Feisworld Podcast

Anne Jablonski is the Board President at The Feathered Pipe Foundation (@ Feathered Pipe ), an organization based in Helena, Montana that helps people "cultivate awareness of their truest selves, enrich spirit, mind, and body; explore the world’s wisdom and discoveries." As one of the oldest centers for conscious living and yoga retreats in the country, Feathered Pipe is surrounded by millions of...

On the same day I found out that Donald Trump will be the leader of the free world, the country I've lived in for half of my life, I was also informed of the death of my cousin, Mike, at the age of 37. This is an emotional and important part of my life. 

Katie Clark (aka @ InsightsGal on Twitter), is a hybrid market research manager, social media diva, project manager based in Portland, Maine. She revealed that she was adopted, as well as several other family members. After finding out that Katie wasn't going to have children of her own, she began pursuing adoption. The journey of adopting a child was no straight line. It is also complicated and i...

Show notes, tools and resources: www.feisworld.com/blog/khim-teoh Khim Teoh is a music teacher and Assistant Director at AMB (Academy of Music for the Blind) helping blind children ages 4-19. Academy of Music for the Blind  is a non-profit school of music founded by Director David Pinto. AMB is dedicated to "addressing the unique talents and challenges of blind youth by developing their music...

Show notes, tools and resources: www.feisworld.com/blog/polly-chatfield  Polly Chatfield is a teacher, poet, and winner of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for her topic "Patterns of Simile in The Divine Comedy". I met her during the 2016 Merrill Speakers Series at the Commonwealth School. For over twenty years, Polly taught various subjects at Commonwealth. Associate Produc...

David Anttony is a veteran IT and SEO expert who founded companies, worked around the globe before he settled down in Northern Philippines.  He and his partner opened up an organic farm called Happy House Farm that has welcomes hundreds of visitors from around the world. Their message and business model " Just relax and hang out in our nature-abundant organic farm, combine with a lifestyle program...

  David Stewart ( @ WeAreAgeist ) is the founder of Ageist, a website filled with beautiful photography and interviews with successful, vibrant people, generally over the age of 50. David's mission is to better understand of this inspirational, influential but underserved generation. Popular marketing and advertising campaigns relentlessly and exclusively chase after young millennials, even centen...

Helen Chin Lui is a Certified Reflexologist, Certified Energy Medicine Practitioner and teacher. She specializes in helping people of all ages to to provide chronic digestive relief, chronic pain relief and balance hormones naturally. In 2006, Helen founded the Healing Place in Medfield, MA. When Helen isn’t healing she is researching, teaching and writing. She also coaches self-care, self-healing...

Sarah Cooper ( @ sarahcpr )  is a writer, comedian and creator of satirical blog The Cooper Review , which attracts more than 500K page views per month. Her work has appeared on The Washington Post, Fast Company, Business Insider, and Huffington Post. Sarah has over 15 years of experience in the corporate world including Yahoo, Google, before leading to her first viral article, “ 10 Tricks to Appe...

2016 has been an eventful year.  Some good, some not so good. Via phone calls, text messages, personal emails, I learn about struggles, divorces and illnesses. The worst fear of all is possibly taking of care of a sick spouse or child. Unfortunately, life isn’t without hurdles. And when it rains, it pours. I don’t come close to knowing all the answers. But having experienced family medical issues...

Show notes, links and resources: www.feisworld.com/blog/jason-smith Jason Smith ( @jason_smith ) is the Manager Director at Founder at OHO Interactive , a thriving, curious team of 30 strategists, creatives, and developers solving business problems in the digital space. Jason and I connected via LinkedIn since 2012. Over the years, we exchanged ideas on project management, digital strategy and gro...

Anne Spalter ( @ annespalter  /  http://annespalter.com/ ) is a Digital mixed-media artist. Our conversation today, just like the intro of Feisworld Podcast, crosses the boundaries between business, art and the digital world. Anne is an academic pioneer who founded the original digital fine arts programs at Brown University and The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in the 1990s. In her studio p...

Sheena Yap Chan is the founder & host of The Tao Of Self Confidence ,  a 15 - 30 minutes daily show packed with ways to build up your self confidence in many areas of your life. Sheena believes that Self confidence is the most important trait to have in every aspect of your life, yet so many people struggle to find it.   After launching her own podcast project just a little over a year ago (first...

Helen Chong is the founder and principal broker of Haylen Group Inc, a real estate investment services company, located in the San Francisco Bay Area. She raised three young children while building and running her own business. Helen grew up in Hong Kong. At a very young age, she experienced how difficult life can be. She had gone through numerous financial hardships as a child, recalling days bei...

Tsering Doma Sherpa is a Communications and Program Coordinator at Daayitwa in Nepal. Daayitwa (translates as ‘self-responsibility’ in English). The organization aims to enable a thriving Nepal where all citizens embrace their responsibilities to collectively transform societal challenges into innovative opportunities. Instead of chasing after financial advancement and pursuing a comfortable and s...

  Gordon Lau recently graduated from NYU with a degree in philosophy. At age five, I took Gordon skating for the first time. He furiously got up after after each fall and didn't want to leave for hours. At age ten, he won a Ping Pong Tournament in Hong Kong, played Rugby for the Hong Kong National Junior Team against some of the most competitive leagues in the world. He's a skateboarder who self s...

Download the eBook for free at: https://www.feisworld.com/ebooks/ This eBook helps launch your podcast on iTunes in one week or less (assume that you have audio files in mp3 or wav ready to be packaged and published as podcast episodes.) Feisworld will be releasing a series of eBooks to guide you through the podcasting interview, production and marketing process - no experience required for podcas...

Welcome to a special episode of Feisworld, where I interview 5 guests! They are Sue Brooks, an art teacher from the Design and Visual Communications Program at Newton North High School (NNHS), and her four graduating seniors : Marisa Ng, Bradley Trepanier, Sophie Tavolieri and Max Hernadez. The episode features the latest news and development from Sue's program. Marisa, Bradley, Sophie and Max too...

Lauren Brown ( @lobro443  on Instagram) is a Brooklyn-born, Duke grad with a passion for brand insights, digital strategies, and challenging the body and mind through exercise. She is a retired professional ballerina, who performed with The Pennsylvania Ballet and New York City Ballet at Lincoln Center before receiving her degree in Psychology at Duke. She was also a State and National Yoga Champi...

Alyssa Ackerman ( @alyrose15 on Instagram ) is a Michigan native with a passion for travel and studying humans. From the road, she’s a Digital Marketing consultant, content creator, yogi, hiker, and photographer. In January 2016, Alyssa headed out in a DIY van to explore the United States. She converted her vehicle into a fully functioning unit including DIY sink build, storage shelf and table, cu...

Chris Voss ( @ VossNegotiation )  was an  FBI  special agent (of 24 years) who specialized in international hostage negotiation. In 2008, Chris founded a business negotiation consulting firm called the Black Swan Group which offers services and learning opportunities to “Anyone who needs to negotiate, persuade, or influence”. “Everything we’ve previously been taught about negotiation is wrong: you...

What's more important - financial or spiritual independence? https://www.feisworld.com/blog/financial-vs-spiritual-independence To answer this question, I want to share a few personal stories from my childhood (in Beijing, China) to my transition as a high school student in the US. What is it like to grow up as a woman in the 21st Century? How do career, womanhood, motherhood intersect? How and wh...

Listen while you browse on feisworld.com: http://wp.me/p5fQiP-C4 Nat Novak is a studio manager, a maker of all things at Brand Content, an agency based in Boston. He and I met at Arnold Worldwide in 2013.  In the years I have known Nat and while we worked at Arnold, we were both running around the office just like everyone else. From time to time, we would slow down our footsteps to have meaningfu...

Many people asked me if there are ways to make decent money effortlessly through running a podcast. If the answer is no, then they ask “What’s the point?” By the way, if you are new to podcasting, every 10,000 downloads translate to just about $400 in sponsorship revenue. Most podcasts struggle to reach 10,000 downloads per month and $400 a month isn’t enough for anyone to work on a project full t...

Glenn Engler ( @ Glennengler ) is a Managing Director at Parthenon EY. Previously, he was the Global Chief Strategy Offer at Edelman, CEO at Digital Influence Group and President of Digitas Boston for nearly 10 years. Glenn is an industry veteran with nearly three decades of experience in business strategy, marketing, brand development, and communications. This is a rare opportunity for me to conn...