Entrepreneurs: A Star-Studded Journey from NYPD to Hollywood with Joe Cirillo + Others

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Speaker 6 (00:51):
And I'm Elizabeth Gearhart, not an attorney, but I do
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and podcasts.

Speaker 9 (00:57):
Welcome to Passage to Profit, the Road Trepreneurship, where we
talk with celebrities and entrepreneurs about their stories in the
business world. We have a super special guest. His name
is Joe Soirillo. He's an actor, writer, producer, and former
New York Police Department officer. He was discovered while he
was on duty for the NYPD and has played roles

(01:19):
in The Godfather, Ghostbusters, Splash, and the TV series Kojak
and Eyeshide.

Speaker 6 (01:25):
And then we have two really great stories. We have
a Von Yamba and Michael Lorero. What do you do
if you're in a scary situation? They have training for
that for all ages. It's very cool. It's called streetreadyanjay
dot com. They go around giving presentations, can hardly way
to hear what they have to say, and if you're.

Speaker 9 (01:43):
Living in New York, you've got to be street ready.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
You do.

Speaker 6 (01:46):
And then we have a return guest who we love
dearly Antonia to Mayo with Antonia's promise. She has just
been hitting it out of the ballpark with her company
and we want to hear all about it.

Speaker 9 (01:57):
That's really great.

Speaker 6 (01:58):
And coming up later on it's Noah's retrospective along with
Secrets of the Entrepreneurial Mind.

Speaker 9 (02:05):
But before we get to our distinguished guests, it's time
for your new business journey. Two and five Americans own
a business or are thinking about starting one, and so
we like to ask our panel a question that we
think would be of interest to our audience that's business oriented.
So our question today is going to be how do
you use storytelling to create impactful marketing strategies for your business?

(02:29):
So welcome to the show, Joe. It's really a pleasure
to have you here. How has storytelling impacted your business
over the years.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Well, I write screenplays, I do stories, I do articles
for newspapers, for magazines, and I talk about my past.
I was a police officers combat veteran in Korea. So
whenever I speak to people about that that helps them
with their business. I talk about what I've done, what
I've completed. I ended up having a big security company

(03:00):
and I did it all on my own, and to
this day, they all think of me as the I
would say, the super bodyguard for major stars in motion
pictures and TV.

Speaker 9 (03:12):
That's really great. I think probably as you were building
the business, you were able to attract other customers just
by telling them about the people that you worked with.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Right, Yes, exactly, if you tell people you work with
Sinatra or Telly Sivalis or Jackie Gleeson who I've been with, Right,
away they listen, they'll listen to what you've got to say.

Speaker 9 (03:34):
That's a real attention getter. Well that's great, definitely, Antonia,
welcome to the show again. Nice to see you.

Speaker 5 (03:39):
Thank you so much, Richard.

Speaker 9 (03:41):
So tell us a little bit about how storytelling has
helped your business.

Speaker 4 (03:44):
Well, storytelling is what got me on radio. Is all
I had was a story, and that's what started Antonia's promise.
So now with the podcast, it's a true story of
healing and miracles and hope, and people come on and
they share their story. So I would say it's my
entire brand.

Speaker 9 (04:03):
Yea Vonon, Welcome to the show. Tell us a little
bit about how storytelling helps your business.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
But thank you Richard for having us. And storytelling is
crucial in our business. Like you said earlier, our storytelling
for us is really used as an attention getter to
tell our audience why it's important to be street ready.
And then we also use people's real life stories to
understand to taylor our training materials. One story we came
across recently was a young child in New Jersey who
died on the playground because no one was CPR certified.

(04:29):
So when you hear things like that. We're like, we
have to get our programs in schools. We also have
to tell teachers and students the importance of this material.
So that's just one way storytelling has helped us.

Speaker 9 (04:38):
That's really powerful, Michael.

Speaker 10 (04:40):
Storytelling is something that we use a ton during our
seminars for our social media and stuff like that. A
lot of what we do our attention getters are through
people's stories. We teach a lot of self defense, like
abduction prevention, sexual assault defense. Everyone knows these things happened,
but no one really thinks they're a potential victim, you know,
And sometimes it's not until you hear a story about

(05:02):
a woman who was going on her daily jog being
grabbed up from behind and dragged towards a van that
you realize, wow, this can happen to me.

Speaker 8 (05:10):
You know.

Speaker 10 (05:10):
Fortunately, she was street ready, you know, she used some
of the tactics that that she learned, and she escaped
that scenario.

Speaker 8 (05:16):
You know.

Speaker 10 (05:17):
So just like hearing that story that really captivates the
audience and then makes them kind of realize, like that
could be me as well, and I'd rather be the
person who escapes than you know, ends up getting abducted
or something like that.

Speaker 11 (05:28):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (05:28):
I feel like storytelling helps your business because it helps
people identify with you and helps that relationship because you
can identify and empathize with each other.

Speaker 9 (05:37):
I guess the takeaway is impactful marketing stems from authentic
storytelling and by doing that, you create authentic connections with
your target market.

Speaker 6 (05:46):
Right, so good, very well, said mister Gearhart.

Speaker 8 (05:49):
Well, thank you.

Speaker 9 (05:52):
So now it's time for our guest of honor, Joe Soirilla.
I've had a chance to speak with him on and off.
What struck me Joe is you have the presence of
an entertainer. Thank you, and tell us a little bit
about the businesses that you had and maybe how that
led to your celebrity career.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
Well, if you want to say businesses, I was a
police officer for twenty years in the NYPD, and I
became an actor after that. So I did a lot
of acting. I was in The Godfather, Ghostbusters. I've done
a lot of movies. And when I sort of gave
it up, I didn't give it up completely. Coming back
to New York, I figured I had to do something else.

(06:33):
I started my own security business. And when I started
the business, it was just for film and for movie stars.
What we would do is call the production office and
they said they were going to shoot on eighty fifth
Street or something. They were leaving the equipment, and I
would put men on that to guard the equipment. Whenever

(06:53):
they had a big star on the show, they wanted
security for the big star, and I was the one
that got that job. So I've been with many, many,
many big stars and the business went very well. I
became friendly with a lot of them, and I also
wrote my own autobiography where I tell little stories about
each one of them. And from my business, a lot

(07:16):
of other friends of mine started their business. They said, wow,
Joe's doing good. So we became friendly competitors. We never
fought over who gets what movie and who does this
or who does that. I was pretty good with the guys.
I didn't charge more than them, or they didn't charge
more than me, so it was pretty good. If they
wanted to go with that company, they went with that company.

(07:39):
If not, they came to me. But I was the
one who really got most of the work.

Speaker 6 (07:43):
That is awesome, and I feel the kind of the
same way like if you have a business and someone
else has a similar one, no, two people are going
to do their business the same way. And I'm coaching
people on podcasting, and there's lots of podcast coaches out there,
but I'm like, you know, work with the person that
you feel comfortable with and connect with.

Speaker 8 (07:59):
Yes, definitely, definitely.

Speaker 6 (08:01):
And the other thing I want to ask you, though,
you kind of glossed over something, Joe, what's that? How
do you go from being a police officer.

Speaker 12 (08:09):
And all of a sudden being in a movie?

Speaker 11 (08:11):
Like?

Speaker 6 (08:11):
How did that happen?

Speaker 8 (08:12):
Okay? Okay.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
So I was assigned to the Museum of Natural History.
That was my post, my beat, whatever you want to
call it. I was there for seven and a half years.
But during that time period, across the street from the
Planetarium Museum is the Beresford Apartments, is a big apartment
building and in that building a lot of celebrities lived.

(08:37):
It was Steven Edie, Alan Funt, Mike Nichols, who was
a big director, producer, He was a comedian at one time. Well, anyway,
I befriended most of these people, and I was with
Mike Nichols a lot. I did him a couple of favors.
He did me some favors. One day while I was
in his office. Mike Nichols said to me, how would

(08:58):
you like to be in the movies? And I said,
I'm not an actor. He says, don't worry, We'll make
you one. So he set up an interview with Paramount
Pictures and I did go down for the interview and
I was interviewed by a woman. She was a casting director.
And the first thing she asked me, she says, what
makes you think you can act? I said, I'm a cop.

(09:20):
We're the best actors in the world with doctors were lawyers.
And she said, you're right. And they gave me a
small part in The Godfather.

Speaker 9 (09:30):
That's great. That's great. Joe Soirilla, actor, writer, producer, and
former New York Police Department officer. What childhood experience did
you have, Joe, that motivated you to become an actor.

Speaker 8 (09:45):
I was a young boy. I loved the movies, and I.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
Remember like pitching pennies gambling, you know, as a kid.
And as soon as I had the money to see
a movie, I secreted in my shoe on my pocket.
Then I said I'm broke, I'm finished, and then I
would run to the movies. I literally was going to
the movies almost on a daily basis, and also on
the weekends. I used to spend five six hours in

(10:08):
the movies. They had all kinds of shows on I
guess you heard this before. Two movies, Western newsreel. There
were so many different shows, cartoons, three stooges. Anyway, I
spent a lot of time in the movies. I loved
the movies. I never thought of becoming an actor. I
would it, would love to become an actor. But then

(10:29):
it happened. It happened in a strange way, but I
did become an actor. I also went to school. I
went to the HB Studio. In fact, Antonio's here she
also went to the same school. She also went to
the same school. And then when I went out to
the West Coast. Maybe I should tell you about that
how that happened. The Kojak series was the number one

(10:50):
show back in the seventies. They filmed in California at
Universal Studios. It was called New York Street, so it
looked like New York and then they would go out
in the streets of la and film and they decided
in nineteen seventy six to film the whole series in
New York and at that time, Kojak was the number

(11:13):
one show and Telly Savalis the star. He was the
number one actor in the world. So what they did
when they came to New York they went to the
police commissioner and they said to them they were coming
to shoot for a whole year, and we want a
police officer to be his bodyguard who has knowledge about movies.

(11:33):
And they said, we have the right guy. Few and
they gave me that assignment.

Speaker 6 (11:38):
Hanging out with Wow, Yes, I do want to go
back to something that you said that I think is
super important, and that is somebody said here's an opportunity,
you should grab it to be an actor, and you said, well,
I'm not sure I'm a good fit. And they're like,
do it anyway, And you did it anyway and it worked.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
I would try anything. I never considered myself a writer,
and here I am. I've got an autobiography, I've got
over ten screenplays. I write articles for newspapers, I write
articles for magazines.

Speaker 6 (12:10):
You really have to carefully look at the opportunities that
are presented to you, and.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
I'm glad I gat my opportunity.

Speaker 6 (12:16):
Speaking of acting in TV shows, how close is law
and order to what you actually experienced.

Speaker 9 (12:23):
Ah, that's a good question.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
Let me say this. My partner in the radio car,
Jerry Georgio, was like me. We wrote together. We've been
in so many different situations. He became the person that
gave the stories to Law and Order, Yes, and I
was with the Kojak. So both of us became actors

(12:47):
and we both supplied stories for the different shows. But
Jerry Georgio was a famous detective and he said he
didn't get along with mister Wolf.

Speaker 8 (12:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
My job was out there to protect the and that's
what I did. I got to know everybody on my post.
I got to know civilian people that I became friends
with them. Each store keeper on my beat when I
was a foot cop, they all knew me. I went
into every single one of them, spoke with them. If
you need anything, I'm here to help. So a big

(13:20):
value was just being a cop to help everyone. That
was a big job. Today, I'm not sure if it's
the same way.

Speaker 8 (13:27):
Then we had nothing.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
We had no vests, we had no radios, we had
no automatics. We only had a night stick, a billy
in our back pocket, and a whistle. If we had
a problem. On the street where we needed help, we
had to bang the night stick on the curb and
hopefully the guy in the next post would hear it,

(13:51):
if not blow the whistle and somebody would come over.

Speaker 8 (13:54):
We had what they call.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
Call boxes, so when we turned out from the precinct,
we get a number twenty two, thirty two whatever it
might be, thirty two minutes past the hour. You called
in and they either gave you an assignment, but that
was the check.

Speaker 8 (14:09):
To see if you were okay.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
Of course, in addition to that, we had the sergeant
in the radio car come around check the posts that
we called it a c He wanted to see that
you are on your post, you were doing your job,
and that you were safe.

Speaker 8 (14:26):
So that was in Today they've got everything.

Speaker 2 (14:29):
They've got computers, they've got vess, they've got helmets. They
we had nothing of that, and yet I would honestly
say we were more respected.

Speaker 8 (14:39):
Than the police are today. Wow.

Speaker 9 (14:42):
Well, we have to take a commercial break, but Joe,
it's really fascinating to hear your stories. Stay tuned passage
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Speaker 9 (16:52):
Now back to Passage to Profit once again.

Speaker 11 (16:55):
Richard and Elizabeth Gearhart and.

Speaker 6 (16:57):
Our special guest, Joe Cirillo. We have just been having
a great conversation with Joe. We've talked about his past career,
how he climbed the entrepreneurial ladder into different things, and
now we want to get into what Joe's doing now.
Joe has a book that's been out for a little bit,
amongst many other projects. So maybe we start with Joe's book.

(17:17):
Tell us about your book.

Speaker 2 (17:19):
Okay, this is my autobiography an author I couldn't refuse
from the NYPD to Hollywood. Yeah, I wrote that, and
it tells you everything from a young boy to almost
present day. Also, I have a cooking show. I shouldn't
say I have it, but my son was the one
who's the chef. I produced it, I directed. We did

(17:42):
several shows cooking shows. When we did the first couple
of them, I gave them the people at the Food
Network and they loved it. They said, but it's no
different than any other cooking show. You have to come
up with a gimmick. So we came up with a gimmick.
My son started a show feeding the starving Artists. That

(18:02):
was the name of the show. The difference between the
other cooking shows and now a cooking show is that
what he did was invite people that are starving artists,
Like we had a group in Nashville, Tennessee. They're trying
to get a big break singing in the you know
in big time, of course, and we invited them up
to New York.

Speaker 8 (18:22):
We flew them up to New York.

Speaker 2 (18:24):
They came to his house or my house actually, and
they sang and they did their show and my son
cooked for them. So that was one show. Then we
had another group, a rap group, did their thing and
my son cooked for them. So it's really a show
where people are trying to make it in the business.
They can't make it, and they're going to go on

(18:46):
the cooking show and they'll do their thing and my
son the'll.

Speaker 8 (18:49):
Do the cooking.

Speaker 6 (18:50):
That's pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
That particular show we had someone from NBC. I remember
they were all interested and I don't recall exactly what happened,
but we backed out of it for some reason.

Speaker 9 (19:03):
Well, the entertainment business is a tough one, right, I mean,
you've had a lot of success, but it's not always
as easy. And you know, if you want to make it,
you have to keep trying.

Speaker 8 (19:12):
You know, I produce shows in the past, and I
use my own money.

Speaker 2 (19:16):
But you know, when you're going into a movie, you're
tooken in the median so that's where you need someone
to help you. So what I'm looking for at present
time is try to get an agent that would represent me.
I've got one Broadway show because one of them is
I can't use. I have a lot of music from
the original Broadway show that singers can sing if they

(19:38):
wanted to. I got a lot of good ballads. Everyone
that's heard the music loves the music. The musical that
is ready, it's all set to go. I have the
music sheets, I have copies of the music.

Speaker 8 (19:50):
We have a video. It's available.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
If an agent wants to listen to it, I would
give it to them and they can represent me there.
Or possibly I have a Ristmas song that was published.
I know a lot of entertainers are looking for Christmas music.
If you're looking for one, I have a Christmas song,
and I think you'll be truly surprised to listen to
what I've written.

Speaker 6 (20:11):
You told me a story before the show about how
you did this incredible show and wrote the music and
everything for Broadway. But because of a copyright issue, you
can use it.

Speaker 2 (20:23):
Yes, back in the day, like I said, they know
about me being a cop who was in an entertainer.
They wrote articles on me in the daily news, musical cop,
so on and so forth, and the producer from MGM
saw this and he said, he came over to me
on my beat, my post, whatever you want to call it,

(20:43):
and he said, I writ about you. And I thought
it would be interesting if I got you a New
York City cop and a minister from Chapaqua, New York
to write a Broadway musical.

Speaker 8 (20:56):
I said wow.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
So he had me meet this come poser, the minister
up in Chappaquah, and we sat together and we talked
about what we possibly could do, and we came up
with making the movie Mardi, which was nineteen fifty five,
won the Academy Award for Best Movie, Best Actor.

Speaker 8 (21:18):
Won three awards.

Speaker 2 (21:19):
So what I did was I went to the library
in New York. I got the original script and I
started to look at it and I said, wow, here's
a good spot for a song. Here's another spot. And
I came up with thirty sets of lyrics for songs.
I got together with the composer again. He said, let's
go to the piano. We went to the piano and

(21:40):
I said, gave them the lyrics and I said, this
is how it should sound. I had the music in
my mind, but he said no, I'll do the music.

Speaker 8 (21:48):
You do the lyrics. Then we sit together and we
changed them. So we came up with thirty songs.

Speaker 9 (21:53):
That's pretty amazing. So where is it right now? I mean,
you've got.

Speaker 8 (21:56):
It's just like this.

Speaker 2 (21:58):
What happened was Pati Chowsky would not give us the rights,
and I had quite a few people speak to him,
including Mike Nichols his office, and they spoke to me
said no, he didn't want to do it as a
musical because if it was a failure, they would always
remember it as a failure and not the Academy Awould winner.

Speaker 9 (22:20):
Maybe it could have made the music even more famous, right, well.

Speaker 2 (22:22):
I'm sure, I'm sure. Prog You know, in those years,
if you recall, whenever there was a great musical on Broadway,
all the big stars recorded the numbers from the musicals.
It's not like that today.

Speaker 8 (22:35):
Joe.

Speaker 9 (22:36):
It's been absolutely fascinating. Thank you for sharing so much
about your career and your life. I just love your
stories and I love the way you tell them. We
have to move on now to intellectual property news. But
how can people reach you? If they want to contact.

Speaker 2 (22:51):
You, they can reach me on Facebook or on my
email address. Joe Actor, twenty seven at.

Speaker 9 (22:59):
Gmail, Passage to Profit with Richard Analyzabeth Perhart.

Speaker 6 (23:04):
Coming up later on Secrets of the entrepreneurial mind.

Speaker 9 (23:08):
Time now for intellectual property news. One of my favorite
segments of the show, of course, being an intellectual property attorney.
So what is in the news today, Elizabeth?

Speaker 6 (23:18):
For all the stuff that AI generates, like if you
ask it a question or anything, where does it get
the information? Well, gets the information from people, and so
people want to get compensated for that. So intellectual property
in the news this time is about how there's an
AI copyright lawsuit from Sarah Silverman and others against Mark

(23:41):
Zuckerberg for everything he's doing with Meta, and he kept saying, no,
I don't need to be deposed. He deposed means you
go sit in a room or on a video with
a lawyer, and lawyer just grills you with questions and
it's I apparently I have not been deposed, but Richard
has done them so apparently very Yeah.

Speaker 9 (24:01):
I've been on the giving and receiving end, so I
know what it's like.

Speaker 6 (24:04):
So Mark tried to not have to do that.

Speaker 9 (24:06):
I don't blame him for not wanting to go through this.
On the other hand, as the CEO. He has a
responsibility to his company.

Speaker 6 (24:13):
Right, So US District judge said, no, Mark, you got
to get deposed personally as a head of Meta and
you cannot push it down the chain.

Speaker 9 (24:21):
So usually the CEOs can get out of it. I
don't know what this judge did, but in any case,
the plaintiffs here, Sarah Silverman, who's an author, complained because
Meta was using her material and other artist material to
create AI content and she wasn't getting compensated for it.

(24:41):
Now Mark Zuckerberg is in the hot seat, which kind
of doesn't bother me too much. I've not so much
a Mark Zuckerberg fan, and so now you have to
answer for this.

Speaker 11 (24:50):
No, not sh.

Speaker 9 (24:53):
I don't even use my Facebook account.

Speaker 6 (24:56):
They block you out.

Speaker 9 (24:58):
I hope he's not that. But anyway, Antonio, what do
you think about this situation?

Speaker 5 (25:05):
I get it completely. It's a little scary.

Speaker 9 (25:08):
I do think if you make your living as a
content creator, you know you can't just have your stuff
taken and then modify it a little bit and put
out there.

Speaker 5 (25:16):
How do you make exactly what it's doing?

Speaker 10 (25:18):
Yeah, Michael, what do you think even myself as using AI?
I'm wondering like, wait, this isn't really my idea anymore.
This is probably somebody else's idea. So we're on both
ends of someone using your own content to create something.
But I would recommend don't lose a sense of your
own creativity because AI can just kind of take over ivon.

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Speaker 9 (28:27):
The spotlight is on Elizabeth, so tell us what you've
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Speaker 6 (28:31):
I've been spending a lot of my time recently with
marketing for your heart law. We have a lot going on.
I also am helping people with their podcasts, and we
have one of those people here today, Antonio, which will
be fun to hear her talk. But one thing we
did late last year was we took an event that
one of the attorneys at Your Heart Law had been
running for years, called the Entrepreneurial Strategy Series, and we

(28:52):
put it out as a podcast and put it on YouTube.
We haven't done anything to promote it, and we need
to do more with it on YouTube because I'm just
kind of it on there. But what's interesting is it's
getting more traction and listens on YouTube than it is
as just on the Spotify or something. And that tracks
with what I've been hearing in the podcast industry, which

(29:12):
is more people are listening to their podcasts on YouTube
than on any other platform. So that was a really
good piece of information.

Speaker 9 (29:20):
So if you're going to be a content creator, focus
on YouTube.

Speaker 6 (29:23):
You can put your podcast on YouTube. If you don't
do video, there's a way to do it pretty easy. Actually,
you just have to use another software program. But if
you can put some video in there, you can overlay video.
There's a lot of ways to do it. But if
you're doing a podcast, you should be on YouTube with
it if you want the biggest bang for your buck,
which is why everything Richard and I do is video.
Richard has devised this elaborate scheme of cameras that it's

(29:48):
a monster's going on, but that segues me into something else.
That's great because we're almost done with the podcast studio
and some new and he's used his knowledge of everything
he had to learn to set up these cameras here
and we're going to be using it in the podcast
studio helping people do podcasts. You can come to a

(30:09):
one off podcast, you can do a bunch of podcasts.
And we're also helping people start their own podcasts. And
I still have the meetup group podcast and YouTube Creators Community.
I was doing it with Stacy Sherman. She decided to
take a break, so I scrambled around and my coach
Sonya Satra, agreed to fill in and be a co
organizer for that meetup. So that's once a month and

(30:30):
having a lot of fun with that. And yeah, so.

Speaker 9 (30:34):
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Speaker 6 (30:37):
Yes, and then we want to talk about our medical minute.
I thought this was really interesting. So there's a new
pain medication that's almost like an opioid, but it doesn't
have addictive properties, And the FDA just approved it and
it's the first of it's kind of more than twenty years.
And this article was on ABC dot com on January thirtieth,

(31:00):
and the drug is called Jernovas and it's manufactured by
Vertex Pharmaceuticals and apparently it's working pretty well for a
lot of people. It was found to reduce modern to
severe acute pain for adults from baseline by about fifty
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But if it's almost an opioid but it doesn't make

(31:21):
you addicted, maybe it will work for people.

Speaker 9 (31:23):
It works because it blocks the nerves that are aggravated
by the pain from reaching the brain, So your nerve
impulses are still firing, but your brain doesn't know it.
I just wonder is this going to be the solution
now to the fentanyl crisis? I mean, because we need painkillers,
but we don't need the addiction.

Speaker 6 (31:43):
Right, So I hope so, so I hope this can
help wing people off. Now it is time for Yvan
Yamba and Michael Lrero with Street Ready, New Jersey Street
readyandja dot Com. I think what they have fills a
huge need and I'm so excited to hear from these
young men, So please tell us all about what you're doing.

Speaker 3 (32:03):
Hello, everybody. Vonn and Mike here we are the creators
of street Ready. Street Ready is an education company that
really tries to create a first responder out of every
citizen in the United States, and we do that by
teaching our three pillars, which is first aid, self defense,
and de escalation. I'm going to be a practicing physician
in about two or three months. So I see a
lot of patients that come in and they die because

(32:24):
the ambulance took too long, right or no one on
someone knew how to respond. So our method was to
bring our training into everyone's home, everyone's school, everyone's business,
so that you could be a first responder.

Speaker 10 (32:36):
Mike, yeah, well, these are all skills that Yvonne and
I wish we had growing up, and even to this day,
you know, we're still refining those skills. We focus a
lot on sexual assault defense, abduction prevention, aggravated assault defense,
and then we have our de escalation and first aid. Now,
these are things that we want to make people confident

(32:56):
because we've noticed when people leave our seminars, they leave
with this tons of confidence that they are more capable,
more knowledgeable, and more prepared, you know, as we say,
they're street ready. And we've heard the personal stories that
people have brought back to us about being a potential
abduction victim, or their little brother was choking on their
food and they were able to perform the Heimlich and

(33:18):
save their little brother.

Speaker 9 (33:19):
You know.

Speaker 10 (33:19):
So when we hear stories like that, that's the most
motivating thing to us. You know, we're trying to help
people ultimately, that's what we're doing. So we combined our
skill set. I've been training martial arts for over twenty years.
As Yvonne said, he's about to graduate and be a doctor.
So we brought these skill sets and we're trying to
just give them to everybody.

Speaker 9 (33:35):
It's kind of an unusual a combination. How'd you guys
find each other?

Speaker 12 (33:38):
I went to college in California.

Speaker 3 (33:40):
I moved to Newark, New Jersey to start medical school,
and I, you know, I had been into the martial
arts as well. I was doing jiu jitsu. I wanted
to learn some striking. I asked the guys at the gym.
I said, I need an instructor. I want someone that
is a specialist in this and they said, you have
to meet this guy called animal.

Speaker 12 (33:54):
It's an animal. This guy called animal. Animal is Mike, Oh,
what kind of animal are you?

Speaker 8 (34:03):
It's not.

Speaker 3 (34:06):
He's definitely not a kid. Maybe another feline. But so
I went home to visit my family in California. I
get off at Newark Airport. I go and the next
day I'm going to go to his house to do
a training session. And you know, I don't know what
to expect. I walk into the backyard. I see this guy,
long hair, go tea very zen.

Speaker 12 (34:23):
Very quiet, you know, long face.

Speaker 3 (34:25):
You don't really know what to expect, right, So, you know,
we start talking and we become friends. And then throughout
the months that we know each other, we do all
the martial arts, we cover everything, and we see that
we have a shared friendship, and through that friendship, we said,
you know what, I want to take the hidden curriculum
that they keep in medical schools.

Speaker 12 (34:40):
I want to take the de escalation.

Speaker 3 (34:41):
Strategies we've learned and applied throughout our whole life. And
he said he wants to take the self defense things
he's taught to police officers to citizens, and we want
to create a curriculum that anyone, whether you're five or
eighty five, right, So we want something that everyone could
have access to and understand. And that's how street Ready
was born, That's how we met.

Speaker 9 (34:57):
That's great. So if I I'm on the subway in
New York City and I want to make sure that
I'm safe, what are some tips that you could give me?
Always position on the subway platform.

Speaker 10 (35:10):
Yeah, yeah, either way, you can position yourself like against
the wall, so you know that there's at least nothing
behind you and you're safer in that aspect. And then
just your situational awareness, you know, keeping your eyes open,
not getting complacent like nowadays we get lost in our
noise cancelation headphones and our eyes are just looking down,
stuck on your phone. Being complacent probably the big thing.

(35:30):
You know, People nowadays aren't really situationally aware, and I
think that's what leads to like a lot of a
lot of accidents. So it seems like these are basic
common things, you know, like keep your eyes open, keep
your ears available, and.

Speaker 8 (35:42):
Just be aware.

Speaker 10 (35:43):
But as lost easily nowadays.

Speaker 6 (35:46):
You guys travel the country presenting this information to groups
in person, which I think is hugely powerful. Where do
you go, what age groups, what kind of venues?

Speaker 12 (35:56):
The answer to that is we go everywhere.

Speaker 3 (35:58):
We have this general citizen, so we offer everyone composing
of our three pillars.

Speaker 12 (36:03):
We go to school, so we've.

Speaker 3 (36:04):
Done work at colleges, Rutgers University, New Jersey City College.
We've done work at private schools, elementary schools. We go
to businesses. We've done it work for like storage sites,
We've done it for medical practices, medical businesses.

Speaker 12 (36:17):
We go anywhere.

Speaker 3 (36:18):
We bring all the gear, we bring all the material,
and we have these movie like seminars. So for an
hour and a half two hours, we take you through
different scenarios. We have fighting scenes, we have hands on training,
we have everything that you could ever want. One more
thing that we talk about in terms of situation awareness
for the subway that Mike and I were just talking
about earlier, is understanding baselines like what is common where
you are and who is outside the norm? Right, if

(36:39):
you go to the New York Public Library, someone comes
in there with a jacket a hoodie, he's outside the norm.
If the library is loud, that's outside its baseline. So
understanding the baseline of the area that you're in helps
you understand when you're not safe.

Speaker 12 (36:51):
We need to escape the situation. That's great.

Speaker 10 (36:54):
Some people ask us, you know, what is your demographic
and that's always a tough question for us because it's
literally everyone, you know, because we think everyone needs these skills,
you know, whether you're a young child or you're an
adult or a senior. These skills bring confidence, you know,
and awareness and all that. But we will tailor these
seminars to that specific group, you know, So a seminar

(37:15):
you're getting when we're dealing with a high school maybe
different than a seminar that you're dealing with an organization
or a business or something of that nature, you know.
And then we have like women's specific self defense seminars,
so they're tailored to everyone. But we do a lot
of storytelling, and the seminars themselves become a story, you know.
Our goal is that you become a storyteller afterwards, a

(37:36):
street ready storyteller, and then you're telling everybody else like
what you've experienced. We try and avoid any violence if
we can.

Speaker 9 (37:45):
I've seen videos of attackers simulations where somebody with a
knife is more dangerous, yes, than somebody with a gun
at close range.

Speaker 6 (37:55):
I do think that your point about situational awareness is
so smart and strong, because my daughter and I were
in the mall and it seemed like the sky was
following us around, and you know, so we I forget
exactly how I feel like we de escalated by escaping
the sky. But he would show up, like what is
he doing in this store? Like what's he doing in
this store? Like he doesn't look like he would be
shopping here. So I think we might have gone into

(38:17):
like Victoria's secrets, so just to get rid of him.

Speaker 3 (38:23):
Another thing for our audience at home is usually whenever
you're walking near someone, you don't really walk in step
with someone unless you know each other. But if someone
is walking in step with you, your red flag should
be going off.

Speaker 6 (38:33):
What is one top thing that would help keep people safe.

Speaker 3 (38:37):
The concept of knowing who you're dealing with. So we
had someone that is very close to the street Ready,
our street Ready team, and someone that knows these the
escalation tactics. He's actually a police officer, and he was
a rookie cop responding to a call with his buddy.
Maybe first few months on the job, and they got
a call from NJ Transit and they said, there's a
naked man. He's about six foot five, two hundred and
forty pounds.

Speaker 12 (38:57):
Wet, right and loudly.

Speaker 3 (39:00):
He's being aggressive. The train conductors don't know what to do.
So the rookie cop they hear it on the radio,
They said, we have to respond to this. They're the
only ones near, so he talked to conductors. The conductors
move everyone outside that main station where he was and
they walk into the train. So they walk in, they
see the man. The man is belligering, his eyes are red,
he has dreadlocks, big muscles, just charging them and they say, hey, sir,

(39:21):
what's your name. Sir, sir, what's your name? And the
man says, my name is Jesus. Well, the cops say, well,
we're messengers. We were sitting here from God to actually
help you. The six foot four, two hundred and fifty
pound man with dreadlock stops. He says, oh, you're sitting
here from Jesus. They say, yeah, we have a special
message for you at the hospital. The naked man just
puts his hands out. He allows the cops to take

(39:43):
him to the hospital where they took him to a
psych word but.

Speaker 8 (39:45):
How amazing say that?

Speaker 6 (39:47):
Like, how did they come up with that.

Speaker 12 (39:49):
One thing we teach is who are you dealing with?

Speaker 14 (39:51):
Right?

Speaker 12 (39:51):
Knowing your audience. What's your name, sir?

Speaker 3 (39:52):
If someone says my name is Shakespeare, okay, Sakespeare, well
I'm othello. I'm also a playwriter. You have to know
who you're dealing with. So if you ask an, it
helps you understand mental status. It's a reason why everyone
needs treet Ready because these things are secrets that they
don't get access to.

Speaker 10 (40:06):
These are all like extreme situations that you're using these
de escalation skills and things like that. But we've also
had a couple guys come up to us after our
seminars and be like, man, I think street Ready may
have saved my relationship just knowing how to de escalate
and communicate with their partners, you know, seeing that, hey,
they're acting a little bit under the influence, maybe they're

(40:26):
a little frustrated or angry or something like that. Just
having that recognition and being able to learn how to empathize,
ask the right questions and then continue to problem solve
from there, we're saving relationships.

Speaker 8 (40:37):
Forget about like.

Speaker 9 (40:38):
Saving these lives and stuff like that.

Speaker 12 (40:40):
You know, communication, So where to find us?

Speaker 3 (40:44):
You can find us on Instagram at street Ready and
Jay you can find us online at www dot street
READYNJ dot com and just those two places are where
our team works and they can tell you where to
follow up with us and how we can come serve
your organization.

Speaker 6 (40:58):
Well, thank you.

Speaker 9 (40:59):
That was really great passage to profit with Richard Analyisabeth
per Hart.

Speaker 6 (41:03):
And now we're onto something a little different, but it's
still about saving people. Antonia's promise. Antonia has she has
an incredible story, but she also has a new podcast
talking about it, and she has products beautiful things, and
so Antonia, I won't say anymore.

Speaker 5 (41:21):
Let's hear all right. Well, first of all, thank you
for having me.

Speaker 4 (41:24):
This has been like from AI to now street Ready,
Joe my very good friend. Incredible stories, right, but I
want to speak about street Ready for a second. They
said a lot of things that resonate with me and
being a mother of three children, you guys to me
are like the sweet and salting. I don't know why
that's just the word I get right, because you are

(41:45):
the educational but yet you're the self defense. I have
a fifteen year old child who does Brazilian jiu jitsu
and MMA since he's eight years old. His mindset, his creativity,
the fact that he's a gentleman, how he responds, how
he looks at things. He's like my personal security guard.
I'm not even kidding. And he was taught this way.
The fact that you're implementing as well, how to prevent

(42:08):
from a choking hazard, how to be prepared, how to
be ready for any situation. It is so important to
have this. I fought with my husband incessively from age
six to eight. Oh my god, I don't want him
doing this, you know, I don't want him hurting anyone
of himself. But it's not it's skill set and I
had to learn this. So when you speak, I get it.

(42:30):
I get what you're doing. And it's so important to
be taught this as a young child, to be aware.
I have two daughters. They're drop dead gorgeous. They're gonna
need street ready, but they have it at home because
my son's constantly speaking this way. I mean, it's incredible.
What you're teaching really needs to be taught. And I'm
grateful for you guys being here and sharing and Joe

(42:53):
as well. But back to Antonia's promise, if it wasn't
for these two people here, I wouldn't be sitting here today.
Richard is the gentleman that I called and thought was
a pastor of some sort, and I was telling you
this amazing story religious and I had had nothing, and.

Speaker 5 (43:21):
He's going, yes, I do, Yes, I do.

Speaker 4 (43:25):
And I walk into his office with my husband seven
years ago, and I walked out with two patents. And
here I am today proudly to say that I have
three patents with Gearheart Law and three trademarks. And in December, Richard,
I received my two Italy patents this December, which I'm
really excited about. But Elizabeth has been the striving force

(43:48):
in my life because she believes in me as much
as I believe in myself. And Antonia's promised podcast is
about a true story of healing, miracles and hope where
I invite guest speakers on my show and we share
stories of miracles. And we spoke about this on the
show right where we bring stories, and you guys did

(44:09):
the same thing today and stories are just so powerful
and they're magnetic, and the idea behind it is to
spread love light and positive messages and how you don't
have to do this alone. And that's really what the
podcast is about, right.

Speaker 6 (44:23):
And you wanted your story to get out and when
you started Anti Dan's Promise, you had an incredible experience
where you almost died and you were saved. I was,
and you needed to get that story out to everybody.
So you started the website, you started the merchandise, but.

Speaker 4 (44:38):
They got with the cross and then I came back
to the show with the merch Right now I'm back
on talking about the podcast, and I feel like this
is a full circle for me.

Speaker 6 (44:47):
Right, And so podcasting has become more and more popular
and it's a really great way to get your story out. Yes,
what is having a podcast doing for you?

Speaker 4 (44:55):
First of all, I believe the podcasting is resonating with
people because people like stories.

Speaker 6 (45:03):
Yeah, people like.

Speaker 4 (45:04):
To see you guys mentioned it. Camera's everywhere, right, like
my emotions, my speaking, you're speaking. People like to listen
to other people. It's relatable, right, And that's what it does.
It sparks the interest of others.

Speaker 5 (45:20):
That's what I'm finding for.

Speaker 9 (45:22):
Certain kinds of products, the connection to the person who's
responsible for the products, as there's emotional connection, so you're
very empathetic. You put it out there and those emotions
and feelings are part of your brand and they're part
of the things that you offer people. And the best

(45:43):
way to express those, I think is through a podcast,
because I don't think you could get it done in
a short Facebook ad. You know, it's just not going
to have the same connection.

Speaker 4 (45:55):
And I love people too, you know I do. I
enjoy hearing stories of inspiring things and that's what the
show's about too. And yes, people feel I have people
reaching out to me now that even though new I
had my products and things of that sort, now they're like,
you have a podcast. Yes it is. It's a very
big deal. And if it weren't for Elizabeth, your lovely wife,

(46:19):
we wouldn't be here because she believed in me, and
you know, we've been working together. But I needed that village.
I needed that little support, and I seem to have it.
And I'm so very grateful to be here again and
again and again, and it's all because of you guys.

Speaker 6 (46:34):
But I do want to point out for people thinking
of starting a podcast, most people aren't gonna get rich
just being a podcaster, but it does help your business.
It's another digital marketing tool for your business.

Speaker 9 (46:46):
And it gives you something a way to connect with
your audience that's not just about your product well.

Speaker 6 (46:51):
And it helps you connect with people that you want
to connect with because you can ask them to be
on your podcast and maybe this is somebody you've been
trying to get to for a while. It's certain open
doors for your heart law having passage to profit.

Speaker 9 (47:02):
Absolutely.

Speaker 4 (47:03):
I will say I had three people that wanted to
be on the show, and they were lovely. I enjoyed
every single one of their stories.

Speaker 6 (47:11):
So have you seen any of your sales go ups
since you started the podcast?

Speaker 4 (47:14):
Believe it or not, I've gotten a lot of I
want your cross, I need your candle, I need this,
and I'm like, okay, go to the site. But I
don't have any crosses because those are the first things
that I created. So right now I'm working with jewelers
with this. This is a design that I created. It's
a hammered cross look with a three D symbol of

(47:35):
a gold symbol of the person bent broken in prayer.
But the cross that I originally came out with is
now I'm getting phone calls since the podcast that they
want that cross. And I've been asked to be on
so many new shows since my podcast has come out,
like You Need and I was the Christmas special at
Nasville Community College and it was a great show. And

(47:58):
then they had me on the show show and they
love me so much they emailed me again and they
want me back on the show.

Speaker 5 (48:04):
So a lot of doors.

Speaker 4 (48:06):
Have been opening for me since the podcast came out,
with selling merch, wanting merch, and being on more talking engagements.

Speaker 6 (48:14):
I think for sure, Yeah, when a person has a podcast,
then people feel like they are media trained to some
degree or have media experience, so they're going to be
better on their podcast. We certainly look for that.

Speaker 9 (48:26):
So how do you cut through the noise?

Speaker 8 (48:27):
Though?

Speaker 6 (48:28):
I feel like podcasting is seventy percent marketing, and I've
been doing marketing for gear Heart Law for many years.
I'm self taught, so I'm not as good as like
people that went to school for it, but I've learned
a lot and things have changed so rapidly. I mean,
you really have to be able to keep up with
the changing things. But I feel like you build marketing
in from day one.

Speaker 9 (48:45):
Right and use AI and you have to use AI
at this point.

Speaker 6 (48:50):
You have to use AI because what happens is in
marketing there's called search engine optimization, and that's like Google
looking at your stuff and saying, I'm not going to
show this anybody, or Wow, these people really are using
the right keywords, They're going the right place. I'm going
to put them up hy so people see their content
and want to listen to it. And there's a whole
lot that goes into that, and you have to build

(49:11):
that in from day one. And that's just one of
the many marketing things.

Speaker 9 (49:15):
Antonia. Who do you consider to be your target market
for your podcast?

Speaker 5 (49:20):
Everyone?

Speaker 9 (49:21):
Everyone, Yes, that's a pretty big market.

Speaker 4 (49:23):
Yes, because we are all in search of something, and
there are a lot of people that don't you know
that they don't have to do this alone and through stories,
that's the goal of what I try to do is
bring everyone closer to Christ. It's everyone. There's not one
person in this world who doesn't need faith.

Speaker 9 (49:46):
I remember one of the sayings that you came up
with was we are all broken.

Speaker 5 (49:51):
That's my Yeah, that's one of the trademarks.

Speaker 4 (49:53):
We are all broken, but I mean it in a
beautiful way, right, like we all struggle with something I
once broken. You know, I wasn't well and it was
through faith that I was healed. And that's the you know,
I had made God a promise. That's why it's called
Antonia's promise, that if God had helped me in some
way and taken away what I was going through, that

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I would spread love and light as a vessel for him.
God granted me my miracle, and he keeps his promises
as I've kept mine, and that's why it's called Antonia's promise.
But it's really to get the message out of healing.

Speaker 6 (50:27):
So where do people find you?

Speaker 4 (50:29):
You can find me on Antonia's Promise on Instagram. You
can find me on Antonio's Promise on Facebook. Email me
at Antonia's Promise at gmail dot com.

Speaker 6 (50:39):
Well, thank you, Antonia, Thank you everybody. We're going to
go to a commercial break now. Listeners, you are listening
to the Passage to Profit Show with Richard Elizabeth Gearhart.
Our special guest today Joe Cirillo, and we have just
had amazing content today. If you missed any of this,
our podcast comes out tomorrow. I urge you to listen
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It's passage to profit. Now it's time for Noah's retrospective.

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Noah Fleischmann is our producer here at passage to profit,
and he never stops trying to make sense of the
future by looking at the past.

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Ever since I was a kid, my vocabulary score was
always top notch. That was before a lot of words
began to change their meaning. Transparency is now a human thing.
It refers to your absolute clarity and the expression of
all of your knowledge and intentions. I only wish some
of my reading lenses could be quite so honest. Platforms
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medium you seek out to discuss those agendas. Virtual was
a quality we held to when we had to deal
with reality. Now the reality is mostly virtual and we
don't have to be. When I was a kid, I
always had my head in the clouds, and that's why
I could never find anything. Now we store all the
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sure the portion of the SAT exam prepared me for
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Speaker 1 (53:14):
Now more with Richard and Elizabeth Passage to Profit.

Speaker 6 (53:18):
Our special guest Joe Cirillo. We have had amazing people
on here. The podcast comes out tomorrow if you missed it.
But now it is time for a special segment called
Secrets of the Entrepreneurial Mind. And I am going to
ask Joe Cirillo to share a secret with our audience,
A secret secret to your success.

Speaker 8 (53:39):
I would say, never give up.

Speaker 9 (53:43):
That was going to be my secret. Now that's a
good secret. It's hard sometimes.

Speaker 2 (53:48):
Well, like I said, you heard what I talked about.
I did so many things, book writing, screenplays, acting, you
name it. I've done it all. I'm continuously trying something new.
Whatever comes up, I'll face it and do it. It
was more like being natural. I was a combat veteran
police department. I did so much stuff. I in the

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end became an actor, so in a little bit better.

Speaker 8 (54:17):
Yeah, And I think you're.

Speaker 2 (54:19):
A success if you have perseverance and never give up.

Speaker 8 (54:23):
You can do it. Everybody out there. I don't care
what your age is. You can do it. Never give up.
That's what I say.

Speaker 6 (54:30):
I like that one. Okay, Mike, Mike Clerero, what is
your secret passion.

Speaker 10 (54:35):
I think that's my secret. Find something that you're passionate
about and just go all in. Be an outlier in that.
Don't expect people to understand what you're doing, because you'll
probably get a lot of backlash. And if they don't
understand that, it probably means you might be onto a
good thing. You know, something new, you know being creative.
But for me, that consistency and the will to not
give up is because I'm passionate about the things that
I'm doing. So I never wake up in the morning

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and dread going to work. I wake up and I
just get to work. And being passionate about what I do,
I've been able to create various businesses out of it,
and from writing to clothing to studios, all of this
is what really keeps me going anyway.

Speaker 9 (55:12):
That's the secret for me is I love it.

Speaker 3 (55:14):
Ivon my secrets is success. You have to find a
good running mate. You have to find someone that you
really work well with, someone that challenges your idea, someone
that has a fresh perspective. On our team, we have Mike,
we have myself, we have Alex, we have Willie, we
have Coo.

Speaker 12 (55:28):
We have other people that are helping us.

Speaker 3 (55:30):
But I see with you guys at your Heart Law,
you're dividing and conquering and using everyone's skill set. So
find a good running mate and run.

Speaker 9 (55:37):
I love that.

Speaker 6 (55:38):
Yes, Antonio Tamayo, what is your secret?

Speaker 4 (55:41):
Believe that there is nothing that you can't do and
when you believe that you will do it.

Speaker 5 (55:48):
By the grace of God.

Speaker 6 (55:49):
That's a good one. So, Richard gear Heart, what is
your secret?

Speaker 9 (55:53):
I really like the theme of the show, which is
telling stories, And I think that that's a great way
to communicate because it's very easy to just put out
dry principles, but if you tell stories, then it resonates
with people and it's a better way of communicating. So

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I think telling stories where you can in as many
ways as you can, I think will help you become
a better communicator.

Speaker 6 (56:21):
I think. So, I think that you have to keep
a positive attitude. Can do attitude as much as you can.
There are days you're going to be super ticked off
and you're going to want to quit everything. But I
think just trying to keep yourself in a positive mindset
because it really matters how you talk to yourself and
what you think about and It's easy to get sidetracked

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into the negative, but I feel like you need to
stay in the positive as much as possible.

Speaker 9 (56:45):
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