The Making of A Fearless Organization
Harvard Business School professor, Amy Edmondson, and Moe Abdou discuss the notion of psychological safety & why it's the singular link between world-class teams & organizations.
Dec 01, 2018•42 min
33voices
Moe and Jenna Abdou interview a highly influential roster of founders, venture capitalists, CEO’s, master thinkers, bestselling authors, academic minds, and creatives to deconstruct the hidden insights that only those who are building breakthrough ventures can reveal. For ten years now, 33voices has engaged closely with founders, senior executives and company builders to identify interesting & pressing challenges that give rise to thoughtful dialogue with contributors who not only think differently, but who represent the frontiers of knowledge in business, culture and lifestyle.
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How To Write Your Own Life Story
Tran Wills and Jenna kick off during her teen years, beginning when she decided to leave home at 15, having her son at 16, bringing him to school and still graduating as one of the top in her class, and then starting her own company at 19.In walking through Tran’s journey building businesses in the arts, fashion, and beauty industries, most recently at Base Coat, we focus on how to cultivate key values and mindsets that can help us improve our lives including: How to not be defined by your situa...
Nov 26, 2018•53 min
How To Make Personal Growth A Habit
Melissa Palmer and Jenna kick off with her family’s remarkable relationship with the ocean, how it healed her great grandmother and inspired her mother to found OSEA as one of the pioneering natural skincare lines dedicated to using ingredients that are healthy for us and healthy for the planet. With the seeds of OSEA being planted in the Palmer family 28 years ago, we discuss how they nurture their family working relationship and the importance of staying true to your vision, trusting it that i...
Nov 19, 2018•52 min
Self-Imposed Misery
Kapil Gupta returns to explore why most of us get stuck, why desperation is the beginning of recovery, and why attachment is the seed of all human misery and strife.
Nov 16, 2018•54 min
Taking The Work Out of Networking
Networking is a dreaded activity for many, still as power connector, Karen Wickre discusses with Moe, building an influential network is first and foremost about having a genuine interest in others.
Nov 05, 2018•29 min
Discovering The Strengths That Make You Special
LyAnn Chhay and Jenna kick off discussing her early drive achieving her goal of earning her college degree and creating the future she envisioned for herself. We chat about how she found her unique strengths, the surprising conversation she had with her boss that revealed the value they add to others’ lives and reaffirmed that when you pursue your passions you’ll be rewarded.Focusing on LyAnn’s journey at Poshmark, we rewind back to the early days when she joined as the company’s first team memb...
Oct 26, 2018•36 min
How Curiosity Helps You Achieve Bigger Goals
Evelyn Rusli and Jenna discuss how Yumi is helping families navigate nutrition for the first 1,000 days of their babies lives, which are more important than the rest of your life. We walk through Evelyn’s career as a journalist, beginning when she found out that Rusli isn’t her real last name and was inspired to question fundamental truths, to being a reporter in Jakarta and how the curiosity and persistence she relied on as a journalist have been essential to her success in life and business. E...
Oct 18, 2018•55 min
How To Build Your Empathy Muscle
Sara Cullen and Jenna discuss how Gem created a real food vitamin by challenging what a vitamin looks like, how it’s made, and what’s inside of it. We walk through two of Sara’s key life experiences - living in one of the most developing parts of Morocco and backpacking across 15 countries - and how empathy transcended words enabling her to build meaningful relationships with the people she met despite not speaking the same language. We also chat about empathy as striving to see people as their ...
Oct 17, 2018•51 min
How To Invest In Yourself
Nicole Gibbons and Jenna discuss how she became a self-taught designer, founded a successful design studio, became a design expert on OWN and recently launched her new paint company, Clare. We focus on the importance of actively investing in yourself, cultivating a growth mindset, and how changing your words can change your life. We also chat about why time for yourself is the ultimate recharge and how taking a digital detox can help reveal the important things in your life.
Sep 27, 2018•44 min
How To Make Fulfilling Choices
Rothy's COO and President Kerry Cooper and Jenna discuss how to step into our agency to make energizing and fulfilling life and career choices. Reflecting on Kerry's career as a long-time senior executive, we chat about strategies to cope with stress, the weekly framework Kerry uses to align her priorities, and the importance of letting our minds wander.
Sep 26, 2018•32 min
How Being Your Authentic Self Increases Resilience
knix CEO and Founder Joanna Griffiths and Jenna discuss how self-acceptance and positive self-talk enables us to feel mentally lighter and increases our energy and ability to achieve our goals. We chat about the mindset shift that changed Joanna’s life, how deciding to fight for something bigger than herself made her “a woman on a mission,” and why our ability to make an impact begins with the courage to live our truth.
Sep 25, 2018•43 min
In The Groove Is Changing How We Talk About Aging
Susan Feldman and Jenna discuss her intentions to use In The Groove to acknowledge, celebrate and empower age-defying women. We chat about how to upgrade the aging conversation by focusing on creating community, seeking new experiences, and most importantly, having fun. We also discuss lessons on risk-taking and constantly iterating ourselves that Susan learned from her dad, who after having two successful careers earned his Masters at 80 to pursue being a painter.
Sep 24, 2018•47 min
How To Build An Enduring Partnership
Jessica Rolph, Rod Morris and Jenna discuss the different layers of creating and nurturing a successful partnership. We dive into important topics such as how to help each individual develop their identity within your company, the importance of being vulnerable and having honest conversations, especially when difficult, and consistently ensuring that everyone on your team feels acknowledged and appreciated.
Sep 20, 2018•44 min
How To Live Your Healthiest And Happiest Life
Amanda Haas and Jenna discuss her journey rising from an associate at Williams Sonoma to becoming their Culinary Director. We dive into Amanda’s mission to help people eat healthier and feel their best, her bestselling cookbook, The Anti-Inflammation Cookbook, and simple shifts we can make to build healthy habits. We then delve into Amanda’s 12 Life Tips including the importance of saying your dreams out loud, making the decision to only spend time with people who uplift you, and always having f...
Sep 18, 2018•49 min
From The Dish Room To The Board Room
CEO and founder of Cameron Mitchell Restaurants (CMR), Cameron Mitchell joins Moe Abdou to discuss his unrelenting path towards entrepreneurial success.
Sep 11, 2018•32 min
gorjana Founders On Using Change As A Catalyst
Gorjana, Jason Reidel and Jenna discuss how being adaptable gives us greater agency to create our desired outcomes, navigating the transitionary phase of change, and the importance of setting and respecting human expectations for ourselves. We also chat about why happiness is like a shooting star and its relationship to presence and success.
Sep 10, 2018•45 min
How Home Cooking Inspires Community and Connection
Euncie Byun and Jenna discuss Material’s mission to create “beautiful tools to inspire beautiful memories." Eunice highlights the importance of empowering home cooks and celebrating being them by focusing on the joy of cooking rather than striving for mastery. We chat about walking through open doors in life and being patient enough to reflect on our next chapter when it’s time to walk through new ones, how to show people we value them by being present and always taking time to ask them about th...
Sep 06, 2018•53 min
Tender Greens CEO On Embracing Your Uniqueness
Denyelle Bruno and Jenna discuss how Tender Greens is creating a new niche for fast-casual healthy restaurants and planting seeds to empower people to make health a habit. We walk through Denyelle’s innate desire to question norms and her own beliefs and why she always asks for the promotion before she’s ready.Denyelle also highlights why our unique strengths are the competitive advantage that makes us untouchable, the importance of asking for what we want and communicating our perspective while...
Sep 05, 2018•43 min
How Food Network Helps Us Turn Meals Into Memories
Deb Puchalla and Jenna discuss Food Network and the Cooking Channel’s intention to inspire and empower home cooks with the insights and tools they need to gather their loved ones around a delicious meal. Deb shares a glimpse into her process of identifying great talent, why the chefs who become household names are the ones you want to share a meal with, and the question she asks everyone she works with to ensure they’re telling their story in its truest form. We also chat about our favorite memo...
Aug 24, 2018•47 min
A Beginner's Guide to Meditation
Headspace Chief Science Officer Megan Jones Bell and Jenna discuss how meditation empowers us to show up as the people we aspire to be by increasing our sense of presence and compassion and decreasing feelings of anxiety and stress. Megan walks us through simple ways to build our own meditation practices, shares what we should really expect when we meditate, and how cultivating awareness puts us in control of how we choose to perceive and respond to our daily experiences.
Aug 23, 2018•45 min
To Pixar and Beyond
Lawrence Levy - handpicked by Steve Jobs to lead Pixar's business - joins Moe Abdou to discuss turning a $50M money pit into a seven plus billion dollar sale to Disney.
Aug 18, 2018•32 min
Wisdom at Work
A bold & visionary leader, Chip Conley rejoins Moe Abdou to chronicle his experience as the Elder Statesman at Airbnb.
Aug 07, 2018•37 min
Changing The World One Steak At A Time
Chris, James and Jenna discuss how Porter Road is radically improving the meat industry by controlling the entire supply chain, setting and upholding strict quality standards, and revitalizing the sense of community of your local butcher shop.We chat about how to respond when life throws you curveballs, the importance of waking up every day with the intention of challenging yourself and striving to improve the world, and our duty to inspire and uplift each other doing so. Throughout our chat, we...
Aug 07, 2018•50 min
Seed Wants To Introduce You To Your Microbiome
Ara Katz, Raja Dhir and Jenna discuss how Seed is redefining health by helping us utilize our microbiome as a lens to not only improve our health but to recognize our interconnectedness with each other and the planet.Ara and Raja give us a primer on what we need to know about our microbiome, the impact its wellbeing has on our health, and share six strategies we can start practicing today to increase our gut health. We also discuss Seed’s efforts to equip a global community with the knowledge an...
Aug 06, 2018•54 min
The Art of Breathing
Award-winning journalist, Danny Penman rejoins Moe Abdou to discuss the miraculous power of the breath and why it holds the key to unlocking your true essence.
Jul 26, 2018•43 min
theBoardlist CEO On Showing Up As Your Best Self
theBoardlist CEO Shannon Gordon and Jenna kick off discussing her experiences serving in the Peace Corps in Senegal, West Africa and the lessons she learned about making time for joy and community, finding our shared humanity, and seeing and accepting people as their whole selves.We chat about theBoardlist’s efforts elevating diversity at the board level - less than 20% of board seats at Fortune 1,000 companies are held by women and less than 7% are at private companies - and why they believe in...
Jul 24, 2018•40 min
HATCH Founder On Your Instinct As Your Mentor
HATCH CEO and Founder Ariane Goldman and Jenna discuss how her parents “thirst for life” as founders inspired her to pursue entrepreneurship, the catalyst for HATCH and the brand's evolution from a clothing line into a community that empowers every mother to tap into her own unique sense of strength. We chat about our shared humanity facing challenges, how sharing them helps us all feel more confident and reassured, and how putting in the work during the early years affords us freedom of choice ...
Jul 23, 2018•41 min
Lunya Founder On Being The Change You Wish To See
Lunya CEO and Founder Ashley Merrill and Jenna discuss how Ashley relies on the mantra - ‘Be the change you wish to see in the world’ - as a framework to guide her life. We unpack the metaphor that entrepreneurship is like bowling and trace Lunya’s evolution from Googling ‘How do you make clothes?’ to pioneering the modern sleepwear category and launching their latest collection, COOL. We spend the majority of our time together walking through key lessons on building our risk-taking muscle, the ...
Jul 16, 2018•44 min
How to Take Bigger Risks
hims CEO and Founder Andrew Dudum and Jenna discuss how his family’s mantras of being the best and taking the untrodden path instilled the courage he needed to drop of out school at 19 and start building companies. We walk through the helpful visualization framework Andrew relies on to take risks, why he believes that personal and professional growth isn’t about faking it until you make it, you have to fake it forever, and how the under recognized ability of being confident enough to acknowledge...
Jul 03, 2018•39 min
How &pizza’s Values Turned Into A Life Philosophy
&pizza Co-founder and CEO Michael Lastoria and Jenna discuss how &pizza’s values and culture prioritizing their tribe’s personal growth, creativity and wellbeing have been the undercurrent of their success expanding to nearly 30 pizza shops in seven years. We chat about accepting change and pressure as constant forces in our lives and leaning into them, our responsibility to teach ourselves lessons to avoid self inflicted suffering, as well as earning the right to grow by consistently be...
Jun 21, 2018•44 min
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