With tax season being over, you know how much your investments cost in terms of tax losses.
Thankfully, there are ways to mitigate those losses next year.
In this episode, Brent Mekosh speaks with Sirion Skulpone, the managing director at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Sirion explains everything you need to know about direct indexing, tax management, investment planning, and capital gains.
Listen in as Sirion shares the strategies you need to leverage acceptable losses and focus on future gains while shedding light on the role of technology and data when it comes to supporting different investment alternatives.
Sirion discusses:
The truth about tax management
How investors can benefit from market volatility
Ways business owners can decrease the taxation on the future sale of their business through existing losses
Ways to incorporate existing stocks within your investment plan without a high taxation
Sirion Skulpone serves as the managing director at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. She’s also the head of client portfolio management, custom equity, and direct indexing.
Sirion is highly focused on client engagement and education, portfolio customization, business strategy, and product development.
Most electroencephalogram (EEG) machines require trained technicians and electrodes placed directly on the patients, usually with their heads shaved. The time it takes to prepare, do the test, and understand the results takes time away from the patient’s treatment.
But it doesn’t have to be like that anymore.
In this episode, Brent Mekosh speaks with Nate Hill, the territory manager at Ceribell, about the innovative EEG technology the firm focuses on and its future within the neurology industry. Nate reveals the problem with existing EEG machines and Ceribell’s approach to creating ease of use while considering the patient’s needs.
Nate talks about:
Ways Ceribell focuses on making EEG widely accessible, more efficient, and more cost-effective to improve the patient’s diagnosis and treatment
The problem with current neurological testing outside of banking and office hours
From a medical standpoint and the patient’s experience: Ways the firm differentiates itself from existing EEG machines
The lessons he learned from working in a startup company
Nate Hill is a Territory Manager for Ceribell, covering Arizona, New Mexico, and West Texas. He has extensive sales experience in Technology and Healthcare.
How much do you know about the cardiology industry?
Have you thought about how many opportunities you need to transition away from your current position and grow within this or any other field?
In this episode, Jay Shah, the Chief Medical Officer at Aktiia, joins Brent Mekosh to unveil the medical aspects behind cardiology and the heart. Jay details the utilization of technology within the medical industry while highlighting his journey from a secure position to exploring growth opportunities at a startup.
Jay discusses:
What made him get into the cardiology world
Heart diseases as ‘silent killers’
The importance of exploring new opportunities to grow professionally
Using numbers and data points to monitor our health and daily choices
Aktiia’s technological solution to track blood pressure patterns
How his role at a startup differs from his title role
The value of physician leadership within the healthcare industry
Jay Shah is a seasoned physician leader with over 15 years of progressive and diverse experiences in the medical field within academic, clinical, and teaching environments, as well as building medical businesses and service lines.
As the Chief Medical Officer of Aktiia, Jay is part of a transformative company empowering providers and patients to improve the diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment of hypertension. A condition that affects nearly 1 in 2 American adults and over 1 billion people around the world.
Technology has advanced almost to the point of doing our jobs for us. What will happen to human interaction without the human part?
In this episode, Brent Mekosh is joined by Geoff Hudson-Searle, Independent Digital Non-Executive Director, C-Suite Executive, Serial Business Advisor for Growth-Phase Tech Companies, and best-selling author. Together, they unpack the value of using technology to connect and not separate while detailing technology’s impact on human interaction and communication from a personal and professional perspective.
Geoff discusses:
How technology impacts trust within the workplace
Ways the pandemic advanced the use of technology
Why going fully digital isn’t a great idea
What does Gen Z look for in a business after growing up with technology
Geoff Hudson-Searle is an independent non-executive director across regulation, technology, and internet security, a C-Suite executive on private and listed companies, and a serial business advisor for growth-phase tech companies.
With more than 30 years of experience in international business and management, he is the author of five books and lectures at business forums, conferences, and universities. He has been the focus of TEDx and RT Europe’s business documentaries across various thought leadership topics and his authorisms.
Geoff is a member and fellow of the Institute of Directors, an associate of The International Business Institute of Management, a co-founder and board member of the Neustar International Security Council (NISC), and a distinguished member of the Advisory Council for The Global Cyber Academy. He holds a master’s degree in business administration.
Social media has become a staple in society, from young children to corporate executives. How can you build relationships with the people who can push you further through social media?
In this episode, Brent Mekosh is joined by Ella Mae, CEO of One Degree, on developing relationships through social media and connection building. Ella reveals how to start creating connections, tips to build relationships through direct messaging, and how to increase your viewer base.
Ella discusses:
How she became a Super Connector
The key to starting business relationships
Why relationship building is essential for young entrepreneurs
How she decompresses from technology with a social media-based business
Ella Mae is the founder of One Degree where she helps entrepreneurs who are scaling by connecting them with vetted vendors. She’s the host of The One Degree Show Podcast and loves spending time in nature in sunny Phoenix, AZ.
Law enforcement plays an essential role in keeping everyone safe.
But who would want to become a police officer if the entire system is labeled racist?
This week, Brent Mekosh is joined by Deon Joseph, a law enforcement consultant, and an LAPD Officer with over 25 years of experience. Deon shares the changes in public perception of law enforcement due to technology, specific events, and weakened laws.
Deon discusses:
How the perception of police officers has changed overnight
The fall of belief in law enforcement
The difference between police officers and other careers
Ways the law has negatively impacted police officers and their job
Officer Deon Joseph is a law enforcement consultant who has worked for the LAPD for over 25 years, twenty-three of those years in downtown Los Angeles’ Skid Row community. From patrolling the streets or providing a shoulder for the community to lean on to meeting with public figures and advocating for change, Deon is all about creating an environment for the homeless and those trying to reclaim their lives from the grip of addiction.
Long gone are the days of smokestacks in manufacturing steel.
Our current technology allows us to access environmentally conscious productions along with tools to reduce carbon emissions.
In this episode, Brent Mekosh is joined by Jeremy Flack, the founder and CEO of Flack Global Metals. Jeremy unpacks the steel manufacturing industry while revealing the changes to steel production and how technology has helped develop environmentally-conscious steel in the modern world.
Jeremy discusses:
The history behind steel manufacturing
The role of exportation when it comes to companies producing their products
Jeremy Flack is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Flack Global Metals (FGM). FGM is an innovative domestic flat-rolled metals distributor and supply chain manager, an international commodities trader, and a global hedge fund. As CEO, Jeremy has been an industry leader in bringing the physical steel market and the derivatives markets together within one organization. FGM is the first flat-rolled metals distributor business platform to combine physical material with financial futures to create certainty for its customers as well as FGM itself.
While improvements in technology create opportunities for many people, adverse reactions are equally abundant. From fear of competitors to transforming medical technology into recreational tools, there is a reality to accept when talking about artificial intelligence.
In this episode, Brent Mekosh and David Martin, founder, and president of Fantasy Interactive, continue their conversation onArtificial Intelligence (AI). They dive back into AI technology, discussing the current applications of technology and how advancement will change our interactions within the medical and entertainment fields. David shares examples of his interactions with virtual reality, and why AI technology advancements will move into recreational use.
David discusses:
What cybersecurity is from a technical standpoint
The perceived threat from competitors advancements in technology
How virtual reality provides opportunities for experiences
Why advancement in medical technology will also advance recreational opportunities
And more
Resources:
What You Should Know About Artificial Intelligence (AI) with David Martin (Ep. 9)
David Martin is the president and founder of Fantasy Interactive. Fantasy is a human-centered product innovation team that ships premium products and ecosystems for the world’s biggest.
Since launching the company in 1999, David has worked with some of the world’s most important companies, including Netflix, X-Box, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Spotify, MTV Ford, Samsung, Tinder, and masterclass.
We’ve all seen or heard of at least one rogue artificial intelligence movie, where the main character rises and stops the machines from taking over or destroying humanity.
But the reality of the technology is a little different from the silver screen.
In this episode, Brent Mekosh sits down with the founder and president of Fantasy Interactive, David Martin. David shares his experience in the digital world, what current AI looks and acts like and what the future holds for the technology.
He also reveals the importance of a democratic system established to maintain the morality and ethics of technology and the value of including such aspects in future advanced AI technologies.
David discusses:
Artificial intelligence technology outside of movies
The struggles of morality as technology evolves
What you should know about Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI)
How humanity evolves as technology takes over jobs
David Martin is the president and founder of Fantasy Interactive. Fantasy is a human-centered product innovation team that ships premium products and ecosystems for the world’s biggest.
Since launching the company in 1999, David has worked with some of the world’s most important companies, including Netflix, X-Box, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Spotify, MTV Ford, Samsung, Tinder, and masterclass.
