Love Through It

From being elected CEO for her mock company at the age of 16, Alicia Navarro has been on an awe inspiring entrepreneurial journey. She taught herself to code on a Comador 65, used her unique imaginary to get over any job insecurities and ask for what she's worth, left Burning Man when there was an offer to buy her company, and later found the important of "flow state" and started the company, Flown.

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Alicia is a serial entrepreneur, with a passion for product, brand, design and culture.

She is currently the founder and CEO of Flown, a communal focus platform that helps professionals battle distraction and isolation at work. Started during the first COVID lockdown, Flown is a “Twitch for work” where members work on camera, in the virtual presence of others, with the aim of increased focus, accountability and sense of community. Alicia’s vision is to leverage the science around deep work and flow states to make work a source of joy.

Prior to Flown, Alicia was the co-founder and CEO of Skimlinks, a platform helping publishers such as Buzzfeed, Conde Nast, Hearst, and Aol monetize their commerce-related content. Alicia started the company in her living room in Sydney, Australia, and over 11 years grew it to a $50m/year business based in London with operations in San Francisco and New York. Skimlinks was acquired by Connexity in 2020 (also during the first COVID lockdown!).

Alicia has also worked as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at firstminute and Breega Capital, trained as an Executive Coach, was the Chairman to Yourkeys (acquired by Zoopla in 2021), and an advisor and mentor to many startup founders.

It's time to expose some of their most vulnerable moments and discoveries! From Claire's confession to her crush to Lianna's huge boundary breakthrough, the ladies laugh and cry through this week's catch-up. Sometimes we have to shed friends and fully spiral while zooming in on hand placement in a photo to realize we are exactly where we're supposed to be.

Claire's kintsugi necklace

Not everything is a problem to solve. Natalie Roy sits down with Lianna to chat about all the twists and turns her life has taken. With each major change becoming a gift in her life, Natalie now knows when she's faced with a question to just pause and listen to herself. We know the answers but we have to be quiet to hear them.

C.R.E.A.T.E podcast/website

Natalie's website

Natalie's instagram

Natalie is an actress, author and spiritual teacher. She's performed and taught all over the world on stage and screen and has appeared on Blindspot, The Affair, Law and Order: SVU, The Detour, Power, The Following, Being Erica, Murdoch Mysteries and in two films directed by award-winning director Sidney Furie. She authored her first book: "30 Years, 30 Lessons" several years ago and has since collaborated on The "I’mPossible Project" and the upcoming CREATE Book: “Let’s Play!” She’s also a 500 hour certified Yoga Teacher and a meditation teacher specializing in Visualization technique, positive psychology for actors, the Yoga Sutras and taking ancient Eastern philosophy and practices and playing them into the audition room and onto set. Natalie brings together the practices and techniques of meditation, mindfulness and “learned optimism” with the artistic process. She Co-Founded C.R.E.A.T.E with her best friend Kristin Hanggi and created the acting technique The Activated Actor.

Time for a catch-up with Lianna and Claire! This week they dive into why Claire's eye looks like it exploded, finally feeling this "love" thing everyone has been talking about, the emotional snowball when you start sleeping, and how wellness goes down a lot easier with a side of dick jokes.

Dr Jack Kreindler joins Lianna this week to discuss how his approach to health and human behavior has lead to a research expedition to the South Pole, his own participation in a cage fight, and the founding and advising of many pioneering physiological and mental health ventures including his current, WellFounded. They also debunk the theory: "breakfast is the most important meal of the day."

WellFounded website

TED Talk : The Future Of Exponential Technology In Healthcare

recent article : Japan: A glimpse into a hyper ageing future society

Dr Jack Kreindler is a physician, physiologist, researcher and serial technology entrepreneur.

Alongside his career as a doctor in emergency and high altitude medicine, for 25 years Jack has founded and advised pioneering physiological and mental health ventures focusing on transforming what patients are capable of and scaling health system capacity using connected devices, remote monitoring and machine intelligence.

Jack is an explorer and extreme environments researcher and has an academic interest in computational modeling for predicting and improving public health. Jack has a 20+ year history pioneering health & human performance for occupational, expedition, and clinical settings. Jack is no stranger to start-ups: Veteran founder, investor, and advisor in US and UK health/biotech - Mosaic Ventures, Founders Forum Healthtech (Founder and Chair), Headspace (first advisor), vielife, Klarismo, Certific, Sentrian, CHHP (The Centre for Health and Human Performance, London)

Lianna catches up with friend of the podcast, Lyssa Mandel, and producer Claire about choosing their parents, emotional addictions, family vacations, weird & wild belly babies, how relationships are our greatest teachers, and crying with their therapists. Lyssa then talks through the beginning of a somatic therapy session causing both Lianna and Claire to point to their eyes. IYKYK

Lianna chats with former client, Tialer Maxwell, about her journey from before joining the Mind Body Elevate program to living the dream life she manifested. Tialer was at a low point after a break-up and job change when she discovered Lianna but after a few weeks, the entire group noticed the switch in her when the tides started turning. She credits her work with Lianna for helping her find that confidence again which led to a loving fiancé and fulfilling life.

Tialer's instagram: @myswaggywag

Connector. Storyteller. Strategic Communications & Relationship Builder. With a passion for the intricate art of communication, Tialer has established a remarkable presence as a seasoned communications professional. With a career spanning over 15 years, Tialer has become synonymous with strategic storytelling, media relations, and impactful brand messaging.

After being asked what her top 3 tips for wellness were at a recent party, Lianna decided it'd be fun to chat a little more in depth about the fundamentals of her coaching. In this episode, she is joined by producer, Claire to share the focus areas that can benefit everyone, explain how she plays detective with you to discover the best course of unique action, and say how she doesn't want you to wait another second not feeling your best.

Birds of a feather really do flock together. Even in Lisbon. This week's guest, Haley Knauer, and Lianna immediately bonded over their histories with autoimmune disease, studies while attending Institute of Integrative Nutrition, opinions on the use of data in health, and having buns of steel from walking the hills of Portugal.

Website: www.get-amazing.com

Instagram: @haleyknauer

Haley Knauer has her BA from Temple University and her MPH in Nutrition from New York University. She is a board-certified health coach from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and The National Board for Health & Wellness Coaching (NBHWC), she is currently enrolled in The School of Applied Functional Medicine.

After being diagnosed with an autoimmune disease when she was a teenager and spending years without answers, Haley dove into nutrition to heal her own symptoms, and later made it her life's work to help others reduce their chronic pain and autoimmune symptoms. She has worked with clients ranging in age from 8-82 years old.

Passionate about preventative care and food accessibility, Haley participated in Wellness in the Schools and Yoga Foster to provide nutrition education and yoga classes for New York City’s school-aged children while she was living in Brooklyn.

What's the difference between confidence and self worth? What's the difference between like and love? And what's the difference between an open relationship and polyamory? They are just a few of the questions asked in this week's catch-up with Lianna and Claire.