The Impossible Network

Guest overview  This week's guests Keith Kirkland and Kevin Yoo are co-founders of Wearable tech start up Wear Works. In part one we cover the challenges they both overcame growing up.     Keith was born into a loving family but faced growing up in one the most violent towns in the US, Camden, New Jersey.  Always feeling an outsider, and a high performer he saw educat...

Guest overview  Dr. Priscilla Pemu was born in Nigeria into a family of seven children. With her Nigerian first name that translates to ‘I am what God has said’ her sense of purpose in life was conditioned at an early age.  Brought up in a playful and abundant family environment, her education set her on a course to a career in medicine and a world view conditioned by British and America...

In a follow up from last year's interview with Your Mom Cares Founder, Sharon Feldstein, Sharon provides an update on the amazing work she and her team of celebrity moms have been doing to support kids during the Covid-19 pandemic.  Sharon reference supporting the Children'sHealth Fund in LA to create a unique group therapy program for kids living on the streets, to build their toolbox for de...

Guest overview  Dr. Morgaine Gaye’s path to being a leading thinker in Food Futurology was any but predictable.  As an only child with a partying, Butcher for a mother and an ex-pat bodybuilding construction worker for a father, she grew up in a home with little money, love, attention, and direction. Self-parenting was her only option as she immersed herself in art, books, and a fantasy...

James Bradley was born in Glasgow, brought up in England by a surgeon father and research science mother. In a supportive home environment, he grew and developed his interest in Geo-biology.  With a curiosity for outdoors and travel, and an explorer gene, his adventurous and inspiring geography teacher encouraged him to pursue an education in environmental science and geography.  In Part...

Dr. James Bradley was born in Glasgow, brought up in England by a surgeon father and research science mother. In a supportive home environment, he grew and developed his interest in geo-biology.    With a curiosity for outdoors and travel, and an explorer gene, his adventurous and inspiring geography teacher encouraged him to pursue an education in environmental science and geography.&nb...

Guest Overview  Born in St Louis and brought up in Dallas Texas by her doctor father and teacher mother, in an environment that nurtured her generosity of spirit and set her on her path to a life of philanthropy is this week's guest Yvonne Moore.  Influenced by paternal grandmothers, success focused parents and competitive siblings, a college education was always expected.  In Part...

Guest Overview  Born in St Louis and brought up in Dallas Texas, by her doctor father and teacher mother, in an environment that nurtured her generosity of spirit and set her on her path to a life of philanthropy is this week's guest Yvonne Moore.  Influenced by paternal grandmothers, success focused parents and competitive siblings, a college education was always expected.  In Part...

In Part two we dive deep into what led Jeanne to create her journalism meets healthcare start-up Clearhealth Costs.  She explains its genesis from winning a “SharkTank” like pitch to inform people about healthcare costs by combining crowdsourcing and data.  Working in partnership with local and national media Clear Health Costs brings cost transparency to the US healthcare system an...

Guest Overview  Born in Grinnell Iowa, her journalist parents, her education in Slavic Studies and Russian Affairs, and her career at the New York Times all prepared her to launch her disruptive health care start-up Clear Health Costs, welcome this week’s guest Jeanne Pinder. In Part One we cover Jeanne’s upbringing in a loud, challenging home environment with five siblings, and the experienc...

Guest Overview  Futurist and humanist Caroline Chubb Calderon thinks a lot about what it will mean to be human in the age of intelligent machines, genomic and robotics and why we must reimagine the future of humanity.     In light of the Covid-19 pandemic her perspective is vital if we are to understand the future role of economies, work, leadership and humanity, and to prepare...

Guest overview  Robert Marchetti is an Australian born celebrity chef and now New York based restaurateur and co-founder of Gran Tivoli and Peppi’s Cellar.  As founder and CEO of Marchettico, his hospitality lifestyle company, he delivers creative solutions that include Interior Design, Architectural, Food & Beverage, Concept Creation and Design. Listen to Part One here.  ...

Guest overview  Robert Marchetti is an Australian born celebrity chef and now New York based restaurateur and co-founder of Gran Tivoli and Peppi’s Cellar.  As founder and CEO of Marchettico, his hospitality lifestyle company, he delivers creative solutions that include Interior Design, Architectural, Food & Beverage, Concept Creation and Design. In Part One of this wide ranging...

Guest Overview Nita Baum is an entrepreneur, co-creator, facilitator, mentor-coach, and community-builder. She is also board lead for Solar responders - the NGO from previous guest Hunter Johansson - so thanks to Hunter for making this happen. Born in New York to an inspiring cancer scientist mother and a philosophical pharmacist father, her parents’ influenced her curiosity, appreciation for crea...

Guest Overview Nita Baum is an entrepreneur, co-creator, facilitator, mentor-coach, and community-builder. She is also board lead for Solar responders - the NGO from previous Guest Hunter Johansson - so thanks to Hunter for making this happen.  Born in New York to an inspiring cancer scientist mother and a philosophical pharmacist father, her parents’ influenced her curiosity, appreciati...

Guest overviews This is a special Covid19 episode.  Recorded over Zoom, I interview Nasser Jaber, the co-founder of The Migrant Kitchen who’s team is currently delivering 50 thousand free meals a day in NY and NJ to feed the families of those impacted by the Covid-19 crisis, including local healthcare workers on the front line in and around the city.  Joining us is Israa Nasir -&nbs...

Guest Overview Maria Dantos was born to a gregarious Greek immigrant father and ‘Mayflower compact’ mother. She grew up in her family-run haunted hotel in Vermont, with safety and freedom to play and explore her imagination. Immersed in abundant love she developed a world view of social justice and the importance of removing the inequity in education. Maria is an educator to her core; with 15...

Guest Overview Maria Dantos was born to a gregarious Greek immigrant father and ‘Mayflower compact’ mother. She grew up in her family-run haunted hotel in Vermont, with safety and freedom to play and explore her imagination. Immersed in abundant love she developed a world view of social justice and the importance of removing the inequity in education. Maria is an educator to her core; wi...

We just interviewed our past guest Nick Fitz on his team's amazing Cancel Corona initiative. Nick explains how he and his team have quickly pivoted to build out the web app to enable anyone or any brand to use the platform to generate purposeful Covid donations based on what people are not spending during Covid19. 'Millions are losing work, kids are going hungry, and coronavirus cases are rising....

Tori Chickering O'Connell was born in New Jersey to parents that cultivated a loving, safe, and creative home environment where comedy, music, and dance were a central part of the daily furniture of growing up. There is no question that this nurturing environment set her on a path to a creative career of being a journalist, producer, documentary filmmaker, comedy writer and published author of two...

Tori Chickering O'Connell was born in New Jersey to parents that cultivated a loving, safe, and creative home environment where comedy, music, and dance were a central part of the daily furniture of growing up.  There is no question that this nurturing environment set her on a path to a creative career of being a journalist, producer, documentary filmmaker, comedy writer and published author...

We recorded this bonus episode with an early guest Dr. Courtney Rennicke on her advice on building resiliency in the time of Covid19. Courtney discusses Covid10 and resiliency in relation to our baseline nervous system's reactions to stress, tangible examples dealing with it, relates it to the Polyvagal theory and draws on similarities to her resiliency work during 9/11.  Dr. Courtney Rennick...

Guest Overview Chloe Valdary was born in New Orleans, to a homemaking mother and banker father, and grew up in an environment of inquiry and orthodoxy that led her to opening a Pandora's box of curiosity. Through curiosity, talent and education Chloe developed a love of art, music and English literature that expanded her world view and set her on a journey to develop the skills and insights needed...

Guest OverviewChloe Valdary was born in New Orleans, to a homemaking mother and banker Father, and grew up in an environment of enquiry and orthodoxy that led her to opening a Pandora's box of curiosity. Through curiosity, talent and education Chloe developed a love of art, music and english literature that expanded her world view and set her on a journey to develop the skills and insights ne...

We are late with this week's digest, but we are living through unusual times. As we enter what, we are being told in the US, will be our Pearl Harbor moment, we are sharing some thought-provoking articles we’ve read and some uplifting, amusing videos that we found and some public service ads we are working with a london based creative duo. As we enter the Ignore The Productivity Pre...