Guest Timi Dayo-Kayode is an ambitious student-entrepreneur currently attending Tufts University whose startup Worksense recently won first place at Student Startup Madness at SXSW. Timi is passionate about driving equality in the workplace, and he believes better messaging data mining is critical to enabling better workplace outcomes. He’s developing Worksense into a messaging monitoring software that helps organizations understand how their employees are feeling at the workplace. Timi brings a global worldview to his role at Worksense, having grown up in Nigeria before moving to America when he was 16 years old. With one year left of college, Timi will be juggling school and startup life for another year. Discover more Boston Speaks Up at Boston Business Journal's BostInno: https://www.americaninno.com/boston/boston-speaks-up/

Today's guest Srividya Kalyanaraman has enjoyed an accomplishment-filled journey from India to the United States. Currently serving as BostInno's editor, "Sri" (as she prefers) is no stranger to digital media innovation and startups. She was the first reporter to cover social media and the internet for India's oldest financial daily, The Economic Times. She was an enthusiastic second member of freshly-minted two-person business desk at Firstpost.com, India's first digital-only newsroom. And in 2014, she was a summer intern on Money Magazine's inaugural web team that launched Money.com, following the Time Inc/Time Warner split. Discover more Boston Speaks Up at Boston Business Journal's BostInno: https://www.americaninno.com/boston/boston-speaks-up/

Today's guest Brendan Ryan was the communications orchestrator behind Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick’s original run to office in 2006 and re-election in 2010, eventually serving as the Chief of Staff to Governor Patrick. Brendan stepped away from politics in 2014 and cofounded HUBweek, Boston’s wildly successful version of SXSW that’s set to have its five-year anniversary this Fall 2019. He’s helped grow HUBweek to a nationally-recognized festival drawing more than 50,000 attendees and bringing together leading researchers, startup founders, artists and executives from across industries and disciplines. Under Brendan’s leadership, HUBweek is changing the narrative around Boston, bringing together disparate communities and building connective tissue between creatives, entrepreneurs and everyday citizens. Discover more Boston Speaks Up at Boston Business Journal's BostInno: https://www.americaninno.com/boston/boston-speaks-up/

Today's guest Lauren Landry has been a familiar face in the Boston innovation community for the better part of the past decade. She cut her teeth reporting at BostInno covering the Boston startup scene and education beat. She's also been a contributing writer to Boston Magazine and Boston.com, in addition to having her work cited in Wall Street Journal, Businessweek and more. Lauren's most recent career move really caught our eye as she's shifted to a marketing and communications role at Harvard Business School (HBS) Online, which is on a mission to make top-flight business education in Boston more accessible to people worldwide. Having attended Emerson College and worked at Northeastern University, Lauren offers a breadth of perspective about the rapid advances in higher education  -- from campus innovation to online learning. Discover more Boston Speaks Up at Boston Business Journal's BostInno: https://www.americaninno.com/boston/boston-speaks-up/

*guest host Dan Rowinski* Today's guest Dana Jay Bein (DJB) is a Cambridge-based stand up comedian and teacher. He has taught stand up comedy at ImprovBoston for fourteen years, helping to introduce a new generation of comedians to the Boston area. Dana is known for his relentless optimism, fierce protection of people against bullies and bigots, and free hugs. He has been officially recognized by the City of Cambridge for his work in the community and was recently the Comic-in-Residence at the new Comedy Studio at Bow Market in Somerville. Discover more Boston Speaks Up at Boston Business Journal's BostInno: https://www.americaninno.com/boston/boston-speaks-up/

Today's guest Michael Bernier works hard to live his best life. Michael is a musician, master of ceremonies (100+ events a year), a performer, a motivational speaker, an entrepreneur, a humanitarian and all around positive force. He possesses unflappable optimism and is a rare breed of individual who lifts the spirits of all whom he comes into contact with. He is a singer songwriter and frontman for the band Freevolt, a pop-reggae group from Boston’s North Shore. Additionally, he’s a talented producer and emcee who heads up Evolvement Radio in Newburyport, MA. Bernier started Evolvement in his bedroom and has grown it to a radio brand broadcast across 40 AM, FM and online stations across America. Evolvement is a platform for like-minded artists, creatives, businesspeople and musicians -- from Boston to Jamaica -- all with a common agenda: spreading positivity and unity. Discover more Boston Speaks Up at Boston Business Journal's BostInno: https://www.americaninno.com/boston/boston-speaks-up/

Today's guest Mardi Fuller has enjoyed an interesting journey into a critical role communicating Boston’s most innovative education initiatives. Now the director of external relations at Boston Plan for Excellence (BPE), Boston Teacher Residency (BTR) and Dearborn STEM Academy in Roxbury, Mardi is responsible for communicating the progress of organizations with the purest of intentions: drive exceptional outcomes for all students by developing great teachers and great schools. Mardi is instrumental in building connective tissue between these orgs and Boston’s business community to ensure Boston’s youth is aligned with the tech-driven Boston labor market that’s constantly changing. Discover more Boston Speaks Up at Boston Business Journal's BostInno: https://www.americaninno.com/boston/boston-speaks-up/

Today's guest is J.P. Servideo an internationally recognized teen motivator. A highly successful individual who did not attend college, J.P. is the best-selling author of "The High Schooler’s Guide To Money," which he cowrote with Than Merrill, the star of A&E’s Flip This House. Additionally, J.P. created the Future Fortune Builders Teen Development Camp to teach high school students valuable life skills not featured in standard curriculum. J.P. is known for giving authentic and motivating speeches at assemblies and events. He also spends a lot of time with parents helping them to better understand and motivate their kids at different stages of development. Discover more Boston Speaks Up at Boston Business Journal's BostInno: https://www.americaninno.com/boston/boston-speaks-up/

Today's guest is Tripp Clemens a partner at Windy Films, an ascending media company headquartered in the East Boston Shipyard. Tripp is from Rhode Island and went to school locally graduating from Emerson College in Boston. He brings an emotionally rich documentary style to video storytelling. He and his partners Will Humphrey and Harvey Burrell are relentlessly motivated to craft stories for companies who invest in positive social impact. We were grateful to talk to Tripp about how he’s built Windy into a brand known around New England for telling meaningful video stories about issues that matter. Discover more Boston Speaks Up at Boston Business Journal's BostInno: https://www.americaninno.com/boston/boston-speaks-up/

BSU guest Lucy Maffei is a technology reporter at BostInno (Boston Business Journal). Born and raised in Tuscany, Lucy moved to America to attend Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. She spent time at TechCrunch (Chicago) and NPR (D.C) prior to moving to Boston and assuming her current role at BostInno. This podcast is filled with beautiful stories from Lucy about her love for Boston -- for example: she affirms Boston's tech community mentors are unrivaled; and she shares a story of her mother visiting Boston for the first time from Italy and falling in love with the kindness of Bostonians. Discover more Boston Speaks Up at Boston Business Journal's BostInno: https://www.americaninno.com/boston/boston-speaks-up/