Steve Schlafman (@schlaf) is a professional transition coach who helps high performers navigate complex work-life transitions and discover their next calling.
Previously, he was a Partner at several of the top venture capital firms in New York City.
Steve has received certifications and training from coaching and therapeutic schools including (but not limited to) The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership, Aletheia, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Nonviolent Communication (NVC), Men’s Emotional Leadership (MELT), Enneagram and more.
He graduated from Northeastern University and has lived a life of sobriety for the past 10 years (and counting).
His blog (which you can find by typing “Seth” into Google) is one of the most popular in the world. In 2013, Godin was inducted into the Direct Marketing Hall of Fame.
Two of his TED talks are among the most popular of all time. He is also the founder of the altMBA, Squidoo (the social media pioneer) and Yoyodyne (one of the first internet companies).
In this conversation, we spoke about:
How to attract talent to your company
As an employee, How to create change in big organization
And how Seth write books and ship projects at lighting speed
I am giving away 5 copies of The Song of Significance for FREE, put in your details here (sorry, Singapore residents only).
His works can be found around Singapore, Shanghai, Chengdu, Beijing, Paris, Bali, Los Angeles, New York, Abu Dhabi, Tokyo, Venice, Kuala Lumpur and Seoul.
“You don’t want to do what they do, you want to see how they see”. – Nate Green
Nate Green, is an author of multiple books, marketing strategist at Precision Nutrition and a recovering fitness junkie.
Nate barely graduated high school with 1.7 GPA. Despite all odds, he became one of the most sought after writers and strategists in the fitness industry.
Tynan, is an entrepreneur, personal coach and minimalist nomad. He is also the author of best selling books, Superhuman by Habit and Forever Nomad.
Tynan pioneered the idea of Empire housing, to share home ownership with friends. With this, he brought an island in Canada and homes in Hawaii, Budapest, Tokyo and Vegas.
In a former life, Tynan is a pickup artist and instructor, best known as Herbal in The Game by Neil Strauss.
Nina Barber, is an executive and CEO coach & matchmaker. In 2 years, she is billing $2,500 – $10,000/month per client for her coaching services. She is also the founder of Prismaticco, a matchmaking service for startup executives to find coaches. Nina has also cofounded a social enterprise, Nika water that brings clean water to more than 40,000 people every day. In this conversation, we spoke about:
Why Nina spends $50,000 a year on self-development
The emotional journey of founding, operation to closing a $3 million dollar start-up
How did Nina built her coaching practice in record speed
Derek Sivers, is a kind of a reluctant entrepreneur, circus-clown musician turned author.
In 1998, Derek created CD Baby by helping his friends sell their CDs. It became the largest seller of independent music online, with $100 million in sales for 150,000 musicians.
In 2008, Derek sold CD Baby for $22 million, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. He went to speak at the TED Conference, for 3 times in 2010 (which is unheard of), with more than 18 million views of his talks. Since 2011, he has published 34 books, including “Anything You Want,” which I love so much.
In this conversation, we spoke about:
What Derek loves about Singapore
Things he learnt about sex
How and when to use “feeling” when making decisons
This is one of my favourite interview, enjoy!
If you’ve only got 2 minutes, here’s a short video.
