Carve Your Path

About Carve Your Path

Carve Your Path is a podcast featuring entrepreneurs, investors, and business leaders on the decisions that shaped their careers and lives. Hosted by Zan Carver, each conversation focuses on the lock-in periods—moments of deliberate focus where distractions were eliminated, standards were raised, and progress was earned through sustained effort. The show explores ambition, discipline, money, health, and leadership through the lens of execution, not hype. Carve Your Path is for high performers who value clarity, resilience, and intentional living. The show is sponsored by Ultra pouches.

Publisher

Zan Carver

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

2 Feb 2026

Latest episode

26 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

12 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   26 Sept 2026

   Kenny Santucci Ep.11

   Kenny Santucci walked into high school at 240 lbs. Today he's one of the most recognized names in New York City fitness: owner of The Strength Club NYC, founder of STRONG New York, the city's biggest fitness and wellness festival, and a former MTV reality TV star.On this episode of Carve Your Path, Kenny breaks down how he built a fitness business with no safety net, why he spends half a million dollars on one event and gives space away to his competitors, and exactly what he'd do if he had to break into the fitness industry from zero today.STRONG New York is Saturday, September 26, 2026 at Glasshouse NYC.Get tickets: https://strongnewyork.com/pricingIn this episode:- How a 13-year-old lost 20 lbs in a month and fell in love with the process- Why the real competition in fitness is the couch, not the gym down the street- Collaboration over scarcity: the Kith lesson and building STRONG New York- "Privilege in the struggle" and building your own safety net- The nursing home vs. the gym, and why Kenny wants to die strong- Kenny's start-over playbook: big box gym, scrub toilets, learn the craft- Owning your weaknesses like Mark Cuban and Michael Rubin- How Kenny builds a team that earns more by doing more- The next 10 years of STRONG, and a possible Miami expansionCHAPTERS0:00 Intro: Kenny's origin story0:33 From 240-lb kid to fitness2:00 Fighting father time after 353:41 Do what you'd do for free4:42 Why Kenny built STRONG New York5:45 No scarcity mentality: sending clients to competitors7:20 What Kith taught Kenny about collaboration9:07 Writing down his definition of success11:28 The $500K event and why he gives space away14:02 All of NYC fitness under one roof15:37 Treating trainers like rock stars16:43 Money as a tool to make people feel good18:30 What strength really means19:25 Privilege in the struggle: no safety net20:20 Why you pay for the culture in the room23:07 Nursing home or the gym: die strong25:37 Why people love to be lied to28:01 If Kenny started over in fitness today30:19 Sleeping on the floor to build a business31:46 Mark Cuban, Michael Rubin, and owning your weaknesses34:09 How Kenny builds a team36:39 The dog mentality39:10 Pressure is a privilege39:45 The next 10 years of STRONG (and Miami?)41:20 Wrap-upCONNECT WITH KENNY SANTUCCIWebsite: https://www.kenny-santucci.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/kennysantucci/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@kennysantucciYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKEiXU_67Fb31rg6v1cERQgX: https://x.com/KennySantucciShop: https://www.kenny-santucci.com/shopSTRONG NEW YORKEvent + tickets: https://strongnewyork.com/pricing- SAVE 20% with CODE: Zan20Website: https://strongnewyork.comX: https://x.com/strongnewyorkTHE STRENGTH CLUB NYCBook a class: https://thestrengthclubnyc.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thestrengthclubnyc/CONNECT WITH ZAN CARVERInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/zancarver/Savage in a Suit: https://www.instagram.com/savageinasuitofficial/Subscribe for new episodes of Carve Your Path, where Zan interviews the entrepreneurs building something real.#KennySantucci #StrongNewYork #CarveYourPath #NYCFitness #FitnessEntrepreneur #FitnessBusiness #Entrepreneurship

2. 

   14 Aug 2026

   ZAN X ANNA MARIE PODCAST

3. 

   10 Aug 2026

   How He Built an 8-Figure Business | Braven Grant

   Braven Grant built Gains In Bulk into an eight-figure supplement company and a two-time Inc. 5000 honoree by fixing a problem the creatine industry had given up on. In this episode of Carve Your Path, Braven breaks down what it actually takes to build a direct-to-consumer brand from nothing: the manufacturing bet nobody else would make, what really goes into the supplements on your shelf, the margins and cash-flow reality behind a growing DTC company, and the lock-in period that turned a side project into a real business. If you're building in consumer products, health, or e-commerce, this is the conversation nobody films. Braven reveals the hardest thing about disrupting a saturated industry that BREAKS most businesses. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 00:00 The moment everything changed 00:00 Who is Braven Grant 00:00 The problem with every creatine on the market 00:00 Starting Gains In Bulk in 2017 00:00 The first product — and the first disaster 00:00 What's actually in your supplements 00:00 Making the Inc. 5000 twice 00:00 Margins, cash flow, and the DTC reality 00:00 Hiring, and the mistakes that cost the most 00:00 What he'd do differently starting today 00:00 Advice for anyone building right now ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CONNECT WITH BRAVEN GRANT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Instagram: https://instagram.com/bravengrant Gains In Bulk: https://gainsinbulk.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CARVE YOUR PATH ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Hosted by Zan Carver. Conversations with entrepreneurs, investors, and operators about the lock-in periods that changed everything — the stretches where distractions got cut, standards got raised, and the work actually got done. New episodes every week. Subscribe: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOB8NhlxRnOIeQYDonflU0N6cTEhMb54D Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3wveuk0iIAKMvPcF94JPfa Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/carve-your-path/id1878269068 Instagram: https://instagram.com/carveyourpathpodcast Want to come on the show, or know someone who should? Email us at zancarvermgmt@gmail.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SPONSOR ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⁠ has sponsored our podcast with the best performance pouches on the market. No nicotine, all science-backed nootropic focus. Lock in with Ultra and use code ZAN at checkout. https://takeultra.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This episode covers building a supplement brand, direct-to-consumer business, creatine and instantized creatine, making the Inc. 5000, e-commerce margins, product manufacturing, founder mindset, scaling a consumer products company, and entrepreneurship. #Entrepreneur #SupplementBusiness #CarveYourPath

4. 

   13 May 2026

   Truth About Peptides - Sit Down With Lily Yoo | Ep. 9

   In this episode of Carve Your Path, I sit down with Lily Yoo. Owner of Liquivida. She's an entrepreneur and a person who is seeking to find the best in people.This episode is brought to you by Ultra Pouches, the premium nicotine-free performance pouch for professionals. Visit takeultra.com use code ZAN for 10% off.#motivation #podcast #wallstreet #growth #football #business

5. 

   27 Apr 2026

   More Than Miles - Francis Walsh EP. 8

   In this episode, we sit down with Francis Walsh. An entrepreneur, an ultra runner, and a man with a story you don't wanna miss. He talks about his journey in life from his first mile to his 100th. Sponsored by Ultra Pouches, the #1 Non-Nicotine performance pouch on the market that allows us to LOCK IN for the podcast._____________________⚡️DM me ‘SIAS’ to become a SAVAGE in a Suit_____________________🛒 code ZAN🔹@eliteliving.health🔹@propercloth🔹@ultrapouches🔹@fuelchef⁠#podcast⁠ (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/podcast) ⁠#wallstreet⁠ (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/wallstreet) ⁠#finance⁠ (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/finance) ⁠#motivation⁠ (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/motivation) ⁠#balance⁠ (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/balance) ⁠#corporatelife⁠ (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/corporatelife) ⁠#growth⁠ (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/growth) ⁠#trading⁠ (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/trading) ⁠#investmentbanking⁠ (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/investmentbanking) ⁠#IBrecruiting⁠ (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/ibrecruiting) ⁠#nycfinance⁠ (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/nycfinance) ⁠#nyse (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/nyse)

6. 

   1 Apr 2026

   Ep. 7 Eric Legrand

   In this episode, we sit down with Eric Legrand. Former Rutgers University football player who got paralyzed. He now is an entrepreneur, motivational speaker, and so much more. We unwrap his story and hear about how is is a savage every single day.Carve Your Path, tells the stories of the highest performers on the planet. They explain the obstacles they faced, the decisions they made, and strategies they used to carve their path and build successful careers. Sponsored by Ultra Pouches, the #1 Non-Nicotine performance pouch on the market that allows us to LOCK IN for the podcast._____________________⚡️DM me ‘SIAS’ to become a SAVAGE in a Suit_____________________🛒 code ZAN🔹@eliteliving.health🔹@propercloth🔹@ultrapouches🔹@fuelchef#podcast (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/podcast) #wallstreet (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/wallstreet) #finance (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/finance) #motivation (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/motivation) #balance (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/balance) #corporatelife (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/corporatelife) #growth (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/growth) #trading (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/trading) #investmentbanking (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/investmentbanking) #IBrecruiting (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/ibrecruiting) #nycfinance (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/nycfinance) #nyse (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/nyse)

7. 

   9 Mar 2026

   Who was Jon BEFORE JOHNNY DRINKS | JoHn Rondi

   In this episode, we sit down with John Rondi, known for popular social media platform, Johnny Drinks. Johnny Drinks is a father son duo which spans across instagram, tiktok, youtube, and more. John dives in to who he was before the fame and how he got to where he is today! Carve Your Path, tells the stories of the highest performers on the planet. They explain the obstacles they faced, the decisions they made, and strategies they used to carve their path and build successful careers. Sponsored by Ultra Pouches, the #1 Non-Nicotine performance pouch on the market that allows us to LOCK IN for the podcast._____________________ ⚡️DM me ‘SIAS’ to become a SAVAGE in a Suit_____________________ 🛒 code ZAN🔹@eliteliving.health🔹@propercloth🔹@ultrapouches🔹@fuelchef#podcast #wallstreet #finance #motivation #balance #corporatelife #growth #trading #investmentbanking #IBrecruiting #nycfinance #nyse

8. 

   2 Mar 2026

   The HARSH reality of investment banking - Will Pemberton

   In this episode, we sit down with Will Pemberton, an investment banker at one the World's BIGGEST banks within the Power & Resources group. Will describes his unique upbringing, the recruiting process for the most competitive wall street jobs, and what it's REALLY like working as an Investment Banker. Will breaks down the demanding hours, the daily struggles, and what really happens in one of the most high-pressure and cut-throat environments in high finance, Investment Banking.Carve Your Path, tells the stories of the highest performers on the planet. They explain the obstacles they faced, the decisions they made, and strategies they used to carve their path and build successful careers. Sponsored by Ultra Pouches, the #1 Non-Nicotine performance pouch on the market that allows us to LOCK IN for the podcast._____________________⚡️DM me ‘SIAS’ to become a SAVAGE in a Suit_____________________🛒 code ZAN🔹@eliteliving.health🔹@propercloth🔹@ultrapouches🔹@fuelchef#podcast #wallstreet #finance #motivation #balance #corporatelife #growth #trading #investmentbanking #IBrecruiting #nycfinance #nyse

9. 

   23 Feb 2026

   How He Made $1 Million In Sales A Month - Austin Medlin

   In this episode, we sit down with Austin Medlin, a sales powerhouse generating millions in monthly revenue. He breaks down what it really takes to become elite in sales, level up personally, and build a winning circle of ultra high-net-worth entrepreneurs who dominate business and revenue.Carve Your Path, tells the stories of the highest performers on the planet. They explain the obstacles they faced, the decisions they made, and strategies they used to carve their path and build successful careers. Sponsored by Ultra Pouches, the #1 Non-Nicotine performance pouch on the market that allows us to LOCK IN for the podcast._____________________⚡️DM me ‘SIAS’ to become a SAVAGE in a Suit_____________________🛒 code ZAN🔹@eliteliving.health🔹@propercloth🔹@ultrapouches🔹@fuelchef#podcast (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/podcast) #wallstreet (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/wallstreet) #finance (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/finance) #motivation (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/motivation) #weightloss (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/weightloss) #growth (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/growth) #trading (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/trading) #equity (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/equity) #billackman (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/billackman) #stockexchange (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/stockexchange) #nyse (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/nyse) #covid (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/covid)

10. 

    16 Feb 2026

    How he made 50k OVERNIGHT - Scott Vasilisin

    In this episode, we sit down with Scott Vasilisin to unpack his unbelievable journey from a small town in Pennsylvania to Wall Street, then breaking out during COVID to build a digital product and full-scale company, and now stepping back into finance to launch his own hedge fund. His story is packed with risk, resilience, and relentless drive. If you’re into entrepreneurship, investing, and betting on yourself, this conversation delivers serious value. Carve Your Path, tells the stories of the highest performers on the planet. They explain the obstacles they faced, the decisions they made, and strategies they used to carve their path and build successful careers. Sponsored by Ultra Pouches, the #1 Non-Nicotine performance pouch on the market that allows us to LOCK IN for the podcast._____________________ ⚡️DM me ‘SIAS’ to become a SAVAGE in Suit_____________________🛒 code ZAN 🔹@eliteliving.health🔹@propercloth🔹@ultrapouches 🔹@fuelchef #podcast #wallstreet #finance #motivation #weightloss #growth #trading #equity

11. 

    9 Feb 2026

    NFL Prospect to WALL STREET - Bryson Williams

    Bryson Williams was once on track to be one of the top NFL prospects in his class, but a career-altering injury changed his path. Redirecting his drive and discipline, he discovered a passion for the stock market, rose to become a top performer on Wall Street, and now channels that same intensity into running marathons on a weekly basis. Carve Your Path, tells the stories of the highest performers on the planet. They explain the obstacles they faced, the decisions they made, and strategies they used to carve their path and build successful careers. Sponsored by Ultra Pouches, the #1 Non-Nicotine performance pouch on the market that allows us to LOCK IN for the podcast. ⚡️DM me ‘SIAS’ to become a SAVAGE in a Suit 🛒 code ZAN🔹@eliteliving.health🔹@propercloth🔹@ultrapouches🔹@fuelchef

12. 

    2 Feb 2026

    Carve Your Path // Jack Regar

    Carve Your Path is a podcast that shares real stories of struggle, success, and personal goals from people building their own journeys. In this episode, I talk with Jack Regar about the challenges he’s faced, the lessons he’s learned, and what drives him forward.

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