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We catch up with Andy Brennan, whose book Uncultivated, Wild Apples, Real Cider, and the Complicated Art of Making a Living, we recently reviewed. More about Aaron Burr Cider “The Cidery”, which produces Aaron Burr Cider in Wurtsboro, New York, is a small homestead farm dating back to the early 1800s. Our tenure (and you can read more more about us here) on this land began in 2006 with the planting of a cider-orchard. Cider-apples are different from eating-apples in the same way wine-grapes are different from table-grapes. You wouldn’t want to make wine from big, tasty fresh-eating grapes, and the same applies with cider. We use our apples and other locally grown and foraged apples for one mission: to re-create “true cider”, the rightful table wine of our land. This focus is founded on the belief that early Americans drank history’s best cider. Reestablishing this involves a lost holism -from farming to art, from the market to policies –cider is an identity. There is much from our recent past which must be undone but luckily the descendants of early cider apples do still exist in the wild. We believe their ability to survive the 20th century provides American cider, cider-orchards, and cider businesses the much-needed paragon for the future. About Andy Brennan Andy Brennan owns Aaron Burr Cider in New York’s Catskills region. His career started as a freelance artist, working in the fields of photography, design, and architecture. Since its founding in 2011, Aaron Burr Cider has become well known among cider enthusiasts for its natural approach to cider making, using wild apples and yeasts. As a prominent figure in the growing US cider movement, Andy has been featured in print media and on television, radio, and podcasts. He regularly speaks about natural apple growing and cider production at museums, trade events, festivals, restaurants, and anywhere local food enthusiasts are found. You can buy the book Uncultivated here

Jamil catches up with Eric Ma to learn more about this project A Deeper Dive: Building the Web 3.0 with Deeper Network's decentralized VPNs, with Eric Ma Previously a core member of CoinMarketCap, he took charge in building the groundwork of their community to what it has become today. Being front facing, Eric met with members of the community online and offline. He also played a key role in seeking strategic partnerships for CoinMarketCap helping the company to become a multimillion dollar company. Eric is an award winning public speaker and often takes to the stage to educate and share his experience with new blockchain products and ideas with the blockchain community. As the VP of Marketing at Deeper Network, Eric sees new products and innovation as key drivers to the blockchain industry. With the demand for technology growing non-stop, together with the talent at Deeper Network, Eric will help lead the company to new heights and achieve new milestones in the years ahead. About Jamil Hasan Jamil Hasan is a Generation X Author and experienced data intelligence technology builder with two decades of experience leading data-based teams at Fortune 100 companies, including AIG, Prudential Financial, and Ingersoll Rand. Jamil believes that skill and experience, not just age, is the most important factor required to build and lead corporate organizations. His unique story, as someone on the ground floor of the 2008 financial crisis and his role to help repay the $180 billion AIG bailout, enabled him to come face-to-face with many of the societal ills facing Generation X today and their causes. As the result of his experience, Jamil has developed a path forward for his fellow Gen Xers to restore his generation’s financial standing in society today and to rebuild the American Dream for Generation X.

Understanding what experience to give to your customers is one thing, but there's valuable relationships we also have with our staff and suppliers as well.  In this podcast Melanie Boylan spoke to Victoria Taylor about her long background in this field and about her upcoming book and future projects.  Links t Victoria below: Who is Victoria Taylor? Victoria Taylor is an experience consultant and international speaker, who puts different in experience. Her purpose is to help brands become experience leaders . Victoria get brands to ‘Raise-the-Bar’ in experience by thinking different, creating different and doing different. She can consult on audience, employee, customer and brand experience, working with boutique businesses, fortune 100 brands and everything in between. She is a proven customer experience leader who brings together the digital and physical worlds, transforming experience at every moment and interaction someone has with a brand. She tells all her clients this: They need to Make People Matter. Make people matter and your brand will matter to them. "I'm far from finished yet and my mission to Raise-the-Bar in experience continues, one day at a time, one brand at a time, one experience at a time." Victoria Taylor. Book Bio: 'Points Of Entry: Unlocking People Experience' was written with one purpose in mind. To help brands to recognise that every person is important to them. I realised that a lot of the conversation around experience focused on customer experience or, when someone is already a customer of a brand. 'Points Of Entry : Unlocking People Experience' looks at the 'pre-experience' BEFORE someone becomes a customer and it uncovers the potential entry points that a person has into a business. I define a Point of Entry as a place where anyone can gain ‘entry’ to your business, gain insight, have a conversation, or experience your brand for the first time if they don't know you, or engage with and experience your business regularly if they do know you. The experience you create at each entry point will either be the beginning of a solid business relationship (for those who don’t know you), a great experience (for existing customers and those that do know you) or the end of the road on all counts! Entry points are everywhere and when I counted up my own, I had over 70 of them. It made me realise how many opportunities there were for brands to build great experiences with people who were not yet customers. Experiences at every moment and every interaction. But in order to create an experience, knowledge is crucial. This book helps readers to understand 1.) Why entry points are important for EVERY brand today. 2.) Why 'moments' are key to creating experiences. 3.) How you can apply Entry Point Theory to your business with examples. 4.) How you get started in actioning it. We are all in the experience business first and foremost, second to that comes the product or service we offer, but experience happens long before someone becomes a customer, I hope this book will become the guide to realising the potential of people experience When you Make People Matter, your brand will matter to them. Victoria Taylors Links: https://www.victoriatayl.uk/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoriatayluk/ https://www.facebook.com/VictoriaTaylUK https://www.instagram.com/victoriatayluk/ https://twitter.com/VictoriaTaylUK

Interesting and informative conversation with Cade Metz, who recently published Genius Makers, documenting the story of the evolution and development of Artificial Intelligence. Cade Metz is a reporter with The New York Times, covering artificial intelligence, driverless cars, robotics, virtual reality, and other emerging areas. Genius Makers is his first book. Previously, he was a senior staff writer with Wired magazine and the U.S. editor of The Register, one of Britain’s leading science and technology news sites. A native of North Carolina and a graduate of Duke University, Metz, 48, works in The New York Times’ San Francisco bureau and lives across the bay with his wife Taylor and two daughters. You can order the book here  https://cademetzauthor.com/order/

Beyond the Bubble: How Artists are Leveraging Non Fungible Tokens to Engage their Audiences and Build a Loyal, Dedicated Fan Base, with Jillian Godsil Jamil Hasan tackles this timely topic with Irish Tech News in-house expert Jillian Godsil. More about Jillian For the 2021 international Women’s Day, Jillian was nominated one of 100 global women in leadership awards Last June, she was awarded the 2020 Blockchain Journalist by Uptrennds (largest blockchain social platform). In 2019 Jillian was nominated for the national IMRO radio awards for her EastCoastFM Saturday morning show and was awarded the 2019 AI and Blockchain Journalist of the Year at the CC Forum in London. She is a passionate advocate for blockchain, a seasoned professional in fintech and internationally recognised champion for equality – whether in homelessness, gender or the law. Jillian has held senior positions with global PR companies in Sydney, Singapore, London and Dublin. She was PRO of Iona Technologies (Ireland’s first company to float on NASDAQ). She changed the law in Ireland in 2014 and is a former European Parliamentary candidate (as an independent). She is a co founder and journalist in the Blockleaders.io. She freelances for Irish Tech News, Irish Central, The Irish Independent and The Irish Times. She has her own radio shows on DublinCityFM and EastCoastFM – she was nominated for a national radio award, the IMRO, in 2019. Her first job after graduating from Trinity College was as a systems analyst with JP Morgan. She is advisor to several ICOs, has been named a Crypto Queen by In Zero Conferences as well as listed in the 50 most influential women in the global blockchain rollcall. She is named amongst the top 10 people in Blockchain in Ireland. She was voted into the top 20 global Hedera Hashgraph Ambassadors in 2018. She is a board member of EOS Dublin. She is a community leader for Algorand. She is chain agnostic while she loves blockchain. She has been shortlisted for the Image Business Woman of Year and also shortlisted for Woman of the Year by Women in IT in 2018. She made the top 100 Global Blockchain Leaders list for 2019 for Lattice80 report. She is passionate about getting women into blockchain – democratising opportunity for all women.  She was awarded the Order of Merit by the President of Liberland. Pre COVID - She keynotes and chairs blockchain events around the world – including Kiev, Austin, Muscat, Columbo, Dubai, Capetown, Liberland, Malta, Amsterdam, Vienna, Dublin and London.  Now this work is virtual from her sleepy backwater village in rural Ireland About Jamil Hasan Jamil Hasan is a Generation X Author and experienced data intelligence technology builder with two decades of experience leading data-based teams at Fortune 100 companies, including AIG, Prudential Financial, and Ingersoll Rand. Jamil believes that skill and experience, not just age, is the most important factor required to build and lead corporate organizations. His unique story, as someone on the ground floor of the 2008 financial crisis and his role to help repay the $180 billion AIG bailout, enabled him to come face-to-face with many of the societal ills facing Generation X today and their causes. As the result of his experience, Jamil has developed a path forward for his fellow Gen Xers to restore his generation’s financial standing in society today and to rebuild the American Dream for Generation X.

In recent years musical artists have found it tough to get noticed and it’s even harder now during a pandemic. Technology such as social media and Spotify can help but how do you use them to do this? Ronan talks to Luke Rynne Cullen the founder of TuneRelease about this and more. Luke talks about his background, how TuneRelease started, how TuneRelease works, and fake followers. Luke also talks about Bowie, artists getting more power to explore their creative sides, and music producers. More about Luke: Luke studied History and English Literature at Trinity College. He was a violinist with Trinity Orchestra and its President during 2018/19 before becoming the live music officer for Trinity Ents. Luke then went on to found Applaud, a platform where musicians could display their work online to prospective clients, apply to gigs with set fees, an agreed performance time, and a 10% deposit on booking. As well as also founding TuneRelease, Luke works as Marketing and Communications lead for Scale Ireland.

Interesting and thought provoking conversation as we catch up with Dean Johnson, futurist, designer, artist and all round interesting chap. Dean Johnson ->Design, Technology and Innovation Consultant at Activrightbrain As an accomplished Design, Technology and Innovation Consultant at Activrightbrain, Keynote Speaker, Host, Futurologist and BBC tech pundit, Dean Johnson is shaping the connected future for Film, TV, Automotive, Publishing, Music, Education and Leisure sectors with the emphasis on user experience and engagement. Dean is a Fellow and President Elect of the Chartered Society of Designers, a Mentor for the British Fashion Council and Startup Sesame and Ambassador for the European Startup Prize for Mobility. Continuing to push boundaries in design and technology, Dean spent 48 hours in Virtual Reality in 2017 and is now building a full body XR Immersion Suit featuring haptics, AR, VR, Bionic enhancements and a flame thrower. He’s already living in the future.

What does the future of retail banking hold? Beyond the endless debates on cash and branches, what are some of the things that we would actually look forward to in the near future? Will AI finally transform one of the oldest and most important industries of modern civilization? In this episode of One Vision, Theo and Bradley caught up with an old friend Elias Ghanem, Global Head of Market Intelligence, Financial Services at Capgemini to talk about the future of financial services. Until we meet again in Amsterdam ...

Important, informative and entertaining conversation with Debra Ruh who is a Global Disability Inclusion Strategist, Market Influencer, internationally recognised keynote speaker, published author, branding expert, successful entrepreneur, and an exceptional mother. Debra is host of a popular program: Human Potential at Work (Audience in 92 countries and 113 Regions). She is also an author of three books, Inclusion Branding (available in English, Spanish, Arabic, Voice via Audible), Tapping into Hidden Human Capital and Finding Your Voice Using Social Media. https://tiny.cc/DebraRuh or www.RuhGlobal.com. Debra Ruh received her call to action when she was told by so-called “experts” that her daughter, Sara, who was born with Down Syndrome (Trisomy 21), would never walk or talk. She refused to accept the prognosis and perception of this condition.  Driven by her unshakeable faith in the power of human potential and the love for her daughter, Debra was determined to dedicate her life to create a path to empowerment and the success for all those with disabilities. Her husband aged into disabilities due to a TBI sustained when he was hit by a drunk driver as a child.  Sadly, his brain aged into Dementia due to the TBI. Debra had built a multi-million-dollar firm focused on ICT accessibility. Debra was convinced that "the real disability is being unable to see human potential" formed Ruh Global Communications. This new firm focuses on Global Disability Inclusion Strategies, Digital Marketing, and Branding among many other services. Debra Ruh Ruh Global IMPACT - CEO / Founder AXSChat - Co-Founder 18122 Vontay Road, Rockville, VA  23146 Phone: (804) 986-4500 Debra@RuhGlobal.com www.RuhGlobal.com www.AXSChat.com

Great interview by Jamil Hasan with Samson Williams, one of our favourite blockchain advocates. Samson Williams is a serial entrepreneur and accidental investor. When not starting business with his enemies (“Entrepreneurship is hard. I only recommend it to my enemies.”), Samson is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University in NYC and University of New Hampshire School of Law where he teaches on blockchain, cryptocurrencies and the Space Economy. Samson is also President of the Crowdfunding Professional Association and investor into two investment crowdfunding platforms Brite.us - CrowdInvesting Done Brite and GoingPublic.com. For more information on Samson visit www.SamsonWilliams.com and follow him on social @HustleFundBaby. Books Samson has Authored: Raising Money - Understanding Cryptocurrencies, Crowdfunding, Startup Capital Blockchain & The Space Economy Lifestyle Money: Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, Crowdfunding & The Future of Money and Wealth Race & Space - Racial Equity & Justice in The Space Economy Stop Sucking Up to VCs (coming Q2 2021) About Jamil Hasan Jamil Hasan is a Generation X Author and experienced data intelligence technology builder with two decades of experience leading data-based teams at Fortune 100 companies, including AIG, Prudential Financial, and Ingersoll Rand. Jamil believes that skill and experience, not just age, is the most important factor required to build and lead corporate organizations. His unique story, as someone on the ground floor of the 2008 financial crisis and his role to help repay the $180 billion AIG bailout, enabled him to come face-to-face with many of the societal ills facing Generation X today and their causes. As the result of his experience, Jamil has developed a path forward for his fellow Gen Xers to restore his generation’s financial standing in society today and to rebuild the American Dream for Generation X.