DiscoPosse Podcast

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Ep 189 Ryan Estes of Kitcaster on Podcasting and Connecting Through Conversational Media Aug 31, 2021

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Ryan Estes is the co-founder of Kitcaster. He validates and scales Kitcaster products. Prior to Kitcaster, Ryan owned a media and marketing agency for 10 years. For eight of those years, he has hosted the founder's podcast Talklaunch.

We talk through the power of podcasting as a medium, how conversational media is the basically table stakes for companies, and also have a ton of fun diving into why we do what we do in podcasting and media in general.

Thank you for a great conversation, Ryan!

Check out Kitcaster here: https://kitcaster.com/discoposse/

Follow Ryan on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/estesryan/

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Ep 188 Carl Gould of 7 Stage Advisors on Growing Successful Teams and Businesses Aug 24, 2021

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Carl Gould is a business growth expert, author and serial entrepreneur. His career started by accident when he broke his leg and dropped out of his undergraduate accounting and finance program. At eighteen, he turned to what he knew best- landscaping- and his business growth endeavors began as he doubled his business each year for the next five years until it sold. Since then Carl has built three multi-million dollar businesses before age 40, and advises others on successful growth strategy.

Carl and I explore many important aspects and lessons around growing and starting a business, the importance of leadership, empathy, team, and understanding process flow to succeed in scaling.

Check out Carl Gould at 7 Stage Advisors here: https://7stageadvisors.com/

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Ep 187 Tony D'Urso on Vision, Values, and Business Growth Aug 20, 2021

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Tony D’Urso is the host of The Tony D’Urso show on the VoiceAmerica Influencers channel. This show highlights successful entrepreneurs and humanitarian endeavors as well as the noteworthy career achievements of others. The Tony D’Urso Show was born from a combination of his previous two series, Revenue Chat Radio and The Spotlight with Tony D’Urso.

We discuss how Tony motivates himself and others to create opportunity, map values and a vision to business success, and how to do good for each other as we navigate an increasingly challenging business and world environment.

Check out Tony's show on Voice America here: https://www.voiceamerica.com/show/2667/the-tony-durso-show

Visit Tony's website here: https://tonydurso.com

Get your own copy of The Vision Map here: https://tonydurso.com/product/vision-map/

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Ep 186 Evan Cummack and Savvy Peterson on Optimizing Human and Business Potential Aug 17, 2021

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Evan Cummack is the CEO of Fin, a company aiming to shape the future of work, founded by former Facebook VP Sam Lessin and Venmo Co-Founder Andrew Kortina.

Prior to Fin, Evan was a General Manager at Twilio where he joined in 2011 as one of the company’s early employees and helped to shape the company’s unique “middle out” sales strategy.

Savvy Peterson is making the future less scary building communities & scaling empathy through her work at the Savvy Millennial.

We discuss the core platform and approach by Fin, how optimizing team performance has been able to reshape organizations and customer experience, plus how the community and customer engagement has proven to be fundamental to the growth of the platform and company.

Thank you Evan and Savvy for such a dynamic and informative conversation!

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Ep 185 Emily Jillette on Philanthropy, and Balancing a Life with Purpose Aug 09, 2021

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Emily Jillette is a mom of two, wife, producer, and philanthropist. She has been involved in philanthropic work from her home in Las Vegas and continues to be an active local voice and contributor to many important charities and groups.

When she's not busy with producing great film and TV work, she's also heavily involved in the continued success of her family which includes her husband Penn Jillette whom folks may know from the longest running magic show in Las Vegas, Penn and Teller.

We discuss the power of doing good, how to choose where you can be effective with both time and money for charitable giving, and how she and her family have maintained a busy and happy life while balancing a very busy public schedule and still staying involved.

Emily is also a marathon finisher and puzzle afficianado. It was a real pleasure to share time and I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did!

Here are the charitable organizations that were mentioned in the podcast:

Tyler Robinson Foundation

Opportunity Village

My Possibilities

Connect with Emily on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/emilyjillette

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Ep 184 Chris Hull of Otus on Empowering the Educational System with Technology and Effective Product Management Aug 04, 2021

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Chris is the Co-Founder and CPO at Otus. Otus is the first edtech platform to centralize learning management, assessment, and data for educators, students, and families. Chris was also named a “20 To Watch” Educational Technology Leader by the National School Boards Association.

Our conversation spreads across both the challenges of education, remote teaching, empowering students and teachers alike, and how Chris became an effective founder and CPO (Chief Product Officer) by leveraging learning and a great team.

Check out Otus here: https://otus.com/

Connect with Chris on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chull9/

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Ep 183 Eric Geier of Puresurance on Innovation, Transparency, Healthcare, and Motivation Jul 29, 2021

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Eric Geier is the CEO and founder of Puresurance, advising business owners and entrepreneurs on the implementation of life insurance as a retirement vehicle and custom designed health coverage solutions.

Prior to founding Puresurance, Eric had 25 years of experience on Wall Street. Puresurance is helping him to achieve his lifelong goal of helping people with their personal finances and retirement plans.

We discuss the challenges of transparency in healthcare and business, plus Eric shares amazing lessons on how he motivates himself and stays customer obsessed which also allows him to give back in many other ways. He's a real inspiration and this is a great conversation.

Connect with Eric on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericgeier/

Check out Puresurance here: https://puresurance.com

This episode is sponsored by Veeam Software and the 4-Step Guide to Delivering Extraordinary Software Demos that Win Deals and Diabolical Coffee plus the great folks over at Fiverr!

Ep 182 Joseph Fung of Uvaro on Changing Lives with Training and Enablement Jul 23, 2021

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Joseph is the CEO of Uvaro, a tech sales career accelerator. A graduate
of the University of Waterloo’s Computer Engineering program, Joseph’s
a five-time technology Founder & CEO, and with multiple successful
exits, and speaks frequently on the topics of sales leadership, diversity,
and corporate social responsibility.

We discuss so many important topics around enabling people, empowering individuals and teams, using systems to map our experiences and get to progress faster. Joseph has an incredible story and I highly recommend you have a look at what he and the team at Uvaro are doing.

Check out Uvaro here: https://uvaro.com/

Connect with Joseph here...

Twitter: https://twitter.com/josephfung

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/josephfung/

Check out the Kiite.ai platform here: https://kiite.ai/

This episode is sponsored by Veeam Software and the 4-Step Guide to Delivering Extraordinary Software Demos that Win Deals and Diabolical Coffee plus the great folks over at Fiverr!

Ep 181 Rob Telson of BrainChip on AI at the Edge and Effective Organization Building Jul 13, 2021

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Rob Telson is VP of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at BrainChip and brings over 20 years of sales expertise in licensing intellectual property and selling EDA technology. Rob has had success developing sales and support organizations at small, midsize, and large companies.

We discuss the incredible capabilities of AI at the edge, the real definition of edge computing, and how that context creates interesting challenges for organizations and people. The conversation also covers a ton of great insights into building effective sales and marketing teams, empowering people, plus where to find the best burgers in the world.

Check out BrainChip at their website here: https://brainchipinc.com/

Rob also hosts a great podcast here: https://anchor.fm/brainchipinc/episodes/Conversation-with-Vice-President-of-Worldwide-Sales-Rob-Telson-and-Alex-Divinsky-eua3lv

Big thanks to Rob for a very fun and informative discussion.

This episode is sponsored by Veeam Software and the 4-Step Guide to Delivering Extraordinary Software Demos that Win Deals and Diabolical Coffee plus the great folks over at Fiverr!

Ep 180 Jon Myer, the AWS Blogger, on Creating Content and Continuous Personal Reinvention Jul 02, 2021

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Jon Myer is an evangelist for all things AWS, OBS Ninja, YouTube and passionate about educating, teaching, and connecting with others. All things AWS, DeepRacer, AWS Services, including some non AWS Stuff like workouts.

It was a real pleasure to share stories of how he got started with an online presence, how you can make the jump to creating content in various formats, and how to be a successful creator across multiple platforms.

This is also one of the funniest episodes for a number of reasons...you'll want to stay right to the end to find out why.

Here are lots of ways to catch up with Jon online:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/JonMyer

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-myer/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/_JonMyer

This episode is sponsored by Veeam Software and the 4-Step Guide to Delivering Extraordinary Software Demos that Win Deals and Diabolical Coffee plus the great folks over at Fiverr!