Nick Smoot's guest appearances

Nick Smoot

The Claw

Dparture Unknown - Innovation Everywhere

Operate Podcast

The Erik Allen Show

David Meltzer

Derek Herrera

Tim Storey

Bedros Keuilian

Tommy Tallarico

Tony Whatley

Benjamin Hardy

Doug Wilson

Jeff Gardner

John Davidson

Katie Williams

Allen Gannett

Steve Sims

Kurt Johnson

Andy Wilson

OwlTail

Bearded Biz Show Ep. 86 featured Nick Smoot who is the Founder &amp; CEO of the Innovation Collective, Speaker, Entrepreneur, &amp; much more! “We build American Dream Factories &amp; Raise Wolves, Not Unicorns!” – So GOOD! Check out the show!  We also talked about the IC Venture Studio, how the Innovation Collective plans to host over 350 events this year, &amp; why economies are stuck in this idea that work will be around for a long time, but it won’t be.  Proudly sponsored by: Rewebbed Inc. – Website Design &amp; Digital Marketing Tigatu (use code “TopRatedMMA” for 10% off) – Shirts Combat Flags – Flag Backdrop Alpha Outpost (use code “topratedmma” for 15% off) – Outdoor / Tactical Gear Anglesey Family Chiropractic &amp; Massage Center INTERESTED IN BEING A SPONSOR OF OUR SHOW? DM US FOR MORE INFO.  Be sure to LIKE / FOLLOW Nick Smoot – Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/nicholassmoot/ LinkedIn –  https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicksmoot/  Be sure to LIKE / FOLLOW Innovation Collective – Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/innovationcollective/ Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/innovationcollective/ Twitter – https://twitter.com/innovation_co_ YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQJsvWPUxo9x3KA1KFttUzQ Website – https://www.innovationcollective.co/  Please check out ErikAllenMedia.com where I am talking with Entrepreneurs, World Changers, and Success Minded People!   —  This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast.  https://anchor.fm/app

Bearded Biz Show Ep. 86 featured Nick Smoot who is the Founder &amp; CEO of the Innovation Collective, Speaker, Entrepreneur, &amp; much more! “We build American Dream Factories &amp; Raise Wolves, Not Unicorns!” – So GOOD! Check out the show! We also talked about the IC Venture Studio, how the Innovation Collective plans to host over 350 events this year, &amp; why economies are stuck in this idea that work will be around for a long time, but it won’t be. Proudly sponsored by: <a href="https://www.rewebbed.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rewebbed Inc.</a> – Website Design &amp; Digital Marketing <a href="https://www.tigatu.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tigatu</a> (use code “TopRatedMMA” for 10% off) – Shirts <a href="https://www.avantlink.com/click.php?tt=cl&amp;merchant_id=dee79b94-d5e6-4f41-8309-054fc5cf9238&amp;website_id=035806b4-c12d-4726-98c9-7264889985c6&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.combatflags.com%2F" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Combat Flags</a> – Flag Backdrop <a href="http://www.alphaoutpost.com/?rfsn=874833.f0a6ed&amp;utm_source=refersion&amp;utm_medium=affiliate&amp;utm_campaign=874833.f0a6ed" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Alpha Outpost</a> (use code “topratedmma” for 15% off) – Outdoor / Tactical Gear <a href="http://www.angleseyfamilychiro.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Anglesey Family Chiropractic &amp; Massage Center</a> INTERESTED IN BEING A SPONSOR OF OUR SHOW? DM US FOR MORE INFO. Be sure to LIKE / FOLLOW Nick Smoot – Instagram – <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nicholassmoot/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/nicholassmoot/</a> LinkedIn –  <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicksmoot/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicksmoot/</a> Be sure to LIKE / FOLLOW Innovation Collective – Facebook – <a href="https://www.facebook.com/innovationcollective/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/innovationcollective/</a> Instagram – <a href="https://www.instagram.com/innovationcollective/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/innovationcollective/</a> Twitter – <a href="https://twitter.com/innovation_co_" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/innovation_co_</a> YouTube – <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQJsvWPUxo9x3KA1KFttUzQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQJsvWPUxo9x3KA1KFttUzQ</a> Website – <a href="https://www.innovationcollective.co/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.innovationcollective.co/</a> Please check out <a href="https://erikallenmedia.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ErikAllenMedia.com</a> where I am talking with Entrepreneurs, World Changers, and Success Minded People! — This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. <a href="https://anchor.fm/app" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/app</a>

Ep. 86 – Nick Smoot – Founder & CEO of the Innovation Collective

It was so fun to have my friend, Nick Smoot, join me while traveling in from Coeur d'Alene, ID.  We discussed his amazing initiative, Innovation Collective (IC), the education and human development company he started there and is expanding to communities around the country. We also did it in front of a live audience of some of OC's most active and committed innovation community builders and everyone came away inspired.   About IC: Their work is driven by a belief that human potential is underactivated and through community they can inspire and cultivate innovation. It is a culture of innovation, perpetuated through connection, support and confidence, that turns ideas into reality and changes lives.  We are experts in inclusive innovation community activation and placemaking. Our goals are to: Activate all individuals through curated experiences: We program knowledge economy minded events, meetups, trainings, think tanks and corporate partnerships Activate innovation spaces: We leverage physical locations as a destination for high growth innovations and rebuilding of community  The Backstory: IC was founded by community organizer and serial entrepreneur Nick Smoot. Nick has a lifetime of experience developing community having begun his leadership activities at 10 years old organizing mentorship programs for underprivileged 5 and 6 y/o children in the social work system.    This work continued with Nick developing mentorship programs, delivering training to thousands of high school and middle school students, implementing global leadership training, and working with NGO’s taking him across the world by the age of 21.  In his mid twenties, Nick began consulting work with for-profit investors using the human centered design thinking he developed to work with teens. This model applied seamlessly to development of corporations and lead to him co-founding and selling three mobile tech startups. During this period of his twenties and early thirties, Nick was part of the startup scene in Philadelphia, Manhattan, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.    In 2011, when living in Los Angeles, Nick began speaking at the early “Silicon Beach” events and was invited by the economic think tank The Milken Institute to become one of the 300 global Young Leaders who gather privately to address and improve job creation, access to capital, and accelerating medical cures around the world.    This invitation to join the institute coincided with the Occupy Movement. Growing up in small town America in a middle class family and working with disadvantaged youth was an odd backdrop to the two contrasting worlds of “haves and have nots” facing him in Los Angeles. This dichotomy was a very sobering situation for him. Through the institute, he was in presentations with heads of state and the largest private equity firms in the world while, outside the doors, picketers were ensuring their messages were heard.    This scenario launched him into strategizing a process that has become the Innovation Collective; a grass roots system of events and mentorship that inspire and mobilize all citizens to become lifelong learners and highly motivated innovators.    This system and mentorship has repeatedly surfaced highly valuable talent and intellectual property. It has proven to be a powerful mix of corporate social responsibility and corporate development.    His model and experience has most importantly lead him to over 70 small communities across the United States and has been tested in China, France, Canada, and Aruba. The work has won national awards for economic development, unrestricted grants from the former CEO and Chairman of Google, and has engaged leaders and mentors from IBM, Google, SpaceX, Facebook, Boeing, Walmart, Apple, and others to do good and do well.   Nick’s background in community activation, inclusive innovation, government policy, tech investment, and startup culture has uniquely positioned him to be someone with authentic and practical insights that create an economy aware of the past, but ready for the future.

It was so fun to have my friend, Nick Smoot, join me while traveling in from Coeur d'Alene, ID.  We discussed his amazing initiative, <a href="https://www.innovationcollective.co/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Innovation Collective (IC)</a>, the education and human development company he started there and is expanding to communities around the country. We also did it in front of a live audience of some of OC's most active and committed innovation community builders and everyone came away inspired.   About IC: Their work is driven by a belief that human potential is underactivated and through community they can inspire and cultivate innovation. It is a culture of innovation, perpetuated through connection, support and confidence, that turns ideas into reality and changes lives.  We are experts in inclusive innovation community activation and placemaking. Our goals are to: Activate all individuals through curated experiences: We program knowledge economy minded events, meetups, trainings, think tanks and corporate partnerships Activate innovation spaces: We leverage physical locations as a destination for high growth innovations and rebuilding of community  The Backstory: IC was founded by community organizer and serial entrepreneur Nick Smoot. Nick has a lifetime of experience developing community having begun his leadership activities at 10 years old organizing mentorship programs for underprivileged 5 and 6 y/o children in the social work system.  This work continued with Nick developing mentorship programs, delivering training to thousands of high school and middle school students, implementing global leadership training, and working with NGO’s taking him across the world by the age of 21. In his mid twenties, Nick began consulting work with for-profit investors using the human centered design thinking he developed to work with teens. This model applied seamlessly to development of corporations and lead to him co-founding and selling three mobile tech startups. During this period of his twenties and early thirties, Nick was part of the startup scene in Philadelphia, Manhattan, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.  In 2011, when living in Los Angeles, Nick began speaking at the early “Silicon Beach” events and was invited by the economic think tank The Milken Institute to become one of the 300 global Young Leaders who gather privately to address and improve job creation, access to capital, and accelerating medical cures around the world.  This invitation to join the institute coincided with the Occupy Movement. Growing up in small town America in a middle class family and working with disadvantaged youth was an odd backdrop to the two contrasting worlds of “haves and have nots” facing him in Los Angeles. This dichotomy was a very sobering situation for him. Through the institute, he was in presentations with heads of state and the largest private equity firms in the world while, outside the doors, picketers were ensuring their messages were heard.  This scenario launched him into strategizing a process that has become the Innovation Collective; a grass roots system of events and mentorship that inspire and mobilize all citizens to become lifelong learners and highly motivated innovators.  This system and mentorship has repeatedly surfaced highly valuable talent and intellectual property. It has proven to be a powerful mix of corporate social responsibility and corporate development.  His model and experience has most importantly lead him to over 70 small communities across the United States and has been tested in China, France, Canada, and Aruba. The work has won national awards for economic development, unrestricted grants from the former CEO and Chairman of Google, and has engaged leaders and mentors from IBM, Google, SpaceX, Facebook, Boeing, Walmart, Apple, and others to do good and do well. Nick’s background in community activation, inclusive innovation, government policy, tech investment, and startup culture has uniquely positioned him to be someone with authentic and practical insights that create an economy aware of the past, but ready for the future.

Nick Smoot - Founder & CEO of Innovation Collective

Mountain Man Ventures Founding Partner and Executive Director, Nick Smoot, joins Eric in Nashville for the 3686 conference to share why he focuses on finding treasures “in the woods” where most other venture capital firms never look. Nick reminds startups to focus on their weakness to achieve their dreams and that following your own voice is often what leads to that success.

Mountain Man Ventures Founding Partner and Executive Director, Nick Smoot, joins Eric in Nashville for the 3686 conference to share why he focuses on finding treasures “in the woods” where most other venture capital firms never look. Nick reminds startups to focus on their weakness to achieve their dreams and that following your own voice is often what leads to that success.

Leverage Your Weakness with Nick Smoot of Mountain Man Ventures, Live from 3686