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Walter Powell’s goal with Politiscope is to be the most trustworthy source for political information, that is a goal I think we can all support. On this episode of #BTSPodcast, Walter shares how co-founder roles and responsibilities are divided across the team, what being in the NFL taught him, his favorite reads, meditations, and how his upbringing has shaped his approach to entrepreneurship and social responsibility.

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Genevieve Ascencio is a VP at Golin, a public relations agency, where she heads up their Mountain Dew account. She has a deep background in strategy, as the former VP of Digital at Factory PR, where she focused largely on public relations, influencer activations, and digital marketing for fashion and retail brands.

On this episode, she shares her perspective on what her role as a VP is, what strategy is, communication preferences around risk, planning for innovation, and how she has layered on the roles of spouse and parent on top of her career. 

This episode kicks off a series that focuses on careers in strategy, how strategists define their jobs, their approach, and so much more. 

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Genevieve LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/genevieveascencio/

Tee Chérie Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/teecheriestyle/

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Today's policy research methods are outdated and inefficient – but they don't have to be. Civic Eagle equips policy professionals with the tools they need to research and track legislation more effectively. By using a SaaS platform that’s powered by artificial intelligence to make legislative research smarter, faster, and less expensive, Civic Eagle helps organizations spend less time in front of a computer and more time advocating for important progressive issues.

Over $35 billion are spent each year lobbying and advocating for policies at the federal, state, and local levels of government. This work requires careful analysis and tracking of legislation – a process that is currently manual, fragmented, and expensive.

Civic Eagle was among the first 100 start ups to receive investment from Arlan Hamilton’s Backstage Capital. Since early 2018, Civic Eagle has raised $600,000 and has gone from zero to $8,500 in monthly recurring revenue. It's also a part of Techstars' 2019 class, and in 2017, Damola was a Google Entrepreneur in Residence.

On this episode Damola  shares his advice for early-stage, pre-revenue start-ups, post-revenue start-ups, maintaining a mission, working as a team, how they selected their product advisory board, leveraging focus groups with existing users to better understand customer needs,  and SO much more.

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 Melissa Stratton is a parent, wife, sister, daughter, and friend. I've known Melissa (Missy) for over 20 years, and in those years I've learned so much from her about showing up in relationships, being emotionally responsive, and how to approach difficult conversations in a loving way, while having boundaries. I have so much respect for her relationship with her kids and her family, and have seen her raise three kids who were all born at very different times at her life, and all have varying personalities. A week prior to recording this episode, her oldest (24) got married, meanwhile, her other two are 8 and 14 years old.

We talk about the guilt she felt due to the impact of fighting Lyme Disease, parathyroid, and Hashimoto’s, and how she’s worked to help her kids recover from the impact that had on them. Other topics: digital parental controls on devices and apps, including YouTube, and walking the line of allowing kids to be exposed to certain elements in various real life and digital scenarios, limiting screen time during the week and depending on where a kid is with their own self-esteem and personal development. Trusting your kids and tailoring your rules to where kids are at, where technology is at, and circumstantially. Raising kids in Orange County, progressing as a person while raising other people, and the importance of independence and self-care and having hobbies. Her approach to decision-making as a parent and advice to other parents, and what it feels like to have her eldest kid married and out of the house, and how no one really prepared her for this feeling.

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Filmmaker and journalist Meredith Alloway shares the “behind the scenes” of being an independent filmmaker, a journalist, submitting to film festivals and so much more.  She’s contributed to Film Maker Magazine, Playboy, and Vanity Fair to name a few, and has had films at SXSW, Indy Film Fest, The Overlook Festival, and Montclair Film Festival.

Her film Deep Tissue was at SXSW 2019’s Midnight Shorts Competition. She talks about reaching out to festival programmers, etiquette, explains film terms to me, and managing emotions around rejection and collaboration.

Find Meredith online:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/atwwalloway/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/atwwalloway/

Website: https://www.meredithalloway.com/film

Watch her film "Interior Theresa" https://www.seedandspark.com/watch/interior-teresa

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Music by Benjamin Bethurum: https://soundcloud.com/bethurum

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Video Dave is a hip hop and visual artist who also has worked in the reality television industry for some time. He was at SXSW 2019 with Open Mike Eagle for the StubHub event, and we caught up and discussed the “behind the scenes” of reality TV, the wellness of reality TV cast/crew, how it’s changed over the years, and his work as an artist. 

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See why Video Dave may be the next Mr. Rogers in “Camping with the Kangaroos” https://youtu.be/8xB8e6I2ReI

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Antonio Roberts is a New Media artist and Curator based in Birmingham, UK. He uses uses technology-driven processes to explore issues surrounding open source software, free culture and collaborative practices.We discuss how he gets funding, in kind support, connecting with artists, building community, and much more.

His art is often created through programming, he is a part of Algorave, where he and other DJs code music live for an audience (see videos HERE). They host specific workshops on how to use software and truly aim to close the gap between the audience and the performer, and educate people on the variety of ways coding can be used. We caught up at SXSW 2019 in Austin, Texas. A special thanks to Crispin Parry of the British Underground and Will Hodgkinson of the Times  for introducing me to Algorave, which is how Antonio and I met.

Find Antonio online:

Hellocatfood.com

Twitter.com/hellocatfood

Instagram.com/hellocatfood

Check out partner Trendscaping: trendscaping.com 

Trendscaping 2019 Trends mentioned in the intro: https://www.trendscaping.com/trends/2019-trends

Artists mentioned in discussion include Cheyenne Randall (@indiangiver) and Zach Rockstand (@zacher1) 

Learn more about Algorave via Resident Advisor here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2EZqikCIfY

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Jessica Couch is the founder of the consulting agency Luxor & Finch, where she works with brands, advising them on strategic, data-driven planning. She has worked with numerous companies in the fit technology space and has published over 60 articles on the matter of fit and fit tech, a thesis on fit and perception,  and values corporate responsibility as a whole, emphasizing inclusion, sustainability, and improved practices around fit. She is also the co-creator (along with previous guest Brittany Hicks) of the WOC #FashTech Brunch (links below).

Her knowledge runs deep, her Bachelor’s degree is from NC State University’ College of Textile, and her Master’s is in Digital Innovation and Fit from Cornell University (a curriculum she developed under the guidance of Professor Susan P. Ashdown).

She shares some great perspectives around how brands could and should be held accountable to enforced sustainability standards and has a wealth of knowledge surrounding the industry. 

This episode would not be possible without the partnership of Trendscaping. Trendscaping is an open-source trend-forecasting website. It’s a community platform for sharing and mapping insights, ideas, and the evolution of concepts. Sign up for the Trendscaping newsletter, and read more about this podcast episode and insights from Jessica and Brittany Hicks’s SXSW panel “Fashion’s Fit Issue: Representation and Tech”

Trendscaping: https://www.trendscaping.com/

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicavcouch/ 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/luxorandfinch/ 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/luxorandfinch 

Luxor and Finch website: https://www.luxorandfinch.com/ 

WOC #FashTech Brunch: https://wocfashtechbrunch.splashthat.com/ 

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Brittany Hicks shares her learnings from years of experience in supply chain management in the fashion and retail industry. She has a breadth of insights surrounding where the industry has room for improvement in business practices, planning, and inclusion. Brittany is the founder of Girls in Fashion and Tech (GiFT), the co-creator of the WOC #FashTech Brunch, co-founder of Slash Seattle, and the co-creator of the WTF?! Fashion Podcast (launching in March 2019), is an adjunct professor at Seattle Pacific University, in addition to her full-time position at Amazon in planning and operations on the Private Label Fashion team.

During the episode We reference the work of Kim Jenkins several times, explore Kim Jenkins’ research here: http://www.kimberlymjenkins.com/ 

This episode was created in partnership with Trendscaping. an open-source trend-forecasting website. Trendscaping is a community platform for sharing and mapping insights, ideas, and the evolution of concepts. Sign up for the Trendscaping newsletter, and read more about this podcast episode and insights from Brittany’s SXSW panel “Fashion’s Fit Issue: Representation and Tech.”

Trendscaping: https://www.trendscaping.com/

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Brittany Hicks on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/justcallmehicks/ 

Girls in Fashion and Tech:  https://www.girlsinfashionandtech.com/

Girls in Fashion and Tech LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/girlsinfashionandtech/about/ 

WOC FashTech Brunch: https://wocfashtechbrunch.splashthat.com

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JHawk is a music producer, best known for Cat Daddy, and work with E-40, Chris Brown, Iggy Azalea, Chippy Nonstop, Kitty Pryde and so many others. We discuss the behind-the-scenes of how producers/indepdent artists do their jobs, make money, get their music distributed, and diversify their income in the 21st century. Topics include licensing, how to send beats, how to sell beats, ASCAP, publishing deals, and the science of how a song goes Platinum.

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/officialjhawk 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JHawkProductions

Check out his video series Flight in Progress that provides tips for producers to help set them up for success:

https://www.youtube.com/user/jJHawktv/ 

https://www.instagram.com/flightinprogress/ 

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