Game Changers

Welcome our next mentor, @Tom_Szaky is the founder and CEO of @Terracycle and @Loopstore_us. TerraCycle was founded in 2001 by @Tom_Szaky, then a student at Princeton University, on a mission towards Eliminating the Idea of Waste. From these humble beginnings TerraCycle has grown into the global leader in collecting and repurposing hard-to-recycle waste: operating in over 20 countries, engaging over 80 million people, and recycling billions of pieces of waste through various innovative platforms.

Tom shares his personal entrepreneurship journey from being a Princeton dropout and starting a wormpoop company to building one of the largest waste management organizations in the world. Join us on this educational episode as we learn the impacts of waste management and how we can do it better as a community and as individuals.

Welcome to Trendtalks! This is our brand new series where @harshvsomal and @jaydendepeel sit down to discuss the current events trending in the world. To start off, we chose Vaccine Rollout as our first topic since that is what's on everyone's mind. We did our fair share of research to bring you accurate facts, news and even fake news. Are they safe? How does it work? When will we get them? Is Bill Gates involved as a conspiracy? We discuss all of that.

This was a really fun episode for us to do and we hope you enjoy watching it just as much. It's a bit different than our usual podcasts as we try to educate and entertain you simultaneously with this new series. 

Aline Kamakian is a renowned restaurateur, author, and founder of Mayrig. Mayrig, which means “mother” in Armenian, is one of Beirut’s most beloved restaurants, which she founded in 2003.

As we are all aware, the city of Beirut was hit with a massive explosion on August 4th causing mass destruction, leaving at least 190 deaths, 6,500 injuries, and destroying half of the city’s homes and businesses which left 300,000 people homeless.

Aline was located in the heart of Beirut just 500 meters from the blast. Aline found herself in the middle of an unthinkable situation. In a span of 3 seconds Aline found her restaurant completely destroyed, employees severely wounded, and no time to even think about the devastation. 

She has now become a leader in her community, feeding 2500 people in a day and rebuilding homes of her employees. Aline has become a pillar of hope for her people who have been abandoned by their government.

In this episode, Aline shares how she became interested in food, building a successful hospitality franchise spanning several countries, and the work she’s doing now to help rebuild all that was lost as a result of the explosion. Her stories are truly lessons of leadership, resilience and kindness.

After losing her brother, being sexually assaulted + having a traumatic car accident, @realkaramichelle spent the last 8 years traveling the world and working with Coaches & Healers to learn how to heal holistically. She now helps others to do the same and go from pain to purpose!

@jaydendepeel & @harshvsomal talk to Kara about her amazing travel stories whether it was working in Sri Lanka with Elephants or studying Yoga in India. Kara teaches us about the spiritual arts of Reiki Chakra and how to coach ourselves to be our best emotionally, mentally and physically. 

Yancey Strickler is the co-founder and former CEO of Kickstarter, a global crowdfunding platform that has helped bring hundreds of thousands of creative projects to life since its launch in 2009. As of today, the platform has received more than $4.6 billion in pledges from 17.2 million backers to fund 445,000 projects, such as films, music, journalism, video games, technology, and more.

Aside from founding Kickstarter, Yancey is also the author of “This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World,” as well as the creator of Bentoism.

In this episode, Yancey joins @harshvsomal and @jaydendepeel to share the story of how he founded Kickstarter. He teaches the concepts of Bentoism and the philosophy behind it. The three discuss the existing social differences in Canadians and Americans and the experience of adapting to life with COVID-19.

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Jessica ditched her corporate gig and the 9 -5 grind to live her most authentic, bold, joyful life. Her purpose is to share her testimony to encourage others to get unstuck and really start living. It took her losing her son to get to this spot in her life. 

Jessica and her Husband lost their son, Lewiston, 179 days after he was born due to a rare genetic disease called SMA (Spinal Muscular Atrophy). This life changing incident inspired Jessica to establish The Love for Lewiston Foundation and The Lewiston Label in an effort to find a cure and get new born screening into place so that no family has to endure what they did with their son Lewiston. So far Jessica has raised more than $800,000 through the foundation and continues to work towards her goals against SMA. She is also an author having published her recent book, Bring the Joy.

Jessica says that her on any given day, her activities range from: mopping up another mess and cleaning the kitchen for the millionth time, dreaming up her next design for the clothing line, fighting and lobbying to find a cure and get treatment for those that suffer with SMA or writing a chapter for her book. 

Her Energy in the Podcast is truly amazing and her ability to bring the joy in her life and to others going through difficult times is inspirational. 

Ex-Google, Ex-Snap, Ex- Cisco, Jon Javier, is the founder and CEO of Wonsulting, founded in 2019, with a mission of turning underdogs into winners: helping those who come from non-target schools/non-traditional backgrounds to get them into their dream careers. So far, they've helped tens of thousands receive offers from top companies including the Google's, Deloitte's, and Goldman Sachs' of the world. Wonsulting teaches students/job-seekers how to utilize LinkedIn and other platforms to get into their dream careers.

Turning underdogs into winners is something important to him because it's what he strives to do. He came from a non-target school where the system taught him that the more jobs he applied to, the more responses he'd recieve when, in fact, he didn't receive responses from any. By help those who come from similar backgrounds, he hopes to bridge the gap between students and top companies, which he's done for tens of thousands.

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