The Brandon White Show (EDGE for peak performance)

Brandon White

The Brandon White Show brings you conversations worth listening that expand your ideas, knowledge and know how.

Previous guests include successful entrepreneurs, peak performers, authors, Emmy Award winners, scientists, explorers, Navy SEALS, fighter jet pilots, venture capitalists, angel investors, professional athletes, artists, and other seemingly ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

Listen in to expand your landscape of understanding and gain an edge to win in your business and your life.

Your host, Brandon White, is an entrepreneur with two exits (so far), lots of strikeouts, author, former venture capitalist, management in Marketing at AOL, and currently is investing $500k of his own money to create a holding company worth $1b in 7 years.

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Raising Money for Your Startup with Ali Jamal of First Check Ventures
20-03-2024
Raising Money for Your Startup with Ali Jamal of First Check Ventures
Ali talks about what he and other early stage investors look for in companies who are raising money for their early stage companies.ABOUT ALI JAMALAli Jamal is a Venture Investor, Product Leader, Growth Expert, Data Scientist, and Corporate Strategist. He is the Founder of First Check Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in early stage startups across the globe. First Check Ventures has supported and invested in more than 130 startups from more than 30 countries including the US, Pakistan, India, Singapore, Venezuela, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Nigeria, Turkey, Peru and Colombia.Before starting First Check Ventures, he was the Director of Growth and Performance Marketing at PayClip, Mexico's First FinTech Unicorn.  Previously, Ali was the Head of Performance Marketing at Rappi, leading 80+ people on 7 teams across 8 international offices and responsible for generating over $1 billion in total transaction value per year globally. Prior to joining Rappi, he was the Head of Marketing Innovation at Agoda, where he led 3 teams across 3 international offices and was responsible for expansion into the China market. Ali also held Product and Analytical leadership roles at RockYou, Zynga, and Maxim Integrated Products. He began his career as an investment banker specializing in mergers and acquisitions in the software and internet sectors. Ali has a Bachelors in Economics and a Masters in Statistics from Stanford University.EPISODE LINKSFirst Check Ventures CONNECT WITH US Claim Your Weekly EDGE Newsletter. It's FREE.Written by Brandon with insights giving you an edge to win in your business and your life. Over 24,200 readers and counting! OTHER GREAT PODCASTS ON THE THE BEST PODCASTS NETWORK PRODUCTIVITYDaily productivity tips in less than 4 minutes a day. Business PlanHow to write a business plan, the modern business plan way. Danielle & Brandon Show All about owning a business MARKETING PodcastMarketing science revealing successful marketing. 401k Plans PodcastSet up and run your company's 401k retirement savings plans correctly. Car Accident Lawyer PodcastBest lawyer advice. podcast for entrepreneurs
San Francisco's Urban Trails with Urban Hiker SF's Owner Alexandra Kenin
22-02-2024
San Francisco's Urban Trails with Urban Hiker SF's Owner Alexandra Kenin
Learn how Alexandra got into urban hiking, started a company, wrote two books on urban hiking and some cool things to see on San Francisco's urban trails. ABOUT ALEXANDRA KENIN Alexandra is a Studio Chief at Wordsmithie, Inc., a content and design agency that serves clients in the tech, finance, healthcare, and other industries. She also runs Urban Hiker SF, a San Francisco-based tour company that explores the city’s stairways, hills, and trails. Through her experience building her company, she has hiked with thousands of guests and published two hiking guidebooks for the Bay Area, Urban Trails: San Francisco and Urban Trails: East Bay, which have sold a combined 25,000 copies. A third hiking guidebook, Urban Trails: San Jose, South Bay, and Peninsula is coming out in 2025. Alexandra has a BS in French from Georgetown, an MBA from the Wharton School, and an MA in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. She lives in San Francisco with her partner Brett, their daughter Dylan, and their dog Jodie.EPISODE LINKSUrban Hiker SFUrban Trails: San Francisco: Coastal Bluffs/ The Presidio/ Hilltop Parks & StairwaysUrban Trails East Bay: Oakland * Berkeley * Fremont * Richmond CONNECT WITH US Claim Your Weekly EDGE Newsletter. It's FREE.Written by Brandon with insights giving you an edge to win in your business and your life. Over 24,200 readers and counting! OTHER GREAT PODCASTS ON THE THE BEST PODCASTS NETWORK PRODUCTIVITYDaily productivity tips in less than 4 minutes a day. Business PlanHow to write a business plan, the modern business plan way. Danielle & Brandon Show All about owning a business MARKETING PodcastMarketing science revealing successful marketing. 401k Plans PodcastSet up and run your company's 401k retirement savings plans correctly. Car Accident Lawyer PodcastBest lawyer advice. podcast for entrepreneurs
Using Poker Strategy as a Framework for Winning at Life, Investing and Decision Making with Professional High Stakes Poker Player Alec Torelli
03-01-2024
Using Poker Strategy as a Framework for Winning at Life, Investing and Decision Making with Professional High Stakes Poker Player Alec Torelli
Poker strategy isn't just for winning the World Series of Poker, a back room high stakes poker game in Macau, or a big online poker tournament. The game of poker mimics life in the sense that it forces you to make decisions without having complete information. After playing millions of hands over the past 14 years, and mastering the art of taking calculated risks, Alec has developed an unparalleled ability to apply the skills he learned in poker to evaluate situations in life and business.Learn how to use a combination of logic, intuition and self-awareness to make better, more informed choices, and determine the optimal course of action when you can’t ‘see all the cards’.ABOUT ALEX TORELLIWith over $2,200,000 in poker tournament winnings and millions more in both live and online cash games, Alec Torelli is one of the most respected poker players in the industry today. He is the founder of the popular poker training site Conscious Poker, and his YouTube channel has over 10,000,000 views.For the past decade, he has taken the principles he’s learned in poker, from risk management to decision making, and applied them to making investments.Alec has been investing in cryptocurrency since 2017, and also has helped syndicate deals for mobile home parks and early stage start ups. He writes a newsletter, WHealthier, to 25,000+ investors.EPISODE LINKSAlec Torellihttps://www.alectorelli.comAlec on X/Twitterhttps://twitter.com/AlecTorelli CONNECT WITH US Claim Your Weekly EDGE Newsletter. It's FREE.Written by Brandon with insights giving you an edge to win in your business and your life. Over 24,200 readers and counting! OTHER GREAT PODCASTS ON THE THE BEST PODCASTS NETWORK PRODUCTIVITYDaily productivity tips in less than 4 minutes a day. Business PlanHow to write a business plan, the modern business plan way. Danielle & Brandon Show All about owning a business MARKETING PodcastMarketing science revealing successful marketing. 401k Plans PodcastSet up and run your company's 401k retirement savings plans correctly. Car Accident Lawyer PodcastBest lawyer advice. podcast for entrepreneurs
Raising Pre-Seed and Seed Round Funding From Investors with Martin Tobias Founder and Managing Partner of Incisive Ventures
20-12-2023
Raising Pre-Seed and Seed Round Funding From Investors with Martin Tobias Founder and Managing Partner of Incisive Ventures
Learn about raising money for your startup, how to raise money for your Pre-Seed and Seed round from investors and a story about how Martin lost $500m and STILL won.ABOUT MARTIN TOBIASMartin Tobias is the Managing Partner and Founder of Incisive Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing in the first institutional round of technology companies that reduce friction at scale.  Martin was previously at Accenture and Microsoft and is a former Venture Partner at Ignition Partners.  Martin is a 3X venture-funded CEO rising over $500M as CEO with two IPOs who has also invested in hundreds of companies and is a limited partner in over a dozen VC funds. Martin was an early investor in Google, Docusign, OpenSea, and over a dozen Unicorns.Martin is the father of three daughters, a cyclist, surfer, poker player, and life hacker.Martin tinkers with motorcycles on the weekends.  He writes about Venture Capital on  Incisive Ventures Blog. https://incisive.vc/insight/ EPISODE LINKSIncisive Ventureshttps://incisive.vcMartin Tobias on Twitterhttps://twitter.com/MartinGTobias CONNECT WITH US Claim Your Weekly EDGE Newsletter. It's FREE.Written by Brandon with insights giving you an edge to win in your business and your life. Over 24,200 readers and counting! OTHER GREAT PODCASTS ON THE THE BEST PODCASTS NETWORK PRODUCTIVITYDaily productivity tips in less than 4 minutes a day. Business PlanHow to write a business plan, the modern business plan way. Danielle & Brandon Show All about owning a business MARKETING PodcastMarketing science revealing successful marketing. 401k Plans PodcastSet up and run your company's 401k retirement savings plans correctly. Car Accident Lawyer PodcastBest lawyer advice. podcast for entrepreneurs
Authenticity and Enthusiasm: Why Anyone Can Use Them to Do Hard Things Including Building a School from Scratch with Jim Eagen Head of Synapse School in Menlo Park, CA
14-12-2023
Authenticity and Enthusiasm: Why Anyone Can Use Them to Do Hard Things Including Building a School from Scratch with Jim Eagen Head of Synapse School in Menlo Park, CA
Jim visited our studio to talk about how he, his team and the Synapse School community built a school from the ground up with an innovate approach to education.The best way to describe what Synapse is doing is educating Change Makers by focusing keenly on Social-Emotional Learning, innovation and leading edge academics.Their teachers, who are as committed as they are remarkable, build classroom communities and relationships based on trust, an essential ingredient in teaching and learning, while they cultivate in their students curiosity, creativity and risk-taking. Most importantly, they are about helping human beings be better human beings.Listen in for this fun, "educational" conversation.ABOUT JIM EAGENJim Eagen believes that when schools and their leaders focus less on what to change and more importantly, embrace constant change in order to develop the critical skills of implementing change, transformation in education is possible. Jim has enjoyed a wonderful 35 year career in independent schools, first as a student, then as classroom teacher, coach, and administrator, and now, in his 11th year, as the Head of School at Synapse, a one-of-kind K-8 lab school in Menlo Park with a signature project based curriculum and brain-based framework.Synapse has grown exponentially in size and impact under his leadership and has earned a reputation for being a place where students, teachers and families thrive in large part due to Jim’s vision and energy. When not at Synapse, presenting about Synapse, or talking to just about anyone whowill listen to him about Synapse, he can often be found on a ride, on a run, or laughing and learning with his wife, dog, and their two kids, a college senior and a high school senior.EPISODE LINKSSynapse Schoolhttps://www.synapseschool.org CONNECT WITH US Claim Your Weekly EDGE Newsletter. It's FREE.Written by Brandon with insights giving you an edge to win in your business and your life. Over 24,200 readers and counting! OTHER GREAT PODCASTS ON THE THE BEST PODCASTS NETWORK PRODUCTIVITYDaily productivity tips in less than 4 minutes a day. Business PlanHow to write a business plan, the modern business plan way. Danielle & Brandon Show All about owning a business MARKETING PodcastMarketing science revealing successful marketing. 401k Plans PodcastSet up and run your company's 401k retirement savings plans correctly. Car Accident Lawyer PodcastBest lawyer advice. podcast for entrepreneurs
The JFK Assassination with US Army Special Operations Veteran John Kuhn
28-09-2023
The JFK Assassination with US Army Special Operations Veteran John Kuhn
New evidence of a second bullet changes the story of the John F. Kennedy assassination. We discuss the significance.About the ConversationIn John Kuhn's 20 year career in Army Special Operations he has personally been on the front lines of world events and has been required to know history and politics in a way that not many have because of the operational nature of his profession.He is one of the most well read people I know and we always have enlightening conversations together on a wide range of subjects, from the US economy, politics, love, life, the media, to US and world history, when we catch up every few weeks.We always come out of the conversations with a deeper understanding, sometimes a different viewpoint, and always richer in our understanding. We decided to do share some of these conversations with you and know you'll leave richer as well.  ABOUT JOHN KUHNJohn Kuhn served 20-years in U.S. Army special operations, five years in the 75th Ranger Regiment and fifteen years as an operational member in the U.S. Army’s Special Mission Counterterrorism Unit.  After the September 11 attacks, he served in multiple task forces in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa, and the Horn of Africa.  He earned the Silver Star, six Bronze Stars, including one for valor, an Army Commendation Medal for valor, and two Purple Hearts.  Upon retirement from the Army, he attended Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, where he earned a graduate degree in business management.  Since then, he co-founded an animated training technology company.  He also helps select high net worth customers with niche security concerns.  LINKSJohn Kuhn on LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/jskuhn/The Final Witness - Kennedy Secret Service Agent Breaks His Silence After Sixty YearsBest price on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3PTLSHN CONNECT WITH US Claim Your Weekly EDGE Newsletter. It's FREE.Written by Brandon with insights giving you an edge to win in your business and your life. Over 24,200 readers and counting! OTHER GREAT PODCASTS ON THE THE BEST PODCASTS NETWORK PRODUCTIVITYDaily productivity tips in less than 4 minutes a day. Business PlanHow to write a business plan, the modern business plan way. Danielle & Brandon Show All about owning a business MARKETING PodcastMarketing science revealing successful marketing. 401k Plans PodcastSet up and run your company's 401k retirement savings plans correctly. Car Accident Lawyer PodcastBest lawyer advice. podcast for entrepreneurs
How to Recover From Injuries and Play Forever with World Renowned Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. Kevin Stone
24-08-2023
How to Recover From Injuries and Play Forever with World Renowned Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. Kevin Stone
Injuries don't mean you need to hang up your physical fitness activities forever.  No matter your age you can recover. Dr. Kevin Stone talks about how to  you can recover from knee injuries, ankle injuries, should injuries and the newest break throughs in modern science that will help you play forever.ABOUT DR. KEVIN STONEKevin R. Stone, MD, is an orthopaedic surgeon at The Stone Clinic and Chairman of the Stone Research Foundation. Trained at Harvard University in both internal medicine and orthopaedic surgery and at Stanford University in general surgery, he is a world-renowned expert in biologic joint replacement. He is the best selling author of Play Forever. Dr. Stone has served the US Ski Team, the US Pro Ski Tour, the Marin Ballet, the Smuin Ballet, the Modern Pentathlon at the US Olympic Festival, and the US Olympic Training Center. His innovative work in the orthopaedic arena has led to multiple awards, publications, and grants and has resulted in approximately fifty issued US patents. He's also been featured on Good Morning America, the Ologies podcast, and the Star Talk podcast hosted by Neal deGrasse Tyson.EPISODE LINKSStone Clinichttps://www.stoneclinic.comPlay Forever: How to Recover From Injury and ThriveBest price on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3P9G7Gv CONNECT WITH US Claim Your Weekly EDGE Newsletter. It's FREE.Written by Brandon with insights giving you an edge to win in your business and your life. Over 24,200 readers and counting! OTHER GREAT PODCASTS ON THE THE BEST PODCASTS NETWORK PRODUCTIVITYDaily productivity tips in less than 4 minutes a day. Business PlanHow to write a business plan, the modern business plan way. Danielle & Brandon Show All about owning a business MARKETING PodcastMarketing science revealing successful marketing. 401k Plans PodcastSet up and run your company's 401k retirement savings plans correctly. Car Accident Lawyer PodcastBest lawyer advice. podcast for entrepreneurs