The Jason Cavness Experience

On this episode of the Jason Cavness Experience I talk to Karen Frame – CEO & CoFounder Makeena CavnessHR Crowdfunding Campaign We are doing a rewards based crowdfunding campaign for CavnessHR starting March 2. We're doing this crowdfunding campaign to continue the build out of CavnessHR. Our rewards will include CavnessHR t-shirts, social media outreach for you and your company, ebooks, webinars and more. You can go to the CavnessHR Indiegogo link at https://cavnesshr.co/crowdfunding CavnessHR Social Media cavnessHR website: https://www.cavnessHR.com Jason’s email: [email protected] @cavnessHR across social media @jasoncavnessHR across social media We talk about the following Being the #3 product on Product Hunt Makeena What is a certified B Corporation How she is building a community around Makeena Karen’s Bio Karen is a three-time founder in tech and two-time founder in the natural products space, with over 20 years as an executive in the software and data industries. She has her B.S. in Accounting & Business from Indiana University, her J.D. from the University of Illinois, and attended the University of Oxford. She's worked for Accenture and Intel, as well as for startups, and taught entrepreneurship at the School of Business, University of Colorado. Karen is passionate about making the world a better place, Karen believes technology holds the key to helping more people discover, buy, and enjoy healthy, eco-friendly products. Like most entrepreneurs, Karen is multi-faceted and draws on her background in the natural products and data analytics industries while building the Makeena community. Not to brag, but she holds a CPA and a law degree. Karen’s Social Media Karen’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karensframe/ Makeena LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/makeena-inc/ Makeena Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/go.makeena/ Makeena Website: https://makeena.com/ Makeena Twitter: https://twitter.com/gomakeena Karen’s Gift Please download the Makeena app on the App Store. It's Makeena on Google Play. Put in the code MJWEMC – the code is all caps. We're going to give you a $5 bonus that will go into your account to do the cash out. When you get to the 20 bucks, you can cash out through PayPal or Venmo. We'll give you five bucks after you redeem your first brand offer. It's got to be a brand offer. After you go the store and buy it or you have something sent to you. Scan that UPC or take a snapshot of the receipt. If you have put in that code at the very beginning, when you sign up for Makeena we'll put an extra five bucks in your account. Karen’s Advice I would just say if you are really passionate about solving a problem that you know, and actually, it should be pretty personal. Because you're going to live with whatever you're solving for a really long time. I would say go for it. You know, test it out, talk to potential customers, talk to your friends, talk to your family. But I would just say go for it and surround yourself with really smart, supportive people.

This episode of The Jason Cavness Experience is a replay of my talk with James Marszalek - Founder of Operation Red Dot

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We talk about the following

Why and how he is raising $100M

Why do some people have drive and others don’t

Challenges of military housing

Poker, pool, travel and philosophy

Seeing life through the lens of other people

Operation Red Dot James’

Bio

James is an Army combat veteran who spent 7 years in the Army with 5-1 Cav out of Fort Wainwright, AK as a Scout. He deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, supporting 5th group SF in the fight against terrorism. His entrepreneurial spirit was formed at 15 years old with the book "The Millionaire Next Door", and spurred several unofficial entrepreneurial "projects" starting, ironically, in basic training for the Army. After leaving the Army in 2012 James became a full time Entrepreneur, and has started 4 companies from the ground up since.

Currently operating a real estate company and a hedge fund with the mission to end the military housing crisis, and help service members get housing ahead of their relocation to avoid long hotel stays and other stresses; and is also designed to set military families up to leave their service with a 6 figure nest egg and passive income, aiming for financial freedom through real estate.

Currently in a round 1 fundraise, having secured 5 million out of the 20 million sought. We've landed almost $100,000,000 in sales since opening the company in 2016, and currently hold $25,000,000 in rental assets under management at JBLM. The business' BHAG is to put 1,000,000 military families into homes over the next 10 years, helping service members buy and rent across 75 military installations across the US. James' life is mostly business by choice, often strategizing, planning, and executing till 1am.

But, when he isn't empire building, hustling poker and pool tables, watching documentaries, or traveling is likely where you'd find him. He believes in deep philosophical level thinking, inspiring others to seek wisdom, and simply put good into the world.

James’ Social Media J

ames’ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesmarszalek/

James’ FB: https://www.facebook.com/Mad.Hatter87

Operation Red Dot YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6F14c3w3JRZA-iADtsm3aw/videos

Operation Red Dot website: https://www.operationreddot.com/

James’ email: [email protected]

James’ Gift J

ames invites you to reach out to him to talk about the military housing challenge, Operation Red Dot, entrepreneurship and a host of other subjects. He also invites you to check out these sites. ActiveDutyPassiveIncome.com, or here's the FB group link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/308832522898149.

James’ Advice T

hink about things that are bigger than you. Put your ego aside for two seconds. Think about finding a new 3d set of glasses that show you perspective on something new. I think we get in our own way, a lot of the time. I think we can do better if you're able to set that stuff aside. So put good into the world without any expectation of return and see what happens.

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Terri Gilbert Scientific Communication Consultant | Creative Problem Solver

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CavnessHR Crowdfunding Campaign

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Terri’s Bio

Terri’s educational background includes undergraduate work in Physics and Environmental Sciences, and graduate studies in the Biomedical Sciences resulting in a PhD focusing on receptor biology in the brain.

Her studies and subsequent academic work fueled her passion for communicating science, specifically neuroscience, to a wide range of audiences, from non-scientific to highly technical. She has over 20 years of experience delivering presentations and training sessions to a variety of audiences and has held positions in both academia and industry.

Terri worked at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, where she was the liaison between the users of the Allen Brain Atlas resources and the scientific and technical teams that created them. Her role had her manage all aspects of outreach, live and online trainings, online teaching resources such as webinars and video tutorials, documentation associated with the resources and technical and scientific support via the web portal.

After the Allen Institute, Terri broadened her outreach work to include working with big data and helping people wrap their brains around data science, she recently worked on a SaaS graph database platform working with clients on mapping and visualizing their complex ecosystems. Most recently she has been consulting with people committed to finding unique and often hidden solutions to their complex ecosystems using ML and AI algorithms.

In addition to her consulting business, she has been diving into the world of psychedelics and is interested in humanistic approaches to creating a world where love wins, transforming our conversations about death and dying, and is on her own unique spiritual journey.

We talked about the following and other items

The Brain

G Protein Coupled Receptors

Psychedelics

Scientific Communication

Socialism

Terri’s Social Media

Terri’s Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tgilhou/

Terri’s Website: https://www.terrigilbertphd.com/

Terri’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/tgilhou

Terri’s Email: [email protected] or [email protected]

Terri’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tgilhou/

Terri’s Advice

Anything that you tell your brain to do? It will do it? Right? Anything. So if you want to learn something new just try it as an experiment. Give yourself a year to learn something. Then if you just keep practicing at it just once a week, you will be way far beyond what you thought and I mean that about anything, practice anything.

For this episode of The Jason Cavness Experience, I am covering HR Laws you have to follow if your company has 49 or fewer employees

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HR Laws for Small Business with 49 or fewer employees

If you have at least one employee, the following HR laws apply to you.

Drug-Free Workplace Act: The Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1988 only applies to federal grant recipients and federal contractors with a contract for more than $100,000. Drug-Free Workplace Requirements Generally, it requires that covered employers: adopt a drug-free workplace policy; and establish a drug-free awareness program.

Employers faced with alcohol and drug use in the workplace often consider employee and applicant drug testing as a way to reduce safety risks and avoid other problems caused by employee drug use. Employers that use drug testing should be aware of the many laws and regulations governing safety, employee privacy, and disability.

The issues involved include both legally mandated and voluntary drug-free workplace programs, discrimination and accommodation, testing, and special requirements for the transportation industry. Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA): Prohibits intentional interceptions of wire, oral, or electronic communications. https://it.ojp.gov/privacyliberty/authorities/statutes/1285 Employee Polygraph Protection Act: Forbids most employers to use lie detectors. Poster required.

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/polygraph Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA): Regulates benefits through a complex series of rules covering pensions, profit-sharing, stock bonus, and most insurance and other benefit plans.

What is ERISA? The Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) was enacted to ensure that employees receive the pension and other benefits promised by their employers. ERISA also incorporates and is tied to Internal Revenue Code (IRC) provisions designed to encourage employers to provide retirement and other benefits to their employees. Most provisions of ERISA and the IRC are intended to ensure that tax-favored pension plans do not favor the highest-paid employees over rank-and-file employees.

ERISA has a complex series of rules that cover pension, profit-sharing, stock bonus, and most “welfare benefit plans,” such as health and life insurance. ERISA has created a single federal standard for employee benefits, and it supersedes almost all state laws that affect employee benefit plans. An employer's responsibilities under ERISA vary depending on the type of plan involved. https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/retirement/erisa Military Leave -Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) of 1994: Prohibits discrimination against those who serve in the military; mandates military leave of absence.

With the increased use of reserve and National Guard troops in full-time military service, employers must frequently deal with the requirements of the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) of 1994 when those employees are called to active services and when they return. USERRA governs the leave and reinstatement requirements for military personnel. The law contains specific requirements for protected leave, rules for benefits employees are entitled to during military leave, and the requirements for reinstatement back in the civilian workforce.

https://www.dol.gov/vets/programs/userra/userra_fs.htm Employee Right to Know Laws (Hazardous Chemicals in Workplace): A disclosure rule that requires private sector employers with hazardous substances in their workplace to develop a comprehensive hazard communication program to train and inform employees.

https://www.osha.gov/Publications/osha3111.html National Labor Relations Act (NLRA): Employees have the right to organize and bargain collectively for wages, hours, and working conditions. The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (NLRA) was passed by Congress to encourage a healthy relationship between private sector workers and their employers. It was designed to curtail work stoppages, strikes, and general labor strife, which were viewed by Co...