The Master & The Apprentice, with Emily Kwok

An athlete and a patron of the arts dive deep into the creative process. Rebecca Taylor is an Arts and Culture Strategist who has worked with revered institutions such as The Getty, MOCA and MoMA PS1. In this episode she and Emily discuss how creativity is born, shared, received, challenged and transcended.

4 x Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu World Champion Dominyka Obelenyte has an initimate disucssion with Emily about their personal student and teacher relationship. Working together over a span of more than 12 years, they share their experiences and insights around nurturing growth, wants vs. needs, trust, internal vs. external pressures and fulfilling ones potential.

Sara McMann is a UFC MMA athlete, Olympic Silver and multiple time World Champion medalist in Wrestling, and BJJ Brown Belt. She has broken barriers as the first American woman in history to get on the podium at the Olympics within the sport of wrestling. She is ranked #8 in the UFC as a bantamweight fighter and she also happens to have a Masters in Mental Health Counselling in addition to be a mother of 2. She has lived a myriad of extraordinary lifetimes in her young 41 years and it is a wonder what she can't accomplish when she sets her mind on something. Sara and Emily discuss how feedback, rational process and incremental adjustments played a big part in her journey and committment to excellence.

Our personal stories are what make us uniquely individual. Reknowned director, photographer and artist Ravi Vora whose clients include iconic brands like Nike, Land Rover, Ford, Mastercard and Quantas talks to Emily about his unusual path to self-discovery and how we shape and view the human condition.