Boardroom Sessions Podcast

In this special Collaboration Podcast I sit down as the first ever guest of “Up Shift Creek Podcast” with the host Mark Redgrave. Mark is Business Transformation Consultant and focuses on the People and Teams structures in companies to help drive improvements. In this podcast we dive into the concept of “It’s not all about Tech”. We discuss the state of business right now as we see it with our current clients, the near future and where is AI actually being implemented. This is a great conversation and has some predictions that I think you find interesting. Hope you enjoy. You can connect with Mark here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mredgrave/

In this Boardroom Session we meet Eric Ching, recently retired Marine Safety Officer and Captain of the Huntington Beach Lifeguards. When I was 17 years old and working in a lifeguard tower at the beach myself, I thought the Lifeguard Boat Operators were the coolest guys on the planet. Well I got a chance to meet one with Eric and he confirms my beliefs here. Eric and I dive into his journey of becoming a captain, his best day and worst day on the water, how to deal with the public and what a day in life of an ocean lifeguard looks like at one of the busiest beaches in the world looks like. Hope you enjoy! This podcast is produced in partnership with www.podlad.com

Welcome to this annual tradition where my good buddy Dave Rhoads - CEO and founder of Blue Street Capital, and I share our plans and processes for the New Year Goal Planning. We go fast and hard here so you may want to listen with a pen and notebook, seriously. I am super excited about the topics of Goals, Vision and Manifesting as you all know so this a special one for me. Hope you enjoy!

Dave is one of my favorite humans period! I am so grateful for the opportunity to sit and pick his brain on the is podcast. Dave is a legend in the Channel business and has built a very successful business helping many enterprise clients better their business. HE shares some amazing lessons learned her about breaking old patters and paradigms in this new work environment. We also discuss the future of the “vendor agnostic, client advocate consultant” and the value to the modern business leader. Hope you enjoy!! https://www.linkedin.com/in/davedyson/ This podcast is edited by podlad.com

Matt has built an incredibly successful business based on a passion for Art. 1.3 mill Followers on Social Media is unbelievable! His story is so inspirational and full of nuggets that everyone can connect to. We discuss Goals, Vision, and taking the difficult path of following your dream and overcoming self limiting f beliefs. Hope you enjoy! You can see Matt’s art here. TikTok: @tattoo_matt Instagram: @mattvaught_tattoo Web: mattvaught.com

Welcome to a special live recording of a panel event that I hosted at our OCTP (Orange County Technology Professionals) networking happy hours. About once a quarter we have a live panel event to discuss some cool new tech, this event we went deep on Conversational AI aka BOT’s. On this panel I assembled a few of the most relevant folks in this space right now. We had a lot of fun here and since this meeting I have had an incredible amount of conversations with enterprise technology leaders on how AI may help them. Hope you enjoy! Kristy Thomas - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristy-thomas-bb004a29/ Tyson McDowell - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tysonmcdowell/ Stephen Kennington - https://www.linkedin.com/in/srkennington/ This podcast is produced in partnership with http://www.podlad.com

Danny Nichols is a personal hero of mine for many reasons. First he is a selfless giver and runs one of the most impactful philanthropic organizations I know called Operation OpenWater serving the Veteran and First Responder communities. He is also a full on Bad Ass Waterman, HB Board Riders Team Rider and Coach, and one of the most humble good guys I know. We learn from Danny how he and his partners built their successful company called Ink Right, we hear about his background as a Pro Surfer and most importantly about his organization called Operation OpenWater which makes a life changing impact for so many in the Veteran and First Responder communities. I hope you enjoy. If you are inspired and want to help please visit: https://www.operationopenwater.org/

This time of year as always we discuss Goal Planning and Vision Boards in the Boardroom Sessions Podcast, but my guest Dave Rhoads takes the mic this year. He flips the show on Mike and we get deep into personal development, process and routines as well as building and developing amazing relationships. Hope you enjoy and please share what you planning in a note to me.

If you are like me you have been hearing a lot of doom and gloom on the economy. I wanted to ask the expert, my friend Shane Shepherd – PhD of Finance and USC Professor of Finance and Economics at USC what is the real story. Shane breaks it down for us simply and leaves you with some good info to use at your next cocktail party so you can sound smart or just simply not freak out that we are heading for an economic nuclear winter. I hope you enjoy and feel a little lighter after this quick breakdown. Shane’s LinkedIn profile - https://www.linkedin.com/in/shane-shepherd-b3512b24/

In this session we meet my buddy JP owner of Russell Surfboards in Newport Beach. I have been a long time brand loyal shop rider for the Russell brand and am a bit of a fan. We dive into the origin story of an iconic Surf Shop in Newport Beach that has been around since the sixties. We discuss surf shop culture, board design & evolution, and how the shop is thriving even through the pandemic. Lots of very energetic exchange here and great lessons shared here as always. Hope you enjoy!

In this Boardroom Session we meet Rick Dellar a true renaissance man and one the Pioneers in the Channel Industry. A few words to describe him - Entrepreneur, Channel Industry pioneer, Real estate Developer, Winemaker, Art Collector, Philanthropist, Family man to name a few. We get some great life advise, discuss the origin story of a company called Intelisys, mindfulness, yoga, spirituality, personal growth and more. Hope you enjoy!

In this BRS we meet Benjamin Gleitzman, CTO and co-founder of Replicant A.I. Replicant is at the front line of the Conversational A.I. space with a very exciting solution for the CX space. We discuss their Thinking Machine and it’s various use cases, the A.I. marketspace and the future. There has never been a time where this technology is more needed to help enterprises as they struggle to deal with staffing challenges and ever-evolving client needs. We dive into Benjamin’s path to a Silicon Valley startup co-founder from his humble beginnings as an MIT grad. I hope you enjoy. Benjamin’s LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gleitz/

Welcome to the second annual Goal Planning session with Dave Rhoads, President and CEO of Blue Street Capital. We hope to inspire you and give some direction as to how we go about our goal setting for the New Year. Make it simple, stay inspired and most of all Live With INTENTION! Feel free to reach out to Dave or I for accountability and get after it. Mike Miller - https://www.linkedin.com/in/hbmikemiller/ Dave Rhoads - https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidrhoads/

John has held positions in Healthcare as the CIO & CEO. He has been an advisor at Gartner and currently an Industry Principal at RingCentral. We dive deep in to the changing landscape of Technology that the Healthcare industry is looking at to help their organizations. We discuss here A.I., Bots, Self Service and many other topics. Hope you enjoy! John Poli - https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-poli-profile/

Why should the Enterprise care about Social Media? We dive into the many reasons why and how companies are using Social today. We meet with Tyler Altrup of Sprinklr, a Social Media Marketing and Engagement Platform that is helping change the way companies are connecting and engaging with their clients. Hope you enjoy! https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyleraltrup/ https://www.sprinklr.com/

Duane is an expert in the field of Search having worked at Microsoft with Bing and now with Yext. We all search many times a day but do you really know how it works? We dive right in here. Duane’s LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dforrester/

In this BRS Podcast we meet Brent Totty of Volv. Brent is building a Tech Start Up that uses AI to help Coaches, Trainers and Advisors build habits among their subscribers and followers using Text Messages. We have a very spirited conversation around how to build a startup and advise for how to marry your life passion with your work. There is a lot of content here and amazing positive NEW SCHOOL advise for how to embrace the Passion Economy. Hope you enjoy! Brent Totty – Volv – www.volvapp.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/brenttotty/

Tyson McDowell is a serial entrepreneur in the tech space, a programmer, Venture Capitalist, a TEDx speaker, and extremely knowledgeable in all things Artificial Intelligence. We get into it very quickly with enterprise applications for AI, the hype vs the reality and where to get some gains now. We also cover the social issues with AI and how you can make changes to your personal online presence to change the AI to feed you more relevant info. Tyson gives some great advise to tech leaders on how to stay relevant and pivot toward AI in your career. I hope you enjoy. https://www.linkedin.com/in/tysonmcdowell/

In this special Boardroom Session we dive deep into 2021 Goal Planning and Vision Boards with two of my favorite people. We first meet with Dave Rhoads of Blue Street Capital and discuss Goal Planning and the strategies we employ. We also meet with Bob Groux of Coast Brands where we dive deep into to concept of Vision Boards and Morning Routines to create the life you want. I hope you enjoy. Please feel free to reach out if you want to discuss any of this further: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hbmikemiller/

Join us for a special panel discussion on A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) and the real world use cases. Our guests include: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreeabodnari/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/brentwcollins/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rbmumford/ We discuss what A.I. solutions each of the guests are seeing hit the market and actually being used to solve real world problems. Hope you enjoy!