As Told By Nomads

On this episode of the As Told by Nomads podcast, Tayo is joined by Julissa Arrington, a fashion designer born in Oakland, California, and raised in Houston, Texas. She has a fine arts degree from San Francisco Art Institute, and her designs are inspired by architecture, structural lines, unconventional materials, and fabrics. Julia is not only a dynamic designer but is also Afro-Colombian and an Afro-Latina in tech.

Julissa discusses the possibility of working a 9 to 5 job while pursuing your dreams. She starts by explaining why she considers herself Afro-Latina, what attracted her to the fashion and technology industries, and how her career has developed. She also discusses the importance of inclusion, equity, and diversity in the tech sector. According to Julissa, if you put your all into what you have and truly take pleasure in it, it will take you to places you never would have thought possible. If you have ever experienced work-related dissatisfaction, you will be inspired by Julissa's wisdom.

The Finer Details of This Episode:

• Why Julissa identifies as an Afro-Latina in tech
• What drew Julissa to the fashion and tech industries
• What the tech industry can be to be more inclusive
• Words of wisdom to those who are unfulfilled at work
• Julissa's career journey
• Mental health and coping mechanisms
• How women can embrace their individuality today
• How Julissa uses her difference to make a difference

Links:

Connect with Julissa Arrington:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julissa-arrington-2b443519/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/julissa_arrington/?hl=en

Connect with Tayo Rockson and the As Told By Nomads Podcast:

Tayo’s Website: https://tayorockson.com/

Tayo on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tayorockson/

Tayo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TayoRockson

Tayo on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/tayorockson

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This week, Tayo welcomes author and entrepreneur, Jason Scott, to the podcast for a discussion about getting things done, building relationships in the office, and how to turn those relationships into a booming business culture.  When he joined the Navy as a fresh 17 year old, Scott felt he lacked motivation and goals of any kind.  It wasn’t until he started to fulfill leadership roles in the Navy and work with others that he learned the value of working in a team and why that experience motivates him.

Creating a considerate and productive staff is no small feat though.  Luckily, today Jason lets us in on a few inside tips. From communicating daily accomplishments and practicing gratitude to allowing yourself to be vulnerable, the leader’s goal must always be to strengthen the group.  And Scott is very familiar with doing just that. As you will hear today, whether he’s consulting or serving in the Navy, it’s always been all about the people for Jason- a key factor in his immense success.

The Finer Details of This Episode: 

• Joining the Navy at 17
• Adapting to leadership roles
• Working for your team
• The importance of choice
• Communicating daily accomplishments
• Practicing gratitude 
• Why vulnerability is an underrated skill

Links: 

Connect with Jason Scott on: 

Website: https://120vc.com/about/

Academy: https://120vc.com/academy/

Consultancy: https://120vc.com/consultancy/

Connect with Tayo Rockson and the As Told By Nomads Podcast:

Tayo’s Website: https://tayorockson.com/

Tayo on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tayorockson/

Tayo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TayoRockson

Tayo on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/tayorockson

Tayo on TikTok: https://www.youtube.com/tayorockson

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On today’s episode of the As Told By Nomads podcast, Tayo is joined by Akua Nyame-Mensah, a certified executive and leadership coach who helps leaders best focus their time and energy. From Ghana to the United States, Akua grew up on 4 continents and developed quite the distinctive world view as a result. Coming into her own identity and studying the diverse range of blackness, she not only began to value introspection, but also to reckon with her deep love for varying perspectives and their great importance.  

Nyame-Mensah made use of her multicultural background and this desire and ability to empathize through her work as a leadership coach, and today she talks about just that. Coach Akua acknowledges that people learn differently and focuses intensely on how she can best communicate her expertise, find new definitions for success, and embrace diversity. Most importantly though, Akua has used her difference as a coach to make a difference, and she continues to encourage others to embrace theirs every day. 

The Finer Details of This Episode: 

• Growing up on 4 continents
• Coming into Akua’s identity
• Studying the range of blackness
• Access to history
• Seeing things from different perspectives 
• The value of introspection
• The Coaching Fellowship

Links: 

Connect with Akua Nyame-Mensah on: 

Website: https://www.akuanm.com/

Work with Akua: https://www.akuanm.com/work

Connect with Tayo Rockson and the As Told By Nomads Podcast:

Tayo’s Website: https://tayorockson.com/

Tayo on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tayorockson/

Tayo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TayoRockson

Tayo on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/tayorockson

Tayo on TikTok: https://www.youtube.com/tayorockson

As Told by Nomads Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/as-told-by-nomads/id910739730

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Joining Tayo Rockson on the As Told By Nomads podcast is Ritu Bhasin, author of The Authenticity Principle, public speaker, and former lawyer.  Growing up as a Punjabi minority with immigrant parents in Canada, Bhasin rarely felt comfortable in the classroom.  Her white classmates berated her for her skin tone and culture as a child, and it stuck with her.  It wasn’t until she quit her job as a lawyer and embarked on a yoga retreat that she discovered how much the discrimination impacted her.  

She’s had over 20 years of therapy at this point, and she’s found that such injustices as discrimination and  cultural appropriation have led her down a path to internalize whiteness, feel ashamed of her culture, and experience extreme unhappiness.  Now, as a public speaker and author, Bhasin is committing to authenticity.  She wishes she could tell her younger self to stop trying to fit in and that fitting in is not a substitution for belonging, but since she can’t, Ritu has started to share that knowledge with others.  Bhasin isn’t alone in this experience, and neither is anyone else, although sometimes it may feel that way.  So listen in to today’s conversation, and you too might unlock the magic and freedom that is embracing your authentic self.

The Finer Details of This Episode: 

• Growing up as a Punjabi minority in Canada
• How bullying impacted Ritu’s mental health
• Cultural appropriation 
• Finding solace in ancestral roots
• Internalizing whiteness
• Commiting to authenticity 
• The performing and adapting selves

Links:

Connect with Ritu Bhasin on: 

Website: https://ritubhasin.com/

The Authenticity Principle Book: https://ritubhasin.com/authenticity-principle/

Empowerment Masterclass: https://ritubhasin.com/empowerment-masterclass/

Connect with Tayo Rockson and the As Told By Nomads Podcast:

Tayo’s Website: https://tayorockson.com/

Tayo on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tayorockson/

Tayo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TayoRockson

Tayo on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/tayorockson

Tayo on TikTok: https://www.youtube.com/tayorockson

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Today, Tayo is joined by Melissa Skye Morgan, a full time Psychiatric NP student and mom.  The pair chat about facing discrimination as children, navigating trauma, and creating boundaries.  As the adopted child of two white parents, Morgan missed out on that personal education on the Black experience.  After all, it wasn’t until she was an adult that she started to reckon with the trauma she suffered as a young girl.  

Having confronted some rather hard truths since then, however, Morgan has come to understand the power of perspective and the importance of creating boundaries.  As a student embarking on her own psychiatric journey, Melissa seeks to destigmatize mental health.  It’s about time that we start having open conversations about it, and today, Melissa and Tayo do exactly that.

The Finer Details of This Episode:

• Growing up in a white family
• Facing discrimination as a child
• Perspective
• Creating boundaries
• Unpacking trauma
• Mental health stigma

Links:  

Connect with Melissa Skye Morgan on: 

Melissa Skye on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@humble.and.happy 

Connect with Tayo Rockson and the As Told By Nomads Podcast:

Tayo’s Website: https://tayorockson.com/

Tayo on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tayorockson/

Tayo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TayoRockson

Tayo on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/tayorockson

Tayo on TikTok: https://www.youtube.com/tayorockson

As Told by Nomads Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/as-told-by-nomads/id910739730

UYD Management: https://www.uydmanagement.com/

UYD Collective: https://tayorockson.com/uyd-collective

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This week on As Told By Nomads, Tayo connects with Isabelle Peyrichoux to talk about clarifying your purpose, finding what success means to you, and creating a home inside yourself.  Peyrichoux is a career reinvention coach who helps thousands of frustrated individuals leave their jobs to find their dream careers.  Working with clients of all ages from all over the world, she believes that everyone deserves the right to a meaningful career.  

Following her own professional reinvention and the journey to become a career coach, she found that a lot of people feel like they lack meaningful purpose, and therefore meaningful work.  Peyrichoux doesn’t believe that to be true, but she’s familiar with the hardships and doubts that arise in searching for that special something.  It’s all about following the right blueprint for yourself - by leaving all biases, cultural conditioning, and notions of success at the door, you allow yourself to forge your own path in this life.  Peyrichoux firmly believes in this fact, and she seems to have found success for herself and thousands of others so far.  Become one of the enlightened ones yourself and listen in to her and Tayo’s inspiring conversation here today.

The Finer Details of This Episode: 

• Following the right blueprint
• Finding a home inside yourself
• Clarifying your purpose
• Conditioning 
• Defining success
• Experiencing doubt

Links: 

Connect with Isabelle Peyrichoux on: 

Isabelle on LinkedIn

Isabelle's Website

Work with Isabelle

Connect with Tayo Rockson and the As Told By Nomads Podcast:

Tayo's Website

Tayo on LinkedIn

Tayo on Twitter

Tayo on YouTube

Tayo on TikTok

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Centering Racial Equity and Inclusion with Tony Nabors

Tayo welcomes Tony Nabors to this week's episode of the As Told by Nomads podcast. Tony has had over 18 years of experience in anti-racism training and consulting, strategy development, public speaking, team leadership, and program management. He was the first to become a Director of DE&I for a public housing authority in the US, and has demonstrated a consistent ability to turn his observation skills about our world into educational opportunities. Today, he joins Tayo for an enlightening discussion regarding the importance of centering anti-racism.

Tony begins by sharing what it's like growing up in the City of Tacoma, Washington State's center of diversity, and being in the city's schools. He also talks about how he leverages social media for his cause, and differentiates between allyship and partnership with marginalized communities - advocating for the latter. As you listen in today to his remarkable story, you will gain invaluable insights on matters of racial justice, antiblackness and white supremacy, freedom of self-expression, and the dynamics of a DE&I career.

The Finer Details of This Episode:

• Lessons from Tony's unusual upbringing
• Things Tony unlearned, learned, and relearned about blackness
• Freedom of self-expression
• Antiblackness and white supremacy
• Racial justice
• Lessons on diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Affordable housing and institutional racism
• Advocating for racial equity in digital media
• Valuing yourself
• The business side of an anti-racism career
• Sustaining an anti-racism career
• COVID's impact on racial justice
• Partnership versus allyship

Links:

Connect with Tony Nabors:

Website: https://www.tonynabors.com/

E-Course Store: https://www.racialequityinsights.com/store

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/racialequityinsights/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@racialequityinsights

Connect with Tayo Rockson and the As Told By Nomads Podcast:

Tayo's Website

Tayo on LinkedIn

Tayo on Twitter

Tayo on YouTube

Tayo on TikTok

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On this episode of the As Told by Nomads podcast, Alex Lakas and Simpson Brady join Tayo. Simpson is the CEO and Alex the Chief Creative Officer and Lead Design of Peanut, which recently got sold to Insured Nomads. They built their company as a side hustle while working in other corporations and doing so remotely without barely seeing each other. They're here to share how they built the company, what the company is, how you can do something similar, and what the future could look like.

Brady starts the conversation by sharing the pain he experienced during COVID that led him to start Peanuts - a company that began providing COVID-related information to travelers about their travel destinations and grew as other factors affecting travel other than COVID arose. Simpson and Alex then walk through their recruiting decisions and how Peanut was able to grow remotely, with the two working part-time. The guests provide more insight into their challenges, their decision to sell the company, and how this was done fairly and ethically. Finally, they end the discussion by sharing a glimpse into the future of Peanut and how they use their difference to make a difference.

The Finer Details of This Episode:

• The inception of Peanut
• Recruiting and growing a successful remote team
• Building bonds remotely
• Peanut's challenges and hurdles
• The Peanut selling decision
• Keeping M&As ethical and fair
• The future of Peanut

Links:

Connect with Alex Lakas and Brady Simpson:

Peanut Website

Alex Lakas LinkedIn

Brady Simpson LinkedIn

Insured Nomads Website

Connect with Tayo Rockson and the As Told By Nomads Podcast:

Tayo's Website

Tayo on LinkedIn

Tayo on Twitter

Tayo on YouTube

Tayo on TikTok

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On this episode of the As Told by Nomads podcast, Tayo is joined by Arnaud Saint-Paul to talk about his mission to really get people to tap into their level of consciousness to understand the power of heart, and how that can lead to a better world. They open up the episode by discussing Arnaud's Heartful Method, which, as a conscious technologist and harmony specialist, he created in the likeness of a visual map that depicts how consciousness works and how we can start to live our lives through our heart. Arnaud believes that when we are totally conscious of ourselves, we can make more informed decisions and be better leaders. He even incorporates this notion into his business practices - Conscious Capitalism, for example, is not just about profit, it’s about coming to decisions for the betterment of the environment, the people, not just the wealthiest shareholders.

Arnaud and Tayo go on to talk about the resistance Arnaud experiences along his quest for inner peace and connection. He notes that, of late, he’s met with less and less opposition and is even finding that people are likely to support him, as more and more people are seeing the importance of inner peace, and are taking the steps to find it. Arnaud argues that inner peace is a choice and a chance to find freedom within you. To draw this episode to a close, they talk about the importance of self-love, and how, when we truly believe that we’re worthy of saving, that makes all the difference when unlocking the power from within.

The Finer Details of This Episode:

• Combining science and spirituality
• The Heartful Method
• Arnaud’s quest for self
• Conscious Capitalism
• Conscious leadership Tech as an expression of consciousness
• Responding to resistance
• Why inner peace is a choice
• Freedom from within
• Self-love

Links: 

Connect with Arnaud Saint-Paul: 

Link to sign up: https://tapuat.com/

Subscribe: https://tapuat.com/harmony/

Personal Website: https://arnaudsaintpaul.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arnaudsaintpaul/

Connect with Tayo Rockson and the As Told By Nomads Podcast:

Tayo's Website

Tayo on LinkedIn 

Tayo on Twitter

Tayo on YouTube

Tayo on TikTok

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This week, Tayo welcomes TikToker, public speaker, and poet, Nav Singh, to the podcast to talk about his career, the world of poetry, and Sikhism. Nav opens up the episode by recalling his first time performing his poetry and just how life changing this moment was, as he fell in love with poetry and began to perform his own more often. While this experience helped teach him to have a 'thick skin', it wasn’t until he joined TikTok, that he learned how to deal with online hate and opinions. Nav doesn’t let this get to him though. He’s doing what he loves, and he’s grateful for that opportunity in the first place.

He and Tayo go on to talk about the importance of following your flame - after all, Nav would find it more difficult to bear the brunt of online hatred if he wasn’t so passionate about what he has to say on TikTok. Now, he’s learned to handle online hate with grace. That’s not to say, however, that Nav doesn’t receive positive feedback; he does and overwhelmingly so. In fact, he closes out today’s episode by talking about the power of sharing with others. After all, one of the most beautiful things he gets to experience as a poet and TikToker is the unique moment where people share their vulnerable stories because he was willing to do the same with them.

The Finer Details of This Episode:

• Joining the world of poetry
• The first time Nav performed his poetry
• Dealing with what other people think
• Sharing his Sikh faith on TikTok
• Following your flame
• Handling online hate
• The importance of critical thinking

Links:

Connect with Nav:

Nav's TikTok

Rooted in Sikh Podcast

Connect with Tayo Rockson and the As Told By Nomads Podcast:

Tayo's Website

Tayo on LinkedIn 

Tayo on Twitter

Tayo on YouTube

Tayo on TikTok

As Told by Nomads Podcast

UYD Management

UYD Collective

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