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Episode 108 features a young, sharp entrepreneur named Matty Shaefer who is the Co-Founder of Vade, a company making parking more convenient by making real-time parking availability data accessible to every city and driver.

Find Matty Online:

Website: www.matty.carrd.co

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattyschaefer/ 

Twitter:https://twitter.com/mstechyt/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/matty_schaefer/

About Matty:

Matty is a 22-year-old entrepreneur that recently graduated from UNC as a Robertson Scholar and Adams Apprentice with a degree in Business Administration.

His first success was building a YouTube channel where he reviewed tech products like phones, laptops, and mechanical keyboards. Over 5 years, he grew the channel to over 500K subscribers, 70M video views, and six figures of revenue through partnerships with tech giants like Disney, Amazon, and LG. In 2018, Matty stopped creating videos to focus on ventures outside of the world of social media.

Since then, Matty co-founded Vade to make parking more convenient by making real-time parking availability data accessible to every city and driver. Vade developed patent-pending IoT camera sensors that are solar-powered, connect via LTE, and can be installed on any pole in a matter of minutes. Staying true to the mission, Vade provides these cameras to cities at no cost, and instead they monetize the data through integrations with parking vendors and wayfinding apps.

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Episode 107 features Ashley Olafsen, Founder of Visionaria Consulting, which supports small businesses through consulting services. I met Ashley through the Next Gen HQ community and was inspired by her story to start M.O.V.E. when she was 16 and then continue on with her entrepreneurship journey in starting Visionaria Consulting.

Here is a link to the book she recommends that she always goes back to:

"When Things Fall Apart" by Pema Chodron - https://www.amazon.com/When-Things-Fall-Apart-Difficult/dp/1611803438

Find Ashley Online:

Website: https://www.visionariaconsulting.com 

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashley-olafsen-256108b5/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ashleyolafsen/

About Ashley:

Ashley Olafsen is a 2 time published author, TEDx speaker, and social entrepreneur who is passionate about building inspiring businesses. Ashley accidentally became an entrepreneur at the age of 16, when she gave an empowerment workshop to a group of 8th-grade girls.

After realizing her passion for helping others, Ashley co-founded MOVE, LLC, through which she has directed over 100 workshops and 6 week-long summer programs for teenage girls, focusing on self-esteem, body image, leadership, and more.

During college, Ashley created an online video series focusing on the same topics, for students. The 10-part online workshop series, titled ‘Let’s Talk About It: The Workshop Series For Students’ is implemented in wellness and guidance curricula all over New England.

Today, Ashley is the Founder and CEO of Visionaria Consulting and supports small businesses with her consulting services. She is a Vital Voices Fellow, PINK GRL PWR Project Winner, and To learn more about Ashley, visit here: http://www.ashleyolafsen.com/ or www.visionariaconsulting.com

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Episode 106 features Sara Miltenberger, Founder of Restore Media & Strategy and the Creator and Host of the Make Climate Cool Again Podcast. I met Sara while standing in line at the NextGen Summit in June of 2019 and it's been cool to get to know her and her passion around the environment and sustainability and her mission to change the world for the better.

Connect with Sara online:

Website: www.makeclimatecool.com

Instagram: @makeclimatecool

Twitter: @smilt127

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/smiltenberger/

TikTok: @smilt127

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/makeclimatecoolagain

Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/make-climate-cool-again/id1476572021

Learn more about Sara:

Sara is super passionate about building community and sustainability education. She worked for Tesla and then decided to start her own sustainability consulting business where she helps fashion and beauty brands redesign their packaging and their corporate strategy. She also has a podcast where she talks to environmental entrepreneurs and leaders about how they are making positive climate change.

Sara has lived in Australia, NYC and California in pursuit of learning as much about the planet and sustainability business as she can.

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Episode 105 Features Mick Carbo, Founder & Head Coach of Carbo Coaching. Mick has a very unique story from starting to grow his first business when he was just out of high school, getting married and having kids in his late teens, and selling marijuana in his mid-20s and ultimately getting arrested. I really enjoyed this vulnerable conversation with Mick and I hope you do too.

Find Mick Online:

Website: CarboCoaching.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mick.carbo

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mickcarbo/

About Mick:

As an entrepreneur, leadership coach, trainer and speaker, Mick Carbo’s experience spans a wide range of industries. In addition to working with his Carbo Coaching clients, Mick also a “coaches’ coach,” co-leading an ICF (International Coaching Federation) accredited leadership development and training program for other coaches. Mick holds the designation of Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coach Federation (ICF).

He teaches Employee Performance Development through the Small Business Development Center and the University of Maryland. Also committed to community service, Mick has done pro bono work with retiring military personnel through the Transition Assistance Program at Ft. Meade, and volunteers in leadership positions for community organizations.

Mick’s over 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur and business owner gives him an owner’s perspective, enabling him to help founders, owners, and other business leaders effectively grow and lead their teams to new levels of fulfillment and success. Through Mick’s coaching, leaders learn how to maximize performance and create unprecedented results.

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April is Month 4 of my Dozen Months of Discovery and this month I decided to write a book.

Originally, when I planned out my 12-months I had April slated as a month where I was going to learn the Ukelele. Solid choice and it was going to allow me to be that “beginner learner” again like I experienced in March learning Spanish. However, as I spoke with a friend and editor of a book I had been thinking about writing, it was determined that maybe the best thing to do was to put a time window into play and just get it done because it can be very easy to procrastinate especially when writing a book.

What I learned through this process

1. Go with your gut, sometimes it is always leading you in the right direction
2. If you are not truly invested in something, you won’t get your best work. Don’t settle for something you deem so important
3. Be patient - some days you don’t have your best stuff. Even Michael Jordan had off shooting nights. 
4. Hold yourself accountable to finish - There are a lot of ways to weasel out of things and put it off until later but later sometimes never comes. Get back on the horse and ride and finish what you started. Parkinson’s Law works well here “work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion”

To read the full write-up of April please head over to the blog article on my website here -> https://brianondrako.com/all/writing-a-book-in-30-days

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Episode 104 of the Just Get Started Podcast welcomes Dr. Denise Gosnell, Chief Data Officer at DataStax. I truly enjoyed this interview and hope everyone gets some great takeaways and it helps open up their mind to data and how impactful it is on the world.

Here is the link to Kaggle, https://www.kaggle.com/, which is a website she discusses more about in the episode.

Congrats to Denise on publishing her new book The Practitioners Guide to Graph Data which has been ranked as a #1 New Release in the Artificial Intelligence category on Amazon.

Find Denise Online:

Twitter

LinkedIn

Amazon

About Denise:

Dr. Denise Gosnell's career centers on her passion for examining, applying, and advocating for the applications of graph data. She has patented, built, published, and spoken on dozens of topics related to machine learning, graph theory, graph algorithms, and applications of graph data across all industry verticals.

Dr. Gosnell earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Tennessee as an NSF Fellow. Her research coined the concept "social fingerprinting" by applying graph algorithms to predict user identity from social media interactions.

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Episode 103 Features Brendon Elliott, Executive Director of the Little Linksters Association for Jr. Golf Development 501c3, and Director of Instruction for the Little Linksters Golf Academy.

Find Brendon Online:

Website: https://littlelinksters.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendonelliott/

Twitter: @belliottgolf @littlelinksters @loveofthelinks

Instagram: @littlelinksters @loveofthelinks

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/bundygolfer

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LittleLinksters2008/

Vimeo:: https://vimeo.com/24193

About Brendon:

Father, Husband, PGA Professional, Coach, Mentor, Businessman; Brendon Elliott wears many hats. As the Executive Director of the Little Linksters Association for Jr. Golf Development 501c3, and Director of Instruction for the Little Linksters Golf Academy, his true passion obviously lies in the youth golf arena. This however is not the limits of Elliott's knowledge and expertise within the game. A winner of 25+ prestigious industry awards, Elliott is also a co-founder of the Junior Tour, LLC, and founded Love of the Linksters Golf Radio. He is a consultant and/or partner in a handful of golf business organizations such as Reimagine Golf and is a freelance golf writer for the likes of Golf Range Magazine, PGA Magazine, GolfWRX, and more. Considered an expert by his peers in all facets of the business, Elliott has appeared numerous times on Golf Channel's Morning Drive to talk about the state of the game.

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Episode 102 features Tony Banta, the Managing Partner of Venture Greatly and Host of the Client Whisperer Podcast.

Find Tony Online:

Website: https://clientwhisperer.show

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tonybanta

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonybanta/

About Tony:

Tony Banta is a systems engineer, innovation consultant, and host of the Client Whisperer Show. Beginning his career as a self-taught software developer, Tony quickly realizing that the best code could never solve broader leadership issues within organizations. Today Tony works with other client-businesses to maximize client results, increase client retention, and streamline the client fulfillment experience.

For more information on Tony and his work, visit clientwhisperer.show

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Episode 101 Features Chase Damiano, a business advisor, consultant, and executive coach dedicated to helping founders, entrepreneurs, and CEOs get out of the weeds. I had a wonderful interview with Chase where we navigated through some of his early career in a startup environment and then spent a good amount of time speaking about accountability, habits, routines, and things that Founders should be considering as they scale.

Find Chase Online:

Website: chasedamiano.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chasedamiano/

About Chase:

Chase Damiano is a business advisor, consultant, and executive coach dedicated to helping founders, entrepreneurs, and CEOs get out of the weeds. He helps teams clarify their vision, improve their decision-making, and create better business outcomes. Teams working with Chase see higher revenue growth, lower operating costs, clearer insight into their business, and a stronger sense of team ownership and accountability.

Chase previously served as Chief Operating Officer of Commonwealth Joe, a venture-backed beverage technology and distribution company headquartered in Arlington, VA, where he grew a family business from $0 to $5MM in revenue, 500+ B2B customers, and 70+ employees in five years. During his tenure, the company was awarded DC Inno's 2018 50 on Fire and Washington City Paper's Best of DC 2016-2019, and Chase was named Forbes 30 Under 30.

Chase began his career at Accenture, focusing on business intelligence, customer experience management, voice of the customer, and business process outsourcing for Fortune 500 companies in the financial services, telecom, and consumer products industries. He helped large organizations deeply understand what hundreds of thousands of customers were really saying about their products and services.

Chase earned two B.S. degrees in Chemical Engineering and Economics from Virginia Tech. He spends his free time reading, meditating, and traveling with his partner and 10-year-old son.

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I am in month 3 of my Dozen Months of Discovery and for this month I decided to learn Spanish! I've always wanted to learn a language (Well, I tried once but failed Italian in High School). I thought this was an incredible opportunity to see what I could learn in 30 days.

I grade myself at a B+ after all is said and done. There were a lot of challenges going on in the world as we all know so I had to be hyper focused on keeping up with my practice and lessons and I'd say I learned a good amount.

Some things I learned like:

1. I learned the entire alphabet and pronunciations (Did anyone know there are like 5 separate sounds with each letter!)
2. I learned numbers up through 100
3. I learned articles like The for both Masculine and Feminine words
4. I learned many phases for general conversation

I probably learned a lot more that hasn't fully sunk in yet and look forward to continue practicing and evolving my Spanish speaking skills!

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