The Doorpost Podcast Project // Inspiring interviews with some of today's most successful Entrepreneurs

Richard "RB" Botto is the Founder and CEO of Stage 32 (www.stage32.com), the world's largest social media site and educational hub for film, television and theater creatives.

Botto is also a represented screenwriter, producer, actor and author. He served as associate producer on Sam Levinson’s debut, Another Happy Day, which starred Ellen Barkin, Demi Moore, Thomas Hayden Church, Kate Bosworth and Ellen Burstyn and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, winning Best Screenplay. In 2014, Botto executive produced the award winning short All Things Hidden. Botto’s own latest script, The End Game, is currently in development.

A pioneer of the early stages of the Internet boom, Botto developed Stage 32 so creatives across the globe would have a dedicated network to find work and representation, launch projects, secure funding, further their education and make life and career altering connections. In just over 3 years, Stage 32 has organically reached over 325,000 members from every country on the planet and has been described by Forbes as "Lynda.com meets LinkedIn meets Facebook for film, television and theater creatives.”

Botto has spoken all over the world at industry conferences including American Film Market, South by Southwest, Screenwriters World West and East, Great American Pitchfest, STN Convention and many more.

Prior to creating Stage 32, Botto was the Founder, Publisher and Editor of RAZOR magazine, a national men’s lifestyle magazine which boasted a readership of 1.5 million at its peak. A former radio host on ESPN and FOX Sports affiliates, Botto has appeared on such networks as CNBC, MSNBC, NBC News, FOX News, CBS News and VH1, riffing about the entertainment business and social media.

In the 90’s, Botto was an integral part of the team responsible for creating the vendor tracking system used by many of today’s top e-commerce companies. Botto headed the development, design and commercial implementation for several of the top 50 most visited sites on the web during that period.

Botto also serves on the Advisory Board for Old Town Music Hall, a classic film theater in El Segundo, built in 1921.

Botto's book on crowdsourcing will be published by Focal Press in 2015.

Dave has been a commercial photographer for the past 11 years, making a name for himself with an illustrative/high-concept style of composite photography. His work has been published in many national magazines and ad-campaigns. His clients range from FIAT, Ford, Scion, Sony, UbiSoft, ESPN, and Rolling Stone to 50 Cent, Chris Brown, and Wu-Tang. This entire time, Dave has also been working on his primary passion - filmmaking. He has written/directed 4 short films, numerous music videos, and created The World’s First Instagram TV Show - @desertfriends. He also has an action/adventure film he wrote last year that’s currently in development.

Doug Grossman is the Sr. Vice President Operations and Supply Chain, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. He oversees distribution of physical media for Fox in the US and Canada to most major retail customers (Wal-Mart, Target, Amazon, Best Buy, etc...). He also provides supply chain consulting services to Wal-Mart and other major retailers on behalf of the studio community and is recognized within the home entertainment and retail community for his expertise in supply chain management issues. Doug is also involved in current sustainability efforts within retail and studio communities. Before Fox, Doug spent 5 years with the Walt Disney Company in various capacities within the studio before moving up to the Home Entertainment division.

Brian Pollack is an Emmy Award winning writer and producer who got his WGA card in 1975's while working as a joke writer on the original Hollywood Squares. Later Pollack and his writing partner, Mert Rich, began writing sitcoms for The Jeffersons and The Facts of Life. He went on to write for Sledgehammer and eventually Cheers. He also wrote the 2002 feature film, Boat Trip with Cuba Gooding Jr. and an episode of The Simpsons, which aired that same year. He and his wife decided to start a business in Hollywood in 2004 called, Caffé Etc. where they serve coffee and lunch. As much as Brian enjoys his entrepreneurial pursuits, he is still a writer at heart and is always creating content including a new reality style web series called, Coffee Chronicles.

John Rhode is a director, cinematographer and camera operator who has worked his way through the camera ranks of camera operator, 2nd Unit Director of Photography, and Director of Photography to Director. He joined International Cinematographer's Guild on the Paramount Pictures production of Soapdish (1992) and began work with respected DP's as Lazlo Kovacs,ASC, Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC, and John Seale, ASC whom gave Rhode work on Ghosts of Mississippi (1995), The American President 1996), City of Angels (1997), and Perfect Storm (2000) moving him up from additional operator to "A" operator to 2nd Unit DP. Rhode further shot over 30 independent movies which included stars such as Faye Dunway, William Sanderson, John Heard, and Debbie Mazar.

Rhode moved into television on the camera departments of NightStalker (2006), The Hollow Men (2008), Heroes (2008-9) as well as breaking new ground on the webisode and mobisode debuts of Prisonbreak (2006), Vanished (2007) Mr. Wrong (2008) and the film festival winning Turbo Dating (2009-12) created by Terry Rossio, writer of Shrek(s) and Pirates of the Carribean. This led to Award-winning documentaries by Spark Media/ American Experience's Partners of the Heart and Prince of Slaves followed by the award-winning Bill Brummel Productions of Bullied (2010) and Erasing Hate (2011), both funded by the Morris Dee's Southern Poverty Law Center. Awards include many first prizes in films festivals, Tellies, and Cine-Eagles. Rhode's cinematography has been hailed by Variety as "beautifully photographed by John Rhode."

Breaking into directing on music videos and commercials, Rhode co-directed and served as director of photography on the notorious short My Dinner With Ovitz (2003), a satire skewering Michael Ovitz. It created a sensation in Hollywood production circles. Ron Meyer, the president of Universal Pictures, and David Geffen remarked, "it was brilliant." Variety Magazine reviewed it as "a gonzo short -- pic is the most buzzed-about underground project since Trey Parker and Matt Stone's "The Spirit of Christmas." Rhode later took offers directing motion pictures which include the family and adventure films Seeker & Fetch (2011), The Stray(2012) and Trooper and the Legend of the Golden Key (2012).

Raised in Wooster, Ohio, Rhode received a B.S in chemical engineering from Ohio State University when he met Frank Capra promoting the book "The Name Above the Title." After a vigorous debate on the conflict between personal need and social progressiveness, Capra told Rhode he should be directing movies. Rhode took his advice and returned to get his MFA in Cinema, moved to Hollywood, and broke into the film industry in the the production and camera departments working on movies, music videos, and television.

Brian Bloom had an early interest in acting, including appearing in several commercials as a child, but made his big break in the Sergio Leone film Once Upon a Time in America. From there, he was offered the role of Dusty Donovan in the hit soap opera As the World Turns, which he played for several years. During that run, Bloom became the youngest winner of a Daytime Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Young Leading Man during the 12th Daytime Emmy Awards show for his performance on the series. Despite his success, he soon grew tired of the scheduling involved in that field and eventually left the series to star in several television movies and myriad guest appearances.

Brian played private mercenary bad guy "Pike" in the 2010 movie The A-Team, which he also co-wrote with Carnahan, who directed the 20th Century Fox feature based on the popular television series.

Brian also attended the Sheriff's Academy and served as a Reserve Deputy with the Orange County Sheriff's Department from 2001 - 2011. He is a certified self defense expert and a Sifu of a rarefied street lethal modern Self Defense System called "Bojuka". He has participated in countless no holds barred combat seminars and taught use of force techniques to law enforcement, military and private security worldwide.

Brian is presently cast in a number of voiceover parts, both in video games as well as direct-to-video projects. He has been working for the past several years on Warner Bros. Mad Max game, designing the characters fighting style and doing the motion capture and performance capture for its lead character incorporating his martial arts to create the characters spec ops-based combat mechanics.

Brian has grown into one of the most respected and seasoned actors in the gaming and voice over industry. He was part of the development team working closely with infinity Ward to not only develop the story for Activision's Call of Duty Ghosts, but also voiced one of its four lead characters, Ghost Team member, Keegan P. Russ. He has contributed his voice to every call of duty game since CoD III to the present. Brian is continuing his work with developer Infinity Ward on a future and highly secretive upcoming version of Call of Duty working with their story team to bring the franchise into a whole new era.

Brian plays Matt Horner in the wildly popular StarCraft franchise made by the developers of World of Warcraft. His portrayal of Gotham's most menacing gangster "black mask" will no doubt recur in upcoming Batman titles under the Warner Bros. banner in the Arkham universe. He portrays BJ Blascowicz in "Wolfenstein the New Order”, a critically acclaimed and highest selling titles is said to have been a key component in saving the first person shooter genre and launching it into next gen gaming consoles and PCs with a memorable and dramatic take on the classic and prototypical hero character. Brian is working on the third iteration of the internationally popular game Dragon age where he plays it's most beloved character Varric Tethras.

Brian is a prolific motion capture and performance capture performer who brings 30 years of television and motion picture experience to the arena of Videogames both in front of and behind the camera and microphone consulting on story and narrative in various capacities on numerous successfully received and yet to be released IP's and titles.

Brian works alongside military contractors and new media companies helping coordinate shared technologies and mutually beneficial interests helping both sides integrate their common ground to innovate products and services integral to the growth of both industries. He has recently formed a production company, writing and developing several original television and film properties. His screenplay "hacked" and television pilot "pyramid" among them.

A multi-Emmy-nominated actor and accomplished screenwriter, director, producer and author, John Ratzenberger may be best known for playing mail carrier Cliff Clavin on the long-running NBC sitcom “Cheers.” Though never a postman in real life, he did work as a carpenter, archery instructor and oyster boat crewman, and also created and starred in the Travel Channel series “Made in America,” which spotlighted U.S.-made goods and workers. Along with work in feature films, from major studio blockbusters like Superman and Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back to independent films like the recent drama The Woodcarver, animation has been a natural home to his versatile vocal talents. John Ratzenberger is the only actor to participate in every Pixar film. Beginning with the charming and witty Hamm the piggy bank in Toy Story, reprised in Toy Story 2 and 3, there came P.T. Flea in A Bug’s Life, Yeti the abominable snowman in Monsters, Inc., a school of moonfish in Finding Nemo, the Underminer in The Incredibles, Mack the truck in Cars/Cars 2, Mustafa the waiter in Ratatouille, John in WALL-E, Tom the construction worker in Up and Gordon in Brave. He is currently a recurring character on the FX hit TV show, LEGIT.

Oakley's first stunt job was in 2000 on Joy Ride starring Paul Walker and Steve Zahn. Since then he has worked on 100's of projects including Fast and Furious, Iron Man, Captain America II, and A Good Day to Die Hard. He has received several Taurus Stunt Awards in his career and is a member of Brand X - a professional organization in the entertainment industry composed of respected stuntmen, stunt coordinators, directors and 2nd unit directors. In addition to his wide range of stunt work, Oakley is a stunt coordinator and 2nd unit director.

Born and raised near Burbank, CA, Davy Muxlow landed his first acting role in 1976 in the Emmy winning film Eleanor and Franklin The White House Years as John Roosevelt Boettiger, the President's young grandson. He became a member of SAG the same year and has an acting career that's spans over 35 years. Davy attended the University of Southern California and graduated with a Business degree in Entrepreneurship.

While on the set of She's All That (where childhood friend Paul Walker was filming), he began a small business called Ram Board. The business quickly grew throughout Hollywood and later expanded nationwide into the construction industry. Ram Board has become a staple in the entertainment and construction industries and distributed in countries as far as Australia and United Arab Emirates.