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The ManuScript with Manu Edakara
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63 episodes
1 week ago
You write your manuscript. Every page counts. manuedakara.com Hi, I'm Manu, Director of a $1B Entrepreneurship Center, with a portfolio of 100+ groundbreaking companies. I'm a founder, martial artist, stoic, adventurer, warrior, nomad, minimalist, creator, and bodybuilder. My passion for innovation is driven by a deep commitment to prepare humanity for existential threats by tackling the world's greatest problems. We need heroic leaders to work on these issues—which is why I coach founders on optimizing their health & elevating their thinking so that they can maximize their purpose.
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You write your manuscript. Every page counts. manuedakara.com Hi, I'm Manu, Director of a $1B Entrepreneurship Center, with a portfolio of 100+ groundbreaking companies. I'm a founder, martial artist, stoic, adventurer, warrior, nomad, minimalist, creator, and bodybuilder. My passion for innovation is driven by a deep commitment to prepare humanity for existential threats by tackling the world's greatest problems. We need heroic leaders to work on these issues—which is why I coach founders on optimizing their health & elevating their thinking so that they can maximize their purpose.
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The ManuScript with Manu Edakara
63. Top 5 Regrets of the Dying

My interview with a 92 year old on his advice on living a happy life: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Vf7rlzQzGIbgQoqRyktIr?si=5K3BsTLUTDWeS__oP4ksEg

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2 months ago
22 minutes 32 seconds

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62. Blue Zones - Live to 100

13 different components tied to human health and purpose.

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2 months ago
31 minutes 8 seconds

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61. The Demon King's Festival: Onam

More context on episode 35 into what my name means and the cultural background of Dharmic faiths: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3fostRrQAW8lZAlaWxx8eH?si=pJBxUTvBRHiu_OrnqlGmpA

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2 months ago
52 minutes 41 seconds

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60. Dhanashri Mandhani, CEO of Salam Kisan

salamakisan.com

Salam Kisan is India's Leading AI & Drone-Based Agritech Platform. Salam Kisan is a multi-stack precision farming platform that helps farmers in making informed decisions.

In less than a year, under Dhanashri's leadership, Salam Kisan has become one of the most disruptive business school ventures and is among the top 5 agriculture technology companies in the country.


These services include an AI-enabled crop calendar for tailored crop management, precision agriculture guidance, customized fertilizer dosage recommendations, drone rental for fertilizer and seed spraying, farm mapping, input product marketplace, farmers community, government convergence, agriculture news, traceability solutions, and produce buyback. Salam Kisan has 430236+ active farmers in Maharashtra. The company’s success in drones has given it the confidence to double down on the potential of drones in precision farming.

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2 months ago
24 minutes 13 seconds

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59. Lieutenant Ulises Rodriguez

Ulises is a Cuban-Mexican fitness model, US Army veteran, and former software engineer, with a strong interest in dance, martial arts, and the political and social climate of America over the last decade.

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2 months ago
1 hour 7 minutes 35 seconds

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58. Englewood to Google to Muay Thai in Thailand

Clarence Elliott is a software engineer with experiences at Chase and Google. Raised in the South Side of Chicago, he is now training full-time in muay thai in Thailand.

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2 months ago
37 minutes 46 seconds

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57. Making the Right Cultural Calls

9. Extreme ownership: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7dBrfND06CDEKxG3hnOUPc?si=RhCWkrRUR-WZdOXVtlj2Aw


11. Procrastination & motivation: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0HGdOWMSDyhG6qthMU2Y3y?si=EvujxFapQa6K5tm2BK2lEg


16. Why our entrepreneurship programs succeed:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6Kj65VHcvRDmrPn0vIBRv2?si=q1J1BCvQROykVHdZtKkugw


23. How I schedule my life: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1EWTKeFF0lIPxRGgC3bXQW?si=L4ebLBkaTXq8Pd0VsvMWIQ


25. 7 Wonders of the World: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3muPMqLnF5pwNnvkp40mYj?si=sNMH0FhBS0ehHeIvEOgyyw


36. Find Your Why: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6oqRdkxh8PQMBhBBdvn51U?si=xfIm4IlVRLCHffZPe3-JJQ



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4 months ago
20 minutes 28 seconds

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56. Men's Mental Health Month

Say something nice to a guy in your life.

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5 months ago
28 minutes 47 seconds

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55. Discipline v. Motivation

The link between discipline, motivation, and goals, and how to utilize them all.

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21 minutes 14 seconds

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54. Jacob Kinsey, Senior Director at Illinois VENTURES

Jake Kinsey is Senior Director at Illinois VENTURES, the public-private venture capital arm of the University of Illinois System. Kinsey spent over 10 years in industry working for an electronics manufacturing company before becoming a management consulting and technology mentor. In his role, Kinsey connects private industry with public institutions to provide experiential learning opportunities for college students. Kinsey mentors students in problem solving, project management, culture building, human-centered design, secondary and primary research, synthesis, and presentation skills in his role as Senior Director of Illinois Business Consulting, the largest student run consulting organization in the nation.
Most recently, Kinsey has also been involved in mentoring and leading student teams in building solutions for corporate clients with emerging technologies including blockchain, artificial intelligence/machine learning, cloud computing, data science, and quantum computing. Kinsey is especially interested in the way blockchain will transform how capital and data is exchanged in peer-to-peer networks.
Kinsey is a full stack developer using technologies such as; React.js, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Figma, Redux, Express, Node.js, Python, C#, Entity Framework, SQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Web3.js, Solidity, AWS, Azure, GCP.

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6 months ago
25 minutes 25 seconds

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53. Brylan Donaldson, Associate Director at The Garage, Northwestern

Brylan is the Associate Director for The Garage, the entrepreneurship center for Northwestern University.

He is focused on making complex ideas click so builders can think a little bit differently — and a little more clearly. Brylan inspires others to dream bigger and build bolder. He brings firsthand experience from scaling growth at Blavity, driving revenue at Affirm, and founding the creator-focused startup, Seventh Ave, raising $4M as CEO. He now coaches the next generation of founders and scouts for game-changing founders at Serac Ventures.


Brylan is a champion for community, curiosity, and conviction. Holds a Bachelors from Kansas, where he was co-founder of TEAM Jayhawks (for Together Everyone Achieves More). He is also the co-founder of Gifts To Our People (GTOP), a generative NFT art collection project rooted in the collective experiences of the Black Diaspora community. He is also the author of a Space to Think. https://substack.com/@brylandonaldson

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6 months ago
1 hour 14 minutes 24 seconds

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52. Matt Rastovac, CEO & Founder at Respell AI

Matt is Founder + Wizard at Respell: automating boring work with AI agentic workflows. They're backed by Zapier & Craft Ventures and just were acquired by Salesforce.

At Atmos he was Cofounder + Head of Eng, raising $20M to allow every American to build their dream home. Backed by YC (S20), Sam Altman, Khosla Ventures, and featured on the Forbes 30 under 30 list.

Prior to this he had experiences at Cameo, Facebook, NASA, and AbbVie and studied Computer Science at UIUC, where he served as President of Founders.

  • You can change
  • Everything is a system
  • Wrong ideas are meant to be killed
  • High openness, strong filter
  • People are not meant to be the same
  • Energy is everything
  • Success is hollow if you sacrifice your morals to achieve it
  • People are the hardest part


https://mattrasto.me/principles.html

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6 months ago
38 minutes 53 seconds

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51. Rohan Gupta: CEO at Quillbot.com

Rohan Gupta is the CEO of QuillBot, an AI-powered writing companion with over 30 million monthly active users. Rohan combined his passion for technology and artificial intelligence with his entrepreneurial drive to form QuillBot in 2017, and was named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list.


In September 2021, QuillBot was acquired by Learneo (formerly Course Hero, Inc.) and Rohan leads Learneo's writing vertical, responsible for 250 employees. He holds a BS in Finance and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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7 months ago
33 minutes 57 seconds

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50. Minimalism

How much do you need?

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7 months ago
22 minutes 41 seconds

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49. Dr. Ananya Tiwari: Co-founder of SwaTaleem Foundation

Dr. Ananya Tiwari is an assistant professor in Educational Psychology at Texas A & M. Her research interests lie at the nexus of educational psychology, cross-cultural psychology, and evaluation. She was named one of Google's Leaders to Watch and serves as Co-Chair at the Gender and Education Committee at CIES - Comparative & International Education Society.


reating thriving school communities for
adolescent Girls in India. Alongside their educational needs, these young Girls are also given the necessities such as food, clothing and school supplies to help amplify literacy with dignity.

Ananya was born and brought up in India and has done her bachelor’s in chemistry from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University.  She dabbled in Neuroscience in Cambridge, Göttingen and Stockholm before switching to Education. She was a school teacher in a rural school for two teachers and digitized Science curriculum for grades 5 and 6 in Hindi. Post a Liberal Arts degree, she worked with CorStone on resilience-based interventions and STiR Education around intrinsic motivation in Indian teachers in public school system at a systemic level.  
1) Dr. Tiwari broadly investigates how sense of belonging is shaped and influenced by identities, social structures, and experiences among marginalized communities. She further looks at issues related to measurement of social and emotional attributes cross-culturally.
2) The second strand of her research seeks to understand how programs and policies can enhance belonging for marginalized communities where she engages in policy-level analysis and program development. Additionally, she conducts process and impact assessments as part of evaluation using frameworks of culturally responsive evaluation and assessment (CREA).

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7 months ago
32 minutes 6 seconds

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48. Lieutenant Commander Andrew Taylor

Andrew Taylor is a nuclear engineer and commissioned officer of the United States Navy who serves on nuclear submarines. The opinions and views expressed here belong solely to the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Department of Defense (DoD) or its components.

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8 months ago
56 minutes 31 seconds

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47. Jack Chen: CEO of SWIDIA

Jack is the CEO and co-founder of SWIDIA, an expert growth marketing team trusted by some of the fastest-growing startups.

He has worked with some of the biggest influencers in the world such as the Paul Brothers and Amanda Cerny and has deep insight into the world of social media marketing.

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8 months ago
22 minutes 44 seconds

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46. Pastor Oluseun Arowolaju, Founder of TentMakers

Seun is a former D1 football player from Nigeria who played as a safety for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. During his Masters, he started working on hardware startups. Post graduation, he had a successful career in trading, venture, and product management.

Currently he is building TentMakers, a software focused venture studio that helps athletes bring their ideas to life. He also runs https://app.rcln.org/study (RCLN), a platform for Bible study through the internet.n

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8 months ago
39 minutes 56 seconds

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45. Erik Rothchild, Founder of WheyUp

Erik is an Army veteran and founder of the supplement brand, WheyUp, which focuses on pre-workout nutrition and trains from the Lift N Box Gym in Mesa, Arizona, which he owns, focused on both weight-lifting and boxing.


https://wefunder.com/wheyup


At the age of 54 he finished 2nd in the Western Regionals NPC Body Building Show and is currently ranked 9th in the US and 42nd in the World in the 60-meter sprint.  Erik not only competes in track and field but also plays on a 55+ Men's Tournament Softball Team. 


https://theliftnbox.com/

https://drinkwheyup.com/

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8 months ago
16 minutes 42 seconds

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44. The Bodybuilding Pornstar: Danny Steele

Danny is a graduate of Kinesiology at the College of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Illinois, a competitive men's physique bodybuilder, and a premier male adult film star based in Las Vegas. He lays out his thoughts on sex, relationships, the adult industry, bodybuilding, the service and alcohol industry, and performance enhancing drugs.


https://dannysteele.com/

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8 months ago
2 hours 48 minutes 53 seconds

The ManuScript with Manu Edakara
You write your manuscript. Every page counts. manuedakara.com Hi, I'm Manu, Director of a $1B Entrepreneurship Center, with a portfolio of 100+ groundbreaking companies. I'm a founder, martial artist, stoic, adventurer, warrior, nomad, minimalist, creator, and bodybuilder. My passion for innovation is driven by a deep commitment to prepare humanity for existential threats by tackling the world's greatest problems. We need heroic leaders to work on these issues—which is why I coach founders on optimizing their health & elevating their thinking so that they can maximize their purpose.