Gronk'd UP

Will there be an NFL season this year?  Ari, the owner of my Sports Update, breaks down what he thinks is going to happen in the NFL this year.

With over 250,000 Followers on Twitter, Ari has some of the biggest sports journalists and reporters in the game following his page.  His page, My Sports Update, features the most relevant information and recent transactions in the sports world and has become and must follow page for sports fans, fantasy players and reporters.

It's been a lot of hard work, but Ari has a system down that allows him to find the most relevant information.  It's to the point now where reporters will come to his page first to see if the news has already broke or not. 

Fun episode with social media influencer  Katie Feeney.   Katie is still in high school, taking AP classes and a member of the pom squad.  But she is also know for her tiktok videos and has been able to accumulate over 3.7million followers. 

Checkout this weeks episode to find out how she did it and what her plans for the future include.  

Peter Taunton was asked if he would like to take over a failing gym.  With no experience running a gym, a salary of $16,000, and no marketing budget or money to re-do the gym, it was time to get creative.  

How do you replace the carpets when you have no budget to do so?  Listen to Peter's story and find out how he pulled it off.  Peter was able to flip this first gym and leverage the equity in the first gym to continue to open gyms.  

After selling this first gym chain - he saw a new opportunity.  This opportunity lead to 1000s of gyms being opened and a highly successful gym chain called Snap Fitness.

Sean Callagy is an entrepreneur, national speaker, philanthropist, one of America’s top trial attorneys, online personality, and creator of various peak performance technologies.

Oh, and he’s a legally blind warrior and adventurer.

For 23 years, aided by his unique insights, love for people, ability to “see” and create transformational breakthroughs, Sean has achieved and co-created an incredibly diverse variety of unique successes. Sean has been favorably compared to some of the top speakers and influencers in the world.

As a byproduct of his technologies, Mr. Callagy is one of only two attorneys out of 1,220,000 attorneys in America to achieve 2 Top 100 National Jury Verdicts between 2014 and 2016, and, the only one who was legally blind. He has also collected more than 1/3 of a billion dollars on behalf of his healthcare clients, built and sold a 40 person law firm in a little over a year in his twenties when he was only two years out of law school (all which is very rare in the legal world), created the most rapidly successful training, coaching and development program from his coaching school out of anyone who had ever attended the coaching school and certification program at that time, publicly spoke more than 1,000 times to audiences that are consistently shocked to “see what they didn’t see” in their lives, careers, and businesses.

With his new movie, The Outpost, releasing today - we have Scott Eastwood on the podcast to walk us through his newest movie and some of the ins and outs of the acting world. 

The film tells the story of the 53 U.S. soldiers who battled a force of some 400 enemy insurgents in north-eastern Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom. Originally built to engage the locals in community development projects, Combat Outpost Keating — located at the bottom of three steep mountains just 14 miles from the Pakistani border — faced a constant threat of being attacked by the Taliban, putting the U.S. soldiers stationed there at significant risk.

Certified Financial Planner Ashley Hodge joins us on podcast with some of his best recommendations for your financial future.  

How much money should you have in an emergency fund?  How much cash should you put towards your retirement?  What are some of the safest stocks to buy?  Ash breaks it all down for us on this episode.  

But with all this money talk, Ash break down his more important tip- If you aren't healthy it doesn't matter how much money you have.  If the way you obtain the wealth is severely hurting your health, then what is really more important, your health or your wealth? 

Stanley Cup Champion Theo Fleury was just 5'6".  He was told his whole life that he wasn't big enough to make it the NHL.  In fact, when he was first eligible for the draft, he was not drafted. 

A year later he went in the 8th round but was excited for the chance and was determined to make the most out of it.

But even a superstar can face adversity and Theo ran into some tough times after the NHL.  After a failed suicide attempt, he decided to face him demons.  listen now to hear his story and how he overcame addiction and depression and now uses his time to helping others do the same. 

Jason Calacanis received an Angel investment in 2003 from Mark Cuban.  It ended up being a nice payday for Mark & Jason when the company was sold years later.

The roll has now flipped for Jason, and for over a decade he has been an accredited Angel investor.  

Jason joins the podcast to talk everything about Angel investing and why he thinks it's the best bet in the game.   Jason breaks down what type of companies to look for, and what types of programs are out there to help Angel investors make good choices.  

He also breaks it down from the entrepreneur side and talks about incubators and accelerators for anyone out there that has a startup business and is looking for some funding.