As Told By Nomads

Today's interview is with Adi Arezzini. Adi is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Teami Blends, a lifestyle brand centered around using all-natural, plant-based ingredients - like premium loose-leaf teas - to help customers live happier, healthier lives. Teami’s product line ranges from wellness blends to tea-infused skincare.

From a young age, Adi was taught the benefits of holistic health and plant-based eating by her health conscious mother. At 19, Adi served as a combat trainer for the Israel Defense Force, and later, after returning home to Florida, qualified as a National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) certified personal trainer. After years of life in the army barracks, Adi realized her gut wasn’t functioning properly, due to a lack of access to quality nutrition. Despite trying different diets, supplements and more, nothing seemed to help with her lagging digestive system, inability to go to the bathroom and painful bloating.

Soon Adi began experimenting with loose leaf tea blends as a natural remedy. These high quality teas Adi made uncovered the root of her problem: an excess of toxins built up in her digestive tract. After realizing her “secret sauce” blend also solved similar digestion issues with her friends, Adi saw the potential and began looking to different varieties of tea to combat other common issues: fatigue, depleted immune system, stress and insomnia. Researching, creating, blending and sourcing these teas wasn’t just a passion for Adi, it became her purpose and, soon, her expertise.

At just 23, Adi created Teami in her mother’s bedroom. She saw Teami as a way to help people become healthier and happier, using teas to solve everyday issues. Today, Adi has since grown the lifestyle tea brand to include tea-infused beauty oils and green tea mask + scrub. Teami is quickly outgrowing their 13,000 square foot office-warehouse hybrid located in Seminole, Florida and is sold nationally at Ulta Beauty, Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, Riley Rose, Revolve Beauty, Francesca’s, Vitamin World, Lucky Vitamin and so many more!

We discuss her story and philosophies on branding in today's episode.

Resources Mentioned In The Episode

• Adi Arezzini's Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/adiarezzini/
• Teami Blends Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/teamiblends/
• Teami Blends website: https://www.teamiblends.com/
• Code for 20% off Teami Blends' entire website: Nomads
• Pre-order my book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1119590698

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Today's interview is with Laura Gassner Otting. Laura is an instigator, motivator, and provocateur who’s never met a revolution she didn’t like. Her passion is working with others to #BeLimitless and push past the doubt and indecision that prevent them from acting on their big ideas. Laura has done some AMAZING things in her 25-year professional career, including serving as a Presidential Appointee in Bill Clinton’s White House, helping to shape AmeriCorps. Since then, she’s advised many notable nonprofits, helped to build a Montessori school, advised a national women’s PAC, and worked on countless other inspiring projects. (Oh, and she’s also completed three marathons.)

Laura and I discussed how to ignore everybody else, carve your own path, master your leadership voice, and build a life of purpose.

Resources Mentioned In The Episode

• Book: https://lauragassnerotting.com/limitless-book/
• Website: https://lauragassnerotting.com/
• Assessment: https://limitlesspossibility.outgrow.us/limitless
• Feature on the Today Show‘s Transformation Tuesday
• Laura’s TEDX Talk: http://www.tedxcambridge.com/speaker/laura-gassner-otting/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heylgo/

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Today's interview is with Lena Papadopoulos. Lena is an intercultural educator, consultant, and facilitator who offers workshops & retreats as well as intercultural competence coaching to help purpose-driven schools, organizations, businesses, and individuals. She creates customized experiences that facilitate self-discovery, self-awareness, meaningful human connection, and respectful intercultural engagement. The driving force behind her work is a desire to educate the whole individual—mind, heart, and soul. She believes developing intercultural competence can benefit people in every aspect of their lives.

We discuss the many benefits of prioritizing and developing intercultural competence, including:

• Developing a deeper awareness of one's personal strengths, weaknesses, attitudes, and behaviors, as well as how they impact others
• Learning about different ideas, values, norms, experiences, and behaviors
• Interacting more effectively and respectfully with people who do not share one's beliefs, customs, values, and attitudes
• Cultivating and building meaningful relationships with people who have different life experiences
• Assuming the best about people and limiting one's tendencies to judge or stereotype difference
• Strengthening one's ability to cope with and recover from challenging emotional experiences

Resources Mentioned In The Episode

• Lena's Website: https://www.lenapapadopoulos.com/
• Lena's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lenapapadopoulos/
• Lena's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lena-papadopoulos
• Upcoming Tour Dates: https://tayorockson.com/events
• My book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1119590698

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Today's episode is with Winston Ben Clements. He was born with a condition known as Brittle Bones disease, medical term Ostegenesis Imperfecta. An obvious characteristic is his small stature and his use of a wheelchair, which does not tell the story of the frequent and painful bone fractures that disrupted much of his childhood. Nonetheless, Winston graduated with BSc Honours in Computer Science and has built up a successful Technology career, working primarily within Management Consulting and the Financial Services. In addition to this, Winston is the Founder of an online platform known as “Positive Spin UK” with a mission of “Creating a world where nobody feels limited in what they can achieve.”

We discuss his life story and thoughts on diversity and inclusion.

Resources Mentioned In The Episode

• Winston's Website: http://winstonclements.com/
• Winston's TEDx: http://winstonclements.com/tedx/

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Today's interview is with Michelle Tillis Lederman. Michelle is an accomplished speaker, trainer, coach, and author of four books, including the internationally recognized The 11 Laws of Likability and her newest book, The Connector’s Advantage: 7 Mindsets to Grow Your Influence and Impact. She was named by Forbes as one of the top 25 Professional Networking Experts. A former NYU professor, financial executive and recovering CPA, she now works with organizations and individuals to help them build real relationships for greater results through her company, Executive Essentials.

She has worked with clients ranging from government to academia to non-profit to Fortune 500 companies, including Madison Square Garden, Citi, Johnson & Johnson, Ernst & Young, Michigan State University, Sony, and The Department of Environmental Protection. She has been featured on CBS and MSNBC, and in the NY Times, Forbes and Working Mother magazine.

We discuss:

• The seven levels of the Connector
• The seven mindsets that set successful Connectors apart
• The most common mistakes people make when it comes to networking and connecting
• The one thing you can do right now to become a better Connector
• If it’s possible for a introvert to become a Super Connector
• How someone can figure out what level of Connector they are at, and what they need to do to “level up”
• Whether everyone should aspire to be a “Super Connector” or “Global Super Connector
• Tips to keep your connections fresh and authentic without it eating into your schedule

Resources Mentioned In The Episode

• Michelle's website:  www.michelletillislederman.com.
• Networker Quiz: https://michelletillislederman.com/quiz/
• Book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1989025358/

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Today's interview is with Liz Kleinrock. Liz is an anti-bias educator and consultant based in Los Angeles, California. A transracial adoptee, Liz was born in South Korea and grew up in Washington, DC. and for the past ten years, she has been developing anti-bias and anti-racism work with youth of all ages. Despite her years of experience, she sees educating herself on these issues as a spectrum with no end, and she is constantly seeking to improve and deepen her own understanding. 

She started her Instagram in the fall of 2017 because she was looking for a way organize her anti-bias work and equity work with students, and figured she should create a separate space away from her personal account. In less than two years, she has built an incredible community and audience of educators, students, parents, and family members. All this led to her being awarded with the Teaching Tolerance's Award for Excellence in Teaching and in 2019 her TED Talk, "How to teach kids to talk about taboo topics." amassed well over a million views.

In our interview, we talk about:

• Liz's work around diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Her identity as a transracial adoptee
• Why she wants her work to expand beyond the classroom AND
• Many more intersectional and fun things

Resources Mentioned In The Episode

• Liz's Website: https://www.teachandtransform.org/
• Liz's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/teachandtransform/
• Liz's Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/teachandtransform
• Liz's TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/liz_kleinrock_how_to_teach_kids_to_talk_about_taboo_topics/
• Liz's writing: https://www.tolerance.org/author/elizabeth-kleinrock
• My book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1119590698

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Today's interview is with Zahra Rasool. Zahra is the Head of Contrast which is part of, Al Jazeera’s immersive media studio where she focuses on the production of compelling 360-degree video, Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) content. Before joining Al Jazeera's Innovation Team, she was the Managing Editor of HuffPost RYOT where she was responsible for RYOT's editorial strategy, managing the content team and combining journalistic storytelling with VR and 360-degree technology and in 2015, she founded her own startup Gistory.

We discuss the following:

• What Contrast is
• False narratives around Muslim women
• How newsrooms can move beyond western perspectives
• What collaborative storytelling is and why it is important
• Her identity as a TCK

Resources Mentioned In The Episode

• Website: https://contrastvr.com/
• How to partner with Contrast: https://contrastvr.com/partner
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/RXahra

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In this talk, I explore three ways to embrace the art of nuance in today's binary and divisive world. It is my hope that we explore more ways to open dialogue and resolve conflicts. I hope this speech enables us to think about ways they can be more reflective as opposed to being reactive. Let's work towards humanization!

Enjoy and use your DIFFERENCE to make a DIFFERENCE!

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Today's episode is with Simon Dent. After starting his professional life as a lawyer, Simon quickly realized he had more to offer the world and made the transition to that of a sports agent. Over the following decade, he represented Premiership footballers, Olympic gold medallists, Rugby World Cup winners and even a Hollywood movie star. In 2013, Simon switched to marketing to help launch the agency, BBH Sport, and work on slightly more traditional brands.

Then in the spring of 2016 he co-founded Dark Horses alongside the founders of advertising agency, Lucky Generals.

We touched on the following:

• Mental health
• How his illness changed his life
• The importance of being creative in your field
• How to move beyond the structured
• How to be a great marketer
• Moving beyond the traditional

Resources Mentioned In The Episode

• Twitter: @simonjdent
• Website: https://www.darkhorses.com/

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Today's episode is with Cheyenne Schwein (shy-an shh-wain). Cheyenne is the Brand Manager and Director of Social Media for her brand Bucket List Blonde. 

She focuses on teaching others how to generate an income online using their unique passion and voice to build influence and become a master at social media marketing.

Cheyenne Schwein is a former engineering student who quickly decided the 9-5 wasn’t for her after a summer internship. 

The fear of sitting in a cubicle for the rest of her life combined with her love for traveling drove her to become the digital nomad she is today. We discuss the following topics:

• Facing the fear of doing something and doing it anyway
• How she became a digital nomad by age 19
• How to generate income online 
• The world record that she is chasing

Resources Mentioned In The Episode

• Facebook: https://facebook.com/BucketListBlonde/
• Instagram: www.instagram.com/bucketlistblonde
• Snapchat: @cheyschwein07 
• Website: http://www.bucketlistblonde.info

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