Dr. Garth Davis is a leader in the field of bariatric medicine, He is recognized as a Texas Monthly Super Doc and starred with his father, Dr. Robert Davis, on the hit show docu-reality medical series, BIG MEDICINE. He is the author of the book Proteinaholic and competes in Ironman events.
Billy Mann is dedicated to the proposition that a Hit Life is richer than the pursuit of a Hit Song alone. He is however one of America’s most celebrated songwriters and producers having worked with Pink, John Legend, Celine Dion, and many others. He has been a top executive at EMI and President of Creative for BMG North America. He is a successful entrepreneur heading up the management firm Manncom as well as Green & Bloom/Topline a publishing venture and The Colors You Like which provides ...
Eric Hinman is an entrepreneur, influencer, 2x Kona Ironman, and CrossFit Athlete. Eric loves helping brands that he’s passionate about share their products services, messages and stories. A prolific social media influencer, Eric is also the founder of Urban Life Athlete, Original Grainsters and Fellow Gent. Listen to Eric talk about structure, discipline, health, wellness and balance.
On the Midlife Male podcast today, I have Jeff Mahin, chef and partner at Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises, one of the top restaurant groups in the country. He is the driving force of Stella Barra Pizzeria, one of my favorite places out in Santa Monica, my family and I love it. If you're out there, check it out, it’s some incredible pizza. He's also the founder of a super cool new company called Split Nutrition. For years, Jeff was living by the mantra that taste trumps nutrition but was suffer...
Super excited for this week's show, I've got Mr. P.J. Nestler joining me. P.J. is the director of performance at XPT, Extreme Performance Training. If you are not familiar check out XPTlife.com and listen to the rest of this podcast, because P.J. is going to fill you in on what XPT life is all about. First, let me tell you a little bit about XPT and my experience with it. I got introduced to XPT through a buddy of mine named Justin Singer, he owns Mechanics Calisthenics down here in Houston, Tex...
Today on the podcast, musician and author of "Dad's Know Best" John Luzzi joins the show!
Aaron Hinde, the Co-Founder and President of Life Aid Beverage Company, joins the show!
Joseph Maroon is an American neurosurgeon, author, and triathlon athlete. He is the professor and vice chairman of the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and is the current Medical Director of WWE. He is a sports medicine expert and innovator in concussion management, personal fitness and nutrition. As an Ironman triathlete, he lives and breathes his own advice. He is the author of Square One: A Simple Guide to a Balanced Life. Dr. Maroon joins me ...
I’m a huge fan of Greats Brand sneakers. I own 9 pairs of their Royale (yes, I have a sneaker problem…) so this is a huge pleasure for me to have Greats CEO and Founder on the podcast to talk to the man himself Ryan Babenzien about his passion for footwear, how he got Greats started, having the balls to call the company Greats, growing up on Long Island, fashion and what building an iconic brand really means and the loneliness and challenges of being an entrepreneur. In 2013 Ryan Babenzien found...
Seth Weisser, the co-founder of "What Goes Around Comes Around" joins the podcast!
Cassidy Phillips is the founder and former CEO of Trigger Point Therapy. He's also the author of Blissful Ignorance and currently hosts the Blissful Ignorance Podcast.
Kyle Noonan, the Co-Founder of Free Range Concepts joins the podcast today!
Seamus Mullen is an award-winning New York chef, restaurateur and cookbook author known for his inventive yet approachable Spanish cuisine, he is also a leading authority on health and wellness. Seamus opened his first solo restaurant Tertulia in Manhattan in 2011, which was awarded two stars from The New York Times and was a finalist for the James Beard Foundation Award for Best New Restaurant. In 2013, he opened El Colmado, a Spanish tapas and wine bar at Gotham West Market, a food hall in New...
Brian Becker is an entertainment industry veteran with more than 35 years of experience building and managing worldwide live entertainment businesses. Currently, BASE’s productions include: Absinthe at Caesars Palace Plaza, Mat Franco Magic Reinvented Nightly at the Linq Las Vegas and Magic Mike Live at Hard Rock Resort. Current exhibitions include: Battle For Texas: The Experience at Rivercenter San Antonio. BASE programs The Planet Hollywood Showroom in Las Vegas and two theaters at Marina Bay...
After spending years in different industries chasing their previous ideas of "success" in some of the world’s busiest cities, Adriaan and Ret came to the realization that there is something fundamentally broken about the way we, as a modern society, are approaching our health and well-being. The conclusion that we are feeling the consequences of device addiction, stress, anxiety, and a multitude of other ailments that have come to rule our lives and are too quick to turn to doctors and prescript...
Jonathan Kim, the COO of Gringos and Jimmy Changas, joins the podcast!
My good friend and Former heavyweight boxing champion Lou Savarese joins me this week on The Midlife Male Podcast. Lou has recently opened his second boxing gym, Saverese Fight Fit, in West University Place, Houston Texas. It’s a high end boutique fitness studio that centers around boxing as a workout and getting that “Fight Fit” body. Boxing for fitness is in the midst of a major push and growing in popularity across the country and we get into detail about this on the show. It’s also a compare...
My guest today is Jim Donnelly, Founder & CEO of Restore Hyper Wellness & Cryotherapy. A former college athlete Jim continues to push himself with a variety of fitness challenges. He is the consummate entrepreneur, co-founder of IgoUgo.com , winner of a Webby Award as the top travel website in the U.S. Since then Jim has worked almost exclusively in the luxury retail market building high-end luxury condos (for homeowners including Michael Jordan, Cam Newton and Chris Daughtry), salons, s...
Mike Mckim is the CEO and Founder of Cuvee Coffee, Austin Texas. Sat down with Mike Mckim at his Cuvee Coffee bar on East 6th street in Austin Texas last week and had a great time hearing his story, vision for the company, lessons learned (some the hard way) successes and failures. Mike is a Navy Veteran, Entrepreneur, Husband, Father, Philanthropist and all around great guy. Aside from being the CEO and Founder of Cuvee Coffee, a brand that is largely credited as pioneering the craft coffee bus...
Today, my good friend Brian Ching is my guest. Brian is a retired professional soccer player who played for twelve years in Major League Soccer and represented the U.S. national team for eight years. He was the 16th pick by the LA Galaxy in the 2001 MLS Superdraft and in 2006 relocated to Houston to join the Houston Dynamo where he led the team to back-to-back MLS Cup Championships in 2006 and 2007 and four MLS finals overall. A six-time MLS All-Star, Ching retired from professional soccer in 20...
Jordan Strouse has practiced law since 2009. Jordan previously was in-house counsel with a publicly traded international land and offshore drilling contractor, and most recently was based in Cape Town, South Africa as Regional General Counsel for the Sub-Saharan Africa operations of one of the world's largest oilfield service manufacturers and service providers. Jordan's primary expertise is as transactional and business counsel in the oil & gas industry, but has counseled start-ups, entrepr...
Entrepreneur Shareef Malnik is one of the country’s top restaurateurs. The Forge is Malnik’s celebrated, award-winning steakhouse. He has also owned the widely popular nightclubs: Jimmy’z, Cuba Club, Glass and Café Nostalgia. By day, Malnik is the Chairman of Nextwave Funding, which provides funding to thousands of small and mid-sized companies across the nation. “I work with a cross-section of businesses across the country and feel rewarded when I see our capital help their companies thrive and...
Dylan Seff is the Co-Head of Trading in America’s for Vitol Inc. - one of the world’s largest energy trading firms. Dylan’s a Harvard grad, former wrestler, current boxer, husband, father and has even dabbled in some standup comedy along the way. He’s a big time philanthropist being heavily involved with Epilepsy.org and recently stepped back into the ring going toe to toe with other energy industry executives to fight against child abuse raising over $1 million for the cause. Along with his wif...
Ever go to work out, go for a run, a walk, any type of activity and there’s just no good place for your keys, your phone, maybe even a credit card or a few bucks….Yeah, been there…constantly. It’s frustrating…Terry White had the same frustration. With his keys in his sock and a phone bouncing in his shorts, he couldn’t focus. That frustration sparked an idea. From day 1, Terry’s vision has been to empower people to pursue an active way of life. Thus, WOLACO – Way of Life Athletic Company. Terry ...
After Daniel Nicholson tasted coconut-milk-based ice cream Nadamoo for the first time in 2008, he wanted to get involved with the startup. I first met Daniel around this time, the company was super small and sharing office space with Chameleon Cold Brew. I was totally hooked after my first taste. First, Daniel introduced Nadamoo to his family, who were so impressed with the product and branding that they invested in the company. He then convinced the company's founder to let him become its compt...
An entrepreneur and competitor, Adam Greenfeld found himself looking for a safe tool that made him feel unstoppable at the office and in life. He and his friend and partner, Alex Cesaria had for years, been obsessed with finding a way to maximize their performance as people. Like most entrepreneurs they started THE GO LIFE because of a need to find something that would make them perform that was also clean, safe and pure. Having tried many of the alternatives at the time, they determined that “w...
Creative, entrepreneurial, family oriented, philanthropic, ambitious and grounded. These are words I’d use to describe Aly Valiani. In 2006, Aly left the corporate world to found New Horizons Hospitality and has since successfully developed five properties, bringing the total portfolio to eight properties owned, and managed by New Horizons. Aly has a Bachelor’s of Business Administration from The University of Texas at Austin with a degree in Management. Since the formation of New Horizons, Aly'...
Darryl Lyons knows what it means to be a Midlife Male, trying to balance finances, family and business. I was nervous for this interview because I know I need help with money, managing finances and Darryl’s the real deal. His book, 18 to 80 cuts right to it with great advice and insight into such areas as The Money Side of Marriage, Budgeting For Those Not Good At Budgeting and Adult Peer Pressure. Darryl’s San Antonio, Texas company PAX Financial Group is an Inc 5000 “Fastest Growing Company” a...
On this week’s Midlife Male Podcast my guest is Steven Kaufman; an accomplished investor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He measures his success by how much the people around him prosper. Steven manages his family assets with a focus on thesis-driven opportunistic investments in three asset classes which include real estate financing, real estate investment, and private equity in small growth-companies. Steven has held C-Level positions in various financing enterprises for 18 years and has be...
Matt D’Amour is the Chief Wellness Carrier at Tribe 9 Foods. Tribe 9 creates delicious, nourishing, and functional food to improve the lives of others. Tribe 9 Foods is comprised of Ona, RP’s Pasta Co., Taste Republic and YumButter. Prior to merging these brands together to form Tribe 9 Matt was the Co-Founder of YumButter, a world changing brand of nut butters. This stuff is seriously super good! On this episode of The Midlife Male Podcast Matt talks about starting YumButter and the challenges ...
