ROAD TO GROWTH : Success as an Entrepreneur
“Road to Growth: success as an entrepreneur” is a podcast that focuses on the struggles that all entrepreneurs go through. Each week we will interview different business owners, hear their stories of adversity and how they worked through them.
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Episodes
Friday May 03, 2019
Friday May 03, 2019
Lou began his career in entertainment managing bands and promoting shows in High School. Lou DJ’d at local clubs including the early days of Playskool. He worked on groundbreaking shows on 91X FM in the late 80’s. By 1990 Lou was producing and programming various specialty shows on 91X and turning on L.A. A&R to the best in new music out of San Diego. The next 6 years Lou’s show was a platform for a wave of bands to get signed. Lou spent time coordinating, marketing and managing over 40 U.S. tours and landed in Los Angeles in the late 90’s doing A&R and publishing for a UK and Japan based company. Lou then moved to an indie label started by the William Morris Agency where he quickly rose from A&R to Vice President. He also oversaw and budgeted over 40 U.S. tours including artists’ tours with The Black Crowes, Goo Goo Dolls, Tonic and Japan dates with Keanu Reeves’ band Dogstar.
In 2005 Lou and Carly started Love Machine Films to build a company that would use their talents to create projects each year that make a difference in the world. Today the Award Winning Love Machine Films has produced over 150 films and partnered to raise many millions of dollars for causes and non-profits. LMF has an award winning feature documentary and two other feature docs going to festivals. Lou is currently Executive Producer at Love Machine Films, promotes music and cause related events with Machina De Amor and is a Co-Host and Segment producer on 91X Loudspeaker. Lou is also producing webisodes about local music; “91 Seconds with Lou Niles” and “In Your Neighborhood with Lou Niles”. Lou can be seen interviewed in the new hit documentary “It’s Gonna Blow!!!: The San Diego Music Underground 1986-1996”.
Wednesday May 01, 2019
Wednesday May 01, 2019
Jim Moran is the founder and managing partner of ValueStreet Equity Partners. After a decade in the fast-paced world of tech, Jim founded ValueStreet to invest in businesses that could be around forever. He lives in San Diego with his wife and son.
Tuesday Apr 30, 2019
Tuesday Apr 30, 2019
Roxy Prima and Phoebe Cornog are the co-founders of Pandr Design Co., Drunk on Lettering, and Ladies Who Paint. Roxy is originally from San Diego, CA, while Phoebe was born and raised in Philadelphia, PA. The two have backgrounds in graphic design and share a love of hand lettering, which they discovered when they met via Instagram in 2015. After planning lettering meet-ups for San Diegans and doing a few collaborations, Roxy and Phoebe founded their business in the spring of 2016.
At Pandr they create murals for businesses that help boost their social media presence. Through the use of bright colors and bold letterforms, they create large scale art pieces that customers enjoy photographing. When they're not painting, Phoebe and Roxy can be found interviewing notable designers and artists for their podcast, Drunk on Lettering. Each week they speak with a different interviewee over drinks via Skype.
Their experience with Pandr and DOL recently drove them to found the non-profit, Ladies Who Paint. Ladies Who Paint is a 501(c)(3) dedicated to empowering female muralists, street artists, and sign painters. In September 2019, they will be organizing the first ever all-female mural walk in San Diego. Ten female artists from all over the world will be flown in to each paint a mural in the East Village neighborhood.
Friday Apr 26, 2019
Friday Apr 26, 2019
Dr. Benjamin DeLuca:
Benjamin Deluca started his career in the health and fitness industry in 2000 as a personal trainer. He worked in all facets of the industry specializing in the development of personal training departments. His passion for learning and helping people led him to seek more knowledge and eventually obtain a doctorate in chiropractic medicine, expanding his scope of practice to better help those in pain.
He believes that managing pain requires a thoughtful approach seeking out the root of the problem and correcting it. "The most satisfying aspect of my career is teaching people how to take control of their destiny by educating them on corrective movement patterns and lifestyle change."
Working with people and creating solutions together leads towards better outcomes. He currently holds corrective exercise and performance enhancement certifications through NASM as well as being full body active release certified (ART). By combining his past experiences in fitness and clinical skills from this doctorate, he strives to put together individualized wellness plans to help people maximize both short and long term success.
Dr. Donald Mull:
Dr. Mull has grown up playing multiple sports, eventually playing college football for the University of La Verne here in Southern California. Being active his entire life, he understands how important it is to keep pain from reaching physical goals. Through his own injuries, his passion now lies in educating and providing care for your nagging injuries that keep you from living the active lifestyle you desire.
He earned a Bachelor's degree in Kinesiology at the University of La Verne and a Doctorate of Chiropractic at Southern California University. He specializes in rehab therapy, certified through Rehab 2 Performance.
"Your goals are always placed on my highest priority. However we can get you to achieve your health and fitness goals ultimately dictates your treatment plan. This allows you to maintain safe activity levels that will encourage long term health and wellness."
His experience and education allows him to aid the recovery process and educate you in the introduction of safe, pain FREE activity. He places priority on educating patients how to take your health into your own hands through movement and minor lifestyle modifications.
Tuesday Apr 23, 2019
Tuesday Apr 23, 2019
Jim Moran is the founder and managing partner of ValueStreet Equity Partners. After a decade in the fast-paced world of tech, Jim founded ValueStreet to invest in businesses that could be around forever. He lives in San Diego with his wife and son.
If you know a entrepreneur in the San Diego market that has a unique story of over coming adversity we would love to share their story. Call Vinnie SD at 858-345-7829
Friday Apr 19, 2019
Friday Apr 19, 2019
Her name is Claudia and she was born and raised in the San Fernando Valley.Her friends call her Sew Loka, because her stitch game is insane.Her family is everything to her and they are the reason she works so hard.My daughter keeps me young and inspired.Sewing, creating and designing are her superpowers.Chocolate is her kryptonite.
Follow her on Instagram @sewloka
If you know a entrepreneur in the San Diego market that has a unique story of over coming adversity we would love to share their story. Call Vinnie SD at 858-345-7829
Tuesday Apr 16, 2019
Tuesday Apr 16, 2019
Tommy played sports from the age of 6 until he graduated high school in 2000. This is when he found his love for the gym and weight training. He got his first gym membership in 2000 and the rest is history.
Tommy moved to San Diego from Sacramento to attend San Diego State University in 2000. He graduated in 2005 with a Real Estate Finance degree. After a few years of playing the finance field he realized that fitness was his calling. He started training clients in 2009 as he prepared for his first NPC bodybuilding show. Since then he has competed in 15 NPC shows and has placed top 5 in all of them. He has also helped dozens of athletes prep for NPC contests with consistent high placings and even overall wins. He is one of the most well know nutrition experts and trainers in the bodybuilding industry. In addition to taking competitors to the stage, he also has numerous lifestyle clients.
Tommy Reynolds is now the proud co-Founder of Hardcore Nutrition - a thriving supplement company, trainer and Owner/Partner in 7 Hardcore Fitness locations and is a constant inspiration all across San Diego and beyond. He now is mainly focused on reaching as many people as possible so he can help them reach their fitness goals. His goal now is to impact the communities in a positive manner by helping people gain confidence and feel better about themselves through health and fitness. Hardcore Fitness is the perfect platform for him to reach is own personal goals.
If you know a entrepreneur in the San Diego market that has a unique story of over coming adversity we would love to share their story. Call Vinnie SD at 858-345-7829
Friday Apr 12, 2019
Friday Apr 12, 2019
Ashley is the owner of ENVI Marketing, a social media marketing agency in San Diego, that specializes in connecting small business owners with their target audience. Since ENVI Marketing’s inception in January 2017, Ashley has provided her clients with impeccable social media management, content creation, and campaign strategy - while maintaining unparalleled client support.
If you know a entrepreneur in the San Diego market that has a unique story of over coming adversity we would love to share their story. Call Vinnie SD at 858-345-7829
Tuesday Apr 09, 2019
Tuesday Apr 09, 2019
Eduardo M Pulido is a young latin american born in Fountain Valley, CA right outside of Santa Ana and raised most of his life in Riverside, CA. He started working with his father at a very young age doing handy work and landscaping. He soon found his passion in the arts of music and film. He studied acting in his early days as a kid and since then has been on national tv shows like People’s Magazine Investigates on the Discovery ID Channel, a Amazon Prime Series “Chosen Kin” Origins that is being currently nominated for the Emmy’s in 2019, and other films.
He has always had an entrepreneur spirit inspired by his father who took an early retirement from the LA Times to start up his own sports bar and other businesses since then. Eduardo has been in multiple businesses including fire safety protection, the auto industry, network marketing, financing, and of course the entertainment industry. This to name a few of what else is to come.
If you know a entrepreneur in the San Diego market that has a unique story of over coming adversity we would love to share their story. Call Vinnie SD at 858-345-7829
Friday Apr 05, 2019
Friday Apr 05, 2019
Harry's dedication to transformation led him to travel the world. Over the last decade he lived with and learned from monks, yogis, martial arts masters, professors, and psychologists. Harry practiced thousands of hours of meditation and received a Religious Studies degree from the University of Michigan. He studied Tai Chi, Qi Gong, Kriya Yoga, meditation, mindfulness, and psychology. Harry also took part in shamanic ceremonies, tribal ceremonies, plant-medicine ceremonies, and funeral ceremonies ranging from China to Ghana to Indonesia to California. The culmination of these experiences led Harry to found Consciously.org, where he and Melanie McDaniel guide people to transformation in mind, body, and spirit.
If you know a entrepreneur in the San Diego market that has a unique story of over coming adversity we would love to share their story. Call Vinnie SD at 858-345-7829