065 | You Can Hear, Hear Your Infectious Laugh

02/19/21 • 43 min

Frederick Van Johnson, owner, host and producer of This Week In Photo spends 40 minutes with John talking about his journey from Yahoo, through Apple and Adobe - before launching himself into the world of podcasting.

Frederick took over a small streaming MP3 file and transformed it into a media property that includes a podcast with 2,000 episodes (and counting), a youtube channel, a newsletter with tens of thousands of subscribers and a community of people all over the world that pay every month to be part of this phenomena.

You can find TWIP here

During the podcast, Frederick references a book called Pyscho Cybernetics, by Maxwell Maltz - you can find it here.

And finally, if you want to hear Frederick's podcast where he interviewed me, well that was such a great podcast that it is now behind his paywall and only accessible with a subscription. But it is there! - at least I assume that is why it is no longer on Public Domain 😂!

You can find TWIP here

During the podcast, Frederick references a book called Pyscho Cybernetics, by Maxwell Maltz - you can find it here.

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064 | We Should Stay In Touch

MR Rangaswami is a legend in his own lifetime.

Best known for founding The Sandhill Group in 1997, which was one of the earliest angel investment firms in Silicon Valley - he actually launched his Silicon Valley career in 1982 working with Tech luminaries such as Larry Ellison, Tom Siebel and Marc Benioff at Oracle before moving on to become CMO of Bahn.

I will put links into the show notes so that you can read more about MR and even contact him if you are that entrepreneur ready for the big break. As you will hear, that is what makes MR special. He meets with people. Supports people. Helps people.

More recently M.R. founded the SHG Foundation, a million-dollar nonprofit funding a variety of social entrepreneurship organizations around the world, including Agastya, Black Girls Code, and Room to Read and not satisfied with his own foundation, he is also a board member of the Kaliash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation, The Nudge Foundation, and the WISH Foundation.

We were delighted when MR made some time on his calendar to catch up with his long time friend and occasional host of this podcast ... Stuart Robbins.

Links To MR

Sandhill Group

Personal Site

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066 | And In A Dream Your Future Had A Voice

If you are into great music, the names of the people that Scott works with and just rattles off will fill your ears with delight. But this is not just a podcast about music.

I particularly reached out to Scott, because I knew his story, know what he has done, how he has been true to himself his entire life, followed his passion, and became a success on his own terms. Scott’s story is a magical tale of following your passion. Of rejecting that which doesn’t sit well with you and sticking to your dreams.

If that is not a relevant People First story, I don’t know what is.

It works. It worked.