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Updates, Announcements and the Before It Happened Show.
Diversifying the Space Frontier With Kim Macharia
Kim Macharia will be the first to tell you she’s not a scientist. She’s not an astronaut, either—although she’s dying to go to space. But she may be the most important new voice in the U.S. space … well … space!
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Ethics and Human Rights in Tech With Deb Donig
Deb Donig’s focus is the intersection of technology and human rights. In addition to teaching at Cal Poly, she’s the host of the Technically Human podcast, a show that features some of the most prominent tech thinkers and goes deep on the singular question: “What does it mean to be human in the age of tech?”
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Solving the Cheese Problem with Change Foods' David Bucca – Episode 42
When David Bucca decided to leave a successful career as an aerospace engineer to launch the animal-free dairy startup Change Foods, the only thing he knew about cheese is that he no longer ate it...
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Fermenting Better Meat wIth Paul Shapiro – Episode 41
Paul Shapiro is the co-founder and CEO of The Better Meat Co., a B2B startup that uses a special fermentation process to make plant-based proteins for producers of both meat and non-meat protein products.
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Driving the Nostalgia of Motorcycles into the EV Era with Paul d'Orleans – Episode 40
Paul d’Orleans insists he’s not a nostalgic man.That might sound counterintuitive coming from the world’s foremost authority on classic and vintage motorcycles, but Paul is just as passionate about the future of two-wheeled transportation as he is about its past. And the future looks electric...
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Envisioning a sustainable future and a free Ukraine with Daniel Tonkopi – Episode 39
Daniel Tonkopi is the founder of electronic bike startup Delfast, which earned fame after establishing a Guinness World Record by traveling 236 miles on a single charge. The company grew from a small delivery service in Kyiv that built its own bikes to one of the leading producers of e-bikes in the world.
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Coaching Next-Gen Leaders With Jason Ma – Episode 37
Jason Ma is an expert on the future of our workforce because he’s helped countless young achievers get into the schools of their choice, land their first job and navigate the ever-changing professional landscape both in and out of Silicon Valley.
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Breaking Down the Business of Story With Park Howell – Episode 35
Park’s business is storytelling—his consulting firm is called The Business of Story, after all—and his mission is to help purpose-driven businesses and challenger brands share their stories with the world. In doing so, he’s turned himself into a multi-media mogul. He’s a brand strategist, keynote speaker, storytelling coach, podcast host, and bestselling author. And as it turns out, perhaps not surprisingly, he has a fascinating story of his own.
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Values-Based Investing for the Future of the Planet with Will Peterffy – Episode 34
Will’s journey away from and back to the world of finance has taken him all over the world. He grew up in Connecticut, but rather than take the Ivy League business school route, he chose the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he majored in environmental studies.
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No Wrist, No Reward: Is It Time to Buy an Apple Watch?
“Do I own an Apple Watch, or does it own me?” I thought the answer was obvious. From an outsider’s perspective, my friends looked too preoccupied with logging their progress in real time to acknowledge the exercise that was actually happening. I was the only one of my friends without an Apple Watch and felt a bizarre resistance to hold down the front, be the odd one out, and evade the takeover of Silicon Valley’s step tracking, time ticking, wrist monitor.
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Taking On the $100 Billion Pet Food Industry with Because Animals’ Shannon Falconer - Episode 33
“Animals have always been a huge part of my life,” she told me. “My best friends were animals as a kid. Very early on, I saw that there was no difference between my dogs and cats that I loved so much and the cow or the pig in the pasture. I knew my pets craved meat—it’s their ancestral diet. But as I got older, it got more difficult to reconcile that with supporting the animal agriculture industry to feed my animals when I didn’t support them when it came to feeding myself.”
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From Living On the Streets to Making $1 Million in Sales with Chick Boss Cake’s Rebecca Hamilton – Episode 32
When Rebecca Hamilton was young, she learned to bake at the feet of her grandmother, whose legendary cheesecake recipe was a family favorite. As an adult, Rebecca is building an empire with Chick Boss Cakes, her growing Ontario, Canada-based chain of bakeries.In between was a series of obstacles and setbacks that make Rebecca’s one of the most inspirational stories we’ve shared on Before IT Happened.Rebecca was born and raised in Ontario, Canada.
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Writing the Story of Innovation with Jonathan Littman – Episode 31
Jonathan Littman has always been in search of a good story.Whether it’s a piece of investigative journalism, a sprawling work of narrative nonfiction or a way of giving a face and a beating heart to the innovators who change our lives, Jonathan takes a story-first approach to anything on which he puts his name.
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Making America Safer One Crime-Fighting Robot at a Time with Knightscope co-founders William Santana Li and Stacy D. Stephens – Episode 30
Imagine a world in which a theft or an attack is thwarted by a life-sized robot that was programmed to prevent crime.
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Unleashing a New Industry with Sports Bra Inventor Lisa Z. Lindahl – Episode 29
It was the late 1960s, and Lisa found herself right in the middle of two seemingly unrelated movements: She was a second-wave feminist, which meant she was part of the movement to end gender-based inequality and discrimination. She was also a jogger—which may or may not have even been a word at that point. Running for fitness was a relatively new concept in Western society, but Lisa was already becoming addicted.
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