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Derek Sivers has been a musician, producer, circus performer, entrepreneur, TED speaker, and book publisher. He started two companies called CDBaby and HostBaby a number of years ago which were quite successful and later exited them. 

Derek refers to himself as an ambitious hustler and 'a monomaniac, introvert, slow thinker, and love finding a different point of view'. He is a California native based in Oxford, England and he studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston. 

In this episode, Derek Sivers is interviewed by John Corcoran about how he connects with people and keeps his relationships strong. He also shares what it was like to perform with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Kimo Williams, his experience at Berklee College of Music, and what he learned about the music industry.

Brendan Dell is the Founder of Spark, a messaging consultancy agency which works with some of the world's most amazing companies like Expedia and Cvent and helps them with positioning, messaging, and articulating their story. He is also the author of The 12 Immutable Laws of High-Impact Messaging and host of The Hook Podcast.

In this episode, Brendan Dell joins John Corcoran to talk about how brands can position themselves in a post-pandemic world. They also discuss how different brands like Drift and Zuora have positioned themselves to stand out from their competitors and how companies can know when their positioning is off.

Stephanie Sims is the Founder of Finance-Ability, a business that helps fellow entrepreneurs navigate their steps from startup to continued success through education and confidence building. She is an entrepreneur, author, speaker, and podcaster, and she carries more than two decades worth of experience in finance quality, IT management, in the valuation of public and private entities. Her career started in real estate investment banking working with Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers, just to name a few. She also went international, assisting Swiss startup MicroChemical Systems in business development capital, financial projections, and keeping venture capital investors happy.

Mark Bayer is the President of Bayer Strategic Consulting, a specialized training and advocacy firm in the Washington DC area. He's a former US Senate Chief of Staff and self-professed persuasion nerd teaching scientists and engineers to effectively communicate the real world value of their work to their most important stakeholders in jargon-free and engaging terms that get results.

Gina Furia Rubel is the Founder and CEO of Furia Rubel Communications, a leading national public relations and marketing agency that helps top businesses and law firms with high-stakes public relations, reputation management, crisis planning, and incident response, including high profile litigation media relations. Furia Rubel Communications has been named number one legal marketing agency by the National Law Journal and by The Legal Intelligencer in the areas of legal marketing, legal folk relations, cross communication, and social media.