ReSource Radio with Nathan Phillips: Recent Episodes
Nathan Phillips
Hosted by Nathan Phillips, ReSource Radio features interviews of entrepreneurs and business owners sharing how they are handling the ongoing economic changes, using a crypto-powered marketplace to grow their business, building happy and healthy teams, and diversifying their resources and revenue streams. Learn more about ReSource at https://resource.finance
Jonathan Aberman is a highly respected thought leader on entrepreneurship and innovation. His experience as a venture investor, innovation consultant, university professor, and media commentator gives him a 360-degree perspective on entrepreneurship and technology innovation. Since 2004, when he started Amplifier Ventures, Jonathan has helped to start 16 technology businesses. Among these businesses are successful companies in cybersecurity, mobile communications, internet and mobile content and software.
He is identified as a leader of change and influence in print and television media, recognized by Washingtonian magazine as a “Tech Titan,” by the Washington Business Journal as a member of the “Power 100” and by the Commonwealth of Virginia as one of its “50 Most Influential Entrepreneurs” in the Commonwealth.” Forbes Magazine described him as the “unsung hero” of the successful attraction of Amazon HQ2 to Arlington, Virginia.
https://www.ruxtonventures.com/
https://marymount.edu/staff-members/jonathan-aberman/
Kelly Sheehan is the Senior Director of Energy Campaigns for the Sierra Club, where she leads a national effort to advance climate justice and a transition off of fossil fuels. Kelly joined the Sierra Club in 2012. She has been an environmental activist by passion and by trade for the past twenty years, directing campaigns to protect the environment, training and engaging people to participate in our democracy, and building a movement for social change. Kelly lives in Asheville, NC with her children. She was honored as Best Environmentalist by Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine and you can often find her exploring trails and rivers in the Appalachian Mountains. Connect with Kelly @EcoKelly on Instagram.
The climate listening project is listening to artists and activists working together in the gulf coast. Now there are 20+ LNG export terminals proposed along the Gulf Coast. These are huge liquid natural gas export facilities where all the pipelines bring the gas to the coast to ship it overseas with fossil fuel companies profiting billions. It’s dangerous. Connect viaGulfCoastMurals.com
Tejaswi started out flunking computer classes in college, working as a factory supervisor but ended up getting an MBA and learning as much as he could about building a tech company, becoming a VP at a major company and launching his future of work community, drawing on his own experiences as a manager.
He is a thought leader, author, podcast speaker who is regularly featured as subject matter expert on future of work trends. He is passionate about technology & decentralized workplaces.
Tejaswi’s substack newsletter - Future of Work, Future of You is #1 rated substack community where he shares ideas about good leadership and building a better workplace based on his own experiences.
Tejaswi's goal is to transform workplace culture & build trust & transparency between managers and employees.
LINKS:
Social media profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tejaswigautam
Visit my substack & join 4,000+ other members building future of work
https://futurexwork.substack.com/
Interested in novel tools & ideas? Hit me up at teja@careerengine.io
Tejaswi started out flunking computer classes in college, working as a factory supervisor but ended up getting an MBA and learning as much as he could about building a tech company, becoming a VP at a major company and launching his future of work community, drawing on his own experiences as a manager.
He is a thought leader, author, podcast speaker who is regularly featured as subject matter expert on future of work trends. He is passionate about technology & decentralized workplaces.
Tejaswi’s substack newsletter - Future of Work, Future of You is #1 rated substack community where he shares ideas about good leadership and building a better workplace based on his own experiences.
Tejaswi's goal is to transform workplace culture & build trust & transparency between managers and employees.
LINKS:
Social media profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tejaswigautam
Visit my substack & join 4,000+ other members building future of work
https://futurexwork.substack.com/
Interested in novel tools & ideas? Hit me up at teja@careerengine.io
Shaun Gold is the true definition of a polymath. He is a lifelong entrepreneur, 2x best-selling author, international speaker, advisor and super connector to start-ups and standouts, Jeopardy contestant, and screenwriter.
Learn more at www.shaungold.com & https://youtopianjourney.substack.com/
Shaun Gold is the true definition of a polymath. He is a lifelong entrepreneur, 2x best-selling author, international speaker, advisor and super connector to start-ups and standouts, Jeopardy contestant, and screenwriter.
Learn more at www.shaungold.com & https://youtopianjourney.substack.com/
Robertson Work is an ecosystem/justice activist based in the Swannanoa watershed in western North Carolina and the author of five nonfiction books. He has over five decades of professional experience promoting sustainable human development in over fifty countries as UNDP principal policy advisor for decentralized and local governance, NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service professor of innovative leadership, and Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA) country and regional director conducting community, organizational, and leadership development initiatives.
He can be reached at robertsonwork100@gmail.com. His books are available here and elsewhere:https://www.amazon.com/Robertson-Work/e/B075612GBF
Robertson Work is an ecosystem/justice activist based in the Swannanoa watershed in western North Carolina and the author of five nonfiction books. He has over five decades of professional experience promoting sustainable human development in over fifty countries as UNDP principal policy advisor for decentralized and local governance, NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service professor of innovative leadership, and Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA) country and regional director conducting community, organizational, and leadership development initiatives.
He can be reached at robertsonwork100@gmail.com. His books are available here and elsewhere: https://www.amazon.com/Robertson-Work/e/B075612GBF
Diana McCall has served as a community organizer and educator for nearly two decades in Western North Carolina. In her former role as manager of the Dr. John Wilson Community Garden, she facilitated partnerships with numerous agencies and institutions to educate her community on how to grow, access and prepare healthy food for themselves and their families.
Her work as a facilitator supports community driven growth and development. Her techniques emphasize Asset Based Community Development and participatory engagement strategies, nurturing the seeds of strength and wisdom inherent within every group of people. She has been a practitioner of Kundalini Yoga for 22 years and a teacher for the past 12.
She is the proud mother of Cyrus, Eden and True and powerful wife to Brett McCall. She supports their family business Better Than Unicorns with her facilitation magic.
Stephanie is a native of Western North Carolina and a Community Economic Development professional. With more than 20+ years in the nonprofit Industry, Stephanie is a champion and an activist working with Black/Indigenous/POC businesses to help them become "asset builders and wealth creators."
Stephanie Swepson-Twitty of Old Fort knows the history of the Block firsthand. After a career in banking and finance, she and her husband opened a shop in 2002, Stevie’s Originals, which sold home decor from the Ivory Coast and Ghana. However, running the business proved to be a struggle for the young entrepreneurs.
Swepson-Twitty then decided to switch gears. She joined the Eagle Market Streets Development Corp., an Asheville nonprofit founded in 1994 by Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church senior pastor John Grant and his congregants, as an AmeriCorps intern. The nonprofit aims to increase economic and social opportunities in the area through property development and workforce development.
By 2008, Swepson-Twitty took to the helm of the organization as the president and CEO. She remains closely involved in the effort to help bring customers and residents back to The Block.
https://mountainx.com/news/qa-stephanie-swepson-twitty-eagle-market-streets-development-corporation/
Stephanie is a native of Western North Carolina and a Community Economic Development professional. With more than 20+ years in the nonprofit Industry, Stephanie is a champion and an activist working with Black/Indigenous/POC businesses to help them become "asset builders and wealth creators."
Stephanie Swepson-Twitty of Old Fort knows the history of the Block firsthand. After a career in banking and finance, she and her husband opened a shop in 2002, Stevie’s Originals, which sold home decor from the Ivory Coast and Ghana. However, running the business proved to be a struggle for the young entrepreneurs.
Swepson-Twitty then decided to switch gears. She joined the Eagle Market Streets Development Corp., an Asheville nonprofit founded in 1994 by Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church senior pastor John Grant and his congregants, as an AmeriCorps intern. The nonprofit aims to increase economic and social opportunities in the area through property development and workforce development.
By 2008, Swepson-Twitty took to the helm of the organization as the president and CEO. She remains closely involved in the effort to help bring customers and residents back to The Block.
https://mountainx.com/news/qa-stephanie-swepson-twitty-eagle-market-streets-development-corporation/
Kevin Doyle Jones, working with his wife and business partner, the Rev. Rosa Lee Harden has been successful startups, in the media, information and events businesses.
Starting as a country weekly newspaper editor in the poorest country in Mississippi, his reporting put a sheriff in prison on 53 counts of fraud. He went on to write for the New York Times and was a columnist for Forbes.
They sold their dot-com business and co-created SOCAP, the world’s largest impact investing and social enterprise conference. He has been working with his wife on events, new financial instruments and an online community focused on re-engaging people of faith in creating a network of interdependent, neighborly economies.
He is cofounder of a community equity fund that is solving the problem of friends and family funding for Black and brown entrepreneurs.
Alex Corey is a systems engineer turned Farmer and Health Coach. After finding remedy for clinical depression in his early 20s through nutrition, fitness, and real food, a lifelong interest into organic agriculture and fundamental health was set in motion.
While working as a system's engineer, Alex had the opportunity to learn organic diversified farming in NH, HI, and finally NC where he is now rooted.
After seeing a serious bottleneck in the amount of people he could impact through farming alone, he took his love of health to a more holistic approach through personal training, movement, and ancestral health coaching.
He now is obsessed with helping people take back their sovereignty through bringing nutrition, fitness, and fundamental health as close to their daily lives as possible through habit change, growing their own food, accessing living water, and bulletproofing their metabolism - one day at a time.
Johanna Patrice Hagarty has already founded one six-figure company and is in her second year of her newest endeavor, Art Hero, LLC.
Art Hero, LLC is a full-service workforce development firm that helps social entrepreneurs at every stage of their business. Art Hero, LLC’s partnership with SFTA Creative, has expanded the overall impact and reach of the company greatly because SFTA has launched, raised millions of dollars, and marketed some of the most cutting edge companies of our time including but not limited to Pixar, Lamborghini, Tesla, and more.
Johanna has also consulted, educated and worked with thousands of small businesses as well as one of the largest entrepreneurial educational institutions in the Western North Carolina region, and the Western North Carolina Small Business Administration program. She also hosts "The Johanna Patrice Hagarty Show" on Biz Radio Asheville.
With a background in Human Services and over a decade of experience as an Arts and Economic Development Specialist, Marketing Consultant, and Executive Coaching, Johanna focuses primarily on uplifting under-resourced communities including artists, neurodivergents, women, the BIPOC & LGBTQ+ community.
Johanna’s aim is to activate people so that they can use the power of entrepreneurialism to heal, connect, thrive, and galvanize. Johanna believes that the solutions to many of the world’s problems will come from small businesses. She believes it is past time to give them the tools they need to create impact; these people are the Heroes we seek.
From Sumaya...
Hi there, I’m Sumaya... founder of Present Moment Media, a digital marketing agency focused on uplifting the voices of changemakers.
My pronouns are she/her or they/them. I’m a queer unschooling parent, healing arts practitioner, social justice organizer, and holistic business & marketing consultant. I am passionate about uplifting the voices of changemakers and visionaries. I built my career from scratch, starting as a yoga and meditation teacher, then a corporate spa and retreat manager, now a thriving, wildly independent entrepreneur.
After leaving my corporate management career four years ago, I packed my bags, traveled the world with my daughter, and started my own online biz supporting inspirational professionals across the globe. My daughter and I are currently living in the mountains of Western North Carolina, traditional land of Cherokee peoples.
From Damon:
"My name is Damon Dickinson, I’m 52, and my greatest pleasure and mission in life is to help others to truly enjoy their lives!
I’m a heart centered productivity and peak performance coach. I love helping my clients get to the heart of what’s most valuable to them and align their actions accordingly!
This, to me, is what real success is!"
Williams holds a double Master in Fine Arts in acting and playwriting from
Carnegie Mellon University and Moscow Art Theater School. Williams has
received a BFA in directing from Point Park College. Bobbi has attended
The National Theater Institute and The Academy of Natural Healing in New
York City. Recent productions this year include Asheville Fringe Festival
with her short film Fantastica and Asheville Women’s Film Festival
“Fantastica and Grace1.” 2021 Bobbi performed and directed The Ancestor
Forest and Beauty and The Bigfoot with The Appalachian Players @ The
Montford Stage. Bobbi has been blessed to perform and be a part of The
American Studio Theater and The Green Circus New York City.
Jillian Ashley is a local entrepreneur, bioregional chef and community herbalist with holistic knowledge in guiding conscious consumer experiences and stewardship of dynamic professional spaces. Over the last two decades she has refined her managerial and organizational skills building strong teams, employing holistic design practices & development of a transparent supply chain throughout the Americas to operate high volume elixir bars, tea counters & supper clubs everywhere from weekend retreats and large scale world festivals to local pop ups in Asheville, NC.
She practices food as medicine, thriving most when she is connected to the ecology that surrounds her. She has forged loyal and long term relationships locally with farmers, herbalists, healers, chefs, wild crafters and mycologists to ensure her supply chain is clean and nutrient rich, free of chemicals and inhumane practices. In tandem she has a deep passion for waste management, ethical sourcing and permaculture with a focus in rain water.
She operates in a zero waste mindset, meaning that she is mindful of consumption and waste in the kitchen and has created systems to divert 80% out of the landfill by buying in bulk to reduce plastic packaging, buying local to reduce emissions, choosing reusable serving ware over single use when sensible and up-cycling what is considered food waste into herbal broths, nutrient dense sauces and compost to enhance meal plans.
She founded The NOHM Collective in early 2015 realizing there was a deep intrinsic need in her community for more meaningful connection, conscious consumption and accessibility to self care. Over the years The NOHM Collective has successfully curated health & wellness services at events, hosted virtual and in person herbal education and has facilitated alcohol free bar installations nationwide and internationally in Costa Rica, Canada & London, UK.
Jillian has been published in the news and magazine publications in New York City, Los Angeles, London and locally in Asheville for her innovations in alcohol free mixology, herbal DIY recipes and ethical sourcing practices of Cacao. More recently, Jillian has refined her craft in elixir mixology, bringing crowd favored formulas to the market as The Mertails | Elixirs as Mixers, which are available on the non-alcoholic menus of select bars, breweries and restaurants in town. You can support local and sip global by visiting these establishments and ordering a Mertail! And you can pull up a seat at the first non-alcoholic bar in Asheville, designed by The NOHM in collaboration with Asheville Dispensary in West Asheville, open seven days a week since 2018! You can also explore their herbal offerings at www.themertails.com.
Local businesses that carry The Mertails elixirs and The NOHM herbal lattes
- Dobra Tea Downtown & West
- Ukiah Japanese Smokehouse
- Harvest Pizzeria
- One World Brewing West
- Haywood Common
- Asheville Dispensary
- Mills River Brewing
- Salvage Station
- Mother Earth Foods
- Mela Indian Restaurant
- White Labs
David is Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at Resource.
Throughout his career, David has focused on utilizing blockchain technology and ecosystem coordination to promote systemic change and socio-economic transformation. He occupied several Chief Executive positions, led successful teams, and served as a consultant to local governments.
Prior to his position as Resource CEO, David has founded two other companies, and has focused on leveraging digital technologies in travel, finance, and commerce. In addition, David helped scale a decentralized e-commerce ecosystem to eight-digit revenue. David has applied blockchain and crypto towards real-world business use cases across his entrepreneurial career, since 2015.
David also serves as an advisor to Socialstack, a social money protocol that powers open and inclusive creator-driven economies. David helped build the core team, prototype the company’s MVP on the Ethereum blockchain, and advised on fundraising, go-to-market strategy, finance management, community building, and protocol development. David also advises Gane, A virtual mobile carrier with a mission to deliver free mobile internet to Latin America.
David aims to create inclusive financial solutions that are easily accessible and has given public talks in over 20 countries to this effect. He also served as a consultant to the local government of the Kisoro District in Uganda, where he advised on infrastructure development, and potential DLT applications.
David earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Political Economy, Global Poverty & Practice from the University of California, Berkeley.
Diana McCall has served as a community organizer and educator for nearly two decades in Western North Carolina. In her former role as manager of the Dr. John Wilson Community Garden, she facilitated partnerships with numerous agencies and institutions to educate her community on how to grow, access and prepare healthy food for themselves and their families.
Her work as a facilitator supports community driven growth and development. Her techniques emphasize Asset Based Community Development and participatory engagement strategies, nurturing the seeds of strength and wisdom inherent within every group of people. She has been a practitioner of Kundalini Yoga for 22 years and a teacher for the past 12.
She is the proud mother of Cyrus, Eden and True and powerful wife to Brett McCall. She supports their family business Better Than Unicorns with her facilitation magic.
Ashley is co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at Resource.
As a true blockchain veteran, Ashley has been active in the industry since its early beginnings and, among other positions, served as the first employee of Ethereum Ecosystem pioneer Consensys.
Since then, Ashley has co-founded several projects adjacent to the space, including Future Culture, a non-profit partnership honing a unique perspective on the integration of blockchain and community; and the Regenerative Resource Network, an events space bringing together technologists and community members to guide the development of systems that support equitable and regenerative outcomes.
Ashley also serves as Cyber Threats and Compliance Expert at Compliance and Capacity Skills International, where she researches the effectiveness of regulatory frameworks and proposes innovative strategies to address emerging technologies.
Within the scope of this position, Ashley has delivered lectures on UN Security Council resolutions across four continents. This includes presentations on the Adaptation, Tailoring & Awareness for UNSCR Training Materials in Djibouti, Ukraine, Maputo, Mombasa, and Cote D'Ivoire.
She received her B.A. at Duke University in Cultural Anthropology and Visual and Media Studies and has completed a bridge program in Computer Science at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering and one year of an M.S. in Data Analysis and Data Visualization at CUNY Graduate Center.
Jonathan Baurer, certified life coach, author, and entrepreneur based out of Asheville, North Carolina, is the co-founder of Exploring Changes, a transformational coaching experience and blended-publishing house.
Jonathan helps clients achieve their highest goals and live the life of their dreams by bridging the gap between where they are, and where they want to be.
Jonathan is the author of two bestselling non-fiction books on the subjects of positive mindset, gratitude, and parenting and he also helps aspiring authors bring their creations to life. Jonathan is inspired by his passion of continued learning, living a life of adventure, and creating authentic connections with others.
You can learn more about Jonathan by checking-out exploringchanges.com or contacting him directly on FB and IG as you search Exploring Changes or Jonathan Baurer and by emailing him at jon@exploringchanges.com
Nathan addresses a few questions presented by Biz Radio Asheville listeners, regarding Cryto. Submit your questions at any time to nathan@resourcenetwork.co
Long time Community Entrepreneur, Broadcaster, Writer, and Founder/Owner of Biz Radio Asheville, Matt Mittan sits down to discuss living with intention for a "circular economy".
Nathan sat down to talk with Matt Mittan to talk about the launch of "ReSource Radio" and to talk about how the program will explore "both sides of the coin of our present economic revolution by covering the relevant and timely topics of cryptocurrency, economic changes, and building healthy, resilient communities. Learn from business owners how they are using a crypto-powered marketplace to grow their business, improve their employee’s health and happiness, and diversify their resources and revenue streams." Nathan Phillips will be premiering "ReSource Radio" in April 2022.