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High Tales of HistoryHarriet Tubman: Half Baked Mini-Episode**The following episode is a bonus "pre-season five" Half Baked mini-episode released for all. The rest of our Half Baked episodes are a part of our Patreon Best Buds Club. Come join Laurel in the Smoke Circle in her old man sweater and get a taste of the Half Baked as we talk the badass that is Harriet Tubman.How much do you know about Harriet Tubman? In this half baked mini episode, Laurel sparks one up and talks about the life of Harriet Tubman, the most successful "conductor" of the Underground Railroad and the "Moses of...
2025-02-0720 min
Founders' ForumEmbracing Reinvention: Success, Entrepreneurship and Self-Discovery with Kevin MichalsStrap in for an enlightening journey with Kevin Michals, someone who has defied odds and embraced reinvention in his pursuit of success. Kevin's story takes us from an accountant's desk to a stockbroker's hustle and ultimately to his current status as a real estate developer. He reveals the gritty realities of entrepreneurship and the inspiring drive behind his current real estate development project in Bala Cynwd. You'll be inspired by the tenacity and resilience that punctuate Kevin's entrepreneurial journey.As we continue our exploration, we uncover the transformative power of curiosity and coaching with the help of...
2023-04-1225 min
Money Mitch EffectMoney Mitch Effect 6/16/21: Stanley Cup Playoffs Final 4 & NBA Postseason/Durant's MasterpieceThe NHL is down to four teams remaining in the quest for Lord Stanley's Cup, and Mitch is joined by Joe Crisalli to dissect the NHL postseason from every angle. And Kris Scruggs calls in to discuss Kevin Durant's incredible performance in Game 5, the Western Conference contenders, and much more from the NBA Playoffs.
2021-06-161h 01
The Attitude Wars PodcastJuly 22, 1996Matt and Joe review yet another week of the Monday Night Wars between WCW and WWF. This week:Squire David Taylor w/Jeeves v. Scott NortonVK Wallstreet v. KonanAlex Wright, Joe Gomez, Jim Powers, and Renegade v. Kevin Sullivan, Hugh Morrus, The Barbarian, and The LeprachaunDDP v. Prince IaukeaChavo Guerrero Jr. v. Dean MalenkoIce Train v. Meng w/Jimmy HartPsychosis v. Eddie GuerreroArn Anderson, Chris Benoit and Steve McMichael w/Woman, Miss Elizabeth and Debra v...
2020-07-2200 min
Wall Street to Main StreetEpisode 15 - COVID-19: The State of Real EstateKevin Michals, Managing Partner at Cross Properties, a real estate investment and development company headquartered in Philadelphia, joins Wall Street to Main Street hosts to talk the state of real estate during the COVID-19 pandemic. Check out Kevin Michals' podcast on entrepreneurship, Bilt215.
2020-05-1527 min
Bilt215Sylvester Mobley — Founder and CEO of Coded by KidsSylvester Mobley is the Founder and CEO of the youth tech education non-profit, Coded by Kids. Through his organization he works to increase access to tech education opportunities for those who are underrepresented in tech, especially children of color. Under his leadership, Coded by Kids has grown from serving fewer than 15 children in a rec center to serving more than 500 students per week. Tech has a lot of great benefits but there are still groups of people being locked out of it. Sylvester strongly believes that building a tech industry that is diverse, inclusive and equitable is one of...
2020-03-1758 min
Bilt215Felicite Moorman — CEO of STRATIS IoTFelicite Moorman is the CEO and co-Founder of STRATIS IoT, the only Sidewalk to Sofa® Intelligent Building Solution built for Multifamily and Student Housing. STRATIS helps create smart apartments and intelligent buildings built for the complexities of split multi-family and student housing. Serving over 325,000 apartments in the US, and over 18,000 internationally, STRATIS is poised for more growth in the future. Felicite reveals the journey to founding STRATIS, the customer experiences STRATIS offers, as well as some insight about the internal operations of the firm. She also speaks to her experience as a woman and a leader in the tech s...
2020-03-111h 04
Bilt215Mahe Bayireddi — Co-Founder and CEO of Phenom PeopleMahe Bayireddi is the Co-Founder and CEO of Phenom People, a global HR technology company with a mission to help 1 billion people find the right job. With over 200 million people using the product in 140 countries, including 50 of the Fortune 500 companies, Mahe is well on his way to achieving his goal of revolutionizing the talent life cycle through technologies, specifically AI. Mahe shares more about his entrepreneurial journey, the inefficiencies he is trying to solve in the global hiring and recruiting market, and how his company is impacting millions of people globally. He also has insights about creating a strong...
2020-02-251h 02
Bilt215Nader Elm — Co-Founder and CEO of Exyn TechnologiesNader Elm is the Co-Founder and CEO of Exyn Technologies, a commercialization of the technology spun out of GRASP Labs (General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania). Since its founding in 2014, Exyn has become the world leader in autonomous data acquisition using drone technology. The artificial intelligence behind their autonomous software platform has found commercial success in the mining industry, and Nader has plans to expand into the construction industry next. Nader explains how he ended up in the robotics and AI industry, the unique gap in the marketplace that Exyn addresses, and the...
2020-02-1359 min
Bilt215Bill Yoh — Co-Owner of Day and Zimmermann, Author, Chairman of Yoh GroupBill Yoh is the youngest of five children born to Spike Yoh. Bill's grandfather, Harold, helped build the Philadelphia-based business that is now in its 5th generation, Day & Zimmermann. Founded in 1901 as a fledgling staffing company for engineers, it has grown into a massive organization of 45,000 employees globally and nearly $3 billion in revenue, making it one of the biggest privately held companies in the US and the world. Their employees protect faraway embassies, create munitions for the US defense department and staff nuclear power plants. Bill is part of the 3rd generation of Yoh children who have worked at...
2020-02-051h 06
Bilt215Mike Hagan — Founder, Operator, Investor and CEO of Hawk CapitalMike Hagan is a founder, operator and wildly successful investor in a variety of companies. He has repeatedly proven his ability to create or invest in a company, scale it and successfully exit. His venture was the B2B procurement WebHost VerticalNet, which hit a market capital peak of $11 billion. Unfortunately, Vertical Net ended in flames like many other dot.com companies at the turn of the millennium. Following that experience, Mike used his personal profits and lessons learned along the way to buy and build NutriSystem, with an eventual big exit to diet nutrition conglomerate Trivity for $1.4 billion...
2019-12-111h 27
Bilt215Bob Moore — Serial Entrepreneur and CEO of CrossbeamBob Moore is a serial entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience, who started his first business venture when he was at Princeton. In the early 2000s, as online poker was becoming popular, Bob jumped on an observation he made to create the Mooraculator to computerize what his peers were calculating in their heads to level the playing field for others who wanted to make money playing poker. After graduation, he joined Insight Venture Partners as an analyst and learned the importance of data when doing due diligence. Eventually, he left to start RJ Metrics with his friend and colleague...
2019-12-041h 15
Bilt215Dean Miller — President and CEO of PACTDean Miller has been a venture capitalist for over 20 years, with particular interest in the healthcare technology and innovations space. Brought up in upstate New York, his early experiences shaped him for independence and entrepreneurship. Dean served as Managing Director at Novitas Capital, where he focused on venture capital investments across healthcare and technology. He went on to become Managing Director of the PCOM Primary Care Innovation Fund, a role he describes as not just making money for the institution but to really broaden the institution's mind around healthcare and innovation. Dean’s passion project is ultimately running Philadelphia Al...
2019-11-201h 10
Bilt215Chris Gali and Chris Doggett — Co-Founders of AdminServer, Franklin Mortgage and Investment Company, and Graphite GTCChris Gali and Chris Doggett are serial entrepreneurs who have partnered on a variety of ventures. After getting to know each other during their time in AIG, and encountering problems that did not have solutions, they struck out together to start their first venture, Admin Server, an insurance industry software firm. Over almost ten years, they grew the firm from a start up to a multi-million dollar company that was eventually sold to Oracle. Chris and Chris then decided to move into the spirits business, and launched Franklin Mortgage and Investment Company, a speakeasy style establishment that serves top-notch...
2019-10-301h 14
Bilt215Walter “Buck” Buckley — Managing Partner of Seminal Capital Partners, Chairman & CEO of Actua CorpWalter “Buck” Buckley is the Managing Partner of Seminal Capital Partners, an investment company that focuses on cloud-based software and service businesses, and the Chairman and CEO Of Actua Corp, formerly Internet Capital Group (ICG). Buck has a passion for people and the unique ability to dream an idea and help a team to execute it. On this interview, Buck recounts his experiences starting with his nine-year tenure at Safeguard Scientifics, a venture capital firm founded by Pete Musser. He tells of his experiences during the recession of 1991, how he was inspired to strike out on his own to star...
2019-10-231h 11Bilt215Sashi Reddi — Founder and CEO of AppLabs and SRI CapitalSashi Reddi was born in Madras, today known as Chennai, India. He graduated with a Bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi), a Masters of Computer Science from NYU and a PhD in Operations and Information Management from UPenn (Wharton). Over 30 years ago, Sashi seized the opportunity to move to the US and began putting down roots there. He shares his journey of entrepreneurship from the web content management space with EZPower Systems, to the software testing space with AppLabs, to the investment sphere with SRI Capital. Sashi provides insights into what India...
2019-10-161h 19Bilt215Marcelo Rouco — Founder, CEO and Chairman of the Board of EcosaveMarcelo Rouco was born in Argentina and lived there through his teens ‘till his family fled the country and moved to Sydney, Australia. There, Marcelo worked for a corporate training company after graduating from college, where he learned skills essential to running a business. 17 years ago, after deciding that he wanted to make a bigger impact on the world, Marcelo started Ecosave Services, with a mission is to save the planet from pollutants caused by fossil fuels and inefficiencies in energy operations. The company expanded relatively quickly, and eventually Marcelo decided to move operations to Philadelphia to have a la...
2019-10-0254 minBilt215Tom Knox — Founder and President of Homestead Smart Health PlansTom Knox has been an illustrious leader and pioneer in Philadelphia for over 50 years. He grew up in public housing in Philadelphia, worked through high school, and entered the Navy at 16 where he eventually attained his GED. In the mid 1980s, he worked with Preferred Benefits, & Preferred Care under the Thomas Knox Consulting umbrella. He also served as the CEO of Fidelity Mutual, and in the early 2000s, as CEO of UnitedHealthcare in Pennsylvania. He also built up his political career over the years, serving as Deputy Mayor under Ed Rendell, in the 1990s, and again in 2008 in his...
2019-09-181h 07Bilt215Steve Cloetingh — Co-Founder of Signal Holdings LLC and CEO of Military Veteran PartnersSteve Cloetingh is the Co-Founder of Signal Holdings LLC, a provider of wireless handset protection programs and repair services, and CEO of Military Veteran Partners (MVP). Steve shares his journey of entrepreneurship, from founding a startup with his brother to growing it to a $500 million enterprise with 2,000 employees and multiple locations across the country. He reveals more about his working relationship with his brother, what it took to scale the company and how he managed the exit and eventual sale of Signal Holdings. Today, Steve is actively involved in addressing unemployment and underemployment among Veterans through Military Veteran Partners...
2019-09-111h 00Bilt215David Adelman — CEO of Campus Apartments and Vice Chairman of FS InvestmentsDavid Adelman is the CEO of Campus Apartments, and Vice Chairman of FS Investments. David’s family friend, Alan Horowitz, founded Campus Apartments in the 1960s, and when David graduated from Ohio State University, he joined Alan and quickly became the CEO at only 25. David formed the first public-private partnership in the country with the University of Pennsylvania, a model replicated by many other schools nationwide. Mr. Adelman has parlayed his success into Darco Capital, his family office that invests in early stage companies. Key Takeaways: [1:19] Kevin introduces his guest for this episode — David Adelman.
2019-09-041h 09Bilt215Cary Toner — Former CEO of The Toner Organization and iPipelineCary Toner is the former CEO of The Toner Organization which his father started in 1966 with a focus on high risk or impaired risk life insurance. Cary joined the organization in 1979 and soon, new areas of opportunity were presenting themselves in term insurance and annuities. Cary eventually bought the company from his father and from 1986 to 2001, he grew the agency into one of the top 10 in the country with 5000 brokers nationwide and revenues approaching $35 million. He eventually sold the company in 2001, and shifted his focus to his side project that he’d started in 1996 — iPipeline. A truly visionary company, iPip...
2019-07-311h 13Bilt215Josh Cartagenova — CEO of Therapy SourceJosh Cartagenova is the Co-Founder and CEO of Therapy Source Staffing Solutions, a national staffing agency based in Fort Washington. In 2000, after getting laid off from a marketing job, Josh and his wife stumbled into a business opportunity to employ therapists. Since then Therapy Source has carved out a very intentional niche, filling the need for specialized therapists for public and charter schools nationwide. Josh shares more about his business journey and how he has grown his company to over $30mil in revenue, employing 55 people locally and 2500 therapists in over 40 states. Tune in to find out more about Josh’s...
2019-07-241h 33Bilt215Michael Maher — Serial Entrepreneur, Founder of HouwzerMichael Maher is a serial entrepreneur who started Benjamin's Desk, a mid-Atlantic coworking operator, as well as Bunker Labs which is a veteran-focused incubator, and most recently, Houwzer, the startup whose mission is to disrupt the $80-billion a year real estate agency model. Michael attended the Naval Academy and spent two years deployed across the world, and this has influenced his perspective and mission-driven manner of leadership and management. Kevin and Michael dive into his various ventures, the inspiration that led to their formation, and the opportunities and challenges that he has encountered in his entrepreneurial journey. Michael also...
2019-07-171h 28Bilt215Chris Cera — CEO of Arcweb TechnologiesChris Cera, is the CEO of Arcweb Technologies, a consulting company serving the bespoke needs of its financial and healthcare customers, founded in 2011. This is his fourth startup — his first venture was Vuzit. Chris shares more about the rise and fall of Vuzit over its 8-year lifespan as well as his two other ventures that did not become viable businesses. Chris and Kevin discuss his latest venture, Arcweb — how it is serving the marketplace and some of the challenges he faces in the industry, as well as the unique company culture that sets it apart. As the founder of Phil...
2019-07-101h 39Bilt215Michael Cardone III — Executive Chairman of Cardone IndustriesMichael Cardone III is the Executive Chairman at Cardone Industries, a leading provider of new and remanufactured aftermarket auto parts and products. Cardone Industries is one of the largest private employers in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania and currently employs 5,500 employees worldwide. As a family run business, Michael is the third generation to oversee the day-to-day operation and growth of Cardone Industries. In this insightful interview, Michael provides his thoughts on what we can realistically expect from autonomous vehicles, why the incorporation of pastors in his facilities has dramatically reduced turn over, and candidly shares some challenges the company has e...
2019-07-031h 23Bilt215Bill Daggett, Jr. — Chairman of Kistler Tiffany BenefitsBill Daggett, Jr. is the Chairman of Kistler Tiffany Benefits, a private employee benefits firm with revenues of $60+mil. The company operates out of six offices throughout Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey and has more than 140 employees. Bill began his career with Kistler Tiffany in 1962 in a part-time role, but eventually founded and served as CEO of Kistler Tiffany (KT) Companies for 17 years, and subsequently held the position of Managing Partner and Co-Owner. Currently, he's on the board of several for-profit companies, is actively involved in Ursinus Collrgr,his alma mater, and also gives back to the community through Ki...
2019-06-261h 13Bilt215Tony Nichols — Senior Chairman Emeritus of Brandywine Realty TrustTony Nichols, is the Senior Chairman Emeritus of Brandywine Realty Trust, a firm that grew out of a company Tony founded in 1982. He is one of the founding members of Applebrook Golf Club, has served on the board of Fox Chase Bank, St. Joseph's University and currently serves on the West Catholic Board, his alma mater. On this episode, Tony shares more about his 50 year career, the challenges and obstacles he faced along the way and how he overcame them. From his first job to the Chesco-Nichols Group to Brandywine, Tony shares the lessons he’s learned and the ins...
2019-06-191h 25Bilt215Kevin Michals — Welcome to Bilt215Welcome to Bilt215, a podcast to showcase the great men and women of Philadelphia who have conceived an idea, dared greatly and overcome countless obstacles to create successful enterprises that contribute positively to the region. Philadelphia has a long history of firsts — it is the birthplace of the first bank, the first insurance company, the first subscription library, the stock market and the USA. At its core lies a deeply entrepreneurial urban marketplace, one that we need to celebrate by cheering on today’s daredevils, dreamers and doers. Together, let's build. Links: Cross Prope...
2019-06-0402 min
Money Mitch EffectMoney Mitch Effect 5/2/19: NFL Draft Recap & NBA Playoffs TalkMitch throws it back to his college days and talks sports with some of his longtime friends. Ryan Soles joins to recap the NFL Draft, which included Kyler Murray being the #1 overall pick & Daniel Jones landing at #6 to the Giants. And Kris Scruggs joins to discuss the 2nd round of the NBA Playoffs, Kevin Durant's dominance, Damian Lillard continuing to be underrated, & which Eastern Conference team is best primed for a Finals run.
2019-05-021h 07
Money Mitch EffectMoney Mitch Effect 7/12/18: Wimbledon Talk with PandaMitch is joined by Ean Dunn (better known as "Panda") to analyze all the drama from the Wimbledon Championships. The guys discuss Roger Federer's shocking loss to Kevin Anderson, Serena Williams getting back to the final, John Isner's breakthrough at age 33, & the looming heavyweight showdown between Nadal & Djokovic.
2018-07-1336 min
Money Mitch EffectMoney Mitch Effect 6/16/17: NBA Finals RecapMitch breaks down the NBA Finals with a pair of NBA diehards on today's show. First Bradford Bruns explains how the Warriors handled the Cavs in 5, where Cleveland lacked, & what makes Golden State so special. And then Ryan Soles call in to discuss what a championship means for Kevin Durant's legacy, LeBron James' place in history, & if anything can disrupt this Finals matchup in the future.
2017-06-161h 20
Money Mitch EffectMoney Mitch Effect 3/10/17: NBA Analysis & Indian Wells Preview ShowMitch chats with his former college radio show co-host Kris Scruggs about all things NBA, including Dirk Nowitzki scoring 30,000 career points, Kevin Durant's injury, and the continuing rise of Kawhi Leonard. And George Panossian joins the show to preview this year's Indian Wells tennis tournament, and discuss which top men's player can emerge from "the quarterfinal of death," which includes Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, & Rafael Nadal.
2017-03-101h 23
Money Mitch EffectMoney Mitch Effect 3/2/17: NFL Combine Preview & NHL Trade Deadline RecapToday's show features a preview of the four-day NFL Scouting Combine, as Sean Sullivan & Matt Wittenberg discuss which players could turn some heads, and who needs to put on a good performance to improve their draft stock. And Tyler Tesson joins the show (51:30 mark)to break down the NHL trade deadline, analyze the trade that sent Kevin Shattenkirk to Washington, & share his thoughts on the 40th anniversary of the iconic hockey movie "Slap Shot."
2017-03-021h 23
Money Mitch EffectMoney Mitch Effect 2/10/17: CJ Dear on Football/Basketball & Dan Mount on HockeyToday's show features CJ Dear on the legacies of Brady/Belichick, the NFL Hall of Fame class, & Kevin Durant's return to OKC. And Dan Mount from The Hockey Writers joins the program to discuss Nashville's playoff chances, the crazy Eastern Conference playoff picture, & other NHL storylines.
2017-02-101h 13