Dreaming Bigger Podcast

Tom Oswald understands the challenges that come with monetizing visual content shared by creators to digital platforms like Spotify and YouTube. In recognizing those challenges, Oswald wanted to create a digital photo-sharing platform that would cater to each content creator, rather than simply benefit the platform itself. 

After discovering that he could build a platform that included compression algorithms, servers, increased bandwidth, and cost-effective storage at a highly-affordable rate for its users. The result was ClickASnap, the world’s first-ever paid-per-view photo platform.

Jeremy ‘Jay’ Cohen is Chicago-born, LA-based and Founder & CEO of Preach Management. In 2000, Jeremy became involved in the music industry through playing in local bands and becoming a recording engineer.

In 2019, OTG Management merged with German-based promotions firm Preach Media Group to create PREACH that includs Preach Management, Preach Records and Preach Sessions). Jay currently runs the management and record label operations from the PREACH headquarters in Los Angeles. He also co-owns contact sharing app, QR You, and writes a weekly column at JayCohenMusic.com.

This episode sits down with Anthony Berk, the Head Of Operations for Cannabox. He joined the team in 2017 and is the cataylst on marketing, branding and cannabox curations. Cannabox is the most trusted weed subscription box and online smoke shop. Monthly boxes full of bongs, rigs for dabs, grinders, glass pipes and other 420 essentials.

Athan Slotkin is a serial entrepreneur and award-winning business plan strategist. His rapid, iterative, heavily-analytical approach has been the key for over 700 new entrepreneurs in 2019 and 2020 alone, helping them package up their business with business plans, financial models and presentations, while teaching them how to become the stellar CEO they want to become along the way. His work has been featured across, TV, radio, and conferences worldwide.

Vera Wang is a celebrated Chinese fashion blogger based in New York City that has been awarded as the 1st Chinese influencer in the US. She is the founder of WG empire, an NYC-based fashion and lifestyle PR company focusing primarily on connecting China with the US & European markets. Vera is also the founder of VERAFIED, a New York fashion boutique with worldwide presence.

Melissa Mel is a designer, creator, and entrepreneur on several missions all at once. Moving from Connecticut to Los Angeles in 2018 she decided to not settle for a singular path, Mel adopted the moniker Meltifaceted as a way to embrace whatever purpose & form calls to her that day.

Melissa is the creator of the WoMi movement and app. Taking the search & guesswork out of shopping small, The WoMi™ App is a digital directory of woman, BIPOC & LGBTQ+ owned small businesses. The free app helps conscious shoppers discover new (Wo)man & (Mi)nority owned brands to support.

Author and mindfulness expert Julie Potiker is an attorney who began her serious study and investigation of mindfulness after graduating from the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction program at the University of California, San Diego.

Now, she shares these and other mindfulness techniques with the world through her Mindful Methods For Life trainings and her book: “Life Falls Apart, But You Don’t Have To: Mindful Methods For Staying Calm In The Midst Of Chaos.”

Noirbnb is a global travel community that provides experiences and events with a focus on including and celebrating travelers of color. 

Noirbnb was born in October 2015 after co-founder, Stefan Grant's experience while booking a stay in Atlanta. This is when Stefan realized his experience was not an isolated case and more importantly, that there was an opportunity to create a better, safer experience for travelers of color.

MistoBox has teamed up with Ballotpedia, a nonpartisan online encyclopedia of American politics and elections to create the Ballotpedia Coffee Club. The MistoBox and Ballotpedia partnership delivers freshly roasted specialty coffee from the country’s best roasters to subscribers' doors, along with important political information to your inbox. 

This episode interviews with Rhiannon Cook, Head of Growth at MistoBox as well as Kayla Harris, Senior Communications Associate at Ballotpedia Coffee Club.

It’s an election year and it’s more important than ever to be informed, but MistoBox understands that there is an overwhelming amount of information, opinions, and data to absorb and it’s delivered from countless sources. Just as no two coffee drinkers are alike, political views vary, so it is important to present our subscribers with unbiased information that people feel empowered by. 

Ballotpedia provides objective information about local, state, and federal politics and policies. Its content includes trustworthy information, covering government officials and the offices they hold, political issues and public policy, elections, and candidates.

Ten X Talent is a strategic consultancy, branding, and management company that implements growth strategies for artists & companies. This special episode features the partners + siblings: Kristin & Latham Ford as well as the founder of The Fox Magazine - Mike Fox.

Kristin Ford is a PR guru and marketing machine. With her ability to strategize, create, and execute effectively and efficiently in a high-demand and result-driven industry is what makes her Ten X Talent.