Starty Pants Podcast

Whitney Manney sat down with Sharice to discuss her Kansas City based fashion label. Such an interesting story and an area of entrepreneurship that many people could learn a lot from. The combination of creative and analytical sets Whitney Manney apart as an up and coming entrepreneur. Make sure to check out her work by following the links below: https://www.whitneymanney.com/ www.twitter.com/whitneymanney www.facebook.com/whitneymanney.wm whitneymanney.tumbler.com www.snapchat.com/add/whitneymanney www.instagram.com/whitneymanney Starty Pants features people who are breaking the mold of what an entrepreneur or start up founder looks like by highlighting people from diverse places and with diverse backgrounds. Search Starty Pants on iTunes and subscribe. You can also find the audio version of our episodes at - http://startypantspod.libsyn.com & https://soundcloud.com/starty-pants Find Us On - Twitter - www.twitter.com/startypantspod Facebook - www.facebook.com/startypantspod Instagram - www.instagram.com

Blue Corner, LLC, Founder and President Ben Nogueras took some time out of his busy schedule to sit down with Sharice on Starty Pants. Ben started Blue Corner over 10 years ago to highlight the talented midwestern fighters on high quality fight cards. Blue Corner offers a platform for boxers, kickboxers, grapplers and mixed martial arts fighters to showcase and test their talents.

Starty Pants Episode 10 with Paula Guinn the Executive Director of MINDDRIVE. MINDDRIVE is a Kansas City-based, 501(c)(3) organization with an educational, STEM focused perspective that serves high school students from around the Kansas City Metro. Using project-based learning and adult-to-student mentoring ratios of 2:1 as the backbone of their after school program, they teach problem solving, critical thinking, and collaboration through math, science, technology, innovation and communication, giving students deep-level experience with real world applications. Paula shares thoughts on what growing an organization with a lot of potential is like and also what sustainability of a social enterprise is. Be sure to check out MINDDRIVE on their website and social media: http://minddrive.org/ www.facebook.com/minddriveorg www.twitter.com/minddriveorg

Michelle Samuel, Founder and President of SLUDTERA, a social enterprise based on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. joined us for our 9th episode of Starty Pants. She founded SLUDTERA to address the needs for resources for workforce development and entrepreneurial skills. Michelle shared how she came to discover the need for workforce development and entrepreneurial skills, why she was in the Kansas City area, and what she hopes to grow SLUDTERA to in the future. Make sure to check out the SLUDTERA website to learn more about the work they are doing in St. Lucia.   https://sludtera.wordpress.com/about/   Starty Pants features people who are breaking the mold of what an entrepreneur or start up founder looks like by highlighting people from diverse places and with diverse backgrounds.   Find Us On Our - YouTube Channel Twitter - www.twitter.com/startypantspod Facebook - www.facebook.com/startypantspod Instagram - www.instagram.com/startypantspod

Dalon Hardgraves, author of 3 children's books joined us for our 8th episode of Starty Pants. Check out this episode to hear about his journey to becoming an author. He never thought he would be an author but because of his desire to help children he ended up writing three children's books. Some folks might not necessarily think of an author as being entrepreneurial but there is certainly a spark of the entrepreneurial spirit in how Dalon approaches being an author and life! Starty Pants features people who are breaking the mold of what an entrepreneur or start up founder looks like by highlighting people from diverse places and with diverse backgrounds. Search Starty Pants on iTunes and subscribe. You can also find the audio version of our episodes at - http://startypantspod.libsyn.com & https://soundcloud.com/starty-pants Find Us On - Twitter - www.twitter.com/startypantspod Facebook - www.facebook.com/startypantspod Instagram - www.instagram.com/startypantspod

Matt Baysinger, Co-Founder and CEO of Breakout KC stopped by the Starty Pants studio to discuss starting an escape room company. Breakout KC is one of the country's leading escape room companies, now with 7 locations across Kansas and in 2 other States. Sharice and Josh (Starty Pants Founders) are obsessed with escape rooms so highlighting a new type of business they have been personally enjoying. Meaning they escape every time they try a new room. Make sure to check out Breakout KC's website and follow them on social media. www.breakoutkc.com Twitter - https://twitter.com/breakoutkc Instagram - http://instagram.com/breakoutkc Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/breakoutkc      

Joe Paiva, Co-Founder and CEO of GeoLearn, a Kansas City based geospatial education platform, joined us to talk about his company. GeoLearn provides dynamic and comprehensive continuing education courses for land surveyors and other geospatial professionals – with a new, fresh approach to professional learning.We recognize the need for not only credits for renewal of licensure and certification, but for opportunities to address emerging technology, innovations and business best practices, beyond the legal requirements, delivered in a dynamic way that resonates with learners. In short, GeoLearn offers content that educates, enlightens and enriches geospatial professionals at every level. Listen in and hear about how Joe had to shift his ideas about who his customers might be and what courses are most popular, hint it has to do with drones.  

We had the pleasure of interviewing Neish McLean, the co-founder and Executive Director of Transwave Jamaica. They are Jamaica's first non-profit organization solely dedicated to focusing on promoting the health and well-being of the transgender, gender non-conforming and intersex communities. During the interview, we got the chance to hear about the path to starting a much needed resource organization for people of trans experience in Jamaica. Neish discussed how they are creating spaces where people are able to be themselves. TransWave has evolved from a blog to an organization providing a full range of resources and services, including advocacy, a variety of trainings, and visibility campaigns. In fact, in the near future you will be able to purchase a Trans Active shirt to support the Trans Active visibility and wellness campaign. As soon as we have details about how to get your shirt we will share them on our blog and social media. Make sure to follow TransWave Jamaica online. https://transwaveja.org/ Tw

Carlanda McKinney, founder and CEO of Raaxo, an app based custom fit bra company. She sat down with us to speak about pivoting and what it's like speaking with investors who might not understand that there is a market and need for this type of product. Starty Pants features people who are breaking the mold of what an entrepreneur or start up founder looks like by highlighting people from diverse places and with diverse backgrounds. Search Starty Pants on iTunes and subscribe. You can also find the audio version of our episodes at - http://startypantspod.libsyn.com & https://soundcloud.com/starty-pants Check out our Indiegogo Campaign: https://igg.me/at/startypantspod/x/17... Find Us On - Twitter - www.twitter.com/startypantspod Facebook - www.facebook.com/startypantspod Instagram - www.instagram.com/startypantspod

For our third episode Liderman Duin, founder and CEO of Bluepoint2 a medical technology company based in Kansas City came to the studio to talk about his background, building his company and the importance of being a mentor. You can find out more about Bluepoint2 at www.bluepoint2.com. Starty Pants features people who are breaking the mold of what an entrepreneur or start up founder looks like by highlighting people from diverse places and with diverse backgrounds.

We had the chance to talk with Dan Smith and Charon Thompson about The Porterhouse KC. The Porterhouse KC is supporting entrepreneurs with limited access to the variety of systems that help folks launch successful enterprises. Starty Pants features people who are breaking the mold of what an entrepreneur or start up founder looks like by highlighting people from diverse places and with diverse backgrounds.

Starty Pants features people who are breaking the mold of what an entrepreneur or start up founder looks like by highlighting people from diverse places and with diverse backgrounds. Our first episode features Bek Abdullayev, founder and CEO of Super Dispatch.