The Groove Podcast with Devin Pense
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Interviews and stories about pivotal moments in peoples lives, and what it takes to rise above challenging circumstances and heartbreaking setbacks to find what we call, The Groove. Hosted by Devin Pense.
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Feb 18, 2023
#017: Greg Neal
*"I think winners quit a lot, that's how they win. They know when to stop and move on to the next thing. Success doesn't lie in sticking with things, it lies in finding the right thing, and sticking to it." - Greg Neal*
Greg Neal is a creative and marketing leader with over 30 years of experience in crafting award-winning marketing campaigns and brand strategies for Cable and Broadcast Television.
In this episode Greg shares his journey from editing BMX bike videos to launching 9 TV networks, including HGTV, OWN (The Oprah Winfrey Network), The Pac12 Networks among others.
Greg also shares some important insights and wisdom based on his 30+ years in the entertainment and marketing industries.
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Jun 25, 2021
#016: Lucas Aragon
Lucas Aragon is currently the Executive Director of Branding & Design for ABC Entertainment Marketing. He also worked on the launch of the National Geographic channel and the launch of OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network.
Prior to the start of his career, Lucas studied Graphic Design and Television Production at Eastern New Mexico University, and has also worked for Lifetime Television, NBC affiliates WRC, WHDH & WESH, and FOX affiliate KDFW.
In this episode, Lucas talks about the tragic loss of his sister, and how her memorial service inspired him to create something that inspired millions of people from all over the world.
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May 20, 2021
#015: John Davidson
John Davidson is the founder and CEO of Davidson Learning Company.
John grew up as a professional skateboarder and is now breaking new ground in the E-Sports area. He is also a TEDx and active speaker on esports and youth marketing.
In this episode, John talks about his career journey and how working as a telemarketer and a vacuum salesman paved the way into owning his own successful company.
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Mar 19, 2021
#014: Kelly Mazanti
Kelly is the Founder & CEO of Pier Collective, a high-altitude design studio based in Breckenridge, Colorado building modern brands for globally-minded entrepreneurs.
Kelly grew up in the Pacific Northwest - South Puget Sound in Washington State to be exact - and obtained her BS in Business Administration from The University of Colorado Boulder. She was excited to make Colorado her home, and takes advantage of all the outdoor activities that beautiful Colorado has to offer. Kelly skis, mountain bikes and does pretty much anything that involves experiencing the outdoors and ‘sending it.’
In December 2020, Kelly launched her own podcast, “Send It with Kelly Mazanti,” where she interviews entrepreneurs who are facing challenges and going “all in” in their businesses.
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Mar 8, 2021
#013: Ted Ishler
One of the biggest moments in Ted Ishler's life happened in a restroom. Ted was fresh out of college and had just gotten a job as a tour guide at the NBC Television studios in New York City. Ted was standing in the NBC men's room, when in walked David Letterman, who gave him a nod and proceeded to a neighboring urinal. In a strange way, Ted knew he had made it.
Thankfully, most of the other big moments in Ted's career have happened outside the bathroom. Ted has been a staff comedy writer for Candid Camera, a writer on The Joker’s Wild game show, won an Emmy Award for comedy feature reporting (at KSHB-TV Kansas City, and KTRK-TV Houston), and was award-winning creative director/writer/producer at networks including Ovation TV, Pac12 Network and local stations in Phoenix, Milwaukee and San Diego.
Ted and his wife Beth, a former Days of Our Lives actress, now host a podcast called ‘How Are We Still Married?!’ that takes a comic look at their 35 years of marriage and 35 moves across the country! They tell the crazy stories of their life together.
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Nov 24, 2020
#012: Q&A with The Pense Boys
In this special episode, I invited my boys to talk about the past, present and future. It's always fun to connect with your kids at any time in their lives. But as they grow into adults, it becomes even more meaningful because they bring a new perspective. It's fun to validate memories and talk about the story of our lives. It's good for the soul.
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Nov 18, 2020
#011: Brian Williams
From his earliest memories, Brian Williams knew he was adopted. It was simply a part of who he was, and in fact made him feel special. As time passed, naturally Brian started to have thoughts and questions about this known, yet mysterious part of his life. And when he began having some health issues later in life, his sisters bought him a DNA kit and soon after discovering the results, a whole new world expanded right before his eyes.
In this episode Brian shares his story of adoption and how the process of finding his birth mother filled in the missing pieces he didn't even know existed.
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May 9, 2020
#010: Yolanda Hamm - Mothers Day Special
In this special Mothers Day episode you will meet the woman behind the man (Regie Hamm), the life of the party and a very special person all the way around. Regie & Yolanda have been married going on twenty-nine years, and together have two children. Yolanda is a dedicated mother and together with Regie, the primary care giver to their daughter Bella who has a rare disorder called Angelman syndrome, as well as their son Gabe who is a one man show himself. Yolanda is a veteran at American Airlines, a strong advocate for adoption and some how manages to keep Regie in line all at the same time.
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Feb 26, 2020
#009: Rich Redmond
Rich Redmond is an award-winning recording and touring drummer based in Nashville and Los Angeles. Rich has recorded/toured/performed with: Jason Aldean, Ludacris, Kelly Clarkson, Bryan Adams, Bob Seger, Joe Perry, Garth Brooks, Chris Stapleton, Jewel, Miranda Lambert, Luke Bryan, and many others. He's also an accomplished Author, Actor, Podcast Host & a dynamic Speaker. His book, CRASH Course For Success - 5 ways to supercharge your personal and professional life is amazing. In 2017 Rich was performing on stage with Jason Aldean the night of the fateful Las Vegas shooting. His goal is to inspire everyone to live their best lives in each moment.
Rich’s carefully crafted success philosophy is the reason he’s not only survived-- but thrived-- in the most difficult industry on the planet: the music business. His dynamic, on-your-feet CRASH course for success brings that philosophy to life for audiences around the world!
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Jan 27, 2020
#008: Jeremy Cowart
Have you ever conceived and built a hotel chain?
Jeremy is a living, breathing idea machine. Not the type who sits in his basement daydreaming, most of his ideas become reality. He's one of the few people who have actually found and acted on their calling. He's overcome some of life's most tragic moments, suddenly losing his brother, adopting two children from Haiti, being diagnosed with a neurological condition, all formidable challenges and obstacles, but he doesn't let anything hold him back from pressing forward and accomplishing.
He’s the founder of a global photography movement, Help-Portrait, a mobile social networking app called OKDOTHIS, and an online teaching platform, See University. His latest endeavor is The Purpose Hotel, a planned global for-profit hotel chain designed to fuel the work of not-for-profit organizations.
Jeremy’s new book “I’m Possible: Jumping Into Fear and Discovering a Life of Purpose” is based on Jeremy’s viral life story video that was released in 2015 and launched Jeremy’s speaking career where he has delivered this message to tens of thousands across America ever since. The book dives much deeper into all of the stories and projects Jeremy has done and ultimately encourages people of all ages to jump into fear in order to find their own purpose in life.
In this episode, Jeremy talks about the day to day challenges he faces and the approach he takes to press on into his calling.
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Dec 16, 2019
#007: Holiday Triggers
The holidays can be the best of times and the worst of times.
On this holiday episode of The Groove Podcast, Devin & Regie talk about the volatility of the holidays. For many, it's the best of times with family, friends, and celebrations. But for others, it's just another day or a grim reminder of holidays past where tragedy struck. And for many, it's nothing more than time marching on.
Devin and Regie talk about being self-employed throughout the holidays and the challenges they faced working to make great memories for their families while keeping the business rolling.
Based on actual events, Regie talks about the haunting memory that drove him to write his Novella, One Silent Night. There are a couple of musical surprises thrown in as well.
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Dec 2, 2019
#006: Bob Carlisle
Bob grew up around music all his life, even as a child he would perform in talent shows. He was a natural.
During the eighties, he worked as a studio background singer and made the first call list. Which basically means, his voice is on the majority of records ever recorded during that time. If you listen to Motley Crew's Girls, Girls Girls, that's Bob. He sang with Sting, Barry Manilow, REO Speedwagon, Dolly Parton, and the list goes on and on, and on.
Bob was in many bands growing up and was ultimately signed by one of the biggest labels in the word, Jive Records. It was around that time he realized there was more to life than touring and being a star. He asked to be released from his record deal and went back to making the music he loved. Soon after, his song Butterfly Kisses became one of the most popular songs of the decade. He won a Grammy and multiple Dove awards. He was asked to perform on the Oprah Winfrey Show, Regis & Kathy Lee and the song stayed high in the charts…
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Nov 11, 2019
#005: Joe Egender & Leeor Kaufman - Co-Creators of the Netflix series, Un-Natural Selection
Joe Egender & Leeor Kaufman are the Co-Creators and Co-Directors of the Nextflix series: Un-Natural Selection.
DNA, the very essence of life, can now be altered. Not only by Harvard geneticists and multi-billion dollar corporations, but also by renegade biohackers working out of their garages.
This is the world we now live in. CRISPR, a new revolutionary gene-editing tool so simple, precise, and inexpensive that experts are calling it the most positively life-changing and potentially dangerous discovery in the history of mankind. The implications are endless - eradicating disease, designing human beings, wiping out entire species or even creating new ones.
Given the power of these technologies, should they be regulated or democratized? And who will make these decisions? The four-episode series, Unnatural Selection follows character-driven stories from leading scientists to desperate patients to boundary-pushing biohackers as they each embark on a quest to reach their goals while…
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Nov 8, 2019
#004: Beating The Odds
There are going to be a few changes here at The Groove Podcast. This episode has a special announcement and updated information on some new and exciting stuff coming up.
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Jun 9, 2019
#003: Brad Cummings
Brad Cummings graduated from Pepperdine University, planted a church in Malibu, launched a construction and landscaping business, all before becoming one of the most notable independent book publishers in the world and becoming a movie producer.
Sounds like an interesting journey huh? There's a reason he was set on this path.
He co-authored a book called The Shack, and after being turned down by twenty different publishers Brad and his co-authors decided to self-publish the book. They sold over one-million copies out of Brad's garage. Currently, The Shack has sold over twenty- Million copies and has been published in forty-one different languages. It was #1 on the New York Times bestseller list for over 150 weeks straight.
In 2017 The Shack was released as a feature film starring Octavia Spencer & Sam Worthington and grossed over ninety-six million dollars worldwide.
Most recently, Brad founded Shiloh Road Publishers, teaming up with the award-winning, premier design firm Koeche…
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May 30, 2019
#002: Ankur Poseria
*Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to be willing to sacrifice your own dreams to help others first. *
With his eye on qualifying for the 2008 Olympic games in Beijing, Ankur kept coming up short by not being able to hit the qualifying time in his event, the 100M Butterfly. It wasn't until he began to help his friends and family work their way through their own personal challenges that he found a renewed strength to achieve the impossible.
A 2008 Beijing Olympian, Ankur Poseria completed an international swimming career which saw him break multiple school records at the University of Southern California, as well as the Indian National Record in his main event, the 100m butterfly.
Ankur has applied lessons from the swimming pool to his professional pursuits. With post-college plans to enlist with the CIA and work his way into becoming a field operative, Ankur jammed the brakes on that idea after a surprising talk with a mentor in the intelligence community. Instead, An…
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May 23, 2019
#001: Regie Hamm
"If you are being authentically yourself, you're giving us something we need." - Regie Hamm
*What would you do if a lifetime of dreams came true only to be taken away in a matter of moments?
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That's what happened to Regie Hamm (Facebook, Patreon).
From being a child performer to being signed to the largest record label in the world. With over four hundred songs recorded, twenty-one number one hits, he’s been nominated for multiple Grammy Awards, written five books, three of which have been adopted to screenplays and his blog is read by thousands of people globally.
From performing on stage at age five, getting trapped in a ring with a bull after a show, dropping out of college to chase his dreams, in this episode Regie talks about his rise to the top and the realization that none of us are in control of anything, especially when outside forces are introduced into our lives.
Regie talks about how a baby girl with one of rarest conditions on earth taught him that none of us are le…
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