Survival Skills Podcast

#137 Luvuyo Rani – From Township to Half a Million Dollars Franchise

This podcast is brought to you by Divi. In this episode of The Grey Ave Podcast, I interviewed Luvuyo Rani, the Founder and Director of Silulo Ulutho Technologies. Luvuyo and his brother founded their company to provide IT services to their communities. They started in 2004 with a single Internet cafe in Khayelitsha.  In six years, Silulo Technologies grew from a single internet café to a US$0.5 million company that offers computer training courses, internet café and business center serv...

#136 Meir Ezra - How To Correct Flows Without Offending People

“The quality of your communication determines the size of your result” - Meir Ezra This is the 4th part of my on-going snippet episodes with Meir Ezra. This time, we discuss communication, particularly how to correct flows without offending people. To listen to my very 1st interview with Meir, see How to make 100 million dollars. Remember to share if you find it helpful.

#135 Connie Gallippi - Ethical Innovations, Diversity and Inclusion in Tech

This podcast is brought to you by Divi. In this episode of The Grey Ave Podcast, I had a chance to sit down and interviewed Connie Gallippi while she was in South Africa for Crypto Fest. She is the Founder and Executive Director of BitGive, the first government-recognized Bitcoin non-profit and a pioneer organisation, leveraging Bitcoin and Blockchain technology via practical applications for humanitarian work in the developing world. Connie speaks internationally on the social impact o...

#134 Thembinkosi Matika - How To Prepare For Pain

Grey Jabesi caught up with Thembinkosi Matika, a Community Activist and the Centre Manager at Project Playground Langa. He is the founder of Nzulu Group, a social enterprise movement with the aim of organizing and educating African people so that they can work together to achieve success and significance. He is also the Managing Director at Thembinkosi Matika (TM) Leadership and Training. An enterprise that aims at helping people and organizations with tools to improve their results. Themb...

#133 Peter McCormack - Drug Addiction, Divorce and Bitcoin War stories

This episode of The Grey Ave Podcast features Peter McCormack, an English based Cryptocurrency podcaster. He hosts What Bitcoin Did Podcast, where he interviews leaders in Bitcoin, blockchain, and cryptocurrency space to discuss important issues including tech, economics and regulations. Peter is very unique, outspoken and very public about his life experiences. From divorce, drug addiction, making or losing money, his feuds and court cases with Billionaires Craig Wright and Calvin Ayre. ...

#132 Zachariah George - From Wall Street to Funding African Startups

In this episode, Grey Jabesi sat down and interviewed Zachariah George. Zach is the Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Startupbootcamp Africa – the leading multi-corporate backed venture accelerator program in Africa. He is the founder of Cactus Advisors – a specialist corporate finance advisory firm and micro VC fund specializing in high growth, high impact African tech ventures. Zach is a prominent Angel investor in several of Africa’s leading tech startups including Flutterwave, H...

#131 Farzam Ehsani - Money Against Injustice

Grey Jabesi had a privilege and interviewed Farzam Ehsani, Co-Founder and CEO of VALR.com, a platform that bridges the gap between our traditional financial system and the new world of cryptocurrencies. He was previously the Blockchain Lead at Rand Merchant Bank and the FirstRand Group and was the inaugural Chairperson of the South African Financial Blockchain Consortium. He previously worked at McKinsey & Company in Johannesburg, Deloitte Consulting in San Francisco, the Baha’i World Centre...

#130 Llew Claasen - How To Value Cryptocurrencies

In this episode, Grey Jabesi had an exciting interview with Mr. Llew Claasen. Llew is the Managing Partner of Newtown Partners, a blockchain investment and advisory services firm, founded by him and Vinny Lingham. Newtown Partners specializes in token economics, token sale design and demand generation for both their portfolio of startups and in an advisory capacity. They operate out of offices in San Francisco, U.S. and Cape Town, South Africa. Llew is a go-to-market strategist with almost...

#129 Grey Jabesi - Cryptocurrency, Blockchain and Governance

Grey Jabesi is an entrepreneur, Blockchain Enthusiast, Cryptocurrency Evangelist, Analyst and Inverstor Based in Cape Town South Africa. He is also a seasoned podcast and event panel host, a producer of The Grey Ave Podcast, interviewer of prominent business personalities and influencer worldwide. As an entrepreneur, Grey is passionate about job creation and growth, particularly in emerging markets. His chief goal is to play a crucial role in nurturing creativity and innovation in Africa t...

#128 Salvatore Burgio - The Power of Bitcoin

"Bitcoin as a cryptocurrency is a fantastic system of payments and some people call it Gold 2.0" Salvatore Burgio, Cape Town Bitcoin Expert. The Grey Ave Podcast meet Salvatore Burgio, a professional Jeweller who become a Goldsmith by the age of 16. In early 2012, Salvatore Burgio remodeled his business into Bitcoin and Gold and started investing in Bitcoin. In 2013 made his Bitcoin paper wallet. Salvatore Burgio and his company Cape Town Bitcoin established the first Bitcoin ATM in Cape ...

#127 Marius Reitz - The Role of Luno

In this episode of The Grey Ave Podcast, I sat down and interviewed Marius Reitz, Luno Country Manager for South Africa to shed some lights about Luno at Luno Offices in Cape Town. Luno was founded in 2013 and is one of the world’s leading digital currency companies. Luno allows its users (people and businesses) to buy, sell, store and learn about digital currencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. It also facilitates bitcoin storage through their bitcoin wallet services. They also operate ex...

#126 Julia Anastasopoulos - Creating Suzelle DIY

In this episode of The Grey Ave Podcast, I had a chance to sat down and interviewed Julia Anastasopoulos at her studio in Woodstock. She is a South African artist, illustrator, designer and actress. She became a local internet phenomenon in May 2014, with her do-it-yourself web series known as SuzelleDIY. Before she became a YouTube personality, Anastasopoulos created hand-drawn illustrations on the walls and windows of a few MyCiTi bus stations in Cape Town. Julia Anastasopoulos Born in ...

#125 Alakanani Itireleng - The State of Cryptocurrency in Botswana

Grey Jabesi caught up with Alakanani Itireleng also known as Bitcoin Lady. She is Co-founder and CEO of Satoshi centre, a blockchain hub in Gaborone Botswana. Alakanani is a determined entrepreneur, positive about the new possibilities that bitcoin as a currency and technology can bring to the life of many more Botswanans in the near future. She got into bitcoin in early 2012 in order to raise enough money for her son's hear and lung transplant. She is also a well-known bitcoin evangelist wh...

#124 Vitalik Buterin - The Creator of Ethereum

Vitalik Buterin is a Russian-Canadian writer and programmer. Vitalik was involved in the Bitcoin community since 2011, co-founding and writing articles for Bitcoin magazine. But he is primarily known as the boy-genius behind Ethereum, the world’s second-most valued and recognized cryptocurrency platform behind Bitcoin. Buterin learned about Bitcoin, from his father, at age 17. In 2012, he obtained a bronze medal in the International Olympiad in Informatics. In 2013, he visited developers i...

#123 Jermaine Ellis - How To Make Passive Income and Traveling the World

Grey Jabesi caught up with an American traveler, entrepreneur and youtuber Jermaine Ellis from San Francisco, California USA. He's busy traveling the world, so far he traveled 51 countries. Started backpacking traveling around the world 10 years ago. I had an awesome time interviewing Jermaine Ellis who generates income through passive income. You can earn passive income whether you’re an entrepreneur with a brilliant business plan, a talented artist, or just happen to have extra cash to i...

#122 Mamadou Toure - Building a Better World, Education, Values, AI

Mamadou Toure is Founder and CEO of Ubuntu Capital Group, a leading Investment, and Advisory firm focused on designing and implementing integrated innovative investment solutions uplifting projects ecosystems. Mamadou is also Founder of Ubuntu Coin (UCoin), an Asset-Backed Digital Currency aimed at fostering, shared wealth, financial inclusion and fair trade. Toure is the founder and Chairman of Africa 2.0, an initiative-driven advocacy group that brings together emerging leaders represent...

#121 Anthem Blanchard - Creating a Gold Backed Currency

I had an awesome interview with Anthem Blanchard. He's CEO and Founder of Anthem Vault, also serving as a member of the Board of Directors. Anthem brings extensive knowledge of the gold and silver industry to the company. He was raised by legendary goldbug and precious metals pioneer, James U. Blanchard III, who helped restore Americans' right to own gold and also founded rare coin and bullion company, Blanchard & Company. Anthem Vault provides individuals with an efficient and liquid way ...

#120 Brock Pierce -The Mastermind of Digital Assets

"Not the score, not even the results but how you play" - Brock Pierce. On a chilled sunny Thursday evening after a long mountain hike. I managed to get hold of the Unicorn; Brock Pierce to talk about...everything. I have lots of respect for the Billionaire, Child actor, Entrepreneur, technologist etc. Especially in the digital asset space, I've always admired people who accomplished a lot in a relatively small amount of time but in multiple industries. Brock is one of those guys. Brock P...

#119 Helen Zille - Blockchain, Uber and Regulation

While at Blockchain Africa Conference 2019 in Cape Town. Grey Jabesi sat down with Helen Zille to talk about Blockchain and regulation. Helen is a South African politician, Premier of the Western Cape Province and a member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament. Zille is a former journalist and anti-apartheid activist and was one of the journalists who exposed the cover-up around the death of Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko while working for the Rand Daily Mail in the late 1970s. ...

#118 Meir Ezra – How To Become Jewish in 10 Minutes

“If you want to know how powerful you are. Count the times you’ve been punched or whacked by life” – Meir Ezra This a 3rd of my on-going snippet episodes with Meir Ezra. We all know the stereotype of Jews being financially successful and in this episode, Meir took a tongue and cheek approach to why Jews tend to be more successful. To listen to my very 1st interview with Meir, see How to make a 100 million dollars. Remember to share if you find it helpful.

#117 Kwame Rugunda - Blockchain Adoption in Africa

In this episode of the Grey Ave Podcast I interviewed Kwame Rugunda. He is a management consultant and technology entrepreneur with an interest in emerging technologies, particularly those designed to address the challenges of global development. An Electrical Engineer and Mathematician by training with experience in telecommunications, civic technology, and management consulting for governments, the United Nations and several private and non-profit organizations throughout Africa. 

Had a...

#116 Lorien Gamaroff - The Bitcoin Split - BTC vs BSV

Lorien Gamaroff is the founder/CEO of Bankymoon, a blockchain and cryptocurrency consultancy and co-founder/CEO of Centbee, a cryptocurrency payments and remittance company. As South Africa's foremost blockchain expert, Lorien has been invited around the world to speak on digital/cryptocurrencies and decentralised/distributed ledgers and their benefits for emerging economies. He has addressed and advised the United Nations, IMF, World Bank, FBI and Commonwealth Secretariat, the South Afric...

#115 Matthew Arnett - Marine Archaeology on Blockchain with STO

Matthew Arnett is a Bahamian explorer, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of PO8 the 2018 Inter-American Development Bank Recipient for most innovative Startup. He is also the co-founder FORT NFT PROTOCOL— The Bahamas’ first Blockchain and cryptocurrency projects. Most recently he has also co-developed the first reward based on chain off chain NFT digital collectable called Skully. He founded his first company, sendmetickets.com  in his early 20s and managed to bring major acts ie. Kanye W...

#114 Steve Distante - Tesla's No.1 Fan, Impact Investing

href="https://www.greyjabesi.com/steve1/">Steve Distante is an entrepreneur and CEO (as he likes to say, “Chief Entrepreneurial Officer”) of Vanderbilt Financial Group. He started his first business when he was only 5 years old. He is also the Founder and Chief Disruption Officer at Impact U, a platform that educates students, investors, & financial advisors, alike about Impact Investing. He is known as “Tesla’s biggest and /or #1 Fan. He's love for Tesla first started when he saw Revenge ...

#113 JP Fabri - How Malta became the Blockchain Island

“The regulation is there as a filter to make sure that the investment opportunity presented by the issuer is real” - JP Fabri Malta has won hearts of many people in the Blockchain space. It’s not surprising seeing some of the largest players including Binance, OKEx, Decentralized ventures and many others incorporated there. It’s true, Malta is the Blockchain Island. Considering that blockchain technology is relatively new, there’s interest on both private and private sectors as the poten...

#112 Meir Ezra - The Power of Cause and Effect

This is the first part of our ongoing digestible series with Meir Ezra. These are snippets from a long interview I had with him. The first interview with Meir can be found here: How to make a 100 million dollars. Meir Ezra is an international entrepreneur with multi-million dollar businesses and clients in the US, Canada, Israel, Italy, Colombia, Russia, India, China, Romania, the Dominican Republic, South Africa, Germany, the Czech Republic, Turkey and many others. Entrepreneur with year...

#111 Eli Calderón Morin - Redefining Food Stamps with All_Ebt

I had a privilege of sitting down and interview Eli Calderón Morin, A Y-Combinator Hackathon winner, Founder & CEO of All_ebt. Eli has been at the forefront of mobile disruption as an advisor and team member to some of the fastest growing and groundbreaking mobile startups on the planet: AdMob/ acq Google, SnapTell/ acq Amazon, Alohar / acq AutoNavi/ Alibaba, Mojiva, InMobi, OpenX, Lipa Learning, Appfuel, and Adtile. Over the last decade, Eli has gained expertise in the areas of Startup Gr...

#110 Ben Swann - The wolf of Journalism

Ben Swann is an American television news anchor, political commentator and journalist. Initially a Baptist pastor, he became a sports producer for TV, and later a news journalist and producer, and managing editor on network affiliates, FOX, and RT America of the Russian state-owned TV network RT. Ben Swann is the founder of the Truth in Media. He has spent 18 years working as a journalist in broadcast news, behind and in front of the camera. Swann began his journalism career in El Paso, Te...

#109 Samer Saab - Fintech, scaling, startup journey

In this episode of The Grey Podcast interviewed Samer Saab. Samer is the co-founder and CCO at Get Wala and Director at Dala Foundation. He holds a master's and bachelor's degree in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan. In this episode we talk about startups, including Wala which he co-founded with Tricia Martinez. Wala is a financial platform, powered by the Dala Utility Token. It addresses the issues that prevent the world's under-served from accessing ba...

#108 Giovanni Lesna Maranetto - The Fintech Entrepreneur

Support the Grey ave Podcast on https://www.patreon.com/greyjabesi Giovanni Lesna Maranetto is a blockchain strategist, entrepreneur and ICO specialist. He is a co-founding team member and Chief Commercial Officer at Blocktrade.com (formerly Hedge Token) and Lead External Advisor to Adbank , Enkidu , Fresco, Plentix and Exmo. He is an evangelist for blockchain technology and its value adding use-cases especially in the development of social and human capital. Giovanni has degrees with di...

#107 Meir Ezra - How to make a 100 Million Dollars

Support the Grey ave Podcast on https://www.patreon.com/greyjabesi In this episode, Grey Jabesi interviewed Meir Ezra. Meir Ezra is an international entrepreneur with multi-million dollar businesses and clients in the US, Canada, Israel, Italy, Colombia, Russia, India, China, Romania, the Dominican Republic, South Africa, Germany, the Czech Republic, Turkey and many others. As part of this drive to make a difference in people’s lives, Meir has been involved in working with high level gover...

#106 Maps Maponyane - Inside the Mind of South Africa's Top Model

Support the Grey ave Podcast on https://www.patreon.com/greyjabesi In this episode, Grey Jabesi interviewed Maps Maponyane. Maps is one of South Africa’s favourite personalities. He is considered as one of SA’s most stylish and sexiest men and is a greatly admired media personality. Multi-talented as a tv presenter, model, actor, style icon, designer, businessman and philanthropist, he makes waves both locally and internationally. Maps is loved and followed by his fans on social media plat...

#105 Ashley Wallace - Exploring Japan

In this episode, Grey jabesi interviewed Ashley Wallace from Chicago,USA. He is HR Professional currently living in Japan.In 2007 studied Japanese language and business management.He shares his experience living in Japan as black man for the past seven years. "Black man in Japan trying to make my mark everyday JBBF Kanto Open 2013 1st Place, JBBF Kanagawa Open 2014 65kg 3rd place" Links: Ashley on Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/blacksunflowersamurai1914/

#104 Maja Vujinovic - shEOS co-Founder

Maja Vujinovic is an entrepreneur, investor and a CEO of OGroup. She started her career as Director of Strategy and Corporate development at Tanex Corporation. From 2010 to 2013, she served as a Senior investment officer at Zakhem International. In 2013, she joined Riverside Advisors on a position of Consultant. From 2015 to 2018, she worked as a Chief innovation officer at GE Digital, co- Founded shEOS and OGroup where she currently serves as CEO, focusing on blockchain for enterprise. M...

#103 Bianca Bosch - 2018 in Review, The Kissing Booth

In this episode Grey Jabesi chats with Bianca Bosch and Radhesen Naidoo. We casually discuss 2018, reflections, lessons learned and all. Special guest was Bianca Bosch. An actress from South Africa, known for The Kissing Booth (2018) and Killer Instinct with Chris Hansen (2017). Enjoy the banter and happy holidays to y'all Links: https://sbamtheatreblog.wordpress.com/2018/06/01/chatting-to-bianca-bosch-about-netflixs-the-kissing-booth/ https://www.instagram.com/biancabosch/?hl=en htt...

#102 Mance Harmon - Is Hedera Hashgraph better that blockchain?

In this episode, Grey Jabesi interviews Mance Harmon .Mance is an experienced technology executive and entrepreneur with more than 20 years of strategic leadership experience in multi-national corporations, government agencies, and high-tech startups, and is Co-Founder and CEO of Hedera Hashgraph. His prior experience includes serving as the Head of Architecture and Labs at Ping Identity, Founder / CEO of two tech startups, the senior executive for product security , Program Manager for a ve...

#101 Charles Hoskinson & John O'Connor (Cardano)

In this interview. Grey Jabesi interviews Charles Hoskinson, well known as Co-founder of Cardano and Ethereum. Also featuring, was John O’Connor who is the Director of African Operations for Input Output(The parent company behind Cardano). This interview was recorded in johannesburg South Africa, where Charles was attending Africa Blockchain Conference which was hosted by Tumelo Ramaphosa. Charles Hoskinson is a Colorado-based technology entrepreneur and mathematician. He attended Metropol...

#100 Arcane Bear - Adventure & Purposeful Living

In this episode. Grey Jabesi interviews Tijo Bear. Founder of the Arcane Bear brand. A Nomadic and adventure capitalist who started off as a digital marketer ended up owning real estate in the jungles of Costa Rica and plant his on psychedelics. Using the power of blockchain and decentralized media and funding systems. Arcane Bear is a one-stop shop for all things in the entrepreneurial toolkit. His ideas and philosophy on freedom, money and lifestyle seem to be the source of his unique wa...

#99 Ray Youssef - From homeless to Money, Paxful & Solving real problems

Ray Youssef, co-founder of Paxful, is a serial entrepreneur. He has had 11 failed startups since he started his entrepreneurial journey. At one point, his life savings were gone and he was homeless on the streets of California. He met his fellow co-founder, Estonian native Artur Schaback, in similar circumstances. Both were trying to rebuild their lives and the opportunity that is Bitcoin offered them an idea. Paxful was born, a peer-to-peer Bitcoin marketplace which offers 300+ different wa...

#98 Steve Nathan - Demystifying Investing & Retirement

In this episode. Grey Jabesi interviews Steve Nathan. Founder and CEO of 10X investments. Ex JSE’s top rated investment analyst who envisioned a more transparent way to run retirements funds and made it happen 10X is currently managing retirement funds worth R8bn on behalf of 150 companies. Steve is known for criticizing the status quo of retirement funds and their practises. I watched several interviews and read articles of him talking about this subject. I decided to reach out after mee...

#97 Abraham Cambridge - How to Monetize the Sun

In this episode, Grey Jabesi interviews Abraham Cambridge, Founder and CEO of The Sun Exchange. A British born solar entrepreneur and disruptive technologist. In 2008 he completed an MSc in the Science of Climate Change under a NERC scholarship at UEA and has since established several businesses and projects around the world that use solar energy as a means for creating positive change. In 2010 he pioneered utility-scale. Links Abraham's LimkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abraham-cambr...

#96 A New Era of Supply Chain Management - Anthem Blanchard & Logan Golema

Founder/CEO Anthem Blanchard and CTO Logan Golema. Hercules is a decentralised blockchain protocol platform that enables anyone to operate a fully functioning supply chain that utilises Proof of Human Work to validate transactions . Developed and Advised by founders of Ethereum, Factom, Storj, Abra Wallet, Edge Security, Waves, Transform, and Blockchain Exchange, the world's leading blockchain organisations. Anthem Hayek Blanchard is the company’s Chief Executive Officer and member of the ...

#95 Damon Bryant PhD - The Power of Behavioral Economics

  Dr Damon Bryant is a business psychologist with over 15 years of experience in data analytics and psychological assessment tools. Currently the CEO of Light Pay Coin, a next generation cryptocurrency focused on digital payments in business and government.   His expertise is in psychological and behavioral assessments with an emphasis on AI-based systems and behavioral economics. He has derived mathematical information functions to quantify the usefulness of any observable behavior by...

#94 Stephen Young - Bulding a crypto market place

#93 Michael Jordaan(Part 2) - Rain Mobile, Bank Zero & Venture Capital

#92 Joy Buolamwini - Finding Flaws in technology, Fighting Algorithmic Bias.

#EP91 Alon Stern - Founder of Slide. Startup stages and Lessons.

#90 Michael Jordaan (Part 1) - Banking, Career Development & Business

#89 Blockstarters Blockchain Incubator Round-table

#88 Mid year review. Failures & Relationships