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📍Capturing the NY Startup ecosystem one episode at a time.
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5 | Palak Vani : All In-House ~ Destroying the Stigma of Mental Health

Wantra PodcastJun 18, 2019

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5 | Palak Vani : All In-House ~ Destroying the Stigma of Mental Health

5 | Palak Vani : All In-House ~ Destroying the Stigma of Mental Health

We are back from our hiatus with a very exciting episode! 

In this interview, I sat down with Palak Vani - founder and CEO of Curated Goals and author of Vlnrbl. Curated Goals is a phone coaching enterprise that helps clients that are struggling with anxiety and stress. In this episode, we talk about her origin story, the difficulties associated with innovating in such a unique industry, and how she has dealt with building and handling all aspects of her company. I hope you enjoy this one as much as I did. 

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Editing/Mixing/Engineering by: Justin Saintil | @jfsaint_

Original Music Produced by: Woodshelm | @woodshelm

Jun 18, 201941:27
OnTheSide w/t Zuhayeer Musa & Nour Eldifrawy

OnTheSide w/t Zuhayeer Musa & Nour Eldifrawy

 Who says social media is a wormhole? While scrolling through my Twitter feed (@justinsaintil), I came across a gif of two people sending rap lines to each other. I follow some innovative accounts, so on the daily I run through the gambit of seeing the new decentralized technologies, uses for the sexy magic leap, voice platforms, etc — but when I came across a way to send rap lyrics to your friends, I stopped what I was doing and immediately contacted the founders. Like all great things in this world, Rapbits (@spitrapbits) started with students freestyling in their room and has now grown into a beautiful application that allows for users to send bits of music to their friends. I video-conferenced the co-founders, Zuhayeer (@zuhayeer) and Nour (@nour_eldifrawy), to talk about how a midterm procrastination project turned into a dorm room venture, how the bay area mindset has rocked the campus of UC Berkeley, new projects, and much more on this episode of #OnTheSide!   

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4 | Vasu Kulkarni : Don't Tell MJ ~ The Musings of a Sports VC

4 | Vasu Kulkarni : Don't Tell MJ ~ The Musings of a Sports VC

What do you tell your employees when your bank account is empty and payroll is tomorrow? What do you tell MJ when you find yourself sitting next to him at his Birthday party uninvited? In the first ever recorded episode of Wantra, I sat down with investor, founder, UPenn compsci major who can't code, bucket-getter, and blogger, Vasu Kulkarni. Vasu is the managing partner and co-founder of Courtside Ventures, a Dan Gilbert backed 35 million dollar fund focused on early stage sports companies. This is a special episode. Follow the podcast on Instagram & Twitter @wantrapodcast. Please subscribe, share, rate, and support the show on Anchor.fm! Editing/Mixing/Engineering by: Justin Saintil | @jfsaint_ Original Music Produced by: Woodshelm | @woodshelm
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