Our guest this week is Bear Degidio. This episode has been in the works for months, and we had a blast finally making it happen. We figured we might as well let the professional who wrote Bear's company website have center stage for this episode description: "His large influencer network and vast marketing experience led him to founding his own digital creative agency, Bear & Honey Group. With experience in direct to consumer marketing and branding, to successfully launching clothing bran...

Building $5,000,000 custom homes was not what Ross thought he would be doing as he prepared for the fire academy in his early twenties. Fast forward twenty years and Mr. Savage is the head General Contractor and owner of KRS Development right here in Newport Beach. If you've ever driven through Eastside Costa Mesa, Newport Heights, Dover Shores or CDM and gazed at a spectacular home, there's a good chance KRS built it. In this episode we ask Ross what he likes most about the building business...

We had our friend Adam on the show right before Covid-19 hit. We kept from publishing the episode due to our attempt at putting out episodes that pertained to what we were all going through with regards to the quarantine. Now that things have "normalized" a little bit we feel it's a better time to post this episode all about Adam and his new venture with Funding Shield (especially since the real estate market is on fire right now). Funding Shield is a FinTech B2B and B2B2C solution th...

Mike Shapiro, real estate, finance and tech guru, is back for a very overdue part II. If you haven't listened to part I make sure to go listen to Mike on episode 3. This episode is all about what Mike has been up to since the last time we had him on the show. Since then, Mike has pivoted to the tech world, and is a part of a real estate tech startup with some big hitters from Silicon Valley. Per usual, we learned a ton during this recording, and we think you will too. Sit...

Executive Chef Anthony and his wonderful wife, Nancy are our special guests on the show for episode 25! Their story is inspiring. I don't want to give too much away, but long story short, Anthony was a corporate chef for 15 years until Covid hit. After Neiman Marcus closed their restaurant, Mariposa, Anthony and Nancy decided to forge a new path of entrepreneurship, and Modern Charcuterie was born. After 8 weeks delivering orders to their neighbors on the peninsula point, they have been booke...

Whether you're a fan, or a hater, if you're a local, you've probably seen this week's guest on Instagram @ocinstanews. Cedric and I had never met Chad Towersey aka Unkle Tito before recording this episode. We both had our preconceptions about this local personality who always seems to find himself right in the middle of all the action when it comes to breaking news in Newport and Costa Mesa. We were both very eager to find out who the real man behind the character of Unkle Tito really was. Si...

Star of HGTV’s hit show Flip or Flop, our good friend and colleague, Tarek El Moussa is this week’s guest. If you’ve seen Tarek on Instagram or TV and think he’s always been successful, this episode is for you. Did you know he self funded the pilot of his new show Flipping 101? Sharing his story of rags to riches, Tarek talks about his early days as a young realtor taking floor time just waiting for the phone to ring. Tarek doesn’t worry about his phone ringing anymore. His story of o...

Welcome to the first episode of the second generation of The CGTV Podcast! We have a brand new intro that we’re pretty hyped about. Recognize the voice? If you’ve been following the show from the beginning, our hope is that we can continue to bring our listeners value and entertainment. Today’s guest is Keith Flores, @HVACGOD on the gram, owner of Smart Choice Heating and Air. Fun fact: since recording this about a month ago, CGRE was able to get him and his family into a beautiful new home...

Local restauranteur, Kevin Franke, is our guest this week. He is one of five owners of four restaurants in Orange County. We recorded this episode inside the beautiful dining room of OLEA in Newport Beach near Westcliff Court off of 17th St. We talk about how the Covid 19 shutdown has affected his four restaurants and the way they pivoted to curbside pickup, to go and delivery as a fine dining restaurant group. We’re so happy that, since reciting this episode, OLEA has re-opened...

Jeni is a straight up rockstar. We had her on the show before the Covid crisis, and we didn’t air the episode because we had an issue with the audio and it wasn’t very relevant within the context of the global pandemic we were experiencing. We had the pleasure of having the owner of one of our favorite local coffee shops in Costa Mesa on the show again! She’s so gracious. Coffee Dose is one of the local small businesses that has been able to stay open in Costa Mesa for to go, curbside ...

If you’re local to Newport or Costa Mesa, you’re probably very familiar with the best breakfast spot around: Haute Cakes Cafe. Their orange ricotta pancakes are famous, and if you catch Blake there for breakfast he’ll be chowing down on the Sergios short rib burrito. For lunch, Cedric’s favorite is the arugula and marinated chicken salad...it’s unreal! Paul and Tania have owned and operated Haute Cakes for the last 30 years, along with help from their daughters Olivia and Sofie. These ...

Rich Lambourne won an olympic gold medal in Beijing as a member of the 2008 USA Mens indoor volleyball national team. He now lives hear in Costa Mesa and is coach to the top mens beach volleyball duo in the US, Jake Gibb and Taylor Crabb. Blake met Rich at CrossFIt Chalk on 18th St. in Costa Mesa, and now he's our very special guest for episode 18! We dive deep into some real sh*t in this one. Like real deep. Let us know what you think on Instagram @cgre_tv or subscribe and leave a review on ...

Travis and his wife Aubree are Newport Beach locals. We met through one of our listings in Eastside Costa Mesa. Travis has a degree in landscape architecture from Cal Poly, and since graduating he’s used his technical knowledge, along with his love for art and design, to start Koheid Design. He specializes in his ability to utilize native Californian plants and flowers to design landscapes that are not only pleasing to the eye, but environmentally pleasing to Mother Earth. If you’re in need o...

Nicole and her husband Matt are the owners of long time local favorite restaurant, Buddha's Favorite Sushi on Lido Isle in Newport Beach. Hear how the last year has been since they took over the joint, and how they're pivoting to delivery and to go orders during the Covid 19 quarantine.

Our friend, Travis, left his career of 13 years as a Navy Seal only 1 year ago. Since getting out of the Navy, he has started his own business as a tactical instructor for local police departments, SWAT teams and individuals who want to hone their self defense and firearm skills. Americans like Travis protect our freedoms in this beautiful country. We hope you enjoy learning from the best and getting to know a little bit more about a local hero. Make sure to book a session with Travis ...

Have you ever thought to yourself, “I know that a mortgage is a monthly house payment, but I don’t really know anything else about the mortgage industry?” If the answer is yes, then you’ll learn a ton from this episode with our good friend, Robert Drenk. Robert is the owner of Optimum First Mortgage, and is who CGRE uses as our preferred lender that we refer to clients and friends. If you already know a good amount about lending and the mortgage industry, we go way past the basics. We ...

In light of the Corona Virus pandemic, we want to shift the show’s focus to being the voice of the local community and the business owners who are being impacted by the stay at home order forcing restaurants, bars and other non-essential businesses to close. Andrew Dorsey, owner of SOCIAL Costa Mesa and SOCIAL Huntington Beach, is one of friends who has closed their doors at his two locations. We talk about how they’re navigating these uncertain times, and the way their employees and cu...

Blake and Cedric give their hot take amidst the dynamic landscape of the Corona Virus, and the implications it has for the economy, the community, and the real estate market in coastal Orange County.