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Chase Fairchild hits home with (more laughter) why someone should care to use your business and the importance of clear messaging...again.

Chase Fairchild shares a few examples of B2B and B2C messaging and why they matter. One of Bolt Marketing 's main offerings is helping clients communicate with clarity.

Chase Fairchild with Bolt Marketing shares about his personal creativity and the risk that's involved with putting your content out into the world.

Today, we hear from Chase Fairchild with Bolt Marketing on getting back to the basics of clearly communicating your company's messaging.

Josh Reid pitched at and won May 2021 5 Across with his startup Inphlu . His company's advanced content engine, powered by artificial intelligence, monitors global sources to find, curate, and publish relevant third-party content, specific to your industry. Inphlu helps you generate content ahead of time. All you do is set and approve it. Inphlu will publish it for you and show you real-time metri...

Jose Gaztambide , CEO of Goodmaps highlights the importance of caring about people, knowing the value you bring, and work-life balance as a founder.  Goodmaps is furthering the cause of accessible navigation with its digital indoor mapping solution. They provide a customer portal where venue owners can access and edit their digital maps in multiple views: 2D floor-plan, 3D model, and LiDAR po...

Matt Langan , CEO of Stuccco hopped back on the podcast to talk about growth - personal and professional. Stuccco is a startup in the 2021 Fellowship spring cohort and we are excited to see where this company is headed.  Listen to Matt Langan's first episode on Awesome Inc's podcast here (episode 39). 

Ben Smock with Canopy Kentucky in Louisville, KY sat down with Garrett and Liz to share how they are a driving force for encouraging Kentucky companies to be better and why this matters.  Stay tuned for Ben's dad joke at the end of the episode (27:51).

Rebecca Webb of Community Inspired Solutions, Inc. (CIS) (and co-working member of Awesome Inc) shares why a Facebook post led her to make a difference in Lexington after an outbreak of youth violence in 2014.  Listen to CIS's podcast Through Their Eyes, In Their Words .

Taylor Sears , COO of Silent Guard (and a co-working member of Awesome Inc) shared his team's story and why working around other startups have been valuable for a growing company. 

The Awesome Inc team honors Kentucky Entrepreneur Hall of Fame inductee Kent Taylor who recently passed away. retells his business story as told in the chapters of Unbridled Spirit: Lessons in Life and Business from Kentucky's Most Successful Entrepreneurs . Thank you to Noah Wonder for providing the music in this episode.

In part 2, John Fox wraps up his conversation focusing on how he helps people. He shares his coaching method and questions he asks to add value to companies and find the burning desire behind a person's why.

In part 1, After running his own business for over a decade, Jon Fox became passionate about helping business owners who are pressing their noses to the grindstone day in and day out. In this episode, Jon shares his background along with how he didn't spend unnecessary time in school, gained experience, went through a business drought, and came out more effective on the other side.

This episode is for founders. In part 2, Jake Miller wraps up his conversation with Liz and Garrett by sharing about his journey from being a corporate innovator to startup founders, what prompted the career jump, and advice he’d give to others.

This is for innovators.  In part 1, Jake Miller , co-founder, and CEO of Toggle Health in Louisville, KY is a corporate innovator turned startup founder. He gives extensive insight and practical advice that can only come from someone who has experienced both sides of the innovation spectrum.

Addie Reinhard pitched at and won February 2021 5 Across with MentorVet.  Her company improves the well-being of life as a veterinarian.  The MentorVet mentorship and professional development program support young veterinarians through a combination of peer mentorship and online training in non-clinical professional skills to provide tools to help veterinarians cope with some of the most...

Harut Vardanyan is the CEO of HeXalayer with 11 years of experience in the nanotechnology & energy industry. He went through the 2017 Vogt Award accelerator based in Louisville, KY & the 2019 Ameren Accelerator. So you know, current Li-ion batteries offer an insufficient amount of energy for their weight. Small & Medium UAVs can only fly 30-40 minutes without a payload and 15 minutes w...

In part 2, Tom shares his perspective on cultural differences between big cos versus startups, what he's learned about creativity and innovation working at some of the most highly-perceived “innovative” companies in the world, and how training can be a strategic weapon for a company, and why it's important to show people the wall rather than the door. This is a good one, folks.

In part 1, Tom Stern is a Technical Curriculum Developer at Amazon Web Services with an extensive background in teaching, publishing courses, and aiding people in understanding machine learning, data structure, and cloud architecture. He has worked with highly popular tech companies like Cisco, Google, and Amazon yet has a humble persona that is not often found in the tech industry.

Brandon Young , the founder of Pascal Tags , started a company after his girlfriend kept misplacing her keys... After learning inventory displacement has been an issue since the 1950s (when Barcode and RFID were originally conceived), he created a product to combat inventory problems.

This episode is for Innovators. In part 2, Curt talks about good risk versus bad risk for corporate companies and updated us on what he’s been up to post- Dippin’ Dots with his newest venture, 40 Below Joe.  

This episode is for innovators.  In part 1, Curt Jones , the founder of Dippin' Dots Ice Cream and 40 Below Joe , walks through his journey on what it was like to go from corporate innovator to entrepreneur and why it was so important to build a company that encouraged innovation from within. In 1988, microbiologist Curt Jones used his knowledge of cryogenic technology to invent Dippin’ Dots...

The winner of the 2020 5 Across Finals was Natalia Bishop . Her company, Level Up , is on a mission to connect, educate, and inspire women, and future entrepreneurs within holistic learning environments. Participants learn with burst-style learning - imagine if Masterclass collided with Instagram's reel video feature.  Natalia's main focus is helping pour back into the community and develop t...

This episode is for founders. In part 3, Keith wraps up our conversation and shares why assisting startups is crucial for Kentucky, and how our entrepreneurial culture is changing the state.

This episode is for founders. In part 2, Keith McMunn , unsuccessful with replacing Garrett as the new host, is back and dives into the structure and programming of how the Fellowship helps startup companies and everyone's favorite word, accountability.