The Accented World Podcast

I am all about learning how to be a successful communicator. After all, that’s been one of the major themes in my life. As a speech-pathologist and accent coach, I can totally appreciate someone who can help others communicate clearly and master their message. That’s why I wanted to have Brenden on the show, who is today’s guest. 

Brenden Kumarasamy is the founder of MasterTalk, a YouTube channel he started to help the world master the art of public speaking and communication. He coaches purpose-driven entrepreneurs on how to master their message and share their ideas with the world. He can karaoke in 8 languages, and explains why singing in other languages can help with your pronunciation.

He also shares his puzzle method to delivering an excellent presentation, how to boost your confidence while speaking, how to become an excellent presenter even if you have an accent, and some great tips on how to communicate confidently via video. I loved my talk with Brenden because of how concise and eloquent he was in delivering his message and I learned so much from him.

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Summary of today's show: 

• Presenting in a language you’re uncomfortable in 
• YouTube channel videos about public speaking 
• Accent speakers, why write your speech in your first language, translate the script you want to speak it in, practice presentation in front of native speakers 
• Boost your confidence while speaking: having a belief system, what do you stand for
• The importance of the questions we ask ourselves before a speech 
• How would the world change if you were an excellent communicator?
• How can you master the art of public speaking: the puzzle method
• YouTube channel posting every single week, consistent content, 10-year vision for YouTube channel
• Tips for video presentations and communication
• Get on a call with audience members 
• Always assume good intentions with your audience 
• How karaoke in 8 languages helped him with pronunciation 

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Networking is very powerful, and I learned some of the most valuable lessons in networking from Mr. Mike Armstrong. Mike is my guest on the show today and he’s here to teach you how to network successfully. He is a powerhouse in making connections and is helping others 10x their business growth and property. His goal is to become a best selling author & speaker, having recently written a book, 7 Positivity Poems and started the Mike Armstrong Podcast, where he hopes to beat records with having the most episodes released. 

Mike has 30+ years of sales experience and 25+ years of leadership experience and held various leadership positions in the companies he has worked with. He’s a master marketer and specializes in thinking outside the box, building successful and long term relationships and networking with people from around the world. 

On today’s show, Mike shares advice on how to get a job in any industry in the world, the power of networking, how to network successfully, the importance of finding your guides in business and how to learn from your failures.

Also discussed: 

• the power of networking
• Mike’s career as an entrepreneur since he was 11 years old. 
• The importance of following your passion
• Online business revolution
• Master your passion early on for the later benefit
• The myth of market over-saturation
• Instant gratification in business
• Failure as a life session
• The wisdom of applied knowledge
• Networking advice
• How to choose the right network
• Offering value before selling
• Acting as if you are the person you want to be
• Volunteering for a company you admire
• Mike’s biggest failure 
• How hitting rock bottom can turn your life around
• Finding your guides
• Living a life with no regrets

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Starting a clothing brand is not an easy task to handle. There is so much detail, planning, production, and honestly hard work that goes into creating a successful brand. My guest on today’s show, Ms. Tashika Nickle, the founder, and CEO of Zodi-Hacks Apparel, created her brand in New York City in March of 2020, right at the beginning of the quarantine. It is a 100% black-owned and woman-owned company.

Tashika is an avid astrology lover and that's what propelled her idea forward. She became inspired to start her own brand after being frustrated over not being able to find anything stylish enough to represent her zodiac sign, the Taurus (which by the way she’s such Taurus, and I couldn’t love her more for it) Nothing she found spoke to her natural knack for all things chic and stylish. Disappointed and fueled with the creative juices that she didn't even know she possessed at the time, she forged ahead, and that’s how Zodi-Hacks Apparel was born. Tashika had sharp business instincts since she was a teenager and she graduated in 2012 with a bachelor’s degree in business management from Adelphi University. Her brand specializes in comfortable streetwear with a sleek zodiac flair. It is a safe haven for zodiac enthusiasts. The brand celebrates your desire to Embrace the real you!

On today’s show, Tashika discusses how her business degree prepared her to run a successful business, the evolution of her clothing brand, the importance of finding your niche in business, how to keep costumers buying from your business, advice for someone wanting to start a clothing business and how zodiac signs influence our lives. I can’t wait for you to meet Tashika, by the way we used to waitress together at T.G.I. Friday’s what feels like a lifetime ago, don’t worry we totally spill the beans on that experience on the show. So here is my dear friend and CEO boss, Ms. Tashika Nickle.

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Have you ever wondered about how your life could change in just a split second? How a near death experience can completely change your mindset and your outlook on life? I’ve heard about some people who have gone though this and have come out on the other end much stronger and their stories are always fascinating. Well my guest today, Jim Bordeau has had 3 near death experiences in his life. That’s right, 3. He went from teaching a job skills class, helping people on government’s assistance to find employment to being on food stamps himself unable to complete everyday tasks or care for his family.

Today, Jim is a podcaster hosting two incredible podcasts, The Entrepreneurial trust which I was lucky to be a guest on and the Detroit Lions on the Prowl. He’s been very successful in building his audience on YouTube and is here today to talk about how to get a job in this unstable economy, building an audience, how to share your message, the lack of time and excuse and time wasting, finding your why and some advice for those wanting to start a podcast or a YouTube Channel.

Jim is also a podcasting mentor to me and would be so upset if I didn’t remind you right now to subscribe to our show wherever you listen to podcasts and leave us a review, 5 stars for good karma, so incredible listeners like yourself can find un in the podcast world.

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Chloe' Skye is a freelance content strategist, copywriter, and avid traveler passionate about the intersection between culture and language. Her clients call her a Word Magician for the way she creates humorous, helpful, and human content for brands doing social good. She’s originally from New York but Chloe' has taught ESL in Israel and Czech Republic and now lives in Denmark. She now runs a successful freelance copywriting business online and is here to discuss the misconceptions about making money as a writer.    

Her writing and creative work has been published in Pangyrus LitMag, Standart Mag, Hanging Loose, and more. She records her adventures on an expat travel and language blog called Chlohemian. 

On today’s show, Chloe shares about the benefits of growing up in a diverse place such as Queens, NY, why she became an expat, her advice for starting a freelance copywriting business, her thoughts on the intersection of language and culture, the privilege of living abroad as an American, her advice for dealing with anxiety and how to gain your focus back. I am so excited for you to get to know Chloe, she’s such a delight. Tune in now to hear her story. 

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Have you heard of playfulness as a form of therapy and empowerment? Well, that’s exactly what our episode is about today.

Saras Feijoo helps you bring your creative side forward and provides you with unique ways to see life from a more artistic perspective. She’s an internationally acclaimed productivity strategist and coach, performance curator, and multidisciplinary performance artist.

Saras has traveled the world performing and bringing playfulness to people’s lives. She teaches you how to find your inner creative voice, and connect with your inner artist to bring out the creative you. This year, she organized a playfulness festival called the PlayfulFest, a 3-day event, which offered people tools on how to continue bringing the energy of playfulness into your daily life, your work, and/or business. I had a blast talking with her today, and learning about ways to bring more playfulness into our lives.

This year has been very hard for most of us. It’s been a year of pivoting, reinventing, and loss. I think we can all use a little bit of playfulness in our lives, no matter what the struggles may be. Saras is the person to teach you how to do it.

On the show, we dive into how to bring more joy into people’s lives, the toolkit for playfulness, how to get through your mental blocks, playfulness as a form of meditation, and Saras’s 3 tips on how to add more fun into your everyday routine. 

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"I tell people, I am not here to fix you and I can’t fix you because I don’t believe that you are broken. What I can do is to help you see what you’re not seeing, while feeling broken. That's what we need to focus on, the present moment. Not the past, not the future, right here, right now. "- Michelle Kuei

It’s not every day that a guests’ story is so inspiring it brings you to tears. Well, that’s exactly what happened when I spoke to Michelle Kuei, my guest on today’s show. 

Michelle is a certified confidence & leadership coach who helps negative self-talkers believe in their talents to reach their full potential in personal and professional life. She was only 11-years-old, living in rural Taiwan when a car running a red light completely altered her life’s trajectory. Her road to recovery was extremely long and painful and she needed to learn how to live with a disability.

Although very difficult, her new reality didn’t stop her from pursuing unbelievable and seemingly impossible goals such as hiking Machu Picchu. Michelle’s speaking career began in 2018, soon after she founded her own coaching company.

She is the author of the new memoir, Perfectly Normal, an immigrant’s story of making it in America. Michelle lives in Los Angeles with a short-haired brown tabby cat named Buster. If you’re looking for her, the odds are good you’ll find her at the gym. 

In today’s episode, Michelle shares how to gain clarity when you feel stuck, the law of being, how to use bravery to discover a way of living true to yourself, living a life with a disability, overcoming your fears, and why only you know what’s best for you. Tune in now to hear our chat!

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Today’s guest will light a fire under you as she did to me because she’s such an inspiring and empowering woman. Chef Alexia Apostolidi is an award-winning chef, restauranteur, cookbook author, tv host, and online cooking school owner, who continues to thrive despite many failures. She knew she was passionate about cooking since she was a child, and continued to pursue her dreams no matter how impossible it may have seemed in the past. Chef Alexia has run successful restaurants in Greece and the US has worked in Michelin Star restaurants and was even the District Training Manager in Burger King. Chef Alexia is very quick to think on her feet and evolves with the economy and changing times. In the face of the pandemic, she again found herself pivoting and launched her e-book with low carb, sugar-free, grain-free, and gluten-free recipes, online cooking school, and focused on her online cooking show. In today’s episode, Alexia shares how she discovered her passion for cooking, her many failures, and obstacles that turned out to be the best lessons in her life, how she held every position in the restaurant business in order to prepare herself to run her own business, her turbulent immigration story, her experiences as a contestant on Top Chef in Greece and why she started her online cooking school for busy individuals. Tune in now to hear her story.

**Chef Alexia was recorded in mono, meaning you will only be able to hear her from one earbud if you're wearing them. Put them both in if you're having trouble hearing her.**

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Eating Beans for Health: All About The Bean Protocol 

Unique Hammond is a certified holistic nutritionist, a bean protocol coach and an author. Her book, “Your Tastebuds Are A**holes: How I Trained Mine & Healed Crohn’s" Unique shares her journey from ninety-pound patient to advocate for her own holistic health. With irreverent wit and hard-won wisdom, she also walks you through basic changes you can make to improve your own wellness, combat chronic issues, and ensure your best life for years to come. With tips ranging from diet and exercise to finding a support team, Unique shows that wherever you are in your journey to wellness, you’re great—and you can only get better from here.

Unique came on the show today to discuss her own story growing up, how Crohn’s disease devastated her body and life, her own healing journey, why beans are so powerful and help us truly detox like no other food out there, what is the bean protocol and who is it for, and how to adapt the bean protocol into our everyday lives. Tune in now to hear Unique’s story. 

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Marketing and being authentic are key if you want to have a successful business. My guest on today’s show, James Lam, specializes in these key aspects of business. I have personally already learned so much from him when it comes to both. He just has a way with words and is one of the best entrepreneurial teachers and mentors I have had the pleasure of working with. He himself went from a non-believing, over-worked, and money-losing business owner to a successful entrepreneur with a healthy lifestyle and mindset.

With 15+ years of marketing experience, James has built 3 successful companies taking them from startups to thriving successes. He’s also the host of the 3 Steps to Thrive podcast, where he showcases successful and interesting entrepreneurs. In today’s episode, James shares about the struggles of growing up as a person of color and later breaking the stereotypes, his failure in business which ultimately led to his success, his passion for supporting coaches and healers, and his own 3 steps to thrive.

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