Everyone Talks To Liz Claman

Two words: no excuses.While serving in Afghanistan, U.S. Marine Sergeant Kirstie Ennis was severely injured in a helicopter crash, resulting in the amputation of her left leg. Amid a grueling recovery process, Kirstie accepted her fate and kept going no matter what.She joins Liz on the podcast to discuss how she struggled mentally to overcome this horrific hardship, eventually turned her life around, and even scaled the tallest mountain in the world, Mount Everest.Follow Liz on Twitter: @LizClaman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today’s guest not only lived in a city riddled with murders, but drew on his experience to become a playwright, screenwriter, and an Oscar nominated actor. Bronx native, Chazz Palminteri wrote and starred in A Bronx Tale, a Hollywood classic that chronicles the life of residents living in a turbulent neighborhood in the Bronx. Chazz joins Liz to discuss how he overcame witnessing a murder as a child, to then soaring to the very top of Broadway and Hollywood. He later shares what he believes is the key to success and details how he is spending his time nowadays.Follow Liz on Twitter: @LizClaman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Liz is joined by the Founder and CEO of The RealReal, Julie Wainwright as they discuss what sparked the inspiration for the company and how the business was able to become a near-instant success.Plus, they talk about Julie’s new business, Ahara, and how she hopes it will change the way the public views nutrition and health.Follow Liz on Twitter: @LizClaman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 2020, the CDC reported that Cancer was the second leading cause of death after heart disease, in the United States. While treatment therapies have advanced over the years, they're only as good as the tests that first detect the cancer.  Ashish Tripathi is the founder of Tzar Labs, a molecular diagnostic company that's invented a new test that detects 25 different types of cancers before the tumor has formed. Ashish joins Liz on the podcast to share where he is in his research as he nears a breakthrough on a minimally invasive test that could save millions of lives and reveals when we might have access to this miraculous new development.Follow Liz on Twitter: @LizClaman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Everyone has had a dream about getting into the world of "show biz," and for Josh Johnson that dream came true.Stand-up Comic & Emmy-nominated Writer at The Daily Show Josh Johnson joins Liz to explain how he went from being a kid growing up in poverty-stricken, rural Louisiana to a writer for late night television. Josh explains how he has turned his own life tragedy into comedy, describing his comedic style as storytelling with a nod towards observation. He details his journey step by step from sleeping on friends' couches, to getting a job opportunity to write for late night television, to being named New York's Funniest Comic at the New York Comedy Festival.Follow Liz on Twitter: @LizClaman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Chris Riccobono is the Cofounder of UNTUCKit, a shirt company that is dedicated to combining casual and professional men's dress shirts that can be styled untucked!He joins Liz Claman to share how his vision of comfortable, stylish clothing came to life.Chris shares the various challenges he faced when kickstarting his business and details how he pushed the envelope with his marketing that changed his product from just another shirt to a piece of clothing so chic, even Actor Leonardo DiCaprio stops by the store to purchase the product.Follow Liz on Twitter: @LizClaman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ron Holt was a young man with a dream when he was working in a chemical laboratory outside Atlanta with sights on starting his own company. Liz sits down with Two Maids & A Mop Founder Ron Holt, to discuss the sacrifices he had to make to fulfill his entrepreneurial dreams and details the odd jobs he worked to save money for his first business. Later, Ron talks about his new business Pink Zebra Moving, the holes he saw in the moving industry that allowed him to create the start-up, and how it aims to make the process of moving as stress-free as possible. Follow Liz on Twitter: @LizClaman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Devon Still makes no excuses. After overcoming a childhood of poverty, multiple major sports-related injuries throughout college, and his child's battle with cancer, the former NFL Defensive End joins Liz Claman to discuss how he continued to fight on. Devon details how he managed to overcome each obstacle thrown his way, relying heavily on his faith when his daughter was diagnosed with stage 4 neuroblastoma, which later sparked the inspiration for the Still Strong Foundation. He later emphasizes the importance of learning to accept failure but not defeat, and how this mantra led him to the NFL, an Ivy league master's degree, and becoming a dedicated husband and father.Follow Liz on Twitter: @LizClaman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When the going gets tough, the tough gets going. Tik-Toker Kat Stickler joins Liz Claman to share how she persevered through a very public divorce, leaving her as a young, unemployed mother of a toddler. Kat explains how she used Tik Tok to not only build her brand and gain just under 10 million followers, but also to financially support her daughter and open an authentic conversation on conquering challenging times. Later, Kat weighs in on the debate to ban Tik Tok and how she will navigate her online career pending the government officially calls it quits on Tik Tok.Follow Liz Claman on Twitter: @LizClaman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What is the true secret to success? Co-founder of the business financial management platform, HoneyBook & Co-founder and CEO of child-care planning app Kinside, Shadiah Sigala explains what motivated her to start not one, but two successful businesses.Shadiah details the challenges she faced as a first-generation immigrant from Mexico. She later shares her philosophy for life, that nothing is above her pay grade when it comes to climbing the ladder of success.Follow Liz on Twitter: @LizClaman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices