Talking Tech with Startups and Scaleups 1

Today on the #PirateBroadcast Russ Johns has Brian Schulman. Brian has been on Linkedin for the past 16 years every day. He has done 21 years of digital marketing experience strategizing 500 brands. Brian is a forced featured entrepreneur. He is also Linkedin top voice and was named a 2019 LinkedIn video creator of the year and one of the pioneering top Linkedin video and LinkedIn live creators in the world in 2019. In July of last year Brian broke the Linkedin live record of broadcasting for more than 4 hours. When no in quarantine Brian does international speaking across the globe and LinkedIn Lives. He has 2 LinkedIn lives he does every week: WHAT’S GOOD WEDNESDAY and SHOUT OUT SATURDAY

18 Touko 202041min

Today on the #pirateBroadcast Russ Johns talks with Erika Warfield. Today they talk about meta growth. Josh (the CEO) is the VP of Growth. What they do is performance coach their clients to success so they can focus on higher leverages activities, rather than holding their teams accountable. The hire companies but act as their VP growth. With Josh’s formula and the meta growth ventures it is a part of the process of getting beyond and allowing other people to be the champions and the cheerleaders or the product and service.

15 Touko 202030min

Today on the #PirateBroadcast Russ Johns talks with David Brier. David is a native New Yorker who is now living and working in the Midwest. He calls himself the Fir Breathing Slayer of Mediocrity. He gives brands the life, energy, verb, stamina, the pulse to be heard and seen and just be the best that they are. He also has one-minute Wednesdays on his YouTube channel. He came up with doing this because he felt like this was a way to show more value.

14 Touko 202032min

Today on the #PirateBroadcast Russ Johns and Kon Apostolopoulos talk about Kon’s book. His book is based on leadership, being adaptable, and being flexible in the workplace. The book is called The Seven Keys to Navigating a Crisis. He wrote this book with another Pirate from the #PirateBroadcast Elia Gourgouris. This book is a practical Guide to help people deal with the pandemic that we are going through now, the crisis that people go through in their life. The first key step is Self-Care. Ask yourself how you are doing. The Second step is awareness, listen to yourself. The third step is flexibility, become more adaptable. The Fourth step Start Preparing, if you know or anticipate on things happening prepare for them. The Fifth Step is action, taking control back of your life and making good things happen. The last step is Kindness, be kind to others, help others.

13 Touko 202031min

Today on the #PirateBroadcast Russ Johns talks with Virginia Czarnocki. Virginia Lives on the Cayman Islands and she deals with an online business and health and fitness and she is an attorney. Virginia loves to cook things that people love a put it in a health way. She is about fitness because it has helped her overcome the depression and suicidal tendencies she had when she was a teenager. Virginia struggled at first thinking that being a fitness trainer was not for her, but she loves helping professional businesswomen be healthy. This is something that she keeps going back to.

12 Touko 202031min

Today on the #PirateBroadcast Russ Johns talks with Gina Gardiner and one thing they talked about today is leadership. There are three constants in life: death, taxes, and change. Enlightened Leadership, the first principle is to lead others effectively you must lead yourself first. Take responsibility for everything you have, like your thoughts, emotions, actions, and words. We need to go for what is right and not what’s easy and expedient. When you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always got.

11 Touko 202029min

Today on the #PirateBroadcast Russ Johns talks with Marc Siden about his CBD drink called Cloud Water. This drink is sparkling water infused with flavors of CBD oil. Marc’s mission is to enable people to empower their own self-health and they’re well being. It does not the side effects of Marijuana and it doesn’t give you a hangover. Some people have said that it has gotten them through a day of mommy-ing, homeschooling, and helped with their arthritis. Marc may not have created CBD, but these drinks do embrace something that has an impact on people being able to get out of bed and to optimize their own health.

8 Touko 202028min

Today on the #PirateBroadcast Russ Johns has Randy Martin on the show. Randy is in the oil industry. He started off as a young kid, who was asked by neighbors who lived nearby to watch their cottages while they were away so that their homes weren’t broken into during the wintertime while they weren’t in residence. He would go inside the house and call a long-distance number and they would know that he was there when they got their phone bill with that number on it. Randy and his family built a prototype of this business called Drupal, which is now called Qridit Home Watch

7 Touko 202031min