Hustle Guru

Matt Interviews Jaylen who goes by Trip and @rips.chicago on social media. Growing up on the South Side of Chicago in Chatham one block away from Cottage Grove. Trip talks about the trials and tribulations that he went through growing up and being a truly loving person while still standing your ground. Choosing to be interested in stuff that may have been considered “weird” by his peers but still being accepted in crowds of very different kinds of people from the nerds to the streets. Trip talks about why street culture is glorified, the influence of music, and how people try to be “gangster” when they’re really just doing “foul sh*t” . Trip talks about being involved in photography and videography, moving into fashion + craftsmanship + design of all kinds with his brand “Rips” that he is building up and how he respects and puts real effort into educating himself on the process of any creative discipline he learns. He touches on the value of quality and working with smaller suppliers who he loves to build rel

Matt talks with Graeme Phillips founder of Chicago Socrates, an artist collective and artist support network in Chicago. Graeme is a big advocate for mental health with his own stories of struggles and learning to work with the craziness of his own mind. Matt and Graeme discuss their own mental health stories in an open dialogue around working through the dark places that our minds can end up even when we least expect it and how to have empathy for those who’ve been consumed by temporary insanity. Plus, some philosophy and discussion on finding meaning in our lives. Neither Matt or Graeme are formal experts in mental health or psychology, but have their own experiences and insights from those experiences to share. Reach out to Graeme: Personal Instagram: i.nstagraeme Chicago Socrates: @chicago.socrates Follow the host: Instagram: @nonstop.matt nonstopmatt.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dogoodpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod

Matt interviews Hayden Humphrey a life coach and career coach. Hayden helps people break out of the “script” of how life is “supposed” to go and helps people live life by their own design. Matt and Hayden talk about how to live a life that is an authentic reflection of you and how businesses can be more human, as Hayden calls it: “leading with love”. Follow Hayden: Instagram: @haydenashimself LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/haydenhumphrey/ Website: haydenhumphrey.com Follow the host: Instagram: @nonstopmatt Website: nonstopmatt.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dogoodpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dogoodpodcast/support

On this episode Matt interviews Bryan Arriaga founder of Global WSDM and Esteban Escobar founder of Mayan Jade. Both heavily influenced by the city of Chicago and culturally aware, the three discuss Chicago’s beauties and flaws. Escobar gives you the scoop behind his latest work with Mayan Jade and his brand’s roots with Mayan designers in Guatemala + working on new furniture. Savybah talks about his mission with Global WSDM, collaborating on a new clothing piece with Escobar, and his experience going to every 77 neighborhood of Chicago for his new book Chicago 77. Follow & Contact the guests: Bryan Arriaga on Instagram @savybah globalwsdm.com Esteban Escobar on Instagram @madeby_escobar And his brand on Instagram … @mayan_jade --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dogoodpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dogoodpodcast/support

Kevin P. Davenport is the founder of Ideal Digital Chicago where they churn out youth by training them in digital marketing, working for Ideal Digital, and then getting them employed at a larger company. Author of the Ideal Candidate, Kevin knows that many disadvantaged youth grow up without basic life skills for living on their own and wrote a book plus created many workshops and events to help fill that gap. Kevin is an expert not just in unlocking youth potential and putting it to work but in coaching founders of all levels on his own as well as at the Chicago Urban League who are making $50,000-100,000 in revenue to grow their business. Matt and Kevin discuss his work and other topics such as improving education for entrepreneurship and diversity and inclusion in the corporate world. Follow Kevin: Instagram: @kevinpdavenport kevinpdavenport.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dogoodpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dogoodp

Talking with Daniel Polostky, the founder and CEO of CoinFlipATM a crypto ATM for converting your cash into Bitcoin or other crypto currencies. Based in Chicago. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dogoodpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dogoodpodcast/support

A really interesting conversation on how to leverage, include, and empower black and brown business owners in America and how that ultimately benefits us all and is in the interest of everyone to be involved. Learn more about Gray Matter at: graymatterexperience.com Listen to the full thing with links at: DoGoodCollab.Com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dogoodpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dogoodpodcast/support

Matt Smith chats with NikosOnTheRun, Jared Avaloss, and RoarJMckay… Talking about their creatives process, where they draw inspiration from, advice for multimedia creatives, how we can do better business together and much more. Follow them on Instagram: Nikos: @NikosOnTheRun Jared: @JaredAvaloss John: @RoarJMckay --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dogoodpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dogoodpodcast/support

Matt Smith talks with 3 artistic and musical masterminds on the come up in Chicago about work and life. Follow them on Instagram: Rob Baco: @rob.baco NoCapSawbuck: @nocapsawbuckk Dutcho: @dutcho6700 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dogoodpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dogoodpodcast/support

Matt Smith & Kevin Davenport talk entrepreneurship, taking care of yourself so that you can do better work, spirituality, and much more. Kevin is a Chicago-based serial entrepreneur & social impact leader. He supports and uplifts other budding businesses and business founders. He is the author of The Ideal Candidate. His mission and vision is to build self-sufficient life and professional skills for 1 million youth, age 16-24. Learn more about Kevin: theidealcandidate.org Learn more about Do Good: DoGoodCollab.Com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dogoodpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dogoodpodcast/support

One of the Do Good Podcast’s best interviews so far as of this recording with one 19 year old legend and one 18 year old legend. That’s all I have to say. Learn more about Kim Products: http://kim-products.com/ Follow her on personal Instagram: kimaponi Follow Kim Products: @kimproducts Twitter: @exhalx Learn more about Mak by following him on… Personal Instagram: @makafuisearcy Main Brand Instagram: @fourtunehouse Twitter: @makfourtune --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dogoodpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dogoodpodcast/support

Dashiell Bark-Huss is an all around bio-hacker, meaning she is always conducting life tests and experiments on herself to see how we can optimize our day-to-day human performance. She is an avid practitioner of lucid dreaming where in college and beyond she was able (through rigorous months of training) to get herself to having 3 lucid dreams PER NIGHT. Meaning 3 times a night she was able to catch herself in her dreams and dream with the full awareness that she’s in a dream, able to totally control everything. This was able to help her do things like stick to diets cause she could eat whatever she wants. Lucid dreaming did not affect the quality of her sleep. Dashiell hosts lucid dreaming meet-ups and “quantified self” (to track your bio metrics) meet-ups in Chicago. Follow her meetups here: Lucid Dreaming: https://www.meetup.com/Active-Dreaming-Group/ Quantified Self: https://www.meetup.com/ChicagoQuantifiedSelf/ Learn more about Do Good: DoGoodCollab.Com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.s

Spencer Gordon-Sand is a 22 year old entrepreneur and technologist, former pro-league fencer (now pro-league fencing photographer), built and solid his last company Best as an aqua-hire to the company he is now the Chief Strategy Officer at… Vintro. Vintro is essentially disrupting our ability to network with the best and right people "creating opportunity by allowing you to purchase time and attention from key global decision makers." In the past and still today, whoever has access to the best resources are usually the individuals with the best network. By making it easier than ever before to get an introduction with a BIG PLAYER in the world who is willing to hear out your ideas, Vintro is working to make it so that those with the best ideas are the ones who get access to the best resources. Making steps towards a truly meritocratic world. Learn more at: DoGoodCollab.com Learn more about Vintro at: MyVintro.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dogoodpodcast/message Sup

Jeffrey Dirrenberger has 10+ years of experience in creating consumer applications, B2B software products, and launching startups. He’s the Founder&CEO of VALUT Innovation a venture studio in Chicago where over the past decade he’s seen the launch of 100s of digital products including applications for the Chicago Tribune, Kate Somerville, and the National Restaurant Association. He’s also a partner at Gamerz Arena where they provide video game contests for cash prizes & he’s the founder of Leaftrade, a whole sale marketplace for cultivators and dispensaries of cannabis in Colorado. Learn more about Do Good at: DoGoodCollab.com Learn more about VALUT Innovation: vaultinnovation.com Learn more about Gamerz Arena: gamerzarena.com Learn more about Leaf Trade: leaf.trade --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dogoodpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dogoodpodcast/support

Sitting down with Ken Retro & DJ Royal… Two of the arguably (I’d say factually!) best DJs in the city of Chicago. Retro and Matt go way back to when Matt used to rap & make music. Retro’s first live DJ show was at Matt’s first live performance when he was a part of Exit The Premises. This was his first time getting to know Royal. Retro and Royal are both so real and so genuine. Tune in to hear about how they think we can improve Chicago’s event scene and hear their stories about how they got from where they started to where they’re at today. Learn more about Do Good: dogoodcollab.com Learn more about Retro: soundcloud.com/kenretro Learn more about Royal: twitter.com/DjRoyal_LsCity --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dogoodpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dogoodpodcast/support

Aadeel Akhtar is an entrepreneur on the frontier of bionics. He’s the founder of Psyonic, and alongside his team they've created the Ability Hand: an accessible and affordable robotic arm that nearly turns you into a super hero. From charging your phone, to 360 degree hand rotation, to touch feedback sensitive enough that you can easily pick up a hollow egg shell without cracking it… Aadeel’s mission is to be able to provide this kind of bionic technology to whoever needs it all around the world because the vast majority of amputees are in developing countries and only a very small percent have access to any prosthetic device. As of this recording, they just launched the Ability Hand as a public product a few weeks ago. Aadeel and I talked all about what the development of Bionics means as we “redefine human.” Learn more about Psyonic: psyonic.co Learn more about Do Good: dogoodcollab.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dogoodpodcast/message Support this podcast: https:

Rentervention is a joint project of the Lawyers' Committee for Better Housing, Illinois Legal Aid Online, and the Lawyers Trust Fund of Illinois. It is a natural language processing chatbot that helps people who normally would have had to go through a confusing FAQ page or search for legal assistance online “in the dark”. Renny (the chat bot) helps people find the specific legal help they need just after a few questions. I discussed with two representatives Hannah and Conor on how we can improve renter’s ability to get the legal support they need when they need it, flaws and room for improvement in our legal system in general that we can start to address, and so much more. Learn more about Rentervention at: rentervention.com Learn more about Do Good at: dogoodcollab.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dogoodpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dogoodpodcast/support

Matt talks with StevensJpeg, Trevor Parker, and Trip CP… Three 19-21 year old Chicago photographers absolutely killing the game. From connecting your work with mindfulness for an increased feeling of purpose, how to work with other and find the best genuine people to work with, how to think about yourself on social media, how to take better photos, and how we can all improve the world along side each other… Tune in. Follow the three on Instagram: Steven: @stevensjpeg Trevor: @trevorrparker Trip: @trip_cp Reach out to be on the podcast at dogoodcollab.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dogoodpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dogoodpodcast/support

Illia Pashkov coined himself a Chief Hustle Officer because he couldn’t find a better way to describe the breadth of work he’s involved in… For the past 14 years working as a creative strategic technology consultant Illia has started & grown products and services in an array of different industries. From high-level strategic planning to in-the-weeds execution he’s done it all — graphic and product design, Blockchain and Crypto, travel, fashion, video-production, set-design, ecommerce, AI and machine learning, automotive and self-driving. Co-Founder of WizeBit, GhostDrive, vvorth, Dowell. Chief Product Officer at Player’s Health.  Illia has spoken at the Global Economy Forum in San Fransisco and World Blockchain Forum in Dubai. Learn more about Illia: http://pshkv.com/ Reach out to be on the next podcast: https://www.dogoodcollab.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dogoodpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dogoodpodcast

Steph Belsky, founder of Love Of Good & I talked about changing the narrative on non-profit and for-profit companies. Showing how when you create win-wins for everyone involved, for-profit may be an even more empowering way to create social impact and do good for each other. Steph through Love Of Good creates amazing relationships between influencers who genuinely want to have a positive impact and no-BS social causes. Aligning the best influencers and social cause organizations to make big social change. Learn more about Steph’s work: LoveOfGood.com Learn more about Do Good at: Dogoodocollab.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dogoodpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dogoodpodcast/support