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Please find below information sent by Thomas POUPLIN, Head of the New York Alumni Office, to NY graduates.

Bertrand Lortholary, Consul General of France & Stand Up For Passionare pleased to invite you to Stand Up For Passion: One Year Anniversary on

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015
French Consulate
9345th Avenue, New York, NY

DOORS OPEN AT 6:30 PMSHOW BEGINS AT 7PM SHARP

7 speakers will deliver a 7-minute story followed by a 10-minute Q&A. All of our speakers have attended four professional storytelling trainings to ensure a great performance.

Show ends at 8:45PM and we will invite you to follow us to a nice location nearby where you will be free to network, talk with new people and simply continue having a great time!

Hosted by Arnaud Collery

Arnaud is a host, comedian, filmmaker, coach, entrepreneur, and innovator. He is co-founder of standupforpassion.com, and founder of kikaimining.com (a Happiness Agency) and happyhackingdays.com (the first tech event creating happiness apps). Arnaud is an award-winning stand-up comedian and filmmaker (Last Comic Standing, E!, NBC, MTV & Best Comedy Film at the Monaco Film Festival 2012). He won numerous Hackathons in the tech space and has since coached a number of startups CEO in LA and France on their pitches. He is a public speaking coach and use storytelling as a way to empower people on stage.

Our speakers :

Ilan Abehassera - There is no success without support

Ilan is a native French and the Co-Founder and CEO at Insensi.

He previously founded Producteev which was acquired by Jive Software in November 2012. He is also a Business Angel in fantastic startups such as Wit.ai, Sunrise, Checkr.io, OKPanda, Circa, Algolia and 15 others.

Rasanath Das - Living the tension

Rasanath is a former management consultant and investment banker who became a monk. Rasanath shares his incredible journey from his life as an "external achievement machine", to one rich in spiritual introspection, integrity, and true connectivity.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/13/rasanath-dasa-on-wall-street_n_3914621.html

Patrycja Slawuta - How I hacked myself

Patrycja Slawuta M .A Psych, PhD(c) is a bi-coastal (SF + NYC) researcher and entrepreneur. Native of Poland, Patrycja is a connoisseur of the complexity and nonlinearity of human nature. Her scientific research addresses the emotions of shame and guilt, group dynamics and and the power of language. Patrycja created the Self Hackathon - powerful events that she co-hosts with other world-class teachers to help already high achievers hack their minds for much more confidence, fearlessness and overall aliveness. Learn more onwww.PatrycjaSlawuta.com

Chiyoko Osborne - The greatest liar

Chiyoko spent a decade in the fashion and marketing industries building brands and developing business strategies. After 6 years at Calvin Klein she was recruited to launch the first marketing department at Alexander Wang. Previous to this, Chiyoko worked on advertising campaigns for famous brands such as Evian, Intel, Neutrogena, Volvo, Pepsi and others. In 2010 Chiyoko's yoga and meditation practice shifted her perspective on life. It drove a desire to create a company and brand that fuses the benefits of yoga with the corporate world. See more on www.yogameansbusiness.com

Joshua Spodek - The point of no return

Joshua Spodek co-founded several companies, coaches leadership for Columbia Business School's Program on Social Intelligence, and is a Professor at NYU. He has led seminars in leadership, creativity, sales, strategy, and motivation at Columbia Business School, Harvard University, the NYU-Stern School of Business, INSEAD (Singapore), NYU-Tisch's ITP, the New York Academy of Science, and in private corporations. He holds five Ivy-League degrees, including a PhD in Astrophysics and an MBA. He also helped build an X-ray observational satellite for the European Space Agency and NASA, co-founded and led as CEO or COO several ventures operating globally, and holds six patents. http://joshuaspodek.com/bio.

Michael Wolk - Listening to the secret you

Michael is a producer and director, known for Innocent Blood (1992), You Think You Really Know Me: The Gary Wilson Story (2005) and Deep Six (1999). He is the creator and producer of Japan Day attended each year by 50,000 people in Central Park, NYC and also, the creator and producer of One for All, the festival of NY one man shows. http://allforonetheater. org

Donnalynn Civello - Sometimes, you have to lose everything to find real happiness

Donnalynn is Executive Director of Ethereal Wellness Counseling. She is a Certified Intuitive Life Coach and Holistic Nutritionist dedicated to helping clients and students find BALANCE in all aspects of their lives - emotionally, mentally and physically. She is also an Inspirational Blogger and Author. Her first book hits shelves, April 30th, "Life Lessons, Everything You wished You Had Learned in Kindergarten." https://etherealwellness.wordpress.com/tag/donnalynn-civello/

We promise you will spend a very pleasant evening and hope that our stories will change the way you look at yourself and the world. We hope to see you on March 3rd!