Episodes
March 11, 2020
Digital Selling Wheel of Fortune 2025: Insta, LinkedIn, iPhone, YouTube, Twitter, FB?
The buzz (according to www.impactbnd.com): “Social media is ever-changing. There’s always a new crazy way people can document every aspect of their lives, but what if you’re a business? With so many social media sites already...
March 4, 2020
What's Up [In The Sky]? It's A Drone for Good!
The Buzz [literally!]: “Drones in the sky, drones in the sea, drones on land: this is the future of human augmentation” (popularmechanics.com). “From a military innovation, to an exciting hobby, to a technology that’s transfo...
Feb. 26, 2020
Pathetic vs. Powerful Passwords: Your Hackable Future?
The Buzz: “Passwords are an integral component of security hygiene, but beyond password strength requirements, it’s largely a user-driven initiative” (digitalguardian.com). How is your password hygiene? Not to get personal, b...
Feb. 19, 2020
The Highs and The Lows: Cannabis Industry 2020 and Beyond
The Buzz: “According to the Brightfield Group, a CBD and cannabis market research firm, the legal CBD market is projected to surpass $23 billion in annual U.S.
Feb. 12, 2020
Life in 2030: How Will YOU Eat, Play, Work, Drive and Do Everything Else?
Today’s Buzz: “By 2030 the average person in the U.S. will have 4.5 packages a week delivered with flying drones. They will travel 40% of the time in a driverless car, use a 3D printer to print hyper-individualized meals, and...
Feb. 5, 2020
CES 2020: What Can YOU Do with Robot Kitties, Smart Trash Cans & Oodles of Gadgets?
“Just about everyone involved in the show brought their A-game this year, with several major product categories seeing some truly transformative technology, namely in computing, gaming, and the smart home…the public debut of ...
Jan. 29, 2020
Fempreneurs Speak: Social Media Coming of Age
Here’s today’s buzz: “The one thing all small businesses have encountered…is the fact that people don’t know who they are, what they do, or where they can be found. How can a business owner solve this issue? It’s easy. Social...
Jan. 22, 2020
The Era of Brand Influencers: Whom Do YOU Trust?
“If you have to tell people on your social media profiles you're an ‘influencer’, you are probably not. Reality check” (Rebecca Aguilar). "Influencer marketing has grown from strength to strength over the last few years" (influencermarketinghub.co
Jan. 15, 2020
Crystal Ball 2020 Predictions Special - Part 5
The buzz: “Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Turn and face the strange.” (David Bowie) If you’re hoping to gaze into a crystal ball to see what #2020 holds for your company, your industry, yourself and the world, we’ve got the next best th...
Jan. 8, 2020
Technology Revolution The Future of Now 2020 Crystal Ball Predictions Part 4
The buzz: “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards” (Søren Kierkegaard). If you’re hoping to gaze into a crystal ball to see what 2020 holds for your company, your industry and the world, we’ve go...
Dec. 18, 2019
Crystal Ball 2020 Predictions Special Part 3
The buzz: “Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming” (David Bowie). If you’re hoping to gaze into a magical crystal ball to see what 2020 holds for your company, your career, your industry and the world, we’ve got the...
Dec. 11, 2019
2020 Crystal Ball Prediction Special - Part 2
The buzz: “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards” (Søren Kierkegaard). That’s why this show is called Technology Revolution: The Future of Now!! If you’re hoping to gaze into a magical crystal b...
Dec. 4, 2019
2020 Crystal Ball Prediction Special - Part 1
The buzz: “The future is not what it used to be” (Laura Riding & Robert Graves, 1937). If you’re hoping to gaze into a crystal ball to see what 2020 holds for your company, your industry and the world, we’ve got the next best...
Nov. 20, 2019
Fasten Your Seatbelt: Ready for Your Future Ride?
The Buzz: "Auto makers look into their crystal balls – and their shops – to get an idea as to what's fueling the car of 2025…The next 10 years will see more change in the auto business than the last 20." theglobeandmail.com.
Nov. 13, 2019
Future of Music and Technology: Sweet or Sour Notes?
Here’s today buzz: “Technology has changed how we listen to music…and the way music is made…and created new genres” (www.ronaldshannonjackson.com). The Internet has changed the music industry drastically…early issues like ill...
Nov. 6, 2019
Is Your Smart Home Spying On You & Is It OK?
Today’s Buzz: “I connected as many of my appliances and belongings as I could to the internet: an Amazon Echo, my lights, my coffee maker…baby monitor…my bed…to find out whether it would betray me” gizmodo.com. “In a world wh...
Oct. 30, 2019
AI Goes Shopping: Humanizing the Retail Customer Experience
Today’s Buzz: clickz.com reports that 44% of shoppers indicated they would become repeat buyers after a personalized experience, and adoption of AI by marketers is expected to increase by over 250% over the next two years. Ac...
Oct. 23, 2019
Truth or Dare: Is AI the Future of Retail?
Today’s Buzz: “As the concept of “New Retail” spreads globally, many Fortune Global 500 retail companies are implementing AI technologies such as computer vision and NLP in unmanned stores and warehouses or virtual stores and...
Oct. 16, 2019
Millennial Women Taking Charge: Badass Superstars
Today’s Buzz: “It's hard to believe that only a few generations ago, women had three career options: teacher, secretary or a nurse. Fast forward to 2017 and women have blurred the lines of traditional gender roles. … women an...
Oct. 2, 2019
Future HR Human vs HR AI: Who Will Be Hiring and Firing You?
The Buzz: “Despite the intrinsic contradiction, it’s clear that artificial intelligence and machine learning are primed to play a leading role in HCM’s future.…AI’s ability to consume and analyze massive quantities of data, m...
Sept. 25, 2019
CyberSecurity Wars: Will Tech Help YOU or THEM?
Here’s today’s Buzz: “If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked…you deserve to be hacked” (Richard Clarke). “People are doing things on free Wi-Fi that are really alarming” (Doug Shadel). “As the wor...
Sept. 18, 2019
Grocery Expiration Date: Automate or Die?
Here’s today’s Buzz: In a Kantar Retail study, only 2% of US food and alcohol sales are made online. 84% of respondents in a 2017 Morgan Stanley study prefer to grocery shop in person. But change is coming to grocery! Superma...
Sept. 11, 2019
Banking on the Future: Fintechs Finance Makeover
The Buzz: “Like many technology driven industries, [Fintechs] regulations are horribly outdated, authored at a time when an app meant fries for the whole table, and spam was just canned meat. Imagine running a business under ...
Sept. 4, 2019
Encore: Her First 100K: The Tech-Fueled FemPreneur
It's fairly clear that women are starting businesses faster than ever According to the ABS, 34 Percent of businesses operators in 2014 were women an increase in business ownership by females of more than 46 Percent in the last twenty years.