 6 years, but she shows you the shortcut)
• How a 22-year-old high school dropout went from construction to a multi-million dollar agency in 2 years
• Why you don't need a finance degree, an MBA, or 15 years of experience to make serious money in this space
• The difference between term insurance and a real financial plan (and why most people get this dead wrong)
• How wealthy families like the Rockefellers used insurance to pass money down for generations, and how regular families can copy it
• The "seasons" concept that helps you push through the grind without guilt

About the Guest

Digna Deleon-Morris is a Dominican-born entrepreneur, mom of four, and founder of one of the top Hispanic financial services agencies in the country. After two decades in corporate and a hard reset in 2016, she found her calling helping Spanish-speaking families protect their futures and helping new agents build real businesses with full training, mentorship, and support.

Connect with Digna:

• Find her on Instagram (most active there) at @DignaDeLeonMorris where she shares her contact info and pages.

You've been to five, six, maybe seven doctors. They run the labs, they say everything looks "normal," and you still feel awful. You're tired. You can't sleep. The weight won't budge. Your hormones feel off and nobody can tell you why.

In this episode, Family Nurse Practitioner Deborah Maragopoulos reveals the tiny gland most doctors completely ignore, and why it could be the real reason you're not healing. She explains that most patients get treated downstream of what's really going on upstream, and that the true root cause is often a hypothalamus that isn't working right. The hypothalamus is a gland in the brain about the size of an almond that controls your biochemistry and every vital system.

If you've spent years and thousands of dollars chasing symptoms, this is the conversation that finally connects the dots.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• Why "normal" lab results don't mean you're healthy, and what your doctor is missing
• The almond-sized gland that controls your hormones, sleep, mood, weight, and energy
• The 5-pillar system Deborah uses to help even "hopeless" cases heal
• The real triggers that shut your body down (and most have nothing to do with what you'd guess)
• A simple breathing practice you can train your body to do in any stressful moment
• Exactly how long real healing takes (and why most people quit right before it works)
• The true story of a woman told she was infertile her whole life... who had a healthy baby at 43

About Deborah Maragopoulos, FNP:

Deborah is a Family Nurse Practitioner with over 30 years of experience taking on the neuroimmune endocrine cases other doctors give up on. She's the practitioner other practitioners refer their toughest cases to. She credits her results to following the latest research instead of waiting for standardized protocols, and to spending real time with each client instead of rushing a 15-minute visit.

Where to Find Deborah:

• Free training
• YouTube: Deborah Maragopoulos FNP
• Website: genesisgold.com
• LinkedIn: Deborah Maragopoulos

What if the deal that looks perfect on paper is the one that wipes out your savings?

In this episode, real estate investor and former options trader Jeff Emalaba breaks down the exact trap that costs everyday investors over $4 billion every single year... and most of them never see it coming.

Jeff knows the pain firsthand. He found a duplex that looked clean on every listing site. He trusted the seller's info, walked the property, and wired the fees. Then the inspection came back: foundation damage, structural problems, mold under the crawlspace, and electrical issues. He tried to get his money back. The answer was no refund. Total loss: $11,875.

Then he found out the worst part. A month later, the same seller relisted that same property and someone else fell into the same trap.

That moment sent Jeff down a 2-year path to build a tool that protects investors at the deal level, before they ever wire a dollar.

In this conversation, Jeff and Evan dig into:

• The "NRO loophole" most buyers have no idea exists. Sellers can legally check a box that says "no representation," which means they don't have to tell you about problems they already know about. Jeff explains exactly how this works and why it's so dangerous.
• Why your favorite tools were never built to protect you. Zillow, Redfin, Crexi, LoopNet, and YouTube gurus help you FIND deals. None of them protect you when the money is on the line.
• The hidden cycle that keeps investors stuck. Find a deal, wire the fees, discover red flags, back out, lose the money, lose confidence. Jeff shows how to break it.
• Why you can't just bring an inspector to a showing (a lot of new investors don't know this rule).
• How sellers inflate square footage to bump up the price and fake a better cap rate, and how to catch it.
• The "appraisal gap" that quietly drains buyers. A seller asks $700K, the property is worth $500K, and guess who covers that $200K difference? Not the bank. You.
• The 3 rules of buying right: buy below replacement cost, never forget rule one, and remember rules one and two. Simple, but most people break all three.
• How to turn red flags into negotiating power instead of walking away empty-handed.
• The commercial real estate play where Jeff bought a property for $1.2M, did basic cosmetic fixes, and resold for $4.5M... and why location is the whole game.

Whether you're about to close on your first single-family rental or you're playing in the commercial space, this episode hands you a simple way to think about risk so you can stop playing defense with your money and start playing offense.

Hit play and learn how to protect yourself before the money leaves your account.

About the Guest:

Jeff Emalaba is a real estate investor, licensed agent, and former options trader who built InvestFusion, a platform that protects investors from costly hidden red flags before they ever wire a dollar on a deal. 

Connect with Jeff:

• Website: investfusion.co
• LinkedIn: Jeff Emalaba
• Instagram: Jeff Emalaba
• Tiktok: Jeff Emalaba
• Youtube: Jeff Emalaba

What if everything you've tried for your chronic condition failed because it never touched the real problem?

In this episode, Mick Emandi sits down with Evan Zumwalde to break down why most treatments only manage symptoms instead of fixing what's actually broken: your cells.

Mick has spent 35 years in healthcare. He's run hospitals, owned multi-specialty clinics, and managed one of the largest cancer practices in Texas alongside his father, a world-renowned oncologist. Then one hydrogen therapy session changed everything. He bought the company the same day.

Now he's on a mission to bring molecular hydrogen therapy and his Ultra RSF regenerative technology to the patients traditional medicine has given up on.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• The truth about chemo and radiation that most patients never hear before treatment starts.
• The story behind Mick's overnight transformation and why he bought a hydrogen company the same day he tried it.
• Why doctors don't tell you about hydrogen therapy and the money problem behind it.
• The 72-hour result Mick says 90% of pain patients experience.
• How 15 minutes of hydrogen compares to 1,000 blueberries in antioxidant power.
• What actually causes cancer at the cellular level, explained with the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde analogy.
• The "one book vs. six books" breakdown of Ultra RSF and why most stem cell treatments only use a fraction of the placenta.
• The real problem with peptides and why Mick says they're a quick fix, not a cure.
• How hydrogen therapy works at home while you sleep, work, or watch TV.
• The "slow, stop, reverse" framework for turning around chronic conditions.

About Mick Emandi:

Mick Emandi is a healthcare veteran with 35 years of experience running hospitals, accountable care organizations, diagnostic centers, and multi-specialty clinics. After experiencing the effects of molecular hydrogen firsthand, he acquired the technology and now leads RegenMDs, helping patients with chronic pain, autoimmune conditions, and neurodegenerative diseases get to the root cause of their illness.

Connect with Mick:

• Website:  RegenMDs.com
• Email: [email protected]

Want to speak with one of Mick's doctors about your specific condition? Book an appointment at regenmds.com

What if the version of you everyone calls "the rock" is actually the version that's slowly disappearing?

In this episode, Evan sits down with Amy Armstrong, divorce and co-parenting coach and creator of the Co-Parenting Power Method for Moms, to unpack how she went from curled up on her bathroom floor after losing her marriage and her mother in the same season... to building a life on her own terms.

Amy spent 45 years being the calm one, the agreeable one, the performer who fooled everyone (including herself). Then everything cracked at once. And instead of breaking her, it woke her up.

If you've ever felt like you're living a life that looks fine from the outside but feels empty on the inside, this one's for you.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why people pleasing is actually a survival skill (and why beating yourself up about it keeps you stuck)
• The first step to becoming your authentic self... and it's NOT what most coaches tell you
• How Amy turned the worst season of her life (divorce + losing her mom in 3 weeks) into the moment "the lights came on"
• The Power of Choice: the simple shift that means your circumstances never get to define you again
• Why she calls her house fire a "welcome fire" and the surprising lesson about asking for help
• What coaching does that therapy, books, and ChatGPT can't: rebuilding trust in YOURSELF
• Amy's "leap off the page" method for knowing exactly which decision is right for you
• "Logic poisoning": why thinking your way through everything is keeping you stuck
• The Pro-Me, Not Anti-You framework for handling provoking texts from your ex (without taking the bait)
• The controversial truth about being "right" in divorce... and why proving it can put your kids in harm's way
• How to set firm boundaries without sounding cold or rude (Amy gives word-for-word examples)
• The genius "Carol trick" Amy taught her kids so they never got stuck in the middle of the divorce
• What to do tonight if this episode hit a nerve: the thought-feeling-action framework

About the Guest:

Amy Armstrong is a divorce and co-parenting coach and creator of the Co-Parenting Power Method for Moms, helping women navigate separation and high-conflict co-parenting without losing themselves. After surviving divorce, losing her mom in three weeks, and a house fire all in one season, she coaches from one core belief: circumstances don't define you, your choices do. 

Connect with Amy:

Website:  The Center For Family Resolution

LinkedIn: Amy Armstrong

Instagram: Amy Armstrong

Tiktok: Amy Armstrong

Youtube: Amy Armstrong