My guest today is Lydia Fenet, one of New York’s most dynamic and compelling businesswomen and personalities. As the founder and CEO of the Lydia Fenet Agency, Lydia represents best in class charity auctioneers. Before founding her agency, she spent more than two decades at the famed Christie’s auction house, serving as its Global Managing Director of Strategic Partnerships. During her time there, she became the world’s leading charity auctioneer and single-handedly raised over a billion dollars for more than 800 organizations around the world, standing alongside Bruce Springsteen, Hugh Jackman, Elton John, Matt Damon, and Jerry Seinfeld for some of the auctions she raised money for.

Lydia is also the creator and host of the podcast, Claim Your Confidence, in collaboration with Rockefeller Center, launched after the success of her book of the same name. Her other best selling book is The Most Powerful Woman in the Room is You, which was optioned by Netflix in 2022 for a series that will be produced by Chernin Entertainment starring Kiernan Shipka as the lead.

In addition to auctioneering, podcasting, and writing, Lydia travels the globe and speaks with companies, helping them to unleash their sales potential and public speaking capabilities. She also recently hosted her first Claim Your Confidence retreat.

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Today's guest is Steve Shenbaum, a classically trained actor and comedian and Founder & President of Game On Nation, a communications, leadership, and team building firm based in Bradenton, Florida. For over 27 years, Steve and his team have worked with some of the country’s most recognizable athletes, colleges and professional sports teams - including NASCAR, the LA Lakers, NY Yankees, and more -  Fortune 50 companies, government, and military leaders, and he is an industry expert in presentation, public speaking, teambuilding, and communication skills training. 

In his past career as an actor, Steve was featured in “American Pie 2”, “EDTV”, “Space Jam”, “The Third Wheel” (with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck), “Will & Grace”, “Married with Children”, “Beverly Hills 90210”, and more than one-hundred national commercials. Steve graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in Performance Studies and also trained at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford, England. 

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My guest today is Natalie Van Doren, a writer/director and assistant director in film and television, in Los Angeles. Natalie has directed multiple network episodes of the Nickelodeon show, Side Hustle, and That Girl Lay Lay for Nickelodeon and Netflix, with famed producer Will Packer.

After graduating from Colorado State University, Natalie moved to LA and began her career in the entertainment business as an assistant at ICM Talent Agency. While there, she worked with Francis Ford Coppola, Baz Luhrmann, Luc Besson, and others. Soon after, she was accepted into the prestigious Directors Guild of America Training Program. 

While in the program, Natalie produced and directed her first short film, The SharkTank Redemption, a parody of The Shawshank Redemption, which was purchased by HBO and aired on HBO and Cinemax for 6 years. 

Natalie has since gone on to direct the second unit of CSI Miami, was the DGA trainee on on Ocean’s 11, and was the assistant director, CSI, The West Wing, ER, and many more productions. She also recently finished a graphic novel, Infinite, which she wrote with her brother, writer Doug Van Doren.

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