Amy Stanton of Stanton & Company and coauthor of The Feminine Revolution joins to talk not marketing, not PR - but masculine and feminine energies. Amy is a pioneer in a new era of women’s rights that is not competitive, but rather a complementary approach. Traditionally, female attributes are looked down upon as “weaK” - however, what we reframe these qualities as strength? We don’t need to be more of anything that we aren’t but rather unblock the femininity that’s within us. We go over why...
Jul 19, 2023•58 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Lori is a master at identity shifts, starting in a career in entertainment, turned lawyer, turned real-estate mogul, not to mention a mom of three. We discuss the concept of evolution, the uncomfortable moments of discomfort while transitioning to something new, identity crises, and depression, and why she does not equate success with fulfillment.What is the secret sauce that Trader Joe’s employees have that make them so happy? Why does the statement ‘babies are born with a loaf of bread under t...
Jul 12, 2023•53 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Mike Rosenthal — artist, director, photographer, mental health advocate, and CEO / co-founder of, It’s Good! joins us for a very real powwow. Despite photographing many of Hollywood’s biggest actors and actresses, founding a company with John Legend, and being very much in the “in crowd,” he remains incredibly humble and grounded - something we dig into deeper. We discuss his challenging upbringing and the abundance of inner work, including the Hoffman Process, on himself to release patterns, be...
Jul 05, 2023•56 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Liz Kennedy is an entrepreneur, famed aesthetician, on air expert and beauty influencer. Liz shares openly about her challenging childhood, building resilience, releasing hard emotions, and her relationship to success, money —both having it and lacking it. Liz tells us how she transcended comparative thinking, growing up poor in a wealthy community and criticism from her peers. Follow the show on: Instagram TikTok Production by Peoples Media Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inform...
Jun 28, 2023•53 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Megan Roup needs no introduction, celebrity trainer, founder of the Sculpt Society and overall physical and mental wellness enthusiast. This is not a conversation about workouts or nutrition tips and tricks - this is a conversation about the real and vulnerable moments of Megan’s journey. We discuss her past and present relationship to food and exercise, as well as her battle to food freedom. We get deep into the mind fuck of pregnancy (especially for someone who’s always filming ), mom shaming,...
Jun 21, 2023•50 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Emily Schildt is the founder (or chief eating officer) at Pop Up Grocer, basically your Instagram feed of products IRL. Emily is an open book—she tells us how to be alone and love it and how to enjoy your own company, especially as a method to recharge being an entrepreneur in NYC’s fast paced society. We discuss how rules and rigidity can actually serve you if executed with grace, the shame she felt about being “single forever” and the blocks she dismantled along the way to find a relationship ...
Jun 14, 2023•56 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Desirée Pais is the founder of BENSHEN.co, a platform that empowers women to unlock their personal power through access to wellness tools for the modern day human. BENSHEN is a true testament that you can live a healthy, spiritual life, and have fun at the same time - you don’t have to follow every rule and become a monk to lead a life of integrity and of your dreams. While this is Desirée’s company, her life could not have been more opposite from BENSHEN’s mission in her early years. Desirée w...
Jun 07, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 23
After leaving a career as a musician, twice, Noah Gersh, shares how he handled the incredible highs of living in the spotlight, to living a more ‘normal life’ and navigating imposter syndrome while building an audio storytelling and production company, SALT. We discuss the fallacy of goal-setting and blasting through checkmarks, how to know when a dream is heart driven or ego driven, and how to tune your antenna to hear the subtle voice within. Production by Peoples Media Hosted on Acast. See ac...
May 31, 2023•53 min•Season 1Ep. 22
In today’s episode, we welcome Mayssa Chehata, founder of Behave Candy, brand builder extraordinaire and fun fact, she’s also a DJ. Mayssa shares openly about leaving the safe confines of her corporate job and her marriage — at the same time. After this huge life change, she battled years of suppressed emotions that she had neglected by staying “safe.” Mayssa gets deep with us about the reality of building a start-up and adjusting to life as a newly divorced, single woman in her late 20’s—an une...
May 24, 2023•48 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Dakota Fanning is the youngest person to ever be nominated for a SAG award at seven years old, and that was just the start. For most, this is a pipe dream. When you amass the success of a lifetime out the gates- where do you go from there? How do you define fulfillment and success when you find your purpose so young? We sat down with a bottle of wine to shoot the shit about early stardom, fame before Instagram, dating, and disappointment. How do you learn to trust new people? How do you keep per...
May 17, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 20
We’re excited to introduce Valerie Oula, a reiki master, director of Vibrational Healing at THE WELL, yoga and meditation teacher, guide, author, and founder of Modern Ritual NYC. With her bio you’d think she was always spiritual and in touch with herself, however, Valerie had quite the partying phase working as a casting director and photo producer in NYC. And while her present looks far different than her past, she stresses the important of honoring where you’ve been (even the shitty parts) in...
May 10, 2023•55 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Kareem Rahma is a media executive, turned comedian and creator of popular TikTok series ‘Keep the Meter Running’, a inspired by his late father. We get into the importance of prioritizing fun, “embracing cringe,”and fostering community. Unsurprisingly, Kareem is funny as heck and through wit, laughter, profound cliches and radical honesty Kareem shares how he ended up with a career that allows him not to “work.” We chat about his early mid-life / late quarter- life crises when he had the inevita...
May 03, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Kimya Zahedi is the master of taking what happens and using it as a transformational tool for growth. She was strong willed and opinionated from a young age and realized early on, she was not for everyone. Her immigrant parents fostered her authentic self and allowed her to embrace (and love) her true self despite what others thought. Kimya was quick to follow her curiosity early and often. She was daring enough to move at 22 to Iran to release and uncover what she felt was weighing her down in ...
Apr 26, 2023•56 min•Season 1Ep. 17
In today’s episode we welcome Alex Delany, former editor at Bon Appetit, Internet personality, host of the podcast Sound Radio, DJ of the Love Club and so much more. We dive straight into some big topics many of us struggle with: people pleasing, acceptance, mental health, money, finding your passions (and cultivating them) and our deepest fears. Alex shares openly about his dating life, the challenges he faces in finding someone who truly understands him and the ways heartbreak has humbled and ...
Apr 19, 2023•57 min•Season 1Ep. 16
If you love skincare, you’ve probably heard of Doctor Shereene Idriss, cult-loved, board certified dermatologist in NYC, founder of Idriss dermatology and her own skincare line PillowTalk Derm—who moonlights as a therapist to her clients. In this episode as usual, we don’t cover how she built this, we cover why. We explore what drew her to dermatology and her accidental fall into entrepreneurship. We get into what it’s like have to be always be “on”—can you even drink knowing a needle is heading...
Apr 12, 2023•57 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Today on What’s the Point, we welcome Julia Haber, co-founder of Home from College and all around force of nature. We dive right into her non traditional love story, starting a business with a partner that quickly turned into a romantic relationship (thanks Covid), and how the stability in her personal relationship allows her to seek out more instability and risks in her professional life. Julia discusses openly on how she navigated a learning disability throughout her childhood and how ultimate...
Apr 05, 2023•59 min•Season 1Ep. 14
In a very special Valentine’s Day episode we get into the value of overcoming imposter syndrome, using our personal sorcery to get ahead, the blessing and curse of being labeled as “pretty” and the fallacy of “fuck men culture” for both romantic, platonic, and professional relationships. We get into the responsibility we have as individuals to resist bringing our own stories into a room, relationship, or into the world as a whole because we risk perpetuating the dynamic we fear the most. And las...
Mar 29, 2023•54 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Great episode today with Matt Weinberg - he started as a child Hollywood star (and we mean STAR - appeared on Friends, Hot Chick, X-Men to name a few), seeing it more as an extracurricular vs. a job. He then went on to becoming an executive in the coveted entertainment world, yet ultimately decided to follow his curiosity and passion for cooking and is now the head chef at one of LA's most credible restaurants - Angelini Osteria Palisades. In this episode we discuss how Matt flowed through multi...
Mar 22, 2023•45 min•Season 1Ep. 12
This episode features the one and only Vanessa Fitzgerald aka @veeshoney - NRT (nutrition response testing) practitioner and overall healer, content creator, entrepreneur and wellness enthusiast. While social media can be detrimental to some, Instagram actually helped Vanessa find her voice and ultimately launch her platform - it was the first place she felt truly seen as her authentic self through sharing her vulnerable journey detoxing from adderall. We discuss how being open on Instagram feel...
Mar 15, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 11
We speak to Brian Toll, one half of H.wood Group about following your own compass, relentlessly. This was our first recording so while it gets a little long winded and chatty, there are incredible nuggets of wisdom in this conversation! We discuss the importance of doing what you do best, leaning into your strengths and the success it can blossom into. We learn the power of self-awareness and listening to your intuition, as well as empowering the voices believe in you. We explore the idea of doi...
Mar 08, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 10
We get to speak to Avi and Jess from Carla Cafe, an iconic, pandemic-born pop-up making LA's best sandwiches (if you live in LA do yourself a favor and try it). We speak about the impetus of starting Carla Cafe - how Avi needed to make some cash during Covid and leaned into one of his favorite activities, making crave worthy sandwiches...and who knew what would come from this. The journey, the hustle, working with your partner, being a perfectionist, and common fallacies are all part of this eng...
Mar 01, 2023•58 min•Season 1Ep. 9
We had the privilege of sitting down with Sophia Parsa, a serial entrepreneur, investor and talented creator. We're constantly in awe of her ability to seamlessly create and build businesses from the ground up with the perceived absence of self-doubt or fear and were always curious on the factors that led her to embody this fearless mindset. We share a vulnerable conversation on her upbringing and the passing of her father and best friend within the same month - as Sophia says, when the worst th...
Feb 22, 2023•55 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Alessandra Garcia Lorido, a curve model at IMG world wide and female activist. We speak about how she entered into the career of a curve model in college, how she learned to handle rejection at a young age, and how she balances the intensity of the modeling world with activities and relationships that ground her. Alessandra speaks openly about confidence, self-worth, and the not so glamorous parts of being a model. Many of us struggle with attaching our identity to our careers, yet Alessandra ha...
Feb 15, 2023•54 min•Season 1Ep. 7
We speak to Chris Hovsepian about leaving your comfortable and sexy dream job at an inopportune time. We chat about the power of presence in every day life, knowing your strengths, leaning into your luck, and learning to trust yourself. Chris walks us through taking cues from smart and creative people around you, whilst finding your unconventional path...and how to take the leap even when the safety net has yet to appear. Production by Peoples Media Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mor...
Feb 08, 2023•53 min•Season 1Ep. 6
To start, Jas is a little long -winded—it's been a few years since she's seen Boz, but bear with us! Bozoma Saint John is a true force of nature. We go deep with Boz on getting stuck on "ideas" of where we should be and following external pressures, structures and timelines. Having such a vivacious and honest leader on the show was a true honor. We get into accepting hard truths without becoming a victim of them and how to rise regardless. Follow the show on: Instagram TikTok Production by Peopl...
Feb 01, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 5
This week we sit down with Dale Borchiver - someone who really took her quest for fulfillment by the reigns. Most of you know her as one half of Sweats and The City, Orro App and The Heard, but before she created this platform with her co-founder and previous roommate, Elizabeth, she was working at glorified fashion jobs in New York City, questioning if she’d ever find a fulfilling career. In this episode, we discuss how Dale chose the unconventional path to start Sweats, despite criticism, impo...
Jan 25, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 4
We spoke to Sarah Joyce, Global Head of Communication for Beats by Dre about the power of leaning into your "feminine" at work. What it means to empower others, including yourself, through nurture and advocacy. Sarah Joyce tells us how her career take off when she became a mother, not in spite of it. We get into surviving very public personal and professional drama by remembering rules are "make believe." There is no one definition of success, and thus there is no one path to it - Sarah is livin...
Jan 18, 2023•51 min•Season 1Ep. 3
This week we speak to Natalie Holloway, co-founder of Bala Bangles, on how family shifts your priorities, filling your soul, enjoying the journey vs. focusing on the outcome and finding fulfillment in the process. We speak about learning to stay in your lane when co-founding a business with your partner, playing to your strengths, and the necessity of having boundaries. We explore the power of the unknown, naïveté, leaving your comfort zone and the process of leaning into who you naturally are. ...
Jan 11, 2023•49 min•Season 1Ep. 2
In this episode, we share the catalyst to starting What's the Point? Introduce ourselves and have a vulnerable conversation on fulfillment, success, and purpose. Production by Peoples Media Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 11, 2023•16 min•Season 1Ep. 1
