Found In The Rockies

In today’s episode,  we have a story that is one of the most incredible trailblazing journeys, you will hear. Meet Lauren Fitzpatrick Shanks, who is the founder and CEO of KeepWOL, which is a gamified learning platform for teams that enables employee engagement and retention insights for employers.

Here’s a closer look at the episode:

• Growing up in Kansas and Missouri
• Getting out of Kansas City to get to Maryland and work for Boeing
• First black woman to win the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Design competition
• What got Lauren into aerospace engineering
• Advice to other entrepreneurs in a similar situation, breaking odds against diversity.
• Transition from aerospace to tech.
• What is behavioral management and why is it important
• How maternity leave lead to KeepWOL
• Creating human relationships with people during the pandemic.
• Building a digital platform for relationships.
• 2022 as the Year of Discovery
• Providing actionable insight and people analytics
• Early pilot results proving the concept.
• Getting into TechStars
• Growing the KeepWOL team
• What is exciting right now
• The KeepWOL facilitation training program
• What does the future look like for millennials in the job market?
• How KeepWOL relates to DEI initiatives
• Advice for other founders and moms.

Resources:

Website: https://www.keepwol.com/ 

Lauren’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauren-fitzpatrick-shanks-pmp-csm-mba/

KeepWOL LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/keepwol/ 

KeepWOL Twitter: https://twitter.com/PlayKeepWOL 

KeepWOL Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/playkeepwol/ 

In today’s episode, we have a whole different kid of tech. Dave McCarson is on the show. Dave is the founder of Alpine Greenhouses, which is a very unique company using proprietary technology to build greenhouses for extreme climates. We get into not only the science of his greenhouses, but the benefits of growing your own food. 

Here’s a closer look at the episode:

• Dave’s background and goals for a healthy lifestyle
• Tomato Dave
• Moving to Montana
• Founding Alpine Organic Farms
• The evolution of Alpine Greenhouses.
• The difference between growing food and building greenhouses in Montana.
• Dave traveling the Rockies building greenhouses
• Alpine Growing Institute and indoor growing skills
• Passive solar technology in the greenhouse industry.
• Why growing food is important to Dave.
• When did the American diet go south?
• The Nova system and processed foods.
• Dave’s coolest projects.
• What Dave is working on now.
• What families should grow in their greenhouses.

Resources:
Website: https://alpinegh.com/
Dave LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/j-david-mccarson-7a346216/
Company Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alpinegreenhouses/

In today’s episode, we're talking all about the coming wave of IDTech. And we're so excited to welcome a founder with Montana family roots, who grew up in Idaho, and now lives in Utah, talk about the epitome of a rocky mountain founder, Riley Hughes, who is the co-founder and CEO of Trinsic. He is going to tell us how Trinsic can help enable you to use your identity to get access to all kinds of different products and services you wouldn't otherwise have been able to get.

Here’s a closer look at the episode:

• Growing up in a family of entrepreneurs.
• How Riley became interested in tech.
• Making his mark at Sovrin Foundation
• The mission of Sovrin Foundation
• The notion of identity in the United States
• Quick learning in the Blockchain space.
• Meeting another co-founder - Tomislav
• Using blockchain as a tool.
• What is a self-sovereign identity platform?
• Why don’t we all already have self-sovereign identities
• Riley’s journey as a founder in the Rockies.
• What excites Riley about IDtech.
• What Riley would be doing if he wasn’t the founder of Trinsic

Resources:

Trinsic Website: https://trinsic.id/

Riley LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rileyparkerhughes/

Riley’s Podcast: https://trinsic.id/podcast/ 

Riley’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/rileyphughes 

Trinsic LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/trinsic-id/

Trinsic Twitter: https://twitter.com/trinsic_id

In today’s episode, we're gonna get empathetic. We are welcoming Dr. Grin Lord, CEO and founder of mpathic, and Brian Williams, who is the VP of Engineering and mpathic. Grin and Brian are going to talk about how they are working to bring empathy into the world of AI throught their unique API. 

Here’s a closer look at the episode:

• Brian’s background and history with startups.
• Grin’s early life growing up in the midwest and ending up in Seattle.
• How Grin’s work in a trauma center inspired the idea for mpathic.
• The magic door in psychology.
• How chatbots can be trained to be more empathetic.
• Brian joining mpathic.
• Empathy rocks, the training game for therapists.
• The science of empathy.
• AI assisted fidelity monitoring to replace human doctors.
• Understanding how empathy works in the sales cycle.
• What excites Brian the most from the technology perspective.
• How mpathic is different from ChatGPT
• Looking forward to challenge ahead.
• What is something in the future that is exciting
• A vision for the future of empathy.

Resources:

Mpathic website: Mpathic.ai

Grin LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grinlord/

Brain LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/briw/

Mpathic LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mpathic-ai/

In today’s episode, we have Matt Hyde, who is a partner and the co-founder of Catalyst Law Group, which is a Colorado based venture and technology law firm. Matt is going to go through the ins-and-outs of being a lawyer working with startup founders as well as venture capital firms.

Here’s a closer look at the episode:

• Matt’s Naval Academy and law school background.
• The challenge of starting over in law.
• Moving his family to Hong Kong
• Moving back to Colorado to work directly with founders
• The impetus to start a law firm.
• When is the right time for a founder to engage a lawyer.
• Structural reasons why Delaware C Corp is the gold standard for startups.
• Things to plan for or decide early on.
• What to do before you start taking money from investors.
• SAFE, Convertible Notes, and priced rounds
• The danger in raising multiple SAFE rounds
• Side Letters as part of a deal
• The importance of having a good, organized data room.
• Why Matt thinks giving back is important.

Resources:

Catalyst: https://www.catalyst.law/

Matt LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-hyde-bb79564/

Catalyst LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/catalyst-law-group-llp/  

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