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Mike Starr: How can college students make their ongoing journey of being better automatic? Featured
Mike Starr managed a successful $100 million dollar a year manufacturing business. He is an avid adventurer who climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro & canoed 54 days from Pittsburgh to New Orleans. He is an executive life coach, former nuclear trained submarine officer, & seasoned problem solver. Mike empowered dozens of business improvement teams with “one simple question” to clearly identify obstacles & implement lasting solutions. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a B.S. in E.E. He is active in the NAMI & Al-Anon communities & has been married for 44 years; he lives in Conway, AR. In episode 445 of the Fraternity Foodie Podcast, we find out why he and a friend canoed 1850 miles from Pittsburgh to New Orleans, what it was like to go on a hitchhiking Odyssey for 5 months, how his time in the Navy impacted his life, why the foundation for success lies with conviction with our values, how organizations can do what we say we will do, why language is so important, what is “betterism” as described in his book “Journey into Peace”, and how college students can design habits and routines to be better automatically. Enjoy! Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3f10b17K8
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Mike Hassell: What’s the best way to manage conflict in fraternity or sorority chapters? Featured
Mike Hassell is educated formally as an engineer (Georgia Tech BEE), humanist (Vanderbilt Master Liberal Arts & Sciences), and executive (Harvard MBA), Mike Hassell is a Renaissance man and a brother of FIJI, reflecting on the fruits from 50 years of curiosity and various pursuits in science, history, psychology, and philosophy. Mike co-founded and managed Knowledge Products, an audio publisher (1985-1998) of 140+ titles on the great ideas of history. During the next 20 years as a senior executive in startup/early businesses, Mike’s main hobby was reading widely in non-fiction – accumulating yet more ideas and resources to fold into the book called Deep Tradeoffs. Deep Tradeoffs packs in 315 quotes, from Aristotle to Stevie Wonder, in 200 pages. By thematically connecting these chunks of wisdom in a thoughtful, probing, conversational overview, Mike illuminates eternally conflicting values and truths. He shows how they’ve been conflicting for millennia — and underlie today’s raging culture wars. In episode 444 of the Fraternity Foodie Podcast, we find out why Mike chose Georgia Tech, why he decided to join FIJI, how he knows which business ideas are good ones that are worth funding, what made him want to write the book “Deep Tradeoffs: Finding....
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Dr. Shaan Patel: How did Shark Tank and Mark Cuban help to propel your business? Featured
In high school, Shaan Patel was like most kids. He was a good student who got As and Bs. However, he was a poor standardized test-taker. Shaan had a lot of test anxiety, had no idea how to prepare for standardized exams, and received only an average score on his first SAT.After spending hundreds of hours studying for the SAT in high school, Shaan raised his SAT score 640 points from average to perfect. Only 0.02% of all high school students achieve a perfect SAT score. Shaan’s perfect SAT score completely changed his life! He received admission to top universities and over $500,000 in college scholarships. Now, Dr. Shaan Patel has created Prep Expert to help high school students achieve their own dreams. Prep Expert has helped more than 100,000 students improve their SAT and ACT scores, get into top colleges, and win over $100 million in scholarships. Prep Expert offers online SAT and ACT courses, academic tutoring, and college admissions consulting. Dr. Shaan Patel completed his Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree at the University of Southern California, Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Yale University, Medical Degree (MD) at the University of Southern California, and dermatology residency at Temple....
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Mike Vasquez: How are we going to finally solve the opioid crisis? Featured
Mike Vasquez’ own mother was a victim of the opioid crisis in 1961 and struggled with addiction for the rest of her life. Mike started a business that helped thousands of opioid-addicted patients successfully detox. Mike also: – Filed the first prevention patent in the opioid crisis – Has been named to the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Hall of Fame – Received the National US Chamber of Commerce Blue Chip Enterprise Award – Developed the first electronic medical record system with AI to go public on the NASDAQ – Has been endorsed by a former US “Drug Czar” and former DEA Head, he has saved large, self-insured employers millions of dollars a year in healthcare costs and liabilities and saved lives in the process. In episode 442 of the Fraternity Foodie Podcast, we find out what made him want to join Kappa Sigma at the University of Iowa, why he transferred to Drake University, what it was like to go public on NASDAQ, how college students can take a more active role in alcohol/drug abuse prevention, what made him and his wife build opioid detox programs, how artificial intelligence (AI) is a promising and transformative tool for....