Join me as I speak with Jim Forster. Jim is the kind of guy who stays open to new ideas and new uses for things. It doesn’t matter what things are designed to do; it’s about what it can do. Basically, Jim is passionate about extending the internet. You can hear it in voice when he talks about the people he has met and the innovation he has helped foster. At the end of the day, it’s less a matter of how you get there, as long as you get there.

If you have kids, know kids, or you once were a kid, this is the episode for you! Join me this Tuesday as I speak to educator, speaker, author and Chief Education Officer at WeVideo, Dr. Nathan D. Lang-Raad. Throughout his career, he has served as a teacher, elementary administrator, high school administrator, and university adjunct professor. He also spent a little time at NASA to boot. Nathan is some who breathes, eats and sleeps education.

Join Jill Banks, Director of Learning Operations for the Society of Cable Telecommunications. Among other things, Jill will help us understand the feeling of confidence that comes with owning your own career education in a virtual world.

Ryan Holdaway is Vice President of Outcomes for the Lambda School. We talk to Ryan about his passion for education and the simple mission that built the Lambda School. As a bonus, you will find out who Ryan's favorite pro wrestlers were when he was a kid and the original band name of Imagine Dragons. You won't want to miss it.

My guest today is John Ulm. As an engineering fellow at CommScope, Ulm—like his company—has been a longtime player in cable technology covering the last three decades. He was in on the ground floor of broadband, helping to develop the first cable modems while at LANcity, and he was a primary author of the Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) 1.0 and 1.1 releases. His resume also includes stints as senior technical consultant with YAS Corp, an engineering fellowship at Motorola’s Broadband Group and later ARRIS. He was inducted into the Cable TV Pioneers as part of the inaugural DOCSIS class.

Aditi U. Joshi MD, MSc is not your ordinary doctor. Over the course of her accomplished career as a medical and health policy professional, she also became fluent in technology—mainly in finding ways to blend traditional medical practices with the latest technological innovations to provide a better patient experience.

Ethan Decker President and Founder of Applied Brand Science - Ethan is a brand strategist and marketing expert who has spent 15 years doing award-winning brand strategy, advertising, and market research for some of the world’s biggest brands.

A scientist by training but a marketer by trade, he’s like the missing link, but between science and creativity.

Join the conversation with Liz Giorgi, Media Entrepreneur and Emmy Award Winner. Liz is a two-time Founder of wildly successful media companies and a master visual storyteller.

Doctor Lauren Gifford is a critical geographer exploring the intersections of global climate change policy, conservation, markets and justice. Lauren is someone who has put in the 10,000 hours of hard work so she can zoom out and teach us about the human side of climate change.

Don’t miss all that Dr. Gifford has to share to increase your understanding of this global challenge.

Get ready to hear from Lawrence Wagner, CEO of Spark Mindset on July 28th, Spark Mindset is on a mission to break the cycle of poverty in low-income communities.

Did you know? According to the National Center for Children Poverty, out of adolescents 12 through 17 years of age, 41 percent or 10 million kids live in low-income families, and 19 percent or 4.7 million kids live in poor families. So how do we begin to fix it? Lawrence has started by getting kids excited about technology and allowing them to dream of the possibilities open to them.