Live The Dream Podcast

A speaking-slot swap kept Chuck Garcia away from the World Trade Center on the morning of 9/11. What followed changed his understanding of success and purpose. In this episode of Live The Dream Podcast, Chuck joins Harinder Mullay to discuss emotional intelligence, leadership, Stoicism and finding fulfilment through helping others. Drawing on his Wall Street career and work as an executive coach,...

What if becoming successful isn't the same as living a successful life? Former world-class sprinter, Nike-sponsored athlete, entrepreneur and leadership expert Almon Gunter has spent decades helping people develop the mindset to win — in sport, business and life. But after competing at the highest levels of athletics and building his own business, Almon has developed a powerful perspective on...

In this episode of the Live The Dream Podcast, Harinder Mullay speaks with Rochelle Seltzer — Creative Core Coach, speaker, artist, retreat leader and author of Live Big: A Manifesto for a Creative Life . Rochelle shares how, after owning a successful design firm for 27 years, she realised she had been living a smaller version of herself. From the outside, things looked successful — reputation, re...

In this episode of Live The Dream , Harinder Mullay sits down with Ray Hubert , Co-Founder and CEO of Reliant Workplace Solutions , for a powerful conversation about recovery, service, leadership and building a business with purpose. Ray shares his personal journey through addiction and recovery, what more than 26 years of sobriety has taught him, and how those experiences shaped the way he leads,...

In this episode of Live The Dream , Harinder sits down with Joe Ruffini , founder and principal consultant of JPR & Associates, LLC , a military veteran, consultant, speaker and author with decades of experience across leadership, crisis management, school safety, homeland security and business consulting. Joe brings a refreshing, no-nonsense perspective on what we risk losing in a world domin...

What if the life you want doesn’t require a complete reinvention — but a return to the small daily rhythms that bring you back to yourself? In this episode of Live The Dream , Harinder sits down with Angie DeGeronimo, movement and mindset coach, retreat leader, and creator of The Little Wonders Method. Angie shares her journey from running wellness studios in Silicon Valley to building House of Li...

John Muldoon is the CEO and Co-founder of Interflexion, an AI-powered role-play coaching platform helping professionals build leadership, communication, sales, and interpersonal skills through guided practice and personalised feedback. Before Interflexion, John co-founded Intralinks, one of the early fintech platforms that helped transform digital deal rooms and enterprise collaboration. Now, he’s...

In this episode of Live The Dream , Harinder Mullay sits down with Meghan McFall, founder of ashTEC, a consulting and training organisation focused on business development, workforce strategy, economic development, and rural technical assistance. Meghan shares the story of how ashTEC was created to serve rural and tribal communities where access to technology, business support, and in-person guida...

What happens when you realise the conventional path was never really built for you? In this episode of Live The Dream, I sit down with London-based writer-director and entrepreneur Olly Ginelli, co-founder of Nostro People. Olly's journey is anything but conventional. He began as a professional breakdancer before transitioning into filmmaking — a transition he describes as an "ugly divorc...

In this episode of the Live The Dream Podcast, Harinder Mullay sits down with Michael Hunter, founder of Uncommon Teams, author of The Resilient Tech Leader, and host of the Uncommon Leadership Podcast. Michael has spent over 40 years writing and debugging code. But somewhere along the way, he realised something powerful: most technical problems are not really technical problems — they are “squish...

What happens when the things we grow up believing are “normal” actually aren't? In this episode of the Live The Dream Podcast, I sit down with filmmaker and director Ajit Singh for a powerful and incredibly open conversation about his short film, Dukh — a story inspired by experiences within the Punjabi/Sikh community that too often remain behind closed doors. Ajit opens up about his own upbri...

In this episode of Live The Dream, Harinder sits down with Lisa Brewer, business architect, strategist, spiritual coach, and founder of Heart of Inspiration. Lisa shares her journey from corporate America to building a purpose-led business, and why entrepreneurship can become one of the deepest forms of personal healing. This conversation explores the real reason so many experts, coaches, consulta...

What happens when the life society calls “successful” no longer feels like your dream? In this episode of Live The Dream, Harinder speaks with Mary Kolbenschlag, Co-Founder of Discover Pathwaze, a college planning and career development company helping young people understand their strengths, values, career direction, and future pathway. Mary spent more than two decades at IBM, working in global l...

What if burnout isn’t just stress? In this episode of Live The Dream, Harinder sits down with Adam Grimm, founder of Pegasus Realm and creator of The Debrief, a community for high-performing men, founders, and operators who are tired of pretending they’re fine. Adam is a former Air Force Explosive Ordnance Disposal professional — better known as bomb squad — who has since moved into clinical psych...

🎙️ What if you’re not broken — you’re just living from the wrong self? In this powerful episode of Live The Dream, I sit down with Debra Maldonado and Dr. Rob Maldonado, founders of CreativeMind, to explore Jungian coaching, shadow work, ego, purpose, consciousness, and the deeper spiritual journey behind personal and business transformation. Debra and Rob’s work brings together Jungian psychology...

In this episode of Live The Dream, Harinder sits down with Dan Messinger, founder of Transforming Executive Presence, to explore what real leadership transformation actually looks like. Dan has spent decades helping leaders, executives and organisations develop deeper presence, stronger communication, healthier conflict resolution and more authentic leadership. But this conversation goes far beyon...

In this episode of Live The Dream, Harinder sits down with Vincent Perez, founder of Equity Institute, Men’s Healing Network, Lead Within, and Dignity Compass. Vincent’s work sits at the intersection of men’s healing, dignity, leadership, education, emotional resilience, community, and systems change. Across his career, he has worked with schools, organisations, young men, incarcerated youth, comm...

In this episode of Live The Dream , Harinder Mullay sits down with Themos , a CEO advisor with over 35 years of experience across corporate leadership, B2B SaaS, private equity, M&A, software company exits and founder advisory. Themos has worked on both sides of the private equity table — from C-suite leadership and exits to advising founders preparing their companies for sale. In this convers...

In this episode of Live The Dream Podcast, I sit down with Trisha Daho, founder of Empowered Leadership Cultivation, a people and culture strategy firm helping organisations build better leaders, stronger teams, and more meaningful workplace cultures. Trisha spent years as a partner at a Big Four accounting and advisory firm before making the decision to leave corporate life and build something of...

What happens if coaches and founders ignore AI? In this episode of the Live The Dream Podcast, I sit down with Brent Hultman, founder of Kairos Profit Coach, to unpack one of the biggest shifts happening in business right now: the collision between AI, coaching, and founder discipline. Brent brings a rare perspective. Long before AI became mainstream, he was already working around intelligent-agen...

Bimmy Rai MBE joins Live The Dream Podcast for a powerful conversation on loss, faith, leadership, women’s rights, community service and what it really means to give back. After losing both parents by the age of 13, Bimmy was forced to grow up fast, protect her siblings and navigate life with strength, duty and faith. That experience became the foundation for decades of service across charity, com...

🔗 Follow Tandy: During lockdown, Tandy Virdee did something most parents talk about… but never actually do. He turned a homeschooling project into a real brand with his 8-year-old twin sons — and within a few years they were running pop-ups, winning awards, and learning how to pitch, sell, and build confidence in rooms full of adults. But the bigger story isn’t Rocket Sonic. It’s what happened ne...

What do you do when everyone — teachers, doctors, even the system — gives up on your child? Cash faced this nightmare when his daughter Sophia was repeatedly dismissed by schools and professionals for eight years… only to eventually discover she was autistic. By then, the damage was done — bullying, isolation, academic struggle, emotional trauma. In this powerful episode, Kash and Sophia open up a...

Larry’s lived multiple lives: elite athlete, professional boxer, and now working actor — but the real story is what happened between the titles and the screen roles. In this episode of Live The Dream Podcast, Larry opens up about the mindset that carried him through championship-level boxing… the brutal reality of fighting while working a full-time job… training at Repton Boxing Club… learning str...

Divorce is never the plan. But for Sonia, staying was worse. In this episode, Harinder sits down with Sonia Gupta — relationship & divorce coach — whose story went viral after she threw a divorce party to mark a new beginning. Sonia opens up about: 🎙️ living 12 years in a toxic marriage 🎙️ why her parents refused to let her leave at first 🎙️ what divorce is really like in the South Asian commu...