Mandatory Cocktail Hour – Details, episodes & analysis

Doctor Christopher Jones is Orthopedic Surgeon and Associate Medical Director of Perioperative and Procedural Care Operations and Outside Medical at Kaiser Permanentee.  Talking with Chris provided a great opportunity - Chris has experience and stories to share about cultivating collaboration as a leader of  major business initiative for his company.  We talk about that, along with the value of admitting out loud that you need help and possibly the most heartwarming long-dormant connection story I have ever heard.

Ryan Ozawa is a native Hawaiian, journalist, technologist, , community builder and owner of the @hawaii handle on multiple social networks. 

We discussed the similarities and differences between an island network and an online network,  how is network helped him spin up an organization to build respirators during COVID, and the best question he has been asked at a networking event.

Alex Sheldon is the Lead Character Designer and a founding member of the Wallis Studio Ensemble. 

We discuss how being an introvert effects collaboration, how collaborating with the audience influences immersive theater and how a script provides a blueprint to collaborate.

Jason Inman, writer and podcaster, co-Host of Geek History Lesson, author of multiple comics and the book "Super Soldiers" a book about super heroes and villains who are veterans.

Jason and I spoke about his collaborations on the early days of  YouTube, a tactic he uses to see if people are ready to collaborate and how when you are creating something, your first fan has to you.

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Anthony Veneziale is the Tony Award winning co-founder of Freestyle Love Supreme and the CEO of FLS+, a corporate education company that brings play and improvisation and musicality to organizations. 

Anthony and I talked about how to fail collaboratively, the brain science behind FLS+ work and some education design principles. 

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Ashley Victoria Robinson is an actress, comic book author and podcaster.  Co-Host of Geek History Lesson, Ashley's comic Jupiter Jet has been nominated for the Ringo Award. 

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WE revisit my 2019 interview with Sanyin Siang, the Executive Director of the Coach K Center of Leadership and Ethics (COLE) at Duke University. 

Since the interview, Sanyin has been honored as the top Executive Coach in the world two times over. 

In our interview, we talk about how she grew the COLEthrough a collaborative process and how Sanyin thinks of collaboration as a way to help others grow. 

This is a rebroadcast of my interview with Brian Brushwood from 2017. 

Highlights on collaboration include Brian's switch from one-man-show to constantly collaborating and Brian's new goal for how he fits in on his own production teams. 

Introduction to Season 4 with a theme on Collaboration

Jennie Josephson is the co-founder and an Executive Producer at Infinite Gains Studios.  She helps people make excellent audio content, and has worked with Daily Tech News Show,  Brave, Not Perfect, Talking Feds among others. 

Jennie and I spoke about her experience founding a networked company, running a purpose-driven organization and how she built her personal board of advisors.