Epic Human Podcast

Sam Austin

August 07, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 59.2 MB

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 the talent pool by 10,000 investment professionals from these underrepresented groups. IDAC brings together the five unique stakeholder groups to...

Tim Shields

May 02, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 82.3 MB

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 endangered species (yes, seriously). Even better, he’s figured out a business model to get paid while doing so. Tim is a lifelong Contract Field Biologist...

Evan Hynes

April 05, 2023 11:00 - 2 hours - 131 MB

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 help those organizations hire the mission-driven talent they need to succeed. Evan and his team are also spearheading SF Climate Week, a week-long se...

Jacob Ruytenbeek

March 07, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 67.7 MB

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 the ocean and its conservation. SailPlan is a perfect example of an industry-leading startup leveraging modern technology to address a critical c...

Dr. David Sun Kong

February 21, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 73 MB

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 for synthesizing DNA and engineering the living world. In 2017, he founded the Global Community Bio Summit (www.biosummit.org), a gathering conveni...

Dr. Jordan Shlain

January 12, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 95.3 MB

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 people, data, and science. Follow him on Twitter @DrShlain or LinkedIN.

Christa Williams-Collett

December 08, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 70.9 MB

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 York and resides in San Francisco. Follow Christa on Twitter @ChristaWCollett.

Molly Wood

October 27, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 77.4 MB

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://www.instagram.com/epichumanpodcast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@epichumanpod Twitter: https://twitter.com/EpicHumanPod

Mandy Bynum Mc Laughlin

September 30, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 58.8 MB

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.

Qiana Patterson

August 17, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 56.5 MB

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 us on social media! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/epichumanpodcast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@epichumanpod Twitter: https://twitte...

Christelle Rohaut

July 13, 2022 11:00 - 49 minutes - 45 MB

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 to check out our YouTube page! Follow us on social media! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/epichumanpodcast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.co...

The Enlightened Nomad Returns, with Cam Woodsum

February 09, 2020 17:25 - 1 hour - 107 MB

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 Epic Human Podcast - the podcast’s first returning guest! The original podcast we recorded two years ago (S1 E12). In this episode, we discuss Cam’s ...

Mindful A.I., with James Wells

February 02, 2020 13:28 - 1 hour - 116 MB

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 accomplished survivalist, yogi, ironman, & meditator In this episode, we cover James’s highly unique experiences * Completing a wilderness survival course...

Breaking into Startups, with Ruben Harris

January 13, 2020 12:47 - 1 hour - 108 MB

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 address that massive skills gap that exists both in the US and around the world. We also go deep into Ruben's incredible past, starting with his pa...

Running Wikipedia, with Katherine Maher

June 21, 2019 12:02 - 1 hour - 115 MB

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 this episode, Katherine and I discuss Wikipedia’s role in the era of "fake news," the recent NorthFace/Wikipedia controversy, how her organizatio...

Caring for Caregivers, with Tom Masterson

June 03, 2019 12:01 - 1 hour - 110 MB

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 chronic challenges that caregivers face and how he’s trying to help them. You can find Unburden Care: -On their website www.unburdencare.com -Or on...

Season Two Kickoff

May 29, 2019 12:04 - 12 minutes - 17.2 MB

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!

Lifelong Maker, with Eric Anderson

November 20, 2018 13:08 - 1 hour - 97.8 MB

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 for office work." He’s also a dedicated family man, as a father of four fantastic children. In this episode, Eric shares his unique experiences gro...

Proving Them Wrong, with Greg McNeal

October 12, 2018 11:57 - 1 hour - 123 MB

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 published author, having written 28 scholarly papers, 10 law review articles, a book on the Trial of Saddam Hussein, and is an active contributor at F...

Modern Fatherhood, with Mike Sirkin

October 05, 2018 12:49 - 1 hour - 78.7 MB

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 and challenges of becoming dads ourselves. Mike is an incredible thoughtful and articulate human, and I really enjoyed going deep on this topic! * F...

The Enlightened Nomad, with Cam Woodsum

August 28, 2018 11:48 - 1 hour - 100 MB

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 on climate change, healthcare, and education. Cam is also the Founder of both Bill Slasher and FanBump. Cam’s unique lifestyle lets him travel the...

Be About It, with Sydney Thomas

July 23, 2018 12:54 - 45 minutes - 51.5 MB

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, her early career in government & public service, and her path to venture capital. - Follow Sydney at @sydneypaige10 and www.sydneypaigethomas.com ...

Do the Work, with Patrick Sagisi

June 25, 2018 12:36 - 1 hour - 71.9 MB

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 has allowed him to excel in athletics, academics, tech, and now venture capital. * Follow Patrick at @PSagisiDBL and visit DBL Partners at www.db...

Country Over Party, with Ken Harbaugh

May 14, 2018 12:15 - 1 hour - 74.1 MB

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 seeking to apply his skills and talents to the United States Congress. In this podcast, Ken walks me through his early years as an kid in a militar...

Forge the Future, with Ray Li

May 07, 2018 21:55 - 57 minutes - 65.6 MB

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 is a former engineer and left a white collar career to move to Las Vegas and start Veserium with his best friend Michael. In this podcast, Ray discu...

The Punk Rocker of Tech, with Chris Anderson

April 20, 2018 16:50 - 1 hour - 80.7 MB

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-of-the-bands with REM, managing the most important and influential magazine in the tech world, and accidentally starting the largest US drone compan...

Incubating Courage, with Andrew Byrnes

March 30, 2018 17:03 - 1 hour - 72.7 MB

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! *Follow Andrew’s firm on Twitter @CometLabs and visit cometlabs.io (http://cometlabs.io) to sign up for their newsletter

Beware the Bots, with John Gray

March 21, 2018 12:06 - 1 hour - 71.5 MB

John Gray is an expert in social media manipulation and “fake news” bots. John is also Co-founder and CEO of Mentionmapp Analytics, a company focused on protecting social profile reputations. In this podcast, John explains how technology is used to deceive and manipulate us, who is behind this activity, and what (if anything) can be done to stop it. *Follow John on Twitter @grayspective *And find Mentionmapp Analytics at http://mentionmapp.com/ (http://mentionmapp.com/) or on Twitter @mentio...

The Benefits of Short-term Thinking, with Gaurav Jain

March 11, 2018 12:07 - 1 hour - 82.5 MB

Gaurav Jain is Co-founder and Managing Partner of Afore capital, a pre-seed stage venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. Gaurav has proven his unusual ability to succeed as both an entrepreneur and a venture capital investor. In this podcast, Gaurav shares some of the non-intuitive "benefits of short-term thinking" when building your career. *You can follow Gaurav on Twitter @gjain *And you can find Afore Capital at https://afore.vc/ or on Twitter @AforeVC

Born Hustler, with Claire Coder

March 05, 2018 13:09 - 1 hour - 70.9 MB

Claire Coder is CEO & Founder of AuntFlow, an innovative menstrual products company. Claire recounts dropping out of college to follow her dreams while overcoming countless obstacles. Claire is what I call a “Born Hustler," a person who was destined to build companies.

Rest in Action, with Mike Vernon

February 25, 2018 23:47 - 1 hour - 89.9 MB

Mike Vernon is Director of Key Accounts for Global One Pet, a leader in the pet nutrition & specialty product industry. He is a sales savant with uncanny emotional intelligence. In this episode, you'll learn about how Mike kickstarted his sales career, the techniques he uses to make a lasting impression, and his advice for the salesperson inside each of us.

Introduction to the Epic Human Podcast

February 09, 2018 20:54 - 4 minutes - 5.05 MB

This episode will introduce the Epic Human Podcast. It will provide some background on the host Joe Blair, explain the theme and format of the podcast, and tell you where you can find us online.