A Black Professional's Guide to the Workplace with Carice Anderson Recounting the frustration she felt as a young Black woman beginning her career, Carice Anderson knows that many Black professionals are relying on their education and intellect alone to be successful in the workplace. In her book, she empowers young Black professionals by equipping them with advice and little-known principles of career success from her experiences and interviews with thirty successful Black leaders. Our episode ...
Feb 28, 2023•31 min•Ep. 673
Deepening the Well of Love in the World with Krish Himmatramka Krish is a man on a mission. He believes that symbols of love should never come with questions of ethics. After studying Mechanical Engineering and taking up a job at a prestigious engineering company with long term ambitions to work his way up the ladder, he learned how hard it was to drill for oil, and how easy it was to drill for water. This realization remained in Himmatramka’s head, and knowing over two billion people lack acces...
Feb 20, 2023•38 min•Ep. 672
Human Design with Tijana Buric The Human Design System is a synthesis of ancient and modern sciences, and has proven to be a valuable tool for human understanding. It provides you with simple yet effective tools to enhance your life, reducing confusion, stress and resistance. It is essentially your own navigation tool. Tayo’s guest today, Tijana Buric is a Human Design expert who discusses how and why this tool is important for us to utilize as we figure out alignment with our passions and our c...
Feb 08, 2023•31 min•Ep. 671
There are many people who have been prominent in our history yet have been hidden from textbooks, from conversations, and from praise and appropriate adulation. Tayo’s guest today, H.H. Leonards, got to know one of these people, Rosa Parks, in the latter years of her life and has now written a book shedding light on this amazing woman. H.H. opens the episode by telling us how Mrs. Parks came to live with her in The Mansion on O Street after being assaulted in her home in Detroit and how H.H’s vi...
Jan 30, 2023•18 min•Ep. 670
In today’s episode of As Told by Nomads, Tayo sits down with Celeste Warren, Vice President of Global Diversity and Inclusion Center of Excellence at Merck, to discuss what it means to be a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) champion. Celeste shares her personal experiences of feeling marginalized and attacked while attending an all-white school and working in predominantly white organizations, as well as how she uses those experiences to ensure that others do not feel the same way. The conv...
Jan 19, 2023•38 min•Ep. 669
Sahaj Sharda, the author of The College Cartel, is Tayo’s very special guest on the podcast today. Sahaj's book explores the monopolistic greed of Ivy League colleges and other elite schools and how these institutions are creating artificial scarcity in their admissions processes. Tayo and Sahaj discuss how this is leading to discrimination, price fixing, and other exploitative practices in higher education. They also discuss potential solutions to move past the systems of oppression that exist ...
Jan 12, 2023•37 min•Ep. 668
Creating Spaces of Belonging with Immigration and Entrepreneurship with Hillary Walsh On the last episode of the As Told by Nomads podcast of 2022, Tayo welcomes Hillary Walsh to the show. Together the pair talk about everything and anything immigration - from the systemic issues that pertain to immigration and what it’s like to be an immigrant in the US to how Walsh endured her traumatic childhood and went on to build her business. As a young child going through ‘juvie’ and the foster care syst...
Jan 06, 2023•42 min•Ep. 667
On this week’s episode of As Told By Nomads, Simone May joins Tayo to talk about Clutch, the company whose vision it is to build the next generation of authentic, engaging creators and support more sustainable, equitable lifestyles. As the CTO and cofounder of Clutch, May has witnessed the transformation of both the technology and software industry and has proudly participated in that change as well. Today she talks about everything from her childhood passion for math and science and her experie...
Jan 05, 2023•34 min•Ep. 666
Today, Tayo welcomes Donald Thompson, the Co-Founder and CEO of the Diversity Movement, and a Certified Diversity Executive teaching corporate executives and aspiring entrepreneurs to accelerate their success. As a three-time Inc 5000 CEO with 20 years of experience growing firms, Donald is the go-to expert for executive coaching, competitive learning, and cultural transformation. He is passionate about helping others grow, innovate, and reach their full potential. In this episode, Tayo and Dona...
Dec 14, 2022•32 min•Ep. 665
Today, Tayo is joined by Lynne Twist, an author, consultant, pro-activist, and renowned global visionary. Lynne is committed to alleviating poverty, ending world hunger, and fighting for equality and the rights of indigenous people all over the world. Her wealth of knowledge and experiences has led her to write an amazing book called Living a Committed Life , where she shared her compelling stories and life-changing lessons learned along the way. In this episode, Tayo and Lynne talk about what i...
Dec 07, 2022•43 min•Ep. 664
Joining me on this week’s episode is Solo Ceesay, a first-generation immigrant born to Senegalese and Gambian parents, whose entrepreneurial journey to date includes becoming an Ivy League football champion, graduating top of his class at the Wharton School of Business, joining Citigroup on Wall Street as a securitization investment banker, and presenting his own creator economy video podcast. Solo’s now the pulse of the creative economy, spearheading over thirty-three million in funds raised si...
Nov 28, 2022•34 min•Ep. 663
On today’s episode, Tayo welcomes sought-after speaker, podcaster, author, and entrepreneur Grant Baldwin. Grant is founder and CEO of The Speaker Lab, through which he’s helped thousands of people build successful and sustainable speaking businesses, including students in all fifty US states and forty-five countries worldwide. He is committed to using his expertise and insights to equip others to share their meaningful messages with the masses, and he’s here today to discuss dealing with public...
Nov 24, 2022•45 min•Ep. 662
My guest on this episode of As Told by Nomads is actor, producer, and host of From Scratch, David Moscow. Having made his film debut at age thirteen as the young Tom Hanks in Big , David has appeared in dozens of films, TV shows, and theater productions over a thirty-five-year career. He’s also explored food culture all over the world, and he joins me today to discuss how food is a connected force culturally, socially, and environmentally. We begin the episode by discussing how David, a city kid...
Nov 17, 2022•19 min•Ep. 661
This week, Tayo welcomes Cynthia Covey Haller, an author, teacher, speaker, and active participant in her community. Cynthia has written and contributed to several notable books, one of them being Live Life in Crescendo which she co-wrote with her late father, the legendary leadership expert Stephen R. Covey. In this episode, Tayo and Cynthia unpack the concept of living life in crescendo. As Cynthia explains, the crescendo mentality is all about changing your view of life and seeing it through ...
Oct 31, 2022•40 min•Ep. 660
On the second episode of three on building wealth, Tayo Rockson chats with Jason Yarusi, a real estate syndicator and investor, who co-founded and manages Yarusi Holdings, a multifamily investment firm that has acquired over 1900 units since its inception five brief years ago. Yarusi also works with 7 Figure Multifamily, a group of experienced investors seeking to provide a roadmap to other multifamily real estate investors in search of success. Jason and his wife owe much of their prosperity to...
Oct 27, 2022•46 min•Ep. 659
On this episode of As Told by Nomads, Tayo is joined by serial entrepreneur Elliot Wise, who started his first business at the age of thirteen and, at thirty-one, is now the founder of ten businesses and a rapidly growing business empire. He also works with budding entrepreneurs in small companies to arm them with the skills they need to succeed, including how to develop a winning mindset and stay composed under pressure. In today’s conversation, they talk about many things, from Elliot’s backgr...
Oct 24, 2022•44 min•Ep. 658
Dr. Corey Yeager, psychotherapist for the Detroit Pistons and licensed marriage and family therapist, joins Tayo for today’s episode. Dr. Yeager works to give athletes open environments to express and explore their challenges, finding that frank dialogue helps not only individual athletes but entire teams. His new book How Am I Doing? is an extension of his mission to enhance individual self-wellness through self-work that starts with getting to know the person behind the mirror. Dr. Yeager begi...
Oct 12, 2022•34 min•Ep. 657
On today’s episode, Tayo chats with James Lam about what they believe is missing in today’s business world, why authenticity is pertinent to entrepreneurship, and how we can build our companies around our own personal genius. After two of the three businesses that Lam created failed, he decided to take an introspective look at his entrepreneurship style. And what he found was that, while yes, strategy and courage are important in creating a company, so is authenticity. So he started to infuse hi...
Sep 14, 2022•33 min•Ep. 656
Author, marketplace expert, and public speaker, Jenn Lim, joins Tayo on the podcast today. Together, they engage in a deep conversation about Jenn’s journey to find happiness, why such happiness is missing in today’s workplace, and how we can start to incorporate it into both our professional and personal lives. Opening up the episode with a brief note on embracing pain and trusting in the process, Jenn notes that when we reckon with pain and discomfort, we make friends with the enemies that the...
Sep 07, 2022•30 min•Ep. 655
This week, Tayo welcomes Liam Martin to talk about managing in remote workplaces, why remote work is the new norm, and how you can work remotely too. As the author of Running Remote , Liam has spent years studying the ins and outs of remote work, process design hiring, and inclusivity, and today Liam and Tayo talk about just that. Prior to March 2020, there were a mere 5 million digital nomads. Now that number reaches just over 50 million. People like Martin are starting to realize that remote w...
Aug 31, 2022•34 min•Ep. 654
On this episode of the As Told by Nomads podcast, Tayo is joined by Julissa Arrington, a fashion designer born in Oakland, California, and raised in Houston, Texas. She has a fine arts degree from San Francisco Art Institute, and her designs are inspired by architecture, structural lines, unconventional materials, and fabrics. Julia is not only a dynamic designer but is also Afro-Colombian and an Afro-Latina in tech. Julissa discusses the possibility of working a 9 to 5 job while pursuing your d...
Aug 24, 2022•26 min•Ep. 653
This week, Tayo welcomes author and entrepreneur, Jason Scott, to the podcast for a discussion about getting things done, building relationships in the office, and how to turn those relationships into a booming business culture. When he joined the Navy as a fresh 17 year old, Scott felt he lacked motivation and goals of any kind. It wasn’t until he started to fulfill leadership roles in the Navy and work with others that he learned the value of working in a team and why that experience motivates...
Aug 17, 2022•44 min•Ep. 652
On today’s episode of the As Told By Nomads podcast, Tayo is joined by Akua Nyame-Mensah, a certified executive and leadership coach who helps leaders best focus their time and energy. From Ghana to the United States, Akua grew up on 4 continents and developed quite the distinctive world view as a result. Coming into her own identity and studying the diverse range of blackness, she not only began to value introspection, but also to reckon with her deep love for varying perspectives and their gre...
Aug 10, 2022•37 min•Ep. 651
Joining Tayo Rockson on the As Told By Nomads podcast is Ritu Bhasin, author of The Authenticity Principle , public speaker, and former lawyer. Growing up as a Punjabi minority with immigrant parents in Canada, Bhasin rarely felt comfortable in the classroom. Her white classmates berated her for her skin tone and culture as a child, and it stuck with her. It wasn’t until she quit her job as a lawyer and embarked on a yoga retreat that she discovered how much the discrimination impacted her. She’...
Aug 03, 2022•41 min•Ep. 650
Today, Tayo is joined by Melissa Skye Morgan, a full time Psychiatric NP student and mom. The pair chat about facing discrimination as children, navigating trauma, and creating boundaries. As the adopted child of two white parents, Morgan missed out on that personal education on the Black experience. After all, it wasn’t until she was an adult that she started to reckon with the trauma she suffered as a young girl. Having confronted some rather hard truths since then, however, Morgan has come to...
Jul 27, 2022•33 min•Ep. 649
This week on As Told By Nomads , Tayo connects with Isabelle Peyrichoux to talk about clarifying your purpose, finding what success means to you, and creating a home inside yourself. Peyrichoux is a career reinvention coach who helps thousands of frustrated individuals leave their jobs to find their dream careers. Working with clients of all ages from all over the world, she believes that everyone deserves the right to a meaningful career. Following her own professional reinvention and the journ...
Jul 20, 2022•27 min•Ep. 648
Centering Racial Equity and Inclusion with Tony Nabors Tayo welcomes Tony Nabors to this week's episode of the As Told by Nomads podcast. Tony has had over 18 years of experience in anti-racism training and consulting, strategy development, public speaking, team leadership, and program management. He was the first to become a Director of DE&I for a public housing authority in the US, and has demonstrated a consistent ability to turn his observation skills about our world into educational opp...
Jul 13, 2022•46 min•Ep. 647
On this episode of the As Told by Nomads podcast, Alex Lakas and Simpson Brady join Tayo. Simpson is the CEO and Alex the Chief Creative Officer and Lead Design of Peanut, which recently got sold to Insured Nomads. They built their company as a side hustle while working in other corporations and doing so remotely without barely seeing each other. They're here to share how they built the company, what the company is, how you can do something similar, and what the future could look like. Brady sta...
Jul 06, 2022•24 min•Ep. 646
On this episode of the As Told by Nomads podcast, Tayo is joined by Arnaud Saint-Paul to talk about his mission to really get people to tap into their level of consciousness to understand the power of heart, and how that can lead to a better world. They open up the episode by discussing Arnaud's Heartful Method, which, as a conscious technologist and harmony specialist, he created in the likeness of a visual map that depicts how consciousness works and how we can start to live our lives through ...
Jun 29, 2022•33 min•Ep. 645
This week, Tayo welcomes TikToker, public speaker, and poet, Nav Singh, to the podcast to talk about his career, the world of poetry, and Sikhism. Nav opens up the episode by recalling his first time performing his poetry and just how life changing this moment was, as he fell in love with poetry and began to perform his own more often. While this experience helped teach him to have a 'thick skin', it wasn’t until he joined TikTok, that he learned how to deal with online hate and opinions. Nav do...
Jun 22, 2022•50 min•Ep. 644
