Shakin' Hands

Jack Moran
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Welcome to 'Shakin' Hands,' the podcast where entrepreneurship meets fascinating stories from the most intriguing minds today. From proven business practices to groundbreaking ideas that challenge the status quo, Shakin' Hands' is not just about the handshake that seals a deal but about the shared experiences and values that unite us all. Whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur, a seasoned business owner, or someone who loves a good story about overcoming odds, Shakin' Hands' promises to deliver compelling content that shakes up the conventional and celebrates the extraordinary.Tune in to Shakin' Hands' where leaders, thinkers, and doers come to share, inspire, and, most importantly, connect. Let's shake hands with the world, one story at a time. Host: Jack MoranPowered by DreamSpear

  1. 12/01/2025

    Ep. 84 | What the Younger Generation Really Needs to Learn - with Education Leaders of Panama City

    Jack sits down in Panama City with four educators, Rick Hengelbrok, Ben Thorwaldson, Stephanie Hengelbrok, and Haley Herold Espino, to explore how the education system is evolving beyond the traditional classroom. Together, they unpack the widening gap between curriculum and reality, and why mentorship, emotional development, and real-world readiness are becoming non-negotiable. The conversation dives into system-level pressures, shifting student needs, and how teachers today operate more like entrepreneurs, building culture, adapting on the fly, and designing experiences that actually serve the next generation. Zooming out, they connect these insights to larger questions around leadership, purpose, and the future of learning in a world driven by rapid change. At its core, the episode reframes teaching as a craft rooted in influence, adaptability, and helping young people grow into thinkers, not just test-takers. https://briggseducation.com/ Have a topic you want covered? Have any further questions for the guest? Want to chat more? SHOOT US A TEXT!! Thanks for listening Host: Jack Moran Powered by: DreamSpear Want to connect with like-minded entrepreneurs and growth-minded leaders? Join our Dreamspear community on Skool at skool.com/dreamspear or learn more at dreamspear.com. Whether you're building a business, leveling up your mindset, or looking for real conversations, we're here to grow with you. Follow Shakin' Hands Podcast Website Instagram YouTube Dreamspear Website Instagram SEE YOU NEXT WEEK!

    1h 58m

  2. 11/24/2025

    Ep. 82 | Digital Wealth Building in Emerging Markets - Juan Kong

    Jack sits down in Panama City with Juan Kong, the co-founder and CEO of Marian Exchange, an investment app built to help Latinos generate long-term wealth by tokenizing real assets and connecting local banking rails with crypto infrastructure. He traces how organizing one of Panama’s first crypto conferences and seeing how many people remain unbanked, pushed him to design tools that make investing accessible. The conversation dives into his personal story of growing up Chinese in Panama and the U.S., never fully fitting in, battling depression, and realizing his superpower was connecting people across cultures. The two unpack, leaving a comfortable corporate job, launching a failed ticketing startup, and ultimately finding a better fit at the edge of Web3, where constant change matches his curiosity. They close on the inner game of entrepreneurship, habits, boundaries, imposter syndrome, meditation, even ayahuasca, and the core message that aligning your work with your true purpose and following your gut matters more than any external playbook. https://www.mariex.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/juankong/ Have a topic you want covered? Have any further questions for the guest? Want to chat more? SHOOT US A TEXT!! Thanks for listening Host: Jack Moran Powered by: DreamSpear Want to connect with like-minded entrepreneurs and growth-minded leaders? Join our Dreamspear community on Skool at skool.com/dreamspear or learn more at dreamspear.com. Whether you're building a business, leveling up your mindset, or looking for real conversations, we're here to grow with you. Follow Shakin' Hands Podcast Website Instagram YouTube Dreamspear Website Instagram SEE YOU NEXT WEEK!

    28 min

  3. 11/17/2025

    Ep. 81 | Building Safety, Engineering, and Panama’s Future - Emilio Chi

    Jack sits down in Panama City with Emilio Chi, the co-founder of Consultores IND, an engineering firm specializing in non-destructive testing and structural diagnostics. They break down how critical maintenance is in a market that loves to build fast but rarely budgets for long-term health. The conversation expands into Panama’s unique advantages, from logistics and finance to a skyline boom that keeps technical inspection in constant demand. They explore cultural realities, the entrepreneurial mindset gap, and the shift from small hustles to scalable, system-driven businesses. At its core, the episode is about identifying risk early, using geography as a lever, and acting on ideas before the market passes you by. https://www.instagram.com/consultoresind/ https://www.instagram.com/emiliochi/?hl=en https://www.linkedin.com/in/emiliochi/ Have a topic you want covered? Have any further questions for the guest? Want to chat more? SHOOT US A TEXT!! Thanks for listening Host: Jack Moran Powered by: DreamSpear Want to connect with like-minded entrepreneurs and growth-minded leaders? Join our Dreamspear community on Skool at skool.com/dreamspear or learn more at dreamspear.com. Whether you're building a business, leveling up your mindset, or looking for real conversations, we're here to grow with you. Follow Shakin' Hands Podcast Website Instagram YouTube Dreamspear Website Instagram SEE YOU NEXT WEEK!

    33 min

  4. 11/10/2025

    Ep. 80 | Using Interactive 3D software to sell real estate - Dan Burdman

    Dan Burdman, co-founder of Hauzd, breaks down how interactive 3D and live inventory shorten the path from curiosity to commitment in new-build real estate. He shares franchising wins and scars the importance of documenting everything, aligning incentives, and how those lessons translate to everyday. The conversation shifts toward leadership over control: listen first, set the context, and teach people how to think so they can work independently without needing constant supervision. Through it all, the theme is disciplined persistence—stay cash-flow responsible, iterate with customers, and optimize for time freedom as a measure of success. LinkedIn Hauzd Have a topic you want covered? Have any further questions for the guest? Want to chat more? SHOOT US A TEXT!! Thanks for listening Host: Jack Moran Powered by: DreamSpear Want to connect with like-minded entrepreneurs and growth-minded leaders? Join our Dreamspear community on Skool at skool.com/dreamspear or learn more at dreamspear.com. Whether you're building a business, leveling up your mindset, or looking for real conversations, we're here to grow with you. Follow Shakin' Hands Podcast Website Instagram YouTube Dreamspear Website Instagram SEE YOU NEXT WEEK!

    31 min

  5. 11/03/2025

    Ep 79 | Building Trust into the Product - Johan Castellanos

    Jack sits down in Panama City with Johan Castellanos founder of Verifik, to unpack the hard lessons of building, pivoting, and staying honest with the numbers. They explore the realities of operating in LATAM—Panama’s tax advantages, payment-rail gaps, hiring where talent density lives—and why raising capital locally demands extra grit. The through-line is discipline over ego: treat entrepreneurship like a vocation, listen harder than you speak, and let the market set the brief. They dig into attention as the scarcest resource and how to design simpler, faster experiences that respect it. Trust tech and rigorous verification show up not as buzzwords, but as principles for reducing risk and earning compounding confidence from customers. https://www.linkedin.com/in/johancastellanos/?originalSubdomain=pa https://verifik.co/en/ Have a topic you want covered? Have any further questions for the guest? Want to chat more? SHOOT US A TEXT!! Thanks for listening Host: Jack Moran Powered by: DreamSpear Want to connect with like-minded entrepreneurs and growth-minded leaders? Join our Dreamspear community on Skool at skool.com/dreamspear or learn more at dreamspear.com. Whether you're building a business, leveling up your mindset, or looking for real conversations, we're here to grow with you. Follow Shakin' Hands Podcast Website Instagram YouTube Dreamspear Website Instagram SEE YOU NEXT WEEK!

    29 min

  6. 10/27/2025

    Ep. 78 | Turn Purpose Into Your Growth Engine - Grecia Medina

    Jack sits down with Grecia Medina of Bloom Innova in Panama City to unpack how companies can bake measurable environmental and social impact into the core business without sacrificing profitability. She lays out a practical roadmap, strategy, partnerships, and concrete activities that help founders unlock grants, risk capital, and impact investment, with real SME wins and a KPI mindset that tracks both revenue and impact. Zooming out to Panama’s SME-driven economy, they connect climate and biodiversity pressures and national priorities to why private-sector execution, aligned with clear goals, can move faster than public programs, and how to build around the problems that frustrate you most. Grecia Medina LinkedIn Bloom Innova  Have a topic you want covered? Have any further questions for the guest? Want to chat more? SHOOT US A TEXT!! Thanks for listening Host: Jack Moran Powered by: DreamSpear Want to connect with like-minded entrepreneurs and growth-minded leaders? Join our Dreamspear community on Skool at skool.com/dreamspear or learn more at dreamspear.com. Whether you're building a business, leveling up your mindset, or looking for real conversations, we're here to grow with you. Follow Shakin' Hands Podcast Website Instagram YouTube Dreamspear Website Instagram SEE YOU NEXT WEEK!

    42 min

  7. 10/20/2025

    Ep. 77 | Winning with transparency - Norman Coburn

    Jack sits down with the co-founder and CTO of Darien Technologies, Norman Coburn, in Panama City to unpack 11 years of building a “software factory” across banking, fintech, and startups. They contrast capital-rich comfort in the U.S. with the scrappy, bootstrapped edge of LATAM, then dig into how AI shifts the craft from deterministic builds to generative experiments, plus when to use each. Beyond code, they cover senior product coaching, ruthless scoping, and early user feedback loops that turn specs into MVPs people actually adopt. The team’s operating principles come through: transparent proposals, radical candor with partners, annual reinvention to stay relevant, and addressing misalignment or underperformance early.  Norman Coburn Darien Technology Have a topic you want covered? Have any further questions for the guest? Want to chat more? SHOOT US A TEXT!! Thanks for listening Host: Jack Moran Powered by: DreamSpear Want to connect with like-minded entrepreneurs and growth-minded leaders? Join our Dreamspear community on Skool at skool.com/dreamspear or learn more at dreamspear.com. Whether you're building a business, leveling up your mindset, or looking for real conversations, we're here to grow with you. Follow Shakin' Hands Podcast Website Instagram YouTube Dreamspear Website Instagram SEE YOU NEXT WEEK!

    35 min

  8. 10/13/2025

    Ep. 76 | The Business of Better Habits Through Recycling - Andrés Iglesias

    Jack sits down in Panama City with Andrés Iglesias, founder of Convierte Panamá, a zero-landfill recycling company focused on transforming both waste systems and mindsets. He traces the spark back to traveling the country, witnessing pollution, and deciding to build a service that keeps material out of landfills while educating people to change behavior. The conversation delves into partner selection, alignment, loyalty, and emotional maturity, as well as the importance of prioritizing peace over hype or quick profit, and why protecting your peace matters more than rebuilding a broken business. Beyond the company, Andrés leads one of Panama’s biggest run clubs and also runs and performs with Brunchcast Music as a DJ, channeling community and culture into his work. He reframes fear as a growth signal and explains how sales is purposeful storytelling, clarifying the problem, who it’s for, and the why.  Andrés LinkedIn Andrés Instagram Convierte Panama Brunch Cast Music Have a topic you want covered? Have any further questions for the guest? Want to chat more? SHOOT US A TEXT!! Thanks for listening Host: Jack Moran Powered by: DreamSpear Want to connect with like-minded entrepreneurs and growth-minded leaders? Join our Dreamspear community on Skool at skool.com/dreamspear or learn more at dreamspear.com. Whether you're building a business, leveling up your mindset, or looking for real conversations, we're here to grow with you. Follow Shakin' Hands Podcast Website Instagram YouTube Dreamspear Website Instagram SEE YOU NEXT WEEK!

    33 min
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Welcome to 'Shakin' Hands,' the podcast where entrepreneurship meets fascinating stories from the most intriguing minds today. From proven business practices to groundbreaking ideas that challenge the status quo, Shakin' Hands' is not just about the handshake that seals a deal but about the shared experiences and values that unite us all. Whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur, a seasoned business owner, or someone who loves a good story about overcoming odds, Shakin' Hands' promises to deliver compelling content that shakes up the conventional and celebrates the extraordinary.Tune in to Shakin' Hands' where leaders, thinkers, and doers come to share, inspire, and, most importantly, connect. Let's shake hands with the world, one story at a time. Host: Jack MoranPowered by DreamSpear

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  • Creator
    Jack Moran
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2025
  • Episodes
    83
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2025 Shakin' Hands
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    Shakin' Hands