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Hana Cha is a trailblazing real estate advisor and has become a transformative force in the US luxury real estate market over the past decade. As the founder of HANA ., she has left an indelible mark on projects exceeding $4 billion across the Americas, cementing her status as a luminary within the industry. In this episode we talk about why content is so important in real estate, why other famous...

Lee Woodruff is a media trainer and communications coach who works with clients in all industries and walks of life, from the CEOs of Fortune 100 companies to philanthropists and authors. What I absolutely enjoyed about this conversation, besides getting to talk about my chosen profession of comms, is the precision with which Lee gives advice. How to prepare, how to deliver an intentional pause. W...

Meg Bear is a disruptive technologist. Change Agent. TEDster. Board Member. Investor. Coach. Wife + Mom. 1st gen college. 5th gen Bay Area. Previously she was Chief Product Officer for SAP SuccessFactors and a Vice President for Oracle.  But in today’s episode we talk less about product and more about people, the changing nature of work and skills, glass ceilings in tech, lived experience, what yo...

Cyrene Quiamco, better known as CyreneQ , is a Filipino-American social media artist, influencer, author, and Augmented Reality Lens Creator. She gained recognition for her artistic creations on Snapchat, with her award-winning work being featured in notable publications such as Forbes, Fast Company, Business Insider, and more.  And that’s just the beginning. CyreneQ is at the forefront of not onl...

Meredith Goldberg-Morse is the Director of Social Impact for Showtime and MTV Entertainment Studios at Paramount Global, where she develops storyline integrations and content-led impact campaigns across major brands including MTV, SHOWTIME, Comedy Central, Smithsonian Channel, and Paramount+. Meredith and MTV just won a Shorty Impact Award for Don’t Leave Me Behind : Stories of Young Ukrainian Sur...

Monique Ruff-Bell has over 20 years’ experience within brand leadership, marketing, and events. As Head of Conferences for TED , she leads a dynamic team in the managing, planning and execution of TED’s flagship global conferences, TED Member events and virtual events. This includes product strategy, innovation of attendee experience, creative marketing techniques that draw in a diverse and curiou...

Paola Velez is an award-winning chef and author. Food And Wine’s Best New Chef in 2021, James Beard nominated and rising as one of the best new chefs and personalities in food. Velez is the owner of Dōekï Dōekï (an Afro-Latin pop-up concept), founder of Small Orchids Inc (a media and marketing company) and co-founder of Bakers Against Racism – an organization that is “baking” the world a better pl...

Lauren Baker is the Senior Brand Manager for Engagement and Social Impact at Dove. She is also the lead for CROWN - a coalition to help advance anti-hair discrimination legislation. Fresh off a Shorty Award win for Dove’s collaboration with LinkedIn, Black Hair Is Professional , we discuss not only the importance of representation, being seen by a brand but the next logical and needed step in soci...

Tiffany Springle has the rare double gift of immediately grabbing your attention and then turning that attention into positive action. Tiffany is an actor, improviser, comedian, singer, writer, and host. As the host of the Shorty Award winning Roe V Bros , Tiffany uses humor and knowledge-sharing to motivate voter turnout and a thoughtful discussion regarding bodily autonomy. Regardless of the med...

Today we discuss the Shorty Award winning Prepare for Misuse campaign from Brady, the Ad Council and McKinney - and why it was so important to tell the story from the perspective of a gun owner when trying to inspire change. Susan Lavington began working with Brady in 2017 and became Brady’s Chief Operating Officer in 2021. She oversees Brady’s strategic plan and leads Brady’s transformative effor...

Yvette Nicole Brown is an Emmy-nominated actress, producer, writer and host and champion of kindness known to some as Shirley Bennett from Community and to many as one of the most active philanthropists in Hollywood. She proudly sits on the National Boards of Donors Choose (where she is Vice-Chair), EMILY's List, MPTF Next Gen and SAG-AFTRA. She has two films coming soon “Code 3” starring Rain...

As President & CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America , Artis Stevens takes the helm of the organization at a critical moment for our nation’s youth. As the first Black CEO in BBBSA’s 100+ year history, Artis sees this historic announcement as fuel to break more barriers. The son and grandson of preachers, he often shares, his calling for the past 25 years has focused on empowering young p...

Justin W. van Fleet, Ph. D is President of Theirworld and Executive Director of the Global Business Coalition for Education. Justin previously served as the Director of the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity and Chief of Staff to the United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education and prior to that as a Fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Center for Universal Ed...

Ryan Serhant is a real estate broker, CEO, and founder of SERHANT ., a vertically-integrated mega brokerage comprising an in-house film studio, education arm, marketing division, and technology platform. He's also a bestselling author, producer, and star of Bravo's Million Dollar Listing New York and Sell It Like Serhant. His next project is coming to Netflix next year.  But today we talk...

Stephen Gay is an award-winning designer that has spent the last twenty-five years working on digital innovation around the globe, supporting teams across five continents including companies such as Google, Intuit and Motorola, as well as numerous successful startups. He wrote the graphic business novel Why Always Wins focused on empowering high performing teams. And is now the author of Night Owl...

Let’s Get Haunted is the reigning Shorty Award winner for Best Comedy Podcast and the 2021 winner for Podcast of the Year. It’s the only investigative journalism podcast about shit that may or may not have even happened in the first place. Hosts Aly Terry and Nat Strawn are rapidly ascending with a mix of well-timed comedy and tales about hauntings, aliens, urban legends, and unsolved mysteries. ...

Ranjana Choudhry is a VP Advertising and Social Media at Wakefern Food Corp (a $19 billion largest COOP in US), leading the development of marketing and digital content strategies. Vanshika and I dig into her current Shorty Award nominated work, her creative process, her advice for up-and-coming practitioners and more.  With more than 25 years of experience as a global marketing and communications...

Lance Fensterman is iconic when it comes to events. The Fanatics Events CEO, is leveraging 25+ years of entrepreneurial expertise to innovate within Fanatics, Inc., focusing on creating unforgettable live events for passionate sports fans and collectors. Producer Vanshika Chaturvedi and I sat down with him to discuss sports, events and tackling (pun intended) the biggest and most exciting challeng...

Joey Clift is a comedian, TV writer, and enrolled Cowlitz Indian Tribal Member. Writing credits include Spirit Rangers on Netflix, New Looney Tunes on Cartoon Network and Molly of Denali on PBS. He created, wrote and directed the Comedy Central digital series " Gone Native " and his award winning short films have screened everywhere from Just For Laughs to The Smithsonian Museum.

Dana Cowin is an award-winning tastemaker and innovator in media, food and branding. After 21 years as the Editor in Chief of Food & Wine magazine, she launched The Broadlies, an independent media company to promote less established voices in food, creativity and sustainability. Her current project is Feeding Broadly, the eaters guide to regenerative living.

We go behind-the-scenes of one of our absolute favorite documentaries this year with its Director and Executive Producer/former HQ employee. Salima Koroma is the Emmy Award winning director of Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street, Bad Rap and now Glitch: The Rise & Fall of HQ Trivia. 88% on Rotten Tomatoes. Her storytelling style is rooted in documentary journalism with work for Complex, Ti...

We’re dropping this episode on the United Nation's International Day of Peace . A day that actor, filmmaker, activist, Jeremy Gilley set out to create in 1999 and achieved. Big ideas are hard. How he managed to pull this off is fascinating. But now nearly 25 years later we talk about what makes us optimistic, pessimistic and motivated about the world today. And there’s one quote from Jeremy la...

R “Ray” Wang is everywhere. Turn on a TV and you’ll see him regularly on CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox Business. Open an article and you’ll see him in the Wall Street Journal. He coined the term “Metaverse Economy.” He’s the most prolific analyst out there. But there’s a reason I wanted to talk to Ray today. There’s a crispness, a clarity to Ray’s outlook on anything but especially big tech. And as we navi...

The interests of Adam Met PhD bridge music, sustainability, law, academia, policy, marketing, and technology. As the founder and Executive Director of Planet Reimagined , he leads a nonprofit that addresses climate change systems through media, academic research fellowships, and incentive-based initiatives. As the bassist for AJR, he has traveled the world on sold-out tours, achieved platinum cert...

Two partners set out to end childhood poverty through joy and creativity: $1M+ in donations, 2 hours with Stephen Colbert, a Shorty Impact Award and one incredibly good story. Rachel Romero is the Senior Vice President of Marketing at Critical Role , the wildly popular D&D inspired web series and board member of the Critical Role Foundation. Rachel has worked in online media for almost two dec...