Money You Should Ask

Brian talks about his financial journey, moving to a new city with $1000 in his pocket, pushing through all the obstacles and pursuing his lifelong passion for comedy. Brian shares how his life, career, and bank balance has now changed for the better but is always doing his due diligence to ensure his bank account balance still has at least three zeros in it but would prefer four. @racebanning @fox.compton @roastbattle

Cynthia talks about one of her childhood blocks of not deserving money in her life. She shares the struggles of how her lack of confidence shaped the direction and the decisions she has made. After an incredible life-changing event, she was able to transform her self-worth, and see herself in a whole new light. @sheseemsnice, @cynthialevin7, @cynthialevin1

Sandy talks about his dream of moving to LA and working in comedy, adjusting to parenthood, balancing a new born baby, budgeting, career and relationship. Sandy shares his experiences with money and the fine line of being conservative with money and saying, f@#k it and diving into the deep end and doing it anyway. @sandydanto

Ryan Mirvis (AKA Mirv) is a television, film and commercial actor and comedian. Some of his television credits include, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Weeds, and Disjointed. Ryan has been performing live for over ten years in various comedy clubs and venues including The Icehouse Comedy Club and The Comedy Store.

Ryan opens his wallet and reveals what is inside. He talks about how he learned some great money habits from his wise dad. He speaks about his epic highs and his crushing lows of moving to a new city and saving for a rainy day in a town that never rains. @ryanmirvis

Lucas Hirl is a comedian, editor, video game voice-over director and producer and he is a professional Yelp reviewer. You can catch Lucas performing at The Comedy Store.

Lucas talks about his energetic childhood, growing up in the Midwest and how his first job as a paperboy at 8 years old, set him up to learn how to save. After experiencing some hard times, Lucas opens up and shares his financial challenges and how he overcame them, and how finding one's self is the most rewarding part of a journey as a comedian and as an artist. @lucashirl

Lenore Kantor is a growth consultant and leadership coach. She is the president of her company Launch Warrior. Lenore assists and coaches individuals in growing their business through leadership.

Lenore shares her journey of coming out of business school focused and driven and working in the corporate world launching products and services for large companies and how she began to struggle with the corporate world, and its reputation of making money at the expense of other people began to weigh on her. She talks about how she realigned with the values that put her back on track to help herself and authentically assist people and businesses.

Tune in to hear Lenore and Bob give a brief overview of their upcoming weekend workshop "Radical Abundance."

@lenorekantor, @launchwarrior

Alex M. Stein is a writer, producer, director, an award-winning documentary filmmaker, and storyteller. Alex has been called a "masterful storyteller who peppers his tales with humor, soul, and top-notch wit." Alex also works and consults with production companies and movie studios as a story consultant and script doctor. His latest book, "No, Mr. Bond, I Expect Your Dreams to Die" is his first collection of essays, stories and tone poems. A must read!

In this podcast, Alex and his sidekick, Amy Engelhardt, talk about how thinking outside of the box, being ridiculous goofballs, and trusting that everything will be okay, are some of the attributes they share in the success of their relationship. They also discuss how they budget their finances, negotiate major purchases, regardless of who is the bread-winner at any given time. @alexmstein

Amy Engelhardt is an award-winning musical mastermind. Amy, a multi award-winning composer, vocalist, lyricist, master class educator and all-round creative consultant, has appeared in many theatrical productions ranging from a European tour of "Jesus Christ Superstar," "Little Shop Of Horrors," to "Shakespeare and Simon." Amy was the sole female voice/writer/arranger for eclectic, Grammy®-nominated vocal band without instruments,"The Bobs" and she is an honorary member of the Vienna Boys Choir. Her award-winning vocals can be heard in her solo album, "Not Gonna Be Pretty" and block buster movies like "Jurassic World," "Real Steel," "Planet of the Apes," Jim Henson's "Animal Jam," and Barbra Streisand's "Timeless." Amy's list of credits doesn't stop there, Amy was also nominated for Best New Musical for her Off-Broadway debut with "Bastard Jones." And she is funny.

Mary E. Kennedy is a woman of many talents. As a comedian, actor, producer, director, teacher and the toughest job of them all, being a parent, Mary is living proof that there is an art to balancing your personal, creative and professional life.

Some of Mary's credits include the award-winning television series "Shameless," a sketch artist on the talk show "Conan," with Conan O'Brien and kicking butt in "AfterGLOW the 80's Musical Experience" live show. You can also catch Mary performing at various comedy venues locally and nationally.

In this episode Mary shares what it's like to go from "me" to "we" and moving past her brutal conversation blocks around money with her husband and family. She talks about the juggling act of balancing and fulfilling her creative desires while remaining true to herself as an artist and as a parent. @mkennedycomedy

Shawn Pelofsky is a comedian, writer, actress, and producer with a heart of gold. She is a regular performer at The Comedy Store in Hollywood, and Shawn has also entertained members of the United States Armed Forces all over the world. You can catch her in her hilarious stand-up comedy special, "Stretch It Out." A must see!

Tune in and listen to Shawn talk about what it is like to be the black sheep in her family of fiscally responsible siblings. How having a big heart and giving back to her community has landed her in debt and how her history with money inspired Bob to write his book "The Money Nerve: Navigating The Emotions Of Money."