At the Podium: Season One
Conversations with people who come from different walks of life, careers and experiences but all share one thing in common – they have stepped fully into the transformative power of saying “Yes” to the unexpected turns of their lives.
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"To bear witness to someone's life, to bear witness to someone's experience... there's not a greater gift that you can give someone. It validates their existence."
Patrick Huey, Creator & Host, At the Podium
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"I had a second opportunity at life. To make it right. And to appreciate everything that I'd been given. To not take it for granted."
Charlie Davies
Co-Host, Morning Footy
Broadcast Analyst CBS Sports
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“When you’re doing the right thing, when you’re doing what you should be doing, it works. And the universe opens doors.”
Delia McLinden, Co-founder & VP of Farmhouse Fresh and Founder of Archangel Animal Network
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"Good art comes from a spirit of generosity."
Lisa Channer, Co-Artistic Director Theater Novi Most, Associate Professor Theater Arts and Dance, University of Minnesota
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"You have to force yourself to break old patterns and develop into a different person over and over again in your life."
Nora Zelevansky, Author and Journalist
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"We are emotional beings. And those emotions are real, undeniable, and we often face them when going through a lot of growth, a lot of change and a lot of disruption."
Cassandra Worthy, Founder & CEO of Change Enthusiasm, Global Keynote Speaker, Author and Consultant
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“I’m really fascinated with the idea of being able to create entire ecosystems just within my mind. Music is the best way to do that in terms of creating a space for people to dwell in. I think that’s really powerful.”
Joshua Banbury, Vocal Artist and Librettist
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“I gave myself two options. I am going to either succeed. OR. I am going to succeed.”
Dr. Bryan K. Williams, Keynote Speaker, Consultant and Author
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“The questions of who we are in our humanity are fully on the table right now.”
Tembi Locke, TV Producer, Actor, Author, Screenwriter
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"Do not be ashamed of the things you need because the straighter you can get, the clearer you can get about the things you need and the less judgmental you can be about them, the happier you will be.”
Claudia Zelevansky, Executive Director of the Mercury Store
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“I’ve always tried to live my life by saying the word yes and keeping an open heart. If you do that, it’s really crazy where life will take you.”
Hugh Huffaker, Founder of CAUSE + MEDIC
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“There’s a lot of power in saying I think I’m going to embrace the complexity and see what happens.”
Jane Cho, Executive Coach, Consultant, Facilitator
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"There is a shift in value and perception about what we are willing to sacrifice in pursuit of success."
Seth Mattison, Founder and CEO FutureSight Labs, Author and Keynote Speaker
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"The repetitive rehearsing of pain makes it impossible to let it go."
Keiko Anderson, Attorney and Owner Law Office of Keiko Griffin
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"Dance has a specific vocabulary, but what you do with that vocabulary is where the artistry comes out."
Skyler Maxey-Wert, Second Soloist SemperOper Ballett Dresden, Germany
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"Once you care about other people, you’re able to create relationships, and that’s the basis of any business.”
Pun Bandhu, Actor, Producer, Activist
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“It’s really making sure that we have a space that’s safe, that everyone can be cared for, belong, and feel seen.”
Rachana Garg, Global Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Communication Lead at Pfizer
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“The privilege of being happy in your work and loving it is priceless.”
Gamal Palmer, Conscious Builders, Founder / Principal
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“You must step into joy, which is not the same as happiness, and move forward.”
Regina Bain, Executive Director at Louis Armstrong House Museum & Archives
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"If you keep knocking on enough doors, you’ll find the answer.”
Dennis Williams, SVP, Corporate Affairs & Corporate Social Responsibility at Warner Brothers Discovery
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“The only way for change to happen is if the person speaks up and out.”
Kathryn Hahn, Actress and Producer
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"Forgiveness is one of the most powerful tools to truly healing your trauma."
Quentin Vennie, Co-Founder and CEO of The Equitea Company
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"Write your life with a pencil so you can erase it when you need to."
Adrienne Carter, NAACP Image Award Winning Writer, Director and Producer
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“If you harness your narrative, you can change the way people feel, and most importantly the way people behave. And that is power.”
Bill Thompson, Executive Director of Young Storytellers
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"Stories make up the world—we got here because of stories we heard and the stories we're making."
Toby Poser, Actress, Voice-Over Artist, Film Maker and Writer
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"Critical thinking is what I’m a fan of. Problems have two sides. And if you think you’re right in one direction, it almost certainly shows you that you’re wrong in the other one."
Will Frears, Director, Mercury Store
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“The Church’s stance is just to love people. Love people where they are at. Love people for who they are. And allowing them to belong.”
Paster Joshua Baker, Orlando Campus Pastor, Alive Church
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“I realized I had to take ownership of the process… That’s what it came down to. It was the confidence of my own ideas and that they could be correct.”
Shannon Flynn, Two-Time Emmy Award Winning Multiplatform Director
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“It’s ok to just slow down and take deep meaningful care of ourselves.”
Shel Pink, Founder & Visionary Leader of SpaRitual
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“We need to have love in our hearts and have that love pointed towards the reality of the world we are living in.”
Ryland Engelhart, Founder, Executive Director and Producer of Kiss the Ground
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“I remember waking up one morning and thinking something has got to change.”
Cynthia Besteman, Founder and CEO Violets Are Blue
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“I don’t look at addiction as a negative in my life at all. I look at it in a way as a super power or a gift, if you will. It can define my life, but on my terms.”
McCord Henry, Living Recovered
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"You have to expect that failure is a part of your process. And if you don’t expect that, you’re probably not in a very healthy or generative process."
Glynis Rigsby, BFA Program Director, School of Drama, The New School
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"I never start anything without finishing it. I always had a work ethic in me, and I've always been competitive."
Shahin Safai, Founder and CEO, Royal Personal Training
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"I've always fought hard to create the America I want to see."
Lucia Brawley, Chief Creative Officer and Co-Founder
AMP Global Technologies
