Misfits and Moguls: Recent Episodes
Melissa Geissinger
Misfits & Moguls is a livestream podcast where entrepreneurs tell their stories of success, resilience, tenacity, and failure.
This episode was recorded live on February 15th, 2021.
Lance Cottrell founded Anonymizer in 1995 and is an internationally recognized expert in cryptography, online privacy, and Internet security. He is principal author on multiple Internet privacy and security technology patents. He took Anonymizer to a very successful exit in 2008, stayed on as chief scientist of the acquiring company Ntrepid, and now advises startups through FeelTheBoot.com. He frequently speaks at major conferences and writes for numerous publications. He also consults and invests through Obscura.com. He holds a MS in Physics from the University of California, San Diego and a BS in Physics from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
I met Lance at an entrepreneurship event back in 2015 back when I was trying to get my own startup off the ground and looking for a mentor. Join us as Lance shares the success story of his own company, what it's like to sell a business and remain on board as CTO, some great advice on how to run a successful startup, and how to be an effective dungeon master.
Additional Show Notes:
Lance's Social Media links:
Video showing my Tesla karma:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXouO-i71LE
When former collegiate athlete and competitive skydiver, Sydney Williams, unexpectedly found herself on the receiving end of a Type 2 diabetes diagnosis, while grappling with unresolved trauma from a decades-old sexual assault, she set out on a mission: turn her pain into power. Two hikes across Catalina Island and 80 miles later, she founded Hiking My Feelings® to help others tap into the mind-body connection and healing power of nature that helped kick her self-limiting beliefs and disease into remission.
I'll be going deep with Sydney to discuss the challenges of leaving her cushy corporate marketing career working with Fortune 500 companies and emerging brands behind to follow her mission-driven dreams to inspire and empower others to summit their own personal mountains on their way to becoming Well Beings.
Over the years, Sydney has been featured on the SXSW stage, as well as in Health Magazine, Diabetic Living Magazine, Huffington Post, Psychology Today, US News & World Report, and numerous other publications.
Sydney is the author of Hiking My Feelings: Stepping Into the Healing Power of Nature and when COVID is not a thing, travels across the country giving talks, leading workshops and retreats, and hosting group hikes.
Visit hikingmyfeelings.org to learn more about Hiking My Feelings' current initiatives: Take a Hike Diabetes and Summit Circles.
Brian and I met at his book release party for A Fire Story, a graphic novel in which he tells the story of his house burning down in the Tubbs fire on October 8, 2017. The same fire, in fact, that took my home as well. Brian is an award-winning graphic novelist known for "A Fire Story", "Mom's Cancer", "Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow?" and "The Last Mechanical Monster".
Brian discusses his beginnings as a journalist, a chemist, and a freelance science writer and the circumstances that lead to his success in becoming an award-winning graphic novelist. We'll talk about what it takes to turn the most painful and tragic experiences in life into beautiful and profitable works of art.
"A Fire Story" is now available in paperback. Order on Amazon or ask for it at your local bookstore.
Join us for a very special first episode with my friend Greg Carter who was recently diagnosed with stage four lung cancer. Greg will discuss his journey from playing with computers in high school when they were too big for one person to carry, to doing IT in the Marine Corps in the 80s, going freelance as a programmer in the 90s, opening a successful small-town computer store in the 2000s, selling it, then going back to freelance.
Greg shares his perspective on self-employment, living life to the fullest, and the unique perspective that comes with knowing you're going to die soon.
Greg's Facebook Page:
https://www.facebook.com/GregCarterBlog