Strap on your Boots

In this episode of Zero to CEO I speak to Co-Founder of Local, Neil Bedwell. We will explore what change marketing means, how it works, and mostly what it can do for your business. Misery and unhappiness at work is costly, and Neil will help you learn more about using change marketing to help your company culture transform and reduce those turnover rates. 

In today's episode I speak with a former Consulting Actuary to Fortune 100 companies – including Sony Music, Chanel, and Exxon – David Wood. He left his cushy Park Avenue job 20 years ago to build the world’s largest coaching business. He became #1 on Google for “life coaching”, serving an audience of 150,000 coaches, and coaching thousands of hours across 12 countries. David believes that the tough conversations we avoid, are our doorways to confidence, success, and love. They become the defining moments which shape our world. He coaches high performing entrepreneurs, executives and teams – and now prison inmates –  to create amazing results and deep connection. Achieve more, by focusing on less.

In this episode I talk about the process of getting feedback for your idea, your business, your product, or your app. The reason why I did this episode today is because I'm currently in the process of getting feedback for one of my businesses. The first thing you think of when it comes t feedback, is people coming up to you on the street and asking you to fill out a survey, right? And that's not far off. Surveys are one of the more important pieces of getting feedback from people. But what I always tell people the most important way to get feedback is getting your product in front of people. I dive deeper into the process in this episode so tune in!

As a teenager, Seattle native Billy Price suffered a spinal cord injury and became paralyzed from the chest down, losing the ability to move his fingers. Daily tasks became difficult, but using his creative mind and unyielding spirit, he never gave up. He continued on, facing life's challenges with tenacity and determination. Born out of a need, Billy Footwear was founded on the principle of inclusion and perseverance. Along with co-founder Darin Donaldson, Billy strives to add value to the lives of others and make a measurable difference in the world, one foot at a time. Check him out at BillyFootwear.com

In this episode I talk to Charlotte Dunford, who is the Managing Partner of Johns Creek Capital – an investment managing company that focuses on mobile home park investments, with a total investor subscription amount over $4.2M. Numbers wise, they currently have 20 park investments, and Charlotte herself has also created over $500k in asset value in the past 12 months. Charlotte really comes from humble beginnings and is a first-generation American citizen and college graduate after leaving China with just her belongings at age 16. Listen to her story and hear how she got to where she is today, and how you can too!

On this episode of Future Tech, I want to talk about what life would really be like on Mars. We keep seeing it in the news. People keep talking about traveling to the Red Planet. Elon Musk's SpaceX has been talking about forming a base station on Mars as a place for us to be able to continue traveling through interstellar space. Mars would be a nice rest stop in space since it does take us about seven months to get there. So imagine if we could form a small city, or a base on Mars, a place for astronauts and people to live and work. Well tune in to hear more about what life would be like on Mars!

Dan Zavorotny, Tech Entrepreneur & World Traveler, shares insights on turning an idea into a 120 person team in 2.5 years. Topics discussed include hiring effectively, recruiting great people, the importance of culture for early success, scaling organizations, transitioning from corporate to startup worlds, and more.

Our world is changing, and leading companies have been forced to adjust their systems due to two defining factors—health concerns and the innovations in Web3. Rik Lomas is a master at decentralizing education and creative collaboration, and he’s spent his career trying to find unorthodox ways to help creatives get ahead in their careers. Through his passion to pioneer new support systems for creatives by adopting the rapid changes within the creative industry, he provides a perspective on the new role creators play and how we can break down current systems to support creatives in their journeys to building success. Learn how he does this with SuperHi!

In this episode, I speak to Founder & CEO of Yellowdig Shaunak Roy on how to teach and learn in a post-COVID world. One of the things Shaunak noticed that impacted learning during the pandemic were that teachers were forced to use technology, which was a big change. We talk about innovating in a regulated space (higher education and K12) as well as how to evaluate edtech from a buyer standpoint. The biggest challenge was trying to work with online technologies to learn, and this is where Yellowdig excels. Hear all about it in this episode!

In this episode of Zero to CEO, I talk to Michael Trezza, who is the Founder and CEO of Giant Leaps Learning, an online after-school enrichment program that helps kids master the 21st-century skills they’ll need to thrive. The core focus of the program is becoming a great leader from a young age. They’ve put together a curriculum that shows foundational routines and behaviors of leadership excellence. Today, they’ve enrolled through thousands of students and changed a lot of lives. Tune in to hear about how you can teach your kids in ways that schools don't.