Think Differently

Jim Kalbach is a noted author, speaker, and instructor in design, customer experience, and strategy. He is currently Chief Evangelist at MURAL, the leading online whiteboard.

Jim is the author of three books: Designing Web Navigation (O’Reilly, 2007), Mapping Experiences (O’Reilly, 2016), and most recently The Jobs To Be Done Playbook (Rosenfeld, 2020). He is also the Co-founder and Principal at the JTBD Toolkit, an online resource with learning, trainings, and content. Jim blogs at www.experiencinginformation.com and tweets under @jimkalbach.

She is leader at a national non-profit, US Veteran, entrepreneur, mother of 3 boys & 2 dogs who crams more into each day than most can do in a week.  Becca Keaty is truly an inspirational gift to all that get to know her.  She is the Chief Development Officer at Bunker Labs, founder of Chosen One Thrift and is an all around amazing human!

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www.bunkerlabs.org

https://www.instagram.com/chosenonethrift/

https://www.instagram.com/beccakeaty/

Founded by sisters Eunice Moyle and Sabrina Moyle in 2003 in the San Francisco Bay Area, Hello!Lucky’s mission is to support our customers’ highest good, as well as the highest good of its' communities and planet, through delivering products that support joy, creativity, and connection.  And they love to have pun while doing it!  They do this by creating high quality children's books, Creating hand-crafted, sustainable, made-in-the-USA letterpress greeting cards, building thoughtful partnerships, giving back to their communities and empowering women in business. 

This episode reveals how growing up in Asia and being a part of different communities and cultures shaped their views on the world and ultimately their business.  Please take a listen and learn everything from their creative process to how the company came to be!

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Hello Lucky Cards Instagram

Hello Lucky Kids Instagram

www.hellolucky.com - Check out their latest book "Sloth and Smell the Roses"

www.moylesisters.com

When someone says that their faith "drives everything" in their life, I am intrigued.  This weeks guest Ryan Meador is one of the most genuine, vulnerable and strong people I've met.  He is a tremendous father, husband, trainer and man of faith.  He lets his faith guide him as he navigates a world filled with decisions and people he can help.  There is no doubt that Ryan's purpose is to help and serve others and he does it through his work as an HR Director at a family business, a fitness coach and father and husband.  This is a conversation I will cherish for a while, super authentic and gives me lots of gratitude for Ryan and people like him!

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Ryan's Instagram

From childhood trauma came a life of creativity as a means to escape.  Since then Travis Brown has built a life of creative and passionate pursuits from music and engineering to screen printing and fatherhood he has always sought to build a community around interests.  His latest venture PodDecks happened as a mistake and has become one of his most successful ventures yet!  Please take a listen to an honest conversation about trauma, growth, community and learning as we go!

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www.poddecks.com

PodDecks Builders Club on Facebook

Download the PodDecks app for iOS (FREE)

Download the PodDecks app for Android (FREE)

Eat, Travel, Rock.  Those are not only the 3 greatest passions of this week's guest but its the name of her company!  Kelly Rizzo has truly built a life around her passions and has let nothing stand in her way.  She has remained authentic, true and grounded as she has traveled the globe, made it to TV and built a company around all of her favorite things.  Kelly is host of "Eat Travel Rock TV," the award-winning on-demand entertainment series where she goes behind the scenes and off the cuff with master chefs, rockstars, and other creative industry heavyweights, while traveling the world.  You can also find her coast to coast as a food, travel & lifestyle expert, featured everywhere from from national talks shows on EXTRA, ABC, Bravo, & VH1 to regional broadcasts Fox Good Day Chicago and WCIU The Jam. 

Kelly and I have known each other since high school and this conversation is a true take on what it takes to pursue your dreams and chart your own path in life!  Be sure to give a follow to Kelly's adventures through the show notes below!

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Website: https://www.eattravelrock.com/

Eat Travel Rock Productions: https://www.eattravelrockproductions.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eattravelrock/

Diversity, equity and inclusion consultant/speaker, community builder, co working space founder, adjunct professor and podcast host Levi Baer had a lot on his plate that caused to have a really unhappy birthday last year.  He was doing too much and felt the burn and then decided to redefine and design his life, profession and vision to help others find joy in their work and lives.  Currently he is focusing his efforts on helping businesses build a healthy, genuine and organic diverse workforce.

This episode is a really genuine and deep talk that touches on everything from race, inequity, systemic racism and bias in the workplace and government.  Levi really has a gift for this work and I hope you can take some good nuggets of wisdom for you, your family, community and workplace from this episode. 

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What do helicopter police chases, waterskiing, experiential marketing, classic cars and the Grateful Dead have in common?  The answer is this weeks guest Fritz Heffinger!  He is the CEO and Co-Founder of Outcold Marketing; OutCold fuses experiential marketing strategies with traditional Out of Home (OOH) tactics to excite, engage and convert consumers to customers.  They create amazing experiences for some of the world's largest brands (Nike, Nordstrom, Amazon and Sephora) using classic and vintage cars to build experiential marketing  experiences (think a perfect vintage VW bus converted to spread the word about Gummi Bears)!

Aside from the world class work Fritz and his team do, the bigger story is WHY and HOW they work.  Fritz has forgone the large agency model to connect with real people doing real work.  This is THE episode all CEO's, founders and business folk should listen to in order to learn how to truly lead while being your authentic self PLUS it's filled with amazing stories!

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Outcold Instagram

Outcold Portfolio of Work

17 years in broadcast media telling stories for the likes of Beyonce, LeBron, and Nick Saban and a passion for equipping youth to tell their stories led Clement Townsend to create Video Journalism Pro, an online video journalism program for teens! This episode is filled with a story of a man learning work ethic and service to others from his parents (both Chicago Public School teachers) whose desire to tell stories took him from Chicago to Texas and all across the country and back to Chicago to be reunited with his parents 1 week before his mothers untimely passing.  Clement has found a way to blend his passion and proficiency to align his life's purpose'; helping youth tell their stories!

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https://www.videojournalismpro.com/

Clement's Linkedin Profile

One day I was working at the Virgin Hotel in Chicago and recognized a dude I followed on Instagram (he was a marketing and entrepreneurial mastermind).  I walked up, tapped him on the shoulder, introduced myself and from that moment on we stayed connected and I now refer to him as my personal Tim Ferriss.  Kaivan Dave came to the U.S. as young kid from India and has since encountered and conquered challenge after challenge building a life of commercial, personal and family success.   He has helped companies like RxBar (Director of E-Commerce) grow and build products and has done the same for himself across several of his startups and his Staying Uncomfortable podcast.  

This episode is filled with stories of challenge and success, the illusion of entrepreneurship, tips for optimizing your life, health and productivity and some great stories including how I schmoozed my way into one of Kaivan's 5 am workouts!  Big thanks to Kaivan for always taking my phone calls, texts and giving me advice and guidance on all my crazy ideas!

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