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Wandering Bear Co-founder Matt Bachmann and Jenna discuss how we can use our experiences to be more empathetic and the importance of extending gratitude to every person who makes our life and work possible. We then chat about using the finiteness of time as a catalyst to make life changes, being honest with ourselves to avoid our ego’s self-preservation, and creating accountability practices with ourselves and others to pause and appreciate the present moment.

Anyone can reach the pinnacle once, but to stay & stretch beyond it requires an all-together different DNA - Moe and Kapil discuss the depth of understanding required to make greatness routine.

Squeeze CEO and Co-founder Brittany Driscoll and Jenna kick off discussing how her childhood experiences rising to be captain of her high school basketball team and volunteering shaped her grit, sense of belief, and compassion for others. We then dive into what her dad describes as her “coulda been a contender” mentality and how the courage to try new things and fail enabled her to design her early career to work on projects her agency wasn’t equipped for, affording her opportunities to lead ones with the likes of Mattel, Hot Wheels, and X Games. Most importantly, Brittany emphasizes the importance of living outwardly versus inwardly and how faith, empathy, gratitude, and kindness can drastically change our lives.

No one understands human psychology more than best-selling author and world-class thinker, Robert Greene - he rejoins Moe Abdou to explore the essence of human motivation & desires.

Elizabeth Shaffer and Lizzy Brockhoff join Jenna to discuss how they made the decision to launch MASSE, the power of setting big goals and believing in the impossible, and how to create a plan to realize it. Elizabeth and Lizzy also share essential lessons they've learned on  maintaining perspective, remembering that everything is a phase and will pass, and the importance of acknowledging when you've done enough.

Splendid Spoon Founder Nicole Centeno and Jenna discuss mindset and mindfulness habits we can all rely on to remain present in our experiences, develop our stamina to overcome challenges and allow them to transform us. In sharing her own experiences, Nicole reveals tactics that can help us get out of our own way, such as practicing self-compassion, talking to our future selves and asking questions like: How is my current strategy working for me right now? What would this look like if it were easy? Nicole’s honesty about her personal transformations provides encouragement and reassurance that rooting yourself in the present moment, regardless of what it is asking of you, not only enables you to live intentionally and achieve your dreams but drastically increases your sense of happiness, gratefulness, and wellbeing.

charity: water COO Lauren Letta and Jenna walk through her extraordinary impact helping reinvent the charity model and end the global water crisis; Helping give over 8.4 million people access to clean water. Each of Lauren’s experiences - from interviewing 200 Ethiopians and pairing them with similar charity: water donors to planning a live well drilling at their acclaimed charity ball - has been made possible by her choice to focus on growth rather than titles or compensation in her career. We dive into why that's essential to our growth and happiness and how to evaluate whether an opportunity will be truly fulfilling. We also chat about how to develop a solutions-oriented mindset to stay calm under pressure (demonstrated through averting a few potentially event-ending charity: ball catastrophes) and setting an intention to keep your eyes and mind open to alternative approaches.

Repeat Roses Founder Jennifer Grove and Jenna kick off discussing her team’s remarkable work repurposing event flowers, delivering them to places like homeless shelters and hospice centers, and then returning to compost them. More importantly, we cover the new precedent the company is setting for businesses to focus on triple bottom line goals: Making an impact in the realm of social responsibility, environmental protection and economic prosperity. Beginning in Jennifer’s college years, we walk through her most formative experiences, from the moment she knew she wasn’t going back to Villanova to deciding to move to the mountains despite a rising career in NYC, working 24-7 to start one of the early e-commerce fashion businesses, while also having a newborn, and her journey at Repeat Roses. Jennifer opens up about the personal growth that accompanied each of these experiences, how she stays present through self-assessment, and her parents’ extraordinary support in achieving her dreams.

Harvard Business School professor, Amy Edmondson, and Moe Abdou discuss the notion of psychological safety & why it's the singular link between world-class teams & organizations.

Tran Wills and Jenna kick off during her teen years, beginning when she decided to leave home at 15, having her son at 16, bringing him to school and still graduating as one of the top in her class, and then starting her own company at 19.In walking through Tran’s journey building businesses in the arts, fashion, and beauty industries, most recently at Base Coat, we focus on how to cultivate key values and mindsets that can help us improve our lives including: How to not be defined by your situation, having the courage to live life on your own terms, setting boundaries that are right for you, eliminating the word easy from our vocabulary, making pausing a habit, and the life-changing impact of small acts of kindness.