Social Origin

Welcome to 2022, we are so excited for Season 3 and everything that's ahead at Social Origin. We've been hard at work engaging in conversations with some of the world's top technology leaders, innovators, and creative minds. In this new season, we'll bring you the latest content across a wide range of topics from individuals and experts. Speaking across culture, creativity, and business. Come with us as we deep dive into these stories, learning how they've built incredible success principles that have guided them along the way. We also collaborate with some incredible friends along the way who continue to shake things up and keep things fresh.

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April Koenig is a fierce entrepreneurial force and industry leader who is the CEO and Founder of Creatives On Call, a national talent network designed to match incredibly innovative talent with top CMOs and CEOs across the Country needing to scale and support their creative teams.

As the leader of one of the most distinguished woman-owned national creative network organizations in the Midwest, her organization has positioned thousands of their associates into teams, projects, short and long-term contracts. After seeing the powerful impact her team was making over time April launched an additional business called VennQuille as a consulting firm.

Her down to earth authentic personality, insights, and perspective on innovation make this an extremely powerful episode.

April Koenig
Creatives on Call
Social Origin

Today’s episode features Nico Shumpert and Frank McGinty, two incredible Chefs in the kitchen, entrepreneurs in the marketplace, and loving fathers at home. They both started their journeys in Missouri yet have traveled the world perfecting their craft. They’ve trained under some of the best chefs in the world. Together they have curated incredibly unique pop up experiences through a project called THIS IS NOT A RESTAURANT.

Nico runs a podcast with his wife called Ebonics Podcast and actively creates dynamic catering dining events across St. Louis. Learn more about him in the links below.

Frank held a variety of Chef roles prior to joining Kaldi's Coffee. He helped the company grow from 3 retail locations and a handful of wholesale accounts, to 18 cafes in multiple markets with over 500 wholesale accounts nationwide with partner companies in Nashville and Hawaii.

Nico: Website, Instagram, Podcast

Frank:Instagram, Kaldis Coffee

In this episode we discuss our journey of building social origin as business. We explore how we got started and why we got started.

We discuss what is taking place currently within the podcasting industry and what you need to know as you use podcasting in your business. We explore our transition to full time entrepreneurship and some of the things we've learned as a result. We discuss Apple Podcasts, Spotify and why podcasting will continue to growing in the coming years!

Connect with us on our website at www.socialorigin.net

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Hosts - David Alexander and  Daniel Alexander

Jim Marsh was the former Head of School of Westminster Christian Academy. As mentors to us (David and Daniel Alexander) he had a profound impact on us along with thousands of other students and families that attended WCA. Through his leadership he successfully built a $70 million new campus, launched world class academic programs, and leadership curriculum that has been recognized nationally.  Through a longterm strategic journey he saw diversity increase to over 20% in the student population. Join us for a conversation that will share leadership insights on building relationships, empathy, and strength that apply in every walk of life.  One of the campaigns WCA is currently participating in is to help support families negatively impacted by COVID-19. Check out details at https://wcastl.org/giving/

In this episode you’ll meet Tima, she’s a breathe of fresh air. In this episode we explore a bit of her story as she shares her transition from corporate finance to pursuing purpose through adding value to the community around her.

She would never tell you this but she is one of Australia’s leading Linkedin experts. Having grown her network to over 65,000 in only 18 months, she’s discovered the power of creating value online.

She also runs Tima the podcast, and has interviewed some of the worlds greatest business minds. So jump into the episode and enjoy!

In this episode you'll here from accountant Betty Kabissios who runs her own accounting firm called Platinum Accounting. She talks through everything you need to know to weather this storm 'coronavirus' & better serve your customers on the other side.

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Chris Dornfeld is a dynamic leader that’s found success in multiple industries. From architecture, scaling within the tech space, and now serving as the Chief Operations Officer at Maritz Motivation Solutions, he understands the power of creativity. 

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We are so excited to share this incredible episode with you! We had the privilege of sitting down with author and speaker Dee Ann Turner who was the former chief cultural officer for Chick Fil-A. In this interview she shares about her experience in life, leadership and development during her time there and the opportunity she now walks in as a best selling author. You will learn some key elements that are involved in effectively setting culture within one of the most customer focused businesses and hear practical advice that will help you go above and beyond to make every customer experience a long lasting positive one.

To connect with Dee Ann click here

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