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166: Maryam Banikarim -The Purposeful Problem-Solving Mentality, Vitality and Curiosity of Next Door’s CMO
Maryam Banikarim does not see barriers, obstacles, or problems other than to seek out ways to remove or overcome or solve them. This week’s guest was born in Iran but raised in the US Maryam’s innately curious and inquisitive mind has enabled her to navigate every challenge that life has
165: Sav Rodgers – The Life Changing Serendipity of Discovering Ben Affleck and Chasing Amy
Sav Rodgers Imagine being assigned female at birth, growing up feeling isolated at school, having your sexuality weaponized against you at age 12, by so-called friends, and coming out and identifying as pan-sexual at age 19, well this was the beginning of this week’s guest, Sav Rodgers’ life. We cover
164: Maysoon Zayid – Challenging Conventions Through Her Comedy, Cerebral Palsy and Compassionate Activism
Maysoon Zayid is this weeks guest. Imagine being born with Cerebral Palsy, to Palestinian immigrant parents, growing up being the only disabled Muslim in a Christian New Jersey town. Yet, blessed with her father’s comic genes, her mother’s driving ambition, hard work ethic, and large family support network, Maysoon Zayid
163: The Solo Show – Why I Started The Podcast and What I Have Learned From My Guests
Mark Fallows Podcast Inspiration. Okay folks this week, it’s just a solo episode. I’m often asked about why I started this podcast and what it takes to keep going. We have to week, month after month now, two and a half years into this, I thought I would take some
162: Tweedy The Clown – Alan Digweed’s Perspective On Life As A Clown
Alan Digweed aka Tweedy The Clown, is this week’s guest. In this fascinating interview we discuss Alan’s early life and the serendipitous moment he announced to his parents his intention to build his career in clowning. Alan explains the appeal of clowning, the influence and inspiration of clowning genius due
161: Sarah A. Abdallah – Re-imaging, Re-designing, and Re-creating With Functional Creative Design.
Functional Creative Design Founder – Sarah A. Abdallah is this week’s guest. As a polymath, innovator, and founder of New York-based bespoke Architecture & Design Studio – Functional Creative Design, we deep dive into Sarah’s journey prior to starting her design studio Functional Creative Design, working with Rockwell Group, Tony Chi
160: The Non-Conforming, Curiosity Fueled Journey of Thought Leader and Entrepreneur – Sarah A. Abdallah
Sarah A Abdallah – Female Thought Leader and Entrepreneur, polymath, innovator, and founder of New York-based bespoke Architecture & Design Studio – Functional Creative Design, is this week’s guest. In this two-parter we spend the first hour exploring Sarah’s experience of being born a bi-racial child to Egyptian immigrant parents,
159: Art On The Ave – Shining a Spotlight On Under-Represented Artists – Jackie Graham and Barbara Anderson
Guest Overview This week we welcome Mother and daughter team Barbara Anderson and Jackie Graham, Founders of Art on the Ave. This New York-based social impact initiative spotlights the work of under-represented artists and turns storefronts into exhibition spaces and streets into open-air galleries. In the first part of this
158: Re-Engineering Education For A 2030 World – Kellie Lauth
Kellie Lauth is this week’s guest – a woman on a mission to re-engineer education and prepare children for the world of 2030, and mobilize a workforce capable of tackling the complex problems we are sure to face when the calendar turns to 2030. In this extended episode, we cover
157: Unpacking The Weird And Wonderful of Modern Cultural Phenomena – Charlie Quirk and Britton Rice
Guest Overview This week we interviewed the co-hosts of the podcast The Furious Curious – Charlie Quirk and Britton Rice. In the first 20 minutes of the interview, Chas and Brit explore the impact of their parents and upbringing on their values, cultivating curiosity and the life attributes that have prepared them
156: Rowan C. Leslie – The Serendipitous Path to Traditional Music Mastery
Guest Overview This week we interview our first musician, Glasgow-based, Irish born, Fiddle player, teacher, and composer, Rowan C Leslie. ( shout out to Scott Duncan for recommending) Rowan began playing the fiddle when his mother joined him in learning to play at age seven. Rowan recounts the experience of growing
155: The Multidimensional Mental Health Mission of Dr. Tara Emrani and Mehdi Ansari
Guest Overview This week I welcome two guests – NYC-based Clinical Psychologist Dr. Tara Emrani and Corporate Lawyer Mehdi Ansari. Tara and Mehdi were born and raised in Tehran, Iran, before moving to the US. Given the time challenges of having two guests, we didn’t spend much time on their backstories or
154: The Reimagining of The National Arts Club – Ben Hartley
Guest Overview This week’s guest is Sydney-born, New York-based Ben Hartley – Executive Director of The National Arts Club – what he describes as a 122-year-old startup. Ben recently invited us into the spectacular Gramercy Square location to record this fascinating interview. Ben recounts his early years and his parents’
153: What is Mark’s Story and What is Back The Neighborhood? The Furious Curious Find Out.
Our host Mark Fallows was recently invited to be a guest on another podcast, the entertaining and educational – The Furious Curious. Hosts, Charlie Quirk and Britton Rice asked Mark to join them and discuss the urban regeneration project, Back The Neighborhood that he, Elaine Castillo Keller, and Vanessa Barboni
152: Science, Serendipity, and Visual Storytelling – Scott Duncan Climatologist
Scott Duncan – Guest Overview This week’s guest is meteorologist, Scottish Highlander, Gaelic speaker, and bag-piper Scott Duncan. Now London-based Scott grew up in the wilds of northern Scotland. Inspired by Scotland’s dramatic natural habitat he developed a love for nature and especially climate. That led him to study meteorology at
151: Courage, Heart and Humanity of LGBT Academic and Advocate – Graeme Reid
Human rights are inextricably linked to identity. We all strive for our basic inalienable rights as human beings, regardless of race, religion, language, ethnicity or gender. This week we welcome one of the most vital thinkers in academia and advocates for LGBT human rights, Graeme Reid. Graeme is the Director
150: Designing A Sustainable Fashion Future – Vanessa Barboni Hallik, Founder, Another Tomorrow
Guest Overview – Vanessa Barboni Hallik What does it take to walk away from a successful career in Investment banking to form a woman’s sustainable fashion startup, committed from the outset to sourcing responsibly grown, ethically manufactured materials, blending classic design with leading edge technologies, while building a platform for
149: Documenting a Life Beyond Addiction – Graham MacIndoe and Susan Stellin
Guest Overview This week’s guests are Graham MacIndoe and Susan Stellin. Graham, a photographer and associate professor at Parsons School of Design in New York City, has been in recovery from addiction since 2010. Graham and his wife Susan — a writer, researcher, and adjunct professor at The New School
148: Gillian Burke – Comfortably Living Life In A State Transition And Environmental Certainty
Gillian Burke is this week’s guest. Biologist, TV producer, presenter, public speaker, voiceover artist, writer, and mother, Gillian Burke, is second generation Kenyan, has lived a life transition – or as she refers to as a state of liminality. In this broad-ranging interview, Gillian deconstructs the complexity of her racially
147: Carmen D’Alessio on Studio 54 – Our 2019 Interview Revisited
Due to a guest rescheduling, this week we are republishing part two of last year’s interview with New York nightlife legend Carmen D’Alessio. We loved this show not just for the incredible stories she tells, but for what she represents. Carmen is living proof that that reinvention is ageless, energy
146: Raw And Resilient – Navigating 2020’s Hospitality Apocalypse With Robert Marchetti
The Raw Hospitality Show founder our previous guest, Robert Marchetti the New York-based, Australian hospitality veteran is back for more. Robert recently launched his own podcast The Raw Hospitality Show, where he interviews industry icons and what he describes as boots on the ground ‘hospo peeps’ (that an Aussie term)
145: Wired This Way – Jessica Carson Mapping Creative Archetypes And Her Journey To Self Discovery
Jessica Carson, creator, teacher, and author of Wired This Way, a book about Finding Mental, Emotional, Physical, and Spiritual Well-being as a Creator, is this week’s guest. In this wide-ranging episode, we cover Jessica’s early life and development being the perfect combination of her right and left-brained parents. Jessica refers
144: Tyrique Glasgow – Running a Corner to Changing Lives (From the Archive)
This week we re-publish our first ever episode, recorded on a cold day in late 2018 on the streets of South Philadelphia with Tyrique Glasgow. Tyrique Glasgow is the Founder of the Young Chances Foundation, an organization providing after-school support, sports programs, and mentoring for South Philadelphia’s youth. Besides running
143: Schuyler Moore – Managing Risk, Agile Living And A.I., Cyber and National Security.
Schuyler Moore is Director of Science and Technology at the Defense Innovation Board, in the US Department of Defense, by day. At night she is a competitive Hip Hop Dancer by night. She is sister to our previous guest Dr. Merritt Moore(Episode No14). Everything Schuyler shares in this episode is
142: The Possibility-Expanding Serendipity Mindset – Dr. Christian Busch
Serendipity Mindset Author and this week’s guest, Dr Christian Basch, describes himself as a practical philosopher. In this absorbing interview author of the new book the Serendipity Mindset, and Director of NYU’s Global Economy program, Christian describes his upbringing in Germany to a cerebral intellectual father and empathetic and loving
141: A Purpose Worth Living For In A Post Pandemic World
There is no planet B This week I want to make a change to our usual interview format. Instead, I want to talk about the issue of climate change. Whatever your perspective on the causes few will deny that dramatic and potentially irreversible changes are occurring that threaten humanity’s existence
140: Linda Rislin – Open Relationships Deconstructed
Linda Rislin is this week’s guest. She is evidence of how life’s path leads us in directions we could never have planned. In Linda’s case, a visual designer turned Open Relationship Coach. Born to Haitian parents, Linda was born in New Jersey and grew up in an inter-generational home and
139: An Intersectional Journey To Open Relationship Design – Linda Rislin, Part One
GUEST OVERVIEW This week’s guest is Linda Rislin is evidence of how life’s path leads us in directions we could never have planned. In Linda’s case, a visual designer turned Open Relationship Coach. Born to Haitian parents, Linda was born in New Jersey and grew up in an inter-generational home
138: A Voice To Be Heard On Diversity, Equity and Inclusion – Jennifer L. Williams
Diversity and Inclusion expert and advocate, Jennifer L. Williams is this week’s guest and our first guest of Series 3. Jennifer is a leading thinker and advocate for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. During this open, honest, and expansive discussion Jennifer discusses why diversity, equity, and inclusion must be foundational to
137: Jennifer L Williams – Her Path to Diversity, Equity And Inclusion
Jennifer L Williams is this week’s guest and our first guest of Series 3. Jennifer is a leading thinker and advocate for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. During this open, honest and expansive discussion Jennifer discusses why diversity, equity, and inclusion must be foundational to reimagining how we work and how