What's The Point

A real-time catch up between Annabel and Jas. A candid conversation on friendships, old and new, the difference between fitting in and belonging, the importance of community, intentional word choices and being intentional with your time, and why feeling safe can drive you to execute. And as always relevant to us - early motherhood and dating / relationships in your 30s :)Follow the show on:InstagramTikTokProduction by Peoples Media Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sepi Shyne stands out. From fleeing Iran at age 5, to coming out as a lesbian in the early 90s, to being the first publicly LGBTQ Iranian political official elected in the world as mayor of West Hollywood in Los Angeles. Listen to Sepi’s inspirational story of battling adversity, healing past trauma, and navigating anxiety, depression and PTSD to find her true purpose - to illuminate. Find out why the West Hollywood mayor is also a reiki master, why Sepi is a healer not a politician, why your intuition is always right and why fear is an illusion.Follow the show on:InstagramTikTokProduction by Peoples Media Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Siff Haider, co-founder of viral wellness company Arrae, podcast host, content creator and all around dynamic human. We can thank her later for her infamous bloat supplements because today’s episode we go far beyond her company. We talk about growth, confidence, creativity, sustaining a long term relationship (romantic and business), what to do when you just can’t wake up in a great headspace and near death experiences. Siff shares how you can be a business person with a creative brain, how she cultivates an abundant mindset and what her high school boyfriend taught her about putting herself first. Must listen.Follow the show on:InstagramTikTokProduction by Peoples Media Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kate Burr, the culinary queen herself, joined us on the pod today. Kate has had a traditionally successful career in marketing / partnerships across many beloved hospitality and food/beverage brands, and has found her passion at a young age, but we didn’t talk about any of that. Kate cuts the bullshit and shares the real journey of dating in her 30s, keeping her standards high and dismissing society’s pressure to settle…she shares about imposter syndrome, navigating endings (personal and professional) cultivating strong self worth and the importance of saying yes when you “shouldn’t.”Follow the show on:InstagramTikTokProduction by Peoples Media Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sean Hotchkiss, GQ writer turned men’s life coach tells us about chasing money, status, sex and all the external stuff in the hopes to find fulfillment, and when life took a tragic turn how he completely pivoted what it meant for him to “have it all” as a man. Sean shares why being stuck is actually a blessing, what healthy masculinity actually looks like and how to go about dismantling traditional masculinity. What should women know about men, in a work setting and in a personal relationship? Are men actually more sensitive then we think? Are we as society doing the inner work of previous generations? And really, what do men need to know more about themselves?Follow the show on:InstagramTikTokProduction by Peoples Media Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Introducing Nicole Bruno for the first time ever with her new last name - FKA Nicole Cogan or as some as you know her @Nobread. Nicole shares how it took moving back into her parents house during Covid and her dad calling her ‘rigid’ for her to uncover her true self, and as a byproduct, find her husband, after years of ‘frogs’. We discuss releasing identities that no longer serve you, the pros and cons of having a very structured life, how ‘likes’ on social media actually block your purpose, and of course, her recent, no-phone, magical wedding. This is a must listen for anyone going through the inner work…Nicole is a huge testament of what getting to know yourself does for your inner and outer fulfillment.Follow the show on:InstagramTikTokProduction by Peoples Media Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Louise Hazel, a British olympian turned entrepreneur joins us for a remarkable conversation about the inherent dichotomies life. Lou really tells the story of balance—How do you follow your dreams and pay the bills? How do you handle loss as a winner? How do you love without loss? (You can't.) You would think being a gold-medalist Olympian from a young age would bring you great fulfillment, but that's not the entire story. This is a must listen for anyone moving through an identity shift, grief, leaving their ego, and other people’s opinions behind. We discuss how to cultivate mental resilience, even through a depressive period, death, the fortification that sometimes comes with grief, our resistance to being average and the innate human desire to be seen.Follow the show on:InstagramTikTokProduction by Peoples Media Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Follow the show on:InstagramTikTokProduction by Peoples Media Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In today’s episode, we’re honored to welcome Justina Blakeney - award winning designer, artist, New York Times best-selling author. We discuss the fallacy of ‘checking a box’ as it relates to success, and how the box society puts us in is constraining and made to keep us small. Justina shares openly about never fitting in and eventually embracing that part of her and turning it into her superpower - widening ‘the box’ for herself with a more all-encompassing identity. We get into a conversation about Instagram, its’ ever changing algorithms and the need to release control to keep you sane - how to focus on creating vs. consuming, how to evolve with the rapidly changing progression and how to build a career around creativity.Follow the show on:InstagramTikTokProduction by Peoples Media Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chef Fabián von Hauske is a renown Mexico-City born chef and owner of two-time Michelin Star restaurant Contra, Wildair and partner in Jac’s on Bond in NYC. We get deep about the struggles of finding fulfillment and internal success in big cities where more is more and better is better. We unpack what it means to be moved by the spiritual vs the material. We pull back the curtain on the glamour of being young and ownining the hottest and buzziest restaurants in one of the most competitive ‘foodscapes’ in the world—what could be better, right? and receiving ALL of the accolades for it. Fab was incredibly vulnerable with us about hospitality during covid, reading customer reviews, fears of the future,working, having fun and the relationship between the two. It wasn’t until the pandemic where he began to question everything— am I really what I do? Who would I be without this? is it all worth it? and sincerely, what's the point?Follow the show on:InstagramTikTokProduction by Peoples Media Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.