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Cassandra Cummings is the Founder and CEO of August Nine , a technology led creative company that designs brand experiences across social media, content and community. She got her start in marketing in the gaming industry, and moved on to lead content and event production for Splash! Animals, an award winning live art show featured at TEDx and Downtown Disney. After graduating in Global Business f...

Erik Huberman is the founder and CEO of Hawke Media , the fastest growing marketing agency in the United States. Launched in 2014, Hawke Media has serviced over 1000 brands of all sizes, ranging from startups like Tamara Mellon, SiO Beauty and Bottlekeeper to household names like Red Bull, Verizon Wireless and Alibaba. Hawke Media has taken home numerous industry awards including inclusion on the...

Lizy Dastin is an Art History instructor at UCLAx and Santa Monica College with a focus on contemporary art and urban practice. She has previously taught at Chapman University, The American Jewish University, Mercy College and the School of Visual Arts and has worked on curatorial projects at the Metropolitan Museum, the International Center of Photography and the Whitney Museum of American Art. L...

Austin Belcak is the founder of Cultivated Culture where he teaches people to land jobs they love without connections, without traditional experience, and without applying online. His strategies have been featured in Forbes, Business Insider, & Fast Company and have helped people land jobs at Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and more. In this episode of the Just Go Grind Podcast we discuss how...

Meena Zia is the founder of Wellness A to Zia LLC , a holistic health company that combines life and motivational coaching with the power of healing crystals to help clients achieve their highest level of happiness and fulfillment. In this episode of the Just Go Grind Podcast we discuss the incredible career journey Meena has had so far including roles in politics, advertising, fitness, and most r...

Mary Clavieres is the founder of Brief Transitions and provides mesh underwear to women after childbirth and surgeries. She leveraged her 14+ years of manufacturing experience at a Fortune 100 Pharmaceutical company to grow her product based business. Brief Transitions can be be found on Amazon and in select subscription boxes. Out of her love for building community, Mary also founded The Transiti...

Amitesh Bhagwan is an Innovation Manager at Disney who went from engineering to product management, along the way getting an MBA at USC Marshall and interning at Dollar Shave Club. In this episode of the Just Go Grind Podcast we discuss career change, the challenges of getting an MBA in the United States as an international student, building a career in product management, entrepreneurship, workin...

Stacie Sussman is a leader in growing sales revenue through 360 digital media strategies, including social platforms, influencers, video, ad tech, enterprise solutions, paid media, and programmatic offerings. As founder and owner of SSR Digital Group , Stacie has built a 15-year career managing over $35 million in digital media campaigns for companies ranging from high-growth startups to Fortune 5...

Belma McCaffrey is the CEO and Founder of Work Bigger , a career change and development platform with the mission to redefine work so that work is a vehicle for creativity, change and living an awesome life. Work Bigger partners with companies to help tackle employee disengagement and turnover issues, and they work with individuals to provide career change support. Belma and Work Bigger have been...

Chris Lee is a professional poker player, second year student in the full time MBA program at the USC Marshall School of Business, and works as an analyst at March Capital Partners. In this episode of the Just Go Grind Podcast we discuss how Chris got started playing poker and eventually won a bracelet in the World Series of Poker, why he decided to go back to school and get an MBA and how he navi...

Laura Killick, PhD is a life coach whose mission in life is to help smart, curious, capable women quit all the things in life that are holding them back. She helps them learn how to revolutionize their lives from the inside out by bringing scientific methods together with deep support and a little bit of a punk attitude to help the women she works with thrive. She has always been obsessed with und...

Catherine Castellanos is a speaker, writer, and internal crisis management consultant. She founded Sidestep Strategies not only to help clients manage external PR crises, but to apply the latest advances in both neuroplastic science and spirituality to mitigate the internal crises that jeopardize success. Her ten years of research have covered traditional and emerging treatments, from intensive me...

Dominique Mas has had quite the career journey. She's worked at schools in London, Manila, Hong Kong, Barcelona, and New York City teaching students and developing curriculum. Now, as the founder of Lead With a Twist , she's working with people one-on-one and in small groups to help them navigate life's challenges. In this episode we discuss Dominique's career journey, diving into her experience i...

Erin Halper is the founder and CEO of The Upside , a company that supports solopreneurs and connects them with businesses seeking best-in-class scalable, flexible and on-demand senior-level talent. She also ran her own consulting business for 7 years, started a handbag company while working full time in NYC, and generally knows how to make sh*t happen. In this episode we discuss how she built her...

Jes Osrow ( TheRiseJourney and JOSROW ) gets sh*t done, has the energy of four people, and only puts her name on things that represent her best. She contributes with enthusiasm and a "it's not done until it's done right" mentality. Her goal is talk transparently about HR, recruitment, and talent development (since these topics get a bad rap). She'd like to create and join conversations as a means...

Andrew Forero is an MBA candidate at the USC Marshall School of Business and an aspiring strategy consulting professional with a background in investment research and consumer product sales. As an effective communicator with C-suite executives, he has evaluated domestic and international public company management teams' long-term corporate strategies and capital allocation policies. His investment...

Zach Evans, my best friend since high school, is a kick-ass entrepreneur who turned his passion for piano into a six-figure business that allows him to live the life of his dreams. Zach now lives in Los Angeles and, with the extra time his lifestyle business gives him, is focusing his time and effort on breaking into the music industry - this time as an artist. In this episode we talk about how to...

Rob O'Reilly is a hilarious stand-up comedian (I loved his Brian Scalabrine joke ) who has performed hundreds of shows, written jokes for Jimmy Fallon and MTV's Ridiculousness , and was named one of LA Weekly's Top 10 Comedy Acts to Watch in 2012 . He's also a full-time MBA student at the USC Marshall School of Business in Los Angeles, California where he's looking to explore other career options...

Christina Calabrese is a woman on a mission to make a difference in this world - while living life to the absolute fullest. She's worked with organizations like UNICEF, the Peace Corps, Save the Children, and more to help those in need. Along the way she's traveled to 47 countries, lived all around the world, and served as in inspiration to others to take advantage of all the opportunities life pr...

Mike McElherne is the CEO of Next Gen Talent Strategies , a company that "enables organizations to attract, hire and align talent properly to achieve growth goals, eliminate risk, reduce turnover and create a culture of accountability." During his career Mike has interviewed over 25,000 people, hired more than 4,000 people, and reviewed around 100,000 resumes. He's an experienced and knowledgeable...

TJ Guttormsen is a communication and behavior expert from Norway who has been coaching and speaking at live events for a decade. He's one of the most highly profiled coaches in Norway and has published two books through publishers and three on his own. Throughout his career TJ has coached CEOs, award winning artists, professional athletes, entrepreneurs, students, and more to help them, as he puts...

Travis Pyan is one of the managing partners of CLARKtoys.com , one of the leading online retailers of licensed sports and entertainment figures, bobbleheads, ugly sweaters, and more. He's a passionate, experienced entrepreneur, easily one of the most knowledgeable people in the sports collectible industry, and he's helped to design and bring to market hundreds of sports figures and bobbleheads in...

After the article sharing the career story of Spud Davis, The Path to a Dream Job: Failure, Persistence, and Self-Awareness , became one of the most popular articles on Just Go Grind - I couldn't wait to get him on the podcast as well. Spud is a medical device sales representative at Medtronic, one of the world's largest medical equipment development companies in the world. His path to his current...

Eddy Barrows is a President's Associate at Caesars Entertainment in Las Vegas. He got his MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, majored in Finance at the University of Southern California, was a management consultant for five years, and has interned at places like Paramount Pictures and Discovery Communications. In this episode we cover all of that and so much more. If you've ever thoug...