Evolving Digital Self

Dr. Heidi talks with John McGarvey, Co-Founder and CEO, DAO Labs creating accessible Chinese medicine.

DAO Labs is an herbal medicine and lifestyle company that is changing the way western consumers approach health, by embracing the 2,500 year-old formulas and practices of Chinese medicine in sustainable, easy-to-understand formats. 

John's career started on Wall Street, but after two years of working at an international NGO in Lhasa, Tibet, John shifted his career to the natural products industry, first with a frozen food platform and now, by focussing on Chinese herbal medicine. 

Typically a high stress-type-A personality type, John embraced Chinese medicine to help with everything from altering his sleep quality, to reducing anxiety, to radically improving his digestion.  John attended Northwestern University and has an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management.

Website: mydaolabs.com
Facebook Page: @daolabs
Twitter ID: @daolabs
Instagram: @daolabs

Dr. Heidi talks with David McNeill, Founder of Expat Empire. As the founder of Expat Empire, David is focused on inspiring people to move abroad and showing them how to do it.

In addition to producing books, podcasts, blog posts, meetup events, and more, Expat Empire offers personalized consulting services to give everyone the opportunity to achieve their international dreams.

David started Expat Empire because he has a genuine passion for living abroad. He left the United States in 2014 and has since lived in Tokyo, Berlin, and Porto.

Website: expatempire.com
Facebook Page: facebook.com/expatempire
Twitter ID: twitter.com/expatempire

Dr. Heidi talks with Ted Rubin, leading Social Marketing Strategist, Speaker, Author, Provocateur, and CMO of Photofy.

In March 2009 Ted started using and evangelizing the term ROR, Return on Relationship #RonR. Many people in the social media world know Ted for his enthusiastic, energetic and undeniably personal connection to people... #NoLetUp!

His book, Return on Relationship, was released January 2013, How To Look People in the Eye Digitally was released January 2105 and The Age of Influence… Selling to the Digitally Connected Customer was released in May 2017. 

Website: TedRubin.com
ROR: Return on Relationship™, #RonR… simply put the value that is accrued by a person or brand due to nurturing a relationship. ROI is simple $'s and cents.
ROR.online: Photofy.com
Facebook Page: Facebook.com/tedrubin
Twitter ID: Twitter.com/tedrubin
Instagram: Instagram.com/tedrubin

This episode is also celebrates Dr. Heidi Forbes Öste's, #1 Bestselling book, Digital Self Mastery Across Generations, Print edition now available from all on-line booksellers, and for order in local book sellers internationally.

Your order will help support the Evolving Digital Self podcast. If you like it, please feel free to share it with your friends (both the book and the podcast :-)

Dr. Heidi talks with Nomadic fashion designer Sandra Näsström. Sandra travels the world and proselytizes kindness. She's on a mission, and she doesn't care who knows it. Stylist and designer, she owns a Swedish fashion brand called Chambres Sweden. As an avid traveler, she fashions light on the skin, multifunctional and elegant clothes.

With many rooms to dream, she creates collections worth touching over and over again. And in her world, "It's all about the feeling." It's all about the feeling. I thrive emotionally. It leads me and takes me to new places. I've created my work with the freedom to live in any location. I see no boundaries, only possibilities. I stay in the feminine energy flow and create quality time to make decisions that are right for me.

The luxury of time to slow down has taken me to a beautiful island off the coast of Napoli, Italy, where I'm based right now, and work freely in the global cyberspace. This transformation is more online and inline with me.

Website: www.chambressweden.com
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/ChambresSweden
Twitter ID: https://twitter.com/ChambresSweden
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chambressweden

Dr. Heidi talks with Amber Trueblood, licensed marriage and family therapist.

Traveling with four kiddos (and her husband) through 60 cities across the US and Canada... while writing a book and touring with the cast and crew of a Broadway Musical = Road Warrior (in her book!).  One of Amber's boys had the opportunity to play a role in a musical and they decided to make it an adventure for the entire family. They pulled everyone out of school, packed up skateboards and scooters and books and stuffed animals, and hit the road. The boys were 5, 7, 8, and 10 years old when the adventure began. With no smartphones or iPads, they explore museums, met an astronaut, climbed through Mammoth Caves in Kentucky, white-water rafted in Colorado, snorkeled in the Keys, held a ball python in the Everglades, gaped at Niagara Falls, and jammed with street musicians in Memphis. 

They celebrated Thanksgiving in Madison, Wisconsin, Xmas in Toronto,  Halloween in New Orleans, and birthdays in more places than she could count. Amber learned how to be together with family 24/7 and work like a team with her husband so they would not only survive but truly enjoy the fruits of all the hard work. She learned how to manage rental cars, flights, Airbnb's, pre-order groceries, and manage virtual learning on the road. It was an absolutely incredible experience, that ironically very much prepared they for the last 8 months of being completely home-bound.

Website: www.ambertrueblood.com
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/getstretchmarks
Twitter ID: https://twitter.com/TruebloodZone
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/officialambertrueblood

Dr. Heidi Forbes Öste chats with Natasha Todorovic-Cowan, is the CEO and co-founder of the National Values-Center Consulting (and owner of SPIRAL DYNAMICS® brand).

Whether your challenges are resistance to change, cultures in conflict, strategic partnerships, dysfunctional teams, or strategic change implementation, Natasha's experience includes unraveling the people side of organizational challenges from C-suite to shop floor using a proven human systems approach.

For over 25 years Natasha has been working with leaders, consultants, coaches, and organizations applying her proprietary SPIRAL DYNAMICS® cultural DNA survey, leadership assessments, and change readiness index to predict hurdles to change. Her techniques for handling corporate change are rooted in 70 years of research and application in a variety of industries and sectors. She has delivered over 200+ SPIRAL DYNAMICS® certification programs in 14+ countries and on 5 continents! She has spoken at the World Future Society Conference on the future of work and running online programs since 2010 helping people connect and understand human factors through technological tools as well as in person.

Every relationship, whether with the self, another person, or technological, transforms the brain and the being. In a work 4.0 environment, understanding the changing nature of human nature is more critical than ever. In a world where more information is being uploaded each day than any person can consume in multiple lifetimes, overwhelm and disorientation are common. New ways of relating and organizing are emerging and together we can learn to cope more effectively.

Website: http://www.spiraldynamics.org
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/spiraldynamics
Twitter ID: https://twitter.com/SpiralDynamics
Instagram: http://instagram.com/spiraldynamics

This episode is also celebrates Dr. Heidi Forbes Öste's, #1 Bestselling book, Digital Self Mastery Across Generations, Print edition now available from all on-line booksellers, and for order in local book sellers internationally.

Your order will help support the Evolving Digital Self podcast. If you like it, please feel free to share it with your friends (both the book and the podcast :-)

Dr. Heidi Forbes Öste interviews James Ellsmoor, Director, Island Innovation.

James Ellsmoor, CEO & founder of Virtual Island Summit (VIS). VIS is an annual online conference with interactive sessions connecting 10,000+ attendees and 100+ speakers from 500+ island communities around the world.

February 9th: Adapting Tourist Destinations for Remote Workers and Digital Nomads https://islandinnovation.co/remote-work

Digital Nomad Conference - hospitality industry and remote workers alike: highlighting Curaçao, Arranmore, Guadalupe, Madiera, Lisbon.

Website: www.islandinnovation.co
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/islandinnovation
Twitter ID: @jellsmoor
Instagram : @jellsmoor

Dr. Heidi talks with Melinda Wittstock is a 5 time serial entrepreneur, award-winning journalist, podcaster and the CEO and Founder of Podopolo, the world's first socially interactive podcast app and network.

Melinda Wittstock is a 5-time serial entrepreneur who has built 4 businesses in media and tech to 7- and 8- figure success. She's the CEO and Founder Podopolo, the world's first socially interactive and "gamified" podcast network where people gather to discover their favorite podcasts, connect with hosts and each other, and win rewards as they put lessons learned into action to enhance their lives and change the world. Podopolo is also the first to share revenue with podcasters – and donate 10% of its earnings to mission-driven businesses and charities worldwide. Melinda also helps business owners and entrepreneurs launch magnetic and profitable podcasts.

An acknowledged visionary in tech, media, mobile platforms and social content, Melinda also hosts the fast growing "Wings Of…Inspired Business" podcast named by Entrepreneur Magazine as #8 of 20 of the top business podcasts for 2020. The Wings mission is to #LiftAsWeClimb, helping female founders leverage their feminine power and collaborate to change the game of business and succeed without tradeoff, guilt or apology. Melinda also hosts the transformational mastermind and luxury retreat "Wings of The Empowered Women" for women with 7-, 8- and 9-figure businesses.

Formerly an award-winning journalist, executive producer, and TV anchor for the BBC, ABC News, CNBC/Financial Times Television and MSNBC, Melinda created and grew a BBC show to a 20 million audience and also innovated one of the first crowd-sourcing mobile apps, growing unique users to 3 million in 8 months. Steve Jobs told her she "asked the best questions" when she interviewed him as a 24-year-old correspondent of the Times of London. Her previous companies include: Capitol News Connection, a political news agency serving 300+ TV and radio stations nationwide; NewsiT, an award-winning mobile app for crowd-sourced content, and Verifeed, the social intelligence platform assuring a Return on Authenticity™ from social media engagement.

A spiritual practitioner of meditation, yoga, visualization, gratitude and intention-setting, Melinda is passionate about encouraging conscious leadership and evolved entrepreneurship using business as a canvas to solve global challenges. Her travels have taken her to many exotic places including Sir Richard Branson's Necker Island, Indian Ocean, Antarctic, and the Amazon Rainforest. She's a loving mom to two teenagers and a golden retriever. She has spoken at Voice Global 2020, Podfest Global, SXSW, Google, Fidelity Investments, Maverick 1000, Unicorn, Manhattan Chamber of Commerce, Voice 2018, Georgetown University, Relentless MV, Columbia University, Underground Online Seminar, Pinnacle Global Network and many more.

Melinda is innovating social media 3.0. At Podopolo, her vision is to enable meaningful trusted connection and conversation curated around great podcasts and shared interests. At Podopolo, Melinda wants to get past the filter bubbles, bots and flame throwing, to foster growing awareness, consciousness and connection, empowering and enlightening people to enhance their lives and take meaningful action to improve our world.

Website: https://podopolo.com
Facebook Pages: https://facebook.com/IAmMelindaWittstock and https://facebook.com/podopolonetwork
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MelindaWings
Instagram.com: https://instagram.com/melindawittstock2020 and https://instagram.com/podopolo

Dr. Heidi Forbes Öste interviews Jennifer Bonine, the CEO of AI Appstore, Inc., and the first female Artificial Intelligence ("AI") testing tech CEO.

AI Appstore specializes in custom subscription technology bundles, leveraging an intelligent platform to recommend actions and changes in the software development lifecycle. The company exceeds expectations of integration, testing, delivery, and management with a groundbreaking business model that is fully engaged in the sustainable development goals ("SDGs") cultivated by the United Nations.

At its core, AI integrates the human experience with technology. The ways in which Jenn and her team utilize AI allow them to connect communities and ideas from greater purposes.

Website: https://jennbonine.com
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/jennifer.bonine
Twitter ID: https://twitter.com/jennifer_bonine
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-bonine-76552b2

This episode is also celebrates Dr. Heidi Forbes Öste's, #1 Bestselling book, Digital Self Mastery Across Generations, Print edition now available from all on-line booksellers, and for order in local book sellers internationally.

Your order will help support the Evolving Digital Self podcast. If you like it, please feel free to share it with your friends (both the book and the podcast :-)

Dr. Heidi Forbes Öste and her new team member, Alden Forbes share their kickoff to 2021 episode of Global Nomad Hacks.

With an exciting year ahead, Dr. Heidi brings on her GenZ niece to join the Global Nomad Hacks team to provide a wider perspective for the coming year. They announce the launching of the "hacks" space on for finding resources for global nomads.  They also talk about greater integration of the Evolving Digital Self and Global Nomads Hacks shows. Looking forward to an exciting year coming out of the 2020 chrysalis.

GNH Website: https://globalnomadhacks.com
EDS Website: https://evolvingdigitalself.com
@forbesoste
@globalnomadpod