The Millennial Nomaad Coming Alive podcast series explores 180 life shifts, inner transformation, and the pursuit of dreams as we design our lives. It is the podcast designed not to give you answers, but to help you ask the right questions. For more information, visit the host Elnaz's website at: www.millennialnomaad.com & her Instagram: @millennialnomaad • In this episode, I interview Jay Hemrajani. He is a professor, storytelling podcaster, writer, and filmmaker based in Curaçao. His work has been seen in film festivals and even got picked up by PBS. We discuss how one's creations often contain pieces of themselves, independent films, Hollywood v. Bollywood cinema, the loneliness of the creative process v. collaboration of production, artists as observers of the world, balancing passion projects as a professor, the pressure to please immigrant parents, enthusiasm as a recipe to success, rejection as fuel for growth, laughter as a form of therapy, heartbreak, crafting memorable characters, and the catharsis of emotional release in art. To connect with Jay, check out his work at: linktr.ee/jaydevh and Instagram at: @jaihemrajani ✨🌎🐘#MillennialNomaad #MNComingAlive

The Millennial Nomaad Coming Alive podcast series explores 180 life shifts, inner transformation, and the pursuit of dreams as we design our lives. It is the podcast designed not to give you answers, but to help you ask the right questions. For more information, visit the host Elnaz's website at: www.millennialnomaad.com & her Instagram: @millennialnomaad  

In this episode, I interview Bijan Nasseri ––a professional photographer, fashion enthusiast, Cuban-Iranian-American, and conversationalist. You have probably seen his work in publications like: CNN, Hypebeast, Highsnobiety, his most recent Playboy shoot with Giannina from “Love is Blind,” and more. We discuss discovering our passions later in life, turning photography into a full time career, understanding the business side of creative careers, the detours in-between, fashion as a form of self-expression, decision fatigue, intellectual v. emotional openness, Cuban-Iranian-American identity, connecting to culture through food, and the importance of open dialogue. ✨🌎🐘

To connect with Bijan or to learn more about his work, you can visit his website: https://www.bijanatl.com/ and his Instagram at: @bijanatl 

The Millennial Nomaad Coming Alive podcast series explores 180 life shifts, inner transformation, and the pursuit of dreams as we design our lives. It is the podcast designed not to give you answers, but to help you ask the right questions. For more information, visit the host Elnaz's website at: www.millennialnomaad.com & her Instagram: @millennialnomaad 

In this episode, I interview Paria Almasi ––a multi-media artist, graphic designer, electronic music producer, abstract thinker, and intellectual seeker. In this episode, we discuss nonconforming to societal standards of beauty, living one’s authentic self, pushing boundaries, overcoming the illusion of control, embracing the unknown, rediscovering what it means to be vulnerable, balancing the Iranian-American identity as an artist, understanding how our past experiences with love shape our reactions, looking forward, and creating art that integrates vintage influences while stimulating a completely new response.

Connect with Paria at: @@ppppaaaarrrriiiiaaaa + check out her music on her Soundcloud profile at: https://soundcloud.com/paria-almasi ✨🌎🐘#MillennialNomaad #MNComingAlive 

The Millennial Nomaad Coming Alive podcast series explores 180 life shifts, inner transformation, and the pursuit of dreams as we design our lives. It is the podcast designed not to give you answers, but to help you ask the right questions. For more information, visit the host Elnaz's website at: www.millennialnomaad.com & her Instagram: @millennialnomaad 

In this episode, I interview Alexandria Brizzi ––a leading marketing consultant, baklava baker, traveler, and a woman with Italian roots yet who speaks better Farsi than I do. In this episode, we discuss the moments leading up to her decision to quit her job and a two week vacation that turned into two months of self-discovery in Turkey. We discuss work-life balance, the courage to make change, the value of family bonds, finding love, the warmth of kind strangers, being guarded v. open, mental health, the power of choice, traveling solo as a woman, misconceptions of the Middle East, and living authentically.

Connect with Alex on Instagram at: @abrizzi

The Millennial Nomaad Coming Alive podcast series explores 180 life shifts, inner transformation, and the pursuit of dreams as we design our lives. It is the podcast designed not to give you answers, but to help you ask the right questions. For more information, visit the host Elnaz's website at: www.millennialnomaad.com & her Instagram: @millennialnomaad  • In this episode, I interview Alexis Ahlzadeh. She is a Emory Law J.D. Candidate, social justice advocate, plant enthusiast, writer, and creative mind. In this conversation, we discuss overcoming substance abuse, addiction in its various forms, chaos, intuition v. fear based beliefs, empathy within the legal field, compassion as an asset for social change, discipline, working under pressure, the criminal justice system, rehab, dispelling stigmas, opportunity inequality, the strength to rebuild our lives, taking small steps, and the power of choice to initiate new beginnings. Take a listen & let's start the dialogue. • Connect with Alexis on Instagram at: @a_ahlz ✨🌎🐘 #MillennialNomaad #MNComingAlive

The Millennial Nomaad Coming Alive podcast series explores 180 life shifts, inner transformation, and the pursuit of dreams as we design our lives. It is the podcast designed not to give you answers, but to help you ask the right questions. For more information, visit the host Elnaz's website at: www.millennialnomaad.com & her Instagram: @millennialnomaad 

In this episode, I interview Johnell Gipson. He is a writer, digital creator, consultant at the Six Degrees agency, and the founder of Folio Magazine, a digital publication. In this conversation, we discuss overcoming analysis paralysis, aligning with our truth, creating what we wish existed, pressures to conform, learning to trust our intuition, facing the fear of change, masculinity & affection, how our childhood affects our relationship patterns, identity & entrepreneurship, ATL culture in the arts, and even the edgy wonders of Berlin. Sound like a lot? I know! Take a listen & let's start the dialogue. 

Connect with Johnell at: @johnnyknownow & @thefoliomag on Instagram + visit his website at: www.johnellgipson.com.