The grey Ave Podcast

""Begin with the end in mind"- Peter Saddington. Peter Saddington is a Scientist, Entrepreneur(with2 private exits) ,Cryptocurrency Enthusiast and Investor. Published author of 2 books, various industry publications, and blogger on software development, board member, advisor, and Angel Investor in startups at various stages. In this episode we covered: - Education & Learning (College or not) - Startups, Scrum and agile (Read his book) - He started 14 startups and 10 of them failed - Parenting - Disciplined and lifestyle - Work life balance Peter's book: https://www.amazon.com/Agile-Pocket-Guide-Making-Business/dp/1118438256 This is a two part episode, please make sure you check out the next one on Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies.

Dylan Kardashian/Musanhu is a social media personality, aspiring film maker, social media expert, graphic and web designer from South Africa. He gained his fame after an interaction with Nicki Minaj on social media. He currently works with highly ranked celebrities like Khanyi Mbau among others doing social media. He recently built a mobile App for Khanyi Mbau which you can download here https://www.mykhanyimbau.com/digital In this episode, we discuss: - His early career beginning - Current state of social media - How to crush social media - Social media business Dylan's website:

Color Theory is the musical alter ego of American singer-keyboardist-songwriter Brian Hazard. Hazard has released nine studio albums, nine EPs, three remix collections, and one set of demos to date. His latest album Adjustments was released on May 27, 2016. I have been trying to get hold of Brian and it was worth the wait. This conversation was absolutely amazing to me, I hope you enjoy it too. In this episode, we covered: - The current state of music - Longevity - His early years - The creative process - Deep work - Social media and much more. Check out his website: http://colortheory.com/

While I was in Johannesburg, I got lucky to meet Matt Brown. An entrepreneur and one of the top Podcasters in South Africa right now. I've been looking forward to meet this man to talk about podcasting, marketing etc. A friend of mine Jonny Eaglefeather connected us and BOOM! It happened in a day. You see the power of networking? Right from the beginning, I was a student in this conversation, all I could do was listen, take notes and ask questions. Matt Brown is an entrepreneur, speaker and the founder of the global media platform the Matt Brown Show. He is also the CEO of Digital Kungfu, a strategic business consultancy that specializes in helping companies accelerate innovation and disrupt traditional markets by enabling them with new ways to do business that serve their customers more effectively and responsively. I know you'll enjoy this.

On my quick trip to Johannesburg, I was fortunate enough to meet Marcello Schermer. Was recommended by many as a go to guy when it comes to Startups in Africa. He is massively involved and in touch with what's going on across the continent. Marcello's passion lies in building scalable products and platforms to help entrepreneurs in Africa succeed. In his previous role as regional manager for Africa at Seedstars World, he worked on analyzing over 20 entrepreneurship ecosystems on the continent while finding and supporting the best local startups and connect them to the right investors, partners and countries to fuel their growth. In this episode, we discuss: - The current state of entrepreneurship in Africa - Progress - Challenges so far - Startups that stands out - What African governments are doing - Cryptocurrencies Some startups mentioned: http://www.flyzipline.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9XIq_MrE58

With a circus of things happening altogether in my life. I thought, I should share the hustle. I just moved into a new house, sold my car to invest in cryptocurrencies(Bitcoin,ether etc), working on my startUp idea and putting together a team for my business. I'm sure someone out there will find this helpful. Enjoy and share.

Tomas Laurinavicius is a lifestyle entrepreneur and blogger from Lithuania. He writes about habits, lifestyle design, and entrepreneurship. Right now, He is traveling the world with a mission to empower 1 million people to change their lifestyle for good. He's also a contributor to Forbes and huffingtonpost. In this podcast we covered: - Lifestyle design - Self awareness - Productivity tools hacks - Relationships - Personality traits. Links: Tom's website - Lifestyle designed Links to tools mentioned: Wunderlist Boomerang To do list G suite Spark email Myer briggs type indicator

Carl Visagie is the founder & CEO of KnektMe. A proximity based networking tool that uses Bluetooth technologies in order to power it's discovery of other users within a certain area. Carl has an unusual and fascinating background. Dating back to his nomadic childhood, high school, trading stocks, Minecraft to StartUps. After this conversation with Carl, I learned that it's all not by accident. He puts the work in and he's constantly learning while experimenting. In this episode we covered: - Knektme(His App) - His story - Major turning points/motivation/books - Education (Should I go to college or not) - Self awareness - Choosing careers - His long term goals Links in show notes.

Baratang Miya is the CEO of GirlHYPE Coders that empowers girls to pursue careers in STEM and had been chosen by the US State Dept’s in 2015 TechWomen program as an Emerging Leader. She was placed at Adobe for mentorship during her TechWomen 2015 award. She also serve on the Silicon Cape Exco as head of Transformation. I was the 1st runner up for MTN Women In ICT Community Builder Award 2016. She partnered with organisations like UN Women, Mozilla, TechWomen, SiliconCape and Technovation to develop women's digital literacy and participating on the web. She is also a judge for Inspiring50 http://www.inspiringfifty.com/ In this podcast, we discussed: - Girlhype - How she got started - Myths & stereotypes - Her travels. Links: Website - http://girlhype.co.za/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/baratang-miya-1270a99/

I have always been fascinated by Magic. It really drive me nuts. Whenever I see Marcel Oidejans, David Blaine or any other magician doing their thing, I feel very small. That's why I had to meet Marcel for a chat. Marcel Oudejans has over 20 years of experience working in the meetings, events, and conference industry, as a specialist corporate entertainer and speaker. He is one of only a handful of presenters in the world who is able to provide a bespoke, custom-designed presentation for conferences, gala dinners and corporate events. Marcel is also the founder of the Cape Town Comedy Club. For links visit my website.

Have you ever really wanted to do something but every time you even thought about doing it you just got stuck? Most people will give up on their dreams before they even try. It’s not because we’re lazy or incapable. It’s because we’ve got ghosts in our way. Some are haunted by the ghost of public humiliation, rejection, failure or even success. All are terrifying, but the only thing more terrifying than ghosts is not trying. Melissa Haynes is an author, shark and animal advocate, adventurer and ghostbuster - www.melissajhaynes.com

Susan Bennett has told the story of how she became the voice of Siri without realizing it – at the time, she thought she was making the recordings for an automated switchboard system. In fact, she didn’t even find out she had become Siri until a friend played with an iPhone and recognized her voice.

Riana Lynn is a leader in food technology and innovation and a STEM mentor. Her work has been featured in Forbes, USA Today, Essence, Entrepreneur Magazine, Inc and more. Riana is the founder and CEO of Food Trace, a technology company that deals with food supply chain. She also worked with Google, The White House as well as consulting for a number of companies in the United States.

Katlego is the co-founder & CEO of Yoco, a hot financial technology company in the electronic payments space based in South Africa . Yoco offers an easy way for small businesses to securely accept card payments which has been a challenge for SMEs in South Africa. More about Yoco: www.yoco.co.za/journey Other podcasts like this one: EP#28 STEVE DISTANTE – LESSONS ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP #48 – EXPLORING TEA WITH LADY BONIN

In this episode. Grey brings back Paul Dinin the Bitcoin geek to talk about Cryptocurrency. We covered Blockchain, Bitcoin, Ethereum, shared ledger, peer to peer sharing, encryption and more. My goal was to cover the very basics and simplify it as much as possible for anyone to understand and I hope I did a good job on that. We also talked about some unrelated subjects like Tinder, Paul's childhood, some of which cringe worthy. I hope I don't embarrass myself. Other episodes with Paul: http://www.greyjabesi.com/travel/bitcoin/ LINKS: To learn more about Cryptocurrency follow the links below: http://www.coindesk.com/ http://www.cryptocurrency.net/ https://cointelegraph.com/ You can find Paul's music playlist here https://www.spotify.com// Enjoy and share