Real estate agent, author, and self-appointed GOAT historian Steve Claire joins The Sounds of Success for a session that plays less like an interview and more like a well-sequenced album — opener, B-side surprise, and a closing track that sticks.

Steve's building the GOAT Academy, a biography series on the greatest athletes of all time, while simultaneously helping people find homes. He grew up in Queens, went to Arizona, and spent sixteen years thinking he had a college degree. He didn't. He found out while Googling his own book. So he reapplied — and graduated at 40.

Along the way, Jim drops the Beatles, Alfonso nearly goes rogue, and a plant named Paul listens from the corner without complaint.

Unscripted. Unfiltered. Unforgettable.

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Hosted by Jim Lombardo

Produced by Patrick Sasso at Podcast On The Fly

Theme Music by Pongo Face

Jim Lombardo welcomes Josh Jonas back for a redux that’s less “catch-up” and more “blueprint.” Josh breaks down the thinking behind his podcast—why he went for short episodes that actually go somewhere, how “punk rock therapy” became the hook (and the filter), and what he’s learning in real time about consistency, resonance, and making something cool without turning into a full-time content robot.

They also talk craft: pulling quotable nuggets, resisting shallow self-help noise, and the long game—where this could eventually become live events and community, not just another feed screaming into the void.

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Hosted by Jim Lombardo

Produced by Patrick Sasso at Podcast On The Fly

Theme Music by Pongo Face

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Jim talks with Kyle Jekelek about the part of building a career that doesn’t make for good storytelling: the slow accumulation of judgment.

They cover early misreads, the temptation to confuse motion with progress, and the quiet skill of knowing when to push and when to stop. Along the way, Kyle draws an analogy to selling on the New York City subway—learning quickly who’s actually listening, when to speak, and when to move on without wasting energy.

It’s a measured conversation about ambition without mythology—and why the long game rewards clarity, timing, and restraint more than noise.

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Hosted by Jim Lombardo

Produced by Patrick Sasso at Podcast On The Fly

Theme Music by Pongo Face