The Misfit Heroes Podcast

This week, Chris details the 5 tips that have helped him be a great listener. If your conversations have been lacking, or you're struggling with how to talk to someone, these proven tips will help you engage with people much deeper. Find out more about the misfit heroes podcast at https://www.beacons.ai/misfitheroes and https://www.misfit-heroes.com

Alex Sezer Jr. is the CEO of  Alex Sezer Ventures , where he revolutionizes businesses with biblical truths.  He excels as a leader and focuses on organizational improvement through cultural transformation to create passionate, profitable, and purpose-driven organizations with biblical principles.  In a nutshell, Alex helps Christian business leaders go from Sunday mo...

Justin Levy is the executive director of Conscious Alliance, a Colorado based nonprofit that organizes food donation drives at concerts and music festivals across the nation. Founded in 2002, Conscious Alliance is a national nonprofit, bringing healthy food into underserved communities and fusing music with opportunities to make a positive impact.  Through their Art That Feeds food drives at...

Courteney Stuart is a veteran journalist who’s spent the past twenty years covering crime and criminal justice issues in Central Virginia. A broadcast journalist since 2015, Courteney previously served as an investigative reporter and editor-in-chief at two weekly newspapers in Charlottesville. She is the recipient of more than two dozen reporting awards from the Virginia Press Association includi...

Beetle James has seen a recent virality on social media when she detailed her story of living through the troubled teen industry, a group of organizations that utilize extreme boot camp style measures to address at risk youth with behavioral issues. While many of the programs are promoted as victorious and life changing, Beetle’s experiences were quite the opposite. Spending nearly a year and a ha...

Another year has passed, and if you’re new here, every January, I do the state of the podcast, explaining where I’ve been, where I’m at, and where we’re going with the podcast. It’s a simple recap, and a fun way really for me to track progress, and for you to play along. Find out more about the misfit heroes podcast at www.misfit-heroes.com and www.beacons.ai/misfitheroes

Julian Brown took it upon himself to use his love for the environment and develop a microwave pyrolisis reactor, a device that recycles any type of carbon matter into fuels like natural gas, diesel, and jet fuel.  He started this project without any formal training or knowledge of chemical engineering, and begun his research using google searches.  His device has evolved through 5 genera...

In this episode, Chris has a conversation with the ChatGPT AI algorithm.  The GPT4 algorithm by OpenAI has tremendous potential to change the world of technology, and its simplicity and ease of use is simply remarkable.  With a simple search string, users can create websites, pieces of code, write music, get gift ideas, pretty much anything you could think of, just by asking in the form...

Steven Nogueira is a Christian twitch streamer that uses the medium of gaming and e sports to share the love and hope of the message of Jesus Christ to randoms that he plays video games with online.    His passion and love for God has helped him create a community of over 260,000 followers around the world, and developed a promising new way for pastors to reach new believers.  &nbsp...

Jeff Bermant is the creator of Tusk Browser, a web browser that was designed to fight censorship and promote free speech online.    For nearly 20 years, Jeff has been creating web browsers and online utilities with a focus on privacy and data protection.    His previous project, Cocoon, was a browser platform designed to pay users for the data that is used by advertisers t...

Greg Wiens is a mennonite pastor in Canada who was inspired by the efforts of a military vet in an issue of National Geographic magazine.    While reading an article about the efforts made to offer eyeglasses to people in third world countries, Greg and his partner devised an efficient and cost-effective method of giving eye exams to those less fortunate.   The exam takes secon...

Josh Cliffords is the CEO of Free Water, an Austin, TX based startup that is the first free beverage company that uses ads placed on their labels to not only pay for their business cost, but also donate at least ten cents to charity per bottle.   Not only does his unique idea have potential to flip the beverage industry upside down, he also wants to make free grocery stores as well.  &nb...

Have you ever wanted to help the less fortunate but maybe don’t have the wherewithal or financial capacity to help others yourself?  If so, you need to listen to this episode. This is a common occurrence, and unfortunately a tough reality in america. How many times have you seen someone begging on a street corner and literally hundreds of cars driving by without any attention given? Couple th...

Kimberly Moses is an author, speaker, pastor, and the creator of Rejoice International, a Christian ministry that leads women out of the adult entertainment industry and into a life of Christ. From the age of 13, Kimberly began stripping at house parties, and eventually began working at gentleman's clubs at the age of 18, until a chance encounter at an auto accident led her to pursue her faith, an...

Shelly served in the United States Army Reserves for 16 years as an Intelligence Officer and now is a small business owner and ordained minister, advocating for selfless service in action.  Attaining the rank of Captain, Shelly served as an S2, a Company Commander and more, leading covert intelligence briefings and orchestrating security programs for nearly 4,000 Soldiers.  Her military...

Bonnie Hardy is a mindset, life, and gratitude coach based out of Central Florida.  She is also the owner of Rock Solid Coaching.   Bonnie was the first person I met on my trip to Podfest in Orlando, Florida.    She had recently became homeless, and was sleeping outside of the event on a park bench becuase she recieved tickets from one of the speakers in an online Fac...

THIS IS PART 2 OF A 2 PART EPISODE. FOR PART ONE, CLICK HERE: Christina Dent is a mother, foster parent, and executive director of the nonprofit End It For Good, a christian Mississippi based company that aims to end the drug war in America using compassion. From a young age, Christina was raised to believe a certain set of principles. She believed that people who went to jail for drugs were suppo...

Christina Dent is a mother, foster parent, and executive director of the nonprofit End It For Good, a christian Mississippi based company that aims to end the drug war in America using compassion. From a young age, Christina was raised to believe a certain set of principles. She believed that people who went to jail for drugs were supposed to be incarcerated, that they were mere criminals and noth...

Christina Dent is a mother, foster parent, and executive director of the nonprofit End It For Good, a christian Mississippi based company that aims to end the drug war in America using compassion. From a young age, Christina was raised to believe a certain set of principles. She believed that people who went to jail for drugs were supposed to be incarcerated, that they were mere criminals and noth...

Connor Boyack is the creator of the Tuttle Twins series of books, a children’s book series that teaches children positive moral values in fun and character driven stories.    The Tuttle Twins books teach children positive moral values like the golden rule, non-aggression, how inflation works and why prices of the items we buy keep increasing, individual rights, justice, and what a free m...

Seth Silvers is the CEO of StoryOn Media, and host of his podcast "The Business", which is being launched this year as a 10,000 piece NFT collection.  Seth was a presenter in Orlando, Florida at Podfest, and when he mentioned his new podcast was going to be released solely as an NFT, I had to find out what all the buzz was about.  We discuss what NFTs are in layman's terms, how the purpo...

Sam Mitchell is the host of the Autism rocks & rolls podcast, an insightful look into the everyday life of someone with high functioning autism. Sam has recently started a nonprofit that empowers people with low functioning autism to find job opportunities and discover hope and fulfillment in their personal lives. We discuss the treatment and portrayal of people with Autism in media, his new nonpr...

Always Banks is the creator and executive director of the princess program foundation, a 501c3 nonprofit that brings joy to children with terminal illnesses  by offering in person and zoom meetings with princesses.    Since 2017, Banks and her merry group of volunteers have been delighting children with terminal illnesses across the United States and internationally, all while she i...

Always Banks is the creator and executive director of the princess program foundation, a 501c3 nonprofit that brings joy to children with terminal illnesses  by offering in person and zoom meetings with princesses. Since 2017, Banks and her merry group of volunteers have been delighting children with terminal illnesses across the United States and internationally, all while she is also workin...

Brandon Lopez is the CEO and executive director of The Embrace Foundation, a 501c3 nonprofit that provides insulin and diabetes testing supplies for type 1 and 2 diabetics that can not afford to pay for them. Since being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of seven years old, Brandon has dealt with the financial and healthcare woes that many diabetics in America suffer regularly. Diabetes is...