MaDi Tells All - Buffalo to Building Brands

Gotham Network

📍 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. Sep 29

    Sweating with 5K strangers | Kenny Santucci on Training Jon Bon Jovi, The Challenge & a Torn Bicep

    I lay it all out with Kenny Santucci, the guy your trainer's trainer calls, who spent three years training Jon Bon Jovi and built out his home gym. We get into the bicep that came off the bone mid workout, calling his own doctor at 10pm, and why his Canadian friend is flying to America to pay out of pocket instead of waiting 16 weeks to be seen. He breaks down why gym owners keep fighting over the same six people, how gyms keep raising prices while trainers get paid a flat hourly rate, and Strong New York, his 5,000 person fitness party with saunas, cold plunges and a whole street shut down. There's also the open casting call that put him on The Challenge at 20 years old, lunch at Johnny Bananas' house, and how the MTV guys ended up in Buffalo asking me where to eat. Chapters 00:11 – Kenny Santucci and Strong New York, New York City's largest annual fitness and wellness festival 02:15 – American vs Canadian healthcare and the 16-week wait for surgery 06:00 – Getting into the gym at 230 pounds because Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, and Hulk Hogan all did 07:33 – Twelve jobs before 16, and Madi's borderline lesbian rugby summer 08:11 – Why he could retire off OnlyFans but won't 10:44 – Why the Buffalo Bills are the only true New York team 13:28 – Rebranding a mobile sauna company into Buffalo's biggest TV feature 14:47 – Inside Strong New York, 5,000 people and 100 activations built by a team of 12 17:19 – Training Jon Bon Jovi, who almost bought the Buffalo Bills?? 18:09 – Why trainers now out-earn finance guys, and the yacht video that landed Kim Kardashian's trainer 20:49 – Why exercise beats every peptide and biohack 24:13 – Where to get the best cocktails and steak in NYC 28:12 – Madi's death row cheeseburger and no fast food in 11 years 32:09 – Why a strong back beats legs and ass 37:20 – Her SIBO nightmare and refusing the surgery that leaves most with a colostomy bag 42:00 – Buying what he sells with four gym memberships 48:00 – Getting cast on The Challenge at 20 and staying tight with Johnny Bananas 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. Catch me yap same time next week, cheers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Sweating with 5K strangers | Kenny Santucci on Training Jon Bon Jovi, The Challenge & a Torn Bicep
  2. Sep 22

    Why are gyms ALWAYS hiring??? | Bobby Westside on Hyrox, Muscle Myths & Hangover Cures

    I'm unpacking the fitness industry with Bobby Westside, a New York City trainer who built his own platform for finding trainers after five years inside Barry's. We get into why the now hiring sign never comes down, what a client pays versus what a trainer takes home, and the nine minute video about Barry's banning coaches from working anywhere else, half a million views, everyone still there furious. He breaks down Hyrox taking over, muscle working like a pyramid scheme, lifting heavy over hot yoga, cold plunges as hangover care, and the Ozempic conversation nobody says out loud. Then it turns into my first Hinge date and the man who unpacked gum, drugs, and a vape onto the table, why sex is easy and connection is hard, and a death row meal that is somehow a 20 piece McNugget. Chapters 00:12 – Bobby Westside and Adonis, his fitness platform for clients to find and hire their own personal trainer 02:15 – Why every gym is always hiring, and how underpaid the trainers actually are 04:07 – Leaving investment banking because he's not made for taking orders 05:57 – Sex is easy and connection is hard, plus Madi's Buffalo Food Prude era 07:37 – Madi's first ever Hinge date and four hours with the guy who laid out drugs, and a vape like Inspector Gadget 09:57 – Losing the friends to lovers pipeline and bringing back the sloppy makeout 10:56 – The sober wellness event Madi wants to build her next chapter around 12:28 – Going mega viral off the Barry's non-compete callout, and why resistance training is a pyramid scheme 15:07 – Why no supplement beats consistency, plus the KA-EX cortisol reducer he swears by 19:00 – GLPs starting as a diabetic drug and Viagra starting as a fix for period cramps, both pivoting on a side effect 20:16 – The addiction to skinny in New York, and Fat Girl Fall for clients who are too thin 23:00 – Over-optimizing with Oura Rings and eight sleeps, and the green party where the whole elevator went home together 26:26 – The Hamptons wrestling costume dinner that got them into it with the locals 28:00 – Mary Lou's and the 28 and over crowd at Montauk, and why Surf Lodge has a type 30:04 – MapQuest, LimeWire, and ranking your friends on MySpace top eight 39:26 – Death row meals, the 20 piece McNugget and Popeye's with caviar bumps at Surf Lodge 42:44 – The Vegas conspiracy theory, adult Disneyland the mob built to launder money with bodies buried under the ferris wheel 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. Catch me yap same time next week, cheers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Why are gyms ALWAYS hiring??? | Bobby Westside on Hyrox, Muscle Myths & Hangover Cures
  3. Sep 15

    The New Bills Stadium Delivered | New BFS Sauce, Leaving Gameday & a TV Pilot

    I'm recapping the Buffalo trip that was supposed to be five days and turned into two and a half weeks because the events kept selling out. Wings and Wisdom with Wingnutz, the new sauce drop, and a wellness event that sold out in 36 minutes and landed the brand on Daytime Buffalo. I get into the Chestnut Hill rebrand shoot with 22 creators, the new Gerties contract, filming a TV pilot and getting offered a Hallmark movie, and walking into the new Bills stadium on a morning I got to sleep in because I'm officially not with Gameday anymore. Plus Imperial Pizza for a small army, taking Grandma Rose to Chefs in a tennis skirt, and three miles of gas left on a fogged out road where every horror movie gets filmed. 00:16 – The Buffalo trip that stretched to two and a half weeks because the creator events kept selling out 01:54 – Cracking open Jay Shetty's Juni sparkling drink live 04:11 – Almost running out of gas in the middle of nowhere on the drive home with Melinda, dodging deer and beavers 04:56 – Ordering Imperial Pizza for 12 and getting enough for the zombie apocalypse 05:57 – Taking Grandma Rose to Chef's for her birthday and the liver her own mother used to make the sauce for 09:16 – The Reserve content dinner with Chef Darien after his Next Level Chef win 13:10 – Landing the Chestnut Hill golf course rebrand, and Just the Golfer teaching anyone who wants to play 18:31 – The Wings and Wisdom event dropping Buffalo Midnight Heat sauce 20:23 – Filming a TV pilot trivia show and getting pulled aside about Hallmark movies 25:07 – The Gertie's rebrand, and wait, Madi's engaged again??? 26:41 – Black Smoke's rooftop in Hamburg, the Toronto kidnapping to Matty Matheson's Prime Seafood Palace, and the wing tours in between 27:59 – Walking the new Bills stadium with her parents, the Buffalo tribute license plates, and no longer working with Gameday Hospitality 33:00 – The Western New York Heat Retreat event with a mobile sauna selling out in 36 minutes and landing them on Daytime Buffalo 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. Catch me yap same time next week, cheers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    The New Bills Stadium Delivered | New BFS Sauce, Leaving Gameday & a TV Pilot
  4. Sep 8

    I Have a Grapefruit Sized TUMOR | Ovulation Pain, Health Insurance Hell & My First Surgery

    I'm breaking down the tumor I got diagnosed with out of nowhere after months of ovulation pain I kept writing off as normal girl stuff. Hot flashes, throwing up in the worst public bathroom in New York City, and the Brooklyn walk-in clinic that found it in about four seconds. I get into why I put the appointment off for so long, health insurance in America being what it is, the SIBO surgery I turned down years ago and healed without, finding a surgeon in Buffalo, and all the women who booked their own gyno appointments after I posted about this. Also in here: a birthday weekend in the city, a seafood tower and dirty martinis in Alphabet City, flirting with Engine 28, and a finger sliced to the bone before breakfast. Chapters 00:14 – The three months of pain Madi wrote off as bad ovulation before finding out it was something serious 04:00 – The Storytime app for creators, dodging a tornado for free sushi, and the seafood tower that felt like a Russian mob spot 05:57 – The always a John trick that turned strangers into her closest college friends 09:57 – Flirting with FDNY Engine 28, the nerdy fireman named Nick, and the neighbors who pulled her into their peach garden 12:57 – The subway ride home where the pain came back twice in one night and she was clearing out her purse to throw up 14:00 – Why Madi put it off for years, being quoted 750 a month for insurance as a healthy young woman, and saving 30k by skipping it 15:00 – Laney slicing her finger to the bone making birthday breakfast, and Madi finally walking into a Brooklyn OBGYN alone 18:00 – The ultrasound clicking away on her left side, the grapefruit sized tumor diagnosis, and asking if they could just freeze it instead of surgery 19:39 – Opting out of gut surgery years ago when 76 percent end up with a colostomy bag, healing SIBO holistically, and mistaking the tumor for a softball of shit 21:38 – Why she went public, the flood of DMs from women who booked their own appointments, and the awareness message about excruciating period pain 23:14 – The 150 messages back, wanting to see the thing sliced open on a table, and getting the surgery in Buffalo where her family can spoil her 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. Catch me yap same time next week, cheers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    I Have a Grapefruit Sized TUMOR | Ovulation Pain, Health Insurance Hell & My First Surgery
  5. Sep 1

    Would You Quit Teaching to be an Influencer? | Tyler Jackowski on Going Viral With Classroom Content

    I walk you through the world of Tyler Jackowski, a Boston teacher who started making classroom content during COVID just to make people laugh and ended up with millions of followers, a White House invite from Jill Biden, and brand deals with Dunkin, Puma, Adobe, and Uber. We get into painting walls at a Catholic school before he ever had a classroom, quitting teaching entirely, what his RPM looked like when Tiktok got shut down for 18 hours and why it never recovered, how he negotiated with brands who wanted him to read scripts, and the Classroom Horror Stories series he built on Youtube and Spotify where people from around the world send in their wildest stories. We also get into management, platform diversification, and why Youtube pays him 27 times more per thousand views than Tiktok ever did. Chapters 00:13 – Tyler Jakowski the viral teacher gone full creator, getting his Boston accent smacked out of him by English professors, and bonding over Josh Allen 03:52 –Teaching Science as an English major 06:36 – Why TikTok creators blew up filling the COVID entertainment gap, and both refusing to do the copper water bottle influencer bit 10:31 – Meeting at the White House to talk education reform with Jill Biden, and both being repped by Rewired Talent with Evan and Justin 14:09 – Everyone using Instagram to promote TikTok on the Virgin Voyages cruise, why social media is still in its infancy, and the L'Oreal white labeling play  19:00 – The precise script brands that tank at 15,000 views, and the Dunkin deal he rolled out organically that hit 5 million and a 700 percent click bump 21:50 – The RPM reality nobody talks about, TikTok cratering to 5 cents after the shutdown while YouTube pays 27 dollars and Spotify 32 25:44 – Classroom Horror Stories as his baby, the Gorilla Glue kid whose nipples came off inside his shirt, and Madi peeing her pants at elemntary school 31:39 – The ice cream Robin Hood socialism story a teacher still uses, Madi's sold out COVID clothing line feeding essential workers, and the 103 year restaurant rebrand 33:27 – Filming his podcast at Brownstone Social Club to lift good people up, marathon fundraising for Release Recovery, and getting into the Summer House orbit 40:57 – Breaking down the Kyle and Amanda / West and Ciara Summer House mess, and Bravo milking a seven part reunion 46:07 – Carl Radke stopping his own award speech to congratulate the engagement, and Madi's SIBO years of no drinking before mocktails existed 50:21 – The identical drinking order down to the blue cheese olive martini, worshipping Gallagher's Steakhouse, and shooting Cypriot zivania 54:09 – His father in law and fiance opening Pixida Estiatorio on Fifth Ave, being a personal chef in a past life, and the sobbing little girl who found him in Cyprus 1:00:00 – Turning down McDonald's at 25k followers with no fast food in 11 years, the pasta bathtub feet offer 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. Catch me yap same time next week, cheers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Would You Quit Teaching to be an Influencer? | Tyler Jackowski on Going Viral With Classroom Content
  6. Aug 25

    Is sugardaddy.com still a THING?? | Zach Zucker Swears He's NOT a Comedian

    I'm hanging out with Zach Zucker, the clown school trained performer who swears he's not a comedian, to talk feet pics at the Edinburgh Fringe, sugar daddy sites, and why he thinks he's funnier than every comic doing crowd work in jeans and a t-shirt. We get into the crowd work epidemic, why comedy clubs feel predatorial, getting fired by his agents in 2021, and how playing the internet game blew up a career he'd already spent a decade building overseas. Zach breaks down 10 years of Stamptown, his absurdist variety show turned Netflix special dropping the same day this episode does, August 25th. There's opening for David Cross, the Baha Men joke that changed his life, being told he's "not brand safe" for sponsors, life as a strategically nomadic performer, and a $400 pasta offer that's still on the table. Chapters 00:11 – Zach Zucker in the building, why comedy is a curse he can't quit, and roasting the standup comedy crowd work epidemic 02:22 – Not identifying as a comedian after French clown school, why comedy clubs feel predatorial, and only ever going on stage in costume 03:49 – The sugar daddy dot com college phase, the $200 feet pic at Edinburgh Fringe, and the pasta bathtub offer he'd do for way less 05:58 – Standup character not standup, building a cult following with his partner Vigo from Norway, and getting fired by his agents in 2021 07:31 – Two years of being deeply unfunny at clown school and why it's every Jewish parent's nightmare 08:26 – Why the digital side feels like a slot machine on your brain, handing social off to a team, and refusing to be a five types of coffee creator 11:04 – Opening for David Cross, calling Sam Campbell the best working artist, and drawing inspiration from musicians and painters over comics 14:24 – Strategically nomadic out of Echo Park, the Gotham LA studio plan three years out, and both being beach people who hate the cold 16:01 – Reverse engineering fame overseas before America, wanting out of the country at all times, and dodging the Berlin sex club scene 19:42 – Ten years at the Edinburgh Fringe, the world's third biggest ticketed event, and cursing out the Scottish landlords 21:14 – The Isle of Skye dinosaur bones and treeless highlands, scurvy season on Scottish festival food, and why Kevin Hart is somehow always ripped 24:56 – Starting Stamptown in 2016, turning down bad deals waiting for better, and both being college dropouts who chose money over class 27:46 – Being told he's not brand safe, the audio and suitcase companies he'd actually rep, and being a proud billboard of collaboration 31:48 – The Baha Men having 19 members 35:00 – Never dreaming he'd run a circus production company, begging people to watch the Stamptown special so Netflix greenlights more 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. Catch me yap same time next week, cheers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Is sugardaddy.com still a THING?? | Zach Zucker Swears He's NOT a Comedian
  7. Aug 18

    Officially Hot Girl Summer Era | Finance Bros, Kelsey Grammer & Hosting My First Travel Trip

    I'm taking you through a week that somehow had finance bros, a $1,000 happy hour tab, the Knicks playoffs, and me pouring shots on top of a bar for the American Whiskey rebrand. I also went on set for an NBC show with Kelsey Grammer, who apparently fell in love twice in Buffalo, ended up at a 35-person private premiere for Nina Dobrev's new movie with Andrew Garfield in the room, and got into the chaos of being late to my own recording because World Cup traffic tripled the city overnight. On top of all that, I'm hosting my first ever travel trip and oh! The curly hair debuted at Governor's Ball and apparently that was the move all along. Chapters 00:12 – Studio booked and busy for summer, the Surf Lodge trip with Neutrogena and Nylon, and the finance bros happy hour that ran up a thousand dollar tab 04:26 – The Chef's 103 year old rebrand going crazy, personally answering every missed tag, and the couple's Toy Story pasta video that hit 600k 04:44 – The first billboard project happening, the hands behind the back pasta shot for Wegmans and Topps, and the frozen sauce line coming out 05:19 – Hot girl summer and still single after a year, why one night stands aren't the vibe, and needing to actually know someone first 07:02 – Meeting Kelsey Grammer on the Hunting set, and Nina's 35 person premiere with Spider-Man there 08:26 – The San Diego trip where the boys were booked and busy, getting blocked from an event over bad blood, and people assuming she owns the company 09:22 – Nobody knowing about trial reels, asking listeners what they actually want, and being late for Jackie Cruz during World Cup traffic 11:03 – Beefing with a guy who said get off the bar, the New York Post number on Knicks hospitality money, and losing just means more watch parties 11:48 – Curling the hair crazy for hot girl summer, Governors Ball being the moment, and boys finally looking 12:28 – Announcing the first ever Travel with Madeline Hall, the Costa Rica, Aruba, Italy, and Colombia shortlist, and a beachfront villa with Pilates and business mentorship 17:02 – Pulling back from the football space a little, why tailgates are full of drunk handshakes that fall through, and Caitlyn Gentry planting the travel seed 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. Catch me yap same time next week, cheers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Officially Hot Girl Summer Era | Finance Bros, Kelsey Grammer & Hosting My First Travel Trip
  8. Aug 11

    My Best Friend Hijacks The Pod | Lauren B. on College Chaos, Creator Confessions & Buffalo Nights

    I'm reuniting with one of my college besties, Lauren B., who pulled up to the studio with her own list of questions and flipped the whole interview on me, Call Her Daddy style, one plead the fifth allowed. We're rehashing the Buff State era, $1.50 drink nights at Coles, $22 UV Blue fishbowls, a fake ID saved by a hand drawn mole, the wine t**s Halloween costume that racked up $950 in bar crawl winnings, and 17 people packed into a minivan for a Bills game. Then it gets juicy, a secret Sabres star hookup, Bills players sliding into the DMs right after draft day, and the unhinged "suck your way to the top" message that sent Papa Hall on a LinkedIn manhunt. These days Lauren's doing nonprofit work with foster kids and marketing consulting, her husband fully converted to Bills Mafia, and we trade the trial reels and tagging tricks every new content creator should be stealing. Chapters 00:15 – Lauren the college best friend, meeting Madi through James Webb next door, and the study abroad she rushed a sorority right before 03:09 – Madi taking Lauren to her first Bills game in the dying minivan, dumping a wing basket down the borrowed white jersey at O'Neill's 07:31 – Getting the whole family high on a two gram blunt camping in Allegany, and Dad's meat and cheese burrito camp trick 10:56 – Six years of the wine t**s costume, Dollar Tree bras full of red and white, pouring free drinks and cleaning up on Chippewa bar crawls 14:52 – The butch rugby player fake ID with a drawn on mole, the JP's binder of borrowed IDs, and dollar wings at Bullies 16:30 – Why the sorority pulled Madi out of her shell, Buff State parties busting at 100 people while Dayton has permanent beer pong tables 18:35 – Wanting real PDA after two long distance relationships, drunk workout runs home from Coles, and Lauren passing out on the porch every time 22:08 – Reading back the journals she's kept since 14, the basement flood that ruined one, and Lauren flipping the mic to interview Madi 29:03 – Madi's favorite thing about Buffalo being community, the Brooklyn bar that went Bills and jumped sales 36 percent, and trial reels advice 33:39 – The Barbizon modeling scam that only taught which fork to use, three years of free marketing, and the clothing line that funded meals during COVID 40:22 – The 6am you sucked your way to the top DM, Papa Hall hunting the guy down on LinkedIn, and Lainey messaging his mom and wife 43:22 – Hooking up with a Sabres star at Coles with no clue who he was, why Madi won't date football players, and the bathtub pasta DM 45:07 – The big nose theory, the size 14 feet letdown, and swearing off spontaneous hookups because she needs real attraction 47:20 – Chelsea Handler and Will Ferrell as dream guests, learning to clap back on the mic, and getting told she talks a lot on her own podcast 50:30 – Never moving back but keeping Buffalo ties, Buffalo Foodslut hitting 14k after the rebrand, and businesses taking her more seriously post New York 1:04:20 – The Elmwood hippie houses gentrified into condos, scaring the 24 hour pizza guy into a tomato sauce disaster, and the Scotland trip that ended her engagement 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. Catch me yap same time next week, cheers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    My Best Friend Hijacks The Pod | Lauren B. on College Chaos, Creator Confessions & Buffalo Nights

Ratings & Reviews

5
out of 5
9 Ratings

About

📍 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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