Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino

Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. On this episode, we talk with Career Glow Up Coach for Executive Women and former corporate recruiter Alison Hemmings. For more than 12 years, Alison has helped senior-level women land $150K to $300K executive roles in as little as 90 days — without relying on job boards. As the founder of Newo Executive Solutions Inc. and creator of the At Work Lately newsletter, Alison has become a trusted voice for ambitious professionals seeking real-world insight into modern corporate hiring. With over a decade spent on the inside of corporate recruiting, Al...

Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. On this episode, we talk with successful business owner, executive coach, author, and creator of The Game of Ten®, Steve Barton. Steve has developed a powerful awareness-based framework designed to help leaders, entrepreneurs, and high-achievers operate with greater clarity, confidence, emotional intelligence, and purpose. Drawing from more than 47 years of real-world business experience, Steve understands both the practical and human side of success. Over the course of his career, he successfully grew a company from $200,000 to $2 million in annual revenue while developing deep insights into leadership, mindset, d...

Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. On this episode, we talk with entrepreneur, marketer, real estate professional, and founder of Live Local Marketing, Billy Sammons. Billy is the voice behind what he calls the “Warm Marketing” business lifestyle — a people-first approach to business growth centered on authentic relationships, local community connections, and long-term trust instead of cold leads and outdated sales tactics. With more than 15 years of experience, Billy helps entrepreneurs grow their businesses through proven community-based strategies, including filming video commercials with local business owners, building strategic partnerships, strengthening visibility, and creating genuin...

Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. On this episode, we talk with certified professional coach, leadership expert, former Google sales leader, and author of Balls & Brains, Chris Woods. His powerful book delivers a practical framework for living your best life by overcoming fear, maximizing strengths, and stepping beyond self-imposed limitations. Combining personal storytelling, psychological insight, leadership wisdom, and actionable exercises, Balls & Brains challenges readers to stop playing small and start leading with courage, clarity, and confidence. Chris brings decades of real-world experience to the conversation as a four-time global C-suite executive and former...

Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. On this episode, we welcome author and artist Regina Linke back to the show for Part 2 to discuss her new 2026 book Little Helper. Regina Linke is a Taiwanese American artist known for her stunning Chinese gongbi-style painting — an ancient and highly detailed form of brush painting celebrated for its colorful precision, narrative depth, and timeless beauty. Through both her visual art and storytelling, Regina brings East Asian folklore, philosophy, and cultural traditions into a modern and accessible light. Her latest book, Little Helper, follows the character Ah-Fu as...

Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. On this episode, we talk with entrepreneur, executive coach, speaker, podcast host, and founder of Executive Office AI, Jairek Robbins. Jairek comes from one of the most recognized success-oriented families in the world — the first family ever featured on the cover of SUCCESS Magazine. For more than 20 years, he has coached founders, executives, and CEOs ranging from startups to companies generating over $100 million in revenue, with active clients in 137 countries worldwide. At just 23 years old, Jairek received the Congressional Award Gold Medal from the United States Congress. Ov...

Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. On this episode, we talk with author, U.S. Navy veteran, entrepreneur, leadership speaker, and co-owner of City Wide Facility Solutions of Southern Arizona, David Petrash. With more than 25 years of leadership experience, David has built and led successful businesses while mentoring others through the principles of faith-driven leadership, service, integrity, and character. As the author of The Ripple of Faith, he shares a powerful philosophy centered around what he calls the “Ripple Effect” — the idea that small actions rooted in faith and strong values can create lastin...

Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. On this episode, we talk with investment banker, author, and former electronic music producer Evan Marks. Originally from Australia, Evan spent his early twenties immersed in electronic music production before trading studio gear for a one-way ticket to New York City, where he built a successful career as an investment banker advising companies across a wide range of industries. Alongside his professional career, he became deeply fascinated by the complex social dynamics, relationships, ambition, and emotional contradictions that shape life in New York. That world would eventually...

Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. On this episode, we talk with seasoned entrepreneur, business strategist, and CEO of Accelerated Medical Practices, Jody Layne. As a co-founder and growth strategist, Jody has helped scale multiple companies and countless wellness clinics by combining smart business systems with effective healthcare marketing and operational strategy. With more than 25 years of experience in digital marketing and business development — along with over a decade working directly inside hormone and wellness clinics — she has developed a unique ability to bridge the gap between great medicine and great business. Jody is a...

Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. On this episode, we talk with leadership consultant, executive coach, and author Thom Dennis. Thom is the author of Rewilding the Corporate Mind and has spent more than 30 years working with CEOs, executive teams, and organizations navigating complexity, culture, leadership, and transformational change. His experience spans the Royal Marines, global corporate leadership environments, and decades of leadership development work focused on strategy, human behavior, and systems thinking. What makes Thom’s perspective unique is his commitment to exploring the deeper patterns shaping leadership today. Rather than offering qu...

Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. On this episode, we talk with real estate expert, investor, and Aspen Sage Investment Fund manager Tiffany Alexander. Tiffany began her real estate investing journey back in 2006 and has since explored a wide variety of successful investment strategies, including short sales, tax liens, multi-family property flips, and creative real estate investing. Over the past seven years, however, her primary focus has become promissory note investing — a specialized niche that has helped her and her clients maximize returns and build long-term wealth. Through her work with Aspen Sage In...

Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. On this episode, we talk with business visibility and growth expert Keri Doan, the visionary behind Waiting on West. If you’ve ever felt like you’re doing everything you’ve been told to do — posting constantly, buying courses, joining training calls, and still not seeing meaningful business growth — Keri’s message will resonate deeply. She helps entrepreneurs and business owners cut through the noise, simplify what’s not working, and build authentic visibility without burning out or losing themselves in the process. With more than 15 years of experience...

Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. On this episode, we talk with author, visual artist, speaker, and emotional awareness advocate Carine Van Hee. Through her deeply personal story, creative work, public speaking, and writing, Carine is helping raise awareness about emotional manipulation, toxic relationships, and the importance of emotional freedom. Her mission is to inspire people to choose relationships built on honesty, respect, trust, and healthy connection. Carine is also one of the Voices for the European Family Justice Center Alliance (EFJCA), where she helps advocate for awareness, protection, and healing for individuals...

Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. On this episode, we reconnect with human rights and women’s rights advocate Zolal Habibi for Part 2 of our powerful conversation.

Zolal is an Iranian human rights activist and one of the leading voices advocating for justice, democracy, and women’s rights in Iran. She serves on the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), where she works internationally to support the vision of a secular, democratic republic in Iran.

In this follow-up conversation, we go deeper into...

Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. On this episode, we talk with coach, award-winning business owner, sustainability expert, and United Nations speaker Jody Brooks.

His remarkable journey has taken him from senior leadership roles in international education and sustainability to confronting a deeply personal mental health crisis marked by severe anxiety, depression, and suicidal thinking that pushed him to the edge of what felt survivable.

But Jody didn’t simply recover — he rebuilt his life from the inside out. That transformative experience became the foundation for his Nine Princ...

Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. On this episode, we talk with investment banker, author, and former electronic music producer Evan Marks.

Originally from Australia, Evan spent his early twenties immersed in electronic music production before trading studio gear for a one-way ticket to New York City, where he built a successful career as an investment banker advising companies across a wide range of industries. Alongside his professional career, he became deeply fascinated by the complex social dynamics, relationships, ambition, and emotional contradictions that shape life in New York.

Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. On this episode, we talk with speaker, coach, author, and founder of BrainShift, Hanna Curman.

Hanna is helping lead a new era of transformation focused on leadership, mental health, nervous system awareness, and human-centered performance. Through her work with executives and organizations, she teaches leaders how to guide transformation from the nervous system up — because culture ultimately lives in biology.

Her journey into this work became deeply personal when she realized that her own reactive patterns were affecting not only her health, bu...

Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. On this episode, we talk with co-author, literacy innovator, children’s author, and global education advocate Kate Markland.

A former physiotherapist turned storytelling pioneer, Kate is the creator of StoryQuest™ — a groundbreaking methodology that achieved 100% engagement across 465 children in nine schools. She is also the co-author of The Adventures of Gabriel, an Amazon number one bestselling children’s book series born from one of the most painful and transformative chapters of her life.

For twenty years, Kate worked as a physiotherapist, learning to listen...

Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. On this episode, we talk with self-leadership expert, podcaster, author, and creator of the Easy Hard vs. Hard Hard framework, Bobby Shelton.

With a Doctorate in Strategic Leadership (DSL), Bobby has spent years studying why so many high-performing individuals still struggle with consistency, discipline, alignment, and follow-through. His conclusion is both simple and challenging: most people are not lacking information — they are lacking internal authority.

Through his groundbreaking framework and his podcast The Self-Leadership Lab, Bobby explores what it truly means to gover...

Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. On this episode, we talk with certified life coach, sobriety advocate, motivational speaker, and survivor Dave Johnson.

After spending 31 years battling addiction — including four years homeless and living out of his car — Dave has transformed his life through sobriety, mindset work, psychology, discipline, and personal growth. Now more than three years sober, he is dedicated to helping others not only stay sober, but also discover a new perspective on life, resilience, and self-worth.

Dave’s story is one of extraordinary perseverance and transf...

Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. On this episode, we talk with author, former journalist, executive leadership coach, and communication expert Jay Poulton.

This ICF-credentialed executive coach brings more than two decades of experience in communications, journalism, leadership development, and coaching. As founder of The Accent Coach, Jay works one-on-one with senior leaders in more than thirty-five countries, including executives at Apple, Amazon, and FedEx.

At the heart of his work is what he calls “The Authority Gap” — the distance between what a leader is truly capable of and wh...

Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. On this episode, we talk with executive coach, consultant, and leadership strategist Loala McCann.

She is the guiding force behind Intrinsic Consulting, where she specializes in helping leaders successfully navigate career transitions, promotions, organizational change, and pivotal leadership moments. Before launching her coaching and consulting practice, Loala spent years in senior HR leadership roles within the healthcare and medical technology industries, most recently leading HR teams for a global medical device company based in the Seattle area.

Today, she brings that valuable...

Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. On this episode, we talk with veteran Middle East journalist, former CBS News and 60 Minutes producer, and author Amjad Tadros.

For more than 30 years, Amjad Tadros worked behind the scenes helping international news organizations report from some of the world’s most complex and dangerous conflict zones. His book The Fixer: A Journalist’s Accidental Journey Through the Middle East reveals the hidden and often overlooked world of the “fixer” — the local journalist and producer who guides foreign correspondents through war zones, political upheaval, revolutions, a...

Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. On this episode, we talk with top-producing real estate advisor, entrepreneur, coach, speaker, podcast host, and bestselling author Debbi DiMaggio.

Based in both San Francisco and Los Angeles, California, Debbi has built a remarkable 35-year career as a top-performing real estate advisor while also becoming a nationally recognized coach, leadership expert, and motivational speaker. She is the bestselling author of five books, including Mindset in Motion: Activate Your Purpose, Power and Peak Performance, and creator of the transformational 5-Step Mindset in Motion Method.

Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. On this episode, we talk with researcher, educator, executive development leader, and author Dr. John Austin.

Dr. Austin is the dean of the Honors College and the P.D. Merrill Endowed Chair of Business at the University of New England. For more than two decades, he has helped professionals, executives, and leaders learn how to lead, adapt, and make effective decisions in uncertain and rapidly changing environments.

He believes that every person has the capacity to thrive in a chaotic world and...

Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. On this episode, we talk with Chief Learning Officer, leadership strategist, and human potential expert Ana Smith.

Ana sees what many leaders miss — the untapped brilliance inside individuals, teams, and organizations. As the Chief Learning Officer at BrightFlare, she blends more than 20 years of experience across business, psychology, leadership development, and technology to help organizations unlock the human side of transformation.

Throughout her career, she has coached thousands of executives, led global initiatives for major organizations including Microsoft, GE, HP, and American Ex...

Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. On this episode, we talk with founder of SolWomen, Nandita Mahadevan.

She arrived in the United States at 21 with nothing but ambition and spent 25 years building the traditional checklist of success — climbing the corporate ladder, earning a C-suite title, building a home, marriage, and career. But when her 40s arrived, so did the unexpected challenges of perimenopause: exhaustion, brain fog, low libido, weight gain, and emotional overwhelm.

After years of questioning herself and wondering what was wrong, she discovered that countless women we...

Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. On this episode, we talk with full-time musician, author, speaker, and podcast host John Voelz.

This dynamic creative is the host of the Gig to Live podcast and author of Becoming an Idea Mentalist: The Unusual Perspectives, Practices and Rituals of Idea People. Through his speaking, writing, music, and conversations, John explores creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship, performance, and the realities of building a meaningful life as a working artist.

He has spent years performing hundreds of shows annually, building audiences, working closely with ven...

Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. On this episode, we talk with global keynote speaker, strategic advisor, CEO of mBolden, and co-founder of Be Uninterrupted, Suzanne Knight.

She partners with Fortune 500 executives, government leaders, and high-growth organizations to turn strategy into measurable results — not through endless planning, but through better decisions, clearer priorities, disciplined execution, and stronger leadership alignment.

Suzanne’s work focuses on one critical challenge: closing the gap between ambition and outcomes. Through impactful keynote speaking, executive advisory work, and leadership strategy, she helps organizations reduce fric...

Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. On this episode, we talk with filmmaker, animal activist, and President of the Humane Society in Maine, Christopher Walters.

What begins as a chance meeting can sometimes spark something extraordinary. Thirteen years ago, Christopher walked into a boutique on Melrose Avenue and discovered not only remarkable art, but also the beginning of a lifelong friendship. That boutique belonged to Mike Norice — a visionary artist and fashion entrepreneur from Los Angeles whose work has inspired celebrities and everyday people alike.

Drawn together by sh...

Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. On this episode, we talk with author and explorer Kimber Hardick.

For midlife women who look fine on the outside but feel messy inside, her book An Invitation to Shine is a powerful call to stop disappearing in your own life. Part memoir and part reflection guide, this “REmemoir” explores identity, emotional awareness, healing, authenticity, and what it takes to reconnect with yourself without force, perfection, or performance.

Kimber writes from lived experience rather than from a pedestal, exploring what happens when surviv...

Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. On this episode, we talk with TEDx speaker, bestselling author of Audacious Joy, and high-performance coach Nicole Kernohan.

For more than a decade, Nicole has worked with entrepreneurs, founders, executives, and growth-driven leaders who want to break through internal ceilings, elevate their thinking, and create extraordinary results in both business and life. Her work explores the deeper drivers behind performance, fulfillment, and success — including beliefs, identity, habits, mindset, emotional resilience, and inner dialogue.

Nicole combines powerful storytelling, practical tools, leadership strategies, and rea...

Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. On this episode, we talk with innovation coach, life design expert, and author Ibeth Ayala.

After experiencing burnout and a major life reset in her twenties, she rebuilt everything — starting with herself. Today, Ibeth is an international bestselling author of the books No Risk, No Fun and From the Ground Up, and she has spent more than a decade guiding executives, creatives, entrepreneurs, and everyday people toward bold and meaningful change.

Through storytelling, breathwork, mindset practices, and practical tools, Ibeth helps people embra...

Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. On this episode, we talk with Mental Wellness Led Leadership Strategist and founder of Soft Simple CEO, LaKisha Mosley.

She spearheads a mental wellness-led leadership philosophy designed for high-achieving women who are done building success at the expense of their peace. After years of leading teams, producing experiences, and carrying responsibility for others, LaKisha noticed a powerful pattern — brilliant women making important decisions while exhausted, dysregulated, overwhelmed, and disconnected from themselves. Strategy was not the issue. Capacity was.

LaKisha teaches that mental he...

Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. On this episode, we talk with Creative Empowerment Coach, author, music educator, vocalist, pianist, composer, poet, and podcast host Jenny Leigh Hodgins.

With more than 30 years of experience, Jenny has guided individuals in creative growth, performance, authentic self-expression, and inspired living. She helps creatives, busy professionals, overwhelmed caregivers, and creatively curious adults restore energy, overcome creative blocks, rebuild trust in their creativity, and cultivate a sustainable creative flow.

Her approach blends burnout recovery strategies, creative empowerment practices, mindfulness, and insights from her...

Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. On this episode, we talk with leadership advisor, communications strategist, and creator of The Inflection Method, Fiona Grant Leydier.

She works with high-capacity leaders navigating life’s inflection points — moments when responsibility is high but ease feels harder to access. Fiona helps leaders reconnect with themselves, rebuild self-trust, and move through demanding seasons with more steadiness, clarity, resilience, and ease.

For more than two decades, she has worked closely with founders, executives, and leadership teams in high-pressure industries, advising companies on investor rela...

Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. On this episode, we talk with entrepreneur mentor Tiffanie Janowitz and explore the journey from fine to freedom.

Her story resonates because it bridges strength, vulnerability, resilience, and execution. Tiffanie has rebuilt her life multiple times — walking away from relationships that no longer aligned, leaving a belief system that once defined her identity, navigating entrepreneurship at high levels, and advocating for her own survival during breast cancer after her concerns were initially dismissed.

She doesn’t just speak about resilience — she teaches people...

Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. On this episode, we talk with Men’s Confidence and Dating Mentor, Conscious Erotica Producer, Tantra Facilitator, Professional Latin Dancer, and Erotic Community Leader Ross Lewin. He teaches men how to become powerful without being a douche or a doormat.

His work sits at the intersection of masculinity, nervous system regulation, sacred sexuality, emotional leadership, and modern dating. Ross helps kind and intelligent men develop grounded, ethical, and attractive confidence without relying on manipulation or performance.

Ross is the founder of EmbodiMEN an...

Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. On this episode, we talk with Iranian human rights and women’s rights advocate Zolal Habibi.

She serves on the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), where she advocates globally for a secular, democratic republic in Iran.

With more than two decades of activism, Zolal has become a powerful international voice for justice, democracy, and the rights of women and marginalized people inside Iran. She regularly appears at human rights conferences, international forums, and major media broadca...

Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. On this episode, we talk with President and CEO of The Benson Agency, Cindy Morris.

With more than 25 years of executive C-suite nonprofit experience, Cindy helps mission-driven organizations strengthen strategy, governance, and leadership. She also founded Women Who Change the World, a powerful collective focused on helping women build resilient, purpose-driven lives through self-determination.

Bringing together business discipline and human-centered leadership, Cindy shares insights on leading with conviction, building sustainable organizations, and creating meaningful impact.

From her base in Long Island...