The Drive Program

04/01/2024

Episode #47 “How to Level-Up Your Life”
Blake Pastrana shares his remarkable journey from humble beginnings to achieving resounding success. In this conversation, he delves into the habits and mindset that have helped him throughout his career.

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18/10/2023

Episode #44 “Financial Planning”
Natasha Cashman owns the Financial Planning Company: Capital Assets Planning, Inc. She helps people manage their personal finances along with offering comprehensive planning services. We also discuss how she transitioned into the sole owner and how she continues to stay organized.

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29/09/2023

Episode #43 “Flow Arts, Spinning Poi & Fire”
Brenden White and Tom were in the flow club together at JMU. They discuss flow arts in general and specifically their experience spinning poi.

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19/05/2023

Episode #42 “Therapy, Nursing & Philosophy”

Liam Magerr is a Nurse and Frank Marazzo is a Therapist. In this episode, we discuss the similarities and differences between their careers. Specifically, we explore how to approach difficult conversations and how to help someone through a dark time.



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20/09/2022

Episode #41 "EDM, Sapiens, and the Illusion of Free Will"
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Live from South Beach Miami, Dan Irwin returns for his 3rd time on the podcast!!

In the first half of the episode, Dan (DJ M0TTA) and Tom discuss Dan's experience as an electronic DJ in Jacksonville, Florida. Dan also explains the differences between each sub-genre of EDM such as Techno, House, Dubstep, etc.

In the second half of the episode, they discuss random topics such as Religion, Aliens, Poi, History, Free Will, God, and the Multiverse. Dan and Tom have both recently read the book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari and topics from this book heavily influence the conversation.

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15/06/2022

Episode #40 “Medical School & Anesthesiology”
David Curry-Bryan is an Anesthesia Technician at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. His goal is to one day become a doctor and is currently studying for medical school. David and Tom discuss his experience working long shifts at the hospital. David tells us what it was like working through the COVID pandemic. He also shares some wisdom about how to cultivate a healthy and balanced lifestyle.

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David Curry-Bryan is an Anesthesia Technician at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. His goal is to one day become a doctor and is currently studying for medical school. David and Tom discuss his experience working long shifts at the hospital. David t...

11/05/2022

Episode #38 “The PUSH-UP Mentality, Coaching, and Spirituality”
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Coach Brown (Brown Etienne) and Tom went to JMU together. Brown has recently started coaching soccer. So we discuss his experience coaching kids soccer and how that led to him wanting to become more of a coach in life. We discuss his life philosophy, which is the PUSH-UP mentality. He talks a lot about this philosophy, where if he catches himself watching too much TV or something, he'll do a couple of pushups, but also he abstracts that mindset. He really tries to push himself in everything he does in life and is always reaching for the next level. Another big topic of this conversation was faith, religion, and spirituality. Brown catches Tom up on his spiritual journey. We discuss what it means to be spiritual and what it means to have God in your life.

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04/05/2022

Episode #37 “Yoga, Breathing, Cinematography, and Investing”
Sai Pedireddi returns for his second time on the podcast (episode #28). However, this time he has brought his uncle Sai Kalyan. Sai Kalyan is a yoga instructor. He conducts happiness, yoga, and meditation workshops, where he teaches people to overcome stress through powerful breathing techniques. Thus helping them lead a joyful, peaceful, and productive life. So we discuss meditation and yoga for the first half of the episode. We even practiced a breathing technique in the middle of our conversation. Sai Kalyan also has a passion for cinematography and photography. He saved up for a professional quality movie camera and started a media company. Sometimes he rents out his camera and sometimes he directs or produces his own films. So we do a deep dive into his cinematography experience during the second half of the episode. Sai Pedireddi is passionate about cryptocurrency and he shares his mindset on investing at the beginning and the end of the conversation.

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27/04/2022

Episode #36 “Crypto Mining, Blockcaddy, Weight Loss, & Self-Accountability”
Will Skipper is involved in mining for cryptocurrency and if you
don’t know what that is, we talk all about it. We also discuss cool ideas that might be emerging in the Web 3 space. Near the end of our conversation, we discuss weight loss, cardio, eating healthy, and what it takes to make a change in your life.
Blockcaddy Website: Blockcaddy.io

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20/04/2022

Episode #35 "Startups, History, Leadership, and Tech"

Hafiz Bhutan is the Co-Founder of Drivense a company that creates virtual business cards. Tom knows Hafiz through the society of entrepreneurs at JMU.
We discuss his startup, they started off wanting to create a platform for online textbooks before they pivoted to create virtual business cards. Now they do create physical business cards. They are scannable and once scanned will pull up the virtual business card. They have also developed an app for storing the virtual business cards.

We also talked a lot about history, specifically Hafiz is interested in Julius Caesar and Napoleon. Then we focused on leadership and made comparisons between historical figures and then certain startups and tech founders. Finally we discuss the future of technology and how that might impact our lives.

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13/04/2022

Episode #34 “Creating the Podcast Theme Song”

This episode was recorded the day that Frank and Tom finished the theme song for this podcast. The first half consists of snippets from the final session where they put the finishing touches on the song. The seconds half is a reflection of the entire process from Tom's vision for the song to Frank's ex*****on of the production.

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06/04/2022

Episode #33 “Engineering, Family and Fulfillment”

Pat and Bernie Driver are Tom's grandparents on his dad's side. This interview took place back in August of 2021, Tom interviews them about their entire life, starting out with their childhood and going through their years as parents and then grandparents. They discuss what it was like for them growing up in the 1940s and 1950s. They talked about Tom's grandfather's career, he worked on some of the earliest computers, working on early versions of software and the computer's hardware. He also loves to work on cars. So they discuss automobiles for a while. Tom's grandmother won a beauty contest so they talk about that experience. They discuss raising kids and what makes a good parent and even their experience raising Tom because they spent a lot of time with Tom when he was a baby. They also own several properties. So they talk about their experience as landlords and what it takes to manage properties. They talk about their involvement with their church and what it takes to live a healthy life and maintain a healthy relationship.

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30/03/2022

This week we are taking a break from our typical style podcast and instead are having fun trying to predict the 2022 Grammys. Who do you think deserves to win an award?

23/03/2022

Episode #32 “Ancient Empires and the Influence of History”
This episode is all about history. Marwan and Tom discuss many different historical topics such as Ancient Rome, Greece, Babylon, Egypt, Antiquity, The Vikings, and World War II. We also discuss historic figures such as Hannibal Barca, Julius Cesar, Adolf Hi**er, and Pericles.

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16/03/2022

This is episode 31 of The Drive Program with guests, Charlie de Vocht. Charlie was the first person I knew who bought an NFT so I reached out to him for an interview and this was recorded in December 2021.

We have a great conversation about different types of cryptocurrencies, his experience buying NFTs, and why he chooses to buy them on the Solana network. Specifically, we discuss a meme coin called Sammo, which he uses for yield farming. In the second half of the conversation, we talk about the 48 laws of power, history, warfare, and the metaverse. We discuss the evolution of power throughout history and how that might take shape in the future with decentralized power structures using web 3 technology.

09/03/2022

Episode #30 “Richard & Carolyn Green: NASA, Christianity, and the RV”
Richard and Carolyn Green are Tom’s Grandparents on his mom’s side. In this conversation they tell Tom about their entire lives from growing up in the 1950’s to how they spent their retirement traveling in an RV. Richard worked on satellites at NASA for most of his career. Carolyn was a school teacher and then also worked for at NASA at the end of her career. Christianity was a big part of their life. They taught at the church and went on a mission trip to Costa Rica after they retired. In retirement they traveled all over the America’s in an RV and they discuss some of their favorite places to visit. They also detail how to live a healthy life and maintain a healthy relationship.

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