The Next Frontier Podcast

Jason Kim leads one of the World’s most agile and innovative aerospace manufacturing companies. In this episode, we dive into how Jason and his team at Millennium Space Systems (a Boeing company) are pioneering digital-first, high volume manufacturing for small satellites. We also dive into Jason’s robust experience in the aerospace industry, ranging from his service in the US Air Force (thank you to all of the Veterans out there for your service!) to his time working across the aerospace industry, and now as CEO of Millenium Space Systems. Throughout the conversation, Jason shares powerful, tactical lessons about leadership, solving complex problems, and scaling a digitally defined manufacturing company.

Boeing Acquires Millennium Space Systems

South By Southwest

What is a satellite?

On Orbit Manufacturing And Servicing

3 Ways To Use Satellites In Your Business

How Tiny Satellites Are Changing The Way We Do Business

Insights From Boeing Additive Manufacturing

Design For Manufacturability

Elon Musk Factory is The Product

Palmer Luckey On The All In Podcast

Millenium Space Systems Careers

About Our Guest

Follow Jason on LinkedIn, here.

Check out Millennium Space Systems, here. They are hiring!

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On the Next Frontier Podcast we deliver gems about how industry, innovation, and individualism are creating and protecting freedom and flourishing. We are witnessing a collision of economic, political, technological, social, cultural, spiritual, and other powerful forces. The Next Frontier Podcast is THE forum to help you explore, converse, and learn about how our current frontier is evolving and how the next frontier is taking shape. From pro-freedom innovation resources and technology to rethinking where stuff comes from, we are driven to give you the ideas, tools, and information that are fundamental to maximizing freedom and flourish as you lead the way into the Next Frontier.

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26. The Millennial Case For Manufacturing With ‘The Manufacturing Millennial’, Jake Hall

This episode is all about the macro state of the manufacturing workforce. “If you don’t make stuff, there is no stuff.” – Elon Musk.

All of the stuff we rely on and enjoy needs to come from somewhere… and someone. Manufacturing might otherwise be called: people and machines making the stuff that enables other peoples’ and machines’ high level of capabilities, flourishing, and freedom.

In this conversation with Jake Hall, AKA ‘The Manufacturing Millennial’, we deep dive into his work using media to inspire young people to join the manufacturing industry. From working with small manufacturers to Fortune 100 companies, Jake creates awareness around automation and modernization, investing in skilled trades, and attracting the next generation workforce. The Manufacturing Millennial makes a powerful case for the future of manufacturing – and manufacturing careers – in the United States.

National Association of Manufacturers: Key Manufacturing Statistics

Companion Episode: Digital Transformation With Keith Gargiulo

American Welding Society

Great Resignation

Amazon Uses A LOT OF Warehouse Robots

Amazon Robotics

AGV and AMR Industrial Robotics (Automated Guided Vehicle, Automated Mobile Robots)

Eastern Kentucky Advanced Manufacturing Institute (EKAMI)

Path Robotics Welding Robots

About Our Guest

Follow Jake on LinkedIn, here.

Learn more about the Manufacturing Millennial, here.

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On the Next Frontier Podcast we deliver gems about how industry, innovation, and individualism are creating and protecting freedom and flourishing. We are witnessing a collision of economic, political, technological, social, cultural, spiritual, and other powerful forces. The Next Frontier Podcast is THE forum to help you explore, converse, and learn about how our current frontier is evolving and how the next frontier is taking shape. From pro-freedom innovation resources and technology to rethinking where stuff comes from, we are driven to give you the ideas, tools, and information that are fundamental to maximizing freedom and flourish as you lead the way into the Next Frontier.

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25. Where Telecom Comes From with Michael Bloxton, CEO of Nebula Compute

Episode title:

Where Telecom Comes From with Michael Bloxton, CEO of Nebula Compute

Do you know where your cell service and internet come from? What does the physical infrastructure that lets you talk to your team, friends, and family on the other side of the world look like and how does it work? In this episode, Michael Bloxton joins us to explore how the bits that run our modern lives and businesses move around the world, and how the atoms of telecom infrastructure really make the magic happen. We also dive into where our computer power might come from in the future and what Mike is building at Nebula Space Systems.

The Cell Service Actually Works by Wendover Productions

Cellular Network Consolidation

Submarine Cable Map

Cell Tower Mapper

How Information Travels Wirelessly

Here's Why Your Phone Stops Working When You're In A Huge Crowd

PACE Planning

Episode #16 with Namrata Goswami

Nebula Compute

About Our Guest

Follow Mike on LinkedIn, here.

Learn more about Nebula Compute, here.

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The world is changing rapidly and dramatically. We are ALL witnessing a collision of economic, political, technological, social, cultural, spiritual, and other powerful forces that we have not seen in modern human history (or possibly ever). The Next Frontier Podcast is THE forum to help you explore, converse, and learn about how our current frontier is evolving and how the next frontier is taking shape. From pro-freedom innovation resources and technology to rethinking where stuff comes from, we are driven to give you the ideas, tools, and information that are fundamental to maximizing YOUR freedom and flourish as YOU lead the way into the Next Frontier.

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24. Where Solar Power Systems Comes From With Ivan Gonick, CEO Veteran Solar

Energy production and independence are foundational to freedom and flourishing. As we learn from Ivan Gonick in this conversation, the United States power grid is extremely complex and fragile. Ivan is the CEO of Veteran Solar; in this conversation he breaks down how at home solar power systems work and why they are an excellent mechanism to build a more antifragile energy system. Ivan also shares insights about where solar systems come from – from the panels themselves, to auxiliary components like batteries and transformers.

Solar Module Manufacturing

Shorting The Grid (Book)

One Second After (Book)

Khan Academy: Solar Cells

Microgrids

Nuclear EMP Could Take Our The Power Grid

Cyberattacks

Mike Howard Podcast Episode

Texas Power Grid Was Minutes Away From Total Failure

For hackers and DIY’ers: Check out Jehu Garcia’s Youtube Channel All About Building Solar Systems

About Our Guest

Follow Ivan on LinkedIn, here.

Check out Veteran Solar’s work, here.

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The world is changing rapidly and dramatically. We are ALL witnessing a collision of economic, political, technological, social, cultural, spiritual, and other powerful forces that we have not seen in modern human history (or possibly ever). The Next Frontier Podcast is THE forum to help you explore, converse, and learn about how our current frontier is evolving and how the next frontier is taking shape. From pro-freedom innovation resources and technology to rethinking where stuff comes from, we are driven to give you the ideas, tools, and information that are fundamental to maximizing YOUR freedom and flourish as YOU lead the way into the Next Frontier. If you’d like to stay up-to-date with and support our tactical and strategic research, conversations, ideas, and insights, please subscribe to our Substack here.

23. Fred Horowitz | How To Make Affordable Consumer Goods In The USA

In this episode serial industrial entrepreneur, Fred Horowitz, shares lessons that he’s learned through his robust manufacturing career and how he is navigating the rapidly evolving industrial landscape as a United States consumer goods manufacturing company. Fred is a deeply experienced CEO and founder of multiple, fast-growing consumer product brands. He is the current Chairman and CEO of A.P. Deauville and Partner at American Brand Holdings, LLC, the parent company of popular apparel brand, Hang Ten®.

**A quick note on Audio Quality… We had to stick with backup audio for this episode; Fred comes through loud and clear, but Max comes through a bit muted. Thank you for your listenership and support as we grow our show and work out technical kinks!**

Plastic Supply Chain Disruption

AP Deauville

Mike Howard Podcast

Shelley Huff Podcast

Antiperspirant vs Deodorant

Propylene Glycol Force Majeure

Just In Time Manufacturing and the supply chain

The Black Swan (Book)

The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (Book)

About Our Guest

Follow Fred on LinkedIn, here.

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We deliver gems about how industry, innovation, and individualism are creating and protecting freedom and flourishing. The world is changing rapidly and dramatically. We are ALL witnessing a collision of economic, political, technological, social, cultural, spiritual, and other powerful forces that we have not seen in modern human history (or possibly ever). The Next Frontier Podcast is THE forum to help you explore, converse, and learn about how our current frontier is evolving and how the next frontier is taking shape. From pro-freedom innovation resources and technology to rethinking where stuff comes from, we are driven to give you the ideas, tools, and information that are fundamental to maximizing YOUR freedom and flourish as YOU lead the way into the Next Frontier. If you’d like to stay up-to-date with and support our tactical and strategic insights, please subscribe here.

22. Shelley Huff | CEO Serta Simmons - Building Antifragile Supply Chains

In this episode, Shelley Huff shares her frontline perspective on the transformation unfolding in the United States’ supply chains, particularly the shift from global, just-in-time, and fragile back towards local, safety stock, and antifragile (per Nassim Taleb's concept). Since we recorded this episode, Shelley moved from her role leading Serta Simmons as Chief Operating Officer to leading the organization as Chief Executive Officer. Before her current role as the CEO of Serta Simmons, Shelley played a central, action packed role building and leading key business initiatives for Walmart. In addition to her frontline insights on what is happening with global supply chains, Shelley helps us learn about where mattresses come from, how supply chains function at massive global organizations, the right way to use just-in-time manufacturing, and the rapid changes unfolding in the direct to consumer landscape.

Walmart and Supply Chain Transparency

Sourcing Matrix

Walmart Apply To Be A Supplier

Walmart’s Annual Event For American Made Products

Just In Time And Lean Manufacturing

Mattress Industry Shortages

Texas Ice Storm And Plastics

Safety Stock

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Book)

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt

Direct To Consumer

About Our Guest

Follow Shelley on LinkedIn, here.

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The world is changing rapidly and dramatically. We are ALL witnessing a collision of economic, political, technological, social, cultural, spiritual, and other powerful forces that we have not seen in modern human history (or possibly ever). The Next Frontier Podcast is THE forum to help you explore, converse, and learn about how our current frontier is evolving and how the next frontier is taking shape. From pro-freedom innovation resources and technology to rethinking Where Stuff Comes From, we are driven to give you the ideas, tools, and information that are fundamental to maximizing YOUR freedom and flourish as YOU lead the way into the Next Frontier. If you’d like to stay up-to-date with and support our tactical and strategic insights, please subscribe here.

21. Lee Benson | An Aerospace Vertical Integration Success Story

In this episode, we sit down with Lee Benson, a serial entrepreneur and industrialist who built, led, and exited Able Aerospace – a company he grew from 3 to 500 employees with 15 consecutive years of 20 percent compounded average annual growth. After selling Able Aerospace for 9-figures to publicly-traded Textron Aviation, Lee committed himself to helping other leaders achieve similar results. HE founded ETW, where he now helps senior leadership teams work better together at improving their organization’s most important number. His main focus is to help leaders develop intentional, high-performance cultures that are driven by key performance metrics. In this wide ranging conversation we explore how Lee built a fully integrated aerospace maintenance giant and how he's now empowering other leaders Execute To Win.

Able Aerospace

Vertical Integration

Extreme Ownership (Book)

The Great Resignation

About Our Guest

Follow Lee on LinkedIn, here.

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The world is changing rapidly and dramatically. We are ALL witnessing a collision of economic, political, technological, social, cultural, spiritual, and other powerful forces that we have not seen in modern human history (or possibly ever). The Next Frontier Podcast is THE forum to help you explore, converse, and learn about how our current frontier is evolving and how the next frontier is taking shape. From pro-freedom innovation resources and technology to rethinking where stuff comes from, we are driven to give you the ideas, tools, and information that are fundamental to maximizing YOUR freedom and flourish as YOU lead the way into the Next Frontier. If you’d like to stay up-to-date with and support our tactical and strategic insights, please subscribe here.

20. Cam Adair | Gaming and Digital Addiction

In this episode, we sit down with Cam Adair, Founder of GameQuitters.com to break down how digital and gaming addiction are shaping our world and the Next Frontier. Gaming and more broadly digital addiction affects nearly all young people in today's world. After learning from this conversation with Cam, I believe that understanding gaming addiction is critical to understanding a wide range of significant global trends - including increased rates of mental illness, the United State’s labor shortage, and the Free World’s ongoing Cold War with China.

Every Game Company That Tencent (China) Has Invested In

The Great Online Game

The Sabbath (Book)

Hadza Hunter-Gatherers in Tanzania (Video)

Joe Polish’s Genius Recovery

Americans Prefer Not To Know Where Their Stuff Comes From - NY Post

About Our Guest

Follow Cam on LinkedIn, here.

Follow Cam on Twitter, here.

Follow Cam on YouTube, here.

Learn more about Cam on his website, here.

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The world is changing rapidly and dramatically. We are ALL witnessing a collision of economic, political, technological, social, cultural, spiritual, and other powerful forces that we have not seen in modern human history (or possibly ever). The Next Frontier Podcast is THE forum to help you explore, converse, and learn about how our current frontier is evolving and how the next frontier is taking shape. From pro-freedom innovation resources and technology to rethinking where stuff comes from, we are driven to give you the ideas, tools, and information that are fundamental to maximizing YOUR freedom and flourish as YOU lead the way into the Next Frontier. If you’d like to stay up-to-date with and support our tactical and strategic insights, please subscribe here.

Where Stuff Comes From Kickoff (A Short Essay)

Formally launching the Where Stuff Comes From series of the Next Frontier Podcast with this short meditation and essay.

Antifragile: Things that Gain From Disorder (Book)

Thanks A Thousand: A Gratitude Journey (Book)

The Substance Of Civilization (Book)

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The world is changing rapidly and dramatically. We are ALL witnessing a collision of economic, political, technological, social, cultural, spiritual, and other powerful forces that we have not seen in modern human history (or possibly ever). The Next Frontier Podcast is THE forum to help you explore, converse, and learn about how our current frontier is evolving and how the next frontier is taking shape. From pro-freedom innovation resources and technology to rethinking where stuff comes from, we are driven to give you the ideas, tools, and information that are fundamental to maximizing YOUR freedom and flourish as YOU lead the way into the Next Frontier. If you’d like to stay up-to-date with and support our tactical and strategic insights, please subscribe here.

*CORRECTION: In this episode we reference the “second industrial revolution”, when in fact we meant to reference the “fourth industrial revolution.”

What’s New With The Next Frontier Podcast in 2022

A short solo riff giving clarity and focus as we explore the Next Frontier together and enter the new year.

Resources Mentioned & Other Links of Interest

The Fourth Turning (Book)

The Changing World Order (Book)

Russel Brand - The Great Reset: Conspiracy or Fact? (Video)

Joe Rogan On The Metaverse (Video)

Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse Presentation (Personally I find this development creepy)

Elon Musk on AI (Video)

The Singularity Is Near (Book)

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The world is changing rapidly and dramatically. We are ALL witnessing a collision of economic, political, technological, social, cultural, spiritual, and other powerful forces that we have not seen in modern human history (or possibly ever). The Next Frontier Podcast is THE forum to help you explore, converse, and learn about how our current frontier is evolving and how the next frontier is taking shape. From pro-freedom innovation resources and technology to rethinking where stuff comes from, we are driven to give you the ideas, tools, and information that are fundamental to maximizing YOUR freedom and flourish as YOU lead the way into the Next Frontier. If you’d like to stay up-to-date with and support our tactical and strategic insights, please subscribe here.

CORRECTION: In this episode we reference the “second industrial revolution”, when in fact we meant to reference the “fourth industrial revolution.”

19. Ori Saar | Innovating How The Israeli Defense Forces Innovate

When Your Invention Becomes a Weapon

Ori Saar served in a wide range of innovation roles inside of the Israeli Defense Forces. This episode pairs well with our previous Defense Innovation episodes, #8 Brain ‘Beam’ Maue and #13 Prescott Pauling. We dive into Ori’s experience building innovation infrastructure for the Israeli Air Force and then for the Israeli Defense Force’s planning directorate. Next, Ori shares his take on what innovation really means and why defense innovation is so important. Since we recorded this episode around the time of the last round of the last round of substantial rocket fire from Gaza into Israel, Ori provided his unique perspective on how terrorist adoption of innovation and technology necessitates even more rapid and streamlined innovation processes. To wrap up, Ori shares reflections on his time in the IDF and his transition out of his military service.

Resources Mentioned & Other Links of Interest

DIY Drones

Hamas Underwater Drones Attacks

Iron Dome Missile Defense System

The Secret Plan of Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi: To Establish An Innovation Division

Inauguration of Shiloah Innovation Unit

About Our Guest

Follow Ori on LinkedIn, here.

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The world is changing rapidly and dramatically. We are ALL witnessing a collision of economic, political, technological, social, cultural, spiritual, and other powerful forces that we have not seen in modern human history (or possibly ever). The Next Frontier Podcast is THE forum to help you explore, converse, and learn about how our current frontier is evolving and how the next frontier is taking shape. From pro-freedom innovation resources and technology to rethinking where stuff comes from, we are driven to give you the ideas, tools, and information that are fundamental to maximizing YOUR freedom and flourish as YOU lead the way into the Next Frontier. If you’d like to stay up-to-date with and support our tactical and strategic insights, please subscribe here.

18. Mike Howard | Where Does Our Energy Come From?

Interactive map of pipelines in the United States

In this extremely timely episode, we sit down with Mike Howard, Chairman and CEO of Howard Midstream Energy Partners, to develop a deep understanding of where our energy comes from. Since we recorded this episode, the United States experienced a substantial cyberattack on of its largest fuel pipelines that should awaken the country and the world to the importance, criticality, and fragility of our energy stuff-chain. Scalable, reliable, resilient, and sustainable energy sources and infrastructure are critical to human flourishing, the modern high-tech economy, and our high-speed society. Throughout the conversation, we dive into what energy is, how oil and gas enable human flourishing, recent innovations in where we source our energy, and so much more.

Resources & Links Mentioned

The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels (Book)

How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom (Book)

Enlightenment Now (Book)

A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations (Book)

Energy and Civilization: A History (Book)

Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All (Book)

The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations (Book)

The Laws of Thermodynamics

About Our Guest

Howard Energy Partners on LinkedIn, here.

Howard Energy Partners Website, here.

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The world is changing rapidly and dramatically. We are ALL witnessing a collision of economic, political, technological, social, cultural, spiritual, and other powerful forces that we have not seen in modern human history (or possibly ever). The Next Frontier Podcast is THE forum to help you explore, converse, and learn about how our current frontier is evolving and how the next frontier is taking shape. From pro-freedom innovation resources and technology to rethinking where stuff comes from, we are driven to give you the ideas, tools, and information that are fundamental to maximizing YOUR freedom and flourish as YOU lead the way into the Next Frontier. If you’d like to stay up-to-date with and support our tactical and strategic insights, please subscribe here.

17. Pini Althaus | Where Do Rare Earth Elements Come From? Our Technological Life-Blood.

Critical Minerals Blog #1

Critical minerals are found in nearly every high-tech product we use today. For example, an iPhone is made of over 40 different elements found in dozens of different as-mined critical minerals (e.g. the rocks that come out of the ground). Right now the United States relies on our chief adversary, China, to supply nearly 100 of some of the most important critical minerals. Take for example, the rare earth metals, scandium, and graphite. In this episode I explore a key component of achieving American Minerals Independence: opening new mines for critical minerals. To do this, I sat down with Pini Althaus, CEO of USA Rare Earths. Pini is a mining executive with decades of experience capitalizing and setting up new mining operations. USA Rare Earths is building an integrated mine to magnet rare earth supply chain located fully in the United States.

Resources & Links Mentioned

Critical Minerals Blog #2 - Rare Earth Supply Chain Disruptions

USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries

Groundbreaking!: America's New Quest for Mineral Independence (Book)

Covid and Rare Earths

What are NEO Magnets?

Matthew Mcguahnehy GOLD Movie

Colorado School of Mines

About Our Guest

Pini on LinkedIn, here.

USA Rare Earths on LinkedIn, here.

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The world is changing rapidly and dramatically. We are ALL witnessing a collision of economic, political, technological, social, cultural, spiritual, and other powerful forces that we have not seen in modern human history (or possibly ever). The Next Frontier Podcast is THE forum to help you explore, converse, and learn about how our current frontier is evolving and how the next frontier is taking shape. From pro-freedom innovation resources and technology to rethinking where stuff comes from, we are driven to give you the ideas, tools, and information that are fundamental to maximizing YOUR freedom and flourish as YOU lead the way into the Next Frontier. If you’d like to stay up-to-date with and support our tactical and strategic insights, please subscribe here.

16. Namrata Goswami | Space: A Key Innovation Resource In The Cold War With China

Right now, the most important geopolitical competition since World War II, is unfolding between China and the United States. As a result, we need to start to ask Where Does Our Stuff Come From? Asking this question and building an understanding of this great power competition is essential to safeguarding our most important innovation resource: our ability to actually produce stuff. In this episode, we explore some of the high-level strategic moves that are unfolding right under our noses in the ongoing cold-war between the United States and China, and the implications that these moves have for entrepreneurs, industrialists, and innovators. To do this, we talk to Namrata Goswami, an author, strategic analyst and consultant on Great Power Politics, Space Policy, Alternate Futures, and Frameworks of Conflict Negotiation and Resolution.

***Correction: During the conversation, we reference that private companies need to PAY to access the United States’s Global Positioning System. So, to be clear: GPS is completely free and maintained by the US space force (and formerly the Air Force Space Command). You can learn more about how GPS works on www.gps.gov.***

Resources & Links Mentioned

Namrata On “Where are we with China?”

Namrata Goswami Ted

Starlink Beta Video

BeiDou and Belt and Road

US - Taiwan Relations

The Expanse TV Show

A Strategy of Technology (Book)

Moonrush (Book)

The Case For Mars (Book)

About Our Guest

Namrata on LinkedIn, here.

Namrata on Twitter, here.

Namrata’s books on Amazon, here.

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We are seeing an unprecedented wave of innovation resources that are empowering innovators, entrepreneurs, and industrialists, to build & create with (1) higher fidelity, (2) lower cost, and (3) greater speed than ever before. A key piece of this innovation puzzle is learning to ask Where Our Stuff Comes From. Through the Next Frontier podcast and blog series, I explore precisely where to find these resources and how YOU can efficiently and effectively utilize each resource to execute on your vision. If you’d like to stay up-to-date with these tactical and strategic insights, subscribe here.

15. Keith Gargiulo | Digital Transformation

Now more than ever, entrepreneurs, innovators, and industrialists must be equipped with the language of digital transformation. In this episode, Keith Gargiulo and I take a tactical approach to digital transformation. As a Vice President at PTC, one of the world’s leading digital transformation technology companies, Keith is one of the best people to help decipher and convey how you can implement digital transformation at all levels of your organization. Through the lens of digital transformation, we dive into Keith’s lifestyle as a serial innovator and business-mind, both within PTC, in several private ventures, and through his generous volunteer work.

Culture of SaaS Tee Shirt

PTC

Industry 4.0

Teamster’s Union History

The 6 D’s of Disruption

Vuforia View (Apple | Google)

Vuforia Chalk

Vuforia Expert Capture

OnShape for Education

Software As A Service

FIRST Robotics

The US Ranks Third In Graduating Engineers

The Kill Chain by Christian Brose

Defy Ventures

CASA

About Our Guest

Keith on LinkedIn here.

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We are seeing an unprecedented wave of innovation resources that are empowering innovators, entrepreneurs, and industrialists, to build & create with (1) higher fidelity, (2) lower cost, and (3) greater speed than ever before. Through the Next Frontier podcast and blog series, I explore precisely where to find these resources and how YOU can efficiently and effectively utilize each resource to execute on your vision. If you’d like to stay up-to-date with these tactical and strategic insights, subscribe here.

14. Marissa Brassfield | Ridiculously Efficient Communication Superpowers

Learn How To Be Ridiculously Efficient

A core competency for any entrepreneur, innovator, or industrialist is not only the ability to efficiently and effectively communicate in a wide range of media formats, but to swiftly paint a thrilling, compelling, and visionary narrative for a range of different audiences (your team, your investors, and your customers). In this episode, Max sits down with Marrisa Brassfield to dissect how Marissa (1) built up her world-class communications superpowers, (2) curates a Ridiculously Efficient lifestyle, and (3) uses her world-class skillset to transform how we educate the next generation.

Resources Mentioned & Other Links of Interest

Ridiculously Efficient

Xploration Center

Joseph Campbell’s The Hero With A Thousand Faces (Book)

Strategic Coach Entrepreneurial Time System

Strategic Coach Impact Filter

Peter Diamandis

Genius Network

Tim Ferris Four Hour Work Week (Book)

krisp.ai

Ray Kurzweil Law of Accelerating Returns

Stanford Behavior Design Lab

Kolbe Index

Ad Astra Nova School

Upland Hills Learning Community

About Our Guest

“[Marissa] has created strategies, launched products, organized experiences, and recruited small teams that have collectively driven hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for Fortune 100 executives and global leaders like Peter Diamandis. As an international event producer and showrunner, her stages have been the intellectual playground of leaders like Ray Kurzweil, Tony Robbins, Arianna Huffington, Tom Bilyeu, and executives from Microsoft, Uber, HTC China and IBM Watson.”

Marissa on Twitter, here.

Marissa on LinkedIn, here.

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We are seeing an unprecedented wave of innovation resources that are empowering innovators, entrepreneurs, and industrialists, to build & create with (1) higher fidelity, (2) lower cost, and (3) greater speed than ever before. Through the Next Frontier podcast and blog series, I explore precisely where to find these resources and how YOU can efficiently and effectively utilize each resource to execute on your vision. If you’d like to stay up-to-date with these tactical and strategic insights, subscribe here.

13. Prescott Paulin | The Defense Innovation Network

Prescott Paulin is a Marine Corps Veteran, entrepreneur, and United States Defense Innovator. We dive deep into how and why Prescott built the Defense Innovation Network to help companies improve their technology to benefit our military. Prescott also explains how thought models - John Boyd’s OODA Loop, Design Thinking, and many others - help him become a more effective innovator and entrepreneur. Next, we explore how Prescott’s family business, 300 Below, and his life-changing cardiac arrest incident. To wrap up this wide-ranging conversation, Prescott dives into resources for how every person can gain the skillsets that they need to stay prepared and ready to save their life and the lives of others.

Defense Innovation Network

AFWERX Fusion Event

300 Below

Design Thinking

2018 Innovation Focused National Defense Strategy

OODA Loop

Marine Corps Officer Candidate School

Marine Corps Auto Skills Shop

What Universities Do Well

Defense Innovation Network Virtual Summit

Story Brand

Small Business Innovation Research Grants

Pass Base Passport Verification

Beta Technologies

Prescott’s Harrowing Cardiac Arrest Story

The Readiness Collective

About Our Guest

Prescott on LinkedIn here.

Learn more about The Defense Innovation Network here.

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We are seeing an unprecedented wave of innovation resources that are empowering innovators, entrepreneurs, and industrialists, to build & create with (1) higher fidelity, (2) lower cost, and (3) greater speed than ever before. Through the Next Frontier podcast and blog series, I explore precisely where to find these resources and how YOU can efficiently and effectively utilize each resource to execute on your vision. If you’d like to stay up-to-date with these tactical and strategic insights, subscribe here.

12. Dan Kuschell | Growth And Failure Are Powerful Innovation Resources

Dan’s Podcast: Growth To Freedom

In this episode of the Next Frontier Podcast, Dan Kuschell shares unique insights into the psychology and marketing of entrepreneurship and innovation. We dive deep into mental models for succeeding as an entrepreneur, tools that Dan uses to thrive as a Dad and sports coach, and how Dan became an expert copywriter. Finally, Dan dives into one of the most often overlooked pieces of the innovation resource puzzle: how risk-taking innovators can start fresh with bankruptcy laws in the United States.

Resources Mentioned & Other Links of Interest

Dan’s Website

Tony Robbins Turning Your “SHOULDS” into “MUSTS”

Tim Ferris: Rig The Game So You Can Win It

Creating an irresistible offer

Give And Take by Adam Grant (Book)

Adam Grant: Are you a giver or a taker? (Talk)

Bankruptcy - Investopedia

Different Type of Bankruptcy

DABDA - Dealing With Grief

Think And grow Rich By Napoleon Hill (Book)

Strategies for Learning from Failure

Tom Hopkins

Malcolm Gladwell 10,000 Hours

Breakthrough 3X

About Our Guest

“Dan Kuschell Helps Entrepreneurs Build, Grow, and Multiply their Sales and Profits! Dan has over 25 years of experience building 11 companies, coaching over 5,329 small business owners, selling multiple companies, and a bestselling author of multiple books, and more... Through his work, he has become well known for creating and advancing momentum for small business owners, entrepreneurs, speakers, coaches, and authors. Dan brings simplicity to today's complexities to help you avoid the pain of the day to day operations. He's often been referred to "The Easy Button" for entrepreneurs desiring to gain more clarity, confidence, and capabilities."

Dan on LinkedIn

Dan’s Podcast

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We are seeing an unprecedented wave of innovation resources that are empowering innovators, particularly young innovators, to build & create with (1) higher fidelity, (2) lower cost, and (3) greater speed than ever before. Through the Next Frontier podcast and blog series, I explore precisely where to find these resources and how YOU can efficiently and effectively utilize each resource to execute on your vision. If you’d like to stay up-to-date with these tactical and strategic insights, subscribe here.

11. Eswar Anandapadmanaban | Building A Premier Mixed-Reality Hackathon

MIT Reality Hack Hackathon

This wide-ranging conversation with Eswar Anandapadmanaban takes us from his roots winning the Google Science Fair, to studying at the Massachusettes Institute of Technology where he invested time in a wide range of projects and internship experiences (at companies including NASDAQ and IDEO), through his award-winning mixed reality work for the US Air Force, and finally, back to his time driving MIT's premier global mixed-reality programs.

Resources Mentioned & Other Links of Interest

Eswar’s Website

VR/AR @ MIT

What is a hackathon?

PTC

Waypoint Labs Acquired By PTC

MIT Online Courses Free (OCW)

Samsung Next Accelerator

WebXR

NASDAQ Innovation Lab

IDEO CoLab

IDEO Designed the first Apple mouse

Eswar Win’s Air Force Competition

AFWERX Challenges

Model UN

7 Amazing Google Science Fair Projects

TheraNIM: A Touchless Respiratory Monitor.

ISEF Science Fair

About Our Guest

Eswar on LinkedIn.

Eswar’s portfolio.

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10. Gopika SenthilKumar | Becoming A Medical Scientist & Pioneering A Culture Of Undergraduate Innovation

Gopika’s Next Frontier Event Talk

During her Bachelor’s degree, Gopika SenthilKumar founded the student product design organization, Insight Wisconsin, and drove the establishment of the multi-million dollar UW Makerspace. After graduating with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Gopika is pursuing her combined M.D. and Ph.D. Beyond maker-centric innovation, Gopika shares her extensive in-lab research experience. Finally, we explore how Gopika built her public speaking skillset bringing her to the TedX and UW-Madison graduation stages. Recorded in May 2019.

Resources Mentioned & Other Links of Interest

Gopika’s TedX Talk

M.D. / Ph.D.

University of Wisconsin-Madison Biomedical Engineering Program

UW Madison Makerspace

Insight Wisconsin

Product Design

Shadowing Doctors

Internet Of Things Lab

MCAT

Mock Trial

Lego Mindstorm

MIT Integrated Design & Management

United Way Philanthropic Youth Award

Form Labs 3D Printers

How To Win Friends And Influence People (Book) By Dale Carnegie

Who Moved My Cheese (Book) By Spencer Johnson

About Our Guest

You can find Gopika on LinkedIn here.

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9. Lennon Rodgers | Engineering Design & Innovation Labs Around The World

In this episode Lennon Rodgers, Director of the Grainger Engineering Design Innovation Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Lennon shares how he pioneered the world-class design and innovation programs at MIT in Boston, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich; the Bern University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland, the Skolkovo Institute in Moscow, Singapore University of Technology and Design, and most recently, the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Throughout the conversation, we explore how Lennon used to travel as a resource to build his diverse and unique experience and skillset. Finally, we dive into case studies of Lennon’s hands-on experience building technologies in aerospace, electric vehicles, and automation.

International Design Center @ MIT

UW Madison Makerspace

NASA JPL

MIT Electric Vehicles Lab

NASA SPHERES

Universal Docking Port and Video-based Docking Sensor

Integrated vs Modular Design

Cubesats

Charge (Isle of Man documentary)

Isle of Man Motorcycle Race

SUTD-MIT International Design Centre

Apply to work at the UW-Madison Maker Space

UW-Madison Design + Innovation Masters Program

Integrated Design and Management Masters Program @ MIT

GE Six Sigma Strategy

IBM Design Thinking Programs

Product Design and Development, 6th Edition (Book) by Steven Eppinger

About Our Guest

You can find Lennon on LinkedIn here.

You can find a comprehensive portfolio of Lennon’s projects here.

You can learn more about the University of Wisconsin-Madison Makerspace here.

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8. Brian "Beam" Maue | All About AFWERX & US Military Innovation

In this episode, Max sits down with Brian “Beam” Maue, co-founder of AFWERX. This wide-ranging conversation dives deep into the frontline innovation happening throughout the United States Air Force. Beam details his innovation philosophy and how he goes about innovation empowerment while sharing hyper-exciting stories of innovation throughout the history of the United States Military. Finally, Beam elaborates on the incredible innovation resources available to entrepreneurs and innovators from all walks of life -- industry, academia, and military -- and how they can get involved with AFWERX.

The Declaration of Independence

ROTC

The Base of The Future Challenge

The Berlin Airlift

The DIY Commercial Drone Industry

Beam’s Holistic Happiness Udemy Course

Beam’s AFWERX Fusion Talk “Four Key Principles To Drive A Culture Of Innovation”

About Our Guest

Brian “Beam” Maue is a founding-father and the first president of AFWERX.

“[Beam] leads a talented, nationally-dispersed mission team who connects innovators and creates accelerated technological and cultural agility for the 680,000 military and civilian members of the United States Air Force. Their AFWERX fusion of capabilities includes a system of "open to the public" innovation hubs, a virtual collaboration network for Airmen, and a network of innovation offices across Air Force bases.”

You can find Beam on LinkedIn here.

You can learn more about AFWERX here.

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Introducing The Next Frontier Thesis

The Next Frontier Thesis

Today’s front-line innovators, entrepreneurs, and creative core (all whom if not already will be tomorrow’s leaders) grow up and learn their craft, not through the traditional academic system (in which many are enrolled), but through a complex web of innovation-enabling resources and infrastructure.

Over the past 20 years, since the dotcom boom, we’ve seen the rise of the novel, memetic innovation tools, infrastructure, and incentives. These innovation tools have helped “entrepre-neers” (entrepreneur + engineer) create billion-dollar-plus companies, billions of dollars of economic value, and save millions of lives.

For example, ever-popular hackathons started in the heat of the dotcom bubble on June 4th, 1999 in Calgary, Alberta when the earliest open software community OpenBSD held the first-ever hackathon. Then in 2005, Make Magazine published its first issue, marking a formal starting point for the powerful maker movement. That same year, the thread continues to Y-Combinator: the first-of-it’s-kind startup accelerator.

These and so many more pieces of the puzzle are critical to the unprecedented wave of innovation we are seeing today.

Through the Next Frontier Podcast, I am attempting to break down the complex web of resources enabling not only rapid innovation but the rapid training of innovators.

I hope that the episodes that follow serve as a hyper-tactical road map for young entrepreneurs, innovators, and creators at the start of their journeys. Further, I aim to emphasize and dive into actionable ways that seasoned entrepreneurs, the corporate world, and other established institutions can tap into the lively energy of young trailblazers through this same complex web of core-level innovation infrastructure. And finally, I hope that this thesis serves as a north star for parents looking to give their kids the competitive edge of resourcefulness, knowing what resources are out there and how to use them.

Knowledge and awareness are power; please listen on to take the power that is rightfully yours.

Ad Astra,

Max Goldberg

One more note….

For the next several weeks, I will release a queue of recorded conversations that I have been building up. After that queue is exhausted, I will publish episodes as they are recorded. You can check out the first half-dozen already released episodes at www.maxwellgoldberg.com/podcast.

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We are seeing an unprecedented wave of innovation resources that are empowering young entrepreneurs to create with (1) higher fidelity, (2) lower cost, and (3) greater speed than ever before. Through the Next Frontier podcast and blog series, I explore precisely where to find these resources and how YOU can efficiently and effectively utilize each resource to execute on your vision. If you’d like to stay up-to-date with these tactical and strategic insights, subscribe here.

7. Taylor Waddell | The Maker Movement, Makerspaces, and Make-athons

Maker Community & Virtual Reality at NASA About This Episode

In this episode, Max sits down with Taylor Waddell, a manager, designer, and student maker for the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Makerspace, and co-founder of 2twenty5, a Madison-based student-maker consulting group.

Insights Shared

What is a maker?
How do you get better as a maker?
What is a makerspace?
How can maker students and the business community collaborate for networking and other opportunities?
How businesses can tap into the vast thinking and technical power of college students

Highlights of the Episode Becoming a Maker

[2:00] How did you get into making?

[5:40] Taylor shares how he made the leap from an interested high school junior to newbie maker

[7:06] Building a Maker Portfolio

[8:30] Experiences within the maker community

[13:34] Experiences in a makeathon

[16:00] Building connections with student makers and the business world

[21:08] Why companies should get involved with student makers and makerspaces

[23:40] How can students leverage makerspace to develop their own career

Making: From Minecraft to Virtual Reality at NASA

[27:20] Getting into NASA

[31:11] What was it like working at NASA?

[35:43} What’s the most important thing you’ve learned from NASA?

[39:10] What are you most excited about it right now?

[48:17] Why Minecraft sparked his birth as a maker

Key Quotes from Our Guest

“It’s always the community. That’s always the focus of a makerspace.”

“The makespace embodies such a variety of different technical backgrounds.”

“It’s almost guaranteed when you walk into that [a makerspace] that you’re going to learn something that you didn’t know before.

“The main thing with makerspace is people and that environment…It’s all about community.”

“For NASA, you’re just given a full-on project.”

“One of the most satisfying things about programming is that it’s just so easy to make mistakes and correct them.”

“ I always wanted that job that made you feel like a part of something bigger.”

“I can guarantee that almost everyone is a maker.”