Cardale Jones cares about supporting others – on the field, and off. The youngest of six siblings, he gets incredibly honest about his upbringing in Cleveland, falling out with his birth mother, being adopted, and the mindset challenges he faced as a highly recruited prep football player. We get an on-field perspective from behind the facemask of one of the most legendary Buckeye quarterbacks ever – getting thrown into that initial Michigan game, the unbelievable 2014 championship run, his time ...
Feb 06, 2023•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 141
In his 27 years as a divorce lawyer, Andrew Grossman has learned a few things about human connection. In fact, knowing him personally for most of his life, I’ve come to learn a few things about him, too. Andrew and his brother are two of my very best friends; our families and greater social networks are very much intertwined – making this a unique twist on our usual interview format. Skating through most of school, he was set on his current path, strangely enough, by a tornado in Kansas – a chai...
Jan 30, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 140
The expansion of your conscious creation is endless. Join me for a second AMA chat as we delve deeper into my own unique human experience through the submissions of our listeners and members of the Gravity community. The gradual widening concept and greater mission of Gravity as a brand, development progress on Phase 2, and initial reactions to Intel’s move into the city are covered. We get a little personal, too, as I get into my added emphasis on healthy boundaries and prioritizing my most pre...
Jan 23, 2023•35 min•Ep. 139
Rolling into a new year is always a good time to reflect on what was, what is, and what can be. It’s also a good time to stretch and evolve yourself, to get uncomfortable again after unwinding for another holiday season with friends and family. For me, that means getting a little vulnerable here on the podcast with a solo AMA session. We’ve done these in the past, and I’m always so surprised and enthused with the submissions we get. You all have such a way of prompting ideas and new connections,...
Jan 16, 2023•37 min•Ep. 138
With the snow finally piling up in Columbus, I thought it appropriate to reflect some of the warmth and expansion I’ve experienced as a direct result of producing this podcast, of working with and knowing so many of you, and of having the great honor of sharing the journey of life. At the end of the day (and of the year) this show is for you and we want you to be a part of it. If you know of anyone with a story to tell that you think would be a good fit for our format, please pass them our way. ...
Dec 26, 2022•4 min•Ep. 137
Rex Elsass knows that the medicine is out there. Today's guest on the Gravity Podcast is Rex Elsass. Rex and I have recently gotten to know each other through a mutual friend and have a lot of shared passions around mental health and the different modalities out there that can really be helpful to people. From a very young age, Rex had the desire to be a congressman. Through that inspiration, his dream evolved into helping others win elections, which he'd done successfully for decades while buil...
Dec 19, 2022•55 min•Ep. 136
Matt Scantand is a world builder. And he’s today’s guest on the Gravity Podcast. Matt is the Founder and CEO at AndHealth, a digital health company with the mission of helping people reverse chronic disease. Previously, he was Co-Founder and CEO of CoverMyMeds, one of the largest and fastest growing healthcare technology companies in the United States. A dyslexic kid who struggled in school and rebelled against the world, he sits across from me today to explain how the impact of his work is chan...
Dec 12, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 135
Family, first. Now and always. This one’s all about family support and overcoming addiction. Growing up as the oldest of five kids, Dr. Keegan Caldwell watched his parents struggle with money. He also picked up on his father’s gift for conversation – leading him to wield the trait for his own professional benefit as a lawyer (and as a doctor). Early in adulthood, and again later on, Keegan found himself struggling with a serious opiate addiction – admitting he lacked the mindset tools to deal wi...
Dec 05, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 134
Stillness is always waiting for Christopher Celeste. Today, we’re joined by an overdue name on the Gravity guestlist, Christopher Celeste, a very near and dear friend of mine. He holds a special place in my heart, in my life, and in the greater Gravity story – having a major influence on the brand’s name and ethos. We go back to the beginning, talking about his being born in India and how that shaped him from an energetic standpoint, how themes from Jerry MaGuire changed his life forever, and pa...
Nov 28, 2022•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 133
Sarah Gormley started an art gallery by accident. Today's guest is the owner and founder of Sarah Gormley Gallery, a contemporary art gallery that operates from the belief that original art can be a source of joy for everyone. She opened the gallery in 2019, 25 years after her grandmother gifted Sarah with her first piece of art. But, as we tend to do on this show, we go a lot further back than that to learn more about who she is today. Knowing it was time to rest and reset amidst the illness an...
Nov 21, 2022•47 min•Ep. 132
Chor Boogie speaks in rhythm through splashes of color. A renowned artist in the medium of spray paint, Chor Boogie, aka The Color Shaman, joins the show today for a deep dive into creativity and his own personal journey. Self-taught from the age of five, he always wanted to be an artist. Throughout his life, he’s redefined the term to envelop more healing, more learning, and a deeply communicative approach – spotlighting important issues like: race, class, and gender; neo imperialism; corporate...
Nov 14, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 131
The same person she always was, let’s get to know Dr. Amy Acton. Rising to prominence with her off-script, endearing, and authentic press conferences during the height of the COVID pandemic as Director of the Ohio Department of Health, Dr. Amy Acton explains that this new, public, understanding of who she is falls exactly in line with who she’s always been. In today’s episode, we sit down for an honest and eye opening conversation on her childhood, one of severe neglect and poverty, the inspirat...
Nov 07, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 130
His parents used to call him Honest Abe. As a really grounded and thoughtful young kid, Joe Apgar played sports, collected baseball cards, and looked up to his grandfather, a man whose steadfast virtuousness lives on in family legend – as told by Joe. He describes his childhood as idyllic and loving, all supported by a strong sense of community in his smalltown home. But, as we know well, trauma escapes no one. And how we let these experiences shape us is what matters most at the end of the day....
Oct 31, 2022•57 min•Ep. 129
The numbers are astounding and the stories are heartbreaking. Fentanyl-associated incidents are the number one cause of death for people aged eighteen to forty-five in America – more than car accidents, more than illness, more than anything – and today’s guest, Beth Weinstock is bravely doing something about it. We first talk about her early career as a doctor, owning and growing her own practice for seventeen years, and how her story came full circle – back to creativity and disruption after a ...
Oct 24, 2022•57 min•Ep. 128
John Marsh has a story to tell. Many of them, in fact. He joins Gravity today for an all-time episode, packed with rich, descriptive storytelling, traumas and successes, heartbreak, redemption – even conscious development – and it all comes back to love. John’s seen and done some things in his time on earth, and is incredibly gracious in this honest retelling of his life and learned lessons. We start by reliving his rebellious teen years, where John’s experiences, while unconscious, made a deep ...
Oct 17, 2022•55 min•Ep. 127
The Gravity Podcast is back with a new twist on a recurring favorite guest of mine, Chet Scott. I invited Chet to bring his own topic, or topics, to the interview table today – and he offered the interesting and expansive theme of: Endurance. Delving deeper than any other episode in the past year or so, Chet prompts me to unpack my own past – the decisions, inspirations, and risks that brought me to today. The back-and-forth nature of our conversation paints a picture of the roots of endurance t...
Oct 10, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 126
Amy Landino shares how she learned to live with intention and developed her morning habits, how that connects to her past, and how she uses her experiences as fuel to form connections and build her audience. To learn more about intentional living, and for the complete show notes, visit: gravityproject.com Resources: Learn more at amylandino.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/schmittastic Watch: AmyTV Read: Good Morning, Good Life Read: Vlog Like a Boss: How to Kill it Online with Video Blogging Gr...
Aug 22, 2022•1 hr 3 min
Bob Roth is one of the most experienced and sought after meditation teachers in the US. For nearly 50 years, Bob has taught transcendental meditation to many, many thousands of people. He’s the author of the New York Times bestseller “Strength in Stillness: The Power of Transcendental Meditation” and the CEO of the David Lynch Foundation, a global non-profit which has taught meditation to more than one million at risk adults and youth in 35 countries. When he saw Robert Kennedy speak at the Civi...
Aug 15, 2022•56 min
Josh Trent, founder of Wellness Force Media and host of Wellness Force Radio , has gone through a lot in his life — like every one of us — but he’s also done the work to acknowledge his trauma and make it work for him, which is a step that we can all benefit from but not a lot of us are willing to or know how to take. Luckily, Josh has a knack for breaking this stuff down and making the choice to change feel accessible. It isn’t easy. It will require you to live more intentionally and consciousl...
Aug 08, 2022•1 hr 17 min
Content warning: this episode features graphic descriptions of violence and domestic abuse. Katy Smith is Business Editor at The Columbus Dispatch and Editor of Columbus CEO magazine. She has been a journalist for more than 20 years, most of those covering business in Columbus. She grew up in Bexley and now lives in Clintonville in a duplex with her husband Nick, her rescue cat Dexter, and her brother Joe, who she cares for. So, Katy has been sharing other people’s stories for about 20 years now...
Aug 01, 2022•52 min
David Meltzer is the co-founder of Sports 1 Marketing and the former CEO of the Leigh Steinberg Sports & Entertainment agency, which served as the inspiration for the movie “Jerry Maguire.” His life’s mission is to empower over one billion people to be happy, a simple-yet-powerful mission that has led him on an incredible journey to provide one thing: Value. What Brett asks: [01:37] Can you tell us about what jumps out from your childhood? [09:32] How did your relationship with your environm...
Jul 25, 2022•56 min
Learn the story of how pizza changed Jim Grote’s life — and, as a result, thousands of lives around the world — and how Jim is now helping others create businesses based in unconditional love. Jim is the founder of Donatos Pizza and the founder of the EDGE Innovation Hub. What Brett asks: [3:15] How did Jim’s life journey lead to his work with Donatos and the community? [13:20] When Jim was, as a teenager, given the offer to buy the pizza place he worked at, was he thinking about how it would af...
Jul 18, 2022•1 hr 31 min
As we’ve settled into the summer of 2022, it’s as good a time as any to take a look at the year’s most fascinating Gravity interviews, so far. It’s been a great batch of episodes already, as we crossed the 100-episode mark and beyond, and we have some extra special content planned coming up this fall. In this compilation episode, we’ve got a little Columbus, some web3, and a whole lot of inspiration. Don’t miss these full interviews by searching the back catalog and subscribe to the show on your...
Jul 11, 2022•27 min•Ep. 125
My guest today is Brian Mohr, CEO and co-founder of Anthym, and board member and President Emeritus of the Arizona chapter of Conscious Capitalism. Like many past guests on the show, Brian’s career and adulthood was shaped by an impactful experience participating in team sports in high school. Brain was part of a swim team that went all four years undefeated, which really is some accomplishment. As you might imagine, he’s not used to losing. And he’s been using the lessons he picked up in the po...
Jul 04, 2022•1 hr•Ep. 124
My guest today is Kenny McDonald, third president and CEO of the Columbus Partnership, a civic organization of our city’s top business leaders. His current day-to-day environment varies greatly from his early childhood experience, living on a ranch in Eastern Montana – which sounds like an episode straight out of Yellowstone. This small town upbringing, and his achievements playing team sports, shaped the man, and the leader, he is today. In this episode, we learn how he’s translated those quali...
Jun 27, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 123
Today’s guest on the Gravity podcast gives us another fascinating look into the complex human mind and how it works. Kurt Malkoff was born in Youngstown, Ohio, to two restaurateur parents that he says gave him everything but limits. He has a BA, MA, and PhD from Ohio State University, is a clinical psychologist, and the founder of Matrix Psychological Services here in Columbus, one of the oldest, independently-owned psychological practices in the country.. We discuss how he went from being an un...
Jun 20, 2022•57 min•Ep. 122
My guest for today’s episode of the Gravity Podcast is my friend, Kumi Walker, technologist, advisor, investor and co-founder of Embedded Capital. Like all of my guests, a few simple bio lines don't do justice to this man’s impact on his environment and the people close to him. Kumi’s story – as a man of color born into a family of high achievement and intellectualism – is endlessly fascinating. It starts in the very first planned community, in Maryland, designed by James Rouse. It was there tha...
Jun 13, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 121
Chet Scott is back to untangle the issues of the world, of our own, and of the future – as has become the norm on about a monthly basis. We get deep on instinct vs. intellect, especially as they relate to coaching and parenting, before jumping from cloud to cloud with questions and comments on the importance of conflict in innovation, diversity of thought in team building, the transfer portal mentality, and loving harder as a way to seek, and find, truth. There’s no shortage of innate curiosity ...
Jun 06, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 120
Tobi Ewing is an artist, maker, guide, and so much more. Her work flows between several mediums at the intersection of art, design, and wellbeing, including painting, textile and fiber art, interior design, storytelling, meditation, and body care. Tobi is personally inspired by the possibilities of divine beauty, imagination, and intentional care – and she uses her art to express a desire to rethink the wellness industry. Growing up as the oldest of three, born to teenage parents, she had the un...
May 30, 2022•51 min•Ep. 119
Mike Malatesta grew up in a small world. He moved four times before the age of ten, each time practically within the same neighborhood. In middle school, he became a good enough football player that he was able to get into a nice private school for high school – a drastic change which he resisted at first. There, he felt that he was behind his peers in some ways. There were so many kids from different backgrounds, many with much more money than he grew up with. But he quickly learned that when h...
May 23, 2022•58 min•Ep. 118
