What The World Needs More Of... Podcast

EP 26 - Ben Freeman - What The World Needs More Of... Truth and Accountability

Guest: Ben Freeman
 
Age: 41
 
Location: New York City
 
Bio: Ben has extensive experience in both the physical and financial commodities markets; he has invested capital across multiple market cycles and transacted commodity products globally. Ben currently runs his own consulting business, Ben Freeman LLC. Ben also founded the commodity merchant business HudsonField to opportunistically acquire and trade physical energy assets. Prior to HudsonField, Ben was the global head of crude oil trading for Goldman Sachs, where he successfully managed a multi-billion dollar portfolio of commodity derivatives and structured transactions, while leading a global trading team across the US, Europe and Asia. At Goldman, Ben successfully helped the firm navigate the commodities franchise business across significant structural changes in the industry, such as the development of e-trading and post-financial crisis banking regulations. Ben started his career as an analyst for Enron Corp in Houston, Texas.
 
The world needs more:
 
1. Truth
2. Accountability for those in public positions
 
Favorite color:  Blue

EP 25 - Naresh Vissa - What The World Needs More Of... FreeThinkers

Guest: Naresh Vissa
 
Age: 29
 
Location: Tampa, Fl
 
Bio:  Naresh Vissa is the #1 bestselling author of FIFTY SHADES OF MARKETING: Whip Your Business into Shape & Dominate Your Competition, PODCASTNOMICS: The Book of Podcasting... To Make You Millions, THE NEW PR: 21st Century Public Relations Strategies & Resources... To Reach Millions, and TRUMPBOOK: How Digital Liberals Silenced a Nation into Making America Hate Again. He is also the Founder & CEO of Krish Media & Marketing – a full service online and digital media and marketing consultancy and agency. He has worked with CNN Radio, J.P. Morgan Chase, EverBank, The Institute for Energy Research, Houston Rockets, Houston Astros, the American Junior Golf Association, Agora Financial, Agora Publishing, Stansberry Research and TradeStops. Vissa graduated Magna Cum Laude from Syracuse University's Honors Program with degrees in broadcast journalism, finance and accounting. He earned a Master's Degree from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. He has been featured on USA Today, Yahoo!, Bloomberg, MSNBC, Huffington Post, Businessweek, MSN Money, Business Insider, India Today, Hindustan Times and other domestic and international media outlets.
 
The world needs more:
1. The world needs more people to be introspective.
2. To focus on improving themselves and their own situations.
 
 
Wow Factor:  Failure has wowed me at every crossroad: - Being fired (still happens) - Shutting down or walking away from ventures - Losing money At the same time, I'm fortunate enough to have people around me who inspire me to work harder and strive for more.
 
Favorite color: Red, Orange, Dark Blue
 

EP 24 - Josh Macin - What The World Needs More Of... Authenticity, Vulnerability and Truth!

Guest: Josh Macin
 
Age: 29
 
Location: Berkeley CA
 
Bio: Josh Macin was the 2010 Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu World Champion and the 2012 Pan-American champion. Suddenly, in October of 2013, he began to experience debilitating panic attacks, suicidal despair, and gut-wrenching anxiety. After pharmaceutical drugs provided no relief, he found himself on a hero’s journey – traveling to the corners of the earth experimenting with some of the world’s most powerful hallucinogens. When neither ayahuasca, float tanks, fasting, meditation, colon cleaning, nor yoga could provide him with relief he began to lose faith. In a surreal sequence of events that transpired three years after beginning the journey, he found out about heavy metal poisoning and started a comprehensive detoxification protocol. Now, alive and well to tell the tale, Josh has created TheDetoxDudes.com – a company devoted to helping people overcome toxicity.
 
The world needs more:
1.  Authenticity
2.  Vulnerability
3.  Truth
 
Wow Factor: Compassion, authenticity, realness. My illness helped me become more real and shed the layers.
 
Favorite color: Blue

EP 23 - Mike Robbins - What The World Needs More Of... Walking in each others shoes

Guest: Mike Robbins
 
Age: 44
 
Location: Novato, CA
 
Bio:  Mike Robbins is the author of four books, Focus on the Good Stuff, Be Yourself Everyone Else is Already Taken, Nothing Changes Until You Do, and Bring Your Whole Self to Work. He delivers keynotes and seminars that empower people, leaders, and organizations to be more successful, appreciative, and authentic. Prior to his current work, Mike played baseball at Stanford and then professionally with the KC Royals. After his athletic career was cut short by injuries, he worked in the tech world, before starting his consulting business in 2001. His clients include Google, Wells Fargo, eBay, Gap, Microsoft, and others. www.Mike-Robbins.com
 
The world needs more:
1. Love
2. Empathy
3. Understanding
 
Wow Factor: I think my parents splitting up when I was 3, my pro baseball career ending, losing both of my parents and my sister, being married to my amazing wife Michelle and father to our incredible daughters all have shaped the way I think about life, relate to others, and do my work.
 
Favorite color: Green

EP 22 - Caleigh Haber-Takayama - What The World Needs More Of... The "Hype Man"

Guest: Caleigh Haber-Takayama
 
Age: 28
 
Location: Los Angeles
 
Bio: Born and raised along the California coast, Caleigh was diagnosed at birth with cystic fibrosis, a genetic disease that causes thick and sticky mucus to clog the airways in the lungs and affect many other organs in the body. Growing up, Caleigh stayed healthy through sports and social activities. She later moved to San Francisco to attend culinary school. Despite her best efforts to balance health and happiness, she found herself with end-stage lung disease, frequently hospitalized and requiring a double lung transplant to live longer. While waiting for a transplant and after receiving new lungs in October 2015, she dedicated her life to awareness and advocacy for cf, organ transplant, genetic disease and chronic illness. She went on to meet the love of her life, travel and get married. After only a year and a half post-transplant, her body went into organ rejection and again she was found fighting for her life. She was hospitalized often and in January she became so sick she was medically evacuated to Los Angeles where she lived in the hospital until receiving her second gift of life - another double lung transplant June 8, 2018. She now lives a successful life achieving new goals every day -- including chronicling her journey and beginning her own legacy through her foundation Fight2Breathe.
 
The world needs more:
1. I believe the world needs more of the "Hype Man".
2. People empowering other people.
 
Wow Factor: My WOW factor is my ability to remain optimistic. My family and friends have helped me keep hopeful through their love and support. Through their ability to make me laugh and smile. Through their reminders of past triumphs and future goals.
 
Favorite color: Purple
Website: https://www.fight2breathe.org
Instagram: @Fight2Breathe

Ep 21 - Dean Jacobs - The World Needs More... Connection + Engagement + Action

Guest: Dean Jacobs
Age: 56
Location: Nebraska
Bio: Quit a successful job and sold the house to follow a dream. Everyone thought he was crazy. After exploring 58 countries, an ordinary guy from Nebraska has gained a perspective and wisdom that is helpful to others. His passion is to remind students, dreams are not for special people, they are for everyone. We are not here to go through the motions of life, but to live a life of wonder.
The World Needs More: 
1. Connection to the things that matter.
2. More attention to the things that bring us joy.
3. More action on the things that make the world better.
Wow Factor: The world is far more kind, beautiful and generous then what it is given credit for. My journeys are filled with experiences that prove this to be true. From watching the sun go down and change colors on the face of Mount Everest, to being within an arms reach of a 450 lb mountain gorilla, to having my bus fare paid by locals in Sudan. Life is filled with moments of wonder.
Favorite Color: Blue, for big open skies and horizons to go explore.

Ep 20 - Tony Pappalardo - The World Needs More... People focusing on what is RIGHT with life!

Guest: Tony Pappalardo
Age: 39 years old
Location: New York, NY
Bio: Tony figured out a way in his 20's to minimize his time as a business owner, so that he could maximize his position as full-time husband and father in his 30's. Having been asked to speak on stages across the globe, his passion lies in helping others do the same - breakthrough any limitations that keep them from living a truly fulfilled and authentic life focusing in on the areas that matter most.
The World Needs More:
1. People focusing on what is RIGHT with life
Wow factor: Tune in and find out. 
Favorite color: Blue

Ep 19 - Davis Zavik - The World Needs more... Empathy & Compassion

Guest: Davis Zavik
Age: 28 years old
Location: Miami Beach, FL
Bio: New mom, wife, author of Assisted Living, Everything you Need to Know to Compassionately Care for your Elderly Parent, Residential Assisted Living Facility owner, Sociology graduate from the University of Miami
The world needs more:
1. Compassion
2. Empathy
Wow Factor: My ability to think ahead, act in a timely manor and organize my schedule. Growing up with a younger brother, I had to think at least one step ahead if I wanted to have a say in what we were doing, where we were going etc. So I think I learned from a young age that if I didn’t think ahead, I wouldn’t get to sit next to the person I wanted to at family dinners, or play with the toy of my choice instead of my brother getting to take it first. When I was younger I also sailed a tall ship around the world and I think that greatly impacted my character today. Onboard we had to be on time and if we were more than 90 seconds late we were reprimanded- the reason being that they would have to assume a man overboard drill for safety purposes. So I learned very quickly the value of being on time when that was a daily focus 24/7 for an entire year of my life. And as a new mom, I think everyone can understand the importance of schedules. Be it sleep, pumping or feeding schedules- you have to pay attention to your time. I think there’s a lot I still have to learn, but I’m really good at time, organization and thinking ahead.Favorite color: Scarlet red although you wouldn’t know that from looking at my closet of mostly black clothes

Ep 18 - Bryan Takayama - The World Needs More... Living In The Moment

Guest: Bryan Takayama
Age: 26 years old
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Bio: Husband to an amazing wife with a focus on taking advantage of every second to find happiness.
The World Needs More:
1. Living in the moment
Wow Factor: Work ethic, loyalty, figuring out how things work and executing
Favorite Color: Orange
Website: https://www.fight2breathe.org
Instagram: @Mr_fight2breathe

Ep 17 - Juliana Lacerda Sobral - The World Needs More... Tenderness

Guest: Juliana Lacerda Sobral 
Age: 34 years old
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Bio: Juliana has spent her professional life supporting students in higher education and as an integral collaborator on the growth of a plant-based lifestyle brand. She’s currently taking time to focus on her family’s health and wellness, to be fully devoted to her baby boy, traveling and working with her husband Murs, and dabbling in consulting projects she’s passionate about.
The World Needs More:
1. Tenderness 
2. Community, neighborhoods with neighbors who need to interact on a regular basis to increase kindness, compassion, integrity and decrease loneliness and apathy.
WOW factor: Connecting deeply with strangers! I think moving a lot, traveling, being a person who dislikes smalltalk, and certainly going through my own personal challenges have pushed me to develop this ability.
Favorite Color: GOLD!