Reputation Capital: Recent Episodes
Thought Partner Group
We live in the age of reputation. Influencers, gurus, wizards, czars, geeks, mavens, and thought leaders rule the roost. So what about you?
We ask difficult questions of hustlers and heros, founders and failers … those who have done it, are doing it, and will get things done.
Capitalize on your reputation. Step out of the shadows. Shift the earth on its axis. #YOLO.
🤹 Pandemic & home/work balance 02:19
🕵️♂️ Ghosting employers and employees 03:38
📲 NO to cover letter & YAS to playing a game and experience 05:49
🆒 What are the new sexy terms for recruiting 08:15
🧑💼 Importance of a relationship with candidates 10:37
🕴️ Kathleen was a shy and creative child. She loves adding a personal touch in work. 13:05
🎆 Kathleen is 4`11 feet tall but thinks in a giant way. 16:21
💰 Future of recruiting firms is certain. 18:36
😎 Confidence grows with practice. How Kathleen went from typewriting to business. 20:55
Connect with Kathleen: www.navigarecruiting.com
🤓 Connect with us: www.thoughtpartnergroup.com
💡 Screw Harvard, go to Crazy MBA: www.crazymba.com
😻 The tale of two Dene’s? 01:32
🎹 Baby grand piano and organ lessons. 02:27
🎼 Her journey of falling in love with music began as a child. 03:12
🔀 Every musician goes through a certain crossroads of giving up or not. 07:09
👯 Knowing decade-old jingles? Music can amplify the message in an effective way. 08:06
👩💼 A passionate musician who knows how to run a business. 11:36
👩🎤 From 70s glam band to branding through music. 13:19
⏩Evolution of jingle to Brand anthem. 18:04
😎 Emotional impact on the local audience. 21:57
🌏 Variations of brand anthems for different markets. 23:03
🤖 Music will be part of us forever, even with AI-generated music in the future. 24:51
🎤 Waltzing Matilda project with Kate Soprano. 26:45
🎶 Music branding is for businesses that think long term and want to be memorable. 27:28
🎵 Stepping stones in business vision: Innovation and branding through music. 29:40
😵💫 The worst jingles ever. 30:46
Connect with Dene: www.branthem.com.au
🤓 Connect with us: www.thoughtpartnergroup.com
💡 Screw Harvard, go to Crazy MBA: www.crazymba.com
🏖️ Beautiful paintings of Porthminster and Porthcurno beach on Gil’s wall. 02:11
🇬🇧 Living in the East End of London was tough in the 50s and 60s. 03:34
🌉 Thames river and the docks her father worked on. 05:20
🧶 Handmade clothes were not good enough. 06:21
😇 Growing up in inclusion and connection: Her business’ value is human beings first. 07:42
🏘️ Nan’s terraced house. 10:19
👱♀️ Living very adventurously while young. 11:35
🤩 Business model is about impact, sustainability, and having enough. 13:34
⚡ “Together, we're an amazing entity.” 15:10
🌻 Creating an empowering space for learning about development. 16:12
🤝 Collaboration is an answer to so many issues around us. 18:17
🤩 The feel-good factor, that feeds the soul. 21:10
💭 Randy’s memories of London in the 80s. 22:23
📖 Gill’s book: Together, We Can Do Something Wonderful. 23:20
Connect with Gill: www.collaborationglobal.org
🤓 Connect with us: www.thoughtpartnergroup.com
💡 Screw Harvard, go to Crazy MBA: www.crazymba.com
🌞 Sunny background around Theresa. 02:13
💡 Hasbro playdough power solutions workshops. 02:43
🧂 Is it salty? 03:50
❓ Community psychology: What makes some people succeed and some not? 04:45
🙃 Experience, strategies, evidence-based research, and play dough! 07:40
😵💫 People don’t have strategies to deal with all that is coming upon us. 09:40
🎯 Playing with playdough: building creativity and freedom from boundaries.12:06
😀 Fast tracking connections and joy. 14:05
🖥️ Virtual group training for hybrid teams. 15:09
😻 Engage with your team differently and increase trust. 16:51
Connect with Theresa: www.starfishsynergies.com
🤓 Connect with us: www.thoughtpartnergroup.com
💡 Screw Harvard, go to Crazy MBA: www.crazymba.com
😇 Jayesh means “to praise the Lord”. 01:15
⚠️ What you can’t eat with Southern food in India: 01:54
📵 Apprison, usage of smartphones, and misuse of other apps. 02:37
☹️ Dependence on smartphones and smartphone addiction. 05:03
🤕 The physical damage of misusing smartphones. 08:06
🏃♂️ Chasing the instant gratification.08:59
♾️ The infinite feed is a design that most apps and games are using. 10:26
🧑⚖️ The Apprison has a gamification prison system, and users become the judge and the warden. 12:13
😃 The more responsible you are, the more freedom you get from the app. 14:36
💰 Jayesh’s business model and sources of revenue. 15:09
😵💫 Average time spent on the phones keeps piling up somehow. 17:50
🙌 Using productive apps while using the phone is a good solution. 19:00
🤔 Happea is enabling people to understand the science of happiness. 19:55
☮️ Peace for Jayesh is internal and external. 22:34
👏 Lack of digital well-being has a strong correlation with unhappiness. 24:16
🤯 Phubbing phenomenon. 26:39
🙃 The humor behind his work and the smile on his face. 28:26
Connect with Jayesh: www.happea.life and www.linkedin.com/in/jayesh-surisetti
🤓 Connect with us: www.thoughtpartnergroup.com
💡 Screw Harvard, go to Crazy MBA: www.crazymba.com
🖼️ Shelley’s exciting wall art. 00:51
🧐 When a company’s culture and values are not aligned, they experience “rubs and leaks.” 02:54
🌊 A tsunami of resignations due to zero tolerance for feeling undervalued. 04:40
🤔 Do I work to live, or do I live to work? 06:38
😟 Toxic working environments, abusive language, and working relationships. 09:04
🙄 “Suck it up Buttercup” mentality and staying in toxic working environments. 11:10
👧 The excitement of the flea market during her childhood and family values. 14:59
😇 Shelley’s dad was the flea market auctioneer and had a fantastic gift. 17:26
🏢 Playing CEO from an early age: She wanted to be the owner. 20:02
🙌 Positive culture and CEOs grow slowly. 21:18
👉 Culture giddy-up for the day. 23:15
Connect with Shelley: www.premierrapport.com
🤓 Connect with us: www.thoughtpartnergroup.com
💡 Screw Harvard, go to Crazy MBA: www.crazymba.com
🤓 The bearer of spears: helping other people excel. 01:20
💻 Learning how to connect through a camera is vital to getting value out of virtual sessions. 03:22
💡 All great talks are structured like a story. 05:05
🌞 We don’t need only incredible stories because all experiences have value. 05:58
🤩 Public speaking is a tool to grow. 08:57
👍 Finding the balance between passion and hard work: Do one thing really well. 10:22
😎 “Outsource as much as possible and focus on the core side of your business because that’s where you can deliver the most value.” 12:38
👨👦 Looking for validation, Asger followed his dad’s dream at first, but eventually, he decided to follow his own dream. 15:05
🤔 Scientific studies show that people feel better once they‘ve connected and dealt with their fear. 16:17
🙌 “Work on your signature story: Have your passion and get really good with one story—one keynote that you really work in depth.” 19:05
Connect with Asger: www.asgerlindholdt.com
🤓 Connect with us: www.thoughtpartnergroup.com
💡 Join us: www.crazymba.com
🛕 What the name Karthik means in Hindu culture. 02:06
🤓 The difference between a warlord wielding leadership and thought leadership. 03:08
✅ Shifting from corporate sales at a multinational bank to running his own consulting practice. 4:40
⏳ Thought leadership doesn't get built overnight. 09:35
🔀 First generation entrepreneur: For Dr. Karthik, it was always about doing something different and not following the traditional path. 10:12
🦄 He has been choosing to be different since he was a young child and considers himself to be the black sheep of the family. 11:05
🎓 Collaborating with Ivy League Universities to come up with thought leadership programs. 13:07
🇮🇳 He sees India becoming more of a “smart country” rather than a “manufacturing giant.” 14:57
📖 Dr. Karthik’s book: The Thought Leader Way: Leading Your Business with Thought Leadership in an Altered World. 16:45
🚕 Kent jokes about a taxi honking outside. 17:20
Connect with Dr. Karthik Nagendra: www.thought-starters.com/who-we-are.html
🤓 Connect with us: www.thoughtpartnergroup.com
▶️ Guillermo is starting his 11th startup. 01:57
🌌 Since he was 11, Guillermo dreamed about making humanity a multi-planet species and living off planet on a permanent basis. 03:46
🟢 Why Venus is a good option for long-term survivability. 4:56
🧐 Impact of lower gravity on humans. 06:28
👨🚀 Guillermo studied law and then became a military officer, but his lifelong dream was to be an astronaut. 07:57
🇦🇷 He was born in Argentina and moved to the USA when he was 6 without knowing the language. 09:39
🤓 Being an immigrant in the USA: work hard, study hard, and take advantage of every opportunity. 10:57
🙂 How Guillermo’s time in the Marine Corps helps him build startups. 12:48
😎 Two startups Guillermo is most proud of. 14:24
🤯 The deepest dives have been to the bottom of Mariana Trench’s, which is 35,000 feet under the ocean’s surface. 16:12
👦 Guillermo would tell his 11 year old self, “See, I told you you could do this,” “Keep working hard,” and “Don’t stop.” 16:56
👍 Diversity of experiences and pattern matching are so valuable for good decision making. 19:28
🪐 Guillermo views Mars and Venus as similar non-Earth destinations for the human species. 21:36
Connect with Guillermo: www.sohnlein.com
🤓 Connect with us: www.thoughtpartnergroup.com
🏙️ Dan saw New York for the first time as a tourist with his parents. 01:09
❗ His company works with only one type of CEO: Creator CEOs. 01:55
🎾 Dan likens entrepreneurship to a long journey where we hit the tennis ball of human and business growth back and forth across the net. 03:38
🥠 Recovering lawyer: Dan followed a fortune cookie’s advice and became a lawyer, but ultimately, he found something about it didn’t feel right. 04:47
🛺 Auto-rickshaw charity race across India: Every five years Dan does something fun and stupid. 07:46
🔥 Dan explains the different associations behind Fireside Strategic. 09:32
☯️ He used to underestimate the power of branding: “Branding is a path to deeper self-awareness.” 11:40
🤓 Dan’s spider skill: A powerful, targeted challenge that no one expects. 13:56
😇 Growing up as an only child gave him the ability to listen and see psychological patterns. 15:36
🤝 Most Creator CEOs lack the confidence to know if they’re actually doing the right things on a day-to-day basis. 17:26
Connect with Dan King: www.firesidestrategic.com
🤓 Connect with us: www.thoughtpartnergroup.com
3️⃣ Ketan realized there are three levels to business. 01:58
💰 Two key pieces to raising capital: Form a bond with your investors and have the right strategy for your business. 04:13
👨🔬 Ketan used to be a pharmacist, but chose to get into real estate because it lined up better with his values of freedom, creativity, and autonomy. 07:09
✨ “Instead of focusing on limitations, focus on possibilities.” 07:49
👏 People tend to think their first investment or venture needs to be perfect, but in reality, it’s all about taking the first step and getting feedback. 09:14
🇮🇳 Ketan grew up in India and chose to become a pharmacist after seeing so much sickness and suffering. 10:22
🕊️ He is grateful that his parents did not pressure him to go into any specific industry. 11:20
💫 How he turned his wish to help people as a pharmacist into helping people with real estate investment and coaching. 13:06
🤩 His mom`s greatest hope for him is to be happy. 16:05
😇 “You have to learn how to tap into your intuition.” 17:59
🚁 Parents don’t want to see their kids fail, so they like to keep them in a safety net—but there’s no room for growth in that. 19:18
🕴️ Ketan helps people learn how to raise capital or invest and also offers high performance coaching. 21:11
Connect with Ketan: www.KetanPatel.com
🤓 Connect with us: www.thoughtpartnergroup.com
👕 Lee’s vibrant shirt. 01:18
🔀 His work is all about interconnections. 02:03
🤝 Lee explains what functional coaching is. 03:37
❓ As a child Lee was incessantly curious and asked a lot of questions. 06:37
😇 The legacy of moral charisma left by his grandparents. 07:24
🙌 Lee’s vision of the future is one where people come together and collaborate in order to create solutions to universal problems. 09:58
🎨 How Lee combines his knowledge of finance, environmental psychology, sleep and nutrition studies in his work. 13:00
🪝 Surround yourself with people who will pull you out of your one-sided thinking and help you look at what you’re creating from a number of different angles. 15:56
👣 After losing the ability to walk, Lee realized that stress often comes from meaning, and meaning brings responsibility. 19:07
🌱 Lee takes a holistic approach to business and works with organizations and leaders who are at the stage of building a team around them and establishing the company culture. 21:57
Connect with Lee: www.leechambers.org and www.essentialise.co.uk
🤓 Connect with us: www.thoughtpartnergroup.com
😇 The two most important things for Charlotte are trusting in God and having that human connection. 02:06
😷 Techniques for smiling with a mask on. 03:20
🤩 Family had a huge impact on Charlotte growing up, and her parents’ character and love for humans catapulted Charlotte into what she’s doing now. 04:43
😎 Charlotte's purpose is to make a positive difference in the lives of people. 07:37
🏡 She used to live in Michigan, but now lives in Mississippi. 08:52
🫂 It is lonely at the top: Leaders and high-profile professionals need help and support. 10:51
🙂 Charlotte’s gift of joy. 13:12
🙌 You have control of yourself: Living a life of thanks-living. 15:44
🗣️ "Tell yourself the truth about who you are and what you have, and what you've accomplished." 18:02
🤔 A weakness is not a life sentence. 18:54
👩⚕️ Toni’s journey from being a nurse to an author and speaker. 04:25
📻 Her audiobook producer was the one to point out how special her voice was. 05:25
👩💼 Toni started out as a general nurse, but worked her way up to managing statewide projects for the government. 07:44
👄 Introversion as a superpower: Creating safe places for others to tell their truths. 09:17
❓ Why Toni chose nursing. 12:22
🤸 She discovered a love of interviewing, collecting people’s stories, and amplifying their voices in her mid-50s. 14:21
🎙️ Toni is not a podcaster: Podcasting is just a byproduct of what she does. 16:25
Connect with Toni: www.radiotoni.com
🤓 Connect with us: www.thoughtpartnergroup.com
🦇 Batcave office: A.J is a huge fan of The Dark Knight. 02:16
🌍 He believes the ethos of the branding world today is that people become brands and brands become people. 02:41
🧮 The stories Dr. Minai told when he was a kid were his training ground. 04:21
🌺 Tangible and intangible aspects of business models: The origin story of Vision 77. 05:49
⚔️ Persian legend in business. 08:55
💉 Unique methodology: not just giving cash injections but providing a supporting ecosystem. 12:17
2️⃣ Both an accelerator and an incubator: more humane and less materialistic than traditional VCs. 18:57
📍 A.J wants to support underdog entrepreneurs and develop higher awareness around brand storytelling giving way to self-awareness at an entrepreneurial level. 21:17
👨💼 Gary Vee redefined what it means to be an entrepreneur. 23:58
Connect with Dr. A.J Minai: www.linkedin.com/in/drajminai
🤓 Connect with us: www.thoughtpartnergroup.com
🦄 Being in leadership means that you have to be a lifetime learner. 3:22
💼 Self-directed learning is very important. 7:59
👩 Linda describes that she was often the youngest, the first, the only, and she never felt like gender played a part in her career trajectory. 13:57
🎯 She realized early on that creating the vision she wanted for her life would take a lot of grit and a lot of grace. 14:48
📚 Linda encourages people to continually refine: discover your purpose, mission, vision and what kind of environment suits you the best. 16:23
💡 Linda’s big vision, and the impact she wants to achieve. 19:19
📌 Where can we do better? What else can we provide in terms of resources, tools, funding, connections, and networks? 21:16
🔍 Linda is open to supporting, helping, and lifting up women all around the world. 23:20
Connect with Linda: www.leadhershipglobal.com
🤓 Connect with us: www.thoughtpartnergroup.com
👨 Her definition of B2B: You are selling a product that a human being inside of a business would buy for that business. 3:05
👍 How Brynne builds the reputation of her clients. 5:15
😊 Five elements on LinkedIn that get people to trust you and want to buy from you. 6:15
🎩 The magic of Linkedin is the ability to search and filter your connections’ connections. 9:28
❓ What makes Brynne and her company unique: Sales trainers who teach LinkedIn. 12:31
🌊 A rising tide lifts all boats: More people will succeed if they are educated the right way. 15:11
💰 Brynne wants to work with people who want to leverage Linkedin better to grow their business. 16:58
Connect with Brynne: www.linkedin.com/in/brynnetillman
🤓 Connect with us: www.thoughtpartnergroup.com
✨ Use your “set” to showcase your personality and values. 01:29
👨👧👦 Justin’s role model: Mr. Rogers as an innovator. 03:43
✏️ “Always keep your foundation simple and build from that.” 6:18
🤹 The most aspirational piece from Mr. Rogers: Giving people your full attention. 07:18
🤝 How to captivate potential customers: Consistently add value and build relationships. 10:38
🎖️ Creating “gems” and how they’re found though both tech and human interaction. 13:48
📊 The difficulties in measuring the impact of content marketing. 15:50
Connect with Justin: www.captivate.ai
🤓 Connect with us: www.thoughtpartnergroup.com
🌍 From a small town in Africa to Sydney, Australia. 02:37
📊 Nola’s marketing strategy. 04:33
🤝 The importance of creating a connection with customers. 05:17
🤹 Finding the balance between personal and client marketing. 06:08
👫 A marketing example targeting 15-25 year olds. 07:17
🎯 Nola’s favorite demographic to work with. 09:46
👩🏿💼 Women of color and business growth. 12:03
✨ What Nola is most passionate about in her work. 14:09
Connect with Nola: www.havilahcreativec.com
🤓 Connect with us: www.thoughtpartnergroup.com
🧔♂️ The story behind Jason’s appearance: “Your face is the brand.” 01:29
💳 Metal business cards and their impact. 04:04
❗ Seven key elements that make up a good story. 05:49
👩🍼 The turning point in Jason’s career. 08:57
🧑🌾 Jason’s path to working with non-profits. 11:24
🎦 His filmmaking journey started from humble beginnings. 13:52
🎨 Jason knew he was an artist, but never knew how to express himself. 18:19
👨🏫 He enjoys investing in people through mentoring. 20:01
Connect with Jason: www.beardandbowler.com
🤓 Connect with us: www.thoughtpartnergroup.com
🤕 Brad had an emergency brain operation in 2004 due to an incident at a nightclub. 01:53
😞 Doctors said Brad would blow bubbles for the rest of his life because of the brain damage. 04:21
🤯 The learning process after recovery: reading for 5 minutes and then having to sleep for two weeks. 05:31
🙏 He is immensely grateful for all he has been through and the man he has become because of it. 06:58
🔥 Amazing support of the community: Brad believes in the power of prayer and in the energy people as a union create together. 09:06
😎 Being a gap explorer. 10:46
💪 “I don’t want to create my destiny for some unimagined or imagined future—I want to rather live my destiny now.” 12:17
Connect with Brad: www.bradleydean.live
🤓 Connect with us: www.thoughtpartnergroup.com
🦄 Unicorn Leadership coach. 02:05
📚 About Fahd’s experience as an immigrant and the subjectiveness of truth. 05:52
💡 What is intergenerational leadership? 09:12
️ 💰 His first leadership role: As a high school student, Fahd and his friend created a camp for children that ended up helping over 250 families. 11:20
🎯 Technology’s impact on learning how to effectively manage human relationships. 16:05
🧑🦱 If you want to build a billion-dollar startup, you have to build billion dollar people. 18:19
📈 Effective leaders create high-performing teams. 21:27
️☝️ Fahd emphasizes that training, learning, and development are channels for a larger vision. 25:26
⚡ "If you think motivation is your problem, we have other problems to deal with." 28:40
Connect with Fahd: www.unicornlabs.ca
🤓 Connect with us: www.thoughtpartnergroup.com
🇹🇼 Jonathan is a Frenchman who has lived and done business all over the world—he now resides in Taiwan. 02:11
💻 New wave of online working: When COVID-19 seemingly shut the world down, Taiwan was completely open. 03:13
🏡 The work-from-home model builds trust and productivity, but not all industries can implement it. 06:14
🪄 Growth hacking is not magic. 09:00
🎯 It is important to have short-term strategies and a long-term vision in business. 13:46
🤦 Some people can’t be convinced that working on growth takes a long time. 15:59
Connect with Jonathan: www.growth-hackers.net
🤓 Connect with us: www.thoughtpartnergroup.com
🌎 The world continues to change and evolve as does Lisa’s work. 2:39
👩💼 Lisa was called “hair and nails” at the start of her law enforcement career. 4:21
👀 Her score on an interpersonal skills assessment was an eye-opener. 6:55
🛣️ How Lisa’s tough childhood influenced her decision to go to college and what to study there. 09:51
🧓 Lisa’s grandfather was the first to recognize her dynamic energy. 12:58
🗣️ Giving a voice to the voiceless. 14:37
🙃 Upside thinking vs. positive thinking. 17:06
💡 The world needs you and your brilliance. 20:12
Contact Lisa Marie: www.upsidethinking.com
🤓 Connect with us: www.thoughtpartnergroup.com
💵 Helping startups raise money the easy way. 01:48
💡 Using educational technology and artificial intelligence to improve and enhance the way people learn is one of the best ways to impact the most people. 03:10
🎯 David explains equity crowdfunding. 04:04
👉 The reputation and personal visibility of a company’s executives is one of the main factors that drives bigger valuations. 07:18
📋 Advantages of equity crowdfunding. 09:40
👐 Implementation of AI in the future and the advantages it will bring. 12:07
🛑 David's prediction on the impact of AI on educational content in the future. 14:08
📈 “Oftentimes, getting fired is one of the best things that can happen.” 16:45
💲 David raised his first million dollars without a working prototype. 17:27
Connect with David: trysocial.ceo@gmail.com
🤓 Connect with us: www.thoughtpartnergroup.com
🎦 Dominique’s lighting hack that makes it look like you’re in a movie. 1:07
📢 He was named after the basketball star Dominique Wilkins, but the etymology of “Dominique” is dominion. 02:11
🌳 He is passionate about changing family trees by providing good financial advice. 03:24
💲 Changing the trajectory of people’s money story is a very intimate thing. 4:47
💰 People get “financially naked” when talking about money, so giving away a lot of value at the start is what helps build trust. 6:44
🛠️ He has a “fixer” nature wired into him. 09:09
🎓 Dominique’s mentors. 10:53
🫂 Sometimes you have to ask question after question to uncover the “why” behind a client’s financial goal. 14:41
💰 “A Day in the Life of a Financial Advisor” video. 16:34
🏝️ Hawaiian paradise. 18:09
Connect with Dominique: https://djh-capital.com/
🤝 Connect with us: www.thoughtpartnergroup.com
🎽 Coaching athletes and entrepreneurs to get out of their own way and level up. 01:25
😷 How COVID affected her fitness company. 02:34
🤸♀️ It’s all about the mindset! 03:55
🥅 Shannon’s background gives her a deep understanding of what goes on in her clients’ industries, which helps her offer a unique business package. 04:32
🤓 The similarities between coaching executives and athletes. 06:01
🏙️ Choosing between NYC and LA. 08:32
🎯 Issues with business models in the fitness industry. 11:18
🤔 “Do you want to make the investment in yourself and in your health, or do you want to spend time in a hospital bed”? 13:55
🙋♀️ 360 Wellness: Being authentic and true to everything that we want and desire. 16:30
Connect with Shannon: www.shannonleewhalen.com and https://getinspiredfitness.com
🤓 Connect with us: www.thoughtpartnergroup.com
🤖 Two kinds of AI: the learning side and the causation side. 01:31
🥰 Kiesha explains how AI helps companies understand their customers’ needs and interests. 02:21
🔮 The AI in the future will help us become better at what we do. 03:24
👔 Kiesha’s customer-centricity passion and using data to grow sales. 05:40
🔔 One possible danger of AI is companies obtaining personal information that customers don’t feel comfortable sharing. 11:13
👩💻 About Kiesha’s pre-launch startup, which is named after the five pillars of business. 13:43
🙃 Kiesha was a tomboy in her childhood and “independent to a fault.” 16:01
💻 Connect with Kiesha: www.salesmaster.ai
🤝 Connect with us: www.thoughtpartnergroup.com
🔲 Chris’s whiteboard and conference room turned Zoom studio. 01:14
🌉 San Francisco, speakeasies, and the fascinating Emperor Norton. 03:55
▶️ Chris is a startup guy. 05:59
🗣️ If you wish to become a venture capital driven company, you have to be a storyteller. 07:20
⚡ Chairlift talk: A humanizing story about the genesis of the company Autobond. 08:19
🙃 The unseen story of Silicon Valley: Success built from failure. 09:50
🦄 “Marketing is never about being factual about everything.” 12:39
😎 Silicon Valley folklore and building reputation capital throughout the years. 13:26
🙄 Engineering and buying reputation: How to rise above the noise. 15:00
🦾 Engineering is the easy bit, while sales and marketing are unpredictable and difficult. 16:20
🪝 The catch 22 with AI: Engineers will always look for an engineering solution. 17:59
😇 Making big tech useful for people instead of it being used against them. 21:41
Connect with Chris: www.c32.co
🤓 Connect with us: www.thoughtpartnergroup.com
🛣️ About his journey: From web development to data science and natural language processing. 01:50
😎 The future of AI in content creation and copywriting. 03:57
🇺🇦 From Ukraine to Palo Alto: infinite possibilities to develop new research. 06:23
👦 From an early age, Mikhail was interested in computers and how systems work. 08:40
👨👩👦 Having engineers for parents, his passion for improving the world is driven by family culture. 10:21
👓 On having a different world view and looking for similar qualities in people. 12:04
😇 Mikhail has brought together a small team with unique views on AI. 14:13
⚡ Building AI with not just a friendly face but empathy in the background. 17:00
Connect with Mikhail: www.tappywriter.com
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🌞 A chief marketing officer who became a historian and wrote a book about Buddha! 02:32
🙏 Spiritual, emotional, and psychological aspects of history. 06:44
📲 About the spatial web, three-dimensional experiences that are coming next in technology, and how young people perceive the world today. 10:30
👥 The next steps in technology include social media combining with the spatial web. 3:18
⏭️ The system we live in is changing as a natural expression of the human capacity to evolve by exploration. 16:49
Connect with Harvey www.digitalfandom.com
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🖼️ Ran is a painter: "Without the light, you can't have the shadow." 01:38
📊 Ran was fascinated with the ability to track behaviors, and he talks about his journey from the world of art into business and psychographic segmentation. 02:54
📄 Data-driven content marketing, targeted messaging, and how to better your business model with specific content design. 05:49
💲 About pricing and why clients need to know the prices in advance. 10:25
🙃 Ran’s business experience and his artistic side make up his personal brand. 13:59
📲 Reaching younger people through different media. 18:58
🤔 How did Ran get his name? 21:49
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🎻 Paul is a musician and voice artist: Geige as violin in German, not Geiger counter. 01:16
🗣️ All business communication is a form of public speaking. 03:30
👨🦳 Reliability, consistency, and curiosity are components of Paul’s authenticity. 05:33
👂 While speaking, the best practice is to give your listener space to process you and the message you are sharing. 09:03
😇 If you lack clarity, people will not connect with you. 11:12
🤩 “You're either dealing with the fear, or you're trying to be more clear.” 15:10
🐶 Storytelling is essential, and a willingness to share is the path to authenticity. 18:04
🎼 Violinist vs. Fiddler 19:20
Connect with Paul: www.paulgeiger.com
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🇩🇰 An American in Denmark. 01:50
🏝️ The “island effect”. 04:24
🌑 Building business in the darkness (while planning to scale). 06:05
💥 Taylor wants to work on things that are continuously surprising him and to spend time with the most intelligent people. 09:53
🐳 Entrepreneurs don’t come up for air very often. 13:44
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🐟 Fish tank 00:00
👮♀️ Lisa’s journey from law enforcement, to a psychology degree, to private investigator.
🪑 Her “Red Chair” philosophy. 02:22
🚓 As a child, Lisa wanted to be a police officer. 04:08
💲 The red serge suit, the red tape, the red chair: Making change and money were possible only in an entrepreneurial world. 05:56
👩👧👧 Lisa would like her daughters to become “eligible receivers of life and opportunity.” 07:28
🌱 Preachers’ kids usually rebel because of the lack of flexibility to make mistakes. 08:54
🤓 About the discovery of the failure, not learning from the failure. 10:42
🥃 Lisa will leave her legacy in her upcoming book and hopes her funeral will be marked with the happiness of life and good whiskey. 12:44
📚 Her book Intelligent Curiosity was written with Jim Cathcart, and it is about the art of finding more in life. 13:57
🤝 You can give up all your money, but not your network. It will be there when you need to fall back to pivot and adapt. 14:54
🫂 True relationship capital is all about others, not you, and it takes time and work to capitalize on it. 16:47
Connect with Lisa: www.lisapatrick.ca
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👓 Harry Potter glasses. 00:10
👩👦 His Mom was worried about her eldest son quitting his job and starting a company at just 23 years old. 1:30
👨💼 Cameron started his hustle at 15 and has changed jobs 50 times. 02:30
💪 "We" vs. "I". 05:47
🦸♂️ Cameron’s quirkiness? Doing the boring stuff and continuing to do it after thousands of rejections. 08:11
🤝 Feeling uncomfortable about hard-selling, Cameron does things his way and nurtures "human sales conversations". 10:32
💲 A reason to start a company: Why make 5% commission when I could make 100% commission? 12:35
🦄 Dive into your uniqueness and weirdness to build your personal brand. 12:50
🕴️ Get yourself out there … be known for your beliefs. 14:00
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