This week Jepson has his friend Jordan Morrow, who have known each other for a while now in the data and analytics space. He helped pioneer and invent data literacy, which continues to evolve, so he now travels the world, speaking on it and helping companies and people out. Listen as Jordan and Jepson discuss subjects such as ultra running and the hero’s journey, the importance of learning from everyone, education and where it needs to change, and more about artificial intelligence. About...

In this week’s episode Jepson talks to David Hardoon, who is the Group Chief Data & AI Officer at UnionBank Philippines and Chief Executive Officer for Aboitiz Data Innovation. They talk about a few interesting concepts such as center of excellence and what that means, and then the importance of keeping and maintaining the momentum of your organization. They talk about the idea of taking risks and being happy, and the opposing concepts that we are wired for survival and avoiding risk,...

Justin Harnish describes himself as a creator, promoter, and problem solver that loves to deliver the hoped-for future who utilizes science, mindfulness, and storytelling in product development and product management to ensure success. Justin and Jepson discuss AI and its trajectory, and where it stands among actual consciousness, discussing whether it’s truly conscious or not and what it lacks in order to become truly conscious. Justin’s story 1:10AI race being driven by greed or empathy...

Today Jepson sits down with Erik Boduch, the CEO of Revcast, Founder of 24 and Up, and co-founder of Once and Always Pendo to discuss startups and various aspects that go into them such as the importance of blissful ignorance and why that is necessary to get a startup going. They talk about what a venture studio is vs what a venture capitalist is, the studio being more like a co-founder setup where they’re a lot more involved and it gives the early stage companies a lot more resources to help...

Today Jepson sits down with Erik Boduch, the CEO of Revcast, Founder of 24 and Up, and co-founder of Once and Always Pendo to discuss startups and various aspects that go into them such as the importance of blissful ignorance and why that is necessary to get a startup going. They talk about what a venture studio is vs what a venture capitalist is, the studio being more like a co-founder setup where they’re a lot more involved and it gives the early stage companies a lot more resources to help...

In this episode Jepson talks to Romain Fouache who is the CRO of Dataiku and who comes from a technical background. The cost of failure is going down and the ability to identify the failures beforehand is rapidly increasing, which is going to save companies so much more time in analyzing their data. “How do you give people the ability to do many things while feeling confident in the fact that the things that are done are the right things?” Romain gives some tips on the middle ground companies...

Today Jepson sits down with Ed Watal, the founder and principal of Intellibus, an IT strategy consultancy with 65 transformation consultants. Ed gives advice for IT strategy and architecture due to his business acumen and deep IT knowledge and he has also built and sold various Tech and AI startups. Jepson and Ed talk about self awareness and AI, and what makes us individuals and separates us from machine intelligence. They discuss World Digital Governance and rules and ethics that need to be...

Today Jepson talks to a good friend of his, Scott Paul, who has done a lot of great things and created various businesses, his first being a drone business in 2008 after he realized how useful these would be in a time when helicopters were more often used, but very costly. He spent all his money on this little startup and hiring an employee, but it quickly failed, which was rough, but it was a good first lesson in entrepreneurship. He immediately went from there to the next thing, creating...

Amy D. Grubb, Ph.D., is an internationally acclaimed leadership expert and speaker, currently advising the FBI on digital transformation. With 20+ years of experience, she has implemented change initiatives, advised C-suite leaders, and received awards for her contributions. Dr. Grubb is known for her expertise in organizational culture, performance, and coaching. Jepson and Amy discuss storytelling and the importance of using this tool to connect with audiences and gain the attention of...

Today Jepson talks with Caroline Rowland who is the founder of Egoli Media, an AI platform which enables creators to manage, repurpose, and store their digital content at low cost but with highly accurate search and distribution capabilities. They discuss Caroline’s companies and the journey she has taken to create these businesses that she now runs and continues to grow, and then the lessons and skills she’s learned along the way. Being a CEO can be a very lonely and difficult path, but a...

In this episode, Jepson interviews Briana Cavion, who describes herself as a student of life and focuses much of her work on supporting individuals who are interested in initiating a spiritual journey who want to understand the relationship between this finite moment and our infinite selves. Her focus is to help people who have reached certain levels of success that are seen as success in the eyes of the corporate, nationalist, modern environment, but still feel a vast sense of emptiness that...

In this episode Jepson interviews his sister, Jenny Taylor, who has worked as a molecular biologist and a wildland firefighter, and at several jobs that land in between wearing a lab coat and wielding a chainsaw. She got her online start during Covid when all the schools shut down and there was a big spike in demand for online educational content. Jenny then went on and created an amazing resource of online science courses for kids that parents can use to educate their children. She explains...

In this episode Jepson has a conversation with David “Gonzo” Gonzalez discussing topics such as “What is a good life?” and “Looking forward to the future without fear.” David dealt with a lot of social anxiety early on in their partnership, which made big events and social gatherings difficult, but he was eventually able to get past these fears and we talk about what he was able to do in order to get through it. We discussed the importance of art and creativity in maintaining purpose and...

Ben had the opportunity to speak with Sol Rashidi, a very accomplished entrepreneur and leader in the business world. Sol is the Chief Analytics Officer at The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. She has eight patents issued, 21 filed, and received CAO of the Year 2021, 50 Most Powerful Women in Tech, #4 in Top 20 CDOs award, 2020 & 2021 list of Global Data Power Women, and Top 100 Innovators in Data & Analytics. We discuss her various accomplishments in business and how incorporating...

In this episode, Ben Taylor interviews Jon Krohn, Chief Data Scientist at the machine learning company Nebula. Jon is a bestselling author of the book “Deep Learning Illustrated” and host of the podcast SuperDataScience. He has an Udemy course with over 100,000 students and his YouTube channel was recognized with the 2021 Data Community Content Creator Award for the AI/ML category. Ben and Jon discuss the ins and outs of artificial intelligence and the importance of taking risks in various...

Kumesh Aroomoogan, the co-founder and CEO of Accern, joins Jepson Taylor on this soulcast to discuss the unique dynamic between co-founders. Similarly to a marriage, co-founders should make sure they want to spend a long time together before they jump into a business. Kumesh has joined the ranks of Forbes 30 Under 30 for Enterprise Technology and is a major contributor to Forbes AI for Finance. They also discuss healthy ways to manage stress and dive into the gritty details of what a...

What drives you? Meet Chris Lynch, CEO of AtScale, Founding Investor of DataRobot, and driver of cloud transformation. Jepson speaks with Chris to learn more about what drives him to be a leadership and investing giant, as well as what it takes to find balance at home amid such working chaos. Chris tells us about his past ventures, the struggles he encountered along the way, and how his "no-nonsense" approach actually works for hiring family members - something many business leaders fear...

Welcome to the Atomic Soul Podcast, hosted by Benjamin “Jepson” Taylor. Join our adventurous host as he digs deep into his life and tells us the story of how he became an entrepreneur. He's a key player in today's AI innovation and has some incredible ideas to drive the future of technology. He encourages everyone to always have 5 big ideas that are always on the mind because eventually, one of them will grow legs and crawl out of your brain and turn into a project. Jepson tells of the dark...