TIKI Talk - Guests

Mar 20, 2023

Back in early 2022, our friends Alex and Liam were in town doing a few stand-up comedy shows. We had them on our podcast, we did their podcast, and from that the advent of the guest segments were born.

In the early days guests ran the gamut from musicians to artists to athletes and everything in between, usually with a few tech-relevant segments.

Now, you can expect conversations related to things like data, blockchain, Web3, SEO, digital marketing, entrepreneurial health and wellbeing, and much more, all from experts in their respective fields.

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TIKI Talk Episode 55! Web3 Customer Support with Clemens Behrend!
Listen now (52 min) | TIKI Talk Episode 55 is LIVE! Episode 55 features Clemens Behrend, founder of Web3CX and seasoned customer support and community management, having built out those departments at Austrian fintech giant Bitpanda from scratch. Equipped with invaluable experience, Clemens is now focusing his efforts on helping Web3 and crypto companies optimize customer supp…
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TIKI Talk Episode 54! SEO and Digital Marketing with David Forman!
Listen now (52 min) | TIKI Talk Episode 54 is LIVE! Episode 54 features David Forman of Orlando’s Clarity Creative! David has been coding most of his life, even as a middle schooler in the pre-Google days, and started Clarity Creative, a digital marketing agency, as a nights-and-weekends side-project that over time grew into his full time gig…
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TIKI Talk Ep. 50! Web3 Author and Publisher Malene Bendtsen!
Listen now (57 min) | 50 episodes! A major milestone, I think. Maybe. I did a mini fist pump to celebrate. Full fist pump for 100. Anyway, Episode 50 features “publishing rebel,” Web3 enthusiast, editor and author of NextGen Author, Malene Bendtsen! Malene has had an affinity for books and reading ever since she was a young girl, but gravitated more toward the business world f…
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TIKI Talk Episode 48! The ACL Therapist Keagen Hadley!
Listen now (51 min) | TIKI Talk Episode 48 features doctor of occupational therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) specialist, and author Keagen Hadley! A former college and semi-professional football player, Keagen suffered two major ACL injuries (one to each knee) that left him exposed to a life without football which turned out to have more psychological repercuss…
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TIKI Talk Episode 47! Marketing and Brand Strategy Guru Stephanie Riel!
Listen now (52 min) | TIKI Talk Episode 47 features brand strategist, marketing consultant, and founder of RielDeal Brands, Stephanie Riel! Stephanie began her entrepreneurship at age 22 and has been grinding ever since, gradually increasing her skills in brand strategy and marketing from side-hustle contract work to launching the successful…
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TIKI Talk Episode 46! Julian Hayes II Says 100 is the New 40!
Listen now (71 min) | TIKI Talk Episode 46 features author, executive health & performance advisor, atelier, and the founder of Executive Health, Julian Hayes II! After a long string of Zoom podcasts, it just so happened that Julian is a longtime Nashville native and was able to show up live at Pineapple Studio to record with us…
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TIKI Talk Episode 44! Edwin Carrion and "No Dream Left Behind"!
Listen now (57 min) | TIKI Talk Episode 44 features successful entrepreneur and family man, Edwin Carrion! Edwin migrated to the United States at age 12 after growing up in a humble single-mother home in Ecuador. Coming to the United States, he was exposed to abundance that he had never seen before and soon gravitated toward becoming rich and fulfilled…
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TIKI Talk Episode 43! Jesús Ramirez! 2 Million Subscribers!
Listen now (51 min) | TIKI Talk Episode 43 features graphic artist and YouTube creator Jesús Ramirez! Over the past 10 years Jesús has amassed an impressive 2 million (well, technically 1.91 million, but we’ll round up for you!) subscribers on his YouTube channel, Photoshop Training Channel…
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TIKI Talk Ep. 42! Emmy Winner Vinnie Potestivo!
Listen now (54 min) | TIKI Talk Episode 42 is here, and Vinnie P is in the house! Vinnie Potestivo, an Emmy award winner, played a pivotal role of developing some of the biggest MTV hits in the late 90s and 00s. Tasked with identifying talent and helping them achieve their goals, Vinnie has an impressive resumé that includes work on…
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TIKI Talk Ep. 40! Pete Zaborszky of Retalk!
Listen now (52 min) | TIKI Talk Episode #40 is LIVE! Yes, that’s right, we’re double-dipping on this wonderful winter afternoon. In this episode, Shane is joined by Pete Zaborszky, a serial entrepreneur and free speech advocate who has been innovating and building for two decades…
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TIKI Talk Ep. 31! Soula Parassidis from Living Opera!
Listen now (113 min) | TIKI Talk Episode 31 features opera singer and entrepreneur Soula Parassidis, CEO of Living Opera! Hailing from Vancouver, Canada, Soula has appeared at many of the world’s major opera and concert venues across three continents during her career as a professional singer. Her experiences, coupled with those of her husband Norman Reinhardt (also an opera s…
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TIKI Talk Ep. 30! Kathryn Rickmeyer of TennBeat!
Listen now (68 min) | TIKI Talk Episode 30 (time flies, huh?) features one of TIKI’s best Nashville friends and advocate, Kathryn Rickmeyer! Kathryn is a journalist who started her own publication TennBEAT and also works full-time for the Greater Nashville Tech Council. Kathryn was the first person to break the…
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TIKI Talk Ep. 29! Kindred Spirits Podcast!
Listen now (94 min) | TIKI Talk Episode 29 features Mike and Clay Cothron & Chad Davis from the Kindred Spirits Podcast! Join Mike, Clay and Chad as they discuss Mike’s time in Hong Kong, Chad and Clay’s background and history prior to Kindred Spirits, the role of cost analysis, NASCAR dreams, TIKI’s role in reshaping the economics of the internet, and how you could voluntari…
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TIKI Talk Ep. 27! Warren Steury Returns!
Listen now (111 min) | In episode 27, friend of TIKI Warren Steury returns to Pineapple Studio! Warren is a creative designer at Nashville’s Media Farm, founder of the Tri-Pillar Project, as well as an author and traveler of both time and space. In his first episode back in May, Warren and Shane talked for a solid 3+ hours. This one is slightly shorter, clocking in at a tad und…
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TIKI Talk Ep. 26! Rikesh Govan!
Listen now (91 min) | TIKI Talk Episode 26 features Los Angeles-based anesthesiologist and TIKI investor/superfan Rikesh Govan! This is a very informative podcast from someone who didn’t understand TIKI at first, but warmed up to the idea and is now one of our biggest advocates…
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TIKI Talk Ep. 22! Trinity Wiles!
Listen now (63 min) | TIKI Talk Episode numero 22 has dropped and in this edition Shane is joined by Trinity Wiles! A lifelong self-starter, Trinity is deeply passionate about building products and the journey from idea to working concept to market. Trinity works product and operations for AI-based start-up…
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TIKI Talk Ep. 20! CJ Sapong from Nashville SC!
Listen now (79 min) | It’s been quite a journey so far, and we’re stoked to have arrived at our 20th TIKI TALK PODCAST! 🎉 In actuality, it’s more like 23, but some podcasts have not (and likely will not) seen the light of day. Regardless, TIKI Talk Episode 20 is a special one, as we are graciously joined by the multi-talented…
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TIKI Talk Ep. 19! Classic Reinvention!
Listen now (46 min) | Classic Reinvention, the “face and hair” of Wefunder, is an artist, story-teller, boundary-pusher, entertainer, businessman, and much, much more. Classic drops by the TIKI Studio to talk about the intersection between entertainment and business and how his creative pursuits and “inquisitive outsider” personality has allowed for him to break barriers and …
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TIKI Talk Ep. 18! Clayton Severson!
Listen now (62 min) | Guests segments return on the TIKI Talk podcast, and on Episode 18 Shane is joined by Iowa-born and Nashville-local Clayton Severson. Clayton works a sales job remotely for San Francisco-based Databricks, but when we dig in we find a baler of hay, singer of songs…
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TIKI Talk Ep. 15! N. Warren Steury! 3 Hours!
Listen now (172 min) | Episode 15 is a big one. Joining us for this marathon is N. Warren Steury. Nicholas Warren Steury is a diversified organizer & creator throughout a number of fields. He is the founder of Quality Car Buyers which is an automotive service that takes the hassle out of selling a used car, founder of The Acacia Society, which gathers like-minded individuals …
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TIKI Talk Ep. 14 - Painter and NFT Artist / Tech Recruiter Carly Long!
Listen now (53 min) | New episode, new stories! Carly Long is a painter and an NFT artist living in Virginia. She is also a tech recruiter for Nashville-based WELD Recruiting. While Carly herself claims she “downplays her art,” I have no problem hyping her up. Her paintings are…
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TIKI Talk Ep. 13! Bonnie D. Graham! Early Women in Tech!
Listen now (57 min) | In our latest edition of the TIKI Talk podcast, we are joined by the wonderful and multi-talented Bonnie D. Graham. Bonnie D. Graham akaRadioRed is the creator / producer / host / writer of 50 enterprise thought leadership roundtable radio and podcast series since 2011 that broadcast on the VoiceAmerica.com Business Channel…
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TIKI Talk Ep. 12 - Nashville Musician Molly Martin!
Listen now (99 min) | A couple of weeks ago, I had one of my good friends visiting Nashville from Philadelphia. On a whim, I bought us tickets to go to a concert, and Molly Martin was the opening act. Her stage presence, sincerity in her work, and her obvious appreciation for the moment really resonated with me, and I asked her if she’d like to come do a podcast with us and s…
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TIKI Talk Ep. 10 3/23/22
Listen now (42 min) | Another podcast, another special guest! Patrick Braswell from SquareFoot drops in to chat about TIKI, baseball, and, most prominently, the importance of having physical office space in a post-COVID (can I say that yet? I’m gonna say it) world. Patrick helped us find and commit to our spot in Midtown Nashville and is trying to help other businesses find s…
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TIKI Talk Ep. 8 2/23/22
Listen now (55 min) | TIKI Talk Episode 8 is live, and it’s a new type of podcast. And by that we mean it’s a special edition of TIKI Talk, and by that we mean we have guests Alex Giampapa and Liam McGurk from The Actual News join us for a collaborate podcast. Alex and Liam are Shane’s friends from Boston who run a comedy news podcast and have experienced some issues with cens…
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