The Why Not Now? Podcast

On this week’s episode, Bryant and Joe chat with Dietician and chef, Alicia Connor. Alicia does in home cooking classes, cooking demo’s, meal planning strategy sessions, the list continues. She has a YouTube series called ‘Quick and Delish’ where she uses simple ingredients to make food that you will enjoy. During the pandemic, Alicia has been able to transition to Zoom and FaceTime and in a way she says that it has become more time efficient. Alicia talks about her journey from being a chef to becoming a registered dietician. Bryant, Joe, and Alicia discuss how individuals have dealt with the pandemic in terms of their day to day habits, what they’re eating, and if it has or hasn’t been working. Alicia talks about her virtual meal-planning workshop series, that is all about building the foundation for your meal-planning system.

On this week’s episode, Bryant and Joe chat with entrepreneur and Life Coach, Desiree Kaye. As a life coach, Desiree focuses on reparenting, helping adults, specifically women today, reflect on their parental relationships and how it translates into their navigation of everyday life. She best describes reparenting as being your own parent or your own best cheerleader. Desiree shares her experience from working for a Fortune 500 Company to becoming a full-time Life Coach. She offers 1:1 Life Coaching as well as an 8-week group coaching program. During the pandemic, Desiree was able to transition to online Life Coaching, where the sessions take place over Zoom calls. Stick around to the end where Bryant, Joe, and Desiree play a fun game “Drake Lyric or Pepe Le Pew?”

Today we are joined by Maryam Sharifzadeh. Her accomplishments are far and wide including being only the second person in history to swim around San Francisco Bay and swimming across Lake Tahoe. She often regards her proudest accomplishment as founding Office Yoga in 2014. They are now the #1 workplace yoga program in the nation, they serve over 300 companies, lead more than 4,500 Office Yoga sessions, and trained over 50 instructors worldwide. Today, Office Yoga positively impacts 2,500 employees per week.  Maryam’s love of health, family, and fitness and laser-focused on eliminating the rampant stress epidemic. She has accomplished miraculous things and continues to improve countless lives.

On this week’s episode, Bryant and Joe chat with fitness business guru, Thomas Plummer. Tom has been in the fitness industry for over 40 years, he’s been able to see gyms go through different trends from body building to self-care. Tom talks about how the pandemic has forced individuals to either get better, see what’s next or it has revealed and amplified weaknesses making individuals angry and bitter. Tom also explains reclassifying the fitness industry, many people nowadays aren’t looking to be body builders, but they are looking for holistic care. During times like this, Bryant and Tom describe how imperative it is to be able to provide multiple services that can serve the ever evolving client.

This week Bryant and Joe chat with Summit Seth, who is joining them all the way from India. After college Sumit went to work for an IT outsourcing that worked with healthcare company in India that sent him here to the states. From there in 2005 for the next ten years began a staffing company with a few friends, and were growing exponentially year after year. As an entrepreneur he was so consumed by his career that when he took a step back he saw that he was neglecting his personal life. Once he left the business and focusing on himself, through personal training, he found that health is wealth. From his experience with his personal trainer, Jake, Summit began a start up called Naamly. Naamly is developing a web-based solution that assists fitness professionals and studio owners to deeply connect with their clients and support them in realizing their health goals.

This week Bryant and Joe chat with Shaynna and Jurucia. They have a performing arts center for adolescents and youth in the East Bay, I Can Do That, with a new facility opening up in January. What started as a non-profit in Danville, is going to be expanded from a tiny studio into a 6,000 sq ft facility, including a lounge area and outdoor that the kids can enjoy. Shaynna and Jurucia want to make the I Can Do That performing arts center, a space where the kids feel included and empowered. Look out for I Can Do That in January of 2021

This week Bryant and Joe chat with "Boba Guys" owner, Andrew Chau about how to fulfill your PURPOSE, while running your small business. Andrew owns and operates 18 different Boba Guys stores across the Bay Area. His path in life has crossed many different cultures from the east to the west and that became the core to his vision as an entrepreneur which is "bridging cultures" He also discusses how growing pains prior to the pandemic led him to focus on building a stronger business infrastructure focused on employee culture and operational management at the core. Andrew is committed to making a difference in the small business world and has been a mentor to Bryant.

This week, Bryant and Joe chat with Steven "Stu" Gerry of Corcoran Global Living. Stu is a commercial real estate agent in San Francisco who has completely changed how he does business, both as an agent and as a restaurant owner. On the episode, Stu discusses how the pandemic has impacted his business and how he is fighting for the survival of his clients during these unprecedented times. The three of them also play a fun"Real Estate Show" trivia game.   

This week, Bryant and Joe sit down with Dance Coach, Rory Davis (Roryography). On this episode, Rory shares what he thinks his superpower is and how the pandemic has actually helped grow his business. Rory talks about how he was able to adapt to the "new normal" in order to be successful and puts Bryant and Joe through some Roryograpy at the end of the episode. 

On this episode of The Why Not Now? Podcast, Bryant and Joe chat with Bay Area boxing legend Karim Mayfield. On this episode, Karim talks about opening his new cannabis dispensary (Authentic 415) and discusses bringing the tenacity he learned from boxing and applied it to starting his own business. Bryant and Karim share a funny story about how they met and Karim talks about what the future holds for cannabis.