Boston Speaks Up

Guest Timi Dayo-Kayode is an ambitious student-entrepreneur currently attending Tufts University whose startup Worksense recently won first place at Student Startup Madness at SXSW. Timi is passionate about driving equality in the workplace, and he believes better messaging data mining is critical to enabling better workplace outcomes. He’s developing Worksense into a messaging monitoring software...

Today's guest Srividya Kalyanaraman has enjoyed an accomplishment-filled journey from India to the United States. Currently serving as BostInno's editor, "Sri" (as she prefers) is no stranger to digital media innovation and startups. She was the first reporter to cover social media and the internet for India's oldest financial daily, The Economic Times. She was an enthusiastic second member of fre...

Today's guest Brendan Ryan was the communications orchestrator behind Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick’s original run to office in 2006 and re-election in 2010, eventually serving as the Chief of Staff to Governor Patrick. Brendan stepped away from politics in 2014 and cofounded HUBweek, Boston’s wildly successful version of SXSW that’s set to have its five-year anniversary this Fall 2019. He’...

Today's guest Lauren Landry has been a familiar face in the Boston innovation community for the better part of the past decade. She cut her teeth reporting at BostInno covering the Boston startup scene and education beat. She's also been a contributing writer to Boston Magazine and Boston.com, in addition to having her work cited in Wall Street Journal, Businessweek and more. Lauren's most recent...

*guest host Dan Rowinski* Today's guest Dana Jay Bein (DJB) is a Cambridge-based stand up comedian and teacher. He has taught stand up comedy at ImprovBoston for fourteen years, helping to introduce a new generation of comedians to the Boston area. Dana is known for his relentless optimism, fierce protection of people against bullies and bigots, and free hugs. He has been officially recognized by...

Today's guest Michael Bernier works hard to live his best life. Michael is a musician, master of ceremonies (100+ events a year), a performer, a motivational speaker, an entrepreneur, a humanitarian and all around positive force. He possesses unflappable optimism and is a rare breed of individual who lifts the spirits of all whom he comes into contact with. He is a singer songwriter and frontman f...

Today's guest Mardi Fuller has enjoyed an interesting journey into a critical role communicating Boston’s most innovative education initiatives. Now the director of external relations at Boston Plan for Excellence (BPE), Boston Teacher Residency (BTR) and Dearborn STEM Academy in Roxbury, Mardi is responsible for communicating the progress of organizations with the purest of intentions: drive exce...

Today's guest is J.P. Servideo an internationally recognized teen motivator. A highly successful individual who did not attend college, J.P. is the best-selling author of "The High Schooler’s Guide To Money," which he cowrote with Than Merrill, the star of A&E’s Flip This House. Additionally, J.P. created the Future Fortune Builders Teen Development Camp to teach high school students valuable life...

Today's guest is Tripp Clemens a partner at Windy Films, an ascending media company headquartered in the East Boston Shipyard. Tripp is from Rhode Island and went to school locally graduating from Emerson College in Boston. He brings an emotionally rich documentary style to video storytelling. He and his partners Will Humphrey and Harvey Burrell are relentlessly motivated to craft stories for comp...

BSU guest Lucy Maffei is a technology reporter at BostInno (Boston Business Journal). Born and raised in Tuscany, Lucy moved to America to attend Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. She spent time at TechCrunch (Chicago) and NPR (D.C) prior to moving to Boston and assuming her current role at BostInno. This podcast is filled with beautiful stories from Lucy about her love for Bo...

Boston Speaks Up documents inspiring figures in Boston. Today's guest is Dan Rowinski a writer living in Somerville. He’s a reporter who has covered the national tech scene and sports in Boston and D.C. In his latest iteration as a writer, he’s shifting his focus to authoring books. Since completing his first book The Starving Bachelor, Dan has moved on to penning a book about Artificial Intellige...