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The Wolf's Den

How FoodGod Found His Brand & Identity l Wolf’s Den # 149

The Wolf's Den

Jordan Belfort

Society & Culture, Business

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of “The Wolf’s Den,” The Wolf sits down with Jonathan Cheban, now legally known as simply “FoodGod.” FoodGod discusses the origin of his name & brand, testing it out with Kim Kardashian & Kanye West, navigating & collaborating in “Hollywood,” the best & his favorite restaurants in Miami & all over the world & his future endeavors. You don’t wanna miss this one !

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0:00.0

Alright Jordan Belford here on the Wolfel Wall Street in the wolves day with a special episode

0:09.7

This is like the greatest episode ever because I have right in front of me not the food but the food god

0:15.9

All right, I am so excited to be here my friends. I don't know. We're gonna get food right away

0:20.2

So I got the food. I'm like a dog. I started drooling. I know

0:22.9

We're not getting today. Yeah, that's a so long way to go. Tell me first of all why you're the food guys

0:27.6

I think it's a fucking great name. Thank you. So tell me why you're the god of food. Thank you

0:31.2

Well, you know what? So I've been on a television show for 14 years the Kardashians

0:36.2

Kim is my best friend and I was on a very big show that people know me around the world

0:40.5

But at some point I got tired of just doing club appearances because you know you I used to do PR I own big PR firms

0:48.1

20 people working you know, I we did huge events Diddy JLo everybody back back in those days and then

0:55.2

I started being on TV. So then I was like all right. I'm not nothing to do with PR

0:59.8

It's the hardest thing was becoming a reality TV star

1:05.5

From a publicist because I could have been a mortician and had it easier than then being from a publicist because it was like

1:13.8

You know, I used to put the red carpets on and then I'm like all of a sudden I'm walking on the red carpets

1:19.2

It's a very abusive

1:21.1

Abusive kind of situation to put myself into because those same photographers that I'd be like all right

1:26.6

Here comes this person who comes this person now. They're like, you know, what are you doing on the red carpets?

1:31.0

Right, right. Well, I'm on a big show and then I got my own show back called spin crowd

1:36.2

Which was about PR and that was kind of like transitioning into like a reality star because I said I needed my own show and we fought

1:43.3

Nail and tooth is that's the expression for this show for two and a half years

1:46.9

We had an on-air pilot a this pilot of that pilot and we finally got Greenlit

1:52.1

The show did amazing even though it only was one season because the head of the network

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