Enterprise Podcast Network

James Layfield, the CEO of Clearfind, a software intelligence platform that analyzes your software ecosystem and uncovers what products you should keep, assess, remove and consolidate joins Enterprise Radio.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest James Layfield discuss the following:

* Tell us more about Clearfind. How it was founded and the overall mission of the company? 

* Tell us more about your background and how you got started as a serial entrepreneur and tech investor? 

* The pandemic has shifted the way we think of the world of work, especially when it comes to startups. What was the most difficult part of your experience and what is one thing you are most proud of? 

* Let’s talk about the Clearfind software. Who is the software geared towards and are there certain industries that would benefit most? 

* Walk us through what a business owner needs to do for the setup process? 

* What is the Clearfind differentiator compared to other similar softwares in the marketplace? 

* What is your vision for the future of Clearfind? 

* What is your advice for the businesses that are trying to adapt to this economic climate? 

James Layfield is the CEO of Clearfind. Clearfind’s software intelligence platform analyzes your software ecosystem and uncovers what products you should keep, assess, remove and consolidate. James is an entrepreneur and investor creating positive change through innovation in sectors ranging from property to financial technology.

Most recently, James co-founded Clearfind, an easy-to-use, unbiased artificial intelligence platform that is changing the way companies manage and optimize software with data. James is a general partner in a fintech investment fund Treasury with the cofounders of Acorns, Betterment, and a board member of Paypal, and has angel investments across a host of technology ventures.

James has founded and led multiple successful companies including Rise, the world’s largest fintech innovation platform, with Barclays; Never Ever Limited, an innovation catalyst and consulting agency; and Central Working, a shared workspace hub for business professionals.

Website: https://clearfind.com

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Warren Coughlin who guides entrepreneurs in building what he calls A Business That Matters joins Enterprise Radio. He’s been doing that since 2002 with clients experiencing 8 figure exists, 7 figure salaries and enjoying positive impacts.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Warren Coughlin discuss the following:

* You talk about building a Business That Matters. That’s an interesting term. Can you describe what that is?

* That sounds like an admirable objective for an entrepreneur. But how does someone know if their Business Matters? What has to be in place?

* How do they get there, especially in times as uncertain as the ones we are in?

* People are busy. Especially with COVID. How do they go about doing that?

* I’ve heard that saying that Culture eats strategy. Yet you’re promoting strategy. Do you disagree with that statement or how do you reconcile it?

Warren Coughlin helps principled entrepreneurs build a Business That Matters.  That is one that delivers to you, the owner, attractive profits and a fulfilling lifestyle while also creating positive impacts on customers, team and the larger community.  In other words, it is one that helps make the world – or just your corner of it – a better place.

This requires a combination of solid business skills and disciplines guided by deeply held values.

He’s been helping entrepreneurs do this since 2002.  They have experienced everything from 8 figure exits, to 7 figure salaries, from rapid expansion to minimized operational work because of the development of great leaders and high performance values-driven cultures.

Warren is the creator of The Business That Matters Playbook, a tool that automates and eases the strategic planning process so the entrepreneur and the team know exactly what to do and when.

Warren’s also a recovering lawyer, a serial entrepreneur, college professor, actor, theater director and Dad to a wonderful daughter who constantly challenges him to be a better person.

Website: warrencoughlin.com

Social Media Links:

Facebook: facebook.com/abusinessthatmatters

Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/warrencoughlin

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Peter H. Christian, consultant, mentor, speaker, adjunct professor, and author of two recently released books, “What About the Vermin Problem?” and Influences and Influencers”, both Amazon best sellers joins Enterprise Radio.

This episode of Enterprise Radio is in association with the Author Channel.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Peter H. Christian discuss the following:

* What made you want to write and release your two business books, “What About the Vermin Problem?” and Influences and Influencers”?

* What are the 2-3 key recommendations that you provide for Managers?

* What are the 2-3 key recommendations that you provide for Consultants?

* What are some of the positive outcomes of these influencers that you have witnessed?

* What are some of the negative outcomes of these influencers that you have witnessed?

* What do you hope or expect people to take away after reading these books?

Peter is a hands on business executive and trusted adviser with 40 years of professional experience. He brings a practical knowledge to solve problems working as a part of the client’s company to help ensure their success. He listens to the employees, managers, and executives and understands their concerns and issues. He then provides focused and realistic approaches to address and resolve them.

He played a key role in the 700% growth of Crayola over his 17 years with the company. Since then, he has  worked with 300+ companies. These ranged from million dollar to Fortune 100 enterprises. He has  helped them to reduce costs and increase profitability by millions of dollars while adding and saving thousands of jobs.

He is a best best selling author on Amazon of the books “What About the Vermin Problem?” and “Influences and Influencers. He has also contributed a number of articles to professional Journals.

He is an active consultant, writer and adjunct professor at Alvernia University and works with students at Rutgers and Lehigh Universities.

Website: PeteChristianBooks.com

Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/peter-christian

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Fardad Zabetian, the CEO of KUDO, a web-based video conference platform with real-time language interpretation joins Enterprise Radio.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Fardad Zabetian discuss the following:

* Why is language communication a friction point that keeps businesses from expanding globally?

* What is your background in multilingual meetings, specifically large global summits, working with world leaders?

* I understand that the world of interpreters is a very incredible and interesting one. Tell us how interpreters have worked in the past and how technologizing this has contributed to global business?

* What was your inspiration to build KUDO; how does it work?

* What makes KUDO completely unique with no competitors?

Fardad Zabetian, CEO and co-founder of KUDO, Inc., has spent a lifetime finding new ways to break language barriers between businesses worldwide, his most recent efforts have disrupted how interpretation is used in global business. He has hatched five companies, two before the age of 24, and two of which were named by the Daily Deal Flow as “fastest growing businesses in America.”

All of these experiences have resulted in a wide network of global clients ranging from government executives to the heads of legendary institutions.

After building conferencing systems in Europe and the Middle East for years prior, Zabetian established Media Vision in 2002 in San Francisco which provided conferencing hardware and language interpretation equipment. The company quickly grew selling cutting edge services for cities throughout the United States. In less than four years, their work attracted a storied client who requested a makeover of their conference centers and general assembly hall in New York City.

For the next 18 years, Zabetian built teams of talent who outfitted conference centers and built language translation studios in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. They disrupted how global business operated by saving major institutions and companies massive amounts of travel time and money.

In 2007, Zabetian created Conference Rental USA, which benefited global businesses similarly, and leased high-tech equipment for conferences. His first client was the 2009 North American Leaders Summit, providing interpreter infrastructure services for the U.S. President Barack Obama, Stephen Harper of Canada, and Felipe Calderon of Mexico. Zabetian grew a reputation that continued to attract blue ribbon clients on every continent.

In 2016, Fardad also co-founded AVAtronics, a Swiss technology company that focuses on active noise canceling technology with applications in headphones, smart speakers, conferencing, and smart TVs.

Only one year later, Zabetian married the best of conference technology with the talent of highly skilled interpreters and created KUDO.

The cloud-based video conference platform reinvents multilingual meetings and gives clients access to a network of thousands professional interpreters who specialize in 100+ languages (sign language included). His latest creation, KUDO Marketplace, launched in 2021 and further simplified the scheduling process for clients wishing to book interpreters.

His mission is to break language barriers, and truly connect people worldwide. “When businesses, thought leaders, innovators, and creatives are able to develop ideas through collaboration, true progress happens,” he explains. “I am passionate about removing language blockages so that all businesses can attain their highest potential by increasing their global reach and creating limitless collaboration opportunities”

KUDO’s growth in 2020 was significant,

Payman Taei, Founder and CEO of Visme, the leading visual content creation platform providing B2B and B2C teams with the freedom to create on-brand assets including presentations, infographics and more joins Enterprise Radio.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Payman Taei discuss the following:

What is Visme and what type of service do you provide?

Who uses Visme and how does it empower people?

How does Visme compare to services like Canva or Prezi?

How can remote teams benefit from using Visme?

What is next for Visme?

Payman Taei is the founder and CEO of Visme. He started a web design agency in 2001 called HindSite Interactive and over the years discovered a gap in the market of design tools. All the design tools on the market were either easy enough for anyone to use, but lacking in flexibility and functionality, or they were full of great features, but not ones that a non-professional designer could use.

Visme was built to help fill that gap in 2013. Over the years, we have tested, added and grown Visme’s offering into what it is today, an all-in-one visual communication platform. Today we have 8 million users spread across the globe.

Website: https://www.visme.co

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Bronwen Sciortino, an International Author and Simplicity Expert who spent almost two decades as an award-winning executive before experiencing a life changing event that forced her to stop and ask the question ‘What if there’s a better way to live?’ again joins Enterprise Fit Radio.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Bronwen Sciortino discuss the following:

* Most of us spent most of last year begging the 1st of January 2021 to hurry up and arrive so we could put the horrors of 2020 behind us. But now 2021 is here, and we’re not seeing too much difference in every day life. Why is it we put so much emphasis on a new year to make things better in our lives?

* Life seems to change very quickly now and the impact of those changes gets bigger and bigger. We’re under so much stress and have so much more expected of us. Is there a turning point on the horizon when as a society we say ‘no more’ and start to push back on the level of stress we accept as normal?

* We hear the words ‘stress’ and ‘burnout’ and we know that we’re impacted personally, and we know that we have to do something differently or we’re going to pay the price, but we put it off till later … what’s stopping us from making changes in our lives?

* What’s the true impact of leaving our health and wellbeing on the back burner?

* Is there a way to do things differently that doesn’t involve throwing everything out and completely starting again?

* How can we make 2021 different from all the years that have gone before?

Bronwen Sciortino is an International Author and Simplicity Expert who spent almost two decades as an award-winning executive before experiencing a life changing event that forced her to stop and ask the question ‘What if there’s a better way to live?’

Embarking on a journey to answer this question, Bronwen developed a whole new way of living – one that teaches you to challenge the status quo and include the power of questions in everyday life.

Gaining international critical acclaim and 5-star awards for her books, Bronwen spends every day teaching people that there is an easy, practical and simple pathway to creating a healthy, happy AND highly successful life.

Sourced globally for media comment as an expert and working with corporate programs, conference platforms, retreats, professional mentoring and in the online environment, Bronwen teaches people how easy it is to live life very differently.

Website: sheiqlife.com

Free eMail Series: sheiqlife.com/7-steps-email-series

Social Media Links:

Facebook: facebook.com/bronwensciortinoauthor

Instagram: instagram.com/bronwensciortino_author

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Ming-Hui Huang, an internationally recognized expert on AI and co-author of “The Feeling Economy: How Artificial Intelligence Is Creating the Era of Empathy“ joins Enterprise Radio.

This episode of Enterprise Radio is in association with the Author Channel.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Ming-Hui Huang discuss the following:

* Why is artificial intelligence creating a “Feeling Economy”?

* How will jobs change in the Feeling Economy?

* You say that the Feeling Economy will be a time of unprecedented power and influence for women.  Why?

* STEM is the hot thing right now.  Is it really true that STEM training will be obsolete?

* Is there evidence in recent political elections that empathy is now key, and rationality is becoming less important?

* Can AI be creative?

* Will AI ever get to the point where it is smarter than people in all ways?

* What is necessary to produce AI that has feeling intelligence?

Ming-Hui Huang is Distinguished Research Fellow at the Center for Excellence in Service at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, and Distinguished Professor, Department of Information Management, College of Management, National Taiwan University. A leading researcher and frequent contributor to both academic and managerial journals in AI and service, she is also Editor-in-Chief Elect of the Journal of Service Research (JSR).

Learn more about their new book, The Feeling Economy: How Artificial Intelligence Is Creating the Era of Empathy (Springer International Publishing; January 2021).

Website: https://management.ntu.edu.tw

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Adam Lampe, CEO of Mint Wealth Management, a wealth management firm in Houston, Texas specializing in holistic wealth advice, risk management, and tax efficient investing joins Enterprise Radio.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Adam Lampe discuss the following:

* How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected the way people are managing their money? What sort of shifts have you seen in your clients?

* How have you worked with your clients to mitigate heightened fear over the past year as a result of the economic instability brought about by the pandemic?

* What advice do you have for individuals who come to you with concern over having enough money, especially in the last year?

* Do you think the COVID-19 pandemic will permanently change the way wealth management firms operate and support their clients? If so, how?

* How do you advise clients to plan for unprecedented expenses? How can individuals looking to cultivate their nest-egg allocate for emergencies in the future?

Adam Lampe is the CEO and Co-Founder of Mint Wealth Management. For over 18 years, Adam has helped high net worth individuals, affluent families, foundations, and institutions work toward their financial goals through holistic financial planning. He has extensive experience in areas such as wealth management, tax and retirement planning, and numerous others. He’s been featured in major industry publications such as CNN Business and MarketWatch, as well as appeared on industry radio shows and news outlets.

Adam supports the next generation by teaching retirement planning courses at Lone Star College and Prairie View A&M University. He graduated #1 in his class from Texas Tech University, where their financial planning program has been ranked the top financial planning program in the nation . He leads all development efforts within the firm, and strives to make his client’s success his mission.

Website: www.mintwm.com

Facebook: facebook.com/mintwealthmanagement

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Brad Pilgrim, the CEO and Co-founder of Parity, an energy management platform that is a sound solution to helping not only to reduce carbon emissions but lowering energy costs joins Enterprise Radio.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Brad Pilgrim discuss the following:

* Tell us more about Parity. How the company was founded and the overall goal of the company?  

* How did you get into the energy field? 

* Tell us more about Energy Efficient Software as a Service or for short EESaS and how it is the best way to lower emissions? 

* EESaS also helps to bring down costs and has an immediate impact on fees. Can you expand on that? 

* You say traditional and smart building technologies plays a critical role in safeguarding people’s health and improves overall sustainability and increases energy efficiency. How does the technology aid in all those three areas? 

* Covid-19 has been challenging to a lot of businesses and everyone is looking to cut costs. Parity’s technology can reduce energy costs by up to 30 percent. That seems to be a tremendous benefit for any business. Tell us how it does that? 

* Currently you are in Canada and the New York market. Are there any other markets you are looking to expand into in 2021? 

* What do you feel are a few business challenges a company is faced with during this time? 

* Provide some tips on what companies can do to be successful during these challenging times? 

After spending five plus years working for successful energy start ups in the solar industry in his twenties, one of which went on to be acquired by a Fortune 200 US company, Brad Pilgrim turned his attention to tackling climate change in the urban settings where he spent most of his time. He co-founded Parity Inc. (Parity) in an effort to bring attention to the amount of energy he saw wasted in the condominium that he lived in.

Over the past three years, Brad has led his team to develop and deploy Parity as one of the first AI-powered energy management platforms for multi-residential buildings in order to champion his personal mission to eliminate energy waste in buildings. Using this platform, Brad and his team have helped prevent an estimated 8.9 million + lbs of CO2 emissions from their customers’ buildings since 2017. By educating more than 75 condo boards and partner organizations, Brad has helped customers save an average of more than $60,000 per year in utility use.

Website: www.paritygo.com

Facebook: facebook.com/ParityEnergyManagement

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Braxton Manley, the young CEO and Co-Founder of Braxley Bands who runs a thriving business designing and manufacturing watch bands that started through a school project co-founded with Grant Andrews joins eCommerce Radio.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Braxton Manley discuss the following:

* Tell us more about your background and how Braxley Bands came about?  

* Take us through the process of designing and manufacturing your first product? 

* Since your launch, what has worked to attract and retain customers? 

* What platforms or tools do you use for your business?

* Are you planning on expanding your product line in the future? 

* Covid-19 has been challenging to a lot of businesses. How have you managed to still be successful in this pandemic? 

* Provide some tips on what companies can do to be successful during these challenging times? 

Enthusiasm of entrepreneurship, innovation and leadership radiates from the work of Braxton Manley, the young CEO and Co-Founder of Braxley Bands. Manley, a graduate of the Texas Tech University Jerry S. Rawls College of Business, runs a thriving business designing and manufacturing watch bands that started through a school project co-founded with Grant Andrews, a Texas Tech College of Media and Communications graduate.

Website: https://braxleybands.com

Social Media Links:

Facebook: facebook.com/braxleybands

Instagram: instagram.com/braxleybands

TikTok: tiktok.com/@braxleybands

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