The Aron Bender Podcast
Everyone has a story. I get them to tell it.
We found 7 episodes of The Aron Bender Podcast with the tag “miami”.
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Gin Amber: Trauma Survivor, Immigrant, Dermaroller Queen
July 2nd, 2021 | 35 mins 24 secs
2020, 2021, abuse, aron bender, audio, beauty, bias, california, coronavirus, covid, covid-19, depression, derma roller, dermaroller, europe, faith, fatherhood, forgiveness, frustration, gin amber, girl dad, god, grief, hard work, identity, instagram, journalism, joy, kids, lithuania, los angeles, love, mental health, miami, michael jordan, news, pandemic, podcast, positivity, radio, recovery, religion, self care, self love, south florida, struggle, success, therapy, tiktok, trauma, tv news, twitter, widower, wife, youtube
Aron Bender talks with Gin Amber -- who left a small town in Lithuania to become a global beauty icon: the Dermaroller Queen. In this episode we discuss Gin's traumatic childhood, her early memories of wanting to escape her abusive home for a better life, her pursuit of the American Dream, and how her YouTube stardom started because she was a bored introvert in the US on a student visa.
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Janelle Marie Rodriguez: Journalist, Actress, Mental Health Advocate
June 28th, 2021 | 55 mins 50 secs
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Aron Bender is joined by Janelle Marie Rodriguez -- one of his former journalism students at Cal State Northridge. She now splits time between Los Angeles and her hometown of Miami. Janelle's been a TV news reporter, entertainment and sports journalist and host, an actress, spent a few years at ESPN and Disney Channel, and is now with FIBA and Latin Up — a new show on Twitch.
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Natalie Brunell: Bitcoin Beach
June 18th, 2021 | 33 mins 45 secs
2020, 2021, abc news, aron bender, audio, bias, bitcoin, california, coinbase, coronavirus, covid, covid-19, cryptocurrency, depression, dogecoin, ethereum, faith, fatherhood, forgiveness, frustration, girl dad, god, grief, hard work, identity, instagram, journalism, joy, kids, los angeles, love, mental health, miami, news, palm springs, pandemic, podcast, positivity, radio, recovery, religion, sacramento, self care, self love, spectrum news, sports, sports talk, struggle, success, super bowl, therapy, tiktok, twitter, widower, wife, youtube
Aron Bender talks with Natalie Brunell -- who hosts two podcasts and is also a reporter at Spectrum News 1 SoCal. She’s worked in Palm Springs and Sacramento, as well as for ABC News. And teaches at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. A couple years ago she entered the podcast space with Career Stories and recently made a big splash (especially in the business podcast arena) with Coin Stories talking with the personalities in the cryptocurrency bitcoin Dogecoin Ethereum digital currency world.
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Jorge Sedano: Fatherhood, Mental Health, Anxiety and Sports
June 16th, 2021 | 42 mins 42 secs
2020, 2021, aron bender, audio, bias, california, chris paul, coronavirus, covid, covid-19, depression, espn, faith, fatherhood, forgiveness, fox sports radio, frustration, girl dad, god, grief, hard work, identity, instagram, james harden, journalism, joy, kevin durant, kids, kobe bryant, kyrie irving, lakers, lebron james, los angeles, love, mental health, miami, nba, nba playoffs, news, nfl, pandemic, paul george, podcast, positivity, radio, recovery, religion, self care, self love, sports, sports talk, struggle, success, super bowl, therapy, tiktok, twitter, widower, wife, youtube
Aron Bender chats with his friend, Jorge Sedano, who hosts a show on ESPN LA 710 with Scott Kaplan and previous podcast guest LZ Granderson. Sedano also does sideline reporting and some play-by-play for the NBA on ESPN and ABC. I’ve known Jorge nearly 20 years. We worked together at iHeartRadio at WIOD and WINZ in Miami. He's worked for Fox Sports Radio as well as at ESPN in Bristol, Connecticut. We talked about fatherhood, mental health and anxiety, his goals involving the LatinX community, as well as the Clippers, Suns and the rest of the NBA Playoffs.
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Ted Sobel: Touching Greatness
June 4th, 2021 | 1 hr 2 mins
2020, 2021, aron bender, audio, bias, california, coronavirus, covid, covid-19, depression, elgin baylor, eli manning, faith, fatherhood, forgiveness, frustration, girl dad, god, grief, hard work, identity, instagram, journalism, joy, kids, kobe bryant, lakers, los angeles, love, mental health, miami, nba, news, nfl, pandemic, peyton manning, podcast, positivity, radio, recovery, religion, self care, self love, sports, struggle, success, super bowl, therapy, tiktok, tv news, twitter, widower, wife, youtube
Aron Bender talks with Southern California sports journalism icon Ted Sobel. He's worked for KNX, KFWB and KMPC, among others. Ted's covered every major sporting event you can think of, and met all kinds of superstars. He tells great stories in his new book, “Touching Greatness: Tales from the Front Row with Heroes and Legends.” And he tells great stories in this episode! We talk a lot about Kobe Bryant, Ted’s boyhood idol Elgin Baylor, and why Eli Manning and David Tyree tracked him down after their improbable Super Bowl win.
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Silva Harapetian: Journalist, Storyteller, Entrepreneur
May 18th, 2021 | 1 hr 37 mins
#blacklivesmatter, #stopaapihate, #stopasianhate, 2020, 2021, armenian genocide, aron bender, austin, bias, blm, coronavirus, covid, covid-19, depression, detroit, faith, fatherhood, forgiveness, fresno, germany, god, grief, hard work, identity, instagram, iran, journalism, joy, loss, love, mental health, miami, news, oklahoma, pandemic, podcast, police, positivity, race, racial identity, racism, recovery, religion, retirement, self care, self love, struggle, success, therapy, tiktok, tv news, twitter, widower, wife, youtube
Aron Bender talks with journalist and entrepreneur Silva Harapetian. She was born in Iran. Her family fled that country for Germany when she was 12, and a few years later moved to the United States. I’ve known Silva for 20 years now, since we worked together at KMPH NewsRadio in Fresno. She’s since worked in several markets, including Austin, Detroit and Miami. In this episode we talk about the importance of mental health and self care — especially as a journalist, a woman, a person of color. We also discuss life in war-torn Iran, adjusting to a relatively brief stay in Germany, navigating life in the US as the oldest child in an immigrant family — and how she adjusted not just during the pandemic but when her life was forced to change in 2018.
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DJ EFN: Miami on the Map
March 18th, 2021 | 37 mins 57 secs
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Aron Bender raps with DJ EFN -- a legend in Miami hiphop and a trailblazer in the podcast game. Eric Narciandi came up in the 90's and early 2000's dropping dozens of mixtapes that didn’t just put him and his crew on the map. He helped put South Florida on the map. And as we get into in this conversation, he wasn’t about to settle with just music. He’s started an international documentary series called "Coming Home," and is one of the creators of one of the most successful podcasts: "Drink Champs." But his story doesn’t start in Miami … it starts in Southern California. He lived in Anaheim Hills and then South Gate before finally settling in Miami after his Cuban parents divorced. We talk about his relationship with his Vietnam War veteran father, how he broke into the music business shooting his shot at a conference in Miami in the early 90's, his career "pivots," and what it's like being a 40-something dad with two young kids.