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Shaping the Future: How Machina Labs' Robotic Craftsman Is Revolutionizing Manufacturing with CEO Edward Mehr
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Edward Mehr, the visionary CEO of Machina Labs. Machina Labs, at the forefront of a new era in manufacturing, is revolutionizing the field with its groundbreaking Robotic Craftsman platform. Our discussion today will journey through Ed's experiences in founding Machina Labs, exploring how this innovative company is redefining metal forming technolo…
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28. All About Farmland With FarmTogether Founder, Artem Milinchuk
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We dig into our food supply chain (stuff chain) and where our agriculture products come from. Farmland financier, entrepreneur and investor, Artem Milinchuk helps us learn through his data-driven, bird's eye view of how the agriculture industry works. Artem is pioneering democratized farmland investments at FarmTogether. The company is building tec…
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27. Jason Kim | CEO Millennium Space Systems - Digitally Defined Satellite Manufacturing
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About This Episode Jason Kim leads one of the World’s most agile and innovative aerospace manufacturing companies. In this episode, we dive into how Jason and his team at Millennium Space Systems (a Boeing company) are pioneering digital-first, high volume manufacturing for small satellites. We also dive into Jason’s robust experience in the aerosp…
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26. The Millennial Case For Manufacturing With ‘The Manufacturing Millennial’, Jake Hall
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This episode is all about the macro state of the manufacturing workforce. “If you don’t make stuff, there is no stuff.” – Elon Musk. All of the stuff we rely on and enjoy needs to come from somewhere… and someone. Manufacturing might otherwise be called: people and machines making the stuff that enables other peoples’ and machines’ high level of ca…
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25. Where Telecom Comes From with Michael Bloxton, CEO of Nebula Compute
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Episode title: Where Telecom Comes From with Michael Bloxton, CEO of Nebula Compute About This Episode Do you know where your cell service and internet come from? What does the physical infrastructure that lets you talk to your team, friends, and family on the other side of the world look like and how does it work? In this episode, Michael Bloxton …
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24. Where Solar Power Systems Comes From With Ivan Gonick, CEO Veteran Solar
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Energy production and independence are foundational to freedom and flourishing. As we learn from Ivan Gonick in this conversation, the United States power grid is extremely complex and fragile. Ivan is the CEO of Veteran Solar; in this conversation he breaks down how at home solar power systems work and why they are an excellent mechanism to build …
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23. Fred Horowitz | How To Make Affordable Consumer Goods In The USA
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In this episode serial industrial entrepreneur, Fred Horowitz, shares lessons that he’s learned through his robust manufacturing career and how he is navigating the rapidly evolving industrial landscape as a United States consumer goods manufacturing company. Fred is a deeply experienced CEO and founder of multiple, fast-growing consumer product br…
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22. Shelley Huff | CEO Serta Simmons - Building Antifragile Supply Chains
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About This Episode In this episode, Shelley Huff shares her frontline perspective on the transformation unfolding in the United States’ supply chains, particularly the shift from global, just-in-time, and fragile back towards local, safety stock, and antifragile (per Nassim Taleb's concept). Since we recorded this episode, Shelley moved from her ro…
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21. Lee Benson | An Aerospace Vertical Integration Success Story
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About This Episode In this episode, we sit down with Lee Benson, a serial entrepreneur and industrialist who built, led, and exited Able Aerospace – a company he grew from 3 to 500 employees with 15 consecutive years of 20 percent compounded average annual growth. After selling Able Aerospace for 9-figures to publicly-traded Textron Aviation, Lee c…
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20. Cam Adair | Gaming and Digital Addiction
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About This Episode In this episode, we sit down with Cam Adair, Founder of GameQuitters.com to break down how digital and gaming addiction are shaping our world and the Next Frontier. Gaming and more broadly digital addiction affects nearly all young people in today's world. After learning from this conversation with Cam, I believe that understandi…
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Where Stuff Comes From Kickoff (A Short Essay)
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About This Episode Formally launching the Where Stuff Comes From series of the Next Frontier Podcast with this short meditation and essay. Resources Mentioned & Other Links of Interest Antifragile: Things that Gain From Disorder (Book) Thanks A Thousand: A Gratitude Journey (Book) The Substance Of Civilization (Book) Subscribe for More The world is…
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What’s New With The Next Frontier Podcast in 2022
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About This Episode A short solo riff giving clarity and focus as we explore the Next Frontier together and enter the new year. Resources Mentioned & Other Links of Interest The Fourth Turning (Book) The Changing World Order (Book) Russel Brand - The Great Reset: Conspiracy or Fact? (Video) Joe Rogan On The Metaverse (Video) Mark Zuckerberg’s Metave…
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19. Ori Saar | Innovating How The Israeli Defense Forces Innovate
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About This Episode Ori Saar served in a wide range of innovation roles inside of the Israeli Defense Forces. This episode pairs well with our previous Defense Innovation episodes, #8 Brain ‘Beam’ Maue and #13 Prescott Pauling. We dive into Ori’s experience building innovation infrastructure for the Israeli Air Force and then for the Israeli Defense…
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18. Mike Howard | Where Does Our Energy Come From?
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About This Episode In this extremely timely episode, we sit down with Mike Howard, Chairman and CEO of Howard Midstream Energy Partners, to develop a deep understanding of where our energy comes from. Since we recorded this episode, the United States experienced a substantial cyberattack on of its largest fuel pipelines that should awaken the count…
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17. Pini Althaus | Where Do Rare Earth Elements Come From? Our Technological Life-Blood.
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About This Episode Critical minerals are found in nearly every high-tech product we use today. For example, an iPhone is made of over 40 different elements found in dozens of different as-mined critical minerals (e.g. the rocks that come out of the ground). Right now the United States relies on our chief adversary, China, to supply nearly 100 of so…
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16. Namrata Goswami | Space: A Key Innovation Resource In The Cold War With China
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Right now, the most important geopolitical competition since World War II, is unfolding between China and the United States. As a result, we need to start to ask Where Does Our Stuff Come From? Asking this question and building an understanding of this great power competition is essential to safeguarding our most important innovation resource: our …
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15. Keith Gargiulo | Digital Transformation
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About This Episode Now more than ever, entrepreneurs, innovators, and industrialists must be equipped with the language of digital transformation. In this episode, Keith Gargiulo and I take a tactical approach to digital transformation. As a Vice President at PTC, one of the world’s leading digital transformation technology companies, Keith is one …
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14. Marissa Brassfield | Ridiculously Efficient Communication Superpowers
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About This Episode A core competency for any entrepreneur, innovator, or industrialist is not only the ability to efficiently and effectively communicate in a wide range of media formats, but to swiftly paint a thrilling, compelling, and visionary narrative for a range of different audiences (your team, your investors, and your customers). In this …
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13. Prescott Paulin | The Defense Innovation Network
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About This Episode Prescott Paulin is a Marine Corps Veteran, entrepreneur, and United States Defense Innovator. We dive deep into how and why Prescott built the Defense Innovation Network to help companies improve their technology to benefit our military. Prescott also explains how thought models - John Boyd’s OODA Loop, Design Thinking, and many …
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12. Dan Kuschell | Growth And Failure Are Powerful Innovation Resources
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About This Episode In this episode of the Next Frontier Podcast, Dan Kuschell shares unique insights into the psychology and marketing of entrepreneurship and innovation. We dive deep into mental models for succeeding as an entrepreneur, tools that Dan uses to thrive as a Dad and sports coach, and how Dan became an expert copywriter. Finally, Dan d…
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11. Eswar Anandapadmanaban | Building A Premier Mixed-Reality Hackathon
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About This Episode This wide-ranging conversation with Eswar Anandapadmanaban takes us from his roots winning the Google Science Fair, to studying at the Massachusettes Institute of Technology where he invested time in a wide range of projects and internship experiences (at companies including NASDAQ and IDEO), through his award-winning mixed reali…
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10. Gopika SenthilKumar | Becoming A Medical Scientist & Pioneering A Culture Of Undergraduate Innovation
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About This Episode During her Bachelor’s degree, Gopika SenthilKumar founded the student product design organization, Insight Wisconsin, and drove the establishment of the multi-million dollar UW Makerspace. After graduating with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Gopika is pursuing her combined M.D. and Ph.D…
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9. Lennon Rodgers | Engineering Design & Innovation Labs Around The World
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About This Episode In this episode Lennon Rodgers, Director of the Grainger Engineering Design Innovation Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Lennon shares how he pioneered the world-class design and innovation programs at MIT in Boston, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich; the Bern University of Applied Sciences in Switzerl…
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8. Brian "Beam" Maue | All About AFWERX & US Military Innovation
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About This Episode In this episode, Max sits down with Brian “Beam” Maue, co-founder of AFWERX. This wide-ranging conversation dives deep into the frontline innovation happening throughout the United States Air Force. Beam details his innovation philosophy and how he goes about innovation empowerment while sharing hyper-exciting stories of innovati…
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The Next Frontier Thesis Today’s front-line innovators, entrepreneurs, and creative core (all whom if not already will be tomorrow’s leaders) grow up and learn their craft, not through the traditional academic system (in which many are enrolled), but through a complex web of innovation-enabling resources and infrastructure. Over the past 20 years, …
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7. Taylor Waddell | The Maker Movement, Makerspaces, and Make-athons
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Maker Community & Virtual Reality at NASA About This Episode In this episode, Max sits down with Taylor Waddell, a manager, designer, and student maker for the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Makerspace, and co-founder of 2twenty5, a Madison-based student-maker consulting group. Insights Shared What is a maker? How do you get better as a maker? W…
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Hackathon Strategies & Developing a Hacker Mentality Listen on Apple Podcasts About This Episode In this Episode, recent UW-Madison computer engineering graduate Spencer Fricke shares the wisdom and strategies he’s gained from participating in over 35 hackathons around the world. Spencer shares why — and how — he believes everyone can develop a hac…
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5. Vlad Bouriakov | Learning The Manufacture Anything & Generative Design
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Generative Design, Quantum Computing, & Mantis Shrimp Listen on Apple Podcasts About This Episode In this episode of the Next Frontier Podcast, Max sits down with his good friend Vlad Bouriakov, a Manufacturing Systems & Engineering Graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, specializing in generative design. Max and Vlad to discuss t…
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4. Van Espahbodi | Starburst's Aerospace Accelerator Program And
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Space. Adrenaline and Policy: How Van Espahbodi & Starburst Accelerator are Changing Aerospace Investing Listen on Apple Podcasts About This Episode Max talks with Van Espahbodi about his career transition from a government career to the co-founder of the first aerospace accelerator (Starburst Aerospace Accelerator). Van also shares how one of his …
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3. Mike Arnold, PhD | Leveraging STEM Research Universities & Starting Companies As A Professor
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In this interview I dive in with Professor Michael Arnold, exploring how to optimally take leverage research opportunities and how he honed into his technical interest. Throughout the conversation, Professor Arnold provides some key insights into what it takes to bring research ideas to reality and make meaningful contributions, at all stages of yo…
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2. Matt Starr | From Engineer To Startup Founder
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About this Episode In this conversation, Max talks with Matt Starr, a materials engineer, who left the engineering field to become the founder of Rally Energy, a caffeinated products company. Matt also shares why he believes anyone (particularly students) can use the scientific method to make better choices. Things discussed in the conversation: Us…
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1. Ben Arneberg | How To Build a 7-Figure Business... As A Full-Time Air Force Officer
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About this Episode In this conversation, Max talks with Ben Arneberg, a former Air Force officer who jumped out of airplanes, built two 7-figure e-commerce businesses, and developed satellites. Their conversation covered some of these topics: How Ben leveraged podcasts, Facebook groups, and mastermind groups to conquer e-commerce Balancing full-tim…
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