The Story Box

As Head of Innovation and Creativity at Disney, Duncan and his team helped Imagineering, Lucasfilm , Marvel, Pixar, and Disney Parks to innovate, creating magical new storylines and experiences. He now brings his extensive Disney expertise to audiences around the world using a unique approach to Design Thinking, helping people capture unlikely connections, leading to fresh thinking and disruptive...

Olivia is Australia’s leading Sleep Expert , speaker , author, coach , and advisor. After 9 years of study, her qualifications include a Bachelor of Social Science (Psychology), Certificate of Sleep Psychology, Diploma of Health Science (Nutritional Medicine), and a Certificate 3+4 in Fitness. Olivia's expertise has been solicited for global brands such as Google, Ikea, Sealy Posturepedic , a...

Russell Kennedy, MD is a physician , neuroscientist , certified yoga and meditation teacher , and a professional stand-up comedian. For over a decade he was a doctor by day, comic by night and that's no joke! He specializes in non-traditional treatments for anxiety disorders and he himself is a chronic worrier in recovery. He is married to Somatic Trauma Therapist Cynthia Solylo-Kennedy and is fat...

Robin Hanson is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University and a research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. He has a doctorate in social science, master's degrees in physics and philosophy , and nine years of experience as a research programmer in artificial intelligence and Bayesian statistics. With over 3100 citations and sixty academic publi...

Michelin-starred chef David Bouley described Dr. Uma Naidoo as the world’s first “triple threat” in the food and medicine space: a Harvard trained psychiatrist , Professional Chef graduating with her culinary schools’ most coveted award, and a trained Nutrition Specialist . Her nexus of interests have found their niche in Nutritional Psychiatry. Dr. Naidoo founded and directs the first hospital-ba...

What if the most serious personal and global challenges won’t be solved with more thinking or talking? Justin Zorn and Leigh Marz take us on an unlikely journey—from the West Wing of the White House to San Quentin’s death row; from Ivy League brain research laboratories to underground psychedelic circles ; from the temperate rainforests of Olympic National Park to the main stage at a heavy metal f...

Whitney Goodman is the radically honest psychotherapist behind the hugely popular Instagram account  @sitwithwhit , the author of  Toxic Positivity , and the owner of  The Collaborative Counseling Center , a private therapy practice in Miami, FL. She helps people who want to improve their relationships and emotional awareness. Whitney earned her undergraduate degree at Tulane Univer...

Dr Gemma Newman has worked in medicine for 18 years and is the Senior Partner at a family medical practice where she has worked for 14 years. She studied at the University of Wales College of Medicine and has worked in many specialities as a doctor including elderly care, endocrinology, paediatrics , obstetrics and gynaecology, psychiatry, general surgery , urology, vascular surgery, rehabilitatio...

Julian Marley is a British Jamaican reggae musician , songwriter, producer and humanitarian. He is the son of reggae music icon Bob Marley , and Lucy Pounder. He follows in his father's footsteps and is a devout Rastafarian who uses his music to inspire his life and spirituality . Two-time Grammy Nominated artist  Julian Marley  announces his upcoming EP,  1692  via ...

Dr. Thema Bryant is the incoming president-elect of the American Psychological Association , the leading scientific and professional organization representing psychology with more than 120,000 members ( apa.org ). Dr. Thema Bryant completed her doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Duke University and her post-doctoral training at Harvard Medical Center’s Victims of Violence Program. Upon graduating...

Maggie Doyne is cofounder of the BlinkNow Foundation and Kopila Valley Children’s Home and School in Surkhet, Nepal. At age nineteen, she used her babysitting money and worked with the local community to build a home for orphaned children in war-torn Nepal . In 2010, she and her team opened a school for five hundred of the region’s most impoverished children. Throughout the past decade, BlinkNow a...

Toni Jordan has worked as a molecular biologist , quality control chemist , TAB operator and door-to-door aluminium siding salesperson, and is the author of five novels. Her debut, the international best-seller  Addition  was longlisted for the Miles Franklin award and won the Indie Award for best first book.  Nine Days  was awarded Best Fiction at the 2012 Indie Awards and was...

Depression and anxiety disorders are rising , affecting more than fifty-eight million people in the United States alone. Many rely on therapy and medications to alleviate symptoms, but often this is not enough. The latest scientific advances in neuroscience and nutrition, along with our understanding of the mind-gut connection, have proven that how and what we eat greatly affects how we feel—physi...

The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have just over four thousand weeks . Nobody needs telling there isn’t enough time . We’re obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, work-life balance , and the ceaseless battle against distraction; and we’re deluged with advice on becoming more productive and efficient, and “life...

Beulah Koale is a  New Zealand  actor best known for portraying Officer Junior Reigns in  CBS  reboot series  Hawaii Five-0 . Koale made his Hollywood film debut as a lead in Universal/DreamWorks’  THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE , which opened wide in October 2017. Directed by Jason Hal (American Sniper), Koale starred opposite Miles Teller in the war drama about a group...

Dr. Jennifer J. Heisz is an expert in brain health. She is Associate Professor in the Department of Kinesiology at McMaster University (ranked Top 25 in the world) and directs the NeuroFit Lab , which has attracted over $1 million to support her research program on the effects of exercise for brain health . Dr. Heisz received her Ph. D. in Cognitive Neuroscience (McMaster) and completed a postdoct...

Tara Jaye Frank is an equity strategist who has advised and educated thousands of Fortune 500 executives across multiple industries and large member organizations. Her work, fueled by a deep belief in the creative power and potential of everyone , focuses on building bridges between people, ideas , and opportunity. Before founding her culture and leadership consultancy , Frank spent twenty-one yea...

Stephen Miller  is a creator and entrepreneur who has grown his platform to nearly one million followers in just two years through his show  The Miller Fam , a channel that displays the beauty of diversity and adoption featuring his large, diverse, adoptive family of nine. With over fifteen years of ministry in some of the nation’s largest churches, Stephen has r...

Mallory Ervin is known for exuding energy, joy, and laughter . But despite her public accomplishments , Mallory is no stranger to battling unhealthy attachments to performance and success. Now, in her unforgettable debut book, Mallory invites readers to see how her surprising journey—from achievement and accolades to devastating, never-before-shared lows —guided her and led her to a deeply fulfill...

Moshe Bar, PhD  is the former Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital and an internationally renowned cognitive neuroscientist . He has a PhD in cognitive neuroscience from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. For his outstanding research and academic achievements, he has received many awards and honors, incl...

Rick Hanson, Ph. D. , is a psychologist , Senior Fellow of the  Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley , and  New York Times  best-selling author. His books have been published in 30 languages and include  Neurodharma ,  Resilient ,  Hardwiring Happiness ,  Buddha’s Brain ,  Just One Thing , and  Mother Nurture  – with 900,000 copies in English...

Daniel J. Levitin is an award-winning neuroscientist , musician, and best-selling author. His research encompasses music, the brain, health, productivity and creativity . Levitin has published more than 300 articles , in journals including Science, Nature, PNAS, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The Wall Street Journal. His research has been featured over 1800 times in the popular press, including...

Jeff Haden  is Inc.com's most popular columnist and one of LinkedIn's most widely-followed Influencers . His work has also appeared on  Time ,  The Huffington Post ,  Fast Company , Business Insider ,  Entrepreneur , Yahoo! Small Business, MSNBC, and CNBC. It's comforting to imagine that superstars in their fields were just born better equipped than the rest of us. When a...

TOURÉ ROBERTS IS A BESTSELLING AUTHOR , BUSINESSMAN, PASTOR , AND PRODUCER . Touré is most widely known for being the founder of one of the most influential faith and empowerment congregations in the world, ONE . (Formerly One Church LA ) His modern and cerebral approach to faith has attracted thousands to his physical campuses each week (pre-COVID), and has garnered Touré a massive online campus...

Bob Lotich is a high-performance financial coach, Certified Educator in Personal Finance (CEPF®) and has been named a top-20 influencer in personal finance . His award-winning website, SeedTime.com and SeedTime Money Podcast have reached over 50 million people in the past decade. His writing and advice has been featured in Men’s Health Magazine, Forbes, Yahoo Finance, Inc., Beliefnet, Time, and ma...