805conversations

Candace Winkler, the CEO of the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara visited with host Mark Sylvester for an enlightening talk that covered the role of the Foundation in the Community and the importance of providing support in a wide range of areas for families and students. She and Mark talked about several big ideas, including; • Financial Aid Planning for families getting ready to send their first student off to college • The reach of the Foundation – $8.7M given in grants to 3,000 students a year • The ACHIEVE program – helping students acclimate to the college experience • The College Scholars program • How the Foundation provides additional social support and service to families in the area

Craig Harris, the founder and CEO of HGDATA (http://hgdata.com)sat down for a conversation with host Mark Sylvester for a wide-ranging talk that covered his early work as a Peace Corps volunteer in Paraguay and how lessons he learned there have guided him throughout his business career. He and Mark talked about several themes, including; • What's the meaning of HG and the Holy Grail • What's a Minimally Viable Expert? • How do you create a workplace that's compelling - attracting the best talent to your business • Big Data and understanding a customers specific requirements • Measuring results - another Holy Grail • Building a business in Santa Barbara and the funding environment, how it's changing so quickly Craig is also a sponsor of the 805connect project and we appreciate his guidance and support from the very earliest days of the effort. We profiled them in a special post which you can read at http://805connect.com/hgdata. Buzzword Bingo: Unstructured data

Dr Keith Witt, clinical psychologist, lecturer and author sat down for a conversation with host Mark Sylvester for a inspiring talk that covered a wide range of topics that affect leadership in many ways. Keith spoke about finding your superpowers and Mark kept coming back to this theme as there's more than you'd expect and they're not exactly what he expected either. • Finding True North • Being able to receive wise influence - compassionate self-observation • Management development / Personal development • Psychological sturdiness • Having a broad view and depth of consciousness Buzzword bingo - Empathetic Resonance This is one of those episodes that you may want to listen to twice.

Christopher Foley, the founder of foleypod sat down for a conversation with host Mark Sylvester for a informative talk that covered the importance of having a strategy in place before you start designing your web presence. This is the second time that Mark talked with Christopher, this time the emphasis was on digging deep into the various aspects of web strategy that are often overlooked. including; • Where's your blindspot • Are you and expert in your field and how to become a thought leader • How to overcome the sense of being overwhelmed If you missed the first conversation, Small Fixes Make Big Changes, you can find it here: http://805connect.com/web-strategy/

Kymberlee Weil, Strategic Samurai and Alan Irwin, Director at Santa Barbara Improv sat down for a conversation with host Mark Sylvester for a lively talk that covered the importance of story when you are in front of an audience. Any audience. This is the second time that Mark talked with these two, this time the emphasis was on finding the story that makes you vulnerable and someone that the audience wants to listen to. A few key takeaways from this hilarious conversation were; • The power of the pause • When you force funny, it's not funny • The audience wants you to succeed If you missed the first conversation, you can find it here: http://805connect.com/perfecting-your-performance/

Christopher is the CEO of foleypod, a web development and strategy company based in Santa Barbara. This is from a webinar that he did with 805conversations host Mark Sylvester. They talked about the small fixes you can make to your web site to make it more productive. Foleypod is a partner in the 805connect project and has done the work on 805connect.com, intronetworks.com, strategicsamurai.com and tedxSantaBarbara.com

Brad Golden, founder of CentralCoastLive sat down for a conversation with host Mark Sylvester to explain how his passion drove the formation of Central Coast LIVE! a new media broadcasting and publishing company located in Paso Robles, California. His mission is to connect local musicians from the California Central Coast with new fans near and far. CentralCoastLIVE.com serves as a music-ezine providing behind the scenes human interest stories of folks in the local music scene, interviews with bands, a comprehensive calendar of events. One of their primary offerings is live streamed video of concerts that can be viewed from anywhere in the world with an adequate Internet connection.  One of their primary offerings is live streamed video of concerts that can be viewed from anywhere in the world with an adequate Internet connection. They are launching upcoming a new radio station, Central Coast LIVE! Internet Radio highlighting musicians from the California Central Coast. They are putting a call out to musicians and bands to submit their works for consideration in their line-up. If you are a musician, they really want to feature your work, please use our submission form here!

Marshal Conley, project director for the Connected Educators project sat down for a conversation with host Mark Sylvester for a wide ranging talk that covers the role of technology in education and a myriad of other issues related to professional development for teachers.

Noah benShea, one of North America’s most respected and popular poet-philosophers, sat down for a conversation with host Mark Sylvester for a wide ranging talk that will definitely get you to thinking. Noah is also a scholar, theologian, long range thinker, executive advisor, speaker, and International Best-Selling author who was, by the age of 23, an Assistant Dean of Students at UCLA and, by 30, a consulting fellow to a number of esteemed think tanks including The Center for the Humanities at USC and The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara. An inspirational public speaker for 35 years, he has lectured at literally hundreds of universities, including MIT, Harvard, and Duke/Fuqua School of Business, as well as given countless Keynote Addresses including to the Library of Congress. His work has been incorporated in publications of The Congressional Record, Oxford University and the World Bible Society in Jerusalem.

Ed Maliski, the President of CURE Pharmaceutical Corporation talked with host Mark Sylvester about the promise and potential of a new method for distributing medicine. Oral Thin Films, also known as strips may be familiar to you if you’ve ever seen a Listerine Breath Strip. Same idea, except can now be embedded with medicines to solve a number of problems. 40% of people can’t take pills, strips are a more effective way of controlling dosages while also combating drug counterfeiting. Strips can be given to someone who is in and out of consciousness, such as a child suffering from Malaria. Through their Oak Therapeutics partnership, Ed is committed to helping provide a low cost, easily managed Malaria cure to developing nations. This is clearly Ed’s passion as you will hear in this stimulating conversation. There’s more science in play here than you’d imagine and they are being manufactured right here in Ventura County in a high-tech facility certified by the FDA.