Helpful Podcast Vahid Jozi
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- Society & Culture
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Accomplished folks sharing stories of who helped them
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Isaac Souweine - won by doubling down on failure
Isaac Souweine is a product manager tuned VC. his departure form his last product role wasn’t great. his move to investment was unplanned, and a result of a person believing in him. he’s loving his new path and been on it for the past decade.
Isaac is a dear friend, and this is his tale of human helpfulness.
SPEAKER LINKS:
Website
Pender Ventures
Linkedin
Twitter
MENTIONS:
John Stokes, partner at Real Ventures
Founderfuel
Notman house
Frontrow ventues
PODCAST LINKS:
BeHelpful.Today
Youtube
ABOUT THE HOST:
i’m Vahid Jozi. i’m in love with unearthing heartwarming stories of vulnerability and helpfulness. my goal is to encourage this net positive behaviour.
i help companies with product strategy and leadership at FractionalCPO.com -
Brice Scheschuk - not coachable, to +billion exit
Brice Scheschuk sold a telecom company for over a billion. he didn’t have any mentors, wasn’t even coachable. he was lucky though to find the right comrades. they went all in, fought and won. you’ll hear the details. he doesn’t hold back. later, he did a 180 and started an organization to elevate the art of mentorship.
Brice is a role model to many, and this is his tale of human helpfulness.
SPEAKER LINKS:
Linkedin
Twitter
Companies
Globalive Capital
MindFrame Connect (NFP)
MENTIONS:
Shaw buys Wind for $1.6B
YPO
Wind Mobile co-founders, Anthony Lacavera and Simon Lockie
Naguib Sawiris, Egyptian billionaire
Founder city project by Ben Baldwin
Creative Destruction Lab
MindFrame Connect
PODCAST LINKS:
BeHelpful.TodayYoutube
ABOUT THE HOST:
I am the host, Vahid Jozi. I’m in love with unearthing heartwarming stories of vulnerability and helpfulness. My goal is to encourage this net positive behaviour.
I help companies with product strategy and leadership at FractionalCPO.com -
Kat Khosrowyar - Women, Soccer, the Taliban
Kat Khosrowyar is the soccer player who beat the Taliban. she’s a founder, but of Iran’s U-19 national women’s soccer team. She had no shortage of tough times.
she moved from Texas to Iran as a teenager, a place not known for empowering women. she barely knowing the language. she joined the national women’s team, later coached it. She also helped a the Afghan national women soccer team flee the Taliban insurgency. And, none of that is her day job.
In addition to working in the petrochemical industry now, Kat remains deeply involved in football, continuing to uplift women through her foundation.
SPEAKER LINKS:
Website
Wikipedia
Women's Equality and Soccer Foundation
Linkedin
Instagram
MENTIONS:
Joanne King Herring
Julia Robert plays her on “Charlie Wilson’s War”
Farkhunda Muhtaj - Captain of the Afghan National Women’s Football Team
website
ABOUT THE HOST:
I'm Vahid Jozi, a founder, product manager, and podcaster. I believe great things happen by randomness, serendipity and helpfulness. Those are net positive values, conjured by giving. I also help companies with product strategy and leadership at FractionalCPO.com -
Daniel Dubois - Harlem Globetrotter coach, to multiple exists
How does a grade-8 boy obsessed with basketball become a successful founder with multiple exits and an active angel investor?
Daniel will tell you. He is an accomplished founder with multiple exits, co founder of Key and an active angel investor.
His story is fascinating. He takes us through being coached by a Harlem Globetrotter, a traumatic motorcycle accident, and the support he received throughout his startup career. Through many challenges and his determination, he had multiple exists, is now a co-founder Key, and became a benefactor to entrepreneurship. Daniel's insightful experience of cultivating community groups and gaining strength from adversity brings a fascinating perspective to entrepreneurship and human resilience.
SPEAKER LINKS:
Website
Linkedin
Twitter
PODCAST LINKS:
Website
Youtube
MENTIONS:
Mel Davis former Harlem Globetrotter
League of Innovators
Tara from SmartSweets
Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO)
YPO
Global Student Entrepreneurship Awards (GSEA)
Peter Thomas entrepreneur, philanthropist, chairman of EO
The Knowledge Society (TKS) & the co-founder Nadeem
Junior Achievement
Pando Pooling
Front Row Ventures
ABOUT THE HOST:
I'm Vahid Jozi, a founder, product manager, and podcaster. I believe most great things happen by randomness, serendipity and helpfulness. Those are net positive values, conjured by giving. I also help companies with product strategy and execution at FractionalCPO.com -
Aydin Mirzaee - from McDonalds night shift, to a major acquisition
Aydin Mirzaee, an exited founder and co-founder/CEO of Fellow.app, shares how he faced several existential threats. Coincidently helping hands showed up, and got him out of it.
SPEAKER LINKS:
Fellow.app
Twitter
Linkedin
MENTIONS:
J. Mark A. Hoddenbagh
John Omura
Scott C. Ensign
Martin Taller
ABOUT THE HOST:
I'm Vahid Jozi, a founder, product manager, and podcaster. I believe most great things happen by randomness, serendipity and helpfulness. Those are net positive values, conjured by giving. I also help companies with product strategy and execution at FractionalCPO -
Fred Bastien - from struggle, to the DARK SIDE
Fred Bastien, an exited-founder turned investor, shares how was contemplating closing down his company, if it weren't for the help on someone with nothing to gain.
SPEAKER LINKS:
Amiral.vc
Twitter
Linkedin
MENTIONS:
Jean-Sebastien Cournoyer
ABOUT THE HOST:
I'm Vahid Jozi, a founder, product manager, and podcaster. I believe most great things happen by randomness, serendipity and helpfulness. Those are net positive values, conjured by giving. I also help companies with product strategy and execution at FractionalCPO.com