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Kimmy Scotti is so engaging and effervescent, I’m sure you’ll easily see how she has become such an accomplished business woman.

Aside from being a Partner at 8VC, her venture capitalist firm, she was one of the first investors in Sakara Life; and she is also a co-founder of a women’s health & wellness company with her sister called Monthly Gift. Kimmy co-founded a direct-to-consumer healthcare company that has helped millions of Americans afford their prescription medications, and she even started a fashion jewelry line that was sold in Bloomingdale’s when she was in college. 

In this conversation with Kimmy, you’ll learn what this venture capitalist looks for in the start-ups and the entrepreneurs that she invests in. We discuss Kimmy’s customizable feminine care business, the healthcare industry, being a woman in the male dominated finance industry, using meditation to enhance gut instinct, and Kimmy’s super unique mindfulness practice.

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• Partner at 8VC

• Investor in Sakara Life

• Founder of Monthly Gift

• Co-Founder of a direct-to-consumer healthcare company

• Former Director of Business Development

• Creator of Mimz New York (fashion jewelry line sold in Bloomingdale’s while in college)

• Featured in Forbes

• Shoe swapping for good karma

• Growing up with close siblings in New York

• Childhood crafts and becoming a “maker”

• Starting her first business at the age of 15 years old

• Mims

• How Kimmy’s businesses got to span so many different industries

• Passion for healthcare

• Sakara Life and how it made Kimmy an official investor

• Monthly Gift – Kimmy and her sister’s feminine care subscription company

• Tampons vs Pads

• The necessity for customization of feminine care product bundles

• Dear Kate acquisition

• Monthly Gift’s commitment to giving back through Days for Girls

• Balancing a business plan that incorporates charitable giving with an accessible price point for every woman

• Finding the balance of reciprocity or charity in business

• Kimmy’s reciprocal business strategy - making profit from solving a big problem

• Qualities that Kimmy seeks in startups and entrepreneurs

• Magnetism vs Metrics

• Kimmy’s wellness regimen and her strict breakfast routine

• Bari trampoline class - (now at Fithouse)

• Our broken healthcare system

• Businesses falling short on wellness programs

• Practicing prophylactic medicine

• Fixing healthcare by fixing prescriptions

• Blink Health

• What Kimmy sees many tech entrepreneurs focusing on that isn’t working

• Making the cost of care accessible

• Trends Kimmy sees in wellness, work-life balance, startup culture

• Biggest challenges in business

• Pitching male investors a tampon company

• Being bi-coastal

• What makes business leaders successful

• How Kimmy perceives her own success

• Meditation with Headspace

• Active meditation with floral arrangements

• Activities being mindless vs mindful

• Converting to Judaism

• Shabbat dinner being meditative

• Strengthening your “gut instinct” through meditation

• Imposter Syndrome as a woman in business

• Flower arrangement meditation process

• Applying mindfulness to the cut-throat venture capitalist world

• Sh*t happens

• Accepting a base of worst case scenarios

• Having empathy for the founders Kimmy invests in

• When mindfulness and empathy are a detriment to business

• How to know where and when and who to trust

• Animal instinct

• How Kimmy sees the world 5 years from now and how she intends to contribute to it

• Healthcare science and innovation

• Valuable advice for entrepreneurs

Kimmy Scotti is a founding partner at 8VC where she focuses on consumer and healthcare investments. She oversees the fund's investments in companies such as Blink Health, uBiome, and MakeSpace. She also is Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of the women’s health and wellness company, Monthly Gift. 

This is a very special episode. We gathered some of the greatest and most conscious minds in business for a panel discussion, and launched Conscious Enterprises’ live event series in partnership with 1 Hotels!

The theme of this conversation was Impact & Introspection, a symbiotic relationship that I very strongly believe must be understood to optimize business and leadership potential.

We also have 1-on-1 interviews with each of these fantastic panelists (links below) if you’d like to learn more about them and hear their stories.

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(opening meditation guided by Kirra Michel)

Hannah Bronfman, Director of Sustainability & Impact, 1 HOTEL & Starwood Hospitality Group

Karan Rai, Founder & CEO of Asgard Partners

Susie Fogelson, Founder of F&Co, former SVP Food Network and TV personality

Magdalena Sartori, Chief Creative Officer of The Assemblage

Alain Palinsky, Founder of Kollectiv, co-founder of Juice Press

Maja Vujinovic, Founder & CEO of O Group, former GE exec

Roxana Rafatjah, Founder of Conscious Enterprises (moderator)

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If there was a medal awarded for most job interviews you can attend while pregnant, Marissa Kraxberger just might win it. And that’s one thing that has given her such an interesting perspective about motherhood and pregnancy in the workplace at so many different fashion brands.

Marissa has received much media attention for speaking out about Ivanka Trump’s lack of maternity leave, but this feature is really focused on Marissa’s career and learnings, so please don’t listen to this conversation expecting something to light your political fire.

In this conversation we discuss Marissa’s amazing career working for some of the most sought after fashion brands (Diane Von Furstenberg, Kate Spade, Oscar de la Renta, etc), her experience going to many interviews while pregnant and becoming a force for change within corporations, her suggestions for improving corporate culture and parental policies, and how if you don’t allow for hindrances to be option, they won’t be.

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• Vice President of Creative at Rag & Bone

• Mastermind behind Rag & Bone films

• Personal film work

• Spoke out about lack of maternity leave while CMO at Ivanka Trump

• Has been a force for change in parental policies within Rag & Bone

·      Marissa’s role as VP of Creative at Rag & Bone

·      The dance between being a creative and deferring to CEO, Marcus Wainwright

·      Some of Marissa’s day to day work

·      Tokyo store creativity

·      Rag & Bone x Eminem collaboration

·      How Marissa made a strong claim to making films as an authentic and compelling marketing tool for the brand

·      Why Can’t We Get Along

·      Time of Day – 8 short films

·      Marissa’s first job at a record store & printing company setting her design foundation

·      Diane Von Furstenberg pre-meatpacking district HQ

·      Opportunities to grow at DVF and ultimate girl power

·      Agency life - American Express, Starwood Hotels, Kenneth Cole, USA Networks

·      Facebook and social media emerging

·      Producing a first film in China while pregnant

·      Kate Spade and creative freedom

·      Oscar de la Renta fashion culture shock

·      Launching children’s-wear for Oscar de la Renta

·      Third pregnancy loss between job changes

·      Ivanka Trump and the opportunity to freshly launch a brand

·      Rag & Bone, the last fashion brand Marissa plans to work for

·      Unexpectedly falling into fashion

·      The importance of living the brand

·      Marissa’s description of the Rag & Bone brand

·      Interviewing whilst pregnant and not mentally “allowing” it to ever be a deterrent

·      Learning about yourself during the interview process

·      Rag & Bone corporate culture

·      Maternity & Paternity Leave

·      Comparing corporate culture between brands Marissa has experienced

·      Competitiveness in fashion

·      Marissa’s opinion on the importance of leadership and improving corporate policy

·      Wellness & culture under Marissa’s leadership

·      Marissa’s personal wellness routines

·      How Marissa values success

·      Advice for professional climbing the corporate ladder

·      Advice for women & moms

Marissa Kraxberger is the VP of Creative at rag & bone where she is charged with bringing to life creative direction and brand strategy across all channels and touchpoints of the brand. Whether it be art direction of ad campaigns, social media strategy, or the overall in-store experience, Kraxberger enhances all consumer touchpoints at rag & bone. She oversees a team of art directors, designers, producers, developers, stylists, visual designers and creative services operations. Aside from running creative, she also over sees production for rag & bone films, where she focuses on creating authentic branded films that bring the brand to life across all channels. 

Previously, she held the position of Chief Marketing and Creative Officer at Ivanka Trump, where she was charged with developing the overall creative direction and marketing strategy for the Ivanka Trump brand. She built a digital creative and marketing team and was the guiding creative and editorial vision for ivankatrump.com and all Ivanka Trump social media channels.

Prior to joining Ivanka Trump, she was VP of Creative at Oscar de la Renta, where she was responsible for the company’s brand image and voice. She was responsible for the creative vision, design and execution of the new oscardelarenta.com, which launched in Fall of 2012. She built an in house creative agency that oversaw all digital, print and marketing initiatives. In addition, she founded the Oscar de la Renta Childrenswear blog–George & Ruby–where she became the social media voice for Childrenswear.

Marissa honed her digital skills as the Web Art Director at Kate Spade New York where she oversaw, directed and drove the digital vision of the brand. Marissa designed and directed all digital creative including the re-launch of the Kate Spade blog and launch of Tumblr. She also put Kate Spade on the map as one of the first brands on Pinterest. She brought innovative digital campaigns to life, most notably a choose-your-own-adventure Summer 2012 Campaign video. During her time there, Kate Spade became the fashion industry’s digital darling. Kate Spade was awarded numerous accolades for its digital presence and acumen. katespade.com earned a “Genius Ranking” on the L2 Digital IQ Index® in 2011 and 2012, and was ranked #2 in 2011 and ranked #3 in 2012 on the list. katespade.com also won the Fashion 2.0 Awards Top Online Innovator Award 2012 Winner.

Marissa’s career in fashion started at Diane von Furstenberg where she began as the in house graphic designer and worked her way up to lead a creative team as the Senior Art Director for the brand. She oversaw all creative for the brand as well as the re-launch of dvf.com, the first mobile site and app, and the creative direction for the traveling exhibit, “Journey of a Dress.”

I hope this conversation with Lisa Wang motivates you to assess your own work-ethic, triggers some introspective curiosities of your own to explore, and assess your own drive for what Lisa calls “enoughness”.

Lisa Wang is the founder & CEO of SheWorx, a leading global platform empowering over 20,000 female entrepreneurs to close the funding gap and build and scale successful companies. She also founded The AcadeMe, which offers actionable master classes & executive training for women on the rise. She’s a Forbes 30 Under 30 in venture capital, keynote public speaker, US hall of fame gymnast and host of the Enoughness podcast.

As someone who innately has all the markings of a hard working, insatiable over-achiever, with limitless accomplishments, in my opinion it’s Lisa’s introspection that gives her an extra spark. She has allowed herself to come to terms with an important psychological concept that she speaks about on her “Enoughness” podcast.

In this conversation, we discuss all the trials and tribulations along the entrepreneurial path to Lisa’s empire, how a lack of “enoughness” is the root of many people’s suffering, and how having purpose and making an impact can consume an entrepreneur.

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• Founder & CEO of SheWorx

• Founder of The AcadeMe

• Forbes 30 Under 30

• CIO Magazine’s Top 20 Female Entrepreneurs to Watch in 2017 & 2018

• Red Bull’s Hero of the Year 2018

• Columnist at Forbes and Fortune

• US Hall of Fame Gymnast

• Yale University Graduate

• Keynote Speaker

• Leadership Coach

• Host of Enoughness Podcast

• How Lisa began gymnastics at the age of 9

• The trials and tribulations of having a last name that begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet

• Focus, attention, and time management as a child and Lisa’s innate work ethic

• Loneliness as a child paying off in college

• SheWorx started in 2014

• Lisa’s first jobs out of college (Yale) in China, then at a hedge fund

• Yo app raising $1 Million inspired Lisa to make a bigger impact

• Drive for creative ownership

• Startup Institute entrepreneurship bootcamp

• How and why to create a point of no return

• Working next to a CEO at a development agency and how that experience shaped Lisa

• One-touch food order app idea

• Finding a food accelerator

• Attaining investment, a partner and off to the races

• Why Lisa thinks investors are hesitant to invest in single-founder companies

• Steve Jobs reference – he had vision but couldn’t code

• The importance of a team

• Craigslist hiring

• Technical challenges and lessons

• Lisa’s higher purpose for the world

• Lisa’s coined concept of “enoughness” and the psychological differences between men and women

• How a lack of enoughness manifests in business

• The Little Mermaid

• The breakthrough “enoughness moment”

• SheWorx

• What inspires Lisa to do so much everyday

• Being mistaken as the assistant

• Creating a space where women can have access to capital

• Taking painful experiences and turning them into purpose

• Lisa’s thoughts on wellness in the startup world

• Time becoming more precious as an entrepreneur

• Wellness trends vs Balance

• Lisa’s wellness methods

• Why entrepreneurs tend to not have hobbies

• How Lisa measures success

Lisa Wang is a former US National Champion and Hall of Fame gymnast turned entrepreneur, public speaker, and executive leadership coach.

· Founder & CEO of SheWorx, the leading global platform empowering 20,000+ women to build successful companies through access to top mentors and investors.

· Forbes 30 Under 30 Class of 2018 in Venture Capital and CIO Magazine's Top 20 Female Entrepreneurs to Watch in 2017 and 2018, and Red Bull’s Hero of The Year in 2018. She is a columnist at Forbes and Fortune focused on driving gender parity in entrepreneurship.

· Motivational Keynote Speaker headlining conferences including Mobile World Congress, World Entrepreneur Forum, Chief Innovation Officer Summit, and more.

· Executive Leadership Coach and brings the tools from over a decade as an elite athlete, and entrepreneur to train leaders to own their power.

· In her spare time she produces and hosts the 5-Star Enoughness podcast. Lisa is a graduate of Yale University. 

This interview was fascinating to me as someone who became intrigued with the scientific viability of astrology prior to diving deeply into other esoteric studies of consciousness.

Personally I believe astrological natal charts can be more accurate than some of the most prevalent personality tests businesses use today like Meyers Briggs, Jungian personality tests, or DISC Profiles. I’ll spare you my thoughts on the scientific viability of a proper natal chart for now. This conversation is not about astrology.

I think it’s important to share what people like Ruby Warrington are doing in the business world.

Best known for her widely popular online magazine, The Numinous, Ruby also speaks openly about integrating mysticism into her life in the fashion industry in London in her previous book Material Girl Mystical World.

But even more impressive to me, Ruby now works with big brands like Soho House, Unilever, Buick, Lululemon and TopShop  who are looking to integrate  what she calls “now age” mysticism into their brands.

Mysticism, from a scientific and psychological prospective, which is how I tend to view things, is really just another form of introspection. So the work that Ruby does for brands, from a corporate standpoint, is indicative of a major shift in perception for corporations.

In this conversation we discuss Ruby’s career, her relationship to alcohol and thoughts on plant medicines and psychedelics, and her latest initiative as the creator of the Sober Curious Movement.

 That’s really the deep part of this conversation – delving into the the ideas and social constructs we have built around alcohol.

 Be sure to check out Ruby’s new book – available for purchase on Amazon – Sober Curious: The Blissful Sleep, Greater Focus, Limitless Presence, and Deep Connection Awaiting Us All on the Other Side of Alcohol

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•  Founder of The Numinous

• Creator of the “Sober Curious” Movement

• Founder of a sober-curious event series called Club Söda

• Founder of Moon Club

• Author of Material Girl, Mystical World: The Now Age Guide to a High-Vibe Life

• Author of Sober Curious: The Blissful Sleep, Greater Focus, Limitless Presence, and Deep Connection Awaiting Us All on the Other Side of Alcohol

  
  

Topics discussed in this conversation include:

• Ruby’s career journey that began in Fashion Journalism and magazines in London

• Achieving her “dream job” as Features Editor at the prestigious Sunday Times Style Magazine

• Finding a lack of meaning and contribution to society while working her “dream job”

• Feeling boxed in by her own self-imposed glass ceiling

• Exploring her passion projects on the side

• Discovering astrology

• Moving to New York City

• How Ruby got her first book deal

• Realizing there is an audience of  people interested in ancient human technologies and updating them for the “Now Age”

• How Ruby views herself less as an entrepreneur and more a writer

• Challenges in being taken seriously as someone so openly mystical

• Self-acceptance and finding a place of “woo woo and proud”

• A smaller, more niche market that actually understands you can be more valuable than larger scale

• A failure that Ruby is most proud of learning from

• The Sober Curious Movement

• Club Söda NYC events

• Ruby’s relationship and journey with alcohol

• Questioning why alcohol is so interwoven and engrained into our culture

• Creating Club Söda to help her answer these questions

• Ruby’s goal with the Sober Curious Movement

• Alcoholics Anonymous vs Sober Curious

• Stats from AA

• Inner work required alongside alcohol abstinence or sober curiosity

• Treating alcohol consumption with proper consciousness – is helping you heal or making you numb?

• How Ruby has created a spectrum for alcoholism or sobriety and why it’s dangerous

• Correlations between productivity and sobriety

• How plant medicines can fit into a sober-curious lifestyle

• Fascinating studies around psychedelics and addiction

• Suppressive therapies vs evocative therapies

• A great  question to ask yourself: Am I doing this to numb myself or am I doing this to heal myself?

• Why Ruby considers herself a conscious enterprise

• Moon Club

• Ruby’s brand consulting work with James Hotels

• Bringing opportunities for introspection into mainstream industries via mystical modalities

• Ruby’s wellness ritual

• How Ruby measures success

• How Ruby sees the world evolving and how she intends to contribute to it

• Valuable advice for entrepreneurs

Ruby Warrington is a British lifestyle writer and creator of The Numinous, an online magazine that updates all things “new age” for life in what she terms to Now Age. Author of Material Girl, Mystical World and Sober Curious, she is also cofounder of “sober curious” event series Club SÖDA NYC, and Moon Club, an online spiritual coaching program. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, Simon.

A self-proclaimed “student of life”, Alain Palinsky is the epitome of work in progress, in the best sense of that description.  He is constantly working to improve himself personally and that translates directly into how his business runs today, in a constant state of service to it’s customers.

Well known as the co-founder of Juice Press, a national juice bar chain, Alain is now the owner of Kollectiv, a wellness space located in the Bowery of New York City offering all kinds of bio-hacking, healing, and well-being improving products and services.

In this conversation you will learn how Alain got involved with juicing and wellness after a career in hedge funds, how Alain sustains an unorthodox company culture, the reality of investments and money, and more!

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• Co-Founder of Juice Press

• Owner of Kollectiv

• Former Hedge Fund Exec

• Former Tennis Athlete

• How Alain got involved with juicing and creating Juice Press

• Kollectiv – what is it and how it came to be

• Serving a need and how consumers dictate what a business provides

• How the Kollectiv has evolved since 2015

• Partnerships with wellness brands such as Alchemist Kitchen, Higher Dose, Kryo Lounge etc

• Being unorthodox and trying to instill corporate culture

• Customer Service goals

• Alain’s self-serving inspiration for starting businesses

• Why Alain doesn’t consider business in general to be conscious

• What failure Alain is learning from the most

• How lack of choices force you to grow in life

• What makes Alain and his businesses conscious enterprises

• How the Kollectiv’s wellness vendors are selected

• Alain’s commitment to wellness

• Alain’s backstory from being an athlete, nutrition, training, to getting into the finance industry and working for Hedge Funds

• Bringing the Juice Press idea from Miami

• Alain’s inconsistent morning rituals

• Acting and how acting brings Alain back to himself

• Money & Capital

• How to attracting the right money is a challenge

• Law suit situations

• The reality of investments

• How good are you at failure?

• Consciousness in business partnerships

• Valuing success

• How people project their own perceptions onto your situation

• Valuable advice for entrepreneurs

• Lessons from acting school

  
  

Maja Vujinovic, well known in her career for introducing blockchain to General Electric while she was an executive there, has established herself globally as a thought leader in the blockchain and crypto-currency space. She speaks internationally about this emerging technology, female empowerment and also about her intriguing past as a refugee and a survivor of a land mine blast as a child. Aside from being admirably successful in everything she does, Maja is also just an incredibly magnetic human being, with an international background that gives her such a wide open perspective on the world.

She was recently one of our panelists at Conversations with Conscious Enterprises LIVE at 1 Hotel where she introduced her newest venture called ShEOS.

In this conversation, we discuss what it’s like to speak in front of thousands of people at Abundance 360 (for one of my business idols, Peter Diamandis), how having an incredibly international background has shaped Maja, how startups can grow by using blockchain, trends in business and her thoughts on how to disrupt the corporate pillars of our society.

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• Founder & CEO of OGroup

• Former Chief Innovation Officer at General Electric

• Introduced Blockchain to General Electric

• Has lived in 14 countries

• Started her career in telecom

• Child refugee and land mine survivor

• Speaks internationally about Blockchain & Token Economics & Emerging Markets

• Board Member of CoinDesk

• Abundance 360 and Maja’s experience presenting at this esteemed conference for Peter Diamandis

• How Maja has gotten used to speaking publicly

• Maja’s biggest take-away from Abundance 360

• A layman’s explanation of Blockchain

• How Maja integrated Blockchain into her role at General Electric

• Working with John Betts – Noble Markets

• Resistance of change in large systems and large organizations

• How startups can grow in enterprise using blockchain

• Effectiveness of tapping into distribution markets, systems and customers

• Cleaning up after human error

• Helping start ups innovate – finding what are we solving for and where is the biggest friction in the system

• OGroup’s services: investments , token economics, consulting enterprises in launching pilots

• Working in Africa and Latin America

• Finding her interest in blockchain and emerging markets while living in Africa

• Maja’s international background from Yugoslavia and moving to the US as refugees

• Challenges and enlightenments of having such an international life

• How Maja’s wide and global perspective benefits her in business

• The potential for Blockchain to serve a higher purpose for society

• Blockchain decentralization

• Maja’s outlook on why intentionality is still and always paramount to any technology

• Limited capabilities of exponential technologies

• The merging of spirituality, science and technology

• Notable observations and trends in business from Maja’s vantage point: Privacy, Targeted Pricing, Efficiencies, etc.

• Maja’s thoughts on productive disruption of our corporate pillars of society

• The importance of education for large institutions and giving people opportunities to grow with new business models

• How Maja measures success

• Maja’s wellness routine

• The power of music, sound and speaking your truth

• (ref: Alexander Tannous)

• Valuable advice for other entrepreneurs

Maja Vujinovic started her career in mobile payments and infrastructure development (power plants, telecom, healthcare etc) in Sub Saharan Africa. She took interest in bitcoin in 2011 and was instrumental in development of Noble Bank in 2013. 
In her past role, as a Chief Innovation Officer of Emerging Tech at General Electric, Digital, she was directly responsible for spearheading full initiative around decentralization, token economics and blockchain framework, across various industries. As well, Maja was a catalyst for an electronic wallet for machines in GE’s brilliant factory project and innovation around utility of excess computational power and electricity produced by large assets such as airline engines, manufacturing plants etc. 
Maja currently runs OGroup. OGroup is an investment firm focused on token economics and blockchain for enterprise. She sits on the board of CoinDesk. 

The wellness industry can sometimes have a tendency towards the ethereal and woo-woo, which understandably can be hard for some people to grasp.

But what I love about Danielle Posa is that she has such a direct, upfront, no-BS vibe. It's apparent why large corporations and icons like Deepak Chopra would value partnering and working with her.

As the Wellbeing Hacker, Danielle is bringing well-being into the corporate world, not in just a yoga & meditation way, but in a data-backed way. Loaded with a plethora of statistics and research to pull from, Danielle is legitimizing the wellness game in businesses and substantiating the importance of defining personal purpose.

In this conversation, we discuss so many valuable topics for conscious leaders. Danielle shares her experience as a former executive at Gallup, she shares insights about the power of the mind, she tells us about her program with Deepak Chopra, and how she believes wellbeing should be a standardized measurement.

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• Founder of The Wellbeing Hacker

• Public Speaker

• Former Gallup Executive

• Creates programs and guest-lectures with Deepak Chopra

• Survived cancer as a child

• What is a “wellbeing hacker”?

• Danielle’s career history

• Working at Gallup

• The world’s first research study on wellbeing (conducted by Gallup)

• Having purpose, relationships and money and how they contribute to wellbeing

• The Five Essential Elements

• Danielle’s program that she created with Deepak Chopra – Workplace Wellbeing & the Soul of Leadership

• How her program with Deepak Chopra came to be

• What Deepak is really like as a human being

• The basics of becoming a conscious leader

• What Danielle believes makes businesses and leaders successful

• Is there ever a situation that doesn’t merit conscious intentions?

• Monetary Gains vs Fulfillment

• Practices Danielle used to find her purpose

• How Danielle keeps herself grounded

• Having cancer (Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma) as a 5-year-old child

• Realizations from surviving cancer

• The power of the mind

• How Danielle defines success

• A teaser of Danielle’s upcoming book, “Gross National Wellbeing”

• How Danielle intends to contribute to the state of the world

• Valuable advice for conscious entreprenuers

• Wellbeing Assessment

Danielle is the creator of the online brand, The Wellbeing Hacker. Her work consists of developing online courses, public speaking and leading corporate workshops - all focused on the topics of wellbeing & conscious leadership. 

Danielle was formerly a management consultant at Gallup. Her key responsibilities included managing client relationships, and advising them on how to improve employee/customer engagement and wellbeing, leverage talent, and create high performing workplaces. Danielle also served as the liaison between Gallup and Gallup Senior Scientist Deepak Chopra, where together they focused on exposing Gallup’s wellbeing research to the world. Her efforts encouraged corporate and city leaders to broaden their focus from traditional metrics such as GDP to incorporate measures that reflect the quality of life of the people they lead and influence.

Danielle speaks publicly to various audiences about her cancer experience, life and wellbeing. She guest lectures with Deepak at his Columbia MBA course called "Just Capital and Cause-driven Marketing" as well as his Executive MBA class at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, "The Soul of Leadership." In addition, she has been on stage at Deepak's Sages and Scientists conference, and has been interviewed for his show “One World”. Danielle also blogs for the Huffington Post, is a G8 Young delegate, and is a volunteer and public speaker for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

Before joining Gallup, Danielle worked on a start-up venture to help students connect with colleges that would be a fit for their interests, passions and personality. While in college, she worked as a sales manager and representative for Vector Marketing, a direct sales company, where she broke a national record in monthly sales her first month on the job. As a District Sales Manager, she ran the New York division’s pilot office, one of the top offices in the country.

Since Danielle was 19, she has participated in various, highly intensive and globally recognized self-development and leadership programs. In addition, she coached and head-coached these leadership programs, helping individuals live life powerfully and effectively. On her own time, she has extensively studied various bodies of knowledge on human nature including behavioral science and economics, ontology and phenomenology, neuroscience, consciousness, and of course wellbeing/happiness developing an expertise in the space.

Danielle received her bachelor’s degree in international business and marketing from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. As a Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma cancer survivor, Danielle completed two triathlons for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Team in Training program raising thousands of dollars. Danielle lives in New York City, is the oldest of 4 sisters, and her favorite pastimes include spending time with her family, traveling the world,playing soccer and the piano.

Sah D’Simone lives in the flow state. He also lives to break molds. While he is on a mission to break down stigmas around mental health, Sah makes meditation and consciousness seem not only approachable for everyone, but also makes it seem so stylish and cool.

With an entrepreneurial background in the fashion industry, Sah founded Bullett Magazine and a successful blog sold to Oracle, before shedding this former life and growing into the transformational coach, speaker and author that he is today.

He also just released a fantastic book – 5 Minute Daily Meditations – that leaves zero excuses for anyone claiming they want to meditate and don’t have the time. This collection of short meditations makes everyday awareness accessible to stay-at-home moms to CEO’s.

In this conversation, we discuss so many interesting topics bridging mysticism, biology, introspection and science. We discuss Sah’s rocky entrepreneurial journey (which includes a hilarious story about getting fired from a porn shop), dealing with the highs and lows of depression, bringing meditation to corporations and how it’s affecting the business world, and the most impactful benefits and transformations that Sah has witnessed from meditation.

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• Meditation Teacher & Transformation Coach

• Author of 5 Minute Daily Meditations

• Founder of Bullett Magazine

• Sold blog site to Oracle

• Corporate clients include: Google, MoMa, American Express, the United Nations, New Balance, Bloomingdales, and Havas

• Sah’s personal background and journey

• Creating Bullett Magazine and the details of the creative process

• Getting fired from a porn shop

• Getting bought out by the magazine he founded

• Dealing with depression and anxiety

• Creating a spirituality blog

• Selling Oracle to Oracle

• How Sah discovered self-care and plant-based lifestyle

• Sah’s ethical dilemma with consumerism vs inner growth

• Transformation in India

• Learning the depths of forgiveness and coming into awareness of the mind

• What it’s like to do a 30-day silent retreat

• Applying ancient teachings and spiritual wisdom to modern science and entrepreneurship in NYC (or vice versa)

• Contemplative Psychotherapy

• Healing suicidal thoughts

• Sah’s mission to breakdown mental health stigmas

• Corporate meditation and some brands Sah has brought meditation to

• Resistances and how meditation is affecting the corporate world

• Most impactful benefits of meditation, from Sah’s perspective

• Dealing with trauma and how we perceive trauma

• Responding to life vs reacting to life

• Sah’s most prized failure

• Sah’s daily rituals

• Breath

• Personal meditation question from me and Sah’s fascinating biological and mystical explanation

• Coherent breathing practices

• Sah’s most valuable advice for conscious entrepreneurs

Sah D’Simone is a meditation teacher, author, transformational speaker and coach. Born in Brazil, Sah came to the U.S. at the age of 16, working for over a decade in the fashion industry, becoming the co-founder and creative director of Bullett Magazine. Despite his immense success, the high stakes culture of the fashion industry led Sah down a path of addiction and depression, eventually opening the doorway to a different way of life. In 2012, he walked away from his career in fashion and began an intensive search for health and well-being, traveling to Nepal, India, Thailand, Indonesia and Europe to study with some of the most prolific masters of our time. After immersing himself in practice for several years, Sah returned to the states, dedicating his life to helping others to live in alignment and achieve their highest potential. Sah has masterfully synthesized the ancient techniques of meditation, contemplative psychotherapy, breath work, and plant based nutrition for a modern and accessible approach to well-being. His infectious enthusiasm for healing and self-love has built a devoted fan base, with a client list that includes Google, MoMa, American Express, the United Nations, New Balance, Bloomingdales, and Havas. Sah also shares his mission with underserved communities, advocating for mental health and well-being in the LGBTIQ and POC communities.

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