EDGE with Brandon White

All about Chat GPT. The history, how Chat GPT works, its strengths, weaknesses and ways you can use it today in to help you in your daily life and in your business.

This conversation goes deep and challenges some of the hype that Chat GPT has generated. The conversation is meant to inform you and question what the limits are on these large language models. 

Brandon invited Serge Kurenkov, a CTO in Silicon Valley who has worked at companies like Ancestory.com,  into the EDGE studio to have a conversation about Chat GPT. Drop into the conversation and learn all about Chat GPT.

About Serge Kurenkov
Serge is a CTO in Silicon Valley with over twenty years of software engineering experience building software using AI, machine learning, and NLP.

He's used AI at Ancestory.com to figure out DNA sequencing, a security company to understand the origin of network attacks and in other applications like scheduling a workforce.

EPISODE LINKS:

• Serge Kurenkov on LinkedIn
  https://www.linkedin.com/in/skurenkov/

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Laken shares her playbook how to achieve mental strength and perseverance so you can achieve YOUR best self.

From one day being put in a closet to sharpen pencils with serious thoughts of giving up here dream,  to a call that day that put her on a plane and on the professional basketball court just a few days later.

Learn how she set herself up for success and how YOU can do the same thing.

About Laken James
Laken is a four year professional women's basketball player. She played Division 1 basketball at the University of Wisconsin Green Bay where she graduated with a undergrad in Business Administration and Masters in Applied Leadership in Teaching and Learning. 

She is currently pursuing her PhD in Sport, Physical Education, and Health Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. 

Her journey through basketball and her education have inspired her to start her business Five Star Academy where the company focuses on the mental side of the game of basketball and works with young female athletes to help them reach their full potential.

EPISODE LINKS:

• Five Star Academy
  https://www.fivestaracad.com
  
  

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On World Water Day 2023 Taylor shares the story of Richard's Rainwater, the only company in the US that is licensed to sell rainwater as drinking water.

From Richard collecting rainwater at his house in Austin, TX, to a few bottles of water locals said was the best drinking water they'd every had, to a full scale operation that has the opportunity to provide clean drinking water for communities around the world.

About Taylor O'Neil and Richard's Rainwater
Taylor is CEO of Richard’s Rainwater, the country’s first company to bottle rainwater, the earth’s cleanest, best-tasting, and most renewable water source.

He's a recovering hedge fund and investment banking professional. He has served as CEO of Richard’s  Rainwater since the initial ESG investment in 2017. Taylor has been responsible for building the team, developing the capacity expansion plan, building the product roadmap and overseeing the regulatory, safety and quality aspects of the business.

Prior to his leadership of Richard’s Rainwater, Taylor has a long track record in finance.  Most recently, at Pine River Capital, Taylor was recruited as the youngest Investment Professional to launch a  healthcare investment strategy. He began his career as an investment banker and held roles in corporate M&A at UnitedHealth Group and Virtual Radiologic, at the time a Providence Equity Capital portfolio company.

EPISODE LINKS

• Richard's Rainwater
  https://www.richardsrainwater.com 

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Jeff and Mike share intimate details about a firefight where close air support from the A-10 Warthog was critical to helping save Jeff and his fellow Green Bret lives.

You have to hear the story to believe it! And this is just one of many situations where close air support has saved lives.

PLEASE help save close air support by signing the petition so we don't lose this vital capability. It only takes 20 seconds to sign the petition:

• Save Close Air Support Petition (takes about 20 seconds to sign)
  👉 https://www.change.org/p/save-close-air-support
  
  
• OR Contact your local congress person via the EASY to use form letters
  👉 https://www.troops-in-contact.org/contact-congress
  
  
• Troops in Contact Website
  https://www.troops-in-contact.org

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About Troops in Contact

Mission: Save Close Air Support (CAS)

The Problem: the Air Force is cutting Close Air Support and breaking faith with troops.

In the 2023 budget the Air Force revealed a 5-year plan to eliminate its A-10 CAS aircraft without an adequate replacement and to cut TACPs/ JTACs (Terminal Air Control Party Specialists/ Joint Terminal Attack Controllers/ Air Ground Integrators) by 50%. 

If successful, this plan would kill the CAS profession and cripple America’s CAS capability. 

Ground troops would be supported, if at all, by CAS amateurs in a small expensive fleet of fragile aircraft that are far less effective.  In Low Intensity Conflict, that will cost lives.  In Major Combat Operations, it risks losing battles.   

How You Can Help

1.  Click 'Contact Congress', send a letter, and sign our petition
https://www.troops-in-contact.org/contact-congress

2.  Refer your friends to this website

3.  If your organization supports this cause, reach out through our Endorsements page.​

We need your help to spread the word as rapidly as possible. ​

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Kristen opens up and shares her story from clipping in to her first bike ride six years ago to leaving a venture capital job to pursue her calling and winning podium finishes on the UCI World Tour.

Where do YOU feel like you are your BEST self?  Are you brave enough to follow that?

You'll leave with the courage that YOU can do it too. and reach your peak performance. Why not you?

2024 Update: Kristen won the Gold Medal in Women's Cycling at the Paris 2024 Olympic games.

About Kristen Faulkner
Kristen is from Homer, Alaska, a quaint fishing village that is also the halibut fishing capital of the world. In Alaska, she cultivated her passion for the outdoors and for adventure. She spent her summers hiking, fishing, making homemade rasberry jam, and competing at local swim meets.

She learned the value of hard work as a kid working in my parents’ hotel and restaurant. She explains when asked why she worked so hard it was because she didn’t want to spend the rest of her life cleaning toilets and checking in guests :)

Kristen graduated from Harvard with a B.A. in computer science.  She was a varsity rower for 2.5 years in college and placed 2nd at the Junior World rowing Championship in 2010. 

After graduation, Kristen worked as an investment associate at Threshold Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm in Silicon Valley. 

In addition to investing, she's passionate about gender equality and supporting more women in technology, entrepreneurship, and investing.  As an investor, she hosted free office hours for female entrepreneurs and was a cohort captain for All Raise, a community of female Venture Capitalists.

In 2016 Kristen I attended a free, introductory women’s clinic for cycling in New York City and immediately fell in love with the sport. In mid-2018, she moved to the San Francisco Bay Area and in 2020, began racing for the Professional UCI Team TIBCO-Silicon Valley Bank (which has since become the WWT team EF-Education-Tibco-Silicon Valley Bank). 

She's primarily a road racer, though she has explored other disciplines including gravel, track, and Zwift. She represented the United States at 3 World Championships: 2020 (Zwift E-worlds), 2021 (Road Race) and 2022 (Road Race and Time Trial), 2024 Olympic Gold Medal Winner Woman's Road Rate in Paris.

EPISODE LINKS

• Kristen Faulkner
  https://www.kristenfaulkner.com

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Alden drops into the studio and talks about his life, how he programmed his mind to be unstoppable, overcame health deficients to achieve peak performance, and after getting out of the SEAL teams started a company and sold it. 

Alden and Brandon also talk about his new app GOALBud that will help you set and achieve your goals.

You'll leave this episode with an actionable playbook to reach your peak performance and become unstoppable.

About Alden Mills
Alden Mills is on a mission to help 100 million people like you Be Unstoppable.

He is a two-time bestselling author of Be Unstoppable and Unstoppable Teams, the Inc. 500 CEO of Perfect Fitness, and the founder of multiple businesses.

Throughout his time as a businessman founding and leading multiple companies, he has been awarded over 40 patents.

A former Navy SEAL, he is a three-time platoon commander and ranked #1 platoon commander each time.

Alden teaches people, teams, and organizations to Be Unstoppable. Entrepreneur magazine recently ranked him the #1 top virtual speaker.

EPISODE LINKS

• GoalBud
  https://goalbud.org
  
  
• Be Unstoppable: The 8 Essential Actions to Succeed at Anything
  Best price on Amazon --> https://amzn.to/3ZspoRG
  
  
• Unstoppable Teams: The Four Essential Actions of High-Performance Leadership
  Best price on Amazon --> https://amzn.to/3ZspAQU

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Taking drugs to fix your health problems has become the norm instead of the exception or even better the last resort. 

Sara and Brandon talk about how America has become hooked on drugs of all kinds. From over the counter drugs, prescription drugs and even illegal drugs,  Instead of a program for getting healthy, you get a prescription for a pill.

Listen in hear how Sara's company is aiming to change this and how pharmaceutical sobriety may be the key to you living a longer life.

About Sara Auld
Sara Auld is a serial entrepreneur in the health, wellness, and technology industry as a 2x Founder and 3x company starter. 

A former college athlete, Sara , began as a Personal Trainer, which led to opening three growing wellness companies in four years.  Sara first founded a nonprofit organization that invented its own sliding scale algorithm and FinTech software, plus donation-based subsidies for wellness services. 

In 2019, she simultaneously launched and managed an IV infusion MedSpa for its medical and investment team, where the team set the national franchise sales record in the first month of business. 

By 2021, Sara received an unsolicited investment offer from a serial entrepreneur and Venture Capitalist to scale her innovations to the masses, creating her latest company, Upper. 

With a vision to create the natural healthcare landscape, Upper is a wellness and natural medicine provider network that virtually triages the public to effective natural healthcare services, products, and resources across the USA. 

An online marketplace on its face, Upper is developing infrastructure for the independently existing wellness industry including referral, product-ordering, and financial integrative software as its path to making natural healthcare the most convenient method of care on Earth.

Sara also writes theoretical healthcare essays for fun.

EPISODE LINKS

• Upper
  https://ontheupper.com
  
  
• Pharmaceutical Sobriety Essay
  https://sararauld.files.wordpress.com/2023/01/pharmaceutical-sobriety-1.pdf
  
  
• Precision Wellness
  https://sararauld.files.wordpress.com/2023/02/precision-wellness-as-self-vaccination.pdf

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John and Brandon talk about what it's like being a full time professional fishing guide, fisheries conservation and catch BIG tuna on light tackle and fly fishing gear.

About Capt. John McMurray of One More Cast Fishing Charters
For twenty years Capt. McMurray has been the owner and primary operator of “One More Cast” Charters. 

He runs trips on both the skiffs and the Contenders, pretty much every day the weather allows, from mid-April through December – with the notable exception of every other Sunday, which he sets aside to take his 10 year old son fishing (AKA “Bro-day”).

As is the case with any small business owner he is the chief maintenance officer, booking agent, mechanic, electrician, accountant etc.

After obtaining an undergraduate degree in Political Science from Loyola College in Maryland, Captain McMurray served in the US Coast Guard. After his career in the Coast Guard he was the Executive Director of the Coastal Conservation Association New York,  then Director of Grants Programs at the Norcross Wildlife Foundation in New York before becoming a full time fishing guide.

Capt. McMurray is a well known and well published outdoor writer, notable for his work on fisheries conservation issues. He's written for  Reel-Time.com, Saltwater Sportsman and Sport Fishing Magazine, and has had feature articles and/or photography published in On The Water, Saltwater Fly Fishing, Tide Magazine, Nor’east Saltwater, Newsday and the New York Times. 

EPISODE LINKS

• One More Cast Fishing Charters
  --> http://NYCtuna.com 

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Marc shares his two decades of entrepreneurship founding, building and selling three companies, the lessons he's learned along the way and how he and his team are aiming to make you more productive with Bloks.

Lots of practical lessons you can immediately use that give you an edge to win in your business and in your life.

About Marc Gingras
Marc is a Canadian serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and business leader responsible for helming many successful startups that have transformed how busy professionals organize their time and manage their personal productivity.

His startup Tungle, an early meeting scheduling tool and precursor to Calendly, was adopted by over half a million users before Research In Motion (makers of BlackBerry) acquired the company in 2011.

Once there, Marc led the team behind BlackBerry’s communication and productivity suite (including email, calendar, contacts, tasks, and memos) that was used by over 100 million people worldwide.

After BlackBerry, Marc became the leader of the team task management and visual communication platform Foko. The self-described “Instagram for business” counted over 50 major retailers—like Whole Foods, Converse, CVS, and Five Below—as customers before being acquired in 2021 by the private equity-backed WorkForce Software.

Now, Marc has reunited with some of his former teammates and is looking to take on Apple Notes and the Evernotes of the world with Bloks: an intelligent note-taking app that helps people think more clearly by quickly capturing and putting their thoughts in context.

EPISODE LINKS

• Bloks.
  https://Bloks.app

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Morgan and Brandon explore her journey from driving trucks in the Army to founding a non-profit with the idea of bringing people from all walks of life together over a good glass of bourbon to make the world a little better place.

Morgan drops some things that you just can't make up.

A fun, wild and inspiring conversation about a never give up attitude.

About Morgan Hancock
Morgan Hancock is a commercial real estate agent, entrepreneur, US ARMY veteran, mother-of-two, bourbonista, and passionate advocate of the arts.

She is also the founder of Bourbon with Heart, Kentucky’s first and only arts-focused bourbon charity.

She created Bourbon with Heart to leverage the influence and popularity of Bourbon to raise funds for local charities while providing a first-class arts experience for Kentuckians regardless of age, race, class, gender, or ability.

Morgan believes art, like a good glass of Bourbon, brings people together, bridges divides, and encourages self-expression.

About Bourbon with Heart
Bourbon with Heart's mission is to leverage the influence and popularity of Bourbon to raise funds for local charities while also providing a first-class arts experience for Kentuckians regardless of age, race, class, gender, or ability.

EPISODE LINKS

• Bourbon with Heart
  https://bourbonwithheart.org

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