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Radio Recap: Tinyhood + Positive Psychology

Tinyhood is an easy and personalized online community for parents to connect with each other locally or via common interests. It allows users to get recommendations from other parents in their area on everything from pediatric dentists to where to go for first haircuts. You can even buy, sell, or swap baby and kid gear in the Tinyhood marketplace. There’s also a place to list local events or set-up playdates. And perhaps the best part of Tinyhood is that it also provides live and interactive online parenting classes led by parenting experts to expectant and parents of kids newborn to three years old.

From Breastfeeding 101 to postpartum health and nutrition, potty training and much more, parents will receive a private link to every Tinyhood class to revisit whenever they would like. In addition, parents can access Tinyhood’s experts for one-on-one virtual consultations and help. Here with me to discuss Tinyhood is Co-Founder Becky Miller.

 

Tal Ben-Shahar is a professor of happiness teaching one of the most popular courses in the history of Harvard called “Positive Psychology” where close to 1,000 students pack in his lecture hall twice a week. Tal is the author of multiple bestselling books including “Happier” and “The Pursuit of Perfection” and consults and lectures around the world to Fortune 500 companies, educational institutions, and the general public.

Radio Recap: Daily Burn + Catalyst Inc.

Daily Burn is a leading FitTech brand that provides streaming content and interactive, motivational tools to help people in their quest for health and wellness. A pioneer in on-demand fitness, and one of the first companies offering live, streaming workouts, Daily Burn offers more than 1,000 videos every day—from strength training to Pilates—so that consumers can trim the fat and burn off calories anytime, anywhere— whether they have 10 minutes or an hour. With an active community where users can get advice, motivate their peers, and more, CEO Tricia Han has led Daily Burn since 2017 and she was with me today to discuss all things digital fitness.

 

Lorraine Hariton is the President and CEO of Catalyst—a 56-year old global nonprofit that works CEOs and leading companies to help build workplaces that work for women.

“Catalyst is about building inclusive culture companies. We want employees to bring their whole selves to work. We try to educate employers on building comfortable environments for everyone.” @lhariton

Radio Recap: Matt Britton + Me & the Bees

I had Millennial expert, Matt Britton, first on the show when his Amazon top-seller, YouthNation,came out. YouthNation explored the multitude of ways young people are effecting business as we once knew it. But now, years later, Matt Britton is letting businesses know that using “Millennials” interchangeably with “twenty-somethings” or “youth,” isn’t the same anymore—as the oldest of the Millennial generation are nearing 40. Marketing is shifting as buying power changes hands to the next generation. Now asthe CEO ofconsumer intelligence platform, Suzy, Matt is helping companies like Netflix, Coca-Cola, Nintendo and Nestle focus on creating compelling new products while helping marketers adapt to the changes in the consumer ecosystem.

 

 

Mikalia Ulmer was only 4 years old when her family encouraged her to come up with a product for Austin, Texas’ Lemonade Day and the Acton Children’s Business Fair, and Me & the Bees was soon born. Celebrating 10 years in business, Mikalia, now 14, has gone on to win funding from Shark Tank, introduce President Obama, and donate profits from her flaxseed lemonade to helping save the bees. She discussed Me & the Bees success and my son, Asher, did the interview!

 

Radio Recap: Goldie Chan + Taylor Lorenz

Goldie Chan is known as the “green-haired Oprah of LinkedIn.” She won their highest honor, the LinkedIn Top Voice for a video of hers that garnered 3 million views in less than 12 months, and is the platform’s longest-running daily show with a global community. She’s a Forbes contributor, a personal branding expert, and runs Warm Robots, a corporate social media strategy agency. She also serves on the Producer’s Guild of America, New Media Council as one of the youngest women of color and she’s here with me today calling in from a private Adobe conference for Adobe Insiders to tell us how she got to where she is now and give us her top 10 personal brand books for summer reading.

Taylor Lorenz is the Internet Culture Reporter at The Atlanticwhere she covers tech, internet culture, and the world of online creators. She was previously a tech and culture reporter at The Daily Beastand has written for many outlets including BuzzFeed, New York Magazine, Fast Company, Business Insider, Harper’s Bazaar,and more.

Radio Recap: Style My Profile + Kathleen Kincaid

Alyssa Dineen is an art director and personal stylist who has designed shoots for Harper’s Bazaar and Target and styled celebrities such as Christy Turlington and Gwen Stefani. After years in the fashion world,and at the age of 41, Alyssa found herself divorced with two young childrenAlyssa was thrust into the dating scene and noticed how much people struggled to find confidence online as well is in real life. In a career reinvention, she founded Style My Profile, the first-ever profile styling service to help singles transform their love life by helping her clients tell a personal story through their images. Not only have Alyssa’s clients reported a drastic increase in matches and quality of potential dates. But Alyssa herself benefited from her own technique after meeting her boyfriend, and now business partner, online too. Alyssa discussed Style My Profile and how technology has disrupted looking for love.

Kathleen Kincaid is the Executive Director of Development & Engagement in Tech at the New York Times.She’s spent 20+ years developing creative teams and user-centric products for Conde Nast, Yahoo!, The Washington Post, and Microsoft. In addition to digital media, specifically in business and product development, content strategy, programming, ecommerce, and usability product design, Kathleen also has a background in communications and executive coaching.

Radio Recap: Tia +Lauren deLisa Coleman

Carolyn Witte and Felicity Yost

In 2018, the average wait time for a new female patient in New York City was 19 days with a gynecologist and 26 days with a primary care provider. And there’s no shortage of stories about multi-month-long waitlists for preventive healthcare services that every woman needs once a year. While barriers to women’s healthcare in a world of on-demand everything seems insane, for many women, the decision of what provider to go to comes down to a trifecta of tradeoffs between quality, convenience, and insurance coverage. Enter Tia Clinic, a one-stop-shop” for female health with gynecology, primary care and wellness under one roof and one health record, for women by women. Here with me to discuss Tia are co-founders of the Tia App and the newfound Tia Clinic, Carolyn Witte and Felicity Yost.

Lauren DeLisa Coleman is a Digi-Cultural Trend Analyst and Contributor to MSNBC, Forbes, & Inc. She analyzes and forecasts the intersection of cultural trends and emerging tech behavior as it pertains to the new, high-tech millennial class, while helping companies incorporate future trends into concrete business practices. She has deep expertise on trends in artificial intelligence, blockchain, and cryptocurrency as they converge with popular culture and is a successful digital entrepreneur with over 14 years of experience working for notables from Snoop Dogg and Jay Z to Microsoft.

Radio Recap: Fabric + The Points Guy

Did you know that if you die without a last will and testament, any property you own will be distributed according to the law of whichever state you live in? Which means, for the 64% of adults who don’t have wills in Oklahoma, their executor administrator list will look starkly different than those in New Jersey. Enter Brooklyn-based start up, Fabric, who aims to help Millennial families secure their financial future by offering both life insurance and the ability to write mobile wills online. Founded after the birth of founder Adam Erlebacher’s first child, Adam said a sense of mortality and a desire to protect his family in the event of an accident was the catalyst for launching his financial family plan. Since the buying process for his own life insurance and other financial planning tools was a nightmare, Fabric is trying to close the gap for Millennial parents while providing education. Fabric was founded on the idea of simple and easily executed financial planning in under 10 minutes online or via mobile device. Here with me to discuss more is Fabric’s Millennial Money Expert, Allison Kade.

 

Brian Kelly is the founder and CEO of The Points Guy, a digital platform renowned for all things points, miles and travel-related. You can also hear my interview with him on his podcast HERE

Radio Recap: Café X + Bold TV

 A few weeks ago one of my Like or Dislike topics was about a new robot coffee bar in San Francisco better known as Café X. At Café X orders are entered via kiosks and a robotic arm mixes beverages without any humans necessary. A USA Todayarticle calls the Bay Area both ground zero and the test market for AI’s venture into the culinary industry citing the executive director of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association who says, that because of a variety of factors, including the prevalence of venture capitalists looking for the next tech breakthrough, a ready pool of voracious time-crunched Millennials, and a food-worker labor shortage has forced a number of restaurants to close while employment listings in the food industry have job availability in everything from top-rated restaurants to coffee shops. It’s a shift is happening across the U.S. and the world but San Francisco in now the epicenter of the automated trend with Cafe X leading the market with three locations in the Bay Area, and soon to be at the SFO airport.

Henry Hu

Here with me to discuss the automated culinary experience are Henry Hu, the founder of Café X, and Café X COO Cynthia Yeung.

Cynthia Yeung

 

In 2015, journalist and political analyst Carrie Sheffield founded a live-streaming news service called BoldTV, which started out with programmingfocused primarily on politics. Now Bold has moved into new territory, taking an apolitical dive into diversity in business to embrace a wider range of economic, racial, gender, geographic, generational needs in the workplace—especially as business relates to Millennials, as Carrie Sheffield, can relate being a Millennial herself.

Radio Recap: Paige Hathaway + Brian Solis

Less than 7 years ago fitness star Paige Hathaway never even thought of the gym, now Paige is a global fitness icon and self-made entrepreneur with millions of clients all dedicated toward following a healthy lifestyle. Paige relied heavily on Instagram and Facebook to launch her career. She was one of the first to monetize her social media with 11 million followers and now, in addition, to her own YouTube page—where she posts workout videos and tips and vlogs about her own life— she uses her influence and multiple platforms to inspire individuals with challenges like her Fit in 5, a five-week fitness intensive body training program. Today on Dot Complicated I discussed her rise to global fitness fame using the power of social media.

Brian Solis is a digital analyst and anthropologist at Altimeter, the digital analyst group at Prophet andone of the most prominent thought leaders and best-selling authors in innovation and digital transformation.  His newest book, “Lifescale” explores how to stay centered in an increasingly fragmented digital world.

Radio Recap: Bulletin + Breather

Ali Kriegsman + Alana Branston

Ali Kriegsman and Alana Branston built Bulletin, a New York-based startup,connects like-minded, online-only brands renting them space in its physical stores, thereby helping hundreds of digitally-native companies access the physical retail economy for the very first time. With a retail model that has a WeWork mentality, Bulletin is built as a tight-knit community of female-led brands. They host monthly programming across their NYC and Brooklyn spaces to support small businesses and as a real-life hub for women. The two-time Y-Combinator grads and co-founders of Bulletin are here with me today to discuss the importance of persistency, pivoting, and partnership.

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Breather HQ in Montreal

First launched in Montreal, on demand private workspace providerrents on-demand workspaces for short-term use and has over 500 locations in 10 cities globally. More of a Airbnb than it is a WeWork, companies use Breather to search, book, pay for and access over hundreds of private spaces from spaces for meetings and events for a few hours or days to month-to-month private offices. With landlords viewing flexible workspace differently, Breather has been able to capitalize on a solution for today’s workforce that attracts new tenants and landlords equally. Breather CEO Brian Murphy sat down to discuss flexible, affordable workspaces.