Episodes

Sunday Feb 02, 2025
Sunday Feb 02, 2025
As part of the Retro21 Studios podcast series - Brand Storytelling, we present S3E2- A Conversation with Jessica DeAngelo  Chief Hiking Officer 🌲 of Hike to Become™Â
Why We Are Afraid to Walk into the Woods | Jessica DeAngelo | TEDxISU
Jessica DeAngelo is the Chief Hiking Officer and visionary behind Hike to Become™, where she guides business leaders to harness the power of nature to unlock their greatest potential. With a background in Global Sales and Strategy, Jessica has traveled the world and worked with top Fortune 500 companies, including Amazon, Nike, and Uber. Through her research, she discovered that breaking free from living on autopilot starts with learning to become powerfully present in nature.
As the creator of the HIKE31 Challenge, Jessica inspires people to step out of the office and into nature to solve their biggest business challenges and spark their most innovative ideas. In her TEDx Talk, “Why We Are Afraid to Walk Into the Woods,” she reveals that our greatest fears aren’t always what they seem—and the only way to uncover them is to take a walk in the woods.
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Sunday Jan 26, 2025
Sunday Jan 26, 2025
As part of the Retro21 Studios podcast series - Brand Storytelling, we present S3E1- A Conversation with Andy Yates, Technology & Corporate Strategist.

Friday Nov 01, 2024
Friday Nov 01, 2024
As part of the Retro21 Studios podcast series - Brand Storytelling, we present S2E8- A Conversation with Deena Pierott, CEO iUrbanTeen.
As the CEO and Executive Director of iUrban Teen, Deena leads a nationally recognized program that brings STEM+C+A (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, Computing, Arts) education to historically excluded youth ages 13 to 18.Â

Monday Oct 28, 2024
Monday Oct 28, 2024
As part of the Retro21 Studios podcast series - Brand Storytelling, we present S2E7 - A Conversation with Rose City Techies Co-Founders Annie Baker and Brooklyn Whittman.
Rose City Techies
We're an inclusive community of techies dedicated to building, creating, and exploring the future of technology together. This is a place for those who want to find inspiration and forge meaningful connections, all focused on the central theme of our work.
Rose City Techies is founded on non-traditional and creative perspectives, offering a fresh approach to the tech and startup scene.
We welcome all tech centric perspectives - UX designers, developers, founders, digital marketers, product managers, graphic designers, students, career switchers, or whatever tech role you’re in! Come join—you can sit with us.
Brooklyn Wittemn, UX Designer & Researcher | AI Powered Automation | Digital Storyteller
Annie Baker, UX Designer | Marketing Manager
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Tuesday Oct 08, 2024
Tuesday Oct 08, 2024
As part of the Retro21 Studios podcast series - Brand Storytelling, we present S2E6 - A Conversation with Andrew Lekashman, AI LLM/Infrastructure, Product Owner.Â
Andrew is a technical product manager with expertise in AI, product management, and eCommerce. Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, launch innovative products, and drive business growth through strategic planning and market analysis. Strong background in developing and managing technical product roadmaps, enhancing customer engagement, and optimizing product lifecycle management.

Monday Sep 09, 2024
Monday Sep 09, 2024
As part of the Retro21 Studios podcast series - Brand Storytelling, we present S2E5 - A Conversation with George Earle, Chief Growth Officer, Praxie, Inc.
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George is the Chief Growth Officer at Praxie, a leading software company that provides hyperscaler-based Event Stack architecture with embedded enterprise AI for digital manufacturing, strategy and innovation solutions. With over 25 years of experience in the software industry, George has a deep domain expertise in machine learning and AI, agile development, business case creation, and enterprise solution development.

Saturday Aug 24, 2024
Saturday Aug 24, 2024
As part of the Retro21 Studios podcast series - Brand Storytelling, we present S2E4 - A Conversation with Li Hong, AI Product & Solution Management.
Li made a career switch from the software side to the hardware universe!Â
He researchs and evaluates the latest development in AI / ML and develop technical solutions for targeted enterprise customers:- Developing ChatGPT-like prototype using Streamlit, Python and Llama-2-70b-chat ingesting PDF documents and providing a query interface- Setup online AI Test Beds based on Stable Diffusion via AUTOMATIC1111- Developing working prototype AI applications based on Llama-2 7b/70b and Falcon 40/180b pertained LLM.- Setup NVIDIA AI Enterprise suite to evaluate and integrate NVIDIA software suite - TAO, Triton, NeMo and more.
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Wednesday Aug 07, 2024
Wednesday Aug 07, 2024
As part of the Retro21 Studios podcast series - Brand Storytelling, we present S2E3 - Part I - A Conversation with Erin Reddick, Founder of ChatBlackGPT
https://chatblackgpt.com/
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A word from the Founder…
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"A technology built without Black voices told on the world. That technology is Artificial Intelligence. The racism and bias it echos, sings our song of sorrow in the language of privilege.
AI is our greatest opportunity to be believed. Even they know, the "data don't lie". For once, technology has become our ally, an unintended consequences of business as usual.
Black people are the sufferer and the solution to the future of technology. Beautifully made to renaissance, access is ours to start over again, this time in a realm not vulnerable to fire.
AI cannot unlearn, so show it the truth. While society politicizes Black skin, culture and history, we solidify it-digitally. The new privilege is permanence, and no permission is needed.
ChatBlackGPT is 1% of our story. Let us continue to create it together."
-The host, not Hero

Wednesday Mar 13, 2024
Wednesday Mar 13, 2024
As part of the Retro21 Studios series - Brand Storytelling, we present S2E2 - A Conversation with Kurt Schrader, CEO and Co-Founder of Shortcut
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A Focus on Outcomes, not Output
Shortcut is the only project management tool that lets you connect your company's Objectives (and Key Results) with your team's development work, together in one place. We call this The Shortcut Way, a new methodology that we've spent years researching and developing.   It's a fresh new approach to building products - one that addresses one of the biggest pain points in product development: ensuring everyone in the organization is aligned and driving towards the right objectives.

Sunday Mar 10, 2024
Sunday Mar 10, 2024
Retro21 Studios podcast, introduces a second season by presenting S1E2 - Part 2 - A conversation with D’Angelo Senat, Founder and CEO of Allpeep
AllPeep is about giving Brands the power to engage with their communities on their own terms. We want to make it easier for your brand to talk regularly with your community and biggest supporters. We want your brand to build genuine relationships with your communities locally or around the world.
The AllPeep ecosystem empowers the connection between a brand having access to an ideal customer and leveraging their communities—because we believe in a brands’ village being the key to the Brands essential growth.