Manish shares his journey from growing up in rural Kentucky to working at Google to becoming a successful venture capitalist in Silicon Valley. Manish shares his lessons learned from his time at Google and how they shaped his approach to venture capital. About Manish Patel Manish is a Silicon Valley veteran who solves problems at the intersection of business, technology, and human experience. He follows his passion for technologies that address deep needs and evolve to products which become part...
Mar 26, 2025•48 min•Season 4Ep. 502
Pickles. They're crunchy, tangy, and a staple in sandwiches, burgers, and snack plates worldwide. An pickling originated thousands of years ago, with evidence of cucumbers being pickled in the Tigris Valley as far back as 2030 BC, primarily as a method of food preservation. Throughout history, pickles have been enjoyed by various cultures, with notable figures like Cleopatra and Julius Caesar appreciating their flavor and perceived health benefits. This widespread appreciation helped spread pick...
Mar 20, 2025•49 min•Season 4Ep. 501
Headliner, has helped over 1 million podcasters promote their podcast. He loves taking things from zero to one and beyond and Oliver shares his journey how he did it with Headliner Episode Links Headliner About Oliver Wellington Oliver loves bringing new products and ideas into the world, and promoting them. After a 5 year stint promoting and playing in a rock band, he switched over the wide world of tech startups and has co-founded and worked on two companies. nRelate, a publisher/blogger tool ...
Jul 25, 2024•43 min•Season 3Ep. 500
Use first principles thinking to master your problem solving. Once you understand the framework you'll be able to solve just about any problem you face in business or in your life. CONNECT WITH US Get Your Weekly EDGE Newsletter. It's FREE. Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF) Brandon writes a weekly email newsletter called EDGE that over 22,000 people rely on for an edge to achieve their best selves in business and life. Content Brandon writes about what he knows...lessons from 2x exits, 20+ strike outs...
Jul 24, 2024•5 min•Season 3Ep. 499
Betty Lu, Founder of Confetti Snacks, shares how she's building the top selling natural snacks company. From raising venture capital to getting into national chains like Walmart. CONNECT WITH US Get Your Weekly EDGE Newsletter. It's FREE. Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF) Brandon writes a weekly email newsletter called EDGE that over 22,000 people rely on for an edge to achieve their best selves in business and life. Content Brandon writes about what he knows...lessons from 2x exits, 20+ strike outs V...
Jul 18, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Season 3Ep. 498
Jerry Seinfeld used this strategy to develop the daily habit of writing jokes. Learn this simple productivity technique and build lasting daily habits that will boost your confidence, energy and productivity. Links from the Episode The Productivity Podcast Follow Productivity on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/productivity/id1694396715 Follow Productivity on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4pbUJipdWzLHdHaKoqZ2i8?si=c5d3b12b00dc45a3 Or Search "Productivity Brandon" on y...
Jul 17, 2024•3 min•Season 3Ep. 496
Jason talks how to raise venture capital and lessons learned from portfolio companies at Bull City Venture Partners. Jason Caplain Jason is a General Partner and Co-Founder of Bull City Venture Partners and has been a venture capitalist for over two decades. Prior to co-founding BCVP, Jason co-founded Southern Capitol Ventures. Previously, he was at Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) in their finance group through the successful IPO in 1999. Before joining Red Hat, Jason was at Harrison Hurley and Company, an i...
Jul 12, 2024•51 min•Season 3Ep. 496
Learn about the fishing rod business and what makes a great light tackle saltwater fishing rod. About Ron Buffington and JLS Rods Ron is a light tackle charter guide and CEO and Founder of JLS Rods. JLS Rods started as a custom rod company and while they still offer custom rods they have now turned to manufacturing their own line of saltwater fishing rods. At JLS all rod blanks are made in the USA as well as all and assembly. JLS makes saltwater fishing rods for serious anglers wanting a no nons...
Apr 18, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 3Ep. 495
Thomas dropped into our studio and gives the step-by-step on how he and his co-founder took Midday Superfoods from Zero to One and thousands of customers. About Thomas Lundgard Thomas Lundgard grew up in Half Moon Bay, California, where he began surfing at age 15 at the legendary local surf spot called Mavericks. He's a serial entrepreneur. He and his brother co-own Tommy Tsunami Surf School located in Half Moon Bay, CA , he is an avid cryptocurrency investor and Co-Founder of Midday Superfoods....
Apr 12, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 494
Learn how to build big relationships by hosting small cocktail parties. ABOUT NICK GRAY Nick Gray is an entrepreneur and best-selling author living in Austin, Texas. He started and sold two successful companies: Flight Display Systems and Museum Hack. Nick is the author of The 2-Hour Cocktail Party, a step-by-step handbook that teaches you how to build big relationships by hosting small gatherings. Over 75,000 people have watched his TEDx talk about why he hates most museums. He’s been featured ...
Mar 28, 2024•49 min•Season 1Ep. 493
Ali talks about what he and other early stage investors look for in companies who are raising money for their early stage companies. ABOUT ALI JAMAL Ali Jamal is a Venture Investor, Product Leader, Growth Expert, Data Scientist, and Corporate Strategist. He is the Founder of First Check Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in early stage startups across the globe. First Check Ventures has supported and invested in more than 130 startups from more than 30 countries including the US, Paki...
Mar 20, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Season 3Ep. 492
Learn how Alexandra got into urban hiking, started a company, wrote two books on urban hiking and some cool things to see on San Francisco's urban trails. ABOUT ALEXANDRA KENIN Alexandra is a Studio Chief at Wordsmithie, Inc., a content and design agency that serves clients in the tech, finance, healthcare, and other industries. She also runs Urban Hiker SF, a San Francisco-based tour company that explores the city’s stairways, hills, and trails. Through her experience building her company, she ...
Feb 22, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Season 3Ep. 491
Poker strategy isn't just for winning the World Series of Poker, a back room high stakes poker game in Macau, or a big online poker tournament. The game of poker mimics life in the sense that it forces you to make decisions without having complete information. After playing millions of hands over the past 14 years, and mastering the art of taking calculated risks, Alec has developed an unparalleled ability to apply the skills he learned in poker to evaluate situations in life and business. Learn...
Jan 03, 2024•1 hr 26 min•Season 3Ep. 490
Learn about raising money for your startup, how to raise money for your Pre-Seed and Seed round from investors and a story about how Martin lost $500m and STILL won. ABOUT MARTIN TOBIAS Martin Tobias is the Managing Partner and Founder of Incisive Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing in the first institutional round of technology companies that reduce friction at scale. Martin was previously at Accenture and Microsoft and is a former Venture Partner at Ignition Part...
Dec 20, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 3Ep. 489
Jim visited our studio to talk about how he, his team and the Synapse School community built a school from the ground up with an innovate approach to education. The best way to describe what Synapse is doing is educating Change Makers by focusing keenly on Social-Emotional Learning, innovation and leading edge academics. Their teachers, who are as committed as they are remarkable, build classroom communities and relationships based on trust, an essential ingredient in teaching and learning, whil...
Dec 14, 2023•2 hr 20 min•Season 3Ep. 488
Life may knock you down. Correction, life will knock you down from time to time. It will kick you in the gut, kick you to the curb, leave you behind. BUT, you can break through these hard times. In this episode you learn how you can overcome hard times, build resilience and how you can prepare yourself so when life does knock you down, you get up and kick its butt. Short episode, valuable lesson. This is a Weekend Edition: Lessons worth listening. The episode is from one of my weekly email newsl...
Nov 26, 2023•5 min•Season 3Ep. 487
You get the framework to use to get someone or a group of people to do what you want. It's not as hard as you think. You get the framework and 3 examples of how people implemented it to get people to do what they wanted. Short episode, valuable lesson. This is a Weekend Edition: Lessons worth listening. The episode is from my email newsletter that I write for over 22k readers that was sent on July 9, 2023. Subscribe below. It's free. CONNECT WITH US Get Your Weekly EDGE Newsletter. It's FREE. Bo...
Nov 19, 2023•9 min•Season 3Ep. 486
Building a personal holding company is as old as Warren Buffet and as new as AI these days. Yong-Soo shares how he grew his personal holding company to $20 million in revenue in 8 years and how you can do it too. LINKS First Class Founders https://firstclassfounder.com ABOUT YONG-SOO CHUNG Yong-Soo is a serial entrepreneur bootstrapping his business from $0 to $20m in over 8 years. Now, he's on a mission to help founders and creators build an audience, create irresistible product offers, and gro...
Nov 19, 2023•2 hr 14 min•Season 3Ep. 485
A million dollar that you want to learn so you too can make a million dollars. Short episode, valuable lesson. This is a Weekend Edition: Lessons worth listening. The episode is from one of my weekly email newsletters. Subscribe below. It's free. CONNECT WITH US Get Your Weekly EDGE Newsletter. It's FREE. Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF) Brandon writes a weekly email newsletter called EDGE that over 22,000 people rely on for an edge to achieve their best selves in business and life. Content Brandon w...
Oct 01, 2023•4 min•Season 3Ep. 484
New evidence of a second bullet changes the story of the John F. Kennedy assassination. We discuss the significance. About the Conversation In John Kuhn's 20 year career in Army Special Operations he has personally been on the front lines of world events and has been required to know history and politics in a way that not many have because of the operational nature of his profession. He is one of the most well read people I know and we always have enlightening conversations together on a wide ra...
Sep 28, 2023•1 hr•Season 3Ep. 483
You know the t-shirt guns that they use to shoot t-shirts at halftime? Well, this is a lesson I learned from about killing myself in the t-shirt gun frenzy. Short episode, valuable lesson. This is a Weekend Edition: Lessons worth listening. The episode is from my email newsletter sent on July 16, 2023. Subscribe below. It's free. CONNECT WITH US Get Your Weekly EDGE Newsletter. It's FREE. Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF) Brandon writes a weekly email newsletter called EDGE that over 22,000 people rel...
Sep 24, 2023•4 min•Season 3Ep. 482
The story of one of the best hamburgers in the San Francisco Bay Area. ABOUT GILL SEMA Gill Sesma is the owner of SHMASH’D LLC. A mobile food company that pops up all around the bay area making smash burgers. Gill started SHMASH’D in August 2021, by mid 2022 he said goodbye to his construction job and went full time and never looked back. EPISODE LINKS Shmash'd Burger on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/shmashd_ CONNECT WITH US Get Your Weekly EDGE Newsletter. It's FREE. Bottom Line Up Front ...
Sep 15, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Season 3Ep. 481
Bryan shares his story how he went from a South Central Los Angles Police Officer to real estate investor. This episode was originally recorded in 2019 and was never published for some reason. We're publishing it now. Enjoy! ABOUT BRYAN SEGAL Bryan made a name for himself when we quit the LAPD, took a real estate course with his wife Maira and they did 42 flips between March to December of 2016. In 2017 they did 88 and never stopped doing over 100 deals in the following years. Bryan and Maira ha...
Sep 08, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 3Ep. 490
Learn what etiquette you should be using in different situations in the times we live in. CONNECT WITH US Get Your Weekly EDGE Newsletter. It's FREE. Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF) Brandon writes a weekly email newsletter called EDGE that over 22,000 people rely on for an edge to achieve their best selves in business and life. Content Brandon writes about what he knows...lessons from 2x exits, 20+ strike outs Venture Capital, Marketing at AOL, writing a #1 Amazon Best Seller, Podcasting, Angel Inve...
Sep 01, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Season 3Ep. 479
A life lesson I learned from playing Soccer with Pelé that will help you win in your business and in your life. This is a Weekend Edition: Lessons worth listening. The episode is from my email newsletter sent on Jan 7, 2023. Subscribe below for free. CONNECT WITH US Get Your Weekly EDGE Newsletter. It's FREE. Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF) Brandon writes a weekly email newsletter called EDGE that over 22,000 people rely on for an edge to achieve their best selves in business and life. Content Brand...
Aug 27, 2023•7 min•Season 3Ep. 478
Injuries don't mean you need to hang up your physical fitness activities forever. No matter your age you can recover. Dr. Kevin Stone talks about how to you can recover from knee injuries, ankle injuries, should injuries and the newest break throughs in modern science that will help you play forever. ABOUT DR. KEVIN STONE Kevin R. Stone, MD, is an orthopaedic surgeon at The Stone Clinic and Chairman of the Stone Research Foundation. Trained at Harvard University in both internal medicine and ort...
Aug 24, 2023•51 min•Season 3Ep. 477
Brandon shares the best investment advice he ever received that is backed up by investment research firms and the stock market performance. It changed his stock market investing and has resulted in great investment returns. It will help you! This is a Weekend Edition: Lessons worth listening. EPISODE LINKS The Intelligent Investor Rev Ed.: The Definitive Book on Value by Investing by Benjamin Graham Best price on Amazon: https://amzn.to/44ck9a5 CONNECT WITH US Get Your Weekly EDGE Newsletter. It...
Aug 19, 2023•10 min•Season 3Ep. 476
We talk about how to heal childhood traumas and love traumas so you can have healthy relationships and live your best life filled with love, happiness and fulfillment. The scars from our past effect us more than we realize. Often times creating a recurring themes in the failed relationships in our lives. We dive deep into these in a conversation worth listening. ABOUT RIANA MILINE Riana was featured in the March 14th 2023 Influencer Daily; Selected as “One of the Top Coaches to Follow in 2022” b...
Aug 18, 2023•1 hr•Season 3Ep. 475
Daniela shares her story about how she became a professional chess player. We discuss the psychological games that go on while playing chess, how ego and greed can lead to mistakes and the importance of paying attention to the details. All of which translates over to our daily lives. A fascinating story and discussions you'll enjoy listening to. About Daniela De la Parra Daniela De la Parra is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She graduated ...
Aug 09, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Season 3Ep. 474
Learn about the practice of divination, including tea leaf reading, fortune telling, and card reading. We explore the concept of energy and coincidences, and how witchcraft has been used as a tool of control throughout history. Risa explains that it is not witchcraft, but rather a form of therapy that can help people figure out their issues. Learn how to listen to yourself, your hunches, and discover more outside of superstition. ABOUT RISSA MILLER Rissa Miller is an editor, author, herbalist, s...
Aug 06, 2023•2 hr 1 min•Season 3Ep. 473
