What Do You Do? with Rodolfo Cooper

Listen to Jawad Abdul-Jabbar discuss his experiences as a musical artist, a healings artist and much more.

Listen to Zakiya Thomas, Director of the Posse Foundation, discuss the foundation, her role and responsibilities as the director and much more.

Listen to Cory Klippsten, Founder and CEO of SwanBitcoin.com discuss bitcoin and his experiences starting and running SwanBitcoin.com.

In addition to being the CEO of SwanBitcoin.com, Cory also serves as an advisor to Unchained Capital, Bitcoin Venture Fund (TVP) and Riot Blockchain (NASDAQ: RIOT), and is a partner in Bitcoiner Ventures.  As an advisor he has supported more than $250M of fundraising since 2016, and as an angel has funded 20+ early stage startups. Before startups, Cory worked for Google, McKinsey, Microsoft and Morgan Stanley, and earned an MBA in Finance and Entrepreneurship from the University of Chicago.

Listen to Anna Paglia, global head of ETFs and Indexed Strategies at Invesco, discuss running a $400 billion business, what got her involved with finance and ETFs, great advice for anyone and much more.

What caused the energy failure in Texas that left millions without power, heat and water?

Listen to Ed Hirs, Energy Fellow and lecturer at the University of Houston, discuss the causes of this energy failure and what needs to occur to ensure this does not happen again in this special episode.

Listen to Preston Cherry, Ph.D. discuss his experiences as the founder and president of Concurrent Financial Planning, what got him involved in financial planning, the steps one takes and much more.

www.concurrentfp.com

What is a dramaturg?

Listen to ShaWanna Renee Rivon, award-winning and nationally renowned playwright, producer and dramaturg, discuss her experiences writing Deal Breakers (an NAACP nominated production), nationally toured features like Cheaper to Keep Her, and Marriage Material (starring Vivica A. Fox, Brian McKnight and T-Boz), starring as a series regular on cartoon shows like Strawberry Shortcake (as Rasberry Torte), The Bratz (as Sasha) and The Care Bears (as Cheer Bear) and much more.

ShaWanna has two plays streaming this Winter/Spring, being produced by two theatres, and the best thing about that, you can watch them from any place! If you have the time, please support.  Please note---These plays are not suited for kids!

Power to the Queendom—February 18th-22nd  (Due to Covid, this play will be presented as a sound play)

Houston, 1970. Four female members of the Black Panther Party are put in a hostage situation with a Policeman while trying to prevent the death of their leader, Carl Hampton. Based on real events.

To stream please visit:

https://www.recroomarts.org/power-to-the-queendom

Old Black & White Hollywood—April 16th-May 16th (You can sign up now)

Hollywood, 1954. A racy Black female comic, Doris Jean, tries to break into Hollywood without playing the tropes of a maid, and ends up creating a hilarious sketch show with a White actress, Eva Rose. Once stardom happens Doris Jean finds out how far a Black actress has to go to make it in Hollywood during Jim Crow.

To register please visit:

https://www.alleytheatre.org/plays/production-detail/old-black-and-white-hollywood

Listen to Colin Zima, Chief Analytics Officer at Looker, discuss his experiences in analytics, going from Wall Street to Silicon Valley, helping build Looker from a company of a handful of employees to what it is today and much more.

Listen to Addison Green discuss his experiences as a meteorologist for KHOU II.

How does analytics help with selling athleisure wear?

Listen to Onaje Barnes discuss his experiences as a strategic account executive at Nike, his experiences as a buyer, his steps to get to where he is and much more.