Coasthawk Talk

 This week on Coasthawk Talk our host Nick Swinmurn is joined by NFT artist Iwwon, who is the Founder of the CryptoMories. The CryptoMories are the first collection to have offered real life, unlimited and free mental health teletherapy to all their owners. Nick starts the show by telling Iwwon how much he has appreciated our guest’s work over the years, and Iwwon dives into his background. He talks about his lifelong passion for art and painting, and how he started working with his father on merging technology and his art. Iwwon shares what he was doing when he first started getting paid for his art, and his first impression upon discovering the world of NFT’s. Nick asks how discovering this new world led to the creation of the CryptoMories, and what is the mission behind the brand.

- Website - https://www.iwwon.com/home

- Opensea - https://opensea.io/collection/cryptomories

- Discord - https://discord.com/invite/DfQjE4dAdn

- Twitter @Cryptomories - https://twitter.com/cryptomories

- Twitter @Iwwon_official - https://twitter.com/iwwon_official

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The Coasthawk Talk podcast is hosted by Nick Swinmurn, Founder of Zappos. This podcast takes a deep dive into the passion projects of the best athletes and entrepreneurs each week. Join in on the conversation where you’ll hear about the next frontier of business, NFTs, philanthropy, and amazing products created by athletes and some of the incredible entrepreneurs Nick has met along his journey. Our goal is to unpack and discuss how athletes and entrepreneurs have created some of the world’s most successful brands and businesses. If you enjoy the show please subscribe, rate, and review. This is Coasthawk Talk. 

 This week on Coasthawk Talk our host Nick Swinmurn is joined by the incredible artist, writer, and activist; Halim Flowers. Nick has Halim start the show by sharing his background and the story of his incarceration at just 16 years old. Nick dives deeper into the time before Halim was arrested, and asks him to reflect on the path that led him there. They talk about some of the life lessons and experiences that he had, and how that contributed to his mindset upon his release. Halim shares how art came to be more than just a hobby or passion, and why he wanted to add Hip-Hop Artist to his list of talents. Halim also started a publishing company called Sato Communications which he has published 11 books through. Check out the links below to listen to his new album “Ultracrepedarian.”

- Website - https://endaoment.org/

- Halim’s New Album “Ultracrepedarian” - https://lnk.to/524

- YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWH46R2vlnBSoNW3-6aafEw

- Instagram @HalimFlowers - https://www.instagram.com/halimflowers/

- Twitter @TheRealHalim - https://twitter.com/TheRealHalim

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The Coasthawk Talk podcast is hosted by Nick Swinmurn, Founder of Zappos. This podcast takes a deep dive into the passion projects of the best athletes and entrepreneurs each week. Join in on the conversation where you’ll hear about the next frontier of business, NFTs, philanthropy, and amazing products created by athletes and some of the incredible entrepreneurs Nick has met along his journey. Our goal is to unpack and discuss how athletes and entrepreneurs have created some of the world’s most successful brands and businesses. If you enjoy the show please subscribe, rate, and review. This is Coasthawk Talk. 

 This week on Coasthawk Talk our host Nick Swinmurn is joined by Alexis Miller, Donor Engagement and Strategic Partnerships Lead at Endaoment. Nick and Alexis dive into the backstory of how Alexis ended up at her current role at Endaoment, and how being at a variety of organizations before arriving at Endaoment helped prepare her. They talk about the interests of donors today, and some of the different types of foundations and funds that exist today. Nick asks about how blockchains are going to continue to impact this space, and how nonprofits today are looking to expand into the world of crypto exactly through the services that Endaoment helps provide.

Endaoment is a new Community Foundation & public charity offering Donor-Advised Funds (DAFs) built atop the Ethereum blockchain, allowing you to donate to almost any U.S. nonprofit organization.

- Website - https://endaoment.org/

- LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexis-miller-880b2160/

- LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/endaoment/

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The Coasthawk Talk podcast is hosted by Nick Swinmurn, Founder of Zappos. This podcast takes a deep dive into the passion projects of the best athletes and entrepreneurs each week. Join in on the conversation where you’ll hear about the next frontier of business, NFTs, philanthropy, and amazing products created by athletes and some of the incredible entrepreneurs Nick has met along his journey. Our goal is to unpack and discuss how athletes and entrepreneurs have created some of the world’s most successful brands and businesses. If you enjoy the show please subscribe, rate, and review. This is Coasthawk Talk.

  This week on Coasthawk Talk our host Nick Swinmurn is joined by Robert Powers, The Head of Growth Strategy at Vivid Labs. Robert talks about his early career working for both the creative and the business sides of media entertainment, and how he ended up teaching English at a university in China. Nick asks about Robert’s key takeaways from his time in China, and how he was able to channel what he learned there into his mindset for business and life. Robert dives into the details and features of Vivid Labs that makes them different as a publishing platform for NFT’s, and Nick asks for some specific advice to be given to young entrepreneurs.

 Vivid Labs harnesses the power of decentralization and Web3 incentive models to create the next generation of media infrastructure and the applications they enable. Vivid Labs launched VIVID, a next-gen NFT publishing platform for creating dynamic, multimedia NFT's and VideoCoin Network, a decentralized platform for video processing.

- Twitter @VividLabsHQ - https://twitter.com/VividLabsHQ

- Website - https://www.vividlabs.com/

- LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertwpowers/

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The Coasthawk Talk podcast is hosted by Nick Swinmurn, Founder of Zappos. This podcast takes a deep dive into the passion projects of the best athletes and entrepreneurs each week. Join in on the conversation where you’ll hear about the next frontier of business, NFTs, philanthropy, and amazing products created by athletes and some of the incredible entrepreneurs Nick has met along his journey. Our goal is to unpack and discuss how athletes and entrepreneurs have created some of the world’s most successful brands and businesses. If you enjoy the show please subscribe, rate, and review. This is Coasthawk Talk.

 This week on Coasthawk Talk our host Nick Swinmurn is joined by Brandon Schneider, President and COO of the Golden State Warriors. Nick and Brandon start the show talking about how they met years ago at the games while Brandon was still in Ticket Sales for GSW, and what it has been like to work for the company for 20 years this year. They talk about how Brandon worked his way up from Season Ticket Sales to where he currently is as the President, and what it means for him to have this life long dream as a career. NIck asks how Brandon sees the team and company growing in the years to come, and how the team can breach past just being a sports team brand. The two touch on the point of failing when trying new things, and how the company supports a culture of taking risks. Nick asks about the lessons Brandon has learned while watching the team play and win, and how important working together towards a common goal really is for more than just the players on the court.

- Twitter @Warriors - https://twitter.com/warriors

- LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-schneider-a7a8326/

- Instagram @Warriors - https://www.instagram.com/warriors/

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The Coasthawk Talk podcast is hosted by Nick Swinmurn, Founder of Zappos. This podcast takes a deep dive into the passion projects of the best athletes and entrepreneurs each week. Join in on the conversation where you’ll hear about the next frontier of business, NFTs, philanthropy, and amazing products created by athletes and some of the incredible entrepreneurs Nick has met along his journey. Our goal is to unpack and discuss how athletes and entrepreneurs have created some of the world’s most successful brands and businesses. If you enjoy the show please subscribe, rate, and review. This is Coasthawk Talk. 

 This week on Coasthawk Talk our host Nick Swinmurn is joined by Phillip Shoemaker, CEO and Executive Director of Identity.com. They start the show talking about Phillip growing up in Cupertino while having a father who worked for IBM, and his journey that took him to working at Apple to help build and run their App Store. Phillip took the security and identity issues he saw while doing so, and decided to start Identity.com in order to tackle decentralized identity and security. They talk about how Phillip always saw the future of computing as mobile computing, and how someone can deal with rapid growth in a frontier industry like the growth he saw when running the App Store.

  Identity.com is the leading identity-verification nonprofit providing an open-source, decentralized ecosystem. Its flagship technology is the Gateway Protocol, which provides permissionless authentication and verification. Together with Identity.com, companies and developers may create convenient, on-demand identity verification solutions that offer consumers ownership and control over their digital identities.

- Twitter @Identity - https://twitter.com/identity

- LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/shoemaker/

- Website - https://www.identity.com/home-3/

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The Coasthawk Talk podcast is hosted by Nick Swinmurn, Founder of Zappos. This podcast takes a deep dive into the passion projects of the best athletes and entrepreneurs each week. Join in on the conversation where you’ll hear about the next frontier of business, NFTs, philanthropy, and amazing products created by athletes and some of the incredible entrepreneurs Nick has met along his journey. Our goal is to unpack and discuss how athletes and entrepreneurs have created some of the world’s most successful brands and businesses. If you enjoy the show please subscribe, rate, and review. This is Coasthawk Talk.

 This week on Coasthawk Talk our host Nick Swinmurn is joined by Santiago Portela, the CEO of Fitchin. To start the show Nick has Santiago go through his journey into his career now, and how the people he met and became close with in business school made a huge impact on him. Santiago talks about the mindset that he had while developing and creating Fitchin, and about the process of diving into the Esports arena with this project. Nick dives into the inception and creation of Fitchin deeper as he asks about time frames of conversations, their plan from the start, and where Santiago sees Fitchins’ future.

Fitchin is a Web 3.0 Gaming Community Playground that connects esports teams and fans. They are looking to change esports as an industry by providing teams all the tools to grow their following and generate new revenue streams through Web 3.0. 

- LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sportela/

- Website - https://fitchin.gg/

- Twitter @Fitchingg - https://twitter.com/fitchinGG

- Instagram @Fitchingg - https://www.instagram.com/fitchingg/

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The Coasthawk Talk podcast is hosted by Nick Swinmurn, Founder of Zappos. This podcast takes a deep dive into the passion projects of the best athletes and entrepreneurs each week. Join in on the conversation where you’ll hear about the next frontier of business, NFTs, philanthropy, and amazing products created by athletes and some of the incredible entrepreneurs Nick has met along his journey. Our goal is to unpack and discuss how athletes and entrepreneurs have created some of the world’s most successful brands and businesses. If you enjoy the show please subscribe, rate, and review. This is Coasthawk Talk.

 This week on Coasthawk Talk our host Nick Swinmurn is joined by Dennis Jarvis, the CEO of Bitcoin.com. To start the show they talk about Dennis being exposed to tech such as the Apple 2 as a child, and how that shaped his interest in coding, and eventually the space he is in today. Nick asks Dennis how can someone learn about different management styles without jumping ship constantly, and they dive into his time at Apple. Dennis talks about how he moved out to Japan because of Apple, and that he loved it so much he has been living there for 13 years now. The two talk about Dennis being introduced to Bitcoin and Blockchain in 2011 and how he joined Bitcoin.com in 2018. They tackle subjects like, what the general population's comfort level with crypto is today, and they talk about the mission of Bitcoin.com.

Since 2015, Bitcoin.com has been a global leader in introducing newcomers to crypto in terms that they can easily comprehend and learn. They make it easy for anyone to buy, spend, trade, invest, earn, and stay up-to-date on cryptocurrency and the future of finance.

Twitter - @BitcoinCom- https://twitter.com/Bitcoincom

Twitter - @Ogcryptoskier- https://twitter.com/ogcryptoskier

Website - https://www.bitcoin.com/

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The Coasthawk Talk podcast is hosted by Nick Swinmurn, Founder of Zappos. This podcast takes a deep dive into the passion projects of the best athletes and entrepreneurs each week. Join in on the conversation where you’ll hear about the next frontier of business, NFTs, philanthropy, and amazing products created by athletes and some of the incredible entrepreneurs Nick has met along his journey. Our goal is to unpack and discuss how athletes and entrepreneurs have created some of the world’s most successful brands and businesses. If you enjoy the show please subscribe, rate, and review. This is Coasthawk Talk.

 This week on Coasthawk Talk our host Nick Swinmurn is joined by Zach “HBA” Sullivan, the Founder of Fishy Fam. To start the show Nick asks HBA about his start into crypto and NFT’s, and what he wanted to do before he discovered them. The two dive into what “HBA” means, and Fishy Fam’s origin. Nick asks about the value of gaining experience on other projects before starting your own, and HBA elaborates on what a project's responsibility is to its holders. They talk about some fun moments in Fishy Fam’s history, and who in the Web3 world would HBA spend a day with if he could.

  Fishy Fam is an NFT collection on the Ethereum blockchain consisting of 9,999 collectible Fishy’s, who are leaving their Great Reef to go on an ocean adventure. Fishy holders receive access to exclusive drops, experiences, and more.

Twitter - @FishyfamNFT- https://twitter.com/fishyfamNFT

Twitter - @Hbacrypto- https://twitter.com/hbacrypto

Collection - https://opensea.io/collection/fishyfam

Website - https://fishyfam.io/

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The Coasthawk Talk podcast is hosted by Nick Swinmurn, Founder of Zappos. This podcast takes a deep dive into the passion projects of the best athletes and entrepreneurs each week. Join in on the conversation where you’ll hear about the next frontier of business, NFTs, philanthropy, and amazing products created by athletes and some of the incredible entrepreneurs Nick has met along his journey. Our goal is to unpack and discuss how athletes and entrepreneurs have created some of the world’s most successful brands and businesses. If you enjoy the show please subscribe, rate, and review. This is Coasthawk Talk. 

 This week on Coasthawk Talk our host Nick Swinmurn is joined by Zaza Pachulia, Retired NBA player and Founder of Zaza Pachulia Basketball Academy. To start the show they begin talking about Zaza’s early introduction into the idea of being a professional basketball player at a young age, and what his first big business endeavor was while playing in the NBA. Nick asks about Zaza’s process when he is first becoming interested in an idea and needs to see if it's a good opportunity for him. They also talk about the best way to gain an athlete's trust and attention when proposing an idea or opportunity to them. Zaza talks about how the locker room has changed today since his time playing and how players today are thinking about their future outside of the league more than they used to.

Zaza Pachulia is an Entrepreneur, Investor, and Founder of Zaza Pachulia Basketball Academy. He is also the Liaison for business and basketball at Golden State Warriors (NBA), and a part of the Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches Community.

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/zazapachulia/ 

Twitter - @Zaza27 - https://twitter.com/zaza27

Instagram @Zazapachulia - https://www.instagram.com/zazapachulia/ -

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The Coasthawk Talk podcast is hosted by Nick Swinmurn, Founder of Zappos. This podcast takes a deep dive into the passion projects of the best athletes and entrepreneurs each week. Join in on the conversation where you’ll hear about the next frontier of business, NFTs, philanthropy, and amazing products created by athletes and some of the incredible entrepreneurs Nick has met along his journey. Our goal is to unpack and discuss how athletes and entrepreneurs have created some of the world’s most successful brands and businesses. If you enjoy the show please subscribe, rate, and review. This is Coasthawk Talk.