The Next Level Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Raiha Buchanan is the Stockholm-based CEO of GigaPay, a FinTech company built for scaling gig and marketplace businesses. 

Having emigrated from New Zealand to Sweden right at the emergence of the Swedish tech scene, Raiha was an early Twitter influencer and has since been recognized as part of the Inspiring Fifty in the Nordics. 

We discuss building a company and a brand on the right side of trends, and how the pandemic has changed the future of work for the better.

Joshua Browder is the founder and CEO of DoNotPay, the world's first robot lawyer, where you can fight corporations, beat bureaucracy and sue anyone at the press of a button.

Raised in London, Joshua, who is the son of human rights advocate Bill Browder, is also the founder of Browder Capital, a San Francisco-based investment fund.

This is an episode that you simply should not miss. Have a listen and download DoNotPay today!

Dan Magnuszewski is the co-founder & CTO of ACV Auctions, a Buffalo company that just had a very successful IPO.

When not building billion-dollar unicorns that are the pride of Buffalo and all other small (read "not Silicon Valley") cities across the nation, Dan is a Porsche fanatic, loves great coffee Bills football. 

This episode is truly a must for any entrepreneur. 

Brian Inkster is a lawyer and legal blogger based in Scotland. Through The Time Blawg, Brian expresses his views on the past, present and future practice of law. I sat down with Brian to discuss his coverage of some of the most pressing issues in legal innovation today, specifically the demise of Atrium and the puzzling rise of Clubhouse. 

Cece Xie is a trailblazer, a Harvard-educated lawyer and leader of a new generation of people in the legal business who understand how to harness the power of social media and use it for social good. Cece's TikTok page, launched as a fun pandemic project, has garnered over 5 million likes, with several of her posts having gone viral. We discuss not only her work on social media, but the future of the billable hour, how more innovation can come to legal education, and where this all goes from here.

Samir Patel is a Miami-based lawyer at Holland & Knight. As a leader and influencer in the new generation of tech-savvy lawyers, Samir has been involved in the crypto world for close to a decade.

Samir joins us to explain everything you could possibly want to know about NFTs (non-fungible tokens) and their application to music, art, and sports collectibles.

Aaron Emery is a lifelong student of BBQ and the founder of Old Road BBQ. Having helped many businesses attain BCorp certification in his previous work, Aaron has taken his passion for conscious capitalism and slow-grilled meats and made it his life's work.

We discuss the reality of running and pivoting a food business during a global pandemic and how there is a lot of hope for the future when you are open to evolve.

In the final episode of Season 1, our guest is Emily Orchard - the Assistant Dean, Graduate Programs, at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Law.

Propelled by Emily's leadership, the law school has built some truly innovative programs, including their very successful GPLLM (Global Professional Master of Laws), a graduate program that brings together lawyers and non-lawyers to look at issues such as innovation and technology. 

We discuss the legal education landscape and what may become a new normal in how lawyers are educated.

Emmanuelle Chaze is Berlin-based TV political journalist and TV reporter for Deutsche Welle and France 24. 

A highly-regarded voice in the European news world, Emmanuelle also wrote a book, From Berlin to Lesbos: A diary of the refugee crisis, 2015-2016, about her work with refugees in Berlin.

We discuss the elusive Rule of Law and the prospect for a 2021 recovery for a world caught in a perfect storm of the rising Right and a global pandemic.

Natalie Mc Farlane is the Founding Director of a client-centered legal business operating remotely several years before the COVID-19 pandemic. She is also the Director of Legal Affairs in a Biotech company. We discuss a range of topics in law and legal innovation.