My Fourth Act Podcast

Esmeralda Diaz-Aroca and Mike O’Neil are  branding and social media strategists . Mike is a  2x Forbes Top 50 Social media influencer  and  LinkedIn Sales Navigator expert  from Minnesota. Esmeralda is a  former scientist turned Digital Strategy  and  Social Selling expert  from Madrid. Linkedin is their professional playground and where they initially...

Gregory Gilmore is a  Transformational Life Coach ,  Clinical Hypnotherapist , and  Rapid Transformational Therapy  (RTT) Practitioner. In addition to his own practice, Gregory also serves as an  RTT trainer  for Marisa Peer. The founder of RTT, where he supports and guides other aspiring RTT practitioners. Gregory is passionate about  helping individuals get uns...

Ande Lyons is a  4x Business Founder ,  Startup champion ,  Host of the New England Podcasters Group , and the  former Co-host of Boston’s Founders Live Pitch event . Ande  hosts  the new proaging podcast  “Don’t Be Caged By Your Age”  where she challenges societal and internalized ageism and empowers folks to thrive after 65. She is passionate about shatter...

Clare Maxwell is a  former professional dancer  and  choreographer  turned  certified Alexander Teacher  and  Somatic Movement Coach . She helps professionals and performers to feel more fully at ease in their bodies. Clare serves on the Somatics Faculty of Movement Research, a well-known  NYC dance organization . An  innovator in movement education &nb...

E132 | When Novels Want To Be Written Cyrus Cassells is a  Poet. Translator. Cultural Critic. Actor. Professor.  Cyrus is best known for his  9 poetry books , most recently “Is There Room For Another Horse On Your Horse Ranch.” His books have earned numerous accolades, including the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, a Lambda Literary Award, and two Pu...

Charlotte Libov is a  seasoned writer  and  keynote speaker , formerly at The New York Times, who specializes in  writing about health  and  the Arts . Ever since she left Connecticut for fabled Miami Beach 19 years ago, Charlotte has become  a “South Beach gal about town.” Sing Out , her Facebook group that  celebrates song, dance, and all forms of self-exp...

Bestselling author, keynote speaker, branding strategist  and  provocateur  Tom Asacker has spent most of his career in the fascinating world of belief and behavior change, and how it impacts both personal and professional lives. Tom is focused on  helping people  and  organizations break free  from self-deceptive thinking and reclaim their creative freedom and j...

Carlos Gonzalez has been an Associate  Professor  of English at  Miami Dade College for over 30 years . He describes himself as a "professor of  joy, grief, wonder, listening. movement  and  sitting. " Carlos Gonzalez's expansive view of how a teacher serves is informed by his passion for  mindfulness, physical exercise. nature , and  deep personal explorati...

Gayle Zalduondo is a  creative soul  and  seasoned serial entrepreneur . Among her many accomplishments is co-founding an acclaimed and innovative furniture company, Urbanus, with Andrew Kelly. For 20 years, Gayle served as CEO and lead designer for Urbanus, creating furniture for national retailers such as Crate & Barrel, Room & Board, Ethan Allen, Pottery Barn and Restorat...

Ann Odell is a  former architect  turned  celebrated brand strategist, futurist, and culture forecaster.  She has  led breakthrough creative strategies   for endless Fortune 500  enterprises, working for Lippincott, CBX Worldwide, Gensler, Donovan/Green, and Estee Lauder. Ann now operates as the  head of her own firm , animated by the firm belief that for-pr...

Johannes Leerink is a  seasoned business executive  from the Netherlands. After a fast-track career as a  rising star at Procter and Gamble  and  Sara Lee , Johannes dropped out of corporate life. Influenced by the teachings of Landmark and Werner Erhard, Johannes  founded  and served as practice leader of  Vantage Group Europe , a boutique organizational co...

Larry Duplechan  is the  acclaimed and iconic author of 5 queer novels.  They include  Blackbird  (considered by many the first modern Black “coming-out” novel) and the Lambda Literary Award-winning  Got ’til it’s Gone .  Blackbird  was adapted for film in 2014, starring Mo”Nique and Isiah Washington. In 2023, Britain’s Team Angelica published Larry’s delici...

Malissa Smith is the  author of  A History of Womens’ Boxing , published in 2014. It is the first comprehensive history of the sport; Ring Magazine dubbed it “the Bible of Women’s Boxing.” Malissa is a  co-host of the popular WAAR Room podcast , a founding board member of the international Women’s Boxing Hall of Fame, and contributed a powerful essay, “How Boxing Uncaged Me,” to a b...

Paula Ayotte is a  professional dancer, poler, actress, and model . After a career as a dancer in LA in her 20s, Paula  left for Hawaii, studied microbiology , combined it with her passion for scuba diving and forged a new career in maritime research, often living on boats for months on end. When Paula explored pole dancing as a hobby in her 50s, it turned out to be her ticket back to sh...

Anita Barbero is a  Wellness Coach, Speaker and Corporate Wellness Consultant  who integrates over 25 years of experience as a  health fitness practitioner, yoga & meditation teacher , and workshop & retreat leader in her practice. At ESPN, where high performance is key both in front and behind the camera, Anita served as an in-house Wellness Lead. She taught fitness, yoga,...

Grace E. Niwa is a  former piano prodigy  who received a Master's Degree in Piano Performance from Juilliard, made her Carnegie Hall debut - and then decided to not pursue a professional career in music. Grace's subsequent professional life of multiple pivots includes being the  Principal of her own PR firm and serving as Principal in a Global Executive Sear...

Rich Habets is a  former management consultant  from Maastricht/Netherlands who has roamed the world. He is a  trusted advisor to CEOs, C-Suite leaders, and entrepreneurs  who long to play a bigger game. Rich is opinionated, outspoken, and fearlessly questions the status quo - for others, and for himself. He has already lived several acts in his life, disrupted himself, and bol...

Geoffrey Roche is an executive in the healthcare industry who currently serves as the first Director of Workforce Development for Siemens in North America. Geoffrey is the son of a German-born nurse and a dedicated father to three sons. He is a powerful strategist in Healthcare who believes in creating change by fostering meaningful relationships. Geoffrey has already had an indelible impact on th...

Jay Samit is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on disruption and innovation. Jay raises hundreds of millions of dollars for startups, sells companies to Fortune 500 firms and transforms entire industries. He is a former NASDAQ company CEO and Independent Vice Chairman of Deloitte. Jay helped grow pre-IPO companies such as LinkedIn, held senior management roles at EMI, Sony an...

Mohit Mukherjee is the Founding Director of the UPEACE Centre for Executive Education, which he launched in 2006. UPeace is a UN-established university based in Costa Rica; it is the only UN-affiliated institution devoted exclusively for peace education. Mohit, who holds a M.Ed. in International Education from Harvard, is a passionate educator in the areas of Social Entrepreneurship, Positive Lead...

Robyn Stratton-Berkessel is a luminary in an organizational change approach called Appreciative Inquiry. She wrote one of the definitive books about Appreciative Inquiry,  Appreciative Inquiry for Collaborative Solutions  (Wiley and Sons). Robyn serves as adjunct faculty for the esteemed David Cooperrider Center for Appreciative Inquiry, housed at Champlain College. She delivered a power...

Heather "The Heat" Hardy held the  WBO world featherweight title from 2018 - 2019 . Heather works as a  trainer  and continues a career in  professional boxing   and mixed martial arts  into her early 40s. Brooklyn-born and Brooklyn-based, Heather holds a BA degree in Forensic Psychology from John Jay College in Manhattan. While in high school, Heather had aspired to...

Janice Masters is a  former psychotherapist  of 22 years turned healer/guide. For the last 30 years, Janice has served women as what she calls a  Spiral Path coach, mentor, and shaman  to help them embrace their greatness and manifest miracles. At 78, after a year of facing pernicious health challenges and having a double heart-valve-replacement surgery, Janice continues t...

Ellee Koss  holds a Ph. D. in Economics and has served for  over three decades as an educator and management consultant.  She is a true renaissance woman - an author, artist, activist, and coach. In every aspect of her life, Ellee pushes the limits to draw out life's essence and fullness, and to surface the extraordinary. She and her husband, Oscar Gonzalez, divide their time betwee...

Laurie Pickle Evans  is a former partner in a  Miami law firm .  Ian McCluskey  is a veteran journalist and thought-leader champion who served as a South American correspondent for  Time Magazine  and the Sao Paulo Bureau Chief for  Bloomberg news . Their current life looks little like their past acts. Laurie founded  Afrikids , a Miami-based nonprofit that...