The Jason Cavness Experience

Shannon (Shay) Huffman Polson - Founder, The Grit Institute, Leadership Speaker and Author

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Shannon's Bio

Shannon Huffman Polson is the author of The Grit Factor: Courage, Resilience and Leadership in the Most Male Dominated Organization in the World, and the founder of The Grit Institute, a leadership institute committed to whole leader development and a focus on grit and resilience.

As one of the first women to fly the Apache helicopter in the U.S. Army, leading line units on three continents, Polson combines her passion and firsthand experience in and study of leadership and grit to deliver world-class keynotes and training to companies and organizations on leadership and grit. After serving for a decade in the armed services, Polson earned her MBA at the Tuck School at Dartmouth.

She went on to lead outstanding teams in the corporate world at Guidant Corporation (later Boston Scientific) and Microsoft Corporation. Shannon lives in Washington State.

We talked about the following and other items

Her appearance on NBC Today

Can women have it all

What makes someone a leader

Becoming one of the first females to fly the Apache helicopter in the U.S. Army

How do you influence other women to tell their story

Embracing failure

Embracing success

The Grit Factor

Living in France

Advice to anyone who is the only blank in the room

Shannon's Social Media

Shannon's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannonhpolson/

Shannon's Website: https://shannonpolson.com/

Shannon's YT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcpleeDo9xXWkqau90yLHog

Shannon's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shannonhpolson/

Shannon's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ABorderLife

The Grit Institute: https://www.thegritinstitute.com/

Shannon's Book - The Grit Factor: Courage, Resilience, and Leadership in the Most Male-Dominated Organization in the World

https://www.amazon.com/Grit-Factor-Resilience-Male-Dominated-Organization/dp/1633697266/ref=as_li_ss_tl?keywords=the+grit+factor&qid=1579913022&sr=8-2&linkCode=sl1&tag=shannonhpolso-20&linkId=de37c60b756365aead07d9006a9c0c08&language=en_US

Arkady Kulik - Founding Partner rpv -Deep Tech VC | Neuro | Photonics | New energy

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Arkady's Bio

Meet Arkady, a visionary leader with a background in driving operational efficiency, strategic partnerships, and business development. With a proven track record of success across various industries, Arkady has consistently delivered exceptional results and played integral roles in transforming organizations. As the Chief Operating Officer at VK.com, the largest social network in the CIS region, Arkady streamlined operations and reporting, resulting in remarkable cost savings of $33 million in 2020 alone.

Recognizing the importance of data-driven decision-making, Arkady led the transparency team, spearheading the company's transformation to a data-centric approach. At Luxoft, a global leader in outsourced software development, Arkady served as the Director of Marketing & Business Development, driving significant revenue growth. He fostered valuable relationships with potential clients, resulting in the acquisition of over $45 million in new business. During their tenure as CEO of Indigos.ru, the largest online education store for school kids in Russia, Arkady restructured the company in a mere three months, driving productivity growth and cost reduction.

Furthermore, Arkady spearheaded the development of a new web-based product, turning the company profitable. His strategic acumen led to the M&A deal with a prominent company in the school education sector. At Thankyou.ru, a groundbreaking content distribution platform based on the "Pay what you want" model, Arkady served as the Founder and CEO. Through strategic negotiations, Arkady secured agreements with all the top Russian musicians, enabling free and unlimited access to their music.

Additionally, Arkady spearheaded a captivating social media movement that garnered national media attention, solidifying Thankyou.ru's position as an industry disruptor and the largest digital music label in Russia. As the Co-founder and CEO of RUCEA, a talent management and event agency, Arkady redefined the industry standard by implementing a systematic pricing system for artist bookings. RUCEA evolved into a full-scale management agency for red carpet events, catering to high-profile clients such as Tom Cruise and Charlize Theron.

Under Arkady's leadership, RUCEA successfully executed over 350 events within a span of three years. Arkady holds an MBA from INSEAD, he also obtained a Master's degree in physics from Moscow State University of M.V. Lomonosov. Fluent in English and Russian, with practical proficiency in French, Arkady effortlessly navigates diverse cultural and professional landscapes. Beyond their professional achievements, Arkady maintains a diverse range of personal interests. He is passionate about exploring the intersections of sciences and the emergent properties on these borders.

Arkady loves snowboarding and rock climbing and sometimes dwells into painting and playing drums.

We talked about the following and other items

Are we better off than we used to be

Physics

Why he started a VC fund

Space and the potential of intelligent life

Deep tech

Their process for getting to yes

Arkady's Social Media

Arkady's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arkady-kulik/

rpv Website: https://rpv.global/

Arkady's Twitter: https://twitter.com/arkady_kulik

Arkady's Advice

Be the best version of yourself

Stephen Buchanan (He/Him) US Army Officer | Attorney | Founder & CEO TDY Rentals

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Stephen's Bio

Passionate about solving complex problems and improving the lives of our veterans, military members and civil servants. I'm a personable leader working to deliver a superior furniture rental experience for military, government, and corporate employees on temporary duty travel. In addition to running and growing TDY Rentals, I am a Battalion Commander for the US Army Reserve, and a pro-bono lawyer for unique family cases.

We talked about the following and other items

Being an outdoorsman

Soccer

Being an Excel guru

TDY Rentals

Working with interns

Being an entrepreneur

U.S. Army Reserves

Stephen's Social Media

Stephen's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenbuchanan2/

TDY Rentals Website: https://tdyrentals.com/

TDY Rentals Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tdyrental/

TDY Rentals: https://www.facebook.com/TDYRental

Stephen's Advice

I guess all the other entrepreneurs out there know what you're getting into. There's the red pill and the blue pill and take the right one.

Neetal Parekh is an attorney and founder/CEO of Innov8social

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Neetal's Bio

Neetal Parekh is an attorney and founder/CEO of Innov8social, which develops tools, content, and immersive programs to help problem solvers and aspiring entrepreneurs brainstorm, build, and scale social enterprises in actionable and transformative ways. She is a passionate advocate for social impact ecosystem-building who believes that this field empowers us to creatively re-imagine how businesses and individuals can create meaningful impact and lasting value.

Innov8social is currently participating in the Tacoma Maritime Innovation Incubator with a focus on developing childrens' books to empower problem solving and share the Impactathon model in the Pacific Northwest. It has also participated in the Pitch Collaborative by the William Factory Small Business Incubator and Accelerate253 by Startup253, among other local entrepreneurship initiatives.

Neetal is the author of Amazon bestselling book, 51 Questions on Social Entrepreneurship and convener of Impactathon®. Innov8social is working on a children's book series called Pineapple Friends, that introduces a problem-solving mindset to young learners, and an on-demand pitch platform to help founders continue upleveling their pitches.

As an attorney, Neetal has experience in immigration law, volunteers with Tacomaprobono, and is certified in the emerging field of Conscious Contracts®, which helps people and organizations design agreements to work together in alignment with their mission, values, and communication styles.

We talked about the following and other items

Immigration and immigration reform

Impactathon

Inov8social

How to build an ecosystem

How to use business to create social impact

Neetal's Social Media

Neetal's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neetal/

Innov8social Website: https://www.innov8social.com/

Impactathon Website: https://www.innov8social.com/impactathon

Innov8social Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/innov8social/

Pineapplefriends.com: https://www.innov8social.com/social-impact-books-for-kids

Neetal's Advice

If you have an idea that you want to work on, despite listening to this whole conversation. Don't let it stop you from taking the first step. Because just in taking that first step, there's so much you will learn about your idea and about yourself. Everything doesn't need to become a social enterprise or a business. But I think that it will strengthen that muscle that you can take an idea and do something with it. Amazing things can happen. I would just say that it's go and do.

Jay Lyman Librarian at Seattle Public Library

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Jay's Bio

Jay Lyman is a Supervising Librarian in the CEED (Community Engagement and Economic Development) group with The Seattle Public Library. Jay leads the SPL's Library to Business program which helps people find and discover the information, skills and connections they need to succeed in business. Jay and team empower entrepreneurs and nonprofits at every stage with skill building workshops, access to market data, and connections to other community experts that help in many different ways. He has organized a number of programs which help small businesses use technology to market and deliver services and products to their customers.

We talked about the following and other items

Camping, hiking, kayaking and paddle boarding

Becoming a Librarian

Seattle Public Library

Demo of what the library offers

Data Axle Reference

Jay's Social Media

Jay's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lymanjay/

Seattle Public Library FB: https://www.facebook.com/SeattlePublicLibrary

Seattle Public Library Twitter: https://twitter.com/SPLBuzz

Seattle Public Library YT: https://www.youtube.com/user/SeattlePublicLibrary

Seattle Public Library Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seattlepubliclibrary/

Jay's Email: [email protected]

Jay's Advice We get a short time here. Take advantage of it and enjoy yourselves.

Dirk Van Velzen World Changer + People Collector + Mountain Athlete Founder & CEO The Prison Scholar Fund

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Dirk's Bio

Dirk is passionate about prisoner education. While incarcerated for 15 years for a series of commercial burglaries in federal, state, and private prisons, he graduated at the top of his class at Pennsylvania State University.

Seeing that others would walk a similar path, Dirk founded the Prison Scholar Fund (PSF) from behind bars supporting 110 incarcerated students before his release in 2015. Only 4% of the 83 released students have been reincarcerated, compared to a national 68% recidivism rate.

Released himself in 2015, Dirk graduated from a Nonprofit Management program at the University of Washington (2015), won first place in the Social Venture Partners Fast Pitch business plan competition (2015), and rocked a Social Entrepreneurship program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business (2016).

Dirk was accepted into the inaugural cohort of musician John Legend & New Profit's "Unlocked Futures" accelerator (2017), is a JustLeadershipUSA fellow "Leading with Conviction" (2018), and was invited into the American Enterprise Institute's Leadership Network (2019). During the COVID-19 pandemic (2020), Dirk built relationships with food suppliers and distributed, door-to-door, over $700,000 in nourishment to system impacted people and families facing food insecurity.

Dirk finished a Nonprofit Leadership program at the Harvard Kennedy School, as he remains driven to open access to quality postsecondary education and transition support for all underserved prisoners in America to break the cycle of re-incarceration and homelessness.

At the PSF, Dirk recently built partnerships with Coding Dojo, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon to offer a coding bootcamp free of charge to system impacted people with an aptitude of working in the tech industry. The average salary of graduates is over $90K.

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Motorcycles

Spending 15 years in prison

Prison Scholar Fund

Running a non profit

How he was able to fund raise while still a prisoner

The process to apply for the Prison Scholar Fund

Dirk's Social Media

Dirk's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dirk-vanvelzen/

Dirk's Email: [email protected]

Prison Scholar Fund Website: https://www.prisonscholars.org/

Prison Scholar Fund Twitter: https://twitter.com/prisonscholars

Pablo Casilimas Managing Partner at OneSixOne Ventures

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We are doing an equity crowdfunding campaign for CavnessHR. You can become an owner in CavnessHR by taking part in our campaign. Learn more here. https://wefunder.com/cavnesshr Pablo's Bio Pablo Casilimas was born in Miami, FL to immigrant Latino parents. He attended the University of Florida where he later started his first company Rootex, a content marketing agency. He co-founded OneSixOne Ventures, which started by hosting events for early founders in North Central Florida in 2017. It later became a formal accelerator program and venture capital fund, investing in pre-seed B2B SaaS and GovTech startups. Outside of work, Pablo enjoys salsa-dancing, power-lifting and training BJJ.

We talked about the following and other items

Powerlifting, Salsa Dancing and Brazilian jiu jitsu

Under represented Founders

Breaking into VC from an untraditional means

OneSixOne Ventures

Advice to founders preparing to fund raise

Pablo's Social Media

Pablo's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pablo-casilimas-1707a9113/

OneSixOne Ventures Website: https://www.onesixone.ventures/

OneSixOne Ventures Blog: https://www.onesixone.ventures/blog

OneSixOne Twitter: https://twitter.com/161ventures

OneSixOne Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onesixoneventures/

Pablo's Email: [email protected]

This episode of The Jason Cavness Experience is a replay of the CavnessHR Pitch competition hosted by Washington Maritime Blue and sponsored by Robinson & Banking Co on Jul 25, 2023

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The following people pitched their company

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alec-maslov/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-wickert-47149b10/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/leanne-linsky/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenbuchanan2/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/blackmusellc/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmazariegos/

Thanks to the following companies for providing prizes

https://robinsonandcobanking.com/

https://www.close.com/

https://www.zccounting.com/

https://app.devmatch.io/

Clarence Dancer Director of Operations at Academy for Creating Excellence (ACE)

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Clarence's Bio

I am a husband to Roxanne Christian and a father of two (Cameron and Naomi). I have served in social services for 20 years and has a Masters in Education and Leadership Policy from the University of Washington.

I have held service roles such as the Executive Director of Seattle MESA (Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement), Washington State STEM Program Supervisor for the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, Postsecondary Policy Advisor for the City of Seattle and now as the Co-founder and Executive Director for ACE Academy.

ACE Academy was founded by Willie Seals III, Marcus Harden and Clarence "CJ" Dancer, Jr. ACE's mission is to provide high quality services in support of men of color. Fostering safe spaces to facilitate their growth to best understand themselves as viable world citizens.

We talked about the following and other items

What should the be the purpose of college

Non profit organizations

The bible

Outer Space

Is it better for a male to be raised by a single mother or a two parent home where the male is a POS

Academy for Creating Excellence (ACE)

CJ's Social Media

CJ''s Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clarence-dancer-368384a/

ACE Website: https://www.aceacademywa.org/

ACE Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aceacademywa/

ACE Twitter: https://twitter.com/ACEAcademyWA

CJ's Advice

Be true to self. Always, always be true to self.

Garrett king Co-Founder Perfect Coffee Water

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Garrett's Bio

Garrett King is the co-founder of Perfect Coffee Water focused on helping coffee home brewers brew their best coffee. Previously he has worked at a VC-backed food-tech company and at large technology companies including Microsoft. He is passionate about helping people find solutions to their problems and I'm keen on creating systems that are better for all. In my time outside of the office, he enjoys hiking, camping, and spending time with his family.

We talked about the following and other items

Hiking and Camping

Perfect Coffee Water

Entrepreneurship

Sales

Garrett's Social Media

Garrett's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/garrettking/ Perfect Coffee Water Website: https://perfectcoffeewater.com/ Perfect Coffee Water Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/perfectcoffeewater/

Garrett's Advice

Stay curious. I think to do anything important and to head in the direction you want to go. Stay curious, non judgmental, keep learning. As cliche as it sounds, take an opportunity, or take an experience where you didn't get the outcome you wanted and say what can I learn from this. Versus being just disappointed about failing. It's that mindset shift, especially if you're going to do something entrepreneurial. You've got to get comfortable with not getting the outcome you want and learning as quickly as possible from it.