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Join us on this episode of The Pursuit of Mindfulness, as we sit down with Chad Olin, the transformative co-founder of Supermind. Delve into Chad's personal journey of mindfulness, learn the pivotal role it played in his life, and how it sparked the creation of Supermind. Listen as Chad articulates the importance of integrating mindfulness into everyday routines and the unique challenges and triumphs he faced in making mindfulness mainstream. Chad shares enriching insights, actionable tips, a...
In this engaging episode, long-term friends Ed Thomas and Cary Gahm recount their journey of transforming an idea into a successful startup, Tempmee. With their high-energy exchanges and contagious enthusiasm, they delve into the importance of a strong co-founding partnership and how they leveraged their years of effective communication and conflict resolution to navigate the ups and downs of their business endeavor. They further discuss their strategic decision to raise capital for accelerat...
In this insightful episode of Lessons via Leaders, we sit down with Juha Mikkola, a visionary entrepreneur who has experienced multiple identity shifts throughout his career. From his early days in the sporting goods industry to co-founding Wyncode Academy and now leading Usko, Juha shares valuable lessons learned along the way. Join us as we dive deep into the challenges and triumphs of reinventing oneself, the importance of embracing change, and how Juha navigated the complex journey of per...
Ricky Lavina is the co-founder and CEO of on-demand accounting platform Taxfyle. Born and raised in Miami, Ricky launched Taxfyle in Coral Gables in 2015 with the goal of modernizing tax prep and the accounting industry for both people and practitioners. Today, Taxfyle has roughly 3,000 CPAs on its network, ready at a moment’s notice to help people and businesses file their returns, as well as an enterprise and B2B division that serves CPA firms across the U.S. and a Big Four accounting firm....
Jacklyn Baumgarten combines two decades of experience as a startup expert, seasoned leader, change agent, founding member of new industries, new divisions, and always leading the charge for scalable growth. She's the Co-founder & CEO of leading boat sharing startup, Boatsetter, where her strong leadership led to the creation of the peer-to-peer marine insurance policy that launched the industry. Previous experience ranges from creating new divisions in Fortune 500 corporations to growing ...
I'm incredible excited for this week's episode as we have Andrew Parker, CEO of Papa on the show. Founded in 2017 in Miami, FL, Papa began due to a personal need that Andrew had with his own family. Recognizing the extreme difficulty associated with juggling daily life and senior family member’s needs, Papa was initially built to support Andrew’s own grandfather. Andrew and his family recognized how impactful and positive it was to connect their grandfather with a young, energetic, and en...
Leigh-Ann A. Buchanan, Esq. is a writer, strategist, and a facilitator. She supports leaders and communities bridge systemic gaps in access, inclusion, opportunity and racial equity, with a focus on technology, innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems. She has advised and provided technical support to innovation and technology leaders at Fortune 500 companies including Google, Facebook, Delta, P&G Ventures, AirBnB, HSBC and UBS. As a founder, she has launched ventures ...
I'm really excited for this week's episode as we have an awesome guest on the show, Amanda Goetz, CEO and Founder of House of Wise. Amanda was formerly Head of Brand at The Knot and now is part-time CMO at Teal AND making huge moves with her new company, House of Wise, where she is Founder and CEO. House of Wise is an incredible new CBD company making waves in the industry and you’ll hear Amanda talk more about it today. In this episode, Amanda shares a bit about her background, why she ...
Mark Crofton is Global Vice President and leads the Sales Coaching team at SAP SE. Prior to his current role, Mark led the SAP Academy for Sales, the flagship SAP sales training program for Early Talent. Previously, he was VP Sales, Latin America, launching and leading the Mobility business in that region. He has also held positions in the North America Sales and Corporate Development organizations. His expertise is in leading sales teams and implementing Go-to-Market strategy wi...
I'm really excited about this week’s episode as we have Alex Taub, CEO of Upstream on the show. I’ve recently had a chance to connect with Alex after he and his family moved to Miami in the this past find him to be one of the most thoughtful, approachable, and knowledge people in the tech scene. Before coming to Miami, Alex was a fixture in the NY tech community working at companies such as Aviary and Dwolla before then going off to start his own company SocialRank. After SocialRank was ac...
Keith Rabois is a serial entrepreneur and investor working and investing in companies such as Airbnb, Lyft, YouTube, Wish, Yammer, DoorDash, Stripe, and Affirm (among many others) and has worked at companies like PayPay, LinkedIn, and Square. Keith is one of the most respected people in the tech industry so I was very much looking forward to sit down with him to talk about a variety of topics including: The recent tech migration to MiamiMiami's rise as a tech scene and where it's headi...
I’m really excited for today’s episode because we have Mike Marotcci from SwagUp on the show. Michael is the CEO of SwagUp - a company that makes it simple to create high quality branded swag for companies to give as gifts to employees and clients. SwagUp is an incredible company that is growing like crazy so I was stoked to have Michael on the show to discuss the origins of SwagUp, how he’s been scaling the company, lessons learned along the way, what’s next for the business, and much much ...
Rebecca Danta is the Managing Director of Miami Angels, the largest angel network in Florida, which funds Seed and Series A technology companies with early traction across various sectors. Miami Angels has deployed $13.6M into 33 companies since 2014, and Rebecca built a sustainable, independent business model for the organization. Prior to joining Miami Angels, Rebecca managed global campus operations for General Assembly in New York City, the first accelerate...
I am really excited for today's episode because we have my guy Miles Varghese, CEO @ Cargologik on the show. Miles and I go way back. He and I worked together at my previous company, LiveNinja where Miles where our very first sales hire and really was an intricate part of shaping the culture of our company. We consider him a founding team member and over the years as we built the company he very much felt like family so I’m really excited to now have him on the show to talk about his n...
Megan O’Connor is an entrepreneur that enjoys solving complex problems with a societal impact, especially related to education or the future of work. As the founder of Clark (acquired by Noodle), Megan set out to provide educators with the economic opportunities they deserve by giving them tools to start tutoring businesses. Under her leadership as CEO, Clark served thousands of educators and raised funding from Lightspeed Ventures Partners, Winklevoss Capital, Rethink Education, Foundation C...
Today on the show we have Matt Pack, the Owner and Head Coach at Primal Fit. Since 1999, Matt has been accompanying others on their health and fitness journey. His undeniable passion for helping others has helped him grow not only his brick and mortar personal training business but also his online coaching program The Primal Fit Pros. In this episode, Matt shares a lot about overall health, nutrition and well-being including his own unique catered approach to fitness and how he ...
I’m really excited for today’s episode as we have Andrew Quarrie,CEO/Founder of Urblandia and the Urbanism Summit, A platform and event serving as a catalyst for the future of conscious urbanization. Andrew has had an amazing career that has spanned over a decade as a multifaceted creative. He’s worked on projects with both regional and national companies and now pours most of his energy into both Urblandia and Urbanism Summit. At the Urbanism Summit, Andrew is focused on ...
Ethan Skolnick has covered South Florida sports for pretty much every major local newspaper and radio station in the area for nearly 25 years. Now, he is also the CEO and Chief Content Officer of Five Reasons Sports Network, which combines social media "fanalysts" with insider access on all the major teams. He also hosts the Five on the Floor podcast on the Heat and NBA. I’m really excited about this episode as I’ve been following Ethan for a number of years. As many of you know, I’m a lif...
Today, I am joined by my friend Brian Brackeen, who is the general partner at Lightship Capital. Brian and I go way back in the #MiamiTech scene together. Brian was the co-founder and CEO of a facial recognition company called Kairos, that really pushed forward the whole space with some incredible innovations. In particular, Kairos really broke-ground by making a stance to never sell their technology to government or law enforcement for surveillance purposes due to the ramificat...
Today, I am excited to have the CEO of Very Big Things, Chris Stegner on the show today. Very Big Things is the crescendo of a journey that began after Chris’s first startup was acquired at the age of 13. Chris has been a serial entrepreneur, CTO, VC firm partner and also has been awarded “technology entrepreneur of the year” by the city of Miami. now, he is accomplishing some very big things at his new company: Very Big Things—an award winning digital products design and development a...
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