Destination #36: Medha, an incoming Harvard Medical School Master's Student, talks about everything from why she chose the pre-med path, mental health awareness, and the difference between dopamine and serotonin! Medha is one of my best friends from college, and I love how candid this episode was, hope you enjoy as much as I did and learn a thing or two!
Destination #35: Michael Copley, co-founder of Barsala and The Edible Project, talks about everything from his early days living the scrappy start-up life in Santa Monica of college to what advice he would give himself looking back. He takes a deep dive into the challenges and pivotal lessons he’s learned from his founding experiences and even some fun twists such as the theme song to his life. Tune in to hear these exciting stories and more!
Destination #34: Mike McFall, Biggby Co-Founder and Co-CEO and a professor of mine at the University of Michigan, talks about everything from the lessons he has learned starting a successful franchise from the bottom up to what he would tell his 22-year-old self. Mike gives invaluable wisdom in this episode and you will leave feeling incredibly inspired, and ready to take on your life in a new way. Tune in to hear all this and more!
Destination #33: Brian Hayden, founder of HeatSpring and a professor of mine at the University of Michigan, shares his journey from shaping the future of energy education to finding the perfect co-founder fit. He dives into the lessons he’s learned building HeatSpring, the challenges he’s overcome, and even a fun twist: who he’d choose to sit next to on a plane and why. Tune in to hear these inspiring stories and more!
Destination #32: Nathan Shatz, Co-Founder of Milieu, a skintech startup, shares his journey of co-founding a skin health company while still in college. From the advantages of starting as a student to the advice he'd leave on a fortune cookie for his 16-year-old self, tune in for an insightful conversation!
Destination #31: Kishan Sripada, founder of Formi and engineer, talks about everything from how he built his successful startup in 2 years while being a student to how he wants to keep improving himself for the coming year and what he would do in a great zombie apocalypse, tune in to hear this and more!
Destination #30: Chris Duncan, Co-Founder & CEO of Creator Camp LLC and content creator, talks about cold emailing his heroes to now becoming friends with them, meeting the Creative Director of Forbes by sneaking into their NYC headquarters, and where he would go if a millionaire decided to fund his all expenses paid one week trip to anywhere!
Check out all of Chris's work here: https://withkoji.com/@crduncan
Destination #29: Simon Kim, a full-time content creator and CEO of Keep It Wholesome, talks about his creative process when producing a video, his clothing business Keep It Wholesome and Creator Camp, along with fun things like the most daring thing he has done!
Check out Simon's YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@wholesomesimon
Destination #27 Kriti Sarav, founder of WhyFI Matter$, talks about how to get into finance, improving herself for the coming year, and BLACKPINK!
Destination #25 Jodi Forster, my IB Business teacher & Novi DECA advisor, talks about her business career from working in fashion merchandising to now teaching business at Novi High School, what keeps her inspired everyday and favorite DECA memories!
Destination #24 Simran Haribhai, founder of Youth for the People, talks about the global issues she is raising awareness for, her ideal work space, and FINNEAS!
Destination #23 Calix Huang, 15 year old startup engineer and co founder of 1Academy, talks about founding successful organizations, his greatest failures, and if he woke up to 2,000 unread emails and could only answer 300 of them, how would he would choose which ones to answer!
Destination #22 Vince Tuttle, British flight attendant and upcoming youtuber, talks about the craziest thing that has happened to him while on the job, why he wants to pursue YouTube, and South Africa's steak!
Destination #21 Traci Burton, an advocate for education equality and featured in TIME magazine, talks about how she is trying to bring awareness to the education inequality in Michigan specifically for the predominantly black communities, how others can also help bring awareness, and Michelle Obama!
Destination #20 Chinmayi Balusu, student at Columbia University and founder of Simply Neuroscience, talks about how she got into neuroscience, how other students can start their own initiatives, and writing poetry!
Destination #19 Bhagyashree Prabhutendolkar, founder of The Youth Magazine, talks about why she made The Youth Magazine, publishing her own books, and the funniest thing that has happened to her!
Destination #18 Max Reisinger, youtuber and entrepreneur, talks about how he started his youtube channel that now has over 228k subscribers, starting his own clothing company Perspectopia, and what he would do with $10 million dollars! Checkout Max's youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB3-py860zX_nHCfnwE0GrA Checkout Perspectopia Max's clothing brand: https://www.perspectopia.com/
Destination #17 Nicholas Letarte, teacher and youtuber, talks about how he started YouTube, his greatest regret, and his favorite 90s jam!