Untold Stories of Innovation

We speak with Amanda Kranias of Blue Manatee Literacy Project and Bookstore about how our communities shape the businesses within them, and vice versa. Blue Manatee donated over 15,000 books in just nine months and seeks to make this number even higher in the future, so as to better serve the children in Cincinnati. Amanda speaks of the power of community for Blue Manatee and their goal of giving back and getting involved, with one-to-one donations and Manatanks around the city. In the first year of becoming a non-profit, Blue Manatee was able to donate over 15000 books in nine months! Find out more about Blue Manatee Literacy Project and Bookstore and how the Cincinnati community can help give back by just buying their favorite books. Amanda Kranias’ innovation story is one of collective identity and the power of human connection.For more information, visit our website: https://untoldcontent.com/You can also find us on Instagram: @untoldcontent

We speak with Lauren Imparato, Co-CEO & Co-founder of The Association, Best-Selling author of the multi-country, multi-language best-selling book, RETOX , an advisor of a basket of consumer-touching companies including Women in Innovation as well as the former CEO and Founder of I.AM.YOU., a first-of-its-kind health/wellness/fitness businesses she successfully exited after 10 years. Lauren shares with us her career-long mission of becoming an innovator across all walks of life. Learn more about Lauren: Personal Blog: www.LaurenImparato.comCurrent Writing: www.BetweentheWaves.coThe Association: www.TheAssociation.usBook: https://www.amazon.com/RETOX-Yoga-Attitude-Healthy-Solutions/dp/0425278506Digital Yoga Library: retox.yogaFor more information, visit our website: https://untoldcontent.com/You can also find us on Instagram: @untoldcontent

We speak with Stacy Kessler, a Business Strategy Coach for Women Entrepreneurs. Stacy is passionate about helping women entrepreneurs clarify their business strategy, ditch their doubt and indecision, and grow their business. She discusses how marketing yourself as an expert isn’t about pigeon-holing yourself as much as it is lining up all of your passions and talents. By figuring out who you are, what your innovation is, and who your customer is, you can gain buy-in and consumer interest. Her biggest tip is to figure out how to tell your innovation story (hint: follow the “hero’s journey”) and always ask for feedback. Do not feel like you have to do innovation on your own and do not be afraid to learn from mistakes. Find out more about combatting imposter syndrome, learning your innovation story, and taking your passions from an idea to a business plan!Promised link this episode: Untold Content’s medical article with Crossover Health: “Prevalence, Predictors, and Treatment of Impostor Syndrome: a Systematic Review:” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7174434/Connect with Stacy, @iamstacykessler, on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, as well as her website, stacykessler.me.For more information, visit our website: https://untoldcontent.com/You can also find us on Instagram: @untoldcontent

We speak with Drew Boyd, global leader in creativity and innovation, guiding teams, businesses and governments to deliver breakthrough results. He is the author of So You Want to be a Professor: How to Land Your Dream Job in Academia; Inside the Box: A Proven System of Creativity for Breakthrough Results; and the Innovation in Practice blog. He is also the host of Innovation Inside the Box podcast. His forthcoming book is Adding Prestige to Your Portfolio: How to Use the Creative Luxury Process to Develop Products Everyone Wants.  He talks not only about how to scale a successful innovation idea, but how to even come up with an idea. Listen in on how Systematic Inventive Thinking (SIT) allows for frameworks and patterns to work from to create a promising innovation idea while simultaneously providing the means to fast track that idea successfully. When in doubt, don’t think outside the box – think inside the box. To learn how and why, join us as we talk through SIT with Drew Boyd.Interested? Check out Drew Boyd’s Innovation Videos: Drew Boyd, Inside the Box Innovation Drew Boyd | Innovation is a Skill Your Employees Can Learn Drew Boyd | A Flowing Pipeline of Innovative Ideas Drew Boyd | Developing an Innovative and Creative Culture.You can follow Drew on LinkedIn and Twitter: @DrewBoyd.There is also an app based on the book Inside the Box by Drew Boyd and Jacob Goldenberg, which explains each of the five techniques (Subtraction, Division, Task Unification, Multiplication, and Attribute Dependency) and enables users to generate creative ideas and innovations: https://www.innovationinpractice.com/innovation_in_practice/2013/10/how-to-use-the-app.htmlMentioned in the podcast episode: Understanding Writing Blocks by Keith Hjortshoj, Untold Content’s Innovation Storytelling Training, University of Cincinati: Drew Boyd

Why do stories matter to the innovation process? What values can be instilled in innovators who share stories? How do innovation leaders inspire creators to tell and share their success and failure stories? We speak with Eric Avner, Vice President of the Haile Foundation and CEO of People’s Liberty. Eric explains how People’s Liberty began with the goal of making a difference by giving out community grants.They found the most important part went beyond giving money and into fostering a community of change-making people.  Focused community building continues to shape the future of PL’s work. Eric explains why this shift in focus is important for all people, innovators especially. To see videos of People’s Liberty and what they promoted, check out their videos here.For more information, visit our website: https://untoldcontent.com/You can also find us on Instagram: @untoldcontent

We speak with Chris Caulfield, nurse, innovator, and co-founder of IntelyCare. IntelyCare is one of the largest and fastest growing gig economy-based nursing workforce platforms in the United States. In response to the pandemic, IntelyCare provides a free COVID-19 Nurse Safety training course, that has been utilized in 30 countries with over 500,000 completions. Tune in to learn more about the key pieces of advice Chris would give to innovators as they prepare to convey their great ideas and scale them: have passion, find a good mentor, and prepare and pivot from failure! Learn how to utilize these pieces of advice for innovative success in Chris’ episode.For more information, visit our website: https://untoldcontent.com/You can also find us on Instagram: @untoldcontent

We talk with Dave Bossert, long-time animator at Disney, who worked on iconic films such as The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, and The Nightmare Before Christmas. He shares with us the power of animation to convey and evoke emotion, as well as the power of emotion to impact audiences and us as innovators. We get a closer look at how his writing, producing, and filmmaking exemplifies strategic storytelling. Listen in to hear his innovation story, from traveling across the country with $34 dollars in his pocket, to finding opportunity to create with the world's most premier storytelling company.For more information, visit our website: https://untoldcontent.com/You can also find us on Instagram: @untoldcontent

Why do stories matter to the innovation process? What values can be instilled in innovators who share stories? How do innovation leaders inspire creators to tell and share their success and failure stories? In this episode, we speak with  Wendy Lea—CEO, board leader, entrepreneur, investor, mentor and community steward—about how to utilize innovation to spark a larger regional identity that accelerates the speed of innovation in that area. Wendy reveals that storytelling about a community’s distinct culture is instrumental in striking regional, economic transformation. Local government, startups, entrepreneurs, universities, and corporations who celebrate shared opportunities for growth and innovation can  transform their city’s future. For more on how to spark economic vibrancy, check out Wendy’s series of publications, as well as the latest Brookings Report, as discussed in the podcast.For more information, visit our website: https://untoldcontent.com/You can also find us on Instagram: @untoldcontent

We speak with Ryan Hawk, author of Welcome to Management and Podcast Host of “The Learning Leader Show.” Ryan shares with us his mission to share the commonalities of leaders who sustain excellence and his passion to engage and inspire millions through his writing and on his podcast. Ryan considers himself a lifelong student of leadership, and he shares with us the depth of integrating compassion and empathy in our daily leadership endeavors, whether that be in our personal or professional lives.For more information, visit our website: https://untoldcontent.com/You can also find us on Instagram: @untoldcontent

We speak with Scott Collick and Lindsey Karpowich from DuPont. Scott is Vice President of Global R&D for Transportation and Industrial and Lindsey is New Product Development Agile Coach. We delve into DuPont’s Dead Projects Day, a day where they specifically share and work through Dead Projects. DuPont knows that learning from mistakes and making sure others can learn and pivot their innovative project because of known mistakes is so helpful. But there must be a culture where brilliant failures are celebrated or learned from, not swept under the rug and ridiculed. Innovation, trying new ideas, is a fail game; it is natural, helpful, and company’s ought to create a safe space for sharing innovation struggles and failures so that people can brilliantly fail as well as brilliantly succeed, because they actually go hand in hand.For more information, visit our website: https://untoldcontent.com/You can also find us on Instagram: @untoldcontent