To run & jump & laugh & cry & love & hope & imagine...to experience as much as I can for one purpose: to inspire.🇺🇦
Founder of The Optimism Company
Legacy reaches beyond titles or achievements. It’s measured by the value we give to the world.
Video from Urban Land Institute (ULI) 2024 with CRE investor and creator, Lynn King-Tolliver
I tell this story of my friend @mariashriver every chance I get. Asking “Do you have 8 minutes?” when we need help is one of the most powerful practices we’ve learned together.
Video from EZRA Live and Unscripted, November 2024, in conversation with EZRA Coaching CEO Nick Goldberg
If you get an email claiming to be from me or my team asking for money or personal info—it’s a scam. Please report it to your email provider and delete it. ⚠️
If a leader wants to be given credit when things go right then they have to be willing to accept responsibility when things go wrong.
���Video from Amsterdam Business Forum 2025, in conversation with Ikenna Azuike
Tom Nash (@djhookie ) loves asking people this one question: If the world ended tomorrow, what would you eat?
The answer is never really about the food. Tom finds that it’s mostly about the moment in your life when you felt most free.
What would your answer be?
🎧 Find the full episode wherever you get your podcasts: “Stop Telling Us Everything Happens for a Reason with Anti-Victim Tom Nash”
Comment “alchemist” and we’ll DM you the full episode.
Losing four limbs at 19 sounds like a tragedy. Speaker, author, and anti-victim Tom Nash (@djhookie ) says it’s the best thing that ever happened to him.
Not because he’s relentlessly positive, but because he built a system for turning any situation into gold.
Check out our full conversation on A Bit of Optimism wherever you get your podcasts. 🎧
Traditional competition forces us to take on an attitude of winning. Worthy Rivals inspire us to take on an attitude of improvement.
Video from ServiceTitan’s North Star Summit
Anyone can record their pain and post it for the entire world to see. Artists are the ones who take that pain and alchemize it into beauty for others to connect with. As @mikeposner says, “It comes down to intention.”
🎧 Check out our full conversation wherever you get your podcasts at the link in bio.
There are people who care about us, love us, and will be there for us...if we just let them. And we can all be that person for others.
Video from Unforgettable Summer Night 2025 with Los Angeles-based environmental non-profit, TreePeople
Comment “Ibiza” and we’ll DM you the full episode.
“My life was a fraud. And my reason for existence was convincing people that I was not a fraud.”
Mike Posner (@mikeposner ) had the hits. The money. The recognition.
And he was miserable.
Because avoiding discomfort doesn’t protect you; it hollows you out.
🎧 Listen to the full episode of A Bit of Optimism with Mike wherever you get your podcasts.
You may have seen my collection of Star Wars memorabilia in the background of A Bit of Optimism episodes. So, we thought this would be the perfect day to give you a better look at what decorates my bookshelves at the studio ✨
#maythe4thbewithyou
