The Rodcast: Recent Episodes
Rod Castor
The Rodcast discusses a variety of topics in mini-series of 3 to 8 episodes each including tech, leadership, business, entrepreneurship, and startups with the occasional smattering of life along the way.
Jon O'Keefe is an actual Jedi. He's the Technology Education Jedi at Logical Operations. Working with thousands of technology training centers around the United States, Jon has a unique perspective on current and future job displacement due to automation and artificial intelligence. Jon's clearly a data guy. And given the data, he sees the best solution as helping others train for a new career as a data analyst or data scientist. Of course, learning the skills required for data analysis or data science work doesn't just benefit those being displaced from their current work. It also benefits everyone as the trend toward data driven decisions accelerates into the 2020s. Join Jedi Jon and I as we discuss the future of data and the exponentially growing need for data science workers!
Brad Powell is a business coach and videographer who teaches entrepreneurs how easy it is to create engaging video campaigns with just a smartphone and good storytelling. Brad inspires entrepreneurs to find everyday moments that make great marketing and he’s dedicated to helping small businesses get over the limiting belief that video marketing is too daunting and time consuming.
Daniel Faggella is CEO and Founder of Emerj Artificial Intelligence Research.
Called upon by organizations like the World Bank, the United Nations, INTERPOL, and global pharmaceutical and banking companies, Daniel helps business and government leaders navigate the competitive landscape of AI capabilities, and build strategies that win.
Daniel is of the belief that the most important ethical consideration of the coming thirty years will be the creation or expansion of sentience and intelligence in technology. Emerj is intended first as a vehicle to proliferate an open-minded conversation about the implications and applications of AI. The business model came later, purpose was, and is, first (see “the cause“).
At entrepreneur since the age of 20, Daniel has founded and sold two previous companies (a martial arts academy he started to pay for grad school, and an Inc5000 eCommerce business) in order to gather the funds needed to focus fully on Emerj.
Daniel is a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu black belt, winning the title of 2011 national champion (IBJJF Pan America Games).
Daniel graduated with a masters degree in Positive Psychology, focusing his thesis research on the science of skill development.
Daniel’s writing about the business and moral implications of AI and emerging technologies have been featured in publications such as: TechCrunch, Boston Business Journal, VentureBeat, Xconomy, VICE Motherboard, the World Economic Forum, PEW Research and more.
Daniel has spoken about AI and neurotech at some of the world’s top universities (Standford, MIT, Harvard, others), and has been asked to speak or join panel discussions at events such as AI World, AI Applications Summit, GSMA Mobile World Congress, and more.
Virginia deGuzman has only been out of college on year, but she has already navigated her way through several different industries including advertising, design, freelance, pre-seed startups, and more. She is currently a data designer by day and by night she is on her way to starting two new ventures: Creative Kickoff Podcast and a creative shop.
David Mclean is the Founder and Managing Director of DRM Group. He helps businesses and their workforce create lasting positive change by Therefore, in a nutshell… we 'help businesses to improve morale, reduce costs and increase productivity by incrementally improving the cognitive performance, emotional wellbeing and mental health of each and every employee’. DRM Group's mission is to proactively impart this knowledge, grow awareness, teach, mentor and supervise individuals to create lasting positive change within 100 million lives across the world.
Han Phay walks us through the story of Luminaire from concept to company. Learn the lessons Han has learned from his journey founding his AI Digital Ad company, Luminaire.
Join Stephanie Yarbrough as she shares her path to discovering her definition of success. "Life is just too short. Don't make your company something that drives you into the ground." Freedom and flexibility with hard work and challenges are the goal.
In this episode, Grant Humphreys - founder of the town Carlton Landing near Eufaula, Oklahoma - discusses his views on success.
In this episode on success, I sit down with my long time friend Todd Vinson. Todd and his family founded Willow Springs Boys Ranch over 20 years ago near Chandler Oklahoma. Then six years ago, Todd began roasting coffee in his garage. Today, he's transitioned the Eôté Coffee Roastery and his passion for helping people closer to downtown Oklahoma City. Even though after 20 years of helping people things look a little different, the mission hasn't changed. Appreciation motivates people. Hear Todd's story as he explains his definition of success and how it's changed from his youth to now being in his fifties.
Bruce Kasanoff shares his definition of success along with several other nuggets of wisdom in this episodes of The Rodcast.
This short update introduces a chance in the release frequency of The Rodcast. Instead of releasing all episodes of a series at once and having month long gaps in our content, we are changing to releasing one episode per week. We will still keep the series approach with multiple episodes on the same topic.
This micro-episode give a brief introduction to Series 2 of the Rodcast on Artificial Intelligence with Victor Baffet and Isaac Faber.
In this episode Victor Baffet gives us an overview of the current state of AI, plus we take a look at the future - both near and distant - of what AI will bring. Victor shares four views of the future about AI, civilization, and how we humans live alongside our AI creations.
Isaac Faber talks AI including technical details, moral considerations, and philosophical viewpoints. As co-founder of MatrixDS and its Chief Data Scientist, Isaac helps us navigate the landscape of AI in today's world.
Oliver is a passionate leadership blogger that believes in the power of happy people. Through his articles and videos, he spreads the message that good leadership makes the world a better place. Using his experience working with top executives from all over the world, he is constantly learning about the changing landscape of the corporate world.
This micro-episode contains my summary of the most repeated themes throughout Series 1 on Leadership.
Gary Frey loves helping coachable CEOs and their management teams scale, align, focus, execute & have more fun. He has served as president of four successful companies, including Bizjournals.com, a business news portal which he helped transform from a three-person organization to a $100 million company. He has done two turnarounds & held executive positions in two Fortune 100 companies.
Gary has served clients including Bank of America, British Aerospace, Cessna Aircraft, Coca-Cola, Coleman, Compass Group, DaimlerChrysler, DuPont, First Union/Wachovia, Foot Locker, Hearst Publishing, Krylon, the Lance Armstrong Foundation, Learjet, McDonald’s, Monsanto, NCR, Sherwin-Williams, Summerfield Suites Hotels, United Way, World T.E.A.M. Sports, and Yokohama Tire Corporation.
He is a triathlete, drummer, father of two grown sons, “Papa” to three of the smartest & cutest little boys on the planet and married to the wife of his dreams.
Alan White is a technologist, strategist, innovator and leader with over 20 years' experience in IT. He is a graduate of Queen's University of Belfast, Ireland. Alan has worked in start-ups, SMB companies, as well as multi-national corporations in varying leadership and technology roles. A firm believer in being a change agent and challenger of the status quo, Alan is always looking at new and innovative ways to use technology. He is a passionate believer in the Steve Jobs mantra “Technology alone is not enough. It's technology married with the liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our hearts sing."
Alan is a competitive ultra endurance cyclist, 2 time cancer survivor and currently resides in Edmond, Oklahoma with his wife, 3 children and 4 dogs.
This micro-episode introduces Series 1 on Leadership. There are three interview episodes in this series followed by a summary micro-episode. In this series, gain insight on Leadership from Oliver Lee, Alan White, and Gary Frey.