Talk with Trace
Talk with Trace is a Podcast dedicated to interviewing extraordinary individuals, diving head first into today's relevant & interesting topics/issues sitting down with global organisations & foundations who are making a difference! Take a look behind the scenes to deconstruct, listen, laugh & learn what incredibly inspiring people do & apply to your own life. Trace shares a drink with each new guest, talks candidly about the things that matter, impact & takes us on a journey of discovery. These are stories for the soul, you'll belly laugh, cry and take something away from each episode!
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David Steingard - Taking "ALL BE HAPPY" to the next level
04/28/2024
David Steingard - Taking "ALL BE HAPPY" to the next level
David Steingard, CEO and Co-Founder of Laughing Man Coffee and the Laughing Man Foundation. Today’s conversation is all about the expansion of LM Studios. Trace talks with David about the expansion, the why behind it, “ALL BE HAPPY” as an ethos, the deeper root of why us humans struggle to connect like we use to and perhaps how the studio, through telling stories can bridge that gap. A conversation about ego, entrepreneurship, life pursuits, holding ideas and swinging for the fences. A real conversation about business, friendship and not always getting it right but putting your best foot forward will never leave you regretful.
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Jules Horn - Finding Value
04/21/2024
Jules Horn - Finding Value
Today on the pod, is Mr Jules Horn. Athlete, model and breath coach. Jules was famously tapped by none other than Karl Lagerfeld himself as one of Chanel’s leading men and has shot for Ralph Lauren, Louis Vuitton, countless brands, ads, covers and was mentored by the ever prolific Brue Webber, one of the worlds most respected photographers. Jules is un unassuming kind of guy, an observer, solftly spoken thinker. Trace and Jules talk ego, finding value, the constant internal re-evaluation of things in his life, relationships, how we treat our body, family and friends, and how we approach work. A lot of this conversation is more about the man not the model and the strugle, plus the truths and revelations along tyhe way that have shaped him, from faith to his fiance. With over 184k instgram followers he isn’t shy about showing himself both physically and mentally but the heartbeat of the guy to is live sincerly and to help others. Enjoy the conversation with Jules Horn
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Brett Conti - YouTuber, from vision board to fulltime creative content maker
04/15/2024
Brett Conti - YouTuber, from vision board to fulltime creative content maker
Brett Conti, a world renowned YouTuber, with millions of followers across all his multiple platforms, Talks with Trace about his start, from the poor college student with a dream, a passion and a vission board to a full time content creator that has been sent to shoot in over 70 countries. They talk, coming up through the blooming age of YouTube, to evolution of the hustler to the full time creative that gets paid to make content. They discuss the new business that Brett is embarking on to build a business from zero to 1 million dollars in one year. He may just be tenacious enough to make it happen A beautiful human and a lot of fun, please enjoy, BRETT CONTI
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Laurie Segall - Tech and AI, it's Nuanced and we have to talk about it!
04/01/2024
Laurie Segall - Tech and AI, it's Nuanced and we have to talk about it!
Laurie’s work explores technology through the lens of the human nuanced perspective and experience. Her impressive background is extensive as CNN’s former senior technology correspondent and the editor-at-large for CNN Tech, she covered the intersection of technology and culture for more than a decade. Her original reporting champions the underdog and reveals the untold stories of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and their human impact. If that wasn’t impressive enough Laurie was also a correspondent at 60 Minutes, focusing her on extremism in the United States which we briefly touch on in our conversation I wanted to talk to Laurie today about AI, where we came from, where we are now to where we are going. Deepfakes, the giants of indistry she has interviewed, her background and draw to jounalism, her perspective on tech. A rounded and needed conversation
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Julian Shapiro-Barnum, Creator and Host of RECESS THERAPY!
03/25/2024
Julian Shapiro-Barnum, Creator and Host of RECESS THERAPY!
AND WE ARE BACK!! After 14 months, Talk with Trace the Podcast is finally back in your earbuds. With the anticipation of the returning pod, we are kicking it off with episode 170 to bring you the conversation with the most wonderful human, the benevolent, Mr Julian Shapiro-Barnum, of the wildly successful show “Recess Therapy!” With 5 million followers+ across all platforms, Recess Therapy is only growing stronger. Trace talks with Julian about the success of the show, how and why it garnered such a cult following, the kids, the fame and what that looks like for him, his projects, comedy giants he loves, they touch on his personal life and talk about how our childhood informs our adulthood. It’s a sweet way to return to TALK WITH TRACE
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CHRISTMAS SPECIAL 2022!
12/19/2022
CHRISTMAS SPECIAL 2022!
Join me to hear the best of the best, 17 snippets and close out out the year with a bang. It is a privilege and honour to bring you this podcast, let's jump in! ENJOY, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! See you in 2023 Trace
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Fabio Kotinda - Minimalism, healthy boundaries and being kind to ourselves
12/12/2022
Fabio Kotinda - Minimalism, healthy boundaries and being kind to ourselves
Fabio Kotinda returns to the podcast to talk about minimalism. We open the discussion up around our reactions to life occurrences, friendships and relationships, how we treat others, journaling, healthy boundaries with people, practicing compassion for others but also for ourselves. We talk about our direction in life and where we focus our attention. It's one of those episodes that are fun and relatable in some way or another.
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Fernanda Maciel - The woman behind the world record, ultra runner, lawyer, inspiration
12/04/2022
Fernanda Maciel - The woman behind the world record, ultra runner, lawyer, inspiration
Fernanda is a Brazilian ultra runner, climber, adventurer and world record breaker being the first woman to run up and down the highest mountain in South America, Aconcagua 6.962m in just 22h52min, also the first Female world Record holder for running up and down the highest mountain of Africa, Mt Kilimanjaro at 5895m in only 10h06min. She’s a Brazilian Jujitsu and Capoeira fighting champion who was also a dynamic gymnast, then started trail racing as a teenager. Fernanda is not just a spectacular athlete she is also a nutritionist and an environmental lawyer, combining her love for nature into her work to help protect our natural environment
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Megan Rowling - Senior Climate Journalist, Thomson Reuters Foundation
11/28/2022
Megan Rowling - Senior Climate Journalist, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Today on the podcast we explore her background into Journalism, how she started out and her peculiar but interesting choice in Japanese literature, which lead her to study it at Cambridge. From growing up on a farm, this line of progression or trajectory wasn’t exactly the standard. Megan and I discuss her time in Japan, what she learnt from the people, culture, way of life and of course how the literature connected to her. We discuss coming up through the ranks and finding her way to journalism through reporting on world events and humanitarian work. Megan is a climate correspondent and editor for (TRF), based in Barcelona as mentioned but with an international beat. She runs a small team of reporters covering the ins and outs of securing a green and just transition to a decarbonised world, especially in developing countries. She has worked on topics ranging from finance to humanitarian news throughout her career as a journalist, with stints at Reuters and the BBC.
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Tim Christophersen - Salesforce, Vice President, Climate Action talking corporate responsibility
11/20/2022
Tim Christophersen - Salesforce, Vice President, Climate Action talking corporate responsibility
Tim Christophersen, Vice President, Climate Action Salesforce Tim and discuss corporate responsibility, the initiatives they are leading the way on, innovations, optimism, their staff, and the direction of global business from a climate perspective. The sustainability revolution is here! Hopefully just in time. We must scale up existing and new climate solutions across the world, and that is something that the private sector can do at the scale and speed we need which I talk to Tim about.
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Simone Filippini - Behaviour and politics, the good the bad and the ugly
11/13/2022
Simone Filippini - Behaviour and politics, the good the bad and the ugly
Simone is one of those rare extraordinary women who are beyond impressive. She has been an Ambassador, a Diplomat, CEO of both the Humanitarian sector and NGO's.She loves to work at the intersection of public-private-non governmental sectors. She is a believer in social impact & sustainability as co-drivers of future business & sustainable socioeconomic development. I wanted to speak to Simone about our world, the behaviours we are witnessing from our leaders and politicians, why it feels so disconnected and polarising from her perspective. We talk Politics today & the psychological warfare seemingly spreading across all nations, leadership & Governance. We discuss things like, humility, ego, great leadership, where we are at as the human race and the hope of change.
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RONCIC - Ready or Not, Change is Coming Climate Series Promo
11/06/2022
RONCIC - Ready or Not, Change is Coming Climate Series Promo
No Talk with Tarce episdoe today, instead we are gearing up for our first ever climate podcast series launching tomorrow. So with this in mind we wanted to release the promo episode for you to hear here in getting ready for tomorrow Tuesday the 8th of Novembers very first epsidoe drop. 22 guests over 12 weeks to help break down climate change into understandable elements to remove ambiguity and explain basic principles. Available on all podcasting platforms to subscribe to NOW, social media platforms instagram, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn plus a dedicated website
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Mike Carter Smith - BONUS short ep, From the Egyptian Desert
11/04/2022
Mike Carter Smith - BONUS short ep, From the Egyptian Desert
Bonus episode, short 30mins crossing to Mike in Egypt, where the team have pulled tons of rubbish and plastic bottles out of the River Nile and piled it up into a plastic pyramid where Mike has been sleeping for 3 nights in the desert. It's unbelievable and we wanted to support them in their mission. A quick short episode to let you know how its going, where it started and why then what they are focusing on for the future! A great quick chat don't miss it
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Mike Carter Smith - Founder of Zero Co story, He's BACK!!
10/30/2022
Mike Carter Smith - Founder of Zero Co story, He's BACK!!
This is a repeat episode in preperation of this weeks special bonus episode with Mike in Eygpt, picking up plastic on the River Nile for Zero Co's 100 year project. We have cut out some things but for those new to the podcast they may not have heard the founding story from Mike so before this saturdays special episode crossing to Mike who will be camping at the bottom of the pyramids, we wanted people to know who they are all over agin. ENJOY, this is a bsuiness birthed out of witnessing horrible plastic polution while traveling overseas, dumping life savings into the project and seeing it flourish. Unbelieveable!
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Dain Walker - Disrupter, living free and authentically
10/25/2022
Dain Walker - Disrupter, living free and authentically
Disruption, Gary Vee, depression and failure, global business sucsess, legacy trauma and letting it go. This conversation has EVERYTHING. Deep guttural experiences and repeatability to how we are living our life. Do not miss this episode, its late but its coming we had some technical issues.
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Ben Glassco - Return of the Nomad Photographer, Ben with some fantastic life stories and wisdom
10/17/2022
Ben Glassco - Return of the Nomad Photographer, Ben with some fantastic life stories and wisdom
Today I spoke with return guest, a crowd favourite the traveling nomad photographer Ben Glassco. Ben was on the show over 2 years ago and we went through his amazing story of leaving his corporate job, selling everything he owned and heading to Asia on a motorbike for six months honing his craft to be a photographer. Today is not has hundreds of thousands of followers on his Tik Tok and instagram pages and makes living from his photography. We talk travel, soul searching, sitting still, sibling bonds, feeling low and why he still loves what he does and so much more!
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Jaryed and Dean Leibbrandt - Founders of NAKIE, worlds first recycled hammocks and so much more
10/09/2022
Jaryed and Dean Leibbrandt - Founders of NAKIE, worlds first recycled hammocks and so much more
NAKIE are now a B corp certified brand who crafted The Worlds First 100% recycled hammock made from 37 plastic bottles. Best quality money can buy with a Lifetime warranty, in a range of colours and takes 1 min max to set up. Nakie are the number one selling recycled hammock company in the world and have made the bigger adventure wear companies stand up, take notice which has inadvertently called them to action, look at their own materials used in their hammocks and other products. A rising tide rates all boats.I talk about their humble start with the guys, the mistakes made, the manufacturing, the support from family, wearing multiple hats and what the future holds!
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Joanne Molinaro - The Korean Vegan
10/02/2022
Joanne Molinaro - The Korean Vegan
You may have heard of my next guest, with over 4.5 million fans spread across her social media platforms, New York Times best-selling author and James Beard Award Winner, the lovely Joanne Molinaro, a.k.a The Korean Vegan. She has crashed into our worlds through her genius pairing of delectable Korean food and her personal, episodic, anecdotal and throught provoking insights! Joanne is a rare find, a partner at a prodigious law firm by day and creative content creator by night. Her insights into the human soul are not only relatable but inspiring. This episode is as you’d expect, candid, personal and all about the food. We talk parents, law school, creative content, connecting with people around the world through food, becoming a vegan and so much more.Joanne is courageous, brilliant and just the salt of the earth kind of person you’d love to catch up with over coffee, or in her case, decaf!
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Xylon Van Eyck - Overcoming cancer & shifting the narrative in professinal cycling
09/27/2022
Xylon Van Eyck - Overcoming cancer & shifting the narrative in professinal cycling
Xylon van Eyck is an entrepreneur , 2x Ironman, cancer survivor, speaker, advocator, coach and marketing guru. He wears many hats but his life experiences are nothing short of inspiring.Xylon about his cancer battle at 26 when he was seemingly onto of the world, the things we tell ourselves to get us through a moment in time and what happens 2 years later, when we are dealing with the issue at its core. We talk family, touch briefly on his growing up with fiercely independent woman in his life. Taking the cancer experience into his business career now and wanting to flip the cycling world on its head.
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Anne Therese Gennari - The Climate Optimist
09/18/2022
Anne Therese Gennari - The Climate Optimist
is a speaker & communications strategist entrepreneur, author, podcaster, environmental activist & is Shifting the narrative on climate change. Her story is unique in that she came to find her climate platform through modelling. in 2017 Anne co-founded “Role Models Management”, an ethical modelling agency that represents mission-driven models. Brands who want their products and services to be represented by humans with a strong voice and point of view. Her & I talk about her activism, perhaps where that stems from, her modelling platform, the modelling industry, the movement, climate, the messaging of climate and correlation from the Me Too movement and climate change, which I found fascinating. We talk about her rather stoic resolve when it comes to making a difference and being loud in this space.
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Dr Shanna McClain - NASA & the woman behind the science
09/04/2022
Dr Shanna McClain - NASA & the woman behind the science
Dr shanna Mcclain is the Disasters Program Manager for NASA Earth Sciences Applied Sciences Division. We talked about being an academic, being the first in her family to go to college and to travel outside of America. We have an open discussion around woman in science and the societal pressure on woman, its really fascinating. We of course talk about NASA, her role there and her story from growing up in Florida to studying her PhD, suffering from depression, living abroad and climate change. A wide ranging conversation indeed! She’s brilliant obviously, but she is also a tenacious, resilient, fantastic person to sit and share a wine with.
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Nigel Marsh - It's your life, now what are you doing?!
08/28/2022
Nigel Marsh - It's your life, now what are you doing?!
My next guest, Nigel Marsh is a guest I've wanted on the podcast for years. He is a masterful and soulful speaker that make your cheeks hurt from laughter and in the same sitting, make you rethink how you construct your entire life choices. So you can see the draw, wanting to have him on the show. Nigel is best known for his creative pursuits. As well as the author of four books – "Fat, Forty and Fired" (my personal fav, the one that introduced him to me) "Overworked and Underlaid", "Fit, Fifty and Fired-Up" and "Smart, Stupid and Sixty" – he is also the co-founder of Earth Hour, the founder of the Sydney Skinny and host of award-winning podcast The Five Of My Life. With 6 million views on his work life balance TED Talk
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Dr Matthew Sharpe - Why the Stoics and Philosophy is resurging in the 21st century
08/21/2022
Dr Matthew Sharpe - Why the Stoics and Philosophy is resurging in the 21st century
There has been a resurgence of people looking at the philosophers like Plato, Socrates, Marcus aralias, Aristotle and its gaining traction in mainstream media. So naturally, it sparked my curiosity as to why we are finding such an affinity to the old philosophers and how they are still so relevant today in the 21st century. So to help my understand the resurgence I sat down with Dr Matthew Sharpe. Matthew is a Professor and Researcher in social theory, critical thinking, and the history of ideas as well as an independent author. He is a professor at Deacan university and Think Inc
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Dr John Branch - Is marketing still the same today as it was in the 1400's, the man behind "Mr International"
08/15/2022
Dr John Branch - Is marketing still the same today as it was in the 1400's, the man behind "Mr International"
Dr Branch is a International researcher, teacher, trainer, consultant, speaker, and educational administrator. He’s an Expert in consumer behaviour, marketing research, international marketing and much more. Experience in more than 100 universities, government agencies, and both for-profit and not-for-profit organisations in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. We discuss his life, growing up, living and visiting in over 84 countries! We discuss his engineering career that lead him into marketing, a completely different career and a PhD. We talk meeting his wife, moving to America and where he views himself and his skill as “Mr International” in both marketing and business. We discuss what’s changed (spoiler alert, if anything in fact has changed) and if we as the human beings consuming marketing how we are responding to it!
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Anna Mussi - A tribute to the amazing woman, a re-release of the Rhino Revolution Episode
08/07/2022
Anna Mussi - A tribute to the amazing woman, a re-release of the Rhino Revolution Episode
It is with a sad and heavy heart, that we re-release episode 54 on Monday as a remastered version into episode 151. We do this in tribute and to honour the incredible woman, Anna Mussi, who tragically passed away in a car accident late June of 2022. Anna, who was the manager of Rhino Revolution, has a lasting legacy that we at the Media company wanted to remember and celebrate.
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Dr Ayesha Sherzai - A personal look behind the science of a world leading expert
07/31/2022
Dr Ayesha Sherzai - A personal look behind the science of a world leading expert
Dr Ayesha and I talk about her childhood, her parents and grandparents being giants in the medical profession, how watching them surfing from Alzheimer’s was a contributing factor to the desire to study the brain. It certainly was a point of interest for her personally on how the brain works, the functionality and if we can do anything about cognitive decline or if hereditary contributors meant if a person was to eventually suffer from the same fate or not. This is a personal conversation and a good look at the why behind a medical professional
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Vera Siertsema - State of Mind and the power of vulnerability
07/03/2022
Vera Siertsema - State of Mind and the power of vulnerability
This episode is a meaning FILLED conversation! I live for discussions like this, real, tangible, heartfelt and full of realities, actions, thoughts of change and inspiration. Conversations around the messiness of life, the vulnerabilities, uncomfortability and of course the incredible lessons we learn. She is known for her focus on culture, empathy and authenticity to continuously help others be their most authentic selves. Vera is also an advocate for mental health and runs 'State of Mind', a podcast to normalise mental health conversations and my god, she does it with gumption. Vera and I discuss vulnerability within the workplace, leadership, her story, humility, her Podcast and so much more.
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Max Dimarco - Fatherhood, masculinity, authenticity, a life worth living
06/26/2022
Max Dimarco - Fatherhood, masculinity, authenticity, a life worth living
Masculinity, parenthood, being your authentic self, sports culture, expectation, not caring what people think of you, arrogance and confidence. If you can relate to any of these topics, my conversation with my next guest Max Dimarco is for you. Max married a fantastic woman who had an 18month year old when they met, we talk about that time in his life, leaving professinal sport and the mental health of shifting out of that. We talk about culture for young men and his blueprint from his parents in chaging into the man he is today.
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Dr Anita Vandyke - Grief, love, loss and joy
06/19/2022
Dr Anita Vandyke - Grief, love, loss and joy
Episode 147 is all about grief, loss and love. A powerful conversation complete with real emotion, lived experience, joy, loss, hope, resilience. It’s got it all. Join Dr Anita and I as we navigate this most recent painful loss of her beloved husband James at just age 40. Anita is open, candid and doesn’t shy away from the harder elements of this time in a beautiful expression of love and that her story might help someone else.
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Katiuscia Fara - Sneak peek look at Ready or Not, Change is Coming Project
06/13/2022
Katiuscia Fara - Sneak peek look at Ready or Not, Change is Coming Project
For weeks we have been teasing the “Ready or not, Change is Coming” global climate podcast series. Today I speak with my co-producer and director of the project the incredible Katiuscia Fara We discuss the why behind this mission, the details of the series and of course the exciting documentary that will start filming next year! This project is unbelievably exciting and has collaborations with some of the worlds largest most prolific leaders on the subject!
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