Best Karen Rands Podcasts (2024)

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The Future of Finance: AI-driven Investment Strategies with David Marra 56:01

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Today on the Compassionate Capitalist Show, we are diving deep into the fascinating world of artificial intelligence and its transformative impact on businesses and investment strategies. David Marra, a trailblazer in quantitative asset management and financial innovation, joins host Karen Rands to discuss how AI has evolved to simplify implementat…

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1072: Inside Secrets to Angle Investing with Karen Rands 17:24

11d ago17:24

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Karen Rands is the leader of the Compassionate Capitalist Movement and a nationally recognized expert on angel investing and entrepreneur business capitalization. Karen wrote the best-selling finance book and investor primer: Inside Secrets to Angel Investing (Step-by-Step Strategies to Leverage Private Equity Investment for Passive Wealth Creation…

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1076: Transforming the Construction Industry: From EQRP to Frame Tech with Damion Lupo 22:04

1h ago22:04

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Damion Lupo is an American Sensei and a highly sought-after Financial Mentor to the elite. He is the author of six books and the creator of accelerated learning programs that focus on achieving financial and spiritual mastery. With over 20 years of martial arts study and financial training, Damion has dedicated his life to guiding individuals towar…

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Adam Zamoyski, "Izabela the Valiant: The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess" (William Collins, 2024) 56:33

4h ago56:33

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Princess Izabela Czartoryska was a towering figure of late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century European cultural and intellectual life. Married at sixteen to a distinguished older aristocrat, she amassed learning, influence, and a role in both Polish and European statecraft through encounters with figures ranging from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to …

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Ep. 135 - Why B2B SaaS Companies Should Spend More on Brand - with Vinay Bhagat, Founder & CEO of TrustRadius 33:05

2h ago33:05

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According to this year’s B2B TrustRadius Buying Disconnect Report, where they surveyed 200 B2B brands and over 2000 tech buyers, 2024 is the “year of the brand crisis.” Across the board, brands are spending 38% on brand marketing and 53% on demand, which is understandable given the shorter time frame to justify ROI. The problem is that buyers make …

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Ren Pepitone, "Brotherhood of Barristers: A Cultural History of the British Legal Profession, 1840–1940" (Cambridge UP, 2024) 58:18

5h ago58:18

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How did ideas of masculinity shape the British legal profession and the wider expectations of the white-collar professional? Brotherhood of Barristers: A Cultural History of the British Legal Profession, 1840–1940 (Cambridge University Press, 2024) by Dr. Ren Pepitone examines the cultural history of the Inns of Court – four legal societies whose r…

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1075: Lessons from Leaders: Turning Personal Tragedy into Legal Triumph with Brian Beckcom 19:57

16m ago19:57

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Brian Beckcom is one of the leading lawyers of his generation. Brian's peers have voted him a Texas Super Lawyer 14 years in a row, and every single year he has been eligible. Brian is also a Board-Certified Expert in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, a recognition shared by less than 2% of lawyers. Brian has obt…

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Karen Patel, "Craft as a Creative Industry" (Routledge, 2024) 51:31

2h ago51:31

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How can we diversify the creative industries? In Craft as a Creative Industry (Routledge, 2024), Karen Patel, an Associate Professor in Media and Director of the Centre for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Arts (CEDIA) at Birmingham City University, examines the craft industries of Australia and the UK to show new ways of organising these c…

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Forecasting Future Workforce Needs (and Being Ready): Cary Sparrow's Data-Driven Analysis 51:19

14h ago51:19

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In today's conversation, Karen Rands will unpack the pivotal role statistics and wage data play in employment, the impact of the pandemic on labor markets, and the ongoing "Great Resignation." Her guest, Cary Sparrow will share insights from his fascinating journey from nuclear submarine officer to technology entrepreneur. Cary is the CEO of one of…

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1074: Redemption and Resilience: From Adversity to Success with James Arthur Ray and Bersabeh Ray 28:30

2h ago28:30

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James Arthur Ray is a New York Times bestselling author, philosopher, and consultant who has worked with over 1 million people from 146 countries through his coaching and leadership programs. He is the author of six books, and has appeared on numerous TV shows including Oprah, Larry King and the Today Show. In 2009, he lost everything after a tragi…

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Carole Ammann, "Women, Agency, and the State in Guinea: Silent Politics" (Routledge, 2020) 1:32:20

2h ago1:32:20

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Women, Agency, and the State in Guinea: Silent Politics (Routledge, 2020) examines how women in Guinea articulate themselves politically within and outside institutional politics. It documents the everyday practices that local female actors adopt to deal with the continuous economic, political, and social insecurities that emerge in times of politi…

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Vanessa S. Oliveira, "Slave Trade and Abolition: Gender, Commerce, and Economic Transition in Luanda" (U Wisconsin Press, 2021) 1:07:05

6d ago1:07:05

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Well into the early nineteenth century, Luanda, the administrative capital of Portuguese Angola, was one of the most influential ports for the transatlantic slave trade. Between 1801 and 1850, it served as the point of embarkation for more than 535,000 enslaved Africans. In the history of this diverse, wealthy city, the gendered dynamics of the mer…

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Crystal Wilkinson, "Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks" (Clarkson Potter, 2023) 55:36

1h ago55:36

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Poet Laureate of Kentucky Crystal Wilkinson’s food memoir, Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks (Clarkson Potter, 2023), honors her kitchen ghosts, five generations of Black Appalachian women. She contends, “The concept of the kitchen ghost came to me years ago, when I realized that my …

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1073: Unlocking Success with the Power of Books: Scribe Media’s New Chapter with Eric Jorgenson 18:24

18m ago18:24

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Eric Jorgenson is the CEO of Scribe Media, the largest Professional Publisher. Scribe helps entrepreneurs, executives, and experts write, publish, and market their books. Eric is the author of The Almanack of Naval Ravikant, A Guide to Wealth and Happiness and The Anthology of Balaji. He has sold over 1 million copies. He is also an investor in doz…

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The Reiki Business Summit & the Power of Collaboration 1:01:31

1h ago1:01:31

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In this special episode of Reiki from the Farm™, join Pam Allen-LeBlanc, Christian Stone, and Karen Caig as they explore the transformative power of collaboration in the Reiki business world. As they prepare for their upcoming presentation at the Reiki Business Summit, November 22-25, Pam, Christian, and Karen dive deep into the significance of wor…

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Aimee Louise Middlemiss, "Invisible Labours: The Reproductive Politics of Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss in England" (Berghahn Books, 2024) 45:16

4d ago45:16

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Tracing women’s experiences of miscarriage and termination for foetal anomaly in the second trimester, before legal viability, shows how such events are positioned as less ‘real’ or significant when the foetal being does not, or will not, survive. Invisible Labour: The Reproductive Politics of Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss in England (Berghahn, 2…

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Ep. 134 - Measuring Marketing Effectiveness: Strategies and Insights for SaaS Success - with Steve Oriola, CEO of Unbounce 30:53

4d ago30:53

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In this episode of the SaaS Backwards Podcast, we spoke with Steve Oriola, CEO of Unbounce, a landing page platform empowering marketers by combining their expertise with AI insights to create and optimize high-converting marketing campaigns. Steve discussed Unbounce’s recent acquisition of Insightly, a robust CRM with advanced AI and machine learn…

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1071: Secrets to a Successful Exit: Insights on Mergers & Acquisitions with Jacob Koenig 17:23

18d ago17:23

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Secrets to a Successful Exit: Insights on Mergers & Acquisitions – The Sharkpreneur podcast with Kevin Harrington and Seth Greene Episode 1071 Jacob Koenig Jacob Koenig is responsible for managing the sale process from bid through closing and serves as a trusted advisor for Woodbridge’s clients. Prior to joining Woodbridge, Jacob spent 12 years at …

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Alexandra Popoff, "Ayn Rand: Writing a Gospel of Success" (Yale UP, 2024) 1:00:03

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Ayn Rand is a provocative and polarizing figure. Strongly pro-capitalist and anti-communist, Rand was a dogmatic preacher of her moral philosophy. Based on what she called "rational self-interest", Rand believed in prosperity-seeking individualism above all. Alexandra Popoff's deeply researched biography traces Rand's journey from her early life as…

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Jessica Roda, "For Women and Girls Only: Reshaping Jewish Orthodoxy Through the Arts in the Digital Age" (NYU Press, 2024) 1:07:43

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Mainstream portrayals of ultra-Orthodox religious women often frame their faith as oppressive: they are empowered only when they leave their community. For Women and Girls Only: Reshaping Jewish Orthodoxy Through the Arts in the Digital Age (NYU Press, 2024), by Jessica Roda, flips this notion on its head. Drawing on six years of fieldwork between …

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Emily Cousens, "Trans Feminist Epistemologies in the US Second Wave" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) 46:49

7d ago46:49

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Why do "second wave" and "trans feminism" rarely get considered together? Challenging the idea that trans feminism is antagonistic to, or arrived after, second wave feminism, Emily Cousens re-orients trans epistemologies as crucial sites of second wave feminist theorising. By revisiting the contributions of trans individuals writing in underground …

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Anna Bonnell Freidin, "Birthing Romans: Childbearing and Its Risks in Imperial Rome" (Princeton UP, 2024) 1:40:23

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Across the vast expanse of the Roman Empire, anxieties about childbirth tied individuals to one another, to the highest levels of imperial politics, even to the movements of the stars. Birthing Romans: Childbearing and Its Risks in Imperial Rome (Princeton UP, 2024) sheds critical light on the diverse ways pregnancy and childbirth were understood, …

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Anne Gray Fischer, "The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification" (UNC Press, 2022) 1:14:04

8d ago1:14:04

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Anne Gray Fischer speaks about her path to and through research, including how sex workers informed her analysis of policing and state violence, the role of law enforcement in struggles over economic development, and the intellectual and practical factors of research design. Men, especially Black men, often stand in as the ultimate symbol of the ma…

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Race, Gender, and the 2024 Presidential Election Cycle 51:38

8d ago51:38

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Vice President Kamala Harris is poised to become the Democratic Party’s nominee for president. The path to this nomination and the generation election has been a bit unusual—with President Joe Biden deciding not to pursue re-election but doing so after the primary season has concluded. Thus, there is a rather condensed election season, and Vice Pre…

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1070: Driving Growth and Innovation: Revolutionizing Digital Marketing with ClickFunnels with Ben Harris 20:00

20d ago20:00

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Driving Growth and Innovation: Revolutionizing Digital Marketing with ClickFunnels – The Sharkpreneur podcast with Seth Greene Episode 1070 Ben Harris Ben Harris has been fully submersed in the world of online marketing over the last decade. After graduating college, he co-founded MB Nutrition while working full time. In 2016, their flagship produc…

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Yiman Wang, "To Be an Actress: Labor and Performance in Anna May Wong's Cross-Media World" (U California Press, 2024) 1:00:16

9d ago1:00:16

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Between 1919 and 1961, pioneering Chinese American actress Anna May Wong established an enduring legacy that encompassed cinema, theatre, radio, and American television. Born in Los Angeles, yet with her US citizenship scrutinised due to the Chinese Exclusion Act, Wong—a defiant misfit—innovated nuanced performances to subvert the racism and sexism…

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Janine P. Holc, "The Weavers of Trautenau: Jewish Female Forced Labor in the Holocaust" (Brandeis UP, 2023) 55:47

9d ago55:47

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Beginning in late 1940, over three thousand Jewish girls and young women were forced from their family homes in Sosnowiec, Poland, and its surrounding towns to worksites in Germany. Believing that they were helping their families to survive, these young people were thrust into a world where they labored at textile work for twelve hours a day, lived…

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Nadirah Simmons, "First Things First: Hip-Hop Ladies Who Changed the Game" (Twelve, 2024) 1:17:16

9d ago1:17:16

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This enlightening book reframes the history of hip-hop—and this time, women are given credit for all their trailblazing achievements that have left an undeniable impact on music. First Things First: Hip-Hop Ladies Who Changed the Game (Twelve, 2024), hip-hop is not just the music, and women have played a big role in shaping the way it looks today. …

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Iman Mersal, "Traces of Enayat" (Transit Books, 2023) 1:03:13

13d ago1:03:13

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Traces of Enayat (Transit Books, 2023) is a work of creative nonfiction tracing the mysterious life and erasure of Egyptian literature’s tragic heroine. It begins in Cairo, 1963. Four years before her lone novel is finally published, the writer Enayat al-Zayyat takes her own life at age 27. For the next three decades, it’s as if Enayat never existe…

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Susan Stryker, "When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader" (Duke UP, 2024) 1:00:15

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Susan Stryker is a foundational figure in trans studies. When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader (Duke UP, 2024) showcases the development of Stryker’s writing from the 1990s to the present. It combines canonical pieces, such as “My Words to Victor Frankenstein,” with her hard to find earlier work published in zines and newsletters. Brought tog…

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Tisha Brooks, "Spirit Deep: Recovering the Sacred in Black Women’s Travel" (U Virginia Press, 2023) 37:23

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What would it mean for American and African American literary studies if readers took the spirituality and travel of Black women seriously? With Spirit Deep: Recovering the Sacred in Black Women’s Travel (U Virginia Press, 2023), Tisha Brooks addresses this question by focusing on three nineteenth-century Black women writers who merged the spiritua…

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Jane-Marie Collins, "Emancipatory Narratives & Enslaved Motherhood: Bahia, Brazil, 1830-1888" (Liverpool UP, 2023) 1:19:06

20d ago1:19:06

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Jane-Marie Collins's book Emancipatory Narratives & Enslaved Motherhood: Bahia, Brazil, 1830-1888 (Liverpool UP, 2023) examines three major currents in the historiography of Brazilian slavery: manumission, miscegenation, and creolisation. It revisits themes central to the history of slavery and race relations in Brazil, updates the research about t…

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1069: Mastering Cash Flow with Peter Kingma 19:18

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Peter Kingma is the Americas Working Capital Leader for EY Parthenon. Working across a variety of sectors such as automotive, aerospace, defense, healthcare, retail and consumer products, he advises business leaders on how to optimize the management of cash. His work has led to well over 25 billion dollars of value creation for his clients. Peter i…

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1068: BetterAI: Transforming Wine Selection with Natural Language Processing with Angel Vossough 18:39

15d ago18:39

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Angel Vossough is the CEO and Co-Founder of BetterAI, a Silicon Valley-based AI service provider headquartered in Silicon Valley. The company is uniquely leveraging advanced AI technologies such as Machine Learning, Generative AI, Natural Language Processing, and Computer Vision to create this transformative solution that is revolutionizing the rel…

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Life Lessons from Breaker-Dawn: Embracing Wisdom, Courage, and Adaptability 1:26:09

16d ago1:26:09

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In this episode of Reiki from the Farm™, we celebrate the life and wisdom of Breaker-Dawn, our beloved horse who recently crossed the Rainbow Bridge. Through her story, we explore the profound lessons she taught us about self-acceptance, adaptability, and the deep connection we share with our animal companions. Join us as we delve into compassionat…

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Justin B. Stein, "Alternate Currents: Reiki’s Circulation in the Twentieth-Century North Pacific" (U Hawaii Press, 2023) 56:56

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In the second half of the twentieth century, Reiki went from an obscure therapy practiced by a few thousand Japanese and Japanese Americans to a global phenomenon. By the early twenty-first century, people in nearly every corner of the world have undergone the initiations that authorize them to channel a cosmic energy—known as Reiki—to heal body, m…

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Ep. 133 - Why Efficient B2B SaaS Advertising Requires a Holistic Approach 29:27

18d ago29:27

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Paid advertising is often one of the largest budget items for SaaS companies, making it a critical channel for facilitating sales and driving growth. In this episode of the SaaS Backwards Podcast, we flipped the script and had our very own Ken Lempit, President and Chief Business Builder at Austin Lawrence Group, as the guest. Ken shared his insigh…

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Daisy Dunn, "The Missing Thread: How Women Shaped the Course of Ancient History" (Viking, 2024) 24:58

20d ago24:58

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Around four thousand years ago, the mysterious Minoans sculpted statues of topless women with snakes slithering on their arms. Over one thousand years later, Sappho wrote great poems of longing and desire. For classicist Daisy Dunn, these women--whether they were simply sitting at their looms at home or participating in the highest echelons of powe…

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Sonia-Doris Andras, "The Women of 'Little Paris': Women’s Fashion in Interwar Bucharest" (Bloomsbury, 2024) 41:42

24d ago41:42

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Filling a gap in Eastern European fashion studies, this book presents middle-class women consuming fashion in the symbolic 'Little Paris' of interwar Bucharest, and examines how their material and cultural means supported the city's modernisation. Combining archival research with personal archaeology, this interdisciplinary work explores Romania's …

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1067: Unleashing High Impact Advertising Strategies with Hal Smith 15:31

22d ago15:31

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Hal Smith, the Founder of H Street Digital, is an adept entrepreneur cultivating business growth through data-driven digital advertising. Focused on scaling leads and new customers for consumer brands, his leadership propels the company with triple-digit growth annually. With a track record of managing over $100 million in digital advertising campa…

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