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TMB E32: Venture Partners, Business Advisors & Space

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Tucson Business Radio
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TMB E32: Venture Partners, Business Advisors & Space
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GUESTS:

Andrew More, Director, BlueStone Venture Partners
P.O. Box 17044
Tucson, AZ 85731
520-405-925

email: andrew.more@bluestonevp.com

SOCIAL MEDIA: LinkedIn |

Born and raised in Tucson, Andrew is a native Tucsonanand is what is known as a “boomerang”.   Andrew moved away in 2008 when he graduated from the U of A, but found his way back to Tucson in 2018 when he turned down a job offer from Amazon to join their Seattle headquarters. Instead, Andrew decided to move back to Tucson and help launch BlueStone Venture Partners with BlueStone co-founders Mara Aspinall and Tom Nickoloff.

After moving away, Andrew received his Master’s degree from USC in 2009 and soon after began his career with Ernst &Young’s M&A Transaction Support team in San Francisco. In2012 he joined a Palo Alto-based private equity firm where he invested growth capital into a variety of private companies across a diverse set of industries.

BlueStone Venture Partners is a Tucson-based venture capital fund capitalizing on the strength and innovation found in entrepreneurial companies in the Southwest.BlueStone invests in early-stage life science and healthcare startups based in the “NATO” states (New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and Oklahoma).

Fueling Growth

BlueStone’s Story Turquoise, the elusive native blue stone of the Southwest, has enjoyed a special significance across different cultures throughout history. Prized for its distinctive blue color, turquoise is thought to attract success and money. Its power is also fabled to bring protection, courage, and friendship.
Just as turquoise derives its colors from the minerals in the ground where it forms, BlueStone Venture Partners’strength stems from partnering with businesses that reside in our shared innovation ecosystem.

Who We Are

BlueStone Venture Partners is a best-in-class life sciences venture capital fund capitalizing on the strength, creativity, and innovation found in entrepreneurial companies in the southwestern UnitedStates.Our firm is rooted in the Southwest and our experience has shown that there are investment gems likewise hidden in the desert Southwest. There is a dearth of venture capital support in the region despite strong universities, unique research centers, and significant infrastructure. We believe that our management skills, existing deal pipelines and relationships with industry-leading advisors and co-investors will enable us to choose companies wisely and in so doing create value for investors.

Target Verticals Investment Criteria

BlueStone invests in early-stage companies that operate within the life Sciences. The Fund primarily focuses on companies that reside within five key verticals including Medical Devices, AdvancedMaterials, Healthcare IT, Diagnostics, and biopharma Platforms.
We seek companies that have developed transformative platforms or disruptive technologies, are protected by strong intellectual property and will have a meaningful impact on healthcare. Our preference is for companies residing in the NATO States (New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and Oklahoma), however, as a return-driven fund, we will make investments regardless of geography if they fit our “Southwest-like” metrics.BlueStone provides growth capital and strategic support to our portfolio companies in addition to privileged access to strategic partners including investors, customers, and other partners residing within the supply chain.
Jim Cantrell, Executive Vice President
R2 Space
Email:jim@r2space.com
SOCIAL MEDIA: LinkedIn |
Jim is the founder of several entrepreneurial start-ups, including vector, StratSpace and Vintage Exotics Competition Engineering.
He was on the founding team of Moon Express and SpaceX and has worked closely with Iceye, Skybox Imaging, PlanetIQ, PlanetLabs, and Rocket Lab.
He has worked on 45 satellite missions including iridium Next, the Pluto mission, Osiris-Rex, and Lightsail. Jim also served as CEO of IDair, a bio-metrics company.
He holds Board and Advisory positions at The Planetary Society, ATLAS Space, Morf3D, York Space Systems, Infinite Composites, Iceye and the Sports Car Club of America and is an active angel investor.

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Nick Santora with Curricula, Marc Gorlin with Roadie and Bijal Patel with Synamedia

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Atlanta Business Radio
Nick Santora with Curricula, Marc Gorlin with Roadie and Bijal Patel with Synamedia
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Nick Santora founded Curricula after a 7-year career at the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), the enforcement agency responsible for regulating the power grid across North America. Nick spends time advocating and advising critical infrastructure utilities on how to improve their cybersecurity programs. Nick is internationally recognized as a cybersecurity expert and speaks regularly at security conferences across North America on the psychology behind influencing employees within security awareness programs.

Nick holds a Bachelor of Science and Master of Business Administration from Rider University. He also earned his CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) and CISA (Certified Information Systems Auditor). Nick also serves on the board of advisors for Veracity, and industrial control systems SDN company.

Connect with Nick on LinkedIn.

Before starting Roadie, Marc Gorlin Co-Founded and was Chairman of Kabbage Inc., which provides working capital to small and medium-sized businesses. To date, Kabbage has raised more than $250 million in venture funding and has a $270 million credit facility from Guggenheim Securities. The company has provided over $3.5 billion in capital to small businesses.

In 1996, Marc was a co-founder and an original board member of Pretty Good Privacy (“PGP”), a company formed to commercialize one of the most prevalent security standards used on the Internet, popularized in the book The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Marc assisted with the initial formation of PGP and oversaw the financing, growth and eventual sale of the company (to Network Associates (Nasdaq: INTC), a public company worth over $1 billion) in December of 1997.

After PGP, Marc co-founded VerticalOne Corporation, a content personalization service that was sold to S1 Corporation (Nasdaq: ACIW) for $166 million. Marc was Executive Vice President of VerticalOne and worked in multiple areas of the company including financing, business development, sales, M&A and security issues.

Marc is an active speaker on serial entrepreneurship, innovation and venture funding. Marc has spoken at SXSW, RILA Supply Chain, The Montgomery Summit, Internet Summit, Southeastern Venture Conference, and Finovate among others. He is a graduate of the University of Georgia and remains an avid bulldog fan.

Connect with Marc on LinkedIn.

Bijal Patel is Synamedia’s Chief Financial Officer and brings over 20 years of experience in international high-tech and software companies as well as private equity-backed technology firms. Bijal has extensive experience driving business transformation, integrations and process improvements.

Bijal joined Synamedia from hospitality technology innovator, HotSchedules where he served as CFO for 3 years. Prior to HotSchedules, Bijal was CFO at Aptean and before that he held the position of Vice President of Finance at Finastra and was interim CFO between 2012 and 2014. Bijal spent the early part of his career in a variety of senior roles at IBM.

Connect with Bijal on LinkedIn.

About Your Host

JoeyKlineJoey Kline is a Vice President at JLL, specializing in office brokerage and tenant representation. As an Atlanta native, he has a deep passion for promoting the economic growth and continued competitiveness of communities in and around Atlanta, as well as the Southeast as a whole. He has completed transactions in every major submarket of metro Atlanta, and works primarily with start-ups, advertising/marketing agencies, and publicly-traded companies. With a healthy mix of tenacious drive and analytical insights, Joey is a skilled negotiator who advises clients on a myriad of complex real estate matters.

With a strategy and business development background, Joey is first and foremost a pragmatic advisor to his clients. Most recently, he was the Director of Business Development for American Fueling Systems, an Atlanta-based alternative energy company. While at JLL, he has become a member of the Million Dollar Club, and has built a reputation as an expert on the intersection of transit-accessibility and urban real estate. With intimate involvement in site selection and planning/zoning concerns, Joey approaches real estate from the perspective of the end user, and thus possesses a unique lens through which to serve his clients.

Joey holds a Master of Business Administration from Emory University, and a Bachelor of Arts from Washington University in St. Louis. He is a founder, board member, and the treasurer of Advance Atlanta, and also sits on the Selection Committee for the Association for Corporate Growth’s Fast 40 event. In addition, he is a member of CoreNet and the Urban Land Institute. Finally, he is part of LEAD Atlanta’s Class of 2019.

Connect with Joey on LinkedIn.

BRX Pro Tip: Testimonials

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BRX Pro Tips
BRX Pro Tip: Testimonials
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BRX Pro Tip: Testimonials Transcript

Stone Payton: [00:00:02] Welcome back to BRX Pro Tips. Stone Payton, Lee Kantor here with you. Lee, let’s talk a little bit about capturing and sharing testimonials.

Lee Kantor: [00:00:10] Yeah, something I learned when I was in college getting my degree in advertising is that what you say isn’t nearly as important as what others say about you. So, that’s where the importance of capturing testimonials and creating this social proof for the guests and for your prospective sponsors. When other people are saying how effective your work is and how important it is, that is much better than you having to say it. So, everything you do in the studio, you have to make it easy to share the content that’s created in the studio so that it can be on social media.

Lee Kantor: [00:00:46] You want to be able to have all your participants know what your social media handles are, so they can connect with you and share the content that’s created by them. And you want to tell the guests that it’s very important for them to connect with you in the studio and to share their interview after it’s been published and even pre-promote before it’s been published. That would be ideal if you can pull that off as well. But it’s important to get the guests and the guests of your house show, as well as the guests of your client’s shows to tell the world that they were on the show, they had a great experience and encourage other people to get involved as well.

BRX Pro Tip: The BRX Network was Built by an Introvert

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BRX Pro Tips
BRX Pro Tip: The BRX Network was Built by an Introvert
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BRX Pro Tip: The BRX Network was Built by an Introvert Transcript

Stone Payton: [00:00:02] Welcome back to BRX Pro Tips. Lee Kantor, Stone Payton here with you. Lee, something a lot of people probably don’t realize or recognize, but the Business RadioX network was actually built by an introvert.

Lee Kantor: [00:00:15] Right. Me being the founder of Business RadioX, I am a hyper introvert. I think I’m very far on the spectrum of introvert. And because of that, I did not like to go to networking meetings. I did not like to go out and meet lots of people. And that was difficult for me early in my career, because it’s hard to drum up business when you’re not going to the place where business people are hanging out. So, that’s where this kind of the genesis of the whole Business RadioX radio show and using a radio show to leverage the community and to serve people and to bring them into me.

Lee Kantor: [00:00:53] So, that’s where it all came about. And it started, because I did not want to go out and meet the people. So, what I did was I found somebody that did like to do that. I offered her the opportunity to be a co-host with me. And when she goes out to the chamber meetings and the networking meetings, she no longer said, “Hey, I’m Amy with this insurance company.” She said, “Hey, I’m Amy, I’m the co-host of Atlanta Business Radio. Would you like to be a guest?”

Lee Kantor: [00:01:19] And when that happened, she was bringing in the guests into the studio. I was being a co-host. I was, you know, doing the engineering and producing of the show. And then, I was slowly picking off some of those guests to host their own show. And that’s what kind of laid the foundation for the whole network. Because you came along as a guest, you saw that it was successful. And then, together, we realized that we can do this and we can kind of put this in communities all around the country and help the introvert, who doesn’t want to go out to networking meetings, have a vehicle that can help them be a mega connector and grow their network.

TMBS E63: April Scneider – America Saves Week Financial

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Tucson Business Radio
Tucson Business Radio
TMBS E63: April Scneider - America Saves Week Financial
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SAVINGS TIPS AND INSIGHTS FORA HEALTHY FINANCIALFUTUREJust Under HalfofAmericansThink They’re Saving Enough Money to Achieve Their Financial Goals.

April Schneider, Financial Expert & Head of Consumer and Small Business Products, Bank of America America Saves Week is in full swing, and Bank of America is encouraging people around the country to make a commitment to save at AmericaSavesWeek.org. Just 49%of Americans believe they’re saving enough to achieve their financial goals—there’s never been a better time to examine your savings behavior and commit to a healthy financial future.

April Schneider, Head of Consumer and Small Business Products at Bank of America, will share tips and insights to help make your financial goals a reality, whether you’re just starting to save or hoping to build on existing financial habits

INSIGHTS &TIPS:

  • Save with a plan: A smart savings strategy should incorporate a budget and goals. If you need a refresher on budgeting tips, visit Better Money Habits, Bank of America’sonline financial education platform. Setting short or long-term goals can help motivate you to stick with saving and inform your strategy. The most common savings goals for Americans are: preparing for retirement (46%), increasing their savings (46%), saving for a vacation (40%)and building an emergency fund (36%).
  • Plan for retirement: Just 54% of Americans think they’ll be able to save enough to retire someday. Create a realistic retirement savings goal by talking to a financial advisor, who can develop a retirement strategy with you, accounting for your lifestyle, goals, location and more.
  • Open a savings account: When you’re first starting to save, opening a savings account is one of the most important actions you can take to secure your financial future. It allows you to earn interest while keeping your money safe and accessible. When evaluating your account options, ask the right questions: Are there account fees? What’s the initial deposit requirement? Is the account compatible with financial apps?
  • Use automatic savings tools:49% of Americans use automatic savings programs to make saving simple and consistent. There are many great automatic savings tools out there. For example, Bank of America’s Keep the Change program automatically rounds up your debit card purchases to the nearest dollar amount and transfers the change from your checking account to your savings account.
  • Save when you spend: Consider applying fora credit card that lets you earn rewards on purchases and use those rewards as a savings tool. For example, if your credit card gives you cash back, you may be able to set up automatic transfers so that whenever you reach a certain rewards balance, such as $25, it is deposited directly into your savings account.

More About April Schneider

April Schneider is the head of Consumer and Small BusinessProducts at Bank of America. Her team is responsible for delivering the products and services that help Bank of America’s66million consumer and 3.5 million small business clients meet their financial goals. Schneider’s team consists of approximately 800 employees across the country.

Schneider and team are focused on providing clients with a full range of convenient and innovative financial products and services. They are responsible for growing Bank of America’s $700 billion in consumer and small business deposits and $95 billion in outstanding credit card balances. This includes the development, pricing and management of consumer deposit, debit and credit card, first mortgage, home equity, vehicle lending, GWIM banking, and small business banking solutions.

Schneider has worked in the consumer products space for more than 20 years. Since 2007, she has held a number of leadership positions at Bank of America including Products and Pricingexecutive, Mortgage and Home Equity Products executive, Pricing and Portfolio Management, Capital Markets and SecondaryMarketing.

Schneider holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from HiramCollege and a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of South Carolina. She serves as a Market Sponsor for Tucson, AZ, Executive Sponsor the bank’s Parent Care Network and currently leads the advisory board for BAI Research.

 

Nicole Popham of Legacy Properties and Severo Avila of the Rome News Tribune

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Rome Business Radio
Rome Business Radio
Nicole Popham of Legacy Properties and Severo Avila of the Rome News Tribune
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Nicole Popham is a real estate agent with Legacy Properties. She has been a licensed Realtor since 2016. Before that, she worked in property management. In October 2018 she joined a brand new real estate company called Legacy Properties and obtained her brokers license 2019. She says the purpose of her being a Realtor at Legacy Properties is to bring a new light into real estate. Real estate is something she is very passionate about but she also like to have a little fun with it too! Whether you are buying, investing, or selling, she says you will receive an honest and knowledgeable realtor.

Severo Avila is the Features Editor as well as a humor columnist for the Rome News-Tribune. He’s known for his sarcastic (and sometimes controversial) columns which have been entertaining Rome News Tribune readers for years. He moved to Rome from Kentucky where he attended undergrad and grad school at Murray State University.

TMBS E62: Michael Biltz – Accenture Technology Report

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Tucson Business Radio
Tucson Business Radio
TMBS E62: Michael Biltz - Accenture Technology Report
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NEW TECH TRENDS FOR2020 & BEYOND 20th Annual Accenture Technology Vision Report finds that companies Must Do a Better Job of Balancing Business Value with People’s Values Michael Biltz, Managing Director of the Accenture Technology Vision

BIO

Michael Biltz leads Accenture’s Technology Vision R&D group and the company’s annual technology visioning process. ThroughAccenture’s Technology Vision, Michael defines Accenture’sperspective on the future of technology beyond the current conversations about social, cloud, mobility, and big data to focus on how technology will impact the way we work and live.
The Technology Vision is intended to identify the future technology trends that will have a significant business impact over the next three years. It serves as a guide for how Accenture advises it is so that they are in the best position to take advantage of technology shifts and developments.
The Vision provides guidance on what companies should do short-term, as well as over the coming years to prepare for and adapt to these future technology changes.
According to the 20th annual Technology Vision report from Accenture, even though people are embedding technology into their lives more than ever before, organizations’ attempts to meet their needs and expectations can fall short. As companies work to deliver on their digital promises—and in a world where digital technology is everywhere—a new mindset and approach are required.
While some have referred to today’s environment as a “tech-lash,” or backlash against technology, that fails to appreciate the extent to which society is using and benefitting from technology. Rather, it’s a tech-clash—a clash between old models that don’t meet people’s expectations today. But tech-clash is a challenge that can be solved. To succeed moving forward, organizations must focus on balancing “value” with “values,” aligning their drive to create business value with their customers’ and employees’ values and expectations.

Trouvaille Travel Talk Ep3: 2019 Iron Chef Wendy Gauthier

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Tucson Business Radio
Tucson Business Radio
Trouvaille Travel Talk Ep3: 2019 Iron Chef Wendy Gauthier
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Guest:

2019 Iron Chef winner Wendy Gauthier was the guest of Paul Hardersen CEO & Founder of Trouvaille Travel Talk. Wendy is the Founder and CEO of the very successful catering and restaurant operation, Chef Chic. As shown below Tucsonans will have the opportunity to enjoy different cuisine and flavors from around the globe.

Trouvaille & Chef Chic AZ Team Up To OfferExclusive Tucson Dining Experiences

Trouvaille Travel and Tucson 2019 Iron Chef Champion WendyGauthierandChef Chic AZ are teaming up to offer exclusive dining experiences in the Tucson Metro Region. Dinner will highlight the cuisines of Trouvaille’s travel destinations. Multi-course meals by Chef Chic. Seating is limited. Reservations required. Coming up in April: The Irish and Manxcuisines of Ireland and Isle of Man!

Barefoot Bahamas Sailing: Jan 16-22, 2022

Trouvaille is teaming up with Adventure Life and the classic sailing ship, Liberty Clipper, to charter the ship and offers a truly unique island-hopping experience across the Bahamas. Available for sol travelers, families, groups, and corporate events.

Check out the itinerary:

Trouvaille has launched a new local travel division to its menu of personally escorted tours and international travel with Arizona Mines & Wines!

A new Arizona Day Trip is here–Arizona Mines & Wines! Explore the history of Arizona mining in Bisbee, explore the museum and descend into Queen Anne Mine–and savor afternoon lunch and wine at Sonoita wineries. All-inclusive. For groups of 5+, Thursday-Sunday.

There is a lot of amazing history and stories to be seen and told in Southern Arizona and for those visiting or even locals can now goon daily tours and see it all.

Go to www.trouvailltraveltours.org and get all the info you need.  And if you are looking for some home-style cooking with delicious breakfasts and lunches check out Chef Chic. After all, you are being hosted by Wendy Gauthier and she wasn’t the 2019 Iron Chef winner for nothing!

Contact her directly for that special catering event onwendy@chefchicaz.com.

You can contact Paul Hardersen travel@trouvailletravel.org * Dine in comfort all over the world! (Coming soon)

HOST:

Paul Hardersen
Trouvaille LLC – Trouvaille HQ
6790 E. Calle La Paz, Tucson, Arizona, United States
(520) 300-1056
Website: https://www.trouvailletravel.org
Email: travel@trouvailletravel.org
Phone: 520-820-8662
Toll-free: 1-800-983-3652
Voted Best in Group Travel 2018 
https://www.trouvailletravel.org/
Trouvaille ~ We are a lucky travel find, for you!
Week 1 Crowdfunding Update: We Have Liftoff!
Paul S. Hardersen, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer, Founding Partner.
Paul S. Hardersen, CEO, Ph.D.    

About Trouvaille Travel

Trouvaille is a small group travel hosting company offering uniquely curated local and global travel experiences. We other three main types of services: Trouvaille Signature Travel Experiences. These are our uniquely curated and conducted travel experiences in the U.S. and around the world that range from 2-10, are nearly all-inclusive, and highlight the culture, people, natural beauty, and cuisines of our destinations. Our current destinations include Maine, Florida, Hawaii, and Napa Valley in the U.S.; St.Lucia in the Caribbean; Ireland and Isle of Man; Machu Picchu in Peru; and the CookIslands in the South Pacific. These are offered on specific dates, but groups of 5 or more can arrange with Trouvaille for the conduct of these trips almost anytime during the year. Trouvaille Day Trips. We offer unique and customized local day trip experiences in Tucson, Arizona; New York City; and Portland, Oregon. These are all-inclusive day adventures that highlight specific features of the destinations.

B2B Services:

Trouvaille offers custom travel planning services to businesses small and large. We offer a complete, turnkey solution to plan large events at any destination, while also offering our Signature Trips for business groups. Contact us to get started! Email: travel@trouvailletravel.org. Phone: 520.300.1056.Main website: https://www.trouvailletravel.org Winner, Best in Group Travel, 2018 Arizona Daily Star’s Readers’ Choice Competition!

Testimonials:

“Truly outstanding! I have been fortunate to have traveled quite a bit, but I have not experienced this level of service. From the initial stages of planning to the actual amazing and unique trip, I am super pleased with my Trouvaille team and all that you offer! Booking again soon and I look forward to my next adventure with you!” T. Klein, Tucson, AZ.“We had an amazing time. I would recommend Trouvaille to anyone interested in having an experience of a lifetime.” K. Arnett, DeWitt, IA.“

As someone who loves to travel, I am thrilled to have discovered Trouvaille. Not only do they provide the personalized service I want, but their attention to every detail and their determination to enhance and maximize the entire experience far exceeds my expectations. Trouvaille is truly my go-to small group travel company!” K. Macdough, Tucson, AZ.How We Got StartedTravel enthusiasts came together to create Trouvaille and we want nothing less than to become a global player in the travel industry.

BRX Pro Tip: Using Interview Skills at Your Networking Events

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BRXmic99
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BRX Pro Tip: Using Interview Skills at Your Networking Events
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BRX Pro Tip: Using Interview Skills at Your Networking Events Transcript

Stone Payton: [00:00:01] And we are back with BRX Pro Tips. Stone Payton, Lee Kantor here with you. Lee, when you host your own radio show, it opens up just an incredible world for you. One of the ways in which it does that is you really can leverage your interviewing skills at a networking event. Speak to that a little bit.

Lee Kantor: [00:00:22] Sure. Networking events for me were kind of things I dreaded, me being an introvert and not like kind of a people person that likes to make small talk. But I realized that one of the unintended consequences of having a radio show and interviewing so many people is I’m good at interviewing people. And when I’m in a networking event, I just kind of put on my interviewer hat and then, I’d just start using active listening, I start asking questions.

Lee Kantor: [00:00:49] And then, my fallback position, if I’m ready for the thing to be over is I invite them on a show in some future point or give them the link to go to, to book themselves on the show. So, I use these skills all the time. And then, networking events were things that I were totally uncomfortable, would kind of nine times out of 10 talk myself out of going to one, because I didn’t want to make small talk or felt awkward. And now, I feel pretty confident in those kinds of environments, because I know I can just put my interviewer hat on and ask some questions and sit back and listen. And the person I’m talking to will do all the heavy lifting and answer the questions.

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