About this podcast
REAL = Real Examples Altering Lives Mentors ⭐️ We shed light on mentors and leaders who are impacting lives and creating success stories for everyone, most especially the youth.
Episodes
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- $75M in Bronx Real Estate and One Simple Rule | Steven Padernacht on REAL Mentors Podcast Ep 108 · 51 min · Season 1 Episode 108The best time to buy real estate was yesterday. That is the one rule Steven Padernacht has built his entire career on and after closing over $75 million in sales in one of the…
- Breaking the Cycle: What It Really Means to Be a Dad Today | Gerardo Santana on REAL Mentors Podcast EP 107 · 46 min · Season 1 Episode 107Gerardo Santana served in Afghanistan, taught high school in the Bronx for seven years and was good at doing what a lot of men are good at pushing everything down and keeping it…
- 125 Pounds Lost and a Wellness Empire Built | Anthony & Tereza Lolli on REAL Mentors Podcast Ep 106 · 60 min · Season 1 Episode 106Anthony Lolli was driving a Rolls Royce and living in a mini mansion in Brooklyn when he was slowly eating himself to death. He knew it. His wife Tereza knew it. His kids knew…
- He Quit at 40 to Chase Art and Almost Lost Everything | Don Donneruno on REAL Mentors Podcast Ep 105 · 1 h 6 min · Season 1 Episode 105Don Donneruno grew up in New York City during the graffiti movement of the early 80s. Every year in school when they asked what he wanted to be he wrote artist. Every adult…
- Over $1 Billion to the Businesses Banks Won't Touch | Steven Edisis on REAL Mentors Podcast Ep 104 · 39 min · Season 1 Episode 104Steven Edisis grew up in Edison New Jersey watching his family scrape by through the entire decade of the 1970s. By college he was throwing black paint parties on tennis courts…
- Why High Achievers Chase Their Father's Approval | Shawn French on REAL Mentors Podcast Ep 102 · 40 min · Season 1 Episode 103Shawn French earned an athletic scholarship to LSU, became a top 1% performer in medical device sales and built one of the top 0.5 percent ranked podcasts in the world. By every…
- Firefighter Who Exposed the Broken Healthcare System | Sam Tejada on REAL Mentors Podcast Ep 102 · 55 min · Season 1 Episode 102Sam Tejada spent 12 years as a firefighter paramedic watching the same people call 911 over and over. Not because the system was failing them. Because the system was working…
- He Raised $30M & Says Most Marketing is a Waste of Money | Max Mayes on REAL Mentors Podcast EP 101 · 55 min · Season 1 Episode 101Max Mayes built a construction company to $1.6 million a month in under six months then walked away from it. He has raised over $30 million across venture, real estate and…
- From Harder Than Life to Happier Than Life | Kelly Siegel on REAL Mentors Podcast EP 100 · 53 min · Season 1 Episode 100Kelly Siegel already wrote the book on grinding through pain. Harder Than Life was the story of weaponizing poverty, abuse and addiction to build a successful company. Then he…
- Homeless Teen Mom to Army Veteran to Founder | Madeline Martinez on REAL Mentors Podcast 99 EP · 32 min · Season 1 Episode 99Madeline Martinez was a teenage mother living in the New York City shelter system before she was old enough to graduate high school. She got her GED the same year she would have…
- Crack at 9, Juvie at 16, Built a $100M Recovery Empire | Adam Roth on REAL Mentors Podcast Ep 98 · 54 min · Season 1 Episode 98Adam Roth was smoking weed stolen from his mother at nine years old. His father taught him how to smoke crack. Anger was the only emotion he knew because at twelve years old he…
- Spiritual Fitness and the Secret to Your Potential | Adam Jablin on REAL Mentors Podcast Ep 98 · 51 min · Season 1 Episode 97Adam Jablin was standing in a room full of people who loved him, listening to them read letters about who he was and begging him to get help. His only thought in that moment was…
- Born 3 Months Early With Cerebral Palsy, Now a Global Advocate | Kevin McShan on REAL Mentors Podcast EP 94 · 32 min · Season 1 Episode 96Kevin McShan was born three months premature with cerebral palsy. At nine years old a doctor told him he would never walk without assistance. What happened next is what this…
- Fired From His Own Company Then Built a Peptide Empire | Justin Prince on REAL Mentors Podcast Ep 95 · 48 min · Season 1 Episode 95Justin Prince moved thirteen times before he was a teenager. No college degree, no professional background, making pizzas and doing construction work before he found his way into…
- How to Train Your Mind for Lasting Change | Jen Clearwater and Cindy O'Connell on REAL Mentors Ep 94 · 35 min · Season 1 Episode 94Most people will grind for hours in the gym but refuse to sit still with their own thoughts for five minutes. Jennifer Clearwater and Cindy O'Connell have spent a combined four…
- Retired at 35, Got Bored, Then Built an Empire | Jeff Fieldstad on REAL Mentors Podcast Ep 93 · 40 min · Season 1 Episode 93Jeff Fieldstad built a successful financial services business from the ground up starting at 22 years old. He got comfortable, recognized the danger in that and moved his entire…
- From Drugs and Grief to 7 Figures in Direct Sales | Nate DeTracy on REAL Mentors Podcast Ep 92 · 38 min · Season 1 Episode 92Nate DeTracy was 23 years old when he lost both of his parents in a car accident. No safety net, no roadmap and no one coming to save him. He fell into drugs and alcohol until…
- 40,000 Agents and 3 Rules That Built It All | Brent Gove on REAL Mentors Podcast Ep 91 · 37 min · Season 1 Episode 91Brent Gove has three rules for life. Life isn't fair, you are entitled to nothing and no one is coming to save you. Not the Republicans, not the Democrats, not your mentor and…
- Built a Business. Lost His Daughter. Then He Made It | Jason Shipley on REAL Mentors Podcast EP 90q · 47 min · Season 1 Episode 90Jason Shipley started his first business with ten thousand dollars split across two credit cards, a triple net lease on an old pizza building in Hutchinson Kansas and no idea…
- From Goldman Sachs to Making History in Government | Vanessa Baird-Streeter on REAL Mentors Podcast EP 89 · 43 min · Season 1 Episode 89Vanessa Baird-Streeter grew up in one of the most segregated areas of the country where her family could afford a better neighborhood but was never shown those houses. That…
