Digital Technopreneur Podcast

In celebration of Black History Month, we celebrate the creativity, innovation and gifts of an amazing writer who consistently pushes her boundaries. Our conversation today walks through how our guest balanced between chasing her creative passions and a conventional career. Tai French is the founder of Vintage City Entertainment, redefining live theatre and implementing technology to digitize the way we experience her plays.

Our discussion today stems from a conversation from the community on how people describe success and what it means to them. We reviewed this idea of success from several different global perspective - young, old, married, single, family, career and business oriented. However, most of the responses independently came out similar and both our guests presented several new thoughts on the idea of social success.

LinkedIn was not initially built as a job recruitment platform but rather built for entrepreneurs with the smaller financial budget that needs a platform to network. Our guest, is a LinkedIn brand strategist that breaks down the three steps to effectively building your network and brand on LinkedIn.

Most people start out the year with resolutions that tends to be abandoned after the first two weeks. As an entrepreneur, setting goals is a very import part of the journey but rather than creating resolutions we shift our focus on just five things that will create a fulfilled year. Today, we get to discuss our top 5 things we are focusing more on for 2021.

Our guest started the entrepreneurial path at 17 to provide for his family and without any higher education. Today at age 30, he has successfully built several six figure businesses and a seven figure net worth. He writes his first book breaking down his unconventional path to the American dream. We discuss some of the steps towards publishing your first book, the mindset, planning and execution stages to becoming a successful published author.

Our guest today proves that being an innovative entrepreneur doesn't necessarily mean that you have to develop a disruptive tech but it can also be introducing an old product to a new industry. Uzo is disrupting the food scene in Nigeria and several countries in Africa with inspirations from here job experiences from the United States. She combines her passion for food, community and service to create a brand mission known as the "El Padrino Way"

Building a business brand as a new entrepreneur can seem like a daunting topic. Our guest today is considered a branding alchemist helping entrepreneurs and businesses understand how to build an honest business brand using some simple and cost effective ideas to create engagement and generate income.

Our guest today is my co-host Andi Ohh, who helps entrepreneurs generate funding for their business and he shares why he walked away from a $40 million deal and the importance of entrepreneurs to be facilitators in their business journey.

Our guest today is considered the chief kelper and the Founder of Carbon Kapture a company that created a product to beat the production of CO2 with a network of kelp farms. We walk through the journey of his company still in the first year and currently at a series C investment funding round.

Sometimes as an entrepreneur you have to go against the grain and think outside of the box to create your business. In this episode, our guest pushed his creativity from a physical world to creating a live digital experience of a fantasy escape game. This is a great example of a true digital technopreneur starting from scratch and launching his business.