Unlock the secrets to thrive in a digital world. Welcome to "Thriving in the Digital Age," your authoritative source for navigating the complexities of the ever-evolving digital landscape. Our guests are leading experts in technology, business, and innovation, this podcast delves into the latest trends, tools, and strategies that empower individuals and organizations to succeed in today’s tech-driven environment. Meticulously researched and thoughtfully presented, each episode offers valuabl ...
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Listen to Will Crist as he discovers how companies thrive in California.
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Thriving In The Digital Age: Imran MacMillian and Digital Technologies
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In this episode of Thriving in the Digital Age, Joe Crist interviews Imran MacMillan, Senior Director at Launch by NTT Data, about the challenges and trends in the digital world. Imran highlights the importance of managing the separation between expectation and reality when it comes to implementing digital technologies. He also discusses the impact…
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Thriving In The Digital Age: Kimberly Wiefling and Building Effective Teams
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Kimberly Wiefling, a leadership expert, discusses the importance of building effective teams and communication skills in the digital age. She highlights the challenges organizations face in building teams and the common causes of failure in global teams. She emphasizes the need for psychological safety and trust in teams and the role of leadership …
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Thriving In The Digital Age: Manuj Aggarwal and Future of AI in Business
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Summary In this episode, Manuj Aggarwal, the CIO and founder of TetraNoodle, discusses the challenges and opportunities of adopting AI in various industries. He emphasizes the importance of educating decision-makers about AI and its potential impact on their businesses. Manu also highlights the need for companies to have a strong technological foun…
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Thriving In The Digital Age: James Garner and The Future of Construction
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James Garner, A Senior Director at Gleeds, discusses the challenges and opportunities in the construction industry and the role of technology in improving project delivery. He highlights the complexity and fragmentation of the industry, the slow pace of change, and the lack of data utilization. Garner emphasizes the need for standardization, digita…
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Thriving In The Digital Age: Rebecca Chalson and Personal Branding
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Rebecca Chalson, a personal branding strategist, discusses the importance of personal branding in today's digital age. She highlights the challenges of building a personal brand, such as consistency and time management. Rebecca emphasizes the value of personal branding for leaders and companies, as it can amplify their impact and reputation. She pr…
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Thriving In The Digital Age: Dr Roger Smith and Robotic Surgery Technologies
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Dr. Roger Smith, an expert in robotic surgery technologies, AI and healthcare, and military simulation and training, discusses the advancements and challenges in robotic surgery. He explains how robots are used to measure the skill levels of surgeons and the importance of training courses and simulations. Dr. Smith also highlights the benefits of r…
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Thriving In The Digital Age: Carson Hoffman and Ad Marketing
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Carson Hoffman, CEO and founder of Kingsman Marketing, discusses the challenges and strategies in digital marketing. He emphasizes the importance of understanding the customer and tailoring marketing messages to their needs and desires. He also highlights the significance of building a personal brand and creating a sense of community through organi…
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Thriving In The Digital Age: Darren Prine and The Future of Contact Centers
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Darren Prine, co-founder and chief revenue officer of Cloud Tech Gurus, discusses the challenges and opportunities in the contact center industry. He emphasizes the need for companies to be agile and adaptable in adopting new technologies, such as AI and GigCX, to reduce costs, improve efficiency, and enhance the customer experience. Prine also hig…
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Thriving In The Digital Age: Jordan Olivas and B2B Financing
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Jordan Olivas, co-founder of Harv, discusses the challenges faced by businesses in the current economic climate and the importance of access to liquidity. He emphasizes the need for businesses to optimize their processes and explore new payment methods to improve cash flow. Jordan also highlights the value of engaging with sales representatives and…
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Thriving In The Digital Age: Wes Carrington and GRC
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Wes Carrington, an expert in governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) and artificial intelligence (AI), discusses the challenges and opportunities in the GRC and AI industry. He highlights the rapid pace of technological advancement and the need for responsible and ethical AI systems. Wes also emphasizes the increasing complexity of regulatory compli…
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Joe De Pinto was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. He attended college at USC and was captain of the baseball team his senior year. Joe played professional baseball for 4 years in the Chicago White Sox organization after college. Barpay is his first venture post baseball, and he enjoys reading, surfing, and meditating in his spare time. Dan Wagne…
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Ken Kladouris is an esteemed wealth advisor and published author who believes you should be living your life, by design. Charting his own course in the wealth management industry, Ken has earned the respect of his peers and the trust of his clientele. Developing his signature tailor-made approach, Ken has been able to successfully assist countless …
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Mike Nunez is an 21-year internet veteran, with 4 years at Google on the Google Shopping and DoubleClick Search teams, and currently serves as Incfile's Chief Communications Officer.By Will Crist
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Heidi Hertel is a mom of three and founder of Fitz Frames, revolutionizing the eyeglass experience for families. Fitz Frames specializes in customized 3D-printed glasses for kids including prescription, sunglasses and blue light lenses. Outfitted with snap fit hinges, enabling the arm portion to securely snap into place, eliminating the risk of loo…
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Steeped Coffee is the new single-serve coffee standard, brewed similar to tea, requiring no machines, and made using all fully compostable packaging. Josh Wilbur, CEO, FounderWilbur, a serial entrepreneur and inventor, lives on the cusp of innovation and disruption. He was previously COO of Kickstarter’s phenomenon Bibliotheca, Founding Team of fin…
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A visionary idea to bring a small town boutique brokerage to the South Bay coupled with a long standing relationship with Christie’s International Real Estate has created a unique and unparalleled company- Strand Hill Properties. As President of Strand Hill | Christie’s International Real Estate, Chris Richardson is highly experienced in both comme…
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Mike Gentile has been on the forefront of security program development for more than 20 years. These experiences inspired him to create CISOSHARE where he serves as the Founder, President and CEO. Initially an experiment, now one of the fastest growing companies in the United States, CISOSHARE strives to create an environment based completely on le…
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Scott Griest is a sales-focused executive who has led multiple high-growth startups in the technology and financial services sectors. In addition to being an established entrepreneur and executive, he is an investor in several LA tech startups and a current board advisor for LEND360. As the Chief Operating Officer of PrimaHealth Credit Mr. Griest i…
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Don Tashman founded Loaded Boards in 2002. Passionate about boards sports, functional design, and business in general, Don functions as CEO of Loaded as well as driving product development. Don holds a BA in English Literature from Columbia University and prior to Loaded, Don worked for a couple "dotcoms" in New York in the late 90s which, through …
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Bill has held many key positions at technology companies such as Xerox and IKON, and created distribution channels and customer solutions for products manufactured by Canon, Ricoh, and H-P. Both companies also provided an opportunity for Bill to lead distressed operations back to profitability and interact with investors, including several Wall Str…
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J.D. Sitton joined CTC Global (CTC) as its chief executive officer in August 2014. He is focused on building the strategic and customer relationships necessary to drive large-scale adoption of CTC’s innovative ACCC© products by electric transmission and distribution utility companies world-wide. Since 2014, CTC has entered many new geographic marke…
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LJ Suzuki is a fractional CFO with CFOshare, an outsourced finance and accounting department for small businesses. https://cfoshare.org/By Will Crist
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Mareya Ibrahim, Food Safety and Clean Eating Expert
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Mareya Ibrahim is also known as “The Fit Foodie,” a nationally recognized food safety and clean eating expert, an award-winning entrepreneur, television chef, author and inventor. She is the CEO and founder of Grow Green Industries, INC. and the patented co-creator of the eatCleaner®, eatSafe™ and eatFresh™ line of all natural and organic products …
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NANCY DUARTE is a communication expert who has been featured in Fortune, Forbes, Fast Company, Wired, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, TIME and on CNN and is also a Harvard Business Review contributor. As a persuasion expert, she cracked the code for effectively incorporating story patterns into business communications. She’s written five b…
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DevHub white label technology platform is used by brands, agencies and technology companies to build sites and landing pages as part of a larger marketing strategy.One Platform, Many Different ExperiencesThis is achieved cost effectively- through robust APIs and cloud hosted infrastructure.DevHub offers an arsenal of unique tools to enterprises tha…
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Nick Jordan was born, raised and educated in Ireland and holds a bachelor’s degree from University College, Dublin in both English and Education. He was a school teacher in Ireland, then emigrated to the U.S. in 1986 to pursue new opportunities. Nick is currently a successful real estate broker in Orange County and a shareholder with Regency Real E…
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Summary Senior executive with 35 years of experience in general management, business development, marketing, sales and finance. Multi-faceted background in both non-profit and for-profit sectors; direct and database marketing; social media marketing; outsourcing and the analysis of alternative cost effective measures. Strategic, results-driven lead…
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Known far and wide as “Dr. Cindy,” the First Lady of Sales, Dr. Cindy McGovern holds a Doctorate Degree in Organizational Communication and a Master’s Degree in Marketing. She earned her reputation by building (and rebuilding) entire sales programs from the bottom up. Dr. Cindy, who is CEO of Orange Leaf Consulting, has helped hundreds of companies…
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Not only is Alan a household leader in husband, father of four, and cunning conversationalist, but he is the chief strategist and CEO behind Dexterous Media Group an online marketing agency. Dexterous combines Website, Video, Google Search, and Social Media at low cost to bring small businesses a high return on investment.…
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Kim Marie was born in California, graduated from Reedley College and attended Fresno State University. She spent 30 years in the banking industry. The first 18 years with Bank of America and then held positions in many different banks as she culminated her career in mergers and acquisitions where she drove the acquisition/merger of over 30 banks. K…
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3-Time #1 Best Selling Author, Don Williams is the founder and CEO of Don Williams Global – Don is dedicated to changing businesses across the globe one WOW experience at a time. Don has worked with over ½ of the Fortune 500 and International clients on marketing/sales, customer experience (CX), culture and leadership strategies. Don speaks and con…
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Chief Executive Officer, KCOMM – www.kcomm.com Chairman and Founder, the Internet Marketing Association (IMA) – www.imanetwork.org Founder, International Executive Council (IEC) – www.iecnetwork.org Founder, Chapman50 – www.chapman50.org Founding Board Member, Pretend City Children’s Museum – www.pretendcity.org Member of the Board of Governors, Ch…
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Data-Minded Marketing, Merchandising, and Advertising professional with more than 20 years experience in the Retail, Distribution, and eCommerce industries. Strengths and skill set lies in developing the Internet Retail Channel for manufacturers and driving merchandising programs for retailers. Proven strategic thinker with an outstanding record of…
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Adam Fields, Founder & CEO of ARTA, a contemporary logistics platform for shipping specialized items. He is a former vice president of Artspace.com, a fine art marketplace. Follow him on Twitter @afields and on LinkedIn.By Will Crist
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Hernani Alves is an Amazon best selling author, international speaker, and consultant with over twenty years of business experience as a Sales Executive for a $3 Billion Company. In his book, Balanced Accountability: Three Leadership Secrets to Win Hearts and Maximize Performance, Hernani delivers a newfound clarity on the case for accountability a…
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Voicea, the leading voice collaboration platform, unveils an extensive list of voice-based commands and new productivity platform integrations to help meeting goers become more productive. The new voice commands help meeting goers craft follow-ups, create action items, schedule reminders, and drive outputs directly into integrations for more than 2…
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Eric Spitz launched C4 Distro with Bill Lockyer in 2016. A former chairman and president of the Orange County Register, Spitz leverages twenty years of executive leadership and deal-making experience to launch and manage businesses in complex and new industries.By Will Crist
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Melinda draws on her previous successful business career in finance and upper management and then over 25 years as a full time wellness professional to bring an integrated business and wellness perspective to her clients at Resilience Insights. In addition to other services, she became licensed as a HeartMath Coach and Trainer to offer evidence bas…
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Heather DeSantis is a Top Millennial publicist, Forbes 30 Under 30 nominee and CEO of Publicity for Good, a purpose driven public relations firm. Heather combines market foresight, strategic timing, and organic interviews to generate millions of earned media impressions from outlets like ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CNN, BBC, iHeartMedia, Business Insider, …
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Jeff is the Principal and Founder of Spinitar. As the “Chief Evangelist,” Jeff helps to build the Spinitar brand and identify opportunities to help customers in need of audiovisual technology and services. Jeff encourages a culture where outstanding people can accomplish extraordinary things.By Will Crist
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Stacey A. Gordon is CEO at Rework Work , a Los Angeles, CA-based human capitalservices and training consultancy focused on helping organizations address Diversity& Inclusion needs through a proven, data driven methodology. Rework Work’snine-point system breaks D&I down into manageable target areas which include:reputation management, interviewing p…
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Established the company for the sole purpose of providing tax benefits to high income-earning individuals with tax liability by generating investment tax credits within the solar business. For over a decade the solar industry has largely benefited institutional investors with tax benefits but has not provided similar benefits to individual investor…
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Nicole Suydam, who served nearlya decade as Goodwill of OC’svice president of development,returned to Goodwill of Orange Countyas president and CEO in 2018. She hasmore than 20 years of management andleadership experience working withlocal and national nonprofits dedicatedto meeting human service needs. Priorto returning to Goodwill, Suydam serveda…
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Kevin Brown – CEO/Co-Founder LeadSmart Technologies
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Kevin Brown is the CEO and Co-Founder of LeadSmart Technologies an Irvine based technology and SaaS software company. LeadSmart is a unique suite of products that combine world class CRM with Marketing Automation tools and a Channel Management component. LeadSmart helps companies turn leads into revenue and paying customers and manages the ongoing …
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Gregg L. Witt is a partner and Chief Strategy Officer at Engage Youth Co., where he leads the strategy and consumer engagement programs for brands targeting youth audiences. Gregg has been immersed in the business of youth culture since the age of 16 when he started his first company, Goodtimes Skateboards. Despite adult naysayers, Witt took the co…
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