Insight with Emma
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.
Episodes
Botox is a neurotoxin. Most people getting it never think about that once.
We sat down with Dr. Yeranui Stepanyan, who runs an aesthetic medical practice in Beverly Hills and has also worked urgent care, to talk about what almost nobody says out loud in this industry: why a great deal on filler should scare you more than excite you, what "Ozempic face" actually looks like and why it happens, how ho...
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 ide...
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 client...
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 ...
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...
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 s...
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 &mdash...
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 b...
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 ...
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 resi...
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 tec...
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 th...
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 ...
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 brotherh...
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 s...
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 fed...
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