We sit down with Nicole Sahin the CEO and Founder of Globalization Partners. We talk about how her company simplifies global business by enabling companies to hire talent anywhere in the world quickly and easily and the importance of understanding different cultures to successfully conduct business.

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Nicole Sahin’s mission is to eliminate barriers to doing business internationally and building global teams. As founder and CEO of Globalization Partners, she is recognized for having created an innovative solution that enables companies to hire great talent anywhere in the world, without the complexity of setting up international branch offices or subsidiaries. Businesses are able to leapfrog over the legal, HR, and tax complexities of hiring in another country, while getting all the benefits of a global team.

Nicole’s vision has led to her being named Entrepreneur of the Year in New England. In 2020 the company was recognized by the Financial Times as one of the fastest growing companies in America. Globalization Partners has also earned the ranking of No. 6 on the 2016 Inc. 500 list, and the company has won numerous awards for breaking the traditional corporate mold by building a nationally-recognized company culture. She credits the success to an exceptional team with global expansion in their DNA, and to her philosophy of the Triple Bottom Line – what’s good for the clients and the employees is good for the shareholders. From day one, Nicole has built Globalization Partners to scale, with a mindset towards meeting the needs of Fortune 1000 companies, which require the highest compliance standards in the world.  

Nicole’s primary non-profit endeavors focus on eliminating extreme poverty through education and economic development through organizations like Water for People and School The World where she currently serves on the board and has spearheaded efforts to build schools in rural communities in Guatemala and Cambodia. She also works on gender and racial equality initiatives and serves as the Vice-Chair of Diversity on the Membership Committee of YPO New England. Nicole holds an MBA in International Management from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. She lives in Boston, loves to travel, and is inspired by the belief that making it easy for people to expand internationally, and work seamlessly across borders, ultimately makes the world a more exciting and open-minded place.

Read more at:

Globalization Partners website: www.globalization-partners.com

Globalization Partners Global Viewpoints blog: https://www.globalization-partners.com/blog/  

Water for People: https://www.waterforpeople.org/

School the World: https://schooltheworld.org/about-us/

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How do you get on the ground floor in TV development in Hollywood? We sit down with Yousif Nash, a writer working in entertainment. We talk about how he stays positive during the virus, despite being laid off from his internship at Berlanti Productions (Supergirl, Riverdale), his dream opportunity.

Yousif is the son of Iraqi immigrants, a veteran, and a writer who writes about nerds who suffer from the normalities of life or anything in the sci-fi or fantasy genre that is a reflection of his time in the military.

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What does flying a fighter jet and entrepreneurship have in common?  We sit down with Sean Lipkin, an F-15 Instructor Pilot and Entrepreneur. We discuss the lessons he's learned training fighter pilots and his experiences in business.

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We sit down with Diana Maciel @dmaciel the creative director global at Forever 21. We discuss her creative management process and career in fashion.

Diana is a MULTIDISCIPLINARY EXECUTIVE CREATIVE DIRECTOR & DESIGNER operating within fashion, art and beauty. With more than 20 years of experience. 

She's been so fortunate to work with incredible clients like Forever 21, Lucky Brand, Target, Guess Jeans, BCBG Max Azria, O'Neill, Herve Leger, Spa Ritual, Current Elliott, Lexus, Puella, Orly Beauty, Rocketdog, Jive Records, The Skateboard Mag, Teen People, CBS and many more.

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We sit down with Ryan Curry, a Marine Corps veteran, and a Leadership Consultant. We talk about the nature of leadership and accomplishing goals.

Ryan is a leadership and organizational consultant and a retired Marine Corps helicopter test pilot with over 24 years of military service. He started his service as an enlisted Marine and earned an appointment to the U. S. Naval Academy through which he was commissioned. Ryan is an alum of the U. S. Naval Test Pilot School with flight time in over 20 airplanes and helicopters with extensive leadership experience during multiple operational deployments. He had the honor of being one of the first pilots to fly the new CH-53K King Stallion helicopter during the initial test flights. As a leadership consultant, coach, and instructor at the U. S. Naval Academy’s Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership he helped teams of all kinds improve communication, agility, diversity, inclusion, and positive culture, so they are more effective in reaching their goals. Ryan combines his military experience with his time as a certified Clifton Strengths Coach, Lean-In Circle Moderator, and the Navy Rugby Team’s Player Development Coach to impact the teams he serves positively.

Ryan earned a master’s in leadership studies from Marshall, a bachelor’s in political science from the U. S. Naval Academy, and is currently pursuing his MBA at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business.  He lives in Annapolis, MD with his family and Giant Schnauzer Rollo. His family volunteers in the local community with the Navy Rugby Team and they sponsor several Naval Academy midshipmen.  

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We sit down with Lisa Thomson, a career consultant. We discuss valuable career advice in finding your true passion.

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Lisa has built her career around helping others. For the past 15 years, her work has largely focused on helping undergraduate and graduate students find their passions and paths in life through college admissions and career coaching. Her own love of learning led her to earn her doctorate in education, furthering studying why individuals select their degrees. Outside of work, she loves to empower women through her work in the Junior League of Raleigh and enjoys running to make sure she can keep up with her two children. 

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We sit down with Devang Pandya, an international development professional at RTI International. We discuss approaches to solving complex problems in the developing world.

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Dev Pandya is an enthusiastic and hardworking professional with degrees in Accounting and International Studies. An effective team player with a successful leadership record who loves to utilize strong organizational skills to successfully manage projects. Strong written and oral communication skills with a passion for higher education and cross-cultural integration. Currently a Project Management Specialist for RTI International. 

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We sit down with Stu Krieger, a writer and professor. We talk writing the movie the Land Before Time, working for Disney, and managing the balance of work and family.

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Stu Krieger is a Professor of screen and television writing in the University of California, Riverside’s Department of Theatre, Film & Digital Production and in the Creative Writing for the Performing Arts MFA Program at UCR. He also teaches one class per year at the USC Peter Stark MFA Producing Program. Krieger co-wrote the Emmy award-winning mini-series A Year in the Life and was nominated for a Humanitas Prize for the Disney Channel original movie, Going to the Mat. Among his more than 25 produced credits, Krieger wrote the animated classic The Land Before Time for producers Steven Spielberg & George Lucas and ten original movies for the Disney Channel, including Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century and its two sequels, Tru Confessions, Smart House, Phantom of the Megaplex, and Cow Belles. He has been a story editor and writer on Spielberg’s Amazing Stories and the supervising producer on the ABC Television series Jack’s Place.  He served as the head writer and story editor of the animated preschool series Toot & Puddle on Nickelodeon in 2008-2009. His first full-length play, Chasing Smoke debuted in a staged reading at the Garry Marshall Theatre in 2014. He was an executive producer on the feature films The Binding (2016) and My Name is Myeisha (2019) both  feature directed by his son, Gus Krieger. Krieger's first novel That One Cigarette was published by Harvard Square Editions in 2017.  In April 2015, Mr. Krieger delivered a well-received TEDx Talk entitled “Choose Joy.” To access it, please visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v02wrQ-OSA In May of 2020, Krieger's new play At the Pass debuted in a live-stream digital production presented by the UCR Department of Theatre, Film & Digital Production under the direction of Professor Bella Merlin. 

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We sit down with Adam Pelavin, a novelist, and talk about his forthcoming book, Existence Proof, which is about love, mathematics, and the theory of everything. We also talk about making it through tough times which informs the writing of his first  novel.

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Adam Pelavin's debut novel, Existence Proof, is forthcoming with MCD Books. He's also an advisor & investor in digital health startups, including Clover Health and Lifeforce Capital.

Follow his book, Existence Proof

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We sit down to talk with Josh Rigsby about the craft of writing and his work on his novel about the Clipper Ship Era. We also take a deep dive into writing characters.

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Josh is a writer.  Formerly of Roswell, New Mexico, currently of Whittier, California.

He has contributed to Southern California Public Radio, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Atlantic. He is currently working on a linked collection of short stories set in Los Angeles County and a novel about the 19th-century tea trade.

He is a fan of the Netflix original series Club de Cuervos, (#TodosSomosCuervos) and his bios are invariably written in the 3rd person.

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