Brandon Stover On Life

This weeks guest on Evolve with Brandon Stover has helped hundreds of founders raise startup capital and build successful businesses. Mandela Schumacher-Hodge Dixon is Founder & CEO of Founder Gym which is bringing Silicon Valley to the streets of hundreds of underrepresented founders to help them build successful businesses, across 16 countries, and raise $35 million dollars in funding to scale their tech startups. She was the founding Portfolio Services Director at Kapor Capital, the Global Director of Startup Weekend Education, and a tech startup founder backed by Kapor Capital, 500 Startups, and Imagine K12 (acq. by Y Combinator). Mandela is also a member of First Round Capital’s prestigious Angel Track program. In this episode she talks about lessons learned while failing her first startup, the key skills every founder must have, and how to deal with crippling impostor syndrome & analysis paralysis.

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This weeks guest on Evolve with Brandon Stover is an entrepreneur, sexual health advocate, thought leader, speaker, educator, & co-founder of an award winning tech company, Bryan Stacy. Bryan is the CEO of Biem, which is redefining the world of sexual perceptions, health, & confidence through a few simple clicks on your phone, which he created after being diagnosed with testicular cancer and chlamydia on the same day. He is also Co-Host of the Man Amongst Men Podcast, which has an uncommon and disarming approach in talking to men and women about most things left undiscussed when it comes to male sexuality, masculinity, and emotional fluency. In this episode he talks about his transformation from corporate america to the tech scene, how he grapples with ego, & how to have hard conversations about sex, emotions, and purpose.

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This weeks guest on Evolve with Brandon Stover is entrepreneur, author, thought leader, internationally sought after speaker & coach for high performing executives, Dominick Quartuccio. Dominick is the Amazon #1 best selling author of Design Your Future, Co - Host of the Man Amongst Men Podcast, and is leading hundreds of men through worthy inquiry and meaningful introspection into the forces that shape a man's sexuality, behavior and intimate relationships, getting both men and women to boldly face issues most don’t want to discuss! In this episode he talks about his transformation during 4 years of sex addicts anonymous, how to develop your purpose, and what it means to be a man in today's modern society.

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This weeks guest on Founder Friday's with Brandon Stover is Randall Shapiro + Riley Kuffner, Founders of Simple Gardens, which designs, manufactures, and distributes beautiful indoor wall gardens that automatically grow fresh food in your home or apartment.

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This weeks guest on Evolve with Brandon Stover is entrepreneur, serial founder, growth marketer, futurist, and lifestyle engineer, Renat Gabitov. Renat has visited over 70 countries, kite surfed with Richard Branson, met presidents, skydived, ran with the bulls, partied on yachts, motorcycled across jungles and cultivated his mind by learning from the world’s top performers all in his early 20’s. In this episode he talks about how we can take a scientific approach to designing the life we want, how we can create a group of high performers around us, & how to be radically truthful with ourselves.

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This weeks guest on Founder Friday's with Brandon Stover is Kasra Khalili, Founder of Co Founder of Mintor, an online platform designed for entrepreneurs, startups, and industry leaders to engage in goal-driven mentoring relationships.

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This weeks guest on Evolve with Brandon Stover is cellist turned investment banker turned tech startup aficionado, Ruben Harris. Ruben has taught a thriving community of 10,000 + people the secrets of breaking into startups after he quit his job & bought a one way ticket to San Francisco. Ruben is now the Co Founder & CEO of Y Combinator Backed Career Karma, a community of peers, mentors and coaches that will help you land a dream career in Tech. In this episode she talks about how he broke into startups, how to build the product of yourself first, and where the future of education and the job market is heading.

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This weeks guest on Founder Friday's with Brandon Stover is Kimberly Natson, Founder of Global Mentality, a medical startup looking to improve access of healthcare for all individuals, especially those suffering from mental health disorders.

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This weeks guest on Evolve with Brandon Stover is financial advisor, Robbi Katherine Anthony. Robbi is a serial founder who has been running successful ventures for the last ten years, particularly in the technology and software space. She is the Founder & CEO of Firedove Technology, Solace, & Gravity, and ran for political office in 2018 as County Commissioner. In this episode she talks about how to dominate startup weekends, the differences between politics and entrepreneurship, and how you can be an advocate for social change.

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This weeks guest on Founder Friday's with Brandon Stover is Bryce Fender, Co-Founder of Wilminvest, a social startup that works with community healthcare organizations to provide housing to consumers experiencing substance abuse, mental illness and chronic veteran homelessness.

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