Living in The Silver Lining

Marc Champagne is a mental fitness strategist and host of Behind The Human Podcast . Marc previously worked in medical sales. He loves to connect with another person, especially in sales when it doesn't feel like sales. It's just two people having a conversation and there's no hidden agenda. With all the rejection and the struggle that come with sales, that’s when the idea of mental fitness came u...

It's important that we're changing the paradigm of what leadership looked like back in the day to where we need to go with leadership today, based on the problems we're trying to solve and the talent we're trying to attract as well as our bottom and top-line growth. Today, David Robinson shares some great insights into leadership as well as some actionable steps we can do to improve as leaders. Da...

Hannah Brencher joins us today to share inspiration through the power of words. An author, blogger, and a TED Speaker, Hannah initially moved to New York City for what she thought was a dream job yet she found herself struggling with depression. As a way to cope, she started to write love letters and leave them around New York City for others to find and draw inspiration from. Today, she runs a gl...

In this day and age, so many people are still afraid to seek treatment with regard to their mental health issues. Hence, specialists like our guest today, Dr. Jen Wolkin, work hard in destigmatizing what it means to be abnormal and what mental health versus illness is. In today's episode, learn more about the segmentation of mental health and mental illness, and what we all can do about it to brin...

Today, let's talk about voice. Voice is an expression. It's a form of communication. It's a seed for creation. It's a manifestation of confidence. Voice can also be power – because each one of us has a voice that can change the world. All of us have unique and very important stories to share. And sharing our stories allows us to connect with others so we can experience joy and free ourselves from...

It is time to move into the full expression and the best possible version of you. But you have to be able to find that person and become that person as those shoes are just waiting for you to step in. However, when your head is in a lot of negative self-talk, it doesn't matter if anyone and everyone tells you how amazing you are – unless you consciously change that self-talk and make it a habit. H...

"You’re not a good fit." – what does that even mean? Saying such a phrase is impersonal and it has no humanity in it. In fact, it can be dangerous in the workplace because it’s devoid of emotions. And oftentimes, people are not conscious of it. When I took the role of CFO, I changed the way we hired from culture fit to skillset fit and culture addition. Culture addition because we want people that...

Dr. Jeremy Goldberg is a writer, a speaker, coach, podcast host, and spoken word poet. His mission is to make kindness cool, empathy popular, and compassion commonplace. He believes that kindness and empathy are a life hack that allows people to navigate their lives with the least amount of strife, struggle, pain, and then the most amount of acceptance, love, and belonging. In this episode, Jeremy...

Claude had an incredible jam session with our VaynerMedia Media Residents and she’s going to answer some questions around positivity, empathy, and tapping into your natural superpower. Here are some power takeaways from today’s conversation: How to start off your day Showing your natural superpower Finding your best learning style How to deal with confrontation The journey of knowing yourself Expe...

Mental health used to be non-existent some 25 years ago. Now, there's this huge awareness when it comes to taking care of your brain and mental health. Mark Metry is a coach, author, and speaker. Today, he talks about dealing with social anxiety as well as some tools you can use daily to improve your mental health. His book, Screw Being Shy: Learn How to Manage Social Anxiety and Be Yourself in Fr...

Bart Scholtissen, Lars Schmidt, and Dalia Feldheim share their thoughts on emotional optimism. Bart Scholtissen Based in the Netherlands, Bart is the Founder of Back To Your Nature Coaching and is a Wim Hof Method Academy instructor. With a background in neuroscience, he earned his PhD degree in Neuropsychology. Feeling burned out in the field of science, he felt he needed to reinvent himself and...

Blankets of Hope Founders Mike and Nick Fio deliver blankets to homeless people during the winter and so much more! Inspired by their mission is to bring kindness to the entire world by 2025, what started out as a simple project has now become much bigger than themselves as they’re now teaching the future generation to think with a mindset of kindness and compassion, and giving back to their commu...

Mike McHargue is a Purveyor of empathic skepticism and a science expert. He has a podcast called The Cozy Robot Show . He has worked with companies like Marvel, Apple, and the New York Times. Today, we cover all kinds of territory from the science of empathy to the psychobiology of mythology and emotional optimism. Episode Highlights: Join Claude Silver as she and Mike have a deep connection aroun...

Lars Schmidt is the Founder of Amplify , an HR executive search and consulting firm that helps companies build progressive people teams and capabilities. He's spent over 20 years in the industry working in and alongside a range of leading global companies. In 2015, Lars co-founded a not-for-profit aimed at democratizing access to modern HR practices - HR Open Source , a free global community of pr...

Dalia Feldheim is an ex-CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) in the corporate world who now calls herself Chief Magnificent Officer. She's an organizational psychologist and an adjunct professor. Upon completing her army service as a platoon commander (a crash course in leadership in and of itself), Dalia studied Psychology and Business and landed her first job at P&G, the world’s largest consumer go...

Robert Barber is the author of CEO for Life: Gain Full Control of Your Life and Your Business Forever . He realized he had to walk the walk of the CEO in his everyday life and take responsibility for everything. He had to become the CEO of his life, for life. And today, he shares his journey. He talks about where he gets his optimism from and his fuel. Robert is the founder and lead coach of Retur...

Blankets of Hope Founders Mike and Nick Fio deliver blankets to homeless people during the winter and so much more! Inspired by their mission is to bring kindness to the entire world by 2025, what started out as a simple project has now become much bigger than themselves as they’re now teaching the future generation to think with a mindset of kindness and compassion, and giving back to their commu...

We’re living in challenging times. But we need to go through those in order to create the new world that we want to see. It's necessary for us to transform into a new level of living –and one of the ways to achieve that level of personal development is going back to your core and going back to nature. Today’s guest is Bart Scholtissen . Based in the Netherlands, Bart is the Founder of Back To Your...

Mike McHargue is a science expert. He has a podcast called The Cozy Robot Show . He has worked with companies like Marvel, Apple, and the New York Times. Today, we cover all kinds of territory from the science of empathy to the psychobiology of mythology and emotional optimism. Here are some power takeaways from today’s conversation: Understanding the psychobiology of mythology How a given spiritu...

Shasheen is a high performance coach and author.  His upcoming book is called The Kid and The King . He navigates business outcomes and brings personal change to people. Shasheen has been a trusted adviser to an incredible group of high achievers on everything from business and strategy to personal relationships, communication, and leadership. Being the only Indian kid in an all-Jewish commun...

Joel Leon is a TED talk giver-creative-copywriter-rapper-father-and-the-list-goes-on – a perfect example that as humans, we’re all multi-hyphenated – capable of doing multiple things being the multi-heightened beings that we are. Today, Joel gives us some enlightening insights into how we can hold space for ourselves and for other people every day, as well as how we can bring awareness to diversit...

In this episode, Claude sits down with Shasheen Shah and covers inspired work, getting in our own way, and the importance of John Nash in the film " A Beautiful Mind." For more than 20 years, Shasheen has delivered breakthrough results to successful leaders around the world, navigating business outcomes and the personal challenges that go hand in hand with the journey. High-achieving pro...

Joel Leon is a performer, author and storyteller, born and raised in the Bronx, who writes and tells stories for Black people. He's been featured in the Columbia Journal , BBC News, Sirius XM, Forbes , Insider , Medium, Philadelphia Printworks, Blavity and the Huffington Post. He has spoken and performed at the Apollo Theater, Joe's Pub, Rockwood Music Hall, Columbia University, NYU and Webster Ha...

Voted to Forbes' 30 Under 30, Inc 30 Under 30, & Adweek Creative 100 lists - John Henry is a Dominican-American entrepreneur, investor, TV show host, real estate developer, vlogger, and podcast host. You can find him at: Instagram: @johnhenrystyle Twitter: @johnhenrystyle LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/johnhenrystyle In this episode, Claude asks John about his journey from humble beginnings as a Ne...

Nancy J. Spotton is an expert in Connected Teams, Leadership Development and Personal Brand Building. She is a rockstar!! After 25 years leading corporate teams, Nancy completed her Masters Magna Cum Laude and at 52 launched MPWR, a business that fills the void of building future leaders. MPWR designs Immersive, Intensive and Impactful Live Learning Communities with the intent of training future C...