Baco is a multi-disciplinary artist from Chicago, mainly focused on music. Follow Baco on Instagram: @lovebaco —— Reach out to Matt on Instagram: @nonstop.matt Twitter: @nonstopmatt
Landon Campbell is an early stage investor at Drive Capital, a podcast host where he has interviewed the likes of Steve Wozniak, he’s a frequent event host in Chicago for technology and venture capital, and he’s a TedX speaker! Reach out to Landon on Instagram, Twitter or LinkedIn (Landon W. Campbell) Follow Landon on Twitter: https://twitter.com/landon20s Follow Landon on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/landon20s/ Learn more about Drive Capital: https://drivecapital.com/ Listen to Landon’s...
Makafui Searcy is the owner of Fourtune House, a creative empowerment workshop and event space on the South Side of Chicago in Bronzeville. At 22 years old, Makafui has lead a way for empowering the creative development of young artists to access reassures and opportunities. Makafui’s inner circle consists of some of Chicagos most talented rising artist from musicians, to film makers, to visual artists and more. Makafui has a well-rounded mind and is an avid explorer from many counties to many d...
Aaqib Usman is the founder of Light Pong, the world's first 1-Dimensional game console or you could say the world's first connected toy company. As of this recording, I happen to work for Light Pong! Aaqib is an entrepreneur with an extensive background in bringing together the physical and digital worlds. He's previously the founder of Midwest Immersive, a tech installation and tech-based experiential company where he did work for Verizon, Progressive and many other companies. You can connect w...
Gabe Tavas is the founder of Symmetry Wood. At Symmetry Gabe has developed Pyrus, a material made from bacteria that closely mimics wood to prevent deforestation. Gabe and Symmetry won the national James Dyson award and have been featured in the World Economic Form. Gabe is a long time friend of mine and we worked as co-founders for 3 years on and off on different projects. Gabe is an avid maker-of-things, sustainability specialist, and materials specialist. Learn more about Symmetry here: http:...
Mirza Baig is a software engineer and entrepreneur. He's the creator of an app called Monk Mode to help you stay on track of your desired habits, he created an event discovery tool for Muslim events at mosques around your area, and is building a coaching/therapy platform. He's also a founding engineer at Cash Drop. Follow The Intersection on Instagram: The.Intersection.Pod
Ruben Flores is the founder and CEO of CashDrop. He’s on a mission to create as much generational wealth for Latinos world wide as possible. He’s a serial entrepreneur and I’ve actually had the pleasure of interviewing him two other times in the past. @the.intersection.pod / all socials @cashdrop.biz to follow CashDrop DM me on Instagram for podcast inquiries @nonstop.matt
Jonah is an amazing artist in graphic design, film, fashion, modeling, and music who has done work with large molding agencies including Photogenics LA and Anti-Agency as a model and media creator. Jonah has worked along side Tyler The Creator for GOLF (but didn’t wanna talk about it cause he’s tired of being recognized for that). Jonah has made various short films on his own and for large brands. Jonah has made a lot of amazing drawn and graphic art as stand alone works, for his clothing, and f...
Matt finally interviews a couple of his best friends after years and years of working along side them and watching them grow… Ra Gordon and Emmanuel Isreal (GoldenBoyMnny) are two underground Chicago hip-hop legends in-the-making. Ra is an 18 year old producer who went from making beats in his family’s basement to working in professional studios all around Chicago and has managed to create songs with artists that have garnered millions of plays and is currently being mentored/managed by Chicago ...
Sir Trevor James is a producer, creative director, and entrepreneur and AM (Amin Mashadi) is a music artist, both part of the “Collected” collective. We sat down and discussed their most recent fully self-product event “Collected As One.” We talked about their experience going to music-focused colleges in Chicago such as Columbia and SAE. We discussed best practices in the music industry, Trevor and Amin’s growing-up stories (including Amin moving from Iran to Turkey to Chicago and being split f...
Matt Interviews Jaylen who goes by Trip and @rips.chicago on social media. Growing up on the South Side of Chicago in Chatham one block away from Cottage Grove. Trip talks about the trials and tribulations that he went through growing up and being a truly loving person while still standing your ground. Choosing to be interested in stuff that may have been considered “weird” by his peers but still being accepted in crowds of very different kinds of people from the nerds to the streets. Trip talks...
Matt talks with Graeme Phillips founder of Chicago Socrates, an artist collective and artist support network in Chicago. Graeme is a big advocate for mental health with his own stories of struggles and learning to work with the craziness of his own mind. Matt and Graeme discuss their own mental health stories in an open dialogue around working through the dark places that our minds can end up even when we least expect it and how to have empathy for those who’ve been consumed by temporary insanit...
Matt interviews Hayden Humphrey a life coach and career coach. Hayden helps people break out of the “script” of how life is “supposed” to go and helps people live life by their own design. Matt and Hayden talk about how to live a life that is an authentic reflection of you and how businesses can be more human, as Hayden calls it: “leading with love”. Follow Hayden: Instagram: @haydenashimself LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/haydenhumphrey/ Website: haydenhumphrey.com Follow the host: Instagram: @nonst...
On this episode Matt interviews Bryan Arriaga founder of Global WSDM and Esteban Escobar founder of Mayan Jade. Both heavily influenced by the city of Chicago and culturally aware, the three discuss Chicago’s beauties and flaws. Escobar gives you the scoop behind his latest work with Mayan Jade and his brand’s roots with Mayan designers in Guatemala + working on new furniture. Savybah talks about his mission with Global WSDM, collaborating on a new clothing piece with Escobar, and his experience...
Kevin P. Davenport is the founder of Ideal Digital Chicago where they churn out youth by training them in digital marketing, working for Ideal Digital, and then getting them employed at a larger company. Author of the Ideal Candidate, Kevin knows that many disadvantaged youth grow up without basic life skills for living on their own and wrote a book plus created many workshops and events to help fill that gap. Kevin is an expert not just in unlocking youth potential and putting it to work but in...
Talking with Daniel Polostky, the founder and CEO of CoinFlipATM a crypto ATM for converting your cash into Bitcoin or other crypto currencies. Based in Chicago.
A really interesting conversation on how to leverage, include, and empower black and brown business owners in America and how that ultimately benefits us all and is in the interest of everyone to be involved. Learn more about Gray Matter at: graymatterexperience.com Listen to the full thing with links at: DoGoodCollab.Com
Matt Smith chats with NikosOnTheRun, Jared Avaloss, and RoarJMckay… Talking about their creatives process, where they draw inspiration from, advice for multimedia creatives, how we can do better business together and much more. Follow them on Instagram: Nikos: @NikosOnTheRun Jared: @JaredAvaloss John: @RoarJMckay
Matt Smith talks with 3 artistic and musical masterminds on the come up in Chicago about work and life. Follow them on Instagram: Rob Baco: @rob.baco NoCapSawbuck: @nocapsawbuckk Dutcho: @dutcho6700
Matt Smith & Kevin Davenport talk entrepreneurship, taking care of yourself so that you can do better work, spirituality, and much more. Kevin is a Chicago-based serial entrepreneur & social impact leader. He supports and uplifts other budding businesses and business founders. He is the author of The Ideal Candidate. His mission and vision is to build self-sufficient life and professional skills for 1 million youth, age 16-24. Learn more about Kevin: theidealcandidate.org Learn more abou...
One of the Do Good Podcast’s best interviews so far as of this recording with one 19 year old legend and one 18 year old legend. That’s all I have to say. Learn more about Kim Products: http://kim-products.com/ Follow her on personal Instagram: kimaponi Follow Kim Products: @kimproducts Twitter: @exhalx Learn more about Mak by following him on… Personal Instagram: @makafuisearcy Main Brand Instagram: @fourtunehouse Twitter: @makfourtune...
Dashiell Bark-Huss is an all around bio-hacker, meaning she is always conducting life tests and experiments on herself to see how we can optimize our day-to-day human performance. She is an avid practitioner of lucid dreaming where in college and beyond she was able (through rigorous months of training) to get herself to having 3 lucid dreams PER NIGHT. Meaning 3 times a night she was able to catch herself in her dreams and dream with the full awareness that she’s in a dream, able to totally con...
Spencer Gordon-Sand is a 22 year old entrepreneur and technologist, former pro-league fencer (now pro-league fencing photographer), built and solid his last company Best as an aqua-hire to the company he is now the Chief Strategy Officer at… Vintro. Vintro is essentially disrupting our ability to network with the best and right people "creating opportunity by allowing you to purchase time and attention from key global decision makers." In the past and still today, whoever has access to the best ...
Jeffrey Dirrenberger has 10+ years of experience in creating consumer applications, B2B software products, and launching startups. He’s the Founder&CEO of VALUT Innovation a venture studio in Chicago where over the past decade he’s seen the launch of 100s of digital products including applications for the Chicago Tribune, Kate Somerville, and the National Restaurant Association. He’s also a partner at Gamerz Arena where they provide video game contests for cash prizes & he’s the founder ...
Sitting down with Ken Retro & DJ Royal… Two of the arguably (I’d say factually!) best DJs in the city of Chicago. Retro and Matt go way back to when Matt used to rap & make music. Retro’s first live DJ show was at Matt’s first live performance when he was a part of Exit The Premises. This was his first time getting to know Royal. Retro and Royal are both so real and so genuine. Tune in to hear about how they think we can improve Chicago’s event scene and hear their stories about how they...
Aadeel Akhtar is an entrepreneur on the frontier of bionics. He’s the founder of Psyonic, and alongside his team they've created the Ability Hand: an accessible and affordable robotic arm that nearly turns you into a super hero. From charging your phone, to 360 degree hand rotation, to touch feedback sensitive enough that you can easily pick up a hollow egg shell without cracking it… Aadeel’s mission is to be able to provide this kind of bionic technology to whoever needs it all around the world...
Rentervention is a joint project of the Lawyers' Committee for Better Housing, Illinois Legal Aid Online, and the Lawyers Trust Fund of Illinois. It is a natural language processing chatbot that helps people who normally would have had to go through a confusing FAQ page or search for legal assistance online “in the dark”. Renny (the chat bot) helps people find the specific legal help they need just after a few questions. I discussed with two representatives Hannah and Conor on how we can improve...
Matt talks with StevensJpeg, Trevor Parker, and Trip CP… Three 19-21 year old Chicago photographers absolutely killing the game. From connecting your work with mindfulness for an increased feeling of purpose, how to work with other and find the best genuine people to work with, how to think about yourself on social media, how to take better photos, and how we can all improve the world along side each other… Tune in. Follow the three on Instagram: Steven: @stevensjpeg Trevor: @trevorrparker Trip:...
Illia Pashkov coined himself a Chief Hustle Officer because he couldn’t find a better way to describe the breadth of work he’s involved in… For the past 14 years working as a creative strategic technology consultant Illia has started & grown products and services in an array of different industries. From high-level strategic planning to in-the-weeds execution he’s done it all — graphic and product design, Blockchain and Crypto, travel, fashion, video-production, set-design, ecommerce, AI and...
Steph Belsky, founder of Love Of Good & I talked about changing the narrative on non-profit and for-profit companies. Showing how when you create win-wins for everyone involved, for-profit may be an even more empowering way to create social impact and do good for each other. Steph through Love Of Good creates amazing relationships between influencers who genuinely want to have a positive impact and no-BS social causes. Aligning the best influencers and social cause organizations to make big ...
