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Jordan Harbinger

Host of The Jordan Harbinger Show

Jordan hosts The Jordan Harbinger Show which gets over 6 million monthly downloads. Some of his most popular interviews include Kobe Bryant, Mark Cuban, Tony Hawk, Malcolm Gladwell, Ray Dalio, Cesar Millan, Cal Newport, Ryan Holiday, Dennis Rodman, and Bob Saget.

Fred Stutzman

Founder and CEO of Freedom

Fred is the Founder and CEO of Freedom, a company that works to increase productivity and wellbeing by reducing digital distractions. Prior to founding Freedom, Fred was a researcher and faculty member at UNC-Chapel Hill and Carnegie Mellon University. Fred has spent most of his career studying and building systems to support the complex interactions that people have with technology at scale. He holds a Ph.D. in Information Science (HCI), and degrees in Survey Research and Economics from UNC-Chapel Hill. Additionally, he completed postdoctoral work in Behavioral Economics at CMU.

Taylor Pearson

CEO at Mutiny Fund and Author of The End of Jobs

Taylor is the principal of The Mutiny Fund, a startup and small business advisor, and author of The End of Jobs and the soon to be released Markets are Eating the World.

Evan Carmichael

YouTuber and Entrepreneur

Evan Carmichael #Believes in entrepreneurs. Gary Vaynerchuck called him the DJ who inspires people and Ed Mylett called him the modern day Napoleon Hill. At 19, he built then sold a biotech software company. At 22, he was a venture capitalist raising $500k to $15M. He now runs a YouTube channel for entrepreneurs with over 2 million subscribers and 300 million views, wrote 4 books, and speaks globally. He wants to solve the world's biggest problem, people don't #Believe in themselves enough. Forbes named him one of the world's top 40 social marketing talents and Inc. named him one of the 100 great leadership speakers and 25 social media keynote speakers you need to know. He's set 2 world records, uses a trampoline & stand-up desk, owns Canada's largest salsa dance studio where he met his wife and has a giant Doritos bag in front of him all day long to remind him that he's stronger than the Doritos. Toronto is his home. He's a husband, father, TSM Fan and Teemo main.

David Oakley

Multifamily Specialist with Berkadia, a Berkshire Hathaway and Jefferies Financial Group company.

David Oakley, Founder of OG Capital, Blue Canoe Properties, Select My Space, and Alabama’s office of Berkadia is the Southeast’s preeminent advocate for all things multi-family. For the past two decades, Oakley has followed his heart by committing an abundance of emotional and financial resources to the promotion of the Southeast's multi-family housing arena. An ambitious visionary, Oakley has cast a wide net in the establishment of these business ventures, and has accomplished unrivaled synergy in all fundamental aspects of the industry. The effective harnessing of the region’s diverse multi-family core axioms, have allowed Oakley to become a foremost principal resource to an expanse of both institutional and private equity. Oakley’s delicate mastery of multi-family’s sophisticated, yet emotionally driven processes has enabled his industry partners and associates to develop a new standard of excellence.

Howard Lindzon

Founder, General Partner at Social Leverage

Howard Lindzon is a Canadian Author, financial analyst, technical analyst and super angel investor in companies like Robinhood, Wag!, and StockTwits.

Joe Puccio

Co-founder of Coursicle

Joe co-created Coursicle while he was an undergraduate student at UNC Chapel Hill. Coursicle provides an incredibly helpful suite of tools to help students build the perfect course schedule and avoid dreaded 8am classes.

Wes Kao

Marketing, product, strategy | Previous: altMBA, Seth Godin HQ, Gap, Flite (acq Snap)

Wes specializes in unconventional marketing for consumer brands who challenge the status quo. Her clients include brands like Poo~Pourri, supernatural.com, Suzy Batiz, Tandem Diabetes, Mailchimp, Ghirardelli, Outlier.org (from the co-founder of MasterClass), Professor Galloway, Write of Passage, Forte Academy, Morning Brew, and more. Previously, Wes was the co-creator and founding Executive Director of Seth Godin's altMBA.

Jacob McMillen

Copywriting Content Creator

Most days, you’ll find Jacob as the #1 U.S. search result for “copywriter” (see for yourself). He once wrote a single blog post that brought in over $100k worth of business for a client over a 12 month period. As a full-time freelancer, he made $80k the first year, $130k the next year, and $220k the year after. He now oversees a group of established writers called Write Minds and sells a course called The Internet’s Best Copywriting Course, which, he argues, is as good as the title suggests. You can learn more about Jacob here: https://jacobmcmillen.com/about/

Eric Jorgenson

Product Strategist at Zaarly, Inc and Author of The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

Eric Jorgenson is a product strategist at Zaarly, creator of the business blog Evergreen, and author of The Almanack of Naval Ravikant. In collaboration with Jack Butcher, Eric spent three years distilling over 1,000,000 collected words from Naval's writing and podcast interviews into a succinct, high impact book on wealth, happiness, and philosophy.

Dee Murthy

CEO Five Four Group - Menlo Club, New Republic, and Young & Reckless

Dee is the Co-Founder of Los Angeles based Five Four Group and Young & Reckless. Five Four/MenloClub is the leading men’s fashion membership e-commerce platform with a portfolio of brands that include: New Republic, Grand AC, and Oshenta. Dee is also a seasoned investor and partner at Queensbridge Venture Partners. Dee co-hosts with Chris ” Drama” Pfaff and my brother Anand Murthy in a weekly lifestyle podcast called Group Chat. Dee also runs the Grand AC Run Club in West Hollywood (which takes place every Saturday on Melrose Ave next to Cryo Cafe @ 9am)

Brandon Zhang

Host of The Student Mindset Podcast

Brandon is an up-and-coming creator and thinker. He records podcasts with incredible entrepreneurs and writes on twitter about productivity, mindfulness, and learning. He is a student at Columbia University and is an apprentice to Jack Butcher at Visualize Value.

Doone Roisin

Founder of Female Startup Club

Doone has spent the last 10 years working in digital marketing and ecommerce. From running social media at Australia’s largest (and most successful!) online retailer The Iconic, to working with huge global brands like Snapchat and IMG, and building her own successful ecomm business, she's created a new corner of the internet — Female Startup Club Doone is on a mission to help advance women-in-progress through an insightful podcast, technical courses and relevant resources to learn and dominate.

Slade Johnston

Founder/ CEO of Trips4Trade

Slade Johnston is an outdoors enthusiast with a deep passion for hunting and adventuring. He is a serial entrepreneur, starting and growing companies that tap into new and emerging markets within the outdoors sector.

Mike Case

Retired CEO of The Westervelt Company

Mike spent almost two decades as the CEO of The Westervelt Company, a vertically integrated forestry company based in Alabama.

Nibir Sarma

2020 College Jeopardy Champion

Nibir is a chemical engineering student at The University of Minnesota. In the spring of 2020, he won The College Jeopardy Tournament and took home a $100,000 prize.

Tomas Laurinavicius

Content Marketing Consultant and Freelance Writer

Tomas writes about lifestyle design, mindfulness, business, travel, marketing, blogging, philosophy, essentialism, productivity, and self-development. To support his lifestyle, he works as a content marketing consultant and freelance writer.

William Brown

CEO at Achieve Intelligent Technologies, INC

Will is fascinated by the world and those of us who shape it. He dropped out of college after his freshman year, did over 75+ wholesaling deals before his 21st birthday, and is now working on an Artificial Intelligence company with revolutionary ambitions.

Nicholas Hutchison

Founder of BookThinkers

Nicholas is the founder of BookThinkers, instagram's largest non-fiction book community. Over the past few years, he's grown their main account to over 90k followers. Because of this large and specific audience, Nick started an interview podcast that has hosted all star guests like Ryan Holiday, Robert Greene, Greg McKeown, Alex Banayan, Russell Brunson, and Grant Cardone. In addition to their media, BookThinkers is also an education technology company. They have a great mobile application for smart retention of key takeaways from books that uses advanced spaced repetition algorithms to help users remember more of what they read.

Guy Swann

Host of Bitcoin Audible

Guy Swann is host of the Bitcoin Audible podcast. His show was featured in Forbes Magazine’s Top Crypto Podcasts of 2020. Guy is also CEO of One Eleven Productions.

Gina Simpson

Serial Entrepreneur, Coach, and Professor of Entrepreneurship

Gina Simpson is a native of Alabama and a multiple graduate of The University of Alabama. She has spent her career as a serial entrepreneur founding, managing and growing several companies. Mrs. Simpson, a certified professional coach, enjoys using her entrepreneurial experience to grow and foster businesses and students. Currently, she is the President of Regina Holdings, LLC, a consulting and investment firm, and Solana Strategies, a professional coaching firm. In addition to business owner, consultant and coach, Mrs. Simpson has taught various management classes in Culverhouse for over 15 years as a Teaching Assistant, Adjunct Professor, and now Clinical Instructor. Gina has received numerous awards throughout her career including The Rising Star Entrepreneurship Award by the West Alabama Chamber of Commerce, the Soroptimist Woman of Distinction, the Roots and Wings Award by the Women in Business Council and is a two time recipient of the Steve Woodward Outstanding Faculty Award. She is very active in the community serving on several boards. Mrs. Simpson holds a B.S. in Management with a concentration in Small Company Management and Entrepreneurship and a M.S. in Marketing. (From Culverhouse Business College Website: https://culverhouse.ua.edu/news/directory/gina-simpson/)

Pierre-Antoine de Preux

Partner at Amplifyr

Pierre-Antoine is a Partner at Amplifyr, one of the leading performance marketing agencies. With an average ROAS of 14+ over the last year across all of their clients ranging from SME's through to high growth and high revenue companies. Amplifyr's main focus is helping brands scale their revenue using data analysis and deploying scaling strategies across all the main performance marketing platforms. ​ With a background in mathematical modeling & algorithmic trading, Pierre-Antoine has a wealth of experience as a quantitative data analyst and with software development. He’s the architect of Amplifyr’s unique operational approach and campaign management.

Lee LeFever

Co-Founder of Common Craft

Lee LeFever is the author of The Art of Explanation and co-founder of Common Craft, the company known for being pioneers of the “explainer” video movement. He has created explanations for the world’s most respected brands, and produced videos that have earned over 50 million online views. Lee and Sachi live and work on Orcas Island, off the northwest coast of Washington State.

Scrubby

Comedy Reaction YouTuber

Ryan (Scrubby) is a comedy YouTuber who monologues about "cringe" happenings on the internet. He has 1.8 million subscribers on his main channel which has had over 200 million views spread across his reaction videos.

Chris Spags

Founder at Jetboost

Chris runs Jetboost.io, an add-on tool for Webflow. Jetboost provides Webflow freelancers, agencies, and designers the ability to add real-time search, dynamic filtering, and more to their sites, all without having to know how to code.

Jeff Sorg

CEO at Pat Croce and Company

Pat Croce & Company is a family owned and operated management company that builds inspired teams and brands in the hospitality industry.

James Goldman

CTO and Co-Founder of Paintzen

James Goldman co-created Paintzen and eventually sold the company to PPG Paints for $75 Million.

Ethan Reeves

Founder and CEO of Extemp Genie

Ethan is a modern-day renaissance man. In addition to running a 10,000+ customers business, Ethan stays extremely active, participates in theater, and reads voraciously.

Todd Mezrah

Serial Entrepreneur, Founder and CEO of Mezrah Consulting

T Mez is a serial entrepreneur based in Tampa, Florida. He runs multiple businesses including a consulting firm, investing firm, and technology company.

Adriel Lubarsky

Founder and CEO of Riveter - HR for the Unemployed

Adriel is a self-described "people lover and startup-er." He is the founder & CEO of Riveter (riveterworks.com), which is helping Americans thrive in unemployment.

John Sharp

President and Co-founder of Luceris, LLC

John Sharp is a Mentor In Residence for the McGuire New Venture Development(NVD) program. John has 30+ years of experience working in startup companies, most notably as a co-founder of 360Facility, one of the first SaaS companies in the commercial real estate industry. More recently, he is President and Co-founder of Luceris, LLC, a startup focused on integration of cloud applications in the Enterprise Service Management market. John received his master's in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona. He received a bachelor's in Economics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. John is a member of the Desert Angels.

Jeremy Carter

Owner of Simple Pro Ventures

Jeremy co-created Breakout Birmingham, the first escape room in Alabama. He also produces a podcast about leadership titled "Bold Futures."

Mike Lacy

Keller Williams Agent in Atlanta, GA

Mike is a real estate agent with Keller Williams based in the Atlanta Metro Area. Before this, he was an extremely competitive debater and debate coach. In college, he qualified to the National Debate Tournament all four years and earned a First-Round bid 3 of those years. In his last year coaching, his middle school public forum team went on to win multiple major national tournaments.

Stian Håklev

Sr. Engineer and Learning Architect at Minerva Project

Stian is an avid learner. He speaks 10 languages and is active in the knowledge management community on Twitter. He is currently working as a learning architect for the Minerva Project.

Matthew Aberman

AP US History Teacher at Coronado High School

Matthew Aberman teaches AP US History at Coronado High School in Henderson, NV. He also coaches the school's Varsity Quiz (trivia) team. He studied the History of Science and Technology at UCSB.

Ivan Ye

Western University Graduate

Ivan collaborated with @YesTheory to work on landing a dream internship at 100Thieves by creating a viral job application.

David Saxe

Advisor at Raymond James

David Saxe founded the Bagel Stop food truck at The University of Alabama.

Adam Wozniak

Web Architect at Fidelity National Home Warranty

Adam has been a professional engineer since he was 20 years old. He is a highly skilled full-stack developer on both web and mobile platforms.

Lisa McKinney

Director of The Culverhouse LIFT Program and Lecturer in Accounting at The University of Alabama

Professor McKinney is one of the highest rated and most popular professors at The University of Alabama where she teaches accounting. She also runs the largest community service organization on campus.

Angelo Robledo

Host of the Sample Excavator Podcast and Board Member at the World Atlatl Association

Angelo is an intense self-educator in experimental archaeology, music history, rock climbing, and lock picking. Angelo is the youngest person to ever serve on the World Atlatl Association Board of Directors, he's completed archaeological digs in Belize, was his high school's on call lock-smith, and interned for Nevada's senator in Washington DC. Some say he's immune to the socratic method.

Callie Courter

Senior, Deloitte Greenhouse in Washington, DC

Callie is a consultant at Deloitte where she created a form of meeting recap called Sonic Capture. She has a full-length album released and sang at both her college and high school commencement ceremonies.

Curtis Shulman

Director of Operations at Hotel State College

Curtis manages 7 unique businesses across the street from Penn State's main campus. These businesses range from hotels to bars & restaurants. He was formerly a casino host at the MGM Grand and Wynn in Las Vegas, NV. He is now competitive in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

Martin Pehlke

Performance & Potential Management at Daimler AG

Martin is a human resources professional for Daimler. He has done extensive international travel and used to be in a traveling youth circus. He is passionate about minimalism and personal finance.

Bryant Mathis

Metallurgical Engineering Student and Founder of Locality

Bryant is an entrepreneur and engineer. He has big ideas and knows the process to make them happen. Louis and Kyle met Bryant at The Edge Entrepreneurship Center in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Lil Gimchi

Rapper in Thailand

Lil Gimchi is a Korean rapper based in Bangkok.

Louis and Kyle

Hosts

Louis and Kyle are students at The University of Alabama.

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