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The Intersection

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At the intersection of business and art. Interviews with creatives and artists along side business people and entrepreneurs from all around the world. Hosted by Matt Smith.
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Your Friendly Social Media Expert: Troy Sandidge

Troy Sandidge, your “friendly social media expert” and founder of FindTroy helps business of all kinds improve their marketing by strengthening their brand image and authentically connecting with their audience. Troy drops knowledge on how you can better market your personal or business brand using social media. Learn more about Troy’s work: https://findtroy.com/ Learn more about Do Good a Dogoodocollab.com...

Oct 16, 201920 min

A New Kind Of Leadership Training: Experience Ignite

Ryan Jeffery is the founder of Experience Ignite, a brand new leadership training community like no other focused on connecting leaders from all different types of industries to learn from each other & to cultivate purpose driven leaders who infuse purpose into their work environments. Ignite’s goal is to build up leaders who go back out into the world and make a positive impact for us all. We talked about what it means to be a truly great leader as ideas of leadership shift in the decades t...

Oct 11, 201924 min

Transforming The Insurance Industry For Positive Impact: Meg McKeen

Meg McKeen has been in the insurance game for over 20 years — founder of her practice, Adjunct Advisors. Meg stands strong against the status quo & we talked in depth about how to transform the insurance industry as a whole, and where there’s big room for innovation to improve on all the archaic, inefficient, and anti-consumer aspects of many insurance practices toady. Changing the narrative of insurance from something associated with fear, paranoia, and inconvenience to something we can cou...

Oct 02, 201922 min

Tech To Improve Education & Help Schools Collaborate: Fernando DeLeon

Fernando DeLeon is one of the co-founders of Innovare, an education technology company that 1) does state of the art data-analytics on out-come insights & strategies to help school leadership make better decisions. And 2) has created an eco-system to connect schools with other schools, ed-tech resources, non-profits, and funding opportunities in a trusted and growing network. We talked about building great education-based communities, how school leadership can improve their processes, and th...

Sep 27, 201929 min

Cancer As An Awakening To Learn How To Love: Kathleen Brown

Kathleen Brown is the founder of Buddhi, a soon-to-launch support system + community for cancer fighters and their loved ones. Kathleen is on a mission to change our relationship with cancer from something soul-crushing to an awakening to help us learn how to take better care of our loved ones. We talked all about where she’s at in building the platform and what she’s excited about for the future of similar support systems. Learn more at hibuddhi.com If you want to be on the podcast, reach out a...

Sep 23, 201920 min

Improving Co-Working Spaces: Caitlin McAllister, Exec Director @ Catapult

Caitlin McAllister is the executive director at Catapult Chicago - one of the very first 3 co-working spaces/incubator spaces in the city. We talked about her experience running Catapult & what she’s excited/nervous about for the future of co-working. Learn more at Catapultchicago.com Wanna be on the podcast? Reach out at DoGoodCollab.com

Sep 18, 201926 min

On Being A Chicago Streetwear Creative: Des Money

Des Money is an outstanding Chicago creative with a focus on visual arts and streetwear. He’s a core team member at FatTiger & owner of We All We Got. Wether it’s once pursuing a biology major psychology minor but “feeling like a robot in school”, recently becoming a father and trying to raise an amazing daughter, or taking great amounts of time and effort to serve others and give back… Des has a rich experience of life. We talked about making a living as a creative in street wear, using you...

Sep 13, 201928 min

How To Make Great Events with ESP Presents/Exchange 312

In conversation with Matt Woodburn and Sarah Neukom. Founder of ESP Presents, an event production company & Exchange312, a personalized venue to exchange new ideas, inspire conversations, unique experiences and unforgettable memories. We talked about best practices for making events go as best as possible & what it means to have great event spaces for entrepreneurs to push their ideas forward. Learn more about Matt & Sarah at esppresents.com & exchange312.com Want to be on the ne...

Sep 04, 201927 min

Best Practices Working In Multicultural Environments w/ Michael J. Asquith

Michael J. Asquith has been widely known as a global solutions leader working for Asian headquartered companies for the past decade, architecting mid-to-large size global biz powerhouses all from his Chicago based office. Michael and I talked about how to successfully work in multicultural environments, how to empower your teams and reward them for fresh and innovative ideas, and how to collaborate better in corporate environments. Follow Michale on… LinkedIn (“Michael J. Asquith”), Twitter (@Mi...

Aug 30, 201918 min

Building Robots & Floating Gardens To Clean The Chicago River w/ Urban Rivers

Featuring Gabe Tavas & Nick Wesley... Listen in to what’s goin’ on with an amazing group of researchers, engineers, and ecologists working on various projects to clean and revitalize the Chicago River. Turning it from what was once a basic industrial shipping channel to an engaging park-land for those all across the city. PLUS - learn about what you can do wherever you are to, from scratch, start your own initiatives and improve your local urban environment. Learn more about Urban Rivers at ...

Aug 26, 201933 min

Improving Chicago’s Music Scene & Freeing Yourself From Society’s Matrix w/ WemmyMo, Chris Vergara, and Preme

Round table alert!! With Wemmy Mo, Chris Vergara, and Prem! A upcoming hip-hop artist, videographer, and DJ in Chicago… From my view these guys are all on the way to MAJIOR success! We all talked about where the Chicago music scene is headed, how to improve the music scene, how to collaborate with each other as artists, and ESCAPING THE MATRIX OF SOCIAL CONDITIONING to pursue your passions and live a fulfilled life!! Follow… On Instagram Wemmy Mo @_wemmymo Chris Vergara @chris.vergara Preme @pre...

Aug 20, 201955 min

Closing The Future STEM Workforce Gender Gap w/ Maker Girl

In conversation with Julia & Lizzy, co-founders of Maker Girl an organization who’s mission is to inspire and instill curiosity for STEM in young girls ages 7-10 using 3-D printing workshops. We talked about how we can all work to do better to instill STEM curiosity in young girls, all the benefits that would come from balancing our workforce, and all the amazing work Maker Girl is doing all over the country. WANNA BE FEATURED ON THE NEXT EPISODE?! Scroll down to our contact page at dogoodco...

Aug 09, 201923 min

Using 3-D Imaging to Prevent Sports Injury w/ Nilesh Mukherji

Nilesh Mukherji is only 18 and has built a 3-D imaging analytics startup that sends data to health-care providers for sports injury and sports injury prevention. We talked about what’s ecxiting in health technology in the near future & balancing corporate interests along with prioritizing people’s health above all else in healthcare. Tune in! Contact us at dogoodcollab.com if you’d like your business or personal brand to be featured on an episode to come (just scroll down to the bottom of th...

Aug 05, 201927 min

Empowering Professionals & At-Risk Youth Through Emotional Intelligence & Mindfulness w/TheSimpleGood

Great convo with Priya Shah, founder of The Simple Good, working to uplift and empower at-risk youth along with raising consciousness in professional environments. We discussed helping teach children self-awareness and mindfulness through the arts process, prioritizing mental health and teaching emotional intelligence in school to treat children more holistically, how to help prevent cycles of violence and band-aid short term solutions to systemic problems in our communities and really work to c...

Jul 31, 201922 min

Improving Health Care In America w/ Gule Sheikh

Gule Sheikh who’s been in the health care game for over 7 years, founder of EazyScripts talks with me about how we can all do good to improve the health care system in America. — Search 'Do Good Podcast' on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or Google podcasts. Follow the Do Good Collaborative on Instagram or LinkedIn @dogoodcollab Reach out to Gule at gule@eazyscripts.com Follow our founder and host @nonstop.matt Contact us at dogoodcollab.com if you’d like to be featured on an episode to come, or if you...

Jul 26, 201931 min

Improving Non-Profit & Charity Branding w/ Jonny Imerman

DO GOOD feat. Jonny Imerman! An amazing conversation discussing how companies can see the importance of doing good in the world + having a more compassionate impact + doing better at corporate social responsibility, how non-profits can make their brands cooler, and even Jonny’s experience with cancer in his 20s and how that brought him immense gratitude for life PLUS so much more - tune in! Follow the Do Good Collaborative on Instagram or LinkedIn @dogoodcollab Reach out to Jonny on LinkedIn “Jo...

Jul 19, 201930 min

Bridging The Gap, Young People & Cancer w/ Christine Adley

In conversation with Christine Adley where we talked about why 18-35 year olds lack support within the cancer community & are generally neglected by doctors who assume there is no cause for concern in that age group. Search 'Do Good Podcast' on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or Google podcasts. Follow the Do Good Collaborative on Instagram or LinkedIn @dogoodcollab Reach out to Christine on Instagram @christinejonel_ Follow our founder and host on Instagram @nonstop.matt or connect on LinkedIn, se...

Jul 14, 201919 min

Improving Law School & Do Good’s Vision w/ Marut Shah

In conversation with Marut Shah, real-estate lawyer 🏢 and entrepreneur 👨🏽‍💻 ! Talking about where there’s big room for improvement in law school, how attorneys can work better together, how we can do better business together, and even spent a ton of time digging in deep talking about our own mission & vision for the Do Good Collaborative. Twas’ amazing ! Tune in! Follow the Do Good Collaborative on Instagram or LinkedIn @dogoodcollab Reach out to Marut on Instagram LinkedIn search “Marut...

Jul 09, 201934 min

Spreading Financial Education & Resources w/ Marseil Jackson

Welcome to the Do Good Podcast. Where our goal is to align entrepreneurs and creatives of all kinds: in business, the arts, technology, social impact and so much more to benefit from the creative sparks of our diversity & feel a shared-mission and shared-enthusiasm towards making the world a better and more interesting place. @nonstop.matt ’s conversation with Marseil “Action” Jackson. Marseil is an Activist 💪🏾| Consultant 👨🏾‍💻| Entrepreneur👨🏾‍💼| Co-host of @brunchbunch1390 & CEO...

Jul 03, 201926 min

Using Our Clothing Sustainably w/ Mona Fang

Welcome to the Do Good Podcast. Where our goal is to align entrepreneurs and creatives of all kinds: in business, the arts, technology, social impact and so much more to benefit from the creative sparks of our diversity & feel a shared-mission and shared-enthusiasm towards making the world a better and more interesting place. This is @nonstop.matt ’s conversation with Mona Fang, founder of Karma Trade, aspiring rocket engineer, and yoga instructor. We mainly talked about the problem today wi...

Jun 29, 201930 min
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