Two decades ago, a friend gave Myra Biblowit a vision and a challenge: cure breast cancer. As CEO of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, Myra has made major strides towards that goal. She believes a bold vision inspires you to take risks and happily fail forward. In this week’s episode, we learn how Myra’s passion to fulfill her vision inspires commitment, creativity, and support and how her willingness to take bold risks has helped her achieve big results. Download the executive summary for ...
Sep 29, 2020•27 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Disruption ain’t easy, but that’s precisely why healthcare futurist Dr. Zayna Khayat knows it needs to happen, even when it feels like you’re being kicked in the teeth every day. On this week’s episode, Zayna recounts her journey from PhD biochemist to disruptor extraordinaire, and the hard-learned lessons along the way. She covers everything from the power of “creative destruction” to why health innovators don’t have to worry about job security. Download the executive summary for this episode a...
Sep 23, 2020•30 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Like a lot of Americans, Dave and Erin Leaverton struggled with the political divisions they saw and felt after the 2016 elections. From Facebook fights to coffee shop arguments, they couldn’t stop wondering, “What would it take to bring unity to America?” Instead of just talking about this question or adding to social media echo chambers, they quit their jobs, put their three kids in an RV, and set out on a year-long journey across the country to search for an answer. Their year on the road is ...
Sep 16, 2020•39 min•Season 2Ep. 13
One of Modern Healthcare’s Top 10 Leaders in Healthcare, Sean Slovenski has a knack for disruption, a commitment to transforming healthcare, and a fearless attitude towards failure. Throughout his storied career (including a recent stint as the president of Health and Wellness for Walmart, Inc.), he’s challenged companies to start with the customer/patient first and then build from there. In this wide-ranging interview, Slovenski discusses how consumers’ need for transparency, choice, affordabil...
Sep 09, 2020•40 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Just months after landing a plum role on All My Children, Colin Egglesfield found his world turned upside down. A testicular cancer diagnosis threatened his career—and potentially his life. But the cancer (which he eventually beat) was just the latest obstacle on his journey from severe shyness to screen success. This week on The Combustion Chronicles, Colin, author of Agile Artist: Life Lessons from Hollywood and Beyond, tells Chief Ecosystem Disruptor Shawn Nason how he survived rejection, con...
Sep 02, 2020•36 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Every company in every industry is facing disruption as tastes change, profit margins shrink, and barriers to entry fall for upstart rivals. Soon Yu, former global VP of innovation at VF Corporation, says the key to avoiding obsolescence is to build iconic advantage. No, that doesn’t mean designing prettier smartphone icons; it means pursuing a strategy that builds real differentiation and turns your business into a cultural icon. Dig into this week’s episode with us as Soon explores the concept...
Aug 26, 2020•34 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Paula Schneider made her name as an apparel-brand turnaround exec. Now she’s making her mark as CEO of cancer charity Susan G. Komen. At Komen Paula is fighting to slash breast cancer deaths by 50 percent in just six years. And the fight is personal: She lost her mother to metastatic breast cancer and is herself a survivor of the disease. Join us for this week’s episode as Paula discusses how she beat cancer, fought her way up the corporate ladder, and is now applying a turnaround mindset to kee...
Aug 19, 2020•32 min•Season 1Ep. 9
COVID-19 has disrupted healthcare like a Cat 5 hurricane. So what comes next? And how do we create positive change on the other side of the pandemic? Jane Sarasohn-Kahn thinks she knows. The CEO of THINK-Health and founder of the Health Populi blog, Jane is a health economist, advisor, trend weaver, and author. And she’s our guest on this week’s episode. Join us as she shares her insight about three Ts—telehealth, trauma, and trust—the importance of self-care, and what it means to be a health ci...
Aug 12, 2020•34 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Las Vegas-based artist Juan Muniz wants people to know it’s OK not to be OK. In his new book I’m Not OK, he utilizes simple, meaningful illustrations and quotations to create space for people to voice their own struggles with mental health. Shining a light on mental health, depression, and anxiety is a theme of much of his work, including his popular Ninobuni World lifestyle brand. We get disruptively raw on this week’s episode as Juan shares his own struggles to understand feelings of loss and ...
Aug 05, 2020•37 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Who better to disrupt the healthcare system than a Stanford- and Harvard-trained physician-scientist, entrepreneur, inventor, and innovator with more than 25 years of experience in clinical practice, biomedical research, and healthcare transformation? That’s Dr. Daniel Kraft, our guest on this week’s episode. Kraft is the brain behind IntelliMedicine—think personalized prescriptions you 3D print at home—and says the future of healthcare is being built by astrophysicists, gamers, and maker folks,...
Jul 29, 2020•33 min•Season 1Ep. 6
If you’re a black Californian, your doctor probably doesn’t look like you. That’s because underrepresented minorities make up 40 percent of the state’s population but only nine percent of its physicians. Dr. Kelechi Uwaezuoke is laser-focused on closing that gap. As Assistant Director for Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Partnerships at San Francisco State University, she is disrupting the lack of minority representation in healthcare. In fact, that’s why she entered the public health field i...
Jul 22, 2020•37 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Switchblade earrings. A diamond-encrusted Ring Pop. A pendant inspired by Family Guy. Those are some of jeweler Jason Arasheben’s outlandish creations, which adorn the bodies of everyone from Saudi princes to basketball royalty (Lebron James, among others). Dubbed the “anarcho-jeweler to the stars” by GQ, Jason leveraged a part-time gig—selling cheap trinkets out of his dorm room—into the cutting-edge Jason of Beverly Hills. On this week’s episode, we learn more about Jason and how his unique cr...
Jul 14, 2020•26 min•Season 1Ep. 4
What’s the price of poverty for a child? If you ask this week’s guest, the answer should never be “death.” After launching the Cure 4 the Kids Foundation from her kitchen table almost 15 years ago, Annette Logan-Parker has proven that the worlds of both healthcare and philanthropy are ripe for disruption. On this episode, dive with us into Annette’s roller coaster of a journey to discover the maverick mindsets that you need for blowing up the status quo and the grit you need to overcome the obst...
Jul 07, 2020•32 min•Season 1Ep. 3
In 2008, with the subprime mortgage industry failing, investment banks collapsing, and the nation quickly moving into financial turmoil, Ryan Serhant decided it was time to launch his career in real estate. One of the stars of Bravo’s Million Dollar Listing New York and author of the bestselling book Sell It Like Serhant, Ryan has become one of the most successful real estate brokers in the world at just 35 years old. Join us as we combust with Ryan and engage his unique blend of wit, charm, and...
Jun 30, 2020•33 min•Season 1Ep. 2
For our first episode, Shawn speaks with Arianna Huffington, founder and CEO of Thrive Global, a corporate and well-being productivity platform with the mission of changing the way we live and work by destroying the delusion that burnout is the price we have to pay for success. Arianna explores the role of creative disruption in her work, dreams about a disrupted post-pandemic future, speaks boldly about the challenges of compassion, and she even poses the question, “Is Shawn a mutant?” Come com...
Jun 23, 2020•27 min•Season 1Ep. 1
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