Strap on your Boots

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...

In this episode, I give you the 4 tips I use to reach your goals in the new year. It’s a pretty common thing for people to make New Year's resolutions. Whether it’s losing weight, getting a new job, picking up a new skill, or learning an instrument or new language. There's so many different things people want to do in the new year, but more often than not they quit soon after they start. So I want...

In today's episode of Future Tech I talk to Kevin Vincent, who is the VP Global Business Development of UtopiaVR, a Virtual reality Metaverse meeting company. We discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated Zoom fatigue, where employees, families, and friends grew tired of little windows on the screen with faces getting distracted. We talk about how UtopiaVR makes meetings more interactive and en...

In today's episode I speak to the best selling author of Financial Alchemy, Morgana Rae about how to defeat the villain that is money, and instead finding ways of healing your relationship with money. Morgana also explains how money causes a feeling of powerlessness when you are constantly thinking about having more. When you beat the villain, and instead embrace the hero of the story, you will be...

In today’s video I'm going to give you my top four tips when outsourcing your projects. I've never really talked about this topic because there’s a bit of skepticism in the world in terms of outsourcing. So many clients who have come to me in the past have complained about the outsourced project they just had. Then it was my team and I who had to fix everything that the outsourced contractors did...

In today's episode I talk about the difference between distributed versus centralized cloud storage with Henry Wilson, an avid community supporter of a forward thinking company disrupting the cloud storage industry called ScPrime. Most companies use Amazon AWS, or other cloud storage companies to store their massive amounts of data. But it comes at a price, both in their wallet, and their security...

In today's episode of Future Tech I'm excited to talk about the metaverse and NFTs. More specifically, what will they look like in the future? The metaverse is essentially a virtual world or a virtual experience, and can be in Virtual Reality (VR). Everything you can do in the real world, you can do in a virtual world. It’s nothing new, since kids have been playing Minecraft and Roblox for years,...

In this episode I talk to Shannon Polson on how to use the Grit Factor in a changing world. As one of the first women to fly the Apache helicopter in the U.S. Army, leading line units on three continents, Polson combines her passion and firsthand experience in and study of leadership and grit to deliver world-class keynotes and training to companies and organizations on leadership and grit. Listen...

In today’s episode I talk about the sacrifices it takes to truly be creative. I've seen other people whether friends, family, or just entrepreneurs struggle with the decompression or the reentry into society after finishing a large creative project. So, this is for people out there listening or watching who want to be creative, they want to be an entrepreneur, they want to succeed in some creative...

In this episode, I talk to entrepreneur of 30 years Gunther Mueller of Dream Life Masters. Gunther explains the 5 simple but profound steps to create whatever life you choose, however most people get them wrong, because they choose an ineffective goal, or do not know how to take the correct actions. The truth is, you can create a life you want as fast as you want as long as you know how the univer...