Tiny Little Victories

In this big, big energy episode, the epic visual storyteller E stella Tse joins us for a frank, fun, and authentic discussion about creating moments through art and technology. An AR and VR creative artist and director, Estella is a talented visual storyteller who started coding when she was just 11 years old and later graduated to create webpages that featured her artwork. She holds a degree in S...

In this episode of Massive Talk - Sleep, Jennifer Kite-Powell and co-host Naos Wilbrink talk about sleep and why you need it. They took their cue from several new studies that show sleeping naked had a ton of health benefits, including reduced fungal infections. Yes! The Massive Talk talkers also examine a study from ⁠Penn Medicine ⁠ highlighting how violence can severely impact our sleep quality....

In this episode of Tiny Little Victories, we are joined by the Gin Boss - Leon Dalloway . He founded the Gin Journey and experiential tour of gin distilleries in London, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Brighton, and Chester, and down under in Sydney, Australia. Gin Journey is the number one rated gin tour on the planet - so pack a bag and plan a trip to any of those cities for the best gin tour of y...

In this episode of Tiny Little Victories, our guest, Theresa Neil , Founder of Guidea , a UX design company, tells us how she created Femovate, an accelerator program to support FemTech companies. The company donated $1M in UX design services to their first cohort of companies, and the success of the program has taken Theresa and her team by surprise. Theresa shares stories and advice for anyone t...

In this episode of Tiny Little Victories' Massive Talk, guest host Naos Wilbrink has turned the tables on host Jennifer Kite-Powell for an intimate and candid discussion of her poetry and process. Hint: it's always a muse. Check out Jennifer's two books of poetry, Love, Lust, Longing and Truth and the chapbook, Deluge in a Paper Cup on Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble online. You can a...

Our guests in this episode are two inspiring women from the UK who discuss the importance of diversity, inclusion and authenticity in technology. Rosemarie Wilson , the founder of Pragmatic Coaching and author of the book " Imposter Syndrome and Your Performance - What's the Link?" is a mentor, speaker, and advocate for women in tech. Jennifer Opal (she/her), an award-winning DevOps...

This is Massive Talk! An episode inside of the podcast, Tiny Little Victories, co-hosted by your favorite pilot, Naos Wilbrink . You may remember Naos from S3 E2 on Tiny Little Victories called The Pilot. In this inaugural segment of Massive Talk, we talk about massive issues facing us today as humans with candor and humor - from Naos' new 'jet job,' wealth to how to create a world bas...

Did you know that the European honey bee is known as Apis mellifera in scientific terms? In this episode, I had a chat with two amazing urban beekeepers, Patrick McKannan and Kyle Tindle, who shared their experiences and love for keeping honey bees. Patrick is not just an experienced urban beekeeper but also a fantastic mentor who teaches beekeeping classes and mentors bee scholarship students at...

In this episode, explorer, environmentalist and entrepreneur John Hazelwood talks about his journey from Texas to Bulgaria and back again. (bet you didn't see that coming). From his time growing up in Greece to London and Alabama, John is now back in Texas after decades building businesses in Bulgaria. He also was involved with bringing the Bulgarian soccar team to Austin so for all you soccar...

In this bonus episode of Tiny Little Victories we throw protocal, format and structure under the bus to have a candid conversation full of outbursts on what in the world is wrong with dating, dating aps and some tiny dating horror stories. (no one died) This new segment, Massive Talk: Dating and sh*t like that. Join Andi Trammell and your host, Jennifer Kite-Powell as they trip down memory lane in...

On this week's episode, Alexander Colle virtually drops in from Scotland to chat about the world of robots for a candid conversation about human-robot interaction and some serious robot topics like can you love a robot? And how can you make a human-centric robot, and what in the world is up with those robots in Westworld? But we are in good hands because Alexander is a French roboticist and en...

⁠ Naos Wilbrink ⁠  joins Tiny Little Victories for a lively and very curvy conversation about becoming a survey pilot, how to make friends when you move to a new country over 40 (tip: it is an LGBTQ church), paradoxes, ChatGPT and pilot training and living in suburban California as a Dutchie. Naos is a technologist and inquiring mind who has always been creating, thinking and exploring. He talks a...

Ron Sylvester⁠⁠ , Executive Producer of the documentary film,  ⁠⁠ Committment to Life ⁠⁠  joins Tiny Little Victories for the debut of Season 3. Ron is also the CEO of his own Entertainment firm which manages red carpet events in LA including the press room for the Primtetime Emmys.  The film is directed by  Jeffrey Schwarz , an Emmy Award-winning producer, director and editor based in Los Angeles...

In this episode of  ⁠Tiny Little Victories⁠ , I talk with the Texas denim king,  ⁠Carl Forkel⁠ . Carl is from Dresden, Germany and went to a military school in New Mexico when he was 15. While in the United States, he got a taste of what would become his passion for American ingenuity, manufacturing, and denim design. Carl talks about his new jean label, CFF, vintage sewing machines, and why stitc...

In this penultimate episode of season 2 of  ⁠Tiny Little Victories⁠ , I talked with  ⁠Dr. Brittany Lamb⁠ , an ER doctor, educator, advocate and speaker passionately focused on helping dementia family caregivers achieve peace of mind in their decisions. She created a  ⁠free audio guide⁠  to help people through their journey to make the best medical decisions for their loved ones. Dr. Lamb talks abo...

In this episode of  ⁠Tiny Little Victories⁠ , I spoke  ⁠with Hayley Tsukayama⁠  , a senior legislative activist with the  ⁠Electronic Frontier Foundation⁠ . Hayley was the 2010 recipient of the White House Correspondents Association-Missouri Fellowship in Governmental Affairs Reporting and a technology reporter for the Washington Post  covering technology, policy and gadgets. She confesses on the...

In this episode of Tiny Little Victories , I talked with  ⁠Darryn Keiller⁠ , CEO of  ⁠WayBeyond⁠ . This New Zealand AgTech company is working to transform the agricultural industry to enable sustainable food production worldwide. Darryn founded WayBeyond just six years ago and came out of R & D right as the pandemic started. He tells us how that helped level the playing field for WayBeyond to...

I spoke with Chris Brown from NVIDIA on this week's episode of Tiny Little Victories. Chris has lived around the world working with startups, from his days at IBM to Startup Wise Guys in Estonia and 500 Startups. Chris led 500 Startups' Moscow accelerator program in partnership with the largest financial services company in Eastern Europe. In this episode, we discuss culture and politics,...

In this episode of  ⁠Tiny Little Victories⁠ , I talk with  ⁠Guy Armitage⁠ , author, and CEO of  ⁠Zealous⁠  in London. Guy's first book,  Everyone is Creative: Seven Easy Steps to Unlock Your Creativity,  comes out on November 21, 2023, and you can pre-order the book now on  ⁠Amazon.com⁠  and other online bookstores.  In this episode, we talk about being creative, the challenges of starting a c...

In this episode of  ⁠ Tiny Little Victories ,⁠  I bring you Mark de Kock's insightful and thought-provoking mind ⁠ . Mark is a passionate digital strategist with an eye toward human behavior, specifically what drives and motivates people and brands. Mark is the founder of  ⁠ Brand PWRD Media  ⁠ , which, among other things, enables his international clients to develop omnichannel communication...

Imagine you are a journalist, writer, host, producer, illustrator, and AI expert, and you exist here and now on this earthly plane. Now imagine you have access to this person right now on Tiny Little Victories. Meet Jamillah Knowles . She is all those things, yet those titles only scrape the surface of her ingenious mind. She's happily an ardent feminist whose father taught her to code when sh...

Former BBC host and producer and artist, writer and AI image expert Jamillah Knowles teases her upcoming episode, The ingenious adventures of Jamillah Knowles , on March 8, 2023.  Once you hear her voice and understand how much you need someone to illustrate anything from fairytales to the essence of your brand, you won't want to stop listening to what Jamillah has to say about art, AI and mo...

In this episode of Tiny Little Victories , I talked with Martin Bryant - a technology journalist and consultant from Manchester, England. And, yes, his accent is magical. (take that, London). Martin talks about what generative AI is good for, what he hopes it will bring to the table in journalism, and why he's so passionate about storytelling for early stage startups. Martin is also a musician who...

Welcome to season 2, episode 1 of Tiny Little Victories. In this episode I talk to the Dutch entrepreneur Martijn Tjho . Martijn is the founder of BIYU (Bob is your uncle) - a disruptive and much-needed company that wants you to own less and do more. The concept behind BIYU circularity at its best -- giving access to the best products when consumers need them instead of buying them. In a recent Fo...

In Episode 5 of Tiny Little Victories , I catch up with the tech entrepreneur turned real estate entrepreneur, Philip Hordijk . Philip is from The Netherlands but lives in Tribeca with his fashion entrepreneur wife and two adorable children. But it was a long road to where he is today - starting from his first tech start-up Mappy Friends, which he started while living in Argentina in 2008. Philip...