Bhavik Dhanak is the Founder and CEO of Aesthetic Imprints which is a custom apparel printing company specializing in screen printing and embroidery. Baav serves most of his time growing the print shop that he started all out of his parents basement. Baav was always addicted to the grind and hustle of growing a business from the ground up. He started Aesthetic Imprints in his senior year of high school and has been grinding all day everyday to take it further and further up the ladder. As a 22 year old business owner his main goal is to keep scaling the business up and start hiring a team. Additionally, he recently opened his first official shop outside of his parents basement! Within this short episode we talk about building and growing a clothing brand, entrepreneurship, his story, and much more related to building a successful clothing brand. Please enjoy this episode, leave an honest rating and comment, like, and follow or subscribe (depending on your platform) ALSO subscribe to us on Patreon. Important & useful links can be found below!

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Within this episode I had the chance to speak with Anousheh Ansari! Anousheh is a visionary entrepreneur, philanthropist, engineer, and space explorer. Anousheh was born in Iran and moved to the United States with her family in 1984. She attended George Mason University and later received a degree in electrical engineering from George Washington University. She then began her career in the technology industry co-founding and serving as CEO for various companies including Telecom Technologies Inc. which offered products that allowed the integration between existing telecom networks and application-centric, next-generation networks via software switch technology. In 2001 Telecom Technologies was acquired by Sonus Networks, Inc. and in 2006 she also co-founded Prodea Systems, a leading Internet of Things (IoT) technology firm where she continues to serve as the executive chairwoman. She made history in 2006 when she embarked upon an 11-day space expedition, traveling to the International Space Station as a member of the crew of Soyuz TMA-9 and  accomplishing her childhood dream of going to space and in the process becoming the first female private space explorer and the first astronaut of Iranian descent. Anousheh serves on the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Future Council and has received numerous honors, including the WEF Young Global Leader, Ellis Island Medal of Honor, and STEM Leadership Hall of Fame, among others. She is a board member of over seven not-for-profit organizations focused on STEM education and youth empowerment. Additionally she co-founded The Billion Dollar Fund for Women with a goal of investing $1 billion in women-founded companies by 2020. She has published her memoir, My Dream of Stars, to share her life story as inspiration for young women around the world, her dedication and contributions to the field of space exploration, technology and social causes, has made her an inspiration to many. Today, Anousheh is CEO of the XPRIZE Foundation, one of the world’s leaders in designing and operating incentive competitions to solve humanity’s grand challenges. Ansari, along with her family, sponsored the organization’s first competition, the Ansari XPRIZE, a $10 million competition that ignited a new era for commercial spaceflight. Since then, she has served on XPRIZE’s Board of Directors. Along with this she continues to inspire others to pursue their dreams and strive for a better future, through her speeches and appearances in media, and her role as an advocate for innovation and entrepreneurship. Within this episode we talked about various things related to her experiences growing up in Iran, her mentality toward facing adversity, her journey and what she learned from Telecom Technologies, what it was like going to space, how life changing the experience was, if she believes in aliens, some of the cool things she does with XPrize, what big issues she thinks are important to address in the coming years, what space smells like, and what she wants to be remembered for. Please enjoy this episode, leave an honest rating and comment, like, and follow or subscribe (depending on your platform) ALSO subscribe to us on Patreon. Important & useful links can be found below!

Links to find Anousheh & The XPrize Foundation
Anousheh on Twitter: https://twitter.com/anoushehansari 
XPrize foundation website: https://www.xprize.org/
XPrize important links & social media accounts: https://linktr.ee/xprize

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Within this episode I had the chance to speak with a fellow Clarksburg High School alumni and fellow person with the “Alex” first name Alex Berardo! Alex is a recent University of Maryland, College Park graduate where he studied Electrical Engineering, German Studies, and International Engineering. He has spent time abroad studying in Germany while also working with hydrogen fuel cell cars, and now currently works at Northrop Grumman as a components engineer. Additionally, Alex speaks three languages fluently and is working on his forth, he enjoys learning about and discussing practical life philosophies, playing the piano, hitting the gym, and partaking in skating and skiing. Within this episode we talked about many things related to self improvement, habit building, learning and speaking languages, clean tech, battery storage, hydrogen fuel, life philosophies, becoming an extrovert, dopamine, a theory for everything, god, religion, his spiritual journey, AI, fusion energy, and much more. Please enjoy this episode, leave an honest rating and comment, like, and follow or subscribe (depending on your platform) ALSO subscribe to us on Patreon. Important & useful links can be found below!

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