As Told By Nomads

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As Told By Nomads features interviews with global nomads, Third Culture Kids, and entrepreneurs discussing what it takes to be global leaders.

Episodios

  • How Dan Gaita is Combatting Veteran Suicide and Furthering PTSD Research

    23/05/2023 Duración: 42min

    How Dan Gaita is Combatting Veteran Suicide and Furthering PTSD ResearchToday's episode is with Dan Gaita. He is a lifelong exercise and fitness enthusiast with a belief in moderation of most things. As a dedicated combat veterans advocate he spends a lot of his time focusing on the effects of Combat Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and working to understand and implement effective evidence based solution strategies for America's war heroes. He platform showcases the benefits of regular exercise and purpose driven activities as well as their impact on many of the negative side effects associated with PTSD.Connect with Dan Gaita:Operation Vet Fit Website: https://www.operationvetfit.org/Dan Gaita's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-gaita-ma-msw-lisw-cp-a9a59a23/Connect with Tayo Rockson and the As Told By Nomads Podcast:Tayo’s Website: https://tayorockson.com/Tayo on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tayorockson/Tayo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TayoRocksonTayo on YouTube: https://www.yout

  • Why We Need Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

    18/05/2023 Duración: 04min

    In this episode, I use the metaphor of music to explain why we need diversity, equity and inclusion in our world.Connect with Tayo Rockson and the As Told By Nomads Podcast:Tayo’s Website: https://tayorockson.com/Tayo on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tayorockson/Tayo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TayoRocksonTayo on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/tayorocksonTayo on TikTok: https://www.youtube.com/tayorocksonAs Told by Nomads Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/as-told-by-nomads/id910739730UYD Management: https://www.uydmanagement.com/UYD Collective: https://tayorockson.com/uyd-collective Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • Embrace Resilience and a Multidimensional Existence with with Casey Dupart

    10/05/2023 Duración: 37min

    Embrace Resilience and a Multidimensional Existence with with Casey DupartToday's episode is with Casey Dupart. She has been involved in schools for the past 14 years. She has trained in school psychology, applied behavior analysis, racial equity, inclusive leadership, project management, trauma, as well as educational leadership. She has led state school psychologist and behavior analysis associations, designed state social and emotional learning frameworks, as well as served on a national equity, diversity, and inclusion task force. Always the learner, she is currently pursuing a doctorate in trauma and grief.Connect with Casey Dupart:Casey Dupart's Website: https://www.embracingresilience.org/Services: https://www.embracingresilience.org/servicesCasey Dupart's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/casey-dupart-13538369/Connect with Tayo Rockson and the As Told By Nomads Podcast:Tayo’s Website: https://tayorockson.com/Tayo on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tayorockson/Tayo on Twitter: https://tw

  • My Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) Diagnosis

    04/05/2023 Duración: 10min

    In this episode I share my General Anxiety Disorder (GAD), thoughts on mental health and what I hope for the future when it comes to mental health. Happy Mental Health Awareness Month! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • Dealing with Transitions and Disruptions with Claire Harbour

    02/05/2023 Duración: 38min

    Dealing with Transitions and Disruptions with Claire HarbourToday's episode is with Claire Harbour. She is a coach, writer and advisor on giant, messy changes, in career and in life. Her early career was spent in corporate life, in general management, strategy consulting and executive search. The second half has been all about people, talent and bringing out the best in individuals and organizations. She has worked across borders, all over the world, in 17 countries, 4 continents and 8 languages.Connect with Claire Harbour:Claire Harbour's Website: https://www.claireharbour.com/Disrupt Your Career: How to Navigate Uncharted Career Transitions and Thrive Book: https://www.amazon.com/Disrupt-Your-Career-Uncharted-Transitions/dp/1387167154Claire Harbour's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/claireharbourlyell/Connect with Tayo Rockson and the As Told By Nomads Podcast:Tayo’s Website: https://tayorockson.com/Tayo on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tayorockson/Tayo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TayoRocks

  • How to Achieve Breakthrough Execution and Accelerate Growth with Patrick Thean

    18/04/2023 Duración: 33min

    How to Achieve Breakthrough Execution and Accelerate Growth with Patrick TheanToday's episode is with Patrick Thean. Patrick is the author of Rhythm: How to Achieve Breakthrough Execution and Accelerate Growth as well as Execute Without Drama and an award-winning serial entrepreneur who has started and exited multiple companies. He is an engaging speaker and has addressed thousands of businesses globally, including YPO (Young Presidents Organization), EO (Entrepreneurs Organization) and Fortune Small Business Growth Conferences. Patrick founded and grew Metasys to over $20 million in sales and was ranked 151 on the Inc500 in 1996.As the CEO of Rhythm Systems, Patrick has helped hundreds of businesses develop their strategy and execution plans. A master facilitator, Patrick is able to tease out the right priorities and get to the right outcomes. A CEO coach, he holds CEOs and their teams accountable to do what they say they are going to do.People hire Patrick and Rhythm Systems for the following reasons:Get ex

  • The Necessary Journey with Dr Ella F. Washington

    11/04/2023 Duración: 35min

    The Necessary Journey with Dr Ella F. WashingtonToday's episode is with Dr. Ella F. Washington. She is an organizational psychologist who finds inspiration at the intersection of business, diversity, and leadership. Dr. Washington has global consulting experience in financial services, sports and entertainment, oil and gas, higher education, and government. Both her research and her client work focus on structural barriers to inclusion for diverse groups in the workplace and working with organizations to build inclusive cultures. She also works one-on-one with leaders to develop their inclusive leadership skills. Previously, Dr. Washington worked at Gallup as a subject-matter expert in diversity and inclusion. In that role she provided insight to clients on issues of inclusion, culture, strategic diversity, and engagement.Links:Connect with Dr. Ella F. Washington:Dr. Washington's Website: https://www.ellafwashington.com/The Necessary Journey Book: https://www.thenecessaryjourney.com/Dr. Washington's LinkedIn:

  • Being a Self-Taught Entrepreneur with Max Novak

    23/03/2023 Duración: 35min

    Being a Self-Taught Entrepreneur with Max NovakToday's episode is with Max Novak. Having had hundreds of hours of conversations with podcast hosts and guests Max now know exactly what it takes to be featured on the best podcasts out there, but mainly how to conduct a real podcast campaign strategy that provides results. This results in a highly-personalized approach for his podcasting campaign that will be conducted according to the clients' wants & needs, ICP and desired outcome. He stumbled into the world of podcasting and saw the beauty that lies within it. The world’s best community where people share their experience, expertise and knowledge with others. According to him, podcasting allows people to reveal their best kept secrets with their listeners just to make this world a better place.Links:Connect with Max Novak:Novacast Website: https://novacast.be/Rekha's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/max-novak-/Connect with Tayo Rockson and the As Told By Nomads Podcast:Tayo’s Website: https://ta

  • Living the Boundless Life with Rekha Magon

    08/03/2023 Duración: 33min

    Living the Boundless Life with Rekha MagonToday's episode is with Rekha Magon. She is the co-founder & Head of Education at Boundless Life. Boundless Life has reimagined education for the children of digital nomads, making it easy for both children and parents to move fluidly between locations while following a consistent curriculum. Boundless Life combines both offline and future-forward education with a location independent living model. Families have an opportunity to develop connections and explore different local cultures while enjoying the fellowship of like-minded people that put balance, growth, and education first.As an avid world traveler, ed-tech entrepreneur, and homeschool mama, Rekha is passionate about creating meaningful learning experiences that inspire children to question, create, and innovate according to their own personal interests. Links:Connect with Rekha Magon:Boundless Life: https://www.boundless.life/Rekha's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rekha-magon-28654395/Connect with

  • A Black Professional's Guide to the Workplace with Carice Anderson

    28/02/2023 Duración: 31min

    A Black Professional's Guide to the Workplace with Carice Anderson Recounting the frustration she felt as a young Black woman beginning her career, Carice Anderson knows that many Black professionals are relying on their education and intellect alone to be successful in the workplace. In her book, she empowers young Black professionals by equipping them with advice and little-known principles of career success from her experiences and interviews with thirty successful Black leaders.Our episode dives into what Anderson calls the three “major corporate muscle groups”:Knowing yourself— understanding your story and investigating your mindsetKnowing others—building and sustaining important relationships in the workplaceKnowing your environment—analyzing your organization’s cultureLinks:Connect with Carice Anderson:Carice's Book: https://cariceanderson.com/book/Carice's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cariceanderson/Carice's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carice-anderson-a204602/Connect with Tayo Rockso

  • Deepening the Well of Love in the World with Krish Himmatramka

    20/02/2023 Duración: 37min

    Deepening the Well of Love in the World with Krish HimmatramkaKrish is a man on a mission. He believes that symbols of love should never come with questions of ethics. After studying Mechanical Engineering and taking up a job at a prestigious engineering company with long term ambitions to work his way up the ladder, he learned how hard it was to drill for oil, and how easy it was to drill for water. This realization remained in Himmatramka’s head, and knowing over two billion people lack access to clean water daily, he decided this was an issue he wanted to tackle and started researching how he could make his contribution to solving it.He initially looked into how he could set up a charity but quickly realized there were many organizations already doing a great job and given there is a finite pool of capital all he would be doing is competing for donations. Instead the idea to set up some sort of social enterprise selling products where profits could go into helping to build wells made much more sense. The r

  • Using the Power of Human Design with Tijana Buric

    08/02/2023 Duración: 31min

    Human Design with Tijana BuricThe Human Design System is a synthesis of ancient and modern sciences, and has proven to be a valuable tool for human understanding.It provides you with simple yet effective tools to enhance your life, reducing confusion, stress and resistance. It is essentially your own navigation tool. Tayo’s guest today, Tijana Buric is a Human Design expert who discusses how and why this tool is important for us to utilize as we figure out alignment with our passions and our careers. By formal education she is an economist and by soul vocation she is a curious learner, educator, entrepreneur, coach, mentor.​After graduating from Belgrade University she started my career in PwC audit. In 2013 she moved to New York City to pursue her graduate degree at Fordham University and continued her career in Deloitte tax consulting practice. During her 10 years in corporate career she was a facilitator for professional and career development programs and mentor for graduate business students which a

  • The Incredible Life of Rosa Parks with H.H. Leonards

    30/01/2023 Duración: 17min

    There are many people who have been prominent in our history yet have been hidden from textbooks, from conversations, and from praise and appropriate adulation. Tayo’s guest today, H.H. Leonards, got to know one of these people, Rosa Parks, in the latter years of her life and has now written a book shedding light on this amazing woman. H.H. opens the episode by telling us how Mrs. Parks came to live with her in The Mansion on O Street after being assaulted in her home in Detroit and how H.H’s vision for the mansion made it the perfect place for Mrs. Parks to recover. She also explains that she didn’t know then who Mrs. Parks was (and wouldn’t for three years) because of a lack of education about civil rights and how she’s now driven to make sure people get to know Mrs. Parks’ heart and soul.Next, Tayo asks H.H. what Mrs. Parks might have thought about the divisions we see in society today. H.H. shares Mrs. Parks’ prescient belief that the laws would roll back if we didn’t spend time meeting with people who do

  • How to Be a Diversity and Inclusion Ambassador with Celeste Warren

    19/01/2023 Duración: 38min

    In today’s episode of As Told by Nomads, Tayo sits down with Celeste Warren, Vice President of Global Diversity and Inclusion Center of Excellence at Merck, to discuss what it means to be a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) champion. Celeste shares her personal experiences of feeling marginalized and attacked while attending an all-white school and working in predominantly white organizations, as well as how she uses those experiences to ensure that others do not feel the same way. The conversation also focuses on the increased focus on DEI since the murder of George Floyd and just what it takes to be a DEI ambassador.The episode delves into how Celeste's journey into the field of DEI came from personal experiences and observations and encourages listeners to reflect on their own experiences and observations to see how they can champion people in their lives. Celeste also discusses her book on the culture of being a DEI ambassador and the importance of truly understanding and embracing the concepts of di

  • The Cartel of Colleges and Universities with Sahaj Sharda

    12/01/2023 Duración: 36min

    Sahaj Sharda, the author of The College Cartel, is Tayo’s very special guest on the podcast today. Sahaj's book explores the monopolistic greed of Ivy League colleges and other elite schools and how these institutions are creating artificial scarcity in their admissions processes. Tayo and Sahaj discuss how this is leading to discrimination, price fixing, and other exploitative practices in higher education. They also discuss potential solutions to move past the systems of oppression that exist in the education system, and share their own personal experiences and perspectives on the topic, highlighting how the culture and expectations surrounding elite education differ across the world.Along the way, Tayo and Sahaj delve into the idea that higher education is not just about learning, but also about networking and signaling, citing examples of how attending prestigious universities such as MIT or Harvard can open doors for students that would not be available to them if they went to other schools. Sahaj then g

  • Creating Spaces of Belonging with Immigration and Entrepreneurship with Hillary Walsh

    06/01/2023 Duración: 42min

    Creating Spaces of Belonging with Immigration and Entrepreneurship with Hillary WalshOn the last episode of the As Told by Nomads podcast of 2022, Tayo welcomes Hillary Walsh to the show. Together the pair talk about everything and anything immigration - from the systemic issues that pertain to immigration and what it’s like to be an immigrant in the US to how Walsh  endured her traumatic childhood and went on to build her business.  As a young child going through ‘juvie’ and the foster care system, Hillary never imagined that one day she would become an entrepreneur and lawyer representing refugees and asylum seekers in front of the Supreme Court. Since then, she’s not only made a professional name for herself, but Walsh has also broken her family’s cycle of domestic abuse and alcoholism.  Now she wants to help others find freedom like she did.  In the immigration space that’s already so plagued with rhetoric and bias, Walsh has built a business model on transparency and accountabili

  • Understanding the Creator Economy with Simone May

    05/01/2023 Duración: 33min

    On this week’s episode of As Told By Nomads, Simone May joins Tayo to talk about Clutch, the company whose vision it is to build the next generation of authentic, engaging creators and support more sustainable, equitable lifestyles. As the CTO and cofounder of Clutch, May has witnessed the transformation of both the technology and software industry and has proudly participated in that change as well. Today she talks about everything from her childhood passion for math and science and her experience as a young black woman at Purdue to the power of authenticity and why she wants to democratize access in the creator space.  As the daughter of two engineers, it’s no surprise that Simone found success in the technological field. That’s not to say that she hasn’t been met with roadblocks along the way though. Today she enlightens our audience on university burnout, how race impacts business opportunities, and where she found confidence in the midst of such struggle. This conv

  • Navigating Life While Being Underestimated with Donald Thompson

    14/12/2022 Duración: 32min

    Today, Tayo welcomes Donald Thompson, the Co-Founder and CEO of the Diversity Movement, and a Certified Diversity Executive teaching corporate executives and aspiring entrepreneurs to accelerate their success. As a three-time Inc 5000 CEO with 20 years of experience growing firms, Donald is the go-to expert for executive coaching, competitive learning, and cultural transformation. He is passionate about helping others grow, innovate, and reach their full potential. In this episode, Tayo and Donald unpack what it’s like to work on seizing your greatest potential while being underestimated in the world of modern business. First, Donald shares some key life lessons you can learn from sports, such as the power of resilience and recovery. Then, he proceeds to talk about his personal experience of changing how people perceived him. By becoming a top performer, he made sure people look at him through his astonishing performance and not his skin color. Finally, our duo discuss why it’s important to intentionally

  • Living a Committed Life with Lynne Twist

    07/12/2022 Duración: 42min

    Today, Tayo is joined by Lynne Twist, an author, consultant, pro-activist, and renowned global visionary. Lynne is committed to alleviating poverty, ending world hunger, and fighting for equality and the rights of indigenous people all over the world. Her wealth of knowledge and experiences has led her to write an amazing book called Living a Committed Life, where she shared her compelling stories and life-changing lessons learned along the way. In this episode, Tayo and Lynne talk about what it takes to live a meaningful life, what being an activist truly entails, and why we need to build a global culture of commitment to make the world a better place. For more than 40 years, Lynne has been putting her heart and soul into important causes - from empowering indigenous people of the Amazon rainforest through supporting social justice to building a culture of global accountability. She’s living proof of the power of real commitment, and how being committed to a mission greater than yourself can not only em

  • Understanding the Next-Generation Social Marketplace with Solo Ceesay

    28/11/2022 Duración: 34min

    Joining me on this week’s episode is Solo Ceesay, a first-generation immigrant born to Senegalese and Gambian parents, whose entrepreneurial journey to date includes becoming an Ivy League football champion, graduating top of his class at the Wharton School of Business, joining Citigroup on Wall Street as a securitization investment banker, and presenting his own creator economy video podcast. Solo’s now the pulse of the creative economy, spearheading over thirty-three million in funds raised since 2021 to build open social marketplace Calaxy with his co-founder, NBA star Spencer Dinwiddie. And he’s also, as we discuss today, at the forefront of making sure we learn how to stabilize traditional and stagnant methods of monetization for creators.Solo opens the episode by sharing the details of his journey, including how his parents instilled in him a determination to always give his best and never give up, helping him to develop an entrepreneurial mindset. He then discusses his pivot into the world of cryptocur

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