Born in Japan, raised in India and Thailand, Delara moved to the United States for college.  She has a BS in Chemistry and an MBA from the University of Michigan. For the last fourteen years she has had a variety of roles within the pharmaceutical industry, beginning with lab reasearch and moving to managing manufacturing activities.  www.uydmag.com/podcast/applying-tck-skills-to-the-workplace-with-delara-godrej

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Brian Smith, Founder of the world famous UGG Australia Brand graduated in 1978 as a Chartered Accountant in Australia, Brian came to California looking for the next big opportunity to bring back to Australia. While studying at the UCLA Graduate School of Management he observed that there was no sheepskin footwear in the US. With only $500 in capital, he imported boot samples and over the next seventeen years built the UGG Australia brand into a multi-million dollar international enterprise. He sold in 1995 and the brand has continued to grow to exceed a billion dollars in annual sales for the past three years. Brian is one of the most sought after International business leaders in the country today. He is committed to teaching entrepreneurs how to leverage their most precious assets from within, and to recognize and pursue their passions to create a fulfilling and successful life. For more show notes please head over to www.uydmag.com/podcast/building-a-brand-any-where-in-the-world-with-brian-smith

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Bud Hennekes is a 23 year old student of life and citizen of the world who created A Boundless World to help people create a more fulfilling and interesting life through a commitment to personal and spiritual growth.He started A Boundless World during his Junior year of high school, the year in which he moved from Texas to Shanghai as a way to chronicle his path of personal growth and has been blogging ever since. Head over to www.uydmag.com/podcast/living-in-a-boundless-world-with-bud-hennekes for more show notes.

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Nathaniel Boyle is an explorer addicted to new things, travel optimist, and frequent flyer mile collector who’s circumnavigated the globe and been chased by dogs in only four different countries. He loves hunting for well-crafted coffee and beer, and street food. He also loves design, filmmaking, writing novels, and stories of every kind. Travel, for him, is about exercising imagination, creating stories, and building one's legend.He has been to thirty countries across five continents, lived and worked in New Zealand, ridden the Transsiberian, stayed with nomads in Mongolia, jumped out of airplanes and swam with sharks. But he feels like he has only scratched the surface. For more show notes please head over to www.uydmag.com/podcast/nathaniel-boyle

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Thai was a 6-month old baby when his parents fled persecution after the Vietnam War, they survived the terrifying boat journey and made it to refugee camp in Indonesia before being accepted into Australia. He’s been on a journey of self-discovery ever since. Having been a 5-Star chef who’s cooked for celebrities, an international rugby player and kick boxer, Thai is now finishing his first book. For more shownotes head over to www.uydmag.com/podcast/thai-nguyen

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Santiago Jaramillo discusses how reading Robinson Crusoe enabled him to avoid being kidnapped and ultimately led him to Florida from Colombia. He navigated different cultures while in school and learned how to assimilate and ultimately be a serial entrepreneur.After starting several successful businesses in high school and college, Santiago founded Bluebridge in his dorm room at Indiana Wesleyan University. His vision was to create a company that allowed virtually any organization to harness the power of mobile apps in an easy-to-use and engaging way. For more show notes head over to www.uydmag.com/podcast/santiago-jaramillo

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After listening to part 1, you heard about how at the age of 21 with a scant set of belongings nestled into a backpack, he left Senegal and amazingly, with only a gallon of water he managed to walk across the Sahara desert by foot between Algeria and Libya in six arduous days-all in an inspiring effort to achieve his dream of some day living in the United States of America. After living and working in more than 10 countries, Ousmane never lost sight of his dream, and in 1998 he arrived in America. For more show notes head over to www.uydmag.com/podcast/ousmane-ndoye2

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Ousmane Ndoye is an in-demand speaker and author of the books:Stand with No excuses which - the 2nd edition will be published by Motivational Press soonServing unfailinglySoaring Beyond Cab FaresIgniting – the 1st edition will be published by the Motivational Press soonKnown as the “The fisherman’, Ousmane is the founder and CEO of

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?Nina Davuluri was one of over 14,000 young women to vie for the coveted title of Miss America 2014 and its $50,000 scholarship award.  In September of 2013, Nina, a University of Michigan graduate, gained international acclaim by becoming the first contestant of Indian descent to win the Miss America Competition representing the state of New York.Over the course of the Nina’s year of service as Miss America, she logged approximately 250,000 miles traveling across the country to address an array of audiences on her platform: “Celebrating Diversity through Cultural Competency.”  To learn more about Nina head over to www.uydmag.com/podcast/nina-davuluri

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I HAD A BLAST with this episode. If you can picture a mix of Europe, Africa and North America and guys being guys chatting about sports, this is THAT episode. I also loved the perspective they both brought and how they bridge cultural gaps and develop relationships across continents by changing lives for the better. Jake Schuster and Rowan Rimington who combine a dozen years of experience working with elite, professional and Olympic athletes across 9 countries with research degrees in Exercise Physiology and Sports Nutrition for an intimate understanding of just what drives human performance. They run their business Well Traveled Wellness (WTW) from wherever they want: presently, Thailand! For more show notes please head over to www.uydmag.com/podcast/jakeandrowan

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