Right After Breakfast

Do you have a personal growth question you'd like me to answer? Please email me at nickduska@rightafterbreakfast.com, I’d love to hear from you! Once you submit a question you'll have a chance to get it featured on the podcast.    Connect with me and our community of listeners here: Website: http://www.rightafterbreakfast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rightafterbreakfast/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/rightafterbreakfast/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/463615654075378/   Music Composed by John Zarcone: http://www.johnzarconemusic.com/

Do you have a personal growth question you'd like me to answer? Please email me at nickduska@rightafterbreakfast.com, I’d love to hear from you! Once you submit a question you'll have a chance to get it featured on the podcast.    Connect with me and our community of listeners here: Website: http://www.rightafterbreakfast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rightafterbreakfast/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/rightafterbreakfast/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/463615654075378/   Music Composed by John Zarcone: http://www.johnzarconemusic.com/

Do you have a personal growth question you'd like me to answer? Please email me at nickduska@rightafterbreakfast.com, I’d love to hear from you! Once you submit a question you'll have a chance to get it featured on the podcast.    Connect with me and our community of listeners here: Website: http://www.rightafterbreakfast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rightafterbreakfast/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/rightafterbreakfast/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/463615654075378/   Music Composed by John Zarcone: http://www.johnzarconemusic.com/

Do you have a personal growth question you'd like me to answer? Please email me at nickduska@rightafterbreakfast.com, I’d love to hear from you! Once you submit a question you'll have a chance to get it featured on the podcast.    Connect with me and our community of listeners here: Website: http://www.rightafterbreakfast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rightafterbreakfast/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/rightafterbreakfast/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/463615654075378/   Music Composed by John Zarcone: http://www.johnzarconemusic.com/

Do you have a personal growth question you'd like me to answer? Please email me at nickduska@rightafterbreakfast.com, I’d love to hear from you! Once you submit a question you'll have a chance to get it featured on the podcast.    Connect with me and our community of listeners here: Website: http://www.rightafterbreakfast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rightafterbreakfast/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/rightafterbreakfast/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/463615654075378/   Music Composed by John Zarcone: http://www.johnzarconemusic.com/

Nada Jones is the CEO and Founder of LIBERTY. She has spent the last 17 years as a consultant and advocate for entrepreneurial women. Through the LIBERTY platform, she is committed to empowering all women, not just millennials who have embraced the entrepreneurial life with ease. “Considering what’s possible and pursuing your calling doesn’t end at 35, in fact, that’s when the need for flexibility and purpose are heightened.”   Nada began her entrepreneurial career in 2000 with the launch of nedandshell.com, a retail and wholesale co-op for emerging female designers in NYC. In 2008, she co-authored a how-to book, “Sixteen Weeks to Your Dream Business: A Weekly Planner for Entrepreneurial Women” which spent time on Amazon’s best-selling business book list.   Speaking and seminar opportunities accompanied a book tour and Nada realized that there was much to be done to support women in this space. In 2011, Nada launched ltdLIVE, a conference that brought together speakers, experts, service providers and brands t

Emily Hunt Turner is the founder of All Square; a nonprofit social enterprise centered on a gourmet grilled cheese restaurant and institute that aims to reduce recidivism by supporting, rather than excluding, individuals with criminal records.   The restaurant was founded in response to the widespread exclusion of those with records. Emily believes that all individuals deserve to be judged on their merit and not their mistakes. Additionally, she feels strongly that meaningful reparations for communities who have been disproportionately impacted by the criminal justice system are of the utmost importance.   Emily is also a civil rights attorney in Minneapolis with a background in housing, architecture and public policy. She was born in St. Paul, grew up in Wahpeton, North Dakota and spent the last thirteen years in New York, Atlanta, and New Orleans.   ​​Prior to launching All Square,​ Emily worked on issues of prisoner reentry, fair housing and segregation for the Department of Housing & Urban Development

Laura Alexander Wittig is the founder of The Brightly Co. and the Kennebecker bag.   A small-but-mighty, scrappy leader with an eye for design, #GSD, and the desire to provide thoughtful, impactful technical solutions to global issues.   Laura is passionate about putting the user first while driving product & program strategy -- focusing on ecommerce, search, product recommendations, and social impact.   She has worked for Amazon, Google, Sephora, and Adobe.   Find Laura Online: Website - https://thebrightly.co/ Facebook - @thebrightlyco Instagram - @thebrighlyco   Some Questions I Ask: How do you accomplish a work flow? What was the trigger that made you start The Brightly Co? Tell me about the intense year before you launched? Was there a moment during creation that changed the way you look at Brightly? What does “good is good enough” mean to you?   In This Episode, You Will Learn About: Women in tech Multitasking The necessity of passion in starting your business Listening to your gut Why you should

Tony Loyd is the author of Crazy Good Advice: 10 Lessons Learned from 150 Leading Social Entrepreneurs. He is a former Fortune 500 executive. Inspired by the work of mission-driven businesses, Tony launched Social Entrepreneur in 2015. The show has been rated #1 in FOUR iTunes New & Noteworthy Categories and is downloaded in more than 170 countries.   Before launching Culture Shift Companies, Tony worked with global brands such as John Deere, Medtronic, and Buffalo Wild Wings. Tony has provided leadership to Fortune 500 companies for over 25 years. He has extensive experience conducting strategic planning, leading organizational design, creating talent management strategy and conducting high potential development workshops.   Tony created the learning strategy and led the start-up and operation of two world-class corporate universities. Tony has directed the development of up to 120,000 personnel in sixty countries. His breakthrough ideas enabled companies to dramatically increase worldwide training parti

Niki Selken is the founder of Emoji Foundation and the creator of the Emoji Dictionary and VR game EmojiFlower VR. Her work focuses around  storytelling, games and interaction design. She is a resident artist and creative code teacher at in the Gray Area where she is researching VR and AR. Niki attributes her intuitive understanding of the translation and meaning of Emoji to her extensive Japanese stationery collection and study of Japanese Butoh and Noh theater.  When she is not expanding her Emoji Empire she enjoys designing and playing games, Karaoke and of course, texting Emoji.   Niki has taught interaction design, creative coding, and game design at Parsons School of Design, St. Joseph's College in Brooklyn, University of San Francisco, and Bay Area Video Collective. Before delving into design, she founded experimental theater company, Ko Labs, and a technology consultancy, Big Treehouse.  Afterwards she moved to Brooklyn and attended Parsons MFA Design and Technology program where she was awarded desig

Kestrel Jenkins is a storyteller and conscious style maven who believes fashion with ethics can jive, and maybe even thrive together. For over a decade, she's been enthralled with asking questions about where our clothes are made, what they are made of and who made them. She got her start interning with People Tree in London, and from that point on, she knew the only world she wanted to live in was one where she could embrace her style without sacrificing her values.    Kestrel is the founder of the Conscious Chatter podcast, an inclusive audio space, that opens the door to conversations about our clothing and the layers of stories, meaning and potential impact connected to what we wear. It's a venue that allows us to continue to learn more about the garment industry and how we can all be a bigger part of positive change in the industry.   Find Kestrel Online: Website - http://consciouschatter.com/ Facebook - @consciouschatterpodcast Instagram - @consciouschatter Twitter - @consciouschatt   Some Questions I A

Erin Dollar is the designer and maker behind Cotton & Flax. With a background in fine art printmaking, Erin brings a simple, modern aesthetic vision to Cotton & Flax, which she founded in 2012.   After studying fine art printmaking at UC Santa Cruz, Erin continued her studio practice and produced artworks on paper in Portland, Oregon. She began a series of experimental printmaking projects on textiles in 2010, and spent two years refining her aesthetic vision and perfecting printing processes before founding Cotton & Flax as a permanent home for her designs.   With Cotton & Flax, Erin approaches textile design as a blend of fine art and fine craft. By using traditional methods to print each textile piece, Erin hopes to share her love of printmaking, and to promote greater public interest in owning unique, handmade home goods.   One of my favorite topics of conversation with Erin was about the tug and pull of transparency around your business. On one hand Erin sees a huge importance in sharing

Alex Michael May is a speaker, writer, and creative director. She’s a style, travel, and beauty expert. And according to Instagram, she’s also your virtual bff. Alex seems to do just about anything, and if she hasn't done it yet I can guarantee you she’ll be doing it soon.   I would describe Alex as honest and bold. But that doesn't mean that her confidence was always through the roof. In fact it wasn't until just recently that Alex has started to own the things that she wasn't always that confident about. In doing that she started to discover that the things she was worried about were some of her biggest attributes.   Alex is a believes in a greater power, something bigger than ourselves. A force that drives us to be what we are destined to be. Knowing that gives her the freedom to be herself and trust in the process. A process that started a long time ago but continuously adds to her skill set and ability. The snowball effect has worked wonders in Alex’s life. Growing bigger and bigger even if the path was

Lorraine Sanders is the founder of Spirit of 608 and host of the podcast. She’s also a longtime fashion journalist with a special area of interest in the intersection of fashion, entrepreneurship, sustainability and tech. She calls it FEST, and she believes it’s the combination of those things that will drive the future of the fashion industry. This episode with Lorraine touched on something that I've noticed to be such a HUGE quality of entrepreneurs that are successful. Listening to your audience. Lorraine’s interest in fashion is the main priority for her. For her it’s all about achieving her goals within that world and creating a positive impact. I think it’s important that we not lose sight of the fact that our purpose IS the point. We may love creating plans of action and figuring out strategy, but at the end of the day you're gonna be wrong a lot. You’re going to fail and feel like you didn't know what you were talking about. The fact is that most of us don’t know what we’re talking about. Or at the ve

Irma Hardjakusumah is the founder of Studio Left, a design studio that she recently launched out of the success of her career. Irma is an award-winning designer with a wide range of design vocabulary and over 15 years of experience in Multidisciplinary Design marked with achievements in all fields related: Exhibit Design, Event Design, Experiential Marketing, Retail/Interior Design and Furniture Design. She is a well-rounded design professional who not only is capable of driving the design process from a macro perspective but is also skilled, knowledgeable and detail oriented to be intimately involved in every step of execution. Naturally talented in both creative and technical sides of design, Irma is able to take a project from its first phase of ideation, through engineering and all the way to its final phase of production. Irma has designed environments for clients such as Sequoia Productions (The Oscar’s Governors Ball, The Emmy Awards Governors Ball), Havas Luxe Events (Swarovski, Audemars Piguet), Jump

CYL was founded by Grace Gulley, an empowerment coach and community architect who’s on a mission to help women create a life (and business) they love and don't need an escape from. The CYL community was started as a potential avenue in which to make some creative female friends, and rekindle her creative ambitions. It quickly turned into something far greater than imagined, and set Grace down a new life path. Through this community Grace has discovered her own love of creating genuine connections. She has also gained confidence in herself, and built a network of amazing ladies and developed lasting friendships. Her biggest hope is that this community can do for others what it has done for her. It was incredible to be able to sit down with Grace and talk about why she ACTUALLY created CYL. I quickly realized it started from when she was lost and didn't know what her purpose was. Something that many of us are either dealing with right now or have dealt with in the past. But Grace made some dramatic changes in h

Liza Moiseeva is one of the co-founders at the helm of GlobeIn, the leading social enterprise subscription box company - and the only subscription box company to achieve official Fair Trade designation for its work supporting artisans from around the world and in developing countries where, after agriculture, artisan goods are the second largest source of employment. Through her work, GlobeIn has invested more than $2 million in fair wages into artisan communities over the last two years alone. Liza was recruited from her native Russia to swim at the college level for Old Dominion University, where she began her social impact work before graduating. She went on to found the first online community for social entrepreneurs in Russia before joining the GlobeIn team as co-founder. She has a tenacity of spirit and a notable mix of strength and empathy that have made her a rising star in the social good space, leading her to speak at such industry events as the groundbreaking 2017 Haiti Tech Summit, among others. B

Linh Nguyen is the owner and operator of Âu Lạc. A plant based restaurant in downtown Los Angeles. But this is actually the second Âu Lạc location. In 1997 Linh’s mother Mai Nguyen began operating Âu Lạc in Fountain Valley with a special mission in mind. Her experience in overcoming serious illness with a plant-based diet fueled her desire to promote healthy eating to her community. Driven by her passion for good food and good health, she put a plant-based twist on traditional Vietnamese cuisine. And although their menu began with traditional Vietnamese cuisine, it has grown to include more dishes and flavors to accommodate every diet. Linh grew up living with her mother Mai while she was just starting her new restaurant in 1997. At a young age Linh grew fond of the restaurant business and what her mother was trying to accomplish with her food in the community. She began working at the original Âu Lạc location and quickly had ambitions that went outside of Fountain Valley. Eventually the decision was made to

Folayo Lasaki is the head of marketing at SoulPancake. It is a digital media and production company that creates content that explores life’s big questions, celebrates humanity, and champions creativity with integrity, heart, and humor. It’s mission is to open hearts and minds through smart and hopeful content that uplifts, inspires, and helps us all figure out what it means to be human. Folayo is the first guest I’ve had that doesn't work for herself. She’s not an entrepreneur or a small business owner, but she’s doing meaningful work that means something to her. She works for a company in SoulPancake that she truly believes in. For many people this can be a tough thing to find, and Folayo has certainly put in the work before getting to this position. She’s shifted industries, jobs, positions, and coasts multiple times. But her experience and ability to know the right time to make a change landed her in the perfect spot. Folayo describes herself as weird, at least growing up. But weird is something that she

Best-known as the creator of pop star Katy Perry’s iconic fruit-inspired ensembles, fashion designer Julie Mollo is the go-to stylist for rockstars and party girls looking to make a brazen statement. Her witty, inventive take on retro fashion guarantees a standout look in a sea of similarity. Since getting the gig to dress Katy Perry while still a student at Pratt Institute, Julie's designs have been widely featured on television and in print. Glamour, Nylon, Entertainment Weekly, MSNBC and The Boston Globe are only a few of the notable media outlets that have documented her style legacy. Julie’s theme: Fun, Flirty, Retro, Rock & Roll! It’s a style that she has been crafting since she was young. A style that has given her an identity and confidence to do incredible things. One of those things was to create outfits for Katy Perry. For many people it was Katy’s distinct style that first caught their attention. An impressive musician, but also someone who stood out as fun, flirty, retr…wait. So maybe a lot o