Join Chris Gronkowski, - NFL player for the Cowboys, Colts, and Broncos and entrepreneur owner of the Ice Shaker protein drink bottle (a Shark Tank winner). Chris and his guests talk about life, entrepreneurial skill and lessons, and what it takes to make it. Let's get Gronk'd UP!
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Listeners of Gronk'd UP that love the show mention:Rob Gronkowski Joins The Gronks Live Powered by Fast Brands on his bye week to talk about everything Gronk. From his favorite pre-game meal, to talking about his bye week schedule, the conversation gets pretty interesting right from the start.
What would you do if Mike Evan's Handed you Tom Brady's 600th TD ball? The Gronk bros break down what they would do. Tune in every week at 5pm EST on youtube at youtube.com/thegronks and ask your questions live. Watch for next week's special guest - you won't want to miss this one.
Dr. Anna Cabeca is an internationally-acclaimed sexual health expert, global speaker and pioneering promoter of women’s health. She is triple board-certified in gynecology and obstetrics, integrative medicine and anti-aging and regenerative medicine, and is the author of “The Hormone Fix,” a diet and holistic lifestyle program for menopausal women. Today we break down everything with intermittent fasting. Dr. Anna has created the successful and popular alkaline superfoods drink Mighty Maca®. In her spare time, Dr. Cabeca hosts the highly-regarded series “Couch Talk,” featuring compelling podcasts focused on a wide variety of important health and wellness topics.
Steve Madden just released his book The Cobbler. Chris was able to get his hands on an early copy and it was the first book that he has read in years from start to finish and did so in 3 days. Steve tells an incredible story about hard work, the story of the Wolf of Wall Street, Jail time and so much more. Use Coupon Code STEVEMADDENMENS30 for 30% off at stevemadden.com Valid 11/2-11/16 only on men’s collection excluding sale/clearance cannot be combined with other offers.
The Brand Doctor is here to help you build your brand and your social media. Henry Kaminski Jr. is the founder of Unique Designz, a full-service design, branding, and digital marketing agency that is dedicated to helping personality brands; coaches, consultants, influencers, speakers + authors design / grow their brands, scale their profits + increase their exposure online. He is author of the Amazon best seller "Refuse To Give Up." He’s also the host of the popular “Brand Doctor’s Podcast” where he talks about strategies that help entrepreneurs design reputable and profitable personal brands. As a self-taught graphic designer and brand consultant, he's overcome all the odds to build a wildly successful multi-million-dollar business over the past 12 years. He has worked with a diverse range of business owners and professionals, including celebrities like Jon Bon Jovi + Fabio Viviani as well as Internet marketing expert Russell Brunson who has named Henry the "Million Dollar Brander” and recently has been inducted into the Click Funnels 2 Comma Club, by generating over $1 million with one single sales funnel, using the Click Funnels software.
Have you ever wanted to own a race horse? Now you can. Our friends at MyRaceHorse.com join the podcast to breakdown how it all works and give us the ins and outs of the horse racing world. Their horse Authentic went on to win the 2020 Kentucky Derby right after we recorded this episode.
Jim McKelvey cofounded payments firm Square with Jack Dorsey in 2009 after he had trouble selling a $2,000 art piece from his studio. Like many successful entrepreneurs, Jim just wanted to solve an issue that he was experiencing himself and it turned into a billion dollar company.
When your book is read by Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots during one of their Superbowl runs, you know you did something right. Ryan Holiday is a New York Times best selling author and today we have him on the podcast to break down his theory in his book that caught the attention of the entire NFL.
The man now known as a “Secret Weapon” in business and sales for tens of thousands of professionals did not begin his life or career as a high performance, game changing icon. In fact, he was born to a lower-middle class immigrant family of 4 children in the small all American city of Peoria Illinois. Check out today's episode as Joe brings some value in the selling game and makes us rethink the way we are approaching our sales strategies.
Most people know Jon Taffer as a larger-than-life television personality who takes a no-holdsbarred approach to helping hotels, restaurants, bars and businesses reach their full potential. He is also an international celebrity, New York Times best-selling author, highly sought-after hospitality and general business consultant and creator, and is the creator, executive producer and star of Paramount Network’s number-one show, Bar Rescue. Jon Taffer is known for turning around Bars and restaurants and and covid has not slowed him down. Listen to this week's podcast and learn more about the way Jon Taffer is going to continue to improve the restaurant industry with or without covid 19 in the way. And of course we talk about how he helped create the NFL Sunday Ticket and how covid has changed the sports world. Find out more about Jon at https://jontaffer.com/
Patrick McNamara spent 22 years in the United States Army in a myriad of special operations units. When he worked in the premier special missions unit, he became an impeccable marksman, shooting with accurate, lethal results and tactical effectiveness. McNamara has trained tactical applications of shooting to people of all levels of marksmanship, from varsity level soldiers, and police officers who work the streets to civilians with little to no time behind the trigger. His military experience quickly taught him that there is more to tactical marksmanship than merely squeezing the trigger. Utilizing his years of experience, McNamara developed a training methodology that is safe, effective, and combat relevant and encourages a continuous thought process. This methodology teaches how to maintain safety at all times and choose targets that force accountability, as well as provides courses covering several categories, including individual, collective, online, and standards.
On his first day in business Andy Frisella’s company brought in $7. On their second day, his company brought in nothing. It took them 8 months to have a day of sales over $200. 7 years after that he was only bringing home $695 total in a month. 10 years into business his perseverance and dedication was earning him and his business partner $45,000 per year each. They defined “humble beginnings.” Fast forward to today and his companies, Supplement Superstores and 1st Phorm, are coming up on a Billion in sales a year. If you are curious how he made this incredible leap, and what kind of mindset it took to persevere to get to that $100-million mark, then you are definitely going to want to see this Podcast with Andy. Just in case you didn’t think this was impressive enough, Andy also built one of the world’s most successful business podcasts called The MFCEO Project Podcast. And also now has the RealAF
And the first bid on the Buffalo Bills Stadium in Orchard Park, NY was put in by Tushy! A bidet company led by today's Guest Miki Agrawal. Not only is Miki looking to change the name to Tushy Stadium, Miki is also a huge fan of hosting a college bowl game in Orchard Park called the Toilet Bowl. This sounds like a long shot but Miki has a habit of turning long shots into huge businesses. Tushy is now her third business that she has found a ton of success. On today's podcast, you will learn the 3 key elements that Miki says every entrepreneur must have to be successful. Listen now and learn more about the pizza business, the female hygiene category and last, but not least, Tushy's and bidets. To learn more about Miki, Follow her on IG @MikiAgrawal and to snag a Tushy, check out HelloTushy.com
Actor Donovan W. Carter’s starring role in HBO’s popular sports comedy series “Ballers,” has quickly established the DC native and former UCLA football player as a sought after actor and performer. On the show Donovan plays the role of the young and talented NFL defensive tackle ‘Vernon Littlefield,’ who is doing his best to self-navigate his newly found wealth and status within the NFL’s elite social circle, which is fraught with opportunists and enablers only out for themselves. “Ballers” was created by Stephen Levinson (Entourage) who also executive produces the series with an assorted array of talented colleagues such as Julian Farino, Denis Biggs, Dwayne Johnson, Mark Wahlberg, and Peter Berg among others.
Sam Bakhtiar is a doctor, CEO, author, world-class bodybuilder, and multi-millionaire entrepreneur. He runs a fitness franchising business, The Camp Transformation Center, with 110 locations and two different supplement and nutrition companies. With a Bachelor’s degree from Pennsylvania State University in sports science and life science and a doctorate from Los Angeles College of Chiropractic, Dr. Bakhtiar has helped over one hundred thousand people transform physically and mentally. He specializes in helping people get to the top 1% in any and every aspect of their life. Dr Bakhtiar applies his business acumen and coaching to The 1% Club, helping others to become a 1%er by rising above. He is also the author of the popular books The Total Body Transformation Secrets and Becoming a One Percenter.
Do you remember when the Team USA bobsledder broke down the door after getting stuck in the bathroom? Johnny Quinn joins the podcast to talk about this hilarious situation but also breaks down a ton of knowledge.
Will there be an NFL season this year? Ari, the owner of my Sports Update, breaks down what he thinks is going to happen in the NFL this year. With over 250,000 Followers on Twitter, Ari has some of the biggest sports journalists and reporters in the game following his page. His page, My Sports Update, features the most relevant information and recent transactions in the sports world and has become and must follow page for sports fans, fantasy players and reporters. It's been a lot of hard work, but Ari has a system down that allows him to find the most relevant information. It's to the point now where reporters will come to his page first to see if the news has already broke or not.
Fun episode with social media influencer Katie Feeney. Katie is still in high school, taking AP classes and a member of the pom squad. But she is also know for her tiktok videos and has been able to accumulate over 3.7million followers. Checkout this weeks episode to find out how she did it and what her plans for the future include.
Peter Taunton was asked if he would like to take over a failing gym. With no experience running a gym, a salary of $16,000, and no marketing budget or money to re-do the gym, it was time to get creative. How do you replace the carpets when you have no budget to do so? Listen to Peter's story and find out how he pulled it off. Peter was able to flip this first gym and leverage the equity in the first gym to continue to open gyms. After selling this first gym chain - he saw a new opportunity. This opportunity lead to 1000s of gyms being opened and a highly successful gym chain called Snap Fitness.
Sean Callagy is an entrepreneur, national speaker, philanthropist, one of America’s top trial attorneys, online personality, and creator of various peak performance technologies. Oh, and he’s a legally blind warrior and adventurer. For 23 years, aided by his unique insights, love for people, ability to “see” and create transformational breakthroughs, Sean has achieved and co-created an incredibly diverse variety of unique successes. Sean has been favorably compared to some of the top speakers and influencers in the world. As a byproduct of his technologies, Mr. Callagy is one of only two attorneys out of 1,220,000 attorneys in America to achieve 2 Top 100 National Jury Verdicts between 2014 and 2016, and, the only one who was legally blind. He has also collected more than 1/3 of a billion dollars on behalf of his healthcare clients, built and sold a 40 person law firm in a little over a year in his twenties when he was only two years out of law school (all which is very rare in the legal world), created the most rapidly successful training, coaching and development program from his coaching school out of anyone who had ever attended the coaching school and certification program at that time, publicly spoke more than 1,000 times to audiences that are consistently shocked to “see what they didn’t see” in their lives, careers, and businesses.
With his new movie, The Outpost, releasing today - we have Scott Eastwood on the podcast to walk us through his newest movie and some of the ins and outs of the acting world. The film tells the story of the 53 U.S. soldiers who battled a force of some 400 enemy insurgents in north-eastern Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom. Originally built to engage the locals in community development projects, Combat Outpost Keating — located at the bottom of three steep mountains just 14 miles from the Pakistani border — faced a constant threat of being attacked by the Taliban, putting the U.S. soldiers stationed there at significant risk.
Certified Financial Planner Ashley Hodge joins us on podcast with some of his best recommendations for your financial future. How much money should you have in an emergency fund? How much cash should you put towards your retirement? What are some of the safest stocks to buy? Ash breaks it all down for us on this episode. But with all this money talk, Ash break down his more important tip- If you aren't healthy it doesn't matter how much money you have. If the way you obtain the wealth is severely hurting your health, then what is really more important, your health or your wealth?
Stanley Cup Champion Theo Fleury was just 5'6". He was told his whole life that he wasn't big enough to make it the NHL. In fact, when he was first eligible for the draft, he was not drafted. A year later he went in the 8th round but was excited for the chance and was determined to make the most out of it. But even a superstar can face adversity and Theo ran into some tough times after the NHL. After a failed suicide attempt, he decided to face him demons. listen now to hear his story and how he overcame addiction and depression and now uses his time to helping others do the same.
Jason Calacanis received an Angel investment in 2003 from Mark Cuban. It ended up being a nice payday for Mark & Jason when the company was sold years later. The roll has now flipped for Jason, and for over a decade he has been an accredited Angel investor. Jason joins the podcast to talk everything about Angel investing and why he thinks it's the best bet in the game. Jason breaks down what type of companies to look for, and what types of programs are out there to help Angel investors make good choices. He also breaks it down from the entrepreneur side and talks about incubators and accelerators for anyone out there that has a startup business and is looking for some funding.
Ross Tucker was one of the first big names in the podcast world. He now runs his own podcast along with multiple others. If you are looking to start your own podcast, then this is the podcast you must listen to first! Ross drops some big time advice on how to be successful in podcasting especially if you are just joining the game now.
Joe De Sena grew up working for Mob bosses in NYC. He started a pool service as a teenager and grew it to 750 customers. But even with the success at a young age, Joe wanted to further his education and headed to Cornell. While most kids his age were partying, Joe was managing a business and taking college classes at the same time. His story from pool boy to wall street to the CEO of Spartan Races is a testimony to his persistence, hard work and knowing when to pivot even when you are already having success!
Tony Horton, the creator of P90X, joins the podcast to talk all about fitness during social distancing. Tony breaks down how he went from scrawny kid with a speech problem, to breaking into the fitness industry and becoming of the most well known celebrity trainers. If you are looking to start your fitness journey and get into better shape, don't miss Tony's three tips to starting and reaching your fitness goals.
2x Pro Bowl Punter, Pat McAfee joins the show to talk about his name being mentioned to be an announcer for Monday Night Football (And says there is no chance) Pat McAfee has exploded onto the scene after leaving the NFL after 8 years and a Pro Bowl season and starting the Pat McAfee Show. Pat has been extremely successful off the field by being authentic, and bringing a unique angle that includes the special team aspect of the NFL world. His signature catchphrase "For The Brand" refers to how important and undervalued the Kickers and Punters are in a game the is called "Foot"ball.
Super Agent Drew Rosenhaus negotiated more than 90 contracts, worth about $600 million, in one month. On this podcast he talks about what it took to lock up some big time players as a young rookie agent. He breaks down some of the craziest things he had to do to get players to sign with him and how relationship building and trust play a huge role in the life of an agent. Drew then breaks down the future of the NFL and what he thinks is going to happen in the 2020 season.
This is getting good! Don't miss part 2 where Gronk breaks down what round you should draft him in fantasy football this year, his reasoning for coming back to the game and if Tom Brady had anything to do with his comeback. Also, you Rob finally tells his favorite party story from the college days. Plus we always bring value from this podcasts and some takeaways that will help you become better and excel in sports, business and life.
3 Time Super Bowl Champ and Current WWE 24/7 Champion Joins The Gronk'd Up Podcast. We talk everything from how Gronk decided to go to the University of Arizona over any other college in the nation and drops some hilarious stories of college life and partying. Of course we had to run through some WWE scenarios of what might happen to the 24/7 champ when the other football players get hungry for the title. You don't want to miss out of this episode.
E-Sports and online gaming is blowing up and will continue to grow. So we brought John Davidson, the President of the E-sports Trade Association to talk about how businesses can break into the gaming space. Content creators with big followings could have 100,000+ people watching them play live at a time. The amount of exposure these gamers have is incredible, but how can businesses get involved? John breaks down best practices and what to expect from the gaming world. John was the head of partnership at Game Stop and is now with PRG, that put on shows like the Super Bowl Halftime show and is now moving into the live gaming events. If you are looking to get into the gamer space, check out this podcast!
Mark Divine served for nine years total on active duty and eleven as a Reserve SEAL, retiring as Commander in 2011. He started his career as a CPA with a masters degree from NYU, working at a top CPA firm and then left for the navy seals. He graduated first in his class and out of the 19 men that completed the seal training, 7 of them came from his boat crew. Not one single man in his boat crew quit, they all made it through. Mark Divine is an over achiever, He started his career as a CPA, then To Navy Seal, then to a successful restaurant owner, to a government contracting company, Sealfit and unbeatable mind and best selling author. On this podcast, Mark breaks down how mediation showed him his path in life. It helped him make the choice to leave the accounting firm and join the navy seals. He explains how mediation can also help you find your way and succeed in life.