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Stephen Gay is an award-winning designer that has spent the last twenty-five years working on digital innovation around the globe, supporting teams across five continents including companies such as Google, Intuit and Motorola, as well as numerous successful startups. He wrote the graphic business novel Why Always Wins focused on empowering high performing teams. And is now the author of Night Owls, his debut science fiction series.

He is a trained facilitator and certified career and creative coach (ACC, CPCC) who believes everyone is creative, resourceful and whole with the innate ability to bring their ideas to life.

Let’s Get Haunted is the reigning Shorty Award winner for Best Comedy Podcast and the 2021 winner for Podcast of the Year. It’s the only investigative journalism podcast about shit that may or may not have even happened in the first place. Hosts Aly Terry and Nat Strawn are rapidly ascending with a mix of well-timed comedy and tales about hauntings, aliens, urban legends, and unsolved mysteries. 

In this episode we share our personal hauntings, odd fears, thousand dollar ideas and more.

Ranjana Choudhry is a VP Advertising and Social Media at Wakefern Food Corp (a $19 billion largest COOP in US), leading the development of marketing and digital content strategies. Vanshika and I dig into her current Shorty Award nominated work, her creative process, her advice for up-and-coming practitioners and more. 

With more than 25 years of experience as a global marketing and communications leader. She began her career with Grey Advertising, a global marketing communications agency. She relocated to New York while working for WPP, a multinational advertising agency where she led more than 400 team members in 220 countries across Asia, India, Africa, Eurasia, Europe, Latin America, and North America for Colgate-Palmolive’s brands. She is also an adjunct Professor at NYU SPS teaching Integrated marketing and Digital strategy to the next generation of Marketers.

Lance Fensterman is iconic when it comes to events. The Fanatics Events CEO, is leveraging 25+ years of entrepreneurial expertise to innovate within Fanatics, Inc., focusing on creating unforgettable live events for passionate sports fans and collectors. Producer Vanshika Chaturvedi and I sat down with him to discuss sports, events and tackling (pun intended) the biggest and most exciting challenge of his career. 

Lance’s career has centered on fostering fandom, nurturing communities, and driving industry growth through innovation. Before Fanatics, he led the success of ReedPop, known for iconic events like New York Comic Con and Star Wars Celebration, showcasing his dedication to adventurous fan experiences.

Joey Clift is a comedian, TV writer, and enrolled Cowlitz Indian Tribal Member. Writing credits include Spirit Rangers on Netflix, New Looney Tunes on Cartoon Network and Molly of Denali on PBS. He created, wrote and directed the Comedy Central digital series "Gone Native" and his award winning short films have screened everywhere from Just For Laughs to The Smithsonian Museum.

Dana Cowin is an award-winning tastemaker and innovator in media, food and branding. After 21 years as the Editor in Chief of Food & Wine magazine, she launched The Broadlies, an independent media company to promote less established voices in food, creativity and sustainability. Her current project is Feeding Broadly, the eaters guide to regenerative living.

We’re dropping this episode on the United Nation's International Day of Peace. A day that actor, filmmaker, activist, Jeremy Gilley set out to create in 1999 and achieved. Big ideas are hard. How he managed to pull this off is fascinating. But now nearly 25 years later we talk about what makes us optimistic, pessimistic and motivated about the world today. And there’s one quote from Jeremy late in the episode that is sticking with me. “If greed got us into this mess then maybe greed is what gets us out.” This is a frenetic 40 minutes about how to take on big ideas, how to find your passion and how to leave the world better than you found it.  

Visit https://peaceoneday.org/Main/ for more info.

R “Ray” Wang is everywhere. Turn on a TV and you’ll see him regularly on CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox Business. Open an article and you’ll see him in the Wall Street Journal. He coined the term “Metaverse Economy.” He’s the most prolific analyst out there. But there’s a reason I wanted to talk to Ray today. There’s a crispness, a clarity to Ray’s outlook on anything but especially big tech. And as we navigate the economic, ethical and geopolitical waters of AI, there’s probably no one more succinct to make the complex sound more comfortable. 

The CEO of Silicon Valley based Constellation Research also co-hosts DisrupTV, a weekly enterprise tech and leadership webcast that averages 50,000 views per episode. His ground-breaking best-selling book on digital transformation, Disrupting Digital Business, was published by Harvard Business Review Press in 2015. Ray's new best selling book about Digital Giants is titled, Everybody Wants to Rule The World.

The interests of Adam Met PhD bridge music, sustainability, law, academia, policy, marketing, and technology. As the founder and Executive Director of Planet Reimagined, he leads a nonprofit that addresses climate change systems through media, academic research fellowships, and incentive-based initiatives. As the bassist for AJR, he has traveled the world on sold-out tours, achieved platinum certifications in numerous countries, and recorded a repertoire of music that has garnered more than 7 billion streams worldwide.

Josh Kampel is the CEO of Worth Media. He serves on the board of Planet Reimagined and was the CEO of Techonomy Media, which was sold to Clarim Holdings, Worth’s parent company, in 2018. At Techonomy, Josh spent 8 years driving sustainable business growth through strategic partnerships and new product development. He built Techonomy to be one of the leading media companies covering technology and its impact on business and society. 

They will be hosting Techonomy Climate on September 20th at City Winery NYC for a conversation about how tech can address climate change.