Plan A Konversations

Brian Weitzel, teacher, photographer, and podcast host is on a mission to empower people to live their best lives. For the past fourteen years, Brian has taught high school economics, placing an emphasis on personal finance. After many of his students enacted his advice and started their own journey towards financial freedom, he decided to build a larger classroom and community around his podcast, "Ride Your Money Wave." He advocates developing a side hustle to help fuel your progress to financial independence. When he isn't working or photographing weddings, he spends his time with his wife and two dogs.
Learn more about Brian Weitzel: http://btwphotography.com/ + IG: https://www.instagram.com/brianweitzelphoto/
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Dia Bryant's interests in education sparked when she was just four years old, but her passion was set a full blaze upon setting foot in a New York City classroom in 2004 when she began her first year as a New York City Teaching Fellow. After serving in the capacities of teacher, math coach and new teacher trainer, Dia realized she had a growing appetite for solving complex problems in communities that mirrored life in her hometown, Detroit. Urban education would serve as an integral part of life for eight years before she founded and led Vista Academy in 2013, a middle school serving East New York Brooklyn focused on quality academics and character education.

Though many children thrived in Dia's classrooms, she found it hard to ignore the deep-seated inequities that created variance across districts, neighborhoods, schools, and classrooms. These inequities often served as the root cause of poor student achievement, large amounts of teacher turnover, punitive discipline practices, low expectations, and inherently opportunity gaps. These factors drove her to continue her studies, and has inspired her to more deeply center courageous equity, in pursuit of excellent schools. Most recently she sees racial and socioeconomic integration an integral lever for change in human capital, systems design, curriculum, and disciplinary practices.

Upon Graduation in 2020, Dia intends to impact a major American city in her quest to create diverse and equitable learning environments for children, adults, families, and communities.
Learn more about Dia Bryant: https://rides.gse.harvard.edu/people/dia-n-bryant
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About Janae Hudson:
At the age of 24, Janae Hudson is a Business Producer at BOLDTV and Founder of BrooklynTalk. Janae specializes in business news, by cultivating a number of segments featuring the biggest brands and personalities in business news including: PwC, UBS, Experian, Moody’s Investors Service, Beth Comstock, Regina Gwynn, The Wall Street Journal, Black Enterprise, The New York Times, Business Insider, Forbes Media, The Muse and more! In addition to her extensive producing experience, Janae has landed coverage on many events, including BET’s Black Girls Rock, CURLFest 2018 and Wendy Williams, Hunter Foundation X Perfect Snax, LLC.

When Janae is not creating at work she likes to spend time playing sports, listening to jazz and visiting all the best cuisines New York City has to offer (emphasis on tacos lol). Janae grew up in Brooklyn, NY and resides with her loving single mom and twin brother. She enjoys traveling with her family and hopes to expand her craft of producing into an international freelancing empire. She is currently enrolled in graduate studies and after receiving her Masters, Janae plans to pursue areas in international communications. With her love for the culinary arts, Janae also plans to retire as a Chef, owning her own little tapas restaurant in NYC!

Janae holds a BA in communications and broadcast journalism from the University of Pennsylvania - University Park.

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While the origins of impostor syndrome is expressed from a psychological standpoint, Klay shares his life experience with this phenomenon - and how spiritually, through observed action + an incredible mentor, he healed that space.
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Season 8, Episode 7 - On Mainstreaming Mindfulness and Operationalizing Compassion - Scott Shute, Head of Mindfulness and Compassion, LinkedIn
WELCOME TO SEASON 8! We're honored that you're here with us and very grateful to have you as a listener.
About Scott Shute
Scott is at the intersection of the workplace and ancient wisdom traditions. He has been an active advocate for customers and employees in the technology space for over 20 years, with roles ranging from sales, customer advocacy, and customer service leadership. Previously, he was the Vice President of LinkedIn’s Customer Operations organization. In his current role as Head of Mindfulness and Compassion at LinkedIn, Scott blends his lifelong practice and passion with his practical leadership and operations experience. His mission is to change work from the inside out by “mainstreaming mindfulness” and “operationalizing compassion.” He is the author of the book The Full Body Yes.
Connect + learn more about Scott:
https://www.scottshute.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottshute/

https://www.instagram.com/scottshutephotos/

https://www.facebook.com/TheFullBodyYes

https://twitter.com/scottshute1

https://insighttimer.com/play/course/course_scott-shute

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