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Pauly Guglielmo Show
by Paul Guglielmo
Pauly Guglielmo is a former radio guy turned food business entrepreneur. While running a manufacturing facility is his day job, he likes to dust off his broadcasting skills once a week on this podcast and talk to entrepreneurs and other influencers.
Episodes
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326 - Paul Iorio (Crooked Creek BBQ)
Put 2 Pauls in a room and you're guaranteed to have a good time! This episode is full of some good business advice from two professionals in faking it till you make it. Plus, some BBQ tips, and the story behind Crooked Creek BBQ! Mentioned in this episode: Joe Bean Roasters Visit...
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325 - Bethany Haswell (Stomping Grounds / TYFU Podcast)
Bethany comes with all the wisdom of a multiple decade business owner. Straight up, she knows her sh*t. That's why she co-hosts a bi-weekly business podcast with Marilla Gonzalez (last week's guest on this podcast) called TYFU (available wherever you get your podcasts). Bethany thought she'd…
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324 - Marilla Gonzalez (Marilla's Mindful / TYFU Podcast)
Marilla is a force! Her brand, Marilla's Mindful, is thriving in both Geneva, NY and the South Wedge neighborhood of Rochester. Her concept, refillable grocery items, is genius. Beyond that, she's a working musician, and has just purchased a flower shop in Geneva, NY with her podcast partner Beth...
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323 - President Dr. Maureen Finney (Nazareth University)
President Dr. Finney has certainly racked up the credentials in her career, but she'll tell you she's still just "Maureen from Buffalo".. and that's why she's such a perfect fit for Rochester, and for Nazareth University. After 4 years as Chief Academic Officer there (Provost), she went through a...
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322 - Joanna Alberti (philoSophie's)
Joanna is a brilliant entrepreneur who has created thousands of pieces of art that are widely available either through her directly, at retailers across the Country, or through licensing deals with many large brands nationally. In this podcast, we'll hear how she came to be such a great artist…
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321 - Marc Cohen (O'Donnell & Associates)
Future President of The United States Marc Cohen stopped by Craft Cannery to discuss his childhood, time at the Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce, time since then spent as VP of Government Affairs for O'Donnell & Associates (lobbying firm), and what it was like to be in Tel Aviv on October 7,...
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320 - John Stage (Dinosaur BBQ / Apizza Regionale & Alimentari)
John Stage is one of the most successful restaurateurs in the history of New York. The founder of Dinosaur BBQ (who once sold, then bought back, the multi-store chain), sits down with us to talk about his early struggles in life, opening and making Dinosaur a success, and pivoting to his original...
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319 - Gina Manz (River Valley Foods)
Gina Manz is the Executive Vice President of River Valley Foods, and it's only right for such a natural born leader. Gina has a presence about her that is hard to describe. She trusts her team to solve problems, and knows that the key to a good working business relationship (whether it be...
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318 - Carrie Falzone (Vulnerabilities - Vertical Insite)
Carrie is a creative serial entrepreneur with a backstory that involves Orlando (working with Disney Cruise Lines, Hard Rock Cafe, Universal Studios, and the U.S Military), Los Angeles, and returning home to Rochester to start a family and found her business (Vertical Insite). Carrie also had a...
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317 - Pat Tharp (The Chai Guy)
Pat Tharp (accompanied by his daughter and head brewer Noelle) stop by Craft Cannery to record an episode with Pauly and in the process, drop some ELITE entrepreneur knowledge. Pat's story of becoming The Chai Guy is inspiring, full of lucky moments, but also full of hard work, determination, and...
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316 - Tony Gullace (Max of Eastman Place / Max Chophouse)
Tony Gullace is your chef's favorite chef. Really, all of the top chefs in Rochester will point to Tony Gullace and say.. "that guy, he's the best chef in Rochester". It's kind of amazing to not only see such a unanimous opinion emerge from a very hard to impress crowd, but also to hear that…
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315 - Scott Kime (NYS Tourism & Kime Farms)
Scott Kime was born and raised on Seneca Lake and still spends every single day there, as the Lake has become his career. He serves as the NYS Tourism Ambassador at the Finger Lakes Welcome Center in Geneva, NY (where this episode was recorded). He offers tours of the building, tourism tips and...
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314 - Recco Jewell (Suave Kitchen)
Recco is an absolutely MACHINE when it comes to hustling, and building his brand. With a history in the food business (he started working in pizzerias when he was 13 years old), Recco returns to his roots these days with Suave Kitchen, now open in Gates. What brought him there though was bringing...
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313 - Martin Parent (Ace Hardware Inlet & Old Forge)
Martin "Marty" Parent knew that if he didn't go into the military, he'd end up getting into "some kind of trouble" back home. So, he did! After 6 years, mostly over seas, he returned home to where his parents had moved, The Adirondacks. Looking for where his life would lead, he took notice of his...
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312 - Jason Colline (5 Stages of Entrepreneurship)
Jason shares his remarkable story of how teen pregnancy challenged his life, but he and his family persevered. Beyond that, he has and is still dealing with multiple health scares. But through all of that, he has built and worked in all stages of businesses, small and large, and now as a...
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311 - Brian Bailey (Big League Chew)
The corporate offices of Big League Chew are in Rochester, NY.. who knew?!?! Also, production, the actual manufacturing of the gum, is in Akron, NY.. so you're telling me that Big League Chew is a local company and none of us knew that? As it turns out, as Dr. Brian Bailey will explain, its…
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310 - Aashna Ahmed (OSHi GHEE)
In a last minute twist, Aashna Ahmed joins Pauly to talk about her wonderful brand of Ghee, OSHi GHEE, for this week's podcast. Aashna had a very impressive career prior to entrepreneurship, with jobs at GQ Magazine in NYC and Coca Cola in Atlanta. After moving to Rochester during COVID, she...
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309 - Colette Muhammad (The Canning Queen)
Colette Muhammad took the art of home canning to preserve foods like jams, jellies, and vegetables and has turned it into an impressive small businesses centered around teaching classes and attending local markets selling those canned goods. In this podcast, we'll learn how Colette became The...
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308 - Mark Armbruster (Armbruster Capital Management)
5th Annual Seize The Day: Amer's Epilepsy Trail Run (10K, 5K, & One-Mile Fun Run) --> https://www.epiny.org/fundraising-event/seize-the-day/2026-event/ Mark Armbruster, CFA is the Founder and CEO of Armbruster Capital Management, a Rochester-based wealth management firm serving individuals,...
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307 - Chris Whitehair (New York Chips & Flower City Flavor Company)
Chris, a theater kid in his youth, told himself as he was walked out of a job several years ago that he was going to work for himself one day. He founded Flower City Flavor Company as a first step, helping spread Rochester based food items across the country via his website. One of those items, a...
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306 - Tommy Brunett (Iron Smoke & Hoochenany)
Tommy has quite the life story, from being homeless as a teenager (by choice, as a runaway) to touring the world as part of the band Modern English to founding a marketing agency in NYC to finally Iron Smoke Distillery in Rochester, NY. Hoochenany Music Festival, his latest side hustle, is a...
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305 - Michael Passantino (Momma K's)
Michael shares his life story, one that has quite an arc, from hitting "rock bottom" in his early 20s to finding God and thriving in his 30s. Michael and his mother have Rochester's Meat Sauce, the only one available in Wegmans, called Momma K's, and recently launched a Chicken Wing Dip as well!...
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BONUS - Moka Energy Has Launched! w/ Tom Seymour
Tom Seymour has returned (go back and listen to his original episode, #268 from 8/24/25) to catch us up on his newly launched brand, Moka Energy (Coffee Bars That Look & Feel Like Chocolate - Real Coffee, Real Convenient). Mentioned in this episode: Joe Bean Roasters Visit joebeanroasters.com to...
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304 - Jason DeLeo (Food By DeLeo)
Jason DeLeo is a classically trained chef (CIA) who has had to overcome some personal and professional challenges to get to where he is today. Today, he operates a team that is known for providing some of the best catering experiences in Rochester. But the path here was full of twists and turns,...
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303 - Morrie Silver (Rochester Red Wings)
Morrie comes from Rochester royalty, the grandson of the great Morrie & Anna "Bert" Silver, credited with the reason the Red Wings are in Rochester to begin with, and he is the son of Naomi Silver, a Rochester icon. The perfect Mother's Day episode, Morrie pays great tribute to his mother and his...
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302 - Tracy Luckow (Whipnotic)
Tracy Luckow, and her sister Lori, founded Whipnotic after very comprehensive careers in the food & beverage industry. Tracey, a food scientist, had the opportunity to work for some of the biggest brands in food, innovating some of America's most well known brands, before deciding to team up with...
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301 - Giuseppe Paciullo (Fiamma Centro)
Giuseppe Paciullo has spent exactly half of his life in America, after spending the first half in his native Italy. He came to NYC, where he met his wife (a Rochester native) while she was in school and he was working in his Uncle's Italian restaurant on THE Arthur Avenue ("The Real Little…
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BONUS - Gregg Vanourek (Good Life, Good Work)
Gregg Vanourek is coming to Rochester on May 12th, presented by Rochester Rotary, he'll be speaking over lunch at The Rochester Riverside Convention Center and tickets can be found at rochesterrotary.org -> Events. In this bonus episode, Pauly and Gregg talk about the challenges of work-life...
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300 - Janine Caschette (Avvino & La Bola)
Janine was the first guest EVER that Pauly had on this very show wayyyy back when it was still a radio show, some 10 or 11 years ago. Since then, she has done nothing but thrive, expanding her business into catering and eventually opening La Bola downtown inside the Mercantile on Main. But it all...
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299 - Laura Mack (Rochester By Water)
Laura is the Director of Operations at the newly rebranded Rochester By Water (formerly Corn Hill Navigation), most famous for its operation of the iconic Sam Patch vessel that every Rochesterian can recognize from afar, and more recently The Riverie as well. Laura will bring us through the…
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298 - Paul Constantine (Genesee Brewery)
Paul Constantine is the retail manager / historian of Genesee Brew House and by proxy, Genesee Brewery. He started at the Brew House when it was still only a concept, as an intern, and has stuck around ever since, being one of the top influences in the organization. In this episode, we get a full...
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297 - Adam Bierton (Chick'n Out)
Adam is a true creative who had the benefit of being nurtured from a young age by his parents and his teachers to embrace his creativity. His life has brought him to Europe and NYC at times, but he's back in Rochester, where he's from, and has built the brand Chick'n Out into one of the most...
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296 - Rob Nipe (Grass Fed: The Vegan Butcher)
He's the head "butcher" at Grass Fed on Monroe Avenue in Rochester, and having grown up in New Jersey, this man knows delis! Rob Nipe came to Rochester in 2007 and after working a couple of regular gigs, the entrepreneur itch needed to be scratched as he set out to solve a problem he was...
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295 - John Carbone (Carbone's Pizzeria)
John Carbone, the son of an insurance salesman, watched his father and (at the time, stay-at-home) mother take a leap of faith in the early 1980s and open a donut shop. After some family advice, he decided to take the venture and change it to pizza and in 1984, opened what has become an iconic…
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294 - John Urlaub Feat. Jen Newman (Rohrbach Brewing Company)
John is the absolute O.G of craft beer in Rochester, NY. The founder of Rohrbach Brewing Company, John's company has stood the test of time as he has successfully operated not only a restaurant, which is hard enough, but a craft brewery through 2 craft beer explosions while navigating the...
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293 - Jen Newman Feat. John Urlaub (Serial Entrepreneur / Young Lion)
Jen is best known to us over the past decade as the mind and passion behind Young Lion, but it turns out that Young Lion was actually her 4th entrepreneurial journey. Jen will tell us about the several software companies that she and her ex-husband started and exited prior to founding Young Lion....
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292 - Adam Eaton (Black Is Beautiful)
Adam Eaton, a Rochester native, was feeling a little lost. He was an artist at heart, but his day job wasn't allowing him to exercise that creative muscle. So, one day, he signed up to take a photography class, and the rest is history! Now a published author, Adam is on tour promoting his new…
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291 - Charles Corby (Pittsford Dairy)
Charles Corby is the 5th generation owner of Pittsford Farms Dairy & Bakery and was really the mastermind behind many of the pivots that business has made in the past couple of decades. Charles was behind the expansion of the retail store to what it is today, the ramping up of production on the...
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290 - Brian Nicholson (Red Jacket Orchards)
Brian is the 3rd generation owner of Red Jacket Orchards and, while reluctant to refer to himself as an entrepreneur, is absolutely one is the truest sense of the word. Brian has pivoted, several times, both prior to and after joining the family business. The most recent pivot, however, into...
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289 - Lauren Goetz (Everyday Hands)
Lauren is a grinder, having worked 16 different jobs before figuring out she was a better leader than a follower, Lauren saw a problem that needed to be solved for busy folks who are unable to take care of the tiny tasks that life requires. Lauren launched her business, muscled it to success, and...
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288 - Holly Rund (Kittelberger Florist & Gifts)
Holly is part of the 4th generation ownership team of Kittelberger, Rochester's juggernaut brand for flowers & gifts. She shares with us the history of how this iconic brand came to be, what each generation brought along the way, what her day-to-day is like, and what is in store for the future....
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287 - Teddy Rund Jr. (Harro East / Thirsty Turtle)
Ted Rund Jr. is the owner of Thirsty Turtle (Victor, NY) and Harro East, the iconic Rochester, NY event space. Teddy didn't necessarily set-out for entrepreneurship, but grew up around it as his father and family lineage brought that aspect to his life. Teddy was a star athlete, and that had most...
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286 - Elvio Fernandes (Elvio's Coffee)
Elvio Fernandes is not only the founder of Elvio's Coffee, Empire Boulevard's hottest and newest coffee joint, but is also the founder of ROC Star Academy and OH, by the way, also a literal ROCK STAR as keyboardist for Daughtry. His origin story is a delight, enjoy! Mentioned in this episode: Joe...
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285 - Rory Van Grol (Ugly Duck Coffee)
Rory is a fellow podcaster! Check him out on the Common Thread podcast here on The Lunchador Podcast Network. Today, we talk to Rory about his life, his entrepreneurial journey, and we close out 2025 with a heroic story of Rory's fatherly instincts coming to the rescue. Mentioned in this episode:...
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284 - Stefan Schwartz (Headwater Food Hub)
Stefan is part of the ownership group of Headwater Food Hub, one of the region's leaders in getting local farm grown foods onto your dinner plate. Stefan will tell us both his own story, and the story of Headwater, we hope you enjoy! Mentioned in this episode: Joe Bean Coffee - Coffee that lifts...
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283 - Jenna Miles (SCN Hospitality)
Jenna has (almost) never been interviewed, which is quite remarkable for someone who has had such an impact on the Rochester restaurant scene, the cultural fabric of Rochester, and the entrepreneurship community of our city. In this hour plus interview, we get to know the person behind many of...
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282 - Kathy Turiano (Joe Bean Coffee Roasters)
Kathy has one of the BEST entrepreneur origin stories in that she started Joe Bean.. and failed.. before taking a few years to hash out what worked and what didn't and COMING BACK AND THRIVING!!!!! This interview gets a bit into the weeds of co-packing (forgive me for that), but Kathy is a force,...
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281 - Jenna Manetta-Knauf (ROC Holiday Village / "Jazz Fest Jenna")
Jenna is a FORCE. Jenna will tell us about how her work ethic has driven her from the age of 14 to where she is today and how she found her passion for event planning & execution. Jenna has had 3 main eras, the first was working with a notorious nightclub/restaurant owner to open dozens of...
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280 - Andy Gallina (Gallina Development)
Pauly sits down with the man responsible for the skyline of Rochester that you know and love, literally. Owning many of the iconic skyscrapers in Rochester, Andy Gallina started this adventure "swinging a hammer" with his father and uncles as a part of their construction business. Andy will walk…
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279 - Jack Doyle (Doyle Security)
Jack Doyle is the 5th generation CEO and co-owner of Doyle Security, Rochester's premiere security systems provider. Jack shares his story with us, of what it was like to "know what he wanted to be when he grew up" to actually making it happen, including several stops along the way and some...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Pauly Guglielmo is a former radio guy turned food business entrepreneur. While running a manufacturing facility is his day job, he likes to dust off his broadcasting skills once a week on this podcast and talk to entrepreneurs and other influencers.
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Paul Guglielmo
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