Vicariously

Vicariously

Vicariously is not just a podcast, but a lifestyle. As we travel the globe, every week we sit down with unique entrepreneurs successfully pursuing their passion. No top line questions or cookie cutter answers, Vicariously aims to deliver invaluable content to anyone looking to start a new venture or simply broaden their understanding of a multitude of industries, brands and lifestyle movements. Video of our guests sharing their stories and insights are also featured on our YouTube channel: Vicariously Podcast.

Episodes

November 22, 2017

With roughly a year of interviewing skills under my belt, it felt like Master and Apprentice when I sat down with Ms. Holly Gleason to discuss being an entrepreneur, how her new book came to fruition and general life lessons. With over 30 years of experience in the music industry, this icon has articles published in Rolling Stone, Playboy, Creem, LA Times, Spin and more. She has also written music under her alias "Lady Goodman&...

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Good beer brings good people together for good times and good works. This statement might be your own personal belief that has lingered in the back of your mind since college days or your first backyard BBQ, but it genuinely is the philosophy behind Union Craft Brewing. Founded in 2011 just outside of Baltimore Maryland, Adam Benesch, Kevin Blodger and Jon Zerivitz took the leap of faith to be entrepreneurs in the craft beer space....

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October 18, 2017 38 mins

Whether you're an atrocious golfer or you're competing for a spot on the PGA pro circuit, everyone can agree that lining up in front of a little white innocent golf ball and crushing it into the ocean, bay, river or pond with no regard, is a beautiful thing. This week we sit down with one of three co-founders of Biodegradaball, LLC who started a company predicated on just that. They currently have 5 locations around Baltimo...

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For 30 years Stevie Bear has called Austin, TX home. She has witnessed it morph into an eclectic and trendy city mixed with a revamped skyline and bustling corporate downtown making it very diverse. She has also watched hurricanes, tornados, floods and other natural disasters rip through Texas over those years dismantling its progress.With a degree in social work, it may seem odd why this entrepreneur manages 5 different businesses...

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September 20, 2017 40 mins

Have you ever had a career plan or lifestyle change all figured out, but then none of it happens the way you thought it would? Jason Macy-Moore was working in the hotel/restaurant/tourism field when a group of entrepreneurs sent him to Costa Rica to explore their new business opportunity. After one quick look, he knew it wasn't something he wanted to be a part of, but he did fall in love with the country. So, he packed his thin...

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Understanding that you need to pivot and change your current professional path is one thing, but to act on it is another. Both Greg Peyser and Russell Radebaugh each had their defining moments where they had enough of their mundane office jobs. Ironically they both wound up in San Diego at Suja Juice, the cold pressed organic fruit and vegetable juice company. After witnessing first hand the fast paced rise to success and eventual ...
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Boyfriend and girlfriend of only a couple months, Jason Serres and Sandra Scheller packed up their small apartment in Philly and moved out to San Diego on a whim. As they settled into their new city, they realized it was lacking a good, local coffee shop. A little market research and some family help to develop a business plan, they were on their way to open a 3rd wave coffee shop in East Village, a trendy up-and-coming neighborhoo...
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Jon Carder started his first online business at the age of 19 when he was a sophomore in college. So it wasn't a huge surprise that by 27 and three businesses later, he was a retired millionaire. His company ClientShop sold for more than $10million which posted him on beaches around the world simply enjoying the surf life. Unsatisfied though, this serial entrepreneur started several more companies over the years and is now Co-F...
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Entrepreneurs Neftali and Tammy Lemus seem to have San Pedro, Belize tourism dialed in with their business ventures. We sit down with Tammy to hear her story of packing up her life in Colorado to move to Belize where she and her husband now own and operate several businesses. Their first venture is Island Tackle Bar & Restaurant, a well known local bar situated at the end of a pier overlooking the gorgeous ocean. On their pier ...
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Whether you own a giant mansion or rent a shoebox sized apartment, the desire to hang artwork and pictures on your walls will always be there. Wyatt Harrison founded a unique printing company several years after college that focuses on printing photos on wood planks. A Marine Biology major, he had zero college courses in business, but now operates a lucrative e-commerce business shipping wood, acrylic and aluminum prints all over t...
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49 million Americans struggle to put food on the table everyday, which is about 1 out of every 6 people. The USDA defines this as "food insecurity" which means it is not lack of food, but rather the continued prevalence of poverty and inability to provide for ones family. Evan Lutz, CEO of Hungry Harvest, is taking a completely new approach in order to solve this problem. Yes, I know that is a monumental task and a bold sta...
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Potentially the most unique story to be on Vicariously so far, Danny Robinson was featured in the film "Blood, Sweat & Beers" where viewers followed along his journey of starting a brewery in Ocean City, Maryland, but was derailed due to a trademark lawsuit for the name "Shorebilly". Without giving away the movie's ending, Danny shares the stressful turn of events in this podcast and how after the lawsuit wa...
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Imagine leaving an exemplary career in the United States Marine Corps to start a gym out of your garage. Now pretend things are "going well" because you've secured 10 memberships and you're home garage/gym is officially at capacity. What happens next? Clearly the logical answer is to extend yourself with a loan exceeding $2-million dollars to build a new 50,000 sqft facility that will hopefully take your gym to the ...
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For over 40 years South Coast Surf Shops has been the neighborhood standard for all of your apparel, surf gear and anything that goes with hanging at the beach. With 5 stores and a thriving online business, South Coast is the go-to spot for each of the beach towns in Southern California, but that doesn't mean they don't still have the need to constantly evolve and adapt. President, Heather Shields and COO, Steve Cowan, sit ...
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Spend life savings of $10,000, check. Paint a catchy name on the side of a van for marketing, check. Learn how to be a small business owner and entrepreneur completely on the fly, check. Breanna Frazier shares her story of how she built a transportation and tour company to provide an alternative to the outdated world of taxi services. Two years into her successful business venture, Uber and Lyft took away significant market share ...
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Not many people opt to take on City Council and ask them to break the mold in which they operate. Furthermore, it's generally not done by three grad school students with no money in their pockets asking to take over city owned property. Philip Auchettl, Jason Grauten and David Loewenstein did just that and it kickstarted their architecture design and development company, RAD Lab. Four years later, what began as a school project...
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CNBC recently featured Charlie Ferer on their show, Blue Collar Millionaires. We bypassed their cookie cutter questions and sat down with Charlie to understand the details of how he started his residential and commercial turf company, Paradise Greens. We also discussed his newest venture, Armageddon Tactical Solutions and ATACSOL Precision Rifles which includes elite tactical training for government agencies, law enforcement, milit...
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What if I told you that you could start a business for $500 and your product would not only sustain over the next decade, but it would sell millions of units across the globe and target every demographic from children to grandmothers and Snoop Dogg to Natalie Portman. Well, Adam "Ace" Moyer started that simple venture, developing an affordable, classic style sunglass company back in 2005 and has grown dramatically in size a...
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Bobbi Brink was already a successful entrepreneur as a restaurant owner in Texas, but that wasn't her true calling. After witnessing first hand the ugly, harsh realities of the exotic animal trade, she decided to take action. Bobbi picked up and moved to Alpine, CA purchasing 93-acres of land to start an exotic animal rescue sanctuary. For fifteen years now, Bobbi has been managing all aspects of providing for their 60+ ani...
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What started with a naive college kid posting old surf boards for sale on eBay, has now morphed into the premier surfboard and stand up paddle board company not only in San Diego, but arguably one of the best in the entire industry. ISLE Surf and SUP Co-founder, Marc Miller, shares how the company began as a two man operation in a small garage 13 years ago. For more than a decade, Marc and partner Doug Pate, have managed to grow th...
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