Grateful Living

By Arnav Roy

I try to share and learn from positive and inspirational stories by interviewing people in different industries.

Also include episodes of my own thoughts on life... more

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The podcast currently has 256 episodes available.

Grateful Living episodes:

February 16, 2022 5 Lessons I learned from self-publishing a book
4 years ago, I self-published this book.
I decided to do a reflection on what I learned from self-publishing this book over the years.
Thank you to everyone who has supported me and has shown me love 🙏🏽
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Grateful Living Info:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9Bo0LHtRJJNJBUYIceg27w
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Hn4ttttmbWfVqAhWh4Jhi
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1503185956
My Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aroy81547/?hl=en
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/gratefulliving4
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14min
February 14, 2022 #96: Becoming an Osteopathic Physician: Dr. Ryan Greene, D.O., M.S.
Dr. Greene is an osteopathic physician (D.O.) specializing in human performance, sports medicine, nutrition and the most cutting-edge recovery methods available.
Dr. Greene serves as principal medical advisor at Monarch Athletic Club in West Hollywood, the first private, sustainable health and wellness facility delivering traditional training services combined with physician directed, evidence-based integrative medical intervention.
Dr. Greene earned his Master’s of Science (M.S.) in Exercise Physiology, Immunology and Human
Nutrition at University of Illinois (Urbana/Champaign). He completed post-graduate medical training at Dartmouth and The Mayo Clinic during which time he collaborated with a wide array of leading medical experts culminating in numerous published research efforts.
In this interview, we talk about:
- Ryan’s journey to becoming an Osteopathic Physician including his medical school, residency and fellowship journeys
- Ryan’s decision to become an entrepreneur and be a co-founder at Monarch Athletic Club, a wellness facility delivering traditional training services combined with physician directed, evidence-based integrative medical intervention.
- Ryan’s thoughts on various health topics - including preventive medicine vs. curative medicine, the 3 lifestyle changes that he’s made that’s helped his health, and books/TV shows he recommends
Time Stamps:
0:00 Intro
1:00 Talk about your life journey with us -
5:25 Going to college
7:10 Getting a Masters
10:11 Why he decided being an orthopedic surgeon wasn’t for him
13:20 What Ryan learned from his residency
14:48 Monarch club formation
17:15 Where did your drive come from in HS?
21:24 Changing majors midway through college is tough, did you struggle with decision?
23:45 What was the reason for getting a Masters?
28:35 How did you choose osteopathic medicine?
32:00 Any advice on the admissions process for medical school?
35:11 How did you handle the competitive nature/mental side of medical school?
37:30 Any advice to current D.O. student on making the most of their medical school experience?
40:08 What lessons did you learn from your 2 residencies/post graduate work?
42:20 What did you learn from your fellowship at Arizona?
45:30 What was it like becoming an entrepreneur and starting Monarch after your fellowship?
49:40 How has marketing/making the consumer understand what Monarch is?
54:20 How was adjusting to Covid-19 for your business?
56:32 How do you handle differences in business visions with your 3 other partners?
58:21 How do you balance personal and your professional life?
1:03:50 What is preventative medicine?
1:10:40 What changes in lifestyle have most helped your health?
1:13:30 Thoughts on supplements?
1:17:30 Health Resources/Books you recommend
1:20 How’s it like being in LA?
Ryan's Socials:
Personal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr_greene_do/
Monarch Athletic Club's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/monarchweho/
Monarch Athletic Club's Website: https://www.monarchweho.com/
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Grateful Living Info:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9Bo0LHtRJJNJBUYIceg27w
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Hn4ttttmbWfVqAhWh4Jhi
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1503185956
My Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aroy81547/?hl=en
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/gratefulliving4
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1h 23min
February 09, 2022 How to make new friends as an adult
A lot of us are worried about what others think of us.
In this vlog, I give 5 strategies on getting better at not caring about someone’s judgment.
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Grateful Living Info:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9Bo0LHtRJJNJBUYIceg27w
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Hn4ttttmbWfVqAhWh4Jhi
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1503185956
My Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aroy81547/?hl=en
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/gratefulliving4
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8min
February 07, 2022 #95: How I Became a Personal Certified Trainer, Fitness Coach and Fitness Influencer: Talia Deluca
Talia Deluca is a Fitness coach at Anatomy, an intimate and integrated health and wellness gym and community in Miami, Florida, she is an ACE certified personal trainer and Talia is also a fitness influencer with over 23.2k followers on Instagram and over 213.7 k followers on TikTok.
In this interview, she talks about:
- Her journey with body image issues and an eating disorder in her teenage years
- Going to Boston College during the pandemic and her advice on making the most of college
- Being physically assaulted and her journey since then
- How she got into personal training and becoming a Fitness Coach
- Her thoughts on developing fitness as a habit, when you should hire a personal trainer and what healthy fitness goals are
- Her fitness influencing social media journey and becoming a sponsored athlete with companies like Legion and RawGear.
Approximate Time Stamps:
1:04 Tell us about your childhood and growing up
3:15 Did you like fitness and social media growing up?
6:42 Talia talks about her eating disorder
9:42 What advice do you have to young people getting comments on their body?
14:30 How was your transition to BC?
16:52 How was going to college during Covid?
20:25 What advice would you give to someone in college going through a tough breakup?
23:03 Talia talks about being physically assaulted at BC
28:09 How has the healing process been since the assault?
31:44 What got you into personal training at BC?
34:45 What was your mindset/motivation to do a personal training certification?
35:35 Do you have any advice for someone trying to get their personal trainer certification?
37:37 Did you feel self conscious becoming a Fitness Coach after BC?
40:30 How did you become a Fitness Coach at Anatomy?
42:13 How do you juggle the Miami craziness living in Miami?
44:15 Any tips for people trying to incorporate fitness into their schedule
49:20 When should someone get a personal trainer?
54:28 Is weight loss a healthy goal?
56:34 Any other thoughts on fitness?
58:00 How did you start your fitness influencing social media journey? What made you start a TikTok account?
1:00:20 How do you set up business sponsorships and become a sponsored athlete?
1:02:20 Where do you get the creativity for creating videos for TikToks/Instagram?
1:04:24 How do you not burn out from social media?
1:06:31 Anything else on your mind?
1:10:41 Have you conceptualized getting over 1000 likes on a post or having millions of people watch a TikTok?
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Talia’s Socials:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/taldeluca/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@talia_deluca?lang=en
Talia’s Website: https://hoo.be/taldeluca
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Grateful Living Info:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9Bo0LHtRJJNJBUYIceg27w
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Hn4ttttmbWfVqAhWh4Jhi
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1503185956
My Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aroy81547/?hl=en
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/gratefulliving4
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1h 15min
February 02, 2022 How To Stop Caring About What Other People Think Of You
A lot of us are worried about what others think of us.
In this vlog, I give 5 strategies on getting better at not caring about someone’s judgment.
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Grateful Living Info:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9Bo0LHtRJJNJBUYIceg27w
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Hn4ttttmbWfVqAhWh4Jhi
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1503185956
My Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aroy81547/?hl=en
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/gratefulliving4
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12min
January 31, 2022 #94: Building a 40M+ business: Paul Singh, Co-Founder of Bump Health, on disrupting the pregnancy space | Part #2
Paul Singh is currently co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Bump Health, a company with over $40 million in revenue. Bump Health is a company that serves mom before, during and after pregnancy. They are a collection of businesses that span consumer subscriptions (Bump Consumer), corporate wellness (Bump Wellness), DME & Telehealth (Bump Medical), life & property/casualty insurance (Bump Life) and more.
He is also founder of Results Junkies, a company that invests in 200 companies each year by driving across North America and visiting cities. The company has a portfolio of over 2000 companies its invested in. Prior to all this, Paul sold a datacenter company for 9 figure exit.
In this interview, Paul talks about:
- Paul building a web hosting/data center business that eventually sold for 9 figures
- Paul's angel investing journey and having a portfolio of over 2000 companies
- Paul's personal journey as an Indian American
- Paul's journey co-founding Bump Health and how the company hopes to be the most disruptive company in the pregnancy space
Note: For the audio version, the file size was too large to fit the entire interview with Paul on 1 file, so there's 2 parts to my interview with him.
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Paul's Socials:
Bump Health's Website: https://bumphealth.com/
Results Junkies's Website: https://www.resultsjunkies.com/
Paul's Twitter: https://twitter.com/paulsingh?lang=en
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Grateful Living Info:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9Bo0LHtRJJNJBUYIceg27w
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Hn4ttttmbWfVqAhWh4Jhi
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1503185956
My Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aroy81547/?hl=en
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/gratefulliving4
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Approximate Time Stamps:
0:30 How did you become a co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer at Bump Health?
4:09 What distinguishes Bump Health?
8:40 Why is women’s health industry not been disrupted?
12:40 How have you handled acquisitions for Bump Health?
20:33 Lessons from running a subscription box business with Bump Boxes
24:40 How do you set goals and set time spent for the various silos of the business?
31:50 How are you thinking about the long-term vision for the company?
42:00 How do you manage your time?
50:21 Any other life advice?
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1h
January 31, 2022 #94: Building a 40M+ business: Paul Singh, Co-Founder of Bump Health, on disrupting the pregnancy space | Part #1
Paul Singh is currently co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Bump Health, a company with over $40 million in revenue. Bump Health is a company that serves mom before, during and after pregnancy. They are a collection of businesses that span consumer subscriptions (Bump Consumer), corporate wellness (Bump Wellness), DME & Telehealth (Bump Medical), life & property/casualty insurance (Bump Life) and more.
He is also founder of Results Junkies, a company that invests in 200 companies each year by driving across North America and visiting cities. The company has a portfolio of over 2000 companies its invested in. Prior to all this, Paul sold a datacenter company for 9 figure exit.
In this interview, Paul talks about:
- Paul building a web hosting/data center business that eventually sold for 9 figures
- Paul's angel investing journey and having a portfolio of over 2000 companies
- Paul's personal journey as an Indian American
- Paul's journey co-founding Bump Health and how the company hopes to be the most disruptive company in the pregnancy space
Note: For the audio version, the file size was too large to fit the entire interview with Paul on 1 file, so there's 2 parts to my interview with him.
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Paul's Socials:
Bump Health's Website: https://bumphealth.com/
Results Junkies's Website: https://www.resultsjunkies.com/
Paul's Twitter: https://twitter.com/paulsingh?lang=en
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Grateful Living Info:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9Bo0LHtRJJNJBUYIceg27w
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Hn4ttttmbWfVqAhWh4Jhi
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1503185956
My Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aroy81547/?hl=en
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/gratefulliving4
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Approximate Time Stamps:
0:00 Intro
0:40 Paul’s childhood, working at CarMax in high school and the life/financial lessons he learned from, and doing an internship at America Online (AOL) and what he learned about entrepreneurship
20:20 What did you learn from working at your dad’s construction company?
23:00 When was entrepreneurship on your mind?
29:00 Why did you get a part-time job in high school?
43:15 Is there a way to know right timing for selling a business?
49:54 When did the data center business go from side hustle to main business?
1:00:42 Advice for young entrepreneurs
1:10:00 After selling your business for 9 figures, did your ego inflate?
1:22:00 Any advice on getting a good RV?
1:26:41 How did you become a co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer at Bump Health?
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1h 27min
January 26, 2022 My Biggest Regret in 27 years of life
In this vlog, I talk about the biggest life regret I have.
Hope it gives some perspective to anyone out there.
If you have any feedback for me, please let me know!
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Grateful Living Info:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9Bo0LHtRJJNJBUYIceg27w
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Hn4ttttmbWfVqAhWh4Jhi
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1503185956
My Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aroy81547/?hl=en
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/gratefulliving4
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6min
January 24, 2022 #93: Stephen Spinelli Jr., President of Babson College, on his business, personal and higher-ed journey
Stephen Spinelli Jr. is currently the President of Babson College and has been since July of 2019. Prior to Babson, he held roles such as Chancellor of Thomas Jefferson University, President of Philadelphia University, and co-founder of Jiffy Lube.
In this interview, we talk about:
- The Origin Story of Co-Founding Jiffy Lube
- The Business Lessons from Jiffy Lube - becoming the largest franchisee, going public, and selling the business
- How his personal life played a crucial role in all his success
- Growing in higher ed from an Instructor to Tenured Professor to Vice Provost from 1993 to 2007
- Becoming President of Philadelphia University in 2007
- Becoming President of Babson College in 2019
Links:
Babson's Website: https://www.babson.edu/
President Spinelli's Twitter: https://twitter.com/SpinelliS
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Grateful Living Info:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9Bo0LHtRJJNJBUYIceg27w
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Hn4ttttmbWfVqAhWh4Jhi
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1503185956
My Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aroy81547/?hl=en
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/gratefulliving4
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Approximate Time Stamps:
0:00 Intro
1:06 Steve’s childhood, high school and college
4:48 Origin of Steve’s business/entrepreneurial career
7:37 Origin of Jiffy Lube
12:42 Going to Babson for a part-time MBA
15:30 When did you start the nursing home business?
16:52 How did you trust your coach to go into business with him and not doing a traditional corporate career?
20:00 How was working with 4 other partners?
22:41 What did franchising teach you?
25:00 What did you learn from going public with Jiffy Lube?
26:35 Any advice on selling a business?
28:55 How did you manage your personal life?
31:35 What advice would give to young professionals deciding to focus solely on career?
33:30 Did you struggle with professional and personal balance?
34:15 How did fatherhood change you?
36:45 What was the decision making process of getting a Ph.D. at Imperial College?
40:33 What was key to the growth in higher ed from Instructor to tenured Faculty Member to Vice Provost from 1993 - 2007?
43:48 Transitioning to President of Philadelphia University?
49: 28 How did you build a culture at Philadelphia?
53:00 Transitioning to becoming President-Elect of Babson in December of 2018
1:00:30 How do you balance all the responsibilities of a President - fundraising, campus experience, finance?
1:03:31 What are the measures Babson is taking in response to the pandemic?
1:07:30 What advice do you have to someone trying to move up in academia?
1:09:31 Any last piece of life advice?
1:10:20 How can we support you?
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1h 13min
January 19, 2022 Growing Up Asian American: What It was Like Growing up Indian American
Hey guys, in this vlog I talk about my experience growing up Asian American and specifically Indian American in the US.
If you have any feedback - whether you're Asian American and agreed with something I said or thought I might've missed something or you're not Asian American and you appreciated hearing a certain perspective, let me know!
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Grateful Living Info:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9Bo0LHtRJJNJBUYIceg27w
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Hn4ttttmbWfVqAhWh4Jhi
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1503185956
My Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aroy81547/?hl=en
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/gratefulliving4
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18min

FAQs about Grateful Living:

How many episodes does Grateful Living have?

The podcast currently has 256 episodes available.