RISE ABOVE WITH RUDY
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Pepper Burress shares the lessons of leadership, inspiration, and experiences from his 42 years in the NFL.
About Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger
Today, a highly sought after motivational speaker, Rudy entertains international corporate audiences with a unique, passionate, and heartfelt style of communicating. He reaches school children, university students, and professional athletes with the same enthusiasm, portraying the human s...
Champion pro-wrestler, film and television actor and personality Dallas Page has been entertaining millions of fans for over 30 years. He joins Rudy and Joe to share his story of how he realized his seemingly impossible dream and how he's turning others into "champions" in their own lives!
About Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger
Today, a highly sought after motivational speaker, Rudy entertains international corporate a...
Although rejection is a part of life, it's never easy to accept. Rudy and Joe share some tips on how you can better deal with rejection by turning it into a positive.
About Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger
Today, a highly sought after motivational speaker, Rudy entertains international corporate audiences with a unique, passionate, and heartfelt style of communicating. He reaches school children, university students, and profes...
Angelo Pizzo began his film/television career with Warner Brothers Television in the story development group and then moved to Time-Life Films. After serving as Vice President of Feature Film Productions, he worked with former fraternity brother David Anspaugh to create Hoosiers, about a small-town Indiana high school team winning the state basketball title. Hoosiers earned two Oscar nominations. It was named among the best sports...
During Dan Hesse’s 7 years as CEO of Sprint Corporation, Sprint won numerous awards for culture and diversity & inclusion. Sprint’s total shareholder return ranked #1 among all S&P 500 companies for Dan’s last two calendar years, ahead of #2 Netflix.
He is also fellow “Domer."
About Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger
Today, a highly sought after motivational speaker, Rudy entertains international corporate audiences with ...
We have been fortunate to have had some truly inspiring people join us on this podcast. Some with messages of resilience, bouncing back after great personal tragedy. Some with messages of hope & determination, overcoming the fear of failure, and others offering great insights into controlling your thoughts and shifting your mindset for success and happiness.
So we thought in this episode, we’d share some of the highlights fro...
Known to Cleveland fans as "Mr. Cavalier" Austin Carr, former University of Notre Dame basketball legend and NBA great who played for the Cleveland Cavaliers, Dallas Mavericks, and Washington Bullets talks with Rudy and Joe about pursuing big dreams!
About Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger
Today, a highly sought after motivational speaker, Rudy entertains international corporate audiences with a unique, passionate, and heart...
In this episode Rudy and Joe talk about the importance of forgiving - those that have hurt you as well as yourself.
About Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger
Today, a highly sought after motivational speaker, Rudy entertains international corporate audiences with a unique, passionate, and heartfelt style of communicating. He reaches school children, university students, and professional athletes with the same enthusiasm, portraying ...
The ability to persuade is power, for good or for bad. In this episode Rudy and Joe share from their experiences with the power of persuasion to help you reach higher and achieve greatness.
About Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger
Today, a highly sought after motivational speaker, Rudy entertains international corporate audiences with a unique, passionate, and heartfelt style of communicating. He reaches school children, university st...
Jerry Schemmel is a renowned sportscaster. He spent a decade as the radio play-by-play voice of Major League Baseball's Colorado Rockies, and prior to that, he served as play-by-play announcer for the NBA's Denver Nuggets.
In this episode, Jerry is his harrowing yet amazing story of survival, which he’s chronicled in his book, “Chosen to Live.”
About Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger
Today, a highly sought after motivationa...
When pursuing your goals, certain external obstacles might exist that prevent you from attaining your dreams. Maybe it’s a lack of resources, dealing with a family crisis or struggling with something like the pandemic.
But there are times when we put limitations on our pursuit of success. Sometimes pursuing your dream requires you to move out of your own way. Jim Carrey once observed, “There are people who live their entire lives ...
Our guest knows this well. WorldVentures' chief visionary officer Wayne Nugent founded his company on fun, freedom and fulfillment. Today, Wayne's acclaim for being the master in the art of living is a result of his wisdom and compassion.
He mentors his representatives to magnify their spiritual, physical, emotional, intellectual and financial lives.
About Wayne Nugent
WorldVentures' luminary and Chief Visionary Offic...
Actor Joe Barbara has achieved acclaim as both a Broadway and television star. But like most who achieve success in his profession, it takes equal parts talent and tenacity. In this episode, Joe shares his incredible story of how sheer determination ultimately landed him his first leading role in a legendary Broadway musical!
About Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger
Today, a highly sought after motivational speaker, Rudy entertains i...
Dr, Chiann Fan Gibson was born in Tokyo Japan to Taiwanese parents.
In 1971, with less than $200 to their name, Chiann Fan and her family immigrated to the U. S. to pursue the American Dream.
Struggling at first with both finances and the language barrier, Chiann and her two sisters soon excelled and all three graduated with honors.
After graduating college, Chiann set her sites on dentistry and by 2016, Dr. Chiann Fan Gibson was ...
In this episode, football coach Rob Mendez, born without limbs, shares his incredibly inspiring story of living fearlessly in pursuit of his goals and dreams!
Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger
Rudy continues his movie’s message of hope, perseverance, and self-reliance, by sharing the amazing and inspiring true stories of everyday people who are ‘Rudys’ in their own lives. People of all ages who are choosing courage over adversity, be...
Former Navy Seal, Jake Young, shares his inspiring story of how he became a Seal out of a desire for challenge in his life only to use his skills as a Seal to navigate the challenges he faces now in his everyday life.
Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger
Rudy continues his movie’s message of hope, perseverance, and self-reliance, by sharing the amazing and inspiring true stories of everyday people who are ‘Rudys’ in their own lives....
Fear of rejection. Fear of failure. Fear of inadequacy. Fear of change. All are illusions. In this episode, Rudy and Joe share from their own experiences to help you go from fearful to fearless in pursuit of your goals and dreams!
Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger
Rudy continues his movie’s message of hope, perseverance, and self-reliance, by sharing the amazing and inspiring true stories of everyday people who are ‘Rudys’ in their o...
Husband & wife country singing duo, Shannon Haley and Ryan Michaels, share the story of their journey in life, love, and their pursuit of country music superstardom.
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Twitter - @haleynmichaels (Blue check mark)
About Haley & Michaels
Haley & Michaels grew up in Northern California just three miles apart but didn't meet until they were both livi...
They were born just before 9-11. Lived though the "Great Recession" of '08. And now the pandemic of 2020 has robbed them of one of the milestone moments of their young lives. But Jessica Ruettiger (www.Jessica-Noel.com) , 2020 graduate with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Music Theater from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, and Jillian Garner (www.JillianLeeGarner.com), 2020 graduate with a Bachelor in Fine Arts in Acti...
Having healthy self-esteem means liking yourself and holding yourself in high regard. Self-esteem is more important now than ever. S. Renee offers incredible insights into building and maintaining a healthy self-esteem.
About S. Renee Smith
Nationally recognized self-esteem, branding and communications expert, coach, speaker and author S. Renee Smith can point to thousands of people who have experienced the positive results of her ...
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