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What if the secret to success in fitness, business, and life isn't motivation, but consistency?

In this episode of The Elevate Collection Podcast, host Jordan Hawkins sits down with nationally recognized performance coach, entrepreneur, and Chris Ryan Fitness founder Chris Ryan to explore what it really takes to build a healthier, stronger, more intentional life.

From his days as a Division I athlete at the University of Florida to becoming a founding trainer at Mirror and Lululemon Studio, Chris has spent more than 15 years helping high performers reach their potential.

But this conversation goes far beyond the gym.

Jordan and Chris get candid about balancing entrepreneurship, parenthood, and personal wellness while letting go of the all-or-nothing mindset that so often leads to burnout.

In this episode, we explore:

• Why consistency matters more than motivation
• How fitness impacts mental health, energy, and performance
• Giving yourself grace while pursuing ambitious goals
• The rise of sober curiosity and wellness-centered social experiences
• Why you don't need expensive equipment or hour-long workouts to get results
• Building an identity outside of your career
• How small, intentional actions create lasting results

Whether you're a founder, parent, athlete, or simply looking to feel better in your everyday life, this conversation is a reminder that you don't have to do everything perfectly. You just have to keep showing up.

Connect with Chris Ryan:
Website: https://chrisryanfitness.com
Instagram: @chrisryanfitness

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You can hear it in Arielle’s answers right away: she’s not chasing attention, she’s building alignment. We talk through what she actually does across Godwave Studio, Circles, and Goshen Global Group and how those threads connect into one mission: helping founders and institutions move from vision to real-world results while staying anchored to faith-forward values.

We also slow down and make the “family office” world understandable. Arielle explains what a family office is, how it differs from a typical venture capital firm, and why a family’s investing thesis is about more than returns. The throughline is trust. Trends come and go, but long-standing relationships, clear mandates, and shared purpose are what make partnerships work. We get practical about what creates a great fit, what turns into an immediate no, and why relationship capital matters more than collecting contacts.

Then we zoom out to the biggest lever they’re leaning into: media. Arielle makes the case that storytelling shapes minds fast because it’s everywhere now on phones, YouTube, and streaming, especially for kids. That’s why Godwave focuses on experiences and media, including an upcoming golf tournament that convenes investors, athletes, and community leaders while supporting organizations like Kids Alive International and other ministries doing meaningful work globally.

If you care about impact investing, family offices, faith and business, leadership, and building legacy with integrity, this conversation will sharpen how you think. Subscribe, share this with a friend who’s building, and leave a review with the biggest insight you’re taking from Arielle’s approach.

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A weekly stair workout in Tampa doesn’t sound like a revolution until you hear how Jovany and his co-founders built Friday Stairs into a full-blown community wellness movement. Jovany shares how he grew up in a tiny Puerto Rico village “rich in spirit,” moved to Buffalo to learn English through sports, and eventually realized his real gift wasn’t corporate success, it was bringing people together. That mission now shows up every Friday morning as music, sweat, and connection on the stairs overlooking the water at the Tampa Bay Convention Center.

We dig into the real origin story: burnout from personal training nonstop, a solo reset trip to Bali and Thailand, and one simple plan to meet at 7 a.m. on a beautiful set of stairs. The result wasn’t just a great workout, it was deeper presence and vulnerability afterward. That same design powers Friday Stairs today, with an inclusive setup that welcomes ex-athletes and true beginners alike. Speed lane, steady lane, walking lane, bodyweight stations, partner work, and a “confined” space that keeps people mixing instead of disappearing like a typical run club.

Then we get practical for founders and creators: how they think about monetization without charging participants, why aligned brand sponsorships matter, what makes their newsletter perform, and how a four-person leadership team stays ego-light and mission-first. We also talk Atlanta expansion details and what it takes to bring the right local culture, DJs, and leaders into a new city.

If you’ve been craving real connection, sustainable fitness, and a community that helps you climb through life, hit play. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs a tribe, and leave a review to help more people find Friday Stairs.

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The shiny version of ambition is easy to post. The real version shows up when you’re 24 hours out from opening the doors to 4,000 attendees and your brain is doing math on ticket sales, expectations, investors, and everything that could go wrong.

We sit down with Marina Middleton at Create & Cultivate Festival in Los Angeles and go deep on the cost of ambition for women in business. Marina shares what she had to change to scale: a new leadership style, stronger emotional boundaries, and the kind of self-trust that holds steady even when results are delayed. We also talk about why she takes “no” personally, then how she flips rejection into a sales and messaging skill: when someone doesn’t buy, they often don’t see the value yet, and it’s our job to communicate it better.

From there, we get honest about the parts people don’t see on social media: family sacrifices, parenting decisions, and the push-pull of sharing your life while still protecting what matters. Marina opens up about burnout signals, tying self-worth to work, and why “failure is data” can be a lifeline for founders. As a first-generation Egyptian American, she reflects on legacy, identity, and what it means to carry influence ethically, reminding us that pressure can be a privilege when you choose to lead with morals intact.

If you’re building a business, leading a team, or trying to grow without losing yourself, this conversation will land. Subscribe for more, share this with a friend who’s in the thick of it, and leave a review telling us what part of ambition you’re learning to navigate right now.

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What if becoming a better leader, partner, parent, or friend starts with understanding yourself?

In Part One of this conversation, Jordan and Alexandria sit down with Tia Buckham-White, Founder & CEO of Notre Internationale, leadership strategist, executive coach, trained futurist, and self-awareness expert, for a conversation about the human side of leadership and influence.

Tia shares the personal experiences that led her to build a career around self-awareness and why understanding ourselves can fundamentally change the way we lead, communicate, set boundaries, and connect with other people.

In this episode:
• Tia’s journey from corporate sales to building a business around self-awareness
• Why “not knowing what you don’t know” can create conflict at work and at home
• How culture shapes communication, boundaries, and what we consider “normal”
• The bridge from self-awareness to self-understanding and belonging
• Triggers, projection, and taking responsibility for our reactions
• Why “love is a contact sport”
• Burnout, conditioning, personal power, and learning to say no
• How self-awareness eventually becomes unconscious competence

And we’re not done. We’ll be gathering questions from our listeners and bringing Tia back for Part Two.

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Check out Notre Internationale at https://notreinternationale.com/ or on instagram at: @notreinternationale

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The moment you want to quit might be the moment before everything changes.

Joe Hollywood grew up on welfare and food stamps in Queens. His grandfather gave him his first pack of sports cards when he was eight years old, unknowingly starting a passion that would come full circle nearly four decades later.

But getting there wasn't glamorous.

When Joe started live selling sports cards on Whatnot, some nights there were only five or ten people watching.

He streamed next to a hot water heater.

Then from his son's train table.

Then a ping pong table.

Months into the journey, after another disappointing show, Joe found himself in his basement cutting out shipping labels by hand and using his kid's glue stick to attach them to packages.

He remembers asking himself: “What am I doing?”

He almost quit.

Instead, he kept going.

Today, Joe operates from a 12,000-square-foot studio, has become the most-followed sports seller on Whatnot, is expanding internationally, and during this conversation exclusively announces his first co-branded product with Fanatics.

Joe joins Jordan and Alex for an incredibly candid conversation about what happened between those two realities.

He shares why he believes hard work creates luck, why he'd rather bet on someone who has failed 100 times than someone who has never failed, how he chooses the people around him, the role faith plays in his life, and why entrepreneurs need to keep learning no matter how successful they become.

We also dive into the world of sports-card collecting, building community through live commerce, creating experiences people can't simply buy, the $10M+ Steph Curry card that has never surfaced, and the lessons Joe has learned building one of the biggest audiences in sports live selling.

And when Jordan and Alex admit they've recently had their own conversations about whether it's time to pull the plug on something they're building, Joe leaves them with one final piece of advice:

When life punches you in the gut, punch back harder.

Because the breakthrough might be closer than you think.

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When you're used to being good at what you do, being a beginner can feel incredibly uncomfortable.

Golf has a way of forcing you to get comfortable with exactly that.

Jordan and Alex sit down with Anya Alvarez and Ellen Ceresko of DriveHer Network for a conversation that starts with golf but quickly becomes something much bigger: perfectionism, identity, resilience, business, community and learning to give yourself permission to not have everything figured out.

Anya and Ellen share their experiences competing at an elite level, where every shot could mean making money, paying for the next tournament, getting recruited or letting down a team. Today, both have developed a very different relationship with the game.

Because golf is something you can never perfect.

You can practice every day and still make a bad swing. You can make the wrong decision. You can have a bad round.

What matters is how quickly you adjust and what you do next.

They also break down what new golfers actually need to know, how quickly women can become comfortable on the course, why beginners should get out and play sooner than they think, and why community can make entering a traditionally male-dominated sport feel a whole lot less intimidating.

Plus, we get into building DriveHer Network, choosing the right business partners, operating from shared core values, and their mission to help more women say yes, show up and bring another woman with them.

This one is about golf.

But it's also about being willing to be a beginner again.

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A to do list can feel like a private battle, especially when you’re juggling business, family, and the invisible work of life maintenance. We wanted to change that, so we tried something new: Admin Social Club, a low pressure meetup where we sit together in a beautiful local space, order great coffee, and finally handle the tasks we keep avoiding. No hustle vibe, no forced networking, just real people showing up and getting things done.

We talk about why this works so well for us as neurodivergent founders with professionally diagnosed ADHD, and how body doubling makes the “mundane but necessary” feel achievable. You’ll hear a real example of what this looks like, from scheduling a long delayed mammogram to knocking out small admin that has been endlessly movable on the list. The surprising part is what happens around the work: natural conversations, quick moments of support, and the kind of connection that builds community without trying to manufacture it.

We also share what we learned from hosting in partnership with a local business, why we care so much about creating more third places, and where we think Admin Social Club could go next, from monthly meetups to bigger life maintenance resets that support mind, body, and business. If you’ve been craving accountability plus community, hit play, then subscribe, share this with a friend who’s overwhelmed, and leave us a review so more people can find the space we’re building.

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