Beyond YOUR Bar Podcast

What keeps a person going through fifty years of almost, of park benches and 4 a.m. audition lines and doors that will not open?

Ernest Harden Jr. has been on screens you grew up with since 1975, from The Jeffersons to Three Days of the Condor, and this year, at 73, he finally has an Emmy to show for it. He sits down with Denisa to trace the whole improbable road, from a rough block in Detroit to the stage where he accepted the award with his eyes closed.

This is a story about the long way around. Ernest talks about the audition he walked out of when he was starving and had every reason to say yes, the stranger in Brooklyn who took him in and quietly saved his life, and the morning a handshake on a film set turned out to be Robert Redford. He explains how he built Louie on The Pitt, the frequent-flyer patient audiences fell in love with, and how far he was willing to go to make a dying man feel real. And he shares the belief his father planted in him as a boy, the one that carried him through every no.

Warm, funny, and genuinely moving, this is five decades of persistence in one conversation.Subscribe for new episodes every week. Until next time, stay curious and inspired.

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He gave Guns N’ Roses half its name, founded L.A. Guns, and spent four decades on stages around the world. But when Tracii Guns sits down with Denisa, the famous parts of the story turn out to be the least interesting thing about him.

This is a conversation about what actually lasts. Tracii talks about the five year old in the back of his mother’s car who heard one Led Zeppelin song and knew exactly who he wanted to be, the plumbing job he walked away from in a single sentence, and the hard won calm he finally found in his fifties. He has blunt, unsentimental advice for anyone chasing a break in music today, the kind that cuts against almost everything the internet promises. And he explains why the thing he now builds by hand in his garage brings him as much peace as any sold out show.

Warm, funny, and refreshingly free of ego, this one stays with you.

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Ice-T and Coco are back for Part 2, and this is where the conversation gets real. Ice opens up about becoming a father at 18 with no mentor and no playbook. Coco shares why there’s no nanny and no housekeeper in their home, and why she proudly calls herself a housewife and a mom. Together they get into what 25 years of marriage actually takes, why people secretly root for couples to fail, and the difference between loving someone and truly appreciating them.

Ice also shares the line that sums up their whole relationship: love isn’t looking someone in the eyes, it’s looking out in the same direction.

Missed Part 1? Watch it here: https://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/r028oXgXo7b

Beyond Your Bar is hosted by Denisa Tova, where celebrities and industry trailblazers share the story behind the career.

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For 25 years he was Ridge Forrester, the face at the center of The Bold and the Beautiful. For music fans, he is the voice and bass behind Player and the number one hit Baby Come Back. But when Ronn Moss sits down with Denisa, what comes out is the story of a self-described man of few words who spent a lifetime learning to step out of the shadows.

Ronn talks about the record executive who listened to Baby Come Back and told the band flatly that he did not hear a hit, and the twist of fate seven months later that changed everything. He shares how a childhood spent around John Wayne, Roy Rogers, and the rodeo legends of old Hollywood earned him a nickname that stuck, and how his mother once taught Elizabeth Taylor to ride a horse. He explains why he traded the spotlight for a 300 year old stone hut in the south of Italy, and what all that quiet has given him.

This is a warm, unhurried conversation with a man who found his freedom on a stage and is now happily finding his peace far away from one.

Subscribe for new episodes every week. Until next time, stay curious and inspired.

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She has carried one of the most avoided subjects in medicine to the World Economic Forum, onto PBS, and even onto the floor of the US Senate. Denise Pines, the Peabody Award winning filmmaker behind The M Factor, sits down with Denisa to talk about menopause the way almost no one does, plainly, practically, and without shame.

This conversation gets into the symptom almost no one connects to perimenopause, the reason a woman with every resource in the world can still be misdiagnosed for years, and the quiet bias that tells women they are finished at the exact moment they become their wisest. Denise also explains why men go through their own version of all this, and why they will admit to almost anything before they will admit to brain fog.

There is a story about a college gym teacher and an inhaler that redirected her entire life. There is the single number that shows how little the medical world has invested in women. And there is a practical roadmap for walking into your next appointment and being heard.

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Tea Botanics: https://www.instagram.com/teabotanics/

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He plays some of television's most chilling villains, the kind of man you love to hate. So why is J. Anthony Crane, the face of Chandler Groff on Outer Banks, one of the warmest and most curious people we have ever had?

The actor behind roles in Succession, Billions, Broadway, and the Royal National Theatre of London sits down with Denisa to talk about the strange craft of playing the bad guy, the teacher who convinced a room of high schoolers to call themselves artists, and a childhood that turned him into a lover of languages, poetry, and very tall mountains.

There is a moment about Alan Rickman that will change how you watch every villain from now on. There is a bet between two literary legends that produced one of his favorite roles. And there is a surprising answer to a very simple question about how he wants to be remembered. Denisa and Anthony even discover they have both been broken by the same punishing Colorado climb.

Subscribe for new episodes every week. Until next time, stay curious and inspired.

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W. Bruce Cameron wrote A Dog's Purpose as a book about the soul. The world read it as a book about dogs. He has been happily explaining the difference ever since.

The number one New York Times bestselling author has written more than thirty dog centered novels that have made millions of people laugh and cry, often on the same page. His stories have become hit films, and this holiday season his novel A Dog's Perfect Christmas comes to Netflix with a cast including Dennis Quaid and Jennifer Tilly, and a small role played by Bruce himself.

He gets into what is really going on inside a dog's mind, how growing up in a chaotic family turned him into a humorist, talking his way out of getting beaten up as a repo man, why he cries every time he watches his own movie, the quantum physics questions that keep him up at night, and the one lesson dogs have been trying to teach him his whole life.

He is warm, wickedly funny, and full of heart. Come hang out.

W. Bruce Cameron: https://www.wbrucecameron.com/

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Thom Filicia got his big break because his dog needed to pee.

He was a successful interior designer in Soho with a dozen people working for him when he got stuck in an elevator with a group of strangers, a panicking woman, and a dog with his legs in a knot. By the time the fire department pried the doors open, one of the women in that elevator had decided this hilarious stranger belonged on television. That woman was a casting director. What happened next was Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Oprah, the Tonight Show, and three shows of his own.

You know him as the design expert with the filter to Carson Kressley's no filter. What you may not know is the kid from Syracuse who drew a house all over his school desk, got in trouble for it, and realized in that moment exactly who he was going to be.

Thom gets into how he reads a room in seconds, why he turned childhood dyslexia into his greatest strength, designing for David Bowie and Tina Fey, the dinner party trick he uses to escape boring small talk, and why the best design, like the best people, has a soul you can feel.

He is warm, wickedly funny, and completely himself. Come hang out.

Thom Filicia: https://www.thomfilicia.com/

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Rikki Rockett built an entire empire out of a pair of drumsticks, and he is the first to tell you he still can't believe it worked.

As the drummer and co-founder of Poison, he helped define an era, sold tens of millions of records, and just landed in the Metal Hall of Fame. Now he is dropping a memoir that spares no one, including himself.

Ghost Notes: My Life in Poison hits September 15th, and it is exactly as brutally honest, darkly funny and unfiltered as you would hope. In this one he gets into the stage 4 cancer battle he was never supposed to survive, the wild years, the self tanner emergencies, the ghost hunting, the jiu jitsu black belt, the house full of horror models, and the daughter who now gets more attention at conventions than the rock star dad standing next to her.

He is funny, fearless and completely himself from the first second. Buckle up.

Ghost Notes: My Life in Poison (out September 15): https://rarebirdlit.com/ghost-notes-my-life-in-poison-by-rikki-rockett/

Rikki Rockett: https://www.rikkirockett.com/

Rockett Mafia: https://rockettmafia.com/

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Some people spend their whole lives asking permission. Patrika Darbo never did.

At a Hollywood audition in 1968 she was told she had all the talent in the world and none of the look the business wanted. What she did next set the tone for the next 40 years, two Emmys, and one of the most respected character careers in the industry.

You know her as Nancy Wesley on Days of Our Lives, and from In the Line of Fire, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, and Roseanne. What you may not know is the woman underneath all of it. Sharp, unfiltered, endlessly funny, and completely unwilling to be anything other than exactly who she is.

She sat down with Denisa to talk about the roles she will never take, the moment she walked away from a job that fell apart without her, the causes she would go to war for, and the love that has lasted more than half a century. Some of what she says will surprise you. All of it will stay with you.

Come meet the real Patrika Darbo.

All Roads Theater Company: https://allroadstheatreco.org/

Patrika Darbo: https://www.instagram.com/darbopatrika/?hl=en

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