Beyond YOUR Bar Podcast

Hosted by Denisa Tova

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Oct 2026

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The Beyond YOUR Bar Podcast is about the people behind the work. Host Denisa Tova sits down with actors, musicians, athletes, and the people who built something, for unhurried conversations that go past the headline and past the title. Not the highlight reel, the real story of how a life gets made. Guests have included Ice-T and Coco, Lou Diamond Phillips, and Michael Nouri. As featured on E! News. Self-funded, no sponsors, no agenda.

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October 21, 2026Episode 3533 min

S5 E35: Ice-T & Coco on 25 Years of Marriage, Raising Chanel & Why Opposites Don’t Stick (Part 2)

Ice-T and Coco are back for Part 2, and this is where the conversation gets real. Ice opens up about becoming a father at 18 with no mentor and no playbook. Coco shares why there’s no nanny and no housekeeper in their home, and why she proudly calls herself a housewife and a mom. Together they get into what 25 years of marriage actually takes, why people secretly root for couples to fail, and the difference between loving someone and truly appreciating them. Ice also shares the line that sums up their whole relationship: love isn’t looking someone in the eyes, it’s looking out in the same direction. Missed Part 1? Watch it here: https://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/r028oXgXo7b Beyond Your Bar is hosted by Denisa Tova, where celebrities and industry trailblazers share the story behind the career. 📲 Connect with Ice-T: https://www.instagram.com/icet/ 📲Connect with Coco Austin: https://www.instagram.com/coco Watch more episodes and connect with Denisa here: https://beyondyourbarpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/denisatova LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/denisatova/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/denisatova Podcast Production by HypeCats.com, webinars, and podcasts: hypecats.com.

September 23, 2026Episode 3456 min

S5 E34: Ronn Moss (The Bold and the Beautiful) on Player, Baby Come Back, and His New Life in Italy

For 25 years he was Ridge Forrester, the face at the center of The Bold and the Beautiful. For music fans, he is the voice and bass behind Player and the number one hit Baby Come Back. But when Ronn Moss sits down with Denisa, what comes out is the story of a self-described man of few words who spent a lifetime learning to step out of the shadows. Ronn talks about the record executive who listened to Baby Come Back and told the band flatly that he did not hear a hit, and the twist of fate seven months later that changed everything. He shares how a childhood spent around John Wayne, Roy Rogers, and the rodeo legends of old Hollywood earned him a nickname that stuck, and how his mother once taught Elizabeth Taylor to ride a horse. He explains why he traded the spotlight for a 300 year old stone hut in the south of Italy, and what all that quiet has given him. This is a warm, unhurried conversation with a man who found his freedom on a stage and is now happily finding his peace far away from one. Subscribe for new episodes every week. Until next time, stay curious and inspired. Find our more about Ronn: https://ronnmoss.com/ https://www.instagram.com/ronnmoss?utm_source=qr Watch more episodes and connect with Denisa here: https://beyondyourbarpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/denisatova LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/denisatova/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/denisatova Podcast Production by HypeCats.com, webinars, and podcasts: hypecats.com.

September 16, 2026Episode 3341 min

S5 E33: Denise Pines (The M Factor) on Menopause, Misdiagnosis, and What Women Are Never Told

She has carried one of the most avoided subjects in medicine to the World Economic Forum, onto PBS, and even onto the floor of the US Senate. Denise Pines, the Peabody Award winning filmmaker behind The M Factor, sits down with Denisa to talk about menopause the way almost no one does, plainly, practically, and without shame. This conversation gets into the symptom almost no one connects to perimenopause, the reason a woman with every resource in the world can still be misdiagnosed for years, and the quiet bias that tells women they are finished at the exact moment they become their wisest. Denise also explains why men go through their own version of all this, and why they will admit to almost anything before they will admit to brain fog. There is a story about a college gym teacher and an inhaler that redirected her entire life. There is the single number that shows how little the medical world has invested in women. And there is a practical roadmap for walking into your next appointment and being heard. Subscribe for new episodes every week. Until next time, stay curious and inspired. WisePause Wellness: https://www.instagram.com/wisepause/ Tea Botanics: https://www.instagram.com/teabotanics/ Watch more episodes and connect with Denisa here: https://beyondyourbarpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/denisatova LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/denisatova/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/denisatova Podcast Production by HypeCats.com, webinars, and podcasts: hypecats.com.

September 9, 2026Episode 3249 min

S5 E32: OBX's J. Anthony Crane on Why the Nicest Guys Play the Scariest Villains

He plays some of television's most chilling villains, the kind of man you love to hate. So why is J. Anthony Crane, the face of Chandler Groff on Outer Banks, one of the warmest and most curious people we have ever had? The actor behind roles in Succession, Billions, Broadway, and the Royal National Theatre of London sits down with Denisa to talk about the strange craft of playing the bad guy, the teacher who convinced a room of high schoolers to call themselves artists, and a childhood that turned him into a lover of languages, poetry, and very tall mountains. There is a moment about Alan Rickman that will change how you watch every villain from now on. There is a bet between two literary legends that produced one of his favorite roles. And there is a surprising answer to a very simple question about how he wants to be remembered. Denisa and Anthony even discover they have both been broken by the same punishing Colorado climb. Subscribe for new episodes every week. Until next time, stay curious and inspired. Follow Tony Crane: https://www.instagram.com/janthonycrane/?hl=en Watch more episodes and connect with Denisa here: https://beyondyourbarpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/denisatova LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/denisatova/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/denisatova Podcast Production by HypeCats.com, webinars, and podcasts: hypecats.com.

September 4, 2026Episode 3139 min

S5 E31: A Dog's Purpose Author W. Bruce Cameron on What Dogs Really Think, Grief & Finding Your Purpose

W. Bruce Cameron wrote A Dog's Purpose as a book about the soul. The world read it as a book about dogs. He has been happily explaining the difference ever since. The number one New York Times bestselling author has written more than thirty dog centered novels that have made millions of people laugh and cry, often on the same page. His stories have become hit films, and this holiday season his novel A Dog's Perfect Christmas comes to Netflix with a cast including Dennis Quaid and Jennifer Tilly, and a small role played by Bruce himself. He gets into what is really going on inside a dog's mind, how growing up in a chaotic family turned him into a humorist, talking his way out of getting beaten up as a repo man, why he cries every time he watches his own movie, the quantum physics questions that keep him up at night, and the one lesson dogs have been trying to teach him his whole life. He is warm, wickedly funny, and full of heart. Come hang out. W. Bruce Cameron: https://www.wbrucecameron.com/ Watch more episodes and connect with Denisa here: https://beyondyourbarpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/denisatova LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/denisatova/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/denisatova Podcast Production by HypeCats.com, webinars, and podcasts: hypecats.com. Subscribe for new episodes every week. Until next time, stay curious and inspired.

August 26, 2026Episode 3047 min

S5 E30: Thom Filicia on Queer Eye, Designing for David Bowie & the Elevator That Changed His Life

Thom Filicia got his big break because his dog needed to pee. He was a successful interior designer in Soho with a dozen people working for him when he got stuck in an elevator with a group of strangers, a panicking woman, and a dog with his legs in a knot. By the time the fire department pried the doors open, one of the women in that elevator had decided this hilarious stranger belonged on television. That woman was a casting director. What happened next was Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Oprah, the Tonight Show, and three shows of his own. You know him as the design expert with the filter to Carson Kressley's no filter. What you may not know is the kid from Syracuse who drew a house all over his school desk, got in trouble for it, and realized in that moment exactly who he was going to be. Thom gets into how he reads a room in seconds, why he turned childhood dyslexia into his greatest strength, designing for David Bowie and Tina Fey, the dinner party trick he uses to escape boring small talk, and why the best design, like the best people, has a soul you can feel. He is warm, wickedly funny, and completely himself. Come hang out. Thom Filicia: https://www.thomfilicia.com/ Subscribe for new episodes every week. Until next time, stay curious and inspired. Watch more episodes and connect with Denisa here: https://beyondyourbarpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/denisatova LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/denisatova/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/denisatova Podcast Production by HypeCats.com, webinars, and podcasts: hypecats.com.

August 21, 2026Episode 2953 min

S5 E29: Poison's Rikki Rockett on Beating Cancer, Raising Hell & Building an Empire With Two Drumsticks

Rikki Rockett built an entire empire out of a pair of drumsticks, and he is the first to tell you he still can't believe it worked. As the drummer and co-founder of Poison, he helped define an era, sold tens of millions of records, and just landed in the Metal Hall of Fame. Now he is dropping a memoir that spares no one, including himself. Ghost Notes: My Life in Poison hits September 15th, and it is exactly as brutally honest, darkly funny and unfiltered as you would hope. In this one he gets into the stage 4 cancer battle he was never supposed to survive, the wild years, the self tanner emergencies, the ghost hunting, the jiu jitsu black belt, the house full of horror models, and the daughter who now gets more attention at conventions than the rock star dad standing next to her. He is funny, fearless and completely himself from the first second. Buckle up. Ghost Notes: My Life in Poison (out September 15): https://rarebirdlit.com/ghost-notes-my-life-in-poison-by-rikki-rockett/ Rikki Rockett: https://www.rikkirockett.com/ Rockett Mafia: https://rockettmafia.com/ Subscribe for new episodes every week. Until next time, stay curious and inspired. Watch more episodes and connect with Denisa here: https://beyondyourbarpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/denisatova LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/denisatova/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/denisatova Podcast Production by HypeCats.com, webinars, and podcasts: hypecats.com.

August 19, 2026Episode 2839 min

S5 E28: Days of Our Lives Star Patrika Darbo on Staying True to Yourself in Hollywood

Some people spend their whole lives asking permission. Patrika Darbo never did. At a Hollywood audition in 1968 she was told she had all the talent in the world and none of the look the business wanted. What she did next set the tone for the next 40 years, two Emmys, and one of the most respected character careers in the industry. You know her as Nancy Wesley on Days of Our Lives, and from In the Line of Fire, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, and Roseanne. What you may not know is the woman underneath all of it. Sharp, unfiltered, endlessly funny, and completely unwilling to be anything other than exactly who she is. She sat down with Denisa to talk about the roles she will never take, the moment she walked away from a job that fell apart without her, the causes she would go to war for, and the love that has lasted more than half a century. Some of what she says will surprise you. All of it will stay with you. Come meet the real Patrika Darbo. All Roads Theater Company: https://allroadstheatreco.org/ Patrika Darbo: https://www.instagram.com/darbopatrika/?hl=en Subscribe for new episodes every week. Until next time, stay curious and inspired. Watch more episodes and connect with Denisa here: https://beyondyourbarpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/denisatova LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/denisatova/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/denisatova Podcast Production by HypeCats.com, webinars, and podcasts: hypecats.com.

August 14, 2026Episode 2727 min

S5 E27: From Legal Aid to Her Own Firm: 30 Years in Family Law

Early in her career, Debra Rubin gave clients bus fare out of her own pocket so they could make it to court. Today she runs her own firm and is one of the most recognized matrimonial attorneys on Long Island. How she got from one to the other is the real story. Host Denisa Tova sits down with Debra for a conversation that moves easily between the practical and the personal. Debra came up through Legal Aid, representing people with nothing on the line but everything at stake, and she carries that perspective into a very different world of high-conflict, high-asset divorce. She has strong opinions about the difference between fighting and winning, and a way of talking to clients that cuts through the noise fast. There's also the part of her life that has nothing to do with law: a marriage approaching three decades, a house full of dogs, a book club that's mostly wine, and a genuinely refreshing take on why the next generation of lawyers might be onto something their elders missed. If you've ever wondered what it actually takes to build a career on your own terms, and stay decent while doing it, this one's worth your time. Follow Beyond Your Bar for new episodes featuring voices across law, entertainment, and beyond. Learn more about Debra: https://www.linkedin.com/in/debralrubin/ Watch more episodes and connect with Denisa here: https://beyondyourbarpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/denisatova LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/denisatova/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/denisatova Podcast Production by HypeCats.com, webinars, and podcasts: hypecats.com.

August 12, 2026Episode 2651 min

S5 E26: Caroline Stanbury & Sergio Carrallo on Marriage, Building an Empire & Never Giving Up

Caroline Stanbury and Sergio Carrallo run nine companies, raise three teenagers and live a life most people only see through a screen. You know them from Ladies of London and The Real Housewives of Dubai. What you do not know is what actually holds it all together. In this conversation they open up about the rule they live by that keeps their marriage steady, the setbacks that nearly took each of them down before they ever met, and the mindset that turned everything around. Caroline talks about the childhood that made her who she is and the darkest chapter of her career. Sergio shares the decision everyone told him not to make and why he would do it again. And together they explain what really keeps two people aligned when the whole world is watching and waiting for it to fall apart. There is a lot more here than the headlines. Come find out for yourself. Caroline Stanbury: https://www.instagram.com/carolinestanbury/?hl=en Stanbury Retreats: www.stanburyretreats.com/2-landing-page-2000-1 Sergio Carrallo: https://www.instagram.com/sergiocarrallo/?hl=en Izumi Hotels and Residences: https://www.instagram.com/izumihotels/ Subscribe for new episodes every week. Until next time, stay curious and inspired. Watch more episodes and connect with Denisa here: https://beyondyourbarpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/denisatova LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/denisatova/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/denisatova Podcast Production by HypeCats.com, webinars, and podcasts: hypecats.com.

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