Author | Filmmaker | Host of Tola Talks
Tola Talks with the beautiful and talented award-winning Actress Alex Lombard. On Throwback Thursdays, Rich remembers his high school days and the challenges facing the world in 1979. Watch weekdays on youtube.com/tolatalks.
Tola Talks with fashionista Valeria Goncharova Barrett. On Throwback Thursdays, Rich takes us back to the highlights of 2001 – Including a tribute to the Heroes of 9/11.
Weekdays on youtube.com/tolatalks
Tola Talks with Celebrity Hair Stylist & Beauty expert John-Francis Maseda. On Movie Mondays, today Rich reviews the irresistible music movie of the summer with Keira Knightley & Mark Ruffalo, Begin Again. Watch the show weekdays on youtube.com/tolatalks
Tola Talks with Hollywood photographer Jared Cowan. OnThrowback Thursdays, Rich takes us back to the highlights of 1984 – featuring the blockbuster film The Karate Kid.
Weekdays on youtube.com/tolatalks
Tune-in tomorrow for Opening Day on Labor Day…Live on LATalkRadio!
I’m super excited to launch my new talk show, Tola Talks, on LATalkRadio.com this coming Monday – that’s right, Labor Day – and broadcasting live weekdays at Noon on Channel 2.
Tola Talks is all about positivity and inspiring listeners with my 21st Century talk for a No Bullshit world. No topic is off limits, and just like my 30-episode podcast, Get Your S#!T Together: GYST with Rich Tola, I plan on entertaining listeners with my no bullshit style and candid conversations with today’s Celebrities & Business Leaders, Fitness & Yoga Professionals, Love & Relationship Experts, plus Movie Reviews and Live Performances from popular Musicians.
Our first week is filled with an awesome Guest list including Celebrity Psychic Jeanie Jacobs MacDonald, the lovely and talented Actress Troy Titus-Barrow (who also co-starred in Boulevard Zen), two amazing Yoginis, Linda Baffa and Jess Harper, Hollywood Photographer Jared Cowan, and LA Music Awards ‘Best Male Vocalist of the Year’ Erick Macek (from NBC’s ‘The Voice’).
So get ready for my next evolution from Podcaster to Radio Host on Internet’s most irreverent, entertaining and cool radio station that’s home to more than 80 talk shows a week with over 1,000,000 listeners a month. And like the LA Talk Radio tagline asserts…”We say what we want”.
Have a great Holiday weekend everyone, and I’ll see you on the radio! – R
Every so often, a kindred spirit comes along,
To make us believe, that every one of us belongs.
He stands his ground, to be laughed at from afar,
Or is he just behaving, like he’s singing in his car.
Because the joys of laughter, are keen pleasures to delight,
He accepts the Almighty’s work, and shines them like sunlight.
Be it true, Bicentennial Man, that your words are meant to heal,
Thus every single one of us, in your presence we should kneel.
For it is you, oh great one, who persevered when few believed,
To blaze a path for brethren souls, where our dreams can be conceived.
We thank you for your brilliance, we applaud you for your zeal,
Kudos for all the memories, because you doubtlessly made us feel.
Rest in Peace, Sir Robin Williams, and no worries about lucky seven,
Because for sure you’ll keep them laughing, at the pearly Gates of Heaven.
I hope you have one of these Adult Fitness Stations near your home…they’re awesome!
And no worries if not. You can still check-out Stay Zen #8 and my Top 10 Adult Fitness Station Exercises, and pick-up some workout pointers to add to your fitness arsenal. Enjoy – R
When you look up the word complacency in the dictionary you’ll learn the following meaning: self-satisfaction or smug satisfaction with an existing situation or condition.
So whatever you do in life, AVOID it like the plague! Because in order to improve upon your existing situation – or physical well-being, for that matter – it’s always best to “stay hungry” for perfection so you can better yourself and your condition. And never be smug about it!
Regardless of your situation, always strive to better yourself and seek the higher ground.
As a kid growing up in a poor Sicilian family, my parents taught me to always strive for perfection and to believe in myself in whatever I did. Whether it was playing baseball on my unbeaten 12 year-old All-Star team, or attending auditions in the “nobody makes it here world of Hollywood”. I do my best and never get complacent with my abilities or achievements.
That’s why over the past six years since I arrived here in February 2007, I’ve been creating and innovating as much as I can. Like my more than 100 free Yoga & fitness videos posted to the Internet and new Audio-book for my memoir, Simply Between Millions: From Wall Street to Hollywood. I didn’t just settle with the paperback and digital versions. No. I wanted to make my life’s wild and inspiring journey about pursing my Hollywood calling and persevering against the odds – however great they may be against you – available on all platforms, including Audio.
So in two weeks I’ll be the proud father of another creation narrated and produced by me. Here’s a preview of what’s to come:
Enjoy – R
Chapter 21 – Sit Tall in the Saddle, tells about when I interned with a top broker at Prudential Securities:
“The day I arrived, the first thing he did was hand me a framed picture of a cowboy sitting on a horse looking sternly off into the distance. Beneath the picture the caption read, ‘When you ride alone, you must sit tall in the saddle’. I just looked at him and smiled, while he looked at me with a serious face and said, ‘Always remember that and you’ll be fine.’ To this day, I can’t help but think how the little things I learned from some of Wall Street’s million dollar men continue to inspire me.”
So Sit Tall in the Saddle in whatever you do today…and don’t forget your Daily Fitness Program!
Enjoy – R