Grace E. Niwa is a former piano prodigy who received a Master's Degree in Piano Performance from Juilliard, made her Carnegie Hall debut - and then decided to not pursue a professional career in music. Grace's subsequent professional life of multiple pivots includes being the Principal of her own PR firm and serving as Principal in a Global Executive Search firm. These days, Grace is the VP of Global Talent Acquisition , Talent Management and Early Career at the red-hot Vertex Pharmaceuticals , ...
Apr 18, 2024•36 min•Season 4Ep. 121
Rich Habets is a former management consultant from Maastricht/Netherlands who has roamed the world. He is a trusted advisor to CEOs, C-Suite leaders, and entrepreneurs who long to play a bigger game. Rich is opinionated, outspoken, and fearlessly questions the status quo - for others, and for himself. He has already lived several acts in his life, disrupted himself, and boldly pursued new visions for himself.
Apr 04, 2024•35 min•Season 3Ep. 120
Geoffrey Roche is an executive in the healthcare industry who currently serves as the first Director of Workforce Development for Siemens in North America. Geoffrey is the son of a German-born nurse and a dedicated father to three sons. He is a powerful strategist in Healthcare who believes in creating change by fostering meaningful relationships. Geoffrey has already had an indelible impact on the healthcare field with his heart-centered approach - and he has several great acts ahead in his fut...
Mar 21, 2024•31 min•Season 3Ep. 119
Jay Samit is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on disruption and innovation. Jay raises hundreds of millions of dollars for startups, sells companies to Fortune 500 firms and transforms entire industries. He is a former NASDAQ company CEO and Independent Vice Chairman of Deloitte. Jay helped grow pre-IPO companies such as LinkedIn, held senior management roles at EMI, Sony and Universal Studios. Everyone from the Pope to the President calls on Jay to orchestrate positive ch...
Mar 07, 2024•30 min•Season 3Ep. 118
Mohit Mukherjee is the Founding Director of the UPEACE Centre for Executive Education, which he launched in 2006. UPeace is a UN-established university based in Costa Rica; it is the only UN-affiliated institution devoted exclusively for peace education. Mohit, who holds a M.Ed. in International Education from Harvard, is a passionate educator in the areas of Social Entrepreneurship, Positive Leadership, and Organizational Happiness. His professional background includes management consulting, te...
Feb 22, 2024•37 min•Season 3Ep. 117
Robyn Stratton-Berkessel is a luminary in an organizational change approach called Appreciative Inquiry. She wrote one of the definitive books about Appreciative Inquiry, Appreciative Inquiry for Collaborative Solutions (Wiley and Sons). Robyn serves as adjunct faculty for the esteemed David Cooperrider Center for Appreciative Inquiry, housed at Champlain College. She delivered a powerful TEDx talk about "Playful Inquiry" and was the host of a brilliantly thoughtful podcast, Positivity Strategis...
Feb 08, 2024•35 min•Season 3Ep. 116
Heather "The Heat" Hardy held the WBO world featherweight title from 2018 - 2019 . Heather works as a trainer and continues a career in professional boxing and mixed martial arts into her early 40s. Brooklyn-born and Brooklyn-based, Heather holds a BA degree in Forensic Psychology from John Jay College in Manhattan. While in high school, Heather had aspired to become the first female pitcher for the New York Yankees. Mom to a teenage daughter, Heather has been a persistent voice for women's boxi...
Dec 14, 2023•26 min•Season 3Ep. 115
Janice Masters is a former psychotherapist of 22 years turned healer/guide. For the last 30 years, Janice has served women as what she calls a Spiral Path coach, mentor, and shaman to help them embrace their greatness and manifest miracles. At 78, after a year of facing pernicious health challenges and having a double heart-valve-replacement surgery, Janice continues to learn her own life lessons and is courageously exploring her next act.
Nov 30, 2023•30 min•Season 3Ep. 114
Ellee Koss holds a Ph.D. in Economics and has served for over three decades as an educator and management consultant. She is a true renaissance woman - an author, artist, activist, and coach. In every aspect of her life, Ellee pushes the limits to draw out life's essence and fullness, and to surface the extraordinary. She and her husband, Oscar Gonzalez, divide their time between homes in San Francisco, Cape Cod and Puerto Cayo/Ecuador. https://www.isysnet.net/who.htm...
Nov 16, 2023•36 min•Season 3Ep. 113
Laurie Pickle Evans is a former partner in a Miami law firm . Ian McCluskey is a veteran journalist and thought-leader champion who served as a South American correspondent for Time Magazine and the Sao Paulo Bureau Chief for Bloomberg news . Their current life looks little like their past acts. Laurie founded Afrikids , a Miami-based nonprofit that is dedicated to helping educate and improve the lives of kids in Tanzania. Laurie and Ian met 6 years ago, became romantic partners, and Ian now ser...
Nov 02, 2023•40 min•Season 3Ep. 112
Doo wop, Broadway, The Met. Larry Marshall is a veteran musical performer whose exemplary Broadway career began in 1968 with the musical Hair . 15 Broadway productions later, Larry appeared on Broadway and in the National tour of the recent musical Waitress. Larry's many other Broadway credits include Two G entlemen of Verona,The Full Monty, The Color Purple, The Threepenny Opera with Sting, and Mother Courage with Meryl Streep for the New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park's Delacorte Th...
Oct 19, 2023•37 min•Season 3Ep. 111
Catherine Seo, PhD is the Co-Director of the Lipedema Project and Founder and Director of Lipedema Simplified, LLC. She is also the producer and director of the documentary The Disease They Call FAT . When confronted with almost certain immobility and complications from misdiagnosed lipedema, Dr. Seo traveled the world interviewing patients, doctors, surgeons, and experts and developed the film from her findings. Dr. Seo holds a doctorate in Media Psychology . Her research has been focused on em...
Oct 05, 2023•39 min•Season 3Ep. 110
Called ‘The Queen of Reinvention” by Fortune magazine , former entertainment exec-turned-coach Pamela Mitchell (aka ‘Coach Pamela’) is the nation’s premier expert in reinvention and founder and CEO of The Reinvention Institute . She is the author of The 10 Laws of Career Reinvention: Essential Survival Skills for Any Economy (Penguin), a Harvard Business Review Top Shelf Recommended Pick . Her audiobooks Mastering the Skill of Reinvention and Pivot and Pursue It have been Audible Original top 10...
Sep 21, 2023•38 min•Season 3Ep. 109
Jane Moore is the founder and owner of Papagayo Luxury where she curates custom luxury vacations and villa rentals on Costa Rica's exclusive Papagayo Peninsula. Jane has, in some ways. lived many people's dreams - and created many people's dream business. After a 12-year publishing career in Los Angeles with National Geographic Magazine, Jane and her husband left for Costa Rica to live their expat adventure. Serendipity led Jane to managing her first vacation rental. Over 11 years later, Jane no...
Sep 07, 2023•34 min•Season 3Ep. 108
Eve Simon is an Expert in Leadership Transformation, Igniter for Innovation and Inclusion, Executive Coach, Author, TEDx Speaker, and Serial Entrepreneur. German by nature, Californian by heart - that defines an unusual approach in everything Eve does. Eve works as a creative and systemic business builder with corporations, executives, and start-ups all over the world to empower radical self-awareness and agile leadership for a more sustainable business approach. Prior to starting her own compan...
Aug 24, 2023•40 min•Season 3Ep. 107
Evan Snow is an arts advocate, community builder, and creative entrepreneur who launched the Choose954 social movement to Cultivate Culture & Community in his native Broward County. Evan's initiatives have included the Fort Lauderdale Art & Design Week , AAF CreativeZen Inspirational Talks , & Zero Empty Spaces , a now national movement that converts empty storefronts into studios for artists. He is also a founding board member of The Ocean Rescue Alliance & The 1000 Mermaids Art...
Aug 10, 2023•50 min•Season 3Ep. 106
Leah Komaiko's exceptional life includes doing stand-up and writing a memoir as well as 20 popular and bestselling books for kids, including the modern classic, Annie Bananie. Her books have been published by Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and St. Martin's Press. These days, Leah helps both individuals and organizations to find their essential stories. She got her first hire ever as a story coach with a Fortune 100 company because she discovered the connection between a brand...
Jul 27, 2023•37 min•Season 3Ep. 105
Stefanie von Fallois is a German-born life coach , psychologist and former nurse who now resides in Miami. She was for many years the head therapist at Dolphin Human Therapy (DHT), a world-renowned animal assisted therapy facility in Key Largo, Florida. Stefanie currently serves as a guest therapist at Curacao Dolphin Therapy Center in Curacao where she coaches families and individuals facing unique difficulties in their lives. She has been recognized in European newspapers, TV specials and docu...
Jul 13, 2023•45 min•Season 3Ep. 104
Doe Hentschel, Ph.D. is a former professional child actress who has had a sweeping career in Adult and Continuing Education, with tenures as the Dean of Adult and Continuing Education at SUNY Brockport and Dean of Extended and Continuing Education at the University of Connecticut. For the last 20 years, Doe has been the Director of the Third Age Initiative at Leadership Greater Hartford , a program that develops, inspires, and engages older adults in meaningful ways in the community. Doe recentl...
Jun 29, 2023•46 min•Season 3Ep. 103
My new book, THE DIFFERENCE: Essays on Loss, Courage and Personal Transformation , co-edited with Rosemary Ravinal, is released today via Balboa Press, a Division of Hay House. To salute this exquisite collection of essays, I have a chat with 3 of the exceptional contributors - Dr. Lynne Maureen Hurdle, Carl Ficks Jr., Malissa Smith - and my brilliant co-editor, Rosemary Ravinal. What if you could have an audience with 10 successful humans who have inspired millions of followers around the world...
Jun 15, 2023•46 min•Season 3Ep. 102
Jameson Currier is a celebrated gay writer, literary critic and publisher. He is the author of seven novels, five collections of short fiction, and a memoir. His writing is also included in many literary collections. Jameson's novel, The Third Buddha, about the aftermath of 9/11 in Manhattan and Afghanistan, was translated into French in 2021 and just awarded the Prix du Roman Gay in France. Jameson’s reviews, essays, interviews, and articles on AIDS and gay culture have been published in many n...
Jun 01, 2023•38 min•Season 3Ep. 101
Betsy Cohen is a mother of 4 who lives in Palm Beach Gardens and loves cookie dough . In 2012, Betsy was given the opportunity to work part-time in the office of a bakery owned by one of the most talented pastry chefs in the country. A few years later, Betsy launched Happylicious by Betsy , a gorgeously curated and very happy brand of edible cookie dough. It can be found at the iconic Breakers resort in Palm Beach and ships to anywhere in the United States. https://happylicious.com/...
May 18, 2023•38 min•Season 3Ep. 100
Andrew Quarrie is a Jamaican-born serial entrepreneur who champions equitable neighborhoods. He is the CEO/Founder of URBLANDIA - a needs analysis platform for real estate development. Andrew hosts his widely distributed podcast - also titled “ URBLANDIA" - where he focuses on social impact entrepreneurship within urban development . In 2016 Andrew also created and began hosting the annual Urbanism Summit , a conference and event series designed to cultivate transformative ideas for a new urbani...
May 04, 2023•35 min•Season 3Ep. 99
Mike Trupiano is a comic actor from the United States who resides and works in Berlin/Germany. He is a voice-over artist, celebrated storyteller, writer, storytelling teacher and coach. Mike's first commercial job after leaving New York for Berlin found him locked in an elevator with world boxing champion Vladimir Klitschko. Adopted when he was 3 months old , Mike's personal evolution as an adult was forever changed by his search for his birth family. Mike is the creator and host of the recently...
Apr 20, 2023•43 min•Season 3Ep. 98
Leon Segal, Ph.D. is an innovation psychologist. As a founder of Innovationship , Leon helps organizations, teams, and individuals to imagine and design their futures. His vast expertise in the innovation field includes helming an IDEO office and teaching at leading institutions around the world. Innovationship’s slogan is "Strategic Innovation made personal." Originally from Israel, Leon's work is informed by an eclectic past that includes being a pilot and a saxophone player. Leon's decades-lo...
Apr 06, 2023•39 min•Season 3Ep. 97
Raj Raghunathan is a Professor of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. Raj explores the impact that our judgments and decisions have on our happiness and fulfillment. Raj's work has appeared in numerous top journals and mass media outlets. He writes about his views on happiness, creativity, and leadership on his popular Psychology Today blog, with over 2 million page views . Raj's six-week-long Coursera course on happiness - titled "Life of Happiness and Fulfillment" - has over 350,000...
Mar 21, 2023•38 min•Season 3Ep. 96
Nina Simons is the co-founder and Chief Relationship Officer at Bioneers , a nonprofit that champions visionary and practical solutions for many of our most pressing social and ecological challenges. Nina is passionate about reinventing leadership, restoring the feminine, and co-creating a healthy, peaceful, and equitable world for all . Throughout her remarkable career, Nina has worked with nearly a thousand diverse women leaders across disciplines, race, class, age, orientation, and more to cr...
Mar 09, 2023•35 min•Season 3Ep. 94
Dr. Edith Shiro is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Miami. Edith specializes in trauma and posttraumatic growth. She is the co-founder of The Trauma and Resilience Center , a board member of the World Happiness Foundation, and an active member of Cadena International, providing humanitarian aid and disaster prevention worldwide. Edith has been a sought-after guest on numerous television shows , podcasts and radio programs. Her extraordinary book, “ The Gift of Trauma: the path to P...
Feb 23, 2023•42 min•Season 3Ep. 93
Sam Yau is a retired business executive who splits his time between managing his investments and writing poetry. Sam has reinvented his life several times - from being a 6-month-old baby on a refugee boat from China to becoming the CEO of a billion-dollar corporation and eventually the Chairman of the iconic Esalen Institute in California’s Big Sur. Sophie Rouméas is a French writer who loves to use words and her voice to guide people during meditation and hypnosis sessions . In 2021, Sophie wro...
Feb 09, 2023•39 min•Season 3Ep. 92
For many, the Covid pandemic prompted a rethinking of how we serve the world. Peggy Horan's rethinking feels more radical than most. After decades of working with movement and touch, at the iconic Esalen Institute, Peggy entered her 80s eager to explore serving clients in an entirely new way. My inspiring conversation with Peggy initially released in the summer of 2022. Peggy Horan is a 50+-year practitioner and teacher of Esalen Massage, student of yoga and movement, and a retired midwife. She ...
Feb 02, 2023•38 min•Season 2Ep. 91
