Breaking Walls

In Season 1 Episode 6 of Breaking Walls, the topic of discussion is: Switching Gears in Your Professional Environment & How To Make It Work. Our guest is former Municipal Bonds Salesman-turned author and world-traveler Steven Attanasio.

If you have been thinking about changing careers, this is a powerful conversation for you. Steve and I talk about all the things that led up to his decision to leave his job, and how that decision has helped his life since. He also gives important advice for those who have been considering the same thing.

Highlights

• Steve talks about how he left a successful career in Municipal Bonds sales because he wanted to find out more about who he was and what his passions were.

• Steve’s Journey Aboard the Trans-Siberian Railroad.

• Staying in a Mongolian yurt with a native family.

• The Importance of the melting pot culture Steve experienced growing up in Brooklyn and the brotherhood he found with his close-knit high school community.

• The Importance of family pride and traditions getting passed down through generations to keep the good things from the past alive.

• The reality that man people in their 20s and beyond struggle with the fact that adult life has no syllabi for you to help figure out what you want, and how finding ways to go after your passions is a good way to help figure life out.

• How a chance encounter at a wedding turned into a year-long journey for Steve, which culminated in his authoring Untouched Heroics: the True Life-Story of 95 Tony Varone. Tony is an Italian immigrant raised in Brooklyn, New York who served in the United States Army from January 1941 until June 1945. Surviving eight campaigns as an infantryman in World War II, Tony escaped death and injury innumerable times, and saved a significant number of lives in the process.

• What Steve’s doing now. After dedicating over a year of his life to telling this incredible story, Steve recently returned to the financial world in a much different and unique role, investing in multiple asset classes, where he hopes to learn more about the global economy, and the companies, industries, and countries that operate within it, with a fresh perspective.

Steve’s Links:

http://www.untouchedheroics.com

Peter Worthington’s Obituary - http://www.torontosun.com/2013/05/14/peter-worthington-in-his-own-words

The Charity Steve was involved with - http://www.ironmatt.org

In Season 1 Episode 6 of Breaking Walls, the topic of discussion is: Switching Gears in Your Professional Environment & How To Make It Work. Our guest is former Municipal Bonds Salesman-turned author and world-traveler Steven Attanasio.

If you have been thinking about changing careers, this is a powerful conversation for you. Steve and I talk about all the things that led up to his decision to leave his job, and how that decision has helped his life since. He also gives important advice for those who have been considering the same thing.

Highlights

• Steve talks about how he left a successful career in Municipal Bonds sales because he wanted to find out more about who he was and what his passions were.

• Steve’s Journey Aboard the Trans-Siberian Railroad.

• Staying in a Mongolian yurt with a native family.

• The Importance of the melting pot culture Steve experienced growing up in Brooklyn and the brotherhood he found with his close-knit high school community.

• The Importance of family pride and traditions getting passed down through generations to keep the good things from the past alive.

• The reality that man people in their 20s and beyond struggle with the fact that adult life has no syllabi for you to help figure out what you want, and how finding ways to go after your passions is a good way to help figure life out.

• How a chance encounter at a wedding turned into a year-long journey for Steve, which culminated in his authoring Untouched Heroics: the True Life-Story of 95 Tony Varone. Tony is an Italian immigrant raised in Brooklyn, New York who served in the United States Army from January 1941 until June 1945. Surviving eight campaigns as an infantryman in World War II, Tony escaped death and injury innumerable times, and saved a significant number of lives in the process.

• What Steve’s doing now. After dedicating over a year of his life to telling this incredible story, Steve recently returned to the financial world in a much different and unique role, investing in multiple asset classes, where he hopes to learn more about the global economy, and the companies, industries, and countries that operate within it, with a fresh perspective.

Steve’s Links:

http://www.untouchedheroics.com

Peter Worthington’s Obituary - http://www.torontosun.com/2013/05/14/peter-worthington-in-his-own-words

The Charity Steve was involved with - http://www.ironmatt.org

In Season 1 Episode 6 of Breaking Walls, the topic of discussion is: Switching Gears in Your Professional Environment & How To Make It Work. Our guest is former Municipal Bonds Salesman-turned author and world-traveler Steven Attanasio.

If you have been thinking about changing careers, this is a powerful conversation for you. Steve and I talk about all the things that led up to his decision to leave his job, and how that decision has helped his life since. He also gives important advice for those who have been considering the same thing.

Highlights

• Steve talks about how he left a successful career in Municipal Bonds sales because he wanted to find out more about who he was and what his passions were.

• Steve’s Journey Aboard the Trans-Siberian Railroad.

• Staying in a Mongolian yurt with a native family.

• The Importance of the melting pot culture Steve experienced growing up in Brooklyn and the brotherhood he found with his close-knit high school community.

• The Importance of family pride and traditions getting passed down through generations to keep the good things from the past alive.

• The reality that man people in their 20s and beyond struggle with the fact that adult life has no syllabi for you to help figure out what you want, and how finding ways to go after your passions is a good way to help figure life out.

• How a chance encounter at a wedding turned into a year-long journey for Steve, which culminated in his authoring Untouched Heroics: the True Life-Story of 95 Tony Varone. Tony is an Italian immigrant raised in Brooklyn, New York who served in the United States Army from January 1941 until June 1945. Surviving eight campaigns as an infantryman in World War II, Tony escaped death and injury innumerable times, and saved a significant number of lives in the process.

• What Steve’s doing now. After dedicating over a year of his life to telling this incredible story, Steve recently returned to the financial world in a much different and unique role, investing in multiple asset classes, where he hopes to learn more about the global economy, and the companies, industries, and countries that operate within it, with a fresh perspective.

Steve’s Links:

http://www.untouchedheroics.com

Peter Worthington’s Obituary - http://www.torontosun.com/2013/05/14/peter-worthington-in-his-own-words

The Charity Steve was involved with - http://www.ironmatt.org

In Season 1, Episode 5 of Breaking Walls: The WallBreakers Podcast, we sit down with bar manager & nightlife promoter Tom Mauriello for a conversation about gaining confidence in the workplace in order to get to "yes" when pitching ideas to your bosses, superiors, or clients.

Highlights

• Why the best way to have an ego is to have no ego

• Doing the necessary research/homework to feel confident in yourself in a pitch

• The importance of knowing your client or bosses' past successes to lead them towards the successes you want to try to achieve next. Knowing the past to understand the future

• Learning from past business mistakes and understanding that just because an idea failed, it doesn't mean that all aspects of the idea were failures

• Why you need to follow your passions to be good at things in life - you will just care more

• The reality that you will get knocked down in life, but you can and should learn from it and come back stronger

• Why quitting/failure is actually continually choosing to do something you hate and that isn't in your best interests because it demeans your own self-worth

• The importance of your ideas being marketable and generating revenue in the real world

• The need to know what your bread and butter is so that you can expand on it. It is your core.

• Why Tommy's motto is "educate, entertain, retain" and how that can help you

Tommy’s Social Media Info:

https://twitter.com/officialt_mauri

Whiskey Park & Gerber Bars Social Media Info:

https://Gerberbars.com

https://twitter.com/WHISKEYPARKNYC

http://instagram.com/WHISKEYPARKNYC

https://www.facebook.com/wpnyc

In Season 1, Episode 5 of Breaking Walls: The WallBreakers Podcast, we sit down with bar manager & nightlife promoter Tom Mauriello for a conversation about gaining confidence in the workplace in order to get to "yes" when pitching ideas to your bosses, superiors, or clients.

Highlights

• Why the best way to have an ego is to have no ego

• Doing the necessary research/homework to feel confident in yourself in a pitch

• The importance of knowing your client or bosses' past successes to lead them towards the successes you want to try to achieve next. Knowing the past to understand the future

• Learning from past business mistakes and understanding that just because an idea failed, it doesn't mean that all aspects of the idea were failures

• Why you need to follow your passions to be good at things in life - you will just care more

• The reality that you will get knocked down in life, but you can and should learn from it and come back stronger

• Why quitting/failure is actually continually choosing to do something you hate and that isn't in your best interests because it demeans your own self-worth

• The importance of your ideas being marketable and generating revenue in the real world

• The need to know what your bread and butter is so that you can expand on it. It is your core.

• Why Tommy's motto is "educate, entertain, retain" and how that can help you

Tommy’s Social Media Info:

https://twitter.com/officialt_mauri

Whiskey Park & Gerber Bars Social Media Info:

https://Gerberbars.com

https://twitter.com/WHISKEYPARKNYC

http://instagram.com/WHISKEYPARKNYC

https://www.facebook.com/wpnyc

In Season 1, Episode 5 of Breaking Walls: The WallBreakers Podcast, we sit down with bar manager & nightlife promoter Tom Mauriello for a conversation about gaining confidence in the workplace in order to get to "yes" when pitching ideas to your bosses, superiors, or clients.

Highlights

• Why the best way to have an ego is to have no ego

• Doing the necessary research/homework to feel confident in yourself in a pitch

• The importance of knowing your client or bosses' past successes to lead them towards the successes you want to try to achieve next. Knowing the past to understand the future

• Learning from past business mistakes and understanding that just because an idea failed, it doesn't mean that all aspects of the idea were failures

• Why you need to follow your passions to be good at things in life - you will just care more

• The reality that you will get knocked down in life, but you can and should learn from it and come back stronger

• Why quitting/failure is actually continually choosing to do something you hate and that isn't in your best interests because it demeans your own self-worth

• The importance of your ideas being marketable and generating revenue in the real world

• The need to know what your bread and butter is so that you can expand on it. It is your core.

• Why Tommy's motto is "educate, entertain, retain" and how that can help you

Tommy’s Social Media Info:

https://twitter.com/officialt_mauri

Whiskey Park & Gerber Bars Social Media Info:

https://Gerberbars.com

https://twitter.com/WHISKEYPARKNYC

http://instagram.com/WHISKEYPARKNYC

https://www.facebook.com/wpnyc

http://www.gofundme.com/thewallbreakers

In this very special episode of Breaking Walls, we go over the many announcements from this past week:

Highlights

• The Feedback from James Scully's Op-Ed "Why I Left NYC: The Future of The WallBreakers," and a further explanation of the events that led him to write the piece.

• The announcement of S01E02 guest Lina Gonzalez as James' new partner with The WallBreakers!

• The Future of The WallBreakers as a community and what kind of growth we can expect in 2015.

• Our plans for our site to be relaunched on 2/1/2015 as a full creative content hub

• Our GoFundMe campaign! - To donate go to http://www.gofundme.com/thewallbreakers

In this very special episode of Breaking Walls, we go over the many announcements from this past week:

Highlights

• The Feedback from James Scully's Op-Ed "Why I Left NYC: The Future of The WallBreakers," and a further explanation of the events that led him to write the piece.

• The announcement of S01E02 guest Lina Gonzalez as James' new partner with The WallBreakers!

• The Future of The WallBreakers as a community and what kind of growth we can expect in 2015.

• Our plans for our site to be relaunched on 2/1/2015 as a full creative content hub

• Our GoFundMe campaign! - To donate go to http://www.gofundme.com/thewallbreakers

In this very special episode of Breaking Walls, we go over the many announcements from this past week:

Highlights

• The Feedback from James Scully's Op-Ed "Why I Left NYC: The Future of The WallBreakers," and a further explanation of the events that led him to write the piece.

• The announcement of S01E02 guest Lina Gonzalez as James' new partner with The WallBreakers!

• The Future of The WallBreakers as a community and what kind of growth we can expect in 2015.

• Our plans for our site to be relaunched on 2/1/2015 as a full creative content hub

• Our GoFundMe campaign! - To donate go to http://www.gofundme.com/thewallbreakers

http://thewallbreakers.com/current-state-wall-breakers/

A Transcribed version of "Why I left NYC: The Future of The WallBreakers," which explains My (James Scully's) reasons for leaving New York and where The WallBreakers community is headed in 2015.