Dennis Baker is an accomplished marketer and entrepreneur. His latest venture is called POLIS Assist. For the last two years, he and his team have been locating every parking space in Los Angeles County and putting them into an app. Yes, it’s true, need a space, use POLIS to find one.
Personalized Learning Public Charter Schools – A choice for all students – Claudia Weintraub, Director, River Oaks Academy
Claudia Weintraub is the Director of the River Oaks Academy, a Personalized Learning Public Charter School, based in Thousand Oaks, California. We sat down with her to understand changes that are occurring in various proposed laws that are going to affect students in Charter Schools throughout the State.
Murder Happens, Will Bellomy, Party Game Designer
Will Bellomy is quite a character, in fact, he designs characters for his party game business, Murder Happens. Will joined us in the studio, with guest host, Kimberly Herriman. Kimberly is studying ‘Play’ as a part of her doctoral research at Antioch University.
Studio 2050 – Glen Derbyshire, Founder
Glen Derbyshire started taking photographs as a young boy growing up in a military family stationed in Asia. He fell in love with capturing images of events all around him and began his pursuit of lifelong learning, ending up at Brooks Institute here in Santa Barbara.
Tara Jones Haaf – Eat This Shoot That Solvang Edition
We invited Tara Jones Haaf back to the show when we heard that her very successful company, Eat This, Shoot That, has expanded into Solvang. For those of you outside the 805, Solvang is a lovely recreation of a Danish town, nestled in the Santa Ynez Valley, just 45 minutes from downtown Santa Barbara.
Max Drucker – CEO {Carpe Data – The Future of Data
We had a far-reaching conversation with Max Drucker, the CEO of {Carpe Data, a business located just upstairs from our studio here in downtown Santa Barbara. Max understands data, big data, and the future of how data impacts businesses like few we’ve had on the show.
Gregg Hart – A Life in Public Service
We met with Gregg Hart, newly minted member of the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors, for a delightful conversation about civic engagement. I’ve known Gregg for a long time, back from my days at Wavefront. Gregg has been involved in just about every significant activity here in Santa Barbara, as a member of multiple organizations over the years.
Mike Williams – Getting Things Done – Get Control of Your Life
Mike Williams has one of the better jobs on the planet. He’s the Getting Things Done Enterprise Architect for Zappos. What the heck kind of job title is that? In this episode, Mike tells about working with Tony Hsieh, the legendary founder of Zappos and being immersed in that fantastic culture.
Mary Olsen, General Manager, KCLU
In this show, we talk with Mary Olsen who is part of the original team that signed KCLU on the air in 1994. Under her leadership, KCLU has grown from single signal to a network of five stations serving the central coast from Agoura Hills northward to San Luis Obispo. She has thirty years of management and budget experience, with over twenty of them in broadcast management.
Dan Hamilton, Associate Professor, California Lutheran College
In this episode, we talk with Dan Hamilton, Associate Professor in the School of Management at California Lutheran University, where he is the Director of Economics for the CLU Center for Economic Research and Forecasting (CERF) and the Director of CLU’s Master of Science in Quantitative Economics (MSQE). In partnership with CERF Director Matthew Fienup (previously on the podcast), he …