Welcome to the Epic Human Podcast with Joe Blair, a venture capital investor based in San Francisco. The podcast will feature extraordinary people from all walks of life (e.g. startup founders, VCs, thought leaders, professors, athletes, artists, and more)!
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Listen in as Mandy and Michael discuss movies, pop culture, road rage and millennial problems living in LA as they travel to and from the movie theater. * SPOILER ALERT*
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Jack Taylor sits down with local community members who are making a difference here in Jackson County, WI.
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Matthew Blair is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of REI Capital Management, an innovative real estate company with the mission to democratize the wealth generating power of Commercial Real Estate for small balance global investors. Their flagship fund, REI Capital Growth, delivers long-term, tax-efficient, compounding growth with a tried…
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E13 - Wisconsin's Oldest Resident - Reynolds Tomter
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Reynolds Tomter of Pigeon Falls, Wisconsin joins me on the BRF Podcast! At 106 years old, Reynolds shares his life-story about growing up during the great depression, his service in WWII, and his time-tested wisdom about marriage, parenting, and how to live past 100 years old.
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Sam Austin is Founder & Board Chair of IDAC (the Investment Diversity Advisory Council), an organization dedicated to increasing diversity of all types in the finance industry. Only 1.4% of U.S. Assets Under Management (AUM) is managed by diverse or female managers, and IDAC’s audacious goal is to double that within five years while also increasing…
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The term “Eco Warrior” is thrown around too casually these days, but Tim Fields is the real deal. Tim is the Founder & CEO of Hardshell Labs, an innovative startup leveraging modern technology to directly address previously unsolvable biological and ecological disasters. Imagine using lasers, 3D printing, chemistry, and e-sports to save an endanger…
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Evan Hynes is Co-founder & CEO of Climatebase, the world's leading platform for climate careers, having helped connect hundreds-of-thousands of jobseekers to job opportunities at more than 3,000 employers on our platform. Climatebase helps people discover opportunities at climate tech companies and environmental nonprofits — and in doing so, we hel…
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Jacob Ruytenbeek is Founder & CEO of SailPlan, the world’s first marine emissions optimization platform. SailPlan helps ships measure, report, and reduce emissions and fuel consumption using high-resolution, real-time data. Jacob grew up in South Florida often working alongside his father, a lifelong boat builder, and developed a strong passion for…
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Dr. David Sun Kong is the Director of the MIT Media Lab's Community Biotechnology Initiative with the mission of empowering communities through biotechnology. David is a synthetic biologist, community organizer, musician, and photographer based in the Boston area. He pioneered the development of novel microfluidic, or “lab-on-a-chip” technologies f…
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Dr. Jordan Shlain is the Founder and Managing Partner at Private Medical, a full-service, family office for health and medicine that provides comprehensive, evidence-based care to members in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, and Silicon Valley. Dr. Shlain believes good medicine and great health come only from a deep understanding of peop…
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Christa Williams-Collett
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Christa Williams-Collett is a Principal Investor at Citigroup’s Impact Fund. She makes direct investments in double bottom line companies and venture capital firms. Prior to joining Citi, Christa was an investment banker at RBC Capital Markets and J.P. Morgan focused on technology transactions. She is a graduate of Columbia Business School in New Y…
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Molly Wood is a climate-tech focused Managing Director at Launch and Co-host of “This Week in Startups” podcast with Jason Calacanis. Prior to becoming a venture capital investor, Molly had an extraordinary media career as a tech & business journalist at Wired, New York Times, CBS, and CNET. Follow Molly on Twitter @mollywood. Instagram: https://ww…
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Mandy Bynum Mc Laughlin
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Mandy Bynum Mc Laughlin is CEO of BLCK VC, whose mission is to connect, engage, empower, and advance Black venture investors. Mandy’s personal goal is to create generational wealth for the historically excluded. Follow Mandy on twitter @mandy_bynum.
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Qiana Patterson is Managing Partner at NAYAH and a founding Investment Committee Member at The Cap Table Coalition. As an experienced investor and tech business executive, Qiana is passionate about building true community power, shared wealth and founder well-being. Follow Qiana on twitter @Q_i_a_n_a. Be sure to check out our YouTube page! Follow u…
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Christelle Rohaut is the founding CEO of Codi, the flexible workspace solutions company providing beautifully-designed, turnkey offices. Christelle is passionate about driving the “walk-to-work revolution” by making cities more affordable for local residents and more flexible for local workers. Visit codi.com or follow on twitter @codiwork. Be sure…
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E17 - My speech to high school athletes in Houston, MN!
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One of my favorite things to do is to speak to young athletes about the importance of building character through sports! Thank you Houston High School for the opportunity to share my story with your student-athletes!
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Megan Stuessel joins me on the BRF Podcast! Mandy is a proud resident of Alma Center, Wisconsin and passionately involved in the agriculture industry. We sit down and talk about involving your kids in agriculture, volunteering, and how to deal with the hardships of loss and infertility.
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Mandy Boland joins me on the BRF Podcast! Mandy is from Whitehall, Wisconsin and is a teacher at the School District of Alma Center. We sit down and talk about how to sing and dance and how she is doing in her fight against cancer.
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On this episode, I was invited to speak to the entire student body at Blair-Taylor High School!
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E13 I'm a guest on Discover Wisconsin's Podcast "The Cabin"
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On this episode, I'm a guest on Discover Wisconsin's podcast called "The Cabin". I talk about my hosting experience, my upbringing in Wisconsin, my experiences on the basketball court at Grinnell College and scoring 138 points and hearing Kobe Bryant talking about my game, and my experience in Tomah, Wisconsin!…
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Coach Sam Young joins me on the BRF Podcast! (recorded pre-pandemic). Sam is one of the winningest coaches in the history of Wisconsin high school sports. We enjoy some funny moments together and Sam also shares some great wisdom! I love learning from the previous generations, and Sam didn’t disappoint!…
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E11 Life Update from Tom's Cabin
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Jack and his family socially distance themselves at a remote Wisconsin cabin while giving a life update.
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The Enlightened Nomad Returns, with Cam Woodsum
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Cam Woodsum is Founder & CEO of Nomad Impact Ventures, a remote startup lab that starts, grows, and invests in impact-focused internet businesses. Cam is a digital nomad - a tech entrepreneur who lives and works wherever he wants. He’s lived all over the world and generally lives life on his own terms. This is Cam’s second time as a guest on the Ep…
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Braylon Backaus is a 5th grader at Red Creek Elementary School. We sit down and talk about his trip to the Super Bowl, running onto the field before the game, and what he learned from this once-in-a-lifetime experience.
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Mindful A.I., with James Wells
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James Wells is VP of Corporate Development at Sanctuary AI, a company building & scaling embodied artificial general intelligence (AGI). In this episode, James and I discuss the differences between various types of artificial intelligence and opine on the future of the relationship between humans & intelligent machines. James is also an accomplishe…
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Breaking into Startups, with Ruben Harris
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Ruben Harris is CEO at Career Karma, a marketplace connecting job training programs and qualified applicants. Ruben is also a Co-Host of the Breaking into Startups podcast, the podcast featuring inspiring stories of people who broke into tech from non-traditional backgrounds In this episode, Ruben and I discuss the future of education and how to ad…
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Kelly Nieman is the owner of the local hair salon Studio 107. We sit down and talk about running a local business, having a career and a family, and together we try the hottest hot sauce that they sell on Amazon!
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Mike Rave is a veteran of the Iraq War and the planning and development director for the Ho-Chunk Nation. We sit down and talk about his love for hot sauce, being a soldier, and what principles he lives by as a husband and a father.
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Kirk is a Family Practice Doctor at the Krohn Clinic. We sit down and talk about how spicy food can be deadly, how we can battle addictions, and about his favorite spots to visit in Jackson County.
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Paul is a Black River Falls High School teacher of history and politics. We sit down and talk about how Donald Trump won in Wisconsin, the benefits of high school athletics, and why local history is important for our community.
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Running Wikipedia, with Katherine Maher
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Katherine Maher is CEO and Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization that manages Wikipedia - the multilingual online encyclopedia, based on open collaboration through a wiki-based content editing system. Wikipedia is the fifth most popular website in the world and gets more than 18 billion page views per month. In…
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Caring for Caregivers, with Tom Masterson
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Tom Masterson is Founder and CEO of Unburden Care, a company that alleviates the burden associated with providing unpaid care through efficient, economic, and sensitive use of technology and social networks. Tom has an electric background, spanning tech, strategy, design, operations, marketing, and sales. In this episode, Tom and I discuss the chro…
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E5 - Sheriff Duane Waldera
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Duane is the Sheriff of the Jackson County Sheriff's Department in Wisconsin. We sit down and talk about our local drug problems, about his old mustache, and about finding criminals on Facebook.
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Welcome back to Season Two of the Epic Human Podcast! In this episode, we recap Season One and share some of the exciting changes we’re making for the second season. We also reveal the epic human who originally inspired the podcast! For the longer story, here’s my Medium article on the topic: https://bit.ly/2XcilMF It’s good to be back!…
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Jim Hoffman is the president of Hoffman Construction. We sit down and talk about the big Foxconn deal, the revolution of downtown Black River Falls, and about the joy of living in Jackson County.
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Paul Fischer is the Superintendent of the Alma Center-Humbird-Merrilan School District. We sit down and talk about small town living and about raising daughters as he kicks my butt in eating hot wings.
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Dr. Shelly Severson is the Superintendent of the Black River Falls School District. We sit down and talk about handling praise and criticism, local test scores, and about her family's love of camping in Hatfield.
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Dr. Nick Kitowski is a Black River Falls alumni and a general surgeon at Black River Memorial Hospital. We sit down and talk about being a division one athlete, colonoscopies, and about the importance of fatherhood.
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Lifelong Maker, with Eric Anderson
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Eric Anderson is a Principal at Scale Venture Partners, a Bay Area venture firm that specializes in enterprise SaaS, developer tools, and infrastructure. Eric is a former product manager at both Google and Amazon, a former engineer with GE’s rotational leadership program, and a lifelong entrepreneur. Eric founded DocPro (www.docpro.app), the "Uber …
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Proving Them Wrong, with Greg McNeal
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Greg McNeal JD/PhD, is a tenured Professor of Law and Public Policy at Pepperdine University and co-founder of AirMap, the world's leading airspace management platform for drones. Greg holds a Masters in Public Administration from American University, a JD from Case Western, and a PHD in Public Administration from Penn State University. He is a pub…
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Modern Fatherhood, with Mike Sirkin
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Mike Sirkin is a father of three amazing children, which makes him a hero in my book. He also happens to be a super successful and accomplished lawyer, but this episode isn’t about all that. In this episode, Mike and I discuss what it means and what it takes to be a dad in the modern era. We talk a bit about our own upbringing and about our joys an…
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The Enlightened Nomad, with Cam Woodsum
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Cam Woodsum is the Founder of Nomad Impact Ventures, an e-commerce startup lab that builds for-profit impact businesses while traveling the world. He believes in living life to the fullest while also making a global impact. The majority of his organization's profits are funneled into an impact fund that invests in mission-oriented companies focused…
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Be About It, with Sydney Thomas
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Sydney Thomas is a venture capital investor and head of operations with Precursor Ventures, a San Francisco-based pre-seed venture firm. Sydney is also the creator and host of the Be About It Podcast, a podcast featuring entrepreneurs who are building companies that serve “real people". In this episode, Syndey tells about growing up in San Diego, h…
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Do the Work, with Patrick Sagisi
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Patrick Sagisi is a venture capital investor with DBL Partners, a San Francisco-based venture firm focused on delivering double bottom line returns, both in terms of financial and societal benefits. Patrick is a 3-time Olympic swimmer representing his native birthplace of Guam. In this podcast, Patrick explains how his extraordinary self-discipline…
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Let Beauty Come Out Of Ashes.
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Listen in this week as Mandy and Michael discuss the new movies: Breaking In, Deadpool, Solo, Book Club and Overboard. They also give parenting advice and Michael gives a special gift to Mandy from Japan!Mandy Blair tarafından oluşturuldu
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Country Over Party, with Ken Harbaugh
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Ken Harbaugh is running for Congress in Ohio’s 7th district. Ken is a former Navy pilot, Yale Law School graduate, and President of Team Rubicon, an international non-profit that deploys American veterans to provide disaster relief services all over the globe. Ken has dedicated himself to a life of service in a wide range of capacities, and is now …
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Forge the Future, with Ray Li
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Ray Li is a musician and entertainer with Veserium, an electronic music duo that performs a live show unlike any you’ve experienced before. Veserium creates sound from thin air using only motions and gestures, allowing fans to experience the music on an entirely different level, being able to see and hear the sounds as they are being created. Ray i…
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Confused about the latest Marvel movie?? Wondering what all these Stones are and where they came from? And who the heck is Captain Marvel?! Well, listen in this week for a VERY special episode where guest hosts, Adrienne Moss, Anthony Dale Simons Debenedetti, Jeanette Howes and Mandy discuss the answers to all your Infinity War questions! SPOILER A…
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The Punk Rocker of Tech, with Chris Anderson
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Chris Anderson is Founder and CEO of 3D Robotics, a drone software company digitizing the construction industry. Chris is a New York Times best selling author, former Editor in Chief of WIRED magazine, writer at the Economist, physicist, and research scientist at Los Alamos Labs. Chris walks us through his incredible life, which includes a battle-o…
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Tune in this week to hear Mandy and Michael quietly review the New Movie: A Quiet Place. They also discuss the Facebook hearing, Coachella performances and of course coin stars and gay bars! Thanks for listening!Mandy Blair tarafından oluşturuldu
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Public Apology to the state of Missouri
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Listen in this week as Mandy and Michael Review the new Movie “Isle of Dogs” as well as... plan Cochella and vacation outfits, do Britney impersonations and try to figure out the Abbreviation for Missouri!Mandy Blair tarafından oluşturuldu
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Incubating Courage, with Andrew Byrnes
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Andrew Byrnes is a venture capital investor at Comet Labs, an AI and intelligent machines focused seed investor based in San Francisco. He is a former cleantech startup founder, high school teacher, marketing exec, wildcatter, fiction author, sushi roller, and local TV show host. Andrew’s circuitous life path is as fascinating as it is hilarious! *…
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