INSIGHT is the first Armenian-English language power and culture podcast in the United States. Hosted by Emma Sargsyan - media founder, PR strategist, and owner of Tribune.am, one of the world's most widely read Armenian-language platforms with 30 million monthly readers , INSIGHT brings you long-form conversations with extraordinary guests at the intersection of business, identity, leadership and culture. Each episode goes beyond the résumé. Beyond the highlight reel. Into the real story - what it actually cost, what it actually took, and what the person sitting across from Emma learned that they could not have learned any other way. Guests include Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, Marine veterans, fashion designers who kept their dreams secret through military deployments, Freemasons, political activists, financial economists who survived war and revolution, and the builders — seen and unseen — who are shaping the Armenian diaspora and the broader world. INSIGHT is distributed globally and amplified through Tribune.am's editorial reach across Los Angeles, Yerevan, Moscow, Beirut, Paris and the Armenian diaspora on four continents. New episodes every week. If you have ever built something from nothing — or wanted to — this show is for you.
Spider-Man's Tombstone Opens Up: Growing Up Black With Albinism in South Central | Marvin 'Jones III
Let us know what you think! Marvin "Krondon" Jones III plays Tombstone in Spider-Man: Brand New Day — but before the rap career, the acting career, and the biggest role of his life, he was a seven-year-old boy in South Central Los Angeles whose own community didn't know what to make of him: a Black man born with albinism, in a city where almost no one looked like him. In this conversation, Krondon opens up about the identity battle that shaped him, the faith that gave him language for his purpose, why his own rarity may have kept him out of the streets that consumed so many young men around him, and what it actually means to be a man when no one taught you the words for it. He also shares the story of the night a legendary West African musician grabbed his face backstage and told him, in a language he didn't understand, exactly who he was. This is a conversation about representation, faith, masculinity, and the difference between being ordinary and being extraordinary — from a man who's spent his life redefining what "different" means. 🎬 Marvin "Krondon" Jones III plays Tombstone in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, in theaters now. Watch the full episode of INSIGHT — the first Armenian-English podcast in the US — and follow for new episodes every week. Follow INSIGHT: https://www.instagram.com/emmasargsyan/ https://open.spotify.com/show/033ll3QADF1iuXkdC73OIb?si=UmoTF7ayQWqorXmYex5Whg https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/insight-with-emma/id1896798552 #Krondon #Tombstone #SpiderManBrandNewDay #Albinism #INSIGHT TIMESTAMPS 0:00 – Cold Open 0:53 – Intro 1:14 – Born Different: South Central, 1980 23:14 – Finding His Voice 26:29 – The Light Under the Table 31:12 – You Can't Give What You Don't Have 35:15 – What Makes a Man 41:38 – Men Are Dying in Silence 50:40 – On Feminism, Ego, and God 1:00:56 – Playing Villains Who Were Never Understood 1:06:57 – Better Than the Worst Thing You've Done 1:10:29 – Meeting Salif Keita Backstage 1:18:48 – Being Over Doing 1:19:17 – Why God Gave Me This Platform 1:23:22 – Closing Support the show Subscribe to the Youtube Channel Follow me on Instagram
He Trains $100,000 Protection Dogs for LA's Richest Families. He Says Most Protection Dogs Are Fake.
Let us know what you think! They pepper sprayed his client's dogs for 24 minutes. The dogs went back, cleaned their eyes, and attacked again. And again. Until neighbors called the police and the intruders ran. Those dogs were trained by Mike Israeli, founder of Delta K9 Academy, the man LA's wealthiest families call when they want protection that doesn't fail. His dogs have made the news for stopping home invasions. His clients include people who already spent six figures elsewhere and found out the hard way what they actually bought. Because here's what Mike told me: most of what's sold as a "protection dog" in this industry is fake. A dog that performs on training equipment and freezes in real life. In this episode, he explains exactly how to tell the difference, and why he'll personally play the attacker to prove a dog isn't what its owner was promised. We talk about why the dog sometimes chooses the owner. Why he's refused wealthy clients outright. What he really thinks about police K9 training (he knows this answer will make people angry, and he says it anyway). The legal reality of what happens when your dog bites an intruder. And the part nobody expects: why he holds back his own affection from the dogs he trains, so they can fully love the family they're going to protect. Mike came to this country and built something he calls a legacy, not a business. By the end of this conversation you'll understand why he means it. ⏱ CHAPTERS 00:47 "They taught me more than I taught them" 02:58 Why Delta exists: crime in LA and a dog named Graph 05:04 Fake dogs: the fraud inside the protection dog industry 07:25 A protection dog is a weapon: the owner problem 09:58 Training the kids, not just the dog 11:49 "Tell your dog to attack me" — how Mike tests a dog 17:26 The dog chooses the owner 18:38 What a $100,000 dog should actually do 24:17 Status symbol or security: who really buys these dogs 28:17 The law: when you're liable for a bite and when you're not 31:24 The pepper spray home invasion story 33:42 Criminals adapt, so the dogs must too 37:05 The clients Mike refuses 38:36 Holding back love: why Mike won't bond with Shadow 41:36 "Police dogs should be more trained" 45:19 Armenian families vs Beverly Hills families 48:21 What your dog eats is killing it 49:13 Before you spend $100,000: Mike's final answer 🎙 ABOUT INSIGHT INSIGHT is the first Armenian-English podcast in the US, hosted by Emma Sargsyan. Long-form conversations with leaders in business, medicine, sport and public life — the stories behind the people. New episodes every Saturday, 1pm PT. Subscribe so you don't miss what's coming next: https://www.youtube.com/@UChSO072QVzwQzM8Ue8T1_7w 📍 Follow INSIGHT Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emmasargsyan/ TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@emmasargsya 🤝 Work with Emma PR, media strategy and personal branding — Saege PR: https://www.emmasargsyan.com/ Contact: emma@emmasargsyan.com 🐕 Follow Mike Israeli & Delta K9 Academy Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mikeisraelyan/ Website: https://www.deltak9academy.com/ #INSIGHT #EmmaInsight #DeltaK9 #ProtectionDogs #MikeIsraeli #K9Training #GuardDogs #DogTraining #Podcast Support the show Subscribe to the Youtube Channel Follow me on Instagram
What Movie Stars Are Really Like When No One Can Protect Them | Rigan Machado
Let us know what you think! There is a room in Beverly Hills where fame means nothing. For 35 years, the most carefully managed people on the planet — Ashton Kutcher, Bradley Cooper, Robert Pattinson, Tom Hardy, Vin Diesel, Mel Gibson — have stepped onto its mats, where money can't save them, publicists can't protect them, and everybody taps. The man who runs that room is Rigan Machado: 8-time world champion, 365 wins and 0 losses, unbeaten for 13 years, trained within the Gracie family — the family that created Brazilian jiu-jitsu and founded the UFC's first dynasty. In this episode of INSIGHT with Emma Sargsyan, Rigan reveals what Hollywood's most powerful people are actually like when the performance stops. Which superstar arrived too shy to speak — and how long it took him to relax. Why Tom Hardy entered a jiu-jitsu competition as a nobody and won. Why celebrities become "balloons" — and what it takes to bring them back to earth. What 55 years on the mats taught him about ego, power, masculinity, and why his integrity was never for sale. This is not a conversation about martial arts. It's a conversation about what power does to a person when it can no longer protect them. ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 The room in Beverly Hills 04:19 "I don't care who you are" — the first rule 04:51 Why Hollywood turns people into balloons 05:40 Why celebrities fall in love with jiu-jitsu 07:07 Robert Pattinson during Batman 08:51 Protecting actors before filming 10:33 Training celebrities inside their homes 12:08 What losing control does to powerful people 16:46 Tom Hardy's secret competition 18:09 "Is jiu-jitsu just a celebrity trend?" 19:56 Royce Gracie and the first UFC 22:13 Meeting his childhood heroes 23:23 Power, ego, and Beverly Hills 26:01 The beating that made him humble 29:53 Rio de Janeiro to Beverly Hills 32:42 Social media: the girl who invented a life 35:27 Masculinity in 2026 38:01 What tapping out really means 40:11 Directing films & Ashton Kutcher's advice 44:56 What jiu-jitsu took from him 46:34 How he reads people 47:59 A free class for INSIGHT viewers 50:01 Zion Clark: no limits --- 🎧 SUBSCRIBE for new episodes every Saturday, 1pm PT: 📩 From the Inside — Emma's monthly newsletter on PR, media and the stories behind these conversations: ▶️ Watch next — The Truth About Ronda Rousey's Losses | Edmond Tarverdyan: https://youtu.be/HscFDRss2pM?si=a-aZYT2YDiG1LYzu — ABOUT RIGAN MACHADO Rigan Machado is an 8-time Brazilian jiu-jitsu world champion and coral belt with a competition record of 365-0, unbeaten across 13 years. A member of the legendary Machado family and cousin to the Gracies — the founders of Brazilian jiu-jitsu — he has taught more than 10,000 students and trained over 60 world champions. For 35 years, his Beverly Hills academy has been Hollywood's most trusted training room, coaching stars including Ashton Kutcher, Bradley Cooper, Robert Pattinson, Tom Hardy, Vin Diesel, Mario Lopez and Mel Gibson. He is also a film producer and director, and the creator of his own energy drink brand. ABOUT INSIGHT INSIGHT is a podcast hosted by Emma Sargsyan — PR strategist, media founder, and CEO of Saege PR, who has spent two decades advising international brands, governments and institutions. On INSIGHT, she sits down with experts, changemakers and bold thinkers to uncover the stories behind the headlines — the conversations people the world has already judged never got to have. New episodes every Saturday at 1pm PT. 📲 Follow Emma: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emmasargsyan/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emma-sargsyan/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@emmasargsya?lang=en Website: https://www.emmasargsyan.com/ #RiganMachado #BrazilianJiuJitsu #BJJ #TomHardy #RobertPattinson #AshtonKutcher #GracieFamily #Hollywood #INSIGHTPodcast #EmmaSargsyan #Podcast #MartialArts #UFC #CelebrityTrainer #BeverlyHills Support the show Subscribe to the Youtube Channel Follow me on Instagram
The Truth About Ronda Rousey's Losses. Her Coach Finally Talks.
Let us know what you think! The most controversial coach in the history of women's MMA has never told the full story. Until now. Edmond Tarverdyan trained Ronda Rousey for five years. He was in her corner for every fight. He watched her become the most dominant champion women's MMA had ever seen — and then watched it fall apart in 48 seconds. He has been blamed for the losses. Called a terrible coach by her own mother. Analysed by Joe Rogan and every MMA commentator alive. In this conversation he finally says what he has never said publicly. What actually happened the night Ronda lost to Holly Holm — and why 28 days notice was only the beginning of the problem. What it was like when she could not drop half a pound after eight hours in a bathtub and they had to fight in Australia in the morning. Why he says Joe Rogan's analysis is wrong. What he wishes he had done differently. The brain hemorrhage that almost made him quit coaching entirely. And what he thinks Ronda would ask him if she was sitting here right now. This is not the story MMA media told. This is the story from the man who was in the corner. ───────────────────── WHAT WE COVER How Edmond started coaching at 16 with a stick in his hand — and why parents loved it The full story of what happened in the 28 days before the Holly Holm fight nobody talks about Why Ronda was in a bathtub for 8 hours before the Amanda Nunes fight What he actually thinks of Joe Rogan's analysis of the losses — and why he says it is completely wrong The moment he knocked on Ronda's door before the Amanda fight and saw Travis Brown there for the first time What he wishes he had said or done differently The brain hemorrhage that almost made him walk away from coaching forever Whether Arman Tsarukyan is the most coachable fighter he has ever worked with What Armenian parents get wrong about putting their kids in combat sports What Ronda Rousey would ask him if she was sitting in this chair right now — and what he would say back ───────────────────── TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Cold open 01:00 Building Glendale Fighting Club from a printing shop — two years of legal battles 08:00 Starting coaching at 16 — the stick, the strict parents and the mistakes 13:00 How Ronda came into his gym — and why he threw her out first 20:00 The early years before she became famous — six amateur fights, all first round 27:00 The Holly Holm fight — 28 days notice and what really happened 38:00 The Amanda Nunes fight — the bathtub, the morning weigh-in, Travis Brown 48:00 His response to Joe Rogan's analysis — and why he says it is wrong 55:00 The brain hemorrhage — two months away from the gym 62:00 Arman Tsarukyan — what makes him different from everyone else 68:00 What Armenian parents get wrong about combat sports 78:00 What Ronda would ask him right now — and his answer ───────────────────── ABOUT EDMOND TARVERDYAN Founder, Glendale Fighting Club, Glendale, California. Former head trainer, Ronda Rousey. Current trainer, Arman Tsarukyan and multiple UFC fighters. Over 30 years coaching combat sports in the Armenian-American community of Los Angeles. ───────────────────── ABOUT INSIGHT INSIGHT is the first Armenian-English language power and culture podcast in the United States, hosted by Emma Sargsyan. Distributed across all major podcast platforms and amplified through emmasargsyan.com. Subscribe for new episodes every week. ───────────────────── Follow Emma: @emmasargsyan Listen: Spotify · Apple Podcasts · All major platforms ───────────────────── #RondaRousey #EdmondTarverdyan #UFC #MMA #GlendaleFC #ArmanTsarukyan #Boxing #ArmenianAmerican #INSIGHT #EmmaInsight #WomensMMA #UFC #HollyHolm #AmandaNunes Support the show Subscribe to the Youtube Channel Follow me on Instagram
A Beverly Hills Celebrity Matchmaker Finally Said Why do Men Cheat. The Answer Is Not What You Think
Let us know what you think! Why do men cheat? It is not what you think. It is not about the relationship. It is not about the woman. According to one of the most prominent celebrity matchmakers in Beverly Hills — it is proximity and opportunity. And that changes everything about how we think about loyalty. Alessandra Conti is a celebrity matchmaker and Co-Founder of Matchmakers In The City in Beverly Hills. In 14 years she has matched A-list celebrities, royalty and Real Housewives cast members. She has worked with clients from age 21 to 88. She has been on Bravo, NBC, CBS, MTV and Fox News. And in this conversation she finally says the things that do not make it into the TV segments. Why successful women are accidentally repelling the men they want. Why men who are great at dating are terrible at relationships. What the gold digger accusation is actually about — and what separates a gold digger from a woman who knows her worth. Whether a serial cheater can ever become faithful. What your friend group has to do with whether you cheat. Why women cheat as much as men — and why nobody knows. And what 14 years of finding love for other people has taught her about whether love actually exists. ───────────────────── TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Opening 01:30 Are the most eligible men in Beverly Hills as good as they seem 06:00 What successful women get wrong when dating 10:00 Is it a myth that men are intimidated by successful women 14:00 Feminine energy and letting him lead — what it actually means 19:00 How matchmaking actually works — the process 26:00 From 21 to 88 — who actually uses a matchmaker 31:00 Are male and female clients looking for the same thing 36:00 How many clients are actually ready for love 40:00 Why do men cheat — the real answer 47:00 Can a serial cheater become faithful 51:00 What your friend group has to do with cheating 56:00 Working with clients who have been cheated on 62:00 The gold digger accusation — where it comes from 68:00 The difference between a gold digger and knowing your worth 73:00 What celebrities actually lack in their relationships 78:00 Advice for the person who has given up on love 82:00 After 14 years — does she still believe love exists ───────────────────── ABOUT ALESSANDRA CONTI Celebrity Matchmaker and Co-Founder, Matchmakers In The City, Beverly Hills. 14 years matching A-list celebrities, royalty and public figures. Featured on Bravo, NBC, CBS, MTV and Fox News. matchmakersinthecity.com | @alessandraconti ───────────────────── ABOUT INSIGHT INSIGHT is the first Armenian-English language power and culture podcast in the United States, hosted by Emma Sargsyan. Distributed across all major podcast platforms and amplified through Tribune.am reaching 30 million monthly readers globally. Subscribe for new episodes every week. ───────────────────── Follow Emma: @emmasargsyan Listen: Spotify · Apple Podcasts · All major platforms ───────────────────── #BeverlyHills #Matchmaking #CelebrityMatchmaker #WhyMenCheat #Dating #Relationships #GoldDigger #Love #AlessandraConti #INSIGHT #EmmaInsight #DatingAdvice #RelationshipAdvice #Cheating #Loyalty Support the show Subscribe to the Youtube Channel Follow me on Instagram
This Conversation Could Literally Save Your Life. I Am Not Exaggerating.
Let us know what you think! Every three seconds, someone in the world has a stroke. In the next hour — while you watch this — 1,200 people will have one. Most people think a stroke announces itself. That it arrives slowly. That they will know. It does not. It arrives in seconds. And the window to reverse it — the window between a person who can speak, move and recognise their family, and one who cannot — is measured in minutes. My guest today goes into that window for a living. Dr. Mikayel Grigoryan is the Medical Director of the Neurointerventional Program at Adventist Health Glendale. He has over 45 peer-reviewed publications. He trained at UCSF, Stanford and the University of Minnesota. He left academia for private practice because he wanted the freedom to take care of patients the way he believed they deserved to be cared for. He also goes to Armenia four times a year, performs surgeries and tells almost nobody about it. In this episode of INSIGHT, Emma Sargsyan sits down with Dr. Grigoryan for the most honest medical conversation she has ever filmed. What the system gets wrong. What the Armenian community does to itself. Why he thinks about brain surgery the way a plumber thinks about pipes. And what a bottle of wine taught him about life. TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Cold open 00:30 What it's like to be inside a human brain 03:30 The plumber analogy — opening and closing pipes 08:00 How to recognise a stroke — BE-FAST 14:00 AI in stroke care 20:00 What the medical system gets wrong 27:00 Pharma, research and the rules he breaks 33:00 Food, inflammation and brain disease 40:00 The Armenian community and going to the doctor 48:00 Stress, genocide and the Armenian body 54:00 The philosophy and what happens when patients die 58:00 The Sopranos quote and the direct message ───────────────────── If you or someone you know shows sudden signs of stroke — face drooping, arm weakness, speech difficulty, vision changes, severe headache or loss of balance — call 911 immediately. Do not drive. Do not wait. ───────────────────── ABOUT DR. MIKAYEL GRIGORYAN Medical Director, Neurointerventional Program, Adventist Health Glendale. Over 45 peer-reviewed publications. Trained at UCSF, Stanford and the University of Minnesota. Based in Los Angeles, California. ───────────────────── ABOUT INSIGHT INSIGHT is the first Armenian-English language power and culture podcast in the United States, hosted by Emma Sargsyan. Distributed across all major podcast platforms. Subscribe for new episodes every week. ───────────────────── Follow Emma: @emmasargsyan Listen: Spotify · Apple Podcasts · All major platforms ───────────────────── #Neurosurgeon #Stroke #BrainHealth #ArmenianAmerican #INSIGHT #EmmaInsight #MikayalGrigoryan #Healthcare #MedicalAdvice #ArmenianCommunity #StrokeAwareness #BrainSurgery Support the show Subscribe to the Youtube Channel Follow me on Instagram
Jack Topalian: From Business to Euphoria, Unscripted
Let us know what you think! Hollywood has been casting this man as the villain for 12 years. The mob boss. The criminal. The dangerous one. His family fled the Armenian Genocide. His uncle fought the Nazis. And this country looked at him and decided he was the threat. Jack Topalian plays Nasim/Naz in HBO's Euphoria — a role that became one of the most talked-about Armenian moments in television history, almost entirely by accident. The Armenian coffee cups, the cigarette, the unscripted Armenian dialogue with his on-screen bodyguard — none of it was in the script. He asked for it scene by scene, and the show's creator said yes. In this episode of INSIGHT, Emma Sargsyan sits down with Jack Topalian for a conversation about Hollywood, identity, masculinity, fame, fear and what it actually costs to keep being cast as the villain. ABOUT JACK TOPALIAN Jack Topalian is an actor known for his roles in Argo, Shock and Awe, True Detective, Ray Donovan, Emily the Criminal, Clipped, Duster and HBO's Euphoria, where he plays Naz. Born in Soviet Armenia, he came to the United States at age ten and spent over four decades in business before pivoting to acting. ABOUT INSIGHT INSIGHT is the first Armenian-English language power and culture podcast in the United States, hosted by Emma Sargsyan. Distributed across all major podcast platforms and across the global Armenian diaspora. TIMESTAMPS 00:30 How the Euphoria role happened 04:00 The unscripted Armenian coffee scene 09:00 Has he ever been the villain in his own story 12:00 The biggest lie successful people tell 16:00 Why he pivoted to acting after 40 years in business 21:00 Being Armenian in America at age 10 27:00 The night he drove home drunk 31:00 Method acting and what it does to the mind 36:00 The critic question 38:00 Masculinity in Hollywood today 42:00 Why Armenians keep playing the villain 48:00 What he actually sacrificed 51:00 The accidental audition through his children 55:00 If social media disappeared tomorrow #Euphoria #JackTopalian #Hollywood #ArmenianAmerican #INSIGHT #EmmaInsight #Acting #Masculinity #ArmenianCommunity #Identity Support the show Subscribe to the Youtube Channel Follow me on Instagram
Winning Isn't Everything. Wanting to Win Is. A Former Pro Athlete Explains the Difference
Let us know what you think! His name is a mountain in Armenia. When his family moved from Iran to Los Angeles, there was no English equivalent for the letter. So his parents invented one. Aragad. It became his identity — which is exactly how he has approached everything since. Aragad Abramian grew up in Los Angeles as an Armenian-American kid born in Iran who was not the tallest player on any court he ever played on. He was the point guard. The coach on the floor. The one responsible for making every person around him better. He played professionally in Kazakhstan. He travelled twelve times a month. His coaches did not speak English. His teammates did not speak English. When he stepped on the court none of that mattered. There is only one language on the court — and he spoke it fluently. When COVID shut down professional basketball he did not wait. He pivoted in days — completely, fully, without one foot still in the door — into financial services and real estate investing. The same discipline that built his basketball career built his investment firm. He also coaches youth basketball in the Armenian-American community because there were not enough coaches and somebody had to show up. In this episode of INSIGHT, Emma Sargsyan sits down with Aragad Abramian for a wide-ranging conversation about hunger, discipline, losing, leadership, motivation and what it actually takes to rebuild yourself when the first plan does not work out. ───────────────────────────────────── ABOUT ARAGAD ABRAMIAN Aragad Abramian is a former professional basketball player who competed in leagues across the United States, Armenia and Kazakhstan. He is the founder of a real estate investment firm and runs Mini Ballers Academy USA — a skills development programme for youth basketball players in the Armenian-American community of Los Angeles. He is based in Los Angeles. ───────────────────────────────────── ABOUT INSIGHT INSIGHT is the first Armenian-English language power and culture podcast in the United States, hosted by Emma Sargsyan. Each episode is a long-form conversation with an extraordinary guest at the intersection of business, identity, leadership and culture. Distributed across all major podcast platforms. Subscribe for new episodes every week. ───────────────────────────────────── TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Cold open 00:38 The name — a mountain in Armenia 03:00 Where the hunger came from 08:00 The Armenian household and education 13:00 Kazakhstan — grinding where nobody is watching 20:00 Motivation is a match — discipline is the candle 26:00 Losing, scars and learning from wins 32:00 Coachability and the two types of coaching 38:00 When the game is on — personal problems do not belong on the court 43:00 Blaming and taking responsibility 47:00 Leadership as action — leading from the front 51:00 No plan B — transition 100% or not at all ───────────────────────────────────── FOLLOW EMMA SARGSYAN Instagram: @emmasargsyan ───────────────────────────────────── This episode is for everyone who is grinding somewhere nobody is watching — and wondering if it is worth it. It is. #Basketball #Entrepreneur #INSIGHT #EmmaInsight #Motivation #Discipline #Leadership #ArmenianAmerican #Kazakhstan #RealEstate #AragadAbramian #PersonalDevelopment #GrowthMindset #ProfessionalAthlete #SportsToBusiness Support the show Subscribe to the Youtube Channel Follow me on Instagram
What Your Family Called Protection Was Actually Control
Let us know what you think! What your family called protection was actually control. And most of us spent years - sometimes decades - believing the two were the same thing. Dr. Pauline Yeghnazar Peck is an Iranian-Armenian psychologist, coach and speaker who specialises in helping daughters of immigrants break cycles and bridge gaps. She grew up as the sensitive child in a family where emotions were seen as a problem. She resisted therapy when her mother died because she thought it was "a white person thing." She became the psychologist she needed. And in this conversation — she named things she has never said publicly before. In this episode of INSIGHT, Emma Sargsyan sits down with Dr. Pauline for the most honest conversation this show has ever had about guilt, narcissism, shame, women's bodies, abusive relationships and the cost of breaking cycles inside families that do not want to be broken. WHAT WE COVER How the overachieving eldest daughter drive becomes a pathway to burnout — and what is actually fueling it Why the sensitive child in an immigrant family is taught that her emotions are a problem What happened when her mother died and she refused therapy — and what finally changed The difference between narcissistic tendencies and narcissistic personality disorder — and why social media is confusing the two Why guilt is a byproduct of trauma, and how the Armenian Genocide is still transmitting guilt through generations into women alive today Whether it is possible to love your child and cause them significant psychological harm simultaneously, regularly - without knowing it What growing up in a family where a woman's body is simultaneously her family's honour and something never discussed does to her relationship with her own body and sexuality Why shame around sex and the body leaves young women unable to protect themselves The trauma bond - what it actually is versus how social media uses the term Why leaving an abusive relationship is sometimes the most dangerous moment The woman who waited until her father died before she could live the life she wanted What the overachieving woman who has everything and feels hollow is actually running from The hardest thing she has had to name in her own family — including something she revealed for the first time in this conversation TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Pauline analyses Emma live 04:00 The survival tactic, you cannot be mediocre 08:00 The sensitive child and what shame does to a seven year old 16:00 Her mother's death and the resistance to therapy 22:00 Narcissism - tendencies versus disorder 29:00 Guilt as a byproduct of the Armenian Genocide 36:00 What is normalised is not always healthy 42:00 Can you love and harm simultaneously 49:00 Overprotection versus resilience 55:00 Women's bodies sexuality and shame 65:00 Purity patriarchy and the outfit in the backpack 70:00 The milestones burden 74:00 Trauma bonds and abusive relationships 84:00 Family approval and intercultural couples 89:00 Unprocessed trauma in the body 94:00 The overachieving woman and conditional love 99:00 The hardest thing she named in her own family ───────────────────── If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic abuse contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 or text START to 88788. ───────────────────── ABOUT DR. PAULINE YEGHNAZAR PECK Licensed psychologist, coach and speaker based in Los Angeles. Founder of Noor Therapy and Wellness. Creator of Bridging Gaps Breaking Cycles — a coaching and community program for daughters of immigrants. Follow her at @paulinethepsychologist ───────────────────── Follow Emma: @emmasargsyan Podcast: Spotify · Apple Podcasts · I Heart Radio · All major platforms ───────────────────── #Psychology #MentalHealth #Narcissism #Trauma #ArmenianWomen #IranianAmerican #DaughtersOfImmigrants #BreakingCycles #Therapy #WomensMentalHealth #INSIGHT #EmmaInsight #PaulineYeghnazarPeck #IntergenerationalTrauma #GuiltAndShame Support the show Subscribe to the Youtube Channel Follow me on Instagram
He Said Facebook Knows Things About You That You Cannot Even Say About Yourself
Let us know what you think! This conversation was filmed two years ago in San Francisco. I am sharing it today because everything Raffi Krikorian told me then is more relevant now than it was when we recorded it. Raffi Krikorian was employee number 50 at Twitter. He became the company's Chief Technology Officer. He then left to become CTO of Uber — overseeing self-driving car development at one of the most ambitious technology projects in history. Then he left that to become Chief Technology Officer of the Democratic National Committee — integrating AI into American politics at the highest level for the first time. Today he is Managing Director and CTO of Emerson Collective and has spent over twelve years as a board member of TUMO in Armenia. He helped build the internet we have today. And in this conversation — filmed two years ago, republished this week as X is back in every headline and AI deep fakes are reshaping elections around the world — he said it is broken. He also said Armenia could be the AI powerhouse of the world. He said that before ChatGPT existed. He still believes it. In this episode of INSIGHT, Emma Sargsyan sits down with Raffi Krikorian for one of the most wide-ranging and honest conversations about technology, power, privacy, children, politics and the future of the internet that this show has ever produced. ───────────────────────────────────── A NOTE ON TIMING This conversation was recorded two years ago when Raffi was Managing Director at Emerson Collective. Since then the world he described — the broken internet, the AI deep fakes in politics, the data privacy crisis, the question of children and screens — has not improved. If anything it has accelerated. I am sharing this episode now because the questions he raised then are the questions everyone is asking today. And his answers hold up completely. ───────────────────────────────────── ABOUT RAFFI KRIKORIAN Raffi Krikorian is Managing Director and Chief Technology Officer of Emerson Collective. He previously served as CTO of the Democratic National Committee, CTO of Uber's Advanced Technologies Group, and Vice President of Engineering and CTO at Twitter where he was one of the company's first fifty employees. He has been a board member of TUMO Center for Creative Technologies in Armenia for over twelve years. ───────────────────────────────────── ABOUT INSIGHT INSIGHT is the first Armenian-English language power and culture podcast in the United States, hosted by Emma Sargsyan. Each episode is a long-form conversation with an extraordinary guest at the intersection of business, identity, technology, leadership and culture. Subscribe for new episodes every week. Support the show Subscribe to the Youtube Channel Follow me on Instagram
Without Armenia There Is No Diaspora. A Man Who Has Spent 30 Years Proving It With His Own Money
Let us know what you think! Adam Kablanian has spent his career building things nobody can see. Microchips. Molecular layers that make screens produce light. Embedded memory inside the devices billions of people hold every day. The infrastructure nobody notices until it stops working. He grew up in Aleppo as an Armenian — which means he grew up as the grandchild of people who survived something unsurvivable, in a city that no longer exists as he knew it. He watched Artsakh fall too. He visited in 1998 and saw that there were not enough people to defend the land. He told people. Nobody listened. He left Aleppo at eighteen to study astrophysics at Berkeley. He wanted to understand how the universe works — where it started, what the forces are, what the fate of everything is. He recognised at Berkeley that his classmates were smarter than him. So he found what he was actually good at. Circuit design. Fifteen patents. A company he started as a consultant that he took public on NASDAQ in four years. He hired his first Armenian engineering team in 1998 over five days of cognac and lunch at a colleague's house in Yerevan. At the time Armenia had no cellular network. The government had no idea what IT was. The tax authority tried to get bribes. He set boundaries and they never tried again. Those engineers designed three chips that ended up inside the first Apple iPod. Billions of people held that device. None of them knew. He then built and sold companies to Cisco, Samsung and Aixtron. He invested in quantum computers in Finland when the field was a decade from viability. He is the founding chairman of Paradromics — a neural interface startup competing directly with Neuralink on a fraction of the funding. He brought broadband internet to Armenia. And then he planted vines. Not in Napa Valley — in Proshyan, Armenia, on a parcel of land he already owned. His first Chardonnay was not good enough. He sold it as bulk wine and started again. His 2024 White Cuvée — a blend of Chardonnay and Armenia's indigenous Voskehat grape, east meets west — won double gold and champion in class at the Houston Rodeo wine competition. He also founded Friends of the Armenian Soldier and Family three months after the 44-day war ended. He personally pays every overhead cost — every dollar of administration, marketing and operations — so that one hundred percent of every donation reaches the families of fallen and disabled soldiers. He has raised over $300,000 and run six programs. He stepped down from the Zinapah board after five years deliberately, to let others lead. He said in this conversation: without Armenia there is no diaspora. In another hundred years there will hardly be any. Support the show Subscribe to the Youtube Channel Follow me on Instagram
A Real Freemason Was Asked Every Question You Were Never Supposed to Ask. He Answered All of Them.
Let us know what you think! Armenian Freemasons and the men who orchestrated the Armenian Genocide sat in the same Masonic lodges. Both believed in brotherhood. Both professed a belief in God. Both paid their dues. And one side used that same network to try to destroy the other. My guest today is Vram Martirosyan — Freemason, diaspora activist, and one of the most honest people I have interviewed about what this brotherhood actually is and is not. We talked about everything. Whether Freemasons control governments and elections. Why you cannot become a Freemason if you are an atheist. Why the Illuminati and Freemasonry are not the same organisation. Why Iran banned Freemasonry and the Grand Lodge of Iran operates in exile in California. What actually happens in a lodge. How you get expelled. The full and almost unknown history of Armenian Freemasonry going back centuries before the First Republic. Why Armenian and Turkish Freemasons were in the same lodges and working toward completely opposite ends. Why he said Armenians who didn't join the Sacred Struggle lack national dignity — and whether he still stands by it. Why Pashinyan went after the Armenian church — and what the real calculation was. Why the diaspora is losing its ability to influence Armenia. And what every Armenian watching this needs to understand right now. This is the conversation about Freemasonry that nobody else is having. Subscribe. Share this with someone who thinks they already know what Freemasonry is. Leave a comment with the question you would have asked. Support the show Subscribe to the Youtube Channel Follow me on Instagram
They Dropped Us Off at the Airport. That Was It. | George Young | Vietnam Veteran
Let us know what you think! George H. Young was 19 years old when he was drafted into the United States Army. He didn't choose Vietnam. Vietnam chose him. In this episode, George - a decorated Vietnam veteran, wounded in action, and current Chaplain of Burbank VFW Post 8310 sits down for one of the most honest conversations about war, coming home, and what happens after that we have ever had on this show. He talks about the moment his innocence was gone. About being dropped off at an airport with no debriefing, no ceremony, no support — just a bus ticket and a life to figure out. About watching his buddies not come home. About the 41-year marriage that saved him. About holding the flag at funerals and what it costs him every single time. And about why he still shows up. Every single day. Support the show Subscribe to the Youtube Channel Follow me on Instagram
The Man Managing Your Neighbour's Millions Has One Rule Nobody in Finance Talks About.
Let us know what you think! What does it take to be truly unbreakable? Vahick Yedgarian has survived war. Revolution. Financial collapse. A gun held to his head. He built a financial empire from nothing, earned five advanced degrees while working full time, and turned a small soup brand into a major operation in Russia. He thought he had seen everything. Then his wife got sick. In this episode of INSIGHT, Emma Sargsyan sits down with Vahick Yedgarian — CFP, financial economist, and lecturer at five universities — for one of the most honest conversations about money, resilience, love and legacy ever recorded on this show. This is not a finance episode. This is a masterclass in what it means to build a life. Support the show Subscribe to the Youtube Channel Follow me on Instagram
The Untold Story of Yura Movsisyan. The power of not having a plan B
Let us know what you think! This is not a football story.Yura Movsisyan arrived in California from Baku as a refugee with no organized football experience, no academy, no structure. He became the 4th overall pick in the MLS SuperDraft. He signed for Spartak Moscow - Russia's most iconic club - for €7.5 million, and scored a hat-trick on his debut in front of 80,000 people. Then he was publicly accused of match-fixing by the very federation he had given his life to. FIFA investigated. They found nothing. He was never apologized to.Then he came back. And scored 4 goals in 70 minutes.In this conversation, Yura Movsisyan teaches us 8 lessons about discipline, sacrifice, pressure, losing, injustice, and what it means to never give up — not as a motivational phrase, but as a lived decision.This is one of the most honest conversations I have ever had. Support the show Subscribe to the Youtube Channel Follow me on Instagram
He Managed a $1 Billion Budget at Amazon and Said It Was Killing Creativity| Leo Macias
Let us know what you think! advertising, creativity, Amazon Prime Video, Snapchat, creative director, TBWA, Latin American creativity, AI and creativity, brand marketing, immigrant entrepreneur. Support the show Subscribe to the Youtube Channel Follow me on Instagram
