Podcast appearances and mentions of kara kavensky

Mike Green is a Cultural Economist, Consultant, Speaker, and the Chief Strategist at The National Institute for Inclusive Competitiveness. He is the Co-founder of Common Ground: Conversations on Race in America  He is also an author of the recently released: A playbook for improving Diversity and Inclusion in Entrepreneurship Centers and of a couple of other books on how to make the world a better place (this is not the title, I am ad-libbing here because he writes collegiate textbooks on Media Innovation and Entrepreneurship, a subject where he is a global expert. Being an expert on entrepreneurship means Mike isn't afraid of failure. In fact, Mike Green is fearless. When he was 12 years old, he didn't know how to swim so he jumped in the deep end of the pool. Prophetically, He later served in the Navy for 12 years. As a Navy recruiter, when he spoke with the young men and women he would ask them, “What do you want out of life?” The #1 answer was: I don't know. Mike realized that by helping young people figure out what they wanted to do with their lives, he discovered what he wanted to do with his: Mike Green helps others succeed. Connect with Mike Green https://www.linkedin.com/in/amikegreen2/ Twitter: @mikegreen2 Connect with Kara Kavensky karakavensky.com @karakavensky on Twitter, FB, IG  https://www.facebook.com/karakavenskywriter/ https://www.instagram.com/karakavensky/  https://twitter.com/karakavensky Music by Adam Gibson of Adam Gibson Design Mixing by The Brassy Broadcasting Company

Today's show is all about benefit luncheons and peanut butter consumption. First up, we'll be joined by a team from the Christamore House Guild to discuss the upcoming book and author benefit. Then we'll eat peanut butter with as a spoon as we welcome B. Happy Peanut Butter. All that and more, today on the EDGE! Christamore House Guild The Christamore House Guild is an organization of women who commit to supporting the Christamore House through volunteering and charitable fundraising. One of their main fundraisers the Book & Author Benefit is happening on April 20. Kara Kavensky and Dina Silver join us this week to talk about this great benefit and how being a member of the Christamore House Guild helps the community! If you are interested in purchasing tickets for the Book & Author Benefit, please visit: https://christamoreguild.org/book-and-author-benefit/ Paul Poteet on the EDGE - Ballpark Food Edition What would you give up for a 10% raise? Well, what some people would give up might surprise you...plus we have some interesting ballpark food that is new for 2018. All this and more on Paul Poteet on the EDGE. People would give up the right to vote just to get a raise at work - https://lendedu.com/blog/what-would-you-do-for-a-raise/ This App turns your smartphone into an old-school camera - https://www.cnet.com/news/gudak-cam-app-ios-photography/ Delicious and disgusting ballpark food this season - http://people.com/food/best-baseball-stadium-foods-2018/ B. Happy Peanut Butter Five years ago, Jon Weed decided to teach his kids about what it is like to run a small business and in that time, the company has taken off appearing in magazines, newspapers, and TV shows all over the world. Made in small batches in Zionsville, Indiana, B. Happy Peanut Butter is one of those small business success stories we love to feature on the show! To learn more about B. Happy Peanut Butter, visit: https://bhappy-peanut-butter.myshopify.com/

inX3 is the largest regional gathering of entrepreneurial companies. Check out this fantastic interview with conference co-founder Kara Kavensky as she talks about bringing together venture capital and investors so they can connect with scale-up and investment-ready companies here in Indiana. InX3 is combining the value of Venture Club of Indiana’s Innovation Showcase with the equally valuable TechPoint’s Winner’s Circle Event.  

Throughout your career and life, you will find yourself needing to make a few personal pivots to stay in alignment with your joy. Even when you think you have it all figured out, misalignments happen and you can either stay in it and be unfulfilled, or you can take action to make the needed changes. In this episode, I talk with writer/storyteller/tech maven, Kara Kavensky,   who shares 4 key steps to managing through your personal pivot process and finding a way to reclaim your joy.  To connect with Kara, check out her website www.karakavensky.com 

Amplify Indy is an organization that was started by Harrison Painter three months ago and with this organization, he is promoting and "amplifying" awesome people/brands/causes who are doing great things in the Indianapolis community. One of those causes he is helping to promote is the Hope Center. On August 17th they are holding "Amplify Hope" at Collaborate 317 from 6-8 p.m. The Hope Center is an organization that provides education, food, shelter, and mental health services to women who have been rescued from the sex trafficking and they are raising money to open the largest rescue center in the country, right here in Indianapolis. They are funded by different church organizations, business, and volunteer donations. Here are some facts about human trafficking: - Every year, 300,000+ children under the age of 18 are captured and forced into human trafficking - The average child that is captured is 12 years old - A woman that has been rescued has been rape up to 6,000 times Through the Amplify Hope event, they are looking to raise $20,000 for the center to help them get the final funds they need to open their shelter. Amplify Hope is also looking for sponsors of the event and they are challenging 20 businesses in the Indy area to donate $1,000 to help them raise their goal. If you are wanting to learn more about the event, please visit their website: http://amplifyindy.com/event/amplify-hope-a-benefit-for-hope-center-indy/ If you are a business and you want to sponsor the event, please call Harrison Painter at 317-871-1000 or email him at harrison@amplifyindy.com And if you want to learn more about the Hope Center, please visit their website: https://hopecenterindy.com/ -- Paul Poteet joins us again for another episode of "Paul Poteet on the Edge" and he really brought some wacky stories this week - Including a jail escape with peanut butter, turning human ashes into diamonds, and a new calf that looks like Gene Simmons! Here are the stories we talk about this week:  http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/07/peanut_butter_used_to_trick_yo.html http://www.businessinsider.com/turn-human-ashes-diamonds-carbon-algordanza-2017-7 http://www.cbsnews.com/news/gene-simmons-newborn-calf-texas-kiss-rocker-face-paint/ -- Lisa Mitchell and Kara Kavensky join us on the show this week to talk about women entrepreneurship here in Indianapolis. Both Lisa and Kara are successful entrepreneurs here in Indianapolis and we ask them about what are some of the hurdles they have had to jump over when starting companies here in the Circle City. Plus we talk with them about who they think are some of the great local women entrepreneurs here in Indianapolis and find out what their biggest failure has been in running their own organizations. To learn more about Lisa Mitchell and her company, visit her website: http://powerbodylanguage.com/ To keep up to date about Kara Kavensky and next year's inX3 conference, visit the website: http://inx3.org/

We are one week away from Indianapolis's newest tech conference, so we wanted to have Kara Kavensky on the show again to discuss more of the details of the inaugural year of inx3. Plus, she brought along a couple others who you will see at inx3. Brian McGinnis, a partner at Barnes & Thornburg, was one of the first sponsors of the event and has helped Kara with the planning and strategy of the conference. Also on the show is Thor Wood, Founder/CEO of Snapshyft, who will be one of the companies participating in the pitch competition of the show. There is still time to get your tickets, please use code "WeAreIn" to get 30% off of your ticket! -- For the second segment, we welcome Ashley Miser, Community & Events Manager at IndyHub, and Lesley Gordon, IndyHub Board of Directors, join us to talk about their upcoming event called Indyvolved. The event is held at the Central Library on Thursday, June 15 from 6-8:30 p.m. and they will have over 100 non-profit, community, and young professional organizations for you to get connected and involved in the city!