Episodes

Megan Flood is the Founder of Marine Lane, a NYC design and branding studio she founded in 2012. Her journey is an example of where life can take you when you are in tune with what you love and what you are good at from a very young age but most importantly when you are not afraid to keep raising your hand. Megan currently leads a team of creatives who are bonded by a shared love of design and belief in the power it has to connect, inspire, sell, and amuse.

Jennifer Hill is a successful entrepreneur turned spirituality and consciousness guru. She hosts a digital show on Awake TV on higher consciousness with such influential guests as Deepak Chopra, Brue Lipton, et al. She also regularly speaks at conferences around the world on spirituality and leadership and has authored two books: one on spiritual tools to achieve a successful life and another on career development and finding purpose.

Dan Hesse is an acclaimed CEO and business leader who received broad industry recognition and praise as Sprint's CEO. Most of us, remember him from the widely popular Sprint's "Simply Everything" Commercials. Under his charismatic leadership, Sprint's reputation improved significantly with an emphasis on customer service and drastically improved Sprint’s Total Shareholder Return, even ranking #1 among all S&P 500 companies for two calendar years. A telecom legend, Dan was inducted into the Wireless History Foundation Hall of Fame in 2022. He views business leadership as a vocation, in that conscience-driven, ethical leaders can make a very positive impact on the world. He is a strong advocate of corporate responsibility and creating an equitable culture. He's living proof that you can climb to the highest levels of the corporate ladder without losing your humanity. Listen in and be inspired!

In 1989, while pursuing a career in music in New York, Steven Rudolph took up a part-time teaching job to make ends meet. In his first class he had an epiphany: that he had an innate capacity to teach. Though he had no formal training, it was as if he already knew how to do it—as if he were a fish in water. The realization led him on a 21-year quest to India, where he uncovered 5,000-year-old secrets to self-understanding and achieving one's potential. Steven has taken those principles and crafted them into an easy-to-use, enjoyable program--Feed Your Tigers.

Jon Weberg is an American entrepreneur, top 1% consultant and business master. By the age of 24, he is a 2X self-published author & has worked with clients in 18 industries. He is widely considered a business growth, personal development, and financial expert. He spends his time helping businesses scale profitably without outside capital. He claims part of his success to always follow his intuition and an innate urge to do more.

Twenty years ago, a rare disease rendered David New deaf, blind, and paralyzed from the waist down. Rejecting his doctors’ terminal diagnosis, defying all odds, David learned to walk again and gradually regained his hearing, though he did not regain his sight. Multi-talented, he has since become a steadfast advocate for people with disabilities, creates glass sculptures, founded several companies and non-profits, and has embarked on an exciting venture, the South Beach Jazz Festival, www.sobeja...

Tom Maze is a Serial Entrepreneur, Coach, Consultant, and Mentor for personal growth, leadership, business development, and marketing who is passionate about living a life of impact. He's a firm believer that in order to maximize one's human potential, one has to step into courage, gain confidence and make a commitment to take action to manifest one's dreams and goals. If you are curious how to do just that, this episode is for you, as Tom shares his blueprint to achieve a life of significance and fulfillment.

Maggie Perotin was born in communist Poland, and started her journey in very different circumstances than most of us. She eventually immigrated to Canada and became an international business and leadership coach. She has leveraged her own life experiences to develop the "DREAM-PLAN-DO" coaching model to help people find what she calls, the "blind spot" and align their mindset, business skills and high-performance habits.

Dr Jude Currivan is a cosmologist, futurist, planetary healer and author. She was previously one of the most senior business women in the UK, as CFO and Executive Board Member of two major international companies. She has a Master’s degree in Physics from Oxford University specializing in quantum physics and cosmology, and a Doctorate in Archaeology from the University of Reading researching ancient cosmologies. She has traveled to more than 70 countries, worked with wisdom keepers from many traditions, and been a lifelong researcher into the scientific and experiential understanding of the nature of reality. She is an enthusiastic and inspirational advocate of the positive view of the transformations we are witnessing on planet Earth, and her latest book, "The Story of Gaia", is all about that! This is an episode that will give you a Whole World View!

Timothy Stuetz knows a thing or two about changing careers and rebooting oneself. His journey has taken him from being a Certified Public Accountant to an Ordained Minister to a Master of Multiple Ancient Arts & Sacred Sciences (Meditation, Reiki, T'ai Chi, Yoga & Qigong) to finally the most prolific author of children's books alive today. His is a fascinating story and in this episode, he delivers plenty of wisdom and inspiration!

Erik Alexander, aka NOLA Papa is a parenting blogger, author, and podcaster, on a mission of raising awareness of the many challenges that LGBTQ+ families face and hopes to destigmatize labels and help create a world where we can all happily coexist. This is an amazing episode where many delicate subjects are talked about with openness, acceptance, and most importantly love, because at the end the day, love is love.

Liam Naden "tried everything" to achieve success - and then, after having arrived at the cusp, he lost everything and became homeless in his mid 40s. In this episode, he shares that he was eventually able to rebuild his life in a much better way than before and he credits uncovering the key to creating the ideal life for it. Want to know what that key is? Tune in!

We have all been heavily influenced by societal, familial, and cultural conditioning. Sometimes that conditioning runs so deep that we disconnect from our soul’s purpose. Stephanie Banks helps people see beyond their self-created limitations to achieve the longings and desires their souls have set before them. Through her channeling gifts, she reconnects people to their soul’s wisdom and innate intuition to create a life of their wildest imagining.

Sagar Constantin is a recognized teacher, international speaker, and business psychology consultant with more than 21 years of experience. She is the author of seven books. The In-Between series is her crown jewel, because they were born from her desire to bring awareness to the world. In this engaging conversation, she showcases her remarkable ability to make complicated psychological theories and tools easy to understand and use. Sagar teaches

Mark Cronin and his son John, are the co-founders of John’s Crazy Socks, a social enterprise with a mission to spread happiness. Their leadership has demonstrated that pursuing social goals – demonstrating what people with differing abilities can achieve and giving back – makes for good business and a happier life.

William Attaway is a Leadership and Executive Coach, a Pastor and the author of the Amazon #1 Best-Selling Book 'Catalytic Leadership'. In this engaging episode, William shares the importance of staying connected with the potential of what can be, and to the fact that Life is not a straight Line. In his opinion, God never wastes an experience, and he intends for us all to grow to our full potential through gradual progress.

Nathaniel (Nate) Jewell is a seasoned entrepreneur at the intersection of technology and fitness. He is the founder of the virtual fitness platform Recess.tv, a first-in-category solution that promotes wellness for all, while empowering instructors to bring their business online with technology built for virtual engagement. Warning: This episode might nspire you to embrace a wellness-focused lifestyle!

Ushering in a new era of bite-sized livable health, nutrition, and fitness solutions, Patricia Greenberg practices what she preaches. A working wife and mother, she has 30 years of experience as a Certified Nutritionist, Chef, and Wellness educator. She lives a healthy lifestyle in an often chaotic world through good food and attainable fitness. Patricia runs The Fitness Gourmet, a wellness consulting firm that specializes in teaching seminars nationwide. She has a special interest in enhancing ...

One year ago, Scot Schute quit his dream job as a top executive at LinkedIn to follow an idea - to Change Work From the Inside Out. The start was writing his first book, The Full Body Yes, and since then, he's risen to become a sought-after keynote speaker, executive coach and thought leader. This week he released his latest project, 'Changing Work for Teams', which is a group experience that's designed to build more engagement and connection - connection to each other, connection to purpose. This is an episode with guaranteed inspiration, and the call to action to changing from the inside out!

Seth Buechley is a serial entrepreneur and business founder focused on connecting high-potential leaders with the ideas, resources, and people they need to grow their enterprise and have a lasting leadership impact. He's also a recognized TEDx and Keynote Speaker and the author of Ambition- Leading with Gratitude, a book that will make you better understand the tension between ambition and satisfaction.

Lauren Fonvielle is an Integrative Energy Practitioner, specializing in Tapping techniques for stress, anxiety, and trauma. She is a firm believer that every self-healing journey starts with facing the obstacles - physical, mental, or emotional - head-on, to prevent them from keeping us feeling stuck and in pain.

Bracken Darrell has been the CEO of Logitech since 2013 and his journey includes rising to the top in companies like Procter & Gamble and Whirlpool. Under his leadership, Logitech has grown to unimaginable levels, but it is his bold, yet authentic leadership style that inspires not only the many that work under him but the world around him. In this episode, he shares that one of his biggest fears is to lose touch with the world, and that's why he's committed to many global impacting issues such as Global Warming, Sustainability, and Equality. What makes him tick? Has been one of the best answers on Back2basics to date. Are you ready?

Lawren Askinosie grew up around craft chocolate, and with craft chocolate. Still in high school when her father transitioned from courtroom to chocolate-making and started one of the first small batch chocolate factories in America, she assisted him in almost every facet of their new life as chocolate makers—from working the storefront to developing marketing material. Eager to jump into the family business full-time Lawren began college early and upon graduation at 20, dove headfirst into learn...

In her book "Experience is the Angled Road: Memoirs of an Academic", Barbara Gitenstein captures the shock and the humor she faced when confronting the obstacles of being the only “whatever” in the room (woman, Jew, southerner, liberal) and delivers an incredible book about leadership instead of yet another handbook on how to be a leader. To her, it was the privilege of being an "outsider" that taught her to listen with a sympathetic ear, allowing her career to achieve the highest level one could hope for in Academia, College President. She is often interviewed on radio and television stations in New Jersey, focusing on higher education issues. SPOILER ALERT: There is incredible WISDOM in this episode!