Passion Pod

Lauren Abraham is a Los Angeles based model, tv host, fitness instructor, professional athlete, and somehow much much more. Tune in and hear her journey from growing up as a sponsored snowboarder to where she is today. Her story is inspiring and full of twists and turns. We share it all from being injured so bad she was in a wheelchair, recovering from addiction, hosting major sporting events on tv, becoming an international fitness model, and so much more.

Margo Graff is an actress, action stunt performer, producer, model, and so much more. She grew up in Minnesota, but has lived and travelled all over the world before making Los Angeles her home. Her story is both horrifying and inspiring at the same time. After years and years of bullying, abuse, and 2 near death experiences, she found martial arts as a way to heal and empower herself. Now at age 30 she is in the best shape of her life and is making all of her dreams a reality.

Greg Eubanks is a Los Angeles based Real Estate agent who was born and raised in Minnesota. Greg made the tough decision to hit reset on his life after he graduated from the U of M to make the move to Los Angeles with nothing but a dream. It's been a long journey from sleeping on couches to where he is today selling homes in Beverly Hills. Tune in and learn a few things about hard work and determination from one of the best.

LASKA is a 6 piece Pop-Folk band with members based in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Los Angeles. The group was originally formed by three sisters from Baldwin, Wisconsin that grew up playing music together from a young age. In this episode we interviewed 4 of the members (Bex Morton, Mookie Morton, Hannah Morton, Evan Middlesworth) one at a time at Driftless Sound Studio in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. In these interviews we talk about growing up playing violin, building a community around their music, living in Los Angeles, songwriting, and their newest album Endless Patcher.

Justine Monae is a Los Angeles based talent agent and owner of her own talent agency, Justine Monae Management. Justine was working for a bank while teaching twerk classes with a friend years ago when her career path managing talent of all kinds began. Imagine negotiating a contract worth over $100,000 with no prior experience or knowledge of how this stuff works going into it. Justine isn't one to back down from a challenge. Her career blossomed from there. Tune in and find out how...

Bryson Roatch is a creative director based in Los Angeles California. He started his career working with his older brother Jacoby Shaddix's band Papa Roatch. After proving himself as a valuable asset to the band he eventually became their full time creative director. From there his career really took off. While he is still the creative director for Papa Roatch he now works with multiple clients. His client list now consists of a ton of big names including The Struts, Tom Morello, Steve Aoki, Three Days Grace, and many more. Tune in and get inspired by his incredible journey.

In this episode we discuss growing up with a rockstar, struggling with your identity, work life balance, being a self taught creative, cold calling clients, how to stay ahead of trends, how to go viral, why touring full time isn't always the goal, how to build a name for yourself, and much more.

Miguel Pichardo is a fine artist based in Los Angeles, California. Miguel hasn't done very many long form interviews like this, so I was honored to be given the chance to share his story. He only became a full time artist 5 years ago after a hard fought life until that point. Have you ever died before? Miguel believes that he has, and it changed his life completely. Tune in and hear the whole story.

Rikki Hixx is a Los Angeles based hairstylist originally from St. Louis, Missouri. Rikki was a bit of a late bloomer and spent a long time bouncing around jobs and cities before finding his calling cutting hair for Hollywood types.

In this episode we discuss growing up somewhere that you don't fit in, tattoo apprenticeships, wanting to be a rockstar, what hard work looks like, and how you go from $5 haircuts on a military base to $115 haircuts for movie stars.

Chef Derrick Fox is known around the world as the punk rock chef as well as the 2nd place contestant on MasterChef Season 6. He is back on tv for MasterChef season 12. Derrick grew up playing the drums in a successful rock band. His band was touring around the country as the number one unsigned band on MySpace before he decided to switch his focus to food. When he was selected to be a contestant on MasterChef he became a household name overnight. Unfortunately he didn't have much of a plan at the time for what to do after the show was over. This time around he is ready with his new cookie brand freshly announced called Epic Mega Cookie Co. Tune in and hear stories of cooking for Seth McFarlane, playing drums on pots and pans, instant messaging thousands of people to come to shows, touring the country as an unsigned band with no help, and so much more.

Dominique Dafney is NFL player that plays the Tight End position for the Green Bay Packers. I took the short drive from Eau Claire to Green Bay to record this podcast with him during his spare time while he was attending OTA's. Although he was born in North Carolina he spent most of his childhood growing up in Des Moines, Iowa. Growing up he was involved in all kinds of things from every sport out there to musicals and even tap dance. While in high school he started to zero in on his dream of playing football in the NFL. His collegiate journey was crazy enough as it is, but having the pandemic hit just as he was trying to get his first NFL contract made things even more complicated. Despite all the challenges he's now found himself catching touchdowns from Aaron Rodgers himself as a member of the Green Bay Packers.