wedotalk: Recent Episodes
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Wedo, an American and European communication platform SaaS with an integrated banking tool, is serving the $4T global freelancer, coaching, and startup market, aiming to supercharge their businesses. Founded by former freelancer Indiana Gregg at the beginning of the COVID pandemic, Wedo removes financial and technical barriers to entry by bringing together the tools for the gig economy, with live streaming video, in-stream payments, webinars, and booking tools with banking services built into one seamless platform. Join beta at https://getwedo.today
While traveling to Las Vegas with the Wedo team, David had the opportunity to interview musician, singer, songwriter, rapper, record producer and philanthropist Aloe Blacc.
Aloe needs less introduction than most of our Wedotalk guests. David and Aloe talk about Aloe’s music career and the songs he has produced, the most famous of which are “I Need a Dollar” and “The Man”; but the conversation also turns to Aloe’s early life in Southern California as the son of immigrants from Panama, his education and his corporate work, before dedicating himself full time to his music career.
David and Aloe also talk about the social messages in some of his songs, such as the inspirational lyrics in “Together Is Better Thank One”; and also, the mental health challenges facing performers in a high-profile entertainment world.
In addition to being a well renowned musician, Aloe is also very actively involved in philanthropy, and specifically in Malaria no More, a charity whose mission is to end malaria deaths through engaging leaders, rallying the public and delivering life-saving tools and education across the African Continent.
Aloe’s Contact Information:
Website: https://www.aloeblacc.com
Twitter: @aloeblacc
Instagram: @aloeblacc
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aloeblacc
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Enjoy the Wedotalks Podcast. Where people share their stories, life, business, success, loss, reinvention, career changes, renewal. Across cultures, in the digital realm and real life.
Social Media Channels Wedo
https://www.facebook.com/wedo.headquarters
https://twitter.com/wedo_hq
https://www.instagram.com/Wedo_hq
https://soundcloud.com/wedotalk
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/wedotalk/id1527052962
Manage your money With a Wedo money account, you can receive payments, send invoices, automate payments and manage your contracts. Sell your services in real time on video and audio calls. Demonstrate your products and services to your clients, share files and manage your groups and alleys. It’s a breeze!
Website: https://wedo.ai
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On October 22, 2022, David interviewed Dr. Suzy Burke, Co-Founder of Accountability, Inc., a consultancy that helps leaders develop a laser-like focus on their most important priorities and be fully accountable for their actions and results. Suzy’s diverse career includes serving as an executive at a major international corporation, running her own consultancy, a retail business and teaching in middle school and high school. In her corporate career, she turned a failing division into the most successful division in only 18 months by implementing a system of accountability. When coaching leaders in accountability, the principles that Suzy believes will deliver success are an unwavering commitment to your priorities and a willingness to fiercely defend them against other interesting ideas, the humility to admit our shortcomings and failures, and the courage to hold ourselves and others accountable for meeting their commitments. Suzy also talks about her training as a member of Marshall Goldsmith’s prestigious 100 Coaches, and other courses of study that she has undertaken in human and organizational behaviour.
Suzy’s Contact Information:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suzy-burke-phd-ab77071a/
Website: https://accountability.business
Email: suzy@accountabilityinc.io
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Enjoy the Wedotalks Podcast. Where people share their stories, life, business, success, loss, reinvention, career changes, renewal. Across cultures, in the digital realm and real life.
Social Media Channels Wedo
https://www.facebook.com/wedo.headquarters
https://twitter.com/wedo_hq
https://www.instagram.com/Wedo_hq
https://soundcloud.com/wedotalk
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/wedotalk/id1527052962
Manage your money With a Wedo money account, you can receive payments, send invoices, automate payments and manage your contracts. Sell your services in real time on video and audio calls. Demonstrate your products and services to your clients, share files and manage your groups and alleys. It’s a breeze!
Website: https://wedo.ai
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Overcoming Setbacks With A Positive Mindset | Wedotalk with David Jaques and Special Guest - Daniel MacQueen
On September 20, 2022 David interviewed Dan MacQueen from Vancouver, Canada. In his mid-twenties, Dan was a recent graduate of a master’s degree in sustainability and was working for a technology company in London. He sought medical help when suffering from headaches, and distorted vision and was diagnosed with a non-cancerous cyst on his brain. During surgery, he suffered a massive brain hemorrhage and was severely incapacitated and in a coma for several weeks. On the road to recovery, he was in and out of consciousness before moving to a rehabilitation center for several more months. Slowly, he re-learned how to walk, talk and smile again; but about one year after his initial surgery, he needed a second brain surgery to unblock a shunt, which set him back another couple of months. After a 16-month journey, he was able to return to work. Dan credits his positive mindset and determination not to give up as the main reasons that he was able to recover. Dan had received great support from his employer, but recently, in a corporate re-structuring, he lost his job. Once again, his positive mindset resulted in him re-framing his life and pursue a new career as a freelance motivational speaker, coach and podcast host. Dan shares with David, many of his stories of recovery and the opportunities that he sees for himself in the future.
Dan’s Contact Information:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielmacqueen/
Twitter: @macqueendan
Instagram: @macqueendan
Website: www.macqueendan.com
Podcast Channel: https://anchor.fm/playlooselooktight
https://twitter.com/macqueendan
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Enjoy the Wedotalks Podcast. Where people share their stories, life, business, success, loss, reinvention, career changes, renewal. Across cultures, in the digital realm and real life.
Social Media Channels Wedo
https://www.facebook.com/wedo.headquarters
https://twitter.com/wedo_hq
https://www.instagram.com/Wedo_hq
https://soundcloud.com/wedotalk
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/wedotalk/id1527052962
Manage your money With a Wedo money account, you can receive payments, send invoices, automate payments and manage your contracts. Sell your services in real time on video and audio calls. Demonstrate your products and services to your clients, share files and manage your groups and alleys. It’s a breeze!
Website: https://wedo.ai
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On September 23, 2022, David interviewed Evelyn Santizo, while attending the RevolutionHER conference in Toronto Canada. Evelyn has re-invented herself professionally a number of times, with the recurring theme of serving others and helping people to feel better about themselves.
Originally from Guatemala, she migrated to Canada with her family as a young child. In her early life, she dreamt of becoming a police officer, but when her mother feared for her safety, she pursued a career in nursing instead. While working on a geriatric ward, she tells the story of helping elderly patients feel better about their appearance. In her desire to help people feel more confident about themselves, she went into fashion merchandizing, and later owned a spa. After the birth of her second child, Evelyn had gained a lot of weight and created an online store for plus-sized women’s and girl’s clothing. She then talks about her decision to lose weight with the help of a surgical procedure. Over the last eight years, Evelyn has worked as a commercial, residential and investment real estate broker.
Evelyn’s Contact Information:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/evelyn-santizo-12a62013/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/esanti39/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kwdreamhomefinder
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Enjoy the Wedotalks Podcast. Where people share their stories, life, business, success, loss, reinvention, career changes, renewal. Across cultures, in the digital realm and real life.
Social Media Channels Wedo
https://www.facebook.com/wedo.headquarters
https://twitter.com/wedo_hq
https://www.instagram.com/Wedo_hq
https://soundcloud.com/wedotalk
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/wedotalk/id1527052962
Manage your money With a Wedo money account, you can receive payments, send invoices, automate payments and manage your contracts. Sell your services in real time on video and audio calls. Demonstrate your products and services to your clients, share files and manage your groups and alleys. It’s a breeze!
Website: https://wedo.ai
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On September 1, 2022 David interviewed Dr. Amit Patel, Founder and CEO of Peachy, an innovative solution for private health insurance in the UK.
Amit trained as a surgeon and worked in the NHS (National Health Service) for almost six years, he is a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, and has lectured at Oxford University. Having always had in interest in business and entrepreneurship, he took the decision to leave medicine and pursue a career in strategy & M&A consulting, in which he worked for five years across financial services, life science and healthcare industries. He then ran strategy & M&A and was a corporate venture builder for one of the UK’s largest private health insurers, but always had a desire to start his own business.
In 2019, he started Peachy, an innovative new digital platform, providing affordable health insurance products for individuals, freelancers and micro / small businesses. The journey for Peachy has included obtaining regulatory approval, partnering with an insurer, raising capital, navigating market changes due to Brexit and withstanding the Covid pandemic. We finish by talking a little about the challenges of starting a business and the rewards that can be achieved.
Amit’s Contact Information:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amitpatel911/
Website: https://www.peachy.health
Get Wedo - Help More People Help More People Get Wedo App for freelancers/consultants to thrive online. One-stop live streaming video, payments, webinars, and booking tools with built-in banking services.
Enjoy the Wedotalks Podcast. Where people share their stories, life, business, success, loss, reinvention, career changes, renewal. Across cultures, in the digital realm and real life.
Social Media Channels Wedo
https://www.facebook.com/wedo.headquarters
https://twitter.com/wedo_hq
https://www.instagram.com/Wedo_hq
https://soundcloud.com/wedotalk
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/wedotalk/id1527052962
Manage your money With a Wedo money account, you can receive payments, send invoices, automate payments and manage your contracts. Sell your services in real time on video and audio calls. Demonstrate your products and services to your clients, share files and manage your groups and alleys. It’s a breeze!
Website: https://wedo.ai
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On September 20, 2022 David interviewed Trent Simmons from Zurich, Switzerland. A former player of the sport of ultimate frisbee and founder of a sports charity, today Trent is the Founder and Managing Director of the World Spirit of the Game Foundation (SotG), a global NGO with a significant outreach, the mission of SotG is to inspire and empower individuals and organizations to take personal accountability for their impact on the world. One of the core goals of SotG is to change “the definition of winning” across all areas of society.
Represented by over 100 countries, SotG operates divisions in Women’s Empowerment, Entrepreneurship, Climate Sustainability and NGO Support. Trent talks about the Five Guiding Principles of SotG:
Be personally accountable
Be continuously introspective
Be actively non-judgmental
Unpack conflicts calmly
Respect the spirit of the rules
Staffed currently by volunteers, Trent talks about some of the goals for future expansion and sustainability of the organization, its membership growth, its online events and coaching services, and ways that those interested can become involved.
Trent’s Contact Information:
LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sotg-founder/
Website:
https://spiritofthegame.org
https://twitter.com/macqueendan
On September 8, 2022 David interviewed Mehaboob Begum in Sydney, Australia, a recent master’s graduate in Information Technology and currently the Quality Assurance and Customer Support Analyst for GetMee.
Mehaboob is from India and although she originally wanted to enter the medical field and train to be a doctor, she decided to pursue her studies in technology and earned her undergraduate degree in computer systems technology. After a few years working in customer service, she migrated to Australia in February 2020 to pursue a master’s degree from the Swinburne University of Technology in Sydney; but had to spend most of her first year in lockdown during the Covid pandemic.
We talk about her internship and later employment with GetMee, an Australian startup that uses artificial intelligence to assist language learning for those learning English as a second language. We also talk about the labour shortage across the globe, and the opportunities that are open to freelance workers in IT and many other industries.
Mehaboob’s Contact Information:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mehaboob-unnisa-begum-56a9211a4/
Website: https://getmee.ai
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Enjoy the Wedotalks Podcast. Where people share their stories, life, business, success, loss, reinvention, career changes, renewal. Across cultures, in the digital realm and real life.
Social Media Channels Wedo
https://www.facebook.com/wedo.headquarters
https://twitter.com/wedo_hq
https://www.instagram.com/Wedo_hq
https://soundcloud.com/wedotalk
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/wedotalk/id1527052962
Manage your money With a Wedo money account, you can receive payments, send invoices, automate payments and manage your contracts. Sell your services in real time on video and audio calls. Demonstrate your products and services to your clients, share files and manage your groups and alleys. It’s a breeze!
Website: https://wedo.ai
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On August 31, 2022 David interviewed Military Veteran, and Certified Personal Trainer, James Ward. Physical fitness has always been an important part of James’ life, dating back to elementary school and high school, when the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports implemented training programs in schools throughout the United States.
James joined the United States Marine Corp. where he served for 8 years, was stationed in Japan and the Philippines, and also served in Desert Storm in the early 1990’s. Following his military career, James attended university and earned a degree in Sports Science and Business Management. After a couple of years working as an inventory accountant, he joined the fitness industry and became certified as a Personal Trainer, working in health clubs and gyms until early 2020, in which he and many others lost their jobs due to the closure and lockdowns that were imposed at that time. James saw this as an opportunity to establish himself as a freelancer, and now works with clients in their homes and online.
Aside from maintaining physical fitness, James is an avid surfer and snowboarder and actively participates in other sports.
James’ Contact Information:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/james.ward.3990
Instagram: @jaymotrainer
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Enjoy the Wedotalks Podcast. Where people share their stories, life, business, success, loss, reinvention, career changes, renewal. Across cultures, in the digital realm and real life.
Social Media Channels Wedo
https://www.facebook.com/wedo.headquarters
https://twitter.com/wedo_hq
https://www.instagram.com/Wedo_hq
https://soundcloud.com/wedotalk
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/wedotalk/id1527052962
Manage your money With a Wedo money account, you can receive payments, send invoices, automate payments and manage your contracts. Sell your services in real time on video and audio calls. Demonstrate your products and services to your clients, share files and manage your groups and alleys. It’s a breeze!
Website: https://wedo.ai
gigeconomy #freelancer #solopreneur
On August 30, 2022 David interviewed Abel Garza, Entrepreneur, Military Veteran, Founder of Grey Bug Photography and host of Creative Entrepreneurship Podcast. Abel has been an entrepreneur since his teenage years, has started and sold a number of businesses, and earned two masters’ degrees and several other professional qualifications.
Abel attributes many of his accomplishments to his curiosity and hunger for knowledge. Several of his businesses have been started to give him the ability to learn new skills, rather than learning first and then starting a business. He also talks about what type of mindset is needed to start a business and run it successfully.
We finish talking about the importance of seeking a balance of time, money and health at different stages of life.
Abel’s Contact Information:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abelrgarza/
Website: https://greybugphotography.com/
Get Wedo - Help More People Help More People Get Wedo App for freelancers/consultants to thrive online. One-stop live streaming video, payments, webinars, and booking tools with built-in banking services.
Enjoy the Wedotalks Podcast. Where people share their stories, life, business, success, loss, reinvention, career changes, renewal. Across cultures, in the digital realm and real life.
Social Media Channels Wedo
https://www.facebook.com/wedo.headquarters
https://twitter.com/wedo_hq
https://www.instagram.com/Wedo_hq
https://soundcloud.com/wedotalk
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/wedotalk/id1527052962
Manage your money With a Wedo money account, you can receive payments, send invoices, automate payments and manage your contracts. Sell your services in real time on video and audio calls. Demonstrate your products and services to your clients, share files and manage your groups and alleys. It’s a breeze!
Website: https://wedo.ai
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On August 29, 2022 David interviewed Raj Singh, Founder, Director and Head of PR for Xclusive PR in London. Raj talks about how he started his agency in 2014, which focuses mainly on clients that are startups, struggling businesses and independent artists. He shares some stories of his approach to public relations and what that means to companies and performers.
Raj also talks about his early life in which his family were badly impacted by the UK recession in the early 1990’s, the unwavering support and strength of his family to withstand hardship; his accomplishments and those of his sisters; and his entrepreneurial spirit that resulted in him creating a successful business.
Raj also provides some words of wisdom for people considering establishing themselves or their business independently.
Raj’s Contact Information:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/XclusivePR
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajxclusivepr/
Twitter: @XclusivePR
Instagram: @xclusivepruk
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/XclusivePR/
Website: https://xclusivepr.com/
Get Wedo - Help More People Help More People Get Wedo App for freelancers/consultants to thrive online. One-stop live streaming video, payments, webinars, and booking tools with built-in banking services.
Enjoy the Wedotalks Podcast. Where people share their stories, life, business, success, loss, reinvention, career changes, renewal. Across cultures, in the digital realm and real life.
Social Media Channels Wedo
https://www.facebook.com/wedo.headquarters
https://twitter.com/wedo_hq
https://www.instagram.com/Wedo_hq
https://soundcloud.com/wedotalk
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/wedotalk/id1527052962
Manage your money With a Wedo money account, you can receive payments, send invoices, automate payments and manage your contracts. Sell your services in real time on video and audio calls. Demonstrate your products and services to your clients, share files and manage your groups and alleys. It’s a breeze!
Website: https://wedo.ai
gigeconomy #freelancer #solopreneur
On June 27, 2022, David interviewed Jodi Brown, Co-Founder of Leveraged Solutions, joining me from The Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. Jodi also has a professional background as an IT Specialist, and is a trained boxer, marathon runner and mental health advocate.
Jodi’s first job was in IT support in the education system, followed by a similar role in the private sector, through which his communication skills led to him moving into selling IT systems, solutions and software. In his current business, Leveraged Solutions, he provides sales training and coaching to small businesses in effectively selling their goods and services and becoming more profitable.
Jodi also shares his personal journey of anxiety and depression, growing up in a home with an alcoholic father, and his battle with addiction. At a low point in his life, he enrolled in a boxing training programme and also discovered distance running. He actively participated in boxing tournaments and still runs half marathons, full marathons and ultra-distance events. Jodi has also trained as a facilitator for an organization called Livin, which provides programmes to high schools to openly talk about mental health and reduce the stigma associated with mental illness.
Jodi’s Contact Information:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrjodibrown/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mrjodi/?hl=en
Website: https://leveragedsolutions.com.au
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mrjodi
Get Wedo - Help More People Help More People Get Wedo App for freelancers/consultants to thrive online. One-stop live streaming video, payments, webinars, and booking tools with built-in banking services.
Enjoy the Wedotalks Podcast. Where people share their stories, life, business, success, loss, reinvention, career changes, renewal. Across cultures, in the digital realm and real life.
Social Media Channels Wedo
https://www.facebook.com/wedo.headquarters
https://twitter.com/wedo_hq
https://www.instagram.com/Wedo_hq
https://soundcloud.com/wedotalk
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/wedotalk/id1527052962
Manage your money With a Wedo money account, you can receive payments, send invoices, automate payments and manage your contracts. Sell your services in real time on video and audio calls. Demonstrate your products and services to your clients, share files and manage your groups and alleys. It’s a breeze!
Website: https://wedo.ai
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On July 6, 2022, David interviewed John Laurito, a veteran of the financial services industry, and founder of his own consulting, executive coaching and leadership training business.
Having worked for a number of financial services companies, in which John had successfully turned around business units that were under performing, John found that he was increasingly taking on more leadership roles. Eventually, he made the decision to leave the safety of his job and start his own business in February 2020, a few short weeks before the Covid-19 pandemic shut down businesses across the globe. In hindsight, John is glad that he made this move at the time he did, as it positioned him well to learn, and advise on the radical management changes that resulted from the move to remote working environments. Today, much of his work is with management teams to bridge the gap between CEO’s and mid-level leaders. He started his own podcast channel called “Tomorrow’s Leaders” and has recorded over 300 episodes
John also talks openly of his 25-year battle with anxiety and panic attacks, how he kept that part of himself hidden for many years and how he learnt to control them.
John’s Contact Information:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnlaurito/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/johnlaurito/
Website: https://www.johnlaurito.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/john.laurito.7
On April 29, 2022, David interviewed Dr. Ivan Misner, Author, Speaker and Founder & Chief Visionary Officer of BNI (Business Network International). After running his own consultancy business, Ivan founded BNI in 1985 and the organization now has over 10,000 chapters globally. Each year, BNI generates millions of referrals resulting in billions of dollars worth of business for its members.
Ivan is a New York Times Bestselling author who has written 26 books including one of his latest books – “Who’s in Your Room?”. He is also a columnist for Entrepreneur.com and has been a university professor as well as a member of the Board of Trustees for the University of La Verne.
Called the “Father of Modern Networking” by both Forbes and CNN, Ivan is considered to be one of the world’s leading experts on business networking and has been a keynote speaker for major corporations and associations throughout the world. He has been featured in the L.A. Times, Wall Street Journal, and New York Times, as well as numerous TV and radio shows including CNN, the BBC, and The Today Show on NBC.
Among his many awards, he has been named “Humanitarian of the Year” by the Red Cross and is proud that he and his late wife, Elisabeth, are the Co-Founders of the BNI Charitable Foundation, focusing on investment in children, their education and well-being.
Ivan’s Contact Information:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivanmisner/
Twitter: @IvanMisner
Instagram: @drivanmisner
Website: https://ivanmisner.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IvanMisner.BNIFounder
Get Wedo - Help More People Help More People Get Wedo App for freelancers/consultants to thrive online. One-stop live streaming video, payments, webinars, and booking tools with built-in banking services.
Enjoy the Wedotalks Podcast. Where people share their stories, life, business, success, loss, reinvention, career changes, renewal. Across cultures, in the digital realm and real life.
Social Media Channels Wedo
https://www.facebook.com/wedo.headquarters
https://twitter.com/wedo_hq
https://www.instagram.com/Wedo_hq
https://soundcloud.com/wedotalk
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/wedotalk/id1527052962
Manage your money With a Wedo money account, you can receive payments, send invoices, automate payments and manage your contracts. Sell your services in real time on video and audio calls. Demonstrate your products and services to your clients, share files and manage your groups and alleys. It’s a breeze!
Website: https://wedo.ai
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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion | Wedotalk with David Jaques and Special Guests: Claudia Thompson and Pattie Howard
On April 29, 2022, David interviewed Claudia Thompson. Claudia is the head of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Panel for BNI (Business Network International), and is also an independent diversity consultant and keynote speaker on diversity in the workplace. Also joining me was Pattie Howard, Chief diversity Officer for Wedo. Claudia grew up in New York City, and currently lives in Boston. Having experienced racial trauma herself, Claudia has become a voice for inclusion and equality, teaching people how to connect and network with each other. She has taught business owners of color to connect with networks outside of their own in order to grow and progress their businesses. In addition to her main role at BNI, Claudia is also a senior launch coach, focusing on recruiting members that are diverse. Claudia is a strong proponent of creating a space for people to feel safe and be truly appreciated.
Claudia’s Contact Information:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/claudiathompson/
Twitter: @claudiayankee
Instagram: @claudiayankee
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/claudiayankee
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Enjoy the Wedotalks Podcast. Where people share their stories, life, business, success, loss, reinvention, career changes, renewal. Across cultures, in the digital realm and real life.
Social Media Channels Wedo
https://www.facebook.com/wedo.headquarters
https://twitter.com/wedo_hq
https://www.instagram.com/Wedo_hq
https://soundcloud.com/wedotalk
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/wedotalk/id1527052962
Manage your money With a Wedo money account, you can receive payments, send invoices, automate payments and manage your contracts. Sell your services in real time on video and audio calls. Demonstrate your products and services to your clients, share files and manage your groups and alleys. It’s a breeze!
Website: https://wedo.ai
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On April 29, 2022, David interviewed Kevin Barber, an Executive Director of the Business Network International (“BNI”) region in Germany and Chairman of The BNI Foundation Worldwide.
Originally from the UK, Kevin was offered an assignment to Germany in 1984 while working in the accounting field, for KPMG, a position he remained in for four years. After working for several companies as an accountant and CFO in Germany, Kevin discovered BNI in 2004 and launched his first BNI chapter in 2005 in Heidelberg, Germany. His chapters have since generated a cumulative total of more than US$400 Million in closed business. Kevin has attended BNI meetings in 27 countries in order to establish a strong international network for his BNI customers.
As Chairman of the BNI Foundation, Kevin oversees a global organization, focused on giving 100% of its donations to benefit children across the globe.
For Kevin, Changing the Way the World Does Business means showing the world in everything that we do that “together and for each other” brings much better results than “against each other”.
Kevin’s Contact Information:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-barber-4628ab5/
Web Site: https://bnifoundation.org
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Enjoy the Wedotalk Podcast. Where people share their stories, life, business, success, loss, reinvention, career changes, renewal. Across cultures, in the digital realm and real life.
Social Media Channels Wedo
https://www.facebook.com/thewedoapp
https://twitter.com/thewedoapp
https://www.instagram.com/thewedoapp
https://soundcloud.com/wedotalk
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/wedotalk/id1527052962
Manage your money With a Wedo money account, you can receive payments, send invoices, automate payments and manage your contracts. Sell your services in real time on video and audio calls. Demonstrate your products and services to your clients, share files and manage your groups and alleys. It’s a breeze!
Website: https://wedo.ai
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On June 24, 2022, David interviewed the Founder of Whole Health Healing, Robby Cale. Robby is a therapist and social worker, and also a trained practitioner in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), Hypnotherapy, Reiki, Timeline Therapy, and Life Coaching. He operates as a sole practitioner in the state of Montana, USA, conducting both in-person sessions with local clients, as well as delivering online sessions globally.
Meditation and channeling energy have been a part of Robby’s life since his early childhood, which led him into a professional life of helping other people. He gives a description of the different types of energy work he offers and how they can be applied to help people facing challenges in many aspects of life.
We talk about isolation and the need to feel a sense of belonging to a community of people; either a physical connection, or an online connection, in which people can be seen, heard, understood and validated.
Robby’s Contact Information:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robby.cale/
Website: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/whole-health-healing-llc-kalispell-mt/484879
Clubhouse: @robbycale
Email: roberttcalelcsw@gmail.com
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On June 23, 2022, David interviewed Samantha Kelly from Wexford in Ireland. This was his second interview with Samantha, the first one was about a year ago in which she told the story of how she had taught herself many aspects of social media and particularly Twitter, and how she had successfully turned her knowledge into a profitable business by helping other businesses market themselves using Twitter and other social media platforms.
One year later, Samantha is focusing most of her time on running The Women’s Inspire Network, and developing chapters globally. The network was established in 2016, prior to the Covid pandemic, and has always had its main presence online. The network’s mission is to empower its members to confidently explore business opportunities, with aspect such as age and gender, not being an obstacle to potential success.
Samantha also talks about recently reaching a milestone of 14 years of sobriety, and the achievements that she has made in that time. We discuss the similarities between the work that she does to connect and help people; and that of anyone recovering from addiction. Both involve the giving and receiving of kindness and support.
Samantha’s Contact Information:
Twitter: @Tweetinggoddess.com https://twitter.com/Tweetinggoddess?t=DC0W2TGLS1PwN3lthJNsUg&s=09
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tweetinggoddess/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tweetinggoddess
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tweetinggoddess/
Website: https://www.tweetinggoddess.com
https://www.womensinspirenetwork.com
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On April 19, 2022, veteran radio presenter Tom Russell interviewed our own Wedotalk host David Jaques. Having interviewed more than fifty guests for the Wedotalk Podcast Channel, this was a rare opportunity for us to hear David as the interviewee, talking about his own career and his life.
David tells the story of his career in finance, starting out with Barclays Bank in London and New York City, his move to Silicon Valley in the 1990’s as Treasurer of Silicon Valley Bank, and then his role as the first CFO of PayPal and his transition into the world of venture capital while working for Nokia, the world leader in mobile phone technology at that time. David also shares some of his other board and consulting roles with startups and venture capital firms, which led to him being a Founder of Wedo.
David also shares with Tom some personal stories of his early life growing up in London, his love of running and skiing, the pride he has in his family, and his own journey with mental illness and why the world of mental health advocacy and well-being are important to him.
David’s Contact Information:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-jaques-91a/
Twitter: @DavidJaquesCFO
Instagram: @DavidJ262
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/david.jaques.39
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On April 19, 2022, David interviewed disk jockey and radio presenter, Tom Russell.
Tom tells of his early career in the UK Parachute Regiment, before returning to his native Glasgow, where he opened a record shop, which became the first in a chain of stores in Scotland. As an early adopter of rock music, Tom was invited to host a late-night broadcast, “The Friday Night Rock Show” on Radio Clyde, which at the time, had the second highest commercial radio audience figures in the UK, marginally behind Capitol Radio in London. His invitation to host the show for a 6-week pilot period, ran for 22 years. Following on from this he then became the lead daytime presenter on Rock Radio and has also broadcast on many other radio stations throughout the UK. Tom is currently broadcasting on 'The Max' - www.maxradio.co.uk.
During his radio broadcasting career, Tom has interviewed most of rock royalty, such as Ozzy Osbourne, Bon Jovi, Guns & Roses, Iron Maiden, Metallica and way too many more to mention.
Tom’s Contact Information:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-russell-a995881b/
Twitter @tomrussell666
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/TomRussellOfficial/
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On April 29, 2022, David interviewed business adviser, coach, author and keynote speaker, David Kauffman. He is the owner of Your Business Basics, a consulting firm specializing in business process. He helps business owners understand how their actions, or lack thereof, affect their business. David is also the Managing Director of the BNI (Business Network International) Delaware Valley Regions.
David’s first business was an alarm monitoring company, followed by an electrical contractor business which grew in to Kauffman Construction, in which he always focused on looking at his service from the customer’s standpoint. After a serious car accident, David had to pivot his business away from construction, and built a travel company called Fun on the Waves. He founded his current business, Your Business Basics, in coaching and consultancy, in 2014
In 2018, David published his first book “Your Message: Everything You Do or Say Affects Your Message”. His book has become a point of reference for business owners in many fields
David’s Contact Information:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-kauffman-997933a/
Website: http://www.yourbusinessbasics.com
Email: David@YourBusinesBasics.com
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On May 25, 2022, David interviewed Suzy Zenouzi from London, Founder of Mojona Ltd. A bespoke global Marketing and A&R company in the music industry; and more recently, Founder of Dragon Ley Tours, providing holistic healing and well-being through the study of ley lines and earth energy lines.
In 2004 she launched Mojona, which became a bespoke creator and promoter of musical performers, which supported artists such as Kanye West, Jay-Z, John Legend and many more. Suzy is still involved in the music world today, but through her current business, The Dragon Ley Tours, she has studied the ancient art of dowsing and earth energy lines, which focuses on the energies that exist beneath the earth’s surface and how they can be used for holistic healing and well-being.
Suzy’s Contact Information:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suzy-zenouzi-0809791/
Twitter: @MojonaLtd
Instagram: @suzyzenouzi , @thedragonleytours
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thedragonleytours/
Email: info@mojona.com
On April 29, 2022, David interviewed Adam Kent, business coach and Founder/CEO of Invictus Consulting, an organization dedicated to the success of small to medium sized businesses. Invictus has clients internationally, from Canada, India, Australia, and around the US. Specializing in sales, EQ, leadership training, enhancing organizational culture & behavior.
Born in Japan, Adam’s family moved to Australia when he was 8-years old, and he struggled to find his sense of belonging during his teenage years. Adam caught his first entrepreneurial bug at 9 years old, importing Japanese lollipops and selling them throughout his school in Sydney. He studied at the Australian College of Applied Psychology in Sydney, which gave him a foundation and understanding of human behavior, and after that, a successful sales career in multiple industries. He later worked with a coach, from whom he learned a lot, and greatly respected, and then transitioned into the world of coaching others.
In 2016, Adam migrated to the United Stated and settled in Las Vegas. While working for a family member, he continued coaching as a side job and formally established Invictus Consulting in 2019. His approach is that everyone has what it takes to be successful, and offers the opportunity for clients to recognize their abilities through specialized coaching services, designed to produce real results. He was 2019’s Top 40 under 40 with MyVegas Magazine, Top 30 Business Coaches to look out for in 2022 by The NYC Journal, voted the Best of Small Business Awards Best Business Coach of 2021, and was a guest on the season 8 finale of CNBC’s The Profit.
Adam’s Contact Information:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamkentlv/
Website: https://invictuslv.com
Email: info@invictuslv.com
On April 26, 2022, David interviewed Claudia van Zuiden, Founder and CEO of Solution Ways, a solution focused well-being practice for counselling, personal and business coaching, life-skills and compassionate leadership training. Claudia grew up in Amsterdam, but spent much of her adult life in Scotland before recently re-locating back to the Netherlands.
We talk about Claudia’s approach to coaching, which includes her belief that emotional resilience programs should be taught from a very young age to promote mental health and well-being in times when people are experiencing trauma. Claudia believes that everyone can embody their full potential in all aspects of their lives, and that with the help of the right tools and guidance, life can become more meaningful and purposeful, both personally and professionally.
Claudia has studied the teachings of the Dalai Lama, modern day neuroscience and many other concepts to deliver focused solutions to corporations, business leaders and individuals.
Claudia’s Contact Information:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/claudia-van-zuiden-5746a242/
Twitter: @SolutionWays
Instagram: @claudiavanzuiden
Website: https://solutionways.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/claudiavanzuidencoaching
On April 13, 2022, David interviewed Jack Black, author, coach and leader in the field of personal development and performance improvement. Jack is also the Founder and Course Director of MindStore International Ltd., though which he has coached, among others, world champions in sport, business leaders and entrepreneurs. He has also coached many large corporations, including major banks and vehicle manufacturers. Originally from Glasgow, Scotland, Jack has also lived in France and currently lives in the south of England. We talk a little about his early life and his career as a social worker in Glasgow. After the death of three people that were close to him within a very short period of time, Jack himself collapsed due to over work, which prompted him to research stress management and personal development, aimed at inspiring people to fulfil their true potential. Jack has also authored two books “MindStore the Ultimate Mental Fitness Program” and “MindStore for Personal Development”
Jack’s Contact Information:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackblack1/?originalSubdomain=uk
Twitter: @jack_mindstore
Website: https://www.mindstore.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jack.mindstore
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On April 19, 2022, David interviewed Mike Montgomery. Mike is better known by his business name and social media handle “Health Unicorn Mike”. Mike held professional positions in marketing and financial advisory services before specializing in the health insurance industry, first for an insurance broker, before establishing himself in his current business in 2020.
Mike describes the various types of insurance available in the United States, both public and private, and also the types of plans available, such as family plans, individual plans and group plans. For many people in the US, health insurance is a key benefit provided by their employer, for which the employee pays a portion. The types of coverage and employee contributions can vary widely from company to company.
For people insured through an employer sponsored plan, the thought of becoming an independent contractor/freelancer and losing healthcare coverage can be intimidating and may prevent people from taking that critical step. Mike explains how coverage can be obtained for everyone, regardless of their employment status.
Originally from Alaska, Mike has lived in several locations in the US and currently resides with his family in Tampa Bay, Florida.
Mike’s Contact Information:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-montgomery-3b133457/
Twitter: @HealthUnicornMk
Instagram: @healthunicornmike
Website: https://www.healthunicornmike.com
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On April 18, 2022, David interviewed Gabby Rincon, English language teacher in Santiago Chile, and founder of her own company, English Priority.
Originally from Venezuela, after completing her education, Gabby held jobs as a language teacher in high schools, and at university level, before entering the corporate world. After a successful teaching career in more traditional roles, she started her own business, teaching English online, and quickly developed a base of clients that were eager to improve their language skills.
We also talk about Gabby and her husband’s decision to leave Venezuela with their young son, due to the economic climate in their home country, and re-locate to Chile. She tells of the arduous journey that she made by bus with her son through Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, before reaching Chile. She quickly resumed her teaching and has successfully established her business in Chile. She currently holds a free online Business English Speaking Club every Saturday.
Gabby sees a tremendous opportunity, not just for language learners, but also for entrepreneurs and freelancers in South America.
Gabby’s Contact Information: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabbyrincon/
Twitter: @eng_priority
Instagram: @gabbyinlanguages
Website: https://www.englishpriority.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/myengpriority
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On March 30, 2022, David interviewed Anandi Merchant, Engineer, SEO and data analytics expert, and founder of her own company, Anandi Merchant Digital Consultant.
Originally from India, Anandi completed her engineering degree from Mumbai University and came to the United States to pursue a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering. We talk about the differences in culture between India and the United States and the need to attract more women into the field of engineering globally, as they are still under-represented.
Having taken time off from work to raise her family, Anandi decided to re-enter the workforce and while looking for a conventional full-time job, she took a freelance contract to re-design a website, which was the starting point of her business. Today, Anandi helps clients in all matters associated with driving traffic to their web sites, including social media marketing.
Anandi’s Contact Information:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anandi-merchant-a46b4415a/
Twitter: @AnandiDigital
Website: http://anandimerchant.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/reachAnandi
On February 23, 2022, David interviewed Adam Smith, in Leeds, England. Adam is a Co-Founder of A-Game Consultancy, and an NLP (Neuro Linguistic Processing) Mindset Coach. In his younger life, Adam struggled at school, and was diagnosed with dyspraxia. Initially, he worked in his father’s plumbing and heating business and transitioned into hospitality, which he enjoyed and where he worked his way up to management roles. Having achieved success in hospitality, Adam hit a period of immense challenge, in which he lost three family members, his partner left him and he lost his job due to poor mental health. Adam had enrolled in a self-development class, and one focused on how to start a business, and qualified as a life coach. At the end of 2020, Adam approached two friends, one a physiotherapist and one a nutritionist and proposed working together in a partnership with his own skills as a mindset coach and combining their disciplines together for their clients. Within their first month, they had secured 15 clients and have continued to grow successfully since then. A-Game Consultancy focuses on the three pillars of health – Physical Health (movement, posture, exercise), Internal Health (food, diet and nutrition) and Mental Health (routines, habits, internal dialogue) Adam’s Contact Information:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-smith-0440811b1/
Instagram: @adamsmith_nlpcoach
Website: https://www.agameconsultancy.com
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/bringyouragamegroup
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On February 15, 2022, David interviewed Brad Reed, mindfulness, executive and mental wellness coach, and the founder of his own coaching business, Repurpose-You, based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Brad is originally from London, Ontario, Canada and suffered with severe mental health issues in his teenage years and 20’s. Brad practiced certain modalities to heal his mind and body, appreciating the mind-body connection, integrating mindfulness practices into his life and looking for the most holistic ways to heal. He followed his innermost intuition and decided to travel to Asia, and initially arrived in Bangkok, Thailand, with the intention to travel further to Vietnam and India, but has not yet made it to India.
Brad’s original intent was to teach English in Vietnam, but instead he started working in leadership development. Upon realizing that personal and team well-being was an important issue within management, he developed Repurpose-You to provide the teaching of these concepts to corporations and individuals, allowing them to obtain and optimize emotional fulfillment and mental wellness.
Brad’s Contact Information:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brad-reed/
Intagram: @repurpose_you
Website: https://www.repurpose-you.com
Email: brad@repurpose-you.com
Website : https://getwedo.today
On February 16, 2022, David interviewed Sharon MacLean, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Sharon is a communications marketing strategist, founder of WorldGate Media and Co-Founder of Virtual Communication Mastery. Sharon is also an author and publisher and, in the past, worked in mental health. Communications has been the common thread throughout Sharon’s career, starting out working for Alberta Health. In 1989, Sharon and her late husband started a magazine, Edmontonians, that covered local business and entrepreneurs and the contributions they made to their community. In the financial market crash of 2008 and the colossal loss of journalism outlets, Sharon managed to sell her media enterprise. The move opened a door of opportunity for her in digital marketing. In her current businesses, Sharon talks about WorldGate Media that provides services in social media strategies, tactics, and training for business owners. Virtual Communication Mastery focuses on the remote workforce by mitigating risk to strengthen employee loyalty; upgrade communication practices; and increase profits by recognizing improved employee relationships as assets on the balance sheet.
Sharon’s Contact Information:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonmaclean1/
Twitter: @sharedmaclean
Website: https://www.worldgatemedia.com https://www.vcmastery.com
Email: sharon@worldgatemedia.com
https://getwedo.today/find-wes/
On February 9, 2022, David interviewed Jennifer Kumar, founder of Authentic Journeys, providing leadership coaching for companies and individuals working in cross-cultural teams.
After completing her undergraduate degree, Jennifer traveled to India and enrolled in a university in Chennai, where she obtained a Master’s degree in social work and after returning to the United States her first career was as a mental health social worker, advocating for children and youth.
In 2011, Jennifer and her husband moved back to India, but to a different state than where she had previously lived and studied. Finding a job in social work was difficult, and she started giving seminars at a local IT park on how to do business with Americans, which turned into a profitable business. Most of her clients were corporations, and her coaching business taught concepts such as working remotely, globalization, cross cultural teams, communications, leading projects and American business culture.
After six years, Jennifer moved back to the U.S. and initially maintained her client base. In 2019 she re-focused on her business, and the Covid pandemic provided an opportunity for her to coach clients in remote working and delivering products globally. Her current clients are located in South America, Europe and Asia.
Jennifer’s Contact Information:
LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferkumar/
Twitter:
@learnintheusa
Website:
https://authenticjourneys.info
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/authenticjourneys
Email:
info@authenticjourneys.info
https://getwedo.today/find-wes/
On January 7, 2022, David interviewed James Crystal, entrepreneur, motivational speaker and mental health advocate in Birmingham, England. James tells the story of how he had a safe and loving home life, but while growing up, had some behavioural issues and found difficulty fitting in with his peers. At the age of 15, he was diagnosed with ADHD, but had already started self-medicating with cannabis, likely because he did not feel comfortable within himself.
His substance use expanded to other recreational drugs. As a teenager, James suffered the traumatic experience of being sexually abused while under the influence, and he continued to use drugs to escape reality, ultimately leading to his use of heroin and cocaine. To support himself and his addiction, James turned to drug dealing and robberies, and was arrested at the age of 19 and spent 18 months in prison. During his prison time, James got sober, but his state of mental health deteriorated. After release, he relapsed into old habits and was recalled back to prison for another nine months. During his second prison term, he got sober again, studied for a business course and decided to turn his life around and help other people. After his second release, he relapsed again, and fell into depression, which he considers to be the lowest point of his life. He rejoined his church, which provided a supportive environment, through which he became inspired to forgive his aggressors and turn his life into positivity and sobriety. He has been sober since July, 2017.
Since that time, James has founded two organizations. Eeverse is a clothing brand, promoting mental health awareness, social responsibility, sustainability and community, which donates 20% of its profits to his charitable organization Be;Live, focused on encouraging people to speak up about their mental health journeys and overcome the stigma associated with mental illness. Be;Live organizes and sponsors events to educate, inspire and empower people around mental health. James recently completed his university degree in Business Management and delivers talks at some of the UK’s largest organisations. He has spoken at the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, Bank of England and the UK Home Office. Anyone interested in booking James to speak on mental health, addiction or overcoming adversity can contact him, he would love to talk. The Be;Live 22 onsite event will be in Birmingham. Alternatively, the virtual stream can be accessed at the Be;Live website below.
James’ Contact Information:
LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-crystal-9a6865182/
Instagram:
@j.j.crystal
@beliveuk
@eeverseuk
Website:
https://www.eeverse.co.uk
https://www.belive.org.uk
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On January 12, 2022, David interviewed Mike Morawski, founder of My Core Intentions, a Chicago based multi-family real estate coaching and training company that teaches people to pursue and realize their dreams of being real estate investors. Mike draws from his own experience as a real estate investor and property manager. In the financial crash of 2008, like most real estate entrepreneurs, aside from losing a significant amount of money, Mike lost a lot more at that time. In his path towards becoming a lifelong businessman, Mike entered the construction industry as an entrepreneur in his early twenties. Later, he sold his company and started his career as a real estate agent. He built a successful team that sold over 125 homes per year. In 2005, Mike syndicated his first apartment purchase and went on to raise $18 million in private equity capital and purchased over 4,000 apartments in 30 months and built a property management company with 7,500 apartments under management. In hindsight, Mike realized that his business grew way too fast, he was over leveraged and undercapitalized when financial markets imploded. In an effort to save his businesses, he moved money between entities, but failed to disclose this to his investors, as a result he was charged with wire fraud and mail fraud which sentenced him to ten years in Federal prison. After his sentence, his wife divorced him, and he soon realized he had lost everything he loved. Mike served almost 8 years in prison, during this time he completed a bachelor’s degree in theology, wrote two books, collaborated in the creation of an ethics course with a university professor and taught classes to other inmates. After his release, which coincided with the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, Mike has re-engineered his life and teaches entrepreneurs how to live a balanced lifestyle. You can visit MyCoreIntentions.com/exitplan to grab a free copy of Mike’s book “Exit Plan”, a complete guide to multi-family investing. Mike’s Contact Information:
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/michael-morawski https://www.linkedin.com/company/mycoreintentions/
Twitter: @MikeMorawski2
Instagram: @mike.morawski.54
Website: https://mycoreintentions.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mike.morawski.54
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On January 10, 2022, David interviewed David Smith, motivational speaker, mental health advocate and video content creator from Coventry, England. David tells how he was born into a family with an alcoholic mother and an absentee father, how he was removed from his home at an early age and placed in the care home and foster care system, where he was the victim of physical, emotional and sexual abuse. As a teenager, following the death of his mother, he found himself homeless, and eventually joined the military, which gave him safety, structure and a sense of purpose.
During his eight years of service in the British Army, he was deployed twice in Afghanistan, where he participated in front-line combat against the Taliban, saw the death and injury of many fellow soldiers, some of which were his close friends, and tells of the actions he took under fire, to save the life of one of his friends, which resulted in recognition for his gallantry. During his military service, David had sought help for PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), but that help ceased when he was medically discharged from the military in 2017. His mental health spiraled downwards, as he sunk further into depression and turned to alcohol and drug use, and twice attempted to take his own life.
He enrolled in several classes to become more self-aware and self-progressive, and found that the power of telling his stories, not only helped him become more positive, it also helped other people who were experiencing depression and despair. David’s mission today is to promote positivity through his online videos on Instagram and TikTok, and encourage others to tell their stories, seek support and not feel isolated and alone.
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Instagram: @mindset.soldier
TikTok: @Mindset.soldier
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On December 9, 2021, David interviewed Liam O’Dell, award-winning freelance journalist and campaigner, specializing in deafness, disability and social media. Liam is also a former radio presenter with a background in broadcast journalism, has delivered a TEDx talk, and creates content for his own YouTube channel. Earlier this year, Liam won the Young Freelancer Award from the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed for his work on the #WhereIsTheInterpreter campaign, which challenged the UK Government on its failure to provide an in-person sign language interpreter for its Covid-19 press conferences.
Liam talks openly and honestly about his own deafness, autism, dyspraxia, obsessive-compulsive disorder and his asexual identity, including his journey with medical providers and the accompanying benefits and frustrations that he has dealt with. His degree and career in journalism have provided him with an opportunity to advocate for deaf and disabled people. We also talk about pandemic-related issues, such as mask wearing and how that has impacted deaf people. Liam also reviews theatre productions, and we discuss recently released movies featuring deaf people and how Hollywood and the media in general portrays deafness.
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LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/liamodelluk/
Twitter:
@LiamODellUK
Instagram:
@liamodelluk
Website:
https://liamodell.com
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/LiamODellUK
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On December 9, 2021, David interviewed Liam O’Dell, award-winning freelance journalist and campaigner, specializing in deafness, disability and social media. Liam is also a former radio presenter with a background in broadcast journalism, has delivered a TEDx talk, and creates content for his own YouTube channel. Earlier this year, Liam won the Young Freelancer Award from the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed for his work on the #WhereIsTheInterpreter campaign, which challenged the UK Government on its failure to provide an in-person sign language interpreter for its Covid-19 press conferences.
Liam talks openly and honestly about his own deafness, autism, dyspraxia, obsessive-compulsive disorder and his asexual identity, including his journey with medical providers and the accompanying benefits and frustrations that he has dealt with. His degree and career in journalism have provided him with an opportunity to advocate for deaf and disabled people. We also talk about pandemic-related issues, such as mask wearing and how that has impacted deaf people. Liam also reviews theatre productions, and we discuss recently released movies featuring deaf people and how Hollywood and the media in general portrays deafness.
Liam’s Contact Information:
LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/liamodelluk/
Twitter:
@LiamODellUK
Instagram:
@liamodelluk
Website:
https://liamodell.com
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/LiamODellUK
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Practicing Peace, Positivity & Purpose.
On December 4, 2021, David interviewed Blake Leo Burke. Blake currently works as a mindset and integrative health coach, and also has a background in theatrical design, teaching, mentoring and youth crisis management.
Having experienced anxiety and depression as a child and young adult, Blake shares the details of their story, intertwined with the various work that they have done as a teacher, youth counsellor and youth crisis intervention counselor. Having lived and worked in many locations within the United States, Blake returned home to North Carolina after getting a brain cancer diagnosis at the beginning of 2021, which began another journey of overcoming challenges, and finding positivity against the backdrop of a life-threatening illness.
The recurring theme of this story is that Blake has always embraced and enjoyed helping others, and always tries to find positivity in everything. Blake’s current coaching business is named Challenging Average and teaches the principles of Peace, Positivity and Purpose in helping people set goals for themselves and develop plans for their success.
We finish up talking about being alone over the holidays and the difference between being alone and experiencing loneliness.
Blake’s Contact Information:
Instagram: @challengingaverage
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/challengingaverage
TikTok: @challengingaverage
YouTube Podcast Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/ChallengingAverage
Website: https://www.challengingaverage.com
Email: challengingaverage@gmail.com
Clubhouse: @Deceptivelyme
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Looking Back on 2021 - Part 2: Continuing our reflection on 2021 and the themes covered in Wedotalks, David has selected six more clips from interviews he did last year, and shows highlights from his conversations with Ronee Martin, Elaine Lindsay, Oleg Konovalov, Sophia May, Jana Matthews and Balendran Thavarajah. These guests joined us from the USA, UK, Canada, Russia and Australia to talk on a number of subjects, ranging from business and entrepreneurship to the performing arts, and follow a common theme of mental health advocacy and well-being.
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Looking Back on 2021 - Part 1: 2021 has been an unusual year in many ways, and as we reflect back on the last twelve months, David has selected six clips from various Wedotalks during the year, and shows highlights from his conversations with Jared Muscat, Jennifer Ty, Joanna Monfort-Torres, David Burgess, Jessie Mae and Sebastiaan Hooft. All of these guests have told inspiring stories of resilience, creativity and self-realization.
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On this week's Wedotalk, David interviewed Brian Kennedy.
Brian is a motivational speaker and career, wellness and mental health coach, and joins me from Dublin, Ireland. Brian runs his own coaching and consulting business, BJKennoMotivation.
He tells the story of his family life, with a loving mother and an alcoholic father, and how from an early age, he always believed in working hard and giving the best of himself. His first job, during economically challenging times in Ireland, was in a factory, after which he worked in the civil service and then entered banking and financial services, where he worked his way into managerial positions. During his banking career, Brian was the victim of seven armed robberies, in which he put the safety of his staff and customers before his own, and often had the difficult task of telling customers that they could lose their homes if they were unable to make mortgage payments. As his career advanced, he took on more responsibilities and found himself working 80+ hours a week, managing whole divisions of major banks, leaving little time for his wife and children. In 2010, due to the pressures of his work life, he suffered from mental exhaustion and used that time to re-evaluate his life.
In his coaching business, Brian tells how he has helped individuals and corporations to seek positive and creative solutions to problems, and has helped people in new stages of their careers, develop into their roles successfully. He has done motivational speaking to major corporations and sports teams to help them be better versions of themselves. Brian says that the last eleven years of his life have been the most fulfilling for his family and for him professionally.
Brian’s Contact Information:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-kennedy-lib-apa-4611b413/
Twitter: @BJKenno
Instagram: @BJKenno
Website: https://bjkennomotivation.com
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On this week's Wedotalk, David interviewed Jim Frawley.
Jim is an Executive and Organizational coach, Host of the Bellwether Hub Podcast, and author of “Adapting in Motion: Finding Your Place in the New Economy”. Jim is also a triathlete and competed in his first Ironman event two years ago.
We talk about some of Jim’s early career accomplishments. He started in radio, which he loved, and later joined a data analytics firm, which launched his career in business and finance. He worked for several financial institutions in various locations, but rather than feeling satisfied and fulfilled, he found himself feeling angry and frustrated. Having consulted with an executive coach to help identify new possibilities, he himself became a Columbia University Certified Executive Coach. He founded “Bellwether”, a company dedicated to helping organizations and individuals build resiliency and adapt to change. We talk about changing business cultures, changes that are forced upon us and those that we choose
Jim has used personal experiences and that of his clients to develop strategies to help people navigate mental health issues. Although he is not a doctor or therapist, he generally considers the three key components to be physical health, mental health and social health. Jim has hosted a podcast channel for the last three years, and his two most downloaded podcasts relate to his decision to give up drinking alcohol; and how training for an Ironman event helped him with dark thoughts he’d had and dark places his mind had visited. We concluded with a discussion about mental health in the corporate world and that although some progress has been made, significant work needs to be done in this field.
Jim’s Contact Information:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfrawley/
Twitter: @bellwetherhub
Instagram: @bellwetherhub
Website: http://www.bellwetherhub.com
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On this week's Wedotalk, David interviewed Rachel Gotto.
We talk about Rachel’s therapy and mentoring business, her experiences leading up to writing her book, her entrepreneurial spirit and the mental and emotional strength that has helped her through the darker times of her life and created a passion to help others.
Rachel first experienced a traumatic loss in her twenties, when her closest brother was diagnosed with cancer, and she nursed him for the last two years of his life, traveling the world with him to try and find a cure. Sadly, her brother died in 1996. Rachel met and married her husband, who tragically drowned in a scuba diving accident while Rachel was 6 months pregnant with their first child. They had only been married 8 months, leaving her to give birth to their first child alone. When her daughter was aged just five, things began to go badly wrong again. Rachel was diagnosed with a rare form of benign brain tumor and was told she didn’t have long to live. Determined not to give up, she hunted the world for a neurosurgeon who was willing to give her a chance at life. After an exhaustive search she found a neurosurgeon in Bristol who was willing to perform the risky surgery. 15 hours of neurosurgery surgery and one intracranial bleed later Rachel had survived, just. But the ravages of surgery had unfortunately left its mark and Rachel woke days later to find that she had been left paralyzed down the left-hand side of her body, and it took her more than two years to regain full mobility. The neurosurgery had triggered epilepsy, and after decades of being on prescription drugs to keep the epilepsy at bay she found herself addicted to benzodiazepines. This was the beginning of a particular period of hell as she embarked on a long and horrific withdrawal period in which she charted 47 symptoms over a 2.5-year period. All of these events took more than two decades out of her life, and she felt that she was walking out of a prison in her forties and had to re-start her life completely, and now has a therapy and mentoring business and Amazon published her first book “Flying on the Inside: A Memoir of Trauma and Recovery” in December 2021.
Rachel’s Contact Information: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelgotto/ Twitter: @RachelGotto Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=544863398 Instagram: @rachel_gotto Website: https://rachelgotto.com Clubhouse: @rachelgotto
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On this week's Wedotalk, David is joined by Sophia May, mental health nurse, singer/songwriter and Founder, Director & Co-CEO of Mendable.
Sophia gives an overview of Mendable and describes it as a movement, rather than an app or a tool, that provides a safe place for those with mental health challenges to support each other.
Sophia was born in London, but her family moved to rural Somerset when she was a young child. After her parents separated, Sophia bonded with a good friend who was also dealing with the separation of her parents, and so began Sophia’s discovery that she found great satisfaction in helping other people, which led to a career in nursing, and today Sophia works professionally as a mental health nurse.
When her daughter was quite young, Sophia’s music career took off quickly. Although she had some early successes, she did not feel the satisfaction and fulfilment that most people associate with success in the music business. She found more pleasure from writing, creating and performing for others, and enjoyed connecting people in her industry.
By creating Mendable and the Clubhouse room that Sophia hosts, she has introduced a platform for men to come forward and share their challenges and support each other. Having witnessed men’s abusive behaviour, Sophia attributes that in part to the lack of emotional support, from which men have typically not been able to benefit.
Sophia’s Contact Information: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sophia-may-446b2429/ Instagram: @sophiamaymusic Twitter: @sophiamaymusic Clubhouse: @sophiamaymusic
Websites: https://www.mendable.app https://www.sophiamaymusic.com
Email: sophiamay@live.co.uk mendable.app@gmail.com
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On this week's Wedotalk, David spoke with Jamie Kirkwood, Jared Muscat and Mike Mulkey on the subject of father-son relationships. This is particularly poignant as we approach November 11, which is Veterans Day in the USA and Remembrance Day in the UK. All three guests have appeared on previous Wedotalks.
We first reflect on our own relationships with our fathers; then we talk about what we have each learned from our fathers that shapes us as adults. We continue by discussing what aspects of our fathers’ characters we most admire, and finally, what we have learned from our parents to help us in our own parenting skills, and what type of fathers we want to be for our own children. Mike and David both have a daughter and a son who are adults; Jamie has a three-year-old daughter and Jared has a two-and-a-half-year-old son.
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On this week’s Wedotalk podcast, David interviewed Australian entrepreneur Balendran Thavarajah.
Bala was born in Sri Lanka. Tragically, his mother took her own life when he was an infant and he was raised in the loving homes of his aunts. His childhood saw the outbreak of a civil war and as a result, Bala had very little schooling beyond the early years and followed the path of many young men at the time and joined the army at the age of 14. In his early twenties, he took refuge in India and from there migrated to Australia.
As a new immigrant in Sydney, with little schooling and no knowledge of English, his future looked bleak, but Bala was determined to re-build his life. Most educational establishments refused to consider him, but he was eventually admitted to Western Sydney University where he used his energy and determination to learn the English language and succeed by earning a degree in computer science.
After graduation and with an entrepreneurial spirit, Bala first started a company to offer insurance service to the elderly; in his second company he created a point-of-sale software for supermarkets; and then partnered with the founders of Bluedot Innovation as the Founding CTO. Bluedot is a successful location-based service company in Australia and the USA.
Today he is the Founder and CEO of GetMee, an AI-enabled application for mobile devices to help people adopt better language and communication skills. GetMee provides the service to people that Bala himself could have used when he arrived in Australia.
Bala’s Contact Information: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/balatry/ Instagram: @getmeeai Twitter: @getmeeai Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aiforpersonaldevelopment/ Website: https://getmee.ai Email: balendran@getmee.ai
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On this week's Wedotalk podcast, David interviewed Jessie Mae. Jessie is one of nine siblings in her family and she tells her story of how she experienced many traumatic events in her childhood. She was the victim of verbal abuse and was repeatedly told by her father that she would never achieve anything in life and was not worthy of the love and security that she needed in her early years. She was also the victim of spankings from her parents and recalls being sprayed with a water hose and other physical punishments for not conforming with the discipline that her parents expected.
As an adult, Jessie feels love for her parents and has come to realize that they did the best that they knew, were not equipped with the skills to cultivate their family and most likely, treated their children the same way that they were also treated in their own childhoods. Her lack of self-worth as a child and young adult, propelled Jessie into a life as an over-achiever and people-pleaser. Despite the traumas that she suffered as a child, she had a successful career in automobile sales and is the mother of four adult daughters.
In late 2019, Jessie needed to have a surgical procedure that required a three-week recovery period. It was during that time that she was able to reflect on her childhood, and her life as an adult, and realised that some of her own parenting styles had been similar to the way she had been treated and that her other behaviours, such as road-rage and general lack of tolerance in others, were triggered by childhood memories.
Today, Jessie has launched her own business to coach and help others to become the best version of themselves and to overcome their self-doubt and lack of confidence. In her own words: “I am high on life, because I discovered what it means to heal from childhood adversity and trauma. Now I’m free and hella happy”. She is in the process of writing her first book.
Jessie’s Contact Information: Instagram: @iamjessie.mae Clubhouse: @iamhellahappy Email: justjessie.mae@gmail.com Websites: https://www.twicecreated.com https://www.abundantgoddesses.com
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This week, David interviewed professional magician and mental health advocate, David Burgess. David is also qualified in neurolinguistic programming; is a hypnosis practitioner, coaching expert and mental health first aider. His mission is to bring the magic back into people’s lives, giving them the tools to gain confidence in their own abilities.
David tells the story of how he successfully became a magician and developed a passion for helping others; but his journey has not always been filled with joy and happiness. At a young age he was physically and verbally bullied at school, associated himself with the wrong group of friends and turned to using drugs and alcohol. At the age of 17, he made an attempt to take his own life, and with the love and support of his family, embarked upon his journey of recovery and realisation of his own abilities. We talk about the resources available to individuals that are going through difficult times, and that no one should feel isolated and alone when they are at their most vulnerable.
David’s Contact Information: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DavidBurgessMagician LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/david-burgess-magician/about/ Instagram: @db_magician Twitter: @db__Magician Clubhouse: @mental_health1 Website: https://dbmagician.co.uk
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On this week's Wedotalk, David interviewed Joseph Costello, founder of Joseph Costello Mentoring.
Early in his life, he found himself unfulfilled. Having worked in a coal yard and then as a civil servant, he realised that the traditional work-life of a “9-to-5” job was not working for him, and that he was following in the footsteps of his elder generations rather than designing his own life. He found himself depressed and needed long periods of sick leave from his job, mostly due to mental illness, which he and others did not recognise.
Once he had identified what was making him sick, he decided to take ownership of his life and in 2004, Joseph bought a limousine, which started his life of working independently. He went on a journey of self-discovery, in which he focused on relationships, studied the mind, qualified in hypnosis and creative energy, and studied with many mentors. Joseph believes that within each individual lies infinite potential.
Today, Joseph works to help people develop their own pathway forward in their professional and personal lives. Joseph is a global expert in the human mindset, develops thinking into results, and helps his clients deal with negative thoughts, become better decision makers and more focused and disciplined.
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On this week's Wedotalk, Laura Duff is joined by Maliha Shoaib, Editorial Intern at Vogue Business.
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This week, David interviewed Sebastiaan Hooft, joining from Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Sebastiaan grew up in suburban Amsterdam and developed a flair for business and entrepreneurship as a young teenager. He founded twenty companies in fifteen years, became recognized as one of the Netherlands’ top tech entrepreneurs and was listed as one of the country’s 100 most successful self-made entrepreneurs by the Dutch business magazine “Quote”. He had achieved fame and wealth, and was a recognized public figure.
In 2009, his life changed radically when the pressure of long work hours, managing multiple enterprises, travel, intense focus and lack of attention to health and diet, resulted in Sebastiaan suffering from a complete physical, mental and emotional breakdown.
After nine months of recovery, he made it his mission to help fellow entrepreneurs avoid the same path of self-destruction. One result of his redesigning his own life, was the publication of his first book “Redesign – Becoming a Happy, Healthy and Successful Entrepreneur”, in which he simplifies and summarizes the five facets of achieving this goal. The fifth facet is that of “Health” and in this podcast, Sebastiaan shares some insights into his journey to recovery and how others can learn from his experiences.
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This week, David interviewed Sara Fernandez. Sara is a teacher, a wife, and a mother of two children and lives in Silicon Valley, California. In 2016, Sara’s family became well known in many local communities, but not for reasons that they would have sought for themselves.
At 3 ½ years old, Sara’s daughter Maia frequently fell sick with a very high fever. At first her doctors believed that she had caught a flu virus, but within a short period of time, when she did not recover, ran a number of tests and Maia was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Sara tells the story of Maia’s treatment and side effects, which involved 30 months of chemotherapy and steroids. Last month Maia celebrated her ninth birthday and has been cancer free for three years.
Sara tells how important it was to have a strong support system of friends and family, a very supportive employer, Maia’s re-integration into life and school, and the effect on Maia’s younger brother. Her family had to follow strict hygiene protocols and practice physical distancing from others several years before it became widely practiced due to the pandemic.
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This week, David interviewed Nina Fernandez, an entrepreneur, an actor, a real estate syndicator, and founder of a non-profit called SeedAndLegacy (S&L), whose primary mission is to provide financial literacy to underserved communities. Long-term, she'd like to establish Arts and Finance academies for troubled youth, focusing on their emotional and behavioural restructuring and development through holistic therapies and exposure to entrepreneurship, community-building, and self-sufficiency enterprise. Nina has a vision to influence schools throughout the world to teach the disadvantaged and disenfranchised youth of today to become the strong leaders of tomorrow.
Nina was born in Harlem, New York, is a graduate of the Tisch School at NYU, and is the first in her family to attend university. She celebrated her graduation with much pride from her family, who had given her much emotional support and encouragement, but they did not have the resources to support her financially and upon graduation, Nina found herself with nearly $250,000 in student loan debt. While working as a bartender in New York to support her acting career, Nina met people of significant wealth and educated herself in financial matters, which led her to entrepreneurship and real estate syndication. She is currently launching a set of digital products which promote and support her coaching services for budding entrepreneurs, like herself, who need clarity today on how to start building their legacy through entreprise! Nina sees financial education as a powerful tool that most people do not understand, and by teaching these skills, financial success is attainable for many people, rather than being an unfulfilled dream.
For more information on her journey, or to be updated on Nina's course launch please visit: Website: https://www.seedandlegacy.com Medium: https://seedandlegacy.medium.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seedandlegacy LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/seedandlegacy Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SeedAndLegacy Twitter: https://twitter.com/SeedandLegacy Health and Literacy
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On this week’s Wedotalk podcast, David spoke with Dr. Oleg Konovalov.
During the talk, Oleg shares many of his philosophies on creating a business culture of courage, knowledge and vision. He is now a highly regarded global thought leader, trusted advisor, TEDx and keynote speaker and has been recognized as one of the top 100 Marshall Goldsmith Coaches.
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This week, David interviewed David Murray-Hundley.
David is a successful computer programmer and entrepreneur, and is an advisor, mentor and investor to many early-stage companies. He started programming at the age of 9, and having watched the movie “War Games”, aspired to hack the Pentagon. One of his games was later recognized and released. David was an early student of artificial intelligence and B2B internet solutions and sold an early business to Chase Bank. In 1999, David moved to the US to become one of the founding team at CommerceOne.
David’s life has not always been a string of successes, and he has found himself at a low point twice in his life. First, as a teenager, shortly after the sudden passing of his father, he slept rough in bus shelters. Later in his adult life, he declared bankruptcy and had to re-build his life from the beginning.
David has worked for 9 companies and has been involved in 47 companies as a founder, mentor, advisor, director or investor. Since the Covid-19 outbreak in 2020, he has helped and advised more than 2,000 companies.
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On July the 30th 2021, Laura interviewed Alex Duff and Michael O'donnell, creators of the Clydeside chess board and founders of 3D SCOTLAND LTD.
On this Wedotalk podcast Alex and Michael discuss their journey with Clydeside chess and even spill a few secrets about what they have lined up for the future!
The chess board is Glasgow themed, with the pieces representing iconic Glasgow landmarks. It has received a lot of interest and was even featured in the Herald and the Evening Times.
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On June 10, 2021, David interviewed Dr. Lizzy Bernthal, Founder of Release Your Potential Ltd.
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Having been told that she did not have the potential to go to university, Lizzy trained as a nurse, and also became a midwife. At the age of 31, she joined the British Army and during her military career, had the opportunity to take a Bachelor of Science Degree in Healthcare Management, a Masters of Education, and went on to earn a PhD from University of Southampton.
In her last military assignment, Lizzy was appointed global head of nursing, which led to her passion for resilience, well-being and empowerment. This was the platform from which she launched her own company, to coach others in these skills and release their own potential. Much of her military career had involved coaching others, which she did not realise at the time, and she was able to use those skills in her current business.
Most clients of her coaching business are business leaders that Lizzy coaches in management and leadership skills, as well as developing confidence and helping to eliminate toxic management within organizations. For her business clients, Lizzy helps develop vision and purpose.
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On this weeks Wedotalk, David interviewed Samantha Kelly. Samantha joined him from Wexford in Ireland, and told the story of how she taught herself many aspects of social media and particularly Twitter, and how she has successfully turned her knowledge into a profitable business by helping other businesses market themselves using Twitter and other social media platforms.
About ten years ago, Samantha was the single mother of two daughters receiving welfare benefits, her marriage had broken up, her father had passed away and she was a recovering alcoholic who had been sober for three years. She created a gift pack for young girls approaching their first period, and with no money and no financial backing, used social media to market her product and reach her customers. Not only did she tell her story using social media, she encouraged others to do the same and saw the power and potential of using social media to reach a target audience. In 2012, she appeared on the TV show “Dragon’s Den” (known as “Shark Tank” in the US) to seek investment for her business. Although her quest for investment was not successful, it opened up many new opportunities for her.
Samantha describes some of her business successes, how she established The Women’s Inspire Network and how she rebuilt her life from her low point and some of the challenges that she faced as a recovering alcoholic.
Samantha’s Contact Information: Twitter: @Tweetinggoddess Instagram: @tweetinggoddess LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tweetinggoddess/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tweetinggoddess Website: https://www.tweetinggoddess.com https://www.womensinspirenetwork.com
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On this weeks Wedotalk, Duff is joined by Campbell Duns, Founder of Boundless Clothing. Boundless Clothing is a Luxury, Street-Inspired Sportswear Brand that provides high-end clothing for an affordable price. On the podcast, he shares his how, what and why of starting Boundless.
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"Maybe I'm just a gambler or maybe I'm just lucky."
After last weeks Wedotalk with Joanna, we all want to know where she is going next.
In this second talk with Joanna, we talk about taking risks and the social and emotional challenges that comes with risk taking and traveling the world as a single woman, and of course, what her plans for the future are...
Joanna tells of taking risks as a teenager versus an adult. During her time in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, she experienced Islamic hospitality, rather than the hesitancy that is often associated with middle eastern countries. Although the laws of the UAE are based on Sharia Law, she always felt as free and safe there as in the United States.
We also talk about Joanna’s passion for leisure travel, and how her life as a teacher has given her the time to be able to travel and satisfy her curiosity. At first, she found the concept of solo travel intimidating, but now finds it exciting and has become a pioneer of traveling alone as well as with others.
Joanna tells how during a group trip to the mountains of Peru, she got separated from her fellow travelers and fell off the edge of the trail and had to spend the night fighting hypothermia.
We end with Joanna telling me of her next move.
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On May 1, 2021, David interviewed career teacher Joanna Monfort-Torres.
Joanna tells her story that she was born in the Philippines, grew up in California, and has lived in Finland, Spain, Ghana, United Arab Emirates and Madagascar, before returning to the USA in 2020.
Her first experience living abroad was as an exchange student in a remote town in Eastern Finland during her final year in high school. From there, she did her undergraduate degree in Madrid, Spain, in International Relations and Diplomacy, with the plan to be an international civil servant, and her first job was to work for the United Nations in New York.
Joanna’s passion for working with people and serving others, led her to a career in teaching and that was her way of becoming an international civil servant. After completing her teaching degree, she went to work for a charter school in California for five years, and then launched herself into the world of teaching at international schools in Ghana, United Arab Emirates and Madagascar. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, she was repatriated to the USA, where she has worked at an international school for the last year.
Joanna has decided to move on at the end of the current school year, and will talk about her next adventure when we return for another talk.
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"By the time I got on the stage as the headliner, I was completely roasted"
On this weeks Wedotalk, David spoke with singer, songwriter and guitarist Steve Dagleish, or "Dagelfish". After secondary school, Steve was offered a place at Imperial College, London to study physics. During his first year, he found himself playing his guitar more than studying. Nevertheless, he was accepted a full-time position at Barclays bank in the trading support area.
In the years that followed, Steve became a foreign exchange trader, which he loved, and he later developed an interest in the psychology of trading and transitioned into a coaching role, in which he coached traders, salespeople and managers. In the 1990’s, after 20 years with Barclays Bank, he established his own company and built a client base of commercial and central banks.
In the early 2000’s, Steve became re-acquainted with his guitar, and tells the story of how he performed for the first time in 30 years, which led to many more songs and performances in the years that followed, first as part of a band and. Then as a solo performer. He talks about writing his own songs, some of the artists that have inspired him and shares stories of the successes and rejections that he has experienced.
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This week David speaks with Jana Matthews. Jana has an impressive CV, both educationally and professionally, which includes a Master’s Degree from Yale University, a PhD from Harvard, and many professional positions in multiple countries. She has authored or co-authored eight books.
Jana gives some examples of taking risks in her life and networking with many professional people that has led to some of her opportunities. Having grown up in Indiana, she tells of her trip to the UK in her second year at university, which was also her first trip abroad, with only $450 in spending money and some hardships that she had to endure.
The one common theme of Jana’s career is innovation and entrepreneurship. She enjoys surrounding herself with positive people with a quest for knowledge or those that have knowledge to share. She is now an Australian citizen and considers Australia to be her home.
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Today David speaks with Ronee Martin, quarter finalist on "America's Got Talent" in 2016, and legal assistant in the entertainment world.
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Today David is joined by Ike Ikokwu, the author of Amazon must-read "Winning The Money Game: Separating The Myths From The Truth".
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Today David is joined by Eva Kinsbergen. Eva discusses her personal experience with burnout and the positive effect the Covid-19 pandemic has had on her life.
Eva is a Life Coach and has her own company called Kinsbergen Coaching.
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David Jaques interviews Jennifer Ty in this episode where they explore Jennifer's journey from being a Wall Street banker to setting up her own masseuse therapy business and the roadmap to bliss. #wedo #jenniferty #davidjaques #barclays #currency #wallstreet #massagetherapy
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Laura is joined today with Natasha, a personal trainer. Natasha works at a boutique gym near Edinburgh. They discuss Natasha’s journey becoming a PT, what exercise she does as a personal trainer and questions that YOU have asked us to ask her via our Instagram!
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Laura is joined today by Jamie, a Watersports coach. He coaches rowing, canoeing, kayaking and paddle boarding. They discuss the irony of Jamie’s sea-sickness, dramatic stories of Laura capsizing near jelly fish and the pros and cons of being a Watersports coach.
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Laura is joined with Thomas, a 3rd year cognitive science student at the University of Edinburgh. Today they will be discussing self-esteem and confidence. Thomas describes that the bigger picture of the world really puts things into perspective.
Thomas and Laura are both involved in the Cognitive Science society. Here are the links incase you want to check out their instagram and podcast:
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Today Duff is speaking with Sophie Carroll, the first coach of many that will share their stories, advice and experience on our Wedotalk.
Sophie is a newly formed personal trainer. She completed her course during the summer of 2020, and got her first job when the gyms reopened in August.
Sophie also studies Biomedical Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. They discuss the overlap of this course with the physiology that comes alongside personal training. They discuss becoming a personal trainer during the pandemic, the struggles and benefits, and answer different questions sent in by YOU on our Instagram. Follow Wedo and Laura’s Instagram to take part in asking different types of coaches YOUR questions:
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Angela is a middle school science teacher in Portland, Oregon and she teaches students aged 13-14, in 8th Grade (UK = Year 9).
Angela talks a little about her background, what got her into teaching, and the district in which she teaches, which is one of great diversity. She describes the sudden switch to distant learning last March as, “We were not just flying the plane as we were still building it, we were designing the plane, building it, and trying to fly it in the sky at the same time”
We talk about many of the challenges that she has faced as a teacher, with many responsibilities (Angela is a mother of 2 children) in addition to teaching her students; and the challenges faced by the students and how some have become disengaged.
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From early childhood, Jared Muscat has always loved the ocean and surfing, but as a teenager he had his first epileptic seizure and was told to give up the sport he loves. Seizures can be triggered by stress, and Jared tells his inspiring story of coping with epilepsy, his surgery, managing stress, and how surfing has kept him centered. He once told his doctors "If you want me to be stress free, I can't be salt free."
Connect with Jared: Instagram and Twitter: @jaredmuscat LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaredamuscat/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jared.a.muscat
The epilepsy foundation: https://www.epilepsy.com/about-us/our-impact?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIlJH48ars7gIVFB-tBh09HAl4EAAYASAAEgJQa_D_BwE
If you're interested in stories from surfers, this talk with Mike Mulkey might interest you! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl5OvxbO-eY&t=5s
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“I didn’t ask for this, I didn’t want it. What can I do? I have to work with it, I have to treat it and I have to get my life back.”
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Prostate cancer is something that affects millions of men every year all around the world. David and Joe discuss the need for more awareness of the cancer, and de-stigmatisation of incorporating men’s struggle with it into conversation.
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Today Duff is joined by Molly Mcfarlane, a 3rd-year student at the University of Strathclyde, studying International Business with Spanish – specialising in marketing. They discuss 4 different tips to help you manage remote learning or working from home.
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Today Laura is joined by Eva Waugh, a Psychology student at the University of Edinburgh. They give advice to freshers who are joining university, how to pick your accommodation and making friends in your first year.
Definitely worth sharing with somebody who is starting University soon!
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Laura is joined today by Dila, a third year economics student at the University of Edinburgh. They discuss their different experiences at the university and the divide between Scottish and English students, and how their studies have been affected during the pandemic..
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From working at Oracle to being an employee at Trader Joe’s and coaching through his own website - David interviews Mike Mulkey. Mike discusses the importance of exercise, his christian faith and most importantly - his unconditional love of surfing!
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The stigma around suffering mental health issues and discussing them is definitely developing and improving with time. David and Brian are discussing mental health in schools, how it is approached from a teachers perspective, the fears of every Childs mental wellbeing and how to intervene when you know a kid is struggling.
Brian's linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-k%C3%B6hn-9b9417137 David's linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-jaques-91a/
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Duff and Soph have a quick talk about what it means to them to be a lazy or hard-working student and some of their experiences being a student.
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Leo is back to join Laura on another wedotalk, and today they are discussing sustainability. They digest how every action you take has an effect on the world and our environment, and what they think the future will look like…
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Laura is joined by 17-year-old senior Leo Jaques, and they compare the different application processes for college in the US and university in the UK.
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Happy Vegan Month!
Duff questions Soph on her decision to go vegan back in 2017. Soph says she initially went vegan because she was too lazy to cook meat but goes on to state the reasons why she continues to be vegan to this day.
Interested in going vegan? Soph creates vegan recipe videos on Wedo's Youtube channel, subscribe!
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19 years ago on the 11th of September 2001, 4 terrorist attacks occurred in the United States. What most of us remember were the two attacks against the twin towers in the World Trade Center.
In this talk, Jamie Kirkwood, who was in the 200 Vesey Street building (known then as: Three World Financial Center) located across from the Twin Towers, discusses his experience during and after the attacks.
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Today David is speaking with Emily Nelson, a certified life coach who has been successful in many jobs, from being a news presenter for ABC News to being a 4th grade teacher. They discuss the importance of being among people, the good and the bad of working for a start-up and how to capitalise on your skills.
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Duff is joined today by Arran Greig, a 20 year old mathematics student at The University of Edinburgh. Arran manages to have an exceptional talent to keep all things in good balance in his life, and there is a lot to learn from him. He talks about his cold 7am showers to his late nights partying with friends, and how he gets the best of both worlds.
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Today David is joined by Luke Hohmann, an entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley, California. Luke has had many successful ventures which he will talk about, and alongside this he has a family with 4 children. He talks about how he has successfully maintained a work-life-family-fitness balance.
David and Luke also discuss what it is like to work in Silicon Valley, and why Luke decided to go there in the first place.
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Welcome to part 02 of 02, where Laura is discussing ‘Finding Your Purpose’ with Indiana Gregg, the Founder and CVO of Wedo. In part one (check it out, link down below) they talked about the importance of authenticity, the acceptance of failure and how important it is to be yourself.
In this talk, they are discussing how you need to invest in yourself before you begin any journey, and how purpose links to who you are.
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Today, Duff is interviewing Rona McConnell, a 21 year old living in Glasgow. Rona has a passion for animals and a strong connection with nature, and is currently working in a cafe as a waitress. She recently dropped out of college, and openly talks about her mental health and the stress that college, and dropping out of it, caused her.
Rona and Duff are discussing various aspects of the time pressure of success, and their experiences with the linear path that most people take. They also delve in to talk about the education system, and the lack of support and lack of explanation of what the world is like after school - something we can all identify with.
Welcome to the first Wedotalk with Sophia as the host! In this talk Sophia is joined by Maria Papazova, a Graphic Design student in Bulgaria. They discuss what mindfulness means for them, their journeys and how they practise it, as well as, the difficulties with finding balance in their lives.
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Today, Laura is joined by Indiana Gregg, the founder of Wedo. Indiana is a philosophical woman, and on this Wedotalk, her and Laura will be discussing how to ‘Find Your Purpose’, whatever this means.
They discuss the importance of authenticity, the acceptance of failure and how important it is to be honest with yourself. When taking the steps to realise you are more than your jobs’ worth, you can then take small steps to develop a more meaningful life.
Stay tuned for part 2!
Wedotalk invites you to join the conversation on overthinking with Duff and Jacob Ferguson, Wedo's Art Director. Is it healthy or unhealthy? Is there ever a, "too much"? How do I know when I am overthinking? Does overthinking affect my decisions or relationships?
We address all of these great questions and more in a two part wedotalk. Enjoy!
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Wedotalk invites you to join the conversation on overthinking with Duff and Jacob Ferguson, Wedo's Art Director. Is it healthy or unhealthy? Is there ever a, "too much"? How do I know when I am overthinking? Does overthinking affect my decisions or relationships?
We address all of these great questions and more in a two part Wedotalk. Enjoy!
Welcome to our third Wedotalk and this time it's with someone new hosting!
Wendy has joined with David Jaques for a Wedotalk discussing topics about mental health. David Jaques is an Advisor for Wedo, but was also the first CFO of PayPal when PayPal was only starting out! He discusses how he has tried to balance both work and life in order to be able to spend more time with his family and take care of his wellbeing.
An inspiring talk by an inspiring man!
Today, Laura is joined by Sophia, a 21-year-old Graphic Design student and also Wedo's Social Media Director. They are discussing the dilemma of perfectionism, which is a spectrum affecting everybody out there.
Is it healthy to strive for perfection? Is failing a mindset? Tune in to hear their thoughts on the topic.
Welcome to Laura Duff's first ever Wedotalk. Throughout these talks, Laura will be discussing a variety of topics going from mental wellbeing to staying fit, as well as, hilarious personal experiences.
In this talk Laura and Romy discuss their experience with lockdown.