Liftoff by Bottle Rocket

Our guest this week is Eddy Badrina, the CEO of Eden Green Technology. A socially responsible company that provides food security and jobs in low-income neighborhoods. He is also a board member at Seed Effect, the micro-lending non-profit focused on fostering economic stability in the South Sudan and Uganda.

Before shifting his primary focus to human service and food security, our guest co-founded BuzzShift and served as their president for over 11 years.

Check out Eden Green Technology: https://www.edengreen.com/

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Our guest today is Bryan Clayton:  the CEO and co-founder of GreenPal an online marketplace that connects homeowners with local lawn care professionals. GreenPal has been called the “Uber for lawn care” by Entrepreneur magazine and has over 200,000 active users and doing 20m a year in sales.

He also founded Peachtree Inc. one of the largest landscaping companies in the state of Tennessee growing it to over $10 million a year in annual revenue before it was acquired by Lusa holdings in 2013.

Check out GreenPal: https://www.yourgreenpal.com/

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Terri Casterton is a growth, product and healthcare specialist with over 15 years in the healthcare space. Most recently she had served as Senior Director of Innovation and Virtual Health at SCL Health. Terri is a a master facilitator, thought leader, celebrated speaker and of course we’re most excited to mention, she is now the Director of Product and Strategy for our Healthcare practice here at Bottle Rocket.
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Join the Bottle Rocket Team! Check out all job openings here: https://www.bottlerocketstudios.com/careers

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Welcome back to LIFTOFF by Bottle Rocket. 

This week is different for us...because we have no guest. This episode is all Peter and Tony. Join us as we riff on a post-pandemic life, working from home forever, and the impact this year has had on our lives both professionally and personally.

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Our guest this week is Gail Seanor, an award winning marketing and technology executive with a long history of innovative digital transformation initiatives. She has successfully developed and implemented comprehensive marketing strategies to drive brand recognition, cultivate strong business partnerships, increase revenue, and grow profits time and time again.

Check out BBI: https://www.bloominbrands.com/

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Our guest this episode is Nick Jankel. A best-selling author and transformation teacher with a Triple First from Cambridge University in medicine and philosophy.

He has lectured at Yale & Oxford, advised the UK’s Prime Minister and has led personal development, leadership, and coaching programs with over 70,000 people—from Shanghai to San Francisco; and has been featured in Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Sunday Time, the Daily Mail and The Guardian.

Grab his book, ‘Now Lead the Change’

Check out his Free Webinars: http://switchonnow.com

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This episode we are joined by the head cheese of Bottle Rocket himself, Calvin Carter.

Calvin has been honored with the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award, Tech Titans, and many others.   As the CEO and Founder of Bottle Rocket, he has created a company of 250 Rocketeers in producing more than 500 award-winning experiences (four apps in the Apple iTunes Hall of Fame), setting new standards in connecting people to what they want while transforming how businesses compete and win in the marketplace.

In this episode we discuss the importance of equipping those 250 Rocketeers with the right tools in order to truly do the best work of their lives.

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Our guest today is Bill Flora. He's an award-winning design director and strategist with more than 20 years of experience in leading teams and shipping products.

During his two decades with Microsoft, he led design efforts for Xbox, Windows Media Center, Zune, and Encarta, and was the design force behind Microsoft’s “Metro” design language.

Now-before joining forces with Blink as their Chief Creative Officer, he founded Tectonic, where he worked with some of the world’s leading companies, such as: HBO, Amazon, Beats by Dre, Cisco, Samsung, and NBC among others.

Connect with Bill on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bill-flora-5894ab5/

Find out more about Blink: https://blinkux.com/

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Join us as we have the privilege of sitting down with a dear friend and former colleague Raphael Akinsipe.

He is a former Googler and current SVP of Marketing and Strategy at HST Pathways. He's on a mission to help others grow, be they companies or individuals. His 3-tiered approach is spot on, and definitely not an episode to miss!

Connect with him on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raphael-akinsipe/

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Find out more about Liftoff: http://www.bottlerocketstudios.com/liftoff


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Our guest today is Matt Kressy, founding director of the MIT Integrated Design & Management master’s degree, and is an expert in innovation, leadership and product development. As an entrepreneur and founder of Designturn, he has designed, invented, engineered, and manufactured products for startups, Fortune 500 companies, and everything in between.

Since 1999, our guest has co-taught collaborative courses in product design and development at top design and business schools including the MIT Sloan School of Management, Harvard Business School, and the Rhode Island School of Design.

He is also on the founding team of the New England Innovation Academy, the first middle and high school that prepares innovators to shape the world through human-centered design.

Discover more about the academy: neiacademy.org

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Find out more about Liftoff: http://www.bottlerocketstudios.com/liftoff


Until next time, friends...stay curious.