Strap on your Boots

In this episode of Zero to CEO I talk to Tech Entrepeneur & World Traveler Dan Zavorotny about how to turn your idea into a 120 person team in 2.5 years. We touch on certain points such as: How to hire effectively for jobs you have never done. How to recruit great people. Why culture is pivotal to early success. Starting a company 3 months before covid. Scaling organization to 120 people in 2....

Our world is changing, and leading companies have been forced to adjust their systems due to two defining factors—health concerns and the innovations in Web3. Rik Lomas is a master at decentralizing education and creative collaboration, and he’s spent his career trying to find unorthodox ways to help creatives get ahead in their careers. Through his passion to pioneer new support systems for creat...

In this episode, I speak to Founder & CEO of Yellowdig Shaunak Roy on how to teach and learn in a post-COVID world. One of the things Shaunak noticed that impacted learning during the pandemic were that teachers were forced to use technology, which was a big change. We talk about innovating in a regulated space (higher education and K12) as well as how to evaluate edtech from a buyer standpoin...

In this episode of Zero to CEO, I talk to Michael Trezza, who is the Founder and CEO of Giant Leaps Learning , an online after-school enrichment program that helps kids master the 21st-century skills they’ll need to thrive. The core focus of the program is becoming a great leader from a young age. They’ve put together a curriculum that shows foundational routines and behaviors of leadership excell...

In this episode, I give you three reasons why you should never give up on your idea. I decided to do this episode now because I just recently finished rebuilding my old app Instamour . We originally built it in 2013 as a video dating app, and I actually had the idea for it back in 2006. So it's actually really old. But I didn't build it until 2013. Starting in 2017 I decided to rebuild the app as...

In this episode I talk to successful entrepreneur Sara Sabin about the 5 Magic Ingredients for Business & Holistic Success. There are key ingredients that Sara has discovered and uses to help her clients succeed and achieve higher levels of joy and satisfaction as an entrepreneur. So we focus on the 5 things that need to be present for you to be an effective CEO of your business. Vision &...

In this episode I talk to Fintech expert Tristan Pelloux about how you can multitask between two businesses successfully. He runs a fintech blog while running a consulting company and found himself juggling various things. We discuss how being an entrepreneur usually involves running a startup while working on contracts as a consultant. Tristan talks about how he prioritizes tasks and organizes hi...

In this episode, award winning voice-over artist & audio-branding expert Jodi Krangle will provide listeners with tips on how to use audio in ad campaigns to help you make your brand stand out from the rest. She and Jason talk sci-fi fantasy and how Jodi started her filk music, all-female, acoustic band, Urban Tapestry. How Star Wars and other notable movies or shows have a theme that spreads...

Have you ever thought what it would be like if you could live forever? What would you do with your immortality? Well let's not go that far. In this episode, I talk about breakthrough techniques in the cell-ageing process that will stave off the diseases of old age by restoring the function of older cells and reducing their biological age. Without getting too scientific, I dive into the promises of...

In today's episode I speak to Brand Strategist Jason Cercone who specializes in helping professionals to maximize their time investment for brand building though various optimizations. We also talk about different ways to spread your brand awareness using social media, email marketing, being a podcast guest, and various other methods. Dive into this episode and learn how to build your brand!

In this episode of Zero to CEO I speak to Award-winning Professional Business Mentor author and speaker Christine Nicholson of Business Mentor UK .  We discuss actionable tips entrepreneurs can use to increase the profits and value of their business while working fewer hours and with less stress and anxiety. We also focus on the 5 things you can start doing right now that will make your business m...

In today's episode, I'm going to give you the top five reasons you should hire an intern. At least the top five reasons that I hire interns. And the reason why I thought this episode was really relevant today in particular is because I'm smack in the middle of interviewing a multitude of interns for different positions within the different businesses that I'm currently involved with. So yes I prac...

In this episode of Future Tech, I speak to Co-founder and CTO, Leon Kuperman at Cast.ai . He is an authority on cloud computing, web application security and Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), e-commerce, and web application architecture. We discuss how Artificial Intelligence could make the planet greener by saving countless kilowatt hours of electricity being wasted in datac...

In today's episode I talk to Dr. James Richardson on how to get exponential growth by bootstrapping your business. He explains how big brands all use a mathematical growth curve and how it seems like it happens overnight, but it actually takes years. James mentions how an initial design, the packaging, the basic branding, is usually where a business first fails. He says getting feedback from custo...

Today I’m celebrating my 100th episode for Strap on your Boots. I've been hosting this podcast since 2018 and my YouTube channel since 2015. A lot has happened in all these years. So I wanted to take this opportunity to do a recap of the accomplishments I've achieved, the goals I've reached, and the things I've learned along the way. If you’re a listener of my series, then you’ve heard some of the...

In this episode of Future Tech, I discuss how space elevators could change humanity. It’s no secret that spaceships are expensive. A final tally of NASAs space shuttle program's lifetime costs puts the price tag at $1.5 billion per flight. Even SpaceX has said the operational cost is about $28 million per launch. Spaceflight is expensive. A space elevator would cost about 60 cents per pound. A per...

In this episode I speak to Rob Schulz who is a wealth manager & financial planner about how to sell your business and transition to something new. He says most people don't know where to start or when to start. Some business owners make the wrong decision when selling their business because their skillset doesn't help with the actual transaction. A lot of business owners also regret selling th...

In this episode, I'm going to tell you the things that I do to stay calm during a crisis. We've all been living through this pandemic for the past couple of years. And as we thought we were getting out of the current crisis, we got hit with another one. Russia invaded Ukraine, which is now causing not only a global panic, but a war. And there are a lot of political things going on. But I'm not goi...

In this episode I talk to poet, writer, director Maggie Daniels on how to stay motivated as an indie creative. Maggie explains how writing her poetry book Swimming helped through a traumatic experience. She says finding "your people" is super important and that when you are an independent artist, you'll find out that it's all in who you know. She pushed through trauma by making a trailer for a scr...

In this episode of Future Tech we dive into Schrödinger’s cat. There is a cat inside a box, that is both dead and alive to an outside observer because, until the box is opened, you can’t tell either way. You have to assume it’s one or another, which makes it essentially both until we know for sure. When when it comes to the universe, it's base reality is made up of what we can confirm through obse...

In this episode I talk to TedX alumn Lewis Chaney about how much time people waste when they don't get to the point when in conversations with others. Lewis explains how you should have your story planned, and avoid rambling or tangents at all costs. He thinks "winging it" is a really bad idea and becoming a better storyteller in your private world, will inadvertently make you a better storyteller...

In this episode I'm going to talk about what I learned from interviewing at Google. In 2015, I was flown out to Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California for a really long named position, which was Lead Program Manager Developer Relations Ecosystem. Quite a mouthful. It was a position to help Google’s startup succeed using their tools and methods. What I cover in this episode is not only...

In this episode I talk to Morissa Schwartz from DrRissy.com about how your online presence can boost your business. When people talk about online presence, they usually mean blogs, websites, marketing through social media, podcasts, videos and other methods. Morissa tells us how defining your goals is the first step in the right direction. She thinks TikTok is huge for promoting products, but Twit...

In today’s episode of future tech. I want to talk about why space telescopes are so important for not only space exploration but for the future of mankind. You may have heard in the news recently that NASA recently launched the James Webb Space Telescope. Maybe you don't even know what it is or why it's important. But I'm sure everyone has heard of the Hubble telescope. It's been in orbit around E...

In today's episode I talk to Sam Gupta who has been an Enterprise resource planning (ERP) thought leader in the digital transformation space for nearly two decades. During this time he has been part of large transformation initiatives for fortune-500 corporations but now spends his time consulting with SMEs as a Principal Consultant/CEO at ElevatIQ . In this episode you'll learn how to identify th...