Conversations with Sekani

Julia Collier is an educator, coach, and dean at Well-Trained Mind Academy with over 25 years of experience helping students, parents, and educators build meaningful learning journeys — and more importantly, understand the power of the stories we create about our lives. From hustling through side gigs and living in New York City in her 20s to now guiding others toward direction and clarity, her jo...

Dr. Cindy saj challenges common assumptions about therapy, explores the deeper layers of mental wellness, and helps people reconnect with purpose in a way that actually lasts. A lot of people are trying to heal but stay stuck repeating the same patterns. What if the issue isn’t effort, but how we understand healing itself? In this thoughtful conversation, Dr. Cindy shares: • What drew her into men...

Katie Jean helps high performers stop absorbing everything around them at work and learn how to leave work at work without losing their edge. After years in corporate America and experiencing a covertly emotionally abusive workplace that triggered prior trauma, she trained in HR, somatic trauma-informed coaching, and narcissistic abuse recovery. A lot of people think they’re just stressed from wor...

Dr. Jacopo Iasiello started businesses as a teenager and built a global real estate portfolio. From Naples, Italy, his journey is about discipline, reinvention, and creating success that actually lasts — without sacrificing health, mindset, or peace. A lot of people chase success in one area of life. Very few figure out how to build all of it sustainably. This conversation breaks down the mindset...

Tony Tenaglier is a manufacturing leader, author, and host of Work Sucks But I Like It, where he breaks down the uncomfortable truth about modern work, burnout, and accountability — no hacks, no shortcuts, just reality. Most people don’t hate work. They hate how they are working: the pressure, the burnout, the constant feeling of being busy but not fulfilled. This conversation challenges the usual...

Rita Dickinson is a frequency healer who helps people restore balance across the body, emotions, and overall well-being. Her journey into this work didn’t start with theory — it started with her own experience of 23 surgeries and a body that kept creating scar tissue with no answers from conventional medicine. Most people think of healing as something purely physical. This conversation explores a...

Christina Workman is a grief coach and podcast host who helps people navigate loss, heartbreak, and healing — not by rushing the process, but by meeting it honestly. A former nurse who worked extensively with end-of-life and oncology patients, she has also lived profound personal loss: the death of her youngest son at 18 and later experiences of estrangement. Grief is something everyone experience...

Eric Robinson is a recently retired FBI special agent with over two decades of experience working everything from counterterrorism to crimes against children, gangs, and public corruption. Before that, he spent 12 years in ministry — a path that shaped how he approached some of the most intense situations imaginable. Most people only see law enforcement from the outside. This is a conversation abo...

Dr. Lori Davis is a board-certified family nurse practitioner and AASECT-certified sex counselor who works at the intersection of medicine, emotion, and human connection. She specializes in mismatched desire, intimacy challenges, and helping people move beyond shame, labels, and silent disconnection to build more presence, pleasure, and honesty in their relationships. Her work has been featured in...

Bruno Pešec is an innovation advisor, author, and doctoral researcher who has helped leaders unlock billions in new revenue and market opportunities — not through theory, but through real execution. Most companies say they want innovation. Very few actually profit from it. This conversation breaks down why innovation fails, what actually works, and how to build things that don’t just sound good bu...

Heather Justice is an author, speaker, and host of the Between the Now and The Next podcast. After surviving an emotionally abusive relationship, she turned her pain into purpose — helping women heal, set boundaries, and rediscover their identity through faith. This is a conversation about truth, healing, and what it really takes to rebuild yourself after something that almost broke you. In this r...

Steven Yee is a former basketball player and coach turned entrepreneur who built and scaled a multi-million dollar sales organization before exiting through private equity. His story isn’t just about business success — it’s about transition, identity, and what happens when you win externally but start questioning everything internally. From coaching high school athletes to leading thousands of sal...

Sira Laurel is a leadership coach and founder of North of Normal. She helps leaders understand how their brain and nervous system actually work — and how to use that knowledge to lead more effectively, especially in a world increasingly shaped by AI. With a background in HR leadership and organizational development, her work focuses on helping people move away from reactive, burnout-driven leaders...

Dr. Frank L. Douglas is a physician, scientist, and former global pharmaceutical executive with over three decades of experience in healthcare and innovation. From leading major pharmaceutical organizations to helping bring more than 25 drugs to market, his career spans science, leadership, and global impact. His personal story — from early hardship in Guyana to becoming a global thought leader —...

Chris Woods is a certified professional coach, former Google sales leader, and author of Balls and Brains. After rising from a tough upbringing in Boston to the C-suite, he experienced a life-altering moment when he flatlined at 40 — forcing him to completely rethink success, fear, and what it means to truly live well. Today, he helps people overcome fear and maximize their strengths so they can b...

Dr. Julius Torelli is a physician with four decades in medicine whose work has shifted from treating illness to helping people take control of their health through mindset, emotional resilience, and intentional living. He is the creator of the Gratefully Well method. Not every health problem shows up on a scan. Persistent symptoms like fatigue, headaches, and gut issues often have no clear physica...

Brianna Gervat is an author, art historian, and storyteller whose work explores the intersection of history, travel, and human experience. From studying the Rwanda genocide to walking over 500 miles along the Western Front, her journey is one of reflection, resilience, and meaning. In this thoughtful conversation, Brianna shares: • How storytelling and books first opened the world for her • Discov...

Chris Papin is a CPA, attorney, entrepreneur, author, and the host of the Blabo podcast (Behave Like A Business Owner). Through his work, he helps entrepreneurs realize that success isn’t about having more time — it’s about using the 168 hours we have each week more intentionally. As the owner of Papin CPA and Papin Law, he goes beyond traditional accounting and legal services, helping business ow...

Dr. Mort Orman is a physician and anger elimination expert with over 40 years of experience helping people completely remove anger and stress from their lives. He’s the author of Dr. Orman’s Life-Changing Anger Cure and the creator of powerful frameworks that challenge everything we think we know about anger. In his 20s and early 30s, Mort struggled with intense anger, anxiety, and failing relatio...

Dr. Sharalyn Payne is an award-winning speaker, executive performance coach, strategist, and the author of Unstuck, Unleashed, Unstoppable and Ignite. She has helped Fortune 500 companies, global organizations, and public institutions navigate transformation, strengthen leadership, and build thriving cultures. Known as a trusted advisor and turnaround leader, she specializes in helping leaders clo...

Crystal Bell is a leadership strategist, executive, and founder of Clarity with Crystal. She helps high performers and entrepreneurs cut through the noise, make better decisions, and move forward with purpose and clarity. In her 20s, Crystal was a high-achieving perfectionist driven by anxiety, external validation, and a deep need for control — shaped by an unstable childhood. She started in music...

In this episode of Conversations with Sekani , host Sekani sits down with Chris Far — a leader with over 20 years of experience in IT and more than a decade in the managed service provider (MSP) space. Chris has worked on the front lines of cybersecurity, IT strategy, and business operations, helping organizations navigate change, reduce risk, and build stronger systems and teams. He started in en...

Danielle Bernock is an award-winning author, speaker, trauma-informed self-love coach, and founder of OF Media. As a childhood trauma survivor, she has dedicated her life to helping people heal, rebuild their relationships, and move from merely surviving to truly thriving. In this powerful conversation, Danielle shares: • Growing up with childhood emotional neglect and specific traumas • How early...

Kim Miller is the founder of Woman at the Well Ministries, an ordained minister, evangelist, Christian author, and certified biblical life coach. For decades, she has helped people deepen their relationship with Jesus Christ through scripture, practical discipleship, and everyday application of biblical truth. In this heartfelt conversation, Kim shares: • Growing up in a home where the Bible was l...

Barb Nangle is a boundaries coach, speaker, author, and host of the Fragmented to Whole podcast. After decades of therapy and personal development, she discovered that lasting change wasn’t about gaining more insight — it was about creating internal safety. Today, she helps women build healthy boundaries, stop overgiving, and develop stronger relationships with themselves and others. In this hones...