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Mind Maps with Anna Ho
by Anna Ho
Each episode we will travel to a new destination on our Mind Maps. One destination could be the mindset of a friend that has started a nonprofit and another the mind of a teacher that has a YouTube channel. Delving into their minds, we will be learning about their unique struggles and experiences to what shows they have been binge watching recently! I really hope you enjoy this series and gain insightful perspectives and lessons that you can use in the future!- Anna Ho, your host :)
Episodes
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Medha's Mind: Harvard Medical School Master's Student
Destination #36: Medha, an incoming Harvard Medical School Master's Student, talks about everything from why she chose the pre-med path, mental health awareness, and the difference between dopamine and serotonin! Medha is one of my best friends from college, and I love how candid this episode…
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Michael's Mind: Two-time Founder and CTO/COO, who sold his real estate technology platform for $30M
Destination #35: Michael Copley, co-founder of Barsala and The Edible Project, talks about everything from his early days living the scrappy start-up life in Santa Monica of college to what advice he would give himself looking back. He takes a deep dive into the challenges and pivotal lessons…
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Mike's Mind: Biggby Coffee Co-CEO & Co-Founder
Destination #34: Mike McFall, Biggby Co-Founder and Co-CEO and a professor of mine at the University of Michigan, talks about everything from the lessons he has learned starting a successful franchise from the bottom up to what he would tell his 22-year-old self. Mike gives invaluable wisdom in...
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Brian’s Mind: Professor, entrepreneur, and the energy education founder behind HeatSpring
Destination #33: Brian Hayden, founder of HeatSpring and a professor of mine at the University of Michigan, shares his journey from shaping the future of energy education to finding the perfect co-founder fit. He dives into the lessons he’s learned building HeatSpring, the challenges he’s…
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Nathan's Mind: Pre-med student turned skintech startup founder
Destination #32: Nathan Shatz, Co-Founder of Milieu, a skintech startup, shares his journey of co-founding a skin health company while still in college. From the advantages of starting as a student to the advice he'd leave on a fortune cookie for his 16-year-old self, tune in for an insightful...
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Kishan's Mind: Juggling founding a successful startup while being a full-time student
Destination #31: Kishan Sripada, founder of Formi and co-founder of Orange Slice (YC S25), talks about everything from how he built his successful startup in 2 years while being a student to how he wants to keep improving himself for the coming year and what he would do in a great zombie...
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Chris's Mind: Becoming friends with his heroes and keeping it surreal
Destination #30: Chris Duncan, Co-Founder & CEO of Creator Camp LLC and content creator, talks about cold emailing his heroes to now becoming friends with them, meeting the Creative Director of Forbes by sneaking into their NYC headquarters, and where he would go if a millionaire decided to fund...
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Simon Kim's Mind: Full Time Content Creator & CEO @ Keep It Wholesome
Destination #29: Simon Kim, a full-time content creator and CEO of Keep It Wholesome, talks about his creative process when producing a video, his clothing business Keep It Wholesome and Creator Camp, along with fun things like the most daring thing he has done! Check out Simon's YouTube channel...
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Laurie Postlewate's Mind: French Professor at Barnard College of Columbia University
Destination #28 Laurie Postlewate, a French professor at Barnard College of Columbia University, talks about creating the class French Podcasting, her biggest regret, and French feminism authors!
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Kriti’s Mind: The importance of financial literacy
Destination #27 Kriti Sarav, founder of WhyFI Matter$, talks about how to get into finance, improving herself for the coming year, and BLACKPINK!
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Marcus's Mind: UMich Ross professor who worked for Beyoncé
Destination #26 Marcus Collins, U of M Ross professor & award winning marketing professional, talks about running digital strategy for Beyoncé, teaching at UMich's Ross School of Business, and his 5 essential items!
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Jodi's Mind: IB Business teacher & Novi DECA advisor
Destination #25 Jodi Forster, my IB Business teacher & Novi DECA advisor, talks about her business career from working in fashion merchandising to now teaching business at Novi High School, what keeps her inspired everyday and favorite DECA memories!
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Simran's Mind: Youth for the People
Destination #24 Simran Haribhai, founder of Youth for the People, talks about the global issues she is raising awareness for, her ideal work space, and FINNEAS!
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Calix's Mind: 15 year old startup engineer
Destination #23 Calix Huang, 15 year old startup engineer and co founder of 1Academy, talks about founding successful organizations, his greatest failures, and if he woke up to 2,000 unread emails and could only answer 300 of them, how would he would choose which ones to answer!
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Vince's Mind: British flight attendant and aspiring youtuber
Destination #22 Vince Tuttle, British flight attendant and upcoming youtuber, talks about the craziest thing that has happened to him while on the job, why he wants to pursue YouTube, and South Africa's steak!
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Traci's Mind: Featured in TIME magazine and advocate for education equality
Destination #21 Traci Burton, an advocate for education equality and featured in TIME magazine, talks about how she is trying to bring awareness to the education inequality in Michigan specifically for the predominantly black communities, how others can also help bring awareness, and Michelle Obama!
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Chinmayi's Mind: Columbia neuroscience student
Destination #20 Chinmayi Balusu, student at Columbia University and founder of Simply Neuroscience, talks about how she got into neuroscience, how other students can start their own initiatives, and writing poetry!
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Bhagyashree's Mind: Making her own magazine
Destination #19 Bhagyashree Prabhutendolkar, founder of The Youth Magazine, talks about why she made The Youth Magazine, publishing her own books, and the funniest thing that has happened to her!
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Max's Mind: A successful youtuber and teen entrepreneur
Destination #18 Max Reisinger, youtuber and entrepreneur, talks about how he started his youtube channel that now has over 228k subscribers, starting his own clothing company Perspectopia, and what he would do with $10 million dollars! Checkout Max's youtube channel:...
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Nicholas's Mind: Youtuber while being a teacher
Destination #17 Nicholas Letarte, teacher and youtuber, talks about how he started YouTube, his greatest regret, and his favorite 90s jam!
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Jason's Mind: Being an ex Kpop trainee
Destination #16 Jason Yu talks about his experience of being an ex Big Hit Kpop trainee, seeing BTS members and I-Land contestants, and having monkeys as pets!
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Claire and Erin: Sustainable fashion and the ballet world
Detour with Claire Song and Erin Kim talk with Anna Ho about sustainable fashion, the dark side of the ballet world, and the last book they read!
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Celine's Mind: She is from Indonesia but has a large audience from overseas
Destination #15 Celine Lityo, founder of The Physics Society, talks about the adversities she has faced leading a team of people, how she has garnered a large audience from overseas, and her 2 greatest wishes!
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Sonya’s Mind: Racism in the ballet world
Destination #14 Sonya Park, founder of Stairway For Ballet, talks about the racial injustices in the ballet world, her greatest achievement, and the K dramas!
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Ellen's Mind: Bringing awareness to Kawasaki Disease
Destination #13 Ellen Xu talks about how she became a Kawasaki Disease activist, her proudest achievements, and Interstellar! I also talk about my own experience battling Kawasaki Disease!
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(Pt.2) Magda’s Mind: Imposters Syndromes effect on students
Destination #12 Magda Wojtara, founder of General Intelligences, talks about the effect of Imposter Syndrome on first gen and BIPOC students, lifelong ambitions, and her foodie insta blog Journey The Destination!
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Magda's Minds: Imposters Syndrome's effects on students
Destination #12 Magda Wojtara, founder of General Intelligences, talks about the effect of Imposters Syndrome on first gen and BIPOC students, lifelong ambitions, and her foodie insta blog Journey The Destination!
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Zoya & Lalana's Minds: Stigmas women face
Destination #11 Zoya and Lalana of #GirlBoss podcast talk about the stigmas women face in business, colorism in Indian culture, and being confident in yourself! Go checkout Zoya and Lalana's podcast and give it a follow! This is a link to their podcast:...
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Evan & Emelia’s Minds: Giving youth a platform
Destination #10 Evan Woo and Emelia Yang from Papillon Youth Outreach talk about amplifying youth voices, not caring about what others think of you, and candlelit baths! Go check out Evan and Emelia's podcast Out of the Cocoon and give it a follow! This is a link to their podcast:...
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Shantanu’s Mind: Starting a company
Destination #9 Shantanu Roy talks about why he started Zeta Management Consulting, how he works with an international team in South Korea, and how to describe the color blue to a blind person!
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Yashvardhan's Mind: Overcoming a stammer
Destination #8 Yashvardhan Sharma talks about how he overcame a severe stammer and is now serving as the assistant director for Harvard Model UN India, interviewing Princeton professors for his blog, and Naruto!
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Jahnavi's Mind: Helping those less fortunate than us
Destination #7 Jahnavi Mahajan, founder of Word Builders, talks about how she is helping underprivileged kids, making her own app, and TikTok getting banned in India!
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Sai’s Mind: How he got 500k people to visit his blog
Destination #6 Sai Srihass talks about how he grew his blog to have over 500k visits in total, why people empathize with villains more than the superheros, and if we might live on Mars or space in the near future!
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Ananya & Saamanthy: A candid conversation
In this detour from our destinations, Ananya and Saamanthy have a candid chat with host Anna Ho. They talk about performative activism, school opening in the fall, and getting out of the bubble that is just our community!
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Dana & Heidi's Minds: Learning to love yourself
Destination #5 Dana and Heidi, hosts of the Funtimes with Dana and Heidi podcast, talk about self love, being criticized and how they dealt with it, and a yummy watermelon sorbet recipe! Go check out Dana and Heidi's pocast and give it a follow! This is a link to their podcast:...
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Jui's Mind: Inspiring others through AI
Destination #4 Jui Khankari, founder of AInspire, talks about how she got into AI, hopes of helping underprivileged kids, and 10 ways to use a pencil other than writing!
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(Bonus) Agamroop x Anna’s Mind: Our journeys to physical & mental health
In this bonus episode of the collab with The Saludable Life podcast, founder Agamroop and Anna of Mind Maps talk about how physical health plays a part in mental health and their physical health journeys which include being over weight and having a eating disorder! Go give Agamroop’s podcast a...
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The Saludable Life x Mind Maps: How to start a podcast or initiative
Destination #3 In a collaboration episode with podcast The Saludable Life, founder Agamroop Kaur talks about why she started her podcast, her greatest failures, and how COVID has been affecting her! Go check out Agamroop's podcast and give it a follow! This is a link to her podcast:...
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Constantin’s Mind: How to jumpstart into stock trading
Destination #2 Constantin talks about the difficulties of working with a close friend on big finance projects, apps for stock trading practice, and why tennis balls have fuzz on them!
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Ananya's Mind: Blowing up on TikTok
Destination #1 Ananya talks about the behind the scenes of blowing up on TikTok, haters calling her trans-phobic, and lifelong dreams!
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Each episode we will travel to a new destination on our Mind Maps. One destination could be the mindset of a friend that has started a nonprofit and another the mind of a teacher that has a YouTube channel. Delving into their minds, we will be learning about their unique struggles and experiences to what shows they have been binge watching recently! I really hope you enjoy this series and gain insightful perspectives and lessons that you can use in the future!- Anna Ho, your host :)
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