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In this episode of Zero to CEO I speak with Founder and CEO of Matik, Nik Mijic about how to build trust with customers. Building trust with customers is critical especially when the current economic climate makes it even more challenging to retain customers. Hear how you can tackle this problem by leveraging data to build credibility with accounts. Nik and I discuss what impact data can have on customer relationships and how to start using it to tell your customers compelling stories of your product’s value. Nik also tells us about the Matik hierarchy of data, and gives us real-world examples of how to use it. Finally, Nik explains how to overcome the challenges & pitfalls that can sometimes accompany using data.

In this episode of Zero to CEO I speak to Uranium Industry Expert John Cash about the national security aspects of the nuclear industry and the ongoing uranium bull market despite near-term geopolitical volatility. John is the thought leader in the uranium industry, with nearly 30 years of experience in uranium exploration, radiation safety, regulatory and legislative affairs, uranium recovery operations, and international trade, as well as extensive management experience. He will be discussing about the uranium geopolitics and national security aspects of the nuclear industry Green energy. We also discuss the anticipated growth in the Uranium industry as Europe and Asia move to a greater reliance on nuclear energy for domestic and carbon-free power needs. Lastly, we discuss the innovations to improve safety and reduce our environmental footprint while reducing costs.

Brendon is a leading expert in getting what you want from your projects. He has led and guided over $10 Billion in transformative projects and programs across more types of change than would be reasonable to list out here. Just know that it includes everything from transformations to teddy bears. Through it all Brendon has learned two things:
First - Change is HARD, so we need to ensure it’s worthwhile.
Second – The answer often lies in simplicity.
He is the author of the best-seller Valuable Change, and niche top seller Creating High Value PMOs. His pioneering work in the internal influencer space is world leading. Brendon now spends his time forging change leaders and working with them to drive more worthwhile organisational change. His clients include high growth tech firms, key ASX100 companies like AGL and South32, various Not-For-Profits, as well as all three levels of the Australian Government.
Website: www.valuablechange.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendon-baker-valuablechange/
The Change Leader Weekly: https://valuablechange.substack.com/
Valuable Change (The Book): https://www.amazon.com/Valuable-Change-What-Need-Ensure/dp/B09RC84X3N

In this episode of Zero to CEO I talk to successful serial entrepreneur David Valentine about practical advice on running multiple companies at once. David owns seven businesses that have generated $1B+ collectively for 1000+ clients, including major brands and Fortune 100 companies like Target, Time Magazine, and American Express, over the past 16 years. His most successful business, Avadel Agency, waking up at 5 am and working throughout the week from 7 am to 10 pm. His efforts paid off as Avadel quickly grew into a 7-figure agency, but his well-being turned to garbage. At age 29, during a visit to the doctor, he learned he was about to have a heart attack. The wear of constant stress from running his business had ravaged his nervous system, and his body was shutting down, and it would likely take years for him to recover. This served as a wake-up call that he needed to figure out how to scale businesses without the stress killing him. He began cutting back on his work hours, exercising, hiring top talent to help him run and grow his companies, and spending more time with his wife and then 18-month-old daughter. Dave now runs his businesses from the mountains next to a river and three waterfalls. David talks about actionable tips entrepreneurs can use to increase the profits and value of their business while working fewer hours and with less stress and anxiety. Also, practical advice on running multiple companies at once. How he booked meetings with over 300 of the Fortune 500 companies with the most outlandish methods, including memorable mojigrams. A ‘hub and spoke’ model you can use to 10x your business and three marketing assets that can increase your inbound leads by 1200%.

In this episode of Zero to CEO, I speak to successful author Patrick Geddes about How Your Brain Can Be Hazardous to Your Wealth. We'll be providing insights on how to be a smart consumer first as an investor, when we're wired to crave hot tips the way we crave sugar, with both being bad for your health. Learn how to tell when the investment industry can help you and when they help themselves at your expense. We also discuss behavioral bias and how our brains lead to bad investing. The paradox of how humility can make you a lot richer. How the industry makes more money when you make less money. Why so few people pay attention to the research on how awful active management is on average. And how to figure out if you should hire an advisor or do it yourself. Tune in to learn more!

In this episode of Zero to CEO I talk to Co-Founder and CEO of Bitmark Sean Moss-Pultz about the state of the digital economy. Sean founded and served as CEO of Openmoko, the world’s first open-source phone and precursor to the iPhone and Android smartphones. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of Bitmark, a blockchain startup that aims to bring traditional property rights into the digital age by providing tools that enable anyone to affirm ownership and control digital assets they create and post online. They’ve raised $10.3M in funding from investors, including Alibaba and Kevin Lin (Co-Founder of Twitch), and their clients included Pfizer, UC Berkeley, Health2Sync, and KKBOX. One of their products is Autonomy, the world’s first and only digital art wallet that allows traders to showcase their NFT collection and view it on any screen, TV, or projector, anywhere. We discuss property in the digital environment and how we can secure personal data in an age when it has become fully commoditized. Sean answers whether or not the new digital economy will stay or go bust. He gives his thoughts on the current state of the NFT market, and the future of NFTs. Finally we discuss the most challenging aspects of running startups and how to overcome them.

In this episode of Zero to CEO I talk to Experienced Technology Executive Jaxon Repp about how to help software development teams succeed within your organization. Jaxon and I discuss the tools and technologies that developers work with day-to-day that contributes greatly to their frustration. These tools were originally developed years ago to solve complex problems without regard for simplicity of use. As such, there needs to be a major shift to developer-focused products, not just tools that sort the problem at hand. When you resolve these problems it can greatly influence the success of the software development teams within your company. We talk about the what, why, and how of distributed databases. We also cover the tools and technologies that cause frustration to developers and the whole team. And finally, Jaxon discuss how there needs to be a major shift to developer-focused products, not just tools that sort the problem at hand. So tune in to learn more!

In today's episode I talk about the five ways entrepreneurship has changed in the last decade. I wanted to do this episode because it's been over 10 years since I jumped into the world of startups. The first one I started was around 2010. It wasn’t my first business, but it was my first tech startup. It's now roughly 12 years later, and I've noticed a lot of things have changed, some for the better and some for the worse. So tune in to find out what I found!

In this episode of Zero to CEO I speak with Life and Career Coach Rebecca Babcock about how to go from Surviving to Thriving. Rebecca shares her insights & advice on how professionals can prevent and/or overcome burnout, feeling overwhelmed, being stuck, and demotivated. She also shares ways listeners can become confident, purposeful, and energized. Rebecca  talks about her battle with an autoimmune disease from her teenage years and how she has persevered and thrived despite the significant impact this illness has had upon her life and career. Lastly, she covers the four principles to aligning your purpose and passion with your 9-5 and how to rid yourself of limiting beliefs that stop you from achieving life and career success forever. Tune in to hear all about it! Rebecca is offering a FREE 90-minute complimentary Rebecca Babcock Coaching Consultation on
https://rebeccababcockcoaching.com

In today's episode I talk about how to find potentially habitable exoplanets in the universe. When looking for potentially habitable exoplanets, it helps to start with worlds similar to our own. But what does "similar" mean? Many Earth-sized rocky planets have been discovered: this suggests the possibility of life. Based on what we observe in our own solar system, it seems unlikely that a large gaseous world like Jupiter would provide habitable conditions. But most of these Earth-sized worlds orbit red dwarf stars. Earth-sized planets in wide orbits around Sun-like stars are harder to spot. We've discovered so many of them in the universe, after we thought Earth was the only potentially habitable planet. But after 2009, when the Kepler telescope launched into space, that spacecraft has been finding countless habitable, well, potentially habitable exoplanets.So tune in to find out how we find them!

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