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Brewed From Within

Brewed From Within

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100 Timeless Episodes

You Don't Need This Book: Entrepreneurship In The Connected Era

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Entrepreneurship in the Connected Era

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Roasted Reflections

Roasted Reflections

160+ Weekly Writings

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Ben McDougal evolves ideas into reality and accelerates others through the art of connection. You can read the full story, but this visualization highlights how Ben spends time within a diversified career portfolio.

In addition to work that feels like play, Ben says yes to adventure. He is an optimistic polymath who enjoys making nice things look nice, perceptual learning, golfing, EDM, caffeinated conversations without agenda, and spending treasured time with his wife and daughter.

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EP6 🎙️🎞️ Computer Vision(ary)

FEATURED GUEST: Brad Dwyer

Brad Dwyer is a nerd you need to know. His expressions are thoughtful and world changing. Whether it’s computer vision, multimodality, augment reality, machine learning, AI, game development, Y Combinator, or raising $20M to support the growing team at Roboflow, this technologist leads the way and our episode of #YDNTP brews insight you won’t hear every day.

Connectors Become Connected

Expand Your Engaged Network

As we go beyond our immediate self-interest, it becomes clear that the only way forward is together. One of the best ways to unlock your engaged network is by introducing people to each other. This triangulates you into more relationships. The more people you connect, the more connected you become.

EP10 🎙️🎞️ Behind The Action

FEATURED GUEST: Brandon T. Adams

Brandon T. Adams is also an author, investor, speaker, and advisor who uses his experience to accelerate fellow founders. Join us for this VIP conversation on how to earn your way onto cap tables, the value of masterminds, and what to do when you’re with Kevin Harrington and your private jet lands in the wrong country!

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Featured Guest: Andre Wright

Andre Wright is a father, designer, visionary, activist, and community builder. Whether it’s Wright House, Humanize My Hoodie, or having dinner with Banksy, Andre has dedicated his life to the underrepresented. Listen as we jam on the hope for our youth, telling the story of a project to expand trust, and uniting a movement.

The Idea Machine

Train your brain

Pocket-sized notebook for the moment each new idea pops. Every day, write down five ideas and see how long you can maintain this daily activity. After only a few days, you'll feel your own the idea machine, supported by a personal ideabook.

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Let’s keep building...together

Roasted Reflections is a library I’ll be proud of forever. This is the finishing touch and stay tuned, as a fresh format (new book!) to celebrate this collection of 150+ writings is coming soon.

EP9 🎙️ Nancy Mwirotsi

FEATURED GUEST: Nancy Mwirotsi

Nancy Mwirotsi is a wayfinder who inspires the future of work by empowering students with real skills. We talk about activating leaders through education, technology, and entrepreneurship.

EP100 🎙️🎞️ Season 2 Finale

FEATURED GUEST: Brad Feld

This extended episode features a timeless discussion (with video unlocked) between Brad Feld and Ben McDougal, recorded in the wild, LIVE from the mountains of Boulder, Colorado!

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Friendly Jolts

With endless value for students, entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, and community builders, here are a few hand-selected relics to help you dive in. Cheers!

What is School For?

Russ Goerend is a bold and generous leader who designs community-driven experiences for high school students exploring what’s next within the Waukee APEX work-based learning program. This is a powerful episode for educators, students, and Read more

Producing a Podcast

When are ya gonna start that podcast? We all have stories to tell and wisdom to share. Translating the key knobs that are turned when creating content, writing a book, recording an audiobook, minting an Read more

Phygital

Phygital is a nerdy good term. The combination of physical and digital is something humanity has been experimenting with for centuries. The history of electronic engineering is straight inventive and the conversational AI powering our Read more

Serendipitist

Do things always seem to work out for you? Our internal narratives and external experiences make the cultural consequences of serendipity hard to refute. Serendipity may be pseudoscientific, but it makes sense that things we Read more

Airport Foot Massage

I’m not a huge fan of scripted ice breakers, but one that caught my attention, invites people to share something that others in the group may not know about you. There are many ways to Read more

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