Feisworld Podcast

In this episode, Fei will answer the following questions in 12 mins:  Please tell us a little bit about what each of your positions entail and how they involve social  media. What steps did you take, hoops did you have to jump through, in order to obtain a position in  your field?   How do you and your organization use social media?  What was difficult about integrating its  usage?   ­ What are th...

  Jonathan Bingham ( @ jwbingham  ) is the CEO at  @ janeirodigital  "a team of creative problem solvers, committed to leveraging digital expertise for the benefit of businesses across all verticals." When I first set foot in Janeiro Digital in Boston MA, I noticed a giant mural that reads RADD (Research, Analysis, Design and Development). The slightly faded paint around the characters reminded me...

Welcome to Episode #1 from our new series called MINI by Feisworld Podcast.  This has been a highly requested format. Minis are short and sweet episodes we will release every other week (in between our regular, interview format episodes).  Feisworld MINI is an opportunity to share stories written by Fei. In addition, many of Fei’s listeners want to find out more about Feisworld Inc in realtime. Fe...

Meet Jordan Harbinger ( @TheArtofCharm ), show host for an iTunes Top 50 podcast called The Art of Charm (AoC). AoC also offers in-person training to help people become more charismatic in any situation, master their careers by becoming “super-connectors" and revamp their love lives and intimate relationships with confidence. The AoC podcast receives over 2 million downloads per months, with over...

David Delmar ( @ delmarsenties ) is the Founder and Executive Director at Resilient Coders ( @ resilientcoders ), an organization dedicated to teaching young people from traditionally underserved communities how to code. Resilient Coders' team do this as a way of aligning students with a lucrative and meaningful career path. "It's a multi-tiered program that funnels students from learning HTML aft...

Matthew Cronin is a 21-year old student majoring Foreign Policy at Boston University. He is expected to graduate in May 2016. Matthew and I met at Inna’s Kitchen in Newton, MA, where he works part-time. Through a casual conversation over a year ago, I found out that Matthew would be studying abroad in the Middle East as part of his study-abroad program. I couldn't wait for his return and learn mor...

Mick Ebeling  ( @ MickEbeling ,  @ NotImpossible ) is an American film, television and commercial Executive Producer, author, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Mick has been honored by Advertising Age as one of the “Top 50 Most Creative People” , also in Wired Magazine Agent of Change , the recipient of the 2014 Muhammad Ali Humanitarian of the Year Award . Mick founded the Not Impossible Labs , a...

Caitie Whelan  ( pronounced WHALE-in) is the  Noter-in-Chief for the  The Lightning Notes,  a website that delivers short daily post to help us move the world forward. It features striking stories and great ideas to remind us that we matter and improving the world is our matter. Caitie is not a writer by trait. Not long ago, she was a Senior Foreign Policy Advisor in Congress. After four years,  s...

Caitie Whelan  ( pronounced WHALE-in)  @ lightningnoter  is the  Noter-in-Chief for the  The Lightning Notes,  a website that delivers short daily post to help us move the world forward. It features striking stories and great ideas to remind us that we matter and improving the world is our matter. Caitie wasn't a writer. Not long ago, she was a Senior Foreign Policy Advisor in Congress. After four...

In 2013, NNHS InvenTeam applied to enter the Lemelson-MIT High School Student Grant . After a year of hard work (including the summer), their project was chosen to be presented at the White House Science Affair in front of President Barack Obama. In Part 2, we set aside glories and trophies and began focusing on the daily lives of two college students:  What is the day in the life of an MIT / Brow...

Show notes, tools and resources: feisworld.com/blog/karen-fan-felege-gebru   I have served on the Advisory Committee for Newton Public Schools Career & Vocational Technical Education Committee since 2011. I met Karen Fan and Felege Gebru through InvenTeam, initiated by an incredible art teacher named Sue Brooks at Newton North High School. InvenTeam functions very much like a small design...

Show notes, tools and resources: https://www.feisworld.com/blog/courtney-marsh   Courtney Marsh ( @courtneynmarsh ) is a director and filmmaker.  Courtney's latest film Chau, Beyond the Lines  is a documentary about a 16-year-old teenager named Chau in Vietnam who was disabled by the effects of Agent Orange . Chau aspires to become an artist and clothing designer. Agent Orange is th...

Srini Rao  ( @umistakableCEO ) is the host and founder of The Unmistakable Creative podcast where he has conducted over 600 interviews with thought leaders and people from all walks of life. Srini has a distinctive view into branding, storytelling, and marketing.  Unmistakeable Creative isn't your typical popular podcast. As a listener, you never hear from the same people or experience common topi...

Chris is the author of the book called Balls: It takes some to get some, because "Changing your gender from female to male takes balls. And if you’re gonna do it in front of 500 coworkers at the largest ad agency in Boston, you better have a pretty big set!" Prior to focusing on Balls as a freelance writer, Chris was the EVP Group Creative Director at Arnold Worldwide - this is the company I've be...

Show notes, tools and resources: https://www.feisworld.com/blog/krista-tippett?rq=Krista Krista Tippett is a Peabody Award-winning broadcaster and New York Times bestselling author. This is a rare interview where Krista was the guest , and I was the host. Many of Krista' fans (myself included) wanted an opportunity to hear directly from Krista. How did she pursue the path of creating On Being...

我的嘉宾与众不同，因为她是我的妈妈！很多人问我这一辈子给我启发最多的人是谁：妈妈！毫无疑问。今天，我把她的智慧和故事分享给大家。 妈妈是大画家，没错。但是我们的话题完全没有停留在她过去的辉煌之中。“人一定是要向前走的。” 退休之后的她，作出了一个常人难以想象的决定－妈妈要挑战自我，创作一生中规模和难度最大的120副佳作：中国历代皇后。 在这一集的播客里面，你会听到的话题包括： 李湘的成长－董寿平老师和6岁李...

First episode recorded in Chinese!  Target audience: Mandarin speakers, intermediate to advance Mandarin language students. :) Email me at feisworld@gmail.com  if you want an English translation, free of charge. 我今天的嘉宾是曾晓露（Pam Chang），一个超过了20年的朋友。 曾晓露来自艺术世家。爸爸是中国数一数二的艺术鉴定师。晓露在澳门长大，我们11岁的时候第一次见面：她的3个小妹妹，每一个都把她看成女英...

Joining me on the Feisworld Podcast today is Jordan Clayton, an SVP of UX (User Experience) at Arnold Worldwide. UX has become increasingly popular over the years across all the industries (technology, marketing, medicine and beyond), but most schools still haven’t figured out a systematic and effective way to help students learn more and be properly trained on UX. As a result, many young, ambitio...

Andrew and Kevin Atherton are living my childhood dreams. I had to put them on this podcast. Did you dream about flying as a child? I did, nearly every single day. I loved reading comic books and imagined myself as a superhero. I often dressed like one as soon as I came home from school. Recently, my mom and I went to see our first Cirque du Soleil show ever in Boston. The show was called Varekai....

In the past year or so, I find myself increasingly attached to audiobooks. One of the books not only   spoke to me emotionally but also offered tactics I am able to apply daily, especially during the preparation and making of feisworld podcast. Dorie Clark  is the author of this book, one of my new favorites, called  Stand Out . There's a very important and useful idea not found in her book that y...

I interviewed Chris Yen, an actress and entrepreneur from a proud lineage of Wushu and Tai Chi masters. Her mom,  Bow Sim Mark , is one of the premier Chinese martial arts practitioners. Her brother,  Donnie Yen , is currently the #1 Kung Fu action star in Hong Kong whose latest film  Ip Man 3  will be released in 2016. Chris recently launched a fashion brand (June 2015) called  ChrisYenFusion  fe...

Today on the Feisworld Podcast, you will meet Mariann Bucina Roca, an Executive Director from the Friends of Boston's Homeless (FOBH) .    Did you know that Boston was a pioneer in addressing homeless needs? As part of this movement, FOBH played a significant part in helping homeless individuals transition from the streets and shelters to lead stable independent lives. One main focus for FOBH is t...

I had the pleasure of interviewing a colleague, Renee Herendeen from Arnold Worldwide, on the feisworld podcast. Renee and I work on several of projects together.  We share similar beliefs when it comes to life at work and outside of work. One morning, Renee said to Carrie (my coworker) and me: "You two should come to my Zumba class on Tuesdays." "Did you say Z.U.M.B.A?" Though I teach Taekwondo (...

Alexander Kjerulf (pronounced a little like care-oolf.) is the founder and Chief Happiness Officer (CHO) of  Woohoo inc  and one of the world’s leading experts on happiness at work. He is an author and speaker, presenting and conducting workshops on happiness at work at businesses and conferences in over 30 countries. His clients include companies like Hilton, Microsoft, LEGO, IKEA, Shell, HP and...

Show notes, links and resources: https://www.feisworld.com/blog/tom-seabourne Tom Seaborne is a fitness educator, author, martial artist and cyclist. Tom has a Ph. D. in exercise science. He was a member of the US. Taekwondo Team, and a National and International AAU Taekwondo Champion. In addition to Taekwondo, Tom is an ESPN professional Karate Association full-contact karate winner.  If th...