Interviews with interesting people
I don’t often use “effervescent” to describe someone but it’s the perfect term for Farnoosh Brock. She is refreshing, bubbly, and always in motion. This is the story of a girl forced to leave her homeland, her friends and even her pet dog. A two week holiday turned into a life-long adventure.
Pat Flynn often talks about making money. He has a blog, a podcast, an app (or several) and a website (or several), all centered on making money or telling you how to make money. But this interview is not about Pat’s businesses. It’s about him.
Shannon Morse is co-host of the internet-TV show Hak5. Her story of how a difficult childhood can’t stop you from being an intelligent, talented and capable women.
Her childhood was a bit chaotic due to moving around a lot (military) and her father being a functional alcoholic (can hold a job but not stop drinking). But Shannon survived childhood and has moved on. Her story might help you do the same.
Producer, promoter and clarinetist, Beth Fleenor is involved in Seattle’s cultural life. She embraces both the business and performing sides of music and the arts. She composes and thinks while on a 7-10 mile per day walk. She says it keeps her both physically and mentally fit. Beth survived a tough childhood by immersing herself in music. Who knew music could save your life?
Not many people can say they grew up in Boulder, and lived down the street from Anthony Robbins. And not many can head a fast growing start-up company. But Jud Valeski has been spent most of his life living in Boulder, being inspired and running companies. As a child, he discovered that having a business was easier than conforming to the structure of school. Now, as head of Gnip (ping spelled backwards), Jud thrives on the contrasts of bicycling to work and spending the day mentally jumping between daily “fires” of activity.
This is the story of a kid from Milwaukee who went to college at Stanford. But it’s more about how an introverted nerd became president of his senior class. Scott Jenson successfully learned to bridge the gap between programming and design. He’s a user experience designer of hardware and software.
And you’ll learn how Apple should have designed the IPad. To learn more about Frog Design, click here: http://www.frogdesign.com/
Lawyer by day and Mac-junkie by night, David Sparks likes being busy. He writes book about Macs, does a podcast about Macs and speaks at conferences about Macs. It’s not surprising his podcast (with Katie Floyd) is called Mac Power Users. David lives down the street from me (well, up the freeway but that’s pretty much the same thing in S. Cal.). Here’s the talk David mentions: http://www.43folders.com/2009/03/25/blogs-turbocharged.