Kentucky Entrepreneur Hall Of Fame

Episode 68: Jose Gaztambide, CEO of Goodmaps highlights the importance of caring about people, knowing the value you bring, and work life balance as a founder.  Goodmaps is furthering the cause of accessible navigation with their digital indoor mapping solution. They providing a customer portal where venue owners can access and edit their digital maps in multiple views: 2D floorplan, 3D model, and LiDAR point cloud. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/awesomeinc/message

Episode 67: Matt Langan, CEO of Stuccco hopped back on the podcast to talk about growth - personal and professional. Stuccco is a startup in the 2021 Fellowship spring cohort and we are excited to see where this company is headed.  Listen to the first episode with Matt Langan on Awesome Inc's podcast here.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/awesomeinc/message

Episode 66: Ben Smock with Canopy Kentucky in Louisville, KY sat down with Garrett and Liz to share how they are a driving force for encouraging Kentucky companies to be better and why this matters.  Stay tuned for Ben's dad joke at the end of the episode (27:51). --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/awesomeinc/message

Episode 65: Rebecca Webb of Community Inspired Solutions, Inc. (CIS) (and coworking member of Awesome Inc's) shares why a Facebook post led her to make a difference in Lexington after an outbreak of youth violence in 2014.  Listen to CIS's podcast Through Their Eyes, In Their Words. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/awesomeinc/message

Episode 64:  Taylor Sears, COO of Silent Guard (and a coworking member of Awesome Inc's) shared his team's story and why working around other startups has been valuable for a growing company.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/awesomeinc/message

The Awesome Inc team honors Kentucky Entrepreneur Hall of Fame inductee Kent Taylor who recently passed away. retells his business story as told in the chapters of Unbridled Spirit: Lessons in Life and Business from Kentucky's Most Successful Entrepreneurs. Thank you to Noah Wonder for providing the music in this episode. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/awesomeinc/message

Episode 63: John Fox wraps up his conversation focusing on how he helps people. He shares his coaching method and questions he asks to add value to companies and find the burning desire behind a person's why.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/awesomeinc/message

Episode 61: This episode is for founders. After running his own business for a over a decade, Jon Fox became passionate about helping business owners who are pressing their nose to the grindstone day in and day out. In this episode, Jon shares his background along with how he didn't spend unnecessary time in school, gained experience, went through a business drought, and came out more effective on the other side. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/awesomeinc/message

Episode 60: This episode is for founders. Jake Miller wraps up his conversation with Liz and Garrett by sharing about his journey from being a corporate innovator to startups founder, what prompted the career jump, and advice he’d give to others. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/awesomeinc/message

Episode 60: This is for innovators.  Jake Miller, Cofounder and CEO of Toggle Health in Louisville, KY is a corporate innovator turned startup founder. He gives extensive insight and practical advice that can only come from someone who has experienced both sides of the innovation spectrum. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/awesomeinc/message

Addie Reinhard pitched at and won February 2021 5 Across with MentorVet.  Her company improves the well-being of life as a veterinarian.  The MentorVet mentorship and professional development program support young veterinarians through a combination of peer mentorship and online training in non-clinical professional skills to provide tools to help veterinarians cope with some of the most common stressors of practice. Connect with Addie via email: addiereinhard@gmail.com or on LinkedIn.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/awesomeinc/message

Episode 58: This episode is for founders. Harut Vardanyan is the CEO of HeXalayer with 11 years of experience in the nanotechnology & energy industry. He went through the 2017 Vogt Award accelerator based in Louisville, KY & the 2019 Ameren Accelerator. So you know, current Li-ion batteries offer an insufficient amount of energy for their weight. Small & Medium UAVs can only fly 30-40 minutes without payload and 15 minutes with a payload. A HeXalayer battery-powered vehicle will provide 3-4 times more energy for the same-weight battery (aka will be able to operate & travel longer without increasing the battery weight). --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/awesomeinc/message

Episode 57: This episode is for innovators. Tom shares his perspective on cultural differences between big cos versus startups, what he's learned about creativity and innovation working at some of the most highly-perceived “innovative” companies in the world, how training can be a strategic weapon for a company, and why it's important to show people the wall rather than the door. This is a good one, folks. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/awesomeinc/message

Episode 56: Tom Stern is a Technical Curriculum Developer at Amazon Web Services with an extensive background in teaching, publishing courses, aiding people in understanding machine learning, data structure, and cloud architecture. He has worked with highly popular tech companies like Cisco, Google, and Amazon, yet has a humble persona that is not often found in the tech industry. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/awesomeinc/message

Episode 55:  This episode is for founders. Brandon Young, the founder of Pascal Tags, started a company after his girlfriend kept misplacing her keys... After learning inventory displacement has been an issue since the 1950s (when Barcode and RFID were originally conceived), he's created a product to combat inventory problems. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/awesomeinc/message

Episode 54: This episode is for Innovators. Curt talks about good risk versus bad risk for corporate companies and updated us on what he’s been up to post-Dippin’ Dots with his newest venture, 40 Below Joe.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/awesomeinc/message

Episode 53: This episode is for innovators.  Curt Jones, the founder of Dippin' Dots Ice Cream and 40 Below Joe, walks through his journey on what it was like to go from corporate innovator to entrepreneur and why it was so important to build a company that encouraged innovation from within. In 1988, microbiologist Curt Jones used his knowledge of cryogenic technology to invent Dippin’ Dots and changed the way we consume ice cream. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/awesomeinc/message

Episode 52: This episode is for founders.  The winner of the 2020 5 Across Finals was Natalia Bishop. Her company, Level Up, is on a mission to connect, educate, inspire women, and future entrepreneurs within holistic learning environments. Participants learn with burst-style learning - imagine if Masterclass collided with Instagram's reel video feature.  Natalia's main focus is helping pour back into the community and develop the people who are looking for alternative means to earn a living given the COVID-19 pandemic.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/awesomeinc/message

Episode 51: This episode is for founders.  Keith wraps up our conversation and shares why assisting startups is crucial for Kentucky, and how our entrepreneurial culture is changing the state. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/awesomeinc/message

Episode 50: This episode is for founders.  Keith McMunn, unsuccessful with replacing Garrett as the new host, is back and dives into the structure and programming of how the Fellowship helps startup companies and everyone's' favorite word, accountability. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/awesomeinc/message