Finding Perspective Podcast Kapil Ghai

In this episode, Kapil sat down with Nicole Bursafy who is an author, writer, and a freestyle poet specializing in typewriting poetry. Nicole speaks about her exposure to the arts since childhood, and the influences that allowed her to continuously express herself as an emerging creative.

Nicole also explains being a typewriting poet, and how she enjoys sitting with her typewriter and producing freestyle poems on the spot!

In this Episode Kapil sits down with Dan Gelshteyn, who is a Toronto based entrepreneur and is the founder of ELXR Juice Labs. ELXR Juice labs focuses on creating tasty products that are 100% organic and have all sorts of health benefits. Dan speaks on his foundation growing up, his experience in business school, and how he was able to launch a business that he was passionate about, straight out of school at the age of 22. Dan gives a behind the scenes look in to the life of an entrepreneur and provides advice for aspiring business owners.

In this episode Kapil sits down with Bhante Joe. Bhante Joe is a practicing Buddhist monk who is based out of the Toronto, Canada area. Bhante Joe was once a business student at Ryerson University, but as time went on he decided that his life had a different purpose. He embarked on a new path, and trained to become a monk, and was eventually ordained. In this interview Bhante Joe talks about becoming a monk, teachings that he has learned along his journey, and more!

In this episode Kapil sits down with Toronto based spoken word artist, community leader, and arts educator Randell Adjei. Randell is one of the founders of Toronto’s largest and longest running open mic event known as RISE. Randell talks about his humble beginnings as a youth, and how the arts became an outlet for him. Randell also talks about the power of the arts and how it can transform communities in a positive way.

Social interactions are essential for our survival and for the future of our society.

But do we ever think about what our underlying motivations are for creating our social bonds?

In this episode, Kapil sits down with Ward Struthers who is a Social Psychology University Professor at York University in Toronto, Canada. Ward breaks down the key concepts of Social Psychology and explains what inspired him to go in to this line of work. Ward also talks about the current research that he is working on.

One night when Jette Stubbs was a child, she was playing outside her house as two men had grabbed her, and broken into her house demanding money from her parents. In this episode we will play a recording of Jette sharing this story at a live event in Toronto, Canada. We then go in to an in depth interview with Jette as she breaks down the experience and how it had affected her.  In this episode Jette talks about the power of storytelling. Today Jette is a successful career coach and she will also be launching her own podcast very soon entitled "The Happy Career Formula".