Podcast appearances and mentions of ace callwood

The “I Smell A Rat” Podcast shines a light on the undercurrent of the human experience from all angles and through the lens of race, gender and a myriad of different perspectives. Each topic is approached with the intention of not only unearthing the core of the matter but also analyzing its overall impact.In this episode, Carmen Smith talks to Ace Callwood about race, microaggressions, and other political incorrectness within Corporate Travel.  Ace Callwood is an anomaly. He is a facilitator working globally to help executive leadership teams have important conversations and make better decisions. He is an unapologetic champion of  Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I).You can subscribe to this podcast by searching 'BusinessTravel360' on Google Podcast, Apple Podcast, iHeart, Pandora, Spotify, Alexa or your favorite podcast player.This podcast was created by Carmen Smith and was edited and distributed by BusinessTravel360. Support the show

Entrepreneur, facilitator & consultant Ace Callwood describes the downsides of being likable and shares the risk mitigation secrets that helped him convince 20 million people to listen to coffee shops sounds.For more information visit envoyportfolio.com/ace-callwood. Transcript is here.

Ace is a listener, mediator, guide, and speaker with the ability to read an audience - in person or digitally - and draw from them their toughest questions, greatest vulnerabilities, and boldest ideas. An instinctive bridge-builder, he brings intellectual openness and deploys the most sophisticated techniques to ensure parties truly hear each other and stretch their creative minds to find innovative solutions to some of the world's most intractable challenges. Ryan and Ace discuss why an elegant solution to the wrong problem is an elegant solution to the wrong problem; The Five Why's; the anatomy of a good idea; 3 unique ideation methods: brainwriting, worst idea, other people's shoes; product-side vs. human-side of solution testing; and control what you can control and influence the variables. Plus, Ace shares his biggest influences and lessons learned along the way. Get ready to laugh and be inspired. Connect with Ace: Linkedin, Website, Twitter, Message Episode Links: Envoy Principles of Improv Theater in Practice The Anatomy of a Good Idea Art Espey Cami Téllez Tommy Nicholas Justin Bullock Coffitivity Equal Sons Jam with Ace: Manchester Orchestra, Michigander, Little Simz, Miles Davis, Explosions in the Sky, John Coltrane

In our latest Leading Forward podcast episode, we talk with Ace Callwood, facilitator and director at Envoy, about finding our place in a post-pandemic world, leading with your head, heart and hands and getting reacquainted with ourselves and our colleagues. Listen to the full podcast here, and now you can watch the podcast recording here.

African American Studies professor and National Public Radio star Dr. Chioke I’Anson discusses motorcycles, breaking into voice work, podcasting while black, and the secret Hegelian lessons acorns and oak trees can tell you about your career.To learn more visit the The Media Center and Everything is Alive Podcast.Transcript is here.

Entrepreneurs Ace Callwood and Aaron Montgomery discuss black lives, confederate statues, sine waves, and hope for the future.Video of the interview is HERE.More information about Ace is HERE.More information about Aaron is HERE.Transcript is HERE.

Good morning, RVA! It’s already 73 °F! Today, you can expect another humid day with highs in the mid 90s. Relief comes maybe this weekend after a bit of rain.Water coolerRichmond Police are reporting that Jermaine R. Stroman, 30, was found shot to death on the third floor of the Rodeway Inn on the 3200 block of N. Arthur Ashe Boulevard early Tuesday morning.As of this morning, the Virginia Department of Health reports 666 new positive cases of the coronavirus in the Commonwealth and 21 new deaths as a result of the virus. VDH reports 69 new cases in and around Richmond (Chesterfield: 34, Henrico: 14, and Richmond: 21). Since this pandemic began, 195 people have died in the Richmond region. Despite those deaths, it’s hard to remember the pandemic—which is a weird sentence to write. New cases, reported deaths, hospitalizations, are all trending downward and have been for a couple of weeks. Even the percent positivity graphs for Richmond, Henrico, and Chesterfield are all, generally, going in the right direction. Who knows what impact the loosening of restrictions and huge protests will have on our region, but, for now, the numbers looks better than they have in a while.Huge news from late yesterday afternoon: Mayor Stoney and Councilmember Jones will submit an ordinance on July 1st to remove all of the City-owned Confederate monuments on Monument Avenue. Then, a hot second later, news leaked that today Governor Northam will announce plans to take down the state-owned Robert E. Lee monument. Shockingly, this morning I’m kind of at a loss for words! I’m incredibly late to the Take Down the Confederate Monuments game, having only been moved to action after a White supremacist shot and killed nine Black people in Charleston back in 2015. You can read my co-authored milquetoast thoughts from the summer of that year, which, at the time felt brave in the way a White person feels brave for thinking the tiniest thought about how the world is unfairly built and centered around them. I didn’t even call for the statues to come down! So, for the past five years I’ve learned a bunch, written a bunch about getting rid of these literal monuments to White supremacy, and (finally) joined the folks who’ve been doing the real work for the 100-plus years since the statues went up. Now, today, it sounds like there’s an actual path towards taking them down, and that’s, for me, equal parts amazing and unbelievable. OK, now that I’ve done another classic White person thing and centered myself in this conversation about racism, let’s move on to what happens next!Since the State owns the Robert E. Lee statue and the State can do whatever it wants, that one could disappear first—and maybe very, very soon. It sounds like Northam wants to pull a New Orleans and take down the equestrian statue, leave up the stone plinth, and warehouse the bronze bits while they figure out a longterm plan. That could happen, like, as soon as they find a crew with a crane. For what it’s worth, most cities that have removed monuments in this way have done so extremely quickly, at night, without a major announcement. We’ll hear more about the Governor’s plans today.As for the City-owned statues, the process is more and unnecessarily complex. For paternalistic and racist reasons, the State has and does prevent localities from taking down their Confederate monuments until July 1st of this year. Then if the governing body, City Council in Richmond’s case, wants to get rid of its monuments to White supremacy, it must host a public hearing and then can vote to “remove, relocate, contextualize, or cover” them. I’m a little unclear if Council will have to pass something before they can even hold a public hearing—which would extend the timeline. Regardless, I don’t think Council gets around to voting on this until the fall.OK, here’s Ross’s quick, informal, and uninformed City Council vote count on getting rid of Monument Avenue’s Confederate monuments: YES—Lynch, Robertson, Newbille, Jones; NO—Gray, Larson, Trammell; ON THE FENCE—Addison, Hilbert. We’ll need a fifth vote from the fence sitters or the NOs to get this done, which means folks need to contact their councilperson. If you’d like some help writing this email or thinking through some of what the arguments councilfolk will have against getting rid of the monuments, please let me know. I’d love to help. I’ll make sure to update y’all if the vote count changes.Finally, while these statues were literally erected with the intent to scare and intimidate Black people and they must go, it has been fascinating to see them become the focus point of the recent protests for police and criminal justice reform. It’s beautiful in a way. Last night, someone projected a picture of George Floyd onto the Robert E. Lee Statute, and, with the recently added context, it’s striking and powerful art.OK getting rid of racist monuments is great! Enacting systemic reforms to prevent police from killing Black people is also great! Yesterday, the Mayor also announced “a commitment to enacting a crisis alert, also know as the Marcus Alert, exploring the creation of a Citizen Review Board (CRB), and reiterated RPD’s commitment to existing policy banning the use of chokeholds.” These are all wins. I’m trying to learn more about how a Marcus Alert would work, and you are steadily working your way through both Oakland’s (PDF) and Charlottesville’s (PDF) CRB ordinances, right? As for the last thing, chokeholds, police policy seems like an easy place to make rapid changes that do a lot of good and don’t involve passing laws at the local or state level. Along those lines, yesterday, @samswey launched 8cantwait.org, a website detailing eight policies that police departments can enact that decrease police violence—backed up by data! Here’s the list: ban chokeholds & strangleholds, require de-escalation, require warning before shooting, exhaust all other means before shooting, duty to intervene, ban shooting at moving vehicles, require use of force continuum, and require comprehensive reporting. I have no idea which of these the RPD currently have on the books, but figuring that out would be a good place to start while we work towards the other, more legislatively-involved goals.VCU announced their Return to Campus plan, with the fall semester beginning on August 17th. Like UVA, they’ll end the semester before Thanksgiving with final exams conducted remotely after the holiday. While not as explicit about it as UVA, it does sound like both students and faculty should expect some mix of in-person and remote learning moving forward—and all of it subject to change as the world figures out what coronavirus looks like in the fall.Tuesday’s email from RPS Superintendent Jason Kamras included an essay from Richmond’s own National Teacher of the Year Rodney Robinson, which I think you should read.This morning’s longreadThe Burden of (Finally) Being SeenFrom local Ace Callwood, some good context for White people trying to make sense of it all.It’s exhausting to not be seen. When our communities are dying at the hands of those sworn to protect us, it’s exhausting to have to protest. A free human should never have to protest their right to live. We should not have to lobby or beg or make a plea to your emotions to be afforded freedom, a fair trial, or the commutation of an arbitrary, illegal death sentence. We should not. Yet we do, regularly. We do it on top of our jobs and responsibilities and desire to laugh and enjoy our freedoms. We shouldn’t have to fight for that. Similarly and counterintuitively, however, it’s exhausting TO be seen. To have our melanin deprived friends, colleagues, and partners reach out with some expectation that we engage. There’s always the fear that if we don’t present correctly or respond appropriately that we’ll alienate a potential ally or confidant. You can appreciate the Catch-22.If you’d like your longread to show up here, go chip in a couple bucks on the ol’ Patreon.

Alan Dow, MD, MSHA & Ace Callwood

Launching start-ups… Raising venture capital… Facilitating diversity and inclusion programs to skeptical audiences…. Teaching entrepreneurship at colleges and corporates. Ace’s world is understanding audience - whether heart-of-America manufacturing employees, aspiring students, or Manhattanite bankers - and crafting narratives that resonate and shift their opinions on a decision, a purchase, or an investment. Operating through his brand and communications firm, Equal Sons, he’s endlessly crossing worlds from communications to tech to entrepreneurship to corporate D&I. His week is a dizzying range hopping from boardroom, to classroom, to incubator lab, to the stage. Whether MC’ing conferences, moderating events, or keynoting, Ace has shared his expertise in academic settings like MIT MediaLab, the University of Virginia, and TEDxVCU; at nationally recognized conferences like Insuretech Connect and Collision Conference, and with corporates like MetLife, PwC, and CarMax. Ace writes on Medium, tweets at @acecallwood, and enjoys direct messaging in person on the rare occasion he's let out of his digital cage. - In 2014, Hamilton Perkins founded Hamilton Perkins Collection, an independent brand, designing and producing unique and award winning bags and accessories from recycled materials. Hamilton Perkins Collection exists to create timeless limited edition bags made from recycled plastic water bottles, pineapple leaf fiber, and billboard vinyl. The result is that no two bags are ever the same. Our first design, the Earth Bag Premium, was created so that our customers would not only carry a bag that was stylish but carry a bag they could be proud of. We surveyed more than 1,000 consumers to obtain their thoughts and feedback for each component of the Earth Bag Premium, which soon became one of our most popular designs. Perkins was the winner of the Virginia Velocity Tour hosted by the Governor of Virginia, and the recipient of a HUD Community Development Block Grant. The non-profit B Lab honored Hamilton Perkins Collection as a "Best for the World Overall" B Corporation in 2017. Hamilton Perkins Collection has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, Money Magazine, and The Washington Post. The brand is currently offered in nearly 100 leading department stores and specialty stores in the United States, Canada, and Europe.

Ace Callwood :: Painless 1099 :: 030 by Zack Miller

Ace Callwood is an entrepreneur. His specialty? Freelancers and taxes. In this episode he tells the ups and downs of starting his own business and how freelancers have to look out for themselves -- but it helps if you have the right tools to keep it all together. 

In this episode Innovate WNY's Nate Benson breaks down the 16 finalists of the 43North competition with 2015 winner Ace Callwood. Ace talks about what the finalists can expect and predicts his top startups to place.

Taxes are a topic no one likes to talk about. But they are something we all should be thinking about and preparing for year round. Ace Callwood, CEO of painless1099.com, joins the Fiverrcast hosts this week to share some tips and tricks for everyone to help make that tax burden sting a little less at the end of the year. Ryan - www.fiverr.com/customdrumloops Adam - www.fiverr.com/twistedweb123 Ace Callwood - @painless1099 & @acecallwood

A conversation with ACe Callwood, co-founder and CEO of Painless1099, about what drives the startup's entrepreneurial team.

Joining host Kelly Scanlon is ACe Callwood, co-founder and COO of Coffitivity. Coffitivity “streams the ambient noise of a coffee shop to your desktop or device to boost your creativity.” It was developed by Callwood and Justin Kauszler, two Virginia Commonwealth University grads who became business partners while working on their degrees in entrepreneurship. ACe and Justin have seen almost instant success with Coffitivity, one of Time magazine’s 50 best websites of 2013. The site also has won national attention from INC Magazine, Popular Science and lifehacker. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices