Welcome to another episode of the Action and Ambition Podcast. Today, our guest is Linda Olson, Founder & CEO of Tampa Bay Wave. Linda has been involved in the technology industry as a consultant for various Fortune 100 or Fortune 500 companies but has never seen herself doing it for the rest of her life. She started dealing with venture capital and startups by spearheading a charity, initially, until they formed the Tampa Bay Wave to help for the benefit of the community—for the sake of building a cluster of successful tech companies. Aside from that, Linda is also an Honorary Commander at MacDill Air Force Base and serves several local community boards in Tampa. How did Linda found what’s right for her? Listen to this episode! This is an exciting one!

Welcome to another episode of Action and Ambition. Today, we are joined by Zach Moreno and Rockwell Felder, Co-Founders of SquadCast. This remote recording platform helps podcasters and video creators record like they are in a real studio. Zach is a podcaster, author, designer, and developer, and Rockwell is a CPA and Entrepreneur. Together, they are on a mission to amplify collaboration, empowering creatives to engage in meaningful conversations with barriers. Listen to this episode! You’ll surely learn a lot!

Welcome to another episode of the Action and Ambition Podcast. Our guest for today is Anatoly Corp, Founder, and CEO of Bestmap, an all-in-one mobility travel app that can find you any mode of transportation around the world and combines all mobility options and plans ahead by minimizing your travel time. He is a young tech entrepreneur and the World’s Youngest Publicly Traded Human who is mostly interested in Energy, Mobility, Transportation industries and thinks by the first principle. Anatoly works hard and inspires people to create new technologies that allow us to live better and achieve new levels. Listen to this episode! You don’t want to miss it!

Welcome to another episode of the Action and Ambition Podcast. Today’s guest is Chris Vasilakis, Founder and CEO of Guided Virtual Tours, a digital property touring company catering to real estate firms and apartment complexes. He is an American Mensa Member and Marine Corps Veteran whose impressive and diverse career history spans more than two decades. He is now taking the VR World by the reins with a diverse professional background ranging from hip-hop artist management to Virtual Reality Solutions. You don’t want to miss out on this episode!

Welcome to another episode of Action and Ambition. Joining us today is John Swanson, CEO and Co-Founder of Wendell. He helps coaches and entrepreneurs build their client base and scale their businesses. Before launching Wendell, he was a professional athlete and Founder and CEO of The Granite Games and Founder of Fast Factory Fitness and Factory Forged. He is now devoted to assisting experts, coaches, and entrepreneurs in growing profitable businesses based on his experience advising small companies to work with larger firms such as Reebok and Nike. Don’t miss out on this episode! You are going to love it!

Welcome to another episode of Action and Ambition. Today’s guest will be Afif Ghannoum, co-founder and CEO of the first total microbiome company, BIOHM Health. Probiotics and microbiome testing kits developed by Afif target the dual role of fungus and bacteria in the digestive tract. His biotechnology ideas have been developed into consumer items that have been sold in 27,000 retail locations across the United States. In addition, he has licensed technology to a multinational pharmaceutical corporation, which is marketed in over 100,000 retail locations. His company has received innovation awards like ECRM’s Best New Cough Cold Product Award and Nutrition Business Journal’s Science & Innovation Award. Let’s listen to this interesting episode!

Welcome to another episode of Action and Ambition. Today’s guest is Tammy Phipps and Joshua Himan Owner/President/CEO at Driver Rehabilitation Center of Excellence. Tammy is a career occupational therapist with over 14 years of experience in various settings, including outpatient driving rehabilitation, long-term care, and inpatient acute care, ICU, medical, surgical, same-day surgery, and inpatient rehabilitation. She’s also a retired Major from the US Army Reserve, where she worked as a mental health asset in Iraq in 2007-2008. Join us today to find out more about Tammy and its company. Stay tuned!

Welcome to another episode of the Action and Ambition Podcast. Today, our guest is Rick Ende, an Entrepreneur, Author, and Publisher. He recently released his book, End of Days: The Quest. His publishing company, Reward Happiness, offers stories that make readers happy by taking them on a fun journey. They encourage audiences to participate in calls to action for positive change based on values of love, generosity, and inspiration. Their mission is to bring joy to their readers' lives. Rick collaborates with authors who share our vision and readers who want to make a positive difference in the world in which they live. Don't miss out!

Welcome to another episode of the Action and Ambition Podcast. Today, our guest is Darryl Williams, sales, marketing & creative design senior vice president for Landau Uniforms and Urbane Scrubs, both of which manufacture healthcare uniforms and accessories for healthcare professionals worldwide. He works with high-growth companies to generate record-breaking revenues and increase market penetration in underperforming markets. Darryl has a proven track record of forming strategic alliances and launching new brands that increase revenue. This episode will be motivating!

Today’s guest is Moses Rashid, CEO and founder of THE EDIT LDN - the UK’s No.1 online consignment store for limited edition sneakers and high end streetwear. He has a huge passion for sneakers and has essentially turned a hobby into a multi million dollar business in under 16 months since launch. The business is really taking off and monthly revenues are increasing 80% month on month and it’s set to be worth $50m by the end of next year.

Welcome to another episode of Action and Ambition Podcast. Today's guest is Julian Colina, the CEO and co-founder of Haystack Analytics. Haystack contributes to the development of elite developer teams by providing engineering metrics and alerts that have been shown to drive performance. Haystack's integration with GitHub enables them to provide real-time data insights that depict the entire delivery process, from committing to deploy, highlighting bottlenecks such as code review and team productivity. Join us in this episode and learn more about Julian’s mission and story!

Welcome to Another episode of Action and Ambition. Today’s guest is Raymond Magee, Founder and President of BloomCatch. Ray was hiking with his family as a nature enthusiast when inspired to build a better plant identification App. Using his computer science and business administration education, Ray launched BloomCatch, combining innovative AI with planting and gardening. His experience includes ten years of public service at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and three years in the private service at a National FoodService Manufacturer. He created BloomCatch to maximize machine learning, engage users in a community, increase regional plant recognition, provide a robust searchable database, promote connections to garden centers, and offer friendly exchanges with live plant experts. Don’t miss out! You’re going to love this episode!

Welcome to another episode of Action and Ambition Podcast. Tim Stracke, co-CEO and founder of Chrono24, a luxury watch buy and sell website with over 500,000 watches ranging from a classic automatic to a rare collector's piece, joins us today. Keep an eye out for this episode to learn more about his journey. This episode is going to be fun!

Welcome to another episode of the Action and Ambition Podcast. We are joined today by Chip Walker, a Business and Cultural Strategist, author, and keynote speaker. Chip built and developed innovative market research as well as grown important brand identities over the years for some of the world's most renowned brands, such as PepsiCo, Morgan Stanley, and Heineken. He will talk about his new book, “Activate brand purpose: How to harness the power of movements to transform your company.” StrawberryFrog's strategic executives, Scott Goodson, and Chip Walker lay out a practical plan for realizing the objective of growing your company and saving the world. All of the instruments of business operations and leadership, as well as all of the power of creativity and emotion, are focused on a single meaningful goal: rallying all stakeholders, employees, suppliers, partners, and consumers to work together to bring about change. Don’t miss out! You’re going to love this episode!

Welcome to another episode of Action & Ambition. Today’s guest is Martin Macmillan who is helping app and game developers to borrow as much as four times’ their monthly revenues. Pollen VC’s fresh approach to lending comprises advances made on the basis of real-time information about upfront sales of the app, combined with Pollen’s data-based estimates of future spending by live users. You’re going to love this episode. Let’s get to it!

Welcome to another episode of Action and Ambition. Today's guest is Justin Lally, a member of The Bitcoin Foundation, and a partner of White Lotus Holdings, a digital currency fund founded in 2014. He is also the founder of Grey Shark Holdings N.A, an advisor of GoCoin, and the co-founder of Kash Coin. They're currently preparing for a public presale, in which anyone can become investors up until the time when their business is ready to launch. Sports betting, LPL eSports, Facebook Live, drag races, and everything else you can think of with a predictable outcome will be featured. Their goal is for everyone, wherever in the world, to be able to create their own sportsbook and invite their friends to place bets. Join us in this episode and learn more of Justin’s mission and story!

Welcome to another episode of Action and Ambition. Mental health has been a tough nut to crack and deal with during the pandemic. Not only did it bring endless worries, pain, and suffering, it also woke everyone from the delusion that everything is under control. Just like how Arianna Giorgio battled herself against cancer and the mental trauma it brought her. What does it take to keep a resilient mind and heart amid adversities? Find out how Arianna continues to fight for her life! Don’t miss this inspiring episode!

Welcome to another episode of Action and Ambition. Today’s guest is Dr. Patricia Lawman, an accomplished novelist, and worked on an alligator farm in the Florida Keys. Also, she headed the Walt Disney Memorial Cancer Institute's multifaceted molecular biology, gene targeting, gene therapy, gene delivery, and universal stem cell programs as Division Director of Cancer Molecular Biology. Dr. Lawman has written or co-authored over forty scientific abstracts and publications, as well as grant applications to private, state, commercial, and federal agencies that have resulted in over $2,300,000 in extramural funding. Join us in this episode and learn more about Dr. Patricia’s mission and story!

Welcome to another episode of Action and Ambition. We all know about starting a business because it’s a pain in your wallet and brain. Never mind the appropriate workers you need to find, the product you want to come up with, nor have an idea to market them in the first place; you really just can’t do everything all by yourself. That’s why Rotem Gal collaborates with companies to help entrepreneurs at the inception – when they start to take that first step in the business world. Don’t miss this episode!

Welcome to another episode of Action and Ambition. The vulnerable sector tends to get misrepresented and exploited. Not only do they suffer from their personal issues and inner demons, but opportunists also find a way to leverage these suffering to their personal gain – profit. In the name of profit, they forgot the main issue on why these people suffer in the first place. And that’s where Tatiana Fofanova comes in. Tune in, and don’t miss this inspiring episode!

Welcome to another episode of Action and Ambition. Today's guest is Frank Pollock, Frank is Chief Marketing Officer at Home Lending Pal. For more than 20 years he has worked at the intersection of marketing, technology and innovation. He spent several years at Frito-Lay, General Mills and Colgate-Palmolive before launching a consultancy. He also served as Director of the MBA program at North Carolina Central University. Stay tuned and you're going to love this episode!

Welcome to another episode of Action and Ambition. Death is a reality everyone is trying to deny. Regardless of how calm and collected you are, it’s nothing but a pretense in the face of the Grim Reaper. The more you want to avoid it, the more reality hits you. Knowing how expensive it is, you want to ensure that your loved ones will get something out of you. That’s the pain of insurance. It’s costly, and Steve Lekas wants to change that—by making it cheaper and communal. Don’t miss this exciting episode!

Welcome to another episode of Action and Ambition. Today's guest is Galen M. Hair, a persistent and aggressive litigator licensed in many states and has clients from all over the world. He established a reputation for getting the job done both within and outside the courtroom early in his career, with substantial wins both at home and across the country and an excellent record of positive results. He focuses not only on the litigation in front of the client, but the long-term personal and business effects that his clients' issues will cause. Stay tuned because you're going to love this episode!

Welcome to another episode of Action and Ambition. Today's guest is Brenda Cromer, the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Frontier Kitchen. She is a former intelligence analyst with a focus in organizational analytics. Brenda is an expert at evaluating organizations (including enterprises) and determining the core cause of difficulties or obstacles they face, and devising solutions to assist them in achieving their objectives. Stay tuned, you're going to love this episode!

Welcome to another episode of Action and Ambition. Today's guest is Ali Farid, the co-founder of KTrade - a fintech business in Pakistan. KTrade is the Robinhood of Pakistan and is the leading stock investing app which aims to connect 10 million Pakistanis to the stock market. Ali has worked in finance and technology for over a decade in London. He as a top ranked Technology Analyst in Europe. He was a Rhodes Scholar at University of Oxford. Stay tuned. You're going to love this episode!

One Hundred Percent with Marcus Lemonis is a little bit of a masterclass, a cocktail party and a Sunday drive all wrapped up into 30 minutes with an audience invited to listen in. Marcus values family, community, character and ethics and helps small business owners who need his guidance and investment. His process is very personal and provides valuable insight through his ability to identify both problems and solutions. For years he has transformed the trajectory of businesses and the lives of its founders. Listeners will get to enjoy fun and unfiltered conversations centered around mentoring entrepreneurs. The entrepreneurs that Marcus invites onto the show are creating products or services that will impact the world for the better. In each episode, listeners will meet the most exciting generation of business owners, including Charles Barkley, Kathy Ireland, Al Roker and Nicole Miller, and all the innovative ventures coming to and disrupting the market. Marcus talks to CEOs, entrepreneurs, inventors and all kinds of new leaders in the only way he knows how, it gets personal. They also talk about something successful people rarely reveal, what they need to take their success to the next level. Marcus and the guest explore that question in an effort to solve that puzzle.   Listen Here: http://wondery.fm/100PercentAction

Welcome to another episode of Action and Ambition. We are lucky to have David McNeil, President & COO at PatientPop, on the show today. PatientPop is the market leader in practice growth technology platform that provides practices to increase patient acquisition, retention and deliver an outstanding patient over-all experience. With over a decade of SaaS leadership experience under his belt, David leads the all go-to-market functions and the growth strategy for the company. Prior to landing the role at PatientPop, David was Head of North America Sales at HubSpot responsible for accelerating growth across all segments and provide real value to prospects and customers. He is extremely passionate create an inclusive, safe and diverse environment where people can growth together, win together, and have fun together. Don’t miss this episode. This one is truly a gem!

Welcome to another episode of Action and Ambition. We are joined today by Henry Ma, CEO at Ricoma International Corporation. He manages Ricoma's general operations and resources, as well as serving as the primary point of contact for administrators and a custom apparel business coach for embroiders wishing to start their own business. He was featured in industry publications like Impression Magazine and Printwear, and SocialPros podcast. Henry hosts the Apparel Academy show on YouTube and is dedicated to being a thought leader in the fields of entrepreneurship, digital marketing, and social media. Stay tuned! You’re going to love this episode.

Welcome to another episode of Action and Ambition. Topia, a fully customizable spatial-based virtual gathering platform launched in May 2020. Topia found quick success, hosting over 25,000 people as a co-sponsor of Burning Man, which they're doing again in 2021. Topia is a new type of social platform that focuses on human interaction, providing virtual event spaces for Fortune 100 companies, IPO celebrations, music festivals, birthday parties, reunions, workspaces, and private individual worlds for people and communities to gather and build relationships.

Welcome to another episode of Action & Ambition with your host, Andrew Medal. Heather Terenzio is the founder and CEO of Techtonic, the premier partner for custom software development that changes how tech talent is sourced, trained, and hired. After being unable to shake the feeling that something big was missing from the tech industry diversity. Terenzio decided to be a part of the solution, launching Techtonic’s Software Development Apprenticeship Program in 2016. You’re going to love this episode. Let’s get to it! Who is Heather, and what is she about? (0:23) She is the founder of TechTonic, which is based in Boulder, Colorado. They are a software development company that has been around for 15 years. Five years ago, they started an apprenticeship program to train people from different backgrounds on how to be software developers.  Heather says they struggle with diversity quite a bit because everybody has a different definition of what diversity means for them personally. They started originally with the definition of being just women and minorities. Then the next person to walk through their door was a young white male who had come up through the foster care system, and so immediately, it was apparent that this guy needs a chance as well.  Over the years, they have expanded their definition of diversity to include gender diversity, sexual orientation, background, and socio-economic minorities, so diversity takes on many different forms for them. They want to cater to folks who maybe would not have the opportunity, to begin with. Now the way they define that is their background agnostic; they do not care where you come from; they care that you love software development and want to learn and improve your skills.  What type of resources does the company use, and what does the company actually do? (4:25) On one side, they are a software development company, and they have an amazing senior-level team of folks who’ve been developing software for over 20 years. Then they have the apprenticeship side of the business.  That is where they take people from all different kinds of backgrounds, and they have a very competitive selection process. So sometimes, they will get four or five hundred applications for a 20 pupil cohort.  What they are looking for is desire, ambition, and grit. They have a 12 step process to get through to get into their program, and once you are in, there is a 14-week class and what’s really unique about that class is that they pay you to be there on day one.  So unlike every other Bootcamp out there, where you are paying $10,000-$20,000 to join the Bootcamp, they are actually paying you to attend their Bootcamp. They found when you take all the barriers to entry away. Diversity starts to show up.  They have people without anything, they are only taking the best of the best, they are not screening for certain diversities, but it turns out the best of the best is usually a diverse group of people.  They have four times the industry standard of women, minorities, and veterans. Once you complete the 14-day Bootcamp, you move onto the true apprenticeship, and that is where you are sitting side by side with senior-level developers and learning on the job working on client projects.  What are they working towards as a company? (10:57) Today, they impact hundreds of people’s lives with their program, but they would like to move that up to thousands of lives that they touch. They want to get other companies to think a lot differently around how they hire people.  All kinds of companies and startups are always talking about disrupting, but nobody is talking about disrupting the hiring process and looking at people and how we find them.  It’s been the same recruiting model, hire recruit, give somebody a three-hour interview, make them take a test, hire them, and make sure they have a college degree and all that stuff.  They want to throw all that out and make companies think a lot differently around how they hire. They think they have come up with a much better way to hire software developers, and it's never been out there before.  Their vision is that they become the gold standard of hiring people going forward, and they want to impact thousands of lives, even that of the unemployed. Techtonic Techtonic is the premier partner for developing onshore, product-driven software. We’ve also developed a unique method to simultaneously close the talent gap within technology by tapping into a new and highly diverse workforce. This combination of development services mixed with talent generation allows us to provide value for our clients at any stage and every level of the Software Development lifecycle. Resources Connect with Heather: LinkedIn Techtonic: Website Connect with Andrew: LinkedIn