Scott "Fitz" is a radio host in Rochester, NY and a filmmaker who has battled depression and celebrates sobriety. His podcast is his attempt to surround himself with positive successful people and to just have an organic conversation. Join him as he takes an organic approach to the standard interview. No preparation, no script. Letting the conversation have a mind of its own: a Blathering.
Latest episodes
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50 min
Meghan Johnstone & Grace Turner | Rock Bottom Ain't No Joke
Meghan Johnstone and Grace Turner are the business partners behind Rose Cleaning Co in Rochester, NY, a company that is closing in on a million dollars in contracts in under five y…
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1 h 19
Will Powell | AI Is Coming For You
Will Powell has been a motivational speaker, a voiceover talent, and the driving force behind The Player 1 Academy in Rochester, where kids work through math, reading, and social s…
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52 min
Corey Keyes | The Keyes To Spirituality
Corey Keyes managed the college radio station at SUNY Brockport, worked as a spokesman for the Electric Cooperatives of South Carolina, and heard his calling while driving alone th…
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33 min
Adrian Esposito | Filmmaking on the Spectrum
Adrian Esposito is a Rochester filmmaker who has been writing, producing, and directing films for more than a decade, from Bury My Heart with Tonawanda, a family film about how the…
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59 min
Kyle Napier | Your DNA Already Knows What's Wrong
Kyle Napier is a human physiologist and health optimization coach, and the founder of Club Gevity in Rochester. His background is in kinesiology and human physiology, and he ran hi…
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1 h 03
L. J. Nightingale | Drawn to Story Telling
Lydia Nightingale writes under the pen name L. J. Nightingale. She is an author, an actor, a playwright, and a public historian with a Master of Arts in History and a concentration…
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1 h 17
Heather Saffer | Stop Telling Her to Be Grateful
Heather Saffer won Food Network's Cupcake Wars in 2012, used the prize money to write The Dollop Book of Frosting, and turned a Rochester cupcake shop into Dollop Gourmet, a low-su…
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43 min
Amy Hawley | Figuring Out The How Is What Limits You
Amy Hawley built Kinz because the part of her story she most needed to keep was the part she had no interest in performing for anyone. Everyone already has the birthday photos and…
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50 min
Dean Lucas | 10 Years of Rides, And This Is The Last One
Dean Lucas lost his son Lee to a heroin overdose on December 23, 2016. Ten years later, the motorcycle ride he built in Lee's name has raised close to half a million dollars and a…
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57 min
The Strong Survivor | R. Greg Adams
R. Greg Adams built a career out of turning niche ideas into national brands, self-publishing Firehouse Cooking three decades ago and landing on Good Morning America, QVC, and Rand…
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58 min
Michael Solis | The Most Powerful Have No Powers
What if the person with no superpowers, in a world where everyone else has one, turns out to be the most important character in the room? Michael Solis joins Fitz at ROC Vox to tal…
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38 min
The Entrepreneur Who Taught Businesses to Laugh | Dave Mammano
Dave Mammano ran Next Step Magazine for 21 years — a print publication for high school students that grew to 17 editions and $5 million in revenue. When print died, he sold it, reb…
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46 min
Martina Barley | Being Cocky Built Her Business, Being Humbled Runs It
Marketing insurance agents nationwide sounds like a contradiction, but Uptown Marketing founder Martina Barley built a thirteen person, all female agency doing exactly that. Martin…
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52 min
Jon Goehring | From the Broadcast Booth to Building a Business on Storytelling
Jon Goehring spent years behind the mic at Rochester radio stations before leaving it to build StoryTrust Media, a podcast production company built on one idea: your stories build…
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1 h 08
Sarina Morales | From ESPN to the Bronx to WeTheHobby, and Every Near-Death Experience in Between
Sarina Morales spent years as an ESPN anchor and Los Angeles Rams sideline reporter before Bally Sports went bankrupt, she became a single mother, and everything she had built chan…
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1 h 08
Maria Pascucci-Maciejewski | Recovering Perfectionist: Breakdown, Survival, and Bouncing Back
Maria Pascucci-Maciejewski spent over 20 years helping others manage perfectionism and anxiety. She launched a national speaking business at 27, wrote a book, delivered a TEDx talk…
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48 min
Coach Jim Johnson | Why Relationships Win You Championships
(00:00:00) Welcome to ROC Vox — Introducing Coach Jim Johnson (00:01:03) Getting Cut and Getting Fired — A Humbling Start to Coaching (00:02:45) Becoming a Leadership Junkie — Zig…
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45 min
Debra Ross | Mobilizing for Totality: How an Eclipse Built a Community
(00:00:00) Cold Open: What is the Eclipse Effect? (00:00:45) Welcome Back and the Non-Conformist Oath (00:03:47) Ella's Five-Year Plan and the 2017 Missouri Eclipse (00:06:00) Buil…
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51 min
Melissa Suchodolski | Firing Bad Clients and Building Great People
Melissa Suchodolski told someone once that getting into construction was "absurd." That was 25 years ago. Today, she runs USC Builds, a 140-person Rochester contracting firm, and a…
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55 min
Chad Marks | He Wrote The Argument That Freed Thousands From His Cell
Chad Marks was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison at 24 years old — and from his cell, he wrote the legal argument that freed thousands.Chad Marks — Rochester native, publishe…