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EDGE with Brandon White
by Brandon White
The EDGE brings you conversations worth listening that expand your ideas, knowledge and know how. Previous guests include successful entrepreneurs, peak performers, authors, Emmy Award winners, scientists, explorers, Navy SEALS, fighter jet pilots, venture capitalists, angel investors, professional athletes, artists, and other seemingly ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Listen in to expand your landscape of understanding and gain an edge to win in your business and your life. Your host, Brandon White, is an entrepreneur with two exits (so far), lots of strikeouts, Amazon best selling author, former venture capitalist, angel investors, early Internet entrepreneur building one of the largest social networking and e-commerce sites of the time and working in Management at AOL.
Episodes
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An Operator's Guide: FM 01-47, A Field Manual for Men with Lee V Busby
Retired U.S. Army Special Operations veteran Lee V. Busby joins the show to talk about his new book An Operator's Guide: FM01-47, A Field Manual for Men Links from the show Built to Operate https://built2operate.org An Operator's Guide: FM01-47, A Field Manual for Men Book https://amzn.to/3TzGJKp...
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Building Piedmont Pennies - The Most Amazing Cheese Snacks with Becca Jordan Wright Founder of Piedmont Pennies
About Becca Jordan Wright Becca is the Founder and Owner of Piedmont Pennies, North Carolina's handcrafted cheese snack. Born and raised in North Carolina, with a corporate background in Management Consulting and Big Tech, Becca's love for hospitality and food was finally realized when she…
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0 to $2 million in 2 Years with Elina Panteleyeva, Founder of Dood Woof
Elina gives her playbook how she built Dood Woof from zero to $2 million in revenue in just 2 years. Completely bootstrapped and with no prior knowledge how to build a consumer product much less any product in the pet market. About Elina Panteleyeva Elina is the founder of Dood Woof, a…
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Scaling Ideas to Millions: An Unconventional Journey That Transformed Online Dating, Pet Adoption, and Led to Major Exits with Darrell Lerner
Darrell Lerner and Brandon dive into the world of entrepreneurship, sharing insights from their journeys in the tech industry. From the early days of internet startups to the challenges of scaling businesses, they discuss pivotal moments, including Darrell's experiences with Snap Interactive and...
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Getting Noticed in a Noisy World with Jim James
In this episode we explore the importance of timing, simplicity, and passion in crossing the chasm from early adopters to mass market adoption for any company or product. We also talk about personal branding and storytelling in business success. Takeaways The importance of timing in market…
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Unstoppable Mindset with Alden Mills
Alden and Brandon talk about Alden's new book and how to have an stoppable mindset. Links from the episode Unstoppable Mindset by Alden Mills Book About Alden Mills With more than 40 years of experience failing and succeeding in a vast array of different environments from sports, military, and...
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Venture Capital with Manish Patel
Manish shares his journey from growing up in rural Kentucky to working at Google to becoming a successful venture capitalist in Silicon Valley. Manish shares his lessons learned from his time at Google and how they shaped his approach to venture capital. About Manish Patel Manish is a Silicon...
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Selling Pickles with Chase Coleman of SuckerPunch
Pickles. They're crunchy, tangy, and a staple in sandwiches, burgers, and snack plates worldwide. An pickling originated thousands of years ago, with evidence of cucumbers being pickled in the Tigris Valley as far back as 2030 BC, primarily as a method of food preservation. Throughout history,...
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How I Built Headliner into the Most Popular Podcast Promotion Platform with Founder Oliver Wellington
Headliner, has helped over 1 million podcasters promote their podcast. He loves taking things from zero to one and beyond and Oliver shares his journey how he did it with Headliner Episode Links Headliner About Oliver Wellington Oliver loves bringing new products and ideas into the world, and...
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First Principle Thinking - How to use it to master problem solving
Use first principles thinking to master your problem solving. Once you understand the framework you'll be able to solve just about any problem you face in business or in your life. CONNECT WITH US Get Your Weekly EDGE Newsletter. It's FREE. Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF) Brandon writes a weekly…
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How I'm Building Confetti Snacks into the Top Selling Natural Snacks Company with Founder Betty Lu
Betty Lu, Founder of Confetti Snacks, shares how she's building the top selling natural snacks company. From raising venture capital to getting into national chains like Walmart. CONNECT WITH US Get Your Weekly EDGE Newsletter. It's FREE. Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF) Brandon writes a weekly email...
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How to Use the Seinfeld Strategy to Build Lasting Habits to Boost Your Productivity
Jerry Seinfeld used this strategy to develop the daily habit of writing jokes. Learn this simple productivity technique and build lasting daily habits that will boost your confidence, energy and productivity. Links from the Episode The Productivity Podcast Follow Productivity on Apple Podcasts...
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How to Raise Venture Capital with Jason Caplain Co-Founder and General Partner of Bull City Venture Partners
Jason talks how to raise venture capital and lessons learned from portfolio companies at Bull City Venture Partners. Jason Caplain Jason is a General Partner and Co-Founder of Bull City Venture Partners and has been a venture capitalist for over two decades. Prior to co-founding BCVP, Jason...
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The Fishing Rod Business with Ron Buffington Co-Founder and CEO of JLS Rods
Learn about the fishing rod business and what makes a great light tackle saltwater fishing rod. About Ron Buffington and JLS Rods Ron is a light tackle charter guide and CEO and Founder of JLS Rods. JLS Rods started as a custom rod company and while they still offer custom rods they have now…
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Zero to 1: Step by Step Formula to Turn Your Idea into a Company with Thomas Lundgard Co-Founder of Midday Superfoods
Thomas dropped into our studio and gives the step-by-step on how he and his co-founder took Midday Superfoods from Zero to One and thousands of customers. About Thomas Lundgard Thomas Lundgard grew up in Half Moon Bay, California, where he began surfing at age 15 at the legendary local surf spot...
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How to Grow Your Network by Hosting a Cocktail Party with Nick Gray Author of the 2-Hour Cocktail Party
Learn how to build big relationships by hosting small cocktail parties. ABOUT NICK GRAY Nick Gray is an entrepreneur and best-selling author living in Austin, Texas. He started and sold two successful companies: Flight Display Systems and Museum Hack. Nick is the author of The 2-Hour Cocktail...
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Raising Money for Your Startup with Ali Jamal of First Check Ventures
Ali talks about what he and other early stage investors look for in companies who are raising money for their early stage companies. ABOUT ALI JAMAL Ali Jamal is a Venture Investor, Product Leader, Growth Expert, Data Scientist, and Corporate Strategist. He is the Founder of First Check Ventures…
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San Francisco's Urban Trails with Urban Hiker SF's Owner Alexandra Kenin
Learn how Alexandra got into urban hiking, started a company, wrote two books on urban hiking and some cool things to see on San Francisco's urban trails. ABOUT ALEXANDRA KENIN Alexandra is a Studio Chief at Wordsmithie, Inc., a content and design agency that serves clients in the tech, finance,...
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Using Poker Strategy as a Framework for Winning at Life, Investing and Decision Making with Professional High Stakes Poker Player Alec Torelli
Poker strategy isn't just for winning the World Series of Poker, a back room high stakes poker game in Macau, or a big online poker tournament. The game of poker mimics life in the sense that it forces you to make decisions without having complete information. After playing millions of hands over...
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Raising Pre-Seed and Seed Round Funding From Investors with Martin Tobias Founder and Managing Partner of Incisive Ventures
Learn about raising money for your startup, how to raise money for your Pre-Seed and Seed round from investors and a story about how Martin lost $500m and STILL won. ABOUT MARTIN TOBIAS Martin Tobias is the Managing Partner and Founder of Incisive Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm...
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Authenticity and Enthusiasm: Why Anyone Can Use Them to Do Hard Things Including Building a School from Scratch with Jim Eagen Head of Synapse School in Menlo Park, CA
Jim visited our studio to talk about how he, his team and the Synapse School community built a school from the ground up with an innovate approach to education. The best way to describe what Synapse is doing is educating Change Makers by focusing keenly on Social-Emotional Learning, innovation…
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The Thing You Need to Know About Hard Things
Life may knock you down. Correction, life will knock you down from time to time. It will kick you in the gut, kick you to the curb, leave you behind. BUT, you can break through these hard times. In this episode you learn how you can overcome hard times, build resilience and how you can prepare...
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How to Get Someone to Do What You Want Them to Do
You get the framework to use to get someone or a group of people to do what you want. It's not as hard as you think. You get the framework and 3 examples of how people implemented it to get people to do what they wanted. Short episode, valuable lesson. This is a Weekend Edition: Lessons worth...
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How to Build a Personal Holding Company with Yong-Soo Chung Founder of First Class Founders
Building a personal holding company is as old as Warren Buffet and as new as AI these days. Yong-Soo shares how he grew his personal holding company to $20 million in revenue in 8 years and how you can do it too. LINKS First Class Founders https://firstclassfounder.com ABOUT YONG-SOO CHUNG…
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Million Dollar Lesson on the Weekend Edition
A million dollar that you want to learn so you too can make a million dollars. Short episode, valuable lesson. This is a Weekend Edition: Lessons worth listening. The episode is from one of my weekly email newsletters. Subscribe below. It's free. CONNECT WITH US Get Your Weekly EDGE Newsletter....
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The JFK Assassination with US Army Special Operations Veteran John Kuhn
New evidence of a second bullet changes the story of the John F. Kennedy assassination. We discuss the significance. About the Conversation In John Kuhn's 20 year career in Army Special Operations he has personally been on the front lines of world events and has been required to know history and...
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Weekend Edition: The T-Shirt Gun Lesson
You know the t-shirt guns that they use to shoot t-shirts at halftime? Well, this is a lesson I learned from about killing myself in the t-shirt gun frenzy. Short episode, valuable lesson. This is a Weekend Edition: Lessons worth listening. The episode is from my email newsletter sent on July 16,...
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How I Built Shmashz'd Burger Pop Up Restaurant from My Back Yard to the San Francisco Bay Area Sensation with Founder Gill Sesma
The story of one of the best hamburgers in the San Francisco Bay Area. ABOUT GILL SEMA Gill Sesma is the owner of SHMASH’D LLC. A mobile food company that pops up all around the bay area making smash burgers. Gill started SHMASH’D in August 2021, by mid 2022 he said goodbye to his construction…
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LA Police Officer to Real Estate Investor with Byran Segal from HDTV's Chi Town Flip
Bryan shares his story how he went from a South Central Los Angles Police Officer to real estate investor. This episode was originally recorded in 2019 and was never published for some reason. We're publishing it now. Enjoy! ABOUT BRYAN SEGAL Bryan made a name for himself when we quit the LAPD,...
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The Correct Etiquette for Modern Times with Kristi Spencer Founder of The Polite Company
Learn what etiquette you should be using in different situations in the times we live in. CONNECT WITH US Get Your Weekly EDGE Newsletter. It's FREE. Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF) Brandon writes a weekly email newsletter called EDGE that over 22,000 people rely on for an edge to achieve their best...
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Life Lesson I Learned from Playing Soccer with Pelé That Will Help You
A life lesson I learned from playing Soccer with Pelé that will help you win in your business and in your life. This is a Weekend Edition: Lessons worth listening. The episode is from my email newsletter sent on Jan 7, 2023. Subscribe below for free. CONNECT WITH US Get Your Weekly EDGE…
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How to Recover From Injuries and Play Forever with World Renowned Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. Kevin Stone
Injuries don't mean you need to hang up your physical fitness activities forever. No matter your age you can recover. Dr. Kevin Stone talks about how to you can recover from knee injuries, ankle injuries, should injuries and the newest break throughs in modern science that will help you play...
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Best Investment Advice I Ever Got That Has Made Me a Lot of Money
Brandon shares the best investment advice he ever received that is backed up by investment research firms and the stock market performance. It changed his stock market investing and has resulted in great investment returns. It will help you! This is a Weekend Edition: Lessons worth listening....
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Healing Love and Childhood Traumas for Healthy Relationships with Riana Milne
We talk about how to heal childhood traumas and love traumas so you can have healthy relationships and live your best life filled with love, happiness and fulfillment. The scars from our past effect us more than we realize. Often times creating a recurring themes in the failed relationships in…
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Life of a Professional Chess Player with Daniela De la Parra
Daniela shares her story about how she became a professional chess player. We discuss the psychological games that go on while playing chess, how ego and greed can lead to mistakes and the importance of paying attention to the details. All of which translates over to our daily lives. A…
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Tea Leaf Reading, Smoke Reading, Tarot Cards and Reading the Universe’s Energy with Seer Rissa Miller
Learn about the practice of divination, including tea leaf reading, fortune telling, and card reading. We explore the concept of energy and coincidences, and how witchcraft has been used as a tool of control throughout history. Risa explains that it is not witchcraft, but rather a form of therapy...
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Professional Downhill Mountain Bike Champion Turned Successful Entrepreneur with Rob Fraser CEO of Outway Performance Socks
Rob is a former 5-time Canadian National Team cyclist turned successful entrepreneur. Get the lessons he learned from racing downhill at 50mph and the world of being a professional athlete to the $1,000 he invested from his student loans and bootstrapping Outway to over $10M in sales before…
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Live Your Heart’s Truth with Poet Emma Evelyn Campbell
Learn about the magic of trusting yourself, the power of self-inquiry and how to use it to create a life of true peace. About Emma Evelyn Campbell Emma Evelyn Campbell is an Poet, Podcaster, Thought Partner and Mentor. She serves others through multiple mediums, and creates the space for them to...
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The Healing Magic of Horses with Equine Therapist Alison McGabe
The healing magic of horses is known by people who have horses and is science backed. Alison talks about her client therapy work with horses, how it works, the science and some of the results. About Alison McGabe Alison McCabe has worked with teens, families, couples, and individuals with a focus...
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Fly Fishing with Fly Fishing Hall of Famer Dan Blanton
Dan and Brandon talk saltwater fly fishing, how Dan got started, to his days writing for the most popular fishing publications, to the origins of his Whistler Fly, to fly fishing around the world. Fly anglers and non-fly anglers will love this episode. SHOW LINKS Dan Blanton…
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US Army Special Operations to Hunting Human Traffickers with Jeff Tiegs CEO of Skull Games
Jeff is a retired Delta Force operator and founder of Skull Games. He discusses his military career, modern-day slavery in America, how they hunt down human traffickers and how Skull Games, a platform that allows veterans to continue their passion for hunting in a safe and legal way, came to be....
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An Innovative Approach to STEM Education in the United States: From High-Tech Invention Labs to Real-World Projects with Nikil Ragav Founder of Invent XYZ
Nikil won the the President's Innovation Prize in 2020 for Invent XYZ and what they are doing for high school kids to accelerate STEM education. Nikil talks about the importance of preparing students for the jobs that don't exist yet and how technology is changing every industry. They also…
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Unlocking Your Potential and Finding Your Own Song with New York Times Best Selling Author Joe Mechlinski CEO of Latch
You are the actor, director, and producer of your own story. Joe shares his playbook so you can unlock your potential and find your own song. Joe also shares the power of psychedelic therapy, his journey to healing and enlightenment and how it might be a way to unlock ideas and possibilities you...
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How to Boost Your Energy, Focus and Productivity with Micro Breaks Done Correctly
Discover the science behind taking micro breaks for optimal productivity. Learn about the benefits of incorporating micro breaks into your workday and how they help you recover and feel rejuvenated. We also discuss the impact of micro break durations and activities on employee recovery. LINKS...
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Sand Art with Sand Artist Brighton Denevan from Santa Cruz, California
Brighton came into the studio to talk about the fascinating world of sand art and why and how he creates stunning designs on the beaches in Northern Cal From using drone technology to capturing time-lapse videos to incorporating fire and biochar into their creations, we delve into all aspects of...
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Sauna Benefits
The health benefits of using the sauna regularly have long been believed by people in Finland . Many use the sauna daily as a part of their everyday life. They feel better and live happier and longer lives. Until the last decade or so the research on sauna bathing has been limited to studies with...
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Jiu Jitsu to Mastering Pay Per Click Advertising with Joe Khoei CEO of SalesX
Joe and his family fled Iran in 1983 and landed at San Francisco Airport with $700 and no idea how to speak english. Flash forward to 2023 and Joe runs a digital marketing company that works with national brands like Plow and Hearth, Harnery & Sons, The Christian Monitor and others, specializing…
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Professional Cryptocurrency Trading with Chris Kvamme of Presidio Trading
We explore the world of crypto trading, high-frequency trading and the incredible lengths traders go to gain an edge. From laying optical fiber all the way from Chicago to New York to running software on bare metal, we uncover the secrets of this opaque industry. NOTE: All opinions expressed by...
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Venture Capital Funding and Investment Terms with Nareg Essaghoolian from Decrypted Legal & Consulting
We explore the world of startup funding and venture capital. Nareg shares insights on the use of safe notes, valuation caps, and discounts in pre-seed rounds. We discuss the importance of having a product or service with positive revenue when seeking institutional investment and the challenges...
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How to Run a Great Finance and Accounting Department with CFO Sean Lamb
Having a great finance and accounting department in your business is the difference between having a good company and a great one. Sean came into the studio and did a deep dive with Brandon on what exactly it means to lead a great finance and accounting department. You'll leave with tips you can...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The EDGE brings you conversations worth listening that expand your ideas, knowledge and know how.
Previous guests include successful entrepreneurs, peak performers, authors, Emmy Award winners, scientists, explorers, Navy SEALS, fighter jet pilots, venture capitalists, angel investors, professional athletes, artists, and other seemingly ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
Listen in to expand your landscape of understanding and gain an edge to win in your business and your life.
Your host, Brandon White, is an entrepreneur with two exits (so far), lots of strikeouts, Amazon best selling author, former venture capitalist, angel investors, early Internet entrepreneur building one of the largest social networking and e-commerce sites of the time and working in Management at AOL.
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