Matthew Blair is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of REI Capital Management, an innovative real estate company with the mission to democratize the wealth generating power of Commercial Real Estate for small balance global investors. Their flagship fund, REI Capital Growth, delivers long-term, tax-efficient, compounding growth with a tried…

Sam Austin is Founder & Board Chair of IDAC (the Investment Diversity Advisory Council), an organization dedicated to increasing diversity of all types in the finance industry. Only 1.4% of U.S. Assets Under Management (AUM) is managed by diverse or female managers, and IDAC’s audacious goal is to double that within five years while also increasing…

The term “Eco Warrior” is thrown around too casually these days, but Tim Fields is the real deal. Tim is the Founder & CEO of Hardshell Labs, an innovative startup leveraging modern technology to directly address previously unsolvable biological and ecological disasters. Imagine using lasers, 3D printing, chemistry, and e-sports to save an endanger…

Evan Hynes is Co-founder & CEO of Climatebase, the world's leading platform for climate careers, having helped connect hundreds-of-thousands of jobseekers to job opportunities at more than 3,000 employers on our platform. Climatebase helps people discover opportunities at climate tech companies and environmental nonprofits — and in doing so, we hel…

Jacob Ruytenbeek is Founder & CEO of SailPlan, the world’s first marine emissions optimization platform. SailPlan helps ships measure, report, and reduce emissions and fuel consumption using high-resolution, real-time data. Jacob grew up in South Florida often working alongside his father, a lifelong boat builder, and developed a strong passion for…

Dr. David Sun Kong is the Director of the MIT Media Lab's Community Biotechnology Initiative with the mission of empowering communities through biotechnology. David is a synthetic biologist, community organizer, musician, and photographer based in the Boston area. He pioneered the development of novel microfluidic, or “lab-on-a-chip” technologies f…

Dr. Jordan Shlain is the Founder and Managing Partner at Private Medical, a full-service, family office for health and medicine that provides comprehensive, evidence-based care to members in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, and Silicon Valley. Dr. Shlain believes good medicine and great health come only from a deep understanding of peop…

Christa Williams-Collett is a Principal Investor at Citigroup’s Impact Fund. She makes direct investments in double bottom line companies and venture capital firms. Prior to joining Citi, Christa was an investment banker at RBC Capital Markets and J.P. Morgan focused on technology transactions. She is a graduate of Columbia Business School in New Y…

Molly Wood is a climate-tech focused Managing Director at Launch and Co-host of “This Week in Startups” podcast with Jason Calacanis. Prior to becoming a venture capital investor, Molly had an extraordinary media career as a tech & business journalist at Wired, New York Times, CBS, and CNET. Follow Molly on Twitter @mollywood. Instagram: https://ww…

Mandy Bynum Mc Laughlin is CEO of BLCK VC, whose mission is to connect, engage, empower, and advance Black venture investors. Mandy’s personal goal is to create generational wealth for the historically excluded. Follow Mandy on twitter @mandy_bynum.

Qiana Patterson is Managing Partner at NAYAH and a founding Investment Committee Member at The Cap Table Coalition. As an experienced investor and tech business executive, Qiana is passionate about building true community power, shared wealth and founder well-being. Follow Qiana on twitter @Q_i_a_n_a. Be sure to check out our YouTube page! Follow u…

Christelle Rohaut is the founding CEO of Codi, the flexible workspace solutions company providing beautifully-designed, turnkey offices. Christelle is passionate about driving the “walk-to-work revolution” by making cities more affordable for local residents and more flexible for local workers. Visit codi.com or follow on twitter @codiwork. Be sure…

Cam Woodsum is Founder & CEO of Nomad Impact Ventures, a remote startup lab that starts, grows, and invests in impact-focused internet businesses. Cam is a digital nomad - a tech entrepreneur who lives and works wherever he wants. He’s lived all over the world and generally lives life on his own terms. This is Cam’s second time as a guest on the Ep…

James Wells is VP of Corporate Development at Sanctuary AI, a company building & scaling embodied artificial general intelligence (AGI). In this episode, James and I discuss the differences between various types of artificial intelligence and opine on the future of the relationship between humans & intelligent machines. James is also an accomplishe…

Ruben Harris is CEO at Career Karma, a marketplace connecting job training programs and qualified applicants. Ruben is also a Co-Host of the Breaking into Startups podcast, the podcast featuring inspiring stories of people who broke into tech from non-traditional backgrounds In this episode, Ruben and I discuss the future of education and how to ad…

Katherine Maher is CEO and Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization that manages Wikipedia - the multilingual online encyclopedia, based on open collaboration through a wiki-based content editing system. Wikipedia is the fifth most popular website in the world and gets more than 18 billion page views per month. In…

Tom Masterson is Founder and CEO of Unburden Care, a company that alleviates the burden associated with providing unpaid care through efficient, economic, and sensitive use of technology and social networks. Tom has an electric background, spanning tech, strategy, design, operations, marketing, and sales. In this episode, Tom and I discuss the chro…

Welcome back to Season Two of the Epic Human Podcast! In this episode, we recap Season One and share some of the exciting changes we’re making for the second season. We also reveal the epic human who originally inspired the podcast! For the longer story, here’s my Medium article on the topic: https://bit.ly/2XcilMF It’s good to be back!…

Eric Anderson is a Principal at Scale Venture Partners, a Bay Area venture firm that specializes in enterprise SaaS, developer tools, and infrastructure. Eric is a former product manager at both Google and Amazon, a former engineer with GE’s rotational leadership program, and a lifelong entrepreneur. Eric founded DocPro (www.docpro.app), the "Uber …

Greg McNeal JD/PhD, is a tenured Professor of Law and Public Policy at Pepperdine University and co-founder of AirMap, the world's leading airspace management platform for drones. Greg holds a Masters in Public Administration from American University, a JD from Case Western, and a PHD in Public Administration from Penn State University. He is a pub…

Mike Sirkin is a father of three amazing children, which makes him a hero in my book. He also happens to be a super successful and accomplished lawyer, but this episode isn’t about all that. In this episode, Mike and I discuss what it means and what it takes to be a dad in the modern era. We talk a bit about our own upbringing and about our joys an…

Cam Woodsum is the Founder of Nomad Impact Ventures, an e-commerce startup lab that builds for-profit impact businesses while traveling the world. He believes in living life to the fullest while also making a global impact. The majority of his organization's profits are funneled into an impact fund that invests in mission-oriented companies focused…

Sydney Thomas is a venture capital investor and head of operations with Precursor Ventures, a San Francisco-based pre-seed venture firm. Sydney is also the creator and host of the Be About It Podcast, a podcast featuring entrepreneurs who are building companies that serve “real people". In this episode, Syndey tells about growing up in San Diego, h…

Patrick Sagisi is a venture capital investor with DBL Partners, a San Francisco-based venture firm focused on delivering double bottom line returns, both in terms of financial and societal benefits. Patrick is a 3-time Olympic swimmer representing his native birthplace of Guam. In this podcast, Patrick explains how his extraordinary self-discipline…

Ken Harbaugh is running for Congress in Ohio’s 7th district. Ken is a former Navy pilot, Yale Law School graduate, and President of Team Rubicon, an international non-profit that deploys American veterans to provide disaster relief services all over the globe. Ken has dedicated himself to a life of service in a wide range of capacities, and is now …

Ray Li is a musician and entertainer with Veserium, an electronic music duo that performs a live show unlike any you’ve experienced before. Veserium creates sound from thin air using only motions and gestures, allowing fans to experience the music on an entirely different level, being able to see and hear the sounds as they are being created. Ray i…

Chris Anderson is Founder and CEO of 3D Robotics, a drone software company digitizing the construction industry. Chris is a New York Times best selling author, former Editor in Chief of WIRED magazine, writer at the Economist, physicist, and research scientist at Los Alamos Labs. Chris walks us through his incredible life, which includes a battle-o…

Andrew Byrnes is a venture capital investor at Comet Labs, an AI and intelligent machines focused seed investor based in San Francisco. He is a former cleantech startup founder, high school teacher, marketing exec, wildcatter, fiction author, sushi roller, and local TV show host. Andrew’s circuitous life path is as fascinating as it is hilarious! *…

John Gray is an expert in social media manipulation and “fake news” bots. John is also Co-founder and CEO of Mentionmapp Analytics, a company focused on protecting social profile reputations. In this podcast, John explains how technology is used to deceive and manipulate us, who is behind this activity, and what (if anything) can be done to stop it…

Gaurav Jain is Co-founder and Managing Partner of Afore capital, a pre-seed stage venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. Gaurav has proven his unusual ability to succeed as both an entrepreneur and a venture capital investor. In this podcast, Gaurav shares some of the non-intuitive "benefits of short-term thinking" when building your career.…

Claire Coder is CEO & Founder of AuntFlow, an innovative menstrual products company. Claire recounts dropping out of college to follow her dreams while overcoming countless obstacles. Claire is what I call a “Born Hustler," a person who was destined to build companies.By Joe Blair

Mike Vernon is Director of Key Accounts for Global One Pet, a leader in the pet nutrition & specialty product industry. He is a sales savant with uncanny emotional intelligence. In this episode, you'll learn about how Mike kickstarted his sales career, the techniques he uses to make a lasting impression, and his advice for the salesperson inside ea…

This episode will introduce the Epic Human Podcast. It will provide some background on the host Joe Blair, explain the theme and format of the podcast, and tell you where you can find us online.By Joe Blair