Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Natalia Castillo’s passion for fashion began at Macy’s department store, where she worked for 10 years before leaving to start her own business. Realizing that it was important to control her own destiny, she decided to launch an apparel brand, where she could further pursue her love of fashion, travel and business. In 2009 she created Escapada Living’s first collection of vibrant, effortless apparel. Her mission is to inspire happiness in women of all ages through a timeless, global lifestyle brand.

In the last 17 years Billy Keels has had the opportunity to work in 86 countries and learn to speak 5 languages fluently. With myriad personal growth experiences he has also developed professionally by leading multi-disciplined teams and managing businesses in the application software sector. Billy has earned his stripes as a true problem-solver, a skill he has carried into his new entrepreneurial life. He is also a long-distance real estate entrepreneur, author, coach, public speaker and mentor.

Jordan Harbinger will tell you the only reason he’s still alive and kicking is because of his ability to talk his way into (and out of) just about any situation. He has always had an affinity for social influence, interpersonal dynamics and social engineering, helping private companies test the security of their communications systems and working with law enforcement agencies before he was old enough to drive. He has spent years abroad in Europe and the developing world and speaks several languages.

Ryan Boyle is a silver medal winner of the 2018 U.S. Paralympics Cycling Team and the author of the book, When the Lights Go Out: A Boy Given a Second Chance. After suffering a traumatic brain injury as a child, and given almost no hope of recovery by his doctors, Ryan woke up after two months in a coma and began his hard battle to recovery. His goal is to become a public speaker one day, in order to help people overcome life’s obstacles.

Terri Mays is an Advanced Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) practitioner, certified Jack Canfield Methodology Success Trainer, and Radical Forgiveness Life Coach. She loves teaching students and educators how raising your emotional tone—mind state—utilizing EFT tapping, allows you to master your fears and experience new freedom and possibilities. She has been a healer and intuitive for over 30 years and is the founder and CEO of the HOPEnUp Foundation.

Dr. Gladys Ato is a former university president and clinical psychologist, speaker, and author of “The Good Goodbye: How to Navigate Change and Loss in Life, Love, and Work.” “A lot of the messages in the world talk about being fearless or just pushing fear to the side. The problem with that is we do not get a chance to understand that fear is actually a great ally for us. Trying to get rid of something that is actually very necessary for our survival will keep us getting frustrated by a pattern of fe

Nicola Grace has gone from surviving cancer to making history by saving a billion dollar industry from ruin to being an award winning strategist and best-selling author. She now helps entrepreneurs and visionaries clarify and monetize their life’s mission so they can make a bigger impact, transform the world and build their legacy. Nicola’s intuitive, visionary strategy skills have made her the secret weapon of politicians, business owners, social entrepreneurs and thought leaders around the world.

Dr. Brian Keating is a professor of physics at the Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences in the Department of Physics at the University of California, San Diego. He is an inventor, author and expert in the study of the universe’s oldest light, the cosmic microwave background (CMB), using it to learn about the origin and evolution of the universe after the Big Bang. His book—Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition and the Perils of Science’s Highest Honor.

Andy Molinsky, professor of international management and psychology at Brandeis University and author, knows that stepping outside of one’s comfort zone, both personally and culturally, is one of the hardest things people have to do. “But, you are probably going to have to, if you want to grow, learn, develop—to achieve your goals.” That is what his work is about: helping people understand the challenges, what holds them back, how they might be avoiding it, and what they can do to be more success

Christopher D. Kolenda is an internationally renowned combat leader, strategist, author, and entrepreneur, having spent a career in the military, including being a professor at West Point, before launching his consulting business. As the founder of the Strategic Leaders Academy, he helps nonprofits and small businesses to grow sustainably by working with them to get the big things right—Leadership, culture and strategy. An Chris spent a career in the military before launching his consulting business.

Katherine Frankstone never got that Easy-Bake Oven she wanted when she was 6. Instead, her father taught her to bake in the real thing–and she got a life-long passion instead. After working as a banker, becoming a mother to three sons, cofounding EdVenture Children’s Museum in Columbia, South Carolina, and going back to law school at 40, she decided to turn her passion into a business and Grey Ghost Bakery was born using from-scratch Southern family recipes and are found in over 300 stores in 32 states.

Tim Fulton has worked with hundreds of small business owners and has coached and trained on several thousand for over 15 years. One of the things that he has found most interesting is the shared misbeliefs or the myths that many small business owners have about not only starting their enterprise, but also growing it. In this interview, he shares a good number of relevant myths and how understanding the truth can set you on the path to success in your business.

Mikael Dia is a digital marketing expert and founder of Funnelytics, a software company helping entrepreneurs and marketers convert traffic into profit. A serial entrepreneur who scaled several businesses to seven figures and beyond, he is passionate about helping entrepreneurs understand their numbers so that they can get better results from their marketing efforts.

Victoria Crandall is a firm believer that, once you finish your university studies, the years that follow are vitally important in shaping who you are as a person and figuring out what kind of life you want. She certainly has been exploring her options, moving from the U.S. to study or work in Syria, Dubai, Egypt, Morocco, and the Ivory Coast, where she has stayed since 2013. She now enjoys working with young African entrepreneurs and interviewing successful African entrepreneurs for her own podcast.

Paul Murphy shares amazing career stories and advice from 100 graduates he recently interviewed at ten years after they finished college or university. Most got into the career they choose as students, and too many of them found the jobs in their field were not what they had expected. Learn the twists and turns they took and what they recommend others do to find their way much earlier.