Listen to Nova chat with Clint White – founder of Tattoos Not Brands, Inc. Cranes NY Business top Entrepreneur. He has 30 years of proven results in audience reach maximization and impact in industries including eCommerce, fashion, food, hospitality, and more. Social Impact Summit at UN award winner, advisor, angel investor, and co-founder. Tattoos Not Brands the Book Tattoos Not Brands the Podcast Nova asks Clint what his why is. He says it’s because it’s the only thing he truly knows. As...

Listen to Nova chat with Jay Bonadio, Jr. Jay Bonn – formerly the Unsigned Artist - has been shaking up the Orlando art sign. He started as a silk-screen artist at 15, evolving to shattered glass art. He’s added work with Bonsai more recently. Nova talks about meeting Jay by phone and advised him to change his identity as “The Unsigned Artist.” Nova asked Jay what his why is. He explains how he started taking things apart to see how they worked at a very young age. In college at Flagler...

Listen to Nova chat with Abhishek Sharma. He is a co-founder and COO of Fashinza, an AI-driven B-to-B marketplace and global supply-driven platform. They serve 300+ fashion brands across 6 countries. Abhishek has been part of multiple startups. He has led multiple product teams. An active angel investor, he’s also been interviewed on CNBC. Nova and Abhishek talk about helping creators and founders have a platform to be found and heard, which Fashinza has been doing. Nova asks Abhishek what...

Listen to Nova chat with Tiffany Daniels. She was born and raised in San Diego, CA, and attended the San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts. At age 16, she worked in the San Diego Light Opera. Tiffany has danced for the LA Lakers and LA Charger girls and is a multitalented actress with many impressive credits. She is featured in Raine Magazine Volume 39. Tiffany explains what her why is. She realized something she really enjoyed as a kid – dance classes. She talks about how her mom...

Listen to Nova chat with Monique Coleman. A breakout actress from Disney’s “High School Musical” Franchise, Monique has been keeping busy with many films and TV programs. She was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Host for “Gimme Mo”, which she hosted and executive produced. She was named the first-ever United Nations Youth Champion and hosted the 2022 Girl Hero Awards alongside First Lady Michelle Obama. Monique is the featured cover star for Raine Magazine Volume 39. She talks about...

Listen to Nova chat with Sharad Agarwal. Sharad and Nova initially connected through LinkedIn sometime in 2022. Sharad is the Chief Metaverse Officer for CyberGear (which was founded in 1996 – the first digital agency in the Middle East). He launched onlywebinars.com in 2019. CyberGear entered the metaverse in 2021. His latest ventures include the Metashapers community (metashapers.com) and metaprenuer.com (which Nova has been on). He is on the top 200 Business and Technology Innovators power...

Listen to Nova chat with Yia Vang. Yia is a James Beard nominated chef, competed on the Netflix revival of Iron Chef, hosted Food Network’s Stokes, and has a new streaming show called Feral. He’s the chef and owner of the James Bearn nominated Union Hmong Kitchen in Minneapolis. Yia tells Nova what his why is – his parents and their sacrifices. He shares how he didn’t like working in kitchens, initially. He found he was good at cooking – even though it was not the path he originally intended...

Listen to Nova chat with Darcy Donovan, an American-born film and TV actress, producer, and recording artist with German, Italian, and Brazilian ancestry. She began as a child actor and has been in numerous shows and films. Darcy’s a bestselling author who’s donated proceeds to charity. She’s also a savvy entrepreneur, called the #CryptoQueen, and cryptocurrency ECoin Finance CMO. Darcy explains her why. She wants to make a difference in this world and lift others higher. She talks about...

Listen to Nova chat with Executive Medicine of Texas CEO Judy Gaman. Award-winning author of 7 books - including Love, Life, Lucille: Lessons Learned from a Centenarian - and a podcast host and holder of multiple degrees. Often featured as a healthy living expert. Judy explains her why – she loves to learn, and equally loves to teach and help others to learn. She had an “epiphany” to ask the people directly. We really know how to live a good life when we are young – but somehow, we lose that....

Listen to Nova chat with author/screenwriter/teacher Sara McDermott Jain. Sara is an award-winning screenwriter and bestselling author. Creator of a book-to-script course and does other writing instruction. Her recently published book is Wolves at Night. Sara explains her why – it all comes back to the power of story. Writing has always allowed her to figure things out and put them into perspective. She also goes into the fear involved in writing and sharing a story a person might want to get...

Listen to Nova chat with entrepreneur Oliver Smykacz. Oliver is the founder of the Be Light app. It uses a combination of light and sound to make mental health and mindfulness easier and more accessible to everyone. Oliver has traveled around the world and has a passion for neuroscience, light and sound therapy, breathwork, and more. He has lived in Asia and learned healing techniques from the monks. Oliver explains his why. He is doing this because he was running through life, traveling all...

Listen to Nova chat with bestselling author Jen Nash (The Big Power of Tiny Connections). Canadian-born world traveler, IFC-certified executive coach, entrepreneur, and high-level creative strategist. She loves supporting powerful shifts. Jen explains her why – to ultimately support the world in the way she wanted to as a full-time coach and corporate trained – and “lean in to” that side of her offering. Why does she do it? Joy. “This brings me lots of joy.” Jen shared that there were moments...

Take notes from Jayden Sage, Wall Street mathematician, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence expert, and Future Author, He helps us break free from conditioned negative beliefs associated around money. By diving into the past, he shows us how we can create a future centered around our chosen purpose and how we can use our unique skill set to create our own niche and achieve success.  He gives tips to rising entrepreneurs on how to capture investors with less stress and reminds us all that...

Listen to Nova chat with #1 bestselling inspirational author John Strelecky. He’s sold more than 7 million copies of his books worldwide. Inspiration is what led him to his writing career. In addition to being an author, he’s a kayaker, surfer, and traveler. “What’s the adventure I want to be on?” John talks about the “adventure days” he would take his daughter on regularly (and still does). He talks about bringing in that “what did I love as a kid and why” and still living with that approach...

Listen to Nova chat with Mike Harsanyi. Mike is the CEO of Woodpecker Software. He’s an AI-supported cording pioneer, author (The Book of Mankind), musician, and a former fashion company owner and creative director. Mike explains his why. Fascinated as a child by science and science fiction, he realized these were interconnected with the human mind and started to look in that direction. Nova asks Mike about his different approach to AI. Mike explains how using that which AI excels at might...

Listen to Nova chat with Ben Giroux. Ben is an actor (known for the cartoon Big Nate), voice artist, director, and producer, who knew he was always destined to be an entertainer. As an entrepreneur, he runs a company called Small Red Cape. Ben does what he does every day because he wants to make people laugh. He feels laughter is the greatest feeling in the world. Ben talks about some of his challenges and how to get comfortable with them. He explains how some people choose what they do, and...

Listen to Nova chat with Elise Krentzel. Author, ghost-writer, mentor, entrepreneur – she has lived in 5 countries over the years. While living in Japan she was a DJ, music journalist, Tokyo bureau chief for a magazine, and much more. Elise explains here why – toxicity. The pool from which she emerged. She made many choices to choose for herself and choose better for her life. Elise survived a divorce, a change of business, and a breakdown. “We can focus all we want on others – but it has...

Listen to Nova chat with Bobby Kunta. Bobby left his day job in agriculture to become “full-time crypto”. He’s building game-fi, block-chain communities, and fostering an open metaverse. Co-founder of nonfungible events. Bobby gives a brief description of all that he is doing in the metaverse. He shares his vision of aiming to empower players and gamers to come out from behind their avatars. He also touches on play to earn gaming. Bobby’s why has always been about bringing people together,...

Listen to Nova chat with Ryon Anderson, Esq. Ryon is a business and peak performance coach. He helps increase mental performance, mindset, and relationships. He is a winner of the prestigious Marquis Who’s Who 2020. Ryon is the “wingman” for his seeing-eye dog, Ziggy. Working on his mission statement was what gave Ryon his why – lead, inspire, and challenge the status quo to change the world. He loves to challenge the norms because he has always asked why about everything. Solutions always...

Listen to Nova chat with Nikki Nash, creator of the Market Your Genius podcast and founder of the Genius Profit Lab. International speaker, author, and marketing expert. Nikki talks about why she does what she does. She shares that while in a corporate job full time - following a potential genetic predisposition to cancer scare - realized life can be really short. This led to her pivot and make new, creative choices to start her own business.  After some fits and starts, she did so in March...

Listen to Nova chat with Dr. Christian Brillinger, discussing how to get to fun and easy. Dr. Billinger has a PhD in philosophy and is a quantum mechanics expert, CMO, out-of-the-box doer and thinker. Dr. Brillinger writes his to-do list down daily – but has created a process to better parse out what top items solve the most of his given problems. If you solve 60—70% of your main problems every day – rather than working on the less important ones - you can get yourself off the hamster...

Listen to Nova chat with Matthew Learning. A unique, out-of-body Kundalini experience inspired him to be the person he is today. He guarantees to never stop growing – or help others to grow as well.  Matthew has two important slogans: “Through you the universe is becoming aware of itself.” “The utmost of life is Service.” Matthew loves history. He loves how history has passed on innovation, language, ideas, and more from experiences. He references the telephone game - where the message is...

Listen to Nova chat with Mel Thadea, visual fashion designer; and Irina Blagochevskaya, Moscow fashion designer and 3D Freelance apparel designer. Together, they discuss the world of digital fashion today, the future, and winning the Challenge Monte-Carlo 2021 Digital Fashion Forum Supernova Fashion Award. Mel talks about combining fashion film and digital design. Irina, at the start of COVID, threw herself into 3D design after losing her job and taught herself the necessary skills. They met...

Listen to Nova chat with Genevieve Piturro – best-selling and award- winning author, founder of Pajama Program, finder of true purpose, coach, and speaker. Genevieve and Nova go way back. In fact, Genevieve wore an outfit designed by Nova on the Oprah Winfrey show. Genevieve talks about living your life with purpose and the quest for peace in life. She talks about struggling and seeking to find your North Star of life guidance. The Passion 4 Purpose Steps 1. Set aside 90 minutes in a quiet...