Tiny Little Victories

On this show, we dive into a topic that people either love or hate: Needles. Needles aren't new to the world—50,000 years ago, they found evidence of bird bone needles. Needles went from bones to metal to plastic over decades. In the 1960s, the US military gave vaccine needle-free injections with high-powered compression. But it wasn't simple. You had to stand still while the compression gun was applied as the technician pulled the trigger.Now, consider this: imagine all the waste that plastic needles make: the needle, the syringe, the little plastic coffin it lives in, and the latex gloves needed for each injection. Try Googling the cost of a needle's lifecycle, and you won't be able to find it. Medical waste is a global problem. Earth.org reported that the COVID-19 pandemic was a public health crisis and an environmental crisis. An estimated eight million metric tons of plastics enter the ocean annually. According to a WHO report, the medical waste accumulated during the pandemic increased plastic pollution in the oceans tenfold. Our guest, Lea Milovich, CEO and co-founder of Flowbeams, knows we can do better and says it's time for a new way to inject micro fluids—needle-free injection using lasers. Lea shares her journey from business innovator to CEO, her never-ending curiosity, and her desire to ensure great technology gets out into the marketplace._________Tiny Little Victories is a Storyology production.Listen on the Acast platform, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Amazon MusicFollow the show on our website and LinkedIn or Jennifer's X accountCreated, produced and hosted by Jennifer Kite-Powell

Here's a shocking fact: 11% of all greenhouse gas emissions come from materials in the construction industry. What if you could shift that number? Imagine you could do that with fungi and a mycelial network.In this episode of Tiny Little Victories, meet concerned citizen and entrepreneur Joanne Rodriguez, CEO and founder of MycoCycle. She is tackling the construction waste problem with fungi. Joanne shares her journey on her discovery and idea of using fungi to break down construction waste to remove toxins from construction waste and transform it into valuable low-carbon, bio-based construction materials. Think about it: roofing material being dumped and just sitting there rotting. Then along comes fungi, which do their natural thing of reducing the toxicity of materials and transforming what they consume through biosorption, bioconversion and biodegradation. Joanne shares why she founded the company, how she never stops learning about what fungi can do and how she believes that a bio-circular economy can change our world. Follow Joanne at Green Girl Now on LinkedIn.Watch: Transforming Waste with Fungi on Re:TV ___Tiny Little Victories is a ⁠⁠Storyology⁠⁠ ⁠production.We are proudly hosted on the Acast platform. Please listen, rate, comment and follow Tiny Little Victories on⁠ ⁠Acast, Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠ , and everywhere you listen to podcasts.Connect and follow us on the social at Tiny Little Victories ⁠⁠⁠on ⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠.⁠Tiny Little Victories is created, produced and hosted by ⁠⁠Jennifer Kite-Powell. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

On this episode of Tiny Little Victories, Briar Prestidge, CEO of the Prestidge Group, drops by for a chat about the future. From a small town in New Zealand to a Web3 evangelist, Briar is an entrepreneur like no other. She is an advisor for Interpol on their investigations and forensics team; she made an award-winning documentary, 48 Hours in the Metaverse; she has an avatar fashion line on Roblox, the Hyperscale podcast, a new reality-style docu-series, Cyborg to Be, and ... wait for it ... an RFID chip implanted in her hand. She believes that no answer lasts forever, and that's why we have to ask questions to get answers that lead us to the future. You can follow Briar on her socials: LinkedIn, Twitter, InstagramHyperscale podcast [watch]Cyborg to BeWraps for Oculus QuestOltair World48 Hours in the Metaverse [watch]______________________Tiny Little Victories is a Storyology production.Listen on the Acast platform, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Amazon MusicFollow the show on our website and LinkedIn or Jennifer's X accountCreated, produced and hosted by Jennifer Kite-Powell⁠⁠

Help me, André Smith, you're my only hope. Nothing is more iconic than the most famous hologram of all time—Star Wars, when Princess Leia was projected through R2D2, pleading for help from Obi-Wan Kenobi.In this show, we explore the power of holograms and how they can create more human connections. André Smith, co-founder and CEO of Holoconnects, shares how his company is making Holo technology user-friendly.Their Holoboxes are used in leading hotel chains for guest check-in and healthcare facilities like Crescent Regional Hospital in Dallas, Texas, which uses a Holobox to ensure patients in underserved areas have access to doctors. The company recently partnered with the UN to elevate the voices of people in emergency situations organized by CERF.André shares his story of the journey to create their incredible Holobox in a way that keeps the human connection alive.Read more about how Holoconnects is using holographic technology.Follow Holoconnects on LinkedIn, YouTube and Facebook and Instagram.Follow André on LinkedIn.____________________________Tiny Little Victories is a Storyology production.Listen on the Acast platform, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Amazon MusicFollow the show on our website and LinkedIn or Jennifer's X accountCreated, produced and hosted by Jennifer Kite-Powell

Shalene Gupta is a Minnesota-grown Boston-based writer with Chinese-Indonesian and Indian roots. She’s the author of The Cycle: Confronting the Pain of Periods and PMDD (Flatiron, 2024). She’s also the co-author of The Power of Trust: How Companies Build It, Lose It, Regain It (Public Affairs, 2021). The Power of Trust was nominated for a Thinkers50 Breakthrough Idea award.In 2022, Shalene was identified as a thinker to watch out for and made the Thinkers50 Radar list. She’s also the host of the Trustonomy podcast, which the Ambies nominated for excellence in podcasting.But that’s not all; Shalene is also a journalist. Her work has appeared in Fortune, The Atlantic, ESPN, Harvard Business Review, and TIME. She’s currently a frequent contributor to Fast Company.In this episode, Shalene tells us about her circuitous path to her successful career as a nonfiction writer, which includes giving up on writing fiction, getting lost in Malaysia, being lost on her return to the US, and stepping into her superpower—writing. She shares her feelings on what it means to be a writer today and comes full circle—writing her first fiction novel.If you have period pain or have been diagnosed with PMDD, you can buy Shalene's book and connect with her on her social channels if you want to share your story.⁠The Cycle: Confronting the Pain of Periods and PMDD⁠⁠ Connect with and follow Shalene on her social channels:On LinkedInAt Shalene GuptaOn TwitterOn ⁠Instagram⁠Buy her non-fiction book: The Power of Trust: How Companies Build It, Lose It, Regain It________Tiny Little Victories is a Storyology production.Listen on the Acast platform, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Amazon MusicFollow the show on our website and LinkedIn or Jennifer's X accountCreated, produced and hosted by Jennifer Kite-Powell

On this episode Pankaj Srivastava⁠, CEO of Renaissance Park, dropped in to talk with us about an ancient crop that can heal our soil, make stronger products, is recyclable, and helps bees pollinate better (who doesn't love that?). We're talking about a world where everything starts and ends with the benefits of what this crop has to offer the planet -- industrial hemp.Pankaj is considered to be one of the most analytical minds in the business, a gifted raconteur, a modern philosopher, and just a downright good human being who the world needs right now.In this episode, Pankaj shares his philosophy on why ‘yes’ is the way forward, how he judges his success by the amount of opposition he gets and how industrial hemp will make the world a better place. (there's also talk of a family trip to a tattoo parlour)But first, some hemp talk. Farming hemp uses less water (psst, we are in the midst of a water scarcity epidemic), it is more cost-efficient than cotton and it can be used to make bio-based plastics and construction materials. Hemp is stronger and more durable than wood, it’s recyclable and is priced lower than glass. In 1941, Mr. Henry Ford made a bioplastic Model T of hemp, flax, wheat and spruce pulp, making it lighter than fiberglass and ten times tougher than steel. So why aren’t we using it more? He's got the answer for that and you won't like it. (involves fat-cat industrialists, fear and greed)Grab a drink, kick back and enjoy his passion for why we have to change the status quo and how we think about industrial hemp.It all starts and ends with hemp. Get in the game and connect with PankajPankaj Srivastava, CEO of Renaissance Park Corp.LinkedInRenaissance Park Corporation:LinkedIn X Instagram: Let's Hemp It___________________________________________Tiny Little Victories is a Storyology production.Listen on the Acast platform, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Amazon MusicFollow the show on our website and LinkedIn or Jennifer's X accountCreated, produced and hosted by Jennifer Kite-Powell

In this episode of Tiny Little Victories, Rosa Schmidt, Founder of the Defem Agency in London, talks about why she wanted to help companies change the narrative on complex issues facing the world today.But for Rosa, her journey to storyteller was a byproduct of her quest to find meaning in her life.Guess what she did? Supported by her partner, family and friends, she packed up and moved to Thailand to learn Thai Boxing. Through that experience, this petite firecracker of a human being walked herself back into the stream and found her purpose. (And back in London, she is still boxing- fierce!)For Rosa, storytelling is more than changing a company's voice; it is about creating a story that connects with people’s humanity. Her belief is that we don’t have to keep doing what we have done in the past to make genuine connections between a company and its customers.Listen to this authentic conversation with a woman about her mission to bring more emotion to the world.Follow Rosa on LinkedIn and Instagram.Follow Defem Agency on LinkedIn________Tiny Little Victories is a Storyology production.Listen on the Acast platform, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Amazon MusicFollow the show on our website and LinkedIn or Jennifer's X accountCreated, produced and hosted by Jennifer Kite-Powell

In this episode of Tiny Little Victories, Dr. Max Gulde, the CEO and co-founder of constellr, takes us on his journey from scientist to CEO.While he was there, he created techniques for analyzing previously inaccessible material characteristics during hypervelocity impacts. And guess what? That helps us to improve our understanding of stellar formation processes, such as asteroids colliding with planets.Armed with a PhD in Physics, Max also created the first ultrafast low-energy electron diffraction instrument, which allows us to see cool stuff at the atomic level.Today, as CEO, Max passionately focuses on the challenges of a growing population, food security, and a rapidly changing climate with satellites and a little secret sauce. The company uses global land surface temperature data from space, which gives us a view of future potential damage to make better resource application decisions.His company is also creating the world's first chemical and physical bio-atlas. Can you imagine an entire data set of the earth based on carbon, water, and land temperatures? Game-changing!Constellr makes the invisible visible, so he's actually our new Ironman._______Tiny Little Victories is a Storyology production.Listen on the Acast platform, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Amazon MusicFollow the show on our website and LinkedIn or Jennifer's X accountCreated, produced and hosted by Jennifer Kite-Powell