Hello dear friends, and welcome to the Great Day podcast. I am your friend and host Meir Kay and I am very excited that you are here with me and we are about to go out into the realm of spirituality and growth with the one and only Rav DovBer Pinson. Rav Pinson is an internationally known rabbi, scholar, author, teacher, and spiritual mentor. For many, a master of both the revealed and hidden aspects of the Torah. Through his books, lectures, and seminars, he has touched and inspired the...

Today my guest is, Kevin Vance. Kevin is a US military veteran, surrounded by artists in his youth, who went on to become a Navy SEAL and later a writer and actor. Known for his works in End of Watch and Fury. Kevin began his career in the Navy in the US Spec Ops community as a Navy SEAL deploying to various parts of the globe. After leaving his Navy command, he ventured into foreign affairs as a consultant for 8 years where he deployed to combat zones and unstable regions. With a diverse...

Danny Morrel. He is a world-renowned business strategist and entrepreneur turned life coach and spiritual guide. Danny began as a real estate mogul, building his business up to $1.1 billion in annual sales before finding his true calling. And since then, Danny he has helped thousands of people from around the world to unlock their true potential through coaching programs, live seminars, and podcast episodes. Countless people have enjoyed the guidance, connection, and transformational power of...

Rabbi Finley was born and raised in Southern California. After high school, he served three years in the U.S. Marine Corps and was discharged with the rank of Sergeant in 1976. He then spent a year in Israel on a kibbutz. After his stay in Israel, he attended the School of Religion at USC and completed his BA in 1980.  Rabbi Finley went to rabbinical school at the Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion. He completed his MA in Hebrew Letters in 1983. From there, he took a break...

Jordan Candlish is a former semi-pro athlete, speaker, and performance coach. He is the founder of State Shifters, a brand dedicated to helping people unify mind, body, and soul so they live lives of meaning and purpose. Jordan left his corporate Corporate Accounting Job in 2017, to move to Toronto Canada to work as a meditation teacher, corporate mindfulness consultant, and trainer guiding busy overachievers out of their heads and back into their hearts. Jordan now works with teams and...

Eli Schwebel is a Brooklyn Based Recording Artist & Producer with Jewish Music running through his Veins. Eli spearheaded the renaissance of Jewish Acappella music, as well as creating a vocally rich, pop-rock sound that transformed the definition of traditional Jewish music. He launched his solo career with his album, “Hearts Mind”, which has been called "groundbreaking" in its genre. Eli has performed at Avery Fisher Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Roy Thompson Hall in Toronto, The...

***TRIGGER WARNING - This episode contains conversations about mental health and suicide.*** Avremi Gourarie is a prolific music publisher behind so much of the Jewish world's music. In this episode, we discuss with him the life of his daughter Yocheved, her struggle with an eating disorder, depression, and her heartbreaking recent death. On December 22, 2020, Avremi's daughter Yocheved took her own life. Yocheved was a kind and thoughtful person. She was a top student and was in the process...

Bryan Reeves is a former US Air Force Captain and "dark night of the soul" survivor turned author, blogger, life/relationship coach, and workshop facilitator. Bryan's eclectic professional background has seen him rocket satellites into space at Cape Canaveral, tour North America with a spiritual pop music band, and talk mind-body science with Oprah Winfrey. Bryan served on the Executive Committee of the Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment in Los Angeles and has worked on...

Friends welcome to the Great Day Podcast. I'm your friend and host Meir Kay. I'm so grateful to be able to host this podcast for you and with some amazing people. And today that awesome is, Sarah Kubric. A.k.a. "The Millennial Therapist", on social media with over 1.4 million followers on Instagram where she shares all about the human condition. Within the last year, Sara has been featured in various media sources, such as Oprah Daily, Grazia, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, Conde Nast Travel,...

After walking through a diagnosis and recovering from cancer as a teenager Fally Klein was introduced to the concept of energy and the power of the subconscious. Fally learned to navigate the emotions and stigma that came from having cancer at such a young age and what she learned from it as a result. Fally experienced a miraculous healing that she believes set her on a path that she was destined to travel. I had so much fun recording this podcast because it went to places I didn't expect and...

Judah Mischel is the Executive Director of Camp HASC, the Jewish community’s premier summer program for individuals with special needs, and is the newly appointed Mashpiah of OU-NCSY. Prior to assuming a full-time role at Camp HASC, Rav Judah was a Maggid Shiur & Director of Programing at Yeshivat Reishit in Beit Shemesh. A talmid of Yeshivat Shaalvim, he received Semicha from the Jerusalem Rabbinate, a BA in History from Yeshiva University, an MA in Education from YU’s Azrieli Graduate...

Abie Rotenberg is a prolific Orthodox Jewish musician, composer, and singer. He's been producing music since the mid-1970s. Abie grew up in Queens, New York, surrounded by other up-and-coming religious Jewish musicians. He studied the piano and even taught himself guitar at a young age. Known for his folk-inspired music Abie has collaborated with other Jewish musicians including Mordechai ben David, Avraham Fried, Yehuda Schechter, Yaakov Shwekey, Baruch Levine, Moshe Yess, and Shlomo...

Rabbi Chaim Miller was educated at the Haberdashers’ Aske’s School in London, England, and studied Medical Science at Leeds University. At the age of twenty-one, he first began to explore his Jewish roots in full-time Torah study. Less than a decade later, he published the best-selling Kol Menachem Chumash—Gutnick Edition, which made over a thousand complex discourses of the late Lubavitcher Rebbe easily accessible to the layman. His 2011 compilation, the Lifestyle Books Torah, Five Books of...

Rabbi Lazer Brody was born in Washington, D.C. in 1949. After receiving his bachelor's degree in agriculture from the University of Maryland in 1970, he moved to Israel and joined the Israel Defense Forces regular army, and served in one of the elite special-forces units. He is a decorated combat veteran of two wars and dozens of counter-insurgency and anti-terrorist missions on both sides of Israel's borders. After surviving a near-suicidal mission to Beirut during the Israel-Lebanon...

With over 15 years of experience in the personal development space, Stefanos Sifandoa is a trained educator, behavioral scientist, and relationships expert with an extensive background in psychology, philosophy, and ecology. He is passionate about and committed to leading people closer to their highest potential and to each other. Stefanos’ philosophy merges the best of Eastern and Western methodologies to promote spiritual balance and empower people in life and love. He helps men and women...

Tara Schuster is a best-selling author, playwright, and accomplished entertainment executive. She served as Vice President of Talent and Development at Comedy Central where she was the Executive in Charge of the Emmy® and Peabody Award-winning ​Key & Peele​, the Emmy® Award-winning ​@Midnight​, and Lights Out with David Spade. She developed and oversaw a diverse slate of programming including ​Another Period​, ​Detroiters, and Hood Adjacent. For her work on ​Key & Peele, Jordan Peele...

After spending a decade and a half studying the depths of Torah, Kaballah, Chasidus, and Spirituality, Moshe Gersht has gifted us with a new lens on life. With his spiritual guide, It's All The Same To Me, Moshe Gersht inspires readers to discover the freedom and joy of a life lived in the deep connection of "sameness." Moshe introduces the powerful kabbalistic idea of Hishtavus to explain how getting beyond our ego is not only essential to your happiness but is also the key to loving the...

Roman Buchatsky is an Israeli director, artistic designer, producer, and video editor. He gained popularity and became widely acclaimed for his video productions for Israeli artists, and for his impact on the Israeli music video industry. Romans's most outstanding web works is the "I'm Jewish and You Know It" music video, which was released in 2011 and is a parody of the song "I'm Sexy and I Know It" by the rappers duo LMFAO. The clip reached over 16,000,000 views on YouTube. Some of the...

Today I have someone who I really wanted to have on the podcast for some time now, and we finally made it happen. Let me introduce Modi. Modi's been voted one of the top ten comedians in New York City by The Hollywood Reporter. Modi is one of the comedy circuit's most sought-after performers. Modi has been featured on HBO, CBS, NBC, ABC, Comedy Central, Howard Stern Entertainment. The list goes on and on. Born in Israel, MODI moved to the United States at the age of seven. After attending...

Kristen Schwartz, is an author, entrepreneur, attuned empathic healer, and trauma-informed mental health professional. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology and a Master’s Degree in Counseling. In 2016 fueled by passion and recognizing the need for Empaths and Highly Sensitive People to realize their potential, Kristen became the founder of Realized Empath. Within this wellness community, Empaths unite for support, inspiration, and healing. The Healed Empath is essential reading for...

Welcome, welcome back to the Great Day Podcast! Today we have part two. Of Elon Gold. That's right, it's actually my first time doing a part two episode of any kind. The first episode was, incredible and the feedback from everyone was tremendous, so if you haven't check out the first episode linked here. We cover the little spots that we didn't get to hit on in our first episode. For those of you who don't know, Elon is a comedian and actor who has starred in FOX's 'Stacked' and NBC's...

Michal Oshman is Head of Company Culture, Diversity, and Inclusion at TikTok Europe, and was formerly responsible for international leadership and team development at Facebook. She has held other impressive positions, trained hundreds of tech leaders, and holds three degrees from prestigious universities. She has three university degrees in psychodynamic and systemic thinking, sociology, and anthropology. Michal lives with her husband and their four children in London, UK. As a mentor for...

Rav Doniel Katz is a visionary educator and internationally sought-after lecturer, whose open and compassionate teachings have transformed the lives of thousands around the world. A former award-winning filmmaker and theater director from Australia, he relocated to Jerusalem in 2,000 and has spent the last 17 years learning in some of its best-known yeshivas and from some of its greatest Rabbis and spiritual masters. By nature, an integrator and systems thinker, Rav Doniel is a deep spiritual...

Gad is an Israeli Superstar who is currently the most recognized name and face in Jewish music worldwide. With millions of hits on his YouTube music videos, Gad is one of the top recording artist, whose songs are played and covered around the globe. Through his soulful and contemporary sound, Gad has brought Jewish music to a new level and continues to serve as a role model to his many fans. Gad is reaching audiences around the world as his music and message of unity are being embraced by...