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  • Ep 248: The Mind Behind the Voice Assistant That Helps eSport Gamers To Be Victorious with Alisa Chumachenko

    Ep 248: The Mind Behind the Voice Assistant That Helps eSport Gamers To Be Victorious with Alisa Chumachenko

    Alisa Chumachenko is the leading female expert in online and social gaming. In 2010, she founded and was the CEO of “Game Insight”, a company that creates free-to-play games for Android, iOS, Facebook, and the web, until she stepped down in 2015. And in 2017, she founded GOSU.ai Data Lab, a company using machine learning to provide data to gamers and game companies. By 2018, GOSU Data Lab had raised $2.3 million.

    The mother of two is unstoppable, and she’s even named as Forbes Top 50 Women in Technology.

    But before all that, she first had a career in Circus which she shared in this episode. 

    Who would have thought that a choreographer and art director household would raise a successful serial gaming entrepreneur? “You will never have a second chance to make a first impression. And going first time to raise money speaking with the VCs, with angel investors, with private investors, it’s not about raising money. It’s about making connections and making networks that you’re gonna use for the rest of your life. And the first impression that you make, at this moment, when you meet people first, for the first time is super important.”

     

    Topics Discussed in this Episode:

    • How her passion for online gaming ignited
    • Her life before social gaming
    • How GOSU.ai started
    • Navigating fundraising
    • Importance of allowing space to transition

     

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  • Ep 247: Picture This: A Dad and Daughter Duo Filling Our Hearts with Hope and Joy Through Their Music with Mat and Savanna Shaw

    Ep 247: Picture This: A Dad and Daughter Duo Filling Our Hearts with Hope and Joy Through Their Music with Mat and Savanna Shaw

    How often do you hear a dad and daughter singing, not just in one song but in an entire album?

    Mat and Savanna Shaw are a daddy-daughter duo from Utah that rose to prominence during the COVID-19 quarantine. Savanna, eager to keep in touch with her music friends, started a music social media account. Usually, a shy and private teenager, she was nervous about singing her first song by herself, so she asked her dad to join her in singing “The Prayer.”

    What started as an ordinary day of singing for Savanna and a day of gardening for Mat turned out to be a fateful one.

    Their video went viral, and the duo continued releasing duets on social media and streaming platforms, charting in both the US and UK. They have since appeared on Good Morning America, Inside Edition, The Kelly Clarkson Show, and more. “In whatever you do, just be real, be yourself and people will love you for it.”

     

    Story Behind Picture This:

    Savanna played the harp for six years before deciding to focus on her voice. She has always loved singing, humming tunes nonstop around the house–though her shyness kept even some of her closest friends unaware of her talents until her videos went viral.

    Mat also grew up singing. He sang in High School and College but set aside his performing aspirations to start his real estate career and his family.

    The song Picture This tells how that one moment of courage, making that first step towards your dreams that always seemed scary and uncomfortable, can make a huge difference. Both are so grateful that through each other, they have found their voices.

    Mat and Savanna’s uplifting song choices and harmonies have inspired people all over the world. Intending to share hope and spread joy through their music, they released their first album last October 23 called Picture This.

    “That is what music has become for us, an opportunity to share hope and spread joy. I think that everybody can find their ways to do that, and I think that as you do that, you’ll find that you fill your own heart, with that same hope and joy that you try to spread in others.”

     

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  • Ep 245: Rhymecology: Helping People Express, Discover, and Recreate Themselves Using The Power Of Hip-Hop with Jeff Walker

    Ep 245: Rhymecology: Helping People Express, Discover, and Recreate Themselves Using The Power Of Hip-Hop with Jeff Walker

    Jeff Walker is a Rhyme Master, Rap Coach, and Qualified Mental Health Professional with a Masters in Educational Psychology and Counseling. Jeff uses his unique healing techniques with clients across the world for over 15 years. He is the creator of Rhymecology, which uses the power of hip-hop lyrics and culture to help people express, discover, and re-create their stories.

    “I allow the positive signs from the universe to be way bigger than my self-made fears.”

    He has worked with various talented artists such as Black Eyed Peas, Will I Am, Jamie Foxx, Randy Jackson, and the list goes on. On top of that, he’s also released three books called Rhymecology: Using Hip-Hop To Heal, Rhymecology: The Art of Hip-Hop Lyrics, and The Book of Rhymes. So, it comes as no surprise that he’s been featured on different shows such as ESPN, 60 Minutes, Fox Sports, Inside the NBA, HuffPost, and more.

    His talent and passion for lyrical rap have opened plenty of opportunities for him. In return, he wants to use Rhymecology as a platform to write, perform, and teach the art of hip-hop across the world. Writing has pulled him out from the dark times, and he hopes it’ll do the same for others.

    Of course, we wouldn’t let the episode end without hearing a piece from the Rap Coach himself.

     

    Jeff’s Impromptu Spoken Word
    Poetry

    The road less traveled

    Might have more gravel

    But if you stick with it

    It’s like winning the raffle

    Everyday joy can

    Spin around like a tire

    That’s what happens

    When we live life on fire

    I FOUND it’s real that

    words and sounds can heal

    In fact, maybe you should get on a track

    And start dropping a verse about entrepreneurs

    I’m shocked with words cuz I spent my life

    Trying to find the right ones

    Words can be used for spite, to fight or to IGNITE FUN

    People just might need some guidance

    I’ve helped migrant clients go from indictments to assignments

    From defiant to reliant just with some refinements

    Cuz where some see black holes and coal, I see diamonds

    We gotta keep trying…Cuz life’s not a bitch

    she’s a goddess and we should hold her

    This is Jeff Walker from Rhymecology

    Connecting with Jules Schroeder.

     

    Topics Discussed In This Episode:

    • What Rhymecology is about
    • How he brought the science of Psychology and his passion for rhyming together
    • What it’s like growing up in a free metaphysical minded family
    • His methodology
    • More of his spoken word poetries
    • How Rhymecology has helped his clients move the needle forward

     

    Resources Mentioned In This Episode:

    • Therapy, spoken word poetry by Jeff Walker that started it all
    • Restless Soul album releasing on October 22

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  • Ep 244: SV Delos: Sailing The World with Brian Trautman

    Ep 244: SV Delos: Sailing The World with Brian Trautman

    I’ve done many interviews, but I don’t think I’ve talked to anyone LIVE from their sailboat!

    Our guest for today’s episode embodies what unconventional living is. For the past ten years, they’ve traveled the oceans powered by only the wind and the sun on their 53” sailboat named SV Delos. Living off the grid majority of the time, they make their own electricity, water, and even moonshine on board!

    Brian Trautman, along with his brother, Brady, wife Karin, and two kids, have sailed to 40 countries spanning six continents, crossing the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans in the process, and have traveled enough miles to circle the globe three times.

    “There’s been a lot of decision points in my life, and I found that the ones that were the most rewarding are the ones that put the biggest pit in my stomach.”

     

    The Key To Keeping Your Community Engage and Committed

    • Consistency. Continually releasing videos engaging the audience by telling a story so that people become vested in you as a character.
    • Hard work & Patience. It can take years before you can grow your audience to size or become financially sustainable.
    • Be Genuine & Passionate. Find a niche that you want to make, not what others might be interested in.

    The Trautman’s continue to document their travels through a series of videos they film and edit themselves.

     

    Topics Discussed In This Episode

    • How their incredible lifestyle started
    • How he reframed his frame of orientation
    • How they fund their adventures through a mixture of income from crowdfunding and social media
    • What a typical family day looks like living in a boat
    • Weird questions asked by their audience and strange things they’ve tried
    • How he met the love of his life while sailing.

     

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  • Ep 243: Glimmer: A New Network for Comprehensive Sexual, Mental, and Physical Health Services for LGBTQ-BIPOC with Grace Stephenson

    Ep 243: Glimmer: A New Network for Comprehensive Sexual, Mental, and Physical Health Services for LGBTQ-BIPOC with Grace Stephenson

    The lack of freedom and versatility in the nonprofit world pushed this young entrepreneur to take on a path less traveled. The gap she saw in the service is the beginning of Glimmer.

    “If you have a vision and you want to do something, do it. If I can do it, I feel like anyone can do it.”

    Grace Stephenson comes from the sex education and nonprofit world, with experience in womxn’s health, LGBTQIA+ community services, and HIV/AIDS prevention and education. She turned her vision into a massive free online community for womxn, QTBIPOC, and the LGBTQ+ community.

     

    Glimmer of Hope

    Glimmer allows its members to have a community that makes them feel powerful, loved, and understood. It provides members the ability to explore inclusive education, virtual events, shops, and art.

    Their goal is to increase access to personalized mental and sexual health services by finding the right therapists. They hope to take away the “hard parts” of accessing comprehensive and affirming sexual health, mental health, sex education, and physical health services.

    They go through therapists or mental and sexual health professionals’ directory and interview them to make sure that they’re affirming and empowering. They will then match them to their clients based on their personality, insurance, and location.

     

    It’s A Space For Us

    As they move forward, they hope to encourage the lifting up of other womxn, QTBIPOC & queer-owned professionals, artists, and businesses. They set their eyes on the future with more collaborative education, presentations, and podcasts that feature the therapists they have on Glimmer that people can tune in for free. From there to eventually build physical spaces worldwide.

     

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