Rich Tola

Author, actor, filmmaker and modern-day yoga master, Rich Tola, has been creating mindful and motivational content across all media platforms since 2006. A SAG-AFTRA member since 2009, Rich has also taught his fitness style of Tola Yoga to more than 3,000 classes in 11 cities throughout the United States. His motivational book, How to Drink from the Fountain of Youth: 30 Steps to Everlasting Youth, provides step by step instructions on living healthier and happier and is ideal for anyone looking to lose weight, feel more energized, be more confident, as well as improve their entire outlook on life. Winner, The Firebird Book Award in two categories: Aging and Mind/Body/Spirit. His short films, Skateboard Bandits and Zen Diaries: The Lockdown, were both winners at the 2019 Global Shorts Awards, while his reality TV series, YogaStyles of Rich and the Almost Famous, is where yoga meets history throughout the streets of Chicago. From humble beginnings in Trenton, NJ, the son of an old-school Sicilian barber, Rich received his business degrees from The University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) and Northwestern University (Kellogg - MBA). In the 80's, Rich was an All-Ivy League baseball player who worked for Wall Street juggernauts Goldman Sachs and Drexel Burnham Lambert before living in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia as an International Bank Consultant. In the 90's, he was a top-producing New York City real estate broker and high-flying dot-com Founder & CEO of TheAskingPrice - securing The Trump Organization as his first strategic client. In the early 2000's, he was an award-winning real estate developer restoring Historic Landmark properties throughout inner-city neighborhoods. On Valentine's Day 2006, Rich took his first acting class in New York City and has never looked back. His entertaining memoir, Simply Between Millions: From Wall Street to Hollywood, takes you on a wild and witty ride from the heights of Wall Street to Hollywood's Boulevard of Broken Dreams. It's a fast-paced book with a heartfelt story about perseverance and spiritual awakening, and as one reader puts it, "a wildly entertaining and inspirational book on life never getting you down - even when you're down!"