Casey Gerald is the co-founder and CEO of MBA’s Across America — an organization that gets MBA candidates out of the classroom and working with entrepreneurs in cities and towns across the country. You’ll quickly learn that he is so much more than his title.

+1 SEGMENT:

- Leadership

- Removing yourself, and your ego

- Scaling impact instead of scaling organizations

- Kanye West & JAY Z nostalgia

- KITH’s cereal bar

- Sickamore’s “Let’s Make American Dope Again” hat

Footnotes: http://theseam.co/aiatla-podcast-casey-gerald/

Find Casey online @caseygerald | mbaxamerica.com

Intro song: JUKE BOUNCE - TRAXMAN 2015

#AIATLA is on iTunes: itun.es/us/7WgY8.c

Casey Gerald is the co-founder and CEO of MBA’s Across America — an organization that gets MBA candidates out of the classroom and working with entrepreneurs in cities and towns across the country. You’ll quickly learn that he is so much more than his title.

Things we like:

- Leadership

- Removing yourself, and your ego

- Scaling impact instead of scaling organizations

- Kanye West & JAY Z nostalgia

- KITH’s cereal bar

- Sickamore’s “Let’s Make American Dope Again” hat

Find Casey online @caseygerald | mbaxamerica.com

Intro song: JUKE BOUNCE - TRAXMAN 2015

Maritza Alarcón has been a Dream Director at The Future Project and is the Co-Creator of M.O.V.E., a youth organization that worked to increase college enrollment rates in NYC public high schools. She’s been honored as one of Glamour Magazine's 20 Amazing Young Women. Right now, Maritza is writing a book, "Don't F With My Joy". So we talk about tools to keep yourself that way.

Footnotes: http://theseam.co/aiatla-podcast-maritza-alarcon/

+1 SEGMENT:

- DREAMS!

- Time freedom, location freedom and financial freedom

- ClassPass

- Soul Cycle

Maritza's Twitter & Instagram: @iamhappiestbook | Website: www.iamhappiest.com

INTRO: Summer in Brooklyn (Quincy Jones Cookin Soul Remix)by JAY-Z ft. Lil Wayne

Maritza Alarcón has been a Dream Director at The Future Project and is the Co-Creator of M.O.V.E., a youth organization that worked to increase college enrollment rates in NYC public high schools. She’s been honored as one of Glamour Magazine's 20 Amazing Young Women. Right now, Maritza is writing a book, "Don't F With My Joy". So we talk about tools to keep yourself that way.

Footnotes: http://theseam.co/aiatla-podcast-maritza-alarcon/

+1 SEGMENT:

- DREAMS!

- Time freedom, location freedom and financial freedom

- ClassPass

- Soul Cycle

Maritza's Twitter & Instagram: @iamhappiestbook | Website: www.iamhappiest.com

INTRO: Summer in Brooklyn (Quincy Jones Cookin Soul Remix)by JAY-Z ft. Lil Wayne

iTunes: itun.es/us/7WgY8.c

Maritza Alarcón has been a Dream Director at The Future Project and is the Co-Creator of M.O.V.E., a youth organization that worked to increase college enrollment rates in NYC public high schools. She’s been honored as one of Glamour Magazine's 20 Amazing Young Women. Right now, Maritza is writing a book, "I AM HAPPIEST." So we talk about tools to keep yourself that way.

Things we like:

- DREAMS!

- Time freedom, location freedom and financial freedom

- ClassPass

- Soul Cycle

Maritza's Twitter & Instagram: @iamhappiestbook | Website: www.iamhappiest.com

INTRO: Summer in Brooklyn (Quincy Jones Cookin Soul Remix)by JAY-Z ft. Lil Wayne

Soleil Grant joins me! Soleil is a Hip-hop DJ and visual artist who works with artists to develop their brand and image. We talk about growth as a DJ, hip-hop (what it was, what is it and what it always will be), REALNESS, patience, how to stay up in uncomfortable settings, and 1,500 second Taz's Angels Snapchat stories.

Footnotes:

You can find Soleil on Twitter @lilbabyazul

+1 SEGMENT:

- Social Media

- Taz's Angels Snapchat

INTRO: -162 DEGREEZ by DJ Soleil/@ayesoleil

Soleil Grant joins me! Soleil is a Hip-hop DJ and visual artist who works with artists to develop their brand and image. We talk about growth as a DJ, hip-hop (what it was, what is it and what it always will be), REALNESS, patience, how to stay up in uncomfortable settings, and 1,500 second Taz's Angels Snapchat stories.

Footnotes:

You can find Soleil on Twitter @lilbabyazul

+1 SEGMENT:

- Social Media

- Taz's Angels Snapchat

INTRO: -162 DEGREEZ by DJ Soleil/@ayesoleil

iTunes: itun.es/us/7WgY8.c

On this episode of 'Am I Allowed to Like Anything?": Soleil Grant (@ayesoleil)joins me! Soleil is Hip-hop DJ and visual artist who works with artists to develop their brand and image. We talk about growth as a DJ, hip-hop (what it was, what is it and what it always will be), REALNESS, patience, how to stay up in uncomfortable settings, 1500 second Taz's Angels Snapchat stories, the power of social media and where change comes from.

Things we like:

- Social Media

- Taz's Angels Snapchat

You can find Soleil on Twitter @LOVEWWIII

INTRO: -162 DEGREEZ by DJ Soleil/@ayesoleil

This week's guest is Michael Arceneaux. Michael is a culture writer whose contributed to the New York Times Magazine, BuzzFeed, Gawker, VH1 and Complex and appeared on MSNBC, NPR and HuffPost Live. We talk about our love for Janet Mock to the importance of popping off on twitter, to Ann Friedman's pie charts to Ebony Magazine and The Weeknd.

Footnotes: http://theseam.co/aiatla-michael-arceneux/

+1 SEGMENT:

- Janet Mock's msnbc.com/so-popular

- ebony.com

- annfriedman.com/tagged/pie+charts

- Trevor Noah

- @TheWeeknd

You can find Michael on twitter at @youngsinick.

http://www.thecynicalones.com

Intro song: JUKE BOUNCE - TRAXMAN 2015

This week's guest is Michael Arceneaux. Michael is a culture writer whose contributed to the New York Times Magazine, BuzzFeed, Gawker, VH1 and Complex and appeared on MSNBC, NPR and HuffPost Live. We talk about our love for Janet Mock to the importance of popping off on twitter, to Ann Friedman's pie charts to Ebony Magazine and The Weeknd.

Footnotes: http://theseam.co/aiatla-michael-arceneux/

+1 SEGMENT:

- Janet Mock's msnbc.com/so-popular

- ebony.com

- annfriedman.com/tagged/pie+charts

- Trevor Noah

- @TheWeeknd

You can find Michael on twitter at @youngsinick.

http://www.thecynicalones.com

Intro song: JUKE BOUNCE - TRAXMAN 2015