After a 30 year career in tech and serving as Chief Business Officer at Google [X], Google's 'moonshot factory' of innovation, Mo has made happiness his primary topic of research, diving deeply into literature and conversing on the topic with some of the wisest people in the world. In 2014, motivated by the tragic loss of his son, Ali, Mo began pouring his findings into his international bestselling book, Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy. He's also the host of the Slo Mo podcast which is a great listen. Mo's most recent book Scary Smart has just been released and both of these books are legitimate must-reads!  We discuss the reason that adversity and loss affect us, how to overcome negativity, techniques to reach emotional equilibrium, and the deep challenges of AI and ethics as you'll read further on in Scary Smart.  Find Mo here at his website:  https://mogawdat.com  Read Solve for Happy here: https://amzn.to/3vs6vA9  Read Scary Smart here:  https://amzn.to/3B33p6G  Check out the Slo Mo podcast here: https://www.mogawdat.com/podcast  This episode is brought to you 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!  Want to ensure real privacy online? Check out ExpressVPN and keep your online life protected. 

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Ep 196 Mo Gawdat is Solving for Happy and Unpacking AI Challenges in Scary Smart

Randy is a recognized brand strategist, conceptor, and creative director with over twenty-five years of marketing and innovation experience in the client, agency and media worlds, from entrepreneurial to corporate environments. We discuss the power and importance of storytelling, the choice of medium (and platform), plus core lessons and fundamentals that every entrepreneur or business needs to embrace to successfully amplify their message and value. Check out The Visual Brand here: https://www.thevisualbrand.com/  This episode is brought to you 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!  Want to ensure real privacy online? Check out ExpressVPN and keep your online life protected. 

Ep 195 Randy Herbertson on Storytelling, Brand, and Identity for Entrepreneurs and Businesses

Rob Carpenter is the CEO and Founder of Valyant AI, the first Artificially Intelligent “Digital Employee” to work directly alongside employees in customer facing roles. Valyant’s AI “Holly” works in fast food restaurants to greet customers at the drive-thru post, answer questions and take food orders. The revolutionary nature of this technology is that it pulls AI from being a hidden back-office tool, to something that feels like a real staff member, which humanizes a brands personality and brings the AI experience front and center to a physical location. We discuss the power of their technology, the ethics of AI and the effect on jobs, plus how to empower people with technology and in the startup ecosystem.  Another great chat that is a must-listen for founders everywhere. Check out Valyant AI here: https://valyant.ai/ Connect with Rob on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-carpenter/  Thanks for a great chat, Rob! This episode is brought to you 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!  Want to ensure real privacy online? Check out ExpressVPN and keep your online life protected. 

Ep 194 Rob Carpenter on Conversational AI, Ethics, and Empowering Humans with Technology

Ted Harrington is a best-selling auther of a book called HACKABLE: How to Do Application Security Right, and an Executive Partner at Independent Security Evaluators (ISE). ISE is a company of ethical hackers most commonly known for our work hacking cars, medical devices, web applications, and password managers and they've helped hundreds of companies fix tens of thousands of security vulnerabilities, including Google, Amazon, and Netflix. We discuss the challenges of security in every day tech, enterprise and personal infosec practices we can all embrace easily, and why it's so easy to slip on security but equally easy to prevent hacking. Follow Ted at https://tedharrington.com and check out ISE at https://ise.io  This episode is brought to you 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!  Want to ensure real privacy online? Check out ExpressVPN and keep your online life protected. 

Ep 193 Ted Harrington on Being Hackable, Preventing the Personal Hack, and Good Security Practices

Justin grew up reading computer magazines and built PCs for a living in college. His obsessive curiosity for leveraging technology to advance businesses led him to create the first digital PDF signature tool ‘SignMyPad’ before Adobe and DocuSign came to market. He launched a tech consulting company Virtua Consulting Group which has grown double-digit percentages every year since 2008. We cover everything from the app economy to building up your side-hustle, the challenges and advantages of bootstrapping, and how you can outsource a lot to get you growing.  Check out Justin's book here:  https://amzn.to/3zjocC0   Visit Virtual Consulting here: https://www.virtuaconsulting.com/  This episode is brought to you 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!  Want to ensure real privacy online? Check out ExpressVPN and keep your online life protected. 

Ep 192 Justin Esgar on Growth, Bootstrapping, and Building Your Biz from the App Up

Tony Martignetti is on a mission to elevate leaders and equip them with the tools to navigate through change. He guides leaders who are ready to be elevated by clarifying their focus so they can transform their professional lives and realize their true potential. He's the founder of Inspired Purpose Coach and his passion and commitment will be apparent in our conversation. It was a real inspiration and a pleasure to share time with Tony and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.  We discuss everything from habit making, finding your purpose, doing good for you and for others, and why the typical self-help books are leading you nowhere. Follow Tony easily on all his social channels here: https://linktr.ee/inspiredcoach  This episode is brought to you 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!  Want to ensure real privacy online? Check out ExpressVPN and keep your online life protected. 

Ep 191 Tony Martignetti on Inspired Life, Doing Good, and Finding Purpose

Kirk Marple is the CEO and Founder of Unstruk Data, a new company that is Building the industry’s leading Unstructured Data Warehouse for automating data preparation via metadata enrichment, integrated compute, and graph-based search. We discuss the approach to customer-led product development, being a tehcnical founder, pragmatic product management, and the role of being a founder and CEO during the early years of a startup. Thank you for the great lessons! Check out Unstruk Data here: https://www.unstruk.com/ Connect with Kirk on LinkedIn here:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirkmarple/  This episode is brought to you 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!  Want to ensure real privacy online? Check out ExpressVPN and keep your online life protected. 

Ep 190 Kirk Marple of Unstruk Data on the Unstructured Data Challenge and Lessons of a Technical Founder

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/  This episode is brought to you 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!  Want to ensure real privacy online? Check out ExpressVPN and keep your online life protected. 

Ep 189 Ryan Estes of Kitcaster on Podcasting and Connecting Through Conversational Media

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/  This episode is brought to you 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!  Want to ensure real privacy online? Check out ExpressVPN and keep your online life protected. 

Ep 189 Carl Gould of 7 Stage Advisors on Growing Successful Teams and Businesses

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/  This episode is brought to you 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!  Want to ensure real privacy online? Check out ExpressVPN and keep your online life protected. 

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

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! This episode is brought to you 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!  Want to ensure real privacy online? Check out ExpressVPN and keep your online life protected. 

Ep 186 Evan Cummack and Savvy Peterson on Optimizing Human and Business Potential

 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 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 185 Emily Jillette on Philanthropy, and Balancing a Life with Purpose

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/  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 184 Chris Hull of Otus on Empowering the Educational System with Technology and Effective Product Management

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 183 Eric Geier of Puresurance on Innovation, Transparency, Healthcare, and Motivation

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 182 Joseph Fung of Uvaro on Changing Lives with Training and Enablement

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