In this episode we welcome the award winning Belgian artist, filmmaker and doodler, Vincent Bal.
Inspired by his mother’s unique storytelling and his love of comic drawings, Vincent went on to study film directing. We talk about the importance of the combination of intelligence, humor and atmosphere in telling stories.
In this week’s podcast, we hear about the personal journey that lead to the evolution and success of Vincent’s visual stories- Shadowology.
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Inspired by the hilarious storytelling of stand up comics such as George Carlin, Richard Prior, Jackie Mason and Steve Martin, Doug Chernack is the New York Times bestselling coauthor of AWKWARD FAMILY PHOTOS. He is a professional screenwriter and producer who has created shows for E!, Fox Sports, and the Golf Channel and co-created the hit website AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com.
Doug’s projects include multiple books such as Awkward Family Pet Photos, Awkward Family Holiday Photos, as well as a traveling museum, and a calendar series.
In this week’s podcast, we explore humor, relatability and authenticity in telling stories.
Joe Cross is an Australian filmmaker, New York Times best-selling author, entrepreneur and proponent of wellness. In his award winning documentary Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead Joe tells the story of his 60-day juice fast. He is the founder and CEO of Reboot with Joe, a health and lifestyle brand.
In this podcast, Joe talks about how important storytelling is as he travels the world sharing his passion for healthy living. He inspires thousands of people to join the community of Rebooters.
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Wayne Kimmel is an accomplished and experienced author and speaker. He is a networker extraordinaire who has created investment company Seventy Six Capital which invests in passionate, smart and nice entrepreneurs who are launching game-changing tech startups.
In this podcast Wayne Kimmel talks about how storytelling is important in connecting with your audience and how major companies are evolving by utilizing their networks to expand and connect with their customers across various platforms.
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In Season 2, Geoffrey interviews successful individuals about their perspective on the power of story. Then each guest shares a story where they connected the dots. We are fortunate again to have amazing guests from best seller authors, a venture capitalist, a juice guru and a professional doodler, among others.
I am a huge poker enthusiast. I like poker much more than I am good at it. That is not true of this episode’s guest, American poker player Scott Blumstein.
Blumstein graduated from Temple University with an accounting degree before becoming a professional poker player.
Last summer, he entered his first World Series of Poker Main Event, along with over 7000 other hopeful players.
Outlasting everyone in a week plus of poker play, Scott Blumstein won the World Series of Poker Main Event, a coveted WSOP bracelet and $8,150,000.
He won in dramatic fashion when the Deuce of Hearts landed on the river (which for you non-poker players was one of only 3 cards that could have won him the event).
In this episode we explore Scott’s story and his views of higher education and how he went from online player to a poker World Champ.
Not surprisingly his favorite card in the deck is now the 2 of Hearts.
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Rich Middlemas won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for producing the high school football story UNDEFEATED.
Rich began his career in Hollywood working in the office of the President at MGM Studios working on films such as Legally Blonde, Agent Cody Banks, Barbershop and James Bond film, Die Another Day.
Rich Middlemas graduated from University of Tennessee’s College of Communication and Information with a BS in broadcasting.
In this episode, Rich shares his Oscar experience as we follow the journey from making a little football documentary to getting into SXSW’s film festival, to his bromance with Bratt Pitt at the Oscar nominations luncheon, to going on stage to accept the little gold statute.
We are happy to report Rich’s Oscar is no longer in a paper bag in his cupboard, but you’ll have to ask to find out what place of prominence it now lives.
Nick Bayer has always been in the business of bringing people together, whether it’s as one of Philadelphia Business Journal’s Most Admired CEOs or as a consummate team captain since Little League. So when he created Saxbys in 2005, he never really considered it to be a coffee company — instead, it’s a hospitality company fueled by great coffee. Saxbys has since grown from one corner café to a 30-unit, Philadelphia-based hospitality business with a mission: Make Life Better.
Inspired by his parents’ hard working ethic and grit and determination, Nick Bayer believes in setting yourself up for success. Nick grew up in Chicago- a strong athlete who loved to play baseball, basketball and football throughout his school years and into college, he dreamed of being an athlete.
Not cut out for the various traditional positions he tried his hand at, being a people-person and thriving off the energy of being around other people, Nick ventured into the role of entrepreneur.
After graduating from Cornell in 2000, Nick found himself in Philadelphia- the center of America’s social community businesses and since then has been working with higher-ed partnerships and entrepreneurial enterprises to build a solid foundation for young ‘business ninjas’ at Saxbys- which is more than just a coffee shop- Saxby’s ‘Makes Life Better’.
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Aaron Muderick, Owner of Crazy Aaron Enterprises https://puttyworld.com, is the inventor of Crazy Aaron’s thinking putty.
Crazy Aaron’s Thinking Putty is available in more than 30 countries around the world and comes in over 30 colors and includes some that can be magnetized or are heat-sensitive.
Crazy Aaron employs a labor force of over 500 people made up of individuals with intellectual and physical disabilities that help manufacture and ship Crazy Aaron’s Thinking Putty.
In this episode Aaron talks about how he always wanted to be an inventor, how Steve Jobs served as a role model and his interest in cave exploration. He believes you should never discount an idea just because it seems impossible.
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William C. Taubman is currently the Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science at Amherst College.
The son of a New York Times journalist who learned the importance of working hard and thinking carefully as well as to accept challenges, but not possible ones.
In this episode we learn how Professor Taubman entered Harvard at only the age of 16. In his early career it was unclear if he might pursue journalism instead of academia. Even after he entered academia he almost ended up leaving the halls of learning for the CIA.
As an academic, he considered how he could combine his interest in not only teaching but in research and writing. He worked long and hard to find a way to write scholarship that would be accessible to general readers.
His biography of Nikita Khrushchev won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 2004 and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography in 2003.
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