Episode 36 - Life and Purpose Mapping Hacks with Craig Filek

In this episode we continue our conversation with Lee Kemp, a three time World Champion in Wrestling (1978, 1979 and 1982 all in the 74 kg weight class) and held the record for being the youngest World Champion. In addition to being a champion wrestler, Lee is a father, a wrestling coach, a public speaker, and an author. He learned many of the skill sets needed to navigate his life on the mat. A child of the 60’s, he was adopted at the age of 5, before adoption learned how to find his own contentment in the situation he was in. From a young age Lee learned how to focus on what’s important and tackle whatever he needed to get done. Our conversation with Lee Kemp resumes with Chris asking Lee a question about representation. Lee shares that there were other Black wrestlers that were successful before him and while Dan Gable was a direct inspiration he saw additional championship inspiration in Black wrestlers. Lee found representation and inspiration to one day own his own business working for Tom Burrell of Burrow Communications. He shares tremendous insight about race relations in the USA being further complicated by suppression of stories, like that of the mathematicians from Hidden Figures. When Lee’s family left Cleveland in 1968 they moved to Chardon, Ohio; this was almost an entirely White community. Growing up there Lee saw his family being accepted into this community and learned that mutual respect was possible. We ask Lee about what someone who wants to be a champion needs. Lee explains that putting your focus on someone else that is successful can help and that finding inspiration is a truly important thing. Listening is important, if someone like Lee tells you the steps that you need to take to truly become a champion it’s important to take the advice as a whole.  Being the best isn’t the only measure of achievement, for Lee going for something with all your heart is meaningful. After winning World Championships and global competitions two years running Lee was on track mentally and physically to become an Olympic champion, but in March of 1980 President Jimmy Carter announced that the USA would not be participating at the Olympics. Lee explains how that opportunity being taken away impacts him even now. 40 years later the 2020 Summer Games have been delayed and Lee speaks a bit about that showing how the grit to be world champion endures.   Impactful Moments During The Episode 00:00 — Intro 01:00 — Welcome back to Part 2 our conversation with Lee Kemp. 01:33 — Looking at what types of representation mattered to Lee. 03:49 — Representation making a difference on a professional level. 05:50 — Lee speaks about Tom Burrell, advertising and race. 06:59 — Seeing your own value and everyone seeing each other’s humanity.  07:53 — We’re all the same race. 08:39 — The examples that parents set.  10:10 — Leaving Cleveland and moving to Chardon in 1968. 12:09 — The respect Lee’s father received from his community. 13:24 — Lee speaks about the importance of listening and empathy. 15:22 — Putting yourself in the right environment to be a champion. 17:07 — Taking advice and finding motivations. 18:31 — Going for something with all your heart.  19:50 — A story of “Things not happening.”  21:04 — Resiliency and the Tokyo Olympics, lessons learned. 22:25 — Thanks to Lee Kemp and for listening to Part 2 of the Grit of Being World Champion Links: Learn more about Lee Kemp and pick up his book Winning Gold.  Watch the great documentary Watch Wrestled Away: The Lee Kemp Story | Prime Video. Learn more about Hacker Valley Studio. Support Hacker Valley Studio on Patreon. Follow Hacker Valley Studio on Twitter. Follow hosts Ron Eddings and Chris Cochran on Twitter. Learn more about our sponsor ByteChek.

12 Mars 202123min

Our special guest this episode is Lee Kemp, a three time World Champion in Wrestling (1978, 1979 and 1982 all in the 74 kg weight class) and held the record for being the youngest World Champion. In addition to being a champion wrestler, Lee is a father, a wrestling coach, a public speaker, and an author. He learned many of the skill sets needed to navigate his life on the mat. A child of the 60’s, he was adopted at the age of 5, before adoption learned how to find his own contentment in the situation he was in. From a young age Lee learned how to focus on what’s important and tackle whatever he needed to get done. Lee’s childhood with his adoptive family involved a lot of hard work. His family moved from the city to a rural neighborhood and he worked on a farm. There was a certain strictness his father held, if farm work needed to get done it had to get done. Over the summers of Lee’s youth, he learned about finding contentment in hard work and became comfortable being uncomfortable. Lee started wrestling in high school in the 9th grade and made the varsity team in the 10th grade, his first season in varsity he won as many matches as he lost. The summer between the 10th and the 11th grade year was the turning point for young Lee. He attended a Wrestling Camp that the wrestler Dan Gable was at right before the Olympic games of 1972, what he learned from Dan Gable at that camp became the catalyst for Lee becoming a different wrestler and different person. Lee gained a new mindset from that wrestling camp with Dan Gable. Coach Lee went on to win the state championship as a junior in high school, defeating the defending state champion.  As the episode progresses, Ron and Chris ask Lee about his philosophies on consistency. Lee describes that at each point in his journey to be a champion wrestler he took every opportunity to learn more about his game and his opponents. While Lee was in wrestling camp with Dan Gable, he was the only willing volunteer that would allow Dan to try out wrestling moves on him. Lee knew that if he could understand how one of the greatest wrestlers performed offensively and defensively he could at a minimum learn something new and potentially incorporate it into his style. Lee’s determination has always been contagious and a positive influence to his community. An example that Lee shares is the story of his wrestling teammate Pat Christenson. Before defeating Dan Gable, Wisconsin had a drought of national champions in wrestling. Pat Christenson shared with Lee after defeating Gable he realized he could aspire to become a world champion also. Impactful Moments During The Episode 01:30 - Welcome back to the Hacker Valley Studio. 01:56 - Introducing the three time world champion Lee Kemp. 03:04 - A child of the sixties and learning how to give back. 04:18 - Understanding where you come from and learning to be content. 07:01 - Characteristics of grit. 08:43 - Overcoming the biggest roadblock to success. 11:08 - Finding a worthwhile goal as a high school wrestler and learning from the best.  12:26 - The inflection point towards success for wrestler Lee Kemp 14:24 - The fateful wrestling camp experience of 1972. 16:25 - Watching your camp coach from the summer with Olympic Gold. 17:28 - Lee Kemp finds the opportunity to wrestle against his former wrestling camp Coach, the gold medal winner Dan Gable. 19:05 - How Lee stayed focused on wrestling Gable despite detractors and distractions. 21:20 - Finding a different mindset, finding a different Lee Kemp. 22:51 - Taking little steps of confidence towards goals. 24:11 - Lee Kemp being in the moment wrestling in the last 30 seconds against Gable. 25:53 - From being in the moment to being part of the moment.  27:30 - The reaction to breaking expectations 29:00 - A rivalry that couldn’t be played out in competition, an unofficial match between Kemp and Gable 31:00 - Moving mountains 32:57 - Inspiring future wrestling champions at University of Wisconsin 34:30 - Having a mindset and attitude for making things possible 36:30 - Thank you for listening to Part 1 of Lee Kemp on Hacker Valley.   Links: Learn more about Lee Kemp and pick up his book Wrestled Away. Learn more about Hacker Valley Studio. Support Hacker Valley Studio on Patreon. Follow Hacker Valley Studio on Twitter. Follow hosts Ron Eddings and Chris Cochran on Twitter. Learn more about our sponsor ByteChek.

9 Mars 202137min

Introducing the Cyber Ranch Podcast and Allan Alford! Allan Alford is currently the Chief Technology Officer/Chief Information Security Officer at TrustMAPP. Allan Alford is a member of the Hacker Valley family and has launched a new show called the Cyber Ranch Podcast. Allan has been a CISO at a number of different companies and has a wealth of knowledge in Cybersecurity. Has about 20 years of Cybersecurity and has a background in product security.  Allan is a tinkerer and a second generation information security practitioner. His father was a systems operator/administrator who specialized in Systems Security, his father brought their first IBM PC into the house while Allan was in middle school. Since that moment, Allan has always been interested in technology and had a group of friends who had the brand new tools of the time like the TI-99, TRS-80, IBM PC and Apple IIe. He and his friends were porting and writing games, hacking and war dialing. Allan’s mother was a school teacher and had house rules about television time, and so with an hour of TV a week Allan’s primary form of entertainment was reading. In high school Allan took a creative writing class where he found a passion for storytelling and reading novels. Before entering college Allan was confident in his technology skills and decided that studying Humanities would make a greater impact for him. While studying, Allan learned that there were many parallels between the study of humanities and technology. There was a vocabulary, grammar, and structure by which things operated that had a consistent set of rules. Allan learned that the correct application of grammar and vocabulary helped all things work properly.  As the episode progresses, Allan shares while reading books, articles or other word based sources there’s a sort of internal voice that is within his mind that reads the words ‘out loud,’ however once he’s immersed in the book or text that the subvocalization fades and there’s a much more immediate type of onboarding of the information, the non-conscious reading voice. Chris shares that he describes this as the flow of learning. Allan also speaks of lucking into a prime slot on the KTCU college radio station and how he found his groove djing by deconstructing threads of music. He would put together his set by starting with a popular song and tracing it back from influence and inspirations.  Allan also shares his thoughts on the importance of networking - And not all networking starting points being equal. With his success now he tries to create bridges and conversations through his network that promote the exchange of ideas and further conversations for people, Allan is hoping to do the same with his podcast - The Cyber Ranch. Professionally he’s embarking on a new journey as the Chief Technology Officer at TrustMapp and is currently learning how to be a great producer of Security technologies.    Impactful Moments During the Show 0:00 - Welcome back to the Hacker Valley Studio! 01:30 - Welcome back to the Hacker Valley studio and welcome to the Cyber Ranch podcast 02:30 - Allan’s Professional Adventuring Card 03:00 - Allan’s tinkering background and a second generation info security professional 04:30 - Writing and porting video games as a youth, growing up as a STEM kid 05:35 - Creative writing opening the world to storytelling 06:50 - Going to college already knowing about Computer Science 08:40 - Practices and techniques for learning rapidly and staying sharp 10:30 - Understanding the fields of vocabulary and grammar 11:56 - Conscious reading voice, non-conscious reading voice and flow 14:14 - From reading to producing work that people could consume 16:00 - DJ Deconstruction, how Allan put together a primetime radio set on KTCU 17:00 - Networking without inherited connections 19:20 - How networking works for Allan now 22:20 - Networking misunderstood, the traps of the output side 24:00 - Allan’s 70/30 rule for career advancement 25:30 - CISO and CTO parallels 27:30 - What motivated Allan to start his own cyber security podcast 29:30 - For someone entering the Cybersecurity world from a non-technical background Links Connect with Allan on LinkedIn Allan Alford - CISO & CTO - TrustMAPP Check out The Cyber Ranch Podcast! Learn more about Hacker Valley Studio. Support Hacker Valley Studio on Patreon. Follow Hacker Valley Studio on Twitter. Follow hosts Ron Eddings and Chris Cochran on Twitter. Learn more about our sponsor AttackIQ and enroll in The AttackIQ Academy!

2 Mars 202132min

Lindsay Lee is the founder and managing member of Authentic Ventures. Authentic Ventures is an early stage VC firm based in Oakland CA. Lindsay has worked many years in the investment industries as well as venture capital and ran a direct investment fund. Authentic ventures is a new kind of firm focused primarily on women and under-represented minority founders. Authentic Ventures is focused on building its own network of women founders of more diverse backgrounds and entrepreneurs who really want to see success translate into more opportunities for their communities. Coming from modest beginnings and raised by immigrant parents from the West Indies, his parents really solidified the importance of education. Lindsay has worked in investment banking as an analyst alongside graduates of Ivy League schools, there he learned about his own determination to excel even in tough working conditions while learning as much as possible. After graduating from graduate school Lindsay started an ill-fated technology start up in 1999; funding was hard to find in the early naughts (00’s) especially for Black founders. After pivoting to working in asset management companies Lindsay joined a family office where he built and managed a portfolio. He reached a turning point there where he was able to look at public and private investments and assess the landscape. Lindsay decided he wanted to differentiate himself and focus efforts on really approaching investment in his own way, to invest in “early stage companies,” as opposed to series A or series B companies. A peer at another firm told him that it was going to be double the effort and twice the financing to get it off the ground. Lindsay’s drive and the network he was a part of propelled him through the challenges.  The conversation touches upon the “rules of the game” for galvanizing new ideas and bringing new products and companies into the market. He speaks about the roles that entrepreneurs, lawyers and investors have in capital markets. Lindsay found his calling as an investor was one where he was a coach, rather than an entrepreneur who is trying to score goals all the time. Lindsay describes how his focus was on cultivating relationships and community in order to grow an interconnected network that would allow for long lasting impact in the landscape while also bringing success to his firm.  He shares that the one thing he’s had to get right is finding A+ people to work with. In his approach as an investor he is trying to set the table for women of color and reserve, or build, a seat at the table that allows for success to be shared.  Lindsay believes this focus will lead to more opportunities for more diverse teams. For folks interested in becoming an investor or entrepreneur Lindsay speaks about the importance of team building and utilizing the connections they already have as capital. He also urges people to not ignore the skills they’ve gained by applying themselves and that those skills plus knowledge of the space they’re focused on can create something that’s meaningful.  Impactful Moments During Podcast 00:00 - Welcome back to the Hacker Valley Studio, introducing Lindsay Lee of Authentic Ventures, a VC firm that invests in seed and early stage companies. 02:30 - Building a more diverse inclusive VC network and culture.  04:30 - What the exploration of VC was like for Lindsay and what were some of the motivations for moving in this way in that sphere. 06:45  - Why it’s important for diversity that a firm like Authentic Ventures exists in Silicon Valley and the tech community. 07:20 - How VC firms can help create more wealth across communities of color and gender. 09:30 - The journey to VC and what exploring that world looked like for Lindsay. 10:00 - Entrepreneurship as a sport: who are players, rule-makers and play callers. 11:45 - Taking the long view on cultivating good investments and finding the right people. 12:20 - Starting his own thing in VC, differentiating himself and dealing with uncertainty 14:27 - What immersion in VC is like, navigating changing landscapes 15:15 - If you’re looking for a challenge, investing is a good field; things not going to plan. 15:45 - Why you need to find A+ people. 17:20 - Staying humble and grounded in VC 18:14 - What creates success in entrepreneurial endeavors 19:30 - Why Authentic Ventures has a culture of good energy 20:45 - Studying and data in VC, compounding experience and knowledge, the value of having a community 22:40 - Trying to find ideas and company with momentum 23:20 - No free lunch in investing? What does a margin of error mean in this VC world. 24:45 - Why VC firms learn about the founders, how to scrutinize the methodology 26:00 - If you’re an entrepreneur why you should get to know a VC fund outside of funding events. 27:00 - Being an early believer in trailblazers 28:00 - Authentic Ventures tries to win together, with the right people 29:25 - Lindsay talks about not starting out on First or Second Base and making an impact that helps his community. 30:35 - Having something to prove as an analyst at investment banks 31:45 - The best lesson to learn as an investor, understanding the people, connecting with people that share your values. 33:30 - Why there’s no substitute for excellence or hard work. 37:23 - Staying power and determination: “Get your money right.” 38:30 - Staying in touch with Lindsay Lee and Authentic Ventures   Stay connected with Lindsay Lee by checking out Authentic Ventures Learn more about Hacker Valley Studio. Support Hacker Valley Studio on Patreon. Follow Hacker Valley Studio on Twitter. Follow hosts Ron Eddings and Chris Cochran on Twitter. Learn more about our sponsor ByteChek.

25 Feb 202141min

Hacker Valley Studio presents: We Are Here - an audio journey and series exploring black excellence in technology and cybersecurity. In part three of this series, Ron and Chris interview Congresswoman Yvette Clarke, serving as the U.S. Representative for New York's 9th congressional district since 2013.  Congresswoman Clarke’s parents immigrated to Brooklyn, New York in the 1950s from Jamaica. Being born from immigrant parents and witnessing the transformation of the country during the civil rights movement helped shape her worldview. Congresswoman Clarke mentions that the nurture from her family and community sparked her interest in public service at an early age. Congresswoman Clarke recalls being a child and looking up to her pediatrician, Dr. Thompson. Congresswoman Clarke could see herself being like Dr. Thompson and that led her to pursue her interests in STEM in grade school and college. When Congresswoman Clarke went away to college she made a commitment to come back to Brooklyn and use her education to help others As the episode progresses, Congresswoman Clarke mentions her parents were engaged in the community out of necessity. They wanted to be able to navigate the United States and create community for her and her brother. Congresswoman Clarke’s mother started her community outreach at Parent Teacher Association meetings and was encouraged to run for political office after some time. In fact, Congresswoman Clarke became the first and only child to succeed a parent in political office.  Congresswoman Clarke describes community as essential and building communities is done through education. Digital transformation has enabled all generations to collaborate on common causes that they previously wouldn’t have had the opportunity to. An example that Congresswoman Clarke provides is narrowing the education gap for children of color. Through technology, parents have been working with government agencies and private organizations to provide more resources to schools in need.     Impactful Moments: 0:00 - Hacker Valley Studio presents We Are Here Pt 3 0:52 - Congresswoman Yvette Clarke on Hacker Valley Studio! 1:56 - Early life and how Congresswoman Clarke made it into office 3:38 - What inspired Congresswoman Clarke to help others 7:21 - Surprises while in office and servicing the public 13:35 - Congresswoman Clarke’s story of perseverance 16:36 - The importance of community and how to influence yours 24:40 - Education and mentorship 27:51 - Using technology to course correct and amplify your voice 31:59 - Sage wisdom for embarking on your personal journey     Follow Congresswoman Yvette Clarke on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter Learn more about Hacker Valley Studio. Support Hacker Valley Studio on Patreon. Follow Hacker Valley Studio on Twitter. Follow hosts Ron Eddings and Chris Cochran on Twitter.

23 Feb 202136min

In this episode of Hacker Valley Studio podcast, Ron and Chris are joined by Chris Parker, creator of WhatIsMyIPAddress. His website now reaches six million monthly visitors and began as a necessity to solve a technical problem, which you can probably guess, determine his IP Address. WhatIsMyIPAddress predates Google and was often found through the search engine AltaVista. For years, the site was simple, straightforward and didn’t have any graphics or markup (HTML). At some point, Chris stumbled upon a Content Management System (CMS) called Geek Log but quickly learned with the amount of traffic that it was best for him to manually code each page on his website. For quite some time Chris maintained the website, answered questions from users about IP Addresses, and created more content without receiving any monetary compensation. The advent of Google AdSense led Chris to realize that he could make a profit for hosting his website. Chris’s website is in the top 3,000 websites on the Internet and was managed out of his home office for over 8 years. As you can imagine, he received traffic from users across the world and was even the target of some cybersecurity attacks. However, keeping the functionality on his website simple, the biggest threat Chris faced was Denial of Service (DoS). After moving his website from his home to a CDN provider that blocks malicious traffic and bots, Chris saw a 90% reduction in web traffic to his website. This led Chris down the path of creating content about security and configuration. With such a large audience, Chris decided to start the Easy Pray podcast and help listeners learn how to avoid becoming easy targets for scammers and fraudsters online and in the real world. Chris recalls a story of a fraud group that scammed victims by telling the victim that they’ve won the lottery in their country but are unable to withdraw the winnings because of citizenship. This scam is not uncommon and has caused hopeful individuals to lose thousands and sometimes their entire life savings. Chris has set out on a mission to inform others of these scams and create awareness about online safety.   Impactful Moments 0:00 - Welcome back to the Hacker Valley Studio 1:44 - Introducing Chris Parker, Creator of WhatIsMyIPAddress 5:11 - Was the naming of the website intentional or was it incidental? 6:04 - Adapting and digital transformation 7:29 - Malicious traffic and cyber attacks 10:39 - Creating a more safe Internet with the Easy Pray podcast 12:43 - Unfortunate spam and scamming stories 15:18 - More about Chris’s goal to provide education to his listeners 18:40 - Learnings and takeaways to avoid being scammed 24:02 - Tools that Chris is using to grow and scale his business 26:51 - How to stay up to date with Chris Parker   Links: Learn more about Chris Parker and visit his website and podcast. Learn more about Hacker Valley Studio. Support Hacker Valley Studio on Patreon. Follow Hacker Valley Studio on Twitter. Follow hosts Ron Eddings and Chris Cochran on Twitter. Learn more about our sponsor ByteChek.

20 Feb 202127min

In this featured episode of Hacker Valley Studio podcast, Ron and Chris are joined by Jeff Cook, Co-Founder, and CFO of ByteChek. Jeff has over 10 years of experience in both accounting and auditing and has set out a mission to “make compliance suck less” Jeff began his career at accounting firm, Arthur Andersen. In 2002, the firm surrendered it’s license to practice as a CPA which forced Jeff to consider working at other firms. This surprise turned out to be a blessing as it made him transition from New York to Washington DC. After his transition, Jeff worked in public accounting and auditing for 12 years and began starting IT auditing practices and SOC practices at large accounting firms.  While working at a cybersecurity firm, Jeff met his co-founder AJ Yawn. The two worked on numerous SOC engagements together - which gave them the confidence to scale their ideas and efforts to make compliance suck less. Despite 2020 being the beginning of a global pandemic, the two decided to persevere and form their company ByteChek. As the episode progresses, Jeff describes his partnership with AJ as dynamic and fluid. Jeff brings to the table a deep understanding of accounting and auditing challenges and solutions. Jeff admires AJ’s ability to be a leader and rally the troops to ensure everyone is moving in the right direction. Besides complimenting each other’s strengths and weaknesses, Jeff and AJ are also great friends and check-in together to help each other grow personally outside of work. Jeff describes his superpower as his ability to work under pressure. When there’s deadlines and a surplus of work, Jeff leans on his experience as an accountant. While working as an accountant, each year in January through April (tax season) Jeff had to practice his discipline of working under pressure with clear deadlines from his clients and the government. Additionally, Jeff has spent years practicing martial arts, and describes it as a great technique to use to clear his mind in all situations.   Impactful Moments 0:00 - Welcome back to the Hacker Valley Studio 1:41 - This episode features Jeff Cook, Co-Founder, and CFO of ByteChek 2:26 - Jeff’s background and start in accounting and auditing 5:08 - Thriving in business as a founder during a global pandemic 8:31 - Jeff’s superpower and where it began 11:16 - How to overcome your kryptonite and core emotional challenge 13:58 - How martial arts has helped Jeff as a practitioner 17:48 - Parallels between cybersecurity, chess, and martial arts 21:21 - Getting comfortable with discomfort 28:14 - Wisdom from Jeff for leveling up as a entrepreneur and practitioner   Links: Learn more about Jeff Cook and connect with him on LinkedIn. Learn more about Hacker Valley Studio. Support Hacker Valley Studio on Patreon. Follow Hacker Valley Studio on Twitter. Follow hosts Ron Eddings and Chris Cochran on Twitter. Learn more about our sponsor ByteChek.

16 Feb 202134min

Hacker Valley Studio presents: We Are Here - an audio journey and series exploring black excellence in cybersecurity. In part two of this series, Ron and Chris host a mastermind conversation with Tia Hopkins, Charles Nwatu, AJ Yawn, and Kelvin Coleman. In this special conversation, we discuss ExIST, a framework to promote excellence in the pursuit of human endeavors like hobbies, careers, and finding purpose. Explore As humans, we’re always on the brink of discovery. Watching a documentary, witnessing someone perform a piece of art or a eureka moment might be all that it takes to pull you in a new direction to explore a new topic. Learning something new can be like stepping into a new world that you’ve never experienced. This leap can be exciting, scary, or even uneventful but always leads to discovery.   Tia Hopkins began exploring technology since she can remember. One of her first memories of her interest in technology was when she noticed her mom stopped buying her toys because she would take them apart to understand how they worked. Tia took a giant leap into the new world of technology when she took apart her family and realized that she had to put it back together before her mom found out. Tia has explored many facets of technology from working with Internet Service Providers, IT teams, and Managed Detection and Response teams. Immerse After deciding which world to ExIST in, the next step to understanding and mastery is immersion. This is surrounding yourself in a new topic or idea and learning what it means to succeed in that arena. In sports, this might be watching a professional game and learning more about the rules. In cybersecurity, immersion may be reading blogs on the topic or watching YouTube videos that explain a focus area. While immersing yourself in this world you’ll identify the mindset needed to remain there and grow.   Charles Nwatu’s advice on immersion is to not be afraid to fail - It's the only way you succeed. Not giving yourself the opportunity to take the shot is even worse than failure itself. Learn how to consume content in any way that works best for you - read, listen, watch everything you possibly can. Identify ways that help you articulate what you’ve learned to others. Study After learning the rules and where the boundaries exist in the new world, the next step is to study. Using tools, knowledge, examples and mentors to improve your capabilities. If you’re learning about a topic with subtopics, you may need to re-immerse yourself in areas that you’re weak on. In this phase of the framework, you're using your new capabilities to rapidly learn and improve.   AJ Yawn provides the advice of staying focused and ignoring the results. To Focus AJ often implements the  90-90-1 rule. And it's taking 90 days spending the first 90 minutes of your day, focusing on ONE thing. Whenever AJ is trying out a new endeavour he ignores the results for the first 90 days, even if there’s no visible improvements. When picking up anything new the focus should be on the attempt rather than the outcome. Translate / Transform  Translation is expressing the sense of wisdom into language. During this part of the ExIST framework, you’re using the collection of experience and wisdom to create, innovate, or teach. Taking your developed ability and bettering the lives of others.   Kelvin Coleman has always been an advocate of teaching others and promoting the people in the cybersecurity industry. Kelvin can recall researching and reciting state capitals that he’d take to his meetings to build a rapport with city and state government stakeholders. While the name of a state capital or mascot may not seem critical, it helped his customers understand that he does the research and cares about doing what is best for everyone.   Impactful Moments 0:00 - We Are Here a series exploring black excellence in cybersecurity 1:13 - Kelvin Coleman, the strategic mastermind 1:50 - Tia Hopkins, the technical juggernaut 2:25 - Charles Nwatu, the wise warrior 3:00 - AJ Yawn, the empathetic CEO 4:28 - ExIST, a framework to promote excellence 5:40 - Explore 22:14 - Immerse 56:09 - Study 1:10:10 - Translate/Transform 1:20:12 - Sage wisdom from our mastermind group 1:25:20 - How to keep in touch with our amazing guests   Stay In Touch Kelvin Coleman on LinkedIn Connect with Tia Hopkins on LinkedIn and Empow(her) Cybersecurity Follow Charles Nwatu on LinkedIn Stay connected with AJ Yawn on LinkedIn Learn more about Hacker Valley Studio. Support Hacker Valley Studio on Patreon. Follow Hacker Valley Studio on Twitter. Follow hosts Ron Eddings and Chris Cochran on Twitter.   Get your start in cybersecurity with SANS through their Diversity Cyber Academy! Applications are now open, and SANS is looking for the best and brightest to diversify the field! The SANS ICMCP Diversity Cyber Academy is available for current college students, college graduates, and career changers who are not already working in cybersecurity. Those interested can go to sans.org/dca or if you’d like to learn more about what SANS is doing on the Diversity and Inclusion front please visit https://www.sans.org/about/diversity

10 Feb 20211h 27min