EVERYDAY CONVERSATIONS with Amin Mombani

Adopted at four days old into the home of "a praying woman, a loving woman," Aljenon Cooper spent years asking why me. Today he calls it being given up on purpose. 🎧 Audio-only episode — our video file was corrupted, but every word of this conversation is here. Meet Aljenon Cooper Aljenon is a Los Angeles-based pastor, ministry leader, executive, president and author — and a husband and...

Her father sold sweets people still remember for their quality. Twenty years into IT, Vijayalakshmi built her own company on the same promise: be someone people can depend on. Vijaya is a Bengaluru-based IT trainer, mentor and counsellor, and the founder of WIN Corporate Training. After more than two decades in tech, she started WIN in October 2013 to give learners training built around what they...

She had eczema and no answers, so she built Root 2Bloom. Then People, Not Labels — letters to elderly, sick kids, people displaced by war. Student founder, no permission slip, no waiting for someone else. Badriya Fatima on eczema (not contagious), bystander effect, 12 tabs open rule, and why nobody is coming to fix it for you. Eczema, youth leadership, kindness, student startup. Meet Badriya Fatim...

Mel Guyett read the books, took the courses, got certified — and still felt stuck. Then she stopped trying to THINK her way into healing. She started to breathe. Meet Mel Guyett Canada-based 9D Breathwork facilitator and founder of The Embodied Human Project. After years of chronic pain and a personal development routine that became a full-time job, she helps "exhausted seekers" move fro...

He was 170KG. People called him names. Today he runs full regularly on Marine Drive, Mumbai Meet Mohit Sethi — born & bred in Mumbai, owner of Travelers Inn, marathon runner, and the guy who says "Big vote of thanks to my haters." In this episode: the Europe trip that needed 11 operations, the grandmother whose words hit after 2008, the nutritionist who charged ₹1000 for every week h...

He Lived in 30 Countries to Learn How We REALLY Communicate. What if you didn't have to choose between a real career and seeing the world? Drew Sisera studied speech communication in Canada, moved to Taiwan to teach English, and accidentally built a coaching business that lets him live out of a backpack for the last 5 years — from Vancouver to Greece to North Vietnam. We talk about communicati...

When we asked Beth Rodriguez how she got to where she is, she didn't give us a career story. She gave us a practice: continuously trying to do the next right thing. No grand plan, no five-year vision — just the next right thing, over and over. Beth is a writer, essayist, former preschool teacher and mother of three. After years of being absorbed in motherhood, she's writing again and redis...

In the mid-90s, Ashis Dutta had a secure job, an apartment and a car in Kolkata. He walked away from all of it, moved to Bangalore knowing not one person, and started a software company in an industry he was still learning. He called it Pagalpan — the kind of madness you need to achieve anything. That business became his passport to nearly 40 countries. Somewhere between boardrooms and airports, h...

She raised her own kids while finishing her doctorate. Herfamily opened its doors to 18 foreign exchange students. And through all of it, she landed on one belief that now guides everything she teaches.   In this episode of Everyday Conversations, Amin sits downwith Dr. Lasha Crowell Seaman — founder of Bridges & Roots Family Services — for a conversation about co-parenting, letting go of cont...

She was born into a sentence she never committed. Her father has spent her entire life behind the walls of a Louisiana state penitentiary. In this episode of Everyday Conversations, Amin sits down with Dominque Jones-Johnson — founder of Daughters Beyond Incarceration (DBI), an organization that has now stood beside over 100 girls living the exact childhood she once lived. In this conversation: pa...

Forty years inside the machinery of government gave her afront-row seat to exactly how corruption happens. So she wrote a novel about it.   In this episode of Everyday Conversations, Amin sits downwith Lynn Dannheisser — a retired attorney of 40 years, 30 of them as a city attorney — to talk about her debut thriller Where Nobody Knows Her Name, the real moments that inspired it, and why she believ...

Her whole public persona is chaos. The actual path underneath it is one of the most disciplined you'll hear on this show. In this episode of Everyday Conversations, Amin sits down with Bettina BCB — a British recording artist based in LA who invented a genre she calls "drill pop" because nobody else was making it. In this conversation: choir to an all-girl metal band to drill pop, me...

An elevator door opened, and a voice told her exactly what her life was for. She almost didn't believe it. In this episode of Everyday Conversations, Amin sits down with Krishna Mody — a certified life coach and IPHM Certified Neurochakra Quantum Healer — for a conversation about grief, fourteen years of caregiving, and the belief that changed everything: nobody does anything to us, we allow thing...

Ask a screenwriter to title the hardest two years of her life, and she won't hesitate. In this episode of Everyday Conversations, Amin sits down with Anjalee Kirpalani — bestselling author of four novels, screenwriter, and co-host of the podcast Main Character Energy — for a conversation about divorce, shame, and what rebuilding actually looks like once the cameras stop rolling and life refuse...

She spent her career as an aircraft electrician in the USNavy and Army. Then arthritis took the hand tools away — and everything she thought she was went with them.   Francine Juhlin, also known as Princess Francie, built a 6-step process for personal change to get herself through it — then turned it into a children's book world designed so kids never need it. In this conversation: identity, r...

An interviewer once dismissed him with a single question. He turned it into the fuel for everything he built next.   Jatin Patel is the founder and creative director of Kalikas Armour, a bespoke, armour-inspired fashion house. In this conversation: class, identity, and building a creative career with no obvious access in. 🎙️ In this episode:- The interview question that lit a fire under his entire...

He was revived from overdose more times than he can count. Today, his worst day is better than his best day ever was back then.   Christian Whitlow is a content creator and podcaster whobuilt Fed By Fire Media to give a voice to people who usually don't have one. In this conversation: addiction, prison, losing custody of his son, and the small daily choices that actually rebuilt his life.   🎙️...

She was called a tattletale growing up — not for causingtrouble, but for telling the truth even when it wasn't convenient.   Gigi Santos is a keynote speaker and certified Life & Success Coach. In this conversation: self-trust, aligned decisions, and why she believes fear has been lying to all of us the whole time. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------...

She hit rock bottom at 31 with a career that looked perfect on paper. Fourteen months in India later, she came home a different person. Dimple Malkan is a hypnotherapist, yoga teacher, and founderof OmiLomi. In this conversation: reinvention, two Vipassana retreats, an ayahuasca experience, and why she believes success is when you stop caring about it.   Follow the show so you never miss an episod...

Two to three years of unemployment can break a person, or itcan force them to rebuild from scratch. For Matias Högnabba, it did both. In this episode, Amin talks with Matias — a decision-making consultant and self-described "anthropologist at heart" — about the long stretch ofjoblessness that pushed him into entrepreneurship, why he believes most of what we call "rational" is a...

Statistically, she shouldn't be sitting in this conversation. A childhood of poverty, neglect, and abuse in Denver could have written her story for her. Instead, Dr. Charleanea Arellano became a psychologist and leadership coach of over 30 years, spent her adult life turning her hardest experiences into what she calls "terrible gifts," and built a framework — Embodied Narrative — tha...

She made a choice that was best for her. It also made peoplesee her as the villain.   Leslie Kuny is an award-winning dance educator and studioowner. In this conversation: losing every teaching contract in one year, walking away from a business partnership, and why she tells her students "Everything's made up and the points don't matter."  Follow the show so you never miss an epi...

He used to bring falcons back from the edge with surgicalprecision. Now he does it for people.   Dr. Victor Daniel is the "Falcon Doctor" — a former elite falcon veterinarian turned Family Constellations facilitator andtherapist. In this conversation: inherited family patterns, walking away from an elite career, and why you're not broken — you're just carrying something that was...

She built the career most people dream about — global banking, a life across continents, every external marker of success. And underneath it, she was disconnected, exhausted, and quietly falling apart. In this episode, Amin sits down with Rohne — Silent Emotional Crisis™ Expert, Courage Coach, and author of Realized: From Rock Bottom to Unconditional Love . Rohne opens up about the gap between the...

His directorial debut is named after a diagnostic code. It'shis own.   Cole Sylla is a writer and documentary producer whose workcenters on mental health. In this conversation: the bipolar II diagnosis behind his directorial debut "f31.9," anger as a way of pushing past fear, and the script that got him to HBO and Showtime. 🎙️ In this episode: - Why "f31.9" — the diagnostic...