You have a big idea and you want to shock the world. But,you’ve tried to get yourself going and constantly get sidetracked. Or, you’re trying to expand your business to go global, but you can’t seem to break through the barriers to entry .Or, you’re a business leader, but you don’t seem to command the level of respect that you need in order to make the kind of impact that you want. In State of Mind 2.0: 11 Lessons of the Most Productive People on the Planet, Executive Leadership & Critical T...
Jan 19, 2017•42 min
Did you know that there are currently about 3 billion people under 30 right now? That equates to roughly 52% of the world's population. These are the next global leaders so it is important to ensure that they are influenced the right way. Today's guest Jared Kleinert believes this and did something about it. He believes that by sharing our stories, we can solve society's most pressing problems. Jared's new book 3 Billion Under 30 assembles seventy-five “world-class” Millennials who've leveraged ...
Jan 17, 2017•40 min
Today's interview is with Leon Logothetis. Leon is a global adventurer, motivational speaker & philanthropist. It wasn’t always that way. He used to be a broker in the city of London where he felt uninspired and chronically depressed. He gave it all up for a life on the road. This radical life change was inspired by the inspirational movie The Motorcycle Diaries.Leon has visited more than 90 countries and traveled to every continent. He is the host of the TV series Amazing Adventures Of A No...
Jan 10, 2017•32 min
Today's episode is with Nate Menninger. He is an American explorer, athlete and writer who is addicted to traveling and whether he is back-country skiing in Patagonia or running with the bulls in Spain, he wants to prove to the world that everything is possible, no matter how difficult or dangerous something seems. As he travels, he continuously meets exceptional individuals who have achieved amazing feats: I.E. hitchhiking from New York to Argentina, running marathons in the arctic and throwing...
Jan 07, 2017•26 min
Happy New Year! Today's episode is with the amazing Jules Schroeder. Jules is an entrepreneur, marketing consultant, writer, speaker, millennial expert and musician who helps today's generation on their unconventional paths and shows them how to profit from their passions. At the age of eighteen, Jules Schroeder ran her first six-figure business teaching other college students how to run their own businesses. Four years later, at age 22, she co-founded a publishing company that made seven figure...
Jan 03, 2017•38 min
Today's interview is with Johannes Koeppel, the CEO of WeTravel. He has a pretty inspirational story around travel, entrepreneurship, and changing his life. Out of college, he moved from his native Switzerland to Central Asia to work for the Red Cross first in a prison facility in Uzbekistan, then as head of the Tajikistan office. He leveraged these experiences to earn money by leading groups of Europeans hoping to explore Central Asia off the beaten path. This became the seed of an idea for a s...
Dec 28, 2016•27 min
SPECIAL EPISODE ALERT! Today's episode is with Lina Abisoghomyan! Remember her from episode 208? Yup! Well she's being gracious enough to do a special mini episode with us today. Today, she breaks down what the benefits are of being multilingual!If you're thinking of a New Year's resolution, definitely consider picking up a language or two. The benefits are tremendous!To catch Lina's last episode, take a listen here: http://www.uydmedia.com/lina-abisoghomyan-the-diplomat-of-the-future/To find ou...
Dec 26, 2016•9 min
Are you ready to take your firm to the next level? How would it feel to be able to say you've become a Huffington Post contributor, be regularly interviewed by your dream media outlets or be "Featured On" CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, or FOX Television News? Can you imagine how that publicity could grow your business? Mary Simms, a media savvy PR professional, US Army Vet, Huffington Post & Entrepreneur Mag Contributor let's us in on how to do all that. She helps high-powered entrepreneurs and attorne...
Dec 20, 2016•38 min
Whether you are a university professor, researcher at a think tank, graduate student, or analyst at a private firm, chances are that at some point you have presented your work in front of an audience. Most of us approach this task by converting a written document into slides, but the result is often a text-heavy presentation saddled with bullet points, stock images, and graphs too complex for an audience to decipher―much less understand. Presenting is fundamentally different from writing, and wi...
Dec 16, 2016•27 min
Are you fascinated but frustrated by cultural differences? Have you stood on the edge of cultural gaps and wondered how on earth to bridge them? Don't worry, you are not alone. Working across cultures can be very challenging, both professionally and personally, but these cultural gaps can be bridged. Cultural Chemistry combines strategy with knowledge, introducing you firstly to the Four R's - an easy, four-step process for simplifying and improving your cross-cultural partnerships - and then ex...
Dec 13, 2016•44 min
Today's interview is with Gabby Wallace. When Gabby Wallace was young, she wanted to travel the world and achieve world peace. These dreams led her on an incredible journey teaching English to students in Japan. As her vision grew, she started Go Natural English to teach English to students around the world. She has taught over 100,000 students since the beginning of her company. Throughout her career, she has visited many countries and met many interesting people along the way. Having big dream...
Dec 06, 2016•36 min
Today's interview is with renowned health and fitness expert, Yuri Elkaim. Over the past 10 years, Yuri has been built an impressive multiple 7-figure business that has served over 500k people in the health and fitness community. And now, he’s pulling back the curtain to share his business and marketing secrets with other heart-centered entrepreneurs to help them build an online business around their passion.Some of the things we discuss in this episode are the following:The Freedom Formula For ...
Dec 01, 2016•39 min
Today's episode is with Heather Thorkleson. She has traveled to every continent on earth and spent the better part of her 20’s slowly dying in the corporate world. She eventually dropped out of the rat race to become a certified coach through the Coaches Training Institute, graduated from Seth Godin’s groundbreaking altMBA program, and rolled all her hard-won wisdom into a small business consultancy called Republic of Freedom.She helps people move their businesses forward by:Guiding them toward ...
Nov 29, 2016•43 min
Today's interview is with Claudia Körbler. Claudia is a dedicated Interpreter, cross-cultural and strategic communication specialist in English, Spanish, and her native language German, with expertise in Governance. Her professional career in the U.S. is based in the diplomatic service. She has served the Embassy of Austria, Royal Netherlands Embassy in Washington, D.C. and the World Bank Group in different capacities with focus on trans-cultural communication and Interpretation. She delivered c...
Nov 21, 2016•49 min
Today's episode is with Dinesh Kandanchatha. In the process of building and exiting multiple companies (the last for over $200M), he has learned some valuable lessons on the following subjects:Sales: How to maximize your funnel math to generate 12-15x returns on your sales peopleFunding: Creating businesses that are fundable and finding the right investorMarketing: Making sure Marketing activities focuses on the end goal – sales on a shoestring budgetTech: Get more done using technology as lever...
Nov 16, 2016•42 min
Today's interview is with the Editor-in-Chief of TCK TOWN, Ava Senaratne. She is from Sri Lanka, Dubai and Australia and is currently living in Melbourne.We discuss her background as a third culture kid. How she found her identity and her background in design. Her publication TCK TOWN is an amazing online journal which explores the myriad experiences and ideas of Third Culture Kids from around the planet. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Nov 06, 2016•31 min
Back at it again with cultural codes! We are continuing our series with cross cultural expert Andy Molinsky. This time we are doing the Americas. Andy’s series is highlighting the cultural codes of 10 countries. The country of choice today is United States.The United States of America (USA), commonly referred to as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions. The 48 contiguous states a...
Oct 29, 2016•11 min
Today's interview is with Gerald DuBose. Gerald is a gifted visionary on a mission to change how the world perceives beauty. A writer, athlete, performer entrepreneur and now budding fragrance artist, he has always seen the world differently than most. A Washington DC native, Gerald's childhood was dedicated to creativity. He began writing poetry at six-years old , developing a genuine passion for overlooked beauty. He began his love affair with scents and fragrances shortly thereafter, becoming...
Oct 27, 2016•43 min
Back at it again with cultural codes! We are continuing our series with cross cultural expert Andy Molinsky. Andy’s series is highlighting the cultural codes of 10 countries. The country of choice today is Germany.Germany is a great power and has the world's fourth-largest economy by nominal GDP, as well as the fifth-largest by PPP. As a global leader in several industrial and technological sectors, it is both the world's third-largest exporter and importer of goods. Germany is a developed count...
Oct 23, 2016•9 min
Today's episode is with Cross-Cultural Solutions (CCS). As CCS’ Executive Vice President, Farhana oversees all CCS programs worldwide. She’s responsible for the development of new programs and program sites, as well as the recruitment, development, and ongoing management of our Country and Program Directors. Born in Pakistan and raised in England, Farhana graduated from Bath University with a degree in Business Administration, and spent her first year out of university working with Lloyds Bank i...
Oct 18, 2016•27 min
Back at it again with cultural codes! We are continuing our series with cross cultural expert Andy Molinsky. Andy’s series is highlighting the cultural codes of 10 countries. The country of choice today is France.France has long been a global centre of art, science, and philosophy. It hosts Europe's fourth-largest number of cultural UNESCO World Heritage Sites and receives around 83 million foreign tourists annually, the most of any country in the world. France is a developed country with the wo...
Oct 15, 2016•7 min
It's the 200th episode! And all I have to say is thank you! Thank you for listening. Thank you for sharing and thank you for all the feedback. Feels like just yesterday we were at 100 and boy, have things changed! I've learned that a lot of you care about how to use cross cultural skills to either build businesses and solve some of the world's biggest problems and so I have focused on doing that. Today's episode is a little different. It's a recent recent keynote I gave at the MAPCON conference ...
Oct 14, 2016•23 min
Today's episode is with Santiago Prieto. Santiago is the co-founder of Punkpost, a service that mails beautifully handwritten cards for you as quick as texting. It's super simple: Choose a card. Add your message. Sit back and relax. A talented scriptist will pen your message and drop it in the mailbox within 24 hours.What's more? You can also add confetti bombs, photos, and emojis.Santiago and his wife Alexis started Punkpost to rebel against Facebook happy birthdays and SMS love notes. They wan...
Oct 11, 2016•28 min
Back at it again with cultural codes! We are continuing our series with cross cultural expert Andy Molinsky. Andy’s series is highlighting the cultural codes of 10 countries. The country of choice today is Great Britain.Great Britain, also known as Britain is a large island in the north Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe. It is the largest island of Europe and the ninth-largest in the world. Politically, the island is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Nor...
Oct 08, 2016•9 min
Today's episode is with the author of The Successful Immigrant: How To Land Your Next 6 Figure Dream Job in The United States. Why is she so passionate about helping immigrants land their dream jobs in the US?16 years ago, she came to the US not knowing a word of English–she only knew how to shake and nod. She was the ONLY immigrant in the Catholic school she came to in the US, there were no ESL classes, she was held back a grade, and it was sink or swim time.Within 2 years, she skipped a grade ...
Oct 04, 2016•37 min
Back at it again with cultural codes! We are continuing our series with cross cultural expert Andy Molinsky. Andy’s series is highlighting the cultural codes of 10 countries. The country of choice today is India.India is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country (with over 1.2 billion people), and the most populous democracy in the world. India's capital is New Delhi; other metropolises include Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and Kolkata. Following ma...
Oct 01, 2016•10 min
Today's episode is with Rachel Smets. Born and raised in Belgium, where she returns often for family visits, she currently resides in the Netherlands. She left Belgium in her mid 20’s and moved to Spain where she landed her first job abroad. This was the beginning of her exciting journey, filled with challenges, learning curves, more moves, new jobs, new people, but never a dull moment.Every move gave her the opportunity to immerse herself in a different language and culture. Each place she has ...
Sep 27, 2016•32 min
Back at it again with cultural codes! We are continuing our series with cross cultural expert Andy Molinsky. Andy's series is highlighting the cultural codes of 10 countries. The country of choice today is Japan.Japan is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean with dense cities, imperial palaces, mountainous national parks and thousands of shrines and temples. Shinkansen bullet trains connect the main islands of Kyushu (with Okinawa's subtropical beaches), Honshu (home to Tokyo and Hiroshima’s ato...
Sep 23, 2016•9 min
Hola UYDers! Glad to be with you for another week. Today's episode is with my buddy Charles Davis. We met when I was hosting this NowThis News segment on Black Lives Matter (https://www.facebook.com/NowThisNews/videos/1113663612057095/). He stood out to me then and I knew I had to have him on the show. But before we dive into the topics of today's show, let me introduce you to him.Currently, Charles is the Director of Higher Education Research and Initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania Ce...
Sep 20, 2016•48 min
Today, we are continuing our series with cross cultural expert Andy Molinsky. If you remember from last week, Andy's series is highlighting the cultural codes of 10 countries. The country of choice today is South Korea.South Korea is highly urbanized at 92%, South Koreans lead a distinctive urban lifestyle; half of them live in high-rises concentrated in the Seoul Capital Area with 25 million residents and the world's sixth leading global city with the fourth largest economy.He uses the followin...
Sep 15, 2016•8 min
