Today's interview is with Gret Glyer. Gret spent 3 years living in Malawi, Africa doing poverty alleviation work. This included building houses for orphans and widows, providing mosquito nets to malaria infested areas, and crowdfunding a $100,000 girls school in a rural village. Last September he moved home to launch his startup: DonorSee. DonorSee is an app that helps donors see exactly where there money goes when they donate using picture and video updates.In our interview, Gret talk about:The...
Apr 25, 2017•42 min
Today's interview is with Dan Fahrner, the founder of SmallBox. SmallBox is a creative agency focused on helping clients find opportunities, solve big, fuzzy challenges, and build meaningful employee, brand and service experiences. They take a people-centered approach to designing solutions with you. Their services, from branding to strategic consulting to employee engagement, all speak to one goal: partnering with people to create distinctive and meaningful experiences. They thrive on curiosity...
Apr 20, 2017•31 min
Today's Interview is with Eulanda & Omo Osagiede who are London-based freelance writers and award-winning social influencers who run the popular travel, food, and lifestyle blog HDYTI. They describe themselves as the everyday kind of couple. Think Clark Kent and Lois Lane in a Bruno Mars ‘Lazy Song’ kind of way…although unlike the song suggests, they like to do a bit more than walking around in pajamas all day. Omo's day job involves managing IT risk for my clients while Eulanda is a profess...
Apr 18, 2017•49 min
Today's episode is with Sean Kim the founder of Rype which I believe is future of language learning. Sean Kim is the Founder and CEO of Rype, a global platform connecting language learners with handpicked professional language teachers around the world. Sean is also the host of 'The Sean Kim Show' where he interviews some of the world's top entrepreneurs and experts, which is syndicated to The Huffington Post, Inc. Magazine, and more.In this episode, we discuss:-Sean's start as an entrepreneur-W...
Apr 13, 2017•43 min
Today's episode is with Nick Desai. Nick is the co-founder & CEO of Heal, an app for on-demand healthcare (think Uber for doctor house calls). Nick has led four venture funded start-ups over the last 18 years. For Nick, Heal is more than a company - it's a mission to fix the broken $3 trillion health care system.Heal has quickly become a leading HealthTech company that recently raised a $26.9M Series A and is backed by notable and high-profile investors ranging from Thomas Tull (Tull Investm...
Apr 11, 2017•36 min
I recently had the pleasure of talking to the voice of the Millennial Podcast, Megan Tan which is easily one of my favorite podcasts. Millennial is a podcast series that captures what it's like to maneuver your 20s in real time.Megan essentially created her own future and career after contemplating what she wanted to do with her life post graduation. In the midst of this uncertainty, she started producing her own podcast to show prospective employers that she had what it takes to earn a full-tim...
Apr 07, 2017•27 min
Today's podcast is with Kaylyn Easton. Kaylyn has been marketing and promoting companies through digital experiences for over eight years. She is an entrepreneur at heart and the founder of two companies, Ava J., which is a high-end outwear company for women and Chiavare Oil {key-a-var-ee}, a vegan, all-natural personal moisturizer a.k.a. lube. Kaylyn’s passion is giving women the tools and confidence to succeed. She advocates for constant transparency, communication, and getting women talking a...
Apr 04, 2017•31 min
Today's episode of Use Your Difference is on the life lessons I learned from Beauty and the Beast. The messages in Beauty and the Beast are extremely powerful and are ones we should take to heart and share within our own daily lives. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 01, 2017•12 min
Danny Flood is co-founder of Open World Magazine, the world's #1 resource for active lifestyle creators. An entrepreneur since age 9, he went from broke ramen-eating college graduate to growing a profitable online business and pursuing lifestyle design with reckless abandon. Through his many adventures around the world, he has been robbed, fallen from bridges and motorbikes, hugged exotic animals, and nearly died several times in pursuit of his dreams. While he could be anywhere, he feels most a...
Mar 30, 2017•37 min
Today's interview is with Tom Bilyeu. Tom is the co-founder of 2014 Inc. 500 company Quest Nutrition — a unicorn startup valued at over $1 billion — and the co-founder and host of Impact Theory. Tom’s mission is the creation of empowering media-based IP and the acceleration of mission-based businesses. Personally driven to help people develop the skills they will need to improve themselves and the world, Tom is intent to use commerce to address the dual pandemics of physical and mental malnouris...
Mar 28, 2017•49 min
Today's podcast is with Adrien Behn. Adrien is the host of the Strangers Abroad podcast. Strangers Abroad is a series of conversations Adrien had with the wonderful and weird people she met during her journey to Latin America in 2015: a 5-month, 5,000 kilometer adventure spanning 10 countries, hundreds of people, and countless stories. If you want to hear a first hand tale of booking a one way ticket and winging it then this is the podcast for you. It’s an honest example of long term backpacking...
Mar 23, 2017•31 min
Today's interview is with Nicholas Upchurch. Nicholas has a background in Digital Marketing and the companies which he has owned have generated millions of dollars in sales within a very short period of time. Although he was able to build a business that was very successful, travel to 33 countries, play football in front of 111,000 fans on National TV, and earn 6 figure monthly checks from partners like Google, his life changed in 2015 when he visited the Sacred Valley of Peru. Through an intere...
Mar 21, 2017•49 min
If you’re in the business of building a brand today, you’re most likely trying to figure out how to engage with consumers on a day-to-day level. This means energizing your brand to be dynamic and conversational. To do this, you must transform your Brand Equity into Brand Currency. Brand Currency transforms one-way messages into two-way, engaging conversations.These are the things that global branding expert, Nicole Ertas and I discuss on today's podcast. She has helped build many of the world’s ...
Mar 17, 2017•38 min
Today's episode is with the Marketing Director of Give Lively, Brooke Currence. Brooke’s decision to join Give Lively as Marketing Director was fueled by a desire to bring best in class marketing knowledge from Fortune 500 experience and put it to use for the nonprofits she is passionate about. Through her love for travel and interest in societal structures, Brooke became increasingly aware and passionate about changing socioeconomic and gender barriers to equal opportunities and achievement. Br...
Mar 14, 2017•39 min
Today's interview is with Anada Lakra. Anada is the creative half of day100, a recruiting technology startup. She is focused on product development, marketing, and business development. She is passionate about matching companies to the right talent in a way that is technology-enabled but always human-centered. Her goal is to make recruiting both more data-driven AND more human. In addition to this, she organizes the HR Tech Showcase to bring together the HR community in New York. Anada graduated...
Mar 13, 2017•40 min
Today's interview is with Rahama Wright. Rahama started Shea Yeleen 10 years ago with the mission to economically empower women in Northern Ghana, they do that through the sale of premium shea butter skincare products. Their products are sold in over 120 retailers nationwide, Whole Foods is their biggest retail partner.Rahama was appointed to President Obama's Advisory Council for Doing Business in Africa and she was recently selected to be on the "Queen Boss" reality show on BET/Centric.In a nu...
Mar 07, 2017•40 min
Heather Ann Havenwood, CEO of Havenwood Worldwide, LLC and Chief Sexy Boss, is a serial entrepreneur and is regarded as a top authority on internet marketing, business strategies and marketing. Since marketing her first online business in 1999, bringing together clients and personal coaches, she has played an active role in the online marketing world since before most even had a home computer. In 2006, she started, developed and grew an online information marketing publishing company from ground...
Mar 04, 2017•33 min
Today's episode is on what it means to be a woman in the 21st century. Today's two guests are Lina Abisoghomyan and En Kelly who are activists, thought leaders, business professionals and models.We talk about:Stereotypes about women in the workplaceDate Of Birth stigmatismThe state of millennial female entrepreneursThe new idea of beautyAs En says, we need to champion women whose beauty is secondary to her accomplishments, whose character and actions are more acclaimed than her makeup or styling...
Feb 28, 2017•59 min
Candice Galek is a self taught young female entrepreneur on the quest for knowledge. She is the Founder of Bikini Luxe, an American online retailer with a focus on designer swimwear, resort wear, and accessories for women worldwide. After going viral for her marketing efforts on LinkedIn, she began sharing her experiences as a business owner via her column on Inc.com titled "Quest for Knowledge" and on Social Media Today. Candice is the featured honoree on the Forbes 30 Under 30 List in 2017. Sh...
Feb 23, 2017•35 min
Lina Abisoghomyan is back and this time she is breaking down the European Parliament for us. It is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union (EU). Together with the Council of the European Union (the Council) and the European Commission, it exercises the legislative function of the EU.We also get into differences between the parliament and congress as well different ways their policies affect all of Europe.As always Lina can be found on LinkedIn here: https://www.linke...
Feb 21, 2017•31 min
Today's episode is with Eric Termuende. Eric is on a mission to change the way we talk about work and get fulfillment from it. An author, speaker, and entrepreneur, Eric has been featured in Forbes and the Huffington Post and Inc. Magazine. In 2015, Eric was recognized as a Top 100 Emerging Innovators under 35 globally by American Express. Eric sat as Community Integration Chair for Global Shapers Calgary, a community that functions under the World Economic Forum. Eric is a former Canadian G20 Y...
Feb 20, 2017•34 min
Today's episode is with Zachary Burt. We discuss the ins and outs of consulting and what it takes to launch a business in today's virtual world. Zachary has been a freelance programmer for 10 years, since his Facebook app was acquired. He loves tech and recently wrote a book called Code For Cash. He is currently pivoting his book into an entrepreneurial venture and encourages you to connect. Book: https://www.BreakingIntoConsulting.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/CodeForCashBookEmail: zack@zackb...
Feb 17, 2017•40 min
Today's interview is with Samantha Miles. Samantha is a multimedia journalist whose work has appeared in various newsrooms in Colorado, Texas, and Columbia Nightly News in New York City. She has also written for several online publications, and won awards for her journalism in the Arab Spring Uprisings for her piece - "The Jasmine Flowers: Women of the Tunisian Revolution," where she interviewed women rewriting the Tunisian constitution after the revolution. She has written about women from vari...
Feb 14, 2017•33 min
My guest today is Matt Geddie. He is a serial entrepreneur and most recently the founder and CEO of Skinny & Company a three year old company that is one of the fastest growing natural brands on the market. Best part is he and his founders have done it all through bootstrapping and putting the pedal to the metal all day, every day. They just crossed the $2M revenue mark for the year, up from $800k last year. In this interview, we discuss his entrepreneurship journey, his personal failures, a...
Feb 09, 2017•28 min
Today's interview is with Maimah Karmo. Maimah is a mother, philanthropist, author, advocate, cancer warrior, magazine publisher, life coach, entrepreneur, badass and unicorn. Maimah's story began in Liberia, West Africa, where she was born. After surviving two wars in Liberia, during a third coup d'état, she fled to the United States at 15 years old, when her father put her on a plane, alone, to avoid persecution due to the war. She worked her way through college and created her version of the ...
Feb 07, 2017•42 min
Today's interview is with the co-founders of Tripwire Sam Hiscocks and Hal Tyler. Their app Tripwire uses a unique ‘pin-dropping’ technology that immediately connects users to their destination, enabling travellers to unlock a local feed of real-time information, meet fellow travellers and make tour bookings.The travel start-up secured £200,000 investment and the backing of high profile partners, including Mad Monkey Hostels, the largest hostel chain in South East Asia. The Tripwire team are loo...
Feb 02, 2017•34 min
Today's interview is with Maria Rapetskaya Maria is the world-traveling, edge-pushing founder/creative director of NYC-based motion design firm, Undefined Creative. Aside of producing award-winning promotional projects for the NHL, NBCUniversal, Better Homes & Gardens and other major brands, she's a published thought leader who regularly shares her insights with readers of Fortune, Fast Company, Entrepreneur and others. She is also a huge proponent of giving back to the world that gave her a...
Jan 31, 2017•30 min
Today's episode is with Bob Kulhan who joined us in episode 55 to discuss the transformative power of improvisation in business and life. He's back today to discuss his new book: Getting to "Yes And": The Art of Business Improv. For more than three years, he has dedicated incredible amounts of time and energy writing on Getting to "Yes And": The Art of Business Improv (Stanford University Press).Getting to "Yes And" is the definitive guide to business improv. Bob teaches readers to think on thei...
Jan 26, 2017•36 min
Today's interview is with ATBN favorite Andy Molinsky! He's back!!!! And today we are celebrating his new book: Reach: A New Strategy to Help You Step Outside Your Comfort Zone, Rise to the Challenge and Build Confidence.According to Andy Molinsky, an expert on behavior in the business world, there are five key challenges underlying our avoidance tendencies: authenticity, competence, resentment, likability, and morality. Does the new behavior you’re attempting feel authentic to you? Is it the ri...
Jan 25, 2017•21 min
Today's interview is with Joe Kashurba. Joe grew the freelance web design business that he started in high school into a digital agency with a virtual team and clients around the world. He went from building $300 websites to building $30,000 websites and managing 6-figure digital advertising budgets for some of the largest manufacturing and construction companies. Joe now advises and mentors other freelance web designers and digital agency owners on how to develop and scale their businesses.We d...
Jan 24, 2017•40 min
