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Doctor Deirdre B. Mendez, is an intercultural consultant, speaker, and author who helps U.S. companies and their international partners resolve culture-based problems. A former business consultant, Deirdre is now Associate Director of Cultural Programs at the McCombs School of Business. Her book The Culture Solution facilitates self-guided problem-solving for international business people. Learn more at http://www.deirdremendez.com/

Tom Bilyeu used to be 60lbs overweight, wore pajamas with jester hats in public, recently his mom admitted that she thought he was going to wind up being a failure (more on that in the podcast), despite all that, he managed to form an amazing support team (which of course includes his wife Lisa), evolve into the co-founder of the ginormous Quest Nutrition company, and become co-founder and host of Impact Theory. From the creators of the breakout series Inside Quest comes Impact Theory™, a new weekly interview show that explores the mindsets of the world’s highest achievers to learn their secrets to success. Hosted by Quest Nutrition co-founder Tom Bilyeu, Impact Theory is designed to give people the tools and knowledge they need to unlock their potential and impact the world. They release new episodes every Tuesday.

We interview Sergio Gonzales, is the Head of Innovation Programs at eBay, he created the eBay memory club to inspire others in the highly competitive world of Silicon Valley to take up memory training as a way to expand their abilities. A long time lifehacker, Sergio is always looking for different strategies to improve life and is responsible for Farrow Memory's mission statement, 'to make practical memory available to the masses.'. On 4/15/17 Sergio is helping to host the FREE US Memory Tournament at eBay Main Street, 2025 East Hamilton Ave., San Jose, California 95125. On April 15, students, professionals, memory amateurs, and memory record holders from all over the country will come together in San Jose to learn the secrets to a record-breaking memory and then join the competition! Moments of Progression With Moments of Celebration There will be five events in this game, cash prizes, and the winner will be ranked internationally! Refreshments provided. There will be 5 events in this game: Speed Numbers, Binary Memory, Word Lists, Speed Cards, and Names & Faces. Before each round, there will be a mini-seminar/workshop on memory techniques for each specific game. Guinness Record Holder for Greatest Memory, Dave Farrow, will show you how to get 3x the average score on memory tests, memorize a deck of playing cards, and easily recall numbers, names, and faces. Practice your new skills and challenge yourself to a friendly and fun competition among peers! Farrow Memory Tournaments pit competitors against each other in head-to-head matchups where perfection is the goal. Even one mistake can lose the match so it is exciting to participate in and fun to watch! Show Note Links: US Memory Tournament Dave Farrow https://twitter.com/totalrecallman Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All, by Tom Kelley et al. The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses The Back of the Napkin (Expanded Edition): Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures

We interview Luke Brown, Founder of Fitness Hardware. "ABLE is a multi-directional fitness system designed for a total-body workout. The highly engineered design combines a spinning grip for the hands with built-in foot cradles for use on the feet. Perfect for challenging pushup and body-weight chest fly movements as well as a number of shoulder, back, core and leg movements." - From the Fitness Hardware website.

Picks of the Week: All of Google’s cloud database services are now out of beta Google is discontinuing Google+ Hangouts On Air on September 12, pushes users to YouTube Live The stuff we really need is getting more expensive. Other stuff is getting cheaper. Intel says new USB Type-C spec will ease headphone jack loss / Here's everything you need to know about USB-C and Thunderbolt Speed Round: Google is Killing Chrome Web Apps on Windows, Mac and Linux The Daily Distiller Hits Your Daily Inbox with News and a Drink Researcher Grabs VPN Password With Tool From NSA Dump Music and @intel #RealSense brought together for this Kickstarter Tips of the Week: Type Nugget An online typesetting tool that plans to give you fine control over web typography Here's our Gmail tips extravaganza, with good stuff for just about everybody. save-as-ebook A Chrome/Firefox/Opera Web Extension for saving a web page/selection as eBook in epub format. Sponsor/Partners/Events: Dreamforce ’16 | October 4-7 2016 | San Francisco, CA Mileage Tracking App | Automatic, Easy, Smart Mileage Log | MileIQ code NERDSTALKER20 Music Startups - Enter the SF Music Tech Summit Startup Pitch Competition | October 17 Wine Stalker with Sawyersomm.com

Picks of the Week: Why Your Digital Virtual Assistants Will Need a Virtual Manager Ben Carson Wants to Make a NASA for Cyberattacks UC bosses installed spyware and are snooping on Cal professors How Twitter could be 10X bigger, 100X more profitable, and 1000X more awesome Speed Round: The unbeatable poker playing machine Kids Express What Space Means to Them Mitsubishi's SeaAerial turns fountains into antennae Make a 1985 Teddy Ruxpin into a 2016 Model with this hack Tips of the Week: How to use Google Maps when you don't have a connection Skadi – self-hosted Trello alternative with a 10 second installation Readable Mileage Tracking App | Automatic, Easy, Smart Mileage Log | MileIQ Entrepreneur Tools Events: Foodbytes goes to Brooklyn

Nerd Stalker and Johnny Mota talk all thing CES 2016.

Picks of the Week: Everything Google is working on for the new year but more importantly what Adolfo is looking to. Mozilla To Shut Down Firefox OS Smartphone Initiative, Find Out Why! Carmakers fret their industry is on the brink of huge disruption State of the US Urban Bike Culture Ad Tech Is the Worst Thing That Ever Happened to Advertising Speed Round: Smart motorcycle headlight lights the way around corners San Francisco Office Rents Pass Manhattan as Most Expensive in Country 15 interesting startups to watch in 2016 New wave in tech: hacking the brain Tips of the Week: Kickstarter Unboxed - FLUXO - the World's First Kickass Light Fixture Jamstik Nerdy Events: 1.20 - SFNT @ Mighty! With PingPad, Affectiva, VapExhale, JobSpeaker, Evlo, and more! 1.20 - IoT TechMeeting Powered By The OIC

Adolfo and Greg share the best gift guide picks for 2015.

Adolfo and Sophia talk all things kid tech, forgive all the "ums" and "like's". Minecraft Crazy Craft Star Stable Just Dance WolfQuest Makies and Makies Fablab Animal Simulators Amazon Echo Zoomer Screen time discussion diverted. Emojis why? Animal Jam

We interview the voice of the Chicago Fire and Illini and now entrepreneur. Tim has a new service that allows you to record high quality audio for podcasting and other things.

Want legal help at any time of the day on your mobile? QuickLegal promises this and more. QuickLegal connects you with a vetted legal counselor for quick advice via video almost like having the phone number of a trusted lawyer. We interview Derek Bluford, CEO and Founder of QuickLegal, who describes his new mobile legal service. Give it a listen.

Trying to create a global workforce for your company? Thinking about moving part of your company overseas? Stressed about managing an overseas team? We talk with Marla Rausch who has answered many of those questions in creating her company, Animation Vertigo, and maintaing it for over 10 years. Marla gives you 6 tips to help you create and maintain a global workforce.

Travel interrupts our naturally scheduled programming and is an easy scapegoat for not maintaining a healthy lifestyle as well as being out of touch with our friends, families and jobs. Gear up for 2014 with these 10 apps and gadgets to help make your travel experiences exciting and productive. We talk with Melissa Thompson, frequent coast-to-coast traveller and CEO of online counseling service - TalkSession, about her top tech ways of make traveling easier for 2014.

We were lucky to attend the keynote at the 2014 Apps World North America conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. This event features talks in Development of Apps, Droid Apps, Games Development, Mobile Payments and Retail, Mobile Marketing, HTML5 and API Strategies, TV and Mulitscreen and Enterprise. Also, over 200 exhibitors had booths to display their services. The keynote was an interview of Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak by Wired's Mat Honan. Listen to see what Steve has to say about innovation, security, and opportunities for app developers.

Nerd Stalker interview Dennis List of Dutch startup Rocki, forgive the video quality we were at the mercy of hotel lobby wifi.     Rocki has created a very clever small and lightweight device that can jump on wireless networks and execute instructions via the web to play audio to any speaker it's connected to. Want to connect speakers all over your compound? Just connect more Rocki's and your all set. With Rocki you can have more than one phone controlling the music and create a music queue together, think dj battle. The silicon like cover comes in seven different colors and (as of this post) the device is sold for the very less than Sonos price of $49 (plus version) or $89 (play plus version). The device can fit in the palm of your hand and is extremely light.     Some future plans for Rocki are to solidify some partnerships with as many music providers as possible, think Spotify and the others. Also they say they will eventually release an open API for you developers out there. We love that Rocki has effectively commoditized wireless home theatre systems for the middle class.

Nerd Stalker interview with Dan Shapiro inventor of Robot Turtles. Robot Turtles is a board game you play with your favorite 3-8 year old kids. It sneakily teaches the fundamentals of programming. Robot Turtles launched on Kickstarter, where it became the bestselling board game of all time. Which is pretty darn amazing. The Kickstarter campaign is over. 1,500 copies went up on the Make Magazine store and they sold out in 8 hours. Now there are a few copies at http://buy.robotturtles.com. For you Robot Turtle aficionados make sure to get the e-book here. We must admit that we secretly bought Robot Turtles under a private name so as to experience the whole fulfillment process like a general consumer would. We received it prior to the holidays despite the hot demand for the game. I sprung Robot Turtles on my six year old daughter who was thrilled with the game. In no time she ran through the basics then I quickly had to make the game more elaborate then event more elaborate. Credit to the RT team the game grows with your kid, we were initially very skeptical and not too optimistic as we have heard claims of games like this before that just never worked, this one does.Watch the interview above for the full story however we are continuing to enjoy and play the game, we recommend the game and give it two thumbs up.  

Picks of the Week: Biometric headset increases game difficulty for angry players bit.ly/1eooxpr (Stuart Robards | Gizmag) Amazon Wants to Ship Your Package Before You Buy It on.wsj.com/1cSXD55 via @PSFK (Greg Besinger / WSJD) Amazon Considering Online Pay-TV Service http://on.wsj.com/1dSIvcm (Sharma, Ramachandra and Clark | WSJ D) 13 Things You Can Actually Buy With #Bitcoin feedly.com/k/1kH6MYq (Kevin Smithg / Complex Tech) Man Interrogated By FBI For Wearing Prescription Google Glass At The Movies http://read.bi/1cT56RC (Jim Edwards | Business Insider) Twitter Gets Serious About Social Shopping bit.ly/1cP6THl (Jennifer Elias / Fast Company Labs) Speed Round: "70,000 healthcare.gov records hacked" claim turns out to be Google results http://bit.ly/1cSV7Mj (Rob Beschizza | Boing Boing) Motorola lowers price of bamboo Moto X, more natural finishes coming January 21st bit.ly/1dtZKQ5 viA (Chris Welsh / TheVerge) LogMeIn discontinues its free remote desktop service http://t.co/auPa97pGm5 (Brad Linder | Lilliputing) VLC for iOS gets a new UI, Dropbox, Google Drive support, and more bit.ly/1f237PD (Janko Roettgers / GigaOmTech) Tips of the Week: GluePrintTurn any mockup into a floating guide, and visually align pixels with ease. http://glueprintapp.com/ Using GIF Brewery: Tip of the Week: Deal With It: the art and science of creating GIFs buff.ly/1dSI6qrI (T.C. Sottek and Thomas Houston / TheVerge) Events: 1/31-2/2 3D Printer World Expo http://www.3dprinterworldexpo.com/ AppsWorld Feb 5-6 http://www.apps-world.net/northamerica/index.php 3/9-13 - OFC 2014 Conference http://www.ofcconference.org/ Macworld / iWorld 2014 March 27-29 Moscone North SF http://www.macworldiworld.com/ SF New Tech @ MacWorld/iWorld “6 about to break” http://is.gd/XlauLA DEMO April 3, 2014 Mission Bay Conf. Center, San Francisco http://www.demo.com

Hey makers, there's another event to satisfy your palettes. The 3D Printer World Expo is coming January 31 through February 1 in Burbank, California. So much happening in the 3D printing world - cells, houses, and Jello. We interview Joe Micallef, Education Director for the first 3D Printer World, on what to expect at the 3D Printer World Expo.