Masters and Founders is your weekly resource for all things business, startups, and mastering a craft or skill. The show's guests are the doers that inspire others to follow their own journey. They think outside the box, march to the beat of their own drum, and in the process create the best versions of themselves. Masters and founders follow a passion, something in their gut, for them there is no other choice but to follow their journey.
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In this episode of Masters and Founder, host Dan Dillard sits down with Dr. Ken Wisian at Austin’s Ibble Studios. Dr. Wisian is the Associate Director of the Bureau of Economic Geology’s Environmental Division at the University of Texas at Austin.
Dr. Wisian discusses the importance of following your passions. He shares how following his passions for science fiction and military history guided him in his career path. A path that led him to a fulfilling career that he would gladly live all over again.
After graduating with a physics degree from UT Austin, Dr. Wisian started his career as a navigator in the Air Force. It's there he learned that it is better to be flying over the battlefield rather than be on it. He later went on to achieve a doctorate degree in geophysics. Dr. Wisian now researches geothermal energy in hopes to solve the energy crisis within the next couple of years.
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3 May 2022
Joshua B. Lee of StandOut Authority
In this episode of Masters and Founders, Host Dan Dillard welcomes his guest, fellow serial entrepreneur and long-time friend, Joshua B. Lee to the show. Dan and Josh sat down together at Austin’s Ibble Studios (https://www.getibble.com/) to talk about the highs and lows of Josh’s journey as an entrepreneur.
Josh is the founder and CEO of StandOut Authority (https://standoutauthority.com/), which he started in 2014. StandOut Authority helps businesses grow their influence and optimize the human connection through LinkedIn. Focusing on H2H connections, rather than B2B or B2C, Josh’s energy and passion comes through in everything he does. But that wasn’t always so. It took a bad bet and the loss of several businesses to make him realize, you have to understand failure to be able to appreciate success.
And as a founder and business owner, Josh has seen plenty of both — and learned a whole lot about what really matters along the way. He got his start in 2003 working in online marketing for businesses like MySpace and Google, and over the two decades that followed, went on to start 16 businesses and author a book called “Balance is Bullsh*t.”
In their conversation, Josh shares the proudest moments in his career, why seeking counsel has been instrumental for his relationships and personal growth, and digs into why sharing stories of both successes and failures as entrepreneurs is so important for the next generation of founders.
Learn more and watch the podcast at foundingAUSTIN (https://foundingaustin.com/2022/05/standout-authoritys-joshua-b-lee-human-success/).
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19 Apr 2022
Search & Convert with Change 1
Cortney Jones is a social worker, Child Welfare advocate, and the Executive Director and Founder of Change 1 (https://change1.org/), a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing support services that improve the lives of children, youth, and families that experience the Child Welfare system and other Health & Human Services systems.
She joins hosts Dan Dillard and PJ Christie for the final episode of Search & Convert’s Founder Spotlight series to share her experiences as a founder, the work that Change 1 accomplishes, and her involvement in Search & Convert’s Black Businesses Matter initiative.
Highlights include:
Cortney’s journey from social worker to founder and Executive Director of the nonprofit Change 1
How Change 1 works in the community to support children transitioning out of the Child Welfare system
The unique challenges that entrepreneurs face when they’re founding a nonprofit organization
Why it’s important for people working with Foster Youth to have lived experiences in the Child Welfare system
The challenges that entrepreneurs of color face as a direct result of their race
How you can help Change 1 manifest their goals to build a one-stop drop-in center for Foster Youth and young adults who have emancipated from the system
This Founder Spotlight series is sponsored by Search and Convert (https://searchandconvert.com/), an Austin-based marketing agency that can help your business get more leads through your site.
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