Jake S*eville (born November 30, 1985) is the CEO and Co-Founder of Imiloa Ins*ute.

He is an American entrepreneur and television personality who hosted, produced and created talk shows and variety shows from 2007-2015, such as The Edge with Jake S*eville and Late Night Republic with Jake S*eville, on various ABC, The CW, and FOX television affiliates.

Since 2014, he has hosted the award winning The Jake S*eville Show, a podcast having an audience of one million listeners and called "the intersection of Culture and Consciousness" by the Huffington Post.

Contents

• 1 Early life
• 2 Career
  • 2.1 Television talk shows
  • 2.2 Music Tours
  • 2.3 The Jake S*eville Show
  • 2.4 Marketing and Promotion
  • 2.5 Dark Night of the Soul, Maui and Creating Imiloa Ins*ute
  • 2.6 Imiloa Ins*ute in Costa Rica
• 3 References
• 4 External links

Early life

S*eville on tour in 2003

Jake S*eville, born Jacob-Steven Sarto S*eville on November 30, 1985 in Lewiston, Maine and grew up in Auburn, Maine, one of two principal cities of and included in the Lewiston-Auburn, Maine metropolitan statistical area.

At age 13, S*eville took up magic, taking lessons weekly with local Maine magician Bob Nixon. He began performing card magic and stage magic a few months later. Television shows p*ed on the young S*eville as guest, despite that, at age 14, he was one of the youngest people to join the Society of American Magicians. S*eville attended Edward Little High School in Auburn, and continued performing magic throughout high school to fund his own local access television show.

While in high school, S*eville left the US when he was 15 to study abroad in France. After graduating, S*eville enrolled in the New York Ins*ute of Technology. He then transferred from the Ins*ute to Marymount Manhattan College in New York City for two and a half years. He dropped out of college to pursue his career full time became the youngest host in recorded late night TV history on ABC stations after Jimmy Kimmel Live at age 22.

Career

Television talk shows

S*eville's television talk career primarily focused on a reality-talk formula, such as seen on the news/talk program "The Edge". In 2008, S*eville began hosting The Edge with Jake S*eville which ran from 2008–2010. In 2008, S*eville launched the crowd sourced-funded late night talk show Late Night Republic on The CW and FOX television. That same year, the New York Observer's Spencer Morgan called S*eville "a most Un-PC Talk Show Host".

In 2012, S*eville created the ABC Family show, "Delusions of Grandeur", which had elements of reality television and sitcom television combined. While performing as the show's host, S*eville also was the executive producer of Late Night Republic on CW and Fox which ran from 2010–2012,. In 2012, S*eville was named by the White House as one of the top entrepreneurs in America.

As part of his different talk shows, S*eville conducted off-beat interviews—including a variety of locations and odd pairings. Guests have included actor Rainn Wilson of The Office, musician and activist Wyclef Jean, the President of Zambia, Kenneth Kaunda, Al Capone's grandson Chris, and Congressman Dennis Kucinich.

Music Tours

S*eville and INC Magazine Editor Donna Fenn backstage at the David Letterman Lecture Series in 2012

S*eville has conducted a number of speaking tours. From 2010-2011, he was the executive producer, emcee and co-owner of several music tours, featuring Kanye West, OneRepublic, Guster, J. Cole Fabolous and Brett Dennen. In 2010 and 2011, impressed by the power of education and inspired by his travels to several African countries, S*eville launched The Pringles Xtreme Campus Tour, a charity program to build one school in Laos and Thailand for every school the music tour stopped at in the United States. To promote his new TV show on Fox "Late Night Republic", He also embarked on a 40-city road tour, speaking at universities among other events.

The Jake S*eville Show

On September 16, 2014, S*eville launched "The Jake S*eville Show", a podcast, and the show quickly built an audience of one million listeners thanks in part to initial guests like Yvette Noel-Schure (Beyonce's publicist), presidents of Fortune 500 companies and NBA teams, professional sports athletes, Grammy winning musicians and best-selling authors. In order to launch the show successfully, S*eville called on his wide circle of friends as initial guests. In 2015, Huffington Post wrote of the show: "The Jake S*eville Show is at the intersection of Culture and Consciousness" in a story re-capping S*eville's interview with Garrett Madison, Mount Everest climber and survivor of the 2015 Nepal earthquake.

Marketing and Promotion

To promote his shows, S*eville has used a variety of tactics. When the restaurant chain Wendy's refused to take his call to advertise with him, S*eville showed up at the flagship store beside the corporate headquarters in Columbus, Ohio, inviting every woman named Wendy in the State of Ohio the area to have lunch with him at Wendy's. On another occasion, S*eville broke the world record for largest drum ensemble on Pringles Xtreme cans to win the affinity of the brand. He also is the author of Slightly Famous, an autobiography that describes his rise, fall and rebound to "slight" fame, becoming the youngest host in late night TV after Jimmy Kimmel Live.

Dark Night of the Soul, Maui and Creating Imiloa Ins*ute

In 2012, Hurricane Sandy washed away Jake's home on Broad Channel, NYC. His life up-ended, losing his TV contracts and being forced to move into Grandma's Ba*t, in Lewiston, Maine. Grandma's Ba*t, by those who follow him, have become synonymous with a Dark Night of the Soul. He lived there for two years, searching for what he would do next. After moving to Maui from his grandma's ba*t and becoming friends with Ram D* and Shep Gordon, S*eville became interested in the world of transformation as he saw the trend of health and wellness. He also was hosting people in his 2,500 square foot home and cottage in Kula, Hawaii. He created Imiloa in response to the trend toward health and wellness but also recognizing that human beings want to feel at home in their transformation.

It is well known that Jake approached his soon-to-be-business partner Nadav Wilf four times with the idea of Imiloa before Wilf got inspired by the idea. The pair in 2017 notoriously raised $3.5 million in five Facebook posts, making a dent in the social impact world of investing by gathering 38 investors from 19 countries for Imiloa's formation.

Imiloa Ins*ute in Costa Rica

The first of 7 planned inter-continental ins*utes is in the Dominical mountains of Costa Rica. According to its website, Imiloa is a home and an experience where human beings are invited to awaken their consciousness. Imiloa hosts a variety of retreats and says they handle everything from ticketing to touchdown, transformation to take off, from the United Nations to yoga trainings, medical intuitive retreats to research and development retreats, art therapy retreats and more.

References

External links

• City of S*, Official site for Jake S*eville