Finding Genius Podcast

Priatek is breaking new ground by creating the world's only performance-based digital signage. The company has created a revolutionary new platform for advertisers to interact, engage, and sell products in the marketplace. The Priatek team builds turn-key prize promotions which run on a network of patented digital kiosks and a custom mobile app. Prize promotions, advertised on the digital signage, engage consumers in a unique and fun way. Consumers select an advertised product, compete to win products, and always receive a coupon that can be used to purchase the product directly from the kiosk, mobile app, local retail stores, or online. Industry changing innovations include the ONLY free-to-play prize kiosk and a platform that bridges the gap between the retail space and online. By becoming the premier aggregator of prize promotions, Priatek will award more prizes than anyone else in history. We've created a free and fun new way for consumers to win and save every time they play.

UTRUST is a ground-breaking payment platform that empowers buyers to pay with their favorite cryptocurrencies while providing the best consumer protection in the market. For buyers: Payment protection - We are the only payment platform that provides a protection mechanism in crypto payments, allowing you to pay with confidence. We minimize the risk of fraud, by acting as mediator, providing guaranteed buyer protection and payment coverage. For sellers: Minimized risk - Our blockchain payment system minimizes seller risk virtually to zero. Payments are made via blockchain. No more chargeback. No more stolen credit card and hacked accounts. Merchant Volatility Protection – Since buyers pay with crypto and merchants receive in fiat currency, merchants are not exposed to swings in crypto-markets. As a merchant, expand your market, reaching towards a new audience of cryptocurrency holders, and let us handle the conversion work while you focus on the marketing and revenues.

Skyllz is an open-source, public, blockchain-based and distributed skills validation platform that builds a universal and evolving Human Positive Skills Ecosystem changing the way we showcase and boost our talents. Skyllz is a project led by workkola.com and is based on the Skyllz Distributed Platform (SDP), a skill validation protocol that enables users to validate and empower skills acquisition, allocation, contextualization and boosting freely within and across Skills Touchpoints Applications (STapps) such as e-learning platforms, networking platforms, portfolio platforms, offline education platforms or any other platform that want to benefit from and add value to the Skyllz ecosystem. Users can validate their skills across STapps with Proof-of-Skill (Skyllz reputation) and finance their self-development with Skyllz Tokens. Visit skyllz.org to learn more about Skyllz.

Aaron Frank, principal faculty member at Singularity University, has an extensive background in life science and communication, with a specialization in augmented and virtual reality (VR). He researches and reports on trends affecting business. Singularity University is a global community that uses expanding technologies to take on some of the planet's greatest challenges. Through its extensive platform comprised of learning and innovation resources, Singularity intends to empower people to meet problems head-on and find solutions via a network of experts in AI, robotics, and digital biology. Frank recounts several stories of businesses that have seen incredible expansion due to virtual world technology, such as a billion-dollar real estate business that has completely adopted virtual activity, which allows for all their employees to gather online, from wherever they are in the world. But the environments are larger and more detailed than most would ever imagine, with interactive campuses that allow users to take on all sorts of activities in the virtual world. In business, and in play, Frank discusses how the technology has broken through to higher levels and provides users with vivid, intense experiences virtually. He gives an insightful look at the virtual worlds being designed today that allow users to experience big events, such as concerts and festivals, and even political debates, as an avatar, which enables them to interact and communicate with other avatars. And Frank outlines some of the newest technology being introduced by global giants such as Facebook and others. He provides an overview of Facebook's new Venues product, which utilizes 360 VR cameras to capture events. Facebook's entry into the VR space will allow users to enjoy live events such as major concerts, and sports, and attend premieres of big movies, all over the globe, and experience them with their friends from anywhere. And while VR technology is fifteen or more years old, the latest components that allow for real, multiple users shared experiences are only in their nascent stages. The technology expert details some of the other opportunities for VR environments, such as security and protection. Frank explains how we can expect the future of location and perimeter security to be 100% virtual, in that security personnel will no longer be doing foot patrols in actual space but will be walking a virtual space instead. As virtual worlds merge with the real world, the stuff of science fiction novels and movies will become our actual reality. Frank states that by design, Singularity University focuses only on the positive ways that technology can be utilized, but he acknowledges that negative applications of technology are certainly within the realm of possibility. Frank delves into some of the current concerns that many people have with technology advances such as privacy issues and a general fear of a surveillance state. And he points out that while VR is incredibly interesting and has many positive applications, VR environments offer little privacy in that everything that is done, looked at, etc. is entirely trackable. However, as Frank states, blockchain technology, which is essentially a list of records called blocks that are linked using cryptography, may deliver some additional privacy and anonymity that will allay users' anxiety. Ultimately, however, as networks expand and technology explodes, VR and augmented reality will become a regular part of our daily experience in business, and also for pleasure. And tech companies are racing to provide networks that have the processing power to keep up with innovative design as it advances at breathtaking rates.

Maritz Motivation Solutions believes that understanding people is at the heart of success in today's new normal. This people-centric approach is nothing new for us, but the way in which we're approaching it today is. We've partnered with leading scientists and top thought leaders from universities and businesses, as well as industry experts and our own clients to challenge the status quo by infusing discoveries in human behavior into our business solutions. Matitz is changed to more meaningfully connect with the people in your programs and help them achieve their goals – and yours – through innovative solutions in: • Employee Recognition • Sales Incentives • Channel Loyalty • Customer Loyalty • Rewards Programs • Fulfillment Making their lives better is how we help you improve your bottom line, and we encourage you to partner with us to get the better business outcomes you're seeking.

We all want to feel great, to have more energy, and enjoy life to the fullest, and while most of us know that our diets significantly contribute to this, many of us don't heed the call our bodies are making for better quality nutrition. But what if eating a healthy diet that provided more energy and that 'feel good' feeling didn't have to taste awful? What if we could eat delicious fats and still feel great? Alex Cunningham, Head of Partnerships at Perfect Keto (perfectketo.com), is a graduate of Villanova University with a BS in chemical engineering. Mr. Cunningham is an expert in health and nutrition and has consulted for many years in the field. His business, Perfect Keto, is a ketogenic nutrition company. The ketogenic diet is based on a low-carb intake for those who function best on a higher fat diet, one that increases their mental performance when they use fat for fuel instead of carbohydrates. Cunningham discusses how a large sector of the population never experiences scarcity such that the body needs to break down fat and run on ketones. Most people get their energy from carbohydrates, but as Cunningham explains, when the body runs on ketones, a higher level of energy is experienced. Additionally, those who do tap into their ketones often find that their mental clarity is expanded beyond their expectations. The nutrition expert gives an overview of some of the ketone products that his company, Perfect Keto, develops and distributes. Keto Base, for example, is a powder made from beta hydroxy-butyrate (BHB), and it contains zero carbs, gums, fillers, or sugars. Keto Base contains MCTs (medium-chain triglycerides), which is a vital source of energy for everyone. Cunningham explains that in regard to ketosis, calories should be delivered 75% from a fat source, 20% from proteins, and 5% from carbohydrates. However, this will only put someone into a fat burning space, and is not necessarily going to be the supreme answer for good health. As Cunningham notes, the end goal is not to be in ketosis, but is actually, simply, to feel great. He provides an overview of some changes that anyone can make in order to get their body feeling and performing at optimum levels. By cutting carbohydrates out, except for leafy greens, a body is able to thrive as you give it the stimulus to operate on its own fat. A ketogenic diet allows an individual to truly enjoy eating fats, but without those carbs that are dragging us down, and those who explore this lifestyle find that they are less hungry and more fulfilled. For those who may have an established vegan or vegetarian diet and prefer to continue eating their normal diet, exogenous ketones can still enhance their overall well-being. Perfect Keto's exogenous ketones are 100% vegan and vegetarian friendly with no dairy or animal products. Thus vegans and vegetarians can experience the same boost of energy and get that 'feel great' feeling that omnivores enjoy on a ketogenic diet.

Xcellbio has developed a proprietary cell control system for use in research, drug development and regenerative medicine. The founders discuss their work in the control of tumor cells, stem cells and immune cells. Xcellbio's main focus is the growth of primary human cells outside of the body, which can then be trained to attack disease-causing cells, then returned to the body to eliminate the disease. Their technology is currently in use for cancer research.

Perry Marshall, noted science author of Evolution 2.0, and electrical engineer by trade, leads us on an interesting journey through the science and theory of life itself. Marshall states that we are only just beginning to grasp the natural genetic engineering that is literally going on all around us daily. He explains how traditional theories quite often offer that occasional positive changes or mutations have the power to populate the earth with diverse life forms; however, this isn't accurate. According to Marshall, cells are actually re-engineering themselves all the time. Many traditional evolutionary theorists push forward their theories of randomness, that nature is stupid and purposeless, but Perry Marshall affirms that their theories are often rooted in an atheist agenda and are simply not true. According to Marshall, cells, plants, and animals are capable of evolving via their own innate intelligence. Marshall expounds upon classifications of genes, such as select genes that adjust to their environment. In fact, a cell can seek out another cell or cells that may offer the specific DNA that cell needs in order to build structures to advance its growth, or protect it from an intruding outside organism. Essentially, nature is exponentially more sophisticated than we are taught. But as we consider that nature itself may be intelligent, it brings to mind thoughts of where does this intelligence come from, and naturally this leads to a discussion of God. And the science author provides an interesting discussion on the relationship between science and God as he delves into historic regimes and their political doctrine. Lenin, Stalin, and Mao, for example, at the core of their dogma was the absence of God, and Marshall states that this was a necessary element of their rise to power. For dictators such as these could never have risen to power or maintained their power if forced to contend with religious scholars and people of faith in general. As such, religion was eradicated, churches were burned, and lives were destroyed in order for these despots to grab hold of the power they sought. Ultimately, as Marshall states, people who believe in God will never allow the government to even approach the power of God. And this is why regimes such as those mentioned, and others, seek to build their power upon a foundation of which faith is not a structural component. Error detection and error correction, cells have the capability for this and more. As Marshall states, evolution is essentially a software engineering problem, and when forced to deal with a stressful situation cells can innovate and actually reprogram themselves. And these cells, which function in the same way, control our immune systems and physiology. A cell in distress will seek out a partner, pull what it needs from that partner cell, and then reproduce daughter cells that solve the problem. In terms of efficiency, one bacterium can perform more programming in twelve minutes than a team of software engineers could perform in twelve weeks. With the push to advance AI and machine learning reaching a fevered pitch, Marshall states that we could perhaps benefit from simply studying cells. Biomimicry, which is the design and production of materials, systems, and elements patterned after biological organisms and their internal processes, is an accelerating field, as scientists have learned that the best ideas often come from nature. As an engineer, Marshall believes that true understanding cannot come until you can actually build it. With that in mind he relates the example of the creation of life, in that theories exist that arbitrary entities simply banged around against each other and then randomly created a cell. However, Marshall affirms that until they can produce an environment that can demonstrably create a cell on its own, that their theories of random creation of life simply are stories they've fashioned, and are not in any way based in scientific evidence whatsoever. The engineer discusses some of the various problems and impediments that could arise with gene editing in the coming years and how researchers' preconceptions can greatly impact advances. As Marshall imparts, in the long run, evolutionists underestimate the power of nature and creationists actually underestimate the power of God.

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Scott Amyx's book "Strive" shows how you can shape your life and your career, a life of fulfillment and joy, constantly creative and productive, one that always holds the possibility of delightful surprise. Amyx Ventures is an industry building-venture fund specific to countries and economic regions with its strategy pillared on incubating new transformational industries. The fund creates advanced IPs, develops technologies around those IPs, validates the business models and products with the market, and then launches startups when there are sufficient evidence of market fit and adoption.