The Start Up Life

Episode Title: How To Get Back Your Time

In this episode, we talk to Tim Campos (Co-Founder & CEO of Woven) as we discuss his time at Facebook, why he started a new company, and why calendars are stupid. We also get help from our friend from LITEMemphis, Avani Garde.

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Written by: Dominic Lawson Avani Garde

Executive Producers: Dominic Lawson and Kenda Lawson

Music Credits:

**Show Theme**

 Behind Closed Doors - Otis McDonald

**Break Theme**

Cielo - Huma-Huma

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Episode Title: How To Master Value Creation

 

In this episode, we talk to Tim Koller (Partner at McKinsey & Company and Lead Author of Valuation) as we discuss the latest edition of his book Valuation, why companies like Chuck E. Cheese are not doing so well and behind the scenes of a Merger or Acquisition.

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**More On Tim**

I am a partner at McKinsey & Company, based in New York. As the core leader of McKinsey’s Strategy and Corporate Finance practice, I advise and serve clients on topics such as: value creation, corporate strategy, investor relations, dividend/share repurchase policy and mergers and acquisitions (M&A).

 

My passion is helping companies become more long-term oriented in their value creation approach. Consistent with that passion, I have co-authored the books, Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies (the 7th edition will be published in May 2020) and Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance.

 

I founded our firm’s hub for financial and capital markets analysis and valuation, and also founded McKinsey on Finance, our firm’s quarterly corporate finance publication. I frequently lecture on finance topics at business schools including Chicago Booth, Northwestern, Tuck, Columbia, and INSEAD.

Written by: Dominic Lawson

Executive Producers: Dominic Lawson and Kenda Lawson

Music Credits:

**Show Theme**

 Behind Closed Doors - Otis McDonald

**Break Theme**

Cielo - Huma-Huma

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If you’re concerned about the safety of your employees and the sustainability of your organization, you need the resources and connections RIMS provides. Learn more at www.rims.org/Podcast. You can save 25% off a year-long membership.

Go to the Phillip Stein and use code SLEEPEZ to get 10% of your new Philip Stein Sleep Bracelet.

Visit peopleready.com/startuplife to learn more about how you can partner with PeopleReady.

Get 20% Off and Free Shipping with the code THESTARTUPLIFE at Manscaped.com. That’s 20% off with free shipping at manscaped.com, and use code THESTARTUPLIFE. It’s spring cleaning baby and your balls will thank you!

Episode: How To Unlock The Superpower Of Kindness

In this episode, we talk to Adrienne Bankert (Award-Winning Journalist & Author) as we discuss how being kind has helped her career, why it matters in business, and what she is singing these days. 

**More on Adrienne**

She began her news career as a traffic reporter at NBC station KCRA-TV rising through the ranks as a reporter and host to news anchor. She was on the scene of major stories including California wildfires, anchored wall to wall coverage of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami of 2011, Governor Jerry Brown's 2010 run for office and the discovery of missing child Jaycee Dugard.

Raised in the Sacramento, California area, Adrienne is a University of Southern California graduate. Her passion for impacting and helping others realize their dreams led her to founding an NGO, Loving Individuals Giving Help Together (LIGHT). 

Written by: Dominic Lawson

Executive Producers: Dominic Lawson and Kenda Lawson

Music Credits:

**Show Theme**

 Behind Closed Doors - Otis McDonald 

**Break Theme**

Cielo - Huma-Huma 

Sponsors/Partners

If you’re concerned about the safety of your employees and the sustainability of your organization, you need the resources and connections RIMS provides. Learn more at www.rims.org/Podcast. You can save 25% off a year-long membership. 

Go to Payoff.com/TheStartupLife to learn more.

Go to the Phillip Stein and use code SLEEPEZ to get 10% of your new Philip Stein Sleep Bracelet. 

Go to Save the Children dot org slash save kids or

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Episode Title: How To Navigate A World Of Flip-Flops And Microwave Fish

In this episode, we talk to Peter Yawitz (President of Clear Communication & Author)as we talk about his latest book, his blog, and his message for the class of 2020. 

Check out his website and purchase "Flip Flops & Microwaved Fish"

**More On Peter**

Peter Yawitz is the President of Clear Communication and founder, host, author, and advice columnist at Advice from Someone Else's Dad. He has been a communication coach, consultant, teacher, and facilitator for global companies for 30 years and for 10 years before that, was an eager young employee in fast-paced American workplaces wishing for advice on how to make smart work decisions and fit in. Today, he trains teams all across the world, helping them understand how to communicate, manage upward and sideways in a company, and navigate the personalities, priorities, and peculiarities of their workplaces.

Born and raised in Manhattan, where he still lives, he received an undergraduate degree from Princeton University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Peter also won the 2005 Nightlight Award for Outstanding Musical Comedy Performance from the New York City cabaret, jazz, and comedy critics, and the Backstage Magazine Bistro Award for comedy writing.

Written by: Dominic Lawson

Executive Producers: Dominic Lawson and Kenda Lawson

Music Credits:

**Show Theme**

 Behind Closed Doors - Otis McDonald 

**Break Theme**

Cielo - Huma-Huma 

Sponsors/Partners

If you’re concerned about the safety of your employees and the sustainability of your organization, you need the resources and connections RIMS provides. Learn more at www.rims.org/Podcast. You can save 25% off a year-long membership. 

Go to the Phillip Stein and use code SLEEPEZ to get 10% of your new Philip Stein Sleep Bracelet. 

Visit peopleready.com/startuplife to learn more about how you can partner with PeopleReady.

Go to Save the Children dot org slash save kids or

www.savethechildern.org/savekids

Get 20% Off and Free Shipping with the code THESTARTUPLIFE at Manscaped.com. That’s 20% off with free shipping at manscaped.com, and use code THESTARTUPLIFE. It’s spring cleaning baby and your balls will thank you!

Episode Title: How To Disrupt An Industry With An Envelope

Friday 5th June 11am and 7pm. repeated Friday 12th June

In this episode, we talk to Marc Randolph (Co-Founder & First CEO OF Netflix) as he shares with us the early days of the technology company, why Blockbuster laughed him out of the room, and the essential step founders must take to start a company. We also discuss his book " That Will Never Work: The Birth Of Netflix and The Amazing Life Of An Idea."

Purchase "That Will Never Work" here

Follow him on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Medium. 

**More On Marc**

Marc Randolph is a veteran Silicon Valley entrepreneur, advisor, and investor. As co-founder and founding CEO of Netflix, he laid much of the groundwork for a service that’s grown to 150 million subscribers and fundamentally altered how the world experiences media. He also served on the Netflix board of directors until retiring from the company in 2003.

Marc’s career as an entrepreneur spans four decades. He’s founded or co-founded six other successful startups, mentored hundreds of early-stage entrepreneurs, and as an investor, has helped seed dozens of successful tech ventures (and just as many unsuccessful ones). Most recently, he co-founded analytics software company Looker Data Sciences, where he now serves as director.

Outside of the tech and startup world, Marc sits on the boards of Chubbies Shorts, Augment Technologies, the environmental advocacy group 1% For The Planet, and the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS), which he’s been involved with for most of his life.

A resident of Santa Cruz, California, Marc travels and speaks all over the world, and still probably manages to go surfing more than you do.

Written by: Dominic Lawson, Funky Media Radio  

Executive Producers: Dominic Lawson and Kenda Lawson

Music Credits:

**Show Theme**

 Behind Closed Doors - Otis McDonald 

**Break Theme**

Cielo - Huma-Huma 

 

Go to Payoff.com/TheStartupLife to learn more.

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Episode Title: How To Maintain Company Culture During A Pandemic

Friday 11am and 7pm

In this episode, we talk to Melissa Daimler (Founder Of Daimler Partners) about her new normal, how leaders should handle essential workers as they come back to work, and more. 

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**More about Melissa**

Melissa has been an executive at high-growth companies for over twenty years.  She now works as an executive coach, advisor, and facilitator. Her primary focus is helping leaders operationalize culture. 

Prior to starting Daimler Partners, Melissa was an executive who experienced multiple leadership viewpoints throughout her career. She led HR for a fast-growing venture-funded startup. She created and built Learning & Organizational Development functions for Adobe, Twitter and WeWork. She built a coaching company while also the first employee of Coach University, one of the first leaders in the coaching field. Her experience as an executive includes coaching executives, helping teams work more effectively, and building scale-proof organizational processes.

She is a speaker, panelist, and contributor to broad industry publishers including Harvard Business Review (HBR), Huffington Post, Chief Learning Officer, and Chief Talent Development Officer magazines. Her recent article on operationalizing culture in HBR was one of the most popular articles of 2018, viewed by over 200,000 people globally (10x the average).

She has served as a board member for the Association of Talent Development (“ATD”) and currently sits on the Advisory Board for the University of San Francisco, Master’s Program for Organization Development. One of the first coaches certified by the International Coach Federation (“ICF”), Melissa graduated from the Pepperdine University Graziadio Business School with a M.S. in Organizational Development.

Melissa can regularly be found in the bay area hiking somewhere with views of the ocean, or urban hiking in NYC looking for the latest piece of graffiti art.

Written by: Dominic Lawson

Executive Producers: Dominic Lawson and Kenda Lawson

Music Credits:

**Show Theme**

 Behind Closed Doors - Otis McDonald 

**Break Theme**

Cielo - Huma-Huma 

Sponsors/Partners

Go to Payoff.com/TheStartupLife to learn more.

Go to the Phillip Stein and use code SLEEPEZ to get 10% of your new Philip Stein Sleep Bracelet. 

Use code BETTEREVERYDAY for 30% everything sitewide at ladder.sport. That’s “BETTEREVERYDAY” for 30% off at ladder.sport.

Go to Save the Children dot org slash save kids or

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Episode Title: How To Live Mask Free

Monday 11am and 7pm 

In this episode, we talk to Michael Brody-Waite (Author, Speaker & Advisor) as we discuss his journey through addiction, how it gives him a competitive in business, and why people should live mask-free. We also discuss his book Great Leaders Live Like Drug Addicts: How to Lead Like Your Life Depends on It

**More On Michael**

At the age of twenty-three, Michael Brody-Waite was a full-blown drug addict. Every day he drank a fifth of vodka and a twelve-pack of beer, he smoked two packs of cigarettes and more weed than any human should, and he did whatever other drugs he could get his hands on. He had been kicked out of college, fired from his job, and evicted from his apartment. He had no money and no home, was throwing up blood, and believed he would be dead before his thirtieth birthday.

 

Then, on September 1, 2002, after running out of options and fearing death, he checked into rehab, entered recovery, and has been transforming himself every day since. 

 

Michael’s TEDx Nashville YouTube video “Great Leaders Do What Drug Addicts Do” is the number one talk in the history of TEDx Nashville. It has been seen by over one million people in over twenty-five countries and provides insight into his seventeen-year journey from addiction and near homelessness to successful entrepreneurship. This talk sparked the #MaskFreeMovement and brought awareness to Michael’s Mask-Free Program, built on three principles inspired by his recovery, showing leaders how to achieve balance, reclaim energy, and thrive in work and life.

 

In 2010, Michael left a Fortune 50 company at the height of the recession to cofound and lead InQuicker, a healthcare SaaS company that allowed patients to self-schedule appointments online. Under his leadership, the organization grew to 20,000 percent revenue growth in less than six years. This exceptional growth landed InQuicker a spot on the Inc. 500 list of Fastest Growing Private Companies. Additionally, the organization was named one of the “Best Places to Work” four times and recognized as Healthcare Company of the Year. In 2015, InQuicker was sold to a publicly traded company. After selling his company, Michael served for three years as the CEO of the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, a 501c3 that helps over 2,000 entrepreneurs every year start or grow a business. 

 

Michael is an acclaimed speaker, Inc. 500 entrepreneur, award-winning, three-time CEO, a leadership coach, and an author. His accomplishments include being named Most Admired CEO, named to the Top 40 Under 40, and being recognized by the Nashville Chamber of Commerce as Healthcare Entrepreneur of the Year. 

 

Today Michael is on a mission to teach individuals, organizations, and communities how to lead themselves by living mask-free. In his personal time, he is focused on being the best husband, father, and recovering addict he can be. For more information, please visit www.MichaelBrodyWaite.com to learn how the Mask-Free Program can help you or your organization thrive.

 

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Written by: Dominic Lawson

Executive Producers: Dominic Lawson and Kenda Lawson

Music Credits:

**Show Theme**

 Behind Closed Doors - Otis McDonald 

**Break Theme**

Cielo - Huma-Huma 

Sponsors/Partners

Go to Payoff.com/TheStartupLife to learn more.

Go to the Phillip Stein and use code SLEEPEZ to get 10% of your new Philip Stein Sleep Bracelet. 

Use code BETTEREVERYDAY for 30% everything sitewide at ladder.sport. That’s “BETTEREVERYDAY” for 30% off at ladder.sport.

Go to Save the Children dot org slash save kids or

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O n air Monday at 11 and 7pm. 

Episode Title: How To Achieve The Refreshing Taste Of Entrepreneurship

In this episode, we talk to Rich Razgaitis (Co-Founder & CEO of FloWater) as we discuss how he started his company, what he looks for when turning around a company, and his passion to drastically reduce plastic water bottles. 

**More On Rich**

Rich “Raz” Razgaitis is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of FloWater, where he leads the Denver-based company in its vision to create a new distributed and decentralized water

platform. The company is on a mission to disrupt the drinking water industry by delivering the best-tasting water in the world and eliminate single-use plastic water bottles and packaging

waste.

FloWater has become the beverage of choice for such companies as Google, Red Bull, prAna, Oneill, Play Station, Specialized Bikes, Alaska Airlines and Xponential Fitness, as well as the

Oakland school system. Since the company launched in 2013, its proprietary, new-tech water Refill Stations have saved more than 130 million plastic bottles from the environment and is on

track to save over one billion plastic single-use bottles by 2022.

Razgaitis originated the concept and product development of FloWater and has scaled the brand significantly since its initial distribution in only one state: Today, FloWater Refill Stations

are used daily at over 5,000 hotels, schools, corporations, gyms, retailers and events in nearly 50 states. Razgaitis’ role is focused around financial and business strategy, investor relations,

team hiring and organizational development, product development, and strategic growth partnerships, while overseeing operational execution—from manufacturing to customer

service. He recently secured $15mm in Series B growth funding for FloWater. In 2019, FloWater was recognized as a “Top 500” company on the annual INC 5000 list of fastest-growing growing

privately-held companies in America.

In his career, Razgaitis has been passionate about building brands and teams. Since 2002, he

has served in CEO/president-level roles in several venture capital-backed start-ups, privately

held turnaround, and growth companies, and he brings insight from those experiences to his

work today at FloWater. Razgaitis was the CEO of several consumer-tech companies, including

DealOn, an e-commerce company that developed the Web’s first deal-commerce exchange,

and another, MyTownPerks, which built the first PCI-complaint, the cloud-based loyalty program

for B2B. (Both companies were subsequently acquired.)

Razgaitis has deep experience in the consumer-goods industry, having led personal-care and

nutrition company Univera into fast growth, with revenues doubling from $35 million to $100

million per year. With a specialty in rebuilding brands, Razgaitis also restarted a privately held

consumer company, Blaine Pharmaceuticals, where he led product development and licensing

of a dozen new products and drove commercialization into over 30,000 food and drug stores

nationwide. He started his career in Fortune 500 companies, including Johnson & Johnson and

Eli Lily. Razgaitis grew up in the Midwest and holds a BA in marketing and an MBA in general

business and marketing from Anderson University.

When not working, you can find Razgaitis spending time with his two teenage daughters, where

he gets to refine his ‘dad jokes,’ or studying his Enneagram, volunteering with Defy Ventures,

which focuses on ending mass incarceration and recidivism or riding a motorcycle in the

summer and snowboard in the winter.

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Written by: Dominic Lawson

Executive Producers: Dominic Lawson and Kenda Lawson

Music Credits:

**Show Theme**

 Behind Closed Doors - Otis McDonald 

**Break Theme**

Cielo - Huma-Huma 

Sponsors/Partners

Go to Payoff.com/TheStartupLife to learn more.

Go to the Phillip Stein and use code SLEEPEZ to get 10% of your new Philip Stein Sleep Bracelet. 

Use code BETTEREVERYDAY for 30% everything sitewide at ladder.sport. That’s “BETTEREVERYDAY” for 30% off at ladder.sport.

Go to Save the Children dot org slash save kids or

www.savethechildern.org/savekids

Episode Title: How To Innovate During Chaos

In this episode, we talk to Jeremy Gutsche (CEO of Trend Hunter) as we discuss what he learned from his dad, what he does at his company TrendHunter, what market leaders get wrong, and more. We also talk about his book Create The Future. 

We also share with StartupNation our take of Laura Bull's latest book "From Individual To Empire: A Guide to Building an Authentic and Powerful Brand" 

Book is available in paperback and ebook on Amazon, B&N, Apple, and everywhere books are sold. 

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**More on Jeremy**

Jeremy is a New York Times Bestselling author, one of the world's top innovation keynote speakers / management consultants and the CEO of Trend Hunter, the world's #1 largest, most popular trend spotting firm with more than 2 billion views and 3 million fans. With custom research, innovation workshops and custom trend reports, Trend Hunter accelerates innovation for the world's top-tier innovators.

Jeremy is "One of North America's Most Requested Keynote Speakers", New York Times bestselling author of "BETTER and FASTER - The Proven Path to Unstoppable Ideas" and the award-winning book "EXPLOITING CHAOS - 150 Ways to Spark Innovation During Times of Change" (Axiom Business Book Awards; Inc Magazine Best Books for Business Owners; Summary Best Books for 2011).

Jeremy is an innovation advisor to over 400 brands, billionaires and CEOs ranging from Victoria's Secret, Coca-Cola and Sony to IBM, Cisco and Hughes Aerospace. He specializes in innovation during times of chaos and enabling change when change is hard. Over the last seven years, he's been the innovation keynote speaker at hundreds of events, inspiring more than 250,000 people. Routinely sourced by the media, he has appeared in hundreds of newspaper and television interviews form CNN and the New York Times to Entertainment Tonight and MTV.

Specialties: trend spotting, trends, cool hunting, innovation, strategy, management consulting, guest speaking, marketing, quantitative analysis, finance, keynote speaking, social media, marketing, consulting, innovation workshops, hosting, brands, chaos, creative destruction, trend analytic, motivation, motivational speaking   

Written by: Dominic Lawson

Executive Producers: Dominic Lawson and Kenda Lawson

Music Credits:

**Show Theme**

 Behind Closed Doors - Otis McDonald 

**Break Theme**

Cielo - Huma-Huma 

Sponsors/Partners

Contact DR and Associates today for all of your marketing needs online at www.drandassociates.com, on social media, or at 615-933-3681

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Episode Title: How To Decode Your Path Of Entrepreneurship

Monday 11th May 7pm & Friday 15th at 11am 

In this episode, we talk to Dr. Rana el Kaliouby (Author of Girl Decoded & Co-Founder and CEO of Affectiva) about her new normal, how she became CEO of her company, and why her parents were important to her success. We also talk about her book Girl Decoded. 

Follow here on LinkedIn, Instagram, & Twitter

Purchase her book here

**More On Rana**

Rana el Kaliouby, PhD, is co-founder and CEO of Affectiva, and author of the forthcoming book Girl Decoded, which is available for pre-order now. Rana is the pioneer of artificial emotional intelligence—Emotion AI. The next frontier of Artificial Intelligence, Emotion AI is projected to become a multi-billion dollar industry. Rana led the innovation of the company’s award winning technology, which uses deep learning and massive amounts of data to analyze complex and nuanced emotions and cognitive states from face and voice. And, she raised over $50 million in venture capital for Affectiva.

Rana’s PhD research at the University of Cambridge developed one of the earliest prototypes of facial emotion recognition technology. Later, as a research scientist at MIT Media Lab, she spearheaded the applications of emotion recognition technology in a variety of fields, including mental health and autism research.

Rana holds a BSc and MSc in Computer Science from the American University in Cairo, a Ph.D. from the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, and a Post Doctorate at MIT.

Rana is one of few women leading a disruptive AI company. A Muslim-American and passionate advocate, she frequently speaks in the press and on stage, about innovation, women in technology, ethics in AI, and leadership. Forbes recently included Rana in their list of America’s Top 50 Women In Tech, and Fortune Magazine included her in their 40 under 40, 2018 edition. She is also a Young Global Leader in the World Economic Forum.

Written by: Dominic Lawson

Executive Producers: Dominic Lawson and Kenda Lawson

Music Credits:

**Show Theme**

 Behind Closed Doors - Otis McDonald 

**Break Theme**

Cielo - Huma-Huma 

Sponsors/Partners

Contact DR and Associates today for all of your marketing needs online at www.drandassociates.com, on social media, or at 615-933-3681

KOYA is the new and best way to let your friends and family know you’re thinking of them! Choose a friend, record a message, hide it at a location they are likely to visit and give them a clue. When they arrive, your message will instantly appear! You can even send them a gift! Best of all, the app is entirely free. 

OK Startup Nation, I want to talk to you about our sponsor, Tresta. They’re offering a 30-day free trial, so you can see if Tresta’s virtual phone system is right for you. Communicate smarter and more efficiently with Tresta. Start now at tresta.com/startuplife. Tresta, Business Communication. Simplified.

Let Colony Spark help your business. Go to colonyspark.com/startuplife

Use code BETTEREVERYDAY for 30% everything sitewide at ladder.sport. That’s “BETTEREVERYDAY” for 30% off at ladder.sport.