Atomic Soul

Atomic Soul

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Atomic Soul episodes

  • The Power of Storytelling with Amy Grubb | Connecting with Your Audience
    Amy D. Grubb, Ph.D., is an internationally acclaimed leadership expert and speaker, currently advising the FBI on digital transformation. With 20+ years of experience, she has implemented change initiatives, advised C-suite leaders, and received awards for her contributions. Dr. Grubb is known for her expertise in organizational culture, performance, and coaching. Jepson and Amy discuss storytelling and the importance of using this tool to connect with audiences and gain the attention of those to whom you’re speaking. Presenting new technology can at times be somewhat bland or boring unless you get people’s emotions involved by conveying a relatable story.

    • New tech and how to make it known 3:05
    • Storytelling 6:30
    • Making the hero’s journey exciting from the start 11:45
    • Understanding your audience 25:50
    • Her experience with 9-11 27:05
    • Advanced storytelling 35:35
    • Being more vulnerable and not regretting it 45:45
    • Criticism of her earlier talks 48:15
    • Convincing people to change 50:50

    “When I talk to, say for example, law enforcement personnel, I use different analogies and different language than if I am talking to aviators and using different analogies than I would do if I’m talking to financial people, or physicians. There’s a different language, there’s a different cadence to it, but it has to have meaning for them and it has to be real for them. It’s the same stuff, it’s just speaking a different language and I think that’s how you engage people.” 26:30
    1 hr 5 min
  • Navigating as a CEO with Caroline Rowland | Innovation in Digital Content Management
    Today Jepson talks with Caroline Rowland who is the founder of Egoli Media, an AI platform which enables creators to manage, repurpose, and store their digital content at low cost but with highly accurate search and distribution capabilities. They discuss Caroline’s companies and the journey she has taken to create these businesses that she now runs and continues to grow, and then the lessons and skills she’s learned along the way. Being a CEO can be a very lonely and difficult path, but a very rewarding one as you establish these unique relationships in this position.

    • Caroline’s beginnings 3:45
    • Culture and going into a new country 13:30
    • Founding her tech company 16:45
    • How long it’s been around 31:15
    • Becoming comfortable with having a sales conversation 41:20
    • GTP-4 47:00
    • Organizing the material 56:00
    • Positives and negatives of being a CEO 1:02:40
    • Knowing the buyer 1:19:00
    • Startups and resources 1:34:40
    • Women are treated differently 1:42:15

    “One of the episodes was about Nadia Comăneci, the gymnast, and we couldn’t find it. We went into the database that the IOC have of their entire history of video, and we kept searching for her. Couldn’t find her. We got one clip, and in the end some smart person on the team said they would look for athletes she competed against and see if there’s footage of her. We found 76 different spellings of her name.” 57:46

    Twitter:@ccrowland68
    1 hr 53 min
  • Understanding Your Spiritual Journey with Briana Cavion | Corporate Life and Psychedelics
    In this episode, Jepson interviews Briana Cavion, who describes herself as a student of life and focuses much of her work on supporting individuals who are interested in initiating a spiritual journey who want to understand the relationship between this finite moment and our infinite selves. Her focus is to help people who have reached certain levels of success that are seen as success in the eyes of the corporate, nationalist, modern environment, but still feel a vast sense of emptiness that they haven’t been able to negotiate or understand. “Your life, once you’ve initiated this spiritual path, will always be hungry for something deeper, and no amount of external failure or success will fill that hunger…all beings are one being and our joy is found when we are working for the highest good for all.”

    • A spiritual famine and external validation 4:20
    • How to show vulnerability and be a leader 9:00
    • Utilizing vulnerability as a superpower 20:10
    • Neurolinguistics 25:00
    • Seeking that “edge” 32:40
    • Briana’s legacy 39:20
    • DMT, or dimethyltryptamine 50:00
    • Gaining trust first for ayahuasca 58:25
    • Tips for your first trip 68:15
    • Stack ranking psychedelics 81:25
    • This life is the trip 92:30
    • What’s going on that we don’t understand 107:15
    • Choosing to sit in Hell 123:30
    • AI and psychedelics 131:10

    “Most the time I get people who the 3 year old, who never got attention from their father, is still trying to get attention by working 80 hour weeks. What if we revamped your schedule, delegated these 6 tasks, reduced your work week down to 60 hours, which is still a ridiculous amount of time, but reduced it down so that you weren’t on the brink of a breakdown, so you could actually get some sleep. Most execs that I know need to sleep more.” 10:36

    www.theearthtemple.com
    @the.earth.temple
    2 hr 22 min
  • Science Mom | Artificial Intelligence and Better Ways of Learning

    In this episode Jepson interviews his sister, Jenny Taylor, who has worked as a molecular biologist and a wildland firefighter, and at several jobs that land in between wearing a lab coat and wielding a chainsaw. She got her online start during Covid when all the schools shut down and there was a big spike in demand for online educational content. Jenny then went on and created an amazing resource of online science courses for kids that parents can use to educate their children. She explains one of the secrets to keeping kids engaged, such as creating a mystery, and then solving it, and then we talk about the importance of passion that teachers need to have in order to really gain a reputation and get kids really excited about learning.

    • Jenny’s journey and becoming Science Mom 1:00
    • Making science fun 9:00
    • Scaling the classroom 12:20
    • Initial frustrations 14:15
    • Kickstarter campaign 18:00
    • What she would do differently 21:45
    • Who this resonates with 23:45
    • Artificial intelligence and adapting in education 25:20
    • The problem with standardized testing 29:00
    • Keeping kids engaged 31:00
    • The importance of continuing to learn 38:35
    • Regrets about TikTok 48:20
    • Some takeaways and themes she’s learned 50:10
    • Chat GPT 54:10
    • Her legacy 56:35
    • Living life in suburbia vs being more adventurous 64:40
    “If you’re so concerned about your job security being tied to a test or a multiple choice assessment, I don’t know how you’re gonna teach a child passion around a topic” “Yeah I really think we’d be better off if we just got rid of standardized testing, especially in the K-5 classrooms.” 29:17

    https://science.mom/
    @the.science.mom
    www.facebook.com/TheScienceMom/
    1 hr 14 min
  • The Good Life with David “Gonzo” Gonzalez | Overcoming Fear and Hardship
    In this episode Jepson has a conversation with David “Gonzo” Gonzalez discussing topics such as “What is a good life?” and “Looking forward to the future without fear.” David dealt with a lot of social anxiety early on in their partnership, which made big events and social gatherings difficult, but he was eventually able to get past these fears and we talk about what he was able to do in order to get through it. We discussed the importance of art and creativity in maintaining purpose and meaning in one’s life, and then what David’s experience was with the acquisition of our company.

    • What is a good life? 3:15
    • Social anxiety 8:30
    • When things started turning around 11:05
    • A funny lesson we learned 22:55
    • Hiring a celebrity salesperson 29:15
    • Being there for family 39:50
    • Each individual human has in their capacity enormous ability 48:10
    • Going on an artistic path 54:15
    • The acquisition event 55:10
    • Working through Covid 67:30

    “I had never scratched the surface of the deepest fear of my life. It was that fear that this brain chemistry and whatever it is that I am holds within it the seeds of my own demise. That I will tear down, destroy, and hurt all that is good in my life. That was my deep fear.” 44:38
    1 hr 23 min
  • A Conversation with Sol Rashidi | Revolutionizing Business Structures with AI
    Ben had the opportunity to speak with Sol Rashidi, a very accomplished entrepreneur and leader in the business world. Sol is the Chief Analytics Officer at The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. She has eight patents issued, 21 filed, and received CAO of the Year 2021, 50 Most Powerful Women in Tech, #4 in Top 20 CDOs award, 2020 & 2021 list of Global Data Power Women, and Top 100 Innovators in Data & Analytics. We discuss her various accomplishments in business and how incorporating artificial intelligence has changed or influenced company structures.

    • Getting started in sports 1:00
    • Change management and organization 10:30
    • AI will create bandwidth and capacity 19:40
    • Managing mental health and self worth 25:00
    • Balancing your time between life and business 33:30
    “I had tremendous resistance from the team because I was disrupting what they knew was their life for the past 15-20 years, and I wasn’t popular for a really long time. I was amongst the executives. I wasn’t amongst the team because I fundamentally disrupted their lives and their way of working, and their 9:30-4:30 checkouts, and they were very comfortable in that arena.” 24:06
    44 min
  • Mastering AI with Jon Krohn | Deep Learning Illustrated
    In this episode, Ben Taylor interviews Jon Krohn, Chief Data Scientist at the machine learning company Nebula. Jon is a bestselling author of the book “Deep Learning Illustrated” and host of the podcast SuperDataScience. He has an Udemy course with over 100,000 students and his YouTube channel was recognized with the 2021 Data Community Content Creator Award for the AI/ML category. Ben and Jon discuss the ins and outs of artificial intelligence and the importance of taking risks in various aspects of life.

    • Jon’s book 4:30
    • Who you know and what you know 15:30
    • The world is changing with Chat GPT 23:20
    • The hard things that keep Jon up at night 26:35
    • Challenges, failure, risk, and leveling up 36:15
    • Appropriate fraction of high risk work 43:10
    • Dealing with feedback and criticism 50:50
    • 360 reviews 61:40
    “We were doing cleans this morning at the gym and you had to do one clean every 2 minutes for 20 minutes, so 10 reps. You start off with really light weights that everyone can do, but as you get to the 8th, 9th, 10th, people are pushing themselves. And great athletes in the gym, coaches in the gym, when they get to that 9th set, that 10th set, they’re getting to weights that they fail at and they miss the clean.” 37:55

    www.jonkrohn.com
    1 hr 11 min
  • The Realities of Startup Life with Kumesh Aroomoogan | Accern's Path to Success in the World of NLP
    Kumesh Aroomoogan, the co-founder and CEO of Accern, joins Jepson Taylor on this soulcast to discuss the unique dynamic between co-founders. Similarly to a marriage, co-founders should make sure they want to spend a long time together before they jump into a business. Kumesh has joined the ranks of Forbes 30 Under 30 for Enterprise Technology and is a major contributor to Forbes AI for Finance. They also discuss healthy ways to manage stress and dive into the gritty details of what a dedicated entrepreneur is willing to do to save their company. "So for a lot of the executives, we want them to learn together with us and so every new milestone and every new success, they should be involved because they're part of the company. They're helping the company grow...We don't keep it a secret and I think transparency within the leadership team is super critical."
    • Working as an accountant 3:00
    • Picking a co-founder 13:10
    • Early struggles 18:35
    • Managing stress and running out of money 25:35
    • What Accern has become 33:00
    • Does the current AI hype help? 36:25
    • Being strategic 39:10
    • How to hire good leaders 42:00
    • Managing your own time 46:25
    • Meditating 48:50
    • If Kumesh wasn’t doing a startup 52:33
    • His super power 53:40
    • Hiring the right sales profiles based on the stage you’re at 62:40
    • Equity and stock options 65:00
    • Ego 67:50
    • How to prioritize 69:35
    • The vision 72:35
    • Sentiment 75:25
    • His legacy 77:40
    • Chat GPT-4 85:45
    • Cold showers 89:30
    • What keeps them from selling 92:20
    “How do you pick a co-founder? Because it’s like getting married.” “It’s all about the personality and making sure that you can work together with this person. I would say skills and technical abilities and all that stuff, that’s there, sure, but it’s, can you be good friends with this person? Can you have a friendship? That’s kind of how you should choose a co-founder because at the end of the day you’re gonna be spending 5-10 years with that person, so you wanna make sure that you can have a friendship with that person, above skills and above a lot of things.” 13:15

    accern.com
    1 hr 38 min
  • The Lessons of a Venture Capitalist | Insights from Chris Lynch on Business, Failure, and Investing in People
    What drives you? Meet Chris Lynch, CEO of AtScale, Founding Investor of DataRobot, and driver of cloud transformation. Jepson speaks with Chris to learn more about what drives him to be a leadership and investing giant, as well as what it takes to find balance at home amid such working chaos. Chris tells us about his past ventures, the struggles he encountered along the way, and how his "no-nonsense" approach actually works for hiring family members - something many business leaders fear greatly. One story in particular opened his eyes to his unhealthy work/life balance and has since been able to find harmony between home and the desk. This is an interview you don't want to miss! "There's nothing that I've done that hasn't failed one or two or sometimes three times. Startups are experiments. Experiments by definition, if you're not failing, you're not making real progress because you smart people, competent people learn from failure. They don't reject it and it's a trade of successful people and entrepreneurs."
    • Learning business through paper route as a young boy 1:15
    • How will can influence your DNA 6:20
    • Common failure points or mistakes founders make 9:00
    • Large startups that fail 13:00
    • The hard decisions 26:00
    • The elevator pitch and data stacks 40:20
    • Customer Data Platform (CDP) 46:30
    • Failure 56:35
    • Things Chris hopes for his kids 1:00:20
    • Investing in and betting on the person 1:05:50
    • The ego journey 1:12:20
    • Keeping talent in the Bay Area 1:39:40
    “In most instances when you terminate somebody and you’re clear about it, and you’re supportive of them transitioning to something that’s a better fit, you’ve done them a favor. Because I’ve been around for 38 years, I have people that I’ve fired years ago that will contact me randomly, they see something I’ve posted on LinkedIn, and thank me for doing that.” 28:22

    https://www.reverbadvisors.com/
    https://www.atscale.com/
    1 hr 52 min
  • Getting to Know Your Host | Meet Jepson Taylor
    Welcome to the Atomic Soul Podcast, hosted by Benjamin “Jepson” Taylor. Join our adventurous host as he digs deep into his life and tells us the story of how he became an entrepreneur. He's a key player in today's AI innovation and has some incredible ideas to drive the future of technology. He encourages everyone to always have 5 big ideas that are always on the mind because eventually, one of them will grow legs and crawl out of your brain and turn into a project. Jepson tells of the dark side of being an entrepreneur including some major life events he experienced along the way. From a huge company acquisition to abandoning all hope on an airplane, this CEO's been through it all. “If you’re normal, please be curious. If you’re curious, please be passionate. If you’re passionate, please be obsessed.”
    • Starting at the end 1:30
    • Mount Superior 4:30
    • Deciding whether to continue school or follow his idea 12:00
    • We are products of our experience 16:00
    • Working at Higher View 24:25
    • Zeff.ai and learning from bad experiences 29:00
    “I’m walking on the beach, I’m watching the sun rise in Mexico, and it was amazing. I’m all by myself and not a lot of people wake up early at these resorts, and I remember thinking to myself ‘If my startup fails, my life is still worth living.’” 37:22
    Twitter:@bentaylordata
    52 min

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