The Life of Someone Extraordinary

British born, American residing entrepreneur, leader, and former opera singer Ben Cooley joins The Life of Someone Extraordinary for a conversation about leadership, success, failure, faith, identity, and what happens when the thing you built your life around suddenly disappears. Ben went from opera singing to co-founding Hope For Justice, an anti-trafficking organisation that grew to reach more t...

British born, Netherlands residing retail consultant, entrepreneur and leadership expert Kayleigh Fazan joins The Life of Someone Extraordinary for a conversation about retail, leadership, customer experience, and the human side of building great teams. What began as a part-time job at New Look at 16 became a 20+ year international career spanning the UK, Europe and the Middle East. Kayleigh went...

American clinical psychologist, private practice owner, and former occupational therapist Dr. Tamar E. Shtrambrand joins The Life of Someone Extraordinary for a conversation about neurodivergence, trauma, faith, family, and learning to see the person behind the diagnosis. Tamar spent more than a decade working in occupational therapy and special education before becoming a clinical psychologist an...

Australian entrepreneur, master coach, author, and co-founder of HydroKleen Sharon Jurd joins The Life of Someone Extraordinary for a conversation about business, grief, resilience, and what it actually means to keep showing up when you have nothing left. Sharon helped build HydroKleen into the world's largest air conditioning cleaning franchise, operating across 47 countries, while also found...

American entrepreneur, sales leader, author, and coach L.A. Williams III joins The Life of Someone Extraordinary for a conversation about vision, ambition, limitation, and what it takes to build something real when the world keeps telling you it isn't possible. Growing up in North Philadelphia, L.A. lost his sight completely at just three years old. Yet blindness never became the ceiling of hi...

American entrepreneur, leadership expert, and creator of Yogilachi Stephana Oetinger joins The Life of Someone Extraordinary for a conversation about identity, trauma, self-leadership, and what happens when the noise around you starts drowning out your own signal. After leaving home at 16 to pursue acting and modelling in New York, Stephana's journey has taken her through profound loss, family...

American based former Olympian, entrepreneur, author, speaker and coach Hugo Maynard , and criminal defence attorney and judge Shannon Roy , join The Life of Someone Extraordinary for a conversation about achievement, identity, family, legacy, and what it really means to build a successful life. Hugo grew up with a powerful drive toward achievement, went on to compete at the Olympics, build busine...

American career and executive coach Phyllis Rosen joins The Life of Someone Extraordinary for a conversation about identity, purpose, career transitions, and what happens when the work that has defined you for years suddenly changes. After nearly two decades on Wall Street, Phyllis experienced one of the most dramatic transitions of her own life when she lost her career, her marriage, and her home...

Jamaican entrepreneur, author, real estate investor, and full-time traveller Kadeem Leslie joins The Life of Someone Extraordinary for a conversation about ownership, sacrifice, freedom, and what it really takes to build a life on your own terms. After losing his mother to cancer at fifteen, Kadeem made a decision that would shape the next decade of his life: he would become financially free by th...

American entrepreneur Jess Kyle joins The Life of Someone Extraordinary for a conversation about difficult conversations, chronic shame, self-awareness, and what it really takes to become someone you can be proud of when life gets uncomfortable. After spending more than thirteen years in data analytics and engineering, Jess found herself at the intersection of leadership, culture, and communicatio...

Australian cryptocurrency educator, trading coach, investor, and mentor Stewart Crown joins The Life of Someone Extraordinary for a conversation about money, self-worth, freedom, and what it takes to rebuild when everything you thought you knew gets challenged. Stewart entered the cryptocurrency space in 2013, long before Bitcoin became mainstream. After watching his portfolio grow significantly,...

Indian born, American residing entrepreneur, keynote speaker, author, transformation coach, and Mrs India Elite Universe titleholder Neetu Rishi joins The Life of Someone Extraordinary for a conversation about confidence, reinvention, visibility, and what it takes to become the person your ambitions require you to be. When Neetu arrived in America, she applied for 71 jobs. Only one responded. She...

Nigerian-British leadership adviser, executive coach, author, speaker, and entrepreneur Yetunde Hofmann joins The Life of Someone Extraordinary for a conversation about leadership, identity, and what it really costs to build a successful career without losing yourself in the process. After more than three decades in senior leadership roles at global organisations including Unilever, Imperial Brand...

British entrepreneur, speaker, and creator of The FEAR Theory™, Becky Farrar joins The Life of Someone Extraordinary for a conversation about identity, fear, and what happens when the version of yourself that built your success is no longer the person you are becoming. After more than twenty years building Strive Dance Academy in the UK, Becky found herself facing a question many successful people...

American entrepreneur and commercial electrical contractor Erik Truxon joins The Life of Someone Extraordinary for a conversation about resilience, integrity, and what happens when life forces you to build a new path. As the founder of Just It's Electric, Erik has spent more than 30 years building a successful commercial contracting business through relationships, consistency, and an unwaverin...

American entrepreneur, speaker and former world traveller Nicole Elyse joins The Life of Someone Extraordinary for a conversation about fear, faith, and what happens when you stop waiting for certainty before you move - told through seven years, seven continents, and a gunpoint robbery in Medellín that changed everything. Nicole has visited 45 countries across all seven continents, worked with the...

Australian entrepreneur, business strategist, and self-described "business athlete" Nathan Baws joins The Life of Someone Extraordinary for a conversation about entrepreneurship, reinvention, and what four decades of building businesses actually teaches you. Nathan has launched 19 businesses across health and wellness, property, hospitality, food manufacturing, bookkeeping, and AI. He ha...

American entrepreneur Jeff Berndt returns to The Life of Someone Extraordinary for Part 2 of one of the most honest and hard-won conversations the series has featured - a deep dive into what happens after the collapse, and what it actually takes to rebuild when everything you spent years creating begins to fall apart in real time. After a $25 million acquisition deal collapsed during the 2008 fina...

Bulgarian former professional footballer Viktor Petkov joins The Life of Someone Extraordinary for an honest conversation about what happens when the dream you chased your entire life stops feeling like one - and the self-awareness it takes to walk away before the world forces you to. Developed through the academy system of FC Maritsa Plovdiv, Viktor progressed into Bulgaria’s professional footbal...

American brand designer and entrepreneur Kyle DeSean Johnson joins The Life of Someone Extraordinary for an honest conversation about branding, identity, and why most businesses are trying to design their way out of problems that actually begin with clarity. Kyle is the founder of Bullet Art Direction & Design, a Los Angeles-based solo studio specialising in beauty, haircare, and consumer prod...

American entrepreneur Jeff Berndt joins The Life of Someone Extraordinary for a conversation that traces one of the most unlikely entrepreneurial origin stories - from journalism and storytelling to building a nationally distributed board game from scratch. Jeff is the creator of Triopoly, a three-dimensional board game that grew from a sketch pad idea into a business with over 200 products in ret...

Russian-American entrepreneur Luba Kaplanskaya joins The Life of Someone Extraordinary for an honest conversation about what building a marketing business and a personal brand at the same time actually looks like — in one of the most competitive cities in the world. Luba is the founder of LK Strategic Ventures, a boutique marketing agency based in Los Angeles. She's spent nearly a decade worki...

British-Ghanaian podcast producer Roslyn Kufuor joins The Life of Someone Extraordinary for a conversation about perseverance, the courage to start over, and what it actually takes to build a career on your own terms. Roslyn is a podcast producer at Corus Entertainment's Curiouscast network in Toronto, with over 20 years of experience across radio and audio production - including eight years a...

Trinidadian entrepreneur Jen Manswell joins The Life of Someone Extraordinary for a conversation about faith, revenue architecture, and the long-term work behind building an abundant life. Jen is a revenue architect, entrepreneur, and storyteller with over 20 years of experience helping Fortune 500 companies translate vision into measurable growth. After contributing to more than $110 million in r...

Bulgarian entrepreneur Teodora Botsa returns to The Life of Someone Extraordinary for a conversation on purpose, resilience, and the personal foundations that sustain long-term growth. In this second part of the conversation, the focus shifts from business to the woman behind the work. Tedi reflects on life as a single mother, the pressures of responsibility without a safety net, and the mindset r...