Riser Podcast
Riser was created to help people share their story to inspire others. Our goal is to provide a platform that helps others win, grow, and rise up to be leaders in their sphere of influence. We believe that all people deserve a great life, continuous prosperity, and much success, whatever that means to them. The trailblazers, visionaries and next level thinkers start here at the Riser Podcast.
Episodes
Wednesday Jun 14, 2023
EP55: Nikki Zahka
Wednesday Jun 14, 2023
Wednesday Jun 14, 2023
Nikki Zahka is a health and fitness enthusiast who built her own personal brand based on transparency with her own journey by empowering people to find self love and confidence through fitness. She is a full time enterprise account executive for a tech company but her passion truly is health and wellness.
Nikki has worked with brands such as myfitnesspal, fabletics, myprotein, and bodyarmor and she helps market for gyms and wellness events to encourage people to get out, move their bodies, and connect with the community.
Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
EP54: James Pell
Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
Senior Chief Hospital Corpsman James Randel Pell served for over 20 years between the U.S. Army and the Navy.While assigned to STA Platoon he completed 2 combat tours supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
Senior Chief Pell’s personal awards and decorations include the Bronze Star for Combat Valor, Purple Heart with Gold Star, Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal for Combat Valor and 3 Gold Stars, Army Commendation Medal with Oak Leaf, Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal for Combat Valor and Gold Star, Army achievement Medal with three Oak Leaves, and Combat Action Ribbon with Gold Star.
He has numerous other personal awards including the first ever HM2 Luke Milam DOD Combat Medic of the Year Award, 2004 American SWAT Association award for Valor, 2013 Navy Vanguard Award for Valor, 2016 Navy Education and Training Fouled Anchor Award, and has been Combat Promoted three times.
Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
EP53: Floatin’ Toad
Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
Floatin Toad is an apparel company created to represent the vision to make world change through creative apparel that stands for something larger than life. The FT team from Wetumpka, Alabama focuses on the values of expanding the inner mind and seeing the world from different perspectives.
Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
EP52: Bardia Rezaei
Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
Bardia Rezaei AKA the stop drinking coach, is a Sobriety and Life Coach who helps people quit drinking so they can step into the next chapter of their life and begin fulfilling their potential.
His story and mission are truly inspiring. He was raised in an extremely dysfunctional environment and lost his father to alcohol poisoning at the young age of 14. He then went on become a "high functioning" binge drinker for 14 years. Once the pandemic hit, he went from weekend binge drinking to consuming 4-6 bottles of wine per day.
Shortly after making the decision to quit, he began working towards fulfilling his lifelong dream of being a coach to help inspire, motivate and guide others to become the best version of themselves.
Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
EP51: Eli Facenda
Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
Eli is an entrepreneur with two businesses in the travel industry that he has built over the last 8 years. Eli has visited nearly 40 countries and has a passion for maximizing credit card points for epic luxury travel experiences and averages $75k-$100k per year in travel, entirely on points. He is the founder of Freedom Travel Systems, where his team helps entrepreneurs optimize their credit card spending to get world-class travel experiences.
Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
EP50: Luke Martz
Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
Luke Martz moved to Austin TX from South Dakota in February of 2020 not knowing anybody. He started a Real Estate business in South Dakota, moving into the mortgage origination industry in Austin.
He started a dance group on Facebook called Ask Me To Dance in October 2021 and has since grown it to over 2600 members from all over the country and it continues to grow every day.
He is a sober stallion with over 7 years Alcohol free and one of the most genuine dudes we know.
Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
EP49: Keith Mitchhart & Evan Duvall
Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
Keith Mitchhart was born and raised just outside of Austin, Tx. Just over a year ago Keith dropped out of college and started running his personal training company "The Mitchhart Method" full time. He recently moved out to California to expand his company and to train for an ultra marathon from LA to Las Vegas coming up in March.
Evan Duvall was also born and raised just outside of Austin in Dripping Springs, TX. After high school he joined the US Navy and served overseas for 6 1/2 years. Evan came home and is now a local entrepreneur with a mission of unifying Austin through various creative pursuits and helping others create brands and communities that bring people together.
Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
EP48: Grant Mitterlehner
Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
Grant Mitterlehner is the CEO of MittGroup & Mitt Blockchain, a regular Fox Business contributor, and an entrepreneur in the green technology and crypto space.
MittGroup has been ranked as one of the Best Places to Work by the Houston Business Journal for 3 years in a row. They were listed as the #1 Best Place to Work with a 98.94% rating just last year.
MittGroup has grown over 126% within the last year and are expected to clear over 20 million in sales in just their 3rd year of business.
Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
EP47: Austin Davis
Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
Austin Davis is a 27 year old business owner and content creator based in Austin, TX. He owns and operates a very successful power washing company which he has been building over the past 4 years.
Austin also runs the #1 powerwashing YouTube channel in the world and saw engagement of over 5 million views this past year.
His goal is to help people get outside of their comfort zone to ultimately live the life they want to live.
Monday May 08, 2023
EP46: Taylor Isaacs
Monday May 08, 2023
Monday May 08, 2023
Taylor Isaacs is a leading fitness influencer. His free community workouts, his nasty fitness philosophy, and his one of a kind high energy approach to working out is gaining popularity across Austin.
Taylor joins us today in the riser podcast studio to share his story, his WHY, and what the word NASTY means to him.