Thought Leader

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Thought Leader episodes

  • 81. Fahd Alhattab & A New Way of Leadership

    🤓 Short practice of Arabic: born in Kuwait but has lived in Canada for 23 years.  00:49

    🧆 Kuwait and Iraq cuisine is very similar: fish market. 02:19

    ☮️ Peace is possible. 03:26

    😇 Fahd visit to New York: being a translator of culture and truth  in the USA in the ’90s 04:38

    🦄 Building a leadership development agency that works specifically on intergenerational leadership. 07:58

    🎩 All Fahd’s leadership hats: It all started when he was 17. 10:05

    🎓 Education failed in building leadership skills: Obsession with specialization in universities. 14:51

    💲 What is a unicorn company: Without people, you can’t create a unicorn startup. 17:04

     ❗ Grandiose charismatic leaders we talk about today were crappy leaders, especially in people management. 18:38

    💸 Growing leaders vs. buying leaders: managers and performance are connected 20:47

    ✨ “Training, learning, and development are channels for a larger vision.” Don’t concede your work around the myth ‘the people will take advantage of me.’ 24:12

    💊 Teaching a new way of leadership: the need for motivation is a symptom of something being wrong.  27:26


     

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    30 min
  • 80. Jonathan Aufray & Filling the Gap with Growth Hacking

    🥖Jonathan is now in Taiwan but is from France. 00:51

    😷 COVID-19 shut the world down, but Taiwan was completely open until recently. 02:20

    🏡 Efficiency of remote workers: trust has to be built. 05:23

    🧞‍♂️ A growth hacker fills the gap between product development and marketing. 08:08

    🕰️ In Jonathan’s work, it is about quick wins and extended work. 12:54

    🙃 Sometimes articles on Google give people the wrong perspective of doing business. 14:59

    ✨ There is no magic wand. 16:18

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    19 min
  • 79. Lisa Marie Platske & Finding The Brilliance In Who You Are

    🌎 L, m, n, o, p in Lisa’s name: the speaking world has changed 00:39

    👮‍♀️ Lisa started in law enforcement: learning to speak up for herself. 02:18

    💅 Seeing her in the streets of NY was an anomaly. 03:11

    👠 Lisa went out: Realizing the necessity to be seen, heard, recognized, and rewarded. 05:47

    🛣️ Hard times Lisa experienced as a child: Her places of safety. 08:41

    🧓  A positive male role model: Her grandfather knew she would be a speaker. 11:48

    🙃 Upside thinking vs. Positive thinking: doing the best with the things you’ve got. 15:56

    💡 Design your destiny: The world needs you and your brilliance. 19:09

     

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    22 min
  • 78. Dominique Henderson & The Impact of Financial Advice

    🎦 Dominique is in the movie. 00:39

    📢 When your name comes from a basketball star.  01:43

    🌳 He financially changes family trees. 02:58

    💲 Different views on financial professionals that help the trajectory in other people’s money. 04:22

    💰 No money talk around us creates brakes, but literacy matters and building trust is incremental. 06:18

    🛠️ Dominique is a “fixer,” which came to him with experience. 08:44

    🎓 All the fantastic people that helped him with mentorship. 10:27

    🕊️ Married at 21, working in real estate, and helping people more directly. 12:07

    💵 What is the job of a financial professional, and how does it work? 14:15

    🎥 His YouTube video changed a lot about his company. 16:09

    🏝️ Hawaii is a paradise. 17:25


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    22 min
  • 77. Keisha King-Brown & Combining AI with Human Expertise

    🤖 Bots as a causation side and learning side of AI. 00:46

    🥰 How do bots work? 01:27

    🔮 What is machine learning, and how does it work?. 02:24

    👔 Two-thirds of the speed of light: AI extracts data very fast.  03:40

    🤔 She was dealing with how to maximize growth and have more sales. 05:40

    ❗ Putting your biases into AI data is not giving good solutions. 09:20

    🔔 Dangers in using AI: Don’t put customers on the ‘edge.’ 10:50

    👩‍💻 Pre-launch startup Kiesha is working on is a step-by-step automated platform for businesses.12:05

    🙃 Being an independent girl when she was growing up. 15:30


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    19 min
  • 76. Shannon Lee Whalen & Achieving a Healthy Life

    🎽 Shannon is helping executive coach level up and she is a fitness entrepreneur. 00:46

    😷 Fitness online but it is time to get back in the gym. 02:05

    🤸‍♀️ Having a coaching business: training of the mindset. 03:05

    🥅 Shannon’s background in ballet and fitness helps in understanding athletes and performers. 04:03

    🤓 Focusing on identity: Auditioning for being someone else instead of being yourself. 05:33

    🏙️ Shannon grew up in Pittsburgh: her journey between NY and LA. 08:32

    🎯 Fitness instructors are not being compensated appropriately: holding all the liability. 10:49

    🤔 Huge transitions trainers are providing to people: understanding the healthy lifestyle. 13:25

    🙋‍♀️ Emotions can also manifest into disease: living life truthfully. 15:03

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    19 min
  • 75. Chris Maresca & Branding Businesses with Stories

    🔲 Chris’s conference room was once a speakeasy. 00:55

    🌉 San Francisco is known to be a rebellious town. 03:11

    🤔 What does it mean to be a fractional and interim technology executive? 05:15

    🗣️ You have to be a storyteller of your company to raise capital, but how does it work? 06:28

    🙃 Fail con: nobody talks about failure. 09:07

    💬 Origin stories are there for people to connect, not 100% truthful. 10:39

    🗓️ “It’s only taken me ten years to be an overnight success.” 12:35

    🆙 Power of lifting executives’ voices: Sales and marketing are complex. 14:33

    😇 Chris was CEO COO and tried to understand the whole aspect of a business. 16:55

    👆 AI will not solve all our problems: training data are biased. 18:37

    👍 Chris is too busy building startups: turning tables on the tech universe. 19:35


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    23 min
  • 74. Mikhail Sokolov & Creating Empathetic AI

    🛣️ Mikhail started as a web developer and moved to data science: 01:08

    😎 How AI can write instead of humans: future of content writing. 02:27

    🇺🇦 His journey from Ukraine to the USA: startups in his country. 05:39

    👦 As a boy, he was interested in computers. 07:58

    👨‍👩‍👦 Mikhail’s parents were engineers, and his grandparents were interested in making the world a better place. 09:38

    👓 Mikhail is trying to find the good in people. 11:22

    😇 Tappy Writer’s culture: primarily interested in AI. 13:29

    ⚡ Branding: stories and personal brand matters in the US.  14:56

    🤝 It all started as an ecology project: making language models more friendly. 16:17

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    23 min
  • 73. Harvey Kraft & History, Technology, and the Future

    🏄 Wood panel and surfboard. 00:40

    🌞 Permission to himself for exploring and engaging: chief marketing officer + ancient sages and Budha. 01:31 

    🙏 History vs. Harvey’s outlook on history: inward development and technology. 05:59

    ☀️ Consciousness and awareness in combination with the future. 08:47

    📲 New generations and their comprehension of the web and technology. 10:30

    👥 Lack of free flow of social information: spatial web and provenance of information.13:11

    ⏭️ Education now vs. learning through self-exploration and self-drive. 15:41


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    20 min
  • 72. Ran Mullins & The Art of Branding and Automation

    🖼️ The signal through the noise: Night and day personalities. 00:45  

    📊 Art became more inclusive: Ran’s interest in how data can talk to us. 02:23

    📄 What is Data-driven content marketing?  05:49

    🧐 Creating real information, not creating content for content's sake. 08:27

    💲 The importance of price transparency 10:25

    🙃 Being an entrepreneur and artist: every person is a brand. 13:59

    👦 Ran was a very quiet and introspective child. 

    📲 Building a brand mantra. 18:58

    🤔 Ran chose what people call him. 21:49

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    24 min

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