DiscoPosse Podcast

Tyler Kemp is the founder of RollSocial.co and LeadRoll.co,  Tyler works with small businesses, influencers, and sales/service professionals to help you cut through the noise and own the attention of your market.  Our conversation covers everything from the fundamentals of effective social strategy, creating empathy through social media outreach, and building a sustainable business with a bootstrap funding model.  Tyler brings a wealth on knowledge and lessons on systematizing life and business.  A truly enjoyable conversation.

Colin is Founder & CEO of Sheets & Giggles, a Denver-based, fast-growing brand in the $12B US bedding space. Launched on Indiegogo in 2018 with a $284,000 crowdfunding campaign.  Colin brings an incredible amount of passion and knowledge to the discussion which covers what could be the foundations of a top-level business course including creating successful growth strategy, building a business founded on sustainability, and maintaining a sustainable and successful culture in the organization. 

There is a bonus for anyone who is keen on the idea of crowdfunding as Colin shares his proven methods that led to Sheets & Giggles being one of the most successful crowdfunded campaigns on Indiegogo.  

Thank you to Colin for this amazing conversation and so many great lessons!

Kristin Rulon is the founder of the Mind Star App and the self-care community and programs that led to its creation.  Kristin joins us and shares heartfelt lessons in the challenges of postpartum depression, PTSD, life as a busy family, and how she turned her situation into a startup.

This show teaches us both how health and wellness are challenging and absolutely necessary, plus Kristin gives some incredible lessons in how she is building Mind Star and how you can take these lessons to create your own app.  One thing I loved about this conversation is that Kristin reminds us all that challenges and limits are everywhere and it's all about how we choose to deal with them.

Ned Bellavance is the voice and talent being NedInTheCloud.com and also the Day 2 Cloud Podcast.  Ned shares some powerful insights and fun lessons on how to learn, how he got into teaching and education, and what learning can do for the personal and community development in positive ways.

Aeva (@aevavoom) joins me for a very insightful, thoughtful discussion that covers some very interesting and challenging aspects of tech and society.  We delve into the challenge of bias in data which can influence ML and AI, but more importantly, how we must think about it and how we can mindfully approach ways to deal with and hopefully alleviate these issues.  

You can find more about Aeva at https://aeva.online and stay tuned for some more deep discussions as I hope to have Aeva back on the show much more in the future to dive into specifics of some of what we covered here.  A must listen show for sure!

Charity Majors (https://charity.wtf)  is a returning guest to the podcast and someone whom I thoroughly respect and enjoy having a conversation with.  As the co-founder of Honeycomb (https://honeycomb.io), Charity is leading her team to tackle some exciting challenges and share the value of observability with the world.

Join us as we discuss why most vendors and people in the industry are misusing the term Observability.  Charity also answers some tough questions and shares great insights including the big question that I love to ask folks which you will hear as we cover so much amazing ground in this chat. 

As the Princess Bride quote goes:  "You keep using that word.  I do not think it means what you think it means"

Jack Vandervelde is a musical artist (https://www.jackvandervelde.com) and co-founder of Helix eSports (https://helixesports.com), quickly growing with aims to be the leading eSports center & social hub for all gamers in the New York City & Northern New Jersey area.  Jack shares a lot of great information on the values and vision that led to his personal career and the founding and operation of Helix eSports as a close-knit and customer-focused business.  

Vlad Edelman is a dynamic and knowledgeable startup founder who is the power being Targetable, a virtual ad agency.  Join us as we walk through Vlad's experiences over the course of his career that led him to found Targetable.  This is definitely another lesson for anyone keen on the startup life.  Vlad is full of amazing advice and information.  

Ankesh Kumar is the founder of LetsChat.chat (https://letschat.chat) as well as an inventor, entrepreneur, leader, husband, and father who thrives in bettering the lives of the people he encounters.  Ankesh shares some amazing lessons in the founding of LetsChat and how the experiences and interactions between customers and companies is fundamentally changing.  

Om Suthar is the founder of SQRL (https:/sqrl.me) which is a really nifty app designed to create continuous goal achievement by tying steps, dollars, and feedback to achieve holistic happiness.  There is really much more to the product and what Om is doing which we touch in our great conversation, including startup challenges, managing product building and how to effectively begin your side-hustle entrepreneurship opportunity.