The Jason Cavness Experience

On this episode of the Jason Cavness Experience I talk to Sharon Goldsmith – Acting Executive Dean of Entrepreneurship and Business Development at Hofstra University We talk about the following Entrepreneurship NYC Hofstra University Veterans Venture Challenge Being the head of HR and Finance at G-Unit Records Sharon's Bio Sharon Goldsmith, MBA is the Acting Executive Dean of Entrepreneurship and Business Development at Hofstra University. She has twelve years of combined experience in the business management and entertainment industry and over five years in higher education. Sharon graduated from the University of Rhode Island in 2003 with a degree in Public Relations and immediately joined LL Business Management, Inc. For almost three years, she was a business manager for recording artists, NBA players and other high net worth individuals. Her most famous client, 50 Cent, asked her to join G-Unit Records, Inc. in 2005 as the Director of Finance and later, the Director of Finance and Human Resources. During that time Sharon earned her M.A. in Speech Communication and Rhetoric Studies here at Hofstra University. Sharon spent over ten years contributing to the success of both multi-platinum music releases and supporting 50 Cent's entrepreneurship. She helped him to achieve success in the tech, non-profit, entertainment and consumer electronic space. Sharon joined Hofstra's Center for Entrepreneurship in 2016 and has completed the Lean Launchpad Educator's Program and earned a Masters in Business Administration. At Hofstra's Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (formerly the Center for Entrepreneurship), Sharon provides students, faculty, staff, alumni and the community with skills and training necessary to become accomplished entrepreneurs through multiple programs and services. Sharon also advances the mission of the Scott Skodnek Business Development Center by designing and implementing a new curriculum for the Empire State Development funded Entrepreneurial Assistance Centers. Sharon was a panelist at the 2020 United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship's 2019 Conference and presented at the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Center's 2019 Conference. Sharon is currently serving as an E-Advisory Council Member for The National Center for Disability Entrepreneurship (NCDE) at the Viscardi Center. Sharon's Social Media Sharon's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonsalamonegoldsmith/ Sharon's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sharonien8/ Sharon's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Sharonien8 Hofstra University Veterans Venture Challenge: https://www.hofstra.edu/entrepreneurship/veterans-venture-challenge.html Sharon's Advice My new mantra is love everyone. Just be a decent person. Go out there today and be nice to somebody who doesn't have a smile on their face and try to just spread love.

On this episode of the Jason Cavness Experience I talk to Nick Hughes – Founder/CEO Founders Live We talk about the following Believing in yourself Founders Live Working with the WNBA Is entrepreneurship the same around the world Nick's Bio Nick is a successful American entrepreneur with business achievements in e-commerce, social media, digital payments, and technology startups. He excels at interpersonal leadership, communication, business and product development. Nick currently holds the position of CEO and Founder of the global entrepreneur platform Founders Live. In addition to creating Founders Live, Nick stays busy as an advisor to numerous startups and occasionally takes positions in sales or biz dev roles if needed. He is also cofounded Callin'it, a fun fan engagement and predictions app for sports fans. Previously he founded the mobile payment startup Seconds as well as helping start Coinme, a company built around expanding bitcoin and digital transactions into the physical realm via Bitcoin ATM's. As a sought-after adviser, entrepreneurial speaker and writer with guest appearances on popular technology and media outlets, Nick enjoys helping others discover their unique entrepreneurial path. Nick's Social Media Nick's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jnickhughes/ Founders Live website: https://www.founderslive.com/ Nick's Twitter: https://twitter.com/jnickhughes Nick's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jnickhughes/ Nick's Email: [email protected] Nick's Gift You can set up a time to talk to Nick using the below calendly Link. You can talk about your startup, your awesomeness, or the challenges you may be facing. https://calendly.com/jnickhughes/mentorship-time-with-nick Nick's Advice I would leave you with believe in yourself. I struggle with that at times too. Believe in yourself, know that anything is possible. It takes a lot of time and effort. don't think that that hurdle that you're struggling with is going to hold you back. You got to get through it.

This episode of the Jason Cavness Experience is a replay of my talk with Elena Valentine CEO/Co-Founder of Skill Scout from March 29, 2020 We talk about the following How Elena started out in media. What are some common mistakes when making videos Her entrepreneurial journey Why is HR important Elena's Bio Elena is an expert in leveraging video stories in the workplace. With the motto "you cannot be what you cannot see" Elena started filming jobs as a way to get young people excited about the world of work. Since then, her team at Skill Scout has since built a world class media company. Their films have helped clients like Nike and American Airlines engage candidates and employees alike. She was recently named "HR Superhero of the Year" by DisruptHR Chicago. She is also the co-founder of Mezcla Media Collective. A non-profit that elevates women filmmakers of color. Next up for Elena and her team is the Humans@Work. Elena's Social Media Elena's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elenavalentine1/ Elena's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Elena_Valentine Elena's Advice While we are working remotely and while our lives are being uprooted. One of the things that I'm doing every day as someone who does video is I'm creating a short video piece every day. I have committed to every time that we are in quarantine, to create one short video piece a day. This isn't necessarily about work. It is just to provide moments of pause for myself and for others if it happens to strike them.

.On this episode of the Jason Cavness Experience I talk to Colton Becker - Founder | Optimist | Veteran | Improver We talk about the following Hunting Becoming an U.S. Army Ranger and his Army career Meliorem Inc. His core values Making the world a better place Bunker Labs and Veterans in Residence Colton's Bio Colton E. Becker was born in Vail, Colorado in October 1991. The youngest of three children, he spent most of his time as a kid playing hockey, hunting, fly-fishing, skiing, camping, golfing, rock-climbing, and enjoying the Colorado outdoors. Colton went to college at Colorado School of Mines, where he studied environmental engineering, joined the Army ROTC program, and played club hockey. Following his graduation, in December 2014, Colton was commissioned into the active-duty Army Infantry. At the same time, Colton began his entrepreneurial career by forming Global Water Farms, Inc. with his parents and their mutual business associate. The company's product was based on Colton's eighth grade science project, which is a novel and environmentally sustainable approach to water desalination that Colton and his father invented together. While in the Army, Colton spent his down time seeking investment for GWF in Seattle for over two years, during which time he helped raise $4 million in capital. After graduation from college, Colton went to the US Army's Infantry Basic Officer Leadership School at Ft. Benning, GA where he graduated first in his class. After IBOLC, he attended US Army Ranger School, but was ultimately dropped from the course after failing the final phase twice. At this point Colton confronted the same question as countless others, "should I just quit, or should I learn from my past experience and keep on going until I accomplish my goal?" Colton ultimately decided to go back to Ranger School and ended up completing to course after going straight through all phases. This accomplishment showed him the importance and value of determination, grit, and a no quit mindset when seeking to achieve large goals. When Colton separated from service in May of 2020, he moved down to California with his girlfriend, Jess, and began to work at Global Water Farms, Inc. as a full-time employee. During that time, Colton designed a 1.5 mega watt renewable power generation facility for the company's demonstration pilot. While Colton was living his lifelong dream of making his childhood science project reality, he noticed that the working relationship with his parents was becoming increasingly strained, and trending toward intolerable. Let's just say he thought Ranger School would be the hardest thing he would ever do until he spent a year working with his parents. Ultimately, Colton separated from GWF to pursue his own company and brought forth the lessons he learned from his time working at GWF. Through that experience, he learned firsthand the importance of having those "hard founder conversations" early or before the company's formation. This experience solidified in Colton the importance of valuing and supporting your team, cultivating a positive and creative working environment, recognizing team members' contributions, and holding one another accountable for meeting goals and deadlines. It also affirmed one of Colton's core values: that candor and purpose are paramount, and you should always give more than you seek to get. Ultimately, Colton left GWF in hopes of preserving the personal relationship with his family, moved back up to Washington with Jess, and formed Meliorem, Inc. with the goal of creating a company focused on bettering the world by providing climate conscious solutions to humanity's basic needs of food, water, and energy. Colton's Social Media Colton's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/colton-becker/ Colton's Email: colton.e.becker@gmail Colton's Advice Focus on giving more than you get. When I was facing my hard times at Ranger School. That was the one thing that I kept seeing that would actually bear some form of fruit. If you focus your energy and your efforts on the person to your left and your right and you help them out when and where you can, however you can. Then this weird thing happens where you might be thinking that you are devoting your resources to somebody else. But really, what you're doing is you're creating a positive community. A community that wants to support you, because you're willing to support them. If you focus on that, then, you know, crazy things happen.

On this episode of the Jason Cavness Experience I talk to Amber Wright – CMO at Sahasrara Inc CavnessHR Social Media CavnessHR website: https://www.cavnessHR.com Jason's email: [email protected] @CavnessHR across social media @jasoncavnessHR across social media We talk about the following What is a Tetrochromat Using meditation Her summer of 2018 Pros and cons of being an entrepreneur Amber's Bio Amber helped to co-found the company Sahasrara Inc in January of 2020. We help with business development, specifically with web and software development, as well as market research. My path into business is quite interesting and I very much enjoy sharing the story. It goes into being an artist, musician and my path went through healing through depression. From a healing technique I started doing channel writing through my spirit guides. I wrote advice to make a website for my art, amberlight.org, which seemed absurd to me at the time. Then, the following year, I channel wrote a business plan for a non-profit I'm in the process of filing called Alighten, at alighten.org is our mission statement. After writing and re-reading this business plan, I was inspired to go back to school to study finance, as part of the plan is for an institute for the study of Spiritual Science and Technology, where the students are paid to learn. After the first semester back in college to be a CPA (still attending), I was seeking financial advice, and became a licensed life and health insurance agent. From this, I am able to offer a wide range of financial services such as whole life indexed policies with living benefits. Now, I consider my intuition as a leader for business growth and work with other experts in the field of business development. I love what I currently do as the marketing officer at Sahasrara, and I wish there could be a few extra days in the week so I can get more done before the weekend! Amber's Social Media Amber's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amberlightlife/ Amber's Website: https://www.amberlight.org/ Amber's Nonprofit: https://www.alighten.org/ Company Website: https://sahasrara.io/ Amber's Gift I want to give an offer for website packages. We have the basic website, which is three pages. We've got a complex website, it can have certain features, calendar integration appointments, subscription and up depending on what all your needs are. We also do ecommerce, Shopify WooCommerce. We do ongoing monthly maintenance, as well for website development. You can email Amber for more info at [email protected] Amber's Advice I just want to encourage people to be open to wisdom when it comes to you. You're not the only one in the universe. We all have our own unique experiences; we've all been through stuff. There are challenges that we've been through and it's this one thing about judging people or putting other people in a box due to what they look like. You have no idea what they've been through.

On this episode of the Jason Cavness Experience I talk to Walter J. Whitehead – Managing Director of Madison Street Capital We talk about the following Attending Clark Atlanta and the decision to attend a HBCU Raising Capital The racial wealth gap What does a Managing Director do Walter's Bio Walter J. Whitehead is a Managing Director at Madison Street Capital, LLC where he advises clients on mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance transactions. Prior to joining Madison Street Capital, Mr. Whitehead was Founder and Managing Partner at Hunter Baron, a lower middle market investment bank focused on capital raising and M&A advisory services. Prior to Hunter Baron, he was co-Founder & Managing Partner of A.J. Baron Capital, a global investment bank where he was responsible for Strategy and Operations. At Merrill Lynch Private Bank & Investment Group in Los Angeles he was on a small team of strategically managing $300,000,000; at J.P. Morgan Private Wealth Management he was on a small team of 3 in their Chicago-based Financial Leaders Team strategically managing $3,000,000,000. At Blackwater Capital Group, a Private Equity firm, he co-managed the strategic distribution of a $250,000,000 management buyout and venture capital fund across a multitude of industries including Business Services, Software, Defense, and Education. Mr. Whitehead graduated from Clark Atlanta University where he earned a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration with a dual concentration in Finance & International Business. He studied at The Harvard Business School (HBS) Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP), a competitive residential educational program designed to increase diversity and opportunity in business education. He was accepted to study in Oxford at Trinity College, one of several top-ranked medieval Oxford colleges under the educational auspices of the Oxford Study Abroad Programme. He also studied in Durban, South Africa at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal. He holds a Series 79 Investment Banking license, Series 7 General Securities license, and Series 63 Securities Agent State Law license. Walter's Social Media Company Website: https://www.madisonstreetcapital.com/ Walter's Email: [email protected] Walter's Gift You can reach out to Walter at his email to set up time for a 30 minute talk on finance, raising capital, solving the racial wealth gap or anything else. Walter's Advice My family pillars are agape, authenticity and spiritual freedom. One of these quotes have been on my heart for a very long time. I think it encourages authenticity and it encourages, you to kind of just be you. It's from Renee Brown. She said that you either walk inside your story and own it. Or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness. To me what that encourages is when you see people oftentimes feel like they have to be something else to be accepted. Again, to me, acceptance is love, you have to try to be something else that you're not, economically, you're trying to be something that you're not romantically. You're trying to be something that you're not, socially or politically. This is when you're kinda are standing outside of your story, and you're trying to do things or go hustle for your worthiness. I think your worthiness ties to your acceptance and love. I think it's important to walk inside your own story and own it and really be you. I think people have a special tone, a special sound that the world wants to hear. A special taste that they can create in the kitchen or something like that. A special aroma that they're kind of creating. So be authentically you.

On this episode of the Jason Cavness Experience I talk to Jimmy Song – Bitcoin Developer, Educator and Entrepreneur CavnesssHR Beta Testing Wait List Sign up Be sure to sign up for the Beta Testing of the CavnessHR platform. www.CavnessHR.co By signing up to our beta testing you will receive 3 months free and after that be locked into our beta pricing forever. REFERRAL BONUS - For each company you refer that signs up for the waitlist, you will receive one free month of HR in addition to the above. We talk about the following What is Bitcoin Is Bitcoin a drain on resources Can you make a living as a Bitcoin miner Eating only meat. Jimmy's Bio Jimmy Song is a Bitcoin developer, educator and entrepreneur. He's an open source contributor to many different Bitcoin projects and is the author of Programming Bitcoin from O'Reilly, The Little Bitcoin Book and Thank God for Bitcoin. Jimmy writes a weekly newsletter, Bitcoin Tech Talk and has a podcast Bitcoin Fixes This. Jimmy's Social Media Jimmy's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimmysong/ Jimmy's Twitter: https://twitter.com/jimmysong Jimmy's Newsletter: https://twitter.com/jimmysong Jimmy's Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bitcoin-fixes-this/id1523910866 Jimmy's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEFJVYNiPp8xeIUyfaPCPQw Jimmy's Advice One of the nice things about Bitcoin is that it does give you what we in Bitcoin called low time preference. The tendency in our society today is to be very high time preference. We want things right now and consume things right now. This is how the monetary system is designed. It's designed to enslave you through that, it lets you consume first and pay off later. But that unfortunately enslaves you in ways that you don't really understand until later. With Bitcoin, you get the opposite. It's about saving and then getting things afterwards. That's a lot more rewarding a lot better for character and a lot better for civilization. I would say the real fruit of Bitcoin is that ability to think long term and, and if there's one thing that I would encourage your listeners to go figure out is how to think long term and how to change the incentives in your life. So that you're thinking long term because it's a lot better, a lot more rewarding. A lot better for society and civilization.

On this episode of the Jason Cavness Experience I talk to Jon Neff – Founder of Campo Designs CavnesssHR Beta Testing Wait List Sign up Be sure to sign up for the Beta Testing of the CavnessHR platform. www.CavnessHR.co By signing up to our beta testing you will receive 3 months free and after that be locked into our beta pricing forever. REFERRAL BONUS - For each company you refer that signs up for the waitlist, you will receive one free month of HR in addition to the above. CavnessHR Social Media CavnessHR website: https://www.cavnessHR.com Jason's email: [email protected] @CavnessHR across social media @jasoncavnessHR across social media We talk about the following Moving with the family to Mexico Why be an entrepreneur Kickstarter of Campo Designs Jon's Bio Jon is a passionate and experienced entrepreneur with a demonstrated history of international business experience and a proven track record track record for developing and growing brands creating effective product marketing strategies. By crushing quotas by delivering exceptional levels of customer satisfaction. He is also a United States Marine James' Social Media Jon's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-neff-3b168117/ Company Website: https://campodesigns.com/ Company FB: https://www.facebook.com/campodesigns Company Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/campodesigns/ Campo Design KickStarter Campaign You can support Jon's Kickstarter Campaign by clicking the link below. Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/campodesignsm4/the-worlds-most-versatile-tent Jon's Advice Enjoy life. It's a big world out there and go explore it. Live your life, have fun.

On this episode of the Jason Cavness Experience I talk to James Newell – Managing Director at Voyager Capital CavnesssHR Beta Testing Wait List Sign up Be sure to sign up for the Beta Testing of the CavnessHR platform. www.CavnessHR.co By signing up to our beta testing you will receive 3 months free and after that be locked into our beta pricing forever. REFERRAL BONUS - For each company you refer that signs up for the waitlist, you will receive one free month of HR in addition to the above. CavnessHR Social Media CavnessHR website: https://www.cavnessHR.com Jason's email: [email protected] @CavnessHR across social media @jasoncavnessHR across social media We talk about the following Name, Image and Likeness rule in College Sports VC Deal Funnel When should a founder stop What is the role of a VC on a board James' Bio James has been working with high growth technology companies as an adviser and investor since 2005 and focuses on early stage and seed investments in the Pacific Northwest. He currently serves on the boards of Voyager portfolio companies Kaskada, Lighter Capital and WellSaid Labs. He previously served as a board member or observer at Casper, DoubleVerify, General Assembly, Sauce Labs and Zerto, among others. Prior to joining Voyager, James worked for Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), a later stage VC based in Menlo Park. While with IVP, James worked on investments in AlienVault, Carbonite (NASDAQ: CARB), Casper (NYSE: CSPR), Checkr, DoubleVerify, General Assembly, Kayak (Acquired: PCLN), LegalZoom, Prosper, Sauce Labs, SoFi and Zerto. James earned a B.A. in Economics and a B.A. in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from the University of Washington, where he was a first team Pac-10 All-Academic football player at free safety. He has also earned his M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a concentration in entrepreneurial management. James' Social Media James' LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesfnewell/ Company Website: https://www.voyagercapital.com/ Email: [email protected] James' Twitter: @jamesfnewell Company YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr52LdMY7h6eMNqnHn6BSaA Tony's email: [email protected] James' Advice In terms of in terms of advice. don't take any advice from what VCs are posting on Twitter or saying on a podcast or live stream. I think just because somebody is a good investor doesn't mean that they should be a guru and give life advice, as well. Develop real authentic relationships with people outside of social media. Most of what's available on there is just marketing anyway. Once the world kind of opens up and everybody's getting together in person. Get back out there, meet lots of people, develop lots of authentic relationships.

On this episode of the Jason Cavness Experience I talk to Tony Taylor of Tony Taylor Inspires LLC CavnesssHR Beta Testing Wait List Sign up Be sure to sign up for the Beta Testing of the CavnessHR platform. www.CavnessHR.co By signing up to our beta testing you will receive 3 months free and after that be locked into our beta pricing forever. REFERRAL BONUS - For each company you refer that signs up for the waitlist, you will receive one free month of HR in addition to the above. CavnessHR Social Media CavnessHR website: https://www.cavnessHR.com Jason's email: [email protected] @CavnessHR across social media @jasoncavnessHR across social media We talk about the following What leadership means to him What is motivation Tips on being a better public speaker Process of becoming a certified John Maxwell coach Tony's Bio Tony Taylor is a Motivational Speaker born and raised in Gary, Indiana. He has overcome some insurmountable odds. During Tony's hometown Gary was ranked #1 as the murder capital of the USA. Tony aspired to be a drug dealer but due the resilience of his single mother and beloved family members Tony realized his true passion of serving others. Tony went from being a high school dropout to a high-level corporate executive. Tony is now a highly requested Motivational Speaker. Tony has traveled internationally giving talks centered on leadership and overcoming adversity to some of the biggest companies and amazing schools in the world. He is passionate about giving his audiences the necessary tools to overcome their individual struggles to become their absolute best self's. Tony's Social Media Leslie's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonytaylorinspires/ Company Website: https://www.tonytaylorinspires.com/ Company YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr52LdMY7h6eMNqnHn6BSaA Tony's email: [email protected] Tony's Gift Tony is offering to sit down with you for a 20 minute phone consultation to talk through whatever you are working through. No matter what that might be for you. Tony's Advice Anything that you got going on inside of your life, make it happen. There are so many obstacles. There's so many things that are put up against us, right there to make us stronger. They will make us stronger. Anything and everything that you've been through already. You've surpassed it, you're still alive. So the things that you were worried about yesterday, you didn't die from it. Because you're listening to this message. Remember that, hold that. Hold that because it is the truth that is self evident. Keep going, you can do anything that you put your mind to put your action through, change your mindset, do the things that you need to do to make it happen.