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Become a patron of this podcast, and enjoy free merch. Join other patrons of this podcast at Patreon. \n**********\nPlanning a Restorative Retreat in 2023? \nJake Sasseville, CEO of Imiloa Institute, tells us about his restorative retreat center in Costa Rica. (Use PROMO CODE below for discount.)\nJake was born in Lewiston, Maine, Jake's dad was a social worker, and his mother was a substitute teacher. When he was sixteen, he left Maine to travel abroad to France by himself to do a year abroad in high school. \nAt seventeen, he learned early on about life\u2019s private struggles: his thirteen-year brother died of leukemia and his father was diagnosed with Parkinson\u2019s disease in the same year. As a result, Sasseville has been known to be a sensitive, steadfast and resilient entrepreneur and leader, often choosing pioneering paths instead of roads frequently traveled. \n\nImiloa\n\nSasseville is currently the CEO and Founder of Imiloa Institute in Costa Rica. Imiloa is described as a home and experience where human beings are invited to awaken their consciousness in service to themselves and the planet. The Institute hosts 50 retreats a year. \n\nImiloa\u2019s clients range from yoga teachers to the United Nations and the Beckley Foundation. In addition, the Institute also hosts a variety of retreats on topics from meditation to art, sexuality, epigenetics, and health. Sasseville and his team have transitioned to Imiloa with the goal of attracting hosts that provide an evidence-based or scientific-based approach to transformation. \n\nBesides enjoying an 86% re-booking rate and becoming profitable for the first time in its history fourteen months after Jake stepped in as CEO, Imiloa has become known for its leadership style -- the team is unified behind the philosophy of causing individual and social transformation of the planet by leading from a spirit of service and a posture of learning. \n\nTelevision and Entertainment Career\n\nJake started his career in Maine as one of the youngest magicians admitted to the Society of American Magicians when he was just thirteen. He did hundreds of stage and close-up shows around the United States before graduating high school. \n\nAt twenty-one, he created, executive produced, and hosted The Edge with Jake Sasseville, a late-night reality-talk show that debuted February 14, 2008, on ABC after Jimmy Kimmel Live! Jake was the youngest host in late-night TV history for the show he created, and one of the youngest heads of a production company ever. The show pioneered the reality-talk genre, creating a \u201cshow within a late-night talk show\u201d and often beat its rival late-night shows in key markets, including Conan O\u2019Brien and Craig Ferguson. \n\nSasseville was known for his avant-garde approach to innovative business, fortifying public relationships with Ford, Overstock.com, Red Bull, Coca-Cola, P&G, Crocs, and many other brands who creatively funded his projects and accessed his growing \u201cGen Y\u201d audience. \n\nFrom 2008-2010, Sasseville created the \u201cPringles Xtreme Campus Music Tour.\u201d The music toured went to 30 of the largest universities yearly, featuring the next \u201cit\u201d acts in music, including Kanye West, One Republic, Fabulous, and J. Cole, among others. \n\nFrom 2010-2012 when he was twenty-five, Jake created and launched Late Night Republic, an innovative TV series on Fox and CW and one of the first \u201ccrowd-sourced\u201d late-night TV shows. The show enjoyed a 102-week run. \n\nSasseville developed, executive produced, and co-wrote Delusions of Grandeur for ABC Family. The sitcom, dealing on topics of mental illness and loosely based on Jake\u2019s life, was too much for the Disney-owned network and they canceled the show before it aired its first episode. Delusions went on to be downloaded 2.5 million times on the online network Blip.tv (acquired by Maker Studios). \n\nHe was honored by the White House and the Kauffman Foundation in 2012 as one of the most impactful startup entrepreneurs in the United States.\n\nAuthor\n\nHis first book, Slightly Famous, chronicles Jake\u2019s life from age twenty-one to twenty-five with his groundbreaking approach to content creation, audience building, TV syndication, and business acumen. He also writes candidly about his private struggles, spiritual curiosities and dysfunctional family life. \n\nAfter his house got washed away in Hurricane Sandy, Jake\u2019s life and business took a reset. He retreated to Maine and spent two years (originally supposed to be one month) in Grandma\u2019s Basement. He realized the way he was living life was untenable, often vying for success and ruining valuable relationships along the way. As a result, entered a tweleve-step program of recovery and went through what he now calls a \u201cDark Night of the Soul.\u201d \n\nPodcast\n\nAt twenty-nine, after two years in Maine and serving alongside the Baha\u2019i Community in his hometown, finding purpose in surrender and taking action instead of hustling, he went on to create The Jake Sasseville Show, a podcast which he famously produced from a Dunkin Donuts parking lot \u201cbecause grandma didn\u2019t have internet.\u201d \n\nAfter just twelve episodes, The Jake Sasseville Show grew to a listenership of 250,000 per month in the early days of podcasting. Known for his heartfelt and boisterous conversation-interview style, the show did theme-based shows with grandsons of revolutionaries (Nelson Mandela and Arun Ghandi), authors of best-selling books, Grammy- and Emmy-winning entertainers, and guests that would not normally talk on podcasts (Beyonce\u2019s publicist, Yvette Noel-Schure, and the CEO of Overstock.com, Stormy Simon).\n\nSasseville moved to Maui and rented out his cottage in his backyard on Airbnb, getting the idea of Imiloa Institute in the main home. As he\u2019s said publicly, Airbnb was paying his living expenses. He used his main home to welcome \u201cfriends and friends of friends.\u201d\n\nSasseville went on to say that he realized that human beings want to feel at home in their transformation. \n\n \u201cRwandan genocide survivors came to write their book in my home, stage IV cancer patients would come to heal\u2026 everyone came to that Maui house.\u201d \n\nIn 2018, he and his former business partner (and former CEO of Imiloa) raised $3.5 million for the first Imiloa. The location was Costa Rica for what was envisioned as an \u201cintercontinental institute for the education and advancement of humanity.\u201d \n\nAlthough his two partners (CEO and COO) stepped down from the company during the pandemic, Jake stepped in as CEO (despite being happy as the company\u2019s CMO) and drove the company to profitability in fourteen months. Imiloa was one of the only hospitality businesses not to shut down or furlough an employee during Covid. \n\nSasseville lives in Costa Rica, where he enjoys friends, practicing Ashtanga yoga, working closely with Imiloa\u2019s leadership team, traveling to sit in tea ceremonies with mentors and friends, and watching old TV shows from the 50s and 60s. \nimiloainstitute.com or jakesasseville.com\nFollow Jake online @jakesasseville\nAnd Attend any signature retreat at Imiloa, use promo code JAKE to get $200 off just for listening today!\n\n\ufeffThe A World of Difference Podcast is brought to you in partnership with Missio Alliance.\nJoin us to discuss this episode, previous episodes or for other thoughtful conversations at our Facebook group. We'd love to have you stop by and share your perspective. \nStay In Touch: Connect on Facebook and Instagram with thoughts, questions, and feedback. 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