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📍 Times Square, NYC Madeline Hall has never been afraid to take up space and make things happen. The fastest growing podcast on The Gotham Network, "MaDi Tells All" is where business, branding, and bold conversations collide, giving you the unfiltered truth on social media, hospitality, and the grind of entrepreneurship. This show is produced by Gotham Production Studios. ⁠https://www.gothamproductionstudios.com/

  1. Where to Find a Rich Man in NYC | Nicholas Pinsker, The King of 5th Ave on Dating & Straight Men

    2d ago

    Where to Find a Rich Man in NYC | Nicholas Pinsker, The King of 5th Ave on Dating & Straight Men

    I'm spilling everything about Nicholas Pinsker, the guy behind King of Fifth Ave, who built a viral content career around where to find a rich man in NYC while holding down a finance job at an investment bank. We get into the theory that oversexual straight guys eventually start experimenting, a spontaneous Sabres game make out with someone, why NYC female influencers are becoming a monoculture, turning down $4,000 from McDonald's on principle, the Ames sample sale footage he snuck out that sent his DMs into chaos, and why he thinks gay clubs are the worst first date spot even though they're the best place to have fun. Chapters 00:19 – King of Fifth Ave on starting in menswear, working a finance day job, and where his content went next 04:34 – The Sabres game date that ended in a make out at a bar, then finding out the guy was a fan the whole time 07:07 – The best and worst first date spots in New York, plus the exact bars where Goldman and BlackRock guys actually hang out 09:16 – Mapping out where the gays live, Chelsea getting too homogenized, and how guys end up coming out in their mid 20s 15:07 – Pushing back on brands that want seven revisions and a $9 an hour VA in the Philippines who runs Madi's whole operation 18:00 – Richard Branson hanging with creators on the Tiktok cruise, and why brands now chase the 300k and under crowd 24:35 – Botox honesty and showing up casual, then getting the call from Gotham Studios two weeks after moving to New York 29:02 – The Buffalo influencer scene, food bloggers who only support you if you have fewer followers, and rebranding Buffalo Foodslut 32:46 – The Chef's 100th anniversary deal where none of the influencers know they're getting paid, and the Fencing USA collab he loved 39:26 – Why Madi only does long brand partnerships, turning down a $4,000 McDonald's deal at 20k followers, and the CapCut teleprompter trick 45:07 – Going live with Andre Reed on the cruise, the get ready with me monopoly, and the hot guys at the gym as a workout motivator Come on the pod, sponsor an episode, collab, or just reach out  ⁠▫️ https://linktr.ee/maditellsall Follow my world outside the podcast (food, tailgates, health, behind-the-scenes life) ⁠▫️ https://linktr.ee/madelinehall.nyc Thanks for being here guys. Like, share and subscribe! Catch me yap same time next week, bring snacks! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    50 min
  2. IV in My Arm, Mic in My Hand: Bracha Banayan on GLP-1s, Ozempics & the Business of Wellness

    Jun 16

    IV in My Arm, Mic in My Hand: Bracha Banayan on GLP-1s, Ozempics & the Business of Wellness

    I'm taking you behind the scenes of the most unique recording setup yet, getting an IV drip mid-episode with Bracha Banayan, family nurse practitioner and founder of Hello Dose and IV Drips. We get into how IV therapy works and who actually needs it beyond just hangovers, GLP-1s and Ozempic, currently responsible for every diva's new silhouette in Floptropica, the stigma around them, why men use them wrong, what they actually do to sex drive and alcohol cravings, and ketamine therapy for trauma including a personal experience processing divorce in a single session. We also get into the NYC dating scene, running husband-hunting content as a business owner, intermittent fasting, morning workouts, glucose and insulin as the root of most disease, and why 30% of people go off GLP-1s too early and what that costs them. Chapters 00:09 – Bracha Banayan, Madi recording with an IV in her arm, and what's actually in the bag 01:28 – Starting IV Drips nine years ago after watching a woman wait six hours in the ER for a 30-minute fix 04:07 – Why dehydration hits harder as you age and the gummy someone invented to sneak water into elderly patients 05:00 – Bracha gaining 20 pounds during COVID, going on Ozempic in secret, and having to unlearn her own judgment about it 07:35 – Why some people are just biologically harder to lose weight and what food noise, hormones, and thrifty gene theory actually mean 13:03 – Eating the same portions as a D1 football player and finally understanding why that didn't work 15:07 – NAD IV therapy, whether it actually absorbs or not, and why IV beats supplements for knowing exactly what you're getting 18:38 – Glutathione as the glow vitamin, why Alex Earl blew it up, and getting it added to the bag mid-episode 20:15 – How Hello Dose and IV Drips are different, and why Bracha added IV ketamine to her services 21:32 – Going through a divorce, seven months of depression, and flying to LA for ketamine therapy when three therapy sessions a week weren't helping 24:35 – What ketamine therapy actually feels like, reprocessing the divorce in one session, and how it rewired the meaning she gave it 26:13 – Everyone doing K at New York clubs, why alcohol sales are dropping, and GLP-1s lowering desire for alcohol and cigarettes 29:00 – Why men overdose on Ozempic chasing 30 pounds fast and lose their sex drive in the process 31:33 – Bracha's social media starting with her GLP-1 journey, chucking her phone on vacation in Tel Aviv, and going to the beach to find a husband instead of Hinge 36:07 – What sparked Bracha's husband hunting content series, and why women aren't just cooks and housewives 41:09 – New York's gym girl who said "I'm not here to make friends," going on a date with a younger guy, and telling him his t-shirt was an undershirt 46:25 – Kylie Jenner's new peptide hydration packet k2o by Sprinter, fasting until dinner, and why appetite control disappears at night 48:00 – Why morning workouts make the rest of your day look better and muscle cells gobbling glucose Come on the pod, sponsor an episode, collab, or just reach out  ⁠▫️ https://linktr.ee/maditellsall Follow my world outside the podcast (food, tailgates, health, behind-the-scenes life) ⁠▫️ https://linktr.ee/madelinehall.nyc Thanks for being here guys. Like, share and subscribe! Catch me yap same time next week, bring snacks! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    54 min
  3. Dirty Jokes Pay the Bills: Che Durena on Comedy, Porn Stars & Building in the Adult Space

    Jun 9

    Dirty Jokes Pay the Bills: Che Durena on Comedy, Porn Stars & Building in the Adult Space

    We get into A LOT this episode with Che Durena, stand-up strategy, crowd work as clip farming, bombing, opening for Bert Kreischer including a 12,000-person show at Scotiabank Arena, the Kevin Hart LOL Network deal, how leaning into the adult content space turned into a full lane and the audience came * wink *, OnlyFans changing the industry, recognizing a porn star from her amateur days all the way to Brazzers and genuinely being proud of her, sexual compatibility, a sex toy collab that may or may not happen, Twitter being completely lawless, and Bills Mafia energy, because of course. Che's standup special "How to Make Your Balls Bigger" is out now on Youtube and Kevin Hart's channel, and his podcast Two Goons goes deep with porn stars, OnlyFans creators, and anyone willing to say what's on their mind. Chapters 00:09 – Che Durena, his dad escaping a Haitian dictator, and being named after Che Guevara 01:22 – Why Madi wears a Bills hat to every event and how sports is the best networking tool in any room 04:25 – Bills Mafia tailgates, 2,000 people, Machine Gun Kelly's stunt double, and a Power Slap invite to Vegas 05:44 – How Che manages seven million Tiktok followers, auxiliary accounts, and why he brings a comedian as his videographer on the road 08:36 – Bombing on stage, 12 years of standup, and why taking risks is the whole point 09:32 – Chris Rock and Eddie Murphy as idols, Dave Chappelle teasing Drake in Toronto, and who actually came out 10:55 – The Kevin Hart LOL special and why the title changed from something even more clickbait 13:34 – Grinding standup for eight years during COVID, learning TikTok by obsessing over the algorithm, and why 3,000 views on TikTok beat a sold-out 150-person room 15:46 – Instagram curation pages getting nuked, the TikTok vs. Instagram growth rate debate, and why Caleb Presley's team found Madi 18:12 – Che opening for Bert Kreischer, performing for 12,000 at Scotiabank Arena, and the Wells Fargo Center after party 20:39 – Why comedians stay dingy on purpose, The Stand as the sexiest club in New York, and how Caleb Presley's tequila brand ended up at a Bills game 24:48 – Mason Monroe doing standup on the subway in a demon costume, burning material vs. building a standup audience, and how Che is figuring out his version of that 28:52 – Che's niche in adult entertainment, the microplastics sketch that went on Instagram, and why he pitches these jokes to OnlyFans girls instead of female comics 33:47 – How OnlyFans changed control for creators, Angela White as the most famous person in porn, and what makes Two Goons different 39:00 – Two hours of research per guest, wanting to Nardwuar people, and Madi admitting she's sometimes too much of a yapper 41:44 – Madi wanting to invent a sex toy, Che offering to connect her, and where to find his special on Kevin Hart's Youtube Come on the pod, sponsor an episode, collab, or just reach out  ⁠▫️ https://linktr.ee/maditellsall Follow my world outside the podcast (food, tailgates, health, behind-the-scenes life) ⁠▫️ https://linktr.ee/madelinehall.nyc Thanks for being here guys. Like, share and subscribe! Catch me yap same time next week, bring snacks! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    51 min
  4. Couch Surfing Stagecoach: Sandstorms, 60 New Friends & a Bed Made of Garage Chairs

    Jun 2

    Couch Surfing Stagecoach: Sandstorms, 60 New Friends & a Bed Made of Garage Chairs

    I walk you through my first Stagecoach, free tickets from a brand, a couch offer from Zach and his San Diego crew, and suddenly I'm in Palm Springs with 65 strangers at a house party with a DJ, a waterfall pool, and a raw burger I ate anyway. Day one hit with a literal sandstorm that sent palm tree bark into my face and evacuated the whole festival right before Riley Green went on. We ended up at a stranger's after party, then back at the house, then I built myself a bed out of chairs and cushions in the garage before getting rescued to house number one. Day two was Ludacris, Post Malone, a gifting suite at the Rewire Talent house with Kylie Jenner's rebranded Sprinter electrolytes, and a Bachelor contestant who makes all his own content. Also, bandana season is officially starting. Chapters 00:09 – Getting free Stagecoach tickets, a couch offer from Zach, and flying out less than 40 hours after getting off the cruise 02:12 – Pulling up to the Airbnb at midnight with 65 people already raging, eating a suspiciously raw burger, and interviewing strangers to make friends 04:03 – Meeting girls from Buffalo in a random Stagecoach garage and someone already knowing Buffalo Foodslut 05:38 – Sandstorms, lip-splitting palm tree bark, and the festival evacuating right before Riley Green came on 08:15 – Stranger's after party, no couch as promised, and building a bed out of garage chairs and stolen cushions 10:37 – Morning workout that everyone quit on, getting invited to the Rewired Talent house, and how Evan found me through Caleb Presley's Instagram 12:15 – Gifting suite at Rewired, Kylie Jenner's Sprinter rebrand, and a Bachelor guy who makes all his own content 15:04 – Night two fit, Post Malone, Ludacris, and the Prince Street pizza boys at Stagecoach 17:42 – Accidentally booking the wrong flight home, Delta switching it for free, and leaving with the Sprinter van 18:29 – Going into the trip knowing one person and leaving with 60 friends, and the Blade Gang chugging beers on rollerblades for the Sabres Come on the pod, sponsor an episode, collab, or just reach out  ⁠▫️ https://linktr.ee/maditellsall Follow my world outside the podcast (food, tailgates, health, behind-the-scenes life) ⁠▫️ https://linktr.ee/madelinehall.nyc Thanks for being here guys. Like, share and subscribe! Catch me yap same time next week, bring snacks! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    22 min
  5. Cruise Mode with Tiktok: First Cruise Ever with Virgin Voyages & Life at Sea

    May 26

    Cruise Mode with Tiktok: First Cruise Ever with Virgin Voyages & Life at Sea

    I get into everything that went down on my first cruise ever with Tiktok and Virgin Voyages, boarding to a DJ and dancers, patio rooms with hammocks, a HIIT class overlooking the ocean, and ending up on a trampoline hammock shooting content with no makeup on right after a workout. Lindsay and I linked with the Hungry Fork, met model-slash-tech consultant Zach, got adopted by the entire floor 13, and handed out Don Julio shots to strangers on a golf cart back from the Bahamas. The Hungry Fork's viral video about being lowballed by a bagel company CEO comes up too, and after years of free work in Buffalo, your own photographers, your own videographers, $25 gift cards in return, the math was not mathing for a reason. Chapters 00:10 – Getting accepted to the TikTok x Virgin Voyages creator cruise and finding out Lindsey Coffey is going too 03:30 – Boarding in Miami, a DJ twerk off on arrival, and rooms with hammocks and a toilet that could rip your hair out 07:12 – Running into a Syndicate creator and the hot viral fireman content creator 13:31 – The Scarlet Red welcome party, hibachi with sake, and making friends you just met feel like people you've known forever 16:03 – A movie producer calls mid-recording, Ken Jeong just got signed, and Ashton Kutcher vs. the American Pie guy 18:32 – Morning HIIT class, Virgin's no-buffet no-waste food system, and running into a Western lifestyle creator with 500K 22:32 – Dinner with The Hungry Fork, squash ravioli worth dreaming about, and why Madi didn't get paid from Buffalo Foodslut for years 26:39 – Lindsey's mother agent spotting her from a top deck after four years of Zoom-only meetings 28:37 – 2am Neapolitan pizza party, a group from Atlanta who turned out to be Brooklyn neighbors, and Griff performing in the Bahamas 30:11 – Beach day in the Bahamas, a 55-year-old creator rolling in the sand, and the mullet sunburn 33:22 – Getting fried, dirty martinis with a Food Network chef, giving her Bills hat to a kid whose flew into the ocean, and heading back to New York Come on the pod, sponsor an episode, collab, or just reach out  ⁠▫️ https://linktr.ee/maditellsall Follow my world outside the podcast (food, tailgates, health, behind-the-scenes life) ⁠▫️ https://linktr.ee/madelinehall.nyc Thanks for being here guys. Like, share and subscribe! Catch me yap same time next week, bring snacks! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    40 min
  6. 2.8M Followers & A Comedy Special: Heather Shaw on Stand-Up & Fooling Everyone as Jim Carrey's Kid

    May 19

    2.8M Followers & A Comedy Special: Heather Shaw on Stand-Up & Fooling Everyone as Jim Carrey's Kid

    I sit down with Heather Shaw, a touring stand-up comic who also happens to look exactly like Jim Carrey?? We get into filming the special in Wisconsin in front of professional drunks, why comedians retire jokes the second a special drops, and touring the country for two years before anyone could watch it. Plus coming out without really coming out, meeting her wife through Instagram DMs after mistaking University of Kentucky for United Kingdom, ADHD misdiagnosed as short-term memory loss for years, why she refuses brand deals entirely, comedian drinking culture, the sad clown trope, and Madeline's dad going full FBI after a guy slid into her DMs and tagging his workplace on LinkedIn. Also Bills tailgate chaos, table jumping waivers, and why putting on a Bills jacket gets the highest views every damn time. Chapters 00:08 – Heather Shaw, comedian on tour, and her first special dropping May 14th 00:52 – Growing up in Rochester, moving to Florida in high school, and the Universal head chef who crossed a line at the park 02:47 – How niches work in comedy and the first joke she ever told at an open mic 05:00 – Getting on Tiktok during COVID to convince the internet she's Jim Carrey's daughter 07:23 – Coming out, rugby lesbians, and how Madi's sister told her fiancé she thought Madi was going to be a lesbian 08:52 – Meeting her wife through a "marry me" DM, and finding out the 'UK' in her bio was actually University of Kentucky 11:40 – What the special is actually about, seeing Kevin Hart live while too stoned, and why comics can't play the hits 14:07 – Love on the Spectrum obsession, Tanner's children's book, and getting diagnosed with ADHD after a lifetime of "short-term memory loss" 17:36 – Apparently ICE is a culinary school in New York?? 20:25 – Why Heather doesn't do brand deals, the creator who went to Coachella on Starbucks, and how Buffalo food bloggers treated Madi 27:59 – Quit drinking in Louisville, the sad clown trope, and bartending in the financial district 30:00 – Growing up going to Ralph Wilson Stadium, Brett Favre, and why Bills content always wins 33:29 – The new stadium, table jumping at the tailgate, and the Machine Gun Kelly stunt double Come on the pod, sponsor an episode, collab, or just reach out  ⁠▫️ https://linktr.ee/maditellsall Follow my world outside the podcast (food, tailgates, health, behind-the-scenes life) ⁠▫️ https://linktr.ee/madelinehall.nyc Thanks for being here guys. Like, share and subscribe! Catch me yap same time next week, bring snacks! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    38 min
  7. Never Doing It the Normal Way: Kiki on Paparazzi Boys, Open Mics & The Latte Art to Shanghai

    May 12

    Never Doing It the Normal Way: Kiki on Paparazzi Boys, Open Mics & The Latte Art to Shanghai

    I sit down with Kieran Murray AKA Kiki, a Brisbane-born, Webby-nominated video editor, photographer, videographer, and co-founder of Paparazzi Boys, who has been quietly living one of the more interesting lives in New York City for the past decade. We get into the Paparazzi Boys origin, Halloween 2021 on the streets of NYC, 50 million views on a 12-part series with zero monetization because Tiktok hadn't figured out payments yet, how a Nissan brand deal with Tim Tebow at the Heisman ceremony came together, the $300 birthday party gigs vs waiting for actual brand money, Viral Hog licensing and the passive income that just keeps coming, and why they're now pivoting toward longer-form narrative content. Plus 12 years as a traveling barista doing latte art at pharmaceutical trade shows in Madrid, London, and Shanghai, a film degree that started it all, and Reddit being the platform that actually found them first. We also get to the Summer of Kieran 2023, quitting alcohol cold turkey after a breakup, losing 20 pounds in a month from daily yoga and cooking every single meal, Saturn's return, why he ate at a restaurant only four times last year, the open mic he's been hosting at The Flower Shop on Eldridge Street every Tuesday for 18 months, eating tarantula in Laos, accidentally going on a honeymoon with strangers in Thailand??? And what it's like being 6'5 and recognizable enough in NYC to unknowingly spend an hour at a bar chatting up a Paris Olympics athlete. Chapters: 00:00 – How Kiki ended up in New York and why Buffalo is basically Canada 03:08 – Only eating at a restaurant four times last year and learning to cook by watching line cooks on shift 04:16 – Never been on a dating app, and landing three brand deals through Hinge by accident 05:37 – Parents divorced, dad working 12 hour shifts, and cooking Jamie Oliver meals so he didn't come home to a Vegemite sandwich 09:11 – Growing up in Brisbane, spending Christmas at the beach, and the huntsman spider the size of a wall 10:54 – Going to a Thai wedding on a one-way ticket, eating fried tarantula in Laos, and sleeping in tree houses with pumas outside 16:21 – The summer of Kieran, a breakup, quitting alcohol, and losing 20 pounds in a month 18:13 – Curing SIBO after doctors said it was uncurable and they wanted to give me a colostomy bag 21:01 – Yoga philosophy, red light therapy, and why vitamins are pointless if your diet is right 24:50 – How the Paparazzi Boys started as a Halloween costume in 2021 and what the concept actually is 29:08 – The Nissan deal, Tim Tebow showing up to the Heisman in a mud-covered car, and how brand deals come in 36:47 – Running a music open mic every Tuesday at the Flower Shop on Eldridge Street and what makes it work Come on the pod, sponsor an episode, collab, or just reach out  ⁠▫️ https://linktr.ee/maditellsall Follow my world outside the podcast (food, tailgates, health, behind-the-scenes life) ⁠▫️ https://linktr.ee/madelinehall.nyc Thanks for being here guys. Like, share and subscribe! Catch me yap same time next week, bring snacks! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    45 min
  8. Holistic Cooking & MLB Players: Chef Shannon on Launching The Green Kitchen

    May 5

    Holistic Cooking & MLB Players: Chef Shannon on Launching The Green Kitchen

    I sit down with Chef Shannon Woodruff, a holistic chef and founder of The Green Kitchen, who somehow ended up selling $12 meal prep containers to coworkers before accidentally building a six-figure business. We get into Epstein-Barr, heavy metal poisoning, chelation therapy, the Medical Medium protocol, why organic kale might be working against you, colonics, neurotransmitter testing, and how a toxic relationship was wrecking her gut the entire time. Plus gin as the more logical alcohol choice, the Whole30 rabbit hole, and not eating fast food in over a decade. On the business side, the Arnold Schwarzenegger audiobook moment that led directly to cooking for MLB players during spring training, scaling to nearly a quarter million in year-one revenue, Girl Dinner boxes in a Phoenix juice shop, a Girl Dinner cart launching soon, coaching chefs on pricing and contracts instead of cooking, pulling clients on Tiktok at under 50 followers, and why Instagram is a chef's most underused digital resume. Chapters: 00:00 – Meeting Chef Shannon in Scottsdale after she cooked a private feast 01:47 – Fourth generation Arizona native, Miss Arizona aunt, and a great aunt who cooked for the Phoenix Suns 03:11 – Growing up on SpaghettiOs and Hamburger Helper, then overhauling everything 05:37 – Reactivated Epstein-Barr, heavy metal poisoning, and the 'real foods' diet that reversed it 06:11 – SIBO, colonics, celery juice, and the spiritual side of gut health 10:26 – How Shannon accidentally became a personal chef by selling meals to co-workers out of their office kitchen 19:35 – Listening to the Arnold Schwarzenegger book, a text from a company placing chefs with pro athletes, and nearly a quarter million in year one 21:48 – What Shannon's coaching for personal chefs actually covers and why no one else is doing it 25:03 – Why 500 loyal followers beats 500K disengaged ones, and The Green Kitchen's wholesale deal with Kaleidoscope Juice 26:14 – The Girl Dinner box launch and a Girl Dinner cart coming to Arizona 28:07 – The Scottsdale Airbnb, 2am girl dinners, and why everyone should do at least one year in hospitality 31:08 – The best alcohol to drink if you're health-conscious 32:30 – Leaving a high-stress relationship and watching SIBO disappear within two weeks 33:48 – Severe TMJ, face yoga, and how leaving the hospitality industry changed her body 35:19 – Storytelling as the most important part of building a brand and where to find Chef Shannon Come on the pod, sponsor an episode, collab, or just reach out  ⁠▫️ https://linktr.ee/maditellsall Follow my world outside the podcast (food, tailgates, health, behind-the-scenes life) ⁠▫️ https://linktr.ee/madelinehall.nyc Thanks for being here guys. Like, share and subscribe! Catch me yap same time next week, bring snacks! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    40 min
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📍 Times Square, NYC Madeline Hall has never been afraid to take up space and make things happen. The fastest growing podcast on The Gotham Network, "MaDi Tells All" is where business, branding, and bold conversations collide, giving you the unfiltered truth on social media, hospitality, and the grind of entrepreneurship. This show is produced by Gotham Production Studios. ⁠https://www.gothamproductionstudios.com/

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