The Tao of Self-Confidence

Ann Makosinski is a student inventor.  While still in high school, she created the "Hollow Flashlight," which utilizes the thermoelectric effect to convert radiant body heat into electricity to power an LED bulb without the need for batteries or kinetic energy.  She also created the e-Drink which utilizes thermoelectric generators to convert wasted heat from hot drinks to produce electricity.  Ann...

Gouri Kapur is a make up artist and has been in this industry over a decade.  An established name to reckon with, she has worked with stars like Deepika Padukone , Neha Dhupia , Sonali Bendre , Yana Gupta , Mahendra Singh Dhoni , Katrina Kaif , Lisa Ray , Rahul Dravid and Pooja Bedi. She has done work for television commercials like the Royal Challengers ad with director Sanjay Gupta, award winnin...

Huda Shaikh is a clinical nutrionist and dietician.  She is also the founder of Nutribond and has extensive knowledge about food, food habits and how it affects the body.  Huda has worked closely with people suffering from various health issues and has successfully helped many of her clients in losing weight in a healthy manner.  Being extremely passionate about cooking and eating right she has de...

Kristine Gerolaga is a Bay Area born and raised, band geek/ color guardist for life, and ex-professional monkey feeder with a B.A. in Sociology. After 5 years of scene study at the Beverly Hills Playhouse and working on various commercials/ independent film projects in San Francisco, she finally made the move to Los Angeles where she currently resides. She co-wrote and starred in the short film DI...

Jenny Qian is the director of business operations at Twitch.  She now leads the business operations for the gamer-centric video service and has been a key player in driving the Amazon subsidiary's rapid growth.  Jenny and her team also use data-driven insights to tackle the toughest business problems at Twitch to help improve company performance.  She has been featured on Forbes 30 under 30 in 201...

Amanda Suk is a self-proclaimed "creative nomad" with an affinity for storytelling in various formats. Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri followed by a 5-year stint in NYC and now residing in LA -- Amanda is an eclectic blend of all the cities that cultivated her. She is particularly fond of making, at the very least, herself laugh with awkward and/or ill-timed bad jokes. Amanda has trained at...

Kim Bui is an online journalist, with experience in creating Web sites and thinking about how content works on various platforms, whether social media or a new technology.  She has run marketing campaigns, created data visualizations, developed strategy social media portals, and created and led large-scale newsroom projects. In short, she is a writer who enjoys the nerdy/tech side of journalism. K...

Elaine Dolalas is a Historic Filipinotown-based writer, This Filipino American Life podcaster, and independent curator. She curates Color Your Troubles Away, an arts event that offers stress relief, healing, and meditation through coloring. Elaine is happily trying to figure out the secret of life through writing, volunteering, and most importantly avoiding cleaning her room, much to her husband T...

Jessica Lesaca is a social media content creator.  She currently freelances across several social media platforms such as Instagram, Vine, YouTube, Twitter, Snapchat and Facebook. She began her career in social media in 2013, making videos on Vine. Her content was branded as situational comedy and humorous dance videos. Jessica was able to grow a Vine following of over 300K, which allowed her to g...

Danielle Oda is a musician and also 1/2 of Perry and Danielle.  Perry & Danielle is a two-piece pop group from Honolulu, Hawaii with lead vocalist/keyboardist Danielle Oda and vocalist/drummer Perry Sekigawa. Together, Perry & Danielle make a dynamic duo in the music they create, drawing on personal experiences and turning them into a song. Their sound contains smooth, piano-based instrumentation...

Michelle Myers is an award-winning spoken word poet, community activist, and educator. As a founding member of Yellow Rage, an Asian American female spoken word poetry group, Michelle has appeared on HBO’s Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry, in the first live Def Poetry Jam show presented at the HBO U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado, and in the Def Poetry Jam College Tour. She is also...

Pooja Bhayana is the co-founder of Let’s Barter India. The most significant milestone in Pooja’s life has been starting her own company, Let’s Barter India and making it the world’s largest community on Facebook, with over 105,000 engaged members. Her future plans for the company is to build a platform that empowers anyone who might not have the cash for their needs. Her vision for Let’s Barter is...

Joana Szeen is the founder of My Clementine which focuses on Media, Consulting and Promotions. She started out the business very focussed on working with children. Now she has expanded to privately tutor English in the morning to students in China, and she has students in Windsor.  Joana is also Miss South Western Ontario. Joana used to be dishonest and self-centered because she was too afraid to...

Mafae Belasco is a mother of five, wife, model, Beauty Queen, pageant expert, bartender, esthetician, business woman, Blogger, Marketing and PR specialist, image consultant and Motivational Speaker.  At the age of eighteen she joined the beauty industry. After winning major tittles and taking the crown in the Miss Philippines Australia pageant in 1998, she set out to the Philippines to join Binibi...

Patty Lee is the founder of WorldTrainer, your ultimate fitness concierge.  Designed for leaders and go-getters who travel and wish to continue training, WorldTrainer matches you with elite fitness trainers across the globe. Not only can you continue to train when you are away from home, WorldTrainer ensures that your workout is consistent even on-the-go. Patty used to battle depression but in tha...

Nika Diwa is a fashion blogger and founder of Diwa Dollhouse.  She moved to NYC to pursue her passion for the fashion industry. After graduating from LIM College, she served in the Buying and Merchandising departments of companies such as The RealReal, Barneys New York, and Ermenegildo Zegna. The blog began as a diary to share personal style favorite and inspired thoughts and today has evolved int...

Jean Lui is aspiring sports dietician and former competitive power lifter.  She has a passion for exploring methods to optimal health through nutrition and exercise.  Jean believes that nutrition is one of the greatest forms of self love; to care deeply for one's body and health is to live fully. Living fully goes beyond simply surviving, but instead flourishing and thriving through pursuing the g...

Yvette Lu is an actor, filmmaker, and family physician in Vancouver, BC, Canada. As an actor, she has appeared on various television shows including FOX's Gracepoint and BBC America's Intruders. As well, her films have screened on television and in film festivals across North America, including at the Vancouver Asian Film Festival, the Route 66 Film Festival, and on Shaw Multicultural Channel. On...

Li Lin is the Founder of The Successful Immigrant.  She is a coach for successful immigrants in the US who want to make more money, gain the confidence they want to create their American Dream.  Over the past few years, Li has helped over 100+ immigrant professionals and international students over the past 3 years with H-1B and OPT job search because of her own job hunt experiences.  Because of h...

Suzy Nakamura is an actress.  She began her professional career doing small plays, including one show in Siberia.  It was a folktale and she played a bird and she performed it in Siberia. Eventually she was hired to tour with the Touring Company of The Second City. She also opened the first two shows at The Second City Detroit. After moving to Los Angeles, she began guest starring on television, e...

Priska, born Priscilla Liang, is a Taiwanese-American singer/songwriter from Los Angeles, CA. In Middle School, she experienced being bullied by her peers and turned to music as an important escape.  She spent a brief time in Fuzhou, China, performing in a televised singing competition, Minnan Idol, in which she placed 2nd in the US and Top 30 overall. Priska is an avid supporter of the Asian-Amer...

Kristy Arnett is a professional risk taker and podcaster.  As a podcaster and professional risk taker, she guides people who are in the question of, “WTF am I doing with my life?”  She has dedicated her life to exploring the ways people can shift their relationship with risk. Kristy shares how she was able to work from inside and create her own internal shift to have the confidence to live life on...

Tina Kim is comedian and entrepreneur.  She has  traveled the world doing stand up comedy, performed at hundreds of colleges, corporate events and produced many shows in the last 15 years.  She is currently working on her startup and only available for corporate events for stand up comedy. Seattle is her home town and she is a graduate of the University of Washington with a journalism degree.  She...

Kavea R. Chavali is an award winning Anchor/Presenter having hosted more than 1300 shows across the globe and on television.  She is also an actress in short films and web videos and an enthusiastic entrepreneur. Kavea shares how life was before she found her own confidence and the steps she took to certify herself that she is capable of anything if she believes in herself and takes action on purs...

Swati Sharma is an anchor and actor . She has done the lead role in hindi feature film "Overtime" starring Satish Kaushik, Vijay Raaj, Yashpal sharma and Zaakir Hussain.  In events she holds the experience of hosting more than a 1000 shows. From corporate conferences to launches to award ceremonies, press conferences, college shows, public events, Govt festivals, Family events etc .  Trusted by ma...