Live Bold & Boss Up

This week Steph & Ash sit down with Greg Schmitzer, President & Founder of Mad Mobile. The transformation of mobile technology has drastically changed in the past 10 years. Greg shares his journey in shaping the way mobile technology impacts daily life, especially in the restaurant, retail, and payment technology industries. Greg is a visionary in the tech space and gives us some major boss bites on what he did to get to where he is today.

Boss Bites:

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This week Steph & Ash sit down with Josh Linkner, who started his career as a jazz guitarist – personifies creativity, entrepreneurship, and disruptive innovation. He has been the founder and CEO of five tech companies, which sold for a combined value of over $200 million. Josh is a New York Times bestselling author of four books: Disciplined Dreaming, The Road to Reinvention, Hacking Innovation, and his latest title, Big Little Breakthroughs. Josh has been named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year twice and is a United States Presidential Champion of Change award recipient. This episode has so many Boss Bites on how to unlock your creativity and get past your fears!

Boss Bites:

https://joshlinkner.com/

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This week Steph & Ash sit down with Renee Vaughn. Renée is the President of the Williams Consulting Group, a public relations and marketing firm in Tampa – founded in 2003. Prior to establishing her firm, Vaughn was a senior administrator for the City of Tampa, where she represented the City or Mayor on over 50 boards and committees interfacing with educational institutions, business leaders, non-profit organizations, and Chambers of Commerce. In 2015, Renee has received multiple accolades and awards for her service to the Bay Area. Renée received the prestigious Parke Wright III Leadership Award from Leadership Tampa Alumni and was named a Woman of Distinction by the Girl Scouts of West Central Florida. In 2019, she received the Leadership Award presented by Working Women of Tampa Bay. This past year, Renée was inducted into the Girl Scouts Women of Distinction Hall of Fame. Even with all of Renee’s success and recognitions, she never stops learning & growing.

Boss Bites:

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This week we are continuing our PoweredUp Tech Fest Series! Today Steph & Ash talk to Doug Hensel (also known as DJ Fresh), as all well as Travis Damato (Music Teacher with Pasco County Schools). Technology has profoundly transformed the music industry in recent years. It starts with a spark in young people then educating them on the basics in music. Technology, then, transforms the journey and enhances the experience. AI is just one recent advancement on how music is being used in various ways, from composing music and generating new sounds to analyzing listening habits and predicting trends.

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This week we are continuing our PoweredUp Tech Fest Series! Today Steph & Ash talk to Tim Moore (CEO of Vu Technologies) and Adam Burden (Global Innovation Lead at Accenture) live at the Tampa Bay Tech PoweredUp Tech Fest. Hot off the stage, Tim & Adam share their insight on what innovation is and what the secret sauce is. Tim is a three-time Emmy award-winning director and founder of Diamond View, a creative video agency headquartered in Florida. Adam leads global innovation for Accenture, one of the top innovation-led tech companies in over 120 countries.

Boss Bites:

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This week we are continuing our PoweredUp Tech Fest Series! Today Steph & Ash talk with Sylvia Thomas (VP for Research & Innovation at USF) and Andrew McIntyre (Head of Technology & Innovation Practice at Vinik Sports Group). Sylvia & Andrew are no strangers to innovation. In addition to lots of achievements…Sylvia has 12 patents! Innovation is approached from many perspectives in this episode. What does it mean to a mother, to a 5th grader, sports fan, or business leader? Technology is here to stay and innovation is igniting at a exponential speed! Listen now to hear the exciting innovation coming to sports, healthcare, and education.

Boss Bites:

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This week we are continuing our PoweredUp Tech Fest Series! Today Steph & Ash talk with Ken Pomella (CEO of Revstar), Todd Ketterman (Healthcare Strategist for CDW), and Kim Anstett (CIO of Trellix) about practical AI and putting it into use. We dive into how companies can use AI for practical business uses and if you are not using it already, you better get on it!

Boss Bites:

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This week starts the PoweredUp Series! Today Steph & Ash talk to the CEO of Pryon, Igor Jablokov. Igor is the founder and CEO of Pryon, an artificial intelligence (AI) company delivering an enterprise knowledge management platform. Pryon’s natural language processing (NLP) engine ingests and transforms data into experiences that solve critical business challenges. Previously at IBM, Igor grew impatient with the gap between the invention and commercialization of AI, and departed to establish cloud computing pioneer Yap. After its products were deployed by dozens of enterprises, the company became Amazon’s first AI-related acquisition. The firm’s inventions then served as the nucleus for follow-on products such as Alexa, Echo, and Fire TV. As a Program Director at IBM, Igor led the team that designed the precursor to Watson and developed the world’s first multimodal Web browser.

Igor shares his story behind how he got started and his insight behind AI. He is truly a genius and is so captivating to talk to! You don’t want to miss this!

Boss Bites:

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This week Steph & Ash talk with Ryann Halo, a multi-7-figure entrepreneur and the founder of Halo Consulting, a leading growth strategy firm for small businesses. Over her 15+ year career, she has founded, advised, and grown multiple companies from startup to scale. She started from taking over an existing business and struggling to make payroll, to expanding to a multi-site, multi-million-dollar company, Salon Halo is consistently recognized as a top 200 salon in North America. As a thought leader in her industry, Ryann speaks nationally at industry events and conferences to hundreds of professionals. She is full of life and so fun to talk to. So many great boss bites in this episode!

Boss Bites:

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This week Steph & Ash talk with Dr Eric Boyd & Anna Alvarez Boyd, who created a non-profit program, called Fairways to Leadership, to bring leadership & networking benefits of golf to underrepresented communities. The graduates of the program are prepared to be leaders in advancing diversity of talent in the workplace, creating equitable business opportunities and achieving inclusion in business leadership…all through GOLF! They also wrote a book together on this, which explains how to play the game and how to develop leadership skills and expand business networks through the interaction that golf provides.

https://fairwaystoleadership.org/

Boss Bites:

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