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13May 2022 by cibuilder No Comments

Faith and Family

Disrupt, Disruption Now, Education, Entrepreneurship

[vidseo id="29170" ]HOSTED BY ROB RICHARDSONShare This!Mirthell, is the Founder and CEO of the Onyx brand and @Onyx Family . For years, he worked as a pastor and marriage & family therapist, but it was his dream to one day work with his family. One day in 2015, he took the giant leap and quit his job; he never looked back since. Now, the family has a multi-million dollar enterprise, which includes a YouTube Original talk show, @Onyx Family (featuring guests such as Jemele Hill and Emmanuel Acho), an animated series, Onyx Monster Mysteries (which has been distributed to platforms such as Peacock and Apple TV), books, a health & fitness app. and more. He tries to inspire and motivate other black men to take the leap too and start…

19Feb 2022 by cibuilder No Comments

From CEO to ACTIVIST with Jason Flom

Disrupt, Disruption Now, Education, Entrepreneurship

[vidseo id="29052" ]HOSTED BY ROB RICHARDSONShare This!Former Chairman and CEO at Atlantic Records, Virgin Records, and Capitol Music Group and now the Founder and CEO of Lava For Good Podcasts and Lava Media. He is the founding board member of the Innocence Project and serves on the boards of numerous criminal justice reform organizations. Also, the host of the hit podcast, Wrongful Conviction features interviews with men and women who have spent decades in prison for crimes they did not commit, some even sentenced to death. He started his journey to fight the system's injustice last 1993 when he helped a young kid win his case for a non-violence first offense cocaine possession charge for which he served 15 years to life. He also shared statistics that listeners will be…

22Jan 2022 by cibuilder No Comments

Stopping HIV Criminalization

Disrupt, Disruption Now, Entrepreneurship, Finance

[vidseo id="28803" ]HOSTED BY ROB RICHARDSONShare This!"Laws criminalizing HIV must be changed to Cathcart up to facts and science." Kim Welter is CEO of KLW Consulting, LLC which supports LGBTQ and affiliated advocacy organizations with HR, finance, diversity & Inclusion, board and policy expertise. Her primary client since 2016 is Equality Ohio where she holds the responsibilities of Director of Finance and Policy after previously serving as Deputy Director and Director of Programs and Outreach while on staff. She also briefly served as interim Executive Director; with over thirteen years of experience with the organization, she is Equality Ohio’s most seasoned consultant. She joined the organization as staff in 2008 after serving as the Executive Director of Equality Toledo for over 2 years. A graduate of University of Michigan, she…

08Jan 2022 by cibuilder No Comments

Edition Magazine Amplifying Black Creatives

Disrupt, Disruption Now, Entrepreneurship, Finance

[vidseo id="28695" ]HOSTED BY ROB RICHARDSONShare This!Isoul Harris is the Editor and Chief of EDTION. Edition’s mission to uplift and amplify Black creatives across industries. Isoul brings a vast array of expertise in the space – from serving as a multimedia content producer, to fulfilling award-winning journalist roles in which he was able to tell powerful stories disrupting cultural narrative. Prior to joining EDITION, Isoul served as the editor-in-chief at UPTOWN, where furthered the national magazine’s mission profiling affluent African American life in partnership with the world’s leading celebrities, philanthropists, creatives, futurists across industries throughout the diaspora. Isoul also served as Deputy Editor of exclusive luxury lifestyle magazine, Mosaic where he worked to bring the profiles of LGBTQIA+ people of color front-and-center within the magazine. What you will learnWhy we…

03Jan 2022 by cibuilder No Comments

A Higher Calling with Kern Alexander

Disrupt, Disruption Now, Entrepreneurship, Finance

[vidseo id="28349" ]HOSTED BY ROB RICHARDSONShare This!"In the military, you’re taught to do more with less, so within my business model, I pretty much did the same thing."Kern Alexander is a veteran turned business mogul. Learn about his unexpected Cannabis journey and how his passion for helping veterans lead to a multi million dollar business. US Military Veteran Kern Alexander discusses how he founded and scaled The Higher Collection, an Oakland-based cannabis distribution and delivery company. What you will learnWhy must you ignore people who have a fear of taking risks? How to get started in the Cannabis business CONNECT WITH THE HOSTROB RICHARDSONEntrepreneur & Keynote SpeakerRob Richardson is the host of disruption Now Podcast and the owner of DN Media Agency, a full-service digital marketing and research company. He has…

11Nov 2021 by cibuilder No Comments

CEO Alexys Feaster: Athletes & the Power of Voice

Disrupt, Disruption Now, Entrepreneurship

[vidseo id="28025" ]HOSTED BY ROB RICHARDSONShare This!A former Senior Director of Player Development at the NBA, Feaster focused on helping over 450 NBA players create programs and initiatives to enhance their life skills and leadership development, from financial literacy programs to engage with their communities on a national level. During the 2018 summer off-season, Alexys executed the league’s first-ever voter registration drives, registering over 40 eligible players and incoming rookies during NBA Summer League and the NBA’s Rookie Transition Program. In the past, she’s also worked as the National Regional Surrogate Director for Obama’s reelection campaign, where she led strategy behind some of the biggest names speaking and performing during the campaign trail including JAY-Z, Mariah Carey and Jon Bon Jovi. She was also the mastermind behind the creation of…

20Sep 2021 by cibuilder No Comments

Disrupting Education with Rebecca Wolfe and Ryan MacDonald

Disrupt, Disruption Now, Education

[vidseo id="26870" ]HOSTED BY ROB RICHARDSONShare This!"It exposed the inequities within our system to everyone and really forced everyone to look at how we're doing school and see the challenges that the model has taken."Ryan MacDonald - He serves as Senior Program Associate on the Student-Centered Learning team at the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO). Ryan joined CCSSO in 2015 as part of the now Student-Centered Learning team and Education Data and Information Systems team. As part of the Student-Centered Learning team, he manages the programmatic and technical support to the previous Innovation Lab Network (ILN) and now CCSSO’s Student-Centered Learning Collaborative. He is committed to supporting the implementation and scaling of student-centered learning especially for historically underserved students. He received a B.A. in Politics from the Catholic…

01Aug 2021 by cibuilder No Comments

John Rogers Disrupting Wall Street

Disruption Now, Finance, Technology

[vidseo id="26317" ]HOSTED BY ROB RICHARDSONShare This!"I do believe it’s important to stay within a circle of competence but I should have learned earlier how important it is to diversify around your core values."John W. Rogers, Jr. is the Co-CEO of Ariel Investments, the global value-based asset management firm he founded in 1983. His professional accomplishments extend to the boardroom where he is a member of the board of directors of McDonald’s, NIKE and The New York Times Company. Mr. Rogers has one of the longest track records in the business. His flagship fund, Ariel Fund, is the only mid-cap value fund in the U.S. that dates back to 1986. He has been highlighted alongside legendary investors Warren Buffett, Sir John Templeton and Ben Graham as one of the world’s…

19Jul 2021 by cibuilder No Comments

Yaya Mbaoua – Pan African Technology

Technology

[vidseo id="26077" ]HOSTED BY ROB RICHARDSONShare This!"People still think that these are really impossible tasks that we are attempting to do."Former VP of Sales & Business Development a Med1 Healthcare Group, where Yaya was instrumental in building a solid company footprint in several African and Caribbean countries. Prior to Med1, he worked as VP of Product at Rally Health (formerly known as Audax Health). As a relatively early member of the product group, Yaya defined the strategy, definition, execution and optimization of the wellness platform for major payers. Yaya also held the Director of Product role at IAC Advertising, where he helped build, launch and roll out a revolutionary direct navigation service for ISPs in 10 countries. Prior to IAC, Yaya held product management roles at Jumptap and AOL with…

07Jul 2021 by cibuilder No Comments

MAC Conwell: A Rarebreed

Disrupt, Disruption Now, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Technology

[vidseo id="25868" ]HOSTED BY ROB RICHARDSONShare This!"Being able to give those founders the opportunity to create amazing companies when everyone else says no."RareBreed Ventures is a pre-seed fund that invests in exceptional founders outside of large tech ecosystems, earlier than everyone else. Unlike other pre-seed funds, RareBreed takes a concentrated portfolio approach by writing checks of up to $250K as the first or one of the first investors. McKeever "Mac" Conwell II is the founder and managing partner of RareBreed Ventures. We speak with Mac about the path that led him from founder to Venture Captial. Mac is a former software engineer and a two-time founder. One of Mac's companies failed, the other went on to a successful exit. What you will learn Why it's important to lead from conviction…