Ari is a graphic design director by day and by night he is a motivational speaker and life coach. Graphic design is just to pay the bills, but his real love is speaking. Covid-19 put a damper on his speaking engagements, but he is getting started a’new with his passion. We even do an impromptu coaching session live during this episode’s podcast.

Welcome back to Unmotive Show. To kick of the return of Unmotive Show I want to start with a prequel to the third season. Jay Hill is a DJ and upcoming podcaster. He was nice enough to record an episode for Unmotive Show. We talk about mental health a little bit during the episode. How music can be a mode of therapy.

In this episode of Unmotive Show, we talk with Brian Krawitz talks more about his project "The Connected Experience" (T.C.E). He has been presenting the idea to many high-profile business contacts from corporations nationwide. To learn more about T.C.E visit the website or listen to the discussion in episode three of this podcast. Brian shares his views on culture, art, and science as a point of connection bringing people together in one space. 

This episode we have Randall Libero whose introduction speaks for itself. For starters, he is an Executive Producer at VoiceAmerica. We met on LinkedIn and he was super interested in my content, I had a few consultations with him and took it to the road. Later I invited him to be a guest on the show because the information he gave me was smack dab in the vein of the second season's topic of culture from the lens of technology.

DEI isn’t a new thing, but it is in its trial period. Tied to culture season 2 episode 4 brings us a guest who was looking for a new way to look at the topic if DEI and found it in the sub-group of white affinity. Depending on your ethnic or cultural upbringing there may be a difference in opinion from the extreme path of the recent past. We now have the luxury move forward with positive outlooks. The episode will take all the serious elements of DEI that could be laid bare but are heightened here in a very specific way. 

Presenting a special episode of Unmotive Show. Season 2 Episode 3 on culture from the lens of technology has us visiting with Brian Krawitz - creator of The Connected Experience, and Tulley Rafferty - creator of Splinter, an indie game available on steam. Both these self-starters are professionals with years of experience in software and media and as luck would have it, they are aware of the community and culture that has grown around Burning Man and Twitch, respectively. 

In season two episode two, we talk with Jake Duckworth in the heart of the Silicon Valley. A pastor from Crossroads Community Church in Palo Alto is a musician and presiding pastor at the church and the technology-based community coworking space that is hosted on church grounds. This episode is about the different ways that the community has grown with it. Jake does talk about Christianity like how he interacts with the people at the coworking space. In addition, we talk about how music is used at Crossroads Community Church.

Ray Stevens III joins us to talk about his music career and many years in the skateboarding industry. Both music and skateboarding are part of modern culture. Ray is a punk-rock musician who has a superbly-refreshing take on music. I don't think I have met someone as easy to get along with as Ray in quite a long time. Perhaps that is why he has so many high-level friends like Steve Cabellero, Tony Alva and Steve Alba who are also skateboarders and musicians. He's played in too many bands to name over the years. His current focus is on the popular bay area band RS2 Solid Sound. Join the party as we talk about beers, skateboarding, friendship, and our all-time heroes.

Many people have avatars or persona's they adopt on different platforms. There are terabytes of content that is made up of media from large organizations, friends to employee's. The trouble with having such a wide array of content is that it may appear there is no connection from one platform to the next. In this episode we will explore the idea of culture and answer the question "how is the internet a representation of our culture and why is it that internet users have been able to make these changes happen?"

Season One was about UX Design, Entrepreneurship and Engineering. We had interviews with people like Chris Marciano, Miguel Coder and Greg Morawietz who are experts in their respective fields of UX Design, programming and security. This season finale episode we answer the question: It has been said that to become an expert at something it can take 10,000 hours of practice. What about when someone seeks to be a good designer and a good programmer, what would make this possible for them?