Listen to Nova chat with entrepreneur Oliver Smykacz. Oliver is the founder of the Be Light app. It uses a combination of light and sound to make mental health and mindfulness easier and more accessible to everyone. Oliver has traveled around the world and has a passion for neuroscience, light and sound therapy, breathwork, and more. He has lived in Asia and learned healing techniques from the monks.

Oliver explains his why. He is doing this because he was running through life, traveling all around, and running himself ragged. But then he took a new path – and he was “guided” on his new course to give away less of his power and empower others, too. Being aware and being mindful of yourself gets lost. Learning that, he found new ways to reconnect.

He talks about “subconscious programs” and rewiring our habits.

Nova asks Oliver about unleashing our superpowers. Oliver gets into the power of manifestation, frequency, and energy – and how we can choose to control that. They go on to talk about true, genuine mindfulness and how they each define it.

Oliver says that making mindfulness and meditation easy and fun is a matter of perspective.

He goes on to explain how frequency is energy. And frequencies are our brain waves. Outside frequencies can be applied to stimulate our brains. The Be Light app uses a combination of light and sound frequencies for a new approach to meditation for mindfulness.

Oliver talks about how activating the body (such as by dancing crazily) is a fun way to make yourself mindful. Then, you are in a good place to meditate and be mindful.

Recognize and accept that perfection of practice is not necessary for mindfulness and meditation.

Nova shares a profound moment she had with meditation.

What is your why?

Meditation

Fun and easy

Superpowers

Mindful

Conscious Breathing

Beta waves

Brain waves

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Listen to Nova chat with bestselling author Jen Nash (The Big Power of Tiny Connections). Canadian-born world traveler, IFC-certified executive coach, entrepreneur, and high-level creative strategist. She loves supporting powerful shifts.

Jen explains her why – to ultimately support the world in the way she wanted to as a full-time coach and corporate trained – and “lean in to” that side of her offering. Why does she do it? Joy. “This brings me lots of joy.”

Jen shared that there were moments that were challenging and unhappy. She allows herself to be vulnerable by talking about how the pandemic massively impacted her life in multiple ways. From there, she coached herself forward into a new life.

Jen wrote her book about how important connection is for living an amazing life. Connection for more money, better jobs, relationships, or whatever – leaning into connection is powerful for building that.

People have commented on her ability to make connections and talk to anyone naturally. That led to her book.

Jen and Nova talk about loneliness and how it has a similar impact as many health hazards and physical illnesses. But connection can be a tool to use to combat this.

Nova and Jen talk about being okay with being vulnerable. Jen says the 4 most powerful words in the English language are, “I need your help.”

Jen asks Nova to share a random, life-changing connection event that she has experienced.

What is your why?

Joy

Support and nourish clients

Flow

Connection

Lean-in

Share the magic

Take notes from Jayden Sage, Wall Street mathematician, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence expert, and Future Author, He helps us break free from conditioned negative beliefs associated around money. By diving into the past, he shows us how we can create a future centered around our chosen purpose and how we can use our unique skill set to create our own niche and achieve success. 

He gives tips to rising entrepreneurs on how to capture investors with less stress and reminds us all that we have a genius inside that is ready to fly.. Jayden breaks down all of the trends from cryptocurrency, to NFTs, to collectibles and teaches us how to take control of our money.

Listen to Nova chat with #1 bestselling inspirational author John Strelecky. He’s sold more than 7 million copies of his books worldwide. Inspiration is what led him to his writing career. In addition to being an author, he’s a kayaker, surfer, and traveler.

“What’s the adventure I want to be on?”

John talks about the “adventure days” he would take his daughter on regularly (and still does).

He talks about bringing in that “what did I love as a kid and why” and still living with that approach to life.

John says his why is because he spent a time lost and feeling very alone. He felt nobody else asked that question. Then, when he learned others felt the same and asked the same questions, he decided he needed to be the “steward of the cafe” and help others find their why, too.

Asking “Why am I here?” gets you in touch with your purpose, which attracts the people you need and who need you to you.

Living your life as your dream life might seem bold and audacious – but why can’t it be you and your life?

Every day is precious. What happens when you treat it like this?

Having near-life experiences is more powerful than near-death experiences. John references his “Big 5 for Life” to this.

“You are the game master. You’re the one controlling the game (of life).”

What is your why?

Manifestation

Adventure

Finding your way

Not alone

Perspective

The game of life

Gratitude

John Strelecky

Listen to Nova chat with Mike Harsanyi. Mike is the CEO of Woodpecker Software. He’s an AI-supported cording pioneer, author (The Book of Mankind), musician, and a former fashion company owner and creative director.

Mike explains his why. Fascinated as a child by science and science fiction, he realized these were interconnected with the human mind and started to look in that direction.

Nova asks Mike about his different approach to AI. Mike explains how using that which AI excels at might help humans in building a better world for humans via collaboration.

Nova asks Mike how he has gotten where he is from where he was and has been.

Mike explains the digital workforce. He explains how it all communicates between everyone in a company and helps with overall communication between them all. Digital workforce lets both sides build greater trust, collaboration, and harmony.

Mike asks Nova what the psychology of fashion means to her. They then get into the power and potential of manifestation.

What is your why?

AI

Thinking machine

Harmony

Collaboration

Manifestation

Perspective

Listen to Nova chat with Ben Giroux. Ben is an actor (known for the cartoon Big Nate), voice artist, director, and producer, who knew he was always destined to be an entertainer. As an entrepreneur, he runs a company called Small Red Cape.

Ben does what he does every day because he wants to make people laugh. He feels laughter is the greatest feeling in the world.

Ben talks about some of his challenges and how to get comfortable with them. He explains how some people choose what they do, and some people are what they do.

Just make stuff

Ben talks about a hip-hop music video he did – because he wanted to. He talks about going from should, to want, and being proactive.

Nova passes the mic to Ben, and he asks her what she does for fun.

What is your why?

Passion

Laughter

Tenacity

What do you do for fun?

Do good work.

Be a good “dude” or “dudette”

Listen to Nova chat with Elise Krentzel. Author, ghost-writer, mentor, entrepreneur – she has lived in 5 countries over the years. While living in Japan she was a DJ, music journalist, Tokyo bureau chief for a magazine, and much more.

Elise explains here why – toxicity. The pool from which she emerged. She made many choices to choose for herself and choose better for her life.

Elise survived a divorce, a change of business, and a breakdown.

“We can focus all we want on others – but it has nothing to do with others, it’s us.”

When Elise takes the mic, she asks Nova why she started getting into the world of podcasting.

What is your why?

Adventure

Transformation

Turn negativity to positivity

Life is a process

Not a quick fix

Podcasting

Life is an adventure

Listen to Nova chat with Bobby Kunta. Bobby left his day job in agriculture to become “full-time crypto”. He’s building game-fi, block-chain communities, and fostering an open metaverse. Co-founder of nonfungible events.

Bobby gives a brief description of all that he is doing in the metaverse. He shares his vision of aiming to empower players and gamers to come out from behind their avatars. He also touches on play to earn gaming.

Bobby’s why has always been about bringing people together, and he has done so in many ways via many venues.

Work as play is part of the notion behind gamification. Bobby explains how what he’s doing now – using the virtual world for interaction – will help connect us both digitally and virtually.

Nova talks to Bobby about his “child-like” energy, his love of play, and his imagination.

“We can gamify anything, really.”

Nova and Bobby talk about how the community-building element of Web 3.0 is very unique from Web 2.0. They also talk about multiple elements of “IRL” (in real life) versus the virtual.

What is your why?

Web 3.0

Crypto

Metaverse

VR

Gamification

Guilds

NFTs

Listen to Nova chat with Ryon Anderson, Esq. Ryon is a business and peak performance coach. He helps increase mental performance, mindset, and relationships. He is a winner of the prestigious Marquis Who’s Who 2020. Ryon is the “wingman” for his seeing-eye dog, Ziggy.

Working on his mission statement was what gave Ryon his why – lead, inspire, and challenge the status quo to change the world. He loves to challenge the norms because he has always asked why about everything.

Solutions always follow a question.

Ryon initially felt as though he was holding back his energy by being humble and staying in his place – but he discovered that you can be “arrogant” and allow for freedom of expression. That clears some limiting filters, allowing for more freedom of flow.

Allow the energy to flow and the thoughts to happen – not necessarily by putting it all out there publicly. Allowing your true self to shine is a matter of wellness and wellbeing.

Realize if you are chasing ideas that are not true to you. In the process of chasing, you may not be allowing true solutions and genuine ideas to come through.

Allow the information to come in as pure as you can, rather than chasing the solution which might be biased by your current knowledge and life experience.

You know that it’s coming – and that’s allowing. It is keeping an open mind to be flexible, intuitive, and in-tune to different solutions. Allowing an abundance mindset rather than chasing a scarcity mindset.

What is your why?

Quit chasing and start allowing

Asking questions                                   

Being intentional

Leveling up                            

Allowing

Chasing

Confidence

Listen to Nova chat with Nikki Nash, creator of the Market Your Genius podcast and founder of the Genius Profit Lab. International speaker, author, and marketing expert.

Nikki talks about why she does what she does. She shares that while in a corporate job full time - following a potential genetic predisposition to cancer scare - realized life can be really short. This led to her pivot and make new, creative choices to start her own business. 

After some fits and starts, she did so in March 2016. Why? She “wants every person on the planet to have a life they are madly in love with.”

As a black female, she wanted to help people beat all the race and gender odds.

Pivot for you

Whatever pivot you do – it can be part-time, a hobby, or a side-hustle - whatever works for loving your life and being happy.

“Other alternatives are better than being completely miserable.” 

“The only box you will be in is the one your put around yourself.”

Maintain an “effing fabulous” list. Keep writing the list of why you are fabulous frequently. Then read it - and read it again.

What is the thing that you need more of in your life to create a life that you are madly in love with?

What is your why?

Pivoting

Pivot

Entrepreneurs

Female entrepreneurs

Madly in love with your life

Make choices

Limitless

Empowerment