In this episode of Market Meditations, Chris and Neal welcome guest Tahmina Watson onto the show. Join us as we discuss the evolving landscape of immigration policy and how Tahmina is helping others navigate the changes in presidential administrations as well as the impacts of the pandemic. Tahmina is a practicing immigration lawyer, the founder of Watson Immigration Law, author, and host of the podcast Tahmina Talks Immigration. She is deeply committed to serving the community as well as advocating for comprehensive immigration reform and enjoys working with investors, entrepreneurs, and start-up companies. You can find Tahmina's books here: The Startup Visa: Key to Job Growth & Economic Prosperity in America - www.amazon.com/Startup-Visa-Economic-Prosperity-America-ebook/dp/B00ZRBXSVU/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+startup+visa&qid=1623710953&s=digital-text&sr=1-1 and Legal Heroes in the Trump Era: Be Inspired. Expand Your Impact. Change the World - https://www.amazon.com/Legal-Heroes-Trump-Era-Inspired-ebook/dp/B08KC7MBFV Her third book: "The Startup Visa: Key to Job Growth and Economic Prosperity in America- SECOND EDITION (2021)" will be released on July 13 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tahminawatson/

Chris and Neal invite special guest Dr. Marcus Ranney onto the show to discuss his new book, At The Human Edge, as well as his work on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic in India. The book is a non-fiction-based piece of popular science which unravels the amazing adaptive physiological responses that our bodies undergo as we push it to the limits in extreme sports and natural environments. Each chapter captures the history, geography, and physical challenges which our bodies face when we as a species have tried to conquer the great outdoors. From Mt Everest to the South Pole, from a journey to Mars to the bottom of the Mariana trench. Chris and Neal further dive into Dr. Ranney's strong understanding of human physiology (particularly at the extreme), how the body first deteriorates, then adapts, and finally excels when faced with running a marathon, summiting Everest, or going to Mars. You can find Dr. Ranney's book here: https://www.amazon.com/At-Human-Edge-Physiology-Performance-ebook/dp/B08MW7D165

Chris and Neal discuss the week in news, covering the valuation of commodities, Vision Fund, crypto, blockchain tech, and more.

Chris and Neal dive into the week's public market news. It appears the IPO and SPAC boom may be peaking, large pensions are looking for non-traditional assets for diversification, and logistics and raw materials are exhibiting pressure with higher commodity prices. Furthermore, Chris points out his attention to natural resources and commodities prices and the bottlenecks that exist. If they don't ease soon current market sentiments could become more permanent.

Chris and Neal discuss Clubhouse, Elon Musk, Roaring Kitty, Chamath Palihapitiya, as well as updates on venture capital and the public finance markets.

On this episode of the Market Meditations Podcast, Chris and Neal chat with Dan Nayot to discuss innovations within the fertility space. Dan Nayot is a reproductive endocrinologist, academic, and entrepreneur, having been actively involved in all aspects of fertility care ranging from patient advocacy to contributing to scientific breakthroughs, to mentoring trainees. His additional expertise in Mathematics (University of Toronto) and Clinical Epidemiology (Harvard University) has allowed him to critically analyze the current methods of health care delivery and help advance the field of reproductive medicine for patients and clinicians. Today, as the Medical Director of The Fertility Partners, Dan continues to learn from patients and clinicians on the pressing issues ranging from access to care to scientific bottlenecks inside and outside the IVF lab. Connect with Dan - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-nayot-8b36b425/

Chris and Neal discuss the news of the week in the public markets and venture capital.

Chris and Neal discuss the latest news in the public markets after a wild week of volatile trading. Topics this week include: GameStop, Bed Bath and Beyond, Chamath Palihapitiya's run for CA Governor, Jack Ma, and Andreessen Horowitz becoming a media company.

"The Purpose Mindset" Akhtar Badshah is an expert on social impact, philanthropy, CSR and international development, an author and artist. He is the founder and Chief Catalyst of Catalytic Innovators Group a new consulting practice focused on accelerating social impact through catalytic innovation. He a Distinguished Practitioner and Associate Teaching Faculty at the University of Washington, School of Business (Bothell Campus) and Evans School of Public Policy and Governance. He also is a faculty lead at START Center at the Department of Public Health. Formerly, he was the Senior Director of Microsoft Citizenship and Public Affairs, where he administered the company’s global community investment and employee programs. Through monetary grants, software and curriculum donations, technology solutions, and employee giving, Microsoft supports programs and organizations that address the needs of communities worldwide. Since 1983, Microsoft and its employees have provided around $5 billion in cash, services and software to nonprofits around the world through localized, company-sponsored giving and volunteer campaigns. Among his responsibilities, Badshah managed the philanthropic elements of Microsoft’s YouthSpark, a global initiative that is designed to help youth into opportunities through training, employment and help starting their own ventures. His new book Purpose Mindset: How Microsoft Inspires its Employees and Alumni to Change the World, is available at https://lnkd.in/gJZWb6W. The book is published by #HarperCollinsLeadership and is also a @MicrosoftAlumniNetwork imprint. Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/akhtar-badshah-6250105/

Chris and Neal discuss the latest topics in the public markets and venture capital such as the bullish market, valuations, commodities, Tesla, Bitcoin and healthcare.

Joining the podcast is Mudit Agrawal, the Principal Scientist Lead at Microsoft Hololens. Working on computer vision, machine learning algorithms for augmented reality (AR) applications with specialties in Document Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, and Biometrics. Mudit is a transformational leader in tech and a bright star in the future tech landscape and joins a discussion with Chris and Neal about AI, its contributions to solving major human problems. He posits that being human is hard enough and that there is no distinguishing factor between you, the machine, and the animal. Mudit's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/agrawalmudit/

Chris and Neal shake things up this episode by giving up hosting duties to guest Sean McCormick from the Optimal Performance Podcast(OPP). In this ode to Tim Ferriss-esque episode, Sean learns more about Chris and Neal, covering: •Performance through the lens of financial mastery •Performance through ease and grace •Performance through intense focus •The concept of widening your aperture in order to analyze situations and make great decisions •How meditation empowers the path of mastery •The power of “let me get back to you on that” •The importance of the teachings of Tich Nat Han and Charlie Munger Sean has been a performance coach his entire life in one way or another, through athletics, school, as an entrepreneur, and a dad - leadership has always come naturally for him. Now, he's getting the most out of people to help them live a more authentic, richer life. Performance coaches are masters at getting the best out of you - but it doesn't stop there. Performance coaches also help you find effective ways to keep you accountable to your highest self. Learn more about Sean: http://seanmccormick.com Check out Sean's podcast, Optimal Performance, every Monday and Thursday where Sean brings listeners actionable information to implement immediately for their personal education and enlightenment. Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/optimal-performance-podcast/id1004775385 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Qw2YZQsZXP2zAWWEDnXGS?si=fQY09rwQSYaNjYFgONe6Dw

Chris and Neal discuss the week in market news, touching on Monday's turnaround rally with many equities ending negatively. Tech stocks continue to zoom ahead in contrast to their little economic value. Chris and Neal discuss the rise of non-productive debt and diminishing economic vitality.

Co-hosts, Chris Haydel and Neal Mody discuss the week in news.

Market Meditations is excited to have Lahav Gil as a guest on the show. Lahav was the founder and CEO of Kangaroo Design and Innovation, a Toronto-based innovation firm offering product development services to the medical devices and diagnostics industries, helping take more than 200 med-tech devices to market in addition to four specialized pre-commercial exits, including two to the public market. He now volunteers and provides mentorship at Creative Destruction Labs consulting on evolving projects, translating them from the bench to the product, business, and preparing for exits. Lahav uses a Design Thinking approach that he describes as The Cathedral Framework or Cathedral Model that enables a block building approach to building prosperous ventures. Lahav proposes how well-being at work translates into product innovation and the factors that can interfere with well-being within an organizational culture. These factors include fear, politics, internal competition, as well as ego.

This episode of Market Meditations brings guest Christine Jones to the show to share and discuss her current role as COO at The Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF), and it's mission to fund the world’s most promising research to improve the prevention, detection, and treatment of prostate cancer and ultimately cure it for good. Together, they cover the precision medicine revolution, PCF's impact across all cancers, and the role of genetics. Christine is an American business executive, civic leader, author, and politician from Phoenix, Arizona, but is best known for her service as General Counsel and Executive Vice President of The Go Daddy Group Inc., until 2012 where she managed all legal affairs, most notably issues relating to intellectual property. Jones frequently represented Go Daddy and its industry as a witness at congressional hearings about various issues related to the Internet. She also helped drive federal Internet-related legislation, including laws to keep the Web safe from child predators and rogue online pharmacies. For example, she helped push through bills such as the Ryan Haight Online Pharmacy Consumer Protection Act, the Protect Our Children Act, and the Keeping the Internet Devoid of Sexual Predators Act. These bills were signed into law by President Bush in 2008 and have been used by law enforcement to shut down illegal online drug sellers and to prosecute online child predators.

In this episode of Market Meditations, the focus is going to be Oncology with guest Abhishek Agarwal. Currently, the head of strategy for oncology at GSK he believes that oncology is where most medical innovation comes from that deals with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer, and foresees that we will see many forms of cancer becoming livable within our lifetime. The research on cancer prevention is happening, and the bigger question is how society will pay for it, a more challenging problem, according to Agarwal.

Join Neal Mody and Chris Haydel for another episode of Market Meditations. In this episode, we talk about the public market and interview guest Ketan Patel about fun things like psilocybin and big data. Ketan was initially an ER doctor and then a founder of an integrated wellness practice that included everything from Ayurvedic, Chinese medicine to western medicine. Afterward, Ketan started an AI company and is now doing billing for the top-five insurance companies. Additionally, he's building other exciting tools for doctors to interact with patients more efficiently in the ER and measuring the best uses for marijuana and psilocybin. Join the three of them as they go over Ketan's journey, career, and get a better understanding of what it means to be a psychonaut. Ketan's Bio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ketanpatelai/

I thought I'd give you guys a little preview on the next bunch of guests we booked for our podcast Market Meditations, where it is the goal and job of Chris Haydel and myself, Neal Mody, to become better human beings and hopefully better investors. We take deep dives into doing our best to learn about how the world really goes together and hopefully being able to synthesize that information into making better decisions, across life. Next week we're going to have Ketan Patel to talk about mushrooms and data. We've got a pretty interesting adviser at my venture fund, Zoic, named Ketan Patel. A big data scientist, he spends a fair amount of time mapping the uses for both psilocybin and marijuana. Bio here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ketanpatelai/ The next week after that we have Christine Jones, our good friend who was acting CEO of GoDaddy. Actually, she was the general counsel there and she helped the big sale to KKR, a big private equity fund, helped sell I think GoDaddy for a little over a few billion. And now she puts all of her time and effort into the Prostate Cancer Foundation founded by Michael Milken. Bio here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christine-jones-b932751/ A couple of weeks after that, we're going to have Lahav Gil out of Tel Aviv in Toronto. Lahav is a super peaceful human being who looks at design thinking in a way that I think is particularly uncommon. He's helped design a number of products that are actually in hospitals today. He's exited seven companies in the medical device space. Bio here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lahav-gil-4a37486/ After that, we're going to have Ramesh Kumar talking about how to optimize your daily life. Ramesh is a radiology oncologist and a Japanese acupuncturist, and he practices both. And he's maybe amongst the most researched person I've ever met in medicine, looking at everything from how to use light therapy to the Vasper bike, which might be worth Googling. Ramesh is going to share a little bit about how to optimize your daily moods and modes and get the most out of your day. Bio here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rameshkumarmd/ And then lastly, we're going to have a good friend of mine Mudit Agrawal. He is a director at HoloLens at Microsoft here in Seattle. He's got us pitched in computer vision, which is essentially a combination of a neuroscience degree and a software engineering degree and pretty interesting guy. He does a fair amount of talks on artificial intelligence and how most intelligence is actually artificial, as you've heard Chris and I talk about. Bio here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/agrawalmudit/ So we've got a great list of guests coming up for you, and if you have any suggestions for any other guests we should have in the future, please do let us know. We'd love to hear from you. Don't forget to rate us five stars and we look forward to you joining us for these episodes in the coming weeks. Stay safe, everyone.

Chris and Neal discuss the week's news and sentiment around the public markets. Furthermore, they discuss current events involving the public market, civil unrest, and the wildfires. Chris explains how the stock market has become a political utility and Neal asks if the market will continue to rise in price, effectively pricing middle America out.