What's The Point

Introducing Nicole Bruno for the first time ever with her new last name - FKA Nicole Cogan or as some as you know her @Nobread. Nicole shares how it took moving back into her parents house during Covid and her dad calling her ‘rigid’ for her to uncover her true self, and as a byproduct, find her husband, after years of ‘frogs’. We discuss releasing identities that no longer serve you, the pros and...

Louise Hazel, a British olympian turned entrepreneur joins us for a remarkable conversation about the inherent dichotomies life. Lou really tells the story of balance—How do you follow your dreams and pay the bills? How do you handle loss as a winner? How do you love without loss? (You can't.) You would think being a gold-medalist Olympian from a young age would bring you great fulfillment, but th...

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In today’s episode, we’re honored to welcome Justina Blakeney - award winning designer, artist, New York Times best-selling author. We discuss the fallacy of ‘checking a box’ as it relates to success, and how the box society puts us in is constraining and made to keep us small. Justina shares openly about never fitting in and eventually embracing that part of her and turning it into her superpower...

Chef Fabián von Hauske is a renown Mexico-City born chef and owner of two-time Michelin Star restaurant Contra, Wildair and partner in Jac’s on Bond in NYC. We get deep about the struggles of finding fulfillment and internal success in big cities where more is more and better is better. We unpack what it means to be moved by the spiritual vs the material. We pull back the curtain on the glamour of...

Amy Stanton of Stanton & Company and coauthor of The Feminine Revolution joins to talk not marketing, not PR - but masculine and feminine energies. Amy is a pioneer in a new era of women’s rights that is not competitive, but rather a complementary approach. Traditionally, female attributes are looked down upon as “weaK” - however, what we reframe these qualities as strength? We don’t need to b...

Lori is a master at identity shifts, starting in a career in entertainment, turned lawyer, turned real-estate mogul, not to mention a mom of three. We discuss the concept of evolution, the uncomfortable moments of discomfort while transitioning to something new, identity crises, and depression, and why she does not equate success with fulfillment. What is the secret sauce that Trader Joe’s employe...

Mike Rosenthal — artist, director, photographer, mental health advocate, and CEO / co-founder of, It’s Good! joins us for a very real powwow. Despite photographing many of Hollywood’s biggest actors and actresses, founding a company with John Legend, and being very much in the “in crowd,” he remains incredibly humble and grounded - something we dig into deeper. We discuss his challenging upbringin...

Liz Kennedy is an entrepreneur, famed aesthetician, on air expert and beauty influencer. Liz shares openly about her challenging childhood, building resilience, releasing hard emotions, and her relationship to success, money —both having it and lacking it. Liz tells us how she transcended comparative thinking, growing up poor in a wealthy community and criticism from her peers. Follow th...

Megan Roup needs no introduction, celebrity trainer, founder of the Sculpt Society and overall physical and mental wellness enthusiast. This is not a conversation about workouts or nutrition tips and tricks - this is a conversation about the real and vulnerable moments of Megan’s journey. We discuss her past and present relationship to food and exercise, as well as her battle to food freedom. We g...

Emily Schildt is the founder (or chief eating officer) at Pop Up Grocer, basically your Instagram feed of products IRL. Emily is an open book—she tells us how to be alone and love it and how to enjoy your own company, especially as a method to recharge being an entrepreneur in NYC’s fast paced society. We discuss how rules and rigidity can actually serve you if executed with grace, the shame she f...

Desirée Pais is the founder of BENSHEN.co, a platform that empowers women to unlock their personal power through access to wellness tools for the modern day human. BENSHEN is a true testament that you can live a healthy, spiritual life, and have fun at the same time - you don’t have to follow every rule and become a monk to lead a life of integrity and of your dreams. While this is Desirée’s compa...

After leaving a career as a musician, twice, Noah Gersh, shares how he handled the incredible highs of living in the spotlight, to living a more ‘normal life’ and navigating imposter syndrome while building an audio storytelling and production company, SALT. We discuss the fallacy of goal-setting and blasting through checkmarks, how to know when a dream is heart driven or ego driven, and how to tu...

In today’s episode, we welcome Mayssa Chehata, founder of Behave Candy, brand builder extraordinaire and fun fact, she’s also a DJ. Mayssa shares openly about leaving the safe confines of her corporate job and her marriage — at the same time. After this huge life change, she battled years of suppressed emotions that she had neglected by staying “safe.” Mayssa gets deep with us about the reality of...

Dakota Fanning is the youngest person to ever be nominated for a SAG award at seven years old, and that was just the start. For most, this is a pipe dream. When you amass the success of a lifetime out the gates- where do you go from there? How do you define fulfillment and success when you find your purpose so young? We sat down with a bottle of wine to shoot the shit about early stardom, fame bef...

We’re excited to introduce Valerie Oula, a reiki master, director of Vibrational Healing at THE WELL, yoga and meditation teacher, guide, author, and founder of Modern Ritual NYC. With her bio you’d think she was always spiritual and in touch with herself, however, Valerie had quite the partying phase working as a casting director and photo producer in NYC. And while her present looks far differen...

Kareem Rahma is a media executive, turned comedian and creator of popular TikTok series ‘Keep the Meter Running’, a inspired by his late father. We get into the importance of prioritizing fun, “embracing cringe,”and fostering community. Unsurprisingly, Kareem is funny as heck and through wit, laughter, profound cliches and radical honesty Kareem shares how he ended up with a career that allows him...

Kimya Zahedi is the master of taking what happens and using it as a transformational tool for growth. She was strong willed and opinionated from a young age and realized early on, she was not for everyone. Her immigrant parents fostered her authentic self and allowed her to embrace (and love) her true self despite what others thought. Kimya was quick to follow her curiosity early and often. She wa...

In today’s episode we welcome Alex Delany, former editor at Bon Appetit, Internet personality, host of the podcast Sound Radio, DJ of the Love Club and so much more. We dive straight into some big topics many of us struggle with: people pleasing, acceptance, mental health, money, finding your passions (and cultivating them) and our deepest fears. Alex shares openly about his dating life, the chall...

If you love skincare, you’ve probably heard of Doctor Shereene Idriss, cult-loved, board certified dermatologist in NYC, founder of Idriss dermatology and her own skincare line PillowTalk Derm—who moonlights as a therapist to her clients. In this episode as usual, we don’t cover how she built this, we cover why. We explore what drew her to dermatology and her accidental fall into entrepreneurship....

Today on What’s the Point, we welcome Julia Haber, co-founder of Home from College and all around force of nature. We dive right into her non traditional love story, starting a business with a partner that quickly turned into a romantic relationship (thanks Covid), and how the stability in her personal relationship allows her to seek out more instability and risks in her professional life. Julia d...

In a very special Valentine’s Day episode we get into the value of overcoming imposter syndrome, using our personal sorcery to get ahead, the blessing and curse of being labeled as “pretty” and the fallacy of “fuck men culture” for both romantic, platonic, and professional relationships. We get into the responsibility we have as individuals to resist bringing our own stories into a room, relations...

Great episode today with Matt Weinberg - he started as a child Hollywood star (and we mean STAR - appeared on Friends, Hot Chick, X-Men to name a few), seeing it more as an extracurricular vs. a job. He then went on to becoming an executive in the coveted entertainment world, yet ultimately decided to follow his curiosity and passion for cooking and is now the head chef at one of LA's most credibl...

This episode features the one and only Vanessa Fitzgerald aka @veeshoney - NRT (nutrition response testing) practitioner and overall healer, content creator, entrepreneur and wellness enthusiast.  While social media can be detrimental to some, Instagram actually helped Vanessa find her voice and ultimately launch her platform - it was the first place she felt truly seen as her authentic self...

We speak to Brian Toll, one half of H.wood Group about following your own compass, relentlessly. This was our first recording so while it gets a little long winded and chatty, there are incredible nuggets of wisdom in this conversation! We discuss the importance of doing what you do best, leaning into your strengths and the success it can blossom into. We learn the power of self-awareness and list...