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If Not Now Wen Podcast

Dreaming of venturing into the world while growing up in an isolated mountain town in rural China, Wen completely transformed her life by teaching herself English using a cassette machine. Despite countless challenges, she pushed forward to become the only person who ever left her hometown, and achieves her dream of seeing the world four years later. On this channel, you will meet different entrepreneurs, who have accomplished unimaginable feats, to share their dreams, the ups, the downs, and everything in between, while giving you a peek behind the curtains of how they make it possible!
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Episodes

Interview with Rachel Madorsky, Founder of Coaching Therapist Institute, Co-Owner of ColdTowne Theater

Rachel Madorsky is a psychotherapist, relationship + business coach, speaker, trainer, performer, and co-owner of the award-winning improv comedy venue ColdTowne Theater located in Austin, Texas. For over two decades, Rachel has been facilitating, coaching, performing, and teaching at conferences, comedy festivals, Fortune 500 companies, start-ups, universities, non-profits, and leadership organizations around the world. Her incredible impact has been featured on Bravo, The Learning Chanel, SXSW...

Aug 03, 20201 hr 7 minSeason 1Ep. 11

Interview with Sabrina Scholkowski, Founder of Sab Scholkowski Coaching - from Fashion to Freedom

Sabrina is a former fashion & beauty marketer who traded the corporate world to start her own business as the Brand & Social Media Strategist that helps millennial entrepreneurs build their brand identity & her Pretty Sure. When she's not busy creating her empire, her other passion is traveling and her goal is to visit as many countries as possible in her lifetime. You can find her here: @Instagram www.instagram.com/sab_sc @Podcast www.instagram.com/prettysurepodcast Or to listen her...

Aug 02, 20201 hr 1 minSeason 1Ep. 10

Interview with Dave Buckman, Co-owner for ColdTowne Theater, His Perseverance Throughout His life Journey and True Passion to Comedy

Dave Buckman served as Artistic Director of Boom Chicago in Amsterdam. He culminated his run in Europe directing Boom Chicago: RockStars, the second stage-swap with The Second City’s Main Stage in its 50-year history. After Europe, Dave worked as a director, actor, and teacher at The Second City in Chicago. He was also a Senior producer for The Out Of Bounds Comedy Festival for 10 years as well as Austin SketchFest and Executive Producer at ColdTowne Theater, where he has been performing, teachi...

Jul 31, 20201 hr 13 minSeason 1Ep. 9

Interview with Jennie Stowe, Founder of Stowe Bookkeeping - How She Uncovers the Path

Jennie Stowe is a wife, mom, and business owner. Formerly a birth and postpartum doula, she created Stowe Bookkeeping LLC in order to be home with her son … and to pursue her passion for numbers and accounting. Today, she is passionate about helping female service providers with their bookkeeping so they can focus their time on booking more clients and making more money. For those small businesses that can’t yet afford a bookkeeper, Jennie has them covered with her online course: Keep Your Own B...

Jul 28, 202034 minSeason 1Ep. 8

Interview with Wilson Hailey, Founder of TEZPRESSO - How He Found Himself in the Far East Asia

Wilson Hailey, owner of multiple award-winning coffee shops. He trained competitive baristas, and helped 20+ coffee shops up their game and start providing actually good coffee. Born and raised in Austin, TX, Wilson ventured to Beijing, China from age 16-27, where he discovered his passion for his life - coffee. Featured in VICE, Pangbianr, Lumdimsum, SmartBeijing, and various other publications, his Beijing award-winning cafe, Rager Pie, was known for Thanksgiving and it’s weekly pie-to-face ev...

Jul 27, 202054 minSeason 1Ep. 7

Interview with Lisa Liu, Violinist, Composer, Orchestra Contractor and Entrepreneur - Her Music & Life Journey

Lisa Liu is a Chinese-American violinist, composer, orchestra contractor and entrepreneur based in Los Angeles. She began her musical studies on the piano at the age of 3 with her mother, a professional opera singer, and continued with violin lessons at the age of 8. She followed her mother’s footsteps and attended The Juilliard School, receiving a Pre-College Diploma, Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in violin performance while studying with world-renowned pedagogue Dorothy DeLay for 9 years. Jo...

Jul 23, 202052 minSeason 1Ep. 6

Interview with Jessica Zeitz, Founder of Copyfox - How She Travels the World and Found her Passion

Jessica Zeitz has a bachelor in Communications from Concordia University. She's traveled to 23 countries while working as a digital marketer and has recently started her own digital marketing agency Copfox. But this isn't her first business she actually started a small pickling company and made pickles and sweet peppers. However, digital marketing and real estate are two passions she couldn't ignore and were thrilled to combine them by marketing for real estate developers. https://copyfox.co/

Jul 21, 202041 minSeason 1Ep. 5

Interview with Sav Shrestha, Founder of Menuette

From Nepal to Austin, from corporate to startup, and a nonprofit world, Sav took us through his journey of his American Dream and how he shows up to the world. Sav is the founder of Menuette, he is also an innovator with a dream and dedication to build delightful experiences and strategic vision to achieve them. He is also a UX researcher and a designer who places user empathy at the center of his design process. His vision to create apps that truly delight users is fueled by his passion to unde...

Jul 19, 20201 hr 12 minSeason 1Ep. 4

Interview with Lexi Ruffell, Founder of Marketing Choreography

From a professional ballroom dancer to the CEO of Marketing Choreography, in this podcast, Lexi shared with us her authentic journal of how she found her way to entrepreneurship and many failures and setbacks along the way. Lexi Ruffell, a former Professional Ballroom Dance Competitor, is the chief operations officer for Majic For Life. After graduating from college with a Bachelor's degree in Sociology she went on to get trained in Life Coaching and Personal Development as well as attend the sc...

Jul 18, 202046 minSeason 1Ep. 3

Interview with Sabrina Antou, Founder of The Magnificent Abundance Manifestor

From an Investment Banker to an Energy healer, Sabrina Antou has come along the way of overcoming her fear of following her intuition and say no to conventional knowledge of following her corporate path, instead, she finds the path to freedom and her happiness. Today she is the founder of private equity firm, consulting firm, and coaching and healing company < The Magnificent Abundance Manifestor>. Please join me in this podcast to unfold her journey, and hope you can gain inspiration for ...

Jul 18, 202046 minSeason 1Ep. 2

My American Dream - How I Left to See the World

Was there a moment in your life that you wanted to give up? Was there a moment you felt you were never going to make it? well... I was in the exact spot. In this episode, I shared my American dream, and how did I leave my mountain town and be the only one person who ever left, and to see the world as I always dream of. If you were also on your journey to achieve a goal, or if you were constantly waiting for your big break, like me, well, listen on. I hope you find this is helpful. Please leave y...

Jul 15, 202025 minSeason 1Ep. 1
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