August 30th marks the anniversary of The 2pt5 innovator podcast. One interesting conversation per month. Work on the concept started much earlier. My first note in Evernote about the podcast is from August 2016. So a project long time in the making. But it is a side project to my job as innovation coach, so that’s okay. The podcast is a chance to grow, an adventure, a labor of love. Enjoy!
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Eric Tischer about EVs, exploring, experimenting and the fun of building new things. And the importance of the garage for innovation
Eric has built a road legal electric car based on a VW Passat. He has driven it for more than 10 years and for over 90k miles. That was more than ten years ago, when EV wasn’t “the thing”. And he built it in his own garage using his knowledge and drive for experiments.
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Innovation coach & teacher Tamara Carleton about helping innovation pros as a coach with vision, data and easy to use methods
Innovation coach & teacher Tamara Carleton about teaching a sustainable innovation practice, about helping innovation pros as a coach with vision, data and easy to use methods. And about food as an important factor for innovation teams.
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VC & startup evangelist Bill Reichert about coaching teams to start and scale up ideas & organizations
The episode with two epiphanies 🙂 about innovation & startups. Who could ask for more!
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Podcaster David Nebinski about showing up, doing the work and using the plan of the unplannable as motivation
David Nebinski, Podcaster Extraordinaire: his Portfolio Career Podcast just passed the hundredth episode, which is a great chance to talk about showing up and doing the work.
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Yacht builder Michael Goddaert – about forward thinking in yachting, charging ahead together with friends and impatience in the innovation process
Michael Goddaert is the founder of Domani Yachts in Belgium. Together with a group of like minded friends he is charging ahead to build truely special sailboats and electric boats.
From the ground up they are designed with electric drives which implies different thinking from past boat building. As the company is growing they are also thinking beyond the boat and look into services and complimentary business models around electrification in watersports – see the elegant boats Domani Yachts is building yourself.
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The Apple iPhone team about the overnight success that was two years in the making
The Apple iPhone team had to work hard with lots of iterations to create the „overnight success“ people believe it was. The “Project Purple“ took over two years to get the iPhone launched.
They started out with many iterations of the iPod acting as a mobile phone. The initial idea was the observation of the product team that nobody seemed to be happy with their smartphone at the time.
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Jen Zeuner & Anne Keller about building communities around the love for mountain biking and pizza
Jen Zeuner and Anne Keller have found a home in Fruita, Colorado, USA, a rural town of appr. 12.000 people in the Rocky Mountains. They have built their home on great Pizza and Mountain Biking. And they have built a large community.
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Rivian Founder Robert Scaringe & Team about starting an auto company
While Rivian is also building a car brand based on battery electric technology such as Tesla, they are focusing on supplying platforms for other companies thus saving them lots of time and R&D money.
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The American Innovator Paul Akers about the thrill of creating and sustaining
In the world of Innovation Paul Akers is a Star in his own right. He is an entrepreneur, author, teacher. And a lean-maniac (his own words).
