The Groove Podcast with Devin Pense

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,...

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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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...

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 care...

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 ey...

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 wh...

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 super...

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 condi...

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 b...

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...

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 calli...

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...

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...

"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?

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 hit...