A couple of weeks ago you got to hear my mom and brothers talk about ways they found their cultural fit through all their travels.Today I talk to the man behind all those moves. My father.Upon completing his mandatory youth corps service in Nigeria, he decided to pursue a job as a diplomat.We dive into the step by step process he took to becoming a representative of Nigeria.He also discusses the moves we made growing up, things aspiring diplomats can work on and why Nigeria is a place foreign investors should look into.Catch the episode here or below

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Today's interview is with Scott Beebe. He is the proprietor of My Business On Purpose; a multi-broadcast platform that equips, inspires, and mobilizes business professionals to live out their skill set to society.He is a strategist, teacher, and business coach.  He helps small business owners and organizational decision makers uncover things that they cannot see, and create game-changing strategies so they can take immediate action and live out their life and business with purpose and intentionality.The various broadcast mediums he uses are a once weekly interview-based podcast (The Business On Purpose Podcast with Scott Beebe), a blog posted multiple times weekly, daily social media posts, and a variety of other products and offerings to be provided in the coming year.Scott and his wife Ashley planted two Churches, pastored one of them, and have been working in rural Nigeria since 2005 building a platform for sustainable partnership with Nigerians through a variety of sectors including...

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Today's interview is with Cindy Ashton. Cindy is a speaking voice & presentation skills trainer, singer/entertainer and speaker with over 15 years experience touring & training all over North America, on multiple platforms. Rejecting the old model of posing and gesturing that turns people into robots, her work goes deep to get her clients to unleash their natural magnetism and connect authentically. She has received awards from both President Obama & the Queen of England for her lifetime of volunteerism and has appeared in multiple media including on the front page of the lifestyle section of the Times and in Performance Magazine alongside Donald Trump.To learn more about Cindy, click here.We talk about ways to network, interact with people and speak to audiences anywhere in the world. We discuss ways to elevate your presence and increase your influence. Check out the interview here or below.

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Helen Roe is a marketing mentor for entrepreneurs. In particular, she works with men by helping them connect and market to women! She comes from a mass market global brand background and has made it her mission to help entrepreneurs and business owners understand how to reach this untapped demographic.Women are no longer a niche market. They ARE the market - making over 80% of ALL purchase decisions, including high tech products, luxury cars and financial services.In this episode we go over some steps to do just that and she touches on her Irish, Australian and French connections.As a gift to the audience she is offering 5 complimentary spots to men who want toUnlock what’s sabotaging the growth of your business so you can make space for real growthLearn how to take inspired action with simple strategies you can implement right nowGet clarity and direction on how to effectively reach more female buyersTake advantage of the opportunity here or take a look at her website.

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WOW!!! As Told By Nomads has 100 episodes! I can't believe it's believe we made it this far. It's been a little over a year since I started this podcast which of course led to UYD Media. One of the biggest requests I have gotten is to know more about my family and how we grew up across cultures so that's what this episode is about. I talk to my lovely mom and two younger brothers and we discuss ways we navigated across cultures. Don't worry I didn't leave my dad out. He'll be on the next episode (Didn't want to make it over two hours haha)Thank you for helping me reach this milestone. I love you all and here's to a hundred more!Listen here or below!

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Today's conversation is with Micha Mikailian.Micha has been a serial entrepreneur for the last 22 years, with 8 companies under his belt. He most recently Co-Founded Intently, a software platform that leverages virtual real estate to transform people's experiences with technology. It is a vision boarding application that deeply connects its users with their goals and intentions by replacing advertisements with pictures from their vision board.  Micha's specialties include business start-up formation and funding, venture capital, entrepreneurship, web based businesses, digital marketing, and leadership.Intently is an ad blocker that replaces the advertisements you see on the internet with the inspirational content of your choice. Traditional ad blockers simply replace ads with whitespace, which achieves the goal of removing pesky ads, but nothing more. Intently leverages the ad space by allowing you to see the images that inspire you to achieve your dreams, goals, and intentions.I just started using...

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Dorie Clark is a marketing strategy consultant, professional speaker, and frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, TIME, Entrepreneur, and the World Economic Forum blog. Recognized as a “branding expert” by the Associated Press, Fortune, and Inc. magazine, she is the author of Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013), which has been translated into Russian, Chinese, Arabic, French, Polish, and Thai. Her most recent book, Stand Out: How to Find Your Breakthrough Idea and Build a Following Around It, was released by Portfolio/Penguin in April 2015.In this episode we talk about different ways to stand out, embrace your identity and be a thought leader. Dorie's website.

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Remember Chris Backe? He let us into his world about a few months ago when he was talking about his amazing blog. Now he has a new project called Choose a Way.Choose a Way™ guides are interactive travel guides to a world-famous city - like a choose-your-own-adventure book mashed-up with a travel guide. They bring a classic format into the 21st century, and let you call the shots every step of the way.With this project, he is giving listeners a chance to be official authors and a chance to make some money. Take a listen to the podcast here and find out how.

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Today’s guest is Ankur Nagpal from Teachable.com, an online platform that helps entrepreneurs launch and grow their online courses.In this episode, Ankur and I discuss what it was like for him living in Oman as an Indian, moving to the United States as an International and how he decided to break off as an entrepreneur. He also shares strategies for marketing and promoting your online course based on the actions of Teachable's most successful teacher entrepreneurs. In This Episode, You'll Learn:How Ankur got his start as an entrepreneurWhy he created Teachable   Mistakes I made when I tried to launch my courseStrategies for growing and promoting your courseWhy you shouldn't price your online course based on the length of the content You can follow Ankur on Twitter here.Thanks for Listening!Have some feedback you’d like to share? Leave a note in the comment section below! If you enjoyed this episode, please share it.Also, please leave a review for As Told By Nomads on iTunes!...

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Today's interview is with digital innovation consultant Bhavani Esapathi. Bhavani is the founder of Chronically Driven,  a space where people with chronic conditions can transform their conditions into motivation for themselves and others by sharing their stories. I loved conducting this interview because Bhavani did a great job of discussing how people from any walk of life, background or circumstance can live an extraordinary life if they shift their mindsets.Her mission is to change the mainstream narrative of those living with chronic conditions from ‘despite of’ to ‘because of’. She discusses how one's condition can empower one to achieve excellence. Bhavani's WebsiteChronically Driven

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