We Live to Build

GUEST INTRO Angela Druckman is the President of The Druckman Company, which provides Scrum Training services. She's also a Certified Scrum Trainer and Agile Coach, and the author of 30 Days to Better Agile, the definitive guide to resolving the toughest challenges in every agile implementation. With over two decades in the business, Angela has introduced Scrum and agile practices to thousands students around the globe. She has worked with some of the largest technology, manufacturing, retail, and financial services companies in the world, along with small start-ups, government organizations, and not-for-profit entities. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ⚠️ JOIN OUR GLOBAL COMMUNITY OF ENTREPRENEURS LEARNING AND GROWING TOGETHER 👉 https://discord.gg/welivetobuild 👈 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WHAT YOU LEARN - What is Scrum? - What are other methodologies? - Why do you focus on Scrum then? - How do you know which project should use Scrum or Waterfall? - What difficulties do you see clients have struggling to adapt to Scrum? - What do you mean by reporting on project health being wrong? - The Iron Triangle - Technical Debt - Y2K Bug - And much more! EPISODE LINKS https://angeladruckman.com TIMESTAMPS Coming Soon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

GUEST INTRO Cecil Robles is the Co-Founder and CMO of NFT IQ, an enterprise data and web3 technology company. Cecil has helped many companies go on to raise over $75M in crowdfunding. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ⚠️ JOIN OUR GLOBAL COMMUNITY OF ENTREPRENEURS LEARNING AND GROWING TOGETHER 👉 https://discord.gg/welivetobuild 👈 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EPISODE LINKS NFT IQ: https://nftiq.io TIMESTAMPS Coming soon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

GUEST INTRO Robby Wade is the Co-Founder & CEO of ThisApp, an all-in-one chat platform that makes it easy to connect with anyone and organize anything. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ⚠️ JOIN OUR GLOBAL COMMUNITY OF ENTREPRENEURS LEARNING AND GROWING TOGETHER 👉 https://discord.gg/welivetobuild 👈 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EPISODE LINKS ThisApp: https://www.thisapp.com TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Introduction 1:58 What is ThisApp? 4:07 Working on an app with similar concepts 6:57 The Dunning-Kruger Effect 8:00 Messaging apps in the West and East 16:54 How WeChat became a super app 21:26 Paywalls in Messaging Apps 25:37 The struggle of building foreign businesses in China 28:24 Simplicity works well 32:31 The problems with centralized currency 35:19 Data privacy and data leaks 41:39 Innovating in the messaging space 49:19 Don’t give away your contact book 52:50 Keeping focused 56:17 Making good decisions 59:21 Working on a timeline 1:01:15 The need to pivot 1:03:40 Follow up with Robby See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

GUEST INTRO  Anna Wong is the Co-founder and CEO of Female Entrepreneurs Worldwide, Asia's largest business platform for female founders and business executives to learn and network.     FEW runs Accelerator that offers mature startups a range of services from cash investment, mentorship, media coverage and valuable access to FEW’s exclusive investor network.    Anna leads FEW’s strategic developments, branding, fundraising, market entry, and business growth.     Anna is a speaker at regional conferences, universities, publications, and TEDx. Prior to starting her own ventures, Anna worked at the PR team of Hong Kong’s business magnate Lui Che Woo and later joined the world’s leading communications agencies O&M and Edelman.     EPISODE LINKS  Female Entrepreneurs Worldwide: https://few.community    TIMESTAMPS  0:00 Introduction  2:18 Anna’s Backstory and FEW  7:49 The Skill of Networking  14:27 How Can you Grab People’s Interest  21:55 How to Start Your Network  33:02 How to Improve Your Network  48:30 Follow Up with Anna  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

GUEST INTRO Uros Mikic is the Founder and CEO of Flow Ninja, a Serbian-based Webflow enterprise partner and development agency. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ⚠️ JOIN OUR GLOBAL COMMUNITY OF ENTREPRENEURS LEARNING AND GROWING TOGETHER 👉 https://discord.gg/welivetobuild 👈 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WHAT YOU LEARN Coming soon EPISODE LINKS Website: https://flow.ninja LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/flow-ninja Twitter: https://twitter.com/UrosMikic2 TIMESTAMPS Coming soon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

GUEST INTRO Dr. Eduardo Rocha is the Senior Sales Engineer and Security Analyst at GlobalDots, an independent cloud and performance optimization integration partner.   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ⚠️ JOIN OUR GLOBAL COMMUNITY OF ENTREPRENEURS LEARNING AND GROWING TOGETHER 👉 https://discord.gg/welivetobuild 👈 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WHAT YOU LEARN - What are Layer 7 Attacks? - What are SQL injections? - What are False Positives? - What are False Negatives? - What are 0day exploits? - What is Scraping? - What are Biometrics? - What is the Blockchain? - How do you steal biometric data from a device? - What is Pegasus? - What is Log4j? - How will Quantum computing affect cybersecurity? - How is AI affecting cybersecurity? - How does Blockchain affect cybersecurity? - What keeps Eduardo awake at night?   EPISODE LINKS Website: https://globaldots.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eduardo-rinn-rocha   TIMESTAMPS Coming Soon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

GUEST INTRO Dennis Lenard is the Managing Partner of Creative Navy, a design agency he as been running for 13.5 years which specializes in embedded GUI and web/mobile UX for the Medical, Marine, Industrial, and Automotive sectors.   WHAT YOU LEARN ·     What is group think? ·     Why do you need diversity? ·     How do you remove bias to avoid to groupthink? ·     Why you need to be open-minded about criticism?   EPISODE LINKS Website: https://creativenavy.com Elon Musk quote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmM_JhyWeeE   TALK TO US Ask Sean a Question: https://forms.gle/DGqdTASqsvMwV2Nw7 Who should we interview next? https://forms.gle/gad6cCmscj8fVnR27 What are your go to resources for business? https://forms.gle/xJdLex2NRGisTGHw7   PODCAST INFO Website: https://welivetobuild.com Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/we-live-to-build/id1531994765 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/68lykxIMOyofZNiWSF4vFx RSS: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/6038f74c4164e91ed17171db YouTube Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRxmA5Mnz8sWx5mYD6l5HMA YouTube Tips: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT6qsgoUkPdDYLY7osG7wcA   SUPPORT & CONNECT Join our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/welivetobuild Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/welivetobuild Twitter: http://twitter.com/welivetobuild LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sweisbrot   TIMESTAMPS Coming Soon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

GUEST INTRO Omri Shafran is an Israeli serial entrepreneur based in the US who is currently the CEO of Texas Medical Technology, a company that produces personal protective equipment as well as physical machines that dispense the equipment safely. He’s also the CEO of iNitrile, the CEO of SureSpot, and owns and manages many different real estate properties. He’s also gone to Harvard Business school!   WHAT YOU LEARN How he got into doing PPE What made him want to create the machines Where healthcare is going next   EPISODE LINKS Website: https://texasmedicaltechnology.com Email: Omri.shafran@texasmedicaltechnology.com   TALK TO US Ask Sean a Question: https://forms.gle/DGqdTASqsvMwV2Nw7 Who should we interview next? https://forms.gle/gad6cCmscj8fVnR27 What are your go to resources for business? https://forms.gle/xJdLex2NRGisTGHw7   PODCAST INFO Website: https://welivetobuild.com Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/we-live-to-build/id1531994765 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/68lykxIMOyofZNiWSF4vFx RSS: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/6038f74c4164e91ed17171db YouTube Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRxmA5Mnz8sWx5mYD6l5HMA YouTube Tips: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT6qsgoUkPdDYLY7osG7wcA   SUPPORT & CONNECT Join our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/welivetobuild Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/welivetobuild Twitter: http://twitter.com/welivetobuild LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sweisbrot See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

GUEST INTRO Irakli Litanishvili is the founder of the Aim of Emperor Group, which consists of 15 companies and over 250 employees across charter brokerage, international aircraft handling, aircraft/helicopter/yacht sales and acquisition, as well as travel and marketing divisions.   One of Irakli’s companies which we’ll discuss in this episode, Mirai Flights, just raised a $3M USD fundraising round.   WHAT YOU LEARN * How the pandemic changed the way people travel * How society is changing * Electric planes   EPISODE LINKS Mirai: https://miraipay.co LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/irakli-litanishvili-0057ba5 Twitter: https://twitter.com/LitanishIrakli   TALK TO US Ask Sean a Question: https://forms.gle/DGqdTASqsvMwV2Nw7 Who should we interview next? https://forms.gle/gad6cCmscj8fVnR27 What are your go to resources for business? https://forms.gle/xJdLex2NRGisTGHw7   PODCAST INFO Podcast Website: https://welivetobuild.com Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/we-live-to-build/id1531994765 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/68lykxIMOyofZNiWSF4vFx RSS: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/6038f74c4164e91ed17171db YouTube Full Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRxmA5Mnz8sWx5mYD6l5HMA YouTube Tips: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT6qsgoUkPdDYLY7osG7wcA   SUPPORT & CONNECT Join our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/welivetobuild Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/welivetobuild Twitter: http://twitter.com/welivetobuild LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sweisbrot See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

GUEST INTRO Ray Arata is the Co-Founder of the Better Man Movement based in San Francisco. His company helps organizations focus on going beyond establishing equity and equality between the men and women they employ by pursuing partnership that creates powerful synergies by leveraging the differing competencies of men and women.   He’s recently written and published the book Showing Up: How Men Can Become Effective Allies in the Workplace.   WHAT YOU LEARN How to discover if there are problems? How to handle people being hesitant to report problems? How to handle people being unwilling to acknowledge problems? What happens when a company has allegations but they aren’t real? And more..   EPISODE LINKS Services: Rayarata.com Ray’s Book: Showingup.com Newsletter: Bettermanconference.com   TALK TO US Ask Sean a Question: https://forms.gle/DGqdTASqsvMwV2Nw7 Who should we interview next? https://forms.gle/gad6cCmscj8fVnR27 What are your go to resources for business? https://forms.gle/xJdLex2NRGisTGHw7   PODCAST INFO Podcast Website: https://welivetobuild.com Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/we-live-to-build/id1531994765 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/68lykxIMOyofZNiWSF4vFx RSS: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/6038f74c4164e91ed17171db YouTube Full Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRxmA5Mnz8sWx5mYD6l5HMA   SUPPORT & CONNECT Join our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/welivetobuild Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/welivetobuild Twitter: http://twitter.com/welivetobuild LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sweisbrot See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

GUEST INTRO Erika Andersen is the founding partner of Proteus, a coaching, consulting, and training firm that she has been running for over 30 years. Proteus focuses on supporting leaders at all levels to become change capable, an underappreciated skill that will make their organizations much better at thriving through the trying times we’re about to endure. Erika is also one of the most popular leadership bloggers at Forbes.com. She is the author of Be Bad First, Leading So People Will Follow, Being Strategic, and Growing Great Employees, and the host of The Proteus Leader Show, a regular podcast on management and leadership. Much of her recent work has focused on organizational visioning and strategy, executive coaching, and management and leadership development. She serves as consultant and advisor to the CEOs and top executives of a number of corporations, including NBC Universal, Condé Nast, National Geographic Partners, GE, Comcast Corporation, and Madison Square Garden. She also shares her insights on leadership and business by speaking to corporations, non-profit groups and national associations. She has been quoted in a variety of national publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Fortune and The New York Times. EPISODE LINKS https://proteus-international.com http://erikaandersen.com/ TALK TO US Ask Sean a Question: https://forms.gle/DGqdTASqsvMwV2Nw7 Who should we interview next? https://forms.gle/gad6cCmscj8fVnR27 What are your go to resources for business? https://forms.gle/xJdLex2NRGisTGHw7 PODCAST INFO Podcast Website: https://welivetobuild.com Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/we-live-to-build/id1531994765 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/68lykxIMOyofZNiWSF4vFx RSS: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/6038f74c4164e91ed17171db YouTube Full Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRxmA5Mnz8sWx5mYD6l5HMA YouTube Tips: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT6qsgoUkPdDYLY7osG7wcA SUPPORT & CONNECT Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/welivetobuild Join our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/7b2bgH8sAK Twitter: http://twitter.com/welivetobuild LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sweisbrot See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

GUEST INTRO Rom Lakritz is the founder of Anchor, a platform that helps companies focus on being a business while they take care of your billing. He has founded multiple companies in different industries, raised tens of millions of dollars, and had very nice exits from several of the businesses. WHAT YOU LEARN We talked about the 4 stages: Idea, Customer Discovery, Customer Validation, and Customer Creation. We also went into the opportunities, obstacles, and wisdom he's gained by going through these stages, and Sean shares some of his own experiences. EPISODE LINKS Website: sayanchor.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/romlakritz TALK TO US What do you want us to talk about next? https://forms.gle/DGqdTASqsvMwV2Nw7 Who should we interview next? https://forms.gle/gad6cCmscj8fVnR27 What are your go to resources for business? https://forms.gle/xJdLex2NRGisTGHw7 PODCAST INFO Podcast Website: https://welivetobuild.com Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/we-live-to-build/id1531994765 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/68lykxIMOyofZNiWSF4vFx RSS: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/6038f74c4164e91ed17171db YouTube Full Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRxmA5Mnz8sWx5mYD6l5HMA SUPPORT & CONNECT Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/welivetobuild Join our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/7b2bgH8sAK Twitter: http://twitter.com/welivetobuild LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sweisbrot See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

GUEST INTRO Dr. Linda Strause, Ph.D has a doctorate in Neurophysiology and Biochemistry. She is currently the President of two companies and is using her talents to ensure the vision of creating synthetic psilocybin (PSLY.com) that can be used with therapy in Virtual Reality (EI.Ventures) comes to fruition. In this very interesting conversation, we discuss how the FDA works, how researchers conduct trials, how society is shifting it's attitude towards psychedelics, and why she believes in psilocybin (magic mushrooms) as a potential healer alongside therapy. EPISODE LINKS Website: PSLY.com Website: https://www.ei.ventures TALK TO US What do you want us to talk about next? https://forms.gle/DGqdTASqsvMwV2Nw7 Who should we interview next? https://forms.gle/gad6cCmscj8fVnR27 What are your go to resources for business? https://forms.gle/xJdLex2NRGisTGHw7 PODCAST INFO Podcast Website: https://welivetobuild.com Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/we-live-to-build/id1531994765 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/68lykxIMOyofZNiWSF4vFx RSS: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/6038f74c4164e91ed17171db YouTube Full Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRxmA5Mnz8sWx5mYD6l5HMA YouTube Tips: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT6qsgoUkPdDYLY7osG7wcA SUPPORT & CONNECT Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/welivetobuild Twitter: https://twitter.com/welivetobuild LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sweisbrot See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

GUEST INTRO Patricia Recarte is the CEO and Co-Founder of KADO, which turbocharges what is really important in building this long term relationships with easily exchangeable digital business cards and by centralizing all client data in one simple app. From digital contacts, notes, emails, meetings and deals, to even information from public sources like LinkedIn, news and other databases, all at the tip of their fingers. TOPICS What you must do as a CEO of an early stage company to survive. EPISODE LINKS Kado: https://kadonetworks.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patriciarecarte PODCAST INFO Podcast Website: https://welivetobuild.com Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/we-live-to-build/id1531994765 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/68lykxIMOyofZNiWSF4vFx RSS: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/6038f74c4164e91ed17171db YouTube Full Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRxmA5Mnz8sWx5mYD6l5HMA SUPPORT & CONNECT - Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/welivetobuild - Twitter: http://twitter.com/welivetobuild - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sweisbrot See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Yaron Ben Nun is the founder and CEO of Nostromo Energy, a publicly listed company in Israel that provides a unique energy storage system to commercial buildings based on freezing water. We talked about how he discovered his life's purpose was in clean tech, his journey in developing their product, and other opportunities in clean tech. To be honest, it gets a little silly at times, but it's because he's a guy who doesn't take himself seriously, and that made the interview a lot of fun for me. https://nostromo.energy See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today's episode is with Martin Tobias, the founder of Incisive Ventures. He has a long and storied career as an investor in different verticals. I brought him on the show because most recently he's been investing in Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality companies. We talked about the current situation of AR/VR, and where it's going. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It's simple, you need a design system because it creates standards for typography, color scheme, UI elements, icons, and design style. Once you create the foundation, you can make it very easy to build a scalable design system that is responsive and impossible to mess up. Lastly, you can create prototypes that will save you tremendous amounts of time, energy, and money. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today's episode is about Psychedelics, specifically psilocybin, or what some people would call magic mushrooms. I decided to bring Tyler Strause onto the show because of his extensive experience with hemp, marijuana, and psilocybin. Tyler is the VP of Product Development at Ei.Ventures and PSLY.com. These companies are working on two aspects of psychedelics: 1) Developing psychedelic-assisted therapy sessions inside Virtual Reality 2) Developing an FDA approved synthetic psilocybin drug to ensure stable dosage and equitable access for all patients and consumers. In this episode, you'll hear about: What is the default mode network? What is it like to experience a psychedelic trip? How have psychedelics changed your life? You can follow up with Tyler at https://psly.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ray Blakney is an award-winning Filipino-American entrepreneur who has over a decade of experience building (bootstrapping) and operating 6 and 7-figure location independent businesses. He and his businesses have been featured in magazines such as Entrepreneur, Forbes, The Boston Globe & other top publications. He's currently running Live Lingua, an online language learning platform, and Podcast Hawk, a SaaS system that helps businesses and influences find and pitch podcasts on auto-pilot. In this wide ranging conversation that is very lightly edited, we discuss language learning, travel, bootstrapping companies, manufacturing, and kendo. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Death and Illness is something we all hate to think about, but it happens to everyone. Paige Arnof-Fenn is the Founder and CEO of Mavens and Moguls, and has been running it for over 20 years (Congrats Paige!!!) Paige had to go through 7 deaths in her family in a 7 year period, and she learned a lot about how to be a patient advocate, manage estates and wills, and most importantly, how to worry less about her business, which got clients coming to her and making her business explode. Website: https://mavensandmoguls.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paigearnoffenn/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.