Untitled Success

ABD Video Productions

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Hey all! Welcome to Untitled Success! A podcast hosted by Timothy Towfeless. In this podcast series, we'll dive deep into the stories, messes, failures, and successes of small business owners and their crafts! If you're thinking about starting your own business or you're just intrigued in how some people were able to make it, you're in the right place. Two episodes released every month!

May 5

Inside the Life of a Luxury Auto Journalist | Basem Wasef with Chronoscope Productions

Welcome to Untitled Success!Season 3 is HERE! 🎙️In this episode, host Timothy Towfeless sits down with Basem Wasef!Basem is a luxury automotive journalist. He's driven and reviewed cars for Bentley, Ferrari, McLaren, GM, all the names you can think of. He runs his own production company called Chronoscope Productions. Jay Leno wrote the foreword to one of his books. Sterling Moss wrote another one. The guy is the real deal.But what got me was how he got there.He was supposed to be a doctor. Egyptian family, you already know how that goes. And when he told his parents he was switching majors, he literally calls that conversation "Armageddon." If you grew up immigrant, this part is gonna hit.What I love about Basem's story is he didn't have a master plan. He cold called Ferrari one day. He cold called Porsche. He cold called Aston Martin. And somehow within a week he had four exotic cars in his garage. He said his neighbors thought he was a drug dealer. I couldn't make this up if I tried.We got into a lot in this one. Marriage, fatherhood, what it actually feels like to live every guy's dream and miss your family because of it. He's also got a 14 year old son and the story he told me about picking him up from school in a Ferrari will humble any dad watching this.Here's some of what we covered:How he told his immigrant parents he wasn't going to be a doctorThe cold calls that started his entire careerBuilding Chronoscope Productions from scratchThe unglamorous side of the dream job nobody talks aboutHis non negotiables with his wife and his marriage philosophyWhy his 14 year old son is not impressed by FerrarisHow short form content is changing auto journalismWhat Jay Leno is actually like behind the scenesWhy he loves analog 911s and what it means for car cultureThe biggest mistake he made starting his careerHis top 5 dream cars if money was no objectIf you're building something right now, or you're trying to turn what you love into a career, or you're stuck between what your family wants for you and what you actually want, this episode is for you.If you make it to the end, do me a favor and drop a comment letting me know which part hit you the most. And if you got value out of this, share it with someone who needs to hear it.That's it from me. See you on the next one.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📲 CONNECT WITH BASEM━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🌐 Website: https://www.chronoscopeproductions.com📧 Email: info@chronoscopeproductions.com📸 Instagram: @basemwasef, @chronoscopeproductions━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🎙️ ABOUT UNTITLED SUCCESS━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Untitled Success is hosted by Timothy Towfeless. It's a podcast that dives deep into the real stories, real failures, and real wins of small business owners. No fluff. No highlight reels. Just the raw truth of what it actually takes to build something. New episodes drop every month.🎧 Listen on Spotify → https://open.spotify.com/show/2rudZEWrYZabWBKoMIpyDF?si=a4Mj8WXTS5K8JjoiSZzfFA🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts → https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/untitled-success/id1778550692📸 Instagram: @UntitledSuccess🎬 Filmed & Edited by ABD Video Productions → https://abdvideo.com━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#UntitledSuccess #BasemWassef #LuxuryCars #CarTok #Entrepreneur #AutoJournalism #Ferrari #Porsche #McLaren #JayLeno #DreamJob #ImmigrantStory #ChronoscopeProductions #Podcast #CareerPivot

1h 7m
Apr 14

The Person You Had to Become to Survive, Say Goodbye to Them | Ryan Griffin with Heart 2 Soul Legacy

Welcome to Untitled Success!Season 3 is HERE! 🎙️In this episode, host Timothy Towfeless sits down with Ryan Emanuel Griffin,life coach, mentor, and founder of Heart2Soul. Emanuel grew up as apastor's kid in a military household on the East Coast, a home built onstructure, discipline, and faith. But underneath the surface, he wasquietly falling apart.He went to Africa in middle school and witnessed what he believed weremiracles: the blind seeing, the supernatural. He came home and prayedfor his dying grandmother. She passed anyway. That moment crackedeverything open.By college, Emmanuel was battling suicidal thoughts while maintaininga full academic scholarship at a biblical university; living a doublelife nobody around him could see. What pulled him back was one of themost unexpected things: a word study on his own name while standingoutside a party at his absolute lowest point.Today he runs Heart 2 Soul Legacy, a behavior modification and life coachingorganization that bridges psychology and theology to help people healcompletely, not just mentally, not just spiritually, but both. He workswith rehab clients, first responders, and at-risk youth, and is buildingone of the most ambitious programs we've heard on this show: a curriculuminside prisons that qualifies graduates to be hired directly by hiscompany and sent back into the communities they came from.This one will stay with you.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📲 CONNECT WITH EMMANUEL GRIFFIN━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🌐 Website: heart2soullegacy.com📧 Email: contact@heart2soullegacy.com📸 Instagram: @heart2soullegacy━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🎙️ ABOUT UNTITLED SUCCESS━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Untitled Success is hosted by Timothy Towfeless. It's a podcast that dives deep into the real stories, real failures, and real wins of small business owners. No fluff. No highlight reels. Just the raw truth of what it actually takes to build something. New episodes drop every month.🎧 Listen on Spotify → https://open.spotify.com/show/2rudZEWrYZabWBKoMIpyDF?si=a4Mj8WXTS5K8JjoiSZzfFA🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts → https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/untitled-success/id1778550692📸 Instagram: @UntitledSuccess🎬 Filmed & Edited by ABD Video Productions → https://abdvideo.com━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#UntitledSuccess #EmmanuelGriffin #Heart2Soul #Heart2SoulLegacy#LifeCoach #MentalHealth #Healing #Faith #Spirituality #Trauma#Recovery #BehaviorModification #Psychology #Theology #Entrepreneur#SmallBusiness #TimothyTowfeless #ABDVideoProductions #PastorsKid#ChurchHurt #SuicideSurvivor #PersonalDevelopment #FaithAndHealing

1 hr
Mar 17

How to Start an Insurance Brokerage in California | Michael Shehata with Bethany Insurance

Welcome to Untitled Success! Season 3 is HERE! 🎙️ In this episode, host Timothy Towfeless sits down with Michael Shehata, owner of Bethany Insurance, one of Southern California's most respected independent insurance brokerages. What started as a family business born from his mother's tears after 40 years of loyalty to someone else's company has grown into a 23-employee operation with departments, benefits, HR support, and a client base spanning residential, commercial, and specialty lines... all out of San Dimas, California.This one hits different.Michael gets completely unfiltered about the moment his company's sales dropped 50% after losing one key employee, how he swung from micromanaging everything to letting go of too much, and why both nearly destroyed the business. He breaks down the real cost of starting an insurance brokerage today, what California's wildfire crisis is doing to the insurance market, and the heartbreaking stories from Palisades and Eaton fire victims he reached out to personally, even when they weren't his clients. If you're thinking about starting your own business, trying to protect what you've already built, or just want to understand why your California home insurance bill is spiraling, this episode is for you. Produced by ⁨@ABDVideoProductions⁩ #BusinessPodcast #EntrepreneurMindset #StartupLife #LeadershipTalk #SuccessMindset #BusinessGrowth #HustleSmart #WealthBuilding #MarketingStrategy #PodcastClips #FounderLife #SmallBusinessTips #ScaleYourBusiness #MoneyTalks #ContentMarketing #DigitalEntrepreneur #CEOmindset #BrandBuilding #SalesStrategy #BusinessTips

1h 7m
12/24/2025 · Bonus

"God, if I live... I give my life to you" - Special Interview with Abouna Felimon

Welcome to the Untitled Success Podcast!In this special sit-down conversation, I'm honored to spend time with Abouna Felimon, as he shares his life journey, calling, and the experiences that shaped his faith and service. This is an intimate, thoughtful discussion touching on perseverance, humility, spiritual leadership, and the quiet strength that comes from a life devoted to purpose.Whether you’re seeking inspiration, guidance, or a deeper understanding of a life lived in faith, this conversation offers rare insight and reflection you won’t want to miss.Thank you for watching and supporting the Untitled Success Podcast.If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe for future conversations and stories from small business owners.

1h 57m
11/25/2025

Ep 209 - Season 2 Recap/Finale

Hello all! Season 2 of Untitled Success has come to an end, which means it's time for reflection on what lessons we've learned this season. If you or someone you know would be perfect to be interviewed in an upcoming season, leave a comment below or shoot us a dm on instagram!

7 min
09/30/2025

Ep 208 - Apra Bhandari, Owner of Adaa Dance Academy

Meet Apra Bhandari, founder of Adaa Dance Academy in Tustin, Orange County’s award-winning Bollywood dance school. She started learning Kathak at age seven, later led Cornell’s Bollywood fusion team Sitara, worked in Mumbai in film and production, then built Adaa from living-room classes into a full studio serving kids and adults. We talk origin story, studio growth, and how Bollywood, hip hop, and contemporary training shape confident performers at Adaa. Apra shares lessons from opening the Tustin location, running recitals and community programs, and balancing entrepreneurship with art. Adaa info and classes are available on their site and social channels. ⸻🔔 Don’t forget to subscribe so you don’t miss future stories from small business owners making waves.👍 If you enjoyed this episode, leave a like and share!⸻Connect with Apra & Adaa Dance AcademyWebsite: https://www.adaadanceacademy.comInstagram: @adaadance

1h 7m
09/16/2025

Ep 207 - Taylor O'Dore, Owner of Open Aerial Yoga

In this episode, we sit down with Taylor O’Dore, founder of Open Aerial Yoga in Huntington Beach, CA. She shares her journey, from first trying aerial yoga in college while struggling with poor habits, and low confidence, to losing weight, falling in love with the practice, and turning that passion into a business. We talk about: • How aerial yoga became more than just a workout for her. • Using community-based pop-up classes, events, and outreach as a springboard for launching her studio. • Creating a welcoming space for people of all sizes, ages, and abilities. • The impact of teacher training, retreats, and continuing to expand her reach both locally and beyond. If you’ve ever wondered how overcoming personal obstacles can fuel entrepreneurial success or how small businesses can thrive by building genuine connections, this is an episode you’ll want to hear.⸻🔔 Don’t forget to subscribe so you don’t miss future stories from small business owners making waves.👍 If you enjoyed this episode, leave a like and share!⸻Connect with Taylor & Open Aerial YogaWebsite: openaerialyoga.com Instagram: @open.aerial

1h 12m
08/26/2025

Ep 206 - Eli Buzaglo and Alisa Sharp, owners of Eli's Band

In this episode, Tim sits down with Eli and Alisa, owners of the World famous Eli's Band. Eli Buzaglo and Alisa Sharp from ELI’s BAND sit down to talk ceremony goosebumps, after-party chaos, and how they design multilingual sets for multicultural crowds worldwide. Hear the story behind their signature duet of “The Prayer” in English, Italian, and Hebrew, and how they scale from a 9-piece core to a full 30-piece orchestra to fit any room. 📌 Connect with Eli's Band:Website: https://www.elisband.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/elis.band📌 Follow Our Podcast:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/untitledsuccessSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2rudZEWrYZabWBKoMIpyDFApple Podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/untitled-success/id1778550692If you enjoyed this conversation, don’t forget to like, subscribe, and hit the notification bell so you never miss an episode!This episode was filmed and edited by ABD Video Productionshttps://abdvideo.com#podcast #host #timt #untitledsuccess #new #episode #newrelease #RyanOlufson #GrowthTakesCourage #CrumbsKids #FaithAndFamily #PrimalQuestions #LifeCoaching #Parenting #Podcast

1h 20m

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Untitled Success Introduction

Hey all!Welcome to Untitled Success! A podcast hosted by Timothy Towfeless.In this podcast series, we'll dive deep into the stories, messes, failures, and successes of small business owners and their crafts!If you're thinking about starting your own business or you're just intrigued in how some people were able to make it, you're in the right place. Two episodes released every month!

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Hey all! Welcome to Untitled Success! A podcast hosted by Timothy Towfeless. In this podcast series, we'll dive deep into the stories, messes, failures, and successes of small business owners and their crafts! If you're thinking about starting your own business or you're just intrigued in how some people were able to make it, you're in the right place. Two episodes released every month!

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ABD Video Productions
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ABD Video Productions
Years Active

2024 - 2026
Episodes

24
Rating

Clean
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© ABD Video Productions
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Untitled Success
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ABD Video Productions

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Updated Weekly