Why They Listen Podcast

"The Digital Dive" is a conversational podcast hosted by YouTubers Jacklyn Dallas and Darsh Khithani where they discuss the latest tech news, Internet culture and the process behind creating an online business.

Darsh and Jacklyn share with Lou how this program came to be and how they have created a new community through combining forces, audiences and their passion for technology.

You can check out all of Darsh and Jacklyn's channels using the links below!

The Digital Dive Pod: youtu.be/e_K4Odn4TCs
Darsh's channel: YouTube.com/Darsh
Jacklyn's channel: YouTube.com/NBTJacklyn

Doug Sandler is an entrepreneur and podcast industry leader. His book, Nice Guys Finish First is a #1 ranked Amazon Best Seller. As a podcast host of The Nice Guys on Business, Doug has interviewed, Gary V, Arianna Huffington, John C. Maxwell and dozens of celebs. Doug is a nationally recognized speaker, writer, and founder of TurnKey Podcast Productions, providing podcast production, editing and launch services. His Nice Guys podcast, with over 1,000 episodes has been downloaded 3.5 million times, in more than 175 countries.

Doug connects with Lou Diamond on WHY THEY LISTEN to discuss two unique programs he hosts with very niche audiences: SALES TRAINING FOR PODCASTERS &  FORD MUSTANG - THE EARLY YEARS PODCAST

Jim Haney is Director, Supply Chain Customer Solutions in Johnson & Johnson’s Medical Devices sector.  In this role, Jim and his team collaborate with large health systems to drive operational efficiencies.  

Jim has been with Ethicon since 1999, holding a variety of positions in Marketing, Account Management, Supply Chain and Health Economics & Market Access.

Prior to joining Johnson & Johnson, Jim was a Corporate Accounts Director for Novartis Pharmaceuticals, responsible for contracting with managed care organizations to secure formulary status for Novartis’ branded pharmaceutical portfolio. Prior to Novartis, he worked as an Account Executive for Aetna, selling managed care plans to larger employers in a number of markets, to include Chicago and Pittsburgh.

Jim is one of the many within Ethicon leading the charge in helping to bring insights into Ethicon's solutions and how they're bringing value to their customers.

He's also utilizing the AIMeCAST platform to improve communication within his team and across the organization.

Laurie Barkman is the founder and CEO of SmallDotBig, providing innovation and growth solutions for entrepreneurs and multi-generational businesses. 

Laurie brings an entrepreneurial approach to mature companies struggling with change, and a structured approach to fast-growth companies experiencing growing pains.

As an outside executive of a third generation, 120-year old company, she was part of a long-term management succession plan. Now she works with next generation entrepreneurs, privately-held companies, and family businesses to develop innovations that create enterprise value and transition plans to achieve their long-term goals.

Laurie is the Creator and Host of the Succession Stories podcast​- innovation and transition insights for next generation entrepreneurs.  And she's an Instructor of Entrepreneurship at the Corporate Startup Lab at Carnegie Mellon University.

***

"WHY THEY LISTEN" is powered by AIMeCAST - Produced by THRIVE LOUD Productions Hosted by Lou Diamond

Two-time NBA All-Star, Olympic Gold Medalist and Philanthropist Allan Houston is featured on "WHY THEY LISTEN".  Allan founded FISLL - a social impact brand providing leadership training, legacy development and consumer products. FISLL exists to engage, equip and inspire people to Live Better, Perform Better, and Lead Better.

FISLL actuates 5 essential values of Faith, Integrity, Sacrifice, Leadership, & Legacy as language to promote healthy mind, body and spirit. 

Listen in as Allan shares the focus of how The FISLL brand; FISLL's media channels and digital learning platform, publications, podcasts, virtual events and the FISLL mobile app; FISLL’s merchandising division are all engaging and empowering its users.

Through the Allan Houston Legacy Foundation (AHLF) - a multi-dimensional organization created to work with any individual, program, business, or institution that serves the community.  AHLF manages The FISLL Project (TFP) which serves as its signature social impact arm. The FISLL Project focuses on Youth Voice and Leadership cultivation, combining the model of leadership teaching and restorative behavioral science with mentorship, character development, media content, events, and programming. 

In this episode, you'll learn why everyone should listen to the Allan and the initiatives around the FISLL project.  

In this episode of WHY THEY LISTEN - we learn  visionary Leader, strategist, negotiator and deal-maker Corey Kupfer.

A business owner from age 15, attorney Corey Kupfer has represented, trained and mentored thousands of companies and entrepreneurs to create leaps in their business growth.

He now offers that same expertise through his company  DealQuest™ and as host of his podcast show of the same name. 

Why do some companies grow by leaps and bounds while others only inch forward? Simple. They embrace deal-driven growth in addition to organic growth!

The DealQuest podcast is where you learn how to strategize, prepare for, find,
and complete deals to grow your company faster.

Listen in as host Corey Kupfer shares an inside look at his amazing platform and how he's created a specific place where deal makers can openly share the secret to deals they have done (or failed to do) and the issues, opportunities, benefits, pitfalls and lessons learned.

***

"WHY THEY LISTEN" is powered by AIMeCAST -
Produced by THRIVE LOUD Productions
Hosted by Lou Diamond

Dr. Lyke is a clinical translational investigator with recognized expertise in malaria, tropical diseases, and parasite immunology. Dr. Lyke is board certified in adult Infectious Diseases and maintains an HIV clinic in addition to attending on the hospital wards as an Infectious Diseases Attending. She is the current Director of The Malaria Vaccine and Challenge Unit. 

Currently, she conducts malaria and tropical diseases vaccine studies. Dr. Lyke has rebuilt the malaria challenge capabilities at UMB, which has led to novel vaccine work including the first-in-humans challenge trial of a whole-organism Pf sporozoite malaria vaccine and the first-in-humans aseptic malaria challenge. She has planned and led studies aimed at developing parenterally-administered malaria challenges and continues to advance the whole organism, Pf sporozoite malaria vaccine approach through Phase I, II and upcoming Phase III trials. She was the site Principal Investigator for the first Phase I domestic Ebola vaccine trials and is currently leading Ebola and Dengue vaccine trials and participating in the first Zika vaccine trial.

Dr. Kirsten Lyke was recently featured in Rolling Stone magazine as one of the people we are counting on for a COVID-19 vaccine.

In this episode of WHY THEY LISTEN - we learn from Andrea Koppel, the founder and chief java junkie of Time4Coffee.org.  A company with a mission to help one million college students turn their degrees into careers they’ll love.  

Since founding Time4Coffee in early 2018, years before the coronavirus made in person networking coffees next to impossible, Andrea has had hundreds of virtual networking coffees with people – in dozens of different careers.  These ‘caffeinated career conversations’ cover topics like: what different jobs are really like; how young people can break into these industries; how to bounce back from career fails and how people found their professional passions. 

Today Time4Coffee has thousands of fans in 160 countries and all 50 states. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur and podcaster, Andrea zigged and zagged her way across three different careers.  She started out her professional life as a journalist where she spent 20 years, the last 14 of them as an on-air correspondent with CNN as a foreign correspondent in Asia and then covering American foreign and domestic policy. 

She then pivoted into public relations and eventually into the nonprofit world, leading global affairs and policy for Mercy Corps, an international humanitarian and development organization.   Andrea has a B.A. in political science, Asian studies and Chinese from Middlebury College.

***

"WHY THEY LISTEN" is powered by AIMeCAST -
Produced by THRIVE LOUD Productions
Hosted by Lou Diamond

In this episode of WHY THEY LISTEN - we learn from Jasper Daniel from the Global Strategic Marketing team at Ethicon, within Johnson & Johnson.

Jasper along with many of his colleagues across Ethicon AND JnJ are utilizing podcasting INSIDE the organization to connect, educate and share learnings.  

Hear how Jasper and his team partnered with AIMeCAST to come up with the ideal platform for a very specific and unique listening audience.

***

"WHY THEY LISTEN" is powered by AIMeCAST -
Produced by THRIVE LOUD Productions
Hosted by Lou Diamond

David B. Falk is an American sports agent who primarily works with basketball players in the National Basketball Association. Falk began his career representing professional tennis players for Donald Dell's ProServ and is best known for representing sports icon Michael Jordan for the entirety of Jordan's career.

Besides Jordan, Falk has represented more than 100 other NBA players, and is generally considered to be the most influential player agent the NBA has seen. During the peak years of Falk's career in the 1990s, he was often considered the second-most powerful person in the NBA behind Commissioner David Stern, and in 2000 he had at least one client on all but two NBA teams. He was listed among the "100 Most Powerful People in Sports" for 12 straight years from 1990 to 2001 by The Sporting News, and was also named one of the Top 50 Marketers in the United States by Advertising Age in 1995.

David connects with Lou Diamond on "WHY THEY LISTEN" and shares how through his hard work, amazing experiences and powerful connections has earned him the voice that gets his clients to listen.