If Not Now Wen Podcast

If Not Now Wen Podcast

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If Not Now Wen Podcast episodes

  • Interview with Rachel Madorsky, Founder of Coaching Therapist Institute, Co-Owner of ColdTowne Theater

    Rachel Madorsky is a psychotherapist, relationship + business coach, speaker, trainer, performer, and co-owner of the award-winning improv comedy venue ColdTowne Theater located in Austin, Texas. 


    For over two decades, Rachel has been facilitating, coaching, performing, and teaching at conferences, comedy festivals, Fortune 500 companies, start-ups, universities, non-profits, and leadership organizations around the world. Her incredible impact has been featured on Bravo, The Learning Chanel, SXSW Interactive, and CBS News.


    You can find Rachel here: 

    www.rachelmadorsky.net 

    www.coachingtherapistinstitute.com 


    Learn about ColdTowne Theater at: www.coldtownetheater.com 


    To hire ColdTowne to teach for your business: https://www.coldtownetheater.com/austin_corporate_training/team-building


    To help ColdTowne through this pandemic, please consider donating to the theater at paypal.me/coldtowne 


    Tune into the 11th Annual Austin SKetchFest Aug 21-22 on twitch.tv/coldtownetv . More info at atxsketchfest.com

    1 hr 8 min
  • Interview with Sabrina Scholkowski, Founder of Sab Scholkowski Coaching - from Fashion to Freedom

    Sabrina is a former fashion & beauty marketer who traded the corporate world to start her own business as the Brand & Social Media Strategist that helps millennial entrepreneurs build their brand identity  & her Pretty Sure.


    When she's not busy creating her empire, her other passion is traveling and her goal is to visit as many countries as possible in her lifetime.


    You can find her here:  @Instagram www.instagram.com/sab_sc

    @Podcast www.instagram.com/prettysurepodcast

    Or to listen here: https://open.spotify.com/show/3tnDCfeQme0L836IxpwEtk?si=vUmoCnAQRBizDl2_nW8TKQ

    1 hr 2 min
  • Interview with Dave Buckman, Co-owner for ColdTowne Theater, His Perseverance Throughout His life Journey and True Passion to Comedy

    Dave Buckman served as Artistic Director of Boom Chicago in Amsterdam. He culminated his run in Europe directing Boom Chicago: RockStars, the second stage-swap with The Second City’s Main Stage in its 50-year history. After Europe, Dave worked as a director, actor, and teacher at The Second City in Chicago. He was also a Senior producer for The Out Of Bounds Comedy Festival for 10 years as well as Austin SketchFest and Executive Producer at ColdTowne Theater, where he has been performing, teaching, and directing since its opening in 2006.


    As a co-owner of CoTowne, Dave is dedicating his time to cultivate an inclusive comedy community in Austin, TX.


    Learn about ColdTowne Theater at: www.coldtownetheater.com To hire ColdTowne to teach for your business: https://www.coldtownetheater.com/austin_corporate_training/team-building 


    To help ColdTowne through this pandemic, please consider donating to the theater at paypal.me/coldtowne Tune into the 11th Annual Austin SKetchFest Aug 21-22 on twitch.tv/coldtownetv . More info at atxsketchfest.com

    1 hr 14 min
  • Interview with Jennie Stowe, Founder of Stowe Bookkeeping - How She Uncovers the Path

    Jennie Stowe is a wife, mom, and business owner. Formerly a birth and postpartum doula, she created Stowe Bookkeeping LLC in order to be home with her son … and to pursue her passion for numbers and accounting.


    Today, she is passionate about helping female service providers with their bookkeeping so they can focus their time on booking more clients and making more money.


    For those small businesses that can’t yet afford a bookkeeper, Jennie has them covered with her online course: Keep Your Own Books - The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Small Business Accounting. When not working, you can find Jennie baking artisan bread or outdoors with her two year old.

    https://keep-your-own-books.teachable.com

    https://stowebookkeeping.com

    35 min
  • Interview with Wilson Hailey, Founder of TEZPRESSO - How He Found Himself in the Far East Asia

    Wilson Hailey, owner of multiple award-winning coffee shops. He trained competitive baristas, and helped 20+ coffee shops up their game and start providing actually good coffee.


    Born and raised in Austin, TX, Wilson ventured to Beijing, China from age 16-27, where he discovered his passion for his life - coffee. Featured in VICE, Pangbianr, Lumdimsum, SmartBeijing, and various other publications, his Beijing award-winning cafe, Rager Pie, was known for Thanksgiving and it’s weekly pie-to-face events, as well as for being the first to bring nitro cold brew to China.


    Today, Wilson found TEZPRESSO in Austin, offering monthly subscription coffee delivery service while teaching the best brewing technique possible to serve his customers. 

    Check out his free weekly coffee brewing class here:  https://www.tezpresso.com/bbb 

    https://www.tezpresso.com/about-our-coffees 

    54 min
  • Interview with Lisa Liu, Violinist, Composer, Orchestra Contractor and Entrepreneur - Her Music & Life Journey

    Lisa Liu is a Chinese-American violinist, composer, orchestra contractor and entrepreneur based in Los Angeles.


    She began her musical studies on the piano at the age of 3 with her mother, a professional opera singer, and continued with violin lessons at the age of 8. She followed her mother’s footsteps and attended The Juilliard School, receiving a Pre-College Diploma, Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in violin performance while studying with world-renowned pedagogue Dorothy DeLay for 9 years.


    Join me for an incredible conversation with Lisa Liu, a beautiful & authentic story of how a musician finds meaning through her love to music and how she started a platform to connect and serve all musicians worldwide during COVID 19, so they can continue to create and compose music freely and use the music to connect and serve the world.


    As an entrepreneur, Lisa is always searching for new connections and experiences that inspire and challenge her to evolve. She is the brand ambassador to a cannabis start-up that has multiple patent-pending formulas, with the mission to educate the greater community on designing a healthy, high-performance lifestyle.  Please follow on IG:  @idmarkhealth


    Alongside fellow Juilliard alumni, composer Laura Karpman and conductor Marin Alsop of the Baltimore Symphony, Lisa is one of the creators of the Unison Orchestra, a virtual network of composers and musicians striving to continue working from their home recording studios in the midst of a massive global shift.  For more information, visit www.unisonorchestra.com

    53 min
  • Interview with Jessica Zeitz, Founder of Copyfox - How She Travels the World and Found her Passion
    Jessica Zeitz has a bachelor in Communications from Concordia University. She's traveled to 23 countries while working as a digital marketer and has recently started her own digital marketing agency Copfox. But this isn't her first business she actually started a small pickling company and made pickles and sweet peppers. However, digital marketing and real estate are two passions she couldn't ignore and were thrilled to combine them by marketing for real estate developers.
    https://copyfox.co/
    42 min
  • Interview with Sav Shrestha, Founder of Menuette

    From Nepal to Austin, from corporate to startup, and a nonprofit world, Sav took us through his journey of his American Dream and how he shows up to the world. 


    Sav is the founder of Menuette, he is also an innovator with a dream and dedication to build delightful experiences and strategic vision to achieve them. He is also a UX researcher and a designer who places user empathy at the center of his design process. His vision to create apps that truly delight users is fueled by his passion to understand human behavior and to augment problem-solving by using technology. 


    https://www.finddeliciousfood.com App store: Menuette; https://apps.apple.com/us/app/menuette-find-delicious-food/id1382472110  


    Sav is also a co-founder of Nepal Rising, a non-profit organization, working towards community resilience through community engagement and asset-based community development (ABCD).  https://nepalrising.org https://m.facebook.com/TheNepalRising/  


    Sav has a doctorate in Human Factors Psychology, holds multiple US patents, loves to cook, and has two cats.

    1 hr 13 min
  • Interview with Lexi Ruffell, Founder of Marketing Choreography

    From a professional ballroom dancer to the CEO of Marketing Choreography, in this podcast, Lexi shared with us her authentic journal of how she found her way to entrepreneurship and many failures and setbacks along the way.  


    Lexi Ruffell, a former Professional Ballroom Dance Competitor, is the chief operations officer for Majic For Life. After graduating from college with a Bachelor's degree in Sociology she went on to get trained in Life Coaching and Personal Development as well as attend the school of hard knocks in marketing and business. Lexi is the founder and CEO of Marketing Choreography and has been the orchestrator of more launches than she can count.  She is passionate about helping business owners prepare, plan, and execute full-scale launch plans for their online businesses.


    You can find here via Facebook and Instagram  @ Alexi Ruffell or via Website: https://lexiruffell.com/marketingchoreo 



    46 min
  • Interview with Sabrina Antou, Founder of The Magnificent Abundance Manifestor

    From an Investment Banker to an Energy healer, Sabrina Antou has come along the way of overcoming her fear of following her intuition and say no to conventional knowledge of following her corporate path, instead, she finds the path to freedom and her happiness. 


    Today she is the founder of private equity firm, consulting firm, and coaching and healing company < The Magnificent Abundance Manifestor>. 


    Please join me in this podcast to unfold her journey, and hope you can gain inspiration for starting your own path. 


    Sabrina's resources: 

    Free Session: https://themagnificentabundancemanifestor.com/free-healing-session/ 


    Single Session: https://themagnificentabundancemanifestor.com/individual-sessions/ 


    6 week programme Standard https://themagnificentabundancemanifestor.com/bringing-magic-into-your-life/work-with-sabrina-11/quantum-transformation-one-to-one-standard/ 


    6 week programme Intensive: https://themagnificentabundancemanifestor.com/bringing-magic-into-your-life/work-with-sabrina-11/quantum-transformation-one-to-one-intensive/

    47 min

About If Not Now Wen Podcast

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Dreaming of venturing into the world while growing up in an isolated mountain town in rural China, Wen completely transformed her life by teaching herself English using a cassette machine. Despite countless challenges, she pushed forward to become the only person who ever left her hometown, and achieves her dream of seeing the world four years later.