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Listen to a new episode of PIVOT, a show brought to you by YNS Live with NFL Thread recorded live on Fireside with hosts Juliet Hahn and Cynthia Zordich featuring special guests Michael V. Zordich.
Michael V. Zordich is the son of YNS Live with NFL Thread co-host Cynthia Zordich. A former Penn State fullback and captain and Carolina Panthers fullback, he is the owner of Fancy Meats Processing Plant and Butcher Shop in Cadiz, Ohio.
Michael, along with a team of Penn State leaders, is featured in the John U. Bacon's Fourth and Long and Michael Nash's documentary about the Penn State 2012 season - Saving The Roar.
Follow Michael on Instagram and check out Fancy Meats at Fancy-Meats.com.
Remarkable Quotes
"Don't be afraid to sacrifice pay for passion. Go try things. Go do something new. That was big for me. I went from a solid paycheck to making 8 bucks an hour as a ranch hand living out of a camper. It's a reintroduction when you get stripped down. You are forced to know another side of you."
"You can find a new passion but you're always going to want to play the game. I still wake up and want to be playing. I still have dreams that the phone is ringing and I'm picked up and on a team. I don't think that's ever going to leave. But I don't think that's a bad thing, you know. Because you got that call before. You know that feeling. It was a part of your life that doesn't exist anymore but it is still a part of who you are."
"As players, we go through self-doubt and misery. It's easy to question yourself and get down on yourself. Truth is - you have to because it's the only way out of it. Don't be afraid to be down in the dumps. You're allowed to feel that."
"It is interesting to wake up to the fact that you have to discover something. But to discover- you have to do something. You have to give yourself purpose day in and day out to climb out of that hole you put yourself in."
"What people don't realize is the mindset of the game and what a player is conditioned to. You go from the locker room where you're around like-minded guys that feel the same way about the team, about pain, about wins and losses. That mentality is not here in the real world. So, in a lot of the interviews I had, I found I had nothing in common. I felt like an alien. They just didn't see the way I did or think the way I was conditioned to think. That was my biggest struggle."
"Going through it was a wild ride for me. I couldn't handle it so I escaped and went a little crazy. It took a while to realize that this wasn't me but just me going through something. And you're really going through it."
"You question: Who? Why? What's going on up there? Where did you go? I was blindsided by this thing. You go to a dark place. I guess it's depression but it's a lot of anger, too. I totally disappears from myself and just went a little crazy. Football was the one thing I wanted to do. It's all I ever thought about doing."
"I never thought about what I was going to do after football. When guys came to the locker room to talk about it - I was not thinking about that. It was always football for me. If I'm not thinking about that - I'm not thinking about the game. Where's that energy going?"
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"Think about how many times you can help people and how many you can help."
Guest Bio:
Cece Leung is a seasoned finance executive and the founding partner of The Entrepreneur CFO, a women-owned business and a professional global advisory firm in New York City. Cece was born and raised in Hong Kong and moved to Canada at age 16. With fluency in Mandarin, Cantonese, and English, she has worked with prominent firms including JP Morgan, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Ernst & Young across Asia, the US, Canada, and Europe, offering best-in-class solutions to startup and public companies to scale and grow.
She is also the best-selling published author of Dear Accountant: Stories, Advice, and Explorations, sharing her career journey and mentorship advice along with 19 extraordinary leaders. The book is a celebration of diversity in accounting and finance - it has become a valuable resource not only for those who seek career guidance and advice but for anyone who works with accountants to get a much better understanding and appreciation of the wide variety of work that accountants do.
She has been featured in media outlets such as Good Day New York, Pix 11 News, CPA Journal, Accounting Today, Amplify DEI, Quicken, and Money Girl. Cece also hosts her weekly podcast, Dear Accountant, covering all the many cool things in accounting (technical topics and trends), as well as bringing in industry experts and influential leaders to share their journey,
insights and perspectives.
Cece is a graduate of Rotman Commerce at the University of Toronto. When she's not in the boardroom or on the microphone, she can be found hiking or volunteering to teach English or financial literacy programs in underserved community groups.
Connect with Cece on LinkedIn or email her at [email protected].
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Remarkable Quote:
"We all have our gifts and they can show up in different ways. It's not all or nothing. We have all these different things inside of us and they show up in different ways along the way."
Guest Bio:
Debra Levy, a Certified Life, Productivity & ADHD Coach, is the owner of A Life That Fits, LLC. She is dedicated to helping her clients make time and space for what matters most in their lives.
Debra begins by working with her clients to clarify what is important to them, what will make them feel happy and fulfilled, and determining what guidance and support is required to create the life they want. She focuses on areas that are a struggle for many of her clients (whether ADD/ADHD or neurotypical) including time management, hyper-focusing, distractions, the setting of goals and priorities, clear communication, and establishing healthy boundaries.
Together, Debra and her clients work on gaining insight into what is holding them back. She helps them to become more aware of their own natural abilities, modalities, and tendencies, make room for their big-picture goals and implement step-by-step solutions to help them get from where they are, to where they want to be.
Debra is here to partner with her clients on a thought-provoking and productive journey to envision "A Life That Fits" their values and dreams and provide the motivation and accountability to maximize their potential.
Visit A Life That Fits, LLC at ALifeThatFits.com. Follow Debra on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook.
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Listen to a new episode of Your Next Stop recorded live on Fireside with host Juliet Hahn featuring creator, podcast host, Chief People Officer, founder, performance coach, and race director Fran Racioppi.
Fran Racioppi, CPP, CBCP, is the Chief People Officer at Analytix Solutions, an 800+ person firm with offices across the globe. Fran also serves as the performance development coach for Boston University Men's Rowing and leads leadership programs under his own company, FRsix. Fran previously led Genius Fund as the Chief Executive and Chief Operating Officer, a vertically integrated cannabis company in Los Angeles, CA. Prior to Genius, Fran served as the Director of Global Security for Snapchat where he was recruited to professionalize and scale the security organization across the globe, earning recognition from the FBI and DHS.
Fran holds an MBA from New York University. He graduated with honors from Boston University with a BA in Journalism and a minor in Political Science. Fran served 13 years in the United States Army as a Green Beret, deploying three times to Iraq and spending several years operating across Africa. A lifelong sailor, Fran volunteers to teach Veterans to sail as the Race Director for Sailahead a Veterans service organization dedicated to reducing the Veteran suicide rate.
Listen to Fran's podcast at The Jedburgh Podcast. Give him a follow on Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
Remarkable Quote:
"You can't wait for the last five hundred meters of the race to compete at the highest level. You need to go from the start. That's what it takes to WIN." ~ Fran Racioppi
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Listen to a new episode of Your Next Stop recorded live on Fireside with host Juliet Hahn featuring creator, podcast host, Chief People Officer, founder, performance coach, and race director Fran Racioppi.
Fran Racioppi, CPP, CBCP, is the Chief People Officer at Analytix Solutions, an 800+ person firm with offices across the globe. Fran also serves as the performance development coach for Boston University Men's Rowing and leads leadership programs under his own company, FRsix. Fran previously led Genius Fund as the Chief Executive and Chief Operating Officer, a vertically integrated cannabis company in Los Angeles, CA. Prior to Genius, Fran served as the Director of Global Security for Snapchat where he was recruited to professionalize and scale the security organization across the globe, earning recognition from the FBI and DHS.
Fran holds an MBA from New York University. He graduated with honors from Boston University with a BA in Journalism and a minor in Political Science. Fran served 13 years in the United States Army as a Green Beret, deploying three times to Iraq and spending several years operating across Africa. A lifelong sailor, Fran volunteers to teach Veterans to sail as the Race Director for Sailahead a Veterans service organization dedicated to reducing the Veteran suicide rate.
Listen to Fran's podcast at The Jedburgh Podcast. Give him a follow on Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
Remarkable Quote:
"You can't wait for the last five hundred meters of the race to compete at the highest level. You need to go from the start. That's what it takes to WIN." ~ Fran Racioppi
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Listen to a new episode of Your Next Stop recorded live on Fireside with host Juliet Hahn featuring human behavior & performance coach, keynote speaker, business strategist, author, and community leader Brian Bogert.
There is a sleeping giant in every human. Awakening those giants within and turning them into legends, by helping individuals grab just what's out of their grasp, is Brian's purpose in this life. Brian is a heart surgeon without a blade. He does not start outside with what you need to do, he starts inside with who you are. In a world that is disconnected, Brian is revolutionizing how individuals, leaders, and entrepreneurs deeply connect with their authentic selves to achieve the best version of themselves.
As a human behavior and performance coach, speaker, and business strategist, Brian teaches disruptive strategies on how to create sustainable growth and lasting change personally and professionally. His life philosophies on "how to embrace pain to avoid suffering," "people before profits," and "who before what" have helped individuals and companies discover and activate their limitless potential. You can literally feel Brian and his team's authenticity and will be moved by their vision to impact a billion lives by 2045.
Learn more about Brian at BrianBogert.com and give him a follow on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and LinkedIn.
Remarkable Quote:
"I learned very early not to get stuck by what has happened to me, but instead get moved by what I can do with it. What I've learned all this time is that moved people move people. And so I'm on a big mission right now to move as many people as possible. That impact to a billion lives is only gonna happen collectively with everybody moving in the same direction." ~ Brian Bogert
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Remarkable Quotes:
"When you do something that you are passionate about, it's truly the most fulfilling type of work you do."
"I hope in life everyone can find the place that can make them feel at peace, inspired, happy, joyful, and truly fulfilled. I think that should be what you're seeking in life."
Guest Bio:
Meghan Donovan is the author of lifestyle site Wit & Whimsy and Paris, Perfected. She has traveled to Paris more than anywhere else in the world. Meghan first visited Paris as a child and fell in love with the City of Lights only to return over the years before living there for four months in 2005.
Nowadays, she travels every year from her home in New York to Paris to scope out the city's best-hidden gems, newest restaurants, favorite haunts for locals, and more.
Meghan created Paris, Perfected to share the best of Paris with her clients. Whether you're visiting Paris for the first time, have been many times, or have special, specific requests for your upcoming trip, Meghan will work closely with you to ensure you get the very best recommendations for your time in Paris.
With over 300 trips booked since July 2019 and glowing testimonials to boot - Paris, Perfected is the way to experience Paris at its best.
You can find Meghan at ParisPerfected.com and WitWhimsy.com. Follow her on Instagram, TikTok, and Pinterest.
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Listen to a new episode of Your Next Stop recorded live on Fireside with host Juliet Hahn featuring comedian Tammy Pescatelli.
Arguably one of the hardest working women in comedy today, Tammy Pescatelli brings brassy sexiness with a bold voice of witty sarcasm to her audiences, holding her own on the topics of sports, television, dating, and family life using tongue-in-cheek humor. She is relatable to every audience member-male & female. After seeing Tammy perform, nearly everyone wishes she was their best friend or sister!
Tammy Pescatelli's "Way After School Special (2020), was a highly anticipated follow-up to Tammy's award-winning one-hour Netflix special, "Finding the Funny."
Also in 2020, Tammy appeared on the highly acclaimed Showtime Comedy Special, "Women Of A Certain Age 2".
A popular clip from Tammy's appearance on the "Just For Laugh's Gala with Sebastian Maniscalco", continues to rack up views on the JFL Facebook and Youtube pages garnering close to 50 million views!
Signed to Git R' Done Records, Larry the Cable Guy's label, Tammy took funny back in time with her successful 2019 album release, "#TBT: THROWBACK TAMMY" which debuted at number 2 on iTunes and is in continuous play on SiriusXM and Pandora.
Tammy has recently appeared on The View, Guy's Grocery Games: Comics Compete, and The Howard Stern Show. She was chosen by Jenny McCarthy & Donnie Wahlberg to be a part of their Dirty, Sexy, Funny franchise that includes a hilarious all-female slate of standup comedians with a comedy special on EPIX/ Hulu, a touring show, and a pilot for A&E.
With a slew of other accolades under her belt – including co-creating, executive producing, writing, and starring in her own reality show, A Stand-Up Mother, on the WeTV Network – Tammy has appeared on numerous television shows including The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (4x), A&E's Donnie Loves Jenny (2x), Bravo's Rocco's Dinner Party, CBS's The Talk, NBC's Last Comic Standing: The Best of the Best, her own Comedy Central Presents Special which won the Comedy Central Standup Showdown, and many, many more.
Tammy's career jumpstarted after appearing - and being one of the Final 5 - on NBC's Last Comic Standing. Her season played out to more than 18 million viewers, garnering her a mass of loyal new fans that found themselves alongside the others she had created through years of touring the comedy clubs. It solidified her as one of the sharpest comics in the comedy world!
Pescatelli also guested a number of times on the syndicated Comics Unleashed show and was chosen for their "Best of the Best" which was a worldwide top-selling DVD. Internationally she was also featured on the Best of the Just For Laughs, in Montreal, Quebec Canada and The World Stands Up & The Laugh Factory in Europe and Australia.
Tammy's material is a fixture on the comedy channels of Sirius XM Radio and she is a regular guest of The Howard Stern Wrap Up Show, Jenny McCarthy's "Dirty, Sexy, Funny" (where she often co-hosts), TapOut and Bennington. She also makes frequent appearances on the syndicated The Bob & Tom Show.
Tammy recently starred as the flawed, yet lovable lead in "That's Amore"- an independent "grown-up rom-com" that will be released Feb 14, 2020. Her film credits include: Made in Brooklyn, I Am Battle Comic, Single: A Documentary Film and Everybody Wants to Be Italian. She was recently chosen to be a host on Circle TV's standup show called "Standup Nashville: Live From Zanies".
Also a regular on USO Comedy tours, Tammy is honored and humbled to have been privileged to have entertained our troops all over the world.
She currently continues to tour and sell out shows around the country.
Follow Tammy on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
Remarkable Quote:
"We take on the world collectively now [especially on social media] instead of one at a time." ~ Tammy Pescatelli
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"When you're actually honest with yourself and you can see where your trauma and lessons come from, and you can get that out of the way, then being yourself is much easier."
Beth Nydick is a former TV producer and New Jersey-based publicity and business strategist expert who develops entrepreneurs and media personalities, to go from "Undiscovered'' to Unforgettable".
Beth's 20+ years of media experience and her own TV cocktail segments, make her the perfect professional to take your business to the next level.
Beth is also the co-author of the top-rated cookbook Clean Cocktails: Righteous Recipes for the Modern Mixologist.
Follow her on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn. Check out her website BethNydick.com to download the Get Media Now Magazine.
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Listen to a new episode of Your Next Stop recorded live on Fireside with host Juliet Hahn featuring author, screenwriter, and publisher Lee Matthew Goldberg and literary agent Natalie Kimber.
Lee Matthew Goldberg is the author of nine novels including THE ANCESTOR and THE MENTOR and the YA series RUNAWAY TRAIN. His books are in various stages of development for film and TV off of his original scripts. He has been published in multiple languages and nominated for the Prix du Polar. VANISH ME will be out in Feb '22. After graduating with an MFA from the New School, his writing has also appeared as a contributor in Pipeline Artists, LitHub, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Millions, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, LitReactor, Mystery Tribune, The Big Idea, Monkeybicycle, Fiction Writers Review, Cagibi, Necessary Fiction, Hypertext, If My Book, Past Ten, the anthology Dirty Boulevard, The Montreal Review, The Adirondack Review, The New Plains Review, Maudlin House, Underwood Press, and others. He is the co-curator of The Guerrilla Lit Reading Series and lives in New York City. Follow him at LeeMatthewGoldberg.com, Twitter, Instagram, Amazon, and FRINGE.
Natalie Kimber is a literary agent with The Rights Factory and previously worked with the Georgetown University Booklab and Literary and Creative Artists in Washington, DC. She represents trade authors as well as academics, artists, and poets. She is passionate about bringing books into the world and developing them with authors from first ideas through publication. She is an editor for the literary journal Monologging, the organizer of the NYC Writers Circle, and the founder of the Weehawken Writers and Artists Studio. Follow her on Twitter.
Remarkable Quotes:
"As a writer, you're very alone. You write alone and put your work out there and you have a few people in your life. A lot of times it's a business relationship, and it's about money. To have people who really just care is invaluable." ~ Lee Matthew Goldberg
"Keep looking for the person who's gonna like your thing because eventually, if you just stay positive, you will get there." ~ Natalie Kimber
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