Conversations with Sekani

Bryan Charleau is a sales professional, mentor, and author of Pitching Sales: A Complete Guide to Becoming a Sales Professional. With more than 15 years of experience, he built his career around one core belief: great salespeople aren’t born — they are developed through mindset, mentorship, resilience, and real-world experience. What makes Brian’s perspective different is his focus on the foundati...

Shayne Hammond is a certified hypnotherapist and RCT practitioner who helps people break free from addiction and the internal patterns that keep them stuck. He’s also the creator of Iron Spirit — a mental conditioning system designed to help individuals overcome mental addiction and trauma and rebuild themselves from the inside out. If you’ve ever felt trapped in cycles you can’t explain, battling...

Matthew Jacques is a Navy veteran, CEO, and author of Dictator: How to Unfuck Your Leadership. After more than 20 years in the military and building a $30 million company leading hundreds of people, he developed a direct, no-BS approach to leadership centered on discipline, ownership, and protecting the people you lead. His work challenges traditional leadership thinking and focuses on building hi...

Dave is a comedian, author, and mental health advocate who turns some of life’s darkest moments into something powerful — and even funny. After losing everything to mental illness, he found an unexpected path to healing through standup comedy. Today he teaches others how to do the same: using humor to process pain, reclaim their voice, and remind people they are not alone. In this honest conversat...

Fernanda Schiffer is a licensed mental health counselor and founder of Sky Counseling. She specializes in relationships — helping individuals and couples navigate betrayal, trauma, anxious attachment, intimacy challenges, and the patterns that keep them stuck. Through her work, she helps people build healthier connections and create the relationships they genuinely want to be in. In this practical...

Dr. Evan Nadler is one of the nation’s leading pediatric bariatric surgeons and a pioneer in childhood obesity treatment. For more than 20 years, he has worked with children and families affected by obesity while researching the science behind how the body regulates weight. His mission is to help people better understand obesity, challenge common misconceptions, and provide evidence-based solution...

In this episode of Conversations with Sekani, we sit down with Felicia for an honest conversation about navigating life in your 20s — the challenges, the growth, and the lessons that help you move forward with more clarity. Felicia shares insights on personal development, overcoming obstacles, and finding direction when the path feels unclear. This is a real talk episode for anyone trying to figur...

Carolyn (Caroline Sherrow) is an author, speaker, former physician assistant, and founder of Chords of Grace. After overcoming profound trauma and years of healing, she now helps others explore the intersection of faith, identity, emotional healing, mental health, and redemption through her writing and ministry. She shares a message of hope, resilience, and the belief that no wound is too deep for...

Elisa Neven is a motivational speaker, advocate, and founder of Positively Adaptive Living. Living with cerebral palsy (quadriplegia), she has spent her life turning challenges into opportunities for growth, service, and impact. Since coming to faith in 2021, she has become passionate about helping others develop resilience, find purpose in adversity, and build a Christ-centered mindset that trans...

Monica Marquez has spent more than 25 years helping organizations navigate change, develop leaders, and create more inclusive workplaces. She pioneered groundbreaking initiatives at Goldman Sachs and Google, and today helps leaders and teams integrate AI in ways that drive real results while keeping people at the center. In this timely conversation, we tackle one of the biggest questions of our ti...

Jessie (Jesse Tyler Williams) is a survivor, author, advocate, musician, and entrepreneur whose life is as raw as it is powerful. She spent over 25 years battling addiction, survived childhood trauma and abusive relationships, and rebuilt her life more than once — eventually creating a new chapter in Mexico. With 17 years of sobriety behind her, she toured across Canada raising awareness for veter...

Dennis Henson is an entrepreneur who spent five decades building a business empire before a life-altering stroke forced him to rebuild something far more important — his health. After temporarily losing his eyesight, mobility, and cognitive function, Dennis didn’t lose his drive. Instead, he spent years researching how to repair his body, restore function, and create what he now calls a “body of h...

Mark is a certified peer recovery specialist, author, and recovery advocate whose journey spans both the film industry and frontline addiction recovery work. After years working in filmmaking, he shifted his focus toward helping people in hospitals, detox centers, and recovery programs navigate some of the most difficult moments of their lives. Having been in recovery since 1985, Mark brings a uni...

Jon (John Robert Tartaglione) is a psychologist and behavioral scientist, and the founder and CEO of Influence 51. He is a globally recognized expert on influence, persuasion, and strategic communication, helping organizations understand what actually drives human behavior and decision-making. With academic training spanning psychology, behavioral economics, and neuroscience, he has dedicated over...

Simon Popple is an investment educator focused on helping people understand not just why to invest in gold, but how to actually do it properly. With a background in property and finance, he saw the risk of inflation early and made a strategic shift toward gold investing. Despite gold being one of the oldest and most talked-about assets in history, very few people truly understand how to invest in...

Sophia Torrini is a transformation catalyst in personal health and well-being, certified clinical EFT practitioner, and specialist in what she calls “hacking reality.” With a background in public health and epidemiology, her work is deeply shaped by her own experience overcoming a life-threatening chronic illness — an experience that led her from traditional systems into alternative approaches to...

Connie is an acupuncturist with a master’s in oriental medicine and a lifelong student of human potential. With over 40 years of experience in yoga and two decades of teaching, she blends Eastern medicine, mindfulness, and meditation practices to help people approach health, awareness, and daily life from a more connected and intentional perspective. She is also the author of Speeding to Compassio...

Michael is a performance coach, entrepreneur, and endurance athlete with over 30 years of experience leading teams across industries like healthcare, media, and digital strategy. He has founded multiple companies and now co-leads Meta Endurance, where he helps athletes, executives, and high performers build sustainable performance — physically, mentally, and emotionally. From coaching national cha...

Blake is a facilitator of the Lefkoe Method, a powerful process designed to help people eliminate limiting beliefs that keep unwanted emotional and behavioral patterns in place. As the daughter of the method’s creator, she grew up around these tools — but her own journey took a deeper path navigating addiction and disconnection before finding her way back to the work that ultimately transformed he...

Sherry is a Montreal-based fitness and life coach, osteopath, and NSCA certified strength and conditioning specialist with over 25 years of experience helping people transform their relationship with their bodies. After surviving a life-altering accident that nearly left her paralyzed, she rebuilt not just her physical strength but her entire identity — shifting from limitation to what she calls a...

Beverly Maya has been working in natural health for decades, helping people take a more hands-on, practical approach to feeling better — starting with the basics most people overlook. With 36 years in practice and 14 years of podcasting (Primal Diet – Modern Health), she guides people to address their body’s chemistry through real diet, lifestyle, and awareness rather than quick fixes. In this gro...

Rajiv Mehta is a speaker, consultant, and personal science pioneer who spent 25 years driving innovation across technology and business with organizations like Princeton, Stanford, NASA, Columbia, and Apple. For the past two decades, he has focused on a different kind of innovation — helping families, teams, and communities build deeper connection, trust, and high performance through what he calls...

Sheldon is a certified athletic trainer with over 20 years of experience in health, fitness, and performance, and the founder of Movement Based Therapy. His work focuses on helping people bridge the gap between pain, movement, and long-term performance through three core pillars: breath, movement, and ancient wisdom — combining modern science with practical, time-tested principles. Through his coa...

Kerri is a medicine woman, mentor, and founder of Inner Medicine Training — a mystery school that brings ancient wisdom from the Andes and Himalayas into modern life. She is a number one international best-selling author of multiple books including Inner Medicine, Love is Fierce, and The Second Wave, and the host of So Nectar Show. Her work centers on helping people reconnect with their truth, tra...

Sylvia Rizzo is a performance and leadership strategist who works at the intersection of elite sport and business. She has spent years operating in high-performance environments where pressure is constant, mistakes are visible, and decision-making happens in real time. Her work focuses on leadership under pressure, error management, resilience, and how people maintain credibility and composure whe...