Iconic Conversations with Tanaka Tava

Lauren is the cofounder and CEO of Fundr, a platform that uses data and AI to empower decision making in seed investing.

At 19 years old, Blake Zonca dropped out of college where he was studying to become an aerospace engineer to work full time developing a virtual reality video game.

Two years later after thousands of hours of coding, hiring a team, and many highs and lows, Crunch Element launched successfully in December 2020.

Blake is continuing to grow Dreamlab XR while enjoying the freedom of being his own boss and he's recently launched a podcast where he interviews people in business and tech who have the wisdom to share with the next generation

Virtual reality makes isolation and depression easier, and suicide and substance abuse are too common to ignore.

Yoga and meditation are free mental health tools offering potentially lifesaving coping mechanisms for optimal mental health in the Metaverse.

Christine Lewis is known as The Yoga Boss after teaching Transformational Yoga Therapy since 2009 to founders of multi-billion-dollar companies, professional athletes, and leading Yoga Retreats around the world.

The Yoga Boss launched the Yog8 DAO to eliminate the elitist access to Yoga and Meditation by offering incentives for Self Care through a wellness metaverse that merges gamification with meditation and Yoga. Christine created the Yoga Boss NFTs to make meditation easy using Sacred Geometry Animations with Chakra Frequency music for an immediate meditative experience.

Wellness in Web3 is mandatory and the Yog8 DAO offers mental health techniques to a worldwide audience in desperate need of accessible and affordable mental health services and physical mobility and wellness practices.

Landon Campbell is a 24-year-old Podcaster and Media Executive based in Chicago, IL. He’s the Co-Founder and Host of inTheir20s. Upon graduating from DePaul University during the pandemic, Landon created the popular inTheir20s podcast as a way to share the best advice with fellow twenty-somethings.

On the show, he interviews top business leaders and influencers to explore what they did in their 20s. His notable past guests include: Steve Wozniak, the Mayor of Miami, Ev Williams, Dr. Meg Jay, Guy Kawasaki, and Kat Cole.

Destin George Bell is a serial entrepreneur, content creator, real estate & equities investor, and natural-born hustler. Since he started selling toys to neighborhood kids at 5 years old, he's always had a love for business & has always found a way to make money for himself. 

After graduating college in May 2020, at the peak of COVID, he moved to Austin, Texas without ever visiting or knowing anyone there. Over the last 2 years, he went from $2000 to his name & no job to founding a gamified cardio fitness startup that's venture-backed & funded by Pokemon Go, becoming a 6-figure brand personality contracted by the NBA, Old Spice, McDonalds, Mobile1, and several other, and owner of a duplex near downtown Austin valued at over $500K with 3 tenants. All without ever taking a 9-5 job.

Liz Trosper is a new media painter working with ideas of reproduction, the body, painting, and technology. She teaches as Assistant Professor of Instruction at The University of Texas at Dallas. Trosper’s work centers on the desire for touch that is both fueled by technology and denied by it. Her creative work examines reproduction as a concept and as technical means. 

Her work is represented by Barry Whistler Gallery in Dallas and has been shown via the international DANAE HI digital art network in Paris, CICA Museum in South Korea, and the Artron network in China. Her work has been included in surveys of abstraction at the San Antonio Museum of Art and The Museum of South Texas.

She was also the subject of a one-person exhibition at The Wilcox Space, an initiative of the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History, a site for the exhibition, documentation, and study of the work of artists who explore painting as a medium and idea.