Action and Ambition

Welcome to another episode of Action & Ambition with your host, Andrew Medal.

Today’s guest is Andrew Scivally is CEO of eLearning Brothers. He helps companies create engaging, interactive, and inspiring eLearning content. Prior to eLearning Brothers, he worked at JP Morgan Chase and Zions Bank, where he managed learning and development teams and built online learning content. Andrew holds a BA degree in communications from Southern Utah University and an MS degree in computer education from the University of North Texas.

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Welcome to another episode of Action & Ambition with your host, Andrew Medal.

Today’s guest is Stacy Kirk.

Stacy is the Founder and CEO of two companies - QualityWorks Consulting Group and Posture. QualityWorks provides social impact web and mobile development, digital transformation, and quality innovation consultancy. She recently launched Posture, a Cybersecurity Officer-as-a-service platform that leverages analytics and automation to provide SMBs with an affordable option to quickly build a strong compliance program.

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Welcome to another episode of Action & Ambition I'm your host, Andrew Medal.

Today’s guests are Deborah Deal and John Grizz.

The sister-brother powerhouse team of Deborah Deal and John (Grizz) Deal have three decades of experience in tech commercialization and product development for their nine startups.

Now focused on helping solve regional water crises around the globe, the Deals are compelling archetypes of doing well by doing good.

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Welcome to another episode of Action & Ambition with your host, Andrew Medal. Today’s guest is Evan Leaphart.

Evan is the founder of Kiddie Kredit.

Kiddie Kredit’s mission is to leverage technology to educate and empower future generations. Kiddie Kredit is driven to empower families through credit education. Healthy credit fuels power, freedom, and access. The app instills healthy credit habits by rewarding activity completion with a scoring system that simulates FICO. Learn more and download the app at www.kiddiekredit.com.

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Welcome to another episode of Action & Ambition with your host, Andrew Medal. Today’s guest is Silvina Moschini.

Silvina is an award-winning serial entrepreneur focused on the digital transformation of the world of work, President and Founder of TransparentBusiness, and CEO and Founder of SheWorks! Silvina is a Linkedin influencer, a selected group of 500 personalities comprising Richard Branson, Bill Gates and Arianna Huffington, a contributor to the World Economic Forum's Agenda blog, and in 2019, she received the Equals In Tech Award in the leadership category, a global initiative by the United Nations, ITU & GSMA that gathers leading companies to distinguish the most innovative projects with global impact focused on bridging the unemployment gender gap through technology.

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Welcome to another episode of Action & Ambition with your host, Andrew Medal. Today’s guests are Cortney Woodruff and Cortez Bryant.

Cortney Woodruff is a native of Jackson, Mississippi with a Bachelors of Science Degree in Economics from Alabama A&M University. Post undergrad and at the age of twenty-two years old, he attended IESE Business School in Barcelona Spain.

For the past ten years, he’s operated his Venture-backed startup, www.Trainersvault.com, an online platform that provides software services to personal trainers and built it with operations that span across the US, Europe, and Asia.

Cortez Bryant is Woodruff’s Co-Founder of Be-Great.Tv, Maverick Partner, The Blueprint Group Co - C.E.O., and Young Money Entertainment C.O.O.

Cortez “Tez” Bryant became one of the entertainment industry’s pre-eminent managers through identifying and igniting the potential of game-changing outliers such as Lil Wayne, Drake, Nicki Minaj, G-Eazy, Tiffany Haddish, Law Roach, Jesse Williams and more. An innate ability to spot that elusive “it” factor spearheads his success behind-the-scenes. ​ Together, these young entrepreneurs are launching www.Be-great.tv, an online platform that provides online courses taught by notable, Black innovators. (just like Masterclass). Currently, in pre-launch, Be-Great.tv is backed by some of the brightest and most notable execs and investors around the world.

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Welcome to another episode of Action & Ambition with your host, Andrew Medal.

Chris Lane is the CMO of Airfield Supply Co., the largest single-site dispensary in the country.

Founded as the South Bay Healing Center in 2010, it was originally a medical dispensary in serving patients.

Placed near the San Jose Airport, the dispensary was renamed and rebranded Airfield Supply Co. in 2015, celebrating and evoking the look and feel of the glamorous days of air travel, when we dressed up for it.

Pre-pandemic, Airfield saw 1,500 individual customers a day in its dispensary, 300 of whom had never been there before.

While deemed “essential” by the state of California, dispensaries had to dramatically limit the number of customers visiting their physical storefronts beginning March 16, 2020.

Airfield immediately ramped up its delivery efforts. It added four Teslas to its fleet of all-electric vehicles.

Chris Lane calls this “Cannabis’ Amazon moment.”

Previous to coming to Airfield, Chris was Fiverr’s Global Head of Brand and Vice President of Integrated Marketing at Method Communications, among other highlights. He spent his formative career years at Edelman on the Adobe team.

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Welcome to another episode of Action & Ambition with your host, Andrew Medal.

Today’s guest is Alex Rowland.

Alex is the co-founder and CEO of NewTropic, a premier cannabis manufacturer and supply chain company based out of Santa Rosa, CA.

He also serves as the co-founder of Ensemble Brands, an accelerator for cannabinoid-infused product companies, and as co-founder of ANP Holdings, a financial services company focused on the cannabis and hemp markets.

Prior to entering the cannabis and hemp markets, Alex founded several advertising technology companies, including Emerge Digital Group, which in 2013 was ranked both the 8th fastest growing business in the U.S. and the fastest growing company in California.

Before his career in media, Alex founded USPowerSolutions, an enterprise SaaS company focused on the deregulated energy market, which ultimately sold to Green Mountain Energy in 2002.

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Welcome to another episode of Action & Ambition with your host, Andrew Medal. Today’s guest is Rick Mirza.

Rick Mirza is an experienced CA investor who is always looking to the future. He’s the CEO of Better Earth a company that is powering the cannabis industry. The company is hiring like gangbusters in California, creating jobs and stimulating the economy. New recruits after a couple months are often making 22,000 in commissions. You’re going to love this episode. Let’s get to it and hear about the opportunity in the space!

Welcome to another episode of Action & Ambition. I’m your host, Andrew Medal.

Today’s guest is Ryan Rafols.

Ryan is the CEO and Founder for Newchip Accelerator, the only REMOTE Accelerator for scaling Pre-Seed to Series A Startups

Engineer, army veteran, and founder of 3 startups, Ryan graduated at 15, founded his first startup at 17 and has 10+ years experience building international teams, 7+ years in public and private sector fundraising, corporate boards, working with regulators and lobbying.

He’s also sold two companies and has helped hundreds of companies raise millions of dollars.

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