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Best Andrew Vontz podcasts we could find (updated July 2020)
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Updated July 2020
Updated July 2020
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David Brinton - Olympian, World Champion, Hollywood stuntman, black belt, former pro cyclist, cycling coach and expert witness
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David Brinton is an Olympian, World Champion, Hollywood stuntman, black belt, former pro cyclist, cycling coach and expert witness. The bicycle has taken David to some amazing and unlikely places as a human and professional. He has stunt doubled Mario Lopez, won national and world championships as a masters cyclist and could probably break an oak t…
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Randy Hetrick - TRX Founder/CEO, ex-Navy SEAL Special Missions Unit Squadron Commander
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Dean Kuipers - Journalist & Author - Iggy Pop, Family & Eco Radicalism
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Tony Blauer - On being your own bodyguard, mastering fear, understanding violence and developing situational awareness in business and life.
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Tony Blauer is an entrepreneur and world-renowned personal defense and combatives expert. He’s started hugely successful businesses--but he’s also had the unfortunate experience of trusting the wrong people and having one of his businesses implode at its peak. He has created truly world-changing technologies and ideas, but his inventions have had c…
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Krisztina ‘Z’ Holly - entrepreneur & talent amplifier on identifying and championing innovators
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What is the link between heavy metal and heavy innovation? How far-out is too far? How do you go from idea to market at scale? Let’s find out. You read the CV’s of some people and you think, is this a human being? Could one person really do this much in one life? My guest today is Krisztina Z Holly. She is one of those people and I can confirm that…
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Regan Long - Local Brewing Co. Co-founder, CEO & Brewmaster
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Sign up for The Hard Way newsletter for updates on new episodes + a curated selection of things worth watching, listening to and reading, all with a Hard Way twist. What is a hazy IPA? How does a hops volcano happen? And what makes it so hard to start a small business outside of tech in the Bay Area? In this episode, I put my almost total lack of b…
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Ethan Gold - Singer, Songwriter, Producer, Composer
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Ethan Gold is a prolific songwriter, producer, composer and performer. Pitbull’s tagline is “Don’t stop the party.” Ethan Gold’s tagline is “Making sensitivity cool again.” His dad is the Beat-adjunct writer and novelist Herbert Gold. his mother Melissa was killed in a helicopter crash along with legendary rock promoter Bill Graham. As he tells it,…
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Rebecca Rusch - The Endurance Sports Legend on Transformation & Vulnerability
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Known as the Queen of Pain, Rebecca Rusch is a 7x World Champion in sports ranging from adventure racing to whitewater rafting to 24-hour solo mountain biking. She has won the biggest monuments in off-road bike racing including four Leadville 100 mountain bike titles and five total wins at the Dirty Kanza in the 100-mile, 200-mile and 350-mile XL r…
Dan Doty is co-founder of Evryman, a company that brings men together to exercise their emotions so they can lead more successful, fulfilling lives. Early in Dan’s career, he spent over 600 days in the backcountry working as a wilderness therapy guide for disadvantaged and at risk young men and taught public high school in the Bronx. Later he worke…
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Jeff Provenzano - Red Bull Air Force Member, 20k Skydives, Human Flight Innovator
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Jeff Provenzano, aka Jeffro, makes his living skydiving, BASE jumping and wingsuit flying as a member of the Red Bull Air Force. Jeff is a stuntman who has appeared in films including Ironman 3 and Godzilla and he is a champion competitor with over 20,000 jumps under his belt. He has trained elite military units in canopy flying and has been part o…
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Phil Gaimon - the 2020 Olympics, a Big Wreck, Broken Bones & Raising $100,000 for No Kid Hungry
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Phil Gaimon is an ex-pro cyclist and the creator of the wildly popular YouTube cycling series, The Worst Retirement Ever. He previously joined me for episode 5 where he talked about his transformation from an overweight kid into one of the best pro cyclists in America and his evolution as a creator and entrepreneur. Phil is the author of two memoir…
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Kyle Wong - Pixlee CEO, Forbes 30 under 30 Marketing Expert
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Kyle Wong is a serial entrepreneur and the CEO and co-founder of Pixlee, a visual marketing platform that helps brands market and sell with customer photos and videos. He launched Pixlee out of his Stanford dorm room and got his start as an entrepreneur in high school at Brooklyn Tech. He has been on a roll ever since. Kyle has been featured in For…
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CNN Investigative Reporter Ashley Fantz
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Why did police destroy over 400 rape kits in cases where the statute of limitations hadn’t expired or when there was no time limit to prosecute? That’s the question that drove CNN reporter Ashley Fantz and her colleagues Sergio Hernandez and Sonam Vashi to spend more than a year to create Destroyed, a multi-media investigative report that has alrea…
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Losing the Dirty Kanza Half Pint
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In the first 18 episodes of Choose the Hard Way, I’ve had the chance to share interviews with some of the world’s top performers. Ep. 19 is different. Recently, I met an astronaut who challenged me to share more about my own failures through this podcast. No problem. I have lived through an abundance of painful experiences in business, relationship…
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Robert Hatta - Partner @ Drive Capital
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Is the future of venture capital in Ohio? And what does being a wrestler have to do with building a high-performance career in tech? The answer to those questions and more on this episode. Today my guest is Robert Hatta, the Talent Partner at Drive Capital, where he helps portfolio companies build amazing teams. Drive Capital is a venture firm base…
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Miles Daisher - BASE Jumping, Wingsuit Flying, Skydiving Legend
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Miles Daisher is a legendary canopy pilot and wingsuit flyer with more than 7,200 skydives and 4,500 BASE jumps. That’s more known BASE jumps than anyone on the planet. He may also well embody more stoke than any human on earth. He’s a member of the Red Bull Air Force, a specialized human flight team of expert pilots and has worked as a stuntman fl…
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Doug Kiesewetter - Green Beret, SOFLETE Head of Content, ex Oil Field Roughneck
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Before he became a Special Forces Engineer and Weapons Sergeant and served in Afghanistan, Iraq and Africa, Doug Kiesewetter was a college dropout whose primary motivation was drinking as much beer as possible and working on his Jeep. A tour of duty as a roughneck in the oil fields of Texas pointed him in a new direction. Still a Green Beret today,…
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Eric Matthies - Award-winning documentary filmmaker, director, producer, photographer
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The Beastie Boys, Spike Jonze, Doug Aitken, Public Enemy, Soundgarden, a Tribe Called Quest, the Matrix, Man of Steel, 300, Nike & Converse are but a few of the artists, films & companies who have leveraged the creative talents of Eric Matthies. In this conversation, we discuss his path from a Chicago skate punk with a camera who shot videos for ba…
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Get Lit-Words Ignite Founder Diane Luby Lane - Visionary Poet, Writer, Educator, Actress
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Diane Luby Lane is an award-winning literary activist, educator, actress, poet, author and the founder and executive director of Get Lit–Words Ignite, an LA-based arts education nonprofit that brings classic poetry to the street and street poetry into the classrooms to empower new generations in literature, self-expression and performing arts. By e…
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TaeKwon-Do Champion, Inventor & Entrepreneur Pete Holman
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Pete Holman is a physical therapist, strength & conditioning expert, entrepreneur, inventor, author, and renaissance man based in Aspen, Colorado. Pete is a former TaeKwon-Do US national team captain and TaeKwon-Do National Champion. As a physical therapist, educator and strength & conditioning expert, Pete has worked with tens of thousands of coac…
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Big Herc - Fresh Out: Life After the Penitentiary
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Growing up in Sacramento, CA, Marcus ‘Big Herc’ Timmons was a straight-A student and talented athlete before he took a wrong turn into gang life, drug dealing and violence. He spent most of his teens incarcerated the California Youth Authority juvenile detention system and before he went to prison for bank robbery, he worked as a performer in the a…
Creator/host of the Cleared Hot podcast Andy Stumpf discusses mindset, mindfulness, violence, patience and more. Andy spent 17 years as a Navy SEAL before being medically retired. He is a recipient of the Purple Heart and five Bronze Stars. During his time in the SEAL Teams, he screened for and joined SEAL Team Six, the most elite counterterrorism …
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Skateboarding Across America 5x
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Jack and two buddies skateboarded across America in 1976 using a ‘69 Firebird with a .22 rifle in the trunk as their sag vehicle and luxurious camper. It was a time before Instagram models roamed the earth and invented the sacrament of Van Life. Jack and his pals saw America in a way few characters besides those in fiction ever experienced it. Jack…
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4x National Champion Cyclist & Entrepreneur Jeremy Powers
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Jeremy shares insights about: being a pioneer, drawing your own map, failing and getting up over and over again to forge a career, start a media company, chase a dream and inspire + enable others to do the same, at scale. ---- Jeremy Powers is a professional cyclist who has won over 90 UCI races, four U.S. National Championships and the 2015 Pan Am…
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Triple-Amputee Royal Marines Commando Mark Ormrod
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Get this episode now on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, & Google Play. On Christmas Eve 2007, Royal Marines Commando Mark Ormrod was on patrol in the Helmand province of Afghanistan when he triggered an IED and lost both legs and one arm. Today, Mark is an internationally acclaimed motivational speaker, a peak performance coach, an entrepreneur and the …
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Camille Ricketts on Failure, Grit, Resilience & Leadership in Silicon Valley
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Get this episode now on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, & Google Play. The content & marketing mastermind shares lessons learned from a career that has included working as a journalist at the Wall Street Journal & Venture Beat; in PR at Tesla; and in content + marketing at Kiva and First Round Capital where she created the esteemed First Round Review. C…
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Former Army Ranger & Writer Marty Skovlund, Jr.
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Marty Skovlund, Jr. is a veteran Army Ranger who served in the 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment. Currently the executive editor of Black Rifle Coffee Company’s Coffee or Die magazine, he’s an entrepreneur, journalist, photographer, award-winning filmmaker and the author of Ranger Knowledge: The Complete Study Guide. His book Violence of Action: …
Former professional cyclist Phil Gaimon once almost died in a bike wreck, but he never rode the Tour de France. Today, he’s one of the biggest creative forces and personalities in the sport as the author of three books, creator of The Worst Retirement Ever YouTube series and host of The Peloton Brief Podcast. Phil has started multiple businesses an…
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Climber and adventurer Emily Harrington
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The North Face athlete on El Cap, Everest, anger, rock climbing, expeditions, origins and her evolution from one of the greatest competitive climbers ever to big mountain alpinist, skier and explorer. Emily Harrington has summited Everest, free climbed El Capitan in Yosemite and completed numerous first ascents of 5.14 sport routes. She has been on…
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Former Green Beret & GoRuck Founder Jason McCarthy
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Jason McCarthy is a combat veteran, former U.S. Army Green Beret and entrepreneur. In 2008, Jason founded GoRuck, the gear, apparel and events company that created the GoRuck Challenge--events modeled after Special Forces selection led by SOF cadre that last between a few hours and several days during which participants ruck with packs loaded with …
7x summiter, 1x without supplemental oxygen, on the sacrifices made to fulfill a lifelong dream. Adrian Ballinger has summited Mt. Everest seven times. He attempted Everest without supplemental oxygen in 2016 as part of the Everest No Filter expedition with national geographic photographer Cory Richards. Cory made the summit. Adrian didn’t. They we…
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Media Crisis Recovery with Barbara Morgan
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Anthony Weiner’s mayoral campaign head of comms/Booker+Bloomberg administration comms veteran on managing a media crisis & redemption. Barbara Morgan is a VP at the strategic communications firm Greenbrier and the founder of Apex Strategies. She served as a former senior aide to the NJ State Department of Education and the former administrations of…
This is Andrew Vontz, and on Choose the Hard Way, I explore peak performance and lessons learned at the limits of human experience with a broad variety of guests from tech, business, politics, sports, special ops, and many other disciplines. There aren’t shortcuts on the path to becoming the best and my guests are people who choose the hard way. If…
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