Positive Blatherings Podcast

ROC Vox Podcast Network
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Scott "Fitz" is a radio host in Rochester, NY and a filmmaker who has battled depression and celebrates sobriety. His podcast is his attempt to surround himself with positive successful people and to just have an organic conversation. Join him as he takes an organic approach to the standard interview. No preparation, no script. Letting the conversation have a mind of its own: a Blathering.

  1. 1d ago

    Meghan Johnstone & Grace Turner | Rock Bottom Ain't No Joke

    Meghan Johnstone and Grace Turner are the business partners behind Rose Cleaning Co in Rochester, NY, a company that is closing in on a million dollars in contracts in under five years, with about 25 technicians, three virtual assistants, and a new contract in New York City. They are also working stand-up comedians who met at a Rochester open mic, where Meghan told a room full of strangers she was going to build a million dollar cleaning company. A few years before that, Meghan had lost her license, her car, her apartment, and her paralegal job, and was sleeping on a cousin’s couch. Then a trip to rehab turned into two weeks in the hospital with COVID and pneumonia. In this episode they get into the night a doctor told Meghan she might need to be intubated, the decision to quit drinking that came out of it, and how she went from working the craft table on Fitz’s film Bottom Feeders to performing stand-up, including a set at the Apollo. Grace talks about moving from New York City to Rochester with a master’s degree in sociology and no job, hearing Meghan’s million dollar promise on stage, and starting as head of residential with two clients before becoming a partner. They also cover bombing at a women’s seminar, getting comfortable being uncomfortable, growing up Mormon as comedy material, why being the cool boss stopped working, and hiring an HR manager as they plan to grow to 50 technicians. Plus Messy Business, the workplace sitcom they just filmed, and their YouTube podcast, Let It Grow. CONNECT Rose Cleaning Co → https://rosecleaningco.net Meghan Rose → https://www.instagram.com/meghanroseco Gracefully Funny → https://www.instagram.com/gracefullyfunny ROC Vox → https://rocvox.com New episodes every Tuesday. Recorded at ROC Vox Recording & Production in Bushnell’s Basin, NY. Learn more at https://rocvox.com Recorded at ROC Vox Recording and Production Studios, Rochester, NY.

  2. Oct 6

    Will Powell | AI Is Coming For You

    Will Powell has been a motivational speaker, a voiceover talent, and the driving force behind The Player 1 Academy in Rochester, where kids work through math, reading, and social studies inside VR headsets and alongside personal robots. He automates his outreach to schools across the country, takes meetings in smart glasses that transcribe and fact check in real time, and juggles around 11 projects at once. Fifteen years ago he shelved an idea for a puppet show because it needed a puppet builder in Canada, puppeteers in Nebraska and California, and a ton of money. Now he builds it on a laptop. In this episode he talks about why ChatGPT is just the beginning, the AI agent that reaches out to 20 school leaders every morning at 8:00 and books the Zoom call without him touching a keyboard, and his warning that anyone who doesn't know AI in three years is done. He and Fitz get into layoffs and universal basic income, the environmental cost of data centers, whether college is still worth it, AI slop and the one sentence that fixes it, and why so many local AI experts don't hold up to a real question. He also shares how he learns (YouTube, a stack of notebooks, and one big new tool every 90 days), why AI is a tool and not a second brain, and how he's putting it to work on ROC Recode and the Hip Hoppets, before dropping Fitz into his own AI-generated studio for the closing segment. CONNECT The Player 1 Academy → https://www.player1academy.org Will Motivates → https://willmotivates.com ROC Vox → https://rocvox.com New episodes every Tuesday. Recorded at ROC Vox Recording & Production in Bushnell's Basin, NY. Learn more at https://rocvox.com Recorded at ROC Vox Recording and Production Studios, Rochester, NY.

  3. Sep 29

    Corey Keyes | The Keyes To Spirituality

    Corey Keyes managed the college radio station at SUNY Brockport, worked as a spokesman for the Electric Cooperatives of South Carolina, and heard his calling while driving alone through the state after Hurricane Hugo in 1989. He finished seminary at Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School, and in 1996 he was called to West Bloomfield Congregational Church, the church he grew up in, where the congregation grew like gangbusters. Then the pandemic had him preaching to an empty sanctuary, with photos of his congregation taped into their favorite pews so he wouldn't be alone, and it burned him to a crisp. In this episode he talks about why a call isn't something that suddenly arrives but something you finally uncover enough to hear, how stepping away to lead the Haden Institute brought him back to the pulpit, and the five-day window that led him to Mountain Rise United Church of Christ in Fairport, recorded on his 21st day as pastor. He and Fitz get into ego and self-care, gratitude and grief after losing his brother in 2017, regret, why it's harder to forgive yourself than someone else, and why he keeps both a therapist and a spiritual director in his corner. He also shares why he believes faith doesn't require a church, and where to find his writing on Substack. CONNECT Corey Keyes on Substack → https://coreykeyes.substack.com Mountain Rise United Church of Christ → https://mtriseucc.org ROC Vox → https://rocvox.com New episodes every Tuesday. Recorded at ROC Vox Recording & Production in Bushnell's Basin, NY. Learn more at https://rocvox.com  Recorded at ROC Vox Recording and Production Studios, Rochester, NY.

  4. Sep 25 ·  Bonus

    Adrian Esposito | Filmmaking on the Spectrum

    Adrian Esposito is a Rochester filmmaker who has been writing, producing, and directing films for more than a decade, from Bury My Heart with Tonawanda, a family film about how the Tonawanda Seneca Nation cared for its own people with disabilities, to Greetings From Tromaville!, his documentary on Lloyd Kaufman and Troma Entertainment. He is on the autism spectrum, spent his whole life in special education, and makes a point of putting people with disabilities in the kinds of movies you would never expect to see them in. His latest, Special Needs Revolt!, took six years to get made. In 2023, with the cast finally secured and the crowdfunding still short, he and his mom decided to pay for it themselves. In this episode he talks about the action comedy at the center of Special Needs Revolt!, a Rambo style hero with Down syndrome who takes down a dictator who has sent people with disabilities back to institutions, and the Troma, South Park, and Josh "The Ponceman" Perry influences behind it. He gets into the SAG-AFTRA complications that kept Perry out of the cast, why he believes ableism shaped how some of his crew treated him, the cue cards that helped lead actor Nolan Tierce deliver the film's closing speech, and the day he broke down and cried when an actor threatened to walk off halfway through production. He also shares where he stands on AI in filmmaking, the disability language he is comfortable with and why only the villains use the R word, and his next projects, Campfire Stories and a horror film called Wrong Town. Special Needs Revolt! screens Thursday, October 1 at 7:30 PM at The Little Theatre in Rochester. #SpecialNeedsRevolt, #DisabilityRepresentation, #IndependentFilm, #AutismSpectrum, #PositiveBlatherings, #ROCVox, #DownSyndrome, #RochesterFilm, #Troma Recorded at ROC Vox Recording and Production Studios, Rochester, NY.

  5. Sep 22

    Kyle Napier | Your DNA Already Knows What's Wrong

    Kyle Napier is a human physiologist and health optimization coach, and the founder of Club Gevity in Rochester. His background is in kinesiology and human physiology, and he ran his own personal training business, putting clients through the workouts and the mobility work and the whole shebang while watching them stay on statins and blood pressure medication anyway. He lost three of his four grandparents to chronic disease before he was 15. By the time he and his high school sweetheart, now his wife, got to college, she had had a full thyroidectomy for thyroid cancer. He has spent the last ten years on a single question: why. In this episode he gets into the 13 DNA methylation pathways he reads, what a panel tells him about a person before they say a word, and why he tests DNA, gut, and blood together. He covers the 38 trillion bacteria that decide what you crave, the mold in cheap coffee, the grass-fed labeling loophole, why he calls blood sugar the root of all disease in this country, and the case for Alzheimer's as type 3 diabetes. He also gets into why strength training matters roughly twice as much as cardio, what dopamine has to do with addiction, and how to pick a supplement in an industry the FDA does not regulate. Then he talks about what he is building now, and why the mission is getting this education to the people who cannot afford the programs. CONNECT Club Gevity → https://gevityclub.com Club Gevity on Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/gevityclub ROC Vox → https://rocvox.com New episodes every Tuesday. Recorded at ROC Vox Recording & Production in Bushnell's Basin, NY. Learn more at https://rocvox.com  Recorded at ROC Vox Recording and Production Studios, Rochester, NY.

  6. Sep 1

    L. J. Nightingale | Drawn to Story Telling

    Lydia Nightingale writes under the pen name L. J. Nightingale. She is an author, an actor, a playwright, and a public historian with a Master of Arts in History and a concentration in public history, and she has written plays about German women in the years right after World War II, including work drawn from her own family. Her father's biological mother was a German army nurse captured by the Russians who escaped the camp and made it back to Germany. Her debut novel Drawn began as a pandemic project in March 2020 and became book one of the Lovett and Swire series. For years before that she believed alcohol made her more creative, and she used to get drunk on purpose to write. In this episode she gets into the January 2019 sober date that changed how she works, the bipolar Type 1 diagnosis she talks about openly because a high school friend she had not spoken to in fifteen years found her old podcast episode and said it gave her hope for her nine year old son, and the two hour writing blocks she asks her husband to end because she will otherwise write until midnight. She also talks about the indie publisher that shut down a couple of months after Drawn came out, the first editions still sitting in the trunk of her car, the second edition she re-released on July 7, and why she will not let AI touch any part of her process. Book two is underway, with no publisher and no deadline except the ones she sets herself.  CONNECT Drawn, second edition → https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params=cg8ZjG38q6BNf9TVpYfCUzkHXlIqUsaYoMyRfC0QWGo  L. J. Nightingale →https://lj-nightingale.squarespace.com/ L. J. Nightingale on Instagram → @ljnightingale ROC Vox → https://rocvox.com New episodes every Tuesday. Recorded at ROC Vox Recording & Production in Bushnell's Basin, NY. Learn more at https://rocvox.com  Recorded at ROC Vox Recording and Production Studios, Rochester, NY.

  7. Aug 25

    Heather Saffer | Stop Telling Her to Be Grateful

    Heather Saffer won Food Network's Cupcake Wars in 2012, used the prize money to write The Dollop Book of Frosting, and turned a Rochester cupcake shop into Dollop Gourmet, a low-sugar, vegan frosting brand that landed a deal with Barbara Corcoran on Shark Tank and put her products in Whole Foods and on QVC. She has a psychology degree from SUNY Brockport, two published cookbooks, and the kind of resume most entrepreneurs in this city would trade for. Today she advises startups from Canandaigua and lives with her dog Donald. In January her husband died, and she started posting unfiltered videos about grief to an audience that had only ever known her for frosting. In this episode she gets into the toxic positivity she has been fielding ever since, the decade of therapy that stopped working, why every group therapy session leaves her feeling worse, and the theory about new souls and old souls that almost nobody but her husband knew. She talks about bailing on a cruise a week before it sailed, booking a one-way ticket to Portugal to find out if she could move there, and disliking nearly every place she landed. She and Fitz also get into her husband's death by suicide, why she thinks people are so afraid of negativity, and what a person does with themselves after admitting they have no professional ambitions left. She is not selling anything, which is exactly why the conversation goes where it goes. CONNECT  Heather Saffer on Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/realheathersaffer Heather Saffer on LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/in/heathersaffer ROC Vox → https://rocvox.com New episodes every Tuesday. Recorded at ROC Vox Recording & Production in Bushnell's Basin, NY. Learn more at https://rocvox.com Recorded at ROC Vox Recording and Production Studios, Rochester, NY.

  8. Aug 18

    Amy Hawley | Figuring Out The How Is What Limits You

    Amy Hawley built Kinz because the part of her story she most needed to keep was the part she had no interest in performing for anyone. Everyone already has the birthday photos and the promotion announcements. Kinz is a private platform for the in between, the reflections and the pieces of a story that never make it to a feed. In this episode she joins Fitz at ROC Vox and gets into the comparison trap, why progress is almost impossible to see while you are inside it, and how she replaced research and outside opinions with alignment as her decision filter. She also talks about making choices as the person who already has the outcome, the trademark detour she now laughs about, why the idea was never the asset, running founder and stepmom and senior manager on one operating system, and why forcing action when your body is asking for rest costs more than it produces.  CONNECT Kinz → https://www.bekinz.com ROC Vox → https://rocvox.com Salvatore's → https://www.salvatores.com New episodes every Tuesday. Recorded at ROC Vox Recording & Production in Bushnell's Basin, NY. Learn more at https://rocvox.com  Recorded at ROC Vox Recording and Production Studios, Rochester, NY.

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Scott "Fitz" is a radio host in Rochester, NY and a filmmaker who has battled depression and celebrates sobriety. His podcast is his attempt to surround himself with positive successful people and to just have an organic conversation. Join him as he takes an organic approach to the standard interview. No preparation, no script. Letting the conversation have a mind of its own: a Blathering.

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  • Creator
    ROC Vox Podcast Network
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2026
  • Episodes
    145
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    Positive Blatherings Podcast