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[Podcast] Diving Deeper into Cybersecurity and Disinformation Campaigns with the White House's First Female CIO

In this episode Theresa Payton and I talk about her career path to holding her position as the female Chief Information Office for the White House, what a normal day there was like (hint: they were long!), examples of disinformation campaigns, and her work at her cybersecurity consulting firm using human-centric design solutions.

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[Podcast] What You Learn About Trauma When You Die for 15 Minutes with Josh Mantz

In April of 2007, while being deployed to Sadr City during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Josh Mantz and another member of his team were critically wounded by an enemy sniper attack. The high-caliber bullet severed Staff Sergeant Marlon Harper’s aorta, killing him, and then ricocheted into Josh’s upper right thigh, severing his femoral artery. Josh went on to “flatline” for 15 minutes before being revived by an expert medical team. This episode takes you minute-by-minute through Josh's experience.

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[Podcast] Lessons About Being Unstoppable from a Former U.S. Navy SEAL

Alden is a former 3-time U.S. Navy SEAL Platoon Commander. After leaving the Navy, he became the co-founder and CEO of Perfect Fitness which he led to $90 million in sales in just three years, becoming ranked by INC Magazine in 2009 as being the fastest growing consumer products company with 12,000% growth over those 3 years.

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[Podcast] Identifying Your Black Sheep Values with Brant Menswar

Brant is the author of the new book, Black Sheep: Unleash the Extraordinary, Awe-Inspiring, Undiscovered You. During this episode Brant talks about spending 263 straight days in the hospital with his oldest son, Theo, as he was battling a rare blood cancer and is why he wrote the Black Sheep. In the book, Brant helps you to explain why identifying your Black Sheep values are vital for your success and how to implement them in your life for maximum success.

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[Podcast] Finding Your Consonance and Becoming Limitless

Laura Gassner Otting discusses the importance of finding consonance in your life and what the 4 C's on consonance are. During this episode we discuss why purpose is such a hot topic right now, if people can still have an impact even if they work in the for-profit sector, and what advice do she has for listeners looking to achieve the goals that they have set out for themselves.

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[Podcast] Building a Company in a Small Town and The Importance of Hard Work

David and I talk about how he's building an agency based out of a small town in wine country that works with VC firms. David talks about shifting your mindset to do the work that others don't want to do such as driving 10 hours roundtrip in a single day for one meeting. We spend time talking about the importance of family and how he's teaching his daughters to be independent from a young age.

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[Podcast] Why We All Need to Develop Our Perfect Intro and Perfect Calendar

In our discussion Clay Hebert and I talk about the key threads that he sees from the companies that he works with, ranging from startups to large Fortune 500 companies. We also talk about why you need to develop your perfect pitch and how developing your perfect calendar will help you zoom out to see what really makes you happy and then take the steps necessary to achieve them.

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[Podcast] An Interview With the First Black Person in America to Have a Liquor License

Jackie Summers is an author, public speaker, the creator of Sorel Liqueur, and was the first black person in America to have a license to make liquor. We talked about what it takes to obtain a license to make liquor (hint: it's nearly impossible), diversity & inclusion, fitness, and what it's like to overcome a tumor that he was given only a 5% chance to make it through following his surgery.

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