Action's Antidotes

Food's a great way to get to know people. Stephen Jaye’s guest in this episode is Kayla Ferguson, founder at The Same Plate, an organization that addresses two critical human needs: connecting with others and exposure to new ideas. The organization was built as a result of Kayla’s international travels and experience bridging cultural divides over shared meals. The success of The Same Plate also demonstrates that not all ideas need to be super complicated and highly technological to have a significant impact! Tune in!

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The Same Plate: Bridging Cultural Divides Through Food With Kayla Ferguson

I’m happy to be talking to you about this.

Thank you for joining me. How are you doing?

All good. I’m convincing myself that I enjoy the seasons.

Sometimes you have to make the best of it. I was in Crested Butte where the weather was good. It was sunny and pleasant. There wasn’t enough snow there for a good skiing experience. There were a lot of bare spots. It reminded me that sometimes you need some of the good and some of the bad to make everything flow together.

They have to have the dark and the light, the good and the bad, warm and the cold, the sun and the snow. It’s what makes the world function.

Tell me about The Same Plate Denver, what experiences people have and what the purpose is.

I’ll start by saying how the whole thing got started because that provides some valuable context. I was born and raised in Denver. I love this city, for one. That’s a huge reason why this is a passion project for me. I also went out to California for school. I studied film. I worked in Hollywood for a while. After a couple of years, I decided that wasn’t going to work. I saved up as much as I could which wasn’t much on a Hollywood assistant salary. I bought a plane ticket to Japan. I decided I was going to do a 26-country trip around the world. That was in 2015 and 2016. It straddled those two years. I ended up back in Denver because I ran out of money. I had to move into my parents’ basement. I’m still here.

It was about 1.5 to 2 years after getting back that I was not particularly fulfilled by the job that I was doing and wanting to take off on another round the world trip but I didn’t have the time, money or resources. I was sitting at an Indian restaurant one night with my now fiancé, then-boyfriend. It was like a lightbulb moment of you can travel the world through food. I’m not saying that eating at an Indian restaurant in Arvada, Colorado is the same as going to India but it can open you up to that experience and create some intrigue that can push you towards that adventure.

I decided I would start putting together dinners for my friends. I pick a different culture every month and invite my friends to dinner. It would be like a gathering thing. We could all talk, eat good food, catch up with each other not over beers at a brewery because I found that it’s a little hard to connect with people in that environment. By the third month of bringing together, I had close to 30 people coming. It was amazing that many people wanted to try the food. I realized that sometimes impeded the conversation people were able to have with each other. That’s when I started thinking about doing more curated experiences with the chef, with some intentional conversation and turning it into a whole ticketed event for people. It grew from there. That’s the quick story.

"If everyone adapted that, that their life journey and their life experience makes what they want to share with the world unique, regardless of how common we think it is, I think it would just be magical."

First of all, it sounds like an idea that you had a lightbulb moment at that time at the Indian restaurant but also an idea that came to you in a couple of different segments. Tell me about that first experience when you were at an Indian restaurant. Was there something that made you think about this experience?

Taking on a new venture is not only for people in a certain age range or of a certain generation. Stephen Jaye’s guest today is Joyce Feustel, a LinkedIn coach and trainer who started Boomers’ Social Media Tutor at the age of 61! Through this business, she is helping many other Baby Boomers (born 1946-1964) start and grow their own businesses through the effective use of social media. Each social media platform is unique, so you have to spend time doing stuff in them to get the hang of it. Listen to their conversation and discover helpful tips on how you can navigate social media, especially LinkedIn and Facebook. 

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The Social Media Tutor For Baby Boomers With Joyce Feustel 

Our guest is Joyce Feustel, who started her own company that teaches Baby Boomers how to use social media. Those who know me best know that I spend most of my life around other Millennials and for us Millennials. Social media comes second nature to us. It comes very naturally. It came to us either in high school or for some of us even earlier in life. For a lot of Baby Boomers who began their lives and days before people even had personal computers, let alone getting them connected to the internet, if you remember that whole You’ve Got Mail phase if you are old enough, people who were born before that, it doesn’t come quite as naturally. Without further ado, I bring you, Joyce Feustel and her Baby Boomer social media business. 

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Thank you very much for being on the show. 

It’s great to be here. It’s always wonderful to even have an opportunity to share what I have learned about teaching people and Baby Boomers in particular about social media, Facebook and LinkedIn primarily, and providing maybe even a few tips throughout our conversation that someone would say, “I came to be inspired and that was good but I also got a couple of practical ideas from Joyce.” How about that? 

“People are intrigued by the fact that I'm older and a social media consultant-trainer.”

That sounds really nice. Is your customer base pretty much all Baby Boomers or do you expand a littl...

Could you be approaching your social media accounts all wrong? Instead of being drowned in all the unnecessary noise on the internet, everyone could really benefit from sharing bite-sized wisdom. Stephen Jaye talks with Chris Huynh, the creator of "The Minute Wisdom,” who does an alternative approach in online content creation. He talks about how he builds a community of like-minded people focused on self-development and embracing a childlike curiosity, one inspiring quote at a time. Chris also emphasizes how social media should be seen as a platform for healthy and meaningful discussion. He explains the right time to block or mute people and why a huge number of followers doesn’t equate to one’s success.

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The Minute Wisdom With Chris Huynh

Welcome to Action's Antidotes, your antidote to the mindset that keeps you settling for less. I'm Stephen Jaye AKA Action. In this show, I plan to share with you a series of stories about people who have taken on initiatives that are inspiring to me and hoping that they are inspiring to you as well. I bring in different guests, different types of people from different backgrounds that have all taken on some kind of initiative to improve their lives and the lives of the community around them. I plan to share with you a series of stories that could range from something along the lines of starting a business to something more like overcoming fear, starting community groups or even just getting into shape. My reason for starting this show is observing a lot of people out there struggling with different areas of their lives, trying different things, wanting something new, different and need the courage to go out and do it.

What I have discovered is that I have observed a lot of people with different challenges and desires. We all want different things but the one commonality to all of it is getting into the right mindset, believing that you are deserving of what you want, that you are capable of getting what you want and that you are going to go out and do it. That's like, "I can, I should and I will," type of thing.

Fractional resources are people's whose involvement with a company falls outside the standard 9-to-5 40 hour a week setup. They are often freelancers, consultants and contractors. However, through her company Khazana Inc., Suraya Yahaya is providing fraction resources at the executive level for companies looking to scale up. Through this service Suraya allows founders/ CEOs to focus on growth and investment while she runs the day-to-day operations using the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS). Opening up more options for different work setups is an important part of creating a world where more people can properly align their lives with who they are. In this episode, we discuss fractional resources, as well as other aspects of work culture important towards making work more enjoyable for more people.

No matter where we end up in life, we periodically need to reset. To reset means to consider where we are overall, and make some sort of change or adjustment. Resets can come in many different forms. Taylor Short founded Harmonious Return and wrote a book titled Reset Your Relationship to Your Job to help facilitate these necessary life transformations. In this episode, Taylor and I discuss the different ways people go about re-evaluating their lives when changes become necessary, burnout and the need to slow down from time to time, as well as the importance of getting into nature.

The lotus is a flower that not only survives, but thrives and prospers in muddy, murky, unclear water. That is exactly what The Leading Lotus helps businesses, as well as individuals do. Many organizations find themselves in places that are muddy and murky in nature due to work cultures where priorities are misaligned and employee experiences don't match expectations. In this episode, Leading Lotus founder Umadevi Gopaldass describes how she helps organizations emerge from this muddy, murky place and thrive. We also discuss how her experiences working in many different industries and countries inspired the vision that became Leading Lotus.

Few people reach where they are looking to go without some form of personal transformation. In episode 9, we talk with Rick Harrigan, whose story of personal transformation involves having what he thought he was supposed to have but coming to the realization that it was not the right place for him. He reached a point where he could not take it anymore. It's a place a lot of people find themselves in. "I don't know what I want to do, I just know I can't do this anymore." Rick now helps others who are in need of similar transformations, through his holistic purpose-driven consulting service.

Truly innovating and solving problems often times requires us to rethink and try new approaches. The DEI Leadership Institute takes a new approach to issues we've been working on for longer than anyone's been alive: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. In this episode, DEI Leadership Institute founder Maria Putnam and I discuss how we can adapt a mindset that not only addresses this hot-button issue, but also opens us up to new experiences and has the potential to enrich all of our lives.

Acting upon what we feel passionate about and pursing good ideas is not just for those who hate their jobs, or are desperate for a new source of income. Joe Comsti and his co-founders Vince Ruggeri and Robbie Hall identified a new way to look at one of the most important aspects of the human experience, physical fitness. Their program, Habit of Health, combines aspects of many popular heath programs alongside other components of our health, including nutrition and good mental habits. In this episode, we discuss the importance of taking care of our bodies, the current state of the fitness industry and the importance of building a brand.

It is often challenging to maintain interest, let alone a passion, for what we are doing for nearly half a century. Yet, that is exactly what Rick Seymour has done. He has been helping people improve their health through individualized nutrition plans for 47 years and reports feeling even more passionate about his business than he did when he started! It was not an easy journey though. Finding the right fit involved exploring many different options and transitioning out of Corporate America took years of hard work and sacrifice.