Welcome to Pivoting to WEB3 Podcast

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Adrian Mendoza

Adrian is the founder and General Partner at Mendoza Ventures which is both Latinx and woman-owned and the first Latinx-founded VC fund on the East Coast based in Boston. With 20 years of experience in building technology products and teams, Adrian is an experienced entrepreneur, operator, and veteran of the Boston startup ecosystem. Adrian founded Mendoza Ventures to take an in-depth-focused approach to venture capital, looking for founders who demonstrate domain expertise in one of his three …

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Adryenn Ashley

Adryenn Ashley, a renowned figure in the blockchain and Web3 world, is the founder and managing GP of Slay Ventures, an emerging venture firm investing in blockchain based startups driving mainstream consumer adoption. She also hosts the globally broadcast television talk show "Minting the Future.” She is an award-winning and best-selling author, with her upcoming book of the same title focusing on the potential, pitfalls and perils of NFTs to build communities and drive mainstream adoption of …

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Albert Polanco

Best-selling author and Founder of MetaMango.io, I have helped launch several multi-million dollar Web3 launches in the NFT space. Have supported Web3 brands with a full-service Web3 marketing agency.

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Angele' Doyne

Angelé has spearheaded global initiatives that connect community-based organizations and public & private agencies to create economic sustainability in marginalized communities. Her work supports networks of businesses, people, and places to share resources that ignite innovation and local economic development. Angele' is the co-founder of Disruptor DAO, whose mission is to is to accelerate wealth opportunities for Black and Brown women by strengthening mindsets and advancing education and inve…

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Anthony DeSimone

Anthony M. DeSimone is in the business of monetizing yours! Mr. DeSimone is a CPA and CMA who specializes in helping small business owners improve profitability, cash flow, and efficiency. With over 25 years of experience working with small businesses, including a start at the CPA firm Deloitte, he uses numbers, data, and AI to enhance team dynamics and business operations. He owns 'You're the Expert Now, LLC' and also teaches at the University at Buffalo Center for Entrepreneurial Lead…

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Arvin Khamseh

Arvin Khamseh is a globally recognized thought leader in the crypto space with an impressive background in investor relationship marketing for public companies. Since successfully selling out an Italian artist collection in 2021, Arvin has consulted with more than 400 NFT brands with several major successes including multi million dollar sellouts. Khamseh has strong agency partnerships with Reddit, Twitter, Quora and Meta, and is rated the #1 NFT Marketing Expert on Fiverr. He is regularly quot…

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Beejel Parmar

After reading the book ‘the 4-Hour Work Week’, Beejel Parmar, hired 3 Virtual Assistants and started his first VA business. Several weeks later, he started working with a call center, and over the next 10-years helped grow that business from 100 to over 500 VAs. In 2019, he started his 3rd VA business, this time pioneering a unique no mark up fee home based VA model. Today, clients around the world delegate their busy work to his team of Ai trained busy bee Virtual Assistants. Audiences glob…

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Benjamin Bohman

Bio for Benjamin Bohman Benjamin Bohman, founder of Stratishield AI, is a pioneering figure in artificial intelligence, backed by over two decades of technological expertise. His journey began with a transformative 13-year tenure as an IT leader at a global printing corporation, where he led pivotal advancements in manufacturing technologies and process management. Today, as the head of Stratishield AI, he translates this extensive tech experience into developing AI solutions that are both pra…

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Brigette Callahan

Brigette Callahan is a slide-presentation designer with 30+ years’ experience creating compelling presentations. She has worked with some of the biggest names in business — including Xerox, Acura, Samsung, and PayPal. She is passionate about helping speakers create slides that engage and inspire their audience, and turns them into raving fans. She is currently in an AI Certification program to learn all aspects of how AI can help your business in the areas of marketing and graphic design.

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Casey Eberhart

Casey is an Investor, Speaker and Consultant across the entire business spectrum. Having been in the business world for over 4 decades since he was 10 has given him quite the body of work. Currently consulting and investor of a unique NFT ecosystem creating a new way of musicians and investors to capitalize on the archaic music industry.

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Denzil Eden

Denzil Eden built Smarty, an all-in-one AI productivity assistant that plans your best day, every day. A trailblazer as a solo female technical founder, Denzil carved her niche with an AI-focused degree from MIT, an MBA from Harvard, and a distinguished career at Microsoft. Denzil is devoted to making your life smarter with AI — enhancing routines, automating mundane tasks, and maximizing every minute. When she unplugs, Denzil plays the piano, authors fiction and op-eds, and sips teas.

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Eric McHugh

Eric McHugh who is President at SHOPX. Eric’s experience includes ad optimization for Snap Inc, consulting for fortune 500 through the Chapter 11 bankruptcy process, Dark Matter research at Carnegie Melon University with my brother’s team, and helping found CartRev, a social commerce platform that had over 100 Shopify Brands using its SAAS platform. Presently, Eric is a Chief Growth of SHOPX and views growth as his main responsibility. More specifically, the growth of token holder value, by …

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G. Kofi Annan

G. Kofi Annan has spent 15+ years helping famous brands such as PUMA and Mercedes-Benz, as well as other emerging companies, in navigating the rapidly evolving technology-driven landscape. He is the founder of The Brand Sensei, a company that merges business strategy, consumer insights, and technologies like AI to build meaningful connections between brands, people, and communities. Kofi has been highlighted in The Wall Street Journal and Entrepreneur magazine and is a popular speaker at events…

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Gladys Margarita Dias

About Gladys Margarita Dias Bridging the gap between the PROFIT and the PASSION in real estate: I link the quantifiable ‘hard’ info– location, price and square footage- with the qualitative, ‘soft’ aspects of the built environment - light, space, color, views and community. I can help people identify what kind of space makes them happy! Not just square feet and location but what makes them feel most comfortable, secure and productive. The ‘hard’ info is the foundation, but ‘soft’ asp…

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Israel Wilson

Israel Wilson is a crypto pioneer who is building Snowcrash, a legacy-focused platform that brings famous creators and companies into the world of Web3. The company is also building a marketplace where the resulting projects can be traded. He is the Senior Vice President of Partnerships at Snowcrash

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Jake "JT Knows Things" Tullis

Just a poor kid from Morrow, OH with nothing going for him... Then that kid got older, made some awful mistakes and life kept kicking him down further and further, to the final denouement of his father being diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. Then that grown man turns to the bottle for years, putting his family on his back; going broke without letting anyone know to support his disheveled family. Little did anyone know that, not only was his father dying, but his mother's last living relative…

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Jamilia Grier

Dubai-based international technology lawyer, Podcast Host and CEO & Founder of ByteBao Consulting, Jamilia Grier helps businesses achieve success in law and emerging technology in an interconnected world. With over 15 years of international legal expertise spanning China, Singapore and Dubai, Jamilia has held roles such as the Global Head of Data & Privacy Operations at Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore and Vice President of Legal Compliance (APAC) at Marriott International in Shanghai. The…

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Jonathan Green

Jonathan Green is the bestselling author of ChatGPT Profits, Serve No Master as well as over 300 other books He is a celebrity ghostwriter and an artificial intelligence expert who now lives on a tropical island in the South Pacific. He has turned being fired during a blizzard into a thriving online business.

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Jordan Miller

Jordan is the driving force behind the Satori Network, a pioneering Crypto AI endeavor designed as a Future Oracle to help humanity anticipate upcoming challenges. With years of experience as a lead developer in the crypto space, Jordan has blended his passion for AI and distributed systems to launch this innovative project. See more at satorinet.io Jordan's goal is to expose people to Satori (at https://satorinet.io). It's a Decentralized AI, something we need more of right now! Satori's…

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Justin Gary

Justin Gary, a game designer with over 20 years of experience. You may know him as the author of "Think Like a Game Designer" and as the host of the "Think Like A Game Designer Podcast." Justin has also made appearances on The Tim Ferriss Show. As the CEO of Stone Blade Entertainment, he has created popular games such as Ascension Deckbuilding Game, SolForge Fusion, and Shards of Infinity. Justin has had the privilege of interviewing renowned game designers, learning from their expertise, and a…

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Kay Suthar

Kay's immersion in podcasting revealed a common hurdle: the complexities of editing. Many podcasters faced the dilemma of costly editing services or time-consuming DIY efforts. Recognizing this, Kay transformed Make Your Mark (Podcast) Agency. Beyond offering top-tier audio and video editing, the agency integrates AI and Web3 insights, coaching on guesting strategies, and guiding podcasters in building resilient decentralized communities.

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Kerry L. Bass

Kerry L. Bass, CEO and founder of Potential To Reality Consulting and a Senior Member of ASQ. He is an executive consultant who specializes in enterprise transformation, operational excellence and organizational change management. His personal and professional focus is on helping organizations and societies that are dedicated to the wellbeing of their stakeholders achieve and sustain excellence. For more than 25 years, Kerry has been leading and supporting transformation and major organizat…

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Lucia Dore

I am a financial/business investigative journalist/editor and author with many years experience in the print and online media working in the UK and Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Asia/Pacific. I have written investigative articles, White Papers, management reports, opinion pieces, website copy and books. Recently, I co-wrote: "Seniority: how AI and tech can enhance senior living" which looks at how seniors integrate with technology. I combine editorial integrity with commercial flair, and …

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