Disrupt Now Podcast

In Episode 27. we're exploring if we can really achieve a sustainable world. What does that really mean? This is a vision of our planet where humans live in nature in a way that meets human needs but does not degrade the Earth's natural systems. As we move into a new millennium, if we can actually transition from a world of human devastation to instead focus on a period of being present to the planet in a mutually beneficial manner, then we could change the world all the faster! Our guest, Deborah Stern, is Founder of 2020 Strategie and is a lover of Mother Earth, a pragmatic visionary, and a humanitarian. She is focused on achieving a sustainable world, with the first step being to leverage technologies we already have and make climate change the first thing that we focus on.  We did a video for this episode, check it out here!    Thank you for being a subscriber! Please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts (aka iTunes)! The podcast is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts (iTunes), Stitcher, Soundcloud or Goo

In another fantastic episode of the Disrupt Now podcast, Natalie gets to sit down with the amazing Shira Adler (again)! This time discussing Shira's newly released book called The ABC's of CBD. This is a topic we actually should learn about in health class when we're just kids, but that's not the case... yet! (Did you catch Shira's first episode with us #11 called The Metaphysical Mrs. Fields of Healing? If not, definitely go give it a listen here). There are some key learnings to take away from Shira's book and she will go deep with us on this topic. Did you know that... CBD does not have THC so you don't get high? CBD is not Hemp Oil? We have CBD receptors all over our body and have an Endocannabinoid System? There's a lot of little nuances and important details to educate yourself on in general as the cannabis movement is imperative to alternative healing. Shira is THE woman to speak and share this truth as a metaphysical healer and activist! We're so thankful to have her share this book with us! WE MADE

In Ep. 25, Natalie Viglione interviews Sally Morgan and the conversation is centered around the Power of Voice. The voice and the way in which it holds a presence in the body can shift the way you perceive yourself in the world, and how others perceive you in the world. Women have a tendency to lower their voice vibration, but we're here to share with you that you need to OWN that power! We all must OWN that power and, Sally, by using her musical background as a singer, brings a unique perspective to the table on this subject.  Sally is a speaker development trainer and public speaker; she’s also an author, singer, and musician. Sally brings her performance experience of acting and singing on stage and television, as well as her expertise as a voice trainer and public speaking presentations coach to help you achieve unshakeable confidence, expert status and credibility through powerful communication skills. VIDEO LINK TO WATCH THE VIDEO INSTEAD CLICK HERE. Thank you for being a subscriber! Please leave us a r

Try this exercise before you listen to this episode. Go to Google and go to images, type in the word “warrior” and see what comes up. In this episode, we're looking to find solutions around how the masculine and feminine can find balance today.  Our special guest, Mark Viglione, husband/business partners of the host, Natalie Viglione, went on this journey in the internet land. You’ll see a bunch of images of beast-like men that are wielding swords. There may be one or two images of women squished in there is a type of “battle dress” (of course, insanely sexy battle clothing), but it’s predominantly just a lot of imagery of men. A silent battle we face is around discrimination for the sake of misconceptions and misunderstanding of what feminine energy and masculine energy means. We're battling for the status quo and it turns into a battle of wisdom versus ignorance. We explore this topic of what The New Male Warrior means!    Thank you for being a subscriber! Please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts.  

Society has a lack of education as it relates to chiropractic care (holistic, neurologically-based chiropractic care more specifically), and we can all agree that our health "care" system is more than BROKEN (we like to call it our "health-don't-care" system). How can we take our power back? How do we stop being victims of our own health and what we think is inevitable? How do we PREVENT disease and be proactive versus reactive? What are myths we're told to keep us "down" from asking too many questions of our general health system and practitioners? Host, Natalie Viglione, has a special guest Dr. Grant Lisetor (or Dr. Grant for short), on episode 23 of the Disrupt Now podcast to talk more in-depth about these topics and more. Dr. Grant is the owner of a holistic, neurologically-based chiropractic care office in Charlotte, NC with his wife, Samantha. He received his doctorate from Life University, the largest and most advanced chiropractic school in the world, and he and his wife moved from Georgia in 2014 to

Science + Spirituality is the conversation that host, Natalie Viglione, and Special Guest of Team Gu, Andrea Mejia, tackle in this episode of Disrupt Now! This is the start of our podcast episodes where guests and hosts have conversations with libations... why not have some drinks while we talk about this thing called life?! But the kicker is that we have deep life conversations, not fluffy stuff like what to buy your granny for Christmas. We're talking DISRUPTION and CHANGE to help move humanity forward.  WANT TO WATCH A VIDEO INSTEAD OF LISTEN TO THE PODCAST?  -->  We’ve got a video to accompany this if you’d rather watch than listen! You can catch that on Team Gu’s YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/KR1cXNxYX28 In this episode, Natalie and Andrea discuss science (or as it was called centuries ago "experiment") and spirituality. We deep dive into spirituality as it relates to the sense of connectedness to oneself, to the universe, having a global awareness of what “humanity” truly means. Not the church, not

In Episode #21, Natalie has Special Guest, Dawn Fraser. Dawn J. Fraser is a storyteller, educator and nationally acclaimed speaker based out of New York City. She is the Creator and Host of the storytelling show and podcast called ‘Barbershop Stories’, and is a Lead Instructor at The Moth. Dawn and Natalie met when they were looking at building out their podcasts and getting more ingrained in the Brooklyn creative and arts community with Bric. They focus on talking about stories; everything we do day to day is focused on the stories we tell ourselves, and then how we operate in the world and what we tell others about who we are. How well do you communicate that? Are you open? Are you authentic?    Telling your proper story and understanding what your story means can help you uncover and define what your purpose is, so storytelling really is an imperative skill in life and in business. Here is a great quote that shares more around what this episode is about:  "The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It

Natalie Viglione interviews Lisa Wang, Co-Founder/CEO of Sheworx. They discuss harnessing the power of “Enoughness" and "Antifragility" even at your lowest points. Disrupting the status quo to support women, and help them truly believe in themselves which is important to move forward and evolve, especially in order to get funded by a VC. Lisa and the Sheworx organization is on a mission to drive gender parity in funding.  Lisa is a former Olympic Level gymnast, and is a serial entrepreneur. She began her professional career as a hedge fund analyst on Wall Street, and then founded a foodtech company incubated in Food-X, and currently she is currently the Co-Founder and CEO of SheWorx. She and her business partner, Yin Lin, built a platform and community empowering over 20,000+ women to build and scale successful companies where they have access to actionable business strategies and access to top investors. Lisa is driving the movement for gender parity in funding and championing a new model of leadership. This

In this episode, Host, Natalie Viglione, is continuing the Disrupt Now journey looking at gender roles and gender "norms" in our society. There are many ways we can disrupt our thinking. This episode is all about looking at men's roles and What Is The New Masculine? Special guest, Coach Carl, full name, Carl Logrecco.  Coach Carl, though having suffered major setbacks personally and professionally, has reinvented himself more than once. He started his company in La Jolla California in 2000, using a prepaid cell phone from his truck. Fast forward to 17 years later, and he has consulted with entrepreneurs, businesses, authors of “The Secret” to billionaire Bill Bartmann. This fiery, successful empath is nothing short of bold and straight up, yet he’s a gentle beast when it comes to how business men show up and lead. You can connect with Carl and listen to the full episode here: www.teamgu.com/blog/disrupt-now-podcast-episode-19-special-guest-carl-logrecco Thank you for being a subscriber! Please leave us a revi

In this episode, Natalie sits down with Paulina Brusca, whom is a part of Team Gu. They discuss age and how ageism is a real thing that many people face today, explore ways that we all can disrupt the general "societal" beliefs as it relates to age and the opportunities we all have to disrupt how we react and look at the aging process. Aging is a very personal experience and our own perspective about how we feel as it relates to our age influences our personal outlook on ourselves, how we show up in the world, how we move within our life, and look at and treat others. We discuss a case study around ageism in the hiring process in this episode, please check that case study out here: http://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economic-letter/2017/february/age-discrimination-and-hiring-older-workers/   Please read more on our blog here about how we can change our thoughts around age and EMBRACE: http://www.teamgu.com/blog/age-how-women-can-embrace  Thank you for being a subscriber! Please leave us a re

On episode #17 of the Disrupt Now Podcast, Host, Natalie Viglione, speaks with Denis Isbister, to have a candid conversation about what it really takes to be insane enough to make your passion your day job, and what it means when you take major risks to make that dream become a reality.  Guest, Denis Isbister, is the host of the adventure travel/fishing show, Wild Fish Wild Places, on the World Fishing Network. After leaving the contracting world, he sold everything he owned to start a new concept for a fishing show. And now almost a decade later, Wild Fish Wild Places is one of the most popular and successful shows in the country! GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT DISRUPT NOW AND TEAM GU LLC: The Disrupt Now Podcast is available on Apple Podcasts (iTunes), Stitcher, Soundcloud or Google Play. You can also find the full episodes on the www.disruptnowprogram.com site or you can go to the parent company's site at www.teamgu.com/episodes (this allows you to listen to full episodes as well). The blog at www.teamgu.com/bl

Mike McCarthy, an accounting systems consulting entrepreneur who sold his consulting company back in 1998. For the past 20 years, Mike has been providing financial and organizational consulting services for many non-profit animal service organizations, and is the Founder of Rescue Express, which is an initiative of MGM Animal Foundation that works with rescue groups to save the lives of homeless animals. Rescue Express is a rescue service for animals; “relocation as an alternative to euthanization.” It's almost a “secret operation” of people doing some really great things for animals that most don’t know about, this episode explains more about the journey of successful entrepreneur, Mike McCarthy, and his build out of Rescue Express.  Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts (iTunes), Stitcher, Soundcloud or Google Play. You can also link to the episodes from the www.disruptnowprogram.com site or you can go to the parent company's site at www.teamgu.com/episodes (this allows you to listen to full episodes). T

We discuss disrupting the way we think about gender norms and gender rules, and by changing our thinking, how this can change the way the world functions. The ways in which some think about gender roles, develop gender rules to try to define what “normal” is, is outdated and frankly depressing. We need to empower anyone’s potential, not push them or shape them into things they are not or do not want to become.  Ideas about gender rules and gender norms can shape destiny, and it starts when we’re young. That’s when we are most susceptible to these views, as children. Today’s “woman” and “man” doesn’t need to fit into a predefined construct anymore. A “man” is not required to be the “alpha” anymore and the “woman” is not required to be the “order taker," the secretary or just a housewife any longer either. We can build partnerships in any way that we desire today where we can take away what is feminine or masculine and just be a human. The truth is, culture and where an individual grows up in and lives does pla

On Episode #14, Natalie gets to sit down and talk to Steve Gruber who is the Director of Communications for the Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals and has worked with this non-profit for about 12 years. He manages the organization’s communications activities, including advertising, public relations, internal communications and publications. Steve has worked in the marketing communications field for most of his career, and has volunteered or worked for several animal protection organizations in the past.  The Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals certainly disrupted the typical model for how animals were being handled in the shelters all over the NYC region. The truth is, the majority of animals were being euthanized because of an ineffective model, but this organization came in and said NOT ANYMORE! They have saved over 300,000 lives since 2003 alone! How awesome is that?!  It's not surprising that Steve's beliefs are such that simply one’s power to disrupt – or to move forward in any capacity – is to try to tap

In Episode 13 of the Disrupt Now Podcast, Natalie talks to Certified Psychotherapist, Dina Molina. Her story is unique and this is a therapist that requires her clients to truly be ready to disrupt their status quo! That's music to Natalie's ears... in fact, Natalie is a client of Dina, as she believes in the power of having others help keep you accountable and help you change your life. None of us can do everything alone, and should not have to!  As a teenage mother who’s had her share of trauma throughout childhood, Dina stumbled upon Psychology and the desire to support others when she attended an Alternative High School. Before she found out that she was pregnant, Dr. Owen, who was the psychology teacher in her school, taught Dina about healing relationships and being the change you want to see that is needed for a happy life! Before she knew it, she was already on the path to becoming a psychotherapist...  When you embark upon a journey of change, it is not easy, and you don't have to do it alone. People

Guest, Shira Adler, is a healer through and through. She's an entrepreneur, writer, speaker and passionate advocate for CBD (Cannabidioll, or cannabinoid, is one of the most prevalent chemical compounds in the cannabis plant, but CBD is completely nonpsychoactive, there's no "high" at all), and is a certified past life reggressionist. Shira founded a company called T3cSynergy, a transformative mind, body, spirit-focused CBD product company, and has been nicknamed The "Pot Mom" or the Metaphysical Mrs. Field's of Healing. In this episode, Natalie talks to Shira about what healing, in the truest sense of the word, means as she heals through understanding a person's past life, and believes there are other NON-traditional methods to heal one's mind, body and soul, like CBD. The addiction this world has on opioids, anti-depression drugs, etc. has had an adverse effect on many levels.  You can read more about Shira and listen to the podcast at www.teamgu.com/blog and learn more about the Disrupt Now program / podca

Arrie Fae (also known as Faux Pas le Fae) is the Artistic Director and Founder of KineticArchitecture Dance Theatre, and Downtown Nightlife Performance Artist. Natalie speaks with Arrie about her experiences as a transgender choreographer and her drive to re-imagine what dance has the potential to be through openness to diverse influences in order to create work that serves as poetic activism for the issues of self love, social equality, and continued understanding of transgender people. Her work is disrupting the way people see and experience dance, as well as challenge "the way things are" currently. Her goal is to build a home and studio in downtown NYC helping underrepresented artists.  KineticArchitecture Dance Theatre is a not-for-profit and is currently seeking donations to help support their next large production (discussed in the podcast) called Twisters & Witches, a riff off of Wizard of Oz. You can donate and help support the organization at http://www.kadancetheatre.org.  Come see KineticArchi

Angela Ambrosia, a Certified Relationship Coach and Teacher of Meditation, is a teacher with a deep affinity for helping women create deeply satisfying love. She teaches embodied meditation, a technique infused with her 20 + years of dance, healing and love for the body.  In this episode, Natalie speaks with Angela as to how we can bring further awareness around the topic of LOVE... what is love, how do we become more loving, why love at all? And, bringing a a deep, passionate embrace on how love moves us forward, moves all of humanity forward, and how to bring that into our everyday relationships (not just our significant others or lovers, but into our everyday experiences with people in general... with humans)!  You can learn more at: www.teamgu.com/blog  Or, at www.disruptnowprogram.com  PLEASE GIVE US A REVIEW! We'd love your feedback!  Want to nominate someone to be on the podcast (or yourself)? Please send us an email at info@teamgu.com - THANK YOU FOR BEING A PART OF THE DISRUPT NOW COMMUNITY! What're

Heather Waibel is the Founder of Welnys, which is a platform that helps companies implement and optimize their workplace wellness programs. Heather is a two-time entrepreneur and has also spent time working in Fortune 500 companies as well. Natalie talks to Heather about the health & wellness trends she is seeing and how she is helping fuel a more healthy culture in businesses, as well as digs into her entrepreneurial journey to get to where she is today. She is disrupting health, wellness and technology! For the full post on Heather and to connect with her, go to:  www.teamgu.com/blog You can also listen to the episodes at www.teamgu.com/episodes Learn more at www.disruptnowprogram.com 

In-Studio, Team Gu Co-Founder and CEO, Natalie Viglione, brings on two of her leadership team members and friends, Andrea Mejia and Paulina Brusca, whom are also co-creators of the Disrupt Now Program (plus, Paulina is the Producer of the Disrupt Now Podcast). This is THE year of disruption!  What is the Disrupt Now Program and how does it connect to the Disrupt Now Podcast? What has been the creators very own disruption journeys? They discuss these items and more.  The Disrupt Now Program is a MINDFULNESS program... it has been developed for individuals and companies to bring into their lives to help on many levels. Simple fact... did you know that stress and associated health issues costs companies $190B a year? Not to mention what it does to the individuals that get sick from the stress and anxiety! Stress that isn't managed leads to burnout and burnout leads to quitting. That’s BAD for our world, bad for companies, and bad for individuals experiencing this. The program helps people disrupt their status qu