Just Interesting People

Julian grew up with a very creative childhood, always playing and creating. But his Portuguese parents were immigrants from Mozambique, and like most immigrant parents, raised him to work hard, go to college and "succeed". They wanted him to live the "American Dream" that so many people dream about.

It was only after leaving his well paid job in the oil industry, going traveling, meditating and other factors that Julian started to change his path in life and realize that he wasn't happy.

He went back to Miami after some time away and created a start up, moved into full time photography & marketing, and realized that being creative is what he enjoys the most. He also realized that the "starving artist" story that we all heard isn't necessarily true.

All this to say, that in 2019, Julian picked up a paintbrush and painted for the first time since his childhood. He sold his first painting and then when the world went into lockdown, spent more time working on his passion and now has his own painting studio in Miami. He is also designing jewelry & clothing and has very big dreams!

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Daniel, born and raised in Miami, always loved travel. As a student, he decided to head to Asia to step outside of his comfort zone & discover a new culture. He ended up finding a job in China and stayed in the area for a few years, traveling from one country to another in South East Asia.

Daniel is a talented photographer with a big heart who loves to give. While traveling he carried a camera & a small printer in order to hand out beautiful portraits to people he met in the street.

He is now combining all of his skills to grow a United Nations award winning startup called I LikeLocal, a marketplace providing experiences to travelers with locals.

He has turned his passion for travel into a full time job and gets to travel for work whilst helping people along the way. A really lovely story of following your dreams, taking chances and not being afraid to explore the world.

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Jivana is the founder and director of the non-profit Accessible Yoga, dedicated to increasing access to yoga teachings.

Jivana's yoga practice started in the 90s in San Francisco. He got involved in the AIDS movement when many of his friends in the gay community were dying from this terrible disease. Jivana decided then to use yoga as a tool to channel the anger & frustration accumulated over the years... and also to share his knowledge to support & heal others in his community.

That was the beginning of Accessible Yoga. Since then, Jivana has spent most of his life working towards making the practice accessible by educating other yoga teachers. He leads many trainings, has published a book (with another one on the way) and hosts a podcast on the subject too. He is working to make yoga truly accessible to everyone, in every body, at any age and in any state of health.

At the end of the episode, Jivana also shares with us his experiences adopting 2 children with his husband.

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Dianne Bondy is a social justice activist, author, accessible yoga teacher, and the leader of the Yoga For All movement. She was a guest speaker during our 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training and we loved her talk so much, we decided to interview her for you.

She shares with us about how her mother introduced her to yoga from an early age, how she began teaching yoga and her journey into becoming an activist in the yoga community. Dianne started teaching as she felt excluded and alienated in typical yoga classes, so decided to do something about it, and start a movement to teach people in all bodies how to practice yoga.

She is a leader in the Yoga For All movement and is making big waves in the yoga industry.

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In today's episode, we are joined by not 1 but 3 guests! You might know them already as they have all been guests on the podcast to share their individual & personal stories.

We - Rosie & Jeremie - completed our yoga teacher training with The Warrior Flow Foundation in March 2021. We learned so much from it that we decided to give you a glimpse of it. What made this training special was that it was focused on making yoga available & accessible for everyone and raising awareness of the inequality in the yoga world.

Adrian, Dennis & Sari share with us why they decided to create this unique & special training, their motivation, and also their vision for the future of yoga.

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Adrian's episode: https://justinterestingpeople.com/jip-009-adrian-molina

Dennis' episode: https://justinterestingpeople.com/jip-011-dennis-hunter

Sari's episode: https://justinterestingpeople.com/jip-058-sari-velar

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We are leaving Miami 😭

In today's episode, we discuss our 3 and a half-year love affair with Miami.

We talk about our expectations before moving here, how we made friends, our favorite moments, things we will miss and so much more!

Miami has been one hell of an experience that has changed us both in so many wonderful ways and we really enjoyed reflecting back and sharing our thoughts on this magical city!

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Patrick was born in Nigeria but grew up in London with an unsteady family dynamic. He was taught as a child that he was a bad person, he was ugly, and that he was the problem. This along with physical & verbal abuse from family members caused him a lot of pain and put him on a dangerous path.

He found himself addicted to drugs, in jail, depressed, and even homeless throughout his life until he took matters into his own hands and got help.

He is now London’s Happiest Bus Driver and is sharing his life story to inspire hope & ambition amongst people who might be in similar situations.

A truly wonderful conversation about what life was like for Patrick growing up and how he got his life back on track!

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Kerel is a black gay man who grew up in a religious family with pastor parents, going to an all-white school in small-town America. As you might imagine, that came with lots of challenges for him.

Kerel shares openly the struggles of growing up in this environment & how he eventually became who he really is. We talk about his first gay experiences, embracing his identity, finding his husband and also about the small micro-aggressions that happen on a daily basis due to the color of his skin.

Kerel is also the creator and co-host of Minoritea Report, a podcast he hosts with 2 friends where they talk about people of color in the LQBTQIA+ community (PS: we highly recommend watching them on YouTube as Kerel and his friends love to wear wigs & have fun 😁).

This is such a wonderful and powerful episode full of lots of take aways to help everyone navigate this thing called life!

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Santiago is a pilot from Ecuador for an airline company. Over the years, he developed a passion for photography.

At some point, Santiago decided to try to take some photographs of the sky, and especially storms while he was flying (not when he is in a driver seat obviously). He started to share his photographs online and ended up getting noticed & winning photography awards!

He now has more than 100K followers on Instagram and published a book with his best photographs.

Listen to this interesting conversation to understand how he became The Storm Pilot.

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Sari Velar is a cancer warrior, yoga teacher, writer, mom, and advocate for education and ending the stigma surrounding eating disorders, addiction, and mental health.

Over 20 years ago, she turned to yoga as an alternative therapy after a life-threatening cancer diagnosis and a subsequent battle with an eating disorder and addiction.

In this incredibly raw, honest & emotional episode, Sari shares with us her life journey including being raised in a Cuban household, growing up as a really emotional & compassionate person, developing an eating disorder at an extremely young age, battling with cancer in her early 20s, getting addicted to alcohol & drugs, rehabilitation treatments, yoga... it is a jam-packed episode!

Get your tissues ready!

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