#BTSPodcast

Walter Powell’s goal with Politiscope is to be the most trustworthy source for political information, that is a goal I think we can all support. On this episode of #BTSPodcast, Walter shares how co-founder roles and responsibilities are divided across the team, what being in the NFL taught him, his favorite reads, meditations, and how his upbringing has shaped his approach to entrepreneurship and social responsibility. Download Politiscope to get actual, reliable, and easy-to-understand political information in a central location: http://app.politiscope.io/ Follow Politiscope: Twitter: https://twitter.com/PolitiscopeApp Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/PolitiscopeApp/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Politiscopeapp/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/politiscope Find Walter on social: Twitter: https://twitter.com/SpeedKillz9 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/SpeedKillz9/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/walter-powell-57273964/ Follow #BTSPodcast and share what you learned and what you’d like to learn: Twitter: https://twitter.com/btsthepodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/btsthepodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/btsthepodcast/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/19055475/ Subscribe to #askamillennial for content marketing highlights, definitions in pop culture, and internet highlights: bit.ly/askamillennial Follow host Lynae Cook Twitter: https://twitter.com/lynaecook Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lynaecook/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lynaecook LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lynaecook/ Support #BTSPodcast via VenMo: @lynae-cook, or use code LZLRZ for an in-home massage with Soothe, LCOOK61 to save on your first HotelTonight booking, LYNAE to save on a Breather room, or LCOOK5142 to save on your first grocery delivery with InstaCart. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/btspodcast/support

21 Kesä 201959min

Genevieve Ascencio is a VP at Golin, a public relations agency, where she heads up their Mountain Dew account. She has a deep background in strategy, as the former VP of Digital at Factory PR, where she focused largely on public relations, influencer activations, and digital marketing for fashion and retail brands. Genevieve is a social media and digital marketing specialist with a propensity for building agile online marketing campaigns that encourage interaction with target consumers. She is also an adjunct instructor at Fashion Institute of Technology, and is the founder of Tee Chérie, a clothing company that celebrates Haitian culture through style. On this episode, she shares her perspective on what her role as a VP is, what strategy is, communication preferences around risk, planning for innovation, and how she has layered on the roles of spouse and parent on top of her career. This episode kicks off a series that focuses on careers in strategy, how strategists define their jobs, their approach, and so much more. Follow Genevieve: Genevieve Instagram: https://instagram.com/thatgenevieve Genevieve Twitter: https://twitter.com/thatgenevieve Genevieve LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/genevieveascencio/ Tee Chérie Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/teecheriestyle/ Follow #BTSPodcast and share what you learned and what you’d like to learn: Twitter: https://twitter.com/btsthepodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/btsthepodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/btsthepodcast/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/19055475/ Subscribe to #askamillennial for content marketing highlights, definitions in pop culture, and internet highlights: bit.ly/askamillennial Follow host Lynae Cook Twitter: https://twitter.com/lynaecook Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lynaecook/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lynaecook LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lynaecook/ Book an in-home massage using SOOTHE, use code LZLRZ to save. Traveling soon? Use HotelTonight for excellent hotel accommodations at reasonable prices, code LCOOK61 will help you save on your first booking. Book a Breather room for your next team offsite, meeting while traveling, or conference call on-the-go using LYNAE at checkout. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/btspodcast/support

3 Kesä 20191h 1min

Today's policy research methods are outdated and inefficient – but they don't have to be. Civic Eagle equips policy professionals with the tools they need to research and track legislation more effectively. By using a SaaS platform that’s powered by artificial intelligence to make legislative research smarter, faster, and less expensive, Civic Eagle helps organizations spend less time in front of a computer and more time advocating for important progressive issues. Over $35 billion are spent each year lobbying and advocating for policies at the federal, state, and local levels of government. This work requires careful analysis and tracking of legislation – a process that is currently manual, fragmented, and expensive. Civic Eagle was among the first 100 start ups to receive investment from Arlan Hamilton’s Backstage Capital. Since early 2018, Civic Eagle has raised $600,000 and has gone from zero to $8,500 in monthly recurring revenue. It's also a part of Techstars' 2019 class, and in 2017, Damola was a Google Entrepreneur in Residence. On this episode Damola shares his advice for early-stage, pre-revenue start-ups, post-revenue start-ups, maintaining a mission, working as a team, how they selected their product advisory board, leveraging focus groups with existing users to better understand customer needs, and SO much more. Follow Civic Eagle: AngelList: https://angel.co/company/civic-eagle-1 Twitter: https://twitter.com/civic_eagle Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/civiceagle/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/civic_eagle/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/civic-eagle/ Follow Damola: Twitter: https://twitter.com/DamolaOgundipe LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dogundipe/ Want to support this podcast? Use promo code "LYNAE" to book your first Breather room, an app that allows you to book meeting spaces in different cities. Use LZLRZ to save on an in-home massage with SOOTHE, LCOOK61 to save on your first HotelTonight booking, or simply VenMo me some money to support my coffee habit: @lynae-cook Follow #BTSPodcast across social platforms: Twitter: https://twitter.com/btsthepodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/btsthepodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/btsthepodcast/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/19055475/ Follow host Lynae Cook: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lynaecook/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/lynaecook LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lynaecook/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lynaecook --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/btspodcast/support

13 Touko 20191h 21min

Melissa Stratton is a parent, wife, sister, daughter, and friend. I've known Melissa (Missy) for over 20 years, and in those years I've learned so much from her about showing up in relationships, being emotionally responsive, and how to approach difficult conversations in a loving way, while having boundaries. I have so much respect for her relationship with her kids and her family, and have seen her raise three kids who were all born at very different times at her life, and all have varying personalities. A week prior to recording this episode, her oldest (24) got married, meanwhile, her other two are 8 and 14 years old. We talk about the guilt she felt due to the impact of fighting Lyme Disease, parathyroid, and Hashimoto’s, and how she’s worked to help her kids recover from the impact that had on them. Other topics: digital parental controls on devices and apps, including YouTube, and walking the line of allowing kids to be exposed to certain elements in various real life and digital scenarios, limiting screen time during the week and depending on where a kid is with their own self-esteem and personal development. Trusting your kids and tailoring your rules to where kids are at, where technology is at, and circumstantially. Raising kids in Orange County, progressing as a person while raising other people, and the importance of independence and self-care and having hobbies. Her approach to decision-making as a parent and advice to other parents, and what it feels like to have her eldest kid married and out of the house, and how no one really prepared her for this feeling. Follow #BTSPodcast across social platforms: Twitter: https://twitter.com/btsthepodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/btsthepodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/btsthepodcast/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/19055475/ Want to support this podcast? Use promo code "LYNAE" to book your first Breather room, an app that allows you to book meeting spaces in different cities. Use LZLRZ to save on an in-home massage with SOOTHE, LCOOK61 to save on your first HotelTonight booking, or simply VenMo me some money to support my coffee habit: @lynae-cook --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/btspodcast/support

12 Touko 20191h 1min

Filmmaker and journalist Meredith Alloway shares the “behind the scenes” of being an independent filmmaker, a journalist, submitting to film festivals and so much more. She’s contributed to Film Maker Magazine, Playboy, and Vanity Fair to name a few, and has had films at SXSW, Indy Film Fest, The Overlook Festival, and Montclair Film Festival. Her film Deep Tissue was at SXSW 2019’s Midnight Shorts Competition. She talks about reaching out to festival programmers, etiquette, explains film terms to me, and managing emotions around rejection and collaboration. Find Meredith online: Twitter: https://twitter.com/atwwalloway/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/atwwalloway/ Website: https://www.meredithalloway.com/film Watch her film "Interior Theresa" https://www.seedandspark.com/watch/interior-teresa Follow #BTSPodcast online: Twitter: https://twitter.com/btsthepodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/btsthepodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/btsthepodcast/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/19055475/ Music by Benjamin Bethurum: https://soundcloud.com/bethurum Support this podcast by VenMoing Lynae at @lynae-cook, using promo codes for Soothe in-home massages (LZLRZ), Breather rooms (LYNAE), HotelTonight (LCOOK61), & InstaCart grocery delivery (LCOOK5142 or https://inst.cr/t/cTQuuzMpV) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/btspodcast/support

6 Touko 20191h 10min

Video Dave is a hip hop and visual artist who also has worked in the reality television industry for some time. He was at SXSW 2019 with Open Mike Eagle for the StubHub event, and we caught up and discussed the “behind the scenes” of reality TV, the wellness of reality TV cast/crew, how it’s changed over the years, and his work as an artist. Follow Video Dave Twitter: https://twitter.com/video_dave Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/video_dave/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEodkQJnlEtnBMznL7Mvm6A See why Video Dave may be the next Mr. Rogers in “Camping with the Kangaroos” https://youtu.be/8xB8e6I2ReI Follow #BTSPodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/btsthepodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/btsthepodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/btsthepodcast/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/19055475/ Support this podcast & save by using promo links/codes for grocery delivery via InstaCart: https://inst.cr/t/cTQuuzMpV, use code LZLRZ to save on SOOTHE in-home massages, and LCOOK61 to save on HotelTonight. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/btspodcast/support

2 Touko 20191h 36min

Antonio Roberts is a New Media artist and Curator based in Birmingham, UK. He uses uses technology-driven processes to explore issues surrounding open source software, free culture and collaborative practices.We discuss how he gets funding, in kind support, connecting with artists, building community, and much more. His art is often created through programming, he is a part of Algorave, where he and other DJs code music live for an audience (see videos HERE). They host specific workshops on how to use software and truly aim to close the gap between the audience and the performer, and educate people on the variety of ways coding can be used. We caught up at SXSW 2019 in Austin, Texas. A special thanks to Crispin Parry of the British Underground and Will Hodgkinson of the Times for introducing me to Algorave, which is how Antonio and I met. Find Antonio online: Hellocatfood.com Twitter.com/hellocatfood Instagram.com/hellocatfood Check out partner Trendscaping: trendscaping.com Trendscaping 2019 Trends mentioned in the intro: https://www.trendscaping.com/trends/2019-trends Artists mentioned in discussion include Cheyenne Randall (@indiangiver) and Zach Rockstand (@zacher1) Learn more about Algorave via Resident Advisor here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2EZqikCIfY Sign up for Robinhood to manage your own stock portfolio using share.robinhood.com/lynaec to support this podcast. Or feel free to VenMo me, any day, any time at @lynae-cook. Your support helps fund the technology, headspace, and caffeine that fuels this podcast. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/btspodcast/support

17 Huhti 201948min

Jessica Couch is the founder of the consulting agency Luxor & Finch, where she works with brands, advising them on strategic, data-driven planning. She has worked with numerous companies in the fit technology space and has published over 60 articles on the matter of fit and fit tech, a thesis on fit and perception, and values corporate responsibility as a whole, emphasizing inclusion, sustainability, and improved practices around fit. She is also the co-creator (along with previous guest Brittany Hicks) of the WOC #FashTech Brunch (links below). Her knowledge runs deep, her Bachelor’s degree is from NC State University’ College of Textile, and her Master’s is in Digital Innovation and Fit from Cornell University (a curriculum she developed under the guidance of Professor Susan P. Ashdown). She shares some great perspectives around how brands could and should be held accountable to enforced sustainability standards and has a wealth of knowledge surrounding the industry. This episode would not be possible without the partnership of Trendscaping. Trendscaping is an open-source trend-forecasting website. It’s a community platform for sharing and mapping insights, ideas, and the evolution of concepts. Sign up for the Trendscaping newsletter, and read more about this podcast episode and insights from Jessica and Brittany Hicks’s SXSW panel “Fashion’s Fit Issue: Representation and Tech” Trendscaping: https://www.trendscaping.com/ Trendscaping on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/trendscaping/ Trendscaping on Twitter: https://twitter.com/trendscaping Find Jessica on social & dig in to her insights: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicavcouch/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/luxorandfinch/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/luxorandfinch Luxor and Finch website: https://www.luxorandfinch.com/ WOC #FashTech Brunch: https://wocfashtechbrunch.splashthat.com/ Feel free to support #BTSPodcast in a variety of ways, feel free to VenMo Lynae Cook to support her caffeine habit: @lynae-cook, use LCOOK61 on your first HotelTonight booking, or LZLRZ on your first in-home massage booking with SOOTHE. Follow #BTSPodcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/btsthepodcast “Like” on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/btsthepodcast/ Follow Lynae Cook: https://www.instagram.com/lynaecook/ https://twitter.com/lynaecook https://linkedin.com/in/lynaecook/ Find #BTSPodcast on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/btsthepodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/btsthepodcast LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/btspodcast/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/btspodcast/support

25 Maalis 20191h 7min