MN Coming Alive Series

The Millennial Nomaad Coming Alive podcast series explores 180 life shifts, inner transformation, and the pursuit of dreams as we design our lives. It is the podcast designed not to give you answers, but to help you ask the right questions. For more information, visit the host Elnaz's website at: www.millennialnomaad.com & her Instagram: @millennialnomaad • In this episode, I interview Andree Entezari ––an Urban Planning student receiving his masters degree and founder of The Lava Shack, a company selling Persian fruit roll up. We discuss his journey as a food entrepreneur, balancing his various goals while in school, the effort that goes into proper city planning, pursuing what scares us as a catalyst for growth, the relationship between risk v. reward, dealing with failure, using the Nextdoor app to connect with local communities during Covid, and embracing Iranian-American identity. • To connect with Andree, check out his Instagram at: @andreeentezari and The Lava Shack at: @thelavashack Consider signing his petition for permitting residential kitchens in Boston at: chng.it/ggrMDPFX4N ✨

The Millennial Nomaad Coming Alive podcast series explores 180 life shifts, inner transformation, and the pursuit of dreams as we design our lives. It is the podcast designed not to give you answers, but to help you ask the right questions. For more information, visit the host Elnaz's website at: www.millennialnomaad.com & her Instagram: @millennialnomaad In this episode, I interview Carden Wyckoff –– who transformed her own experience with a genetic mutation causing muscle dystrophy into a movement for greater accessibility as an advocate for those with disabilities. At nine-years old, Carden was diagnosed with a rare case of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy. Rather than let her condition limit her potential, she has only propelled forward and become a force to reckon with. You have probably seen her in Atlanta Magazine and USA Today for her wheelchair tour of Europe with the intention of exploring firsthand how other countries approach accessibility. BTW, anyone know the UGA arch tradition? You can thank Carden for her advocacy to make it accessible for graduates with disabilities. In this interview, we discuss all that and more, like her work at the government level to promote accessibility policy, her own emotional journey, dispelling disability stigmas, her call to action for allies, empathy v. sympathy, her strength, and most importantly, her visionary mindset for growth and the betterment of society. To connect with Carden check out her Instagram at: @cardenofmilk and her podcast @freewheelinwithcarden at: wavve.link/freewheelin ✨

The Millennial Nomaad Coming Alive podcast series explores 180 life shifts, inner transformation, and the pursuit of dreams as we design our lives. It is the podcast designed not to give you answers, but to help you ask the right questions. For more information, visit the host Elnaz's website at: www.millennialnomaad.com & her Instagram: @millennialnomaad • In this episode, I interview Sunny Gulia ––a fashion enthusiast and aspiring designer who one day dreams of launching his own clothing boutique. In this interview, we discuss his journey towards authentic living, healing childhood wounds and abuse through acceptance, breaking his coping habit of compulsive lying, choosing to be honest, moving past his DUI, learning from his mistakes, forgiving himself and others, the importance of good role models, navigating love, creating a new life path more aligned with growth, and embracing the freedom of sharing his story. • To connect with Sunny check out his Instagram at: @sunnyg20 and his portfolio at: https://sunny.pb.design/intro ✨

The Millennial Nomaad Coming Alive podcast series explores 180 life shifts, inner transformation, and the pursuit of dreams as we design our lives. It is the podcast designed not to give you answers, but to help you ask the right questions. For more information, visit the host Elnaz's website at: www.millennialnomaad.com & her Instagram: @millennialnomaad • In this episode, I interview Fares Ziari –– a petroleum and civil engineer embracing being gay and living true to his identity after coming to the U.S. as a refugee. In this interview, we discuss coming out to his family at 26 and his family’s mixed reactions, living in the U.S. as an Iranian Baha’i refugee, dispelling myths and spreading awareness about homosexuality as a Middle Eastern man, struggling to find balance between the Iranian community based mindset v. the American individualistic mindset, accepting one’s true identity, not basing one’s actions or responses on others’ reactions, living from one’s heart space without being taken advantage of, feeling like an outlier minority, striving for connection, and learning how to fully love oneself as a catalyst to show compassion to others. • To connect with Fares, check out his Instagram at: @faresziari✨

The Millennial Nomaad Coming Alive podcast series explores 180 life shifts, inner transformation, and the pursuit of dreams as we design our lives. It is the podcast designed not to give you answers, but to help you ask the right questions. For more information, visit the host Elnaz's website at: www.millennialnomaad.com & her Instagram: @millennialnomaad • In this episode, I interview Caroline Caruso –– a CPA turned business consultant helping mindful entrepreneurs budget their money and reach their goals within a framework that meets their values and life priorities. Her story is an inspiring one of combining logic with passion and taking strategic leaps of faith to design an authentic life true to her. We discuss how she quit her 9 to 5 job to travel the world pre-Covid, using her experience working at one of the big four CPA firms and tech-startups to now help others through a program called Virgo Vibes, trading in happy hours for human connection during her travels, outgrowing limiting beliefs that ‘we can’t enjoy work,” challenging the stigma of the “hippy trend,” training as a death doula, learning how there are different ways to process grief, living in a bus during a trip to Colombia (by choice), and understanding how emotional residue from past relationships affect our attractions and new relationships. • To connect with Caroline, check out her Instagram at: @lovebycaro and visit her website: https://www.lovebycaro.com/ ✨

The Millennial Nomaad Coming Alive podcast series explores 180 life shifts, inner transformation, and the pursuit of dreams as we design our lives. It is the podcast designed not to give you answers, but to help you ask the right questions. For more information, visit the host Elnaz's website at: www.millennialnomaad.com & her Instagram: @millennialnomaad • In this episode, I interview Rami Rank ––a production manager + producer who has worked on shows like Dexter and Goliath. He is also the host of the Top Ranked Podcast ––a podcast series interviewing “interesting people with interesting careers.” In this conversation, we discuss his experience working with Universal Studios, the timing of current events and how they impact movies, being sincere in the face of ugliness, films as a business, childhood interests as indicators for career passions, self-critics, workaholism, being a nice person in Hollywood, the strengths of being the funny guy, fear as both a hindrance and catalyst to success, and the importance of humor in problem-solving. • To connect with Rami, check out his podcast at: https://www.buzzsprout.com/988066 • also available on Apple, Spotify, Google Play + more! ✨

The Millennial Nomaad Coming Alive podcast series explores 180 life shifts, inner transformation, and the pursuit of dreams as we design our lives. It is the podcast designed not to give you answers, but to help you ask the right questions. For more information, visit the host Elnaz's website at: www.millennialnomaad.com & her Instagram: @millennialnomaad • In this episode, I interview Kasra Khalili ––an Iranian-American entrepreneur, founder of Mintor, author of Askholes, and a visionary. Frustrated by the lack of true connecting in the professional world, he co-created Mintor ––a networking app powered by AI matchmaking algorithms to maximize potential, yet used as a tool to encourage real conversations + actual meet-ups. We discuss distinguishing between networking v. connecting, failure as a good sign, improving generational gaps in networking potential, turning frustration into purpose, shifting the mentality from taking to giving as a way to build value, anticipating trends in innovation, the power of personal intros by trusted mentors, doing our research, and striving to be the outlier. • To connect with Kasra, check out his Instagram at: @kasrakhalili and visit his app: @mintor.co ✨

The Millennial Nomaad Coming Alive podcast series explores 180 life shifts, inner transformation, and the pursuit of dreams as we create our lives. It is the podcast designed not to give you answers, but to help you ask the right questions. For more information, visit the host Elnaz's website at: www.millennialnomaad.com & her Instagram: @millennialnomaad In this episode, I interview Nico Augsburger ––an American expat in Saudi Arabia pursuing his Phd in Environmental Science and Engineering with an emphasis on Microbiology. His main project is exploring sustainable waste water treatment to find alternative untapped water resources. We discuss switching career paths more than once, stumbling upon his chosen field, living as an expat in Saudi Arabia with his wife and daughter, reflecting on fatherhood, distinguishing between the fear of regret for not pursuing v. the fear of taking chances, lowering judgment, finding commonalities among humans, devoting time to family life as a passion, and understanding change as a constant. ✨

The Millennial Nomaad Coming Alive podcast series explores 180 life shifts, inner transformation, and the pursuit of dreams as we design our lives. It is the podcast designed not to give you answers, but to help you ask the right questions. For more information, visit the host Elnaz's website at: www.millennialnomaad.com & her Instagram: @millennialnomaad • In this episode, I interview Samantha Bergold ––a writer, poet, graduate student, empath, authentic living advocate, and a domestic violence survivor who epitomizes courage and strength. She is currently pursuing her masters in entertainment and sports management. She also shares her writings, thoughts, and journey on her blog: Alive Inside Media. In this interview, we discuss music as a medium for healing, mental health, being a domestic violence survivor, forgiving and releasing pain, speaking our truth, turning our vulnerability to our greatest strength, transforming pain into purpose, being an empath, building healthy boundaries, coming out as part of the LGBTQ community, self-love, and owning our sensitivity. • To connect with Samantha, check out her Instagram at: @samanthabergold and visit her blog: www.aliveinsidemedia.com✨

The Millennial Nomaad Coming Alive podcast series explores 180 life shifts, inner transformation, and the pursuit of dreams as we design our lives. It is the podcast designed not to give you answers, but to help you ask the right questions. For more information, visit the host Elnaz's website at: www.millennialnomaad.com & her Instagram: @millennialnomaad • In this episode, I interview Samir Panjwani. If you’re in ATL, there’s a good chance you’ve seen him on your Instagram feed promoting Tongue & Groove (voted the #1 nightclub in ATL). But, there’s more to Samir than the lavish nights and the party scene. In this episode, we discuss overcoming childhood bullying, experiencing depression, feeling the pressure to conform to be accepted, learning to be ourselves, attracting true friendships, addressing misconceptions about the nightlife club scene, working on personal growth, and making people smile. • To connect with Samir, check out his Instagram at: @samsonnypan ✨

The Millennial Nomaad Coming Alive podcast series explores 180 life shifts, inner transformation, and the pursuit of dreams as we design our lives. It is the podcast designed not to give you answers, but to help you ask the right questions. For more information, visit the host Elnaz's website at: www.millennialnomaad.com & her Instagram: @millennialnomaad • In this episode, I interview Jay Hemrajani. He is a professor, storytelling podcaster, writer, and filmmaker based in Curaçao. His work has been seen in film festivals and even got picked up by PBS. We discuss how one's creations often contain pieces of themselves, independent films, Hollywood v. Bollywood cinema, the loneliness of the creative process v. collaboration of production, artists as observers of the world, balancing passion projects as a professor, the pressure to please immigrant parents, enthusiasm as a recipe to success, rejection as fuel for growth, laughter as a form of therapy, heartbreak, crafting memorable characters, and the catharsis of emotional release in art. To connect with Jay, check out his work at: linktr.ee/jaydevh and Instagram at: @jaihemrajani ✨

The Millennial Nomaad Coming Alive podcast series explores 180 life shifts, inner transformation, and the pursuit of dreams as we design our lives. It is the podcast designed not to give you answers, but to help you ask the right questions. For more information, visit the host Elnaz's website at: www.millennialnomaad.com & her Instagram: @millennialnomaad In this episode, I interview Bijan Nasseri ––a professional photographer, fashion enthusiast, Cuban-Iranian-American, and conversationalist. You have probably seen his work in publications like: CNN, Hypebeast, Highsnobiety, his most recent Playboy shoot with Giannina from “Love is Blind,” and more. We discuss discovering our passions later in life, turning photography into a full time career, understanding the business side of creative careers, the detours in-between, fashion as a form of self-expression, decision fatigue, intellectual v. emotional openness, Cuban-Iranian-American identity, connecting to culture through food, and the importance of open dialogue. ✨

The Millennial Nomaad Coming Alive podcast series explores 180 life shifts, inner transformation, and the pursuit of dreams as we design our lives. It is the podcast designed not to give you answers, but to help you ask the right questions. For more information, visit the host Elnaz's website at: www.millennialnomaad.com & her Instagram: @millennialnomaad In this episode, I interview Paria Almasi ––a multi-media artist, graphic designer, electronic music producer, abstract thinker, and intellectual seeker. In this episode, we discuss nonconforming to societal standards of beauty, living one’s authentic self, pushing boundaries, overcoming the illusion of control, embracing the unknown, rediscovering what it means to be vulnerable, balancing the Iranian-American identity as an artist, understanding how our past experiences with love shape our reactions, looking forward, and creating art that integrates vintage influences while stimulating a completely new response. Connect with Paria at: @@ppppaaaarrrriiiiaaaa + check out her music on her Soundcloud profile at: https://soundcloud.com/paria-almasi ✨

The Millennial Nomaad Coming Alive podcast series explores 180 life shifts, inner transformation, and the pursuit of dreams as we design our lives. It is the podcast designed not to give you answers, but to help you ask the right questions. For more information, visit the host Elnaz's website at: www.millennialnomaad.com & her Instagram: @millennialnomaad In this episode, I interview Alexandria Brizzi ––a leading marketing consultant, baklava baker, traveler, and a woman with Italian roots yet who speaks better Farsi than I do. In this episode, we discuss the moments leading up to her decision to quit her job and a two week vacation that turned into two months of self-discovery in Turkey. We discuss work-life balance, the courage to make change, the value of family bonds, finding love, the warmth of kind strangers, being guarded v. open, mental health, the power of choice, traveling solo as a woman, misconceptions of the Middle East, and living authentically. Connect with Alex on Instagram at: @abrizzi

The Millennial Nomaad Coming Alive podcast series explores 180 life shifts, inner transformation, and the pursuit of dreams as we design our lives. It is the podcast designed not to give you answers, but to help you ask the right questions. For more information, visit the host Elnaz's website at: www.millennialnomaad.com & her Instagram: @millennialnomaad • In this episode, I interview Alexis Ahlzadeh. She is a Emory Law J.D. Candidate, social justice advocate, plant enthusiast, writer, and creative mind. In this conversation, we discuss overcoming substance abuse, addiction in its various forms, chaos, intuition v. fear based beliefs, empathy within the legal field, compassion as an asset for social change, discipline, working under pressure, the criminal justice system, rehab, dispelling stigmas, opportunity inequality, the strength to rebuild our lives, taking small steps, and the power of choice to initiate new beginnings. Take a listen & let's start the dialogue. • Connect with Alexis on Instagram at: @a_ahlz ✨

The Millennial Nomaad Coming Alive podcast series explores 180 life shifts, inner transformation, and the pursuit of dreams as we design our lives. It is the podcast designed not to give you answers, but to help you ask the right questions. For more information, visit the host Elnaz's website at: www.millennialnomaad.com & her Instagram: @millennialnomaad In this episode, I interview Johnell Gipson. He is a writer, digital creator, consultant at the Six Degrees agency, and the founder of Folio Magazine, a digital publication. In this conversation, we discuss overcoming analysis paralysis, aligning with our truth, creating what we wish existed, pressures to conform, learning to trust our intuition, facing the fear of change, masculinity & affection, how our childhood affects our relationship patterns, identity & entrepreneurship, ATL culture in the arts, and even the edgy wonders of Berlin. Sound like a lot? I know! Take a listen & let's start the dialogue. Connect with Johnell at: @johnnyknownow & @thefoliomag on Instagram + visit his website at: www.johnellgipson.com.