The Dr. Rod Berger Channel - Stories That Meet The Moment

Deepak Chopra is a very well known figure in the health and wellness space.  He is the founder of the Chopra Foundation, a non-profit charitable organization whose aim is to improve the health and well-being, cultivation of spiritual knowledge, expansion of the  consciousness, and promoting world peace to all members of the human family.   He is a world renown pioneer in integrative medicine and p...

Today is a special one, I speak with both Metta World Peace and Alex Bayer.  Alex Bayer is the CEO of Genius Juice, a brand of organic drinks made with only the ingredients in their names.  The brand may sound familiar. That's because Alex managed to bag an incredible deal on The Shark Tank back in 2020, but eventually turned it down in order to crowd fund. Now Genius Juice can be found in Walmart...

Gustavo Gutierrez is paving the way to combine the financial sectors in North America with his incredible new FinTech business, Broxel.  Broxel is changing the way that Mexico and The United States interacts, by allowing its users to have accounts in both Mexico and in the US within one app, with no fees from transferring money between the two, as if transferring between your own checking accounts...

Guy Fieri talks to be today, beginning with his partnership with a  previous guest, Sammy Hagar, in creating a gourmet and high quality  Tequila business.   Starting off with a Kool-Aid stand, and hustling sweets from his own  little store as a child, Guy has always been in the business of food.  From starting his TV career, to going into the alcohol business, if it  is to do with a culinary exper...

I talk with Charles Barkley today, a former NBA player known as "The  Round Mound of Rebound". Charles Barkley is on of the NBA's most dominant rebounders. In the  1986-87 series, Barkley led the season with the highest rebound average  earning him his first NBA rebound title. Barkley then went on to compete in two Olympic games for the USA in basketball, earning gold medals in both. He  retired i...

A big thank you to Sammy Hagar for this interview.   Sammy Hagar is the second lead vocalist for the Rock band Van Halen for  11 years, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a  member of Van Halen. In this interview he talks about transitioning from  Rock Star fame into making top shelf spirits starting with Cabo Wabo  Tequila.  Hagar founded the Cabo Wabo tequila brand and resta...

​Natasha Graziano is the 'number 1 female motivational speaker under 40' as seen in  Forbes Magazine, a top female mindset coach by Business Insider and  named ‘a leading mindset coach and inspirational speaker’ by Kourtney  Kardashian’s Poosh Magazine.   Today I speak with her about her incredible growth to 15 million  followers on social media, her transformation from a broke, single  mother to...

In this episode I am joined by Divya Gokulnath, an Indian entrepreneur, an educator who co-founded BYJU'S, an educational technology company, and one half of the incredible power couple that is Byju Raveendran and Divya Gokulnath. At first, the company offered in-person education to support school education, and in 2015, launched an online app with video lessons. Divya has appeared in videos as a...

Today I talk with Vanilla Ice, a rapper that has managed to stay relevant for the past 30 years.   Everyone knows the name somehow, and different generations react to the name in different ways, how about you?   Listen in to my conversation with Vanilla Ice to get a insight into his childhood and to hear his viewpoints on the rap industry, ego in artists, overuse of tech, and his view on the erasu...

Dr. Rod Berger speaks with Graham Bensinger, American journalist and entrepreneur known best for his eponymous show In Depth . Graham epitomises entrepreneur although the label doesn't fit comfortably. Having found his path at the age of 14, he's just kept going and hasn't looked back. That doesn't mean its been easy. Recounting moments where it was do or die, he managed to maintain composure and...

HeadRoom with Mario Lopez Check out the full interview with Mario Lopez that prompted my Forbes article on his involvement with Broxel .  "I'm a child of immigrants, my parents are from Mexico, and they instilled a solid work ethic. They were blue-collar folks, my dad worked for the city, and my mom worked for the phone company. I was a border town kid in Chula Vista. I used to see Tijuana from my...

Jermaine Dupri , Hall of Fame songwriter, Grammy award winner, and producer, knows that his 'next' will require even more effort if he is to succeed. Dupri has worked with the Mount Rushmore of hip-hop, R&B, and pop for over two decades, and a fateful conversation with the artist Babyface served as the ignition point for him to try something entirely different: JD's Vegan , a line of vegan dessert...

HeadRoom with Khabib Nurmagomedov The Eagle and UFC Hall of Famer sits down with Dr. Rod Berger to discuss life outside of the octagon, starting his own league , and what home means to him.  Dr. Rod Berger is a keynote speaker, moderator, producer, author, and expert in strategic storytelling. Berger’s book,  The Narrative Edge: Authentic Storytelling That Meets The Moment  (Wi...

HeadRoom with Naveen Jain - the backstory to my Entrepreneur Mag article . Founder & CEO, Viome Naveen is an intensely curious entrepreneur who is not afraid to take on the audacious ideas that will push humanity forward. He is the author of the award-winning book Moonshots: Creating a World of Abundance. His current moonshot adventures are Viome and Moon Express. As a serial entrepreneur, he prev...

HeadRoom with Jenson Button Formula 1 World Champion Jenson Button MBE began his racing career on the karting track where he achieved instant success, Winning the British Super Prix in 1989, aged nine. The following year he made the step from karts to cars. He won the British Formula Ford championship, with nine wins for Haywood Racing, and triumphed in the prestigious Formula Ford Festival ahead...

HeadRoom with Gibson Guitar's CEO James 'JC' Curleigh. JC takes us back to the early days of his career describing the moments that transformed iconic, global brands, and his life. An incredibly thoughtful leader who isn't afraid to have an opinion or pick up a guitar and play - a treat of an interview for music fans, entrepreneurs, and lovers of story.  Dr. Rod Berger is a keynote speak...

Last year I had the opportunity to spend time with Byju & Divya. I share their first names because they are becoming the leaders of global education as a power couple and leadership of the ever-growing BYJUs. I had readers ask to hear the story, so I decided to go down memory lane and read the original Forbes article for HeadRoom. I hope you enjoy it! - Rod Dr. Rod Berger is a keynote sp...

A MacArthur Fellow and Fields Medal winner, Terence Tao, Ph. D., was studying university-level math by age 9. The Australian mathematician known as the most accomplished mathematician in the world received the Fields Medal in 2006 “for his contributions to partial differential equations, combinatorics, harmonic analysis, and additive number theory.” Tao now has his own MasterClass to teach the mas...

HeadRoom with Irshad Manji - a behind-the-scenes conversation that spurred the recent Forbes article, Corporate First Responders Go Back To School Irshad is the founder of the Moral Courage Network . A prize-winning leadership professor at New York University for many years, she now teaches with the Oxford Initiative for Global Ethics and Human Rights. The recipient of Oprah's "Chutzpah Award" for...

HeadRoom with Ellen Sigal Ellen V. Sigal, PhD, is Chairperson and Founder of Friends of Cancer Research (Friends). Friends is an advocacy organization based in Washington, DC that drives collaboration among partners from every healthcare sector to power advances in science, policy, and regulation that speed life-saving treatments to patients. For more than two decades, Friends has been instrumenta...

HeadRoom with Aaron Rasmussen Aaron Rasmussen is the co-founder of MasterClass and founder and CEO of Outlier.org . He is an entrepreneur, inventor, and game designer who has founded and led successful companies across the robotics, beverages, gaming, and education industries. Dr. Rod Berger is a keynote speaker, moderator, producer, author, and expert in strategic storytelling. Berger’s...

Having grown up in a Brooklyn tenement, Gerry Sigal knows what it’s like to be disadvantaged and discounted. As a boy, he delivered groceries to earn money. He put himself through school, went to work for a New York construction company, and eventually settled in Washington, where he started his own successful business, Sigal Construction Corporation . In 1995, he read in the paper that the bathro...

HeadRoom with Alvy Ray Smith explores the early days of Pixar, the heated exchanges with Steve Jobs and the incredible lengths Smith and others took to bring us digital in ways previously unimagined.  Dr. Rod Berger is a keynote speaker, moderator, producer, author, and expert in strategic storytelling. Berger’s book,  The Narrative Edge: Authentic Storytelling That Meets The Moment...

Del Reid, the co-founder of the famed Bills Mafia and founder of 26 Shirts, sits down with Dr. Rod Berger to talk about the origins of the phenomenon and impact he and others have made in and around Buffalo.   Bill's Mafia is the largest unofficial social movement around the Buffalo Bills team, even getting the team twitter to use the hashtag #billsmafia 26 Shirts is a social project that Del Reid...

Dr. Rod Berger speaks with Michelle Beadle , former host of popular ESPN programming such as  SportsNation, about the transition to becoming an entrepreneur with her own podcast What Did I Miss? With Michelle Beadle . Michelle recognizes the opportunities she's been presented in life, and when the Atlantic came enquiring about a joint venture podcast network, along with an associated homecoming to...