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Tasha has been rubbing shoulders with the “who’s who” in the sports and entertainment world for over 20 years. Her career began while in Atlanta, when she interned at Laface Records working with legendary artists such as TLC, Outkast, Usher, and Toni Braxton. In 1995, Tasha made a life-changing move to Las Vegas, where she began producing and promoting star studded, high profile celebrity events including the official Billboard Music Awards, and BET Awards after parties. It was there that she met iconic boxer Floyd Mayweather. Tasha worked with Floyd for twelve years as his right hand person. Tasha eventually penned and published her first book about some of her experiences and her lessons. "Right Hand to the CHAMP: 13 Lessons that changed my life." In 2009, she parted ways with the Mayweather business ventures and began her own. She partnered with Tiffany House and opened Treasures Consignment Boutique & Salon and made other business investments that have allowed me to be comfortable as I traveled to the next phase of life. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/A1KocggdYsY Introduction music by: LAKEY INSPIRED - Chill Day LAKEY INSPIRED - Chill Day  Download→ https://soundcloud.com/lakeyinspired/chill-day

Michele Schneider is the Senior Vice President of Workplace Services and oversees Guest Services, Internal Hospitality & Events, and Building Operations within Salesforce's global Real Estate organization. As a physical expression of the company's culture, Schneider's team is responsible for delivering world-class workplace experiences, day-in, and day-out for over 57,000 employees across more than 100 offices. Today, she's focused on Salesforce's return to the office strategy and the future of work. A Salesforce veteran of over 12 years, Schneider was previously the Vice President of Strategic Events where she led the company's World Tour, Connections and Salesforce Essentials event programming. Before joining the company, Schneider held marketing and events positions at Cisco and BEA Systems (Oracle). Schneider holds a B.A. in Communications from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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Jason Dumas started at KRON4 in September of 2018. He previously worked as a production assistant at ESPN, a sports anchor/reporter in Bismarck, North Dakota, Baton Rouge, Louisiana and most recently, Hagerstown, MD. Here he had the privilege of covering the Washington Capitals’ Stanley Cup championship run and the District’s first championship parade since 1992.

Jason is a PROUD native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications in 2011.

When he is not working, he enjoys cheering on his favorite sport teams, spending time with his family & friends, and traveling.

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Jason Calacanis is one of the most influential Angel Investors of our time. He began his career as a reporter in New York City that covered a diverse group of topics such as tech news, pop-culture, and the internet industry. He founded Silicon Alley Reporter, Weblogs Inc, Mahalo, and Inside.com. He turned down a $20 million offer for Silicon Alley Reporter. Then the dotcom bubble burst, and he wound up with a net worth of negative $10,000. Calacanis bounced back and founded Weblogs, which he sold to AOL after 18 months for $30 million. The Angel Investor for Weblogs was Mark Cuban.

Most of Jason's money has been made by angel investing. He placed an early bet on Uber that paid off, and he’s now a professional investor with his own syndicate. Calacanis' book is called, "Angel: How to invest in technology startups —Timeless advice from an Angel Investor who turned $100,000 into $100,000,000."

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Connor Mitchell has been called the First BitClout Influencer for his viral fame and success on the newest and most popular social media platform: BitClout. BitClout allows users to speculate on people and posts with real money, and it’s built from the ground up as its own custom blockchain. Its architecture is similar to Bitcoin, only it can support complex social network data like posts, profiles, follows, speculation features, and much more at significantly higher throughput and scale.

Like Bitcoin, BitClout is a fully open-source project and there is no company behind it-- it’s just coins and code. Every profile on the platform gets its own coin that anybody can buy and sell. These are called “creator coins,” and you can have your own coin too simply by creating a profile. The price of each coin goes up when people buy and goes down when people sell.

Shortly after joining the platform, Connor was verified and currently has more followers than people like Jake Paul, Grant Cardone, Steve Aoki and more! Connor believe BitClout can be a great way to build your brand and monetize your following.

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Sekou Kaalund is a Managing Director at JPMorgan Chase and Head of Consumer Banking for the Northeast Division. In this role, Kaalund oversees 1000 branches in five regions with 10,000 employees and over $315 billion in deposits and investments.  

Prior to this role, Kaalund launched and was the Head of Advancing Black Pathways (“ABP”), a JPMorgan Chase program created to help Black individuals, families and businesses achieve sustained economic success. Kaalund set bold goals, including hiring 4,000 black students in 5 years, reaching 40% of the goal in less than two years. During his tenure, Kaalund deepened relationships with historically Black Colleges and Universities, and even launched a Hardship Fund to help keep financially distressed students in school, which became critical during COVID-19. He also launched Advancing Black Entrepreneurs, a program to provide access to capital and insights for Black businesses.

Kaalund’s success in building ABP led to the firm’s historic $30 billion commitment to closing the racial wealth gap.

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Brooke Yoakam is a freshman at Boston College and is also the CEO and Founder of GiftPocket, a mobile app that allows you store and manage all of your gift cards from your phone. She created GiftPocket when she was 12 years old and has been able to launch GiftPocket in Apple App Store and Google Play Store. Brooke has been featured on Bloomberg QuickTakes, TedX Talks, CBS Boston, and more. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/euS0aE0Rkm0 Introduction music by: LAKEY INSPIRED - Chill Day LAKEY INSPIRED - Chill Day  Download→ https://soundcloud.com/lakeyinspired/chill-day

A digital-only artwork has recently sold at Christie's auction house for an eye-watering $69m - but the winning bidder will not receive a sculpture, painting or even a print.  Instead, they get a unique digital token known as an NFT, or a Non-Fungible Token.  Where Bitcoin was hailed as the digital answer to currency, NFTs are now being touted as the digital answer to collectables.  We want to give you a quick introduction to the world of NFT's and the platforms you can interact with them on. This discussion features our friend, Nikhil Mohanty, who has seen early success on the popular NFT Platform: NBA Top Shot. NBA Top Shot is a blockchain-based platform that allows fans to buy and sell officially-licensed highlights, or Moments, from NBA games.