The Backpack Show

Award-winning consultant, entrepreneur, and author Rebekah Louisa Smith joins us on The Backpack Show with Chris Brogan and Kerry O'Shea Gorgone. She's the author of "Born to Do It: Becoming the Leader of a Business Niche Using Powerful Spiritual Techniques," and founder of The Film Festival Doctor, an organization that can help you get your film seen by audiences around the world.

Dr. Smith will share her strategies for handling the occasional failures we all experience, identifying when it’s time to change course. We'll also get into why it’s crucial to acknowledge unpleasant emotions and exhaustion in order to remove the excess baggage of burnout, and how to turn an epic failure into one of your biggest success stories! https://www.thefilmfestivaldoctor.com/dr-rebekah-louisa-smith/

Dr. Nashlie Sephus joins us on The Backpack Show with Chris Brogan and Kerry O'Shea Gorgone! Dr. Sephus founded The Bean Path, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Jackson, Mississippi. Their mission is to sow technical expertise in order to grow networks and fertilize communities. We'll talk with Dr. Sephus about the work they're doing, including tech office hours at local libraries, engineering and coding programs for youth, and scholarships/grants for students and community organizations. https://thebeanpath.org/

Come and meet Dr. Nashlie Sephus!

"Pretty Scary Author" Julie Hutchings joins us on The Backpack Show with Chris Brogan and Kerry O'Shea Gorgone. Julie tells scary stories with pretty insides. She also likes karate-kicking, collecting robots, guzzling coffee, chasing it with pizza, and running badass book fairs for all the little boys and girls. She also does "Undeaditing" developmental editing for your novel! Julie's novels include: The Vampires of Fate series, The Five Poisons series, and The Harpy series. https://juliehutchings.net/

Come and meet Julie Hutchings!

**NOTE: This episode had tough connection issues. Apologies.**

 

Don Saxby is a much-loved, high-level boxing coach at legendary Gleasons gym in Brooklyn. Eleanor Traubman brought him to us as a guest for The Backpack Show with Chris Brogan and Kerry O'Shea Gorgone, and we're so glad she did!

People called Don Saxby “crazy” when he quit his job as a school security officer to start his own business as a boxing coach. Since he made the move in 2004, he’s been busy coaching stars and athletes, including four men who fought for the world title. (But if you're looking to box, he coaches everyday people, too!)

We'll talk with Don about the relationship between boxer and coach, his role models, and how he mentors youth.

Heather R. Younger joins us on The Backpack Show with Chris Brogan and Kerry O'Shea Gorgone. Heather's the founder of employee engagement and leadership development firm Employee Fanatix. We'll talk with Heather about the four steps to creating a listening culture at work (and why you want to). We'll also talk with Heather about her book, "The Art of Caring Leadership: How Leading With Heart Uplifts Teams & Organizations." https://heatheryounger.com/

We'll also welcome back resilience expert Dr. Robert Brooks so we can talk about his new book, "Tenacity in Children: Nurturing the Seven Instincts for Lifetime Success." http://drrobertbrooks.com/

Joe Pulizzi is sponsoring this week, and we're super excited! Just between us, we've been wanting to have him on The Backpack Show anyway, so this is the perfect week. Joe is the Amazon bestselling author of "Content Inc., Killing Marketing and Epic Content Marketing." The latest version of Content Inc. comes out pretty much right now! https://www.joepulizzi.com/

Joe's founded four companies including digital content news site The Tilt -- https://www.thetilt.com/ -- as well as Content Marketing Institute. He also hosts the podcast "This Old Marketing" with Robert Rose. His Foundation, The Orange Effect, delivers speech therapy and technology services to children in over 35 states. https://theorangeeffect.org/

We'll also meet Margot Bloomstein, another leading voice in the branding and content strategy industry. We'll talk with Margot about how small businesses can use voice, volume, and vulnerability to bring people closer and attract top talent. We'll also hear all about the “Whisper Network," and how it can be the nail in the coffin for the demise of small businesses.

Margot is the author of "Trustworthy: How the Smartest Brands Beat Cynicism and Bridge the Trust Gap and Content Strategy at Work: Real-World Stories to Strengthen Every Interactive Project." She's also the principal of Appropriate, Inc., a brand and content strategy consultancy based in Boston. http://appropriateinc.com/

Shelley Cardoos of Entrepreneurship for All ("EforAll") swings by The Backpack Show with Chris Brogan and Kerry O'Shea Gorgone. This fun conversation will take us through such unlikely topics as seltzer, wrestling, and inclusive entrepreneurship! EforAll is accelerating economic and social impact in communities nationwide through inclusive entrepreneurship. https://eforall.org/

Actor and producer Casey McKinnon joins Chris Brogan and Kerry O'Shea Gorgone on this episode of The Backpack Show. Casey's body of work is impressive. She's graced both stage and screen, and even played Jackie O! http://caseymckinnon.com

We'll talk with Casey about her work empowering women and non-binary filmmakers as an ambassador for The Chimaera Project: Champions for Women in Film, and hear all about the recently launched #SupportHer program — a mentorship program for women and non-binary filmmakers. https://chimaeraproject.org/supporther/

Dr. Deidre Franklin of Oliver Scholars and Project CBD Co-Founder Martin A. Lee join us on The Backpack Show with Chris Brogan and Kerry O'Shea Gorgone. Dr. Franklin is the Chief Program and Equity Officer at Oliver Scholars. Her career has focused on inclusion, access, and the psychological well-being of historically marginalized groups. We'll talk with Dr. Franklin about what a year in lockdown has meant to the health and wellness of Oliver students and their families, an how remote life exposed challenges for under resourced communities as well. https://www.oliverscholars.org/

We'll also meet Project CBD co-founder Martin A. Lee. We'll talk with Martin about "The Essential Guide to CBD." The primer draws from peer-reviewed research and medical studies, as well as interviews with neuroscientists and doctors, to debunk common myths and pseudoscience. We'll cover the basics of what CBD is and how it works, and how it can be helpful against dozens of health conditions. https://www.projectcbd.org/

So we talked about all kinds of weird things like virtual horse breeding. Which is a real thing.