HeyJaredThe Roots of Ambition
The Roots of Ambition is a podcast about real stories of resilience, entrepreneurship, trauma, fatherhood, and personal growth.
- Indexed episodes, last 90 days
- 8
- Latest publication
- Sep 27, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 20, 2026
Latest episodes
Joel Montebello: From Depression to IRONMAN, Real Estate & Rebuilding His Life (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Bay Area Realtor and IRONMAN finisher Joel Montebello shares how depression, family struggles, and years of self-doubt pushed him to rebuild his life. He opens up about David Goggins, therapy, reconnecting with his brother through endurance sports, becoming a Realtor, and how keeping small promises to yourself can completely change your confidence.
Why He Walked Away From a Six-Figure Career | Joe Yncio (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Joe Yncio came to the United States from Peru at 10 years old and began working at a young age. After building a six-figure career, he walked away from the security of a paycheck to bet on himself.In this Heavy Hitters Edition of The Roots of Ambition, Joe shares how he built Blackhawk Pools, returned to his music career as JY, and learned to balance entrepreneurship, creativity, and family. This is an honest conversation about taking risks, creating systems, and staying consistent when success
From Drug Addiction to a $3 Million Business | Victor Beard (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Victor Beard went from having $25 to his name and battling drug addiction to helping build a multimillion-dollar blue-collar business.In this episode of The Roots of Ambition, Victor takes us through the parts of that journey most people never see—from joining the Marine Corps at 17 and searching for belonging, to drugs, selling drugs, failure, rebuilding his life, and eventually discovering what he was capable of in business.We get into entrepreneurship, leadership, college vs. the trades, taki
Michael Jordan’s Cigar Smuggler Tells the Untold Story” (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Scott Anthony returns for **Part 2** — and this is where the story gets even deeper.From robbing a major drug dealer at 17 and sleeping with a shotgun nearby for more than a year, to supplying Cuban cigars to Michael Jordan, building a Gold’s Gym empire in Mexico, losing nearly everything, and rebuilding his life from the ground up — Scott’s story is almost impossible to believe.But beneath the crime, money and unbelievable stories is something bigger: **redemption, reputation and what happens w
He Escaped a Drug Bust—and Vanished Into Mexico | Scott Anthony Part 1 (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Scott Anthony spent five years as a fugitive after a Georgia traffic stop turned into a police chase through the rain. In Part 1, Scott recalls officers shooting at him, surviving three days in the Georgia woods, escaping to Mexico and eventually being captured by the FBI with a helicopter and 50 Federales. He also reveals how a chance $25 cigar purchase eventually grew into a Cuban cigar-smuggling operation involving thousands of boxes, airport contacts and repeated trips to Havana. 📕 GET SCOTT
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Not enough subject data for this period yet.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.