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What if there were a repeatable exercise routine for enhancing your imagination, creativity and storytelling? Learn the 5-step universal framework Dave used for this purpose during his role as animator for Disney. Find transcript, links and show notes on the episode page.

This is a special interview with my father David Tierney on lessons in psychology, trial strategy, persuasion and communication from his 50+ year career as a civil litigation attorney. For transcript, links and show notes visit Problemattic.

Today Josh Strebel former co-founder and CEO of Pagely joins the show to talk about lessons learned from building and selling a 7-figure business to one of the largest hosting providers in the world. We talk about early days of getting it off the ground, transitioning from a consulting service to a products company, hiring and firing, leader-leader culture, pricing lessons and more. Find transcrip...

Methodologies like Lean Startup and Customer Development can help us short circuit the long journey of getting to a product that customers love. Aaron Eden tells us how. Aaron Eden is a world-renown expert in innovation having helped a number of large companies make new and disruptive products as well as radical improvements to existing, marginally-successful products. Today he talks us through a...

The Internet of Things is making it possible to not only log and analyze data from myriad sensors after the fact but with pervasive connectivity via LoRaWan technology it enables real-time interventional measures as well. In this episode Tiago Marques of Green Metrics explains how they’re using their technology to mitigate forest fires, foods, drought and species extinction. These are just four us...

Ted Williams was an incredible human being and I’m proud to have been his godson. He grew up in Kansas City during segregation and against adverse circumstances earned a law degree and then went on to be partner in a law firm and eventually run the Arizona Department of Health and Human Services under the term of six different governors. He launched and ran Arizona Behavioral Health Corporation an...

Food and Communications inequity keeps low-income families down over generations. Learn how Creighton Community Foundation is using SMS to bridge the Digital Divide and level up their community. Poor access to nutritious food and lack of internet connectivity are two anchors that keep many low-income families out of the game and without a chance to get ahead.  Most people in these communities...

In 1865 the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States but left an exception for its use as punishment for a crime. Today that clause has been exploited by private prisons that run as for-profit, publicly-traded entities that profit financially by incarcerating people and keeping them there. The prison industrial complex is the landscape of stakeholders that has cemented around the pris...

In this "tables turned" interview Ben Lakoff interviews Sean Tierney on the mission, vision and goals of the Problemattic project. We talk through the origin story, the underlying thinking, who can participate, what types of problems can be solved via this project and what you can do as a next step to get involved.  For links, show notes, transcripts and to join one of the project teams mentioned...

Rick Shapiro is author of the Amazon best-seller "Hope Never Dies." He's spent over twenty-five years meeting with top cancer doctors and attending cancer conferences to unravel the secrets of why some people diagnosed with terminal cancer end up beating the odds. Today we're talking to Rick about what cancer is, the role of holistic, integrative treatments in fighting various forms of cancer, the...

Kyla Raby is a PhD candidate at University of Southern Australia and works for the Red Cross in the fields of Human Trafficking, Forced Labor and Forced Marriage. She joins us today to unpack knotted issues around the enslavement of humans for sexual exploitation and for forced labor. In this episode you'll learn more about where and how this problem arises, the scope of the issue, the impact to s...

Homeless doesn't need to mean humanity-less. Learn how a grassroots group of volunteers in Barcelona has been delivering compassion (and food) to its homeless population for more than eight years and in so doing is creating joy not just amongst the less fortunate but also amongst its volunteers.  For links, show notes, transcripts and to join one of the project teams mentioned in the show, vi...

Kimber Lanning, CEO of Local First, joins us to talk about the widening wealth gap in the USA and how their programs are seeking to restore the middle class. For show notes, transcript and to see which teams need your skills visit problemattic.app .