E-Revolutionary Podcast

Aakash Patel didn’t build his career by chasing transactions. He built it by connecting people, communities, businesses, and ideas long before Tampa Bay became one of the fastest-growing regions in the country. In this episode of E-Revolutionary, Tony Selvaggio sits down with entrepreneur, connector, and community builder Akash Patel to explore how real ecosystems are created—and why relationships...

Vinny Tafuro was in third grade when he started questioning why markets crash. That childhood curiosity evolved into a career challenging the foundations of modern capitalism. As founder of the Institute for Economic Evolution, Vinny's work shows that companies can be profitable AND treat people well - they're not mutually exclusive. We discuss Adam Smith's philosophical roots, why Jack Welch's GE...

Five conversations. Five people who didn’t wait for permission. What happens when leaders stop talking about change and actually start building it? In these episodes, Shane Smith, Terri Willingham, Effie Santos, Kelly Bousman, and Veatrice Farrell share what it really looks like to close the digital divide. Not from theory, but from experience. From the ground. From the work itself. They talk abou...

Technology moves faster every year. But millions of Americans are being left behind—not because they don’t want to keep up, but because the infrastructure was never built for them. Veatrice Farrel is the Chief Community Officer at the Digital Education Foundation. She’s spent years deploying devices, building trust within communities, and figuring out what it really takes to close the digital divi...

Every company generates waste. Most assume someone else is dealing with it. Kelly Bousman has spent 28 years at AVI-SPL — nearly 5,000 employees, 75 offices from Tampa to Tokyo. She leads sustainability for the company and has spent her career asking how technology can change things for the better. She explains why sustainability is not about trade-offs, how AVI-SPL is protecting 140,000 hectares...

600 foster youth age out of the Tampa Bay system every year. That's only the documented number. Effie Santos is the founder of Madi's Movement — a nonprofit serving foster youth who turn 18 and lose every support structure at once. She spent 25 years in banking before launching her own business. Madi's Movement launched on August 15, 2022 — what would have been her daughter Madison&#39...

Terri Willingham co-founded AMRoC Fab Lab and Foundation for Community Driven Innovation because a robot changed her son's life, and she wanted that for every kid in the community. What started as a robotics team is now a four-program foundation bridging race, gender, and access gaps in entrepreneurship and innovation. In this episode, Terri and Tony Selvaggio talk about what happens when you put...

Most entrepreneurship content sells you a fantasy. This episode doesn't. Shane Smith from the Jim Moran Institute for Global Entrepreneurship sits down with Tony Selvaggio to talk about what nobody tells you when you start a business — the isolation, the burnout, the ego that keeps you trapped in your own operation, and why stepping away is the hardest thing most business owners will ever do. Shan...