Jolty

Adam and Faith are back for a new episode of Jolty. This week’s guest is Don Burton, and education technology & innovation thought leader. Don started off in the business world working for Goldman Sachs as well as McKinsey & Company, before coming to the realization that career path wasn’t fully utilizing his passions and potential. This inspired Don to eventually branch out into the educa...

This week on Jolty, Adam is riding solo as co host Faith is out on business. But this still promises to be a very jolty episode with guest Michael Matias. Michael is the CEO of Clarity, which is a relatively new company that is working to fight deepfakes for enterprises.  Deepfakes are a new threat in the digital realm which combines “deep learning” and artificial intelligence with personal identi...

Adam and Faith are back for the second Jolty of 2024, and this is a great one with guest “Momo” Vuyisich, the Co-Founder, Chief Science Officer, and Head of Clinical Research at Viome Life Sciences. Viome is focused on microbiomes in your gut, making sure you are eating the proper nutrients for your individual needs.  It’s a fact that as advances in medical and pharmaceutical technology have expan...

This week on Jolty, Adam and Faith are joined by the Senior Director at Ripp Media, Joshua Spivak, to talk about everything recall elections. Joshua has been running a recall elections blog going on thirteen years, and is a Senior Fellow at the Hugh L. Carey Center for Government Reform. Needless to say, he’s very passionate about this subject. In an age where people are frustrated with their poli...

Welcome to Jolty with Adam and Faith! In this episode, we dive into the world of mental health innovation with our guest, Alex Frenkel, who used his training in clinical psychology as the basis for Kai.ai. Kai is a conversational AI app that engages users in meaningful, therapeutically-validated chats where people reveal intimate emotions they might feel uncomfortable exploring in settings that ar...

Today, Faith and Adam are joined by Dr. Harold Koplewicz, one of the nation’s leading child and adolescent psychiatrists and President of the Child Mind Institute. In a timely conversation following the attacks on children and other civilians in Israel, Dr. Koplewicz shares his insights on how parents can communicate the reality of these brutal events with honesty and sensitivity. He explains how...

Today, Faith and Adam are joined by Steven Hassan. In this episode, we discover the secrets of cults, the impact of AI, and the future of humanity. Steven, a cult expert and author, shares his personal experience within the Moonies cult, highlighting their manipulation and thought-stopping techniques. We’ll explore the psychology of cults, the "malignant narcissism" in powerful figures,...

This week on Jolty we are joined by Lenny Ackerman, a lifelong lawyer and author. Lenny turned to writing after his wife's passing, starting with pen pals and growing into a great storyteller. His book, "Fishing The Morning," blends his love of fishing with personal experiences. Lenny also shares his father's journey from Ukraine to America, and an upbringing which shaped him int...

On this episode of Jolty, Adam and Faith are joined by Walter De Brouwer, a theoretician on artificial intelligence with an over 30 year career in the field. Walter has established several AI and deep tech companies, 4 of which even underwent public offerings. He’s here to walk us through AI and computer language models, black holes, further innovations in AI coming down the pike, and even the his...

This week on Jolty, Adam and Faith explore integrative medicine and holistic wellness with Dr. Richard Firshein. Richard has seen more than 25,000 patients at the Firshein Center on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, treating conditions ranging from asthma and chronic fatigue to migraines, sciatica and Long Covid.   Dr. Firshein shares his family-inspired journey, treating chronic issues holistically th...

On this week’s Jolty, Adam and Faith are joined by a very special guest, Juan Enriquez, who is an author, academic, and speaker. He has some pretty amazing insights into the polarization of Americans in 2023, and why our perceptions of right and wrong have changed over the history of human civilization.  How have the goal posts of morality changed over the years? Why was slavery accepted across th...

This week on Jolty we have a very special guest; the President of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten. The AFT is one of the largest organizations in the country with over 1.7 million members, 60% of which work directly in education, but also many of which work in other fields such as healthcare. One of Randi’s many missions is to make the middle class cool again, while also maki...

Join us as we dive into the world of longevity with Sergey Young, author of "Science and Technology of Growing Young." In this episode, Young shares groundbreaking insights on extending human lifespan. Discover the latest research, cutting-edge technologies, and visionary perspectives that challenge our understanding of aging.  Explore the potential of rejuvenation biotechnology, regener...

This week, we are joined by our good friend Dr. Jane Aronson, pediatrician and child psychiatrist, who specializes in adopted kids. Jane also ran the Worldwide Orphans foundations for over 20 years, and even helped Faith to adopt her two lovely children, gg, 24 and cc, 18.   We explore with Jane the failures of orphanages, the health issues with which adopted children struggle, child trafficking c...

This week, Adam and Faith are joined by longtime friend and colleague Emily Oberman, who is a Partner at the design studio Pentagram. Emily has a wealth of experience in the design and branding space, working on projects like Saturday Night Live, Ready Player One, and DC.  Why are logos and brands made the way they are? How will AI impact designers? What was it like rebranding the SNL intro after...

This week Adam and Faith are joined by one of the most Jolty guests yet, a fellow futurist Nita Farahany, who is the author of a new book called The Battle for Your Brain. It's quite the dystopian idea that future technology will open up the possibilities of reading and understanding what someone is thinking. But while it seems like something from a George Orwell novel, it could be here sooner...

As we grow older, the abundance of guidance, patterns, and exemplary figures that we once had access to in our youth, seem to dwindle. However, despite the fact that media and brands have struggled to grasp, promote, or address any demographic over the age of 40, AGEIST is a company committed to advocating for a fresh perspective on life beyond 50. On this week’s Jolty, Adam and Faith are joined b...

This week’s Jolty episode is all about the future of human resources. As life expectancy increases, future generations will be required to work longer, into their seventies and even eighties. But it seems like companies today are looking to hire people over 50 less and less. How will we bridge this divide? That’s where NxtWaves comes in. Adam and Faith are joined by the founder, Michele Evans, who...

Adam and Faith are delighted to be joined by Louis Rosenberg, PhD, and David Baltaxe, who are the CEO and President respectively of Unanimous AI. Unanimous AI amplifies the intelligence of networked human groups through their Swarm AI technology. This technology seems to be especially directed at businesses with multiple shareholders trying to all pull in different directions, with the idea that a...

This week Adam and Faith are about to get ‘Jolted’ by Alayar Kangarlu, an associate professor of neurobiology who has also been working in the field of MRI research and development since the 90s. More recently, Alayar has been focused on a therapeutic procedure called PrTMS which uses an fMRI scan to locate areas of the brain that are not working correctly and sends signals to help ‘jolt’ the brai...

This week, Adam and Faith are joined by Tobias Peggs, CEO of Square Roots, a company that has the mission to feed every consumer on the planet with locally grown food using hydroponics. Tobias will tell us all about the technology behind Square Roots, including the impact of AI on the growing of lettuce. How does growing with hydroponics compare to growing in traditional soil? What are the pros an...

The first Jolty of 2023 is here! Faith and Adam are joined by Chloé de Ruffray to discuss everything about future trends. While many people are feeling like the world is in a constant state of crysis, many are also finding sanctuary in the regressive aspects of technology and culture. AI like ChatGPT are changing the industry, what jobs will be impacted by the introduction of AI into the workforce...

On the last episode of Jolty for 2022, Adam and Faith take a moment to give their predictions on trends moving into 2023 and beyond. Will business owners ever be able to get their employees back into the office? Will Covid ACTUALLY end this time? What about Trump? We get you the answers and much more on this week’s Jolty!

This week on Jolty, Adam and Faith are joined by Andrew Goldman. Andrew (Andy) is the Head of Programming at Grooveee, LLC and has also been a professor at NYU for the past 17 years. But before that, he got his big break working for HBO for nearly 30 years, giving him real world experience of the ins and outs of TV programming, pilots, screen testing etc. Not only is Andy a very Jolty guest, he’s...

On this episode of Jolty, Adam and Faith have an excellent guest who will quell some of your anxieties when it comes to implementing artificial intelligence into robots. Bruce Duncan comes onto the podcast to talk to us about Bina48, a humanoid social robot based on a real life person named Bina Rothblatt. We find out the purpose of Bina48 and how it was created. We also dive into the ethics of AI...