Life Style Business

Today we're excited to welcome to the show, Newark member, Ed Carey, Founder and CEO of https://lp.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b857b915a27654fe95e2ecb7dandid=00d148a799ande=5514a202f4 (Audience Town).

In the time leading up to the founding of Audience Town, Ed spent 20 years working for leading media, advertising technology, data, and mobile companies. Taking the deep knowledge he gained from his time at Quest Magazine, The New York Times, Undertone, The Rubicon Project, Dun and Bradstreet, and Kargo, Ed founded Audience Town. A real estate advertising and marketing platform built on the realization that buying a home combines money and emotion like no other advertised product out there. If you want to get the inside scoop on where his data shows the trending real estate markets are taking remoter workers these days then you won't want to miss this episode of Life Style Business.

Today we're excited to welcome back to the show the President and Founder of Public Democracy, Eric Sapp; an entrepreneur, faith leader, and a political advisor who has spent his career supporting communities around the world to use big data to find unique solutions on behalf of groups that are vulnerable or left out.

Whether he's successfully enrolling a fully representative sample of Black Americans and other marginalized communities into COVID-19 vaccine rollout plans or creating data systems and processes to create more transparency and trust in the political information that is put out on the web, Eric and his team are using big data to deliver more equity and unique solutions on behalf of communities that are vulnerable or left out.

As the founder of Boulder Start-up Week, Andrew Hyde is a serial entrepreneur living his best digital nomad life. When he’s not conquering the world of cryptocurrency he’s working to bridge the gap between community, technology, and startups across the globe.

We can't wait to catch up with him on all of his latest adventures.

Today on Life Style Business we welcome back to the show the people who make Launch Pad so vibrant, impactful, and magical...our members. We'll be catching up with members from all of our Launch Pad cities to learn about the interesting problems that they're working on and the challenges they and their cities are facing in our current climate of a COVID world.

Sabrina Short; Founder and Director of Nolavate Black (NOLA)

Yendor Productions; A collective of artists and educators fostering hope and healing through access to the arts and cross-cultural programming (Newark)

Nathan Dohse; Co-founder and COO of AGD Entertainment an artist coaching, management, and booking company (Nashville)

Aaron Gilbreath; Founder of CPR Cert Pros. A CPR and life support education company certifying individuals and companies in Basic Life support as well as First Aid (Stockton, CA)

These are people who are betting on us and building their businesses here at Launch Pad and we're surely betting big on them.

When RX Fogarty founded Dear World in 2010 his intention was clear; create a way for people to share their love of New Orleans through personal stories. It didn’t take long before the likes of Deepak Chopra, Coach K from Duke, Stuart Scott of ESPN, and countless other CEOs and company leaders became inspired by these personal testimonies about place and time.

Today, much to RX's delight, what started as a love letter to New Orleans has grown into an international series dedicated to connecting organizations, communities, and teams through meaningful stories of their people. Join us as RX shows us how to embrace our authentic stories as a way to find purpose and thrive in our lives and careers. We hope you'll tune in!

We're so excited this week to welcome our guest and dear friend, Dan Pierson the CMO of Unsettled, a company leading the way in the future of work.

Dan tells us how he's supporting remote workers and digital nomads live their best, untethered lives. By helping them navigate the integration of work and life in a world that offers an ever-increasing possibility around flexible, distributed employment. Join us to get the tips you need to start your digital nomadic journey today. You won't want to miss it!

Named to the Forbes “Top 10 Most Powerful People in Africa,” honored as Black Enterprise Magazine’s Small Business Innovator of the Year and listed in the magazine's “Top 40 Under 40,” Chinedu Echeruo is a serial entrepreneur with a Midas touch.

With multiple acquisitions under his belt, he joined us to share his epic entrepreneurial journey, talk about the inclusive strategy behind his firm the Love and Magic Company, and teach our viewers how they too can dare to invent the future and garner the title of a Love and Magic "Magician."

Form meets function as our expert partners from Gensler architecture firm share their design forecasts for the next generation of places and spaces. Join us as they take us deeper into the trends of tomorrow as the world prepares to reemerge post-pandemic.

Working and volunteering in the field of children’s grief support since 1997, Mary Robinson’s passion for helping children through trauma stems from her own personal experiences as a child.

With the inception of Imagine, Mary made a commitment to create communities where children coping with loss get the support they need to thrive, be resilient, and grow up emotionally healthy and able to lead meaningful and productive lives. With a mission like this, it’s no wonder that CNN hailed Mary as an everyday hero changing the world.

She joins us to talk about grief management during a time of exponential turmoil, navigating the societal pressures to always "be happy" when you're dealing with personal trauma, and offer expert guidance on coping with loss and heartache in these turbulent times.

A Fellow at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, an Advisor to the Walton Family Foundation, a Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and the Founder of Vestigo Partners, LLC, John Bailey is motivated by big thinkers proposing bold ideas that make a meaningful impact on every day Americans.

With his trusty Chief of Staff, Bentley (voted Washington's Cutest Dog of 2017) at his side, it's curiosity that propels John Bailey forward in his work supporting entrepreneurs, investors, and policymakers. If you're working on finding solutions to today's modern challenges around COVID, education, Opportunity Zones, and new disruptive technologies join us to get the inside-the-beltway scoop on how to turbocharge your business in these areas and in turn help your fellow humans sleep better at night.

Get ready to be inspired!