The Matt Show

Matt Smith & Kevin Davenport talk entrepreneurship, taking care of yourself so that you can do better work, spirituality, and much more.

Kevin is a Chicago-based serial entrepreneur & social impact leader. He supports and uplifts other budding businesses and business founders. He is the author of The Ideal Candidate. His mission and vision is to build self-sufficient life and professional skills for 1 million youth, age 16-24.

Learn more about Kevin: theidealcandidate.org

Learn more about Do Good: DoGoodCollab.Com

One of the Do Good Podcast’s best interviews so far as of this recording with one 19 year old legend and one 18 year old legend. That’s all I have to say.

Learn more about Kim Products: http://kim-products.com/

Follow her on personal Instagram: kimaponi

Follow Kim Products: @kimproducts

Twitter: @exhalx

Learn more about Mak by following him on…

Personal Instagram: @makafuisearcy

Main Brand Instagram: @fourtunehouse

Twitter: @makfourtune

Dashiell Bark-Huss is an all around bio-hacker, meaning she is always conducting life tests and experiments on herself to see how we can optimize our day-to-day human performance. She is an avid practitioner of lucid dreaming where in college and beyond she was able (through rigorous months of training) to get herself to having 3 lucid dreams PER NIGHT. Meaning 3 times a night she was able to catch herself in her dreams and dream with the full awareness that she’s in a dream, able to totally control everything. This was able to help her do things like stick to diets cause she could eat whatever she wants. Lucid dreaming did not affect the quality of her sleep.

Dashiell hosts lucid dreaming meet-ups and “quantified self” (to track your bio metrics) meet-ups in Chicago. Follow her meetups here:

Lucid Dreaming: https://www.meetup.com/Active-Dreaming-Group/

Quantified Self: https://www.meetup.com/ChicagoQuantifiedSelf/

Learn more about Do Good: DoGoodCollab.Com

Spencer Gordon-Sand is a 22 year old entrepreneur and technologist, former pro-league fencer (now pro-league fencing photographer), built and solid his last company Best as an aqua-hire to the company he is now the Chief Strategy Officer at… Vintro.

Vintro is essentially disrupting our ability to network with the best and right people "creating opportunity by allowing you to purchase time and attention from key global decision makers."

In the past and still today, whoever has access to the best resources are usually the individuals with the best network. By making it easier than ever before to get an introduction with a BIG PLAYER in the world who is willing to hear out your ideas, Vintro is working to make it so that those with the best ideas are the ones who get access to the best resources. Making steps towards a truly meritocratic world.

Learn more at: DoGoodCollab.com

Learn more about Vintro at: MyVintro.com

Jeffrey Dirrenberger has 10+ years of experience in creating consumer applications, B2B software products, and launching startups. He’s the Founder&CEO of VALUT Innovation a venture studio in Chicago where over the past decade he’s seen the launch of 100s of digital products including applications for the Chicago Tribune, Kate Somerville, and the National Restaurant Association. He’s also a partner at Gamerz Arena where they provide video game contests for cash prizes & he’s the founder of Leaftrade, a whole sale marketplace for cultivators and dispensaries of cannabis in Colorado.

Learn more about Do Good at: DoGoodCollab.com

Learn more about VALUT Innovation: vaultinnovation.com

Learn more about Gamerz Arena: gamerzarena.com

Learn more about Leaf Trade: leaf.trade

Sitting down with Ken Retro & DJ Royal… Two of the arguably (I’d say factually!) best DJs in the city of Chicago. Retro and Matt go way back to when Matt used to rap & make music. Retro’s first live DJ show was at Matt’s first live performance when he was a part of Exit The Premises. This was his first time getting to know Royal. Retro and Royal are both so real and so genuine. Tune in to hear about how they think we can improve Chicago’s event scene and hear their stories about how they got from where they started to where they’re at today.

Learn more about Do Good: dogoodcollab.com

Learn more about Retro: soundcloud.com/kenretro

Learn more about Royal: twitter.com/DjRoyal_LsCity

Aadeel Akhtar is an entrepreneur on the frontier of bionics. He’s the founder of Psyonic, and alongside his team they've created the Ability Hand: an accessible and affordable robotic arm that nearly turns you into a super hero. From charging your phone, to 360 degree hand rotation, to touch feedback sensitive enough that you can easily pick up a hollow egg shell without cracking it… Aadeel’s mission is to be able to provide this kind of bionic technology to whoever needs it all around the world because the vast majority of amputees are in developing countries and only a very small percent have access to any prosthetic device.

As of this recording, they just launched the Ability Hand as a public product a few weeks ago. Aadeel and I talked all about what the development of Bionics means as we “redefine human.”

Learn more about Psyonic: psyonic.co

Learn more about Do Good: dogoodcollab.com

Rentervention is a joint project of the Lawyers' Committee for Better Housing, Illinois Legal Aid Online, and the Lawyers Trust Fund of Illinois. It is a natural language processing chatbot that helps people who normally would have had to go through a confusing FAQ page or search for legal assistance online “in the dark”. Renny (the chat bot) helps people find the specific legal help they need just after a few questions.

I discussed with two representatives Hannah and Conor on how we can improve renter’s ability to get the legal support they need when they need it, flaws and room for improvement in our legal system in general that we can start to address, and so much more.

Learn more about Rentervention at: rentervention.com

Learn more about Do Good at: dogoodcollab.com

Matt talks with StevensJpeg, Trevor Parker, and Trip CP… Three 19-21 year old Chicago photographers absolutely killing the game. From connecting your work with mindfulness for an increased feeling of purpose, how to work with other and find the best genuine people to work with, how to think about yourself on social media, how to take better photos, and how we can all improve the world along side each other… Tune in.

Follow the three on Instagram:

Steven: @stevensjpeg

Trevor: @trevorrparker

Trip: @trip_cp

Reach out to be on the podcast at dogoodcollab.com

Illia Pashkov coined himself a Chief Hustle Officer because he couldn’t find a better way to describe the breadth of work he’s involved in…

For the past 14 years working as a creative strategic technology consultant Illia has started & grown products and services in an array of different industries. From high-level strategic planning to in-the-weeds execution he’s done it all — graphic and product design, Blockchain and Crypto, travel, fashion, video-production, set-design, ecommerce, AI and machine learning, automotive and self-driving.

Co-Founder of WizeBit, GhostDrive, vvorth, Dowell. Chief Product Officer at Player’s Health. 

Illia has spoken at the Global Economy Forum in San Fransisco and World Blockchain Forum in Dubai.

Learn more about Illia: http://pshkv.com/

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