The Louis Shulman Podcast

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Matt Slater is an entrepreneur, founder, investor, advisor, and crypto evangelist. In college, he founded his first company, Campus Ink, a t-shirt screen printing company that opened him up to the world of entrepreneurship. After landing in San Francisco post-college, Matt found a community of people working and developing the early world of Crypto. He went on to found Hedgy, one of the first Bitc...

Jon is a consultant, owner/investor, author, and international speaker specializing in the area of non-food franchising.  Jon also oversees FranBridge Capital where, with partners, he owns 18 territories across 5 property service franchises. Prior to FranBridge, Jon was the President of ShelfGenie, a national franchise system with hundreds of locations.  Before ShelfGenie, Jon was the Vice Preside...

Victoria has co-founded multiple companies with her husband, Alain Chuard. These include Access Trips, Wildfire, and now Prisma. She also earned her MBA from Harvard Business School. After starting her family and being unsatisfied with the options for educating her children, she knew there had to be a better way, so she co-founded her newest venture, Prisma. Prisma is redefining education by takin...

Tony Lopez started Alternative Living Spaces to help fight the affordable housing crisis and to solve his own problem of overpaying for rent. In this conversation, we cover the founding story, his vision for the future, and his personal why behind it all. Links:  Alternative Living Spaces Website : https://alternativelivingspaces.com/ Follow Alternative Living Spaces on Instagram : https://www.ins...

Links  Joe Bastardi on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BigJoeBastardi Decline and Fall of Roman Empire: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002XHNO8S/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 Chariots of Fire (movie):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEtD0ybH7ns If I Were The Devil (1965): https://youtu.be/S9NoQHgjM_0 Joe's Book, The Weaponization of Weather:  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08HPSPL89/ref=dp-ki...

Tom Merrick, aka The Bodyweight Warrior, has built a massive following for his excellent instructional videos, follow-along stretch routines, and top-notch health and fitness content. His channel incorporates practical philosophy, scientific breakdowns, and step-by-step progressions to improve health and fitness in all dimensions.  In this conversation, we cover training goals, sleep and diet advi...

Tylah McConnell knew from an early age that catching babies was her calling. After going the traditional route of the medical establishment with months of work without a day off, Tylah had a  defining moment of clarity where she knew she had turn off the beaten path. From there, she dove headfirst into her own practice, starting a midwifery consulting practice, building a brand around midwifery, a...

While having to shut down a previous startup  in the midst of the pandemic, Matt's number one priority was to give his globally distributed team a soft landing into great organizations. While doing this, he came to realize that corporations would not hire internationally because of compliance standards and foreign subsidiary requirements. A lightbulb went off, and Panther was born to solve this pr...

Mitko is a lifelong entrepreneur who immigrated to the United States at the age of eleven.  After jumping from major to major in college, Mitko dropped out to pursue entrepreneurship full time. In this conversation, we discuss online communities, the importance of learning through case studies and real-life situations, the value of an apprenticeship, the income streams that he has worked to produc...

Grant McCarty is a current MBA candidate and baseball player at Johns Hopkins University, recent graduate of the University of Alabama with two degrees in two years. Grant also runs PrepHQ a profitable education company for at risk youth, is the former CMO of a fin-tech startup with an 8-figure valuation, runs a consulting and full stack digital marketing agency, and sold a company in the  cannabi...

Peter is a serial entrepreneur, inventor, engineer, and Artificial Intelligence expert.  After starting in electronics engineering company, Peter naturally took to software development. In that process, Peter was taken by the fragility of software and set out on a 15 year journey to understand intelligence, how it has been developed over time, and how to bring it to machines to reduce naïveté and...

Mark Podolsky started buying small parcels of land in 2001 armed with only $3,000 and no real estate experience. Since then, he has transacted over 5,000 individual parcels, built technology to help himself and others scale the business, provided hundreds of people with the model and the lifestyle that comes with passive income, and wrote a book about creating passive income without renters, renov...

David Bailey is the CEO of BTC inc, a conglomerate that owns Bitcoin Magazine, The Bitcoin Conference, UTXO Management, and Carrot. Since entering the crypto space in 2012, David has run businesses that involve every part of the crypto ecosystem. After a few misguided years experimenting with crypto projects outside of Bitcoin, David came to the realization that Bitcoin is upstream of all other cr...

Through his work in molecular genetics, Sheldon came to understand both the value of structured data, and the amount of unstructured data that the world was coming into. After a few years in data mining roles, he founded Proclivity which sought to structure data in such a way that helped all parties in a transaction gain utility. Recently, Sheldon has been evangelizing a feature of Blockchain tech...

Brandon Green is Chief of Staff at Bitcoin Magazine. This role includes being a special assistant to the CEO, operations manager, and most recently the director of content for Bitcoin 2021 in Miami. Brandon started at BTC Mag after graduating from college, taking a calculated risk in leaving behind chemical engineering for Bitcoin.  This conversation covers deep dives into why Bitcoin is good for...

Scott's formal bio from Amazon: "Scott has spent his career as a storyteller connecting people with ideas. Along the way, Scott’s work has generated millions of views through a feature-length documentary, multiple televisions series, short films, and a diverse range of commercial projects for Microsoft, NBC, Facebook, FOX, Taylor Guitars, Wired, and others. Now, Scott has created Playing with FIRE...

Joel Runyon is a world-traveling athlete, philanthropist, speaker, and entrepreneur.  His TEDx talk on Cold Showers has earned over 1.25 million views.  Joel's company, Impossible, helps individuals break through their limits and achieve incredible feats.  In this conversation, we cover how to get 6-pack abs, saunas, steam rooms, and cold exposure, achieving multiple goals at once, near-death expe...

Rita Lewison Singer is a retired entrepreneur turned actress. Throughout her career, Rita spent time as a school teacher, college professor, magazine creator, ghostwriter, and corporate communications consultant.  This conversation covers the major highlights from every stop along the way. We also dive into the events and decision processes guiding the transitions between each of these roles.  It...

Cole Schafer is an entrepreneur, copywriter, and poet. For many years he has fed himself by connecting his brain to pen and creating value with words.  Cole runs Honey Copy, a creative writing and copywriting firm, A-Team: a collection of elite freelancing entrepreneurs, two newsletters with 10's of thousands of subscribers, and authors poetry books in his free time. His latest release, After Her...

Dr. Richard Schatz is research director of cardiovascular interventions at the Scripps Heart, Lung, and Vascular Center and director of gene and stem cell therapy. His work in coronary stents launched a revolution in the treatment of coronary artery disease; over 2 million stents are placed each year. His work has had an immeasurable impact on prolonging life and reducing healthcare costs. This ep...

Colton  Sakamoto graduated from the University of Oregon with a degree in Applied Economics and Business before earning his MBA all the while playing and teaching his first passion: Baseball.  After a brief stint in mortgage banking, Colton found himself on a zoom call with Anthony Pompliano after he won an an impromptu meme off. During the call, him and Pomp teamed up to found Pomp Crypto Jobs, a...

Polina Marinova Pompliano is the founder of The Profile, a media outlet and newsletter that publishes long-form profiles of the world's most successful people. Polina reads millions of words each year and distills them into actionable, captivating stories that she releases to her audience every Sunday. Before going full-time on The Profile, Polina spent years working at Fortune Magazine where she...

Joe Wehbe and Scott McKeon are Australian entrepreneurs with a background in non-profit work.  Using knowledge gained from helping rebuild Nepalese communities after a devastating Earthquake, Joe and Scott each launched their own entrepreneurial careers. Scott is the co-founder of Espresso displays, "The World’s Thinnest Portable Monitors."  Joe's business projects include co-founding the Sydney L...

Before Lisa started her businesses, she was a practicing attorney. As she worked, she used her money, nights, and weekends to fund and found  Sin City Cupcakes, the first alcoholic Cupcake company in Las Vegas.  Later, she went on to build Elite Homes, a Christie's International Real Estate brokerage, Liquid and Lace Swimwear, and her most recent company, Ship Las Vegas. Throughout the conversatio...