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Episode 4: A Founder’s Tale: From Bootstrapping to Successful Acquisition with Lance Cottrell
Watch the Video This episode was recorded live on February 15th, 2021. Listen to the Podcast About the Episode Lance Cottrell founded Anonymizer in 1995 and is an internationally recognized expert in cryptography, online privacy, and Internet security. He is principal author on multiple Internet privacy and security technology patents. He took Anonymizer to a…
Read MoreEpisode 3: Building a Small Sustainable Nonprofit with Sydney Williams
When former collegiate athlete and competitive skydiver, Sydney Williams, unexpectedly found herself on the receiving end of a Type 2 diabetes diagnosis, while grappling with unresolved trauma from a decades-old sexual assault, she set out on a mission: turn her pain into power. Two hikes across Catalina Island and 80 miles later, she founded Hiking My Feelings® to help others tap into the mind-body connection and healing power of nature that helped kick her self-limiting beliefs and disease into remission.
Read MoreEpisode 1: What Happens When a Freelancer Dies? with Greg Carter
Join us for a very special first episode with my friend Greg Carter who was recently diagnosed with stage four lung cancer. Greg will discuss his journey from playing with computers in high school when they were too big for one person to carry, to doing IT in the Marine Corps in the 80s, going…
Read MoreEpisode 2: Turning Tragedy Into Stories that Sell with Brian Fies
Brian and I met at his book release party for A Fire Story, a graphic novel in which he tells the story of his house burning down in the Tubbs fire on October 8, 2017. The same fire, in fact, that took my home as well. Brian is an award-winning graphic novelist known for “A…
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