EP13: Support, Quiet and Cultural Humility with Elayne Fluker

Get ready to spice up your Sunday...

This week, we're skipping across the pond to London to talk about sex with Andrea Balboni: Founder of Lush Coaching who's leading with heart and a heap of science to help people shed their sexual baggage and experience the joy and the fullness of their lives.

Andrea talks with me about her personal Sex In The City  journey from a repressed New England upbringing and to a tantric yoga class that transformed her life, opened her mind and led her to discover the very best part of her humanity. 

We talk about longstanding societal stigmas around sex, the connection between kindness, sex, pleasure and self and dig into why these are essential ingredients to being a compassionate, happy and whole human. 

Andrea Balboni  is a Certified as a Sex, Love, Intimacy and Relationships Coach who helps people cultivate relationships rich in love, passion and pleasure. She guides everyone from heart-lead entrepreneurs and purpose-driven executives, to empathic creatives, insta-influencers and paraolympians alike, to help them get the love they want.  

Visit Andrea's website
Connect with her on LinkedIn
Follow her on social media: @andreabalboni_lush

This week, we're popping across the pond to London for a chat with Ozlem Tuskan: Founder of The Resilient, single mum and a woman with enough resilience, kindness and soul for 100 people.

Ozlem talks with me about her work with women founders that's disrupting the astounding inequity in VC funding, developing bold resilience, kindness and quantum physics, finding her voice and rockin' her badass leather pants. 

Her work has spanned many continents advising global players such as L’OREAL, DIAGEO, FACEBOOK, UNIBAIL RODAMCO WESTFIELD, GOOGLE UK, COCA-COLA, CNN, WOOLWORTHS S.A., GENPACT, PENTLAND, KNIGHT DRAGON, UNILEVER, ATELIER REBUL and MACROCENTER.

Connect with Ozlem on LinkedIn
Work with Ozlem
Follow her on social media: @theresilient_thrive

This week, we're heading over to Denver, CO to catch up with Dr. Elia Gourgouris, best known internationally as 'The Happiness Doctor'.

He talks with me about the power of the personal 'brands" we inherit or adopt, the impact of social media on self worth, the magic of being real, the kindness-happiness connection and the projects he has underway to change TV and challenge Facebook.

Dr. Elia Gourgouris is the president of The Happiness Center, an organization of world-leading experts in the field of Positive Psychology dedicated to creating personal success and happiness. He is also Founding Partner at The Global Institute of Thought Leadership, an organization that brings together bestselling authors, world-renowned speakers, industry experts and pioneering thinkers who all share a common goal: Changing the world of ideas.

Learn more and connect:

Visit his website
Order his latest book "7 Keys to Navigating A Crisis"
Connect with him on LinkedIn

This week, we're heading over to Portland, Oregon to hang out with Jody Turner: Futurist, Speaker, Insight Researcher on a mission to share bold ideas to preserve our planet.

Jody talks with me about the trends she identified 20 years ago and why she's not surprised by where we are in time. We talk about her work that's guiding the evolution of major companies toward sustainability, meeting the future with pragmatism, kindness and looking ahead to 2050 with these two questions:

"What are the five things we are all experiencing on the planet that affect all of us?  What are the ten things we can do to solve them together?"

Connect with Jody on LinkedIn

Tweet with Jody: @cultureoffuture

Check her out on Wikipedia

(or...shoot her an email:  jodyturner@icloud.com)

This week, we're heading to Sydney, Australia to spend some time with Dr. Richard Harris: Surgeon, Author, Father, Visionary, Kind Soul.

In 1971, John Lennon released his prolific and timeless song, Imagine.  50 years later, this vascular surgeon (from The Land Down Under) inspired by the possibilities John shared in his lyrics, became the author of Imagine, A Novel:  an optimistic, thought provoking, utopian book about love, humanity, reason and real possibilities for a kinder world.

During our beautifully comfortable conversation, Rich shares a handful of his favorite possibilities for creating a world akin to the one he paints for us in his novel. As I listened, I started wondering how we can get this guy a nomination to join the The U.N. (If you have a contact, please give him a shout and let him know.)

Visit Richard's website
Tweet with Richard: @richharris2
Order Imagine, A Novel

This week, we're trekking up to Boston to catch up with the soulful, Michele Nevarez: Author, Emotional Intelligence Expert and the CEO of Beyond EI.

Our conversation takes place just after the launch of her new venture, Beyond EI. Michele talks with me about her time in Nepal that informed her world views and her extensive EI work alongside Daniel Goleman and Dr. Richard Davidson that inspired her to go layers deeper into emotional intelligence. We talk about  the intentional, relative and "other focused paradigms  of kindness and becoming agents of world benefit.


Work with Michele and Beyond EI
Follow her on social media: @beyondei.inc
Connect on LinkedIn

Mentioned on the podcast:
The Emotional Life of Your Brain, by Dr. Richard Davidson
Center for Healthy Minds

This week, we're heading up to New York City to spend a little time with Michael Roderick: Founder, Writer, Podcast Host, Dad and Urban Dweller.

Michael talks with me about the freedom that comes from allowing yourself to suck, loneliness, "worshipping reach and ignoring depth" and the one tiny thing each of us can do everyday, to make the world a kinder place.

Michael was a teacher and Broadway producer, before he dropped it all to become the Founder of Small Pond Enterprises.  His work focuses on helping entrepreneurs  with incredible ideas, realize their magic and package their work to create referable brands.
 
Connect with Michael on all the Social places: @michaelroderick
Learn about Michael's incredible work with people and brands on his website
Check out Michael's podcast, Access to Anyone

This week, I'm heading an hour north of Toronto to hang out with the infectious and delightful Cathy Nesbitt: visionary, bean queen, worm harvester and laughter yoga coach.

This episode is medicine for the soul.  Cathy was way ahead of her time. She talks with me about worms: how she got turned onto them and then how they became her business in 2002 when the Toronto landfill shut down.

We talk about the kindness of sustainability, life without a cell phone, entrepreneurship, her vision for creating communities and human connection through local food harvests, the serendipitous meeting that led her to laughter yoga and her mission to create a more peaceful and simplistic world without waste.

Connect with Cathy and visit her website
 
(Intro and outro music provided by https://soundslikeanearful.com)

This week  we're doing a little globetrotting. We'll travel to Amsterdam, England, Norway, New Jersey and Austin, TX to hear kind highlights from EP 1-5, centered around two simple questions.

You'll hear lessons from mallards, kindness' role in shaping the largest Porsche eSports community in England, a CEO's message about kind and profitable business, kindness as a survival tactic and the possibility kindness holds for healing our planet.

If you like what you hear, please share some kindness and send the link to a friend.  

Learn more about my guests:
EP1: Neil Schambra Stevens
EP2: Mark Phillips
EP3: Oyvind Reed
EP4: Christina Langdon
EP5: Dr. Heather Walker

Intro and outro music provided by: https://soundslikeanearful.com/

Aloha! This week, I'm traveling to the good vibes state of Hawaii to spend some time with Brian Cunningham: Kind human, CEO and the author of the The Leadership Revolution: Because Evolution Takes Too Long  and the groundbreaking book Our AQ: The Missing Link to Extraordinary Leadership and Life.

Brian talks with me about the transformational power of desperation, his awareness journey that took shape like a 1980's autostereogram, bringing love into leadership and why understanding the interaction between our internal and external environments gives us the "ability to dance with the world" and show up super kind. 

Dive deeper into Brian's work:
Visit his website
Connect  on LinkedIn