As Told By Nomads

Today's interview is with Dr. Gleb Tsipursky. Dr. Tsipursky is a cognitive neuroscientist and expert on behavioral economics and decision making. As CEO of Disaster Avoidance Experts, he spent over two decades consulting, coaching, speaking and training hundreds of clients across North America, Europe, and Australia, including Aflac, IBM, Honda, Wells Fargo, and the World Wildlife Fund. With over 15 years in academia, including 7 as a professor at Ohio State University, he published dozens of peer-reviewed pieces in academic journals such as Behavior and Social Issues and the Journal of Social and Political Psychology. His thought leadership is featured in Fast Company, CBS News, Time, CNBC, Inc Magazine, and elsewhere. He authored the bestselling The Truth-Seeker’s Handbook. His new book is Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters.

In our episode we talk about the following:

• How top leaders and organizations overcome cognitive biases
• How to adapt proven strategies into any business context
• How survivorship bias distorts how leaders assess failure and success.
• Why gut instinct extracts its highest toll at the top levels of leadership

Resources Mentioned In The Episode

• Website: http://www.disasteravoidanceexperts.com/
• Book: https://www.amazon.com/Never-Your-Gut-Pioneering-Decisions/dp/1632651629
• Twitter: @gleb_tsipursky

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Today's interview is with Jennifer Hamady. Jennifer is a voice consultant and board-certified therapist specializing in technical and emotional issues that interfere with self-expression. With offices in New York and Washington DC, Jennifer works in private practice with musicians and others to discover, develop and confidently release their personal, professional and performance potential. Her clients include Grammy and CMA award-winners, contestants on The Voice and American Idol, performers in Emmy and Tony award-winning productions, and corporate clients (including CEO’s) across an array of industries.

Jennifer is the author of The Art of Singing: Discovering and Developing Your True Voice, Learning to Sing: A Transformative Approach to Vocal Performance and Instruction, and The Art of Singing Onstage and in the Studio. Jennifer also writes regularly for The Huffington Post and Psychology Today on matters of creative expression, and conducts workshops and lectures frequently around the world.

In addition to recording four albums of her own material, Jennifer toured internationally with Cirque du Soleil’s DELIRIUM as a lead singer and sang back-up vocals for artists and television programs including Stevie Wonder, Christina Aguilera, Patti LaBelle, Def Leppard, Jessica Simpson, Lee Ann Womack, The Grammys, American Idol, David Letterman, Good Morning America, and The Tonight Show.

Her undergraduate and graduate work are in Classical Vocal Performance and Psychology, she holds current, professional affiliations with The American Counseling Association (ACA), National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC), Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), The International Women’s Writing Guild (IWWG), Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), American Society of Composers and Performers (ASCAP), Women In Music (WIM), The Author’s Guild (AG), National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) and the New York Singing Teacher’s Association (NYSTA).

Jennifer loves to travel abroad and speaks Spanish. She resides in the Washington DC area, but can often be found in her other “home” – New York City.

In our episode we talk about the following:

• The psychology of finding your voice
• How to talk to people you disagree with AND
• The difference between who you are and what you do

Resources Mentioned In The Episode

• Website: https://findingyourvoice.com/
• Books: https://findingyourvoice.com/books/
• Articles: https://findingyourvoice.com/articles/

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Today's episode is with Dr. James S. Gordon. Dr. Gordon is the author of The Transformation. In it he presents the first comprehensive, evidence-based program for reversing the psychological and biological damage caused by trauma, featured on Mind Body Green and Thrive. The Transformation represents the culmination of Dr. Gordon’s fifty years as a mind-body medicine pioneer and an advocate of integrative approaches to overcoming psychological trauma and stress. 

Based on the basic understanding that trauma will come to all of us sooner or later, Dr. Gordon teaches readers that each of us has the capacity to heal ourselves. Outlining a proven, step-by-step method, he demonstrates how to reverse the damage caused by trauma and to restore hope.

Offering inspirational stories, eye-opening research, and innovative prescriptive support, the book makes accessible for the first time the methods that Dr. Gordon—with the help of his faculty of 160, and 6,000 trained clinicians, educators, and community leaders—has developed and used to relieve the suffering of hundreds of thousands of adults and children around the world.

In his role as the founder and executive director of The Center for Mind-Body Medicine (CMBM), Dr. Gordon and his faculty have brought this program to populations as diverse as refugees from wars in the Balkans, the Middle East, and Africa; firefighters, U.S. military personnel, veterans and their families; school shooting survivors; and Native Americans—as well as stressed out professionals, stay-at-home mothers, inner-city children, White House officials, health professionals and medical students, and people struggling with severe emotional and physical illnesses.

In our episode we talk about the following:

• Our biological reactions to trauma
• How to recover from trauma AND
• The multiple forms of meditation
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Resources Mentioned In The Episode

• The Transformation Book: https://www.amazon.com/Transformation-Discovering-Wholeness-Healing-Trauma/dp/0062870718/

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Today's episode is with Léa Tirard-Hersant. Léa is a daring French linguist and inventive teacher. She taught over 5,000 hours of online French lessons to students from 51 countries since her debut in 2013. Her students include all ages and nationalities—from children in rural Siberia to world-class entrepreneurs! With her teaching motto, “pour apprendre à parler, il faut parler !” Léa is an advocate of experiential learning. She has teamed up with polyglot authors Benny Lewis and Olly Richards for creating innovative learning materials. Then in 2017 she gave birth to the Staircase learning method! The Staircase is an online course that uses storytelling to progressively teach French. The interactive lessons develop vocabulary, grammar, and conversation skills. Léa is an active member of the polyglot community. Her presentations on language learning help people finally speak their target language. Always up for new adventures, her love of travel and linguistics keep her life vibrant. It is with this radiance that she shares her love of languages.

In our episode we talk about the following:

• Her experience living and working in France, Finland, Switzerland
• How she built her career as a Polyglot
• What her staircase method is AND
• How she built her brand
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Resources Mentioned In The Episode

• The Staircase: https://thestaircase.org
• Book: https://www.amazon.com/Vignoble-French-Learning-Story-Level-ebook/dp/B07H5V3X2C/
• Promo code to use for the website: ASTOLDBYNOMADS

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Today's interview is with Oscar Trimboli. Oscar is a mentor, coach, speaker, and author. He was a director at Microsoft for over a decade and headed up the MS Office division in Australia. Today, he works with leadership teams and their organizations on the importance of clarity to create change, how to embrace the digital economy, and the role values play in the achievement of your purpose. He is the author of Deep Listening: Impact Beyond Words.

In our episode we discuss what deep listening is and how to do so across the following five dimensions:

• Listening to yourself,
• Listening to the content,
• Listening for the context,
• Listening for what is unsaid, and
• Listening for meaning.

Resources Mentioned In The Episode

• The 5 Myths of Listening: https://www.oscartrimboli.com/listeningmyths/
• Deep Listening: Impact Beyond Words: https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Listening-Impact-Beyond-Words-ebook/dp/B074WGNY4M/
• Website: https://www.oscartrimboli.com/

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Today's episode is with Jodie Jackson. Jodie is an author, researcher and campaigner. She holds a Master’s Degree in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of East London (UK), where she investigated the psychological impact of the news. As she discovered evidence of the beneficial effects of solutions-focused news on our wellbeing, she grew convinced of the need to spread consumer awareness. She is a regular speaker at media conferences and universities. Her new book is You Are What You Read: Why Changing Your Media Diet Can Change the World and the main idea behind her book is that we need to get back to the original intention of news — to inform, educate, and empower, not to entertain. Today’s news is delivered to hook us into drama and problems with no solutions. But solutions are critical to a more balanced, healthier news diet. It’s time to wake up and became deliberate about how we consume the news.

Our wide ranging conversation cover the following:

• Why the news industry feeds us a steady diet of bad news — and why we can change it.
• How paying for news helps enable news organizations to gain independence.
• How to burst our filter bubble and gain a fully dimensional view of the world.
• Why the news has such a negative impact on our individual and collective health.
• How to tap into the power of solutions-based journalism.
• How we can consume news that gives us hope and empowers us to act. 

Resources Mentioned In The Episode

• Jodie’s book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/You-Are-What-Read/dp/1783527226/
• Jodie's website: www.jodiejackson.com
• Jodie's Twitter: @jacksonjodie21
• Jodie's poem on the media: https://twitter.com/JacksonJodie21/status/1109905042478383107?s=20

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Today's episode is with Sophia Chang. Sophia's memoir THE BADDEST BITCH IN THE ROOM is a 360 degree immersive and unprecedented audio experience that combines character voices reading their own dialogue, original score, licensed music, sound design, and bonus content. A number of hip hop luminaries, including members of the Wu-Tang Clan have lent their voices to the project. Some notable secret artists have also contributed original music for the score.

As the child of Korean immigrants raised in Vancouver, Sophia wanted to be white until she heard “The Message” by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five in her senior year of high school. She diverged wildly from the prescribed path of academia to flee to New York where she would become the first Asian woman in hip-hop. Throughout her storied career, she worked with Paul Simon as well as managed Wu-Tang Clan members ODB, RZA, GZA, as well as Q Tip, A Tribe Called Quest, Raphael Saadiq, and D'Angelo. In 1995, Chang left the music business to train kung fu and manage a 34th Generation Shaolin monk who would become her partner and father of her two children. Always ready to embrace new challenges, she also worked in fashion at a digital agency, and wrote a screenplay for HBO. 

THE BADDEST BITCH IN THE ROOM is for anyone who ever felt marginalized, invisible, undervalued, anyone who was ever told that you can't follow your dreams, anyone who was ever made to feel that you don't belong, anyone who dares to defy stereotypes, rules, and expectations, and anyone who has the audacity to tell their story and pursue their passion.

Resources Mentioned In The Episode

• Sophia's book: https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Baddest-Bitch-in-the-Room-Audiobook/B07TVKM94R

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Today's episode is an interview with KC McCormick Çiftçi. KC is a successful coach, podcaster, and writer. She also works with amazing people in her private membership community. When she and her husband started dating, it felt like all the odds were stacked against them. Neither one of them knew what they were doing, and their respective Turkish and American cultures differed greatly in their depictions of a functional relationship. Her internet searches for helpful resources came up empty, so it felt like they were navigating a lot of challenges, from immigration options to cultural misunderstandings, without a map. As they went through their own individual personal growth journeys, along with a successful fiance visa immigration process, the path ahead started to feel clearer. They learned how to communicate well and how to own their own growth rather than only expecting change from each other. One of the things she has learned is that the majority of the conflict and miscommunication that happens in intercultural marriages (or any intimate relationship) benefits from each party doing inner work.

This helps us better understand our own cultural influences and biases, rather than flinging blame at the other person. The reason she started Borderless Stories is simply because she wishes that it had existed in those early months and years of her relationship when she needed it and couldn’t find it. She believes people falling in love across geographical, political, religious, and cultural borders is a great source of hope in this world, and it’s her goal to do as much as she can to help support those who do just that.

Maybe you’ve found yourself in the same position she was in those years ago. You’re grateful to have a beautiful partner in your life, while at the same time feeling a little overwhelmed by the geographic, linguistic, or cultural barriers in between you. Well look no further because KC has got you covered!

Resources Mentioned In The Episode

• KC’s website: https://www.borderlessstories.com/
• Podcast: https://www.borderlessstories.com/podcast/

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Today's interview is with Marianne Cantwell. Marianne is an author, speaker and mentor now but a decade ago she was a corporate-cage human who definitely needed out.    

After watching too many days go by when she was cooped inside staring out the window (feeling like she had to leave a big part of herself at the door in order to get paid), she finally quit her job and went free range.     

Not because she had some grand mission to ‘dominate the world’… but because she genuinely wanted to create an own boss ‘career’ where she got to feel like her – where she could work when, where and how she wanted, write her own ‘job description’ – and live a life that felt right every day.  

This philosophy is what underpins Free Range Humans today: a movement with 20,000 people, online courses and events, and one bestselling book, they have worked with thousands of people to find their thing and bring it to life – as them.   

Resources Mentioned In The Episode

• Marianne's book: https://www.beafreerangehuman.com
• Website: https://mariannecantwell.com/
• My book: https://www.amazon.com/Use-Your-Difference-Make-Cross-Cultural/dp/1119590698/

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