Career Meets World with Edward Gorbis

Jason Calacanis joins the conversation today to discuss how his childhood shaped him today, his early days in media, how poker influences his decision-making and some actionable tips for angel investors. He is an entrepreneur, angel investor in over 250 startups, host of the This Week in Startups podcast, and co-host of the legendary All in Podcast with Chamath Palihapitiya, David Sacks, and David Friedberg, and the best selling author of Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups--Timeless Advice from an Angel Investor Who Turned $100,000 into $100,000,000.

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Financial independence is often discussed in college but never blueprinted. In today's episode, I chat with Robert Farrington, who is a Millennial Money Expert and Founder of The College Investor. He is on a mission to help millennials get out of student loan debt and start building wealth for their future. Robert is the quintessential master of his money. In his early 30s, he’s showing us all how it’s done. In this episode, you’ll hear Robert share how he’s managed to pay off debt and make huge strides with his investing, the exact tools he uses to stay on top of his money and manage his investments, his savings goals, and his interesting strategy for buying his next car.

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Some of the most successful leaders have some of the most challenging stories. In today's episode, I chat with Scott Leese,  a 6x Sales Leader, 3x Author, 3x Entrepreneur, and 1x Unicorn builder, who serves as a strategic advisor and consultant to dozens of companies around the world. He specializes in building sales processes and salespeople, maximizing new customer growth, increased average contract value, and upselling and retaining customers. This is one episode you will not want to miss.

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Ashvin Vaidyanathan is the Chief Customer Officer at Gainsight - the Customer Success Company. In his role, Ashvin manages the Customer Success, Professional Services, and Technical Support teams. Prior to Gainsight, Ashvin was at McKinsey & Company consulting with companies on Marketing, Sales, and Customer Experience transformations. When not at Gainsight, Ashvin is an advisor at Not In Our Town - a not-for-profit organization that uses documentary film, and new media to stop hate, and address bullying. He lives in San Francisco with his beautiful family.

Growing up, I spent most of my childhood living in my own imagination. Teachers would constantly mark me down on my report card for staring out the window and daydreaming. Creating my own reality was the only way I could cope with all of the bullying, name-calling, and alienation that I went through from elementary school to high school. 

I felt the same way in college and for many years in the workplace, constantly battling between “the immigrant way” of doing things and the current American way of showing up at work and in life.

My immigrant family instilled in me the discipline and focus necessary to be successful but did not provide me the tools, strategies, and communication skills to confidently convey my innate abilities and manifest my full potential. I was taught to get a steady corporate job with benefits, similar to those afforded to them by the government in the Soviet Union. For most of my childhood and early adulthood, I always thought that I was a victim of circumstances. I struggled to assimilate, big time. The struggle is the fuel to everything I do today.

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If you've ever woken up with anxiety about your career and how to get on track, then this episode is for you. In today's episode, I chat with Kyle Elliott, who is the founder and career coach behind CaffeinatedKyle.com. His goal is simple – to help people find jobs they LOVE (or at least tolerate). He is a trusted career expert, and Kyle's words have been featured on Forbes, Fast Company, The Muse, and The Ladders, among dozens of other leading publications.

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If you're in the midst of a  transition in your career or business, then this conversation will fire you up. In today's episode, we chat with Dr. Benjamin Ritter is an expert in Organizational Leadership and for the past 10 years has been coaching others to create a career they love.  He is the Founder of Live for Yourself (LFY) Consulting and is an empowerment coach, regional learning manager for YPO, national speaker, podcaster, author, consultant, mentor, teacher, and passionate about guiding others in finding, creating, and sustaining a career they love. 

You don't have to have everything figured out early in life to achieve success. In today's episode, I chat with Justin Welsh, who has a decade of experience building two $50M+ ARR businesses, teams of 150+, and helping raise over $300M in capital from VC firms.  Over that 10-year period, he played the role of SVP of Sales and Chief Revenue Officer at high-growth, transactional SaaS companies. He's intimately familiar with the challenges and complexities of building an SMB SaaS business effectively and efficiently. Despite being laid off 3 times, Justin exemplifies the meaning of resilience and how everyone has a comeback story. We discuss his entire journey, uncovering nuggets of wisdom and passion that fuel his work today - helping SaaS companies scale and aspiring entrepreneurs thrive. Turn up the volume and dive in!

From childhood as a Bulgarian immigrant to becoming a prolific writer at FORTUNE, this episode is filled with gems that will leave you craving for more. In today's episode, I chat with Polina Marinova Pompliano, who is the founder of The Profile, a new media company that features long-form profiles of successful people and companies each week. Previously, she spent five years at FORTUNE where she was the author and editor of Term Sheet, FORTUNE’s industry-leading dealmaking newsletter. Polina has interviewed the industry’s most influential dealmakers, including Melinda Gates, Steve Case, Chamath Palihapitiya, Alexis Ohanian, and more. She graduated from the University of Georgia and started her career at CNN and USA TODAY. 

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Most people go through life lost, disengaged, and unhappy at work and in their lives. In today's episode, I chat with someone who is on a mission to solve that - John Marty, a Senior Product Manager at Amazon and the Founder of Project 1B. He spent 10 years as the founder of Axxis Audio, an electronics company that grew to multi-million dollar sales. At that time, he funneled his earnings into the creation of an IoT company, but numerous factors lead to its demise after 2 hard-fought years.  At 31, I was penny-less, had a baby on the way, and had zero job prospects, he took a job at Best Buy for $12 an hour while reinventing himself through the completion of an MBA at the University of Colorado, and a 6-month software development boot camp. After graduation, he landed at American Express as a Senior Product Manager and then got poached by Amazon in 2017. He shares his journey which offers a deep sense of perspective, humility, and purpose that he draws on to help others find clarity, meaning, and happiness in their careers and lives.

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