Kyo Conversations

Hala started her career in radio production on “The Angie Martinez Show.” Later she focused on an entrepreneurial endeavour― the launch of an entertainment news blog site, “The Sorority of Hip Hop.” She led an all-female team of 50 bloggers, and together they ran the site, interviewed celebrities, produced radio shows, and hosted parties/concerts.  When the blog site boom slowed down in 2014, Hala took a temporary exit from the entertainment industry to get an MBA and now has over 8 years of corporate marketing experience.   Merging Hala’s passions for radio, entrepreneurship, business, and continued learning, she currently hosts the Young and Profiting Podcast and works at Disney Streaming Services putting together a best-in-class marketing tech stack. Bonus : Besides the awesome mental fitness practices Hala shared, she detailed a winning formula to crush it on LinkedIn.    Follow Hala  - LinkedIn & Instagram   Journaling Prompts What am I doing to improve myself? What am I doing to learn new things? H

Jen Gottlieb is the Co-Founder and Chief Mindset Officer at Super Connector Media. Jen’s plethora of experience in health and wellness coaching, 14-season run as co-host on VH1 and a Broadway national tour, has naturally led into her role as host of Unfair Advantage Live, the world’s premier publicity event connecting entrepreneurs to the media. Jen supports and works with entrepreneurs to elevate personal mindset into achieving goals beyond their expectations. Prior to Co-Founding Super Connector Media, Jen used the media to build a multi 6 figure coaching business in the health and wellness space. She currently lives and works in New York City with her life and business partner Chris Winfield and their three dogs.   “If I’m feeling helpless, I get helpful." Jen Gottlieb   Journaling Prompts What is true? What am I grateful for? How can I help?  

Chris Schembra is the bestselling author of "Gratitude and Pasta: The Secret Sauce for Human Connection", chronicling his adventures as one of the most sought-after dinner hosts in the World. Forbes has just ranked his book as the #2 book of 2020 to create Human Connection and USA Today calls him the "Gratitude Guru". “I’m just a little guy with an apron, a fannie pack and a pasta sauce, anybody can do it”   Journaling Prompts If you could give credit or thanks to one person in your life who you don’t give enough credit or thanks to, who would that be? Is this it? Or is this a bandaid? Do you love travel or the escape? How do you spend your time? What do those activities mean to you?   

Today I’m speaking with John Fitch who dances between design, engineering and conversations.    John believes time off leads to better quality work and talks about this on his podcast and in latest book Time Off.   “I enjoy building technology through unlearning and the generous act of sonder.”

Leysa Cerswell Kielburger, author of WE Well-being, is the co-founder of WE Well-being and a faculty member at the Centre for Mindfulness Studies, where she develops mindfulness-based programs and trains health care practitioners and educators. Her Ph.D. dissertation in Clinical Psychology focused on mental health care for underserved and marginalized populations. Leysa has taught and practiced across North America, Asia and Africa. WE.org WE Well-being Podcast We Well-being Resources   Journaling Prompts What is one small thing that I’m doing right now to promote my own wellbeing? What is one thing I’m doing to promote the wellbeing of others? What is bringing me joy right now?  

Today I’m speaking with New York Times bestselling author James Clear. Author of the international bestselling book, Atomic Habits.  Creator of jamesclear.com and the popular 3-2-1 weekly newsletter. Speaker at major companies and events. Weightlifter and (former) athlete. Contributor to the Against Malaria Foundation where he donates 5% of all profit. Journaling Prompts: Am I climbing the right mountain? What are you optimizing for?   Who am I optimizing to become? Can my current habits carry me to my desired future? Am I being effective right now or just busy?  

Mark Metry is on Amazon Prime's TV Docuseries "The Social Movement" season 2 attempting to solve some of the world's biggest problems. He is also the Host of the Global Top 100 podcast called Humans 2.0 featured by Forbes, NASDAQ, and Yahoo Finance as the "Top 21 Growing Podcasts you must listen to in 2019." Mark's show has been listened to over 10 million times and features the greatest leaders of our time exploring today's dynamic of the human experience in modern technological times. Mark is also now a best selling author with his first book “Screw Being Shy : How to Eliminate Social Anxiety” which is currently exploding on Amazon! Check out episode #68 for our first conversation.  

Mike Robbins is the author of five books, including, Bring Your Whole Self to Work and We're All in This Together.  He's a former pro baseball player whose playing career ended due to an injury.  For the past 20 years, he's been a sought-after motivational speaker who delivers keynotes and seminars for some of the top companies in the world. He and his work have been featured in the New York Times and the Harvard Business Review, as well as on NPR and ABC News.  He’s a regular contributor to Forbes, hosts a weekly podcast, and his books have been translated into 15 different languages. And I would add, he’s a great human! Enjoy this conversation! The  socials - Instagram | LinkedIn | Twitter | Facebook | YouTube   Journaling Prompts: What are you grateful for? What matters? Who matters? How can I serve? How can I be kind to myself and others?  

David Sax is a writer, reporter, and speaker who specializes in business and culture. His previous book, The Revenge of Analog, was a #1 Washington Post bestseller, was selected as one of Michiko Kakutani’s Top Ten books of 2016 for the New York Times, and has been translated into six languages. He is the author of Save the Deli, which won a James Beard award, and The Tastemakers.  With all his books, he has tapped into the reasons people go into business. His latest book, The Soul Of An Entrepreneur goes even deeper on this theme. Why does the entrepreneur matter, why do different types of entrepreneurs matter and why do they become an entrepreneur in the first place? “Starting your own business isn’t about becoming an instant billionaire. It’s about choosing the work and life you want for yourself, every day.” David Sax The Soul of an Entrepreneur - Work and life behind the startup myth   Journaling Prompts: Is this interesting to me? Is my heart in it? Am I pursuing the freedom I want?  

Emma Brooks is passionate about three things: branding, community building, and ideas. As Head of Marketing at Wattpad, she brings these passions together to create marketing strategies that tell Wattpad’s rich story to its millions of users around the world. Emma is also committed to building communities that give back. She volunteers for The Coaching Fellowship, a non-profit that provides massively discounted executive coaching for extraordinary young women leaders in roles of impact around the globe. She is the co-founder of Reset, an immersive digital detox camp experience for adults, that has run events annually since 2015. And she spent 7 years as an avid TEDster, working on and leading the Programming team for TEDxToronto. Emma on >> Instagram | Twitter | LinkedIn   Journaling Prompts (marketing related): What is our unfair advantage? What is happening culturally? What are the other competitors doing? What is the monster we are fighting?  

Aditi Shah is a yoga teacher based in New York City teaching public and live broadcast classes for Peloton. She is also a co-creator of Mindful Morning, a pop-up meditation event in NYC, and a supporter of Exhale to Inhale. She has led lead class for over 2000 yogis in Times Square, for Good Morning America's "Tone in 20," had contributed to Well + Good's "Sweat Series," and has been named one of NYC's Best Teachers by Classpass.  To Aditi, yoga is a workout, a science and a worldview wrapped into a way of life.  Aditi on >> Instagram | Spotify | Facebook   Journaling Prompts: What does my heart truly desire? What makes me feel alive? Where is my happiness coming from?  

Jessica Goldberg is the Senior Producer at Ten Percent Happier. She produces docu-series on mental wellness and a daily live meditation show called TPH Live. Jessica is an Emmy award-winning producer who began her career in hard news and has written stories about people in over 110 different countries. Jessica has produced stories for mainstream media like ABC News and outsiders like Al Jazeera and Mic covering some of the biggest stories of our generation. In reporting on world affairs she discovered that political problems at the core are actually emotional problems. She knew that the current media landscape wasn’t helping us deal with these emotional problems - especially on a one-on-one basis. So she decided to work on creating content that could help us be more connected and compassionate. Coronavirus Sanity Guide (FREE) Frontline Foods - Fueling care in times of crisis   Journaling Prompts: What are the key challenges right now? How can we be doing more? In what way can we serve? What actually matters?

JT McCormick who was born the mixed-race son of a negligent, drug-dealing pimp father and a struggling single mother. He was raised in the slums of Dayton, Ohio, suffered incredible abuse, racism, and had multiple stints in the juvenile justice system. He barely graduated high school and has no college degree.  No one expected him to succeed. But he’s been President of two multimillion-dollar companies and is currently the president and CEO of Scribe Media. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife and four children.   Journaling Prompts: What are my core pillars in life? How do I define success for me? What am I grateful for?  

Nikki Sharp is a best selling author, speaker, healer and Youtuber that has also rocked a #1 ranking App and top 30 Podcast. Through her work as a health coach and wellness blogger, her mission is to spread the knowledge of healthy living for the mind, body and soul. This is part II with the amazing Nikki Sharp and if you want to hear how she shifted from working as an international model to pursuing health full time make sure to check out episode #47.   Journaling Prompts: Who am I from last year? Who do I want to be every single day? What am running away from? What am I trying to find? What does healthy mean to me? What makes me happy in life? What makes me unhappy? What are the activities I schedule in my calendar? Do these activities support my happiness?  

Hello awesome people! Welcome to a special edition of Behind The Human. I’m your host Marc Champagne and normally I’m unpacking the stories and mental fitness practices of top level humans but today I want to offer some guidance and journaling prompts to help mentally weather the COVID-19 storm. When it passes, we’ll be stronger, more resilient and our mind will be trained for anything life throws our way in the future. Sending nothing but pure love and health to you and your families. - Marc   Journaling Prompts: What stories are you telling yourself right now?  How do they make you feel?  Where are you right now?  What makes you feel secure and confident?  Which relationships are giving you comfort and love?  What are you thankful for right now?  How can you help others?   ++ Special props

How was Ben Walters able to see other options when shutting down his company seemed to be the only path forward? We dive into the mental fitness practices that helped Ben through one of the most challenging times of his life. Ben was born and raised in Toronto and after graduating from McGill ventured into the corporate world trying to figure out what he wanted to do with his life. After a couple stints in management consulting, he started Feedback App, an app aimed at reducing food waste. He quickly fell in love with start-up everything, and while Feedback App did not work out ideally, the team got acqui-hired by Hopper where they continue to work today.   Journaling Prompts: What’s my ideal balance in life? Have I voiced gratitude to others? What’s stopping me from doing this right now? What does luck mean to me?  

Today I'm jamming with Julian Guderley! His podcast GreenPlanet BluePlanet was recognized by Entrepreneur Magazine as one of the "top 10  Podcasts that will help you grow in 2020". We dive into Julian's quest to identify, interview & collaboratively empower the key players in the regenerative movement and how our personal wellbeing is essential to this movement. Make sure to visit #PLANETARYPURPOSE   Journaling Prompts: Who am I? Why am I here? What does it mean to be me?  

Today I’m speaking with Jason & Caroline Zook. I can’t beat their bio so here’s who they are in their own words:   We’re creative business owners

Today I’ve got Douglas Ferguson on the show who is an entrepreneur and human-centered technologist with over 20 years of experience. He is president of Voltage Control, an Austin-based workshop agency that specializes in Design Sprints and innovation workshops.   He recently published his first book, Beyond the Prototype, which offers a six-step plan for companies struggling with the shift from discovery to launch.   Douglas is active in the Austin startup community where he serves on the board of several non-profits, mentors startups, and advises early-stage ventures.   Journaling Prompts: What am I missing? What should I stop doing? What can I automate or delegate? How can I tell a better story? How can I NOT say I’m busy?  

Today I’m chatting with Bree Wasylenko. She made the move to Toronto post high school to pursue her dream of becoming a professional dancer. Over a decade later, she has worked as a dancer in an abundance of films and TV shows (including Top 20 of So You Think You Can Dance Canada, Season 3), performed on stages all around the world, and choreographed for major brands and award winning artists.   Bree began her transition to acting with her first role on the hit Family Channel TV show “The Next Step” but you can also find her playing a diverse group of characters from a 1900’s housewife in “Murdoch Mysteries”, to being painted head to toe green as an Orion in “Star Trek: Discovery”.   “There’s that famous question people always ask: Where do you see yourself in one year? Five years? Ten? I’ve never been able to answer that question and I LOVE IT. If you’re open to life and it’s magical ways, you never truly know where you will end up. And I think that’s pretty darn cool