The Data Binge

Andrew Strong is the Head of Business Operations at Correlation One, an organization headquartered in New York, focused on building technologies, programs, and frameworks that help companies find, evaluate, and train the world's best data science and analytics talent. Andrew finished his undergrad at Stanford University, with a BS in Management Science & Engineering, and spent the first decade of his career in roles ranging from heavy analyst type engagements with the likes of oil & gas bio-tech businesses, as well as developing investment strategies and financial models/simulations with JP Morgan Asset Management. Andrew has also spent some time in the valley, developing sales and operations strategy for Salesforce's platform business. I had the pleasure of meeting Andrew in business school, while we pursued our MBA's, class of 2017, UT Austin, McCombs School of Business.

Items we discuss in the episode:

-How the world is becoming more data centric and analytical, and why data literacy, the ability to read, understand, and communicate data as information, is a critical skill in the modern workplace, and modern word.

-The importance of creating equitable transitions into a data driven economy, and the importance of developing data science excellence and algorithms that apply to a multi-constituent world, inclusive of everyone.

-The types of organizations that are hiring and developing data talent well, the growth areas most organizations should focus on, and how new to career talent should view the addressable gap in the market and retain success.

-New approaches to educating people in math and the sciences, that break the current mold of typical higher education - the power of data-thons and data tournaments, and most importantly, why curiosity and the willingness to learn, may be the best attributes for developing analytical minds.

Thank you for listening!

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Full Interview on YouTube: https://youtu.be/wYtuZUOxumM

How to Contact Andrew

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewlstrong/

Correlation One: https://www.correlation-one.com/

University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business: https://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/

Resources:

Microsoft Global Skills Initiative: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/06/30/microsoft-launches-initiative-to-help-25-million-people-worldwide-acquire-the-digital-skills-needed-in-a-covid-19-economy/

Most Companies Only Have General Talent Initiatives: https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/focus/cio-insider-business-insights/perspectives-on-gender-diversity-and-inclusion.html

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Email: [email protected]

Today's show is a Simply Tech LIVE interview featuring my co-host, Ali Mazaheri, and our guest, Caitlin McCabe. Caitlin has been at Microsoft for almost 11 years, and is currently the Sr. Director of CEO Communications in the office of Microsoft's CEO, Satya Nadella. Across the discussion, Caitlin visits the key constructs of what it means to truly understand and be acutely aware of all constituents on a global scale, and the global impact and responsibility that is placed on the shoulders of the CEO, of a global organization.

Additional areas of focus:

- key learnings taken away from working with Satya Nadella and his office, amazing stories of innovation and creation that Caitlin and the executive team have experienced during global travel

-how technology continues to shape the way we interact with each other in the new COVID existence, from the hand raising function in Microsoft Teams, to the diversity of meeting culture via quick drive by calls or highly structured meetings

-Takeaways from working closely with highly talented colleagues in the face of accessibility needs, and re-approaching situations with language that builds space for empathy and understanding within collaborations

Thanks you for listening!

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Simply Tech LIVE LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/simplytechlive

Full Interview on YouTube: https://youtu.be/jHK8fdX-CWw

How to Contact Caitlin

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mccabec/

Resources:

Colleagues mentioned:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/leah-katz-hernandez-7ab20835/

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Today's episode is a recording of a LIVE interview discussion, hosted on LinkedIn LIVE, featuring a program called "The Example Show" produced by Ryan Swanstrom. Ryan is a heavily credentialed Software Engineer, with a Masters in Math from Iowa State University, and a PHD in Computational Science and Statistics. Ryan's experience spans across over 20 years of working with notable enterprises including Northrup Grumman, all the way through to organizations like Wells Fargo and Microsoft, and most recently, Ryan consults for various organizations on his own, while late and current projects focus on reporting and analytics related to buying pattern during the COVID Pandemic. Ryan is also the author of the oldest data science blog on the internet, Data Science 101, started in 2012.

"The Example Show", featured in today's episode, is a weekly live Interview show that dives into the challenges and the successes of creating a weekly/monthly show, LIVE streaming program, podcast, etc. Ryan brings on some really talented guests to talk about different elements of how and why they create content, and LIVE streams the interview on LinkedIn LIVE. Today Ryan brings Derek Russell, the host of the Data Binge Podcast, onto his show as a guest, to talk about the "Why" of creating a show.

Theses discussed:

-The "Why" of creating a show, why YOU should get started, and how the fastest way to learn is to being a new project.

-The (3) things you must have aligned before you start a podcast or LIVE streaming program.

-Real talk on monetization, how to prioritize your efforts based on outcomes, and the new skills, connections, and opportunities presented with podcast and LIVE stream content creation.

Thank you for listening!

The Why of Creating a Show Interview on YouTube: https://youtu.be/IgeNh6DP-Q4

How to Contact Ryan Swanstrom:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanswanstrom/

The Example Show: https://www.ryanswanstrom.com/the-example-show

Ryan's Blog:

DataScience101: https://101.datascience.community/

Resources:

Building a Podcast Community with Sam Charrington: https://www.ryanswanstrom.com/the-example-show-community-sam-charrington

Tips Mentioned:

Kindle Paperwhite: https://amzn.to/332Rqc9

Free Library Book App: Libby: https://libbyapp.com/welcome

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Today's discussion features Ian Connell. Ian is an Investment Principal at Charter School Growth Fund, a non-profit focusing on making multi-year philanthropic investments in public charter school networks. Charter School Growth Fund supports nearly 480,000 students, around 90% are students of color, and around 75% come from economically disadvantaged families. Charter School Growth Fund uses an approach similar to the venture funding model, to identify the country's best public charter schools, and to fund their expansion with the specific goal of increasing the school's vision and educational impact.

Over the past 6 years at Charter School Growth Fund, Ian has focused his efforts on ed-tech and innovation in K-12 schools, and while on the investment team leading an innovation and technology strategy, Ian spends his time visiting schools, and talking to founders and partners to try to understand and identify, which school systems are developing the most novel and impactful approach to education, with the end of goal of taking the most robust and proven education designs, and scaling them to other schools to ultimately impact as many children as possible. Ian brings with him an MBA from the University of Chicago, The Booth School of Business, typically a top 3 business school globally year over year according to US News, and we find some time in the talk to visit how Ian was able to completely shift his career trajectory through the aid of a non-profit fellowship called Management Leadership for Tomorrow, an organization focused on equipping and empowering high achieving men and women from underrepresented communities. The talk today visits all of these cohesive ideas around the provision of opportunities and programming to populations that normally wouldn't have access to them.

Additional Items Discussed:

-Organizational inertia, and why it is so hard for big systems and organizations to effectively tackle dynamically changing challenges - whether in education or in commercial applications, how the size and age of organizations can impact their ability to change strategy and direction

-Effective teaching models, and the difference between teaching 5th grade math, and teaching 5th graders math, the disparity curve across different levels of learning maturity in the average classroom, and some trends and evolutions of thinking to tackle these types of typical educational challenges.

-How technology can be used to target specific educational outcomes, frameworks that support specific outcomes, megatrends in ed-tech, and big ideas on what school models may look like during COVID this coming fall.

-Ideas around how to make ed-tech more interesting to institutional capital, and why the current model of venture funding in ed-tech has some addressable gaps that could change the future of education for our youth.

Thank you for listening!

How to Contact Ian:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianconnell/

Resources:

Charter School Growth Fund: https://chartergrowthfund.org/

Management Leadership for tomorrow: https://mlt.org/

MBA Prep Program: https://mlt.org/mba-prep/

Data & Sources:

Chicago Ideas: https://www.chicagoideas.com/

Microsoft K12 Education Transformation Framework: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/education/school-leaders/k-12-microsoft-education-transformation-framework/default.aspx

National Center for Children in Poverty: http://www.nccp.org/profiles/US_profile_6.html

United Negro College Fund: https://uncf.org/pages/K-12-Disparity-Facts-and-Stats

Department of Education Office for Civil Rights: https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/2013-14-first-look.pdf

Books Mentioned:

Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Why-We-Sleep/Matthew-Walker/9781501144325

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Today's discussion features Courtney D. Cogburn and Jeremy Bailenson. Courtney is an Associate Professor of Social Work at Columbia University, Courtney is on the faculty of the Columbia Population Research Center and a faculty affiliate of the Center on African American Politics and Society and the Data Institute. Courtney's work focuses on the ways that society characterizes and measures racism, the effects of cultural racism in media, as well as the effects of racism on cultural inequalities in health. Jeremy Bailenson is a Thomas More Storke Professor in the Department of Communication at Stanford University, and is also the Founding Director of Stanford's Virtual Human Interaction Lab. Jeremy studies the psychology of Virtual and Augmented Reality, specifically how virtual experiences lead to changes in perceptions of self and others. Jeremy's work predominantly focuses on important social and behavioral issues including climate change, homelessness, and now, racism.

Courtney and Jeremy join the broadcast to talk about their collaboration on "1000 Cut Journey" an immersive virtual reality experience, that allows participants of the experience, to become Michael Sterling, a fictional black male character, as he encounters racism as a young child, an adolescent, and a young adult. The world premier of the experience was featured at the Tribeca Film Festival Virtual Arcade in 2018, as well as at the New Orleans Film Festival Cinema Reset in 2018.

Items discussed:

-how VR can be used as a lever on very difficult problems by merging technology and very carefully constructed narratives based on empirical data

-the transdisciplinary approach to merging different studies of research and thought

-the specific power of virtual reality, the true nature of VR as an experience that you can walk away with, and the implications of these experiences to understanding, visualizing, and creating new perspective can be used to change everything from policing to policy

-Learnings from working on the project, and future uses of virtual reality to bridge the gaps of understanding of the many complexities of racism, while motivating audiences to act on racism and racial injustices.

Thank you for listening!

Full Simply Tech LIVE Video Broadcast: https://youtu.be/EQKNkSbd3ik

Ways to contact Courtney and Jeremy:

Courtney D. Cogburn: https://socialwork.columbia.edu/faculty-research/faculty/full-time/courtney-d-cogburn/

Jeremy Bailenson: https://comm.stanford.edu/faculty-bailenson/

Resources:

1000 Cut Journey trailer: https://youtu.be/rA6fOMSx2yk

Experiencing Racism in VR | Courtney D. Cogburn, PHD | TEDxRVA: https://youtu.be/M7T_u4hpiSE

Infinite Reality: The Dawn of the Virtual Revolution with Jeremy Bailenson: https://youtu.be/1jbwxR8bCb4

Additional Work Mentioned:

Albert "Skip" Rizzo: https://ict.usc.edu/profile/albert-skip-rizzo/

Fernanda Herrera: https://iriss.stanford.edu/people/fernanda-herrera

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Interested in starting your own podcast? Some candid advice here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-start-podcast-3-step-gono-go-beginners-guide-derek-russell

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Connect with Derek:

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Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN1c5mzapLZ55ciPgngqRMg/featured

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Medium: https://medium.com/@derekwesleyrussell

Email: [email protected]

This episode is recognizing today, Friday, June 19th, 2020, Juneteenth or otherwise known as Freedom Day. This State holiday, which is now observed by 46 states, originated from June 19, 1865, commemorating the day the remaining black slaves in the Confederacy were made aware of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation - which was an executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln, on January 1st, 1863, changing the federal legal status of black slaves in the confederate states, from slaves to free people. Almost 2 years after the signing of this document, black slaves in Texas, where confederate sympathizers fled to from other southern states to evade the Union armies, the black slaves were finally made aware that they were indeed free.

Today's episode is a series of (3) LIVE interviews taken from the February 2020 BAM conference, or Blacks at Microsoft conference. BAM is Microsoft's oldest employee resource group, just over 30 years old, dedicated to supporting the continued growth and development of black employees.

We talk about everything from how BAM is helping to create a more diverse future workforce, to the real nature of identifying unconscious bias, we hear from a white ally about things they are working at to get better as a leader, and we talk about how to deal with additional cultural stigmas that people are challenged with in today's workforces.

Ways to contact Guests:

Sonya Weaver-Johnson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sonyaweaverjohnson/

Sean Bittner: https://www.linkedin.com/in/seanjbittner/

Jason Bradley: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-bradley-3a520a16/

Black Nonprofits and Organizations Mentioned:

Jack and Jill of America, Incorporated: https://jackandjillinc.org/

100 Black Men: https://100blackmen.org/

National Society of Black Engineers: https://www.nsbe.org/Home.aspx

Resources:

Juneteenth: http://history.com/news/what-is-juneteenth

Learning more about BAM: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/diversity/programs/blacks-scholarships.aspx

BAM Conference Video Interviews: https://youtu.be/OsBQGrTpg98

Satya Nadella Blog with ways to support black lives: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/06/05/change-in-ourselves-helps-drive-change-in-the-world/

Causes I continue to Support

Equal Justice Initiative: https://eji.org/

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Upcoming Events: Exploring the Realities of Racism Through Virtual Reality (VR), Thursday, June 25th, 2020

https://www.linkedin.com/events/6678637748611620864/

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Email: [email protected]

Rodney Campbell and Keith Richardson are hosts of the More in Common Podcast, where their work around guest discussions, focuses on amplifying voices, and abstracting stories that leverage real human experiences. Keith and Rodney are professional conversationalists, but in the context of having really tough conversations, and having them well. As a result of their podcast they also launched a consulting business, where they help organizations engage in the fundamental fact that we all have more in common than that which divides us, and the basis for this, is anchoring humanity in compassionate conversation.

Keith and Rodney are also providing workshops in the community, through the National Conversation Project, in Cleveland and Los Angeles, and they are releasing apparel that will be donated to causes focused on reforming criminal justice.

Items we discuss:

-anxiety, and how we each attempt to deal with in in our lives

-the nuances of maintaining mental health, setting goals, and competing with yourself

-the challenges of being who we are - from the tyranny of "should", to creating safe spaces for engaging dialogues, to the true power of execution vs planning, and "showing up"

-how to have better conversations, and why it's not about you, but about the lived experience of the person you are engaging

Thank you for listening!

Ways to contact Keith and Rodney:

Keith: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keith-richardson-8950bb4/

Rodney: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rodneybcampbell/

Podcast and website: https://www.moreincommonpod.com/

Books:

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, Eckhart Tolle: https://amzn.to/3huBkMX

Podcasts Mentioned:

Finding Mastery, Dr. Michael Gervais: https://findingmastery.net/

Masters of Scale, Reid Hoffman: https://mastersofscale.com/

Resources:

Les Brown Speeches: https://youtu.be/gXuSMjrx_e8

The Man in the Arena, Teddy Roosevelt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenship_in_a_Republic

Statistics:

When you are emotionally well as an employee, you can engage in your work: https://www.forbes.com/sites/nazbeheshti/2019/01/16/10-timely-statistics-about-the-connection-between-employee-engagement-and-wellness/#634046e122a0

Upcoming LIVE Broadcasts & Events:

Friday, June 19th, 2020: 930-1030am PST - Innovation in K-12 Education, and the Venture Capital Model as the Funding Mechanism for Education, with Ian Connell: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-data-binge-podcast

Thursday, June 25th, 2020: 12-1pm PST - Experiencing Racism, a Virtual Reality Driven Perspective on Simply Tech LIVE with associate professor Courtney D. Cogburn of Columbia University, and professor Jeremy Bailenson of Stanford University: https://www.linkedin.com/company/simplytechlive

Anti-racism Causes and Nonprofits that I am supporting and am working to collaborate closer with:

https://eji.org/

https://thelastmile.org/

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Connect with Derek:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/derekwesleyrussell/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN1c5mzapLZ55ciPgngqRMg/featured

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drussnetwork/

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Medium: https://medium.com/@derekwesleyrussell

Email: [email protected]

Noelle Silver is the VP of Digital Technology at National Public Radio (NPR), where she leads the engineering organization across initiatives ranging from the Alexa skills platform to mobile application development. Noelle has over 20 years of experience in tech. As a Principal Program Manager in the enterprise voice group at Microsoft AI, she led programs that empowered developers with AI algorithms that help applications see, hear, speak and understand user needs across the Microsoft application and tooling portfolios. Before NPR and Microsoft, Noelle was at Amazon Web Services (AWS) for 4 years, spending 3 of those years with the Alexa group as an evangelist and technical manager for the Alexa and Echo. Across her many other experiences, you will find that Noelle is surely an icon in the voice related AI space, as she has personally built a gambit of over 100 skills relating to all things enterprise voice, mental health, and self-development.

Amongst Noelle's interests both personally and professionally, she is the founder of the AI Institute, which empowers organizations to think more deeply about AI, and she's also a founder of Women in AI, focusing on the amazing work that women are doing in the AI field ranging from voice to augmented reality. Noelle's been on NBC news to talk about how robots can make meaningful contributions to the arts, and was recently identified across the online tech community to be the #1 in a top 10 lineup of the best key-note speakers to have at your AI events.

Key Topics in the discussion:

-Re-defining your life mission, your brand, your impact, and focusing on the things that you care about in your career. Noelle highlights how she took some steps back in her career to become the AI personality that she is today.

-Why Diverse & inclusive AI is so important to humanity, the organizational changes that need to happen at the top engineering ranks of tech organizations for more representative approaches to AI, and perspectives on building teams and publishing models in a far more representative way - from diverse user bases to diverse data sets.

-How to hire teams that fit your organizational culture. High level lessons from Amazon's hiring culture and the power of constructing a mindful behavioral interview.

-We talk about living a full-filling life, being ok with a strenuous work-life harmony, the never ending pursuit to being a whole person, and the lessons of how to navigate the day to day as a very busy executive, working mom, and people leader.

Thanks for listening!

Ways to contact Noelle:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mindfulleadership/

Books:

Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark: https://amzn.to/3clpFw8

Resources:

Women in AI: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/happy-international-womens-day-noelle-silver/

AI Leadership Institute: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aileadership/

AI Leadership Institute Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmhC73n85xZfKXQ04XM05Yw

Noelle's Website: http://noellesilver.com/

Top AI keynote speakers: https://readwrite.com/2020/04/22/top-ai-speakers/

Robots can make art: https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/can-robots-make-art-1476825155783

Sam Harris Meditation App: https://wakingup.com/

Pre-trained AI models (Microsoft Cognitive Services): https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-services/

Pre-trained AI models (Google Auto-ml): https://cloud.google.com/automl

AI Hiring: https://www.hirevue.com/

Statistics:

Using Artificial Intelligence to Promote Diversity: https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/using-artificial-intelligence-to-promote-diversity/

5 eye-opening statistics about minorities in tech: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/5-eye-opening-statistics-about-minorities-in-tech/

Upcoming LIVE Broadcast Events:

Simply Tech LIVE: The Evolution of Diversity & Inclusion in Tech, featuring April Walker: https://www.linkedin.com/events/theevolutionofdiversity-inclusionintech-aprilwalke/

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Interested in starting your own podcast? Some candid advice here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-start-podcast-3-step-gono-go-beginners-guide-derek-russell

Learn more about the Data Binge Podcast at www.thedatabinge.com

Connect with Derek:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/derekwesleyrussell/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN1c5mzapLZ55ciPgngqRMg/featured

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drussnetwork/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/drussnetwork

Medium: https://medium.com/@derekwesleyrussell

Email: [email protected]

Today's discussion, features, Jeremy Schneider, self-made multi-millionaire, retiree at 34 years old, and now founder of Personal Finance Club (@personalfinanceclub on Instagram), an organization built with the sole purpose of spreading the word that living below your means and investing early and often in index funds, is the most efficient and effective path to building wealth.

Jeremy turned down a handsome offer from Microsoft 17 years ago, after interning as a software developer. Armed with a BS in computer engineering and a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Michigan, and with the help of his mom, grew Rentlinx.com, a rental property advertisement business, from a desktop under his desk in his living room, to a $5M dollar business, all while over the course of about a decade never paying himself more than a $36k salary. Jeremy is an absolute titan of personal finance, and his mission is to offer free, real deal no strings attached knowledge on how to make better financial decisions.

Items we discuss on the episode:

-The only (2) concepts you'll ever need to know about personal finance, spend below your means, and invest early and often

-Ashley and Amanda, and other sample scenarios of how one can become a millionaire with a $4k after tax take home salary, by putting away $800/month over 40 years, vs the alternative - spending the entire $4k, and retiring into poverty living solely off of social security

-The financial realities of buying a new car, and the working years that will be tacked onto the tail end of our lives to pay for it.

-Why buying a home, is almost never a good financial decision. If you say it's the best investment you'll ever make, it is probably because it's the only investment you'll ever make.

-We also end the discussion with topics ranging from student loan pay down strategies, debt consolidation, frugality, easy investment strategies, and actionable steps to improve your finances and to build a life of freedom.

Thanks for listening!

Ways to contact Jeremy:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/personalfinanceclub/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerschneid/

Books Discussed:

The Simple Path to Wealth, by JL Collins: https://amzn.to/2TaVrWc

The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market, by Jack Bogle: https://amzn.to/2LEhr7m

A Beginners Guide to Investing, : https://amzn.to/3cAnjKV

Resources:

Personal Finance Club Web Site: https://www.personalfinanceclub.com/

Jeremy Schneider's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqhRZnzfUig6jtRVtYpV7Eg

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/personalfinanceclub/

Rentlinx.com: https://www.rentlinx.com/

The Rule of 72: https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0711/how-to-double-your-money-every-6-years.aspx

Florida Atlantic University and Florida International University faculty rent vs buy study: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/05/its-better-to-rent-than-to-buy-in-todays-housing-market.html

https://business.fau.edu/departments/finance/real-estate-initiative/bhj-buy-vs-rent-index/

MINT for budgeting: https://www.mint.com/

YNAB for budgeting: https://www.youneedabudget.com/

Statistics:

National Credit Card Debt: https://www.debt.org/faqs/americans-in-debt/

Auto

Loans:https://www.lendingtree.com/auto/debt-statistics/

US Consumer Debt: https://www.investopedia.com/personal-finance/american-debt-auto-loan-debt/

Learn more at www.thedatabinge.com

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Today's discussion features Matt Homann, CEO and Founder of Filament, an organization that designs, facilitates, and hosts collaborative meetings, conferences, off-sites and any type of human collaboration environment, with the objective of enabling meetings to produce measurable results that move organizations forward.

For more than 20 years, Matt has been involved in the leadership spaces of designing creative experiences in everything including learning, skill building, collaboration and knowledge delivery. From building in person and virtual spaces that allow people to have better meetings, which he does at Filament today, to using arts to teach business skills, all the way to disseminating hard to explain concepts through illustrations and the drawing of pictures. Matt is an attorney by trade, holding a JD from the Washington University St. Louis School of Law, and not only spent time practicing earlier in his career, but also taught pre-trial practice and procedure as an adjunct professor of law at his alma mater.

Matt describes how he's explicitly stitched together the many opportunities in his career in areas like law, with the collection of experiences in creative design thinking type endeavors as a consultant and leader, and his experiences as entrepreneurship building innovative conferences and meeting places. It's clear that Matt is one of the top practitioners in helping people and organizations collaborate better together.

Themes of the episode:

-How to build useful spaces (in person and now virtually) that allow us to do what we want to do, whether that's creating innovative products, or ideating around cultural transformations

-How virtual meetings have translated the same terrible cultural qualities of in person meetings to this new online reality, with intensified challenges of inclusiveness and attentiveness

-How Changing the meeting culture comes from the top, and how the status and connection of reporting out to leadership about the organizations direction, has trickled down in our organizations and has formed prohibitive collaboration behaviors don't move business forward

-How to have better meetings, and why doing so can make your people up to 40% more effective: from tips like scheduling 47 minute meetings to build gaps in back to back scheduling, and removing ppt and other artifacts away from collaboration time, to asynchronous collaboration and the meaning of what it is to truly prepare for a meeting

-How to build better conferences, where networking, learning, and connection isn't as much a serendipitous and ad-hoc condition, but more of a engineered outcome by conference facilitators

Thanks for listening!

Ways to contact Matt:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/matthomann

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/homann/

Resources:

Filament: https://www.thefilament.com/

The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker: https://www.amazon.com/Effective-Executive-Definitive-Getting-Things/dp/B01N51TCT1/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3GGCYWT8AMD50&dchild=1&keywords=effective+executive&qid=1588683249&s=audible&sprefix=effective+%2Caudible%2C199&sr=1-1

So Good they Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport: https://www.amazon.com/Good-They-Cant-Ignore-You/dp/B009CMO8JQ/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=so+darn+good+they+can%27t+ignore+you&qid=1588683210&sr=8-1

The Motive: Why So Many Leaders Abdicate Their Most Important Responsibilities by Patrick Lencioni: https://www.amazon.com/Motive-Leaders-Abdicate-Important-Responsibilities-ebook/dp/B0851K989D/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ECZ0KBANMUS0&dchild=1&keywords=patrick+lencioni&qid=1588599671&sprefix=patrick+lan%2Caps%2C191&sr=8-1

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