Life Unfiltered, by Life's Looking Good

This episode features Kevin Herrera, a comic and social media personality. Kevin has garnered huge success online with millions of followers across social media. His online content is largely focused around his wife, and kids. Sharing relatable marriage woe's and lamenting about raising kids in an expensive and chaotic world. His stage presence is fresh, commanding, laugh out-loud funny, and is catching the world by storm.
Click here https://www.instagram.com/onlyraisingkingsnyc/ to learn more about Kevin.
To find Kevin performing in a city near you visit https://www.kevherreracomedy.com/.

Topics covered:

• Is Bobbi Altoff an industry plant?
• Getting started in comedy
• Balancing comedy in a time when life is anything but funny
• Pivoting career changes
• Where his ideas are born
• Comedy bombing
• His writing process
• Do men have an advantage in comedy?
• Kevin's comic icons
• Are people losing their sense of humors?
• Lunatic followers
• What's next?

To find out more about Adele and her work, please visit https://www.lifeslookingood.com/
Adele's Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lifeslookingood/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D

Today's episode features Aliza Shapiro, LCSW. Aliza is a licensed therapist and founder of Therapy In The City, PLLC. In her clinical work, Aliza specializes in treating adults and young adults facing anxiety, depression, OCD, emotion dysregulation, and related disorders. Aliza currently serves on the wellness advisory board of Popsugar Wellness, Miami Concierge Pediatrics, and Teen Health 101. Aliza, or as some may know her as @therapist_in_nyc, https://www.instagram.com/therapist_in_nyc/, is a passionate advocate for mental health awareness, leads seminars on mindfulness, emotion regulation, and self-esteem, and has been featured in Glamour, New Beauty, and Wundermind.
You can find more about Aliza here. :https://www.therapyinthecity.org/about-aliza

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Topics covered:

• Getting into therapy as a career
• What are you seeing with a front row seat to society?
• Pop therapy on instagram
• Why is everyone so anxious?
• A life experience that changed her therapy approach
• Standout client breakthrough
• Plant medicine, how do therapists feel about it?
• Not your fault but is your responsibility
• Can Narcissists change?
• Why is the dating scene so bad?
• Value based relationships?

To find out more about Adele and her work, please visit https://www.lifeslookingood.com/
Adele's Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lifeslookingood/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D

In today’s episode, an unusual twist, that took much convincing, features my very private partner, for what I thought would be an interview of him, but to my surprise, turned into something else completely. I did my best y'all! What a ride, Enjoy!

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To find out more about Adele and her work, please visit https://www.lifeslookingood.com/
Adele's Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lifeslookingood/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D

This episode features Rabbi Igael “Iggy” Gurin-Malous. A renown Talmud teacher, spiritual counselor, and lecturer. He is a sought after speaker and writer on subjects ranging from Talmud, Jewish text, spirituality, addiction, recovery, fatherhood and LGBTQI+ issues.
Through the use of ancient texts combined with practical spirituality, he offers modes of healing that look at an individual’s actions, beliefs and values.
Rabbi Iggy serves on the board and faculty at the Academy of Jewish Religion Of California (AJRCA). Previously, he was the CEO and founder of T’Shuvah Center, in New York and the Director of Spiritual Counseling at Beit T’Shuvah in Los Angeles, CA.
Click here https://www.instagram.com/notyourrabbi/?hl=en to learn more about Rabbi Iggy.

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Topics covered:

• Iggy's background
• Making meaning
• The Epidemic of Loneliness
• React, Reflect, Return
• Shadow work
• Being an unconventional Rabbi.
• Landing in Addiction space
• How do we help the youth who don't fit the mold?
• Liabilities into Assets
• What he learned from Con Artists, Celebrities and Murderers?
• Fastest growing community of addicts.

To find out more about Adele and her work, please visit https://www.lifeslookingood.com/
Adele's Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lifeslookingood/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D

Estee is a long time friend, mother, wife and business owner of a successful staffing agency, California Job Shop.

Estee completed her Masters degree in Educational Administration, with an emphasis on curriculum design.

She went on to teach for 7 years, and while completing her prerequisites for Medical school, she realized she was more interested in the business of recruiting physicians, instead of being one.

After working for several notable recruiting agencies, in 2013 Estee founded her own as a hobby, but it has now scaled so significantly, with over ten employees and an average of ten job placements per week. In 2023 through some serious health and life shake ups which we talk about in this episode, Estee restructured her business, took on a CEO and is currently focusing on family and other ventures.

Estee lives in Los Angeles with her husband and five children.

Topics covered:

• Beginning and leaving teaching
• How to not give a sh*t
• Building and scaling a business
• Jealousy is a good thing
• The Johnson O’Conner test (referenced) https://www.jocrf.org/
• What does a happy women look like?
• Is the education system failing our kids?
• How to boost our kids self esteem
• The stroke
• The aftermath

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To find out more about Adele and her work, please visit https://www.lifeslookingood.com/
Adele's Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lifeslookingood/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D

Todays episode is a conversation with Yael Simon LLM, a global philanthropic strategist with over 20 years in the UK, Europe, Israel and abroad. She specializes in funding development, strategic leadership and advisory services with private family offices, high net worth individuals, governmental bodies and non-profit organizations.

Yael comes with expertise in international funder collaboratives, strong global networks, philanthropic field analysis, research, and development. Her approach is multi-faceted, providing transparency, accountability and ownership of philanthropic causes through a compelling narrative.

Yael has dedicated much of her career to research and field development of economic expansion in key regions through Europe, and the Middle East . She is also a writer and public speaker, having appeared at many conferences and events all over the world.

She is a passionate advocate for workforce development, sustainability, climate initiatives , mentoring female entrepreneurs; leadership; and social justice. Yael was named by London’s Mayor as one of the top 400 women who “Make London Great” and has organized many events to promote women’s leadership.

Yael holds a certification from the London School of Economics in Business, International Relations and the Political Economy, an LLM in International Business Law specializing in Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing and has recently completed a Masters in Organizational Leadership at Said Business School University of Oxford with a focus on AI in Philanthropy.

She currently lives in London and is married with 7 children.


Topics covered:

• What is the scope of Yael’s work?
• What makes great Leadership?
• The power of compelling storytelling
• Can empathy be learned?
• Philanthropy and the fabric of society
• Middle East conflict and ending up dealing arms
•The criers and the doer’s.
• Can working women have it all?
• Who IS Olivia Pope?
• Re framing something important for me.
• Her greatest accomplishment so far

To find out more about Adele and her work, please visit https://www.lifeslookingood.com/
Adele's Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lifeslookingood/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D

When I ask my audience who they'd like me to sit down with next, my mom is the number one requested guest, every time. So, I finally got to in my Los Angeles studio during her recent visit, and I'm so glad I got this chance.

I learn things alongside you, about my mother's journey through gifted programs, Ivy League schools, academia, finding independence, feeling empty, and through discovering and choosing Orthodox Judaism. Her being a wife, mother of five, an impactful community contributor, and all while juggling a demanding career.

Sit with us as I learn things about my mother, alongside you in this intimate conversation.
We also cover:

• Her childhood
• The journery to Judaism (first 46 min)
• Raising 5 children, while working a full time demanding job.
• Being a parent to children with varying levels of observance.
• Something I have never told my mother before
• Having a son in the IDF and on the front lines of the current war in Gaza.
• Being in service of others and community.
• Does she like how her life turned out?
• Words for women, later in life.

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To find out more about Adele and her work, please visit https://www.lifeslookingood.com/
Adele's Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lifeslookingood/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D

This episode features my 18 year old son, Jacob. Jacob spent last year as a gap year, traveling to 13 countries and using Tel Aviv as a home base in a study abroad program where apparently he went to the school of life. It seems he learned some things about the world and, himself and is pretty candid (perhaps at times too candid) about what he's experiencing as a young adult growing up in todays world.
Topics covered:

• Getting to today, blended families and moving around.
• A year abroad and his "metamorphosis of self"
• The Good, Bad and Ugly about being a young person in 2023
• What excites him about the future?
• Tips for young men as it pertains to approaching women.
• What's causing the breakdown between teens and parents?
• Drugs
• Role Models
• Staying grounded

To find out more about Adele and her work, please visit https://www.lifeslookingood.com/
Adele's Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lifeslookingood/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D

Whitney Ward, is a multi talented Creative Director and Strategist with a passion for helping brands and businesses stand out with their design, content and marketing. Whitney has honed her skills as a senior creative leader at Pintrest and various advertising agencies and brands.

Whitney has been recognized with multiple accolades and even earned the SF Egotist 32 under 32 award for her pro-level ad game and most recently Sotheby's International featured  her home renovation work. When she's not working on a new campaign or selecting countertops, you can find Whitney splitting her time between SF, LA and Ohio with her two English Bulldogs and life and business partner/best friend and "gusband", Jordan Smith.

Topics Covered:

• Early life
• What does Creative Directing entail?
• Her years at Pintrest, and the sudden change
• A Multi Hyphenate world
• Finding and cultivating creativity, even in corporate jobs
• Her taking my call years ago
• Grief Project and losing a parent
• Losing over 120lbs, and what stays with you
• Is society nicer to thin people?
• Dating in a modern world
• Her unconventional life partner
• How does she stay grounded?

To find out more about Adele and her work, please visit https://www.lifeslookingood.com/
Adele's Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lifeslookingood/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D

Marya Khalil , is the president and CEO of VI PEEL & VI Derm, for over 10 years. Before VI Peel, Marya graduated from NYU in 2008 with a degree in cinema studies and communications. Marya was the inspiration behind the VI Peel product, the reason it was formulated and the first patient to receive a VI Peel.

As a teen, Marya suffered with cystic acne. It was through her late father, Dr. Khalil's revolutionary VI peel formula, that she found a safe, painless cure to treat her condition. Marya's mission is now to help individuals with all skin types restore their confidence and feel their best.

Under Marya's leadership, VI Peel has grown to offer 6 medical grade peel formulas customized for many different skin conditions, and VI Derm beauty, a portfolio of clinical daily skincare products. You can find both at Medical Spas, and Dermatologists all over the country.

To find Marya on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/maryakhalil/
TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@maryakhalilotto
To find more about VI Peel https://vipeel.com/
Find a location near you that offers VI Peel https://vipeel.com/pages/sca-store-locator

Topics Covered:

• Early life
• Mix of cultures
• Learning to deal with Cystic Acne
• Whats a VI Peel
• Losing a father too soon
• Forced leadership
• Top beauty treatments
• Approaching beauty
• Workaholic syndrome
• Mindset making a difference
• Finding a support group
• Working alongside a spouse

To find out more about Adele and her work, please visit https://www.lifeslookingood.com/
Adele's Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lifeslookingood/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D