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For the last five years, Matt has devoted his career to spreading awareness about the threat waste has on our planet. A tireless advocate for waste management, he currently serves as the CEO and co-founder of Pela, an international sustainable company that makes “everyday products without everyday waste”. His lofty mission: keep 1 BILLION pounds of plastic from ever being made.

Prior to co-founding Pela, Matt worked at Demac Media for 10 years, an eCommerce products and services company, and decided it was time to use his skill set for something bigger. He has played a role in selling billions of dollars worth of goods online and felt there was a debt to pay, knowing there had to be a better way of making consumer goods that didn't do so much environmental damage.

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Reece Griffin the founder of MirrorTrip graduated from the University of Otago in New Zealand with a BCom majoring in Economics and Management, as well as a BSc 

majoring in Computer Science. Shortly after Reece moved to Vancouver, Canada to reunite with his wife. While based in Vancouver, Reece was involved in one of Canada's largest health care information system deployments as an analyst for Providence Healthcare. Shortly after this, Reece moved into the private sector, where he assumed the role of Technical Director for TBA Digital - managing a diverse team of software professionals and client relationships for companies such as GE, Abbott Pharmaceuticals, and Target.  

Reece is the CEO of MirrorTrip, a world-first for car sharing with a new modality called ‘ride switching’.  MirrorTrip lowers the cost of inter-city car rental significantly, to a level where it becomes an exciting alternative to traditional transportation such as bus, train, and carpool ridesharing.

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Live Streaming Market is Expected to Reach USD 247.27 Billion By 2027. With that said it’s a fast-growing industry.
In this episode of Hitechies Podcast we have with us Wiktoria Wójcik 

She is a Co-founder of inSTREAMLY - a platform where brands meet streamers.


 In her career, she has experienced gaming from many angles. She was a streamer, an interviewer on esports events, and worked in esports organization. As a marketing expert, she worked on 70+ streamer campaigns for global brands. Now with inSTREAMLY she wants to build a better world for streamers and everyone working with them.



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Scott Donnell, CEO of Hapbee, has built over 80 consumer products and collaborated with world-class experts for decades. His first company has 115 franchises and serves over 3 million customers fundraising for schools. Yet, it’s the catalyst behind his latest business venture that has him on a mission to create a mentally fit world.

Hapbee’s wearable device works to help reduce and manage stress, improve sleep, increase energy, focus, and more by using proprietary ultra-low frequency technology backed by 15 years of research and development with partner EMulate Therapeutics. The Hapbee band delivers mood-altering signals to the body that the brain already recognizes - signals include: Alert, Happy, Calm, Relax, Sleepy and Focus.

From an Indiegogo campaign that skyrocketed to 3713% of its fundraising goal, to an IPO announcement in the middle of lockdown, Scott knew he had something special from the moment he learned about Hapbee’s technology. He's sick and ailing 87-year old grandmother experienced relief from chronic pain within 20 minutes of using Hapbee. So he fundraised, launched, and scaled during a global pandemic to bring true wellbeing to the world.


In this episode of the podcast  Scott shares:
-His journey taking a company from Indiegogo to IPO
-What it’s like to commence and expand manufacturing during a global pandemic
-How Hapbee’s innovative technology helps to reduce stress, aid sleep, increase focus, and influence users' overall mood.
-Tips on entering the tech wearable space
-Advice for entrepreneurs starting their own business right now
-How wearables are trailblazing the way humans on technology to combat the pressures of everyday life
-What Hapbee has planned for 2021


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Serial entrepreneur Kirsty Sharman is Founder of Referral Factory, her third company. 

 She boasts a stellar career with over a decade of experience within technology and marketing, having consistently identified the latest consumer trends and built companies to address these needs. She Co-Founded and built an influencer marketing platform, Webfluential, all the way back in 2014 when influencers were only just developing as a viable marketing channel. 

 Based in Amsterdam, Kirsty founded Referral Factory in 2020, with a mission to empower any company, of any size, to build and run powerful referral programs without any technical know-how. By relying on Referral Factory’s quick and easy-to-use platform, brands can finally maximize their most underutilized sales and marketing channel - their own customers. A steadfast champion of equality, more than 50% of Referral Factory’s staff are women, and pay scales are the same for every employee, regardless of gender. 

 A proud Johannesburger, she was listed as one of the top 200 young South Africans to watch and also Co-Founded Johannesburg's first Girl Geek Dinners female networking events. In addition, driven by her commitment to diversity, Referral Factory has been recognized as one of the most gender-diverse startups in the Netherlands.

 Kirsty’s expertise as a trendspotter in the marketing and technology spaces has seen her featured by Adweek, the BBC, The Drum, and The Next Web. 

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World's largest single online card game: Michel D’Sa in Hitechies Podcast

Michel D’Sa is the creator and mastermind behind PCO (Picture Cards Online), the most advanced, customizable online party game in existence. D’Sa has used his innovative and entrepreneurial know-how to navigate the tech world over the last decade and has worked with businesses ranging from Silicon Valley start-ups to tech giants like LimeBikes and Youtube.

As a game developer, D’Sa knows his work is never done and he continues to work with major influencers, gamers, and content creators to add new, never-before-seen features to his games to enhance user experience. D’Sa is an accomplished developer by trade and an innovator at heart.

The covid 19 pandemics have sadly forced us to be online to socialize with our friends and families.  Digital transformation is perhaps an answer as we see a lot of companies adopting digital transformation as an initiative for 2021. 

In the same context I spoke to Michel and learn more about his startup PCO (Picture Cards Online). 

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In this episode, we have Robert Bogue. 

 Robert Bogue has a driving passion for delivering solutions through both teaching and learning. He has authored 26 books. 

 Robert strives to be better today than he was yesterday and achieves this through his learned and taught strategy, facilitation, elicitation, coaching, and mentoring techniques and skills. Robert is also a recovering technologist with 16 years as a Microsoft MVP. 

Robert has written an  Amazon #1 bestseller “The Six Keys to Confident Change Management.”
More in this session 

• People, Process, Tools where the focus should for transformation. 
• Leadership
• Challenges with Digital Transformation 
• Approach to transformation

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Productivity Yes But at the cost of what?

COVID 19 changed the way we live and work. Our relationship with other humans and the value that we believe in.  The dynamics around the work culture have changed immensely. There is a big realization now within the company’s culture as well. What is important to me to keep my life-sustaining versus burning myself to please others. Are you a people pleaser?

In the highest Consciousness employees are able to separate what is important and what is not.
Happiness has a price and the price sometimes has a profound impact on how we see the relationship with our livelihood.

Do you believe that your happiness is more important than your own security?

Productivity comes from doing the things you love doing the most. Not form pleasing others and hoping they would recognize your own productivity. 

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I have been inviting a lot of entrepreneurs and leaders and talk to them on various topics. Largely the topic centered around entrepreneurship digital transformation and the use of technology and so forth. 

Today I thought I would go solo and share some of my learnings of my own. 

By reflecting on the things that I've learned so far just by listening to entrepreneurs and leaders who took part in the podcast. 

Because I get a lot of questions from upcoming entrepreneurs and I thought I could create a summary of different topics. And I will be publishing a few short podcast sessions just dedicating to those particular topics. I hope you will like it. 

For today's session, I would like to maybe focus today more on motivation. 

Like many of you, motivation to me comes from being able to do the things that I loved doing from deep inside. Along with being curious being a fool and learning from people. 

That keeps me alive and I wake up every day just to do that. 

The covid 19 pandemic has changed the way we all run our businesses. The thing that didn’t change is what makes us motivated. We are still doing the same thing but within the confined boundary. Maybe we have taken a different route but still, find our motivation on the things that we love doing the most. 

While talking to entrepreneurs what I realize is everyone has their motivation and specific triggers that set them apart from each other. There are similar traits that make them entrepreneurs. Whats separates them is the value that they believe in. 

You may have the motivation to make a lot of money by running a business operation. For some, it's about creating a solution so that more people can benefit from it.  They wake up every morning to see how many people’s lives can be affected by their solution. 

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Dr. Iman Abuzeid is the Co-founder and CEO of Incredible Health, a career marketplace whose custom matching technology offers hospitals the fastest, most effective way to hire qualified permanent nurses in less than 20 days (the national average is 90 days). Incredible Health is on a mission to help healthcare professionals live better lives, and find and do their best work. Incredible Health is based in San Francisco, backed by top tier venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, and is used by hundreds of leading hospitals across the country, including HCA, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Stanford Health Care, Baylor Scott & White, and many more. Iman is a MD and holds an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Incredible Health is the leading career marketplace for connecting hospitals to permanent nursing talent. The company recently launched a suite of free products to help nurses combat burnout and stress, furthering its commitment to support nurses and help healthcare workers live better lives. This program, along with its free CEUs program, is even more impactful given the high-stress nurses and health professionals are experiencing during COVID-19.

Hiring Process of Nurses and the bottlenecks
Demand for Nurses in the US
AI ( Artificial Intelligence)  Algorithms biased in software
The nursing shortage in the US
Bias in healthcare
Diversity in workspace
Challenges with COVID 19

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