The Mark Haney Podcast

Nu Boonkham and Scott Williams, founders of Moksa Brewing Company along with their Head Brewer, Derek Gallanosa, are trailblazers and experienced craftsmen who are obsessed with creating innovative, best in class brews served in environments that offer a stellar customer experience.  
They’ve recently launched Barrel House in partnership with the owners of Hawks and are bringing their same commitment to excellence to this venture – pairing great food with awesome beer at their new Roseville location.
They join Mark to talk about beer, food & entrepreneurship touching on topics like the power of business partnerships, the importance of commitment, and how to build a standout brand and culture.

Get fired up about Placer Valley 2022, the region’s largest business summit, bringing together South Placer’s economic leaders to connect and collaborate on October 19th at Bayside’s Blue Oaks campus.  
Mark talks with the incredible team of leaders who are bringing this event to life: Rana Ghadban, CEO of the Roseville Area Chamber of Commerce, Jeff Richardson, Senior GM of the Westfield Galleria, and Ann Bouchard, President of Bouchard Communications and this year’s event chair.  
PV2022 will feature a conversation, facilitated by Mark, with celebrity keynote speaker Daymond John, best known from Shark Tank as well as numerous breakout sessions, a tradeshow floor space and VIP meet and greet and happy hour featuring food and drinks from local restaurants.
Don’t miss it!  Tickets are still on sale HERE.

Marc Doerfer is COO of PEM Motion, USA, a consulting company headquartered in Aachen, Germany and Sacramento and a driving force, alongside SMUD, behind the California Mobility Center.  
PEM Motion is on a mission to drastically reduce the time to market and the required investments to allow future mobility solutions to accelerate to market.  At the CMC, they are standing up a full mobility innovation ecosystem based on the successful model in Aachen.  The effort includes the build out of facilities on Sac State’s campus that will tie academic research to industry, provide infrastructure as a service with a ramp up factory facilities, offer business and engineering support, and connect mobility related startups to venture capital.
Mark & Marc have a fascinating discussion about how this game changing work tied to an emerging global mobility ecosystem will transform the way we think about, develop, use and buy everything from electric vehicles to autonomous long-haul trucks to urban air or ag tech solutions and much, much more. 

Meet Michael Arredondo and Ray Weisberg cofounders of EyeRate, an innovative customer communication platform that recognizes and rewards employees with cash incentives for their great work, while providing business owners with stronger reviews and new insights into their operations.  
Michael and Ray have known each other since they played basketball together as pre-teens.  They talk with Mark a little bit about how their life journeys led them back to Elk Grove to launch this company together and what it’s like to build a startup with a close friend.  
While it hasn’t always been easy, they’ve had their share of success in the last couple of years – winning pitch competitions like Kings Capitalize and Pitch Elk Grove, securing grants from the City of Elk Grove and investment from a number of early-stage funds, and significantly growing their customer base.
Learn more about how their business is making an impact for service employees, employers and brands, what keeps them motivated, what they need (always looking for local talent!) and more.

After a career in the Fire Service including two decades as a Paramedic, Clive Savacool recognized the need for an effective way to track narcotics. So, he developed LogRx as a standalone medication tracking application which allows EMS providers to easily and effectively record and track controlled substances. LogRx has since become internationally used and recognized as a resource not only for EMS providers, but for veterinarians, ski patrol teams and wilderness paramedicine. 
Clive joins Mark to talk about how he and his co-founder have bootstrapped this impactful company and how they are currently learning to manage hockey stick growth.  Clive is full of life and entrepreneurial wisdom that surfaces during this conversation so you will surely take away a nugget or two!

Kenny Blakeslee, Founder and CEO of Apex Site Solutions and Pulse Signal Solutions, has a candid conversation with Mark sharing some of his hard-earned entrepreneurial lessons in leadership, culture building and vision setting.  Hear how he worked through his own journey to transform a self-described toxic work culture into a positive and thriving one steeped in hard work, continuous improvement and focused on creating opportunity for his team, and how he continues to learn and grow as he works to realize his vision.

Melissa Anguiano, Economic Development Director and Wayne Wiley, Economic Development Manager from the City of Roseville join Mark to talk about what makes Roseville a great place to live, work and grow a business.  As a part of the discussion, they share more details about the new Roseville Venture Lab and Roseville Rising programs launching this fall as a part of a partnership between the City and the Growth Factory and talk about how these initiatives fit into the overarching Roseville economic development strategy.

Meet Tom Alston, Founder & CEO of Aero & Marine Tax Professionals, and an expert in California sales tax involving airplanes, vehicles or vessels. He and his team help clients legally avoid sales & use tax from the state of California.  Tom is also a Grant Cardone licensee, business and personal coach and a retired high school baseball coach.  Mark and Tom have a wide ranging conversation that covers everything from formative experiences in Tom’s life to philosophies on winning, to sales and use tax avoidance strategies and more.  Tune in!

Meet Dr. Ayla Ahmad and Dr. Tasnim Khan, co-founders of  ShaMynds Healing Center, where they offer Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) to treat chronic and debilitating depression and anxiety.  They join Mark, along with one of their clients, to talk a about why they’ve integrated legal psychedelics into their care practice, how Ketamine Therapy works, and who most benefits.  Tune in to learn more about how centuries old Medicinals, academic research and cutting-edge science are shaping the field of personalized medicine and alternative therapies, and how this in turn influences their approach to medicine and to building their business.

https://www.shamynds.com

Mark sits down with Monique Brown, one of his Growth Factory co-founders to chat about the Growth Factory’s progress over this last year and about their upcoming startup showcase and venture conference – GFX. 
Scheduled for August 25th at the Grounds in Roseville, GFX is designed to “Activate the Backyard Advantage” by bringing together Sacramento’s most innovative, committed, and successful mentors, investors, corporate, civic and community leaders to help our regional startup founders succeed.   This effort is core to their mission to create the world’s most connected entrepreneurial community that, when unified, can fuel great companies, a thriving culture, and a competitive economy.  
GFX includes 20+ startup presentations, educational breakout sessions on topics like angel investing, scaling companies, and sector focused innovation, mentor sprint run by the Carlsen Center and StartupSac, a tradeshow and networking space that includes demos and information from startups, ecosystem builders, and domain experts and more!  Tickets are still available – Join in the fun –GET YOUR TICKETS HERE and Use code: Podcast and receive 50% off your registration.