"Make Peace Profitable" | David Karr the Co-founder of Guayaki Yerba Mate

Hey team! This is the raw, un-cut interview Dan Churchill and I recorded one year ago in New York City during my two week internship, when I found out I got hired!

This is a special episode for me as it's the one year anniversary since I started working with Dan. I am so grateful to be in this position in my life where I can call Dan a boss, mentor, and friend. Throughout the last year, I have learned more than I could ever say in one podcast or post, but five main takeaways are to:

• Always ask for what you want
• Be a sponge
• Provide value
• Be authentic
• Help your boss burn less calories

A huge reason I am in this position is due to all of you supporting me through this show, reaching out to me on socials, and providing me feedback. You all have helped me grow my confidence, find my voice, and understand better who I am. So thank you!

If you want to learn more about what I have learned over the last year, let me know and I can record an updated episode with Dan where we go more into clear lessons and takeaways.

Also, if you want to support the work we are doing, the best ways are to leave a review everywhere you listen to your podcasts and purchase our Charley St Chorizo and Bolognese which is made of whole foods, incredibly easy to cook, and extremely delicious. 

"My biggest recommendation is to just start" - Bryan Spunt on how to succeed as an entrepreneur

I am thrilled to bring you today’s episode with Bryan Spunt who is the CEO of Seek Discomfort, the Chief Smile Officer at the Big Smiles Program, and the third Shareholder at PopSockets. Seek Discomfort is a brand created by Yes Theory. For those of you who don't know, Yes Theory is a YouTube channel with over 7 Million subscribers started by three young guys (Thomas, Matt, and Ammar) who believe that life's greatest moments live outside of your comfort zone. Their goal is to help people get out of their comfort zone by saying yes to opportunity. Bryan is the CEO of their brand Seek Discomfort which is an amazing clothing company creating a tangible calling card to push your boundaries, overcome fear, and live a more vibrant life. Bryan and I met on the beach last summer in Santa Monica when some of my best friends and I spontaneously drove to LA to meet the guys at Yes Theory. We exchanged info and a month later we sat down to record this conversation. In this episode Bryan dives into his come-up story, how he found a love for business in high school, how he became the third shareholder in PopSockets as a Sophomore in college, and how he eventually found his current position as CEO of Seek Discomfort. We specifically discuss:

• How to succeed as an entrepreneur
• What skills do good entrepreneurs need?
• How can I become a successful entrepreneur?
• The importance of giving back
• Living in the moment rather than the future
• How to find a career that combines passion, money, and purpose
• Is going to college actually worth it?
• Is going to college a waste of time?

I am thrilled to share this episode with all of you! Since our conversation nine months ago,  I connected Bryan with SeaTrees, a California based non-profit that I am the Youth Ambassador for, to establish a partnership with Seek Discomfort, through their Seeker Sustainability Program, so that Seek could become an OceanPositive company. OceanPositive is a term given to a company when they partner with SeaTrees. The certification is given when a company calculates their environmental footprint, then wipes it out through planting mangrove trees and reforesting kelp, then changes their practices so they aren’t continuing their same ways of production and distribution that led to emissions. So as of NOW, every time you purchase Seek Discomfort, you are also planting mangrove trees and reforesting kelp.

Head to the link HERE to shop Seek Discomfort and plant SeaTrees!

Connect with Bryan and Seek Discomfort at the following links:

• Bryan's Instagram
• Seek Discomfort's Instagram 
• Seek Discomfort's YouTube 
• Yes Theory's YouTube 
• Yes Theory's Instagram

Have you ever wondered if you are on the right path?

My epic people! It feels soooo good to be sharing another episode with all of you! I took some time off while I finished up last semester of school and I spent my winter break skiing and spending time with my friends and family, but now I’m back with an exciting, insightful, and inspiring episode with today’s guest Bobby Hobert a.k.a the bearded man a.k.a Bobbbaaaay! Bobby for all of you who don’t yet know, is an incredible podcaster and the host of It’s The Bearded Man podcast. He just launched his first app called Stay Dialed In which is a community based app helping you achieve small steps each day to improve your life. He is also the Podcast Manager for LiquidIV, he is a marathoner, and this dude has a fire guest list. I mean he has interviewed Brian Spunt, the CEO of Seek Discomfort, Lewis Howes, arguably one of the GOATS at podcasting, and many many more incredible people. In today’s episode, Bobby dives into how he arrived at the point he is at in his life after graduating 6 figures in debt, driving Uber full time, and not knowing what he was going to do in his life. In the episode we focus on consistency, defining success, brand building, and touch on vulnerability. I hope you all enjoy today’s episode and walk away from it feeling inspired and with more tools in your tool belt.

In today’s episode we specifically discuss:

• How to build a brand
  • What are the steps in building a brand?
  • What is brand building and its importance?
• Creating a podcast career 
  • How do I make a podcast?
  • How do podcasters get paid?
• How to be successful
  • BE CONSISTENT
  • What are 5 keys to success? 
  • What makes you successful in life? 
  • How do you make yourself become successful? 
  • What 3 things do you need to be successful? 
• How to discover what you want to do in life
  • What should I do in life?
  • How do I decide what to do with my life?

We dive into these questions in detail, Bobby shares his personal life experience finding a purpose and his calling, and he shares key questions to ask yourself to determine if you are on the right path.

Connect with Bobby at the following links:

• Bobby’s Instagram
• Bobby’s Podcast
• Bobby’s App
• Bobby’s TikTok
• Bobby’s Website

“Creativity is an energy of moving imagination into a physical manifestation” - SWAYLO

Welcome to episode 3 of season 2 of What’s Your Juice?! Today’s episode is with Noah Knight Kessler De St. Croix or as you may know him, SWAYLÓ. Noah is a truly unique individual. In fact, I have never come across anyone who approaches making and using music in a more unique way. Noah is the Imagineer of SWAYLÓ where he makes his music, the experience designer at Meow Wolf, the vibe tech at Future Primitive LA, and an overall legend. 

Noah grew up on the Zuni Pueblo in New Mexico, then moved to Cape Town, and eventually back to Santa Fe New Mexico. Noah has traveled the world and performed and created immersive experiences all over. He is truly an amazing producer, curator, and a super fun person to talk to. 

In the episode, we specifically dive into:

• How to become more creative
• What imagination is and how it transforms into creativity
• The importance of creating events to connect people with a positive intention
  • Especially after COVID
• How to make and produce music

I had an amazing time interviewing Noah for today’s episode. Follow Noah below:

• SWAYLÓ Spotify
• SWAYLÓ Instagram
• SWAYLÓ Website
• SWAYLÓ YouTube

If you liked what you heard, be sure to follow the podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, and on all socials linked below.

• Instagram
• YouTube
• Website

I am so excited to share today's episode with you all! In this episode, I interview Marissa Meizz. Marissa is the founder of No More Lonely Friends, an organization centered around hosting meet-ups to help people make life-long friends. Recently, Marissa's life changed overnight. A young man walking in NYC overheard a conversation between a group of friends. They were talking negatively about a girl named Marissa and were planning to have a party the weekend she was away. The man posted a video to TikTok calling them out and telling people to send the video to Marissa, who he didn't know. The video got over 14 million views. Marissa saw the video; her heart sank. Since then, a tidal wave of amazing change has occurred in Marissa's life. She made the front page of the New York Times, got interviewed on the Drew Barrymore Show, and the list continues. In today's episode, we talk about it all. 

In the episode, we specifically discuss how to succeed as a female creator. We further explore the pros and cons of being a female creator and how Marissa has experienced each of these. Marissa is one of the top female creatives to follow. From growing up acting and making clothes, to working on movie production, and living on contracted work in L.A. and NYC, Marissa is a role model in the creative space. One question we dive into is what would the female version of Yes Theory look like? We also discuss what happens after you go viral, what it means to be a good friend, and how to create the life you want to live. 

I had an amazing time interviewing Marissa Meizz. You can find her links below:
Marissa's Instagram
Marissa's TikTok
No More Lonely Friend's Instagram
No More Lonely Friend's Website

You epic people! I am so stoked to bring you episode 1 of Season 2! This season is a new page and a new direction for the podcast. I couldn’t be more excited to kick things off than by interviewing three of the most charismatic, kind, creative, and epic individuals I have ever met! Their names are Jordy, Cam, and Lenny and they are the three brothers that make up the amazing band WeTheCommas. We discuss the personal relationship these three brothers have with music, mental health, and vulnerability. We discuss what it is like to be three black men who love to surf and skate, are vulnerable and pay attention to their mental health, and have a unique sound in the music industry. Too many they are seen as outliers. We discuss the necessity to get rid of stereotypes, amplify the voices of those who feel unheard, and create an inclusive, accepting, and supporting environment for individuals to live their authentic lives. We also have SO much fun! If you are listening to this interview, you can also watch it on YouTube!

In this interview we specifically dive into:

• The power of creativity
  • What is the importance of creativity?
  • How do I train myself to be more creative?
  • How can a person be creative?
• WeTheComma’s creative process
  • How they use music to express themselves
  • How they write their songs
  • How to produce a song from start to finish
• How WeTheCommas first started
  • How can I start creating music?
  • How to begin creating music
  • How to make it in the music industry

As you are reading this, we are officially the world’s first ever OceanPositive podcast! We partnered with SeaTrees to wipe out our entire carbon footprint and go the extra mile by reforesting California’s kelp, planting mangrove trees in Indonesia, and maintaining a coastal watershed! 

Links:

WeTheCommas:

• Instagram
• Music
• YouTube

SeaTrees:

• Instagram
• Website

What's Your Juice?:

• Instagram
• YouTube
• Website

Happy Earth Day! Today we are highlighting one of the most unbelievable, gnarly, impressive, and physically demanding adventures that I have ever heard of. Two rising Juniors at Stanford, Jackson Parell and Sammy Potter, are taking a gap year to hike 7,940 miles to complete the Calendar Year Triple Crown.  The Calendar Year Triple Crown consists of three trails:

• Appalachian Trail (2,190 miles)
• Pacific Crest Trail (2,650 miles)
• Continental Divide Trail (3,100 miles)

These three trails cover some of the most beautiful and gnarly terrain the United States has to offer. To put that into perspective, if you divide their total mileage, 7,940miles by 365 days, you get 21.75 miles. That means that in order to achieve hiking 7,940 miles in a calendar year, you would have to hike 21.7 miles per day. AND they are aiming to achieve this feat in 9 months! This means that they will be hiking more than a marathon a day, averaging around 30 miles! To keep up with their journey, follow their instagram: cytriplecrown

Today is also Earth Day. Earth Day is an annual event on April 22nd to demonstrate support for environmental protection. We at the WYJ podcast hold environmental stewardship and solving climate change right at the top of our priorities. The earth gives us everything that we have, from our necessities for life to the thrilling experiences of skiing, surfing, skating, and all of the epic activities that we get to do on this amazing planet. Earth day is extremely important and it's crucial that on this day we recognize all that we owe the earth and that we see the necessity to guard it. And, going beyond Earth Day, we must remember that this practice of acknowledging the importance of the earth, isn’t a once a year thing. It needs to be a daily practice that is further woven into the fabric of our nation and it needs to become a focal point of the global culture where we all become stewards of the earth.

To find out more about the WYJ team, follow us on instagram @whatsyourjuicepodcast, and check out our website whatsyourjuicepodcast.com. 

In this episode Mario Molina, the CEO of Protect Our Winters, starts off the episode by sharing the unique experience that made him fall in love with the mountains, and inspired him to pursue a life centered around the environment. Throughout the episode Mario explains how Protect Our Winters work to solve climate change, their mission, and how he sees the current state of our nation in regards to solving climate change. We also talk about what it takes to successfully achieve a cultural shift, and how BIPOC communities are disproportionately impacted by the negative effects of climate change. This is a really fun, educational, and inspiring conversation. I hope you all enjoy!

POW helps passionate outdoor people protect the places and lifestyles they love from climate change. To learn more about POW, go to their website here. 

Here are the key points this episode touches on:

• Turning passionate outdoors people into effective climate change activists
• Solving climate change from a non-partisan viewpoint through showing the mutuality of what we are trying to protect.
• Democracy is not a spectator sport
• We don’t have a technology problem, we have a time problem. We know the technologies and we have them to solve climate change. We need to implement them. 
• You can pass all the legislation that you want, but if you want it to solve things, the culture has to change 
• Before this election in 2020, climate change never made it into a presidential debate as more than a passing note. And in this election it was a critical discussion point. 
• The overlap between social injustice and climate change: BIPOC and underserved communities have been disproportionately impacted by fossil fuels and climate change. People in Florida who can’t afford to move when their neighborhood is flooded.

See what the WYJ team is doing by heading over to our website!

Download the episode NOW to have SeaTrees plant 1 SeaTree for the first 100 downloads on each episode!

Welcome to the last episode of the Climate Change Mini Series: Intersectional Environmentalism with Kevin Patel. Kevin Patel is a 21 year old environmental activist who has now been fighting climate change for a decade. Kevin has a profoundly unique story. At the age of 12, he developed heart murmurs due to the air pollution in south central LA where he was living. Kevin describes his work in activism as “a survival tool.” Kevin didn’t just become passionate about helping the environment, he was physically impacted by the harmful effects of climate change. Kevin works tirelessly to solve climate change and help his community survive. Kevin is the founder and executive director of One Up Action, an amazing nonprofit helping the youth and individuals create change around the world by mobilizing at the community level to improve individuals direct living conditions, and at the governmental level. Kevin is also the founder of the Youth Climate Commission LA, which gives the youth an actual seat at the table in drafting and reviewing climate policy. Kevin has worked with National geographic and Patagonia through his activism, and is a Ted X Speaker.

Kevin has 10 years working as a climate activist and has real and personal experience with how climate change affects humans not just the planet. In this episode, Kevin and I discuss what Intersectional Environmentalism is, how climate change, specifically the pollution side of climate change affects people, what sacrifice zones are and how the infrastructures contributing to climate change are disproportionately affecting marginalized communities and BIPOC people. Along with focusing on the physical side of climate change, Kevin and I discuss how to best fight the climate crisis, and we discuss specific tools you can use to join the movement and create positive change.

The Climate Change Mini Series is brought to you by Guayaki Yerba Mate. Guayaki is making delicious Yerba Mate beverages in one of the most sustainable ways possible. Guayaki has over 300 privately owned electric vehicles for their distribution which are driven by ex convicts to give them a positive opportunity in the workforce. Through Guayaki’s regenerative business model, they are able to restore and regenerate ecosystems and communities across the world. Guayaki just in the beginning of December 2020, just achieved their goal of restoring and stewarding 202,836 Acres of the Atlantic rainforest, and through this work of restoring ecosystems, provided over 850 living wage jobs to the communities in the area.

The mission of the climate change mini series is by and large to help solve climate change. One way that we aim to help solve climate change is through the content of the three episodes in the series. The other main way is through highlighting the company and non-profit working with us to support the series. SeaTrees is a California based non-profit that believes the ocean has the power to reverse climate change and has the current goal of planting 1 million sea trees. SeaTrees fosters “blue-carbon” ecosystems such as mangrove trees planted in the ocean, which is 5-10 times more effective than a rainforest at removing carbon from the air. For the first 100 downloads on each episode of the climate change mini series, SeaTrees will plant one sea tree. So go download each episode now, and help sequester carbon from the atmosphere by planting a sea tree. 

Download the episode NOW to have SeaTrees plant 1 SeaTree for the first 100 downloads on each episode!

Welcome to episode two of the Climate Change Mini Series: The Plastic Crisis with Hannah Testa. Hannah Testa is an 18 year old environmental activist focusing on solving the plastic crisis. At 10 years old, Hannah founded her non-profit Hannah 4 Change with the goal of solving the plastic crisis. Since then, Hannah has delivered over 30,000 presentations across the world to individuals, companies, and businesses on how they can reduce their plastic footprint. In 2018, Hannah4change was one of the 2 dozen nonprofits that convinced Starbucks to create a sustainable coffee cup. Also in 2018 at the age of 16, Hannah was the creator of Plastic Awareness Day which had over 300,000 viewers, and in 2020 at the age of 18, Hannah became one of a small group of activists who introduced the federal bill, The Break Free from Plastic Pollution Act to congress which is considered the most comprehensive approach to plastic and packaging ever introduced in the U.S. Congress. Also last year in 2020, Hannah released her first book Solving the Plastic Crisis, and became a Tedx Speaker. 

The Climate Change Mini Series is brought to you by Guayaki Yerba Mate. Guayaki is making delicious Yerba Mate beverages in one of the most sustainable ways possible. Guayaki has over 300 privately owned electric vehicles for their distribution which are driven by ex convicts to give them a positive opportunity in the workforce. Through Guayaki’s regenerative business model, they are able to restore and regenerate ecosystems and communities across the world. Guayaki just in the beginning of December 2020, just achieved their goal of restoring and stewarding 202,836 Acres of the Atlantic rainforest, and through this work of restoring ecosystems, provided over 850 living wage jobs to the communities in the area.

The mission of the climate change mini series is by and large to help solve climate change. One way that we aim to help solve climate change is through the content of the three episodes in the series. The other main way is through highlighting the company and non-profit working with us to support the series. SeaTrees is a California based non-profit that believes the ocean has the power to reverse climate change and has the current goal of planting 1 million sea trees. SeaTrees fosters “blue-carbon” ecosystems such as mangrove trees planted in the ocean, which is 5-10 times more effective than a rainforest at removing carbon from the air. For the first 100 downloads on each episode of the climate change mini series, SeaTrees will plant one sea tree. So go download each episode now, and help sequester carbon from the atmosphere by planting a sea tree.