This is Before It’s Too Late….I’m your host, Christiane zu Salm. Let’s learn together what matters most in life. We are grateful to speak with psychedelic life coach Sinclair Fleetwood in today’s episode. She is also the host of the Psychedelic Integration Podcast and an expert for helping people with the integration of plant medicine into their everyday lives. Sinclair is sharing with us her heart wrenching wild journey from having been an addict to alcohol, sex, drugs and food in her...

It makes me very happy to speak with Dr. Alex Wills in today’s episode. Alex Wills, MD, is a board-certified psychiatrist, who has developed an innovative approach to how to deal with our emotions. He has developed the Radical Emotional Acceptance Method to help patients heal from issues ranging from past traumas to interpersonal struggles in their marriages. Just now, he has published a book with the title: “Give a F*ck, Actually: Reclaim Yourself with the 5 Steps of Radical Emotional...

We are happy to speak with D. Neil Elliott today. Neil shares with us his fascinating transformational journey, when he was a highly educated professional engineer, had a successful career, an amazing wife and family, but things were not all what they seemed to be. Neil was in a dark place. In this episode, he is talking about how he then, quite by accident discovered a Higher Road and how he, by traveling that road, found the key to fundamentally transforming his life. Neil is explaining...

Before we get to introduce our today’s guest, I would like to let all my loyal listeners and steadily growing subscribers know that we’ll be taking a creative break with this podcast. Recently, I was lucky enough to get invited to co-creating an artwork, and this will require my full attention. Since such a project has always been my dream, I’m thanking you for your understanding and loyalty. Please stay subscribed – we will be back as soon as possible! So, in the last episode before our...

In today’s episode, my guest is the artist and art teacher Kathryn Cameron. Kathryn is talking about what it took for her to pursue an artistic education and career, what her parents said and how she managed to make a living before she could live from selling her art. Being a teacher at the New York School of the Arts for ten years, she is explaining to us what specifically she enjoys about teaching art. Also, Kathryn is sharing with us an existential moment that really transformed her and...

In today’s episode, we are talking with our guest Connie Steele about what really matters in the future of work for the millennials and Gen Z. A 10 years business strategist and marketing consultant with her own firm Flywheel Associates, Connie is sharing with us in the first part of this episode her story, how she found the courage to pivot out of a corporate role, as she felt she “wasn’t’ able to be all of me”, as she puts it, as the youngest, a female and employee with children. At the...

In today’s episode, we’re speaking with best-selling author, certified coach, speaker, trainer and podcaster Dom Brightmon, who empowers and equips others to share their stories and helps them unlock their inner value through reading, writing and podcasting. You will for sure enjoy his amazing sense of humor with which is doing all of that. Because of his own podcast “Going North” , in which Dom features authors that share their life experiences to help others advance themselves, he was...

We are very excited to speak with community-based sociologist and criminologist Dr. Kimya Nuru Dennis today. Kimya is invested in supporting the needs of people with minoritized and underserved demographic-and-cultural identities and experiences. In this important conversation, you will learn from her why she is criticizing the typical diversity, inclusion and antiracism trainings especially at schools, police departments and medical-health providers. She is talking about why she finds these...

It makes me very happy to speak with Tanya Selvaratnam on the topic of intimate violence today. Tanya is a writer and an Emmy-nominated and multiple Webby-winning producer in the areas of arts and social justice. Also, she has written 2 important books, one of which are talking about in this episode: It is called “Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence”, and in this book, Tanya shares her story of how her relationship with former New York State attorney general Eric Schneiderman...

We’re excited to speak with Robert Ginsberg today, who since almost 20 years has been investigating various types of evidence for that there is life after death - like Mediumship, Near Death Experiences, Deathbed Visions and After Death Communications and Signs. In this fascinating conversation, Bob is sharing with us his own story, what prompted his interest in this topic and how he started to base his investigations on phenomena researched by credible scientists. You will hear about...

In today’s episode, my guest is 34 years-old certified nutritionist and mother Myrna Scales. When her second son was only 4 months old, he was diagnosed with cancer. In this conversation Myrna shares with us how she and her husband got through this diagnosis, what it meant for the baby’s sibling, and how the survival of her child has changed her values and the way she prays. “Formerly, I used to pray like I was in control of what was going to happen. Or I was telling God what I wanted and it...

It makes us very happy to speak with Alison Pena aka Bad Widow in our first episode in 2022 today. As a primary caregiver until her husband of 25 years died in her arms at home, Alison learned a lot about living fearlessly, even in the face of death itself. In this very honest conversation, she is sharing with us how she and her husband, after the terminal diagnosis, managed to live every minute like it would be their last (until it was their last), and how they recommitted their love to each...

It makes me so proud to speak in this last episode of the year with “Hollywood’s Emotional Fixer” Chenoa Maxwell. Hollywood Lady Chenoa is a successful actress, a photographer artist and an Emotional & Soul Intelligence Expert. In this heartfelt conversation, she is sharing with us how she moved out from a very tumultuous, abusive childhood with lots of emotional pain into a life that has no limits for joy, love and success. She is talking about the most pivotal moment in her life: as a...

We are very excited to speak with yoga ethics activist Monisha Raja today. Born and raised in India, Monisha has been teaching yoga for over 20 years in New York City and started to practice it at the age of four When she contracted Covid in April 2020, she managed to heal herself through her practice of Yogic breathing and asana, much to the surprise of her medical doctor. Ever since, he sends Covid patients to Monisha, who started to teach the ancient Yogi breathing techniques in a class...

Today, we are speaking with Berlin-born serial entrepreneur Frederik Fleck. Over the last 20 years he has built start-ups from the ground up and led them to successful exits. He is also passing on his knowledge about entrepreneurship and scaling companies to start-ups and young entrepreneurs, whom he supports as a business angel. Our conversation evolves around taking risks, and what it really is that one has to lose when doing so. Frederik is sharing with us that whenever he starts a new...

We are excited to speak with Dr. James Peyer today. He is the Founder and CEO of Cambrian Biopharma, a Distributed Drug Development Company developing therapeutics targeting the biological drivers of aging. Since he was a teenager, James has dedicated his life to building medicines that can keep people alive and healthy longer than 80-100 years. The mission of his company is to translate laboratory breakthroughs in the extension of healthy lifespan into the clinic, predicting that the world...

In today’s episode, we speak with 24 years old future astronaut Manju Bangalore, who also is an actor, an artist and an organizer. Manju received her Bachelor in Science from the University of Oregon in physics with a minor in math and after having been rejected 100 times, she finally got accepted to be working at two NASA centers during her undergraduate career. Manju is sharing with us what gave her the persistence to make her dream happen and who her role model was ever since she was a...

It makes me very happy to speak with professor Kathryn Spellman who is on faculty at both Columbia University and Aga Khan University's Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations in London. Her work, mainly ethnographic, has centered on the Muslim diasporas, transnational networks, cultural hybridity, gender relations and the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion. Kathryn’s research and teaching is about getting a greater understanding to areas that are largely unknown about the Muslim...

In today’s episode, we’re speaking with founder and CEO of The Next Big Idea Club, Rufus Griscom. The Next Big Idea Club is a platform and an app that directly connects world’s most brilliant writers and thinkers with their audience, so they can interact around life-changing ideas in a more powerful way. Every season, the 2 most groundbreaking books are selected by Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, Susan Cain and Daniel Pink. You will hear from Rufus what he personally thinks is currently the...

It makes me very happy to have Marc Walder as my guest in today’s episode. Marc is the CEO and managing partner at Ringier AG. Ringier was founded in 1833 and is a family-owned, innovative and diversified Swiss media company that is active in Europe, Africa and Asia. It fascinates me that Marc has learned his leadership skills and attitude towards life somewhere else: namely on the tennis court. When he was a young boy, he started his career as a professional tennis player, renouncing from an...

In our opening episode for Season 2, we speak with change navigator and adventurer April Rinne about how we as individuals can reshape our relationship to change, so that we can navigate especially the challenging parts of change better and become fit for a world in flux. April has written the amazing book “Flux: 8 Superpowers for Thriving in Constant Change”, that is coming hot off the press these days. She is sharing with us her key messages: that instead of getting anxious and paralyzed...

In our last episode of season 1, we are talking to a special guest from Ghana, Lieutenant Colonel Alex Cann. He currently serves as Deputy Operations Officer at the Ghana Army in Africa and is also delivering international UN peacekeeping advice to the Chief of his Army. His specialty is conflict solving, a skill that is becoming increasingly important at a time when global societies need to redefine what it means to be human. I was very intrigued by his approach towards conflict solving,...

It makes me incredibly happy to have my logotherapy teacher Batya Yaniger from Israel as today’s guest. What she teaches is all about the individual’s responsibility to find meaning in life, whatever happens to them. Logotherapy – ‘logo’ standing for ‘meaning’ - was developed by Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl, who outlined in his famous book ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’ how this spiritual dimension of thinking helped him survive the Holocaust in a Concentration Camp. In this episode, Batya is...

It makes me very happy to have 23 years-old activist, artist and movement creator Jammal Lemy as today’s guest. He has become known to a larger public, when he served as creative director for MARCH FOR OUR LIVES, one of the largest and most impactful youth-led movements in global history against gun violence, after a school shooting in his former High School Marjory Stoneman Douglas in Florida in 2018. 17 people were killed. You will hear how his idea to create T-Shirts with the American...