Career Meets World with Edward Gorbis

Edward welcomes Austin Belcak on the show. Austin is the founder of CultivatedCulture.com where he helps people land jobs they love without traditional experience and without applying online. Austin's job search system stems from his personal experience transitioning from a new grad with a biology degree, a 2.58 GPA, and a job in healthcare to landing interviews and offers at Microsoft, Google, and Twitter. We Discuss: 1) His 200 business ideas that did not work 2) Why he decided to work at Microsoft 3) Translatable skills from corporate to entrepreneurship 4) Mindset 5) Networking formula 6) What's next for Cultivated Culture

Edward welcomes Aishwarya Srinivasan to the show. Aishwarya is an AI & ML Innovation Leader at IBM Data & AI. She holds a post-graduate in Data Science from Columbia University. During her engagements, she primarily focuses on bringing in machine learning research to create business value. She is very focused on expanding her horizons in the machine learning research community including her recent Patent Award won in 2018 for developing a Reinforcement Learning model for Machine Trading.

Edward welcomes Delian Asparouhov to the show. Delian is a principal at Founders Fund. Before joining Founders Fund, he was a principal at Khosla Ventures, head of growth at Teespring, and founder of a healthcare company called Nightingale. Delian is Bulgarian, attended MIT, and likes to ski and play soccer.We discuss 1) What his Bulgarian parents wanted him to become 2) Dropping out of MIT 3) The impact of interning at Square and meeting Keith Rabois 4) The future of Venture Capital 5) How to get into VC

Edward welcomes Nick Mehta to the show. He is an American technology entrepreneur and is currently the CEO of Gainsight. Prior to that, he was the CEO of LiveOffice, which was sold to Symantec. He is often credited for creating the customer success category. In this episode, we discuss:How to pick board members in your life and workA beginners mindset and practicing Shoshin Establishing company valuesThe 3 reasons he's staying in Customer SuccessCompanies reshaping around the customer 

Helping immigrants thrive requires a dedicated focus. In today's episode, I chat with Sophie Alcorn, who founded Alcorn Immigration Law, the fastest-growing immigration law firm in Silicon Valley, and the 2019 recipient of Global Law Experts' “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services” award. Sophie is certified as a specialist attorney in immigration and nationality law by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization. She writes a weekly immigration column for TechCrunch and hosts a weekly podcast, Immigration Law for Tech Startups.

In this episode, I chat with a 5X entrepreneur and leadership connoisseur. Josh Linkner is a Creative Troublemaker. He passionately believes that all human beings have incredible creative capacity, and he's on a mission to unlock inventive thinking and creative problem solving to help leaders, individuals, and communities soar. Josh has been the founder and CEO of five tech companies, which sold for a combined value of over $200 million, and is the author of four books including the New York Times Bestsellers, Disciplined Dreaming, and The Road to Reinvention. Josh is also a passionate Detroiter, the father of four, is a professional-level jazz guitarist.

When you have a deep passion for helping people, you should pursue it wholeheartedly. In today's conversation, we chat with Shivani Berry, who is the Founder of Ascend, a program to empower women with the skills to grow in their careers and be influential leaders. She is a career coach and product leader with experience in go-to-market and finance at fast-growing and established top-tier companies. She has an MBA from Harvard Business School. Her work experience has taught her it’s the soft skills that help you move up: your ability to build relationships, influence effectively, and inspire teams. 

Kara Goldin is the author of Undaunted and Founder and CEO of Hint, Inc., best known for its award-winning Hint Water, the leading unsweetened flavored water. The Huffington Post listed her as one of six disruptors in business, alongside Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg. Previously, Kara was VP of Shopping and Ecommerce at AOL where she helped lead the growth of its shopping and e-commerce business to over $1 billion in revenue. She is an active speaker and writer and, in 2017, she launched Unstoppable with Kara Goldin, a podcast where she interviews founders, entrepreneurs, and disruptors across various industries.

Dynamic careers make for the best founders. Matteo Franceschetti made multiple pivots from law to solar energy to founding the world's leading sleep fitness company. Matteo joins us for a powerful discussion today. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of Eight Sleep, the world's leading sleep enhancement company. Matteo holds multiple patents in tech and health and is a Member of the Forbes Technology Council. Prior to Eight, Matteo co-founded two cleantech companies - GIR and Global Investment. He graduated with a Law degree from University of Ferrara and was a member of the Italian Bar Association.

Steve Schlafman is a professional certified coach and Founder of High Output. He is an angel investor, facilitator, speaker, former operator, and recovering VC. This episode is a wide-ranging, emotional journey through the nooks and crannies of investing, introspection, meditation, and sobriety.

Jason Calacanis joins the conversation today to discuss how his childhood shaped him today, his early days in media, how poker influences his decision-making and some actionable tips for angel investors. He is an entrepreneur, angel investor in over 250 startups, host of the This Week in Startups podcast, and co-host of the legendary All in Podcast with Chamath Palihapitiya, David Sacks, and David Friedberg, and the best selling author of Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups--Timeless Advice from an Angel Investor Who Turned $100,000 into $100,000,000.

Financial independence is often discussed in college but never blueprinted. In today's episode, I chat with Robert Farrington, who is a Millennial Money Expert and Founder of The College Investor. He is on a mission to help millennials get out of student loan debt and start building wealth for their future. Robert is the quintessential master of his money. In his early 30s, he’s showing us all how it’s done. In this episode, you’ll hear Robert share how he’s managed to pay off debt and make huge strides with his investing, the exact tools he uses to stay on top of his money and manage his investments, his savings goals, and his interesting strategy for buying his next car.

Some of the most successful leaders have some of the most challenging stories. In today's episode, I chat with Scott Leese,  a 6x Sales Leader, 3x Author, 3x Entrepreneur, and 1x Unicorn builder, who serves as a strategic advisor and consultant to dozens of companies around the world. He specializes in building sales processes and salespeople, maximizing new customer growth, increased average contract value, and upselling and retaining customers. This is one episode you will not want to miss.

Ashvin Vaidyanathan is the Chief Customer Officer at Gainsight - the Customer Success Company. In his role, Ashvin manages the Customer Success, Professional Services, and Technical Support teams. Prior to Gainsight, Ashvin was at McKinsey & Company consulting with companies on Marketing, Sales, and Customer Experience transformations. When not at Gainsight, Ashvin is an advisor at Not In Our Town - a not-for-profit organization that uses documentary film, and new media to stop hate, and address bullying. He lives in San Francisco with his beautiful family.

Growing up, I spent most of my childhood living in my own imagination. Teachers would constantly mark me down on my report card for staring out the window and daydreaming. Creating my own reality was the only way I could cope with all of the bullying, name-calling, and alienation that I went through from elementary school to high school. I felt the same way in college and for many years in the workplace, constantly battling between “the immigrant way” of doing things and the current American way of showing up at work and in life.My immigrant family instilled in me the discipline and focus necessary to be successful but did not provide me the tools, strategies, and communication skills to confidently convey my innate abilities and manifest my full potential. I was taught to get a steady corporate job with benefits, similar to those afforded to them by the government in the Soviet Union. For most of my childhood and early adulthood, I always thought that I was a victim of circumstances. I struggled to assimilate, big time. The struggle is the fuel to everything I do today.

If you've ever woken up with anxiety about your career and how to get on track, then this episode is for you. In today's episode, I chat with Kyle Elliott, who is the founder and career coach behind CaffeinatedKyle.com. His goal is simple – to help people find jobs they LOVE (or at least tolerate). He is a trusted career expert, and Kyle's words have been featured on Forbes, Fast Company, The Muse, and The Ladders, among dozens of other leading publications.

If you're in the midst of a transition in your career or business, then this conversation will fire you up. In today's episode, we chat with Dr. Benjamin Ritter is an expert in Organizational Leadership and for the past 10 years has been coaching others to create a career they love. He is the Founder of Live for Yourself (LFY) Consulting and is an empowerment coach, regional learning manager for YPO, national speaker, podcaster, author, consultant, mentor, teacher, and passionate about guiding others in finding, creating, and sustaining a career they love.

You don't have to have everything figured out early in life to achieve success. In today's episode, I chat with Justin Welsh, who has a decade of experience building two $50M+ ARR businesses, teams of 150+, and helping raise over $300M in capital from VC firms. Over that 10-year period, he played the role of SVP of Sales and Chief Revenue Officer at high-growth, transactional SaaS companies. He's intimately familiar with the challenges and complexities of building an SMB SaaS business effectively and efficiently. Despite being laid off 3 times, Justin exemplifies the meaning of resilience and how everyone has a comeback story. We discuss his entire journey, uncovering nuggets of wisdom and passion that fuel his work today - helping SaaS companies scale and aspiring entrepreneurs thrive. Turn up the volume and dive in!

From childhood as a Bulgarian immigrant to becoming a prolific writer at FORTUNE, this episode is filled with gems that will leave you craving for more. In today's episode, I chat with Polina Marinova Pompliano, who is the founder of The Profile, a new media company that features long-form profiles of successful people and companies each week. Previously, she spent five years at FORTUNE where she was the author and editor of Term Sheet, FORTUNE’s industry-leading dealmaking newsletter. Polina has interviewed the industry’s most influential dealmakers, including Melinda Gates, Steve Case, Chamath Palihapitiya, Alexis Ohanian, and more. She graduated from the University of Georgia and started her career at CNN and USA TODAY.

Most people go through life lost, disengaged, and unhappy at work and in their lives. In today's episode, I chat with someone who is on a mission to solve that - John Marty, a Senior Product Manager at Amazon and the Founder of Project 1B. He spent 10 years as the founder of Axxis Audio, an electronics company that grew to multi-million dollar sales. At that time, he funneled his earnings into the creation of an IoT company, but numerous factors lead to its demise after 2 hard-fought years. At 31, I was penny-less, had a baby on the way, and had zero job prospects, he took a job at Best Buy for $12 an hour while reinventing himself through the completion of an MBA at the University of Colorado, and a 6-month software development boot camp. After graduation, he landed at American Express as a Senior Product Manager and then got poached by Amazon in 2017. He shares his journey which offers a deep sense of perspective, humility, and purpose that he draws on to help others find clarity, meaning, and happiness in their careers and lives.

Are you fired up to go to work every day or wondering how to make the transition to align yourself with your true mission? If you're hungry to learn how an underdog turned into a winner, then dive into this episode with Jonathan Javier! He is the CEO of Wonsulting, and he worked at Google, Snapchat, and Cisco and he is just great. We'll go through many important topics during the interview so you might want to take some notes! We discuss his personal growth journey, finding your passion, mentorship, how to ask for help, LinkedIn strategies, building your personal brand, and mindset. Please enjoy Jonathan Javier!

What happens when you decide to invest in building tremendous network equity? In this episode, I team up with Lars Schmidt, the Founder of Amplify, an HR executive search and consulting firm to discuss this topic. He’s spent over 20 years in the industry working in and alongside a range of leading global companies. He’s a writer for Fast Company, author of Redefining HR book and Employer Branding for Dummies, and Host of the Redefining HR podcast.

We often hear that personal branding and marketing is imperative for our success, but how do we actually do it well? In today's episode, I chat with Maya Grossman, who is a high performing data-driven product marketing leader with more than a decade of experience and a demonstrated track record of taking products to market and driving growth. She's has been helping companies grow for almost a decade and is the current VP of Marketing at Jumpstart. She's also the author of Invaluable: Master the 10 Skills You Need to Skyrocket Your Career. More so, Maya has built an incredible personal following on LinkedIn. She shares how curiosity and empathy will help you build the career and personal brand that you've always craved.

In today’s day and age, health, physical and mental, is the most important area we need to focus on in our lives. In today's episode, I chat with a long-time friend, Jeremy Abramson, a health coach and wellness entrepreneur who is creating a literal movement to ensure Corporate America does not die a slow death from sitting too much. Jeremy is a movement master. One look at his Instagram feed and you’ll see a variety of mindful movement. Jeremy is not afraid to take a stand for our health, often going into break rooms at corporate offices and college food halls with his Instagram stories to showcase the unhealthy options that are the norm these days. Jeremy and I talk about our past, present, and future. First, Jeremy reveals how to navigate our self-limiting beliefs, unpacks the myths about Psilocybin, and how to live an authentic life. Turn up the volume and tune in!

Too often, the big audacious goals that we set for ourselves can actually make us feel overwhelmed. But as Jaclyn DiGregorio reveals, the key to pushing forward is to figure out your next step and commit to it with fierce passion. Jaclyn DiGregorio is an educator, speaker, and best-selling author. Tune in to hear Jaclyn’s fascinating story on how she wrote her best-selling book, Stop Getting In Your Own Way, and how we can take our first steps towards fulfilling our passion.

Do you want to learn how to master your executive presence and learn from someone who has triumphed at every moment of their career? Today's guest is Emmy-Award winning Jessica Chen, who is a trusted communications advisor to several elite tech leaders in Silicon Valley and in Asia, and she had no shortage of blockers throughout her career. She is the Founder and CEO of Soulcast Media, a business communications agency, where she provides high-touch strategies to elevate people's speaking and authority. After nearly ten years in television news, Jessica is on a mission to help professionals, entrepreneurs and executives build their confidence in speaking authentically, and to teach the use of storytelling to create connection and engagement on various media platforms.

Following a successful career in sales leadership inside several of the world's largest financial services companies, Mark C. Crowley began to reflect on what drove his success. It turns out that the key to success was putting his heart at the core of all of his business interactions. Mark is the author of the best-seller, Lead From The Heart: Transformational Leadership For The 21st Century. You'll be inspired as you hear his perspective on the importance of being authentic and human in all of your relationships.

What if you could access more energy inside your own body and become infinitely more productive? The honest truth is that you can, and I've brought Patricia Peyton on the show today to share some fascinating science-based research on how we can manage our own brain chemistry to perform at our peak. Patricia has spent 30 years consulting with Fortune 100 and other highly rated global companies. As Managing Director of Sphere International, Patricia has dedicated her career to helping individuals and teams enhance their performance through leadership, sales, and communications consulting and training. I am are thrilled to have Patricia join us to share all about her latest research and findings from her book, Physical Intelligence. By following her suggestions, you can use these proven techniques to make the most of your unique brain chemistry and produce measurable benefits in your life no matter your age. If you care about your wellbeing, the impact you have on others, and living your life to the fullest, you’ll want to make sure you hear what Patricia has to share!

Why can't you find your passion? Why can't you figure out your dream career? Whether you’re living for the weekends or counting the minutes until 5PM every day, life is too short to wish it away because you feel stuck in your job. The good news is that you have the power to make a You Turn, the choice to stop living on autopilot and turn your career around. With us today, we have Ashley Stahl, who is a counterterrorism professional turned career coach, speaker, and author, and Forbes columnist who is on a mission to help you step into a career you're excited about and aligned with. We unpack what it takes to unleash your full potential and make that much needed You Turn.

Our discussion shines a line on the importance of living your authentic self and creating. Tim Salau, "Mr. Future of Work," is the CEO & Co-Founder of Guide, the premier B2B Learning & Talent Development SaaS app helping remote teams and knowledge workers learn anytime, anywhere, on-demand. In 2017, he founded the Guide Group, a global movement of 300,000+ business leaders and professionals focused on helping every member lead a fulfilling career. Through his life’s work and global platform, he’s directly impacting a magnitude of 150M+ people. Prior to founding and leading Guide, he led product and innovation with 4 global Fortune 500 & hyper-growth companies: Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and WeWork coaching Fortune 500 CEOs, executives, and government leaders on how they can transform their workforce to thrive in the Future of Work. Tim inspires millions of professionals and business leaders, daily, to embrace change, and thrive in the future of work.

Employees need a safe place to air workplace concerns, and HR leaders need insights to take action. Meet Jana Morrin, CEO and Co-founder of Speakfully, a platform to help employees and companies grow through the recording and sharing of uncomfortable experiences within the workplace. In this episode, Jana and I discuss her personal encounter with harassment in the workplace and how it inspired her to start a business to empower people. Speakfully is behind a movement to create psychologically safe environments through its documentation, reporting, and support resources. After experiencing workplace harassment herself, Morrin channeled her passion for changing workplace culture by leveraging design and technology to create a platform that decodes the gray area by supporting individuals, human resource departments, and leadership to address and improve workplace issues, creating a safer work environment for us all.

We don't always march into our professional life knowing exactly what we want to do or what company we want to work for; it simply takes time to figure out. In today's episode, we chat with Daniel De Jesus Garcia and unravel how he maneuvered through the Financial vertical and land a Vice President role at TimesSquare Capital, a global asset manager with over $14 billion in assets under management. Prior to joining TimesSquare, Daniel was Head of Research & COO of DPM Capital, where he sourced equity investment ideas on a global basis and helped manage the trading and portfolio risk functions of the firm. Prior to that, Daniel worked at Millennium Management, where he was the lead analyst for a portfolio of Latin American and South European equities. Daniel started his career at J.P. Morgan as an Associate in the Latin American Derivatives Structuring group, focusing on helping corporations use derivatives for risk management purposes. Daniel graduated summa cum laude from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science in Economics with concentrations in Finance and Statistics and is a member of the CFA Institute.

Have you ever wondered how to pivot industries and make a massive shift in your career? In today's episode, I connect with Melisa Meral, a Speaker, Author, and Coach, who uses her 10+ years' experience in Human Resources to help her readers learn how current skill sets can translate to a successful career move. Her book Pivoting with Purpose: The Hamster Wheel, the Rat Race, and Other Career Myths Holding You Back, reached Amazon Best-Seller in 11 categories, plus 12 #1 Hot New Release awards. Melisa’s book is for job seekers who need an easy-to-follow roadmap when pivoting in life, work, and business. Melisa urges her readers to get off the hamster wheel, get out of the rat race, and stop believing all of those pesky old career myths!

With elevated noise and fractionalization in the world, we need leadership now more than ever. People are looking for meaning and purpose. They are looking to know someone cares. They want to belong. People desire to be part of something bigger than themselves. Leadership provides each of these. You can be that leader and today I break down the 3 areas you can elevate to become a more compassionate leader for your family, friends, community, and teams in the workplace.

Championship teams and organizations aren't just built by the athletes. Today, we dive deep with Mike Kitts who unveils why championship organizations require everyone to operate at an elite level. Mike Kitts is coming up on his 9th season with the Golden State Warriors organization, his 4th season as Senior Vice President of Corporate Partnerships. In his current role, Kitts has oversight of the Warriors’ sales, development, and insight teams, where he is charged with driving new sales and renewals of existing partners. Under Kitts’ guidance, the organization has announced industry-leading partnerships which include JP Morgan Chase, Kaiser Permanente, Accenture, United Airlines, Pepsi, HPE, and Google Cloud, among others. The San Diego native earned his bachelor’s degree in business management at Lynn University and his MBA from the sports management program at San Diego State University. Turn the volume and dive in!

What happens when you experience perpetual defeat? You become extremely resilient. Today's guest is a wildly successful Financial Advisor, Winnie Sun, who perpetually dealt with adversity growing up and early in her Finance career. She overcame it and Winnie is now one of the most trusted and followed financial voices on social media today. Her trending business Tweetchat averages over 150 MM impressions per week on Twitter. With more than 20 years of experience in the financial services industry, Winnie serves on the CNBC Financial Advisor Council, is a popular Forbes contributor, is a regular Good Day Los Angeles, Fox News, and Digital Trends television contributor. She is frequently quoted in publications including The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Forbes, The New York Times, and many others. Winnie leads as the Managing Partner of Sun Group Wealth Partners and was previously First Vice President of Wealth Management, Senior Investment. Winnie and I explore a myriad of avenues, including going from Hollywood to Finance to thriving wealth management and media businesses.

From growing up in Turkey to crushing it in the USA, Deniz Kahramaner, the CEO of Atlasa Real Estate, is taking the Bay Area and the world by storm. Having graduated from Stanford, Deniz has taken everything he's learned at Microsoft, LinkedIn, and Compass and built a powerful real estate empire in San Francisco. We talk about all things mindset, habits, and economic conditions. If you're keen on hearing from a coveted real estate expert in the Silicon Valley, tune in to hear his deep and actionable perspective.

Have you ever wondered how are you complicit in creating the conditions in your life? In today's episode, I team up with Jerry Colonna to discuss his lifelong commitment to helping others unpack this question no matter how uncomfortable it may feel. He's the author of Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up, the CEO and Co-Founder of Reboot.io, and has been coined the "CEO Whisperer." Our discussion shines a spotlight on finding equanimity through radical inquiry, our responsibility to build a brighter future, and even puts me on the hot seat to assess what drives me to help people become more effective business leaders through my coaching practice. Jerry has had a profound impact on my career and journey, and I trust he can provide you some much-needed clarity.

What do you get when critical thinking intersects with grit, discipline, and perseverance? A man who has had a tremendous impact on some of the most prominent companies in the world. On today's podcast, Edward Gorbis connects with Javier Villamizar, who grew up in Columbia and is now an Operating Partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers in charge of helping SoftBank Vision Fund’s portfolio companies scale up and expand globally. Previously, he was a Managing Director at the UK Fintech Unicorn Greensill Capital where he was responsible for the Technology and Telecom verticals as well as the management of the origination efforts in Latin América. Before Greensill, Javier was the President of Global Distribution for Brightstar, a multibillion-dollar supply chain services supplier focused in the telecom industry. Javier has extensive experience in technology and telecom ventures, being an advisor and board member of multiple companies.

Students graduating from college are entering perhaps the toughest, most uncertain market conditions in generations. 2020 has been a seesaw for a myriad of reasons. Recently, I had a chance to sit down with Jenna Constantino, a recent grad from the University of Southern California, and a Strategic Partner at Constant House LA. We flipped the conversation around, and Jenna asked Edward Gorbis, the CEO of Career Meets World, insightful questions about how to approach the job market and how to start investing early. If you recently graduated from undergrad or graduate school, this conversation is dedicated to you.

The business landscape is rapidly shifting and business transformation is the epicenter of conversations these days. In this episode, Brad Stewart joins to discuss his experience managing companies through turbulent times. He is the CEO of Fair and the former Chairman and CEO at XOJet, the largest on-demand private jet company in North America. He led XOJet’s turnaround, growth, and eventual sale to a strategic acquirer. In concurrence with his role as C.E.O., Brad was a senior advisor at TPG Global, a leading alternative asset manager, where he served on the board of multiple TPG investments. Prior to his tenure at XOJet and TPG, Brad was the Vice President of mid-market private equity at Parthenon Capital and a consultant at McKinsey & Company. His wealth of knowledge and candor highlight what transformational leadership entails and how to lead during the most difficult storms.

Leadership is a journey, not a destination. Your family, your organization, and your team depend on it. Most people just look at growth as a season or a means to an end, but good leaders don’t stop growing. In this episode, we team up with Alexandra Trakas, who is an American entrepreneur and movement enthusiast based in Arlington, Virginia. Alex is the co-founder and current CEO of BASH Boxing – a boxing-inspired group fitness experience established in 2017, which has grossed over $1.2M in sales and is continuing the process of expansion. She believes in creating a culture of compassion where creativity is celebrated, differences are welcomed, and community is the priority. Consistent growth is key to great leadership, and we reveal the necessary mindset to maintain this pace of growth.

Big risks can deliver big rewards for your career, whether it’s switching industries or asking for more money. While change is scary, it’s worthwhile to take risks in your career if you have clear goals in mind. In today's episode, we chat with Aaron McDaniel, a globally recognized corporate manager, speaker, and author with a passion for helping organizations innovate and attract, engage & retain top talent. Aaron began his corporate career at AT&T and rose to become one of the youngest to serve as Regional Vice President. Aaron is currently one of the youngest faculty members at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business (where he is also an alumnus) and is the co-founder of 10X Innovation Lab. Aaron is a serial entrepreneur, having founded 3 companies that were acquired, one of which he turned down an offer for on ABC’s Shark Tank. There's no shortage of risk-taking when we think about Aaron, and we go deep on his journey as well the mindset to allow yourself space and freedom to take calculated risks.

Leading a company is a lot to manage under normal circumstances, but what does it look like during a pandemic? In today's episode, we connect with Sara Leoni, the CEO of GreenFig, and a parent of 5 boys. With more than 20 years of management, marketing, and operations experience building strong online brands for both major corporations and startups. Sara details out how she navigated the turbulent waters during the pandemic while also being an incredible parent. She's a 2X CEO, a former collegiate softball player at UNLV, and a model example of a compassion leader that also finds constructive solutions in unchartered territories.

Why does compassion matter in a good leader? How do you demonstrate it during the most challenging moments? Our guest today, Sunil Goyal puts things into a broader perspective and shares why and how compassion is vital to success in the workplace. He is an industry veteran who is passionate about Technology. His career of close to three decades speaks volumes of his sharp business acumen and leadership skills. After spending a few years in the corporate world working at Wipro, Sunil quickly started his entrepreneurial journey in 1993 when he co-founded Momentum Technologies. After multiple ventures and acquisitions, Sunil is now the Dy.CEO of the Sopra Steria's India Operations and leads an organization of 6,000 people. Sunil is great humanitarian by heart deeply and is working closely on some Education and Community Health-related projects. His spirit is infectious, so get ready for an uplifting story that will take you all around the world.

Making career pivots is not about jumping out of the frying pan into a fire but rather to create a plan where you make clear actionable steps or pivots to a better future career. Mahak Sharma has successfully transitioned industries and across large tech companies and she joins us to share her story today. She's now a full-stack product, strategy, and operations leader. She works at Google and leads growth partnerships with some of the largest and most established commerce businesses in the world. Prior to Google, she spent 6 years building startups and was most recently Head of SMB Growth @ Twitter, VP Business Development at InMobi where she helped incubate and grow revenue partnerships globally across Asia, Europe, and the US. Mahak holds a Masters in Materials Science and Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and her Bachelors from IIT (India). She is an active angel investor and also advises start-ups on high impact growth operations. Throughout our conversation, Mahak divulges her personal encounters with change and effective remedies to push past the challenges we encounter during our careers.

With the ever-changing corporate culture, Blind has empowered employees to speak openly about the workplace and created an “anonymous social network,” as a safe way to reveal malfeasance, wrongdoing, and improper conduct at their companies. Today, we chat with Kyum Kim, a co-founder of Blind. After Blind’s successful launch in South Korea, Kyum now leads the U.S. Operations. Prior to Blind, Kyum Kim was an early member at TMON where he spent his time there as a sales and business operations leader. We dig deep into his upbringing in Korea, his transformational thinking, and his mission to create a transparent and more open work environment globally.

What does constant positivity and drive for success look like? Someone who is relentless in their pursuit to drive impact and help people thrive. Sumedha Arun is the ultimate example. At the age of 19, she co-founded Forever Fit, a digital fitness platform, in New Delhi. After early success, Sumedha moved to New York and completed her double masters at Columbia University. She then joined Deloitte in their Human Capital As a Service offering as a Product Manager. Sumedha is a treasure trove of knowledge and rising quickly. Get ready to learn about her incredible journey building a company, immigrating to the US, and how she's helping humanity.

There are several factors that determine our success in life — talent, luck, access to resources, etc. We have no control over some of them and a bit of control over the others. But there’s one factor that we have complete control over and that’s our mindset. On today's show, we chat with one of the most positive forces in this world - Victoria Brown. Victoria is an Under Armour Athlete, SoulCycle Instructor, and mindset coach in New York City. Like many people, she's suffered multiple wipeouts, but instead of flailing in self-defeat, she celebrated her setbacks, strengthened her growth mindset, and persevered through adversity. Today, we discuss how Victoria developed a growth mindset and how you can take the steps to do so as well. Victoria provides lots of great actionable tips that you can implement immediately.

What are the success factors in talent, scaling companies, and most importantly, scaling culture? Edward and Jonny cover everything from what motivates (the best) founders, the difficulties of entrepreneurship, and team building and building culture. Jonny Simkin is the Co-founder and CEO of Swiftly, a big data platform that helps public transit agencies improve their operational performance, service reliability, and real-time passenger information. He holds a B.S. in Engineering with an Economics Concentration from Harvey Mudd College. If you're wondering what it takes to scale culture at a company, then this conversation covers just that and the inside tale of entrepreneurship.

What does it take to become an ultra-successful leader at Facebook and be named a Forbes 30 Under 30 in Marketing and Advertising? Arielle Gross Samuels joins us today to discuss her journey throughout life, social impact commitments, and her role as the Head of Global Business Strategy and Engagement at Facebook, leading a team focused on business equality, social good, and strategic partnerships for 180M+ businesses around the world. And in her spare time, she's focused on her commitment to business equality, serving as a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Goalkeeper, Representative on the United Nations Women Global Innovation Coalition for Change, Venture Partner at The Venture Collective, Lead of Facebook Women New York, Founding Member of Chief, and Advisor for #BuiltByGirls. She holds a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and founded the Arielle Gross Engineering Visionary Scholarship Fund at her alma mater to accelerate the diversity of engineering students. This is one episode you won't want to miss.