MEET SOON YU: Soon Yu is an international speaker, award winning author on innovation and design and Forbes contributor who has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Entrepreneur Magazine and New York Times. His latest book, Friction , asks businesses to consider adding MORE friction for their customers and employees in order to create greater engagement, meaning, belonging, rapport, assurance, competence, and exclusivity. His book, Iconic Advantage ®, challenges businesses,...
Oct 09, 2023•50 min•Ep. 261
MEET DAVID DREBIN: A graduate of Parsons School of Design in NYC, David Drebin is a multidisciplinary artist working in various art forms producing limited edition works including Photographs, Lightboxes, Neon Light Installations, Diamond Dust works and more. Following his first solo exhibition at Camera Work in Berlin in 2005 and the release of his first comprehensive illustrated book “Love and Other Stories” in 2007, Drebin experienced a stream of worldwide representation by some of the finest...
Oct 09, 2023•29 min•Ep. 260
MEET SIMON T. BAILEY: With over 2,000 clients, from more than 50 countries, over the course of 30 years, Simon T. Bailey has the knowledge, wisdom, and life experience to help you find your spark. Simon T. Bailey’s purpose in life is to help you discover your brilliance. Through motivational speeches, direct one-on-one success coaching, 9 personal and professional development books, a national television talk show program, a viral video with over 90M views, and beyond, Simon has a wealth of info...
Jun 26, 2023•26 min•Ep. 258
MEET ASHER LAUB: Asher’s notable musical career began with classical violin training at the tender age of 2—leading to his first formal concert with the Buffalo Philharmonic at 13. Since then, Asher’s ability to improvise across multiple genres has inspired an innovative career as a cutting-edge electric violinist. Asher’s engaging solo performances have made him a co-headliner at iconic venues such as Madison Square Garden, Hammerstein Hall, Lincoln Center, and Carnegie Hall. His diverse multic...
May 19, 2023•48 min•Ep. 257
MEET MARK DRAGER: Mark launched his creative production company Phanta Media back in 2006, grew it to a little over $2mm in revenue, and then slowly watched as it all crumbled around him. Through the hard lessons learned and working to not make the same mistakes twice, today Phanta focuses less on “keeping the machine fed” and more on doing extraordinary work with really cool people. We Do Hard Things: https://www.youtube.com/c/MarkDragerYT https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/we-do-hard-things...
May 16, 2023•38 min•Ep. 256
MEET PATRICIA [TRISHA] RICKETTS: Patricia [Trisha] Ricketts received a lifelong love of music, the written word, the visual arts, and healthy arguing from her Irish Catholic family of origin. She’s been penning essays, short stories, poems, and novels for most of her life as she raised three wonderful children and has watched seven grandchildren grow. However, after receiving a scholarship to the University of Edinburgh in Creative Writing, her passion for writing escalated. Since then, she has ...
Mar 12, 2023•39 min•Ep. 255
MEET TIM TORTORA: Tim Tortora started working in Hollywood over 30 years ago as a tape operator in a recording studio and worked his way up through the ranks to CFO by 2008. He learned a lot along the way and worked with some amazing people and some of the biggest companies ( Harpo Films, Mandalay Entertainment, Sony Pictures, Disney, TriStar Pictures, Columbia Pictures) He did it all having no family connection or friends who sat in key positions in the business. Since he started working as a C...
Mar 09, 2023•41 min•Ep. 254
MEET LISABETH POSTHUMA Lisabeth Posthuma was a teacher, photographer, and (most importantly) video rental clerk before becoming a writer. She holds one of those degrees from a really expensive private liberal arts college that no one can afford (including her). She grew up obsessed with teen soaps (which her therapist says explains a lot) and likes to brag about that one time she attended a cast party for The OC. She resides in Michigan where winters are too long. BOOKS: Baby and Solo Songs Eigh...
Dec 15, 2022•55 min•Ep. 253
MEET AARTHI RAMAMURTHY: From meeting her husband over AOL chat in India to building products that delight millions at Xbox, Facebook, and Netflix, to launching the Good Time Show and hosting conversations with guests like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Sonam Kapoor - Aarthi Ramamurthy is the original tech optimist. Her industry insights and success as a Y Combinator-backed founder and leader in international growth at Clubhouse have helped crystalize the next phase of her personal mission - red...
Dec 01, 2022•34 min•Ep. 252
MEET GILAD PAZ: Gilad Paz is a rock singer, classical tenor, and crossover performer with extensive experience that ranges from the clubs of NYC’s Lower East Side to Carnegie Hall to America’s Got Talent ! Marketability as a performer has always been part of Gilad’s career philosophy, and he always looks for ways to combine different genres and create shows that are tailored to their target audiences. He has produced multiple shows, including OPROCK and VOCE NOVA (pronounced: VOH-ché NOH-vah), a...
Nov 27, 2022•44 min•Ep. 251
MEET CARLA STICKLER: Carla Stickler is a professional multi-hyphenate advocating for the inclusion of artists in STEM. Currently a software engineer, she made a dramatic return to the stage during the height of the 2021/2022 covid surge in New York. She was featured on NPR, ABC, Vulture, Inside Edition, and Nightline for her performance as Elphaba in Wicked on Broadway after 7 years away from the role and a career change into tech. She works as a Software Engineer at G2 in Chicago. She is a cham...
Oct 20, 2022•57 min•Ep. 250
MEET JASON AZEVEDO: Jason created his first manufacturing company with just $600 when he was only 15 years old. At this young age, he was able to establish business with some of the greatest companies in the world such as Starbucks, Nike, Disney, Marvel, Volkswagen, Audi, Lucas films, dodgers, and NBA teams. By the time he was 20 he was already making millions in revenue. Taking back US Jobs has been one of our country's biggest challenges. This teenage millionaire comes manufacturing mogul and ...
Oct 13, 2022•38 min•Ep. 249
MEET DR. FRED MOSS: Dr. Fred Moss is a "non-diagnosing psychiatrist" who has served the mental health industry for nearly four decades. He has consulted with patients, practitioners, physicians, facilities, organizations, groups, hospitals, nursing homes, shelters, drug/rehab facilities, jails/prisons, and more. Known as the Un-Doctor, Dr. Fred uses conversation, communication, creativity, and deep human connection as a tool to help people un-diagnose, un-medicate, and then “un-doctor-nate”. Dr....
Oct 09, 2022•48 min•Ep. 248
MEET FRED JOYAL: Fred Joyal is an author, speaker, entrepreneur, and business advisor. Along with a lucrative career in advertising and marketing, he co-founded the most successful dentist referral service in the country, 1-800-DENTIST, which, over 30 years, generated over $1 billion in revenue. He has written two books on marketing, dabbled in stand-up and improv comedy acted in bad movies and excellent TV commercials, and visited over forty-four countries around the world. He has an honorary D...
Aug 30, 2022•45 min•Ep. 247
MEET CBABI BAYOC: Cbabi (pronounced Kuh-bob-bi) Bayoc is an internationally-known visual artist and illustrator residing in St. Louis, Missouri. His subjects include family, children, music and a bunch of other cool stuff designed with line, bold color and phunk! Bayoc, whose birth name is Clifford Miskell, Jr., adopted his name CBABI (Creative-Black-Artist-Battling- Ignorance) during his time at Grambling State University (‘92-‘95). In 1997, a legal name change took place at the time of his mar...
Aug 10, 2022•31 min•Ep. 246
MEET MICHAEL CLEMENTS In 2010, Michael founded ArtJamz, which provides at-home paint kits and online classes to guide anyone through the process of creating a jamming work of art. Since the start, more than 200,000 people unleashed their inner artists with ArtJamz. When Michael is not working for the company, he is a full-time creative and outsider artist who has exhibited in a number of solo and group exhibitions in Hong Kong, Los Angeles, and Washington DC. CONTACT: https://www.artjamz.co/ htt...
Jul 26, 2022•46 min•Ep. 245
MEET CECILIA FERRON: Cecilia Ferron is an Italian violinist. She began studying the violin at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan. She completed the first part of her musical growth with Maestro Fabrizio Pavone at the Conservatoire de la Vallée d'Aoste she continued her studies at the Music Academy in Hamburg, Germany, where she obtained her Master with full marks. She specializes in Berlin with A. Frolov Chestiglazov (St. Petersburg Philharmonic), Yoshiaki Shibata, Alina Pogostkina (solois...
Jun 17, 2022•34 min•Ep. 244
MEET EMMANUEL PROBST: Emmanuel is Global Lead, Brand Thought-Leadership at Ipsos and an adjunct at the University of California at Los Angeles Emmanuel’s background combines over 16 years of market research and marketing experience with strong academic achievements. At Ipsos, Emmanuel supports numerous Fortune 500 companies by providing them with a full understanding of their customer’s journey. This encompasses brand awareness to purchase and recommendation, leading to greater insights on the c...
Jun 12, 2022•32 min•Ep. 243
MEET BRENT EVISTON: Drawing is Brent’s lifelong passion. He has studied numerous forms of drawing including observational drawing, figure drawing, anatomical drawing, architectural drawing as well as more contemporary forms of experimental drawing. Brent is also a sought after drawing instructor. In 2016 Brent created The Art & Science of Drawing, a series of bestselling, award winning, online drawing courses. To date, The Art & Science of Drawing series has enrolled more than 150,000 st...
May 23, 2022•35 min•Ep. 242
MEET JUDY RODMAN, Judy Rodman is an award-winning vocal coach, recording artist, live performer, public speaker, published author, songwriter, musician, studio producer, podcaster and vocal consultant with over 50 years of success in the music industry. Named ‘Best Vocal Coach” by Nashville Music Pros and "Vocal Coach in Residence" by TC Helicon's VoiceCouncil Magazine, Judy teaches her vocal training method “Power, Path and Performance” to singers and speakers, specializing in maximizing vocal ...
May 16, 2022•45 min
MEET EWANE "E" MASANGO I help create the future with those who desire a better lifestyle. CONTACT: https://www.society.io/ https://www.instagram.com/ewanemasango/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ewane-masango-89b297128/ https://twitter.com/EwaneMasango SUPPORT THE SHOW BECAUSE I LOVE PUPPIES! Talia di Napoli – PIZZA Click on the title for $6.00 off your order of AMAZING pizza shipped fresh from Napoli ARE YOU INTERESTED IN BITCOIN OR CRYPTOCURRENCY?BUY MY BOOK BECAUSE IT’S AMAZING!!! I’ll EVEN SIGN ...
Apr 25, 2022•34 min•Ep. 240
MEET SAMOA BLANCHET Samoa Blanchet is a Creative Mastery Mentor and host of The Creative Mastery Podcast. She works with Creatives by more deeply defining who they believe themselves to be and what they think they can create so that they strike the perfect tone with every expression of their unique work. After working in the graphic design industry, Samoa realized she had a greater creative potential to fulfill and now uses her signature map, The Creatrix Method to guide her clients through coll...
Apr 07, 2022•32 min•Ep. 239
MEET SHANNON LOHR: As the Founder & CEO of Factory45, Shannon Lohr works with idea-stage entrepreneurs to launch fashion brands that are sustainably and ethically made. Shannon got her start in 2010 when she co-founded {r}evolution apparel, a sustainable clothing company for female travelers and minimalists that was featured in The New York Times, Forbes.com, and Yahoo! News. Through her online business school, Factory45, Shannon has worked with over 500 entrepreneurs in the sustainable fash...
Apr 03, 2022•31 min•Ep. 238
MEET SIMON SEVERINOSimon Severino helps business owners in SaaS and services discover how to be able to run their company more efficiently which results in sales that soar. He created the Strategy Sprints® Method that doubles revenue in 90 days by getting owners out of the weeds. Simon is the CEO and founder of Strategy Sprints which is a global team of certified Strategy Sprints® Coaches which has offered a customized strategy to help clients gain market share and work in weekly sprints which r...
Mar 13, 2022•31 min•Ep. 237
MEET AMY KARLE Amy Karle is an internationally award-winning bioartist working at the nexus of where digital, physical, and biological systems merge. Karle is also a provocateur and a futurist, opening future visions of how art, science, and technology could be utilized to support and enhance humanity while making advancements in technology towards those goals in the process of making her artworks. Current projects probe who we could become as a result of our exponential technologies and how int...
Jan 30, 2022•44 min•Ep. 236
MEET JARROD HANING: Jarrod is an award-winning speaker, has been featured on ABC Nightline, spoken on stages all across the country has clients all across the world, delivered 4 TEDx talks related to Mindset Performance, and been chosen by TED global as the featured speaker of the week. He specializes in a Nobel Nominated process that teaches you how to think at a higher level and allows you to access different parts of your brain on demand. As a result of this training *most of his clients go o...
Jan 25, 2022•42 min•Ep. 235
MEET MARIA BRITO: Maria Brito is an award-winning New York-based contemporary art advisor, author, and curator. A Harvard graduate, originally from Venezuela, her first monograph “Out There” published by Pointed Leaf Press in 2013, was the recipient of the Best Book Awards in both the Art and Design Categories. In 2015 Brito was selected by Complex Magazine as one of the 20 Power Players in the Art World and in 2020 she was named by ARTNEWS as one of the visionaries who gets to shape the art wor...
Dec 17, 2021•54 min•Ep. 234
MEET SARA LONG: Sara Long teaches United States history at multiple universities. She graduated with her MA in history from CSUF, in 2017, and her BA in history and minor in anthropology in 2015. From 2013 to 2015, she helped with collections management and conservation projects at Rancho Los Alamitos Historic Ranch and Gardens. In addition to teaching, Long remains active in the public history sector by participating in and managing several projects. She is currently drafting the master plan of...
Dec 02, 2021•31 min•Ep. 233
MEET AMANI ROBERTS: In the basement of an old bank in Washington DC, a college kid watched Biz Markie spin and his life changed forever. Now Amani Roberts (DJ AmRo) is a successful DJ, music producer, podcaster, educator, and business professional. With Bachelors of Business Administration from Howard University, Amani initially focused on developing his business skills in hotel sales management. But by 2008, he was already moving in music circles, creating his own podcasts, and spinning in loca...
Nov 23, 2021•25 min•Ep. 232
MEET ETHAN LOU: Ethan Lou is the author of "Once a Bitcoin Miner: Scandal and Turmoil in the Cryptocurrency Wild West," and writes a column in the Financial Post. His earlier book, "Field Notes from a Pandemic," has received national accolades. Lou is a former Reuters reporter and has served as a visiting journalist at the University of British Columbia. Book: Once a Bitcoin Miner: Scandal and Turmoil in the Cryptocurrency Wild West Once a Bitcoin Miner depicts how Ethan had gone to North Korea ...
Nov 07, 2021•24 min•Ep. 231
