Connect The Dots

About This Episode: In this episode we meet wildly creative Pete Angevine, who co-founded Little Baby’s Ice Cream in Fishtown, Philadelphia. Their distinctive voice and hand crafted artisanal ice cream has a curious and dedicated following that are always intrigued by the next new flavors… In this week’s podcast, we hear about some of the stories behind the unique and surprising flavors such as lu...

About This Episode: In this episode we welcome the award winning Belgian artist, filmmaker and doodler, Vincent Bal. Inspired by his mother’s unique storytelling and his love of comic drawings, Vincent went on to study film directing.  We talk about the importance of the combination of intelligence, humor and atmosphere in telling stories. In this week’s podcast, we hear about the personal journey...

About This Episode: Inspired by the hilarious storytelling of stand up comics such as George Carlin, Richard Prior, Jackie Mason and Steve Martin, Doug Chernack is the New York Times bestselling coauthor of AWKWARD FAMILY PHOTOS. He is a professional screenwriter and producer who has created shows for E!, Fox Sports, and the Golf Channel and co-created the hit website AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com. Doug...

About This Episode: Joe Cross is an Australian filmmaker, New York Times best-selling author, entrepreneur and proponent of wellness. In his award winning documentary Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead Joe tells the story of his 60-day juice fast. He is the founder and CEO of Reboot with Joe, a health and lifestyle brand. In this podcast, Joe talks about how important storytelling is as he travels the wo...

About This Episode: Wayne Kimmel is an accomplished and experienced author and speaker.  He is a networker extraordinaire who has created investment company Seventy Six Capital which invests in passionate, smart and nice entrepreneurs who are launching game-changing tech startups. In this podcast Wayne Kimmel talks about how storytelling is important in connecting with your audience and how major...

About This Episode: Presented by nine dots and hosted by Geoffrey Klein, Connect the dots podcast shares stories and explore their power to impact others. Our aim is to share some edutainment – to give some useful nuggets that can be applied to your business while also entertaining you. Thank you for listening. In Season 2, Geoffrey interviews successful individuals about their perspective on the...

About This Episode: I am a huge poker enthusiast. I like poker much more than I am good at it. That is not true of this episode’s guest, American poker player Scott Blumstein. Blumstein graduated from  Temple University  with an accounting degree before becoming a professional poker player. Last summer, he entered his first World Series of Poker Main Event, along with over 7000 other hopeful playe...

About This Episode: Rich Middlemas won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for producing the high school football story UNDEFEATED . Rich began his career in Hollywood working in the office of the President at MGM Studios working on films such as Legally Blonde , Agent Cody Banks, Barbershop and James Bond film, Die Another Day . Rich Middlemas graduated from University of Tennessee’s Co...

About This Episode: Nick Bayer has always been in the business of bringing people together, whether it’s as one of Philadelphia Business Journal’s Most Admired CEOs or as a consummate team captain since Little League. So when he created Saxbys in 2005, he never really considered it to be a coffee company — instead, it’s a hospitality company fueled by great coffee. Saxbys has since grown from one...

About This Episode: Aaron Muderick, Owner of Crazy Aaron Enterprises https://puttyworld.com , is the inventor of Crazy Aaron’s thinking putty. Crazy Aaron’s Thinking Putty is available in more than 30 countries around the world and comes in over 30 colors and includes some that can be magnetized or are heat-sensitive. Crazy Aaron employs a labor force of over 500 people made up of individuals with...

About This Episode: William C. Taubman is currently the Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science at Amherst College . The son of a New York Times journalist who learned the importance of working hard and thinking carefully as well as to accept challenges, but not possible ones. In this episode we learn how Professor Taubman entered Harvard at only the age of 16. In his early career it was unc...

About This Episode: Chet Harding is the co-founder and owner of Improv Asylum – a nationally-acclaimed improvisation and sketch comedy theater based in Boston as well as stand-up sister theater Laugh Boston and Asylum Gaming and E-Sports production house. As well as acting, writing, directing and producing, Chet has developed Improv Asylum’s global corporate training program, and has worked with c...

About This Episode: Judge Renée Cardwell Hughes is the outgoing CEO of the American Red Cross for the Eastern Pennsylvania region. Judge Hughes is also well known for her work with The Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce as well as the contributions she has made towards the Beasly School of Law at Temple University. In this podcast Judge Hughes talks about the risk and rewards of her career p...

About This Episode: Sharon Pinkenson has served as the Executive Director of the Greater Philadelphia Film Office https://film.org/ (GPFO) for 25 years during the terms of four mayors and six governors. Sharon has been responsible for all aspects of the office since 1992. Under Sharon’s leadership, the GPFO has been responsible for $4 billion of economic impact to the southeastern Pennsylvania reg...

About This Episode: Nick Garnett is a broadcast journalist at the BBC  and has been a  journalist and news reporter for 30 years. Nick’s reports are broadcast on local and regional TV as well as the BBC world service.  He has reported on a number of stories from around the world including Nepal, Tunisia, Paris, Malta, Jordan, Hungary, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, France, Ireland, Scotland, Turke...

About This Episode: Presented by nine dots and hosted by Geoffrey Klein, Connect the dots podcast share stories of success and the dots that people connect along the way. In Season 1, Geoffrey interviews successful individuals to explore their path to success and examines the dynamic between luck or happenstance and intentional planning and the choices people make. From successful CEOs to an Acade...