Eric Cheng is the founder and host of the existential zillenial podcast “Wait, Say More”, recently rebranded from its previous title of “No, So True”. With “Wait, Say More", he aims to tackle the real challenges of navigating your late twenties now in a funny and earnest way. After starting his career in comedy writing and performance, Eric transformed his own quarter life crisis and mental health journey into a platform that has already reached over 13 million impressions across media channels ...
May 08, 2025•59 min
I worked at a bakery in La Jolla, San Diego this fall when I had no money and no job and many expenses after moving across the country!! This bakery, Girard Gourmet, welcomed me with open arms and I learned a lot through working there. The owners, Diana and Francois, let me interview them about their experience running this place for nearly 40 decades. Through another story that defies expectations, I share about/how: Past experiences shaped how they run the business Importance of good customer ...
Apr 25, 2025•51 min
#61. What I Learned in 2024 What I worked on Solopreneurship vs being employed Lesson in self awareness: taking accountability for my actions Importance of ripping out an old life to make room for a new. How isolation was helpful but painful… because of my perception Comparison running rampant, wreaking havoc Resources that helped me - people and practices (journaling) What’s important to me now Moving across the country Recruiting while everyone is spouting doomsday vibes about AI How perspecti...
Apr 08, 2025•40 min
#60. This will be part 2 of my interview with Dr. Sara Howell, a fourth year med student at Howard University and the founder and designer behind Pax Marila, a brand designed to be both a safe place for women of diverse backgrounds and a hub of knowledge, pride and cultural awareness. In part 1, we discussed Sara’s background leading up to med school and starting Pax Marila, including her motivation to become a doctor and fashion founder. In this episode, we get to hear all about the details of ...
Mar 18, 2025•40 min
#59. Sara Howell is the founder and designer behind Pax Marila, a brand designed to be both a safe place for women of diverse backgrounds and a hub of knowledge, pride and cultural awareness. Besides growing Pax Marila for the past several years, Sara has also been busy earning her medical degree from Howard University, finishing up her final year this year and looking forward to a residency in anesthesia. This is Part 1 of my interview with Sara, where we hear about the background behind her jo...
Mar 07, 2025•48 min
#58. Not to get ahead of myself, but we are SO back sis! Alexandra Dean is the founder of Adhere To, a sustainable, gender-neutral outerwear brand launched in 2022. Previously a designer at Lululemon, Alex took her knowledge of clothing design with her into providing freelance support for various brands, which ultimately allows her to fund her very own brand. Adhere To combines 100% recycled materials, ethical manufacturing and a low-carbon supply chain, all while maintaining a focus on high per...
Feb 06, 2025•59 min
#57. Camila Reyes is the president of Girls Club San Diego as well as a business coach through her company Simple Strategy. Tune in for a conversation on entrepreneurship, women in business, personal growth, business coaching, boundaries, mindset, and so much more. https://www.simplestrategy.co/ https://www.instagram.com/simplestrategy.co/ https://www.girlsclubsd.org/ https://www.instagram.com/girlsclubsd/
Dec 12, 2024•1 hr 9 min
#56. Hello, and welcome to the chaos! I learned to freelance this year, providing social media management software engineering services. If you have questions about freelancing, it is essentially having people pay you to provide them with specific services but now you're technically your own employer. You don't have a boss, yay! But you also have several "clients" that you need to please at any given time... In this episode, I get into the following topics after 4 months of experience of figurin...
Aug 16, 2024•26 min
#55. Tayllor Williams founded Studio West Pilates this year after gaining experience teaching in studios around Chicago. She discovered her love for Pilates and low impact movement after being diagnosed with an autoimmune disease in 2020. After noticing the benefits of Pilates in her own life, she decided to pursue her certification and opened her own studio space in order to share the benefits she experienced with her community. Tayllor has had a wide variety of career experiences in her twenti...
Jul 18, 2024•1 hr 7 min
#54. Dr. Meg Jay is a clinical psychologist and bestselling author specializing in the twenty something years. She wrote the book The Defining Decade in 2012, followed by a 2013 TED talk “Why 30 is Not the New 20” which has been viewed over 14 million times. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Forbes, Psychology Today, and NPR. She earned a PhD in clinical psychology and in gender studies from the University of California, Berkeley. Her first book, the Defi...
Jul 04, 2024•55 min
#53. I'm 4 months into my attempt at full-time solopreneurship. I've spent time developing the podcast social media, taking on freelance clients for social media management and coding, started my own LLC, and a lot of time just spinning my wheels. In this episode I reflect on the struggles I've faced and some things that have helped with clarity, mindset and attitude recently. I talk about a pivot I want to make with the podcast in attempts to connect you with the entrepreneurs themselves, how I...
Jun 27, 2024•32 min
#52. Leslie Simionescu is a yoga teacher and member of the leadership team at Yen Yoga Studio located in Traverse City, MI. Yen Yoga was created in 2010 and Leslie joined shortly after, becoming a 200 hour Yoga Teacher through a teacher training program hosted there by Jennifer Lintvedt. She has since become a 500 hour advanced teacher through Janet Stone Yoga at Esalen Institute in Big Sur California. Leslie is trained in Bhakti yoga which is the yoga of devotion, mantra, chanting and sound. Sh...
Jun 20, 2024•1 hr 2 min
#51. Today I am interviewing my older brother Daniel Wilson otherwise known as Dan. Dan has had all sorts of wild experiences other than being a software engineer for 6+ years. The major ones include training for and completing an ironman, living on a sailboat in the New York City Hudson River and sailing said sail boat down the east coast, and most recently white water rafting in Zambia. And yes, unsurprisingly, he also has a stint of van life under his belt. Dan is certainly the most adventuro...
Jun 06, 2024•53 min
#50. Alejandra Thomas is a software engineer and content creator. She currently lives in New York City and works as a Developer Advocate for a startup, as well as a part time Web Developer for Mixed Change, an agency working with nonprofits. On top of this, she also creates coding content across Twitter, Tiktok and Instagram. I first discovered Ale while creating coding content on Tiktok myself. She uses social media as a way to connect with the broader coding community although she’s been able ...
May 23, 2024•48 min
Soulfull is a community founded by Taylor Hamilton and Caroline Ball with the intent of fostering meaningful and authentic connection, incorporating more play into life, and elevating local businesses and creatives in San Francisco. In this episode, we discuss: Their background, friendship, and how they came to both return to CA as roommates in SF Their shared passion for building community The multiple events they've hosted so far around the city including a Vibe Alchemy event and a clothing sw...
May 09, 2024•1 hr 6 min
#48. Hadlee Garrison started her health coaching business after getting her Masters of Public Health from the University of Michigan. She earned her health coaching certification after going through a health coaching program of the company she interned with during her Masters. In this episode, we discuss the following: The details of her health coaching program focused on relationship with food, healthy habits and improving energy levels The role of Ayurveda in the program Hadlee’s different med...
Apr 25, 2024•55 min
Ashley Luchini is my dear friend that I met during a travel writing study abroad course in Greece almost six years ago. She got her degree in nursing and is now pursuing a dual degree in women’s health nurse practitioner and certified nurse midwife. We just had the opportunity to catch up at our mutual friend Katie’s wedding a couple weeks ago and were just chatting about the general chaos of your twenties. In this episode, we discuss the following: value of solo travel, dining alone why our stu...
Apr 18, 2024•56 min
#46. In this episode I discuss My history with choosing Computer Science Computer Science program at Umich First impression of compsci / what they taught us Career fairs How many classes I almost failed Choosing LSA vs. engineering (different colleges within University of Michigan with different requirements) Recruiting for junior year internship vs. recruiting senior year for full time role First year in industry at Poshmark Getting promoted to software data engineer “II” and what that meant et...
Apr 16, 2024•42 min
#45. In this episode I discuss: My experience with social media (coding content on tiktok) Why Social Media Matters if You Have a Product to Market What I've done for the PPP social media so far How my account grew What I've learned from an online course I took to learn about this What I have yet to learn from the course The Effects of Being Online How to Create Boundaries with Social Media - and Why You Ought To to Maintain a 'Stable' Relationship with It Tune in to hear the tea :) *in this epi...
Apr 11, 2024•34 min
#44. Thanks to a recent epiphany from a podcast interview of Alex Hormozi, I've created a solo episode around this exercise of "What would it take to have authority in x", where 'x' is some arbitrary skillset or task etc. I've cycled through many forms of goal setting, some very non committal. What I like is when the focus is on what I'm able to do, and not on external factors or outcomes. In this episode, I'll walk you through examples from my personal goals of how I set numerical goals of doin...
Apr 07, 2024•20 min
#43. Broc Crandall is the co-founder and CEO of Stocked, a pre arrival delivery service saving vacationers time and money while connecting local businesses for a better check in experience. He founded the company with an old friend and roommate, Zach Hite, in 2020 after years of noticing the time suck in using precious hours of vacation time to go grocery shopping in new and unfamiliar places. Stocked provides grocery deliveries to vacationers in northern Michigan, collaborating with property ma...
Apr 04, 2024•52 min
#42. In this solo ep / life update I walk through my answers for a Q1 Review exercise I found online, leaving the questions below: Review Q1: What went really well? What was challenging? What were the biggest lessons I learned? What are my favorite memories? Was I honoring my values/ways of being? How? What might have been lacking? Did you accomplish what you wanted to in the first three months of the year? Have you celebrated your success? Who did you share it with? Do you need to retool any ti...
Apr 03, 2024•37 min
Chris Miller joined Jarret Beaudis, a best friend from childhood, in growing the primarily menswear fashion brand Signature, about five years ago. Chris and Jarret seek to fill a gap in the market and have a say in the redesign of fashion by fusing genres together to create the perfect urban workwear. Their clothing is beginning to attract female customers as well, especially with the oversized trend’s recent surge in popularity. Over five and a half years ago, Jarret started on the journey of b...
Mar 28, 2024•42 min
In this empowering episode, I delve into the transformative journey of overcoming limiting beliefs. After some *ahem* research, I share practical strategies and insightful wisdom on identifying, challenging, and conquering the mental barriers that hold us back. From reframing negative thoughts to cultivating a growth mindset, discover actionable steps to unlock your full potential and achieve your goals. Throughout the episode, I share examples of my own challenges over the course of my twenties...
Mar 25, 2024•37 min
#39. Rebecca Suby-Long is an independent brand and web designer in San Francisco, CA. Previously working as a designer for Gap Inc. and a variety of other companies in tech in the Bay Area, she eventually moved towards freelancing and has been self employed for just over a year now. Most recently, Rebecca helped Butter & Crumble with their web design, a San Francisco bakery started by previous show guest Sophie Smith. Offering services including brand identity design, web design, art directi...
Mar 21, 2024•40 min
#38. Amney Mounir is a lead Data Analyst at Poshmark as well as the founder of Dataford.io, a live editor platform where users can practice technical data analytics interview questions commonly asked by top tier companies. Amney’s mission is to help those with the technical skills required to work in data analytics roles bridge the gap between education and real life application of those skills. Through his experiences recruiting himself as well as interviewing others for data analysis roles, he...
Mar 14, 2024•43 min
#37. Sarah Pinner is the CEO and Co-Founder of Beni, a chrome extension that finds resale alternatives from across the internet in the click of a button. Originally from Santa Barbara and having studied political economy at Berkeley for undergrad, she went on to work at Rabobank Wholesale Banking North America for four years, where her passion for sustainability, agriculture and policy served her through multiple roles working with food and law. Eventually she transitioned to work on innovation ...
Feb 29, 2024•52 min•Season 3Ep. 10
#36. Henriette Husby is a 26 year old podcast host, business coach, public speaker and real estate agent. She started her podcast, Businesstalk with Henriette, over two years ago in January of 2022. Originally studying real estate at BI Norwegian Business School, followed by a Master’s in Strategy, Organization and Leadership from Copenhagen Business School, she worked for a year as head of sales at a proptech company called ReData. Working in a male dominated industry, she sought out conversati...
Feb 15, 2024•57 min•Season 3Ep. 9
#35. Devon Rule studied chemical engineering in college, but after graduation she jumped straight into management consulting. After that two-year stint, she spent the next five working in pricing and strategy at fashion companies Gap and Cuyana. Within each of these roles, she navigated into smaller and smaller teams that allowed her to have a great deal of leadership and visibility into projects, enabling a smooth transition into her now startup Indyx, cofounded with Yidi Campbell, a former col...
Feb 01, 2024•55 min•Season 3Ep. 8
#34. Ash Yao and Kyle Gillaspy launched their tea brand in November of last year after nearly a year of preparation. Ash grew up in Taiwan and has loved tea since childhood - later, after graduating with a neuroscience B.S. at Santa Clara University, she started brewing tea for friends during her weekly family nights where she would cook dinner for her close friends. Due to popularity, she kept making her tea for others and eventually decided to turn it into a brand. After three years of work in...
Jan 18, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Season 2Ep. 8
