Right After Breakfast

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Music Composed by John Zarcone: http://www.johnzarconemusic.com/

Do you have a personal growth question you'd like me to answer? Please email me at [email protected], I'd love to hear from you! Once you submit a question you'll have a chance to get it featured on the podcast.

Connect with me and our community of listeners here:

Website: http://www.rightafterbreakfast.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rightafterbreakfast/

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/rightafterbreakfast/

Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/463615654075378/

Music Composed by John Zarcone: http://www.johnzarconemusic.com/

Do you have a personal growth question you'd like me to answer? Please email me at [email protected], I'd love to hear from you! Once you submit a question you'll have a chance to get it featured on the podcast.

Connect with me and our community of listeners here:

Website: http://www.rightafterbreakfast.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rightafterbreakfast/

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/rightafterbreakfast/

Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/463615654075378/

Music Composed by John Zarcone: http://www.johnzarconemusic.com/

Do you have a personal growth question you'd like me to answer? Please email me at [email protected], I'd love to hear from you! Once you submit a question you'll have a chance to get it featured on the podcast.

Connect with me and our community of listeners here:

Website: http://www.rightafterbreakfast.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rightafterbreakfast/

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/rightafterbreakfast/

Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/463615654075378/

Music Composed by John Zarcone: http://www.johnzarconemusic.com/

Do you have a personal growth question you'd like me to answer? Please email me at [email protected], I'd love to hear from you! Once you submit a question you'll have a chance to get it featured on the podcast.

Connect with me and our community of listeners here:

Website: http://www.rightafterbreakfast.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rightafterbreakfast/

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/rightafterbreakfast/

Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/463615654075378/

Music Composed by John Zarcone: http://www.johnzarconemusic.com/

Nada Jones is the CEO and Founder of LIBERTY. She has spent the last 17 years as a consultant and advocate for entrepreneurial women. Through the LIBERTY platform, she is committed to empowering all women, not just millennials who have embraced the entrepreneurial life with ease. "Considering what's possible and pursuing your calling doesn't end at 35, in fact, that's when the need for flexibility and purpose are heightened."

Nada began her entrepreneurial career in 2000 with the launch of nedandshell.com, a retail and wholesale co-op for emerging female designers in NYC. In 2008, she co-authored a how-to book, "Sixteen Weeks to Your Dream Business: A Weekly Planner for Entrepreneurial Women" which spent time on Amazon's best-selling business book list.

Speaking and seminar opportunities accompanied a book tour and Nada realized that there was much to be done to support women in this space. In 2011, Nada launched ltdLIVE, a conference that brought together speakers, experts, service providers and brands that were all in the business of empowering and helping small businesses.

Armed with a conviction that all women must be empowered to write their own narrative, Nada founded the Dream for a Dream initiative. Through this program, she has partnered with game-changing social organizations, such as the Tory Burch Foundation, JoinFITE and Dermalogica, Charity Water and Miss Representation. Nada also co-founded Project Raiz, a social impact trip connecting US designers with artisans in Swaziland and Mozam-bique to expand the global marketplace.

Nada is also the principal of Nada Jones Consulting. Her work supporting female small business owners has given her a unique insight into their successes and challenges. It's these past 17 years of experience, combined with the absence of meaningful content for the entrepreneurial woman, that has informed the creation of LIBERTY.

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Find Nada Online:

Website - https://www.libertyforher.com/

Facebook - @libertyforher

Instagram - @libertyforher

Twitter - @libertyforher

Some Questions I Ask:

• Why are you starting a magazine?
• Why is social media not the?
• Do you still ask yourself what you want to be when you grow up?
• How would teach people on how to balance expectation vs. reality?
• How can you create meaning out of almost anything?

In This Episode, You Will Learn About:

• Losing the ability to write, draw, and journal
• How to "inspire and equip"
• You don't build a business on social media, you build a brand
• The day after Christmas letdown and what it means
• Understanding elasticity in your life

Music Composed by John Zarcone

Emily Hunt Turner is the founder of All Square; a nonprofit social enterprise centered on a gourmet grilled cheese restaurant and institute that aims to reduce recidivism by supporting, rather than excluding, individuals with criminal records.

The restaurant was founded in response to the widespread exclusion of those with records. Emily believes that all individuals deserve to be judged on their merit and not their mistakes. Additionally, she feels strongly that meaningful reparations for communities who have been disproportionately impacted by the criminal justice system are of the utmost importance.

Emily is also a civil rights attorney in Minneapolis with a background in housing, architecture and public policy. She was born in St. Paul, grew up in Wahpeton, North Dakota and spent the last thirteen years in New York, Atlanta, and New Orleans.

​​Prior to launching All Square,​ Emily worked on issues of prisoner reentry, fair housing and segregation for the Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD). Her hope with All Square is to leverage her talent, privilege, and network to empower those historically excluded while dismantling the divides that are isolating and destabilizing communities across the country.

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Find Emily Online:

Website - https://www.allsquarempls.com/

Facebook - @allspuarempls

Instagram - @allsquarempls

Twitter - @allsquarempls

Some Questions I Ask:

• How do you prioritize what's important in life?
• How do you step back from something that you care about so much?
• What centers you after a long day or a tough moment in time?
• What do you want people to see, hear, and feel when they walk into All Square?
• How have you learned to ask for help?

In This Episode, You Will Learn About:

• Honoring something that uproots your soul
• The importance of not questioning what feels truly authentic
• Facing the shadow of your family
• Why you should be taking baths
• Creating the universe you want to live in

Music Composed by John Zarcone

Laura Alexander Wittig is the founder of The Brightly Co. and the Kennebecker bag.

A small-but-mighty, scrappy leader with an eye for design, #GSD, and the desire to provide thoughtful, impactful technical solutions to global issues.

Laura is passionate about putting the user first while driving product & program strategy -- focusing on ecommerce, search, product recommendations, and social impact.

She has worked for Amazon, Google, Sephora, and Adobe.

Find Laura Online:

Website - https://thebrightly.co/

Facebook - @thebrightlyco

Instagram - @thebrighlyco

Some Questions I Ask:

• How do you accomplish a work flow?
• What was the trigger that made you start The Brightly Co?
• Tell me about the intense year before you launched?
• Was there a moment during creation that changed the way you look at Brightly?
• What does "good is good enough" mean to you?

In This Episode, You Will Learn About:

• Women in tech
• Multitasking
• The necessity of passion in starting your business
• Listening to your gut
• Why you should move on from Etsy and try The Brightly Co.

Music Composed by John Zarcone

Tony Loyd is the author of Crazy Good Advice: 10 Lessons Learned from 150 Leading Social Entrepreneurs. He is a former Fortune 500 executive. Inspired by the work of mission-driven businesses, Tony launched Social Entrepreneur in 2015. The show has been rated #1 in FOUR iTunes New & Noteworthy Categories and is downloaded in more than 170 countries.

Before launching Culture Shift Companies, Tony worked with global brands such as John Deere, Medtronic, and Buffalo Wild Wings. Tony has provided leadership to Fortune 500 companies for over 25 years. He has extensive experience conducting strategic planning, leading organizational design, creating talent management strategy and conducting high potential development workshops.

Tony created the learning strategy and led the start-up and operation of two world-class corporate universities. Tony has directed the development of up to 120,000 personnel in sixty countries. His breakthrough ideas enabled companies to dramatically increase worldwide training participation while transforming the training organization from a cost center to a revenue-neutral operation.

Find Tony Online:

Website - https://tonyloyd.com/

Facebook - @TonyLoydSocialEntrepreneur

Instagram - @anthonyloyd

Twitter - @tonyloyd

Some Questions I Ask:

• Is there one driving passion behind everything that you do?
• Who is taking advantage of the social entrepreneurship movement?
• What action did you take when you decided to add "for good" to your mission?
• What were the moments of vulnerability for you when trying out different career paths?
• How do we pass along our advantages to the under served?

In This Episode, You Will Learn About:

• Caring about something bigger than yourself
• The light side and shadow side of everything
• Greenwashing
• Learning to pivot
• Creating a body of work to help create your brand

Music Composed by John Zarcone

Niki Selken is the founder of Emoji Foundation and the creator of the Emoji Dictionary and VR game EmojiFlower VR. Her work focuses around storytelling, games and interaction design. She is a resident artist and creative code teacher at in the Gray Area where she is researching VR and AR. Niki attributes her intuitive understanding of the translation and meaning of Emoji to her extensive Japanese stationery collection and study of Japanese Butoh and Noh theater. When she is not expanding her Emoji Empire she enjoys designing and playing games, Karaoke and of course, texting Emoji.

Niki has taught interaction design, creative coding, and game design at Parsons School of Design, St. Joseph's College in Brooklyn, University of San Francisco, and Bay Area Video Collective. Before delving into design, she founded experimental theater company, Ko Labs, and a technology consultancy, Big Treehouse. Afterwards she moved to Brooklyn and attended Parsons MFA Design and Technology program where she was awarded design fellowships with Ms. Foundation for Women and PETlab as well as Girls Write Now. In 2013 she founded the World Translation Foundation with Cara Rose DeFabio as a way to promote, explore, and translate the written word into the pictorial alphabet of Emoji. Her latest Emoji project, The Emoji Dictionary, debuted in New York City at The Proof is in the Processor art show and was featured at Currents New Media Art Festival 2015 in Santa Fe. In 2014 she won New York NASA Space Apps and placed as a global finalist for wearable tech project, Senti8. Her game, Find Maria Rivera was exhibited and selected as an Award Finalist at Indiecade 2015. In 2016 she was selected as a Kill Screen game design scholar and Parsons E-Lab fellow for her Augmented Reality platform, Wayscape. Niki's design and Emoji work has been featured by Yahoo Tech, Adafruit, Buzzfeed and Make Magazine among others.

Find Niki Online:

Website - http://www.nikiselken.com/

Facebook - @nikiselken

Instagram - @nikistyxx

Twitter - @nikistyxx

Some Questions I Ask:

• What gets you out of bed every morning?
• What was that first idea of creation for emoji?
• What is emoji to you?
• Is there a negative side to the growth of emoji?
• How have you discovered ways to make a difference through your work?

In This Episode, You Will Learn About:

• What it takes to find the recognition you want
• Creating something around your unique interest
• The evolution people mediating technology
• Accountability of social media platforms
• The progress of globalization via emoji

Music Composed by John Zarcone