Bo McDonald is President of Your Marketing Company and exists to change passionate people by providing opportunities to use their gifts.Learn More: https://yourmarketing.co/

Kristen Hartnagel is a professional speaker, a brand strategist with Brand Builders Group, and a personal coach.How does a speaker build a brand?Kristen has generously offered a free strategy session with speakers to see how it might impact their business. Got to: https://www.freebrandcall.com/kh to sign up.

John Israel is affectionately known as 'Mr. Thank You' by thousands of people around the world, because of a gratitude project he started in 2016 that caught fire globally.  He's also a coach and a keynote speaker.Learn More: https://mrthankyou.com/

Joshua Freedman is a leading expert on using emotional intelligence to improve performance. He’s the co-founder and CEO of 6seconds.org, the world’s largest emotional intelligencenetwork. He’s a bestselling author, master certified coach, instructor for Columbia University, and teaches professionals all around the world practical tools to measure and create value with emotional intelligence.

Trish Kendall inspirational speaker on the subject of enduring success. She believes that true success, enduring success, is choosing to embrace your boundless capacity to give love and to receive love. You can achieve enduring success, no matter your circumstance, experience or obstacles.Most recently, Trish gave a talk on her story at TEDxWaldenPond – and received a standing ovation from the audience there.Learn More:Trishkendall.com

In this episode of JOQ Nick and graham have a fun but important conversation about why we need to be more willing to be wrong. Graham is a speaker, author, entrepreneur and coach.Graham's work draws from personal experiences, scientific research, and wild medical history. He helps people to expand their understanding of their own mind and challenge the narratives that they hold about themselves.Learn More: https://www.grahamlutz.com/

Amy Morin is a psychotherapist, international best-selling author of six books, and host of the mentally stronger podcast.Learn more about Amy: https://amymorinlcsw.com/

Nick speaks with an old friend Stephen Turban who is running a company in Vietnam....and doing stand up comedy in Vietnamese! Stephen has lived in Vietnam for 4 years he is the co-founder online research and education company Lumiere. After graduation, Stephen worked at McKinsey & Company in Beijing and Boston. He then went on to work in the President’s Office for Fulbright University Vietnam, where he helped establish the development department. Stephen is currently a PhD student at Harvard Business School and works on a social enterprise focused on research-based learning.https://stephenturban.me/

Akash Karia describes himself as an introvert who makes his living in an extroverted profession: keynote speaking. He has spoken in 15 countries on 4 continents, to audiences ranging from 5 people to 7,000 people. He has written 12 books which together have sold more than 250,000 copies, on the topics of communications, influence, self-leadership, well-being and high performance generally. He can be found at https://akashkaria.com/.

Jim Schleckser founded the CEO project and is also a certified sommelier. In this epidode of JOQ Nick talks to Jim about his second book Professional Drinking. Learn some pro tips and tricks about how to be a more professional drinker, as his title implies.

Wendy Murphy is adjunct professor of sexual violence law at New England Law|Boston where she has taught for fifteen years. Her litigation work specializes in the representation of crime victims, women and children.She has developed and directs several projects in conjunction with the school's Center for Law and Social Responsibility. She was a Visiting Scholar, Harvard Law School, 2002-03. She is an impact litigator specializing in women's equality.

Nick Talks to fellow coach Richard Newman about the importance of face to face communications and the boundaries of virtual communication. Richard helps people on their quest to overcome the fear of public speaking and discover the secrets of successful communication.Aged 18, Richard rejected university offers and went to live in the foothills of the Himalayas to teach English to monks. So began his quest to discover authentic communication principles, working as a professional actor, writer, presenter and teacher ever since.

Seth Ettenberg and Nick discuss how technology is used to develop regenerative medicine for conditions such as Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.Seth Ettenberg is CEO and President of BlueRock Therapeutics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bayer. He’s a biotech entrepreneur, on the cutting edge of something called regenerative medicine.

In this episode Nick chats with author Jim Schleckser about why CEOs should be wary of 'problem solving' tech.Jim helps leaders grow companies. Jim and his team at the Inc. CEO Project work with over 100 CEOs of high growth companies to identify and obliterate the things that stand between them and continued organizational success.Jim has been quoted in The New York Times, Time, The Huffington Post and National Public Radio.  His ideas have been translated into 9 languages and he has done business in over 26 countries.Jim is the author of  “Great CEOs are Lazy”, detailing the behaviors that make the difference in CEO performance. He is also a popular columnist on Inc.com, writing on issues that affect CEOs and entrepreneurs.

Newton Cheng is the Director of Health + Performance at Google | Supporting the physical, mental, social and spiritual health and wellbeing of Google's global workforce. Sharing his own story of burnout and speaking about mental health in the workplace, in order to try to reduce the stigma surrounding this important issue.

In this Episode Ezra and Nick discuss the importance of designing rituals in our lives in order to create room for pause and growth. Ezra Bookman is a nationally recognized ritual designer, artist, facilitator, and Founder of Ritualist, the first ever creative studio specializing in the design of secular ritual. His work has been featured in the NYTimes, The Atlantic, VICE, and ABC News, and he has collaborated with an eclectic variety of organizations and thought leaders including Esther Perel, Priya Parker, The Esalen Institute, Accenture, Intuit, The NYC Mayor’s Office, House of Yes, and The Dream Bigger Foundation.

Rebecca Heiss is an evolutionary biologist, author of Instinct, and a phenomenal public speaker!

We kick off the new season of JOQ with a special guest Charles Vogl. In this episode Nick and Charles discuss work place loneliness. Charles is an “External Thought Leader” for the Google School for Leaders, a project to train 20,000 Google Leaders. Charles Vogl is an author of three books, including the bestseller, The Art of Community, and most recently Building Brand Communities; he’s a speaker, and an executive advisor.

Patrick Mork, is a Belgian/American entrepreneur who has spent over 25 years in various marketing leadership roles in several high-profile technology startups and at Google. He decide to focus full time on being an executive coach for entrepreneurial companies and their executives in 2017. His new book Step Back and Leap, is not your typical self-help book, but rather a relatable and engaging account of one personal journey towards a more fulfilling life.

Dr. Valerie Fridland is a professor of linguistics and author of Like, Literally Dude: arguing for the good in bad English, which just published this week.