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Margot Robbie: Audio BiographyMargot Robbie: From Red Carpet Stunner to Mogul Making MovesMargot Robbie BioSnap a weekly updated Biography.According to Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, the most consequential Margot Robbie development of the past few days is all business: her company LuckyChap is launching LuckyChap International, a new London based film and TV venture created as a joint operation with European powerhouse Mediawan Group. Variety reports that the banner will officially open in January, focus on U.K. and European projects, and be led by Mona Qureshi and Tanya Qureshi as co managing directors a clear sign Robbie is cementing her status not just as an A list star...
2025-12-1602 min
En privé SVPDans les coulisses de Dune : La productrice révèle tous les secretsDans cet épisode d'En Privé SVP, nous avons l'immense plaisir de recevoir Tanya Lapointe, productrice du film Dune : Partie 2. Ancienne journaliste et réalisatrice de documentaires, Tania nous offre un accès privilégié à son univers fascinant. Au programme : des révélations exclusives sur les coulisses de la production, des anecdotes inédites et des réflexions inspirantes sur son parcours. Préparez-vous à plonger dans un échange enrichissant avec une femme visionnaire, aussi passionnée qu'inspirante! ★ Rabais GIRL CRUSH : EPSVP15 pour 15% de rabais sur votre commande : https://girlcrushgang.com/ ★ Le podcast est présenté par Éros et Compagnie...
2024-12-101h 09
QUARANTE ou la bascule de milieu de vieDécouvrir son identité - Tanya - 2ème partieVous écoutez la suite du témoignage de Tanya. Si vous ne l’avez pas fait, je vous recommande de commencer par le 1er épisode.Être privé.e des ses origines sans le savoir… Tanya a longtemps eu du mal à totalement reconnaître celle qu’elle croisait tous les jours devant le miroir. Comme si il manquait un maillon pour totalement être elle-même. Jusqu’au jour où, en pleine quarantaine, elle va enfin découvrir le secret qui va lui rendre son identité. 🖇 Références :💻 Association Sur terre via donneur 📹 https://www.youtube.com...
2023-12-0525 min
QUARANTE ou la bascule de milieu de vieDécouvrir son identité - Tanya - 1ère partieÊtre privé.e des ses origines sans le savoir… Tanya a longtemps eu du mal à totalement reconnaître celle qu’elle croisait tous les jours devant le miroir. Comme si il manquait un maillon pour totalement être elle-même. Jusqu’au jour où, en pleine quarantaine, elle va enfin découvrir le secret qui va lui rendre son identité. 🖇 Références :💻 Association Sur terre via donneur 📹 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuCpdVctenk📰 Article Quête d’identité - Grâce à un test ADN, une Genevoise retrouve l’identité de son géniteur | Tribune de Genève (tdg.ch...
2023-12-0516 min
Geneviève PettersenL'intégrale du lundi 28 marsÉdito de Geneviève : l’actualité sous la loupe de Geneviève. La rencontre Gibeault-Pettersen avec Nicole Gibeault, juge à la retraite : le député Randall Hillier arrêté en lien au convoi d’Ottawa. Une nouvelle étude sur les plus grandes difficultés des femmes marginalisées dans le système de justice. Conflit entre des juges du Tribunal administratif du logement. Une femme trouvée coupable d’harcèlement et d’extorsion envers son ex-partenaire. Entrevue avec Benoît Barbeau, virologue : prenons-nous trop à la légère le nouveau variant qui semble se propager au Québec? Chronique de...
2022-03-282h 00
Incroyable !Les voix qu'entend un schizophrène diffèrent selon les pays"Les voies du Seigneur sont impénétrables"... et les voix du schizophrène ne sont pas interchangeables !Il semblerait, en effet, que cette maladie mentale (qui touche 50 millions de personnes à travers le monde) ait des manifestations différentes selon l'origine du sujet.Ainsi, alors qu'un schizophrène occidental peut entendre des injonctions violentes, son homologue asiatique aurait – quant à lui – des suggestions bien plus triviales...Une histoire de contexteSelon le peintre français George Braque : "la culture engendre la monstruosité".Restons plus nuancés et disons simplement qu...
2022-01-1202 min
Unmessable PodcastBeing of Service: By Far the Most Effective Way of SellingIf there is one skill to master in life, it is selling.
Why?
Because no matter what you do, whether you are a product designer, an executive, an entrepreneur, or a preacher, if you develop the ability to sell your idea, your vision, your strategy, or your product/service, the sky is the limit.
And more than merely selling, ultimately, mastery of selling comes when you develop the ability to be of service while selling.
What does it mean to be of service while selling? It means that you authentically listen...
2020-05-2148 minUnmessable PodcastWhat Leadership Will Look Like Over The Next 10 YearsWhat will it take to lead effectively over the next decade? How can you prepare yourself for what will likely be called for as we navigate times ahead?
Well, according to the author of Future Leader Jacob Morgan, who interviewed 140 global CEOs (of companies like Audi, Mastercard, Unilever, Oracle, and SAP) and surveyed over 14,000 employees, there are four mindsets and five skills that our current business leaders believe will be needed in our future leaders.
Curious what they are?
Tune in to the full episode to learn about:
What current global CEOs b...
2020-04-3038 minUnmessable PodcastTrust is Directly Correlated to Individual and Team PerformanceWhat role does trust play, within your company, when it comes to your individual and team performance?
Well, it turns out a lot.
As Joel Peterson — Chairman of JetBlue, Consulting Stanford Professor, Author, and Founder of Peterson Partners which is part Private Equity and Venture Capital firm with over $1 billion under management– puts it: “Trust is the most powerful operating system you can have. A lot of people think of it as this fuzzy feel-good thing; I like somebody, therefore, I trust them. In the book I wrote The Ten Laws of Trust, the fundamental thesis w...
2020-04-2348 minUnmessable PodcastA Framework To Have It All (Not Do It All – There’s a Difference)How many women do you know want it all and try their best to have it? Work full-time, be there for the kids, volunteer for Parent Association at the kids’ school, run the household (which is a full-time job in itself) and have somewhat of a life?
There’s a lot, right?
As Romi Neustadt — author, entrepreneur and mom — puts it: You Can Have It All: Just Not At The Same Damn Time (which is also the title of her book).
As a former corporate chick who traded in the billable hour to...
2020-04-1629 minUnmessable PodcastFemale Leadership: Dismantling This Inherited Bias Will Help To Even Out The Playing FieldTo put this female versus male diversity deficiency into perspective at senior levels in Corporate America, among chief executives of S&P. 1500 firms, for each woman, there are four men named John, Robert, William or James according to the New York Times.
There’s been a lot of talk these past years about the need to have more women in leadership roles, yet progress is slow.
Why is that?
I believe it is because we haven’t gotten to the source of what’s really getting in the way: our inherited bias on gender...
2020-03-261h 09Unmessable PodcastCommander’s Intent: One Wildly Effective Leadership Strategy For Aligning Your TeamIf there is one organization that is highly effective in aligning their troops, it’s the army.
But ever wonder how they do it? Or if their strategy is replicable in business or with your team?
Rach Ranton is a TED speaker, corporate leader, author, and motivational consultant who served in the Australian Army for 11 years. Her TED Talk titled “Where are we trying to end up?” and book DAUNTLESS: Leadership lessons from the front line draw parallels between leadership concepts the military is especially brilliant in executing and how those concepts can be leveraged in bus...
2020-03-1228 minUnmessable PodcastThe Economic Return of CompassionDr. Stephen Trzeciak is a Physician-Scientist, TED speaker, and Professor of Medicine at the Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, who’s dedicated a large portion of his career to helping patients in the intensive care unit.
More recently, he authored the book Compassionomics: The Revolutionary Scientific Evidence that Caring Makes a Difference where he studies how compassion impacts patient outcomes.
At the core of his research, he asked one fundamental question: Does compassion really matter?
It turns out, it does. When authentic, it plays a big role in positively impacting patient outcomes, and...
2020-02-2756 minUnmessable PodcastHow To Access The Power of LeadershipLeadership as a keyword has over 4.4 billion search results on Google. The corporate leadership training industry is big too. Organizations in the US alone spend upwards of $14 billion annually on training their employees to be leaders and leadership development is ranked as one of the top three things senior executives (and business leaders) are most interested in. Yet, somehow, most of these leadership programs fail to deliver on their promise: access to being a leader.
Why on earth would that be the case?
In a remarkable conversation with Lynne Twist — a pro-activist and acclaimed author wh...
2020-01-2346 minUnmessable PodcastHow Confirmation Biases Distort RealityMost of us like to think that we use data to inform our decision-making process and path forward, but there’s one challenge. It’s possible and quite common that we seek out data to validate what we already believe. That’s called confirmation bias.
In speaking with Alex Edmans, a TED and Davos speaker, rigorous academic researcher and Professor of Finance at the London Business School, he argues that confirmation bias can lead us down the wrong path in business and in life, and provides ways to counteract this automatic human tendency. Alex’s research has been cov...
2020-01-0241 minUnmessable PodcastHow Cultivating Creativity Drives Critical Thinking and InnovationInnovation and critical thinking are key skillsets in business, but have you ever wondered what makes them possible?
The answer is creativity.
In speaking with the co-founder of acclaimed off-broadway show Blue Man Group, which was acquired in 2017 by one of the most renowned entertainment companies out there — Cirque du Soleil — whose shows have been seen by over 160 million people, Matt Goldman shared how a horrific school experience inspired him to co-founder the Blue School, a progressive independent school in New York City with over 300 students that explores creative ways to educate the leaders of the...
2019-12-2057 minUnmessable PodcastHow to Develop Your Mental Resilience and Emotional Intelligence (A.K.A Dial-in Your Leadership Skills)Did you ever react to someone or something and know it was not going to end well? Have you ever been triggered by a boss or colleague and behaved in a way that you knew was not going to be effective?
Sure, we all have. But did you ever stop to think why that happens?
Here’s the short answer: brain patterns. More specifically, the cause of these knee-jerk reactions or automatic responses are because of neural pathways in your brain that are triggered. Basically, your default brain wiring may, at times, get in the way o...
2019-12-1256 minUnmessable PodcastThe Science Behind Teaching Your Body To Heal FasterHow amazing would it be to regrow diseased or missing body parts?
I am hopeful it will happen someday, but science is not quite there yet. What is more realistic short-term is to teach your body how to heal faster, and that’s precisely what Dr. Kaitlyn Sadtler– an immunologist by trade and former postdoctoral fellow at MIT who’s been selected as one of Forbes 30 Under 30 in science– is working on. More specifically, her potentially groundbreaking research is focused on how the immune system can regenerate functional tissue.
So think of a scar that fully he...
2019-12-0547 min
The AI ElementSustainabilityThis week we’re exploring if and how AI can help build a sustainable future. From solving climate change to improving health care, AI is being seen as a technology that can solve some of the world’s biggest problems. But can AI really save us? How can we be sure that AI for Good initiatives are actually helping the people they’re trying to reach? What role can, or should, AI practitioners play in finding solutions? Urvashi Vaneja explains why we should be skeptical of AI for Good initiatives that claim to be a cure-all and she sh...
2019-11-2800 minUnmessable PodcastLeadership: What You Can Learn From ChimpanzeesDr. Frans de Waal, a two-time TED Speaker, twelve-time author, biologist, and ethologist spent the majority of his life studying primate behavior and social interactions. In our oddly fascinating conversation, he debunks commonly held beliefs we hold about our closest relatives and draws interesting parallels in our leadership practices.
Who knew we were so similar in the way we operate and lead? Could that be due to the fact that we share 99% of the same DNA?
Named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 Most influential people today, Frans published hundreds of peer-reviewed papers and...
2019-11-2151 minUnmessable PodcastHow To Grab Life by The HornsHave you ever heard the expression when life gives you lemons, make lemonade?
Few people truly embody this concept like Lizzie Velasquez does, who is an ordinary woman standing for something extraordinary: love, acceptance, and peace.
Lizzie is a uniquely petite powerhouse that weighs in at 65 pounds because she, and only 2 other people in the world, suffer from a rare syndrome that prevents her body from storing fat. In a pivotal moment of cyberbullying, where she was called the ugliest woman on the internet in a youtube video that went viral, she decided to stand...
2019-11-071h 09Unmessable PodcastMoney Shame: Getting Real About our Relationship with MoneyTammy Lally — a certified money coach, author of Money Detox and TED Speaker — works with her clients on the one thing that prevents people from reaching financial freedom, and that is our relationship with money. Financial planning is not a mysterious thing that only certain people understand and get access to. It’s actually straight forward (and there’s a lot of resources out there to get informed), but where we go awry is in our relationship to money. How it makes us feel. How we think it makes us look. How we value ourselves against what we own. So, in o...
2019-10-1859 minUnmessable PodcastSynthetic Forests: A Possible Way To Remove CO2 From The AirIn this episode, Dr. Jennifer Wilcox, who is the James H. Manning Chaired Professor of Chemical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, a former Stanford Professor and acclaimed TED speaker shares her research findings on how we could remove CO2 from the air to help fight against the global climate crisis. “We have the capability to build synthetic forests that have the potential to remove some of the CO2 that is emitted into the atmosphere each year, ” Dr. Wilcox said. “Ideally, we avoid CO2 emissions to begin with, but we are not doing that at the scale required to meet our cli...
2019-10-101h 03Unmessable PodcastHow To Boost Your Performance at Work and in Life, According to ScienceDoes your full schedule eat into how much you sleep at night? Are you frequently in noisy areas? Have you ever thought that maybe your sleep deprivation and surroundings (even if you can function well) are impacting your short-term performance and long-term health? Well, it is. And science can prove it.
Dr. Mathias Basner — an associate professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine– who spent the past two decades researching how sleep and noise impact your cognitive functions (short-term performance) and long-term health, shares startling research findings that you migh...
2019-10-031h 22
Scheananigans with Scheana ShayFrom Justin to Tanya with Justin Sylvester and Tanya RadFriends and sometimes red carpet co-hosts Justin Sylvester and Tanya Rad are getting into some Scheananigans to talk podcasts, people's choice, pop culture, and pretty much everything in between! Special thanks to: Prive Revaux - Get 15% off your first order by going to priverevaux.com and using code SCHEANA15.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
2019-10-011h 02Scheananigans with Scheana ShayFrom Justin to Tanya with Justin Sylvester and Tanya RadFriends and sometimes red carpet co-hosts Justin Sylvester and Tanya Rad are getting into some Scheananigans to talk podcasts, people's choice, pop culture, and pretty much everything in between! Special thanks to: Prive Revaux - Get 15% off your first order by going to priverevaux.com and using code SCHEANA15.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
2019-10-011h 02Unmessable PodcastClimate Crisis: What’s Likely To Happen If We Don’t Rise To The ChallengeThe state of our climate and the advancement of global warming is top of mind these days. It’s in the news. Just this week, crowds in the millions, around the world united (#strikeforclimate) to show our political leaders the urgency and importance of the issue. Teenage activist, Greta Thunberg addressed the United Nations in an impassioned speech some days ago demanding that our leaders rise to the occasion and wake up.
On this episode, Dr. J. Marshall Shepherd — former NASA research meteorologist and deputy project scientist — who is currently the Distinguished Professor and Director of the Atmosp...
2019-09-2650 minUnmessable PodcastDr. Paula Williams is Transgender and Shares Key Differences On How She Was Treated as a Man Versus a WomanDr. Paula Williams spent 13 years as the host of a national television show (viewed by millions) and served as the Chairman and CEO of The Orchard Group — a non-profit organization that starts new churches in the US– for 34 years. Then her name was Paul. From a very young age, Paula knew she was transgender, but given her upbringing in a conservative religious household, she learned to keep this secret to herself. She eventually married, had children of her own, and was successful by many measures. But something was missing.
One night, Paula (then Paul) had a life-altering real...
2019-09-1944 minUnmessable PodcastFormer Naval Meteorologist and Oceanographer, Dr. David Titley, Gets Real About What To Expect From Global WarmingIf you are like most people and know something bad is happening with global warming but are not sure how it will impact you, and more importantly, how to help slow it down, this podcast episode is for you.
Retired Rear Admiral David Titley, and former Naval Meteorologist and Oceanographer was tasked with assessing and planning for security risks our country faced with regards to global warming. Having spent 32 years in the Navy, David remains especially concerned about sea levels rising. He expects sea levels to rise up to 6 feet by the year 2100. Then, he predicts that...
2019-09-121h 12Unmessable PodcastHarvard Leadership Professor, Dr. Amy Edmondson, Dives Into What Makes Teams High-PerformingDr. Amy Edmondson is a seven-time author who got her PhD in Organizational Behavior from Harvard, then went on to teach Leadership at Harvard Business School (for the past 23 years and counting) as the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management, where she has tenure. In this episode, Amy discusses some of the groundbreaking principles she outlines in her book The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth and shares important pitfalls that eat away at having an empowering culture in the workplace.
Amy and Tanya talk about what leadership is, how...
2019-09-0552 minUnmessable PodcastErika Hamden Shares What Launching Telescopes Into Space Taught Her About FailureDr.Erika Hamden is a TED fellow, Ph.D. Astrophysicist, and Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona who has been nominated by NASA for the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2019. Erika leads the team building FIREBALL, a project funded by NASA which is a large telescope that hangs from a giant balloon at the very edge of space and looks for clues on how our stars are created. Erika’s scientific endeavors have received close to $4 million in grant funding from partners like NASA and MSF.
She got her A.B., in Ast...
2019-08-2957 minUnmessable PodcastDr. Andrew Newberg, Renowned Neuroscientist, Explains How Your Words (And Thoughts) Change Your BrainDr. Andrew Newberg, is a ten-time author, TEDx speaker, leading researcher, and neuroscientist who studies the relationship between brain function and various mental states. He’s appeared on Dr. Oz and a Netflix documentary hosted by Morgan Freeman called God, and his work referenced in countless media publications including The New York Times, O Magazine, and Reuters, just to name a few.
In this episode of Unmessable, Dr. Newberg and Tanya discussed what enlightenment is and the role it plays in you being an effective leader. Hint: enlightenment is correlated to leadership. They also discuss how one can...
2019-08-221h 02Unmessable PodcastManny Medina Founder of Outreach.IO On Almost Shutting Down His Company To Raising $250 MillionManny Medina grew up in Ecuador and spent most of his summers on his stepmother’s shrimp farm helping during harvest. In addition to working on the shrimp farm, Manny was obliged to read a number of books during his summer vacation. A little unusual, but it served Manny well in developing a curiosity for learning.
The first time Manny set foot in the US was to come to college where he completed his Masters in Computer Science at Penn State, then he got his MBA at Harvard. The culture shock was real and although he knew some Eng...
2019-08-1553 minUnmessable PodcastHeini Zachariassen (Vivino Founder) On Going From The 600th Wine App In The Market To #1Heini Zachariassen grew up on a little island logged between Iceland and Norway where the total population hovers around 49,000 habitants. While Heini thinks it’s the most beautiful place on earth, the weather is not always great. He stayed there until the age of 22 years old, then moved to Denmark.
From a young age, Heini tinkered with computers and fell fast in love. It was a passion he shared with his father, which never left him. Heini always had a knack for building things and was drawn to the world of entrepreneurship. Serving almost every executive role yo...
2019-08-0837 minUnmessable PodcastAnder Michelena On Selling His Company Ticketbis to Ebay for €165 Million With 2 Weeks of Cash Left In The BankAs an insatiable kid, Ander Michelena, originally born in Spain, intuitively knew he was destined for the entrepreneurial journey. Although he kicked off his career in finance at Morgan Stanley in London, specifically focused on merger, acquisitions and IPOs of European financial institutions, his vision was always to create a high-growth business.
During his time at Morgan Stanley, Ander actively looked for proven business models in the US that were not available yet in Europe or LATAM and stumbled upon Stubhub, a successful technology platform that sold tickets online. A lightbulb went off for Ander. He saw...
2019-08-0129 minUnmessable PodcastMark Tercek, Former CEO of The Nature Conservancy, Opens Up About What It’s Like To LeadComing off the heels of a successful 24 year Wall Street career, Mark Tercek, who rose to Managing Director at Goldman Sachs and led the Environmental Markets Group, shifted gears in 2008 to become the CEO of The Nature Conservancy, the world’s largest nonprofit environmental organization (TNC).
TNC tackles key environmental issues and protects 119 million acres (and counting) of land, water and marine life. TNC has over 4,150 employees operating in 72 countries and the company holds prominent board members like Jack Ma (Founder of Alibaba) and Larry Fink (Founder of BlackRock) just to name a few.
Mark led TN...
2019-07-251h 05Unmessable PodcastAlex Mashinsky On Failing Miserably, Bouncing Back And Generating $3 Billion (and counting) in ExitsAs a serial entrepreneur, Alex Mashinsky raised over $1 Billion in financing across his eight startups, generating over $3 Billion in exits and authored over 35 patents that cover aspects of Smart Grid, Ad Exchanges, Twitter, Skype, and Netflix. But his journey was everything but easy. Raised in the USSR — Ukraine, a communist country at the time, he saw first hand the struggle his parents went through. They both had jobs and incoming money but the lack of food was a constant worry. On many occasions, his family would wait in line for whatever food was available and by the time they go...
2019-07-1841 minUnmessable PodcastCarlos Reines On Turning A Devastating Childhood Accident Into A Thriving BusinessFirst-time founder and Harvard grad Carlos Reines, who was nominated by the World Economic Forum as Young Global Leader opens up about his tragic childhood accident and how that shaped his life-work today through RubiconMD — an eConsult platform that connects clinicians to top specialists. Now serving over 5,000 primary care physicians in 37 States, RubiconMD has saved over 2.5 Million days of patients waiting for specialist consults, which is almost 7,000 years.
Carlos talks about his struggles early-on when he launched RubiconMD and how, after many iterations, he designed a dialed-in hiring process to assemble a top tier team that not only...
2019-07-1140 minUnmessable PodcastDuke Rohlen On How His Willingness To Pivot Lead Him To Build And Sell 5 Companies for $1.7 BillionSerial entrepreneur and venture investor, Duke Rohlen grew up in Marin County, California where he dedicated a significant portion of his time to competitive sports. Duke’s dream was to be a world class tennis player, but after his knees gave out at the age of fourteen which forced him to get a number of surgeries, he had no other option but to pivot into other sports, mainly swimming, that would accommodate his physical impediments. Duke’s natural intensity and passion for adrenaline led him to start his first company, which was in the restaurant business at the tender age...
2019-06-2644 minUnmessable PodcastEswar Priyadarshan On Selling 3 Companies For $575 Million And Working With Steve JobsBorn in Bangalore, India, Eswar dedicated ninety-five percent of his time growing up playing cricket, and didn’t apply himself much to school. His parents, both English professors weren’t overly concerned because he did one thing consistently: read. Eswar was fascinated with military history books and read vivaciously about the topic. In many ways, military history played an influential part in how Eswar viewed leadership. Fast-forward to his college days, something triggered in Eswar when he came to the US to study and realized that he’d been given a tremendous opportunity to do something special with his life...
2019-06-2051 minUnmessable PodcastAnthemos Georgiades On Building A Marketplace That Helps 70 Million Renters AnnuallyBorn to a Greek father, but British mother, Anthemos had a pretty normal childhood, where his natural tendency was to be introverted, but with time, trained himself to be more extraverted. He loved to read or play video games, and despite his inclination to keep to himself, he had lots of friends. At 18 years old, however, something devastating happened. His mother passed away, after battling a long illness. As an only child, this rocked Anthemos to his core and took the following couple years to recover from the terrible loss. In this pivotal moment, something inside awakened where he d...
2019-05-3036 minUnmessable PodcastJulie Clark On Building A $23 Million In Revenue Company that Disney Turned Into $300 Million in 2 YearsFormer school teacher, Julie Clark hit the jackpot when she created enriching entertainment videos for her kids, in her basement. It turned out, other babies loved it too. Within five years, what was a fun side project grew into a $23 Million dollar generating business which had only five employees, that Disney acquired for $25 Million. Within a few years of selling to Disney, the company was producing close to $300 Million, which was an incredible validation of the value Julie created but during that period, the incredible highs were soon met with a devasting low. She was diagnosed for a second...
2019-05-141h 01Unmessable PodcastWill Herman On How This One Tool Enabled Him To Generate $4 Billion in Shareholder ValueSerial entrepreneur and author, Will Herman founded and scaled five companies, two of which IPO’ed, for a combined shareholder value of $4 Billion. Along the way, he made a bunch of mistakes, but this one tool, in particular, helped him gain perspective and surface insights, real time, which enabled deep leadership growth. Although he naturally fell into this, he credits his long-time mentor/coach for much of his success as a leader, which stands at the foundation of building and exiting successful businesses. In this Unmessable episode, Will shares some key learnings he derived from his entrepreneurial journey, which mi...
2019-05-1458 minUnmessable PodcastRon Palmeri Practiced This One Strategic Exercise That Helped Him Be More Effective In ConversationsRon Palmeri, serial entrepreneur who turned to venture investing with a special twist, scored some lucky wins early on at Minor Ventures. The fund would incubate and build the businesses itself while Ron was actively involved from a strategy perspective. Included in some of the companies they launched was OpenDNS which was acquired by Cisco for $635 Million and Google Voice (previously Grand Central), which was acquired by Google. Shifting from the venture strategy side, Ron took his luck as an operator when he launched Layer, which was originally announced at TechCrunch Disrupt 2013 and took home the winning prize. Through...
2019-05-1454 minUnmessable PodcastDane Madsen On What It Took To Build Yellowpages.com and Sell It For $100 Million
Dane Madsen grew up in a small farm town in Idaho, on the lower income side of the equation, but was trained to problem solve and fix things from a young age. His upbringing forced him to be nimble and creative in the solutions he brought forward and this core way of being was at the source of his ability to uncover a huge opportunity in the market when he built Yellowpages.com, which he later sold to what is known today as AT&T, for $100 Million. In this Unmessable episode, Dane shares his internal struggles as he built...
2019-05-021h 03
Woman Owned: The Growth Podcast for Women Entrepreneurs[FFL 334] Extraordinary Thinking with Tanya PriveTanya Prive is a Partner at Legacy Transformation Consulting, Inc., a boutique consulting firm helping organizations worldwide with transformational learning in areas related to leadership, culture, productivity, and execution to achieve breakthrough results. As the founder and former CEO of two successful, venture-backed companies: 1000 Angels and The CoFoundersLab, she is passionate about empowering fierce entrepreneurs. During her role as the CEO of The CofoundersLab, she successfully grew the company's user community by an astounding 1,200% - from 40,000 registered entrepreneurs to nearly 500,000 with a presence in almost 200 countries. Born in Montreal, Canada and raised in San Francisco, Tanya moved to New...
2019-04-1645 minUnmessable PodcastMike Teng On How Infertility Struggles Taught Him One Critical Leadership Lesson
Mike Teng, following in his father’s footsteps, became a software engineer and worked in the area of education where he noticed a big problem- there wasn’t a good way to find and schedule substitute teachers, and practically every school experienced the same challenge. With two college friends, he built Swing Education, raised $23 Million from Venture Capitals in Silicon Valley and is now filling over 10,000 teacher absence days per month, across 1,000 schools. Before his entrepreneurial journey, however, Mike experienced the hardship of infertility. For three years, he and his wife tried tirelessly to conceive and through that process, a li...
2019-03-1746 min
Pro Business ChannelCoFounders Podcast – Security Hackers, Personal Brands, Matchmaking, Fun Challenges and CoWorkingSecurity Hackers, Personal Brands, Matchmaking, Fun Challenges and CoWorkingAlejandro CremadesCoFounder & Executive Chairman at OnevestIn 2010, Cremades founded with Tanya Prive, Onevest (formerly RockThePost) where they operate products that support founder, investors and advisors in early stage companies. After one year of development they were able to launch to the public on November 23, 2011. In less than a year, the company was already mentioned by TIME as one of the best platforms in the world, also as one of the top 10 digital tools for entrepreneurs by Forbes and as one of the hottest startups to w...
2016-09-2032 min
Cofounders PodcastCoFounders Podcast - Security Hackers, Personal Brands, Matchmaking, Fun Challenges and CoWorkingSecurity Hackers, Personal Brands, Matchmaking, Fun Challenges and CoWorkingAlejandro CremadesCoFounder & Executive Chairman at OnevestIn 2010, Cremades founded with Tanya Prive, Onevest (formerly RockThePost) where they operate products that support founder, investors and advisors in early stage companies. After one year of development they were able to launch to the public on November 23, 2011. In less than a year, the company was already mentioned by TIME as one of the best platforms in the world, also as one of the top 10 digital tools for entrepreneurs by Forbes and as one of the hottest startups to w...
2016-07-1232 min
MicroBrewr PodcastMicroBrewr 063: A hundred-page business plan and barely enough money
At the height of the great recession, Kevin Selvy had a hundred-page business plan and started Crazy Mountain Brewing Company in Edwards, Colorado with $500,000. He calls it an irresponsible amount of money and estimates that nobody should do it with less than $1.5 million.
Nonetheless, he met his 3-year sales estimates within 3 months. After 5 years, their beer is distributed to 18 states and Europe, and they just entered the California markets.
“The best advice I could give,” says Kevin, “is give up your day job and go work for a brewery. When it comes to finding investors, if you...
2015-05-0556 min