Alchemy went from public launch to a half-billion-dollar valuation in eight months. The company is the world’s leading blockchain developer platform powering $30+ billion in transactions with 10+ million users in 197+ countries worldwide.Founded by Nikil Viswanathan (@Nikilster) and Joe Lau (@thejoelau), Alchemy has been likened to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) of the blockchain industry. They provide the best tools and products for developers to use in building NFTs, marketplaces, proto...

Nikki Adamson is the founder of Hustle Hunters, a recruiting firm for early stage startups.They help teams attract, support, and retain top talent and create more diverse, equitable, and inclusive (DEI) organizations.Candidates in their network include people that have historically been excluded: moms, women, caregivers, people who identify as LGBTQ+, Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC), Asian Americans, and more. In this episode, we discuss:Building your hiring process with a...

Justin Shenkarow is an actor, voice actor, producer, writer and director from Los Angeles. He’s best known for his roles as Matthew Brock in Picket Fences, Simon Holmes in Eerie, Indiana, and the voice of Harold Berman from the Nickelodeon animated series, Hey Arnold!Justin recently participated in NFTHack, a hackathon hosted by ETHGlobal, where he formed a team with Felipe Faraggi, Brennan Fife, and Pablo Palomo.They created Hashink to enable celebrities, actors, musicians, athletes, artists...

Claude Cayemitte is a NARM-certified, award-winning psychotherapist based in West Palm Beach, Florida. He works at a health center and runs a private practice, Clear and Connected Counseling, for individual therapy with adults and adolescents.I met Claude through the NARM Training Institute, where I’m training to be trauma informed in my coaching and consulting work. NARM stands for NeuroAffective Relational Model and is designed to help people address complex trauma.Disclaimer: Claude i...

On this episode Abhishek Gutgutia interviews me as a potential customer for the platform he’s building.Abhishek is the Chief Product Officer at Chronicled and is creating a platform on the side of his full-time job to help fellow entrepreneurs succeed. By providing resources, tools, coaching, feedback, best practices, and other support, he plans to celebrate and support founders of companies, especially first-time founders. Inspired in part by the trend of “building in public,” wher...

Marquis Lupton, co-founder and CEO of the TCP Network, struggled with stuttering while growing up. To overcome his speech impediment, he worked with speech coaches and practiced speaking in front of the mirror: making eye contact, squaring his shoulders, and wearing a microphone. Determined to be a radio personality or news reporter, he started two radio shows in college under the DJ name Quiet Storm. After college he worked for WLAN FM97 as a club DJ and board operator. He later l...

April Frazier is the founder of FRWD Confidence Coaching.She was a technologist who wrote code and led software development teams for 18 years before realizing that her true passion is in serving others through coaching.Through 1-on-1 and group coaching, she helps emerging entrepreneurs turn their ideas or side hustles into purpose-driven businesses. Serving dozens of female founders, April says “I help women remember how powerful they are.”Like many entrepreneurs, clients of April’s struggle...

Since starting Ranch Rider Spirits at the end of 2019, Quentin Cantu and Brian Murphy have expanded operations from Texas to Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Tennessee with plans to be in Louisiana, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, New Mexico, and Nevada soon.Their idea for cocktails came while running their food truck Ranch Hand, which they started as University of Texas at Austin MBA students. They noticed a gap in the market for spirit-based ready-to-drink beverages, sold their food truck, an...

Drishay Menon co-founded Bottlecode to help men take care of their skin. The company matches customers with skincare and personal-grooming products to solve their specific problems.For Drishay and co-founders Jeff Meyers and Rob McIntosh, this is part of a larger mission to help men be happy, healthy, and more confident.Most guys, including me, have struggled with skin issues but don’t talk about them openly. We’re left searching for solutions online, lots of trial and error, wasted time, mon...

In light of the racial tensions following the murder of George Floyd, among the many other wrongful deaths at the hands of police violence, Sam Interrante launched Faces Against Racism.He photographed over 100 people, each of which donated $100. Together the people of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, raised over $11,000, all of which was given to Lancaster-based black-owned community organizations: Advantage Lancaster, Deca City Farms, Lancaster NAACP, and three artist grants through the help of Lanc...