HIGHLIGHTS

03:06 Klowt: Starting from her bedroom corner with no plan B

09:54 Anchoring life on business while going through the trials of divorce

15:38 Navigating inappropriate conversations on LinkedIn 

20:20 Amelia started a successful food business selling to stoners in school

26:18 Leaving university, hating employment, and starting a B2B women's wear brand

33:44 Pre-Klowt: Growth on social media and offering free tips to everyone

37:13 Build personal brands: Interviews, content, and the fear of visibility

44:33 A lack of outreach and growing organically

47:02 Work with Amelia 

51:44 The future of Klowt is to own the personal brand category

QUOTES

14:21 Steve: "Women tend to nurture more than men and they care more and their work is more diligent. Men tend to, I'm not saying this is all the case, be more fast-paced, bold, and miss the details. And in this job, the details are everything."

17:28 Amelia: "It's annoying and it's totally unfair that some men feel they can approach women that way. Many women wouldn't do that. Like the percentage of men that get approached by women on social media platforms versus the percentage of women is so different." 

24:10 Amelia: "There's a lot of stoners at this school, like a lot of people smoke weed... oh, I could sell cookies. So I started making cookies and brownies and cakes and sandwiches... And I'd set up this little table right outside the door where these stoners would come back in after smoking... and every Wednesday I'd be sold out."

42:26 Amelia: "I really, really, really believe like intrinsically in my soul that the future of branding is personal. And so, the way you see the world going with influencers and people like Elon Musk completely changing stock prices just based on a single tweet, personal branding is going to be the next everything."

45:50 Amelia: "We are hardwired to avoid discomfort, and putting in hard work in stuff is uncomfortable particularly when you're putting out your opinions and being your complete self on LinkedIn or Instagram or Tiktok or whatever, because you have to be."

Learn more about Amelia in the links below:

• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ameliasordell/
• Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ameliasordell/
• Website - https://klowt.io/

Find out more about Steve and TIDAL by visiting the links below:

• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenwschmidt/
• Website - https://www.risewithtidal.com/

HIGHLIGHTS

01:12 Philosophy as a job again: Solving people's problems as a coach

05:21 Making people healthy at work, the place and time they spend most of it

08:11 A refilling job gives back more than you give: A better you makes others better by

proximity 

12:25 Humility: A result of confidence in knowing who you are to appreciate others 

17:44 Clients as accountability partners and letting go of those who undermine culture

20:03 The value of money and improving companies by improving the people in it

24:58 Connect with Vaney

QUOTES

01:54 "Make philosophy a job again. When you think about the Aristotle, Socrates, and all those types of folks, the idea of there was someone trying to absorb and process the enormity of the human experience. It's one of those things where we have just devalued that so much."

05:36 "We believe that we can better the world by improving the way people live through a proven way people work. The average person is at their job 80% of their adult years in 60, 70% of their waking hours. If the person is not being made a better human there, what are the chances they will ever be a better human?"

08:40 "Everybody wants a fulfilling job. But the truth of the matter is, is that anything that can give you fulfillment is going to take from. It's going to take your time, it's going to take your energy... it's going to take from you. So what you're really looking for is a refilling job."

12:01 "You can only be humble if you are confident because when you're confident, then you have the room and the space to be thoughtful about how you feel about other people. But when you're not confident, when you're insecure, that's when you are self-centered."

19:34 "The value is not in the money, it's in what you can do with it. So we ask people, don't do it for the money, do it for what the money does. I'm not doing this stuff for money. I'm not doing it for a house. I'm doing it to create a home."

Learn more about Vaney in the links below:

• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/vaney/
• Website - https://letsthink3d.com/
• Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/think3dsolutions/

Find out more about Steve and TIDAL by visiting the links below:

• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenwschmidt/
• Website - https://www.risewithtidal.com/

HIGHLIGHTS

02:41 Think 3D Solutions: Leadership development and organizational coaching

04:22 Growing up with adopted siblings: Trauma-filled but taught compassion

11:29 Teach context in the struggle: Let kids launch where we land

14:55 Sioux Falls police chief Jon Thum and having conversations that matter

19:59 Unconscious bias: Being "color blind" actually makes it difficult to see racism

23:44 White privilege: Fighting unconscious bias with conscious intention

27:12 Think globally, not just for yourselves, and solve the problem for the community
 

QUOTES

04:47 "If you're good with people in a world filled with people, you're going to be all right. And I just always kind of known that." 

06:52 "We lived in a household, kids who went to extreme levels of trauma or have some type of developmental disability. And so, when you are growing in those environments and you start to realize that some people are in circumstances where they might require more love than you."

10:07 "Most of the issue that people actually have is not even in extreme abuse that most of them went through, physical, mental, and all those other type of things. The things that scars people deep, in my experience, is the abandonment."

25:29 "The way you fight unconscious bias is through conscious intention. It is saying when you hurt somebody with your words, you didn't intend to, but you didn't intend not to. And so you left a space for the unintended to happen."

26:26 "Hurt people hurt people, and people who don't have enough, take. So if you want a good community, heal the hurt and make sure people have enough. That's the basic tenets of keeping people out of your garage."

Learn more about Vaney in the links below:

• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/vaney/
• Website - https://letsthink3d.com/

Find out more about Steve and TIDAL by visiting the links below:

• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenwschmidt/
• Website - https://www.risewithtidal.com/