Entrepreneurial Thinkers with Rob Ryan

Oct 31 2024 139 ep. 47 mins 2
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In 2020, we launched a podcast from Los Angeles and Latin America, to tell the human stories behind the entrepreneurial economies of the Americas. In 2024, as the world continues to change, and our challenges become more urgent, we’re evolving as well. Now, Rob will hold conversations with the world’s best “Entrepreneurial Thinkers” across all sectors of society and industry. We’ll talk with the leaders building the better world we desperately need, in order to Inspire, Educate and Empower our audience to improve their lives, businesses and communities. Plug in and Enjoy.

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Ep 138: "Your Voice Matters" with Erika Lucas

Oct 31 2024 73 mins  
Do you believe one person can make a difference? Do you understand what the “New Majority” economy or “Care Economy” are? Do you think we need more equitable economies and communities? Rob gets really fired up by this conversation with the unstoppable force that is Erika Lucas, a long time Economic Development leader, Investor and founder of Stitch Crew, Vest and Vest/Her f

Ep 137: “Building Better Fashion, A Better Way, in LA” with Guadalupe Tlatenchi

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Ep 136: "A Botox Injection for your Sales Growth" with Chris Stock

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Ep 135: "Small Town Entrepreneurship; America’s Proof-of-Concept" with Marie Rocha

Oct 10 2024 65 mins  
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Ep 134: "The New Blue Economy: VC Investing in our Oceans" with Matt Mulrennan

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Can investing in our Oceans save our Planet? Have you ever heard of the Blue Economy? Do you know how much of the carbon we create or heat we create, gets absorbed by the ocean? Have you ever seen the “Colossal Squid”?- because our guest is on a lifelong mission to find it and film it in it’s natural environment. The ocean covers 70% of the planet, but very little of our hist

Ep 133: "Coffee, Curiosity and Building a Really Authentic Brand" with Gefen Skolnick

Sep 26 2024 48 mins  
Do you ever think about how your cup of coffee makes it into your hands? Can you imagine getting your product idea into the biggest retailers in the world? Or building a new product business in a market with 10’s of thousands of competitors? In this episode of Entrepreneurial Thinkers, Gefen Skolnick, founder of Couplet Coffee from here in Los Angeles, California, reveals how she

Ep 132: "Can your VC Investors be your Friends & Family?" with Miki Reynolds

Sep 19 2024 71 mins  
Can Venture Investment into more diverse founders, in more diverse neighborhoods yield better ROI? Can a Venture Firm become “the” community resource for entrepreneurs in a City? In this episode, Rob and Miki Reynolds sit down to explore and answer these questions! Miki is an incomparable Los Angeles entrepreneurial thinker, and now Head of Programs at Slauson & Co, which i

Ep 131: ”Our Human Species is at Risk! Can we save ourselves?” with Asher Jay

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