Building Birmingham Together

Today’s episode of Building Birmingham Together features Dr. Adrienne Starks on Building Birmingham together. Dr. Starks founded STREAM Innovations in 2015. The mission of Stream Innovations is to help students develop and explore their passion in Science, Technology, Reading, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STREAM) by providing exposure, experiences, and engagement with high expectations for their success. STREAM Innovations is preparing to celebrate their 6th year anniversary in May with their first Giving Campaign. Their work to support more communities across Alabama and to be a trusted place for STEM education is truly building up Birmingham!

You can reach Dr. Adrienne Starks at [email protected]

Follow Dr. Adrienne Starks and STREAM Innovations:

Website: www.streaminnovations.org

Facebook: @adriennestarks, @STREAM Innovations   

Linkedin: Adrienne Starks, STREAM Innovations  

Twitter: @drstarks2u, @STREAMInnovate  

Instagram: @drstarks2u, @STREAMInnovations   

YouTube:  STREAM Innovations 

This Episode is Sponsored by Forge

Forge is a thriving coworking space in the heart of downtown Birmingham at The Pizitz Building.  If you are tired of working from home and are in need of a place to be productive as well as be surrounded by a community of entrepreneurs, schedule your tour of Forge today!

Forge Availabilities: Open seating coworking, Dedicated Desk, Private Office, Conference Room Rentals, Event Space, Business Mailing Address

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In this episode of Building Birmingham Together we hear from Patrick Visintainer and Spencer Ware, co-founders of REPOWR.  REPOWR, monetizes the supply chain's underutilized trucks and trailers. Simply put, REPOWR Is a virtual community that allows for B2B truck and trailer rentals. REPOWR’s digital ecosystem connects transportation companies and leasing companies to an asset-sharing, equipment rental marketplace. Patrick and Spencer are at the beginning of their journey with REPOWR - they both just left their full time jobs and started the Velocity Accelerator program at Innovation Depot. We cannot wait to see where they take REPOWR!

Follow REPOWR:

Website: repowrtransport.com 

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/repowr  

Facebook: facebook.com/REPOWRtransport  

Instagram: @REPOWR 

Get in touch with Spencer and Patrick

Spencer Ware: LinkedIn, [email protected]

Patrick Visintainer: LinkedIn, [email protected]

Spencer and Patrick’s Recommendations:

Patrick: The Lean Startup by Eric Ries  

Spencer: No Limits by John Maxwell 

Podcasts:

How I Built This with Guy Raz  

The Quote of the Day with Sean Croxton 

Two-Sided, The Marketplace Podcast 

The Mindset Mentor with Rob Dial 

School of Greatness with Lewis Howes 

This Episode is Sponsored by Forge

Forge is a thriving coworking space in the heart of downtown Birmingham at The Pizitz Building.  If you are tired of working from home and are in need of a place to be productive as well as be surrounded by a community of entrepreneurs, schedule your tour of Forge today!

Forge Availabilities: Open seating coworking, Dedicated Desk, Private Office, Conference Room Rentals, Event Space, Business Mailing Address

Workatforge.com

Today's episode is a recording of our International Women's Day event on March 8th featuring a panel hosted by Forge CEO and Founder Kim Lee with Delphine Carter, CEO and Founder of Boulo Solutions, Javacia Harris Bowser, Founder of See Jane Write, and Mindy Rohr, Director of Marketing at Bayer Properties. International Women's Day is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. At Forge, we use this event as a time to celebrate the way that women are making a huge impact in our city, celebrating the contributions they are making to our societies. We also want to use this time to highlight and elevate local female business owners and professionals because we know they are an integral part of Building Birmingham Together!

Be Sure to check out our previous episodes featuring our panelists:

Episode 8: Delphine Carter, CEO and Founder of Boulo Solutions

You can follow our International Women’s Day Panelists on here:

Javacia Harris Bowser, See Jane Write, @seejavaciawrite or on seejanewritebham.com

Building Birmingham Together is brought to you by Forge

Forge is a thriving coworking space in the heart of downtown Birmingham at The Pizitz Building.  If you are tired of working from home and are in need of a place to be productive as well as be surrounded by a community of entrepreneurs, schedule your tour of Forge today!

Forge Availabilities: Open seating coworking, Dedicated Desk, Private Office, Conference Room Rentals, Event Space, Business Mailing Address

Workatforge.com

Today on Building Birmingham Together, I have Dr. Patrick J. Murphy. Dr Murphy is the Goodrich Chair, Professor and Director of Entrepreneurship at The University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Collat School of business.  He has 20 years of experience worldwide in entrepreneurial ventures, angel investing, and advising. If that does not keep him busy enough, he is also a published author in the Yale U. Press, Harvard Business Review, and many international journals. Dr. Murphy was brought to UAB to start the Entrepreneurship program which just launched last semester - during a pandemic no less.  The program is already garnering national attention with 50 students enrolled after just one semester! We’re thrilled to see how Dr. Murphy’s work impacts the entrepreneurial ecosystem of the city and contributes to building Birmingham together!

Follow Dr. Patrick J. Murphy and UAB Collat School of Business:

Twitter: @profpjm

Dr. Patrick J. Murphy’s Recommendations:

The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence by Benoit Mandelbrot and Richard L. Hudson  

Favorite Birmingham Restaurants:

DeVinci's Pizza

This Episode is Sponsored by Forge

Forge is a thriving coworking space in the heart of downtown Birmingham at The Pizitz Building.  If you are tired of working from home and are in need of a place to be productive as well as be surrounded by a community of entrepreneurs, schedule your tour of Forge today!

Forge Availabilities: Open seating coworking, Dedicated Desk, Private Office, Conference Room Rentals, Event Space, Business Mailing Address

Workatforge.com

Today’s episode of Building Birmingham Together we’re talking with Javacia Harris Bowser, a freelance journalist, blogger, and entrepreneur based in Birmingham, Alabama.  She is the founder of See Jane Write, an award-winning membership organization and website for women who write and blog. The heartbeat for See Jane Writes is that every woman has a story worth sharing and through See Jane Write Javacia strives to help women make an impact and an income with their words. Javacia has created a thriving community of writers in Birmingham and beyond!

Follow See Jane Write:

Instagram: @seejanewrite 

Facebook Group: www.facebook.com/groups/seejanewritebham

Website: seejanewritebham.com

You can reach Javacia via email at [email protected]

Javacia’s Recommendations:

Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg  

More Than Enough by Elaine Welteroff   

The Secret Life of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw  

Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W Moniz  

Rachel Luna’s Podcast Permission to Offend 

This Episode is Sponsored by Forge

Forge is a thriving coworking space in the heart of downtown Birmingham at The Pizitz Building.  If you are tired of working from home and are in need of a place to be productive as well as be surrounded by a community of entrepreneurs, schedule your tour of Forge today!

Forge Availabilities: Open seating coworking, Dedicated Desk, Private Office, Conference Room Rentals, Event Space, Business Mailing Address

Workatforge.com

Anne is the Executive Director of Cooperative Downtown Ministries, a nonprofit that provides comprehensive services to over 5,000 men, women, and children that are experiencing homelessness every year. Anne is deeply passionate about fighting homelessness and that passion pours out of a true love for the people that she is serving. Anne’s desire is that each of the guests at The Firehouse Shelter will be served in a way that brings light to their dignity and honor, that they will be served and treated as a person with value and true worth. Anne's work at Firehouse Shelter is such an important component of Building Birmingham Together!

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Anne’s Recommendations:

This Episode is Sponsored by Forge

Forge is a thriving coworking space in the heart of downtown Birmingham at The Pizitz Building.  If you are tired of working from home and are in need of a place to be productive as well as be surrounded by a community of entrepreneurs, schedule your tour of Forge today!

Forge Availabilities: Open seating coworking, Dedicated Desk, Private Office, Conference Room Rentals, Event Space, Business Mailing Address

www.Workatforge.com

Today’s episode features three amazing panelists who shared their knowledge and experience for our International Women’s Day event on March 8th. We saved one question to share with our Building Birmingham Together audience and we want to talk about failure, it’s never fun but everyone experiences it! And when we fail we usually learn the most. Our panelists spent a little more time with us sharing about a failure in their career and only now, looking back can they see the lessons they have learned from that pivotal time in their life.

International Women’s Day Presenting Sponsors:

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Building Birmingham Together is brought to you by Forge

Forge is a thriving coworking space in the heart of downtown Birmingham at The Pizitz Building.  If you are tired of working from home and are in need of a place to be productive as well as be surrounded by a community of entrepreneurs, schedule your tour of Forge today!

Forge Availabilities: Open seating coworking, Dedicated Desk, Private Office, Conference Room Rentals, Event Space, Business Mailing Address

www.Workatforge.com

Today we have Dr. Karim Budhwani joining us on Building Birmingham Together.  Dr. Budhwani is the co-founder and CEO of Cerflux, where they are literally crushing cancer.  He is also the co-founder and CEO of Elixir, an innovative software solutions company striving to make the world greener and more efficient. Dr. Budhwani was recently honored with a Vulcan Community Award where they beautifully summed up his work as believing that “the two-fold purpose of acquiring knowledge is to better understand the fabric of existence and to serve others.” Dr. Budhwani is a truly inspiring individual and is committed to Building Birmingham Together!

Follow Karim, Cerflux and Elixir:

Website: CerFlux.com   

CeoScientist.com

You can contact Dr. Karim Budhwani at [email protected] or [email protected] 

On this episode of Building Birmingham Together we are so excited to be talking to Matt Pierce of Immediate. Matt is Founder & CEO of Birmingham-based Immediate, a financial wellness company that delivers on-demand access to earned wages, freeing employees from the cycles of debt created by predatory lending. Born in Decatur and a two-time graduate of Auburn University, he is passionate about investing in the local tech ecosystem and excited to share more about the Immediate journey. Immediate is on a mission to positively impact the financial wellbeing of a million people over the next three years, and we're grateful that Immediate calls Birmingham home as they pursue this audacious goal!

Follow Matt and Immediate:

You can contact Matt at [email protected]

Matt’s Recommendations:

We are thrilled to feature Nate Schmidt on Building Birmingham Together today!  Nate is the Managing Director of Techstars Alabama EnergyTech Accelerator and they just finished their first cohort!  Nate is a serial entrepreneur and software developer and has participated in multiple startup ventures, including Cloverly, Preptix, Deal Co-op and co-founded Instagift with his wife. Nate is extremely passionate about startups and that led him to start and be the first managing director of The Velocity Accelerator program at The Innovation Depot.  Through his entrepreneurial journey, Nate has also become very passionate about the importance of mental health for startup founders.  As you listen today I hope that you take away from Nate’s story that taking care of yourself and your mental health is one of the most foundational building blocks to you successfully starting and growing your business.

Follow Techstars:

Website

Other Mentions:

Techstars Alabama EnergyTech Accelerator Demo Day 2020

Nate’s Recommendations:

The Bill Simmons Podcast