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Anthony Lally
At 19, got the real estate license. At 21, I bought my first property. At 22 I was a multi millionaire. Over a hundred of my employees tattooed my company logo on their body. I was ballooning up to 315 pounds, did a gastric sleeve surgery, lost 50 pounds and then gained 70. Lost my muscle mass, got sleep apnea, was getting hospitalized because I took a shortcut.
Tereza Lally
I actually had a condition called diastasis recti. I had an eight finger separation. You could put eight fingers straight between my abs and almost 50% of moms have it. You can only take care of it in the first year or two we were able to close my gap non surgically. We featured it in the first documentary for 10 seconds just to show people. I gained 12 pounds of muscle in a matter of 10 months, all naturally. My protein powder was pea protein.
Paul Alex
Hey guys and welcome back to Level podcast. This is Paul Alex. Guys, we are currently ranked top four in all categories because of you guys. Thank you for allowing us to be top four in just under two years. Now I have a wonderful power couple here. They are in media, they're in production, they are in real estate, they're on the health fitness biohacking which you guys know. If you guys have been following me on my socials, Paul Alex, on Instagram, you guys know that I've been taking my health very, very seriously. So I'm looking forward to this interview. Guys, welcome to the show.
Anthony Lally
Thank you for having us.
Podcast Announcer
Yeah.
Paul Alex
So guys, for the people that don't know who you guys are, please tell us who you guys are.
Anthony Lally
Well, I'm Anthony Lally. I'm the founder and CEO of a company called Lolly Brands Entertainment. And I'm also a co editor in chief of Biohack Yourself Media.
Tereza Lally
And I'm Tereza Lally, vice president at Lolly Brands Entertainment and the co editor in chief and founder with my husband of biohack Yourself Media. Biohack Yourself magazine.
Paul Alex
I love it, I love it. And as you guys know, in the very beginning of right before the podcast, we talked about the podcast being about self help. Were you guys always entrepreneurs?
Tereza Lally
Oh he was, he was probably just born like that. Yep. Entrepreneurial.
Anthony Lally
Yeah. I started in in real estate at the age of 19, but before that I had launched many, many businesses, bed and breakfasts and I'd always wanted to be an entrepreneur. I had that spirit. I was born with it, but I took it really serious at 19, got the real estate license. At 21, I bought my first property. At 22, I was a multi millionaire Launched my own real estate brokerage, scaled it, then launched a billboard company and a series of other businesses thereafter.
Paul Alex
And then at the age of 19, did you have like a mentor? Were your parents in real estate? Did you. What type of environment were you raised in?
Anthony Lally
Well, my mother was an immigrant from Ecuador. Lived in an abandoned building, only had $20 to her name. My dad was a schoolteacher of Italian descent, a World War II veteran and a public school teacher. So I didn't come from a wealthy family at all. So I was the first one to kind of create generational wealth, my family.
Paul Alex
Wow, you're the bloodline breaker.
Anthony Lally
Yeah.
Paul Alex
And. And how did you guys meet?
Anthony Lally
Oh, very interesting.
Tereza Lally
Just totally by accident. So my background is I was born and raised in Armenia. Definitely not an entrepreneur. Never seen entrepreneurial kind of experiences. We were more like Soviet Union. You know, thought process of just hardworking doers. Right. But I also had this like real creativity and just imagination. Like that's. That's very deeply developed inside of me. So at 20, I immigrated to the United States. I graduated, you know, with my accounting degree degree, and I quickly went into the arts and entertainment. I became an actor. I was in a few movies on Netflix with Corey Feldman and moved to New York to pursue that heavily. But as well as recording, because my passion was also music and entertainment. So I was building my album with Warner Brothers and I had a band. I called it Velvet Tornado. It was an all female pop rock band and I was the lead. And one day I was getting ready for a performance and my violinist totally called out. And, you know, I was definitely not a good situation. So I had to go and interview backups. So as I was interviewing my violinist, he was actually holding a meeting with.
Anthony Lally
The private private equity company, and we were, you know, scaling and franchising. I had franchise my company from one location to 100 locations. So I was. The meetings were getting bigger and bigger and more serious. And so coincidentally, I'm having a meeting about royalties. And I'm talking to this group. She overheard the conversation, thought we were in the entertainment industry, because that's where royalties come in. And when my meeting was over, she goes, she's a good networker. And so she goes, excuse me, are you guys in the music industry? And I leaped over and I said, yes, we are. And then we became friends. And I was her mentor for about three, four months.
Podcast Announcer
I love that.
Anthony Lally
Until we decided to kind of take things more seriously. Yeah.
Paul Alex
That's amazing. And how long have you guys been married now?
Tereza Lally
13 years.
Anthony Lally
13 years.
Paul Alex
That's beautiful.
Anthony Lally
Two kids together.
Paul Alex
Yes.
Podcast Announcer
Yeah.
Anthony Lally
A son and a daughter.
Paul Alex
And then I know that your kids are now or they have their own business.
Anthony Lally
Yes.
Paul Alex
So let's talk about that. What type of business are your kids currently in and how are you supporting them doing that?
Anthony Lally
Well, our kids were born into the industry because of us. So my wife was, you know, literally curating their career since them being in the belly. Yeah, well.
Tereza Lally
But basically because I knew the industry backwards and forwards and I didn't want to pursue my career because I didn't want to be away from them. I said it'd be awesome to pursue their career and I'll be with them, managing them. So it was actually refreshing to know that the kids had such beautiful personalities that they were easy to deal with, easy to book. So they ended up collectively booking about 100 jobs together. Love and Legend. They started at 14 days old. And it's funny, our daughter always says, well, I started my career at just 14 days old. And then our son says, oh yeah, I started at 2 months old. I slacked off for the first 2 months of my life.
Paul Alex
I love that.
Tereza Lally
It's a funny saying. But they did really well. And the industry actually helped shape them in a very interesting way where they were constantly in adult environments. And you know, when you're a kid, right. Imagine you're a kid, close your eyes. You only go to like a music class, a Mommy and me place, or a yoga place, right. And you're only interacting with kids your age, maybe slightly older. And the moms of the other kids who are not going to be gush all over you.
Paul Alex
Right.
Tereza Lally
Gushing all over you. Whereas our kids were constantly on movie sets with like 50 adults all gushing over them.
Paul Alex
Yeah.
Tereza Lally
Do you understand? Can you imagine the level of confidence? They're walking around thinking, wow, I must be special.
Paul Alex
No, absolutely.
Tereza Lally
Because everyone is all about me. So I feel like it totally shaped them. At the age of six, we stopped that side of things, like the auditioning and booking. Cause they were doing pretty good, like national commercials and off Broadway and Netflix movies. Our son was actually the co star of Martin Scorsese's daughter's film that premiered at Cannes Film Festival. So they did really well. Very talented. And then they decided to shift since we were in the biohacking field, they said, can we do your movies? Like can you guys cast us? So we started taking them with us on set and they had some meaningful questions to ask to these experts. So they fell in love with the world and they fell in love with Self optimization, self help, and really understanding their cells. Their, their little babies, they call them. These are our babies, the cells. We're going to take care of them. And they bring this whole different outlook to health for us, you know, so we start looking at longevity from their eyes and it's very refreshing. So now they're actually journalists with biohack yourself, they go around to different events, they interview some of the leading experts. Our son does, you know, biohack battles and does challenges and push ups. It's very fun.
Paul Alex
I love that. I love that. And then with them having such a busy routine.
Tereza Lally
Yeah.
Paul Alex
How about school? Let's talk about that.
Tereza Lally
Yeah.
Paul Alex
So do you guys homeschool? Is it public school, private school? What are you guys currently doing?
Anthony Lally
We've done so many different types of schooling.
Paul Alex
Yeah.
Anthony Lally
A lot of our friends want us to do a documentary about her new parents.
Podcast Announcer
It's important.
Paul Alex
I did a post recently on this. Me and my wife were like, we're going to homeschool our kid. And. Yeah, what can you share the agenda, what you guys are going to be teaching them?
Anthony Lally
So it's in the works. We have it. It's called Tears of education because you. There's different tiers.
Paul Alex
I love that.
Anthony Lally
And you could also have tears of sadness or tears of joy, depending on how you educated your child.
Paul Alex
Yes.
Anthony Lally
So we've gone through almost every tier you can with public, private, Montessori.
Tereza Lally
We've tried Montessori, we've tried Waldorf, we've tried Christian Orthodox. So we've tried. So we went into actually a school six months at a time, like a semester at a time. And we changed our schools because we wanted to be students, we wanted to be parents in each kind of school, not just tour the schools. Right. Because when you're touring, it's just the false impression of like how good they are. And so we became parents at every single school and understood like, what's the burden on the parents, what's the burden on the children? You know, what's the level of expectations? And it was incredible to really dissect everything. At the end of the day, we ended up homeschooling just at the right time when they had developed such incredible abilities of going into any environment and being able to make friends. So they don't have that. You know, a lot of homeschool kids, when they're homeschooling from the get go, I would say they tend to be a little bit more introverted.
Paul Alex
Yes.
Tereza Lally
Although that may not exist nowadays because there's communities of homeschool parents that hang out all the time. But we felt that it was beneficial when the kids kept going to different schools, kept understanding, okay, now we're in this environment. How do we go and conquer this kind of friendship? So it was great. Then at the second grade, right? Second grade, we actually moved to homeschooling. And we absolutely love it. We build our own curriculum. We add so many extracurricular activities like debate classes and etiquette classes and obviously like swimming, like private swimming, private pickleball. What else?
Anthony Lally
Jiu jitsu, Muay Thai.
Tereza Lally
We have so much time class, so much time because they only do two hours of learning right at home with a tutor four days a week. That's it, education wise. And they're able to actually retain information. And we're using a public school curriculum because, you know, they don't have to become like math geniuses. Of course, as long as they're kind of keeping at pace and loving learning. Yes, we're happy with that.
Anthony Lally
Well, today's environment with chat, GBT and AI, the most important skill you can your child is agency.
Paul Alex
Correct.
Anthony Lally
You have to know exactly how to be resourceful.
Paul Alex
Yes. No, you're absolutely right. And I totally agree with that. My next question was actually going to be, and I think you guys answered it, was how do you guys pick what subjects? Or how do you choose the path where you want your, your child to go? Are they, are you guys having the talks with them saying like, hey, what is it that you guys want to go ahead and grow up? Right? Because it might change, Right. It's kids. I remember being a kid, I was like, oh, I want to do this, I want to do that. Right? Or is it like that for your kids right now?
Anthony Lally
You remember the kids are always watching you. You're looking to see what you're interested in, what you admire. They want you to be proud of them. They want to be proud of themselves.
Paul Alex
Of course.
Anthony Lally
I think my wife and I do a good job of articulating what makes us proud, what we're interested in. In this case, health, wellness, longevity.
Paul Alex
Yes.
Anthony Lally
You know, also wealth. You know, they own real estate where you and I met, which was Paul Hutchinson's book signing.
Paul Alex
Yes.
Anthony Lally
We, the kids won an award in Utah for being the youngest real estate landlord.
Paul Alex
I remember you telling me.
Anthony Lally
So, you know, they're very proud of that and they want to do more. They actually gave an amazing speech where they thank the owner of that event for recognizing and they were like, we'd like to continue the momentum and really just be Exemplary.
Tereza Lally
I think also psychologically we do both, right? First of all, at a very young age, we expose them to everything. I had a whole list of extracurricular activities, like whether it be ballet, taekwondo, like we said, okay, what are some of the sports? We want them to be included. What are some of the artistic things? Like, is it music, is it playing an instrument, is it arts? And we literally expose them to so many different things for probably from one to I would say six. We were doing 10 classes a week. 10 different classes a week. We were not specializing in anything, which could be disheartening at that particular moment because all of a sudden this one's kid is doing gymnastic competitions. And there's a lot of moms that push their kids hard in one direct. But we just wanted to really understand how do they accept everything, right? Because that just gives them this ability of just being absorbent and just being.
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Tereza Lally
Quick to learn things, being dynamic, dynamic.
Anthony Lally
And what she did a really good job is, you know, doing the appetizer. Of it and then reintroducing it again. So when they go into the field again, they're like, oh, this is familiar territory. I'm going to ace it.
Tereza Lally
Yeah.
Anthony Lally
And then we get, we pull them back out and then we put them at them again. And now they're even more familiar. So her kind of recipe for bringing it in and micro dosing these, these classes.
Tereza Lally
And then they take on a few things, right. They really fall in love. Like pickleball. At first we tried tennis because obviously ping pong tennis, pickleball, that's the best sport for your brain development. So first we tried tennis. The teacher was too rough. They said, you know, we absolutely don't like this. So we stopped. Then we tried pickleball with a certain private teacher. They're like, yeah, this is decent, but it's hot. So it's just like not clicking right. We stopped again. Then we found an amazing pickleball location where we went. And now there was a whole different level. They're watching other kids, they're watching girls, they're watching guys. Like, they're taking it serious. They're like, oh my gosh, love pickleball. So now they, they live and die pickleball.
Anthony Lally
Well, I think they like rejection. Remember they, they didn't make the pickleball team. They got pissed and they were like, no way. Yeah, I wanted. Now they started up in the ante. Now they had a goal. Same thing happened with swimming. They didn't make the swim team. And then they said, no, no, no, I need coaching. I want to make the swim team. And then they made the swim team.
Paul Alex
That's actually, it's refreshing.
Anthony Lally
Yeah.
Paul Alex
And the reason why I say that is because especially, you know, hiring the younger generation. Now myself at 37, I'm hiring a lot of either 18 to about 25 maximum. And there is, for a lot of them is their first job. And a lot of them, they're not going to be good at it. That's just the way it is. It's a lot of the positions that I hire for is for sales.
Anthony Lally
Right.
Paul Alex
One of my portfolio companies. And what I see, the common denominator is just self doubt, self belief, not being able to go ahead and overcome those roadblocks. But for your kids, it seems like they have that winning mindset of not giving up and perseverance.
Anthony Lally
So. Mindset. We put them in debate class.
Podcast Announcer
Yeah.
Anthony Lally
Sometimes regrettably, because they're very good debaters. I mean, they'll debate as to why they should watch this particular show. I mean, they're really amazing kids to kind of really even have a debate.
Tereza Lally
And it wasn't always like that, by the way. Right. So we also worked hard to, like you said, how do you choose a direction for your child?
Anthony Lally
Yeah.
Tereza Lally
And that always something I kept thinking, right, because you're the mom, you're really kind of in charge of everything. So I, you know, I love to write things down. Right. And so. And my husband is very good at, like, seeing the future. Right. So I would write, let's say, okay, I wanted to go to ballet. Then we write the pros, then we write the cons. Like, we literally treat this as a job. You know, how do you choose a direction? So ballet, for example. Right. I was really hot and heavy on going to ballet because it's very feminine, it develops the posture. But then there's sassy girls and there's all of that happening. And then he says, you know, she's never going to become a professional ballet. That's a waste of time. So there's all of that happening. Right. But then, so we come with our pros and cons to her, and then we say, we think this, we think that. And then she's like, okay, yeah, I think we can skip this. Or, you know what? I do like the pros of this. I think I can see myself doing that. How long do you guys think I should do that? I. To get the pros, and then we move on. So there's a lot of debating, a lot of treating them like adults, you know, even since they were born, like, if I'm changing a diaper, I'm talking like an adult. I'm like, hey, so I'm changing this diaper. I chose the organic diaper. The diaper's name is this. You know, the ingredients of this diaper are this. This is like, I would literally. He would think, that's amazing.
Paul Alex
No, that's amazing.
Tereza Lally
And I would do massages. I would be like, here, this is a jojoba oil. It's so good for your skin because you're to supposed your skin has to be shiny. And, you know, I would do some real conversations with them since the day they were born, because I thought their subconscious is capturing everything.
Paul Alex
Yeah.
Tereza Lally
Because the brain develops up to 50% in the first year. Can you imagine?
Paul Alex
Wow. And most people are not talking to their kids.
Tereza Lally
Not talking or baby talking or they're.
Paul Alex
Doing the baby talk.
Tereza Lally
No, it's like the worst thing.
Paul Alex
So they're doing their children a disservice by doing that.
Tereza Lally
Yeah.
Paul Alex
Wow. That's what we learned something new and that's good.
Tereza Lally
Yeah. And also the sleep training. I'm super against an anti sleep training. Like we co slept with our kids until very, like until recently, co slept with them. Right. Because it's the emotional development of feeling safe.
Podcast Announcer
Right.
Tereza Lally
So the Farber technique is basically put your child in the crib and let them cry it out. It's called a cry it out sleep training.
Anthony Lally
Right.
Tereza Lally
At the age of 4 months, your pediatrician is going to say, your child is so ready to soothe themselves and it's going to give them a high level of independence and they can do this. They're all capable, all the kids do it. You know, it's going to be definitely terrible for you to listen to your child cry for 45 minutes, but it's only 45 minutes.
Paul Alex
Right.
Tereza Lally
The second night it's going to take 20 minutes, and the third night, five minutes. And then they're never going to cry again. They'll be sleeping like a baby. It's amazing. And I come home and I start reading because I'm a reader, I'm a researcher, I don't stop at one opinion, I don't stop at two. I literally go to like 10 to 20 opinions. And I realized how horrible it is for emotional intelligence to sleep train a child to let them be alone. Imagine for 45 minutes, they're screaming at 4 months old, of course, and nobody's coming to their rescue.
Paul Alex
Correct.
Tereza Lally
So the cortisol level is up. The, you know, the abandonment level is up. And so that's something else we did to like really develop their empathy towards the world, towards just kindness and empathy and maturity and emotional iq. I think that was one of the most instrumental things we did.
Paul Alex
Wow. Yeah, that, that, that in itself is a mini master class. Right, Emilio? Yeah, that was good level. I love that.
Anthony Lally
That's really what it boils down to.
Paul Alex
Yeah. Lola. Parenting. There we go. We gotta start a new segment, guys.
Anthony Lally
Totally. The fact of the matter is, is that we all have children for selfish reasons. Right. And the fact is, it's a lot like a business. If you don't pay attention to it, it's gonna bite back at you. Correct. It's gonna diminish your quality life.
Paul Alex
Absolutely.
Anthony Lally
So if you have a bad salesforce, a bad sales, a negative person, a doubtcaster within your infrastructure, it really ruins. It's like a cancer. The same thing happens with your kids. If you don't pay attention from the beginning, really nurture them mentally, physically, psychologically, it's going to Bite you in the.
Paul Alex
Long run in all aspects. Life by design.
Anthony Lally
Yeah.
Paul Alex
I love it. I love it. So let's talk about now the health portion of your guys's journey. What made you guys go into the health industry, the health fitness industry right now?
Anthony Lally
Well, I had an exit of my real estate company. I had started a real estate brokerage and scaled it to 100 locations nationally and sold it. I had a famous story. Over a hundred of my employees tattooed my company logo on their bodies. As you know, you can easily, with the right type of leadership, make six and seven figure earners and commissions.
Paul Alex
Yes.
Anthony Lally
And so I was able to do that. And so people were very changed lives.
Paul Alex
Changed lives, changed lives.
Anthony Lally
And so that story went viral and then eventually exited the company. And I'd always promised my wife because she was on my back. And the whole family, we had multiple interventions about losing weight. I was ballooning up to 315 pounds and they kept having these meetings with me. In 2015, I decided to shut them all up and I did something drastic. I did a gastric sleeve surgery. Unapproved. I didn't tell anybody. I lost 50 pounds and then gained 70. Lost my muscle mass, got sleep apnea, was getting hospitalized because I took a shortcut. Right. If you take shortcuts, you're only going to cut your life short.
Paul Alex
Yeah.
Anthony Lally
And that's what was happening. Right. So then I turned around to my family, my wife and the kids, and I said, look, just leave me alone. I'm gonna die fat and happy.
Tereza Lally
And then marketing tagline.
Anthony Lally
And then my wife, you know, she's really good at vision boards, you know, leveling up the family and it really, you know, thing all that kind of stuff. And so she basically said, is this really what you want to do? So she created a vision board, would put my face on a six pack body and said, I believe you can achieve this. I believe you can do this. And then my daughter said, I don't want you to die.
Paul Alex
Right.
Anthony Lally
You're fat. I don't want you to die. So I decided that day to change my life and change the trajectory. And then I treated my body like I needed to level up. I said, I'm gonna treat my body now. I'm in the business of losing weight and saving, you know, fighting for my life.
Tereza Lally
Yeah.
Anthony Lally
So I hired help just like I would if you're gonna open up a new, like you're, you're moving your offices to Puerto Rico. Right. So you're building the right team, the right infrastructure. I got the right team. Besides Getting my family, my mom, my mother in law, my whole inner circle support. I brought in outside professional help.
Paul Alex
Of course.
Anthony Lally
I hired a nutritionist. I flew him down to live with us. Us from England, from Ireland, rather. He lived with us for a year, took him with me everywhere.
Paul Alex
Amazing.
Anthony Lally
Turned him into a millionaire. And he turned in to give me a million dollar rock star body. So it was great. We turned that into a documentary. Yeah. Which was called From Fat Lolly to Six Pack Lolly. Yeah. During the pandemic we released it, it exploded. I love that men around the world were, you know, messaging saying, I was ready to kill myself, just like you.
Paul Alex
Yeah.
Anthony Lally
Until I saw this documentary. Yeah. You gave me hope. So that took us in a health and wellness direction where we ended up doing more documentaries in that space because we built a nice audience and we recognize the value of documentaries. Much like podcasts, someone watching this is watching it to level up.
Podcast Announcer
Correct.
Anthony Lally
Right. They're watching it to apply into their lives and intention. And documentaries are the same way. But what's really interesting is the algorithm. So if you watch something on Amazon or an Apple, it automatically recommends what they think you would like.
Paul Alex
Correct.
Anthony Lally
So we started recognizing that the algorithms were pushing our content. So now we have 12 documentaries on.
Tereza Lally
We have won 59 best documentary awards.
Paul Alex
Amazing.
Tereza Lally
Because everything is. We call it edutaining and experiential. Like we're actually going through our journeys and we're going to do it no matter what. We just invite the audience to be with us. So for seven years, we've been in audience collection business almost. Right. And they have been rooting for us and our betterment. And we got to a point where now we're touching the top of the top experts and world leaders in longevity and biohacking. And we're bringing that to the everyday people. So we still feel very humble to have gone through all these experiences. It was all a mindset shift, I think. Right. And his journey definitely put us on this track. And for him, it was important to understand he was no longer weight loss, where we're focusing on pound by pound or calorie by calorie. It was a transformation.
Podcast Announcer
Right.
Tereza Lally
When we discovered there's an entire transformation world, we put the vision board. It was like that nine months, he was able to lose 125 pounds.
Paul Alex
Wow.
Tereza Lally
And then he had a loose skin surgery and he was on stage shirtless, where he wouldn't even take his shirt off at home, in bed or in the pool. Right. He would always have his black shirt on. So now he's on stage and he, we had that joke, he would be like, well now we're the beauty and the beast, but you're the beast baby. Because he became a transformation icon. So that documentary did very well. And then he said babe, since you have the mom bot. And I was complaining about my mom bot and I actually had a condition called diastasis recti which goes completely untalked about, unspoken about. It's basically the separation of your abdominal walls and almost 50% of moms have it in some level. Right.
Anthony Lally
An eye on your wife for that.
Tereza Lally
But bigger child even. Like my son was 10 pounds, right. So it's almost like having twins. So I had an eight finger separation. You could put eight fingers straight between my abs. So that's really bad because then you start suffering with back pain and then it turns into osteoporosis later. So it's a real devastating condition if you don't take care of it. And you can only take care of it postpartum, like in the first year or two before your tissue gets hardened up. So he trained me, we were able to close my gap non surgically because we were actually using this, this bands called Tupler Technique bands. T U P L E R Topler Technique. That's the only band that actually works. We've tried it our all. And he trained me hardcore. I mean I would plank three plates of 45 pounds for two minutes and he made me so strong. I was 225.
Paul Alex
Yeah.
Tereza Lally
I would squat with him on my 225, 25.
Anthony Lally
And for reps by the way. For reps?
Tereza Lally
Yeah.
Paul Alex
Wow.
Tereza Lally
I'm petite. Right. I never thought I would do it but resistance training really helped. And he is an expert at becoming an expert at something he likes. So the nine months of weight weight loss project turned into him training me to become a two time bikini pro. So when we went and started filming the Super Lollies which was the sequel to the Fat Lolly, we actually decided to give the audience the inside look, look to all the different federations and the actual life of a fitness competitor. We said it's not like bodybuilding, it's not all about the muscly guys with steroids. Like it's not that there is moms, there is grandmas, there's grandpas, there's young people, there's old people, there's a transformation category, transformation category. We train. We basically competed in every single federation out there. Interviewed all of the owners of federations, like what are you looking for in a competitor? This one looks like a Victoria's Secret fashion show. This one looks like this one is tested ocb, for example, they tested me, my urine test, my polygraph. So they know you're all natural. Right. That was a big deal. I was still nursing my son, so just to show people I gained 12 pounds of muscle in a matter of 10 months, all naturally. My protein powder was pea protein.
Anthony Lally
Wow.
Tereza Lally
Like that's how natural. Because he trained me. And we were also on meal plans. Then we continued on to do more documentaries. We did a loose skin surgery documentary by popular demand because people really wanted to see the pre post op of the surgery because we featured it in the first documentary for 10 seconds. And so the surgeon himself came and wanted to do a whole documentary about his procedure. It's an amazing documentary called Skin Deep. We actually won 13 best documentary awards for that one. And then we produced the Guru, which is to this day the most star studded bodybuilding documentary. We brought on board Basically all the OGs like Kai Green, Dexter Jackson, Flex.
Anthony Lally
Wheeler, the Jim Manion, the guy who.
Tereza Lally
Owns Mr. Olympia, Aaron Singerman is in it. And they all came to talk about our star, who's George Farah, who was hit with this very dramatic cancer battle, but then he was able to actually recover through nutrition and health routines.
Anthony Lally
Wow.
Tereza Lally
So that was very interesting. We talked about health a lot in that documentary. We also understood that a lot of the bodybuilders were doing some sort of biohacking, but not the full package. Like one was just doing red light therapy, the other one just doing detoxes. Right. It's such scattered information.
Paul Alex
It is.
Tereza Lally
But we realized that they are doing some of this as a competitive advantage. So we were diving deeper into that. And I already was into functional medicine big time because our son was misdiagnosed seven times.
Paul Alex
And what year was this?
Tereza Lally
The Guru was filmed in 2022. Our son was misdiagnosed in 2018. Between 2018-2019, when he was born, 7 misdiagnosis. Can you imagine that at 5 months old? Since he wasn't sleeping still through the night, I was like, something must be up. Let me take him, start checking him out. Seven different hospitals, doctors, all western medicine technique, right? I mean he was diagnosed as having a Lyme disease, parasite overload, glyphosate poisoning on the spectrum. What else? Restless leg syndrome. I'm telling you, seven different, complete different diagnosis. With each diagnosis came a medication. Of course we never took, I never took medication. Just didn't feel right. Because I said if there was Three opinions that matched. I would take that same medication.
Paul Alex
Right.
Tereza Lally
But it was seven different opinions and seven different medications. I'm not doing it. So turned into functional medicine. Started listening to books like Steve Gundry's book, and then Dr. Tom O' Brien's Autoimmune Fix completely changed my understanding of health and wellness. So I started diving into that. We saw about 15 practitioners. He had very deep ties with politicians and mayors and stuff like that. So we were actually able to get into some of these functional medicine doctor practices that are not taking new patients.
Podcast Announcer
Wow.
Tereza Lally
And after this whole research that took me about eight months, and we spent about $250,000 on this kid. We're like, you're the most expensive kid ever. His name is Legend. He's like, yeah, because I'm Legend.
Paul Alex
I was gonna say his name matches. Yeah.
Tereza Lally
It's like, we have to do a documentary called Raising Legend.
Podcast Announcer
Yes.
Tereza Lally
You know, what a hard task. But we recognize how deep we actually went, and we were able to put the pieces of the puzzle together. He had a genetic mutation. Mutation. And we had mold in the H VAC system. I mean, you need deep research to even put these two together.
Paul Alex
Absolutely.
Tereza Lally
What's a regular person gonna do to find this? Right. I had the reason.
Paul Alex
Not as much as you guys, at least.
Tereza Lally
Like, I had the ability, the resources, the connections, and the time to dig, dig, dig until I found it. Then, through homeopathic remedies and basically herbal supplements, we detox him. And within six months, lights went on. He was different, Speaking, like, fluent. Like, auditioning for speaking parts at, like, 2 years old. Like, it was amazing, the change we saw. The dark circles under his eyes was gone. Sleeping 8 to 10 hours straight. Not crying, never moody, not fussing anything. We're like, wow, what could we have done to this kid? Had we just listened to the first opinion?
Anthony Lally
Well, think about your wife, right? You guys are getting ready to give birth, Right? That's in itself a big taxing on the female body.
Paul Alex
It is.
Anthony Lally
Does a lot. We're in the middle of completing. Well, actually, we completed a documentary called Shield She Healed Women Health Documentary. It's the biggest. Got 77 people. Gary Brecker's in it. A bunch of famous people that are practitioners, best experts. They all said the same thing. Women change after having kids, drastically. So your wife is there. You're busy building the business. You're traveling. This, that. Now she's there. She wants to do whatever it takes to make the baby healthy. If, God forbid, something.
Paul Alex
Correct.
Anthony Lally
Now she's listening to this doctor who's got reps under his belt saying, listen, take this pill, do this, do that. I mean, what is she to do? What is she to do? Right. And. And she's not maybe necessarily with her full vitamins, Correct?
Tereza Lally
Yeah. So she's sleepless.
Anthony Lally
She's sleep this. So the whole point is we created something that is a resource, something we wish we had. So if you watch our body of work, whether it's, you know, wanting to lose weight and whatever means necessary, whether it's what happens after you lose weight, you know, getting loose skin surgery, whether it's you've been struck in with cancer and want to heal that with nutrition like George Farrow did, or whether it's, you want to biohack yourself. Now we're doing a biological dentistry street documentary. So that's like next level. Yeah. And you know, dementia, Alzheimer's, all sorts of sickness. I mean, your partner does gut tests.
Paul Alex
Yeah.
Anthony Lally
And he'll tell you a lot of the stuff comes the root causes from the mouth.
Paul Alex
It does.
Anthony Lally
Besides getting fat and getting sick and what you're putting in your mouth.
Podcast Announcer
Correct.
Anthony Lally
What you're implanting and what kind of fillings you're doing root canals, all these things. So we're doing a very deep dive. I nearly died in July. I had a sinus infection. This is me after Fat Lolly. Biohacking yourself, all this kind of stuff.
Paul Alex
You've done all these amazing things.
Tereza Lally
And he's like my everything firing on all cylinders. His biomarkers are excellent. Boom.
Anthony Lally
I had an implant that was done incorrectly. It caused a big problem. And I had this problem for like six months because we were busy filming. We did a big red carpet premiere for Biohack Yourself in Vegas. We produced the Maha ball for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Throughout that whole entire time, I had this infection festering. That was kind of. I was starting to lose my eyesight, starting to lose my hearing. Anyway, we started the cameras rolling and once again, we're creating something we wish we had.
Tereza Lally
No, we're actually putting our whole family through biological dental makeovers. Like my mom, his mom, my dad, 60s, 70s, 80s, covering the kids, covering me, the 30s and the 40s. And what has been done wrong with us that's causing certain health ailments that even the most biohacking experiences are not curing. And so that all comes to this small area called your mouth.
Paul Alex
You know what I love about your guys? All your guys concepts. You guys use your guys's life but also experience as social proof for the rest of the viewers. And I think that is the big hook on why you guys are getting so much success. Because even in the small space that I've been in digital marketing for the past five years now, I've always used myself as social proof. Like I go ahead and say, well guys, this is my results, this is what I did. And it's so much more powerful than go ahead and saying someone else did it.
Anthony Lally
Yeah. Right.
Paul Alex
Because they're taking it your word, they're taking your experience. You guys are using actual personal stories and it's powerful.
Anthony Lally
You know, a good friend of ours, Morgan Spurlock, he passed away recently. He did a doctor documentary called Super Size Me and it was about how he got sick. I remember eating McDonald's. So we decided to do the opposite. We're going to show people how we got healthy.
Podcast Announcer
Yeah.
Anthony Lally
And give them. And we don't do fear mongering documentaries where we're pointing the finger at the government or this. Which is great, man. It's just all solution based. Like here's what we're going through, the real deal. So yeah.
Paul Alex
And let me ask you this question, guys. So production.
Anthony Lally
Yeah.
Paul Alex
What got you guys into thinking about production? Because most people are like, hey, you know, I'll go ahead and vlog, they'll get their iPhone. But you guys, full blown, you know, film set, the works. So what got, who came up with the idea?
Tereza Lally
I always had massive passion for entertainment and like I said, I was in really big movies as an actor. But then when he started filming his transformation journey on a cell phone.
Paul Alex
Yeah.
Tereza Lally
And that was back in 20, 18, 29.
Anthony Lally
I had been in production by virtue of being an executive producer, which is the fancy guy who puts up the money.
Paul Alex
Yeah.
Anthony Lally
People were using my homes, my Rolls Royce. I'd work with Raekwon, the from the Wu Tang or Spike Lee. Very cool. And so I was around that whole thing and I got a chance to build relationships with a lot of people, a lot of the crew on set.
Paul Alex
Yeah.
Anthony Lally
And I said, I think we should just do this for, for ourselves. Right. Because if you put it in your own control, you could tell your own story. But I understand the demand of quality. So a lot of our productions are 3 to 4 million dollar product. Of course it's very expensive and the best of the best in the world. Usually, you know, we'll employ three to five hundred people on a project, whether it's part time or full time, start to finish. So a lot of people get employed and we try to employ people from within that ecosystem.
Paul Alex
Right.
Anthony Lally
So in the case of Biohack Yourself, we got casting directors that were familiar with people in the industry and we employed them. Now we have journalists that are from the industry. So it's a very interesting way to really help grow.
Tereza Lally
But we're also, you know, we're also understanding the influencer market and the celebrity market, how the masses do follow celebrities.
Paul Alex
Correct.
Tereza Lally
So the more Hollywood you make this, the more fun and high level and high quality you make it.
Paul Alex
Yeah.
Tereza Lally
The more people are gonna believe in it and follow it. Of course, indie stuff may not get the same respect.
Paul Alex
Correct.
Tereza Lally
So. So we're definitely high believers. And actually people started calling us the lollies are the Hollywood of biohacking. So we bring that, you know, vibe. And at the Oscars of longevity, where 800 people of the top leading experts showed up, we had 10 red carpet stations set up. Each red carpet had its own assistant and a videographer and a photographer. And everyone was scheduled with the PR personnel. Like it was a real Hollywood experience for doctors and scientists who never even dressed up.
Paul Alex
It's different.
Tereza Lally
It's different. We're honoring the people that are actually making a big change.
Paul Alex
Correct. I love that. And what is your guys's plan for the future? I mean, you guys are already doing so much and I always say when people ask me, me, hey, like, why don't you stop? You know, you, you moved to Puerto Rico recently. You know, why you slow down? Because I'm always chasing the greater version of myself. Right. But it's very inspiring, man, because I'm in my own health journey as well.
Anthony Lally
And you lost weight.
Paul Alex
I did.
Anthony Lally
I could tell.
Paul Alex
I did. But it's, it's more on just a principle. Now that I'm having a son, I want to be a role model.
Podcast Announcer
Right.
Paul Alex
Not just in finances, but I want to look good too, so. So I want him to be like, wow, dad's like, you know, strong, like a superhero. Right. But what is your guys vision for your family, everything that you guys are doing right now in the next couple years?
Anthony Lally
Well, we're experiential. Right. So right now we're on the journey of biological dentistry and kind of righting our wrongs. Like what we talked about with me and my mother and her mother. Her father's flying down to Germany. We're doing a big procedure on him.
Paul Alex
Wow.
Anthony Lally
You know, we really want to extend our family's life and, and really it's something called there's a lifespan and then there's health span.
Paul Alex
Correct.
Anthony Lally
We recently interviewed a gentleman that was 102 years old. He's a super ager this guy had. You couldn't tell the difference between all three of us and him. This guy's got his mental faculties. He's coming out in our magazine. We have a Lara Trump on the COVID of our next magazine. We dedicated a whole page to his interview. We were that impressed. He share. Him and I share the same birthday together.
Paul Alex
Is this your guys magazine?
Anthony Lally
This is our magazine.
Paul Alex
So, guys, biohack yourself.
Anthony Lally
Biohack yourself. Because no one else can do it for you.
Tereza Lally
Yeah, yeah, you have to. Our slogan is go biohack yourself.
Paul Alex
To me.
Tereza Lally
We had this household joke that when JLo and Ben Affleck divorced, I was talking to a cousin of mine in Armenia, and somehow that conversation came up and it just hit me. And I came to Anthony. I was like, why is a third world country learning about this kind of information so fast?
Paul Alex
Yeah.
Tereza Lally
And if so, we can make a platform, which is biocare self media that can just transmit health and wellness information, be at the front lines of old discovery, all technological development, and literally keep the world on the same level of understanding about biohacking longevity. How do we all go to that 150, right. Push the human potential. I'll be happy. My mom always calls me the Mother Teresa, but basically that been my goal of really just elevating everyone's understanding to the same level.
Paul Alex
Absolutely. And I think it's needed, you know, with the experts talking on health and gut health, you know, not a lot of people understand it. There's a lot of influencer content creators now speaking about it. But I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, some of the technical talk is too technical.
Anthony Lally
Too technical?
Paul Alex
No. So what are you guys doing that's different from the rest?
Tereza Lally
Yeah, we make it extremely uncommon. Understandable. I love that Even in our documentaries, we brought our kids on set and so we would have them sit down, let's say, with Dr. Daniel, amen, warm him up with the questions and how to simplify things. Then we would sit down and interview him. So our kids would ask, you know, like, what is. Like, where is the brain? Right. Like. And he would say, actually, brain is an organ. And you would see his demeanor change completely.
Podcast Announcer
Wow.
Tereza Lally
And so that's how we were able to capture the most simplified content from top leading complex experts. And we democratize it too. Like, even at the events, we'll be invited to ufc, we'll be invited to Miami Fashion Week and Turning Point USA events. Right. We're out there talking to the most Optimized and competitive people in politics and sports and you know, the elite and they're all doing some sort of hacks. So we're just bringing that to the people in the most fun and entertaining way. It's like E News, but all focused on health.
Paul Alex
Good, good. And it's needed, especially in America. You know, I feel like everybody needs to take care of themselves. It's one thing about finances, but it's another thing taking the finances, getting the options and getting optimized with your health. Correct. So guys, where can my audience find you and more information on all cross your platforms.
Anthony Lally
Well, the simple word is biohack Yourself. If they Google it, if it comes, if they chat G and everything that we have. But biohack Yourself media is the Instagram. My personal Instagram is at Anthony Lolly L O L L I. Tereza's is Tereza with a Z. Lolly L O L L I. So those are the two places. And of course we have Lolly Brands Entertainment.
Paul Alex
Yeah, I love that. And then any of your documentaries that are going to be coming out soon.
Anthony Lally
Yeah, well, all of our documentaries are streaming. We have SHIELD Coming out soon. Biohack Yourself is streaming on all platforms. The magazine is in literally 5,800 retail stores. It's in Barnes and Noble, it's in Publix, it's in Indigo, Canada. It's in functional medicine clinics. It's in the hands of every top, top celebrity and athlete that cares about their health. If you're in this magazine, you're top of your field. If it's a brand, if it's a person that's writing for the magazine, it's top of the field of the field. We're very proud of it. It's, it's our, our latest baby.
Paul Alex
And the last question I have for the both of you guys is what is your. Why, why do you guys do all this?
Tereza Lally
Why do we continue to do it? We're like, we're obsessed with health and longevity. It's, it's kind of. It keeps us together, right? It gamifies life and happiness and we totally compete with each other all the time with our labs. They're like, you know what, you know, what's this level of yours? And the anti aging pace also we're competing, actually made it to the top 100 Olympics in the Dunedin pace. I don't know if you know that pace. It's Brian Johnson's Olympics. Anti aging Olympics. So I'm now top 96. He's catching up. But for us It's a family mission. Like, we love working together, bringing some light to the world. Otherwise, you know, we can do our real estate quiet and just stay behind the scenes and, you know, but there's not a mission behind it. This is a big mission. Big mission to, I say save the world.
Anthony Lally
It's very purposeful and meaningful work because we've designed our lives like our life is a movie, really what it is. And we're writing the script every day.
Paul Alex
Correct.
Anthony Lally
And so we're just directing and starring in our movie called life.
Paul Alex
Yeah. Purpose Life by design. Leveling up. I love it. Guys, guys, that is this episode. My name is Paul Alex with the level up.
Podcast Announcer
Guys.
Paul Alex
Thank you once again for the 4 million downloads a month. You guys are keeping us on the top of the charts. With that being said on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and YouTube, leave a five star review, guys, so we can bring other phenomenal guests just like our power couple today. With that being said, guys, we'll catch you on the next one.
Podcast Announcer
Peace. It.
Date: December 2, 2025
Host: Paul Alex Espinoza
Guests: Anthony & TereZa Lolli
This episode features Anthony and TereZa Lolli—a dynamic couple deeply involved in real estate, media, and the fast-growing world of biohacking. The conversation delivers a candid, high-energy dive into their personal journeys: from Anthony’s real estate success and health transformation to the couple’s innovative approach to parenting, homeschooling, and health-focused documentary production. The Lollis share their hard-won insights on entrepreneurship, family legacy, health optimization, and their mission to democratize biohacking knowledge for everyday people.
On Generational Wealth:
“I was the first one to kind of create generational wealth my family.” – Anthony [02:39]
On Transformation Over Weight Loss:
“It was all a mindset shift, I think…for him, it was important to understand he was no longer weight loss, we’re focusing on transformation.” – TereZa [24:17]
“If you take shortcuts, you’re only going to cut your life short.” – Anthony [21:10]
On Parenting:
“We treat our kids like adults from day one.” – TereZa [17:20]
“The fact of the matter is, is that we all have children for selfish reasons…like a business, if you don’t pay attention to it, it’s gonna bite back at you.” – Anthony [19:25]
On Mission & Motivation:
“We’re obsessed with health and longevity… it gamifies life and happiness and we totally compete with each other all the time with our labs.” – TereZa [42:52]
“It’s very purposeful and meaningful work because we’ve designed our lives like our life is a movie, really what it is. And we’re writing the script every day.” – Anthony [43:41]
Inspirational, action-oriented, deeply personal, educational, and purpose-driven—Paul Alex and the Lollis keep it real, vulnerable, and high energy throughout, always connecting back to practical takeaways for listeners seeking to “level up” in health, wealth, and family life.
This episode delivers a blueprint for radical personal transformation—one rooted in entrepreneurial grit, family-first values, deliberate self-experimentation, and a commitment to making life-saving health knowledge accessible to all. Whether you’re a parent, entrepreneur, or on your own health journey, the Lollis provide powerful examples and actionable mindsets to inspire your next level.