Grateful Living

Rolland Berry is a contemporary artist residing in Los Angeles, California, whose work bridges the gap between fine art, pop art, and graffiti. His works are included in the collections of Swizz Beats “The Dean Collection”, Urban Nation Museum Germany, and Xian Mueseum of Modern Art in China. Rolland’s celebrity clientele include Sofia Vergara, Joe Manganiello, Billy Idol and Juliette Lewis. Rolla...

Had the opportunity to speak with Ariana Alejandra Gibson! Ariana is the founder and CEO of STIGMA, a mental health media company that uses video storytelling and a mobile app to normalize conversations about mental health. In this interview, we talk about: - Growing up with a dad with schizophrenia - Her own mental health journey with panic attacks and living with generalized anxiety disorder - W...

Rhiannon is a Trauma Specialist. She is an Outpatient therapist specializing in LGBTQ+ issues, PTSD/cPTSD, and cultural trauma and is currently under pre-licensed supervision (LMHC). Today, Rhiannon will speak about her experience with being an adult of childhood divorce. In this interview, we talk about: - The lead up to Rhiannon's parents' divorce from her 8 year old perspective - How the divorc...

Jaime is the CEO and Co-Founder at The Sylvia Brafman Mental Health Center, a world-class behavioral health treatment center located in South Florida focused on helping individuals and families thrive. Prior to this role, he was an investment banker at Credit Suisse in its Global Industrials coverage group in New York City. Prior to these professional positions, Jaime lived with a substance use ad...

Peter Bell has quite literally done it all in business. He began his career in 1986 at a growing startup EMC, as Employee #81. After spending 10+ years at EMC, Peter became an entrepreneur co-founding Storage Networks and later taking the company public and serving as its CEO. Afterwards, Peter became a venture capitalist working at Highland Capital Partners, a $3 Billion venture capital firm, for...

Dean Karnazes is an ultramarathon runner – among his many accomplishments, he has run 50 marathons, in all 50 US states, in 50 consecutive days, run across Death Valley in the middle of summer, run a marathon to the South Pole, and on 10 separate occasions he’s run a 200-mile relay race solo, racing alongside teams of twelve. He’s been named by TIME magazine as one of the “100 Most Influential Peo...

Mohamed is a Howard University graduate who started a financial planning practice with Northwestern Mutual. Mohamed is also someone who unfortunately lost both his parents before the age of 20 (he lost his dad to lung cancer at age 8 and his mom to a natural accident at age 19). In this interview, Mohamed talks about: - Losing his father to lung cancer at age 8 - His thoughts on how a surviving pa...

Matt Chatham is currently the Owner of Rub Smoke Love. Rub Smoke Love is a smoked food BBQ culture brand featuring the company’s BBQ rubs & seasonings—like Beef Cake (steaks, burgers, roasts, ribs, pastrami, etc) and Gold Bark (all manners of pork and chicken). Before that, he was an NFL player for 8 seasons from 2000 to 2008. He played with the New England Patriots from 2000 – 2005 and then t...

Maryanne J. George is a dynamic worship leader/songwriter/musician who is passionate about encountering the Lord through worship. Maryanne is a member of Maverick City Music - a collective of worshipers committed to deconstructing unspoken rules that exist in the CCM and Gospel world. In 2021, Maryanne released her first EP entitled “Not Just Stories”. It captures the essence of Maryanne’s journey...

Atin is the Founder & General Partner at 27V (Twenty Seven Ventures), a global VC Fund that invests in EdTech and Future of Work Startups. An ex-entrepreneur, Atin has been investing in venture for 8+ years across firms. Before that, he was a Principal at the hardware-focused VC firm Q Venture Partners. He continues to be involved with the amazing team at QVP, in the role of Venture Partn...

The other day was speaking to a college sophomore and he asked me, in one of my friend groups, I’m the only minority. Do you have any advice on just not letting this fact making me too self-conscious? In this vlog, I give my 4 pieces of advice for people in this situation. Grateful Living Info: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9Bo0LHtRJJNJBUYIceg27w Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show...

Justin Simmons is the starting safety for the Denver Broncos. He is a 7th year player who was drafted 98th overall in the 3rd round of the 2016 NFL Draft after playing at Boston College. He was named a Pro Bowler in 2020 and All-Pro second-team in 2019 and 2021. In his first 6 seasons, he’s had 453 tackles, 3.5 sacks, 21 interceptions, 49 passes defensed. He was chosen as Broncos nomination for Wa...

I had the opportunity to be on the Saturday Morning Coffee podcast with Lance and Tiffany a couple weeks ago. In the interview, I spoke about the origins of the Grateful Living Podcast. How losing a high school acquaintance in January of 2016 and then a college friend in March of 2019 really spurred the creation of creating a podcast looking to have honest, open conversations with people from diff...

Neema is an Iranian-Canadian born comedian, actor and social media personality. He has over 172k followers on Instagram and over 517k followers on TikTok. He hosts and produces his own TV show called Estupid News which features new episodes every Thursday at 5 PM on his YouTube Channel. In 2014, Neema Nazeri decided to drop out of University of Toronto where he was studying Kinesiology to pursue c...

Existential crises are not fun. You may feel inadequate, not successful or just unhappy about not being where you want to be in a certain aspect of your life. In this vlog, I give my advice on how to handle a quarter-life crisis. Grateful Living Info: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9Bo0LHtRJJNJBUYIceg27w Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Hn4ttttmbWfVqAhWh4Jhi Apple: https://podca...

Yasmin Cruz Ferrine is the co-founder and general partner of Visible Hands - a 14-week, virtual-first accelerator on a mission to invest in overlooked founders (people of color and women). She and her co-founders, Daniel Acheampong and Justin Kang, started the company two years ago when they decided they wanted to stop relying on invisible forces slowly changing the face of Silicon Valley and take...

Couples often decide to take a break in their relationship. In this vlog, I give my opinion on relationship breaks. Grateful Living Info: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9Bo0LHtRJJNJBUYIceg27w Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Hn4ttttmbWfVqAhWh4Jhi Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1503185956 My Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aroy81547/?hl=en Patreon: https://ww...

Kainoa Spenser is a necrotizing fasciitis (flesh-eating bacteria) survivor and a quadruple amputee and will speak about his life experience. In this interview, we talk about: - Kainoa's life journey with necrotizing fasciitis including waking up from a coma after 3.5 weeks, passing away twice, and becoming a quadruple amputee - Kainoa's advice to those with limb loss/limb difference on the self-lo...

Many startup founders and small business owners find it hard to compete with bigger business in terms of retaining their employees and keeping them away from bigger businesses hiring them. In this vlog, I give 3 strategies on how small businesses can retain employees better. Grateful Living Info: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9Bo0LHtRJJNJBUYIceg27w Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/sh...

Guy is the Chief Evangelist of Canva and has been since 2014. He is also the host for the Remarkable People podcast which has featured people such as Jane Goodall, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Steve Wozniak, Angela Duckwort, and many more. Guy worked for Apple twice: first as a Software Evangelist from 1983-1987 and then as Chief Evangelist from 1995-1997. Guy is also the author of fifteen books. His late...

The MBA is a powerful tool both from a learning perspective about business and can also be valuable to advance in your professional career. The question of whether to do a full-time or part-time MBA sometimes comes up for people considering getting an MBA. I did my part-time MBA from Babson from September 2019 to December of 2021 so I'll speak from the perspective of a part-time MBA student. I als...

Osamase Ekhator is a Boston based poet, writer and author. His debut book, "Situationship" was invited to the 2019 Brooklyn Book Festival on behalf of AZURE Literary Group, recognized by the 2020 North Street Book Prize, and studied at the University of Bonn in Germany. Osamase will be releasing his second book, "I AM YOU: A Book of Poetry" on July 26th. Osamase will begin to earn h...

In this vlog, I talk about 8 strategies that might help with dealing and moving forward from a trauma. Note: I’m not a licensed therapist, mental health professional, or psychologist. Everything, I’m saying here is from life experience and from friends who have gone through trauma. Trigger warning: I give examples of some traumas. Grateful Living Info: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9B...

Steve is a Suicide Prevention and Workplace Well-Being Advocate, and the Director and Founder of The Jordan Legacy, an organization whose mission is to be at the forefront of the advancement of mental health towards preventing suicide. Steve got into this line of work after losing his son Jordan to suicide on December 4, 2019. In this interview, we talk about: - Jordan's life and mental health his...

The other day, I was speaking to a friend, and she said to me, I’m thinking about starting a side hustle. What do you think I should consider before I start it? Grateful Living Info: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9Bo0LHtRJJNJBUYIceg27w Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Hn4ttttmbWfVqAhWh4Jhi Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1503185956 My Instagram: https://www.insta...