This Is My Era The Podcast (#thisismyera)

Founder and President of Ashesi University in Ghana, Patrick Awuah joins us to discuss his journey from engineering to developing and running a school in Africa. He shares his mission and inspiration for this breathtaking project.

#ThisIsMyEra welcomes Jeremy Sherk and Kevin Pasco, founders of Nested Naturals, a nutrition supplement business that has skyrocketed on Amazon in the last four years. The two share their not-always-smooth journey in entering the Amazon market.

Twenty-three-year-old Jaclyn DiGregorio has a wealth of knowledge when it comes to building confidence. She’s the founder of Clarity and Action Consulting. On this episode, Jaclyn talks to us about gaining confidence and a positive mindset!  

We welcome Haley Hoffman Smith, an entrepreneur, motivational speaker, and author who is helping others make this their era. At just 22, she was named Top 12 Motivational Speaker to Capture Your Audience by Under30CEO. Haley just wrapped up her college campus speaking tour and is here to discuss her journey, finding your purpose, staying motivated.

Financial wellness is something everyone struggles with. Author, entrepreneur, and certified professional coach, Ashely Feinstein Gestley, makes it her mission to empower others financially. She has a degree in finance and worked as an investment banker and started The Fiscal Femme as a blog dedicated to women, believing financial wellness is an important step in achieving gender equality. She focuses on not only the logistics, but the emotional and behavioral sides of money. Her business has rapidly grown, and she’s since helped thousands of women and has been featured by Forbes, NBC, New York Times, and Glamour. For those looking to take the first steps in financial wellness, this podcast identifies the mindset and programs that can help you make this your era financially!

Kevin Adler!!     Kevin Adler started his professional career in the tech industry, eventually deciding to make a difference by getting into education. On his walks home from work, he witnessed widespread homelessness in his neighborhood. One day Kevin decided to not just walk by like everyone else...he stopped and began talking to people and listening to their stories. After an epiphany moment, he realized how we could use social media to create good. That’s where Miracle Messages was born. Read the full blog at http://thisismyera.com/blogs/podcast/ep-32-miraclemessages

Norette Turimuci! ☕️ Gender inequality is a global issue where women and girls lack access and resources for social and economic advancement. Norette Turimuci and her the team have strived to overturn this problem by focusing on lowering the “confidence gap” through workshops to empower their voices to resonate. Tune in to learn more!

Jonathan Goldman & Alana Gulliver of Trii [The Right to Immigration Institute]

Devassi Joseph!

Sonari Chidi!

Emily Wang!

Curtis "DubblUp" Washington

Max.ng's Adetayo Bamiduro             “It’s not just our era, it’s the era for the African people.” Meet Adetayo “Tayo” Bamiduro. He’s the Co-Founder and CEO of MAX Delivery NG, an innovative motorcycle ride sharing platform with a mission to make transportation safe, accessible, and affordable to 1 Billion (with a capital B) Africans. In this episode, Alexander Star and Tayo talk about the importance of successful entrepreneurship. That is, finding a problem that people face and delivering value that would address it. For Tayo, he was able to identify a critical problem faced by many of the developing societies that severely limited the success of his fellow Africans: transportation.

Jordann Windschauer -      Jordann Windschauer went from selling her products at 100 stores to over 4,000 in just one year. Talk about growth! Tune in to this inspiring episode to hear how one entrepreneur had a simple idea to an individual problem before refining the solution into an incredibly successful business venture.    Full article by Josh Park on our website - www.thisismyera.com/blogs/podcast/ep24-jordannwindschauer

Shayne Veramallay     Socially conscious entrepreneurship focuses on people rather than profit, emphasizing community over product. Carbon is a social enterprise that provides “economies in a box” and empowers communities to achieve sustainable growth. Curious to learn more? Listen in to this episode with Shayne Veramallay, Carbon’s co-founder and managing partner!   Full article by Josh Park at https://thisismyera.com/blogs/podcast/ep-23-shayneveramallay

Inspiring Vanessa     At 12 years old, Inspiring Vanessa is an international speaker, role model, coach, author, and kidtrepreneur. When she was 9, Vanessa found her love for public speaking and has since taken massive action to pursue her passion. Tune in to this episode to learn more about Inspiring Vanessa and how she’s making it her era. Full article at www.thisismyera.com/podcast

Jasmin Manke     Have you lost passion for your job and feel like you’re stuck in a grind with a daily 9-5? If you feel like the world is passing you by and want to do something about it, this episode is especially for you! Jasmin Manke is an international speaker and certified professional coach. As the Founder and CEO of The Confident Boss, she specializes in helping women overcome their fears and doubts to pursue their passion in entrepreneurship. With a Master’s of Science in Psychology for Neuroscience and Mental Health, Jasmin is an energy leadership master practitioner. She works closely with women (and recently with men as well) on how to take purposeful action and transform their lives in a healthy and productive way. In this episode, Jasmin shares her story of how she was able to change her life from working without passion to living at her greatest. She talks about the importance of avoiding false motivation that is plastered across social media and instead becoming introspective to find t

Samantha Lakin     At some point in our lives, we’ve all had that dream of changing the world and leaving a global footprint that would mark our legacy to humanity’s progress. While most people eventually pursue other paths, there are a few who rise to meet the call. One of those people is Samantha Lakin. If you’re looking for an inspiration, Samantha is definitely someone to keep under your radar. Since 2013, she has been researching transitional justice and local perspectives of memory in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. If that’s not amazing enough, she’s also a two-time Fulbright Scholar, a Ph.D. candidate at Clark University, a TEDx speaker, a board member of Survivors Fund (SURF) and Genocide Survivors Support Network (GSSN), a multilingual who is fluent in French, a published author ... the list goes on and on. In this episode, Alexander Star and Kuda Biza discuss with Samantha about her journey to become who she is today and how she was able to accomplish everything despite the cha

Khierstyn Ross     What does it take to start a successful crowdfunding campaign? Khierstyn Ross knows the secrets – and she’s learned through her own successes and failure. After her first attempt at a crowdfunding campaign failed miserably, she worked hard to learn from her mistakes and ended up raising $600,000 in funding… and going on to become a crowdfunding guru who helps her clients bring exciting new products to market. In this episode, Kuda Biza and Alexander Star talk to Khierstyn to learn the secrets of her success. Listen now to learn what goes into a successful campaign on Kickstarter or IndieGoGo, as well as how Khierstyn discovered how to harness her personal strengths to become a successful entrepreneur and scale her consulting business. Khierstyn is refreshingly transparent about how she learned through trial and error, meaning that this episode is full of takeaways about tuning into your own strengths and finding your own personal route to success.

Paul Goodman     Upon graduating from college, Paul Goodman and Griffin Thall went to Costa Rica to relax and recalibrate. Each friend put in $100 to purchase 400 bracelets from Costa Rican artisans to sell to their friends and family in the U.S. Today, Pura Vida sells between 2000 and 5000 orders a day online and has its products in 2000 plus retail stores.  Paul Goodman – Co-Founder and CFO of Pura Vida Bracelets – joins Kuda Biza and Alexander Star to discuss the journey, passions, profit, and people.