Pro-Trump protestors attacked and breached the US Capitol building. How can we solve this chaos? I share my thoughts on how to move forward and stay positive in a world that seems to be tearing itself apart. You can step up, you can lead, and you can help to solve these problems.

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How do you start a business during the pandemic? The founder of Yellow Class, an online learning platform, Anshul Gupta, stops by to tell us about the challenges and successes of starting his company. He shares tips on building community and culture.

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Anshul Gupta is the founder of Yellow Class, a kids hobby platform based in India. Yellow Class is an online community of parents (primarily mothers) that offers its members free hobby classes, contests, parenting guidance etc. Born in the midst of the pandemic, it has more than 200K members across various social media platforms. Anshul is also a father of two young kids and understands the challenges of parenting - which are quite different in different societies. 

Anshul spent his growing years in India, living across many different parts of the country. This is probably the reason for his love for exploration. On a lazy day he would be reading a business book or listening to podcasts, interviews. An engineer & MBA by education. He has been an entrepreneur for close to 10 yrs and has previously founded 3 businesses - two of which he exited via acquisition.

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During tough times we need to find ways to endure. Award-Winning Writer Kao Kalia Yang shares stories and advice for times such as these. Through the power of storytelling and wisdom from her family, we help you learn about the importance of endurance and resiliency.

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Kao Kalia Yang is an award-winning Hmong-American writer. She is the author of the memoirs The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir, The Song Poet,and Somewhere in the Unknown World. Yang is also the author of the children’s books, A Map Into the World, The Shared Room, and The Most Beautiful Thing. She co-edited the ground-breaking collection What God is Honored Here?: Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss By and For Indigenous Women and Women of Color. Yang’s literary nonfiction work has been recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Chautauqua Prize, the PEN USA literary awards, the Dayton’s Literary Peace Prize, and garnered three Minnesota Book awards. Her children’s books have been listed as an American Library Association Notable Book, a Zolotow Honor, a Kirkus Best Book of the Year, winner of a Minnesota Book Award in Children’s Literature and the Heartland Bookseller’s Award. Kao Kalia Yang is a recipient of the McKnight Fellowship in Prose, the International Institute of Minnesota’s Olga Zoltai Award for her community leadership and service to New Americans, and the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts’ 2019 Sally Award for Social Impact. 

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Want to excel in the fashion business? We sit down with fashion designer and fashion business exec, Margaret Bartlett. We talk about her journey into the fashion world and about how an understanding of the changes in both business and design is crucial to making it.

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Margaret Bartlett is a Design Director with 15 years of fashion industry experience in apparel design and merchandising. A graduate of New York’s Parsons School of Design, she has had the pleasure of designing childrenswear for iconic brands adidas and Ralph Lauren. With a passion for consumer-driven product strategies that merge design with data, Margaret is currently pursuing her MBA at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business.

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It takes persistence to break into a creative industry.  Listen to Adrian Nyman tell his inspirational story of going from being the kid that didn't fit in to ultimately becoming a creative director working with major international brands like Nike, Levis, and Hurley.

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As an Executive Creative Director, Adrian Nyman has worked with major brands like Nike, Hurley, and Levis. He is a digitally-minded and data-driven innovator. He has a proven track record of working across multiple design groups from product creation to brand experiences. He excels by setting creative direction and aligning executive teams with a shared vision.  Ultimately, driving impact for both the brand and consumers. 

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Are you maintaining your mental health during the pandemic? Professor Mitch Prinstein stops by the show to talk about keeping our minds healthy and happy during these tough times. It's the valuable discussion that you need right now.

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Mitch Prinstein, Ph.D., ABPP is the John Van Seters Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, and Assistant Dean for Honors Carolina at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Mitch’s research examines interpersonal models of internalizing symptoms and health risk behaviors among adolescents, with a specific focus on the unique role of peer relationships in the developmental psychopathology of depression and self-injury. His has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers and 9 books, including an undergraduate textbook in clinical psychology, graduate volumes on assessment and treatment in clinical child and adolescent psychology, a set of encyclopedias on adolescent development, and the acclaimed trade book, “Popular: Finding Happiness and Success in a World That Cares Too Much About the Wrong Kinds of Relationships.”  

He is a past Editor for the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, and a past-president of the Society for the Science of Clinical Psychology and the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology.  Mitch currently serves on the Board of Directors of the American Psychological Association.  Mitch’s longstanding commitment to students’ professional development training is reflected in dozens of invited addresses at local and national conferences, as well as several publications including the APAGS Workbook on the internship selection process, The Portable Mentor, and his uncensored advice for admission to psychology graduate programs.  Mitch’s most important contributions are reflected in the success and happiness of his students who have made enormous impacts by pursuing their true passions and being confident in their own abilities.

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Never too late to follow your passion! Hear the inspirational story of how Tina LeCount Myers became a fantasy writer. We talk about her international childhood, balancing family and work, and becoming a professional writer. 

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Tina LeCount Myers is a writer, surfer, and gluestick artist who grew up on Southern California tennis courts with a prophecy hanging over her head; her parents hoped she’d one day be an author. Tina is the author of The Song of All, Dreams of the Dark Sky, and Breath of Gods (Books 1, 2, and 3 of The Legacy of the Heavens series from Night Shade Books). Her work has also appeared in Literary Hub and Tor.com. 

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How do you work your way up?  We sit down with an analyst from Goldman Sachs Renewable Power Group and the winner of the JEDI Champion Award, Miles Braxton. He shares his diverse career path which crosses entrepreneurship and science along with his experiences in building relationships.

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Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Miles Braxton serves as an analyst at Goldman Sachs Renewable Power Group, where he coordinates risk management for over 1,000 commercial solar assets, totaling over 1.3 GW and $2 Billion in equity deployment. In his role, he also acts as the resident expert for GSRP’s proprietary renewable energy asset management software.

Formerly an associate on Sol Customer Solutions’ (SCS) Commercial & Industrial (C&I) solar and battery storage business development team, Miles investigated and engaged potential clients in emerging solar markets, in addition to leading SCS’ B2B proposal generation in select markets across the country. This entails conducting early-stage project financial analysis, designing solar arrays, and conducting market research.

Prior to his work at Sol, Miles completed a renewable energy fellowship at ITility, where he conducted chemical analysis and project management for an animal waste to energy contract. While studying Environmental Science at UVA, Miles researched photonics and perovskite solar cells. Continuing his education, Miles completed a year-long certificate in Financing and Deploying Clean Energy through the Yale Center of Business and Environment (CBEY) in May 2020. He was recently awarded the Leadership in Green Power Education from the EPA and CRS and the JEDI Champion Award from CELI for his efforts in diversifying the clean energy candidate pool.

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The founding CEO of NAG Studios, Peter Stahl, stops by the show to talk about leadership and building positive company culture from the ground up. We talk about the video game industry, building better communication in the office, and hiring the right people.

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Peter Stahl is the founding CEO of NAG Studios, a competitive games studio based in Stockholm, Sweden. The studio is a resulting aggregate of his 20 years as a leader at AAA game maker EA DICE (Battlefield, Medal of Honor, Mirror's Edge) and VR-games trailblazer Resolution Games (Acron, Bait, Blaston). With a burning conviction that world-class products come from brilliant and aligned teams, he focuses hard to sift out the right wholehearted talents and the best ideas around.

Together with his incredibly experienced team, he is setting out to change the future of esports and game making, building "a digital super bowl spectacle for a streaming generation". He is adamant on building 1) an explicit studio culture based on the behavioral values: Humble & Positive industry Drivers, 2) a process integrating top pro players, streamers & broadcasting experts from day one and, 3) games that allow for the creation of a next-level esports show.

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Get the inside info about what a literary talent agent does and what's going on with the publishing industry now. Mark Gottlieb from Trident Media Group stops by the show to talk about his life as a talent agent and gives some great advice about building a career, building a community, and keeping hope alive.

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Mark Gottlieb is a literary agent at Trident Media Group in New York City. He ranks highly among literary agents in overall deals and other categories. With that insight and initiative, Mark Gottlieb is actively building his client list of new authors. He manages and grows author careers at publishing's leading agency. One of his core values is helping writers realize their book publishing dreams. This is all while ensuring their enjoyment of the book publishing experience. Since his time at Trident Media Group, he has represented New York Times bestselling, as well as award-winning authors. He has also optioned and sold books to film and TV companies. He meets with major studios, producers, agencies and managers to pitch books to them.

He previously ran Trident Media Group's Audiobook Department. In that role he helped the Audiobook Department more than double its sales revenue in number of audiobook deals and amount of money for audiobook deals.  Prior to that he served as Executive Assistant to the literary agency's Chairman. Before that he worked in Foreign Rights. There he worked closely with the Director of the department, in seeing books sold to foreign publishers from around the world. He continues to work in the area of foreign rights. He continually attends the major international book fairs. This is in addition to meeting with foreign book publishers throughout the year.  Prior to his time at the agency, he worked in Production at Penguin Books, handling production for various book imprints. 

He attended Emerson College where he obtained a degree in Writing, Literature and Publishing. He was a founding member of the Undergraduate Students for Publishing and later served as the organization’s President. Mark Gottlieb is actively seeking submissions in all categories. He is looking forward to bringing new authors to the curious minds of their future readers.

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