Today’s guest on the “Phil with F30” podcast is Gabe Kennedy – Founder of Plant People Forbes List: USA Year: 2020 Category: Food & Drink Gabe Kennedy takes an experimental approach to life. His career started after attending the Culinary Institute of America and Cornell University. A private equity firm employed him, but he left to be a contestant on Anthony Bourdain’s reality TV competition - and he won! Being the winner led him to a variety of experiences in the food industry. But after a...
Mar 15, 2021•55 min•Season 1Ep. 43
Today’s guest on the “Phil with F30” podcast is Jason Gui – Co-Founder of Vue Forbes List: Asia Year: 2017 Category: Industry & Energy Jason Gui, Co-Founder of Vue, had difficulties in finding a target market for the first version of his smart glasses. At one point, he cut back to a skeleton staff and had little in the bank account. He didn’t agree on taking a new direction with his co-founder, but he listened to her, anyway. With smart pivoting and firm due dates, the second product version...
Mar 07, 2021•58 min•Season 1Ep. 42
Today’s guest on the “Phil with F30” podcast is Bonnie Burton – Video Game Producer at Bungie Forbes List: USA Year: 2020 Category: Games At age 12, Bonnie Burton became the 1st Female Pro Gamer Ever! It started as a family bonding event, with Bonnie and her brothers traveling from city to city in an unknown phenomenon–playing computer and console games in live tournaments. It was the early stages of Esports that we know today. The game industry, not always female-friendly, eventually welcomed B...
Feb 28, 2021•36 min•Season 1Ep. 41
Today’s guest on the “Phil with F30” podcast is Marek Kubik – Market Director of Fluence Forbes List: Europe Year: 2017 Category: Industry (Energy) Marek Kubik is a recognized influencer and leader in the energy industry. Early in his career, Marek had an instrumental role in developing the 10MW Kilroot Energy Storage Array. It was the first utility-scale commercial battery energy storage project in Europe, and one of the largest systems in the world. Marek is a director and founding member of e...
Feb 21, 2021•51 min•Season 1Ep. 40
Today’s guest on the “Phil with F30” podcast is Lucas Sin – Chef of Junzi Kitchen Forbes List: USA Year: 2020 Category: Food & Drink It was his Asian parents’ dream to send him to the U.S. for higher education so he didn’t end up working in some low paying kitchen. So it’s ironic that this son left Hong Kong, went to Yale, and returned to a Chinese kitchen. Lucas Sin, Chef of Junzi Kitchen, has four locations in NY City and New Haven, Connecticut. Lucas raised over $5-million in funding, inc...
Feb 14, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 39
Today’s guest on the “Phil with F30” podcast is Alina Alam – CEO of Mitti Cafe Forbes List: Asia Year: 2020 Category: Social Entrepreneurship Dear Listeners, There are a billion people across the world with disabilities and 70-million in India. With compassion and determination for creating a world that’s more inclusive, Alina Alam, CEO Mitti Café has helped people with physical, intellectual, and psychological disabilities to become productive, while showcasing their skills to earn a living. Sh...
Feb 07, 2021•39 min•Season 1Ep. 38
Today’s guest on the “Phil with F30” podcast is Mia Park – Co-Founder of Sundae School & Sundae Flowers Forbes List: USA Year: 2020 Category: Art & Style Mia Park is the co-founder of Sundae School & Sundae Flowers. Don’t jump to conclusions on what it is they sell! Sundae School is a boutique fashion smoke wear brand based in NY. “Smoke wear” is a label for high fashion apparel and accessories to wear when you’re smoking weed. Sundae Flower is a cannabis brand that sells cannabis fl...
Jan 31, 2021•36 min•Season 1Ep. 37
Today’s guest on the “Phil with F30” podcast is Kimeshan Naidoo – CTO & Co-Founder of Unibuddy Forbes List: Europe Year: 2020 Category: Social Entrepreneurship I teach entrepreneurs that it’s important to focus on the number one reason your customers want your product or service. Kimeshan Naidoo, CTO, and Co-Founder of Unibuddy is a master at finding out his client’s pain points and knows how to create a product and service based on that. His product, Unibuddy, helps students select the righ...
Jan 24, 2021•51 min•Season 1Ep. 36
Today’s guest on the “Phil with F30” podcast is Farryn Weiner – Founder of FarrynHeight Forbes List: USA Year: 2014 Category: Marketing & Advertising By recognizing her skills as a storyteller and marketer, Farryn Weiner positioned herself as the leader of social strategy for Michael Kors. When social media was in its infancy, Farryn took a risk in creating the first Instagram ad ever! That risk paid off and proved that Farryn was ahead of the trend in creating social media and understanding...
Jan 18, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 35
Today’s guest on the “Phil with F30” podcast is Gavin Armstrong - Founder of Little Iron Fish Forbes List: USA & Asia Year: 2016 Category: Social Entrepreneurs In multiple cultures and religions, the fish is a symbol of luck and prosperity. But it took more than just luck to make my guest, Gavin Armstrong a Forbes 30 under 30 list winner in three continents in the same year–a first for anyone mentioned on the Forbes List! Gavin Armstrong is the founder of Lucky Iron Fish. The “fish” is a sma...
Jan 10, 2021•34 min•Season 1Ep. 34
Today’s guest on the “Phil with F30” podcast is Parveen Begum – CEO of Solisco Forbes List: Europe Year: 2020 Category: Manufacturing and Industry Protecting the environment is at the forefront of Parveen Begum’s work and the inspiration for starting Solisco. How she started the company and created portable solar car charging stations is just part of her story. My admiration for Parveen comes from her courage and strength to follow the beat of her own drum in all her career decisions. Although e...
Jan 03, 2021•1 hr 24 min•Season 1Ep. 33
Today’s guest on the “Phil with F30” podcast is Ryan Disraeli – Co-Founder - Telesign Forbes List: USA Year: 2017 Category: Enterprise Tech From saving himself from a charging mountain lion to keeping mentally strong while leading a multi-national company, my guest Ryan Disraeli has a great story to share. Ryan is a co-founder of the online security company Telesign, which started in 2005 when he was a sophomore at the University of Southern California. Telesign pioneered mobile-phone-based two-...
Dec 27, 2020•57 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Today’s guest on the “Phil with F30” podcast is Dr. Marek Buchman – Research Scientist of AbbVie BioPharmaceuticals Forbes List: Slovakia Year: 2018 Category: Science and Education Dr. Marek Buchman showed his chemistry talents early when he co-authored his first patent at 15. He left his home in Slovakia and studied at the University of Oxford, and to date, he scored the highest in their organic chemistry exams. Dr. Buchman earned his PhD. from the KC Nicolao lab at Rice University, where he co...
Dec 20, 2020•43 min•Season 1Ep. 31
Today’s guest on the “Phil with F30” podcast is Lizz Warner – Founder of Gleam Dating Forbes List: USA Year: 2020 Category: Media Ever wonder what makes a video go viral? My guest Lizz Warner is extremely talented at creating social media content that does just that. Lizz is the creator of BuzzFeed’s first travel brand called “Bring Me!” which became the #1 Travel Publisher on the Internet in under a year with over 4-billion views. She was also the content creator for NBC’s Snapchat for the 2016...
Dec 13, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 30
Today’s guest on the “Phil with F30” podcast is Julian Gluck - A Military Pilot in US Air Force Forbes List: USA Year: 2020 Category: Law and Policy My guest today is in the Law and Policy category and is only the third military member selected for the honor. Julian Gluck is a B-52 Stratofortress pilot and flight commander for the U.S. Air Force. He has flown combat missions against ISIS and the Taliban and served as the executive officer of the Department of Defense’s largest bomb group. In 201...
Dec 06, 2020•44 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Today’s guest on the “Phil with F30” podcast is Milan Reinartz – CEO of iVideoSmart Forbes List: Asia Year: 2018 Category: Media. Marketing, and Advertising Milan Reinartz is the CEO of iVideoSmart (iVS). The company is South East Asia’s largest B2B video publishing and monetization platform. It’s like YouTube for business. iVS allows businesses to monetize their video content more effectively with a unique, proprietary process. iVS reaches over 120 million unique views on over 1.3 billion pages...
Nov 29, 2020•49 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Today’s guest on the “Phil with F30” podcast is Julius Bachmann – Coach from Volate Forbes List: Europe Year: 2017 Category: Financing It’s not every day that I get to have a conversation with a fellow coach, especially one who joins me in the Forbes under 30 club! It took some time for Julius Bachmann to realize he was a working coach and much more than just an advisor to start-up companies needing help in developing the monetary side of their business. He is now breaking new territory as an ex...
Nov 22, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Today’s guest on the “Phil with F30” podcast is Madhavi Shankar – CEO of Space Basic Forbes List: Asia Year: 2020 Category: Enterprise Technology Madhavi Shankar had two career goals – to be on the Forbes list and to succeed as an entrepreneur. This year Madhavi reached both those goals in her role as co-founder and CEO of the mobile and web app Space Basic. The app is a platform to manage hostels and student housing matters including attendance, payments, and room allotment. It may sound simple...
Nov 15, 2020•45 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Today’s guest on the “Phil with Forbes 30” podcast is Jordan Levy – CEO of Capstone Source Forbes List: USA Year: 2017 Category: Education My friend and guest Jordan Levy bridges the gap of bringing Higher Education students to the workplace through unique experiential learning opportunities. His company, CapSource makes it easy for educators and companies to match skills and needs through hands-on collaborations that expose students to new circumstances with real stakeholders, challenges, and o...
Nov 08, 2020•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 25
Today’s guest on the “Phil with F30” podcast is Georges Clement – Co-Founder of JustFix.NYC Forbes List: USA Year: 2018 Category: Law & Policy At 12-years of age, Georges Clement left an all-American small town in Kansas to discover what the world has to offer. He convinced his parents that moving to New York City was the thing to do so he could expand his thinking and world-view. He fell in love with the city and early on observed how his neighborhood was rapidly changing with big developer...
Nov 01, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Today’s guest on the “Phil with F30” podcast is Dr. Madhukar – CEO of OneThree Bio. Forbes List: USA Year: 2016 Category: Healthcare Living in N.Y. city to moving in with your parents in the midwest can change life’s perspectives during this readjustment time due to Covid. It’s interesting how each of us has a different method of pivoting and moving forward. I had a wonderful conversation with Dr. Neel Madhukar, CEO of OneThreeBio, not only on his successes so far but where he’s going in the fut...
Oct 25, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Today’s guest on the “Phil with Forbes 30” podcast is Vaitea Cowan – Co-founder of Enapter Forbes List: USA Year: 2020 Category: Energy I really enjoyed my conversation with Vaitea Cowan, the co-founder of Enapter, an oil and gas company of the 21st century. Multilingual, Vaitea connects the leading markets of hydrogen and finds special projects to deploy Enapter's electrolyser technology. Vaitea is an advocate of hydrogen fuel as it does not emit any CO2. Her company is the first to use electro...
Oct 19, 2020•41 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Today’s guest on the “Phil with Forbes 30” podcast is Kunal Garg - CoFounder of TezTed Forbes List: Europe Year: 2020 Category: Science and Healthcare Kunal Garg’s company is a life-line behind the scenes of the COVID-19 pandemic. Within three-weeks, his company developed Plex, an antibody test for the COVID-19 virus. It is the only test that can measure three different antibody responses. The discussion started with Kunal explaining to Phil how the company was able to transfer skill sets quickl...
Oct 11, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Today’s guest on the “Phil with Forbes 30” podcast is Claudiu Leverenz – CEO of Munevo Forbes List: Europe Year: 2017 Category: Health People impaired by diseases like ALS, multiple sclerosis, and muscular dystrophy, or those that may have suffered spinal cord injuries, frequently have no ability to move their arms or legs. Munevo is a German company that empowers people with disabilities by designing wheelchairs and other supports using new and innovative technologies. Munevo’s core product, Mu...
Oct 04, 2020•42 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Today’s guest on the “Phil with Forbes 30” podcast is Bright Jaja – Founder of iCreate Africa Forbes List: Africa Year: 2019 Category: Business My guest, Bright Jaja has one of the most unique projects to help empower young Africans. Around the world people tend not to appreciate or value those that have vocational or basic technical skills. Bright is changing that perception by rebranding and showcasing the talents of trade workers and their importance in today’s economy. Bright is the Founder ...
Sep 27, 2020•58 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Today’s guest on the “Phil with Forbes 30” podcast is Rotem Alima – Owner of Rotem Alima Productions Forbes List: Israel Year: 2016 Category: Filmmaker & Social Activist As a young girl, Rotem Alima had a vision to become an Executive Producer. She doesn’t know where that idea came from, but it was a vision that just continued to stay inside her. Rotem is the epitome of having and keeping that vision, not saying no to obstacles. Because of her tenacity, a door finally opened leading to oppor...
Sep 20, 2020•53 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Today’s guest on the “Phil with Forbes 30” podcast is Rhonesha Byng– Founder of Her Agenda Forbes List: USA Year: 2017 Category: Media Unlike many of the people I interview on this podcast, Rhonesha Byng is unique in her entrepreneurial journey because she didn’t raise venture capital money. Through real bootstrapping, Rhonesha developed into a successful entrepreneur, the CEO of Her Agenda, a digital media platform for millennial women. The site provides access to content and community that giv...
Sep 13, 2020•47 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Today’s guest on the “Phil with Forbes 30” podcast is Amy Williams – Founder of Good-Loop Forbes List: Europe Year: 2018 Category: Media & Marketing How does one go from being a volunteer at an Argentinian soup kitchen to being on the Forbes 30 under 30 list in media and marketing? Amy Williams, the founder of Good-Loop made a transformational life and career pivot when she realized that although she had great appreciation for being in the advertising industry and how it creates and shapes c...
Sep 06, 2020•49 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Today’s guest on the “Phil with Forbes 30” podcast is Kate Machtiger – Founder of Extra Terrestrial Studio Forbes List: USA Year: 2016 Category: Education Kate Machtiger creates spaces that diversify and enhance our sensory landscape. She brings a strategic vision to complex projects and harnesses her multi-disciplinary design and business background to translate concepts into physical space. She was formerly Design Director at Assignment Studios, where she helped clients bring their brand visio...
Aug 30, 2020•47 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Today’s guest on the “Phil with Forbes 30” podcast is Austin Martin – CEO of Rhymes With Reason Forbes List: USA Year: 2020 Category: Education San Diego native Austin Martin was not considered the best of students, but he was a bright kid. Ironically he earned the Forbes 30 under 30 award in the education category. Austin is the CEO of Rhymes with Reason (RWR), an online vocabulary and literacy centered learning tool that is powered by a student’s favorite music. RWR has been used in more than ...
Aug 22, 2020•51 min•Season 1Ep. 14
