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Cirque du Soleil Kooza Adds Shows in Denver

Monday, September 14th, 2009

Cirque du Soleil KOOZA has just announced that due to popular demand, they’ve added an additional block of shows in Denver, from September 30th through October 4th! The show is truly fantastic, and I’d highly recommend it to all of you if you have the opportunity to see it.

In This Podcast

Rob McNealy interviews Vitali Charsunou, a flyer in the Teeterboard Act in Cirque du Soleil KOOZA.

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Vitali Charsunou’s Bio

Vitali Charsunous Born in 1971, Vitali started doing acrobatics at the age of 7. This led him to compete in the sport in worldwide competitions as well as performing different acrobatic numbers in circuses around the world.

Vitali participated in the general formation* of Cirque du Soleil in 2006 and was called back later that year to join the cast of KOOZA as a flyer in the Teeterboard Act.

Vitali enjoys everything that can connect him to technology and engineering.

* Formation is a six-month process of training athletes how to act, dance, and interact with each other so they can become artists.

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Networking and Mentoring with Carol Quinn of 3Lunches

Monday, September 7th, 2009

In This Podcast Episode

Rob McNealy interviews Carol Quinn co-founder of 3Lunches about the importance of networking and one-on-one mentoring in business.

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Carol Quinn’s Bio

Carol Quinn

Entrepreneur, writer and advertising creative, Carol Quinn is the co-creator and author of the upcoming nonfiction book: “3Lunches: How to Change Your Life with Friend-to-Friend Coaching and a Sandwich,” and the blog: 3Lunches.com.

With a degree in Drama from Arts Educational Schools London, and a B.FA. in Film and Television from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Carol began her career as the co-founder of Angel Entertainment, an independent media development group—producers of educational interactive computer software, computer animation, children’s books, and television projects. Carol held the position of Executive Vice President and led the in-house creative team. She conceived, wrote and produced book manuscripts, teleplays, interactive computer game scripts, and screenplays as well as managing the editorial, design and production staffs. While at Angel Entertainment, she created and sold a series pilot to NBC, and Lifetime Television, followed by several Movies of the Week for CBS and ABC. She represented the company to underwriters and investment groups; together with her partner, took the company public in 1987.

Turning to advertising and marketing, Carol became a Senior Vice President/Creative Director with entertainment advertising company, Air Creative Group (formerly Jacobs and Gerber). She wrote and produced television, radio, print and online campaigns for clients including CBS Television, Paramount Television, Warner Bros. Online, Radio Disney, Disney Channel and DIRECTV before founding her own advertising agency, Benedict Partners, Inc. Carol has also written for film and television, and is the co-creator/author of the first American mass-market graphic novel for girls, Pink Flamingos (Simon & Schuster), and created the Young Adult book series “Palm Beach Prep” (Lynx Books).

Tags: 3Lunches, Carol Quinn, mentoring
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Green Business Opportunities with Teddi Davis and TiE Rockies

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

In This Podcast Episode

Rob McNealy interviews Teddi Davis about green business opportunities and the TiE Rockies event Stimulus Funding for Energy, taking place this Thursday, August 6, 2009 in Broomfield, Colorado.

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Teddi Davis’ Bio

Teddi Davis Teddi is Vice President of Strategic Marketing for EcoAlign, a strategic marketing agency focused on energy and headquartered in Washington, D.C. The near future will be full of fundamental changes for businesses, customers and regulators as we confront carbon legislation, smart and green homes, interactive technologies, clean tech products, re-engineering of value chains, changing customer preferences and values. There is a gap, however, between what customers say they want around energy and what they actually do. Ecoalign was formed to help fill this gap and help align corporate and consumer behavior with the future of energy and environment

Before joining Ecoalign, Davis was Director of Customer Choice and Renewables Marketing at Xcel Energy, one of the nation’s most progressive and largest investor owned utilities serving customers in eight states. In her position she contributed to the company’s environmental leadership aspirations through the development and management of customer choice options for residential, commercial and industrial customers, such as payment and billing programs, optional rate programs, self service strategies, information programs that helped customers better understand their energy usage, and choice renewables programs such as Windsource–the #1 green pricing program–and Solar*Rewards–the #4 solar rebate program in the nation. She also helped develop marketing strategies for the company’s SmartGridCity program in Boulder, Colorado, and was also responsible for the company’s demand response programs including Saver’s Switch. During her tenure at Xcel Energy, Davis was responsible for Product Development for all conservation and energy efficiency programs, and managed residential DSM programs as Director of Consumer Product Marketing for the company.

Teddi is also co-chair of the TiE-Rockies Sustainable Energy Initiative, with the missing of supporting entrepreneurism in the clean energy space, including energy efficiency.

You can register or find out more about the TiE Rockies presentation: Stimulus Funding for Energy at their website.

Tags: green, podcast, stimulus
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